The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-10-27
NORTHWEST NEWS.
items of General Interest Gleaheo
From the Thriving Pacific
States.


fruit fair this year was 70. $50.
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 frst-class.
There is an unusual amount OF sick
ness in Palouse at present, most OF the
patients having typhoid fever.
Two men who made voyage from
LYNN canal to St. Michaels in an open
boat have arrived at Victoria.
The run of silversde 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 G. G. Sinkler, of Nelson,
as gold commissioner for the Yukon
district, vice Fawcett, removed.
On the steamship Doric, which ar
rived at San Francisco from the Orient,
was brought in opium valued at $27O,-
600, on which duty Of $780, 900 will
be collected.
The value of improvements in Walla
Walla county, exclusive of cities, &C
cording to the revision of the board OF
equalization. amounts to $3.50, 324; per-
sonal property, $1,S75, 382.
The Lincoln county (Wash.) commits
sioners have fixed the tax levy for all
purposes at IA mills, On valuation OF
S5,666,732. The levy for road pur-
poses was increased from 0.82 to 1.25
mills.
The floating indebtedness against the
new town of Kent, WASH. will be paid
off January, after which the city's in
como 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.
ton, 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 good price.
The charter has been granted for the
building of the Golden-Fort Steele, B.
c., railroad, and work will be started
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 a 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
5000 tons during September, heat
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 1920 a day wages.
The Scully Steel & 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
ships by one of the largest shipbuild.
ing firms at that point. The value Of
the contract exceeds 800, 900.
A scheme is on foot to construct
logging road about three miles in
length from the head OF Gray's river,
Oregon. 1t will be operated by A. L.
Saldren, who has in operation SINH
lar road at Clatskanie, and will tap a
district of 5000 acres of spruce timber
belonging to @. H. Green. of Saginaw
Mich.
The new association does not con.
template any general regulation of
coast lumber values. Its aims are
simply to control the situation at San
Francisco. where the trade has been
for some time in badly demoralized
condition. Puget Sound values, foreign
trade or other departments of the lum-
Der business, are not affected.
Henry Miller, of Cathlamet. WASH.
has contracted to furnish the North
Pacific mills, at Portland, over 2, 000,.
900 feet of spruce and fir logs this sea-
son. The Historian says that this cut
will come from Eulokium, the principal
logging stream flowing into the Column
bia,w here over $50 men were employed
at logging during the past summer.
According to the Lumberman there
is a good field on the coast for small
turpentine factory. There are two
species of wood rich In turpentine and
allied porducts. Douglas fir and ''bull'
pine, wood alcohol. pitch and other
so-called naval products. The yield is
by no means as large as the pitch pine
of the South, but there is certainly
room for factory that will utilize the
stumps and refuse of pitch-bearing
trees on the coast.
Harvesting in the Palouse country
has been completed. Every threshing
machine has pulled in, and the haul
ing of grain to different shipping points
will be finished by November l, or per-
haps little sooner. So far this season,
the total shipment of new wheat has
not exceeded $4,000 bushels, most OF
this being to Spokane for milling, and
to the Sound. Since the completion OF
harvesting. farmers and g1aindealers
have concluded that the crop of this
year is the largest ever harvested in