Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-11-19
BRIEF PACIFIC COAST NEWS
A Resume Of Events in the
Northwest.
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
Our Neighboring states-Improve-
ment In All Industries-oregon.

news Gatnereo IN All the TOWNS OF
Our Neighboring states-Improve-
Aaent In All Ind ndustries-oregon.
Umatilla county recently bought
reversible road grader, and this county
now has four road machines.
The population of Lostine, Wallowa
county, is now estimated at IT'S.
Three months ago only 40 people were
living there.
A farmer Of Tangent has nearly
ready for trial steam pillow that he
has invented, and which he thinks
will plow Is acres of ground in day.
A Curry county man soon expects to
begin manufacturing barrels in which
TO pack fish. A number of such barrels
are used on the Coquille, and some on
Skies and Elk rivers
George H. Tolbert, who is in charge
of the Rogue river salmon hatchery
station, says that 1879, 800 eggs have
been taken. Some of the eggs now
taken are Matching.
The cannery at Kernville near the
mouth Of the Siletz river, in Lincoln
county, did good business for the
season just closed. 1t is reported that
it canned about 10,000 cases Of salmon.
Track laying on the Astoria & Co
lumbia River railway was completed
to Aldrieh point Monday night. The
track-laying machine has been side
tracked at Knappa, and the work is
now being done by hand.
Fish have been plentiful on the
streams of Curry county this fall. One
fisherman caught $50 big salmon in the
Skies in one night. Flora creek, Skies
and Elk rivers, Rogue river and the
Chetco are all good salmon streams.
An Oakland, CAL, man estimates
that the amount of apples contracted
for in Coos county this season, includ-
ing those already shipped, figures up to
30, 900 boxes, and several thousand
mole boxes are being held for higher
prices.
Baker City is the only city in Eastern
Oregon with gas plant. There is also
an electric light plant. Three new re-
torts have been added to the gas plant,
and half a mile of additional main
pipes have been laid since September
10 last.
The cannery in Marshfield shut down.
last week. The pack for the season
amounts to $500 cases, of which about
1000 cases are chinook. Some OF the
salteries are still running, and the fish
ermen will probably continue opera
tions until the middle of the month.
A thoroughbred trotter just 40 inches
high and weighing 900 pounds was
brought into The Dalles recently.
The animal is well built, and perfectly
formed in body, but his legs are con-
siderably shorter than those of normal
horse. He was raised in the William
ette valley.
The horse cannery at Linnton is fur
nishing a market for considerable num-
ber of cayuses from Eastern Oregon and
Washington, and will in time relieve
the ranges of large number OF useless
stock. One day last week 16 calroads
passed through The Dalles on the way
to Linnton. They were lot Of ponies
from the Warm Springs reservation.
Washington.
About $3.50, 900 will be paid out for
wheat at Tekoa this year.
A new brewery in Colfax will beign
operations this week.
The proprietors of the Tekoa mills
have 10000 bushels of wheat now in
store and are running on full time.
They are shipping large quantities of
-four to China and Japan and their ex-
port trade is increasing rapidly.
One hundred and seventy-five Chi
nese arrived at Tacoma on the steamer
Utopia last week, en- route from the
Blaine salmon canneries for Portland.
After landing they and their baggage
were inspected by Chinese Inspector
Jossey, and then put aboard cars and
dispatched to the metropolis.
A California mining man has discov-
cred what he considers a good lead on
the Elwha river, 10 miles from the
mouth, in Clallam county, The ore
developed $S.SS in gold and II cents
in silver. The Selby Smelling Com
pany, of San Francisco, offered to take
1000 tons of the ore at the assay valu-
alton.
The receipts at the Everett custom
house for last month were $l6, 26S.21,
which was all paid in silver, making a
little over half a ton for Captain L.
H. Coon to handle during the first
month he has been in charge Of the
Office. This is the largest months busi-
ness that has ever been done in the
history of the office.
A proposition to establish, in Seat
tie, plant for the manufacture Of
cans, has been laid before the chamber
OF commerce by Irving Ayres, treasur-
er of the Pacific sheet metal works, Of
San Francisco. He is investigating
the probable advantages Of such a
plant, and on his report to the directors
of the company, of whom he is one,
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