The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-10-28
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Items of General Interest Cleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
States.

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ermen on the Coquille river.
The total attendance at the Spokar
fruit fair this year was 72.250.
Steps have been taken at Salem |
contest the Wright branch asylum sit
case.
Lane county's potato crop is shol
this year, and the farmers look for hig
prices.
Winter apples are more plentiful il
Kittitas valley than ever before, an,
The quality is frst-class.
There is an unusual amount of sick
ness in Palouse at present, most of tn
patients having typhoid fever.
Two men who made voyage fror
Lynn canal to st. Michaels4h an opel
boat have arrived at Victoria.
The run of silverside salmon in tn
Lower Columbia river continues heavy
and the fall pack will be unusualI,
large.
News has reached Victoria of the ap
pointment Of G. G. Sinkler, of Nelson
as gold commissioner for the Yukol
district, vice Fawcett, removed.
On the steamship Doric, which ar
rived at San Francisco from the Orient
was brought in opium valued at $270,
900. on which duty of s10O.0OO viii
be collected.
The value of improvements in Walls
Walla county, exclusive of cities, &C
cording to the revision of the board O.
equalization. amounts to $3.50, 324; per
sonal property, $1.s75, 3a2.
The Lincoln county (Wash. commits.
sioners have fixed the tax levy for al
purposes at ii mills, on valuation o.
1866, 752. The levy for road pur.
poses was increased from 0. 80 to l. .2E
mills.
The floating Indebtedness against the
new town of Kent, WASH, will be paid
off January, after which the city's in.
come will be sufficient to pay all cur.
rent expenses and leave a 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 sClackamas sta.
tion, 50 tons were evaporated.
A cargo of 100, 073 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 a good price.
The charter has been granted for the
building of the Golden-Fort Steele, B.
G., railroad, and work will be stas.ed
in early spring. The contract for the
Nelson & Bedlington railway has been
let to Larson & 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 capi.
talists will not have their applications
granted at present.
The Carbonate coal mines shipped
$4,000 tons during September, beat
ing all previous records. Roslyn had
held the record with 10000 tons. The
Carbonate mines, owned by the South.
ern Pacific Railroad Company. are run.
ming full time and employ 600 men,
averaging IS. 80 day wages.
The scully Steel 6 Iron Company, OF
Chicago, has just closed a contract for
the delivery of $4,000 tons of steel
plates at Victoria, B. c., to be used in
The construction of five British steam.
'hips by one of the largest shipbuild.
ng firms at that point. The value OF
he contract exceeds $4,000
A scheme is on foot to construct
ogging road about three miles in
ength from the head OF Gray's river,
Oregon. 1t will be operated by A. L.
who has In operation a SINH.
ar road at Clatskanie, and will tap
district of 5000 acres of spruce timbe,
belonging to G. H. Green. of Saginaw,
dioh.
The new association does not con.
emplate any general regulation of
oast lumber values. Its aims are
imply to control the situation at San
Francisco. where the trade has been
or some time in badly demoralized
ondition. Puget Sound values, foreign
rade or other departments Of the lum.
er business, are not affected.
Henry Miller, of Cathlamet. WASH,
as contracted to furnish the North
aciic mills, at Portland, over 2, 0o0,.
90 feet of spruce and fir logs this sea.
IN. The Astorian says that this cut
ill come from Eulokium, the principal
'gging stream flowing into the Colum-
Jaw here over $50 men were employed
logging during the past summer.
According to the LumbeIman there
good field on the coast for small
factory. There are two {
,ecies Of wood rich in turpentine and
lied porducts, Douglas FIR and "bull" {
ne, wood alcohol. pitch and other
-called naval products. The yield is
: no means as large as the pitch pine
the South, but there is certainly
ON for factory that will utilize the
jumps and refuse of pitch-bearing
ees on the coast. @
Harvesting in the Palouse country
Is been completed. Every threshing f
achine has pulled in, and the haul
g of grain to different shipping points s
III be finished by November 1, or per-
ps little sooner. So far this season, 81
Q total shipment of new wheat has s
It exceeded 275,0 bushels, most OF p
is being to Spokane for milling, and s
the Sound. Since the completion Of
rvesting, farmers and g1aindealers 81
We concluded that the crop Of this
ar is the largest ever harvested in te
> Paiouse country. Although the m
erage yield is less than in 1897 and