Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-10-28
NORTHWEST NEWS.
1Iehs OF General Interest Cleaned
From the Thriving Pacific
States.

'ANiOh vi lIlo OOqullle river.
The total attendance at the Spokane
trult 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 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 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. 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 $100.0 900 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 $3S0,32 per-
Sonal property, $1,975, SSs.
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.S2 to l.25
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 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 a 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 tc
charter a national bank in Honolulu
until congress passes laws for the gov
eminent of the islands. Consequently
Perry S. Heath and San Francisco oapi
talists will not have their application!
granted at present.
The Carbonate coal mines shipped
$4,000 tons during September, heat
ing all previous records. Roslyn ha6
held the record with 10000 tons. Th'
Carbonate mines, owned by the South
ern Pacific Railroad Company. are run
ming full time and employ 600 men
averaging So 80 a day wages.
The scully Steel & 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. 1t will be- operated by A. L
Saldren, who has in operation y simi
lar road at Clatskanie, and wiz tap
district of 5000 acres of spruce timbe
belonging to g. H. Green. of Saginaw
Mich.
4 The new association does not con
template any general regulation o
coast lumber values. Its aims ar
yimply to control the situation at Sal
Francisco. where the trade has bee
for some time in badly demoralize
condition. Puget Sound values, foreIg
trade or other departments of the lum
Der business, are not affected.
Henry Miller, of Cathlamet. Wash
has contracted to furnish the Mort
Pacific mills, at. Portland, over 1000
900 feet Of spru@ and fir logs this ses
son. The Astorian says that this CT
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