Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-10-21
NORTHWEST BREvI1lES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All the Cities and Towns
the Thriving Sister states
-Washington. Vi,


-Washington.
RitZville is to have an electric liphI
plant.
The tax levy for Tacoma for 1897 ~.
been fixed at 10 mills.
Lewis county must pay Sl4, 99l stat
tax this year, and Sl5, 56S school tai.
The Mealy. Lacy mill at Chehsli,
after being idle for some months, b..
resumed operations.
A vegetable farmer near Dayton 81.
poets to make $4,000 this year fron
the products OF % acres.
The owners Of the cannery at Whit.
com, which was recently DESTROYED h
fire, will rebuild the structure.
Every effort is being made to n
enough threshers into the Paloun
country to save all OF the wheat crop.
Notice has been given in Colyilh
that all OF the business housessin tint
place must close Sundays henceforth.
The Port Townsend board of trade 4
endeavoring to devise ways and mean
for the completion OF the Port Town.
send Southern railroad.
The tax levy in Whitman county n
current expenses this year will \
about 16 mills and 36 mills additional
to raise funds to pay warrant indebted
ness.
Four steam threshers from the Wall
Walla country have been shipped inN
the eastern part of Douglas county n
yet there are not enough in the county
to finish the work before snow fiea
Stockmen in the vicinity Of Looms
have realized the largest figures TIL
year since 1899, namely, $50 for 3.yeas.
old steers; $25 for 2-year-old stees1
and $50 for fat cows. One firm recentIy
purchased between 700 and 800 head
at the above figures.
During the past year | 1888, 200 jule
bags have been manufactured and div
posed of at the Walla Wala penitsn.
tiary. The brickyard is in active ops.
/ dlIOII, tIItIC iNCH OutpVtW
about 925, 900 brick, and 1850 md
bags have also been sold to the shsp
raisers of the state.
Port townsend was visited receniy
by a COZ 1ittee of army officers knovs
as the a. tillery board, appointed
Secretary of War Alger for the puipM
of visiting the various sites of foFifu
tons and coast defenses and repodi4
on their needs in the way Of artillay
equipment. The party put in ~
day, visiting first Point Wilson. ~
later Fort Townsend and Marrowsns
point, the work in progress at the lattx
point being carefully inspected.
The warehouse at Guy collarRl
under the weight of co., bushslsd
wheat. The building, 5oxl50 feetb
a total wreck. The foundation IN
way and the wheat burst through y
sides, letting the roof fall in. ON
two men were injured, neither ~
ously. Only three men were in0
warehouse at the time. Had the a.
cCNui iSu ~ CtI ilCi, GOvV~
and four teams would have been cau1t
and crushed to death. The report aed
be heard half mile and created eIas
excitement in the little village.
The foreign expectation OF lunhs
from Gray's harbor for the first siehs
months of 1897 has exceeded the entlN
foreign trade from the harbor tor ~
year 1896 by 100 per cent. The expEu
from Gray's harbor for 1895 xsE
Eleven cargoes OF lumber, aggregatinI
100000 feet, valued at $So,tu;
100000 feet of this amount betAe
shipped to Mexico, while Japan, -
Fiji islands and the South Sea islano
each received one cargo of 500, 1000 ~
The shipments from Gray's harbor =
eight months of 1897 are 1851, 900 -
of lumber, valued at $4,000. ~
trade with Mexico for eight months 4
1897 was 4,472, 600 feet, or more ~
twice as much as the entire trade =
1896. The trade with Honolulu =
eight months is l,8SO,O00; while \
1896 they had 10 Honolulu trade.