Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-26
NEWS OF OREGON
HFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
commercial and Financial Happenings of
the Past Week-Brief Review of the
Growth and Development of Various
Industries Throughout Our Common
weafth-Latest Market Report.

The taxable value of Lake county
property is 81 ,599 ,O33, an increase O
SIS, ,486 over last year.
"A movement has been started in
Albany to print $4,000 pamphlets fol
advertising Linn county in the Middle
West.
The Salem school board has fixed the
salaries of all teachers in that city,
other than principals, at $40 per
month.
The district fair and carnival al
Baker City, which closed last Saturday,
was a very successful affair from even y
point of view.
An unknown disease, battling in its
nature, is creating havoc among the
sheep in some parts of Lane county,
on the prairies along Coy
ote creek.
With proper facilities for irrigating
the land, Baker county will in time be-
come one of the chief agricultural coun-
ties in the state. Considerable i'm
provement along this line is already
being made.
Fruit growers in Polk county say
that the prune crop will not only be
light this year, but that brown rot has
the Italian prunes in some
sections, and that this will further de-
crease the yield.
A test of the we'll sunk by the state
at the penitentiary has been made, and
the result is quite satisfactory. In the
trial water was pumped thr rough 4 NJ
inch pipe at the rate Of $4,000 gallons
every "a hours.
Eugene Horton, son of the Oregon
City postmaster, has received notice
that he has been selected as alternate
from the First congressional district for
admission to West Point, and has been
ordered to report to boIrd of officers
at Vancouver Barracks, Washington,
for mental and physical exa tnination.
Oregon's 42nd annual state fair,
which closed on the Goth, was the most
exposition in the history of
The agricultural association. The fair
was success not only financially, but
in point of exhibits, which were repre-
sentative of the diversified agricultural
and horticultural interests of the state.
Enough money was made to pay for the
new buildings and improvements.
An effort will be made by the next
legislature to cut down the expenses of
the state printing Office
The pulp mill near Skamokawa,
which was recently destroyed by fire,
will be rebuilt at once.
The office of Indian agent at UNA
lila has been abolished and the agency
and school placed in charge of bonded
Dallas citizens have voted to enter
INTO contract for the construction of
. new water works system to the ex-
tent of $12, 900.
The Oregon Woolgrowels' association,
IN a session at Pendleton, adopted
strong resolutions favorlng the continu-
ltion of the scalp bounty law.
The assessor of Yamhill county
places the gross value of all property
n that county at IS, ,125 ,262.25.
The game law regarding Chinese
oheasants has been grossly violated in
Linn county, but Game Warden
luimby finds it almost impossible to
10 anything.
An immense warehouse is being
erected at Medford. 1t is expected to
% completed in time to receive the
lpple crop, the harvesting of which
will commence about October l.