Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-10-27
NORTHWEST NEWS.
items cf General Tnterest Cleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
states.

1hlH year IL v gTeab OHo tOt hitS hsA-
ermen on the Coquille river.
The total attendance at the Spokane
fruit fair this year was 72.250.
Steps have been taken at Salem to
contest the Wright branch asylum site
case.
Lane county's potato crop is short
this year, and the farmers look for high
prices.
Winter apples are more plentiful in
Kittitas valley than ever before, and
the quality is first-class.
There is an unusual amount Of sick
ness in Palouse at present, most Of the
patients having typhoid fever.
Two men who made a-voyage from
Lynn canal TO st. Michaels in an open
boat have arrived at Victoria.
The run OF silverside salmon. in the
Lower Columbia river continues heavy,
and the fall pack will be unusually
large.
News has reached Victoria OF the ap-
pointment Of @. O. Sinkler, of Nelson.
as gold commissioner for the Yukon
district, vice Fawoett, removed.
On the steamship Doric. which ar
rived at San Francisco from the Orient,
was brought in opium valued at $270,-
600, on which duty Of 500. 600 will
be collected.
The value of improvements in Walla
Walla county, exclusive Of cities, ac-
cording to the revision of the board of
equalization. amounts to $3.50, S24; per-
sonal property, $l,S75,Ss2.
The Lincoln county (wash.) commits
sioners have fixed the tax levy for all
purposes at IA mills, on valuation OF
| SIS, 666, ,7Sa. The levy for road pur-
poses was increased from 0.Ss to Lao
mills
The floating Indebtedness against the
new town OF Kent, WASH, will be paid
of January, after which the city's in
come will be sufficient to pay all cur
rent expenses and leave handsome
surplus.
The prune crop of ClaCkamas county,
Oregon, has been gathered and mar
keted with very little loss, and growers
are elated over present profits and
future prospects. At Clackamas sta
tiqn, 50 tons were eyaporated.
a cargo Of 100, O7s bushels Of barley
was shipped from Tacoma the week be-
fore last direct to England. The barley
was all raised in Columbia county,
Washington, and being OF prime quail
! ity, netted the producers good price.
| The charter has been granted for the
building of the Golden Fort Steele, b.
| O., railroad, and work will be started
in early spring. The contract for the
Nelson & Bedlington railway has been
let to Larson q Foley, work to COM
mence this month.
Controller OF the Currency Dawes
has decided that he has no authority to
charter national bank in Honolulu
until congress passes laws for the gov
eminent of the islands. Consequently
Perry s. Heath and San Francisco CAPT
talists will not have their applications
granted at present.
The Carbonate coal mines shipped
$4,000 tons during September, heat
ing ell previous records Roslyn had
held the record with $4,000 tons. The
Carbonate mines, owned by the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company. are run
: ming full time and employ 500 men
averaging sS.29 day wages.
The scully Steel g Iron Company, o
Chicago, has just closed contract fol
the delivery of $4,000 tons Of stee
plates at Victoria, B. c., to be used il
the construction of five British steam
ships by one of the largest shipbuild
} ing firms at that point. The value o
the contract exceeds 100000.
A scheme Is on foot to construct |
logging road about three miles II
: length from the head OF Gray's river
: Oregon. Il will be operated by A. L
SaIdren, who has in operation simi
, lar road at Clatskanie, and will tap
! ,istrict OF 8, 900 acres OF spruce timbe
longing to G. H. Green. Of Saginaw
Aich.
5 The new association does not con
0 template any general regulation o
9 coast lumber values. It's aims arr
! simply to control the situation at SaI
: Francisco. where the trade has beel
= for some time in badly demoralize'
condition. Puget Sound values, foreigl
; trade or other departments Of the lum
ber business, are not affected.
Henry Miller, of Cathlamet. Wash.
{ has contracted to furnish the Nortl
Pacific mills, at Portland, over 1000,
600 feet OF spruce and fir logs this sea
son. The Astorian says that this Gu
/ will come from Eulokium, the principa
4 logging stream flowing into the Colum
bia, W here over 100 men were employe
= at logging during the past summer.
According to the Lumberman ther
is q good field on The coast for smal
turpentine factory. There are tw
species Of wood rich in turpentine an
allied porducts. Douglas fir and "bull
pine. wood alcohol. pitch and othe
so-called naval products. The yield
by no means as large as the pitch pin
Of the South, but there is certainI
room for factory that will utilize til
stumps and refuse Of pitch-bearin
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