Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-07-03
NORTHWEST BREWIItO
pnocpEss IN DEVELOPMENT OF
THE COUNTRY,s RESOURCES.
New Industries and Matters oi
eral Interest In Idnho' Moh'""
and Washington.

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dead, aged 81.
Two new single mills are under con
struction at Porter, in Chehalis county
The Seattle chamber of commerce IS
collecting an exhibit OF the mineral
wealth of the state.
Gail Latin. on trial at Colville, Wash,
for the murder of S. i. Moody, has been
convicted of manslaughtcr.
The volume of farm products OF Lewis
county promises to be greater this year
than ever before.
Work on Seattle's Magnolia Bluff army
post site is to be commenced August /,
the available installment appropriation
being $4,000
The Pierce County Fair Association
among other improvements, will build Il
third of a mile track, 40 feet wide at the
home stretch and % at the back.
The fruit crop in southern Mason coun-
tv will be somewhat light this season, but
in the northern part of the county there
will be Il good crop of apples, pears, cher
ries, plums and prunes
Captain j. NJ. Skdmore of South Bend
organized the Indian war veterans of H.
waco and vicinity into post, which is
named in honor of Ex-Governor |. |. Stew
ems. +. b. Stone is captain.
Spokane county warrants are still in
creasing in value. Offers made by broll-
ers at 9S cents have been refused by hold
ers of blocks aggregating amounts sutli-
cient to Justify bidding.
A lagoon in Sequim bay is being pre-
pared by the Park Oyster Company for
the cultivation of eastern oysters. A dam
has been built across the mouth of the h
COON and seed and Gull oysters are on
their way from Baltimore.
The Lewis county commissioners at
their latest meeting decided to postpone
indefinitely the proposition to issue fund
ing bonds to take up the county's float
ing Indebtedness.
Material for the new Northern Pacific
depot at Chehals has arrived and most
of it is now stored in the old building or
on the tracks in the yards.
In Lewis, Cowlitz, Clarke and Skamania
the showers of the past week have been
very beneficial, and there has not been
too much rain. Cherries, raspberries and
blackberries are ripening. Prunes and
apples appear to be doing well. In Clarke
county haying has been interfered with
by the rains; clover is somewhat light.
Potatoes are fair.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has dis
patched two members of the United
States geological survey-G. l.. Fletcher
and Thomas G. Gerdine-to Washington
for the purpose of making report upon
the Cascade forest reserve, one of the
tracts set apart by eX-President Clevc-
land, with a view to the modification, and
possibly the complete revocation of the
order as it regards this reserve.
Montana.
More than 100000 pounds of wool are
already in the Northern Pacific ware
house at Big Timber, and it is being re-
ceived at the rate of $4,000 pounds daily.
The register of the Montana state land
office has completed his labors in Boze-
man, having leased Al tracts of land,
amounting to 6000 acres, for about $1,000,
and sold 800 acres for S3440.
Tom Cooper of the Northern Pacific
land department says that conservative
estimate of the amount of railroad land
disposed of i'll Lewis and Clarke county
since the first of the year would be l00,-
600 acres while he believes that about
$4,000 acres of Northern Pacific lands To-
Gated i'll Choteau county have been sold
in that time
What will be important news to the
large lumber companies who have been
cutting timber on public lands under spc-
cial permits from the government has
been received at the Helena land office in
the form of an order from Commissioner
Binger Hermann. Heretofore it has been
the custom to allow the companies the
right to cut timber from no more than
four sections, or $3.50 acres. The maxi.
mum has been reduced to 100 acres, IA
quarter of a section, and restrictions are
to be placed upon the granting of permits
even for that acreage.
Idaho.
1t is expected that the telephone line
between Salmon City and Gibbonsvile
will be in working order July l.
The report of Superintendent McGinty
of the soldiers home for May shows the
total expenses for the month were S76S.47.
The total appropriation available was
S936.35. The saving for the month was
therefore $l67.SS. For the first five
months of the year the expenses were
S952.77 less than the available appropria-
ton.
Work on thelhot water well at the bar
racks at Boise has been resumed. The
funds were exhausted short time ago
lust when success seemed to be within
sight, a good sized flow having been en-
countered. Senator Shoup was commu'
nicated with and he at once secured al