The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1899-11-10

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The logging camps have laid Of
most of the week and the trains wer,
not required to run.
/ Other towns are doing the righ
thing BY their returning soldier boys
and Shelton viii do likewise
46 acres of good land two miles dowr
the bay, in = good neighborhood, nea,
school house. for sale cheap. Apply
at this office.
The weather has continued rainy
most of the time during the week, bat
vet weather will be the order for sew.
eral months to come.
The Editor spent few days in Sc
attic and Tacoma during the celebra-
ton of the return of the Fighting
First Washington" and the JoURNAI.
IS rather short of everything else ex-
cept celebration. Another case of too
much celebration. perhaps
A patron of this paper writes: 1.-THE
JOURNAL is the newslest local paper /
ever have met In my travels and for
this we are thankful, although it is
not a new expression. We aim to
cover the local field thoroughly, and it
is not often that anything very i'm
portant gets away While there's al
ways room for more, the JOURNAL re-
ceives liberal and general patronage
from the people of Shelton and Mason
County. and is satisfied.
A list is beng circulated about town
for subscriptions of one dollar or less
for the purpose of purchasing two
good watches and having them suita-
bly, inscribed for presenting to Dan
Banse and Arthur Eells, the two Ma
son County boysin the volunteers. a
token of the public appreciation they
will Away cherish. 1t Is needless to
say that everybody has signed the
list.
Be careful to return to TIE postothce
mail matter not belonging to you
which you may have received through
mistake A new postal rule which re-
Gently went into effect Is that persons
who from carelessuess or from any
other reason take mail from the Office
that belongs to another, and who fail
to return the same, are liable to a fine
of 500 or . years imprisonment.
This applies to newspapers Thus taken
from the postoffice as well as to other
mail matter
A Ri. Anderson and Lester Turner,
of the Peuinsular Railway Com
pany, and Mr.. Mcdonald, of Mosher &
Mcdonald. We're down frona Seattle
last week and spent several days in
the vicinity of Hoodsport, looking
mp a new railroad proposition. 81.
lilly Brown. the surveyor. has been
at work in that section for several
weeks, looking up feasible ronte for
a railroad in the big bodies of virgin
timber in the foothills of the Olympic
mountains The Stimson company has
some Il, 600 acres of fine timber land
in that section, and there are many
individual holdings 1t is reported
that the new railroad is assured, and
that it will be in operation by next
summer.
Chief Engineer McHenry and his
party of surveyors have moved their
camp to the Shelton Spring, near
town. and the work of preliminary sur
yeying for the Port Angeles Eastern
Railroad, is now within a short dis
lance of this place The work is some
what slow, on account of the wet
weather, but NO obstacles have been
met with. The line crosses the Sko-
komish Valley without much difficulty,
and on good grades, and it Is thought
that no difficulty will be experienced
In getting into Shelton. C. Cushing
and W. b. Hambliu, two of the man
aging officials of the proposition, are
in town. having arrived trom Port
Angeles Tuesday, and are looking
over the situation here. 1t l. said that
they are favorablY impressed with
Shelton, and state that the actual work
of construction will begin as soon as
good weather opens next spring. By
that time the line will be definitely To-
Gated, and the lot of rails shipped
around the Horn will have arrived.
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other batch of twenty viii be initiated