The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-09-02
NORTHWESTBREVlTIE
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns ~
the Thriving Sister States
-Washington.

From All the Cities and Towns Of
the Thriving Sister States
-washington.
Seven cents is now paid for fish in
Blaine.
The season for shooting ducks and
geese began on the 10Th inst.
Huckleberries from the Blue noun.
tains are selling in Dayton for so cents
q gallon.
The Star route daily mail service be-
tween Blaine and New Whatcom will
be re-established September l.
The assessment of Douglas county
this year is increased nearly 81, ZOO, 900
over the valuation of last or any previ-
GUS year.
The constitutionality of the grain i'm
spection act, passed by the legislature
of 1895, is to be tested in the supreme
court.
The assessor has completed the
assessment rolls for Whatcom county.
The total amount of property is &c.
238, 578, Of which $748, 900 is personal
property.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany became owner of 5000 more acres
of land in Chehalis county, having re-
corded a government patent for that
amount of land last week.
The Island County Horticultural So
ciety has met and decided to hold q
fair at Coupeville about the middle Of
September. The executive committee
is busy selecting premiums. The fair
will be larger and will be continued
longer than last year.
The state land commissioner is pre-
pairing schedule of the state school
and granted lands in each county of the
state. These lists are to be posted in
the county auditors Office of the sew
eral counties for information of those
seeking to lease. A schedule for Yaki-
ma has already been completed, and
other counties will be taken up as fast
as possible.
Better wages are being paid at pres
emit for harvest hands than ever before
in the history of Adams county.
Farmers have bid as high as So per day
for help to do the same work that had
been done in the past for 81. 80, and not
half enough men could be secured even
at that figure. All spring-sown grain
is now ripe, and in order to save 1t
farmers must harvest soon.
The hay crop in the Kittitas valley
is pretty we'll cut and is rapidly getting
into the bale. During July IS car
loads, of 10 tons each, total of $50
tons, were shipped, most of it going to
Puget sound. This months ship
ments will still be heavier, and as the
price has ranged from $7.50 to 50, it
has brought good deal of money into
the valley. The prospects are good for
the price going still higher.
An important meeting of single and
lumber manufacturers was held in Ia
coma last week, for the purpose Of
adopting uniform list and to prevent
the cutting of prices. Star shingles
were set at $1.30 to $l.35, clear at
81. 40 to $1.45, with the usual differ
ences on lower grades. An advance Of
81 per 1000 was made on cedar and
spruce siding, and all other grades of
dressed and rough lumber were held at
the prevailing scale of the larger mills.
The total cargo shipments for July
from II of the leading mills OF WASH
ingtcn show 80, 436, 493 feet of lumber
and A, 1874, 762 lath, of which $685.
499 feet of lumber were foreign, an in.
crease over June of 5000, 900 feet.