The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-27
NORTHWEST NEWS.
Items OF General Interest Cleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
States.

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
3ase.
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 ct present, most Of the
patienta 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 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 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 $270,-
900, on which duty Of 100000 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, 1874; per-
sonal property, e1,s75, SS2.
The Lincoln county (Wash.) commits
soners have fixed the tax levy for all
purposes at Ia mills, on valuation OF
IS, 666,73 The levy for road pur-
poses was increased from O.S2 to Las
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 Claokamas 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, SO tons were evaporated.
A cargo of 100, O73 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 q 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 g. Bedlington railway has been
let to Larson g. Foley, work to com.
mence this month.
Controller of the Currency Dawes
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
49, 900 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 900 men,
averaging sS.29 day wages.
The Scully Steel & Iron Company, 0
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.
ships by ono of the largest shipbuild.
ing firms at that point. The value OF
the contract exceeds 100000.
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 p SINH.
lar road at Clatskanie, and win tap q
district of 5, 900 acres of spruce timber
belonging to @. ii. Green. of Saginaw,
Mich.
4 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
Tor some time in a 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