Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-18
M PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Resume of Events in the
Northwest.
,osNcE OF STEADY GROWTH

.ant in All
r~matills county recently bought q
Eersible road grader, and this county
n has four road machines.
rbe population of Lostine, Wallowa
ruty. is now estimated at 175.
: ,pe months ago only 40 people were
fng there.
farmer Of Tangent has nearly
hdy for trial a steam pillow that he
invented, and which he thinks
plow 10 acres of ground in a day.
A Curry county man soon expects to
lin manufacturing barrels in which
mack fish. A number of such barrels
used on the Coquille, and some on
kes and Elk rivers.
George H. Tolbert, who is in charge
the Rogue river salmon hatchery
htiOn, says that 1879, 800 eggs have
len taken. Some of the eggs now
ken are Matching.
The Cannery at hernVllIe near the
buth Of the Siletz river, in Lincoln
unty, did a good business for the
ssn just closed. 1t is reported that
canned about 10, 000 of salmon.
Track laying on the Astoria & Co
Enbia River railway was completed
Aldrich point Monday night. The
brk,laying machine has been side
scked at Knappa, and the work is
v being done by hand.
Fish have been plentiful on tho
beams of Curry county this fall. One
herman caught $50 big salmon in the
zes in one night. Flora creek, Skies
ID Elk rivers, Rogue river and the
letCO are all good salmon streams.
An Oakland, Cal, man estimates
BAT the amount of apples contracted
in Coos county this season, includ-
those already shipped, figures up to
1000 boxes, and several thousand
Oe boxes are being held for higher
ices.
Baker City is the only city in Eastern
FegOn with a gas plant. There is also
electric light plant. Three new re-
ITS have been added to the gas plant,
half a mile of additional main
ps have been laid since September
last.
The cannery in Marshfield shut down
n week. The pack for the season
Enounts to S, 900 cases, of which about
VO cases are chinook. Some of the
flteries are still running, and the fish
fnen will probably continue opera
6ons until the middle of the month.
A thoroughbred trotter just 40 inches
gh and weighing 900 pounds was
ought into The Dalles recently.
ne animal is we'll built, and perfectly
lined In body, but his legs are con-
aerably shorter than those of a normal
fts. He was raise1 in the william
|He valley.
Inc horse cannery at Linnton is fur
sning a market for considerable num-
ol cayuses from Eastern Oregon and
aShlngton, and will in time relieve
II ranges OF a large number OF useless
cR' One day last week l6 carloads
FEsed through The Dalles on the way
llnnton. They we're a lot of ponies
Vn the Warm Springs reservation.
Washington.
AOOut $780, 900 will be paid out for
utat at Tekoa this year.
a new brewery in Colfax will beign
F'a'lons this week.
-He proprietors Of the Tekoa mills
~ $4,000 bushels of wheat now in
and are running on full time.
NY are shipping large quantities of
Emma and Japan and their ex-
"ade is increasing rapidly.
we hundred and se~venty-fve Chi
arrived at Tacoma on the steamer
yp'a last week, en- route from the
aug salmon canneries for Portland.
s' landing they and their baggage
inspected by Chinese Inspector
~ and then put aboard cars and
%Nhed to the metropolis.
california mining man has discov.
p pnat he considers a good lead on
|',. t'Wha river, 10 miles from the
.r siu' In Clallam county. The ore
a .Ip sS.SS in gold and II cents
\, r'ver. The selby Smelling Com
Oh San Francisco, offered to take
tor WIS OF the ore at the assay valu-
Dn.o receipts at the Everett custom
Ibi.b 'Or last month were SIS, 1858. 81,
[nls was all paid in silver, making a
coot ef a half a ton for Captain l..
koOtS VOh 10 handle during the first
H. M ne has been in charge of the
\. ihis is the largest months bust.
,to,u uas mas ever been done in the
a0Fy of the office.
= Proposition to establish, in Seat.
d plant for the monrfoo,rra y,