The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1901-02-22
Around The County.
HOOD CANAL. Feb. 10. 1901

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4 HOOD CANAL. Feb. 1o, 1901.
i Mrs. Katie Hilbourn, of SEATTLE, re
turned to her home the first of this
week after visit of about a week with
her sister, Miss Mollie Reynolds, Of
Union City, and other friends.
i Chester C. Ee1ls, who has been atten.
ding school at Snohomish during the
winter, returned last week to his home
on the reservation.
Our long dry spell remarkable for
having begun so early in the winter,
and continuing so long, four weeks.
closed on the. evening of the twelfth.
During those four weeks we had fifty-
one hundredths of an inch of rain:
during the next four days we had over
eleven times as much, Eve and three
fourths inches.
P. Mccoy and c. Rich, from the
Skagit, spent a day or two, about two
weeks ago, cruising timber on tile Up
per Skokomish. We understand that
they thought it not practicable to drive
it down the river, as it is mainly above
the Forks. 1t is said that M. Draham
has also been cruising it, and thinks
it practicable to take it to Hood Canal
| by railroad, which he contemplates
doing in the future, though it may be
two years before he will be able to begin
the work. sss5s
The oyster business seems to be
building up at Allyn, as three families
have moved to the place in the last few
| months.
]. Happily, whose three years. lease
of the Puget mill company's farm at
Clifton expires the first Of March, is
said to have again rented the same
place. The company has bought of
him hundred and fifty tons of hay
Rev. Weeks of Tacoma. has arranged
to preach every other Monday evening
at Allyn, and the people appreciate
the services.
A petition is in circulation asking
the county commissioners to slightly
change and fn1ly open the road be-
tween the Skokomish hatchery and
Henry Lathams. 1t is one of the
worst pieces of road in the county.
Already seventy persons have signed
it, with more to follow.
The Skokomish hatchery has been
running to its full capacity during
this winter, having already turned out
four or five million young salmon,
with eight or nine million small ones
and eggs still remaining in the hatch
cry. 1t seems. now as If only one thing
were necessary to make it a complete
success. At present it is impossible to
keep the young salmon in the hatchery
after they need to be fed, hence they
are turned into the river, where large
numbers of them are devoured by the
trout. The same is true at other
hatcheries. If reservoir could be
built and food supplied for a few
uiOAlhS, Until luCJ SUOulu Uc d lew
inches long, they would then be safe.
Blackwell says that this could be done
at comparatively small expense, and
while no one knows the proportion of
the young salmon which are eaten,
yet according to some estimates it
seems as if comparatively small ex-
pense would really double the actual
| results of the hatchery.
| A. Leroy began work last Monday,
with new crew of men at the old log-
ging works of George Simpson back
from the head of Big Skookum bay,
where the road from Shelton to Lake
Mason crosses the logging railroad.
| The local log market continues brisk
and loggers predict busy season.
| Johnnie Morrison seems some better
this week, and his friends have hopes
that he will recover.
Your BEST WORK cannot be done
without good health, and you can't
have good health without pure blood.
Hoods Sarsapariila is the great pure
blood maker. Itgives appetite, strength
and vigor, and cures disease.
Constipation is cured by Hoods Pills.