Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-31
NEWS OF OREGON
fTFMS 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
wealth-Latest Market Report.

Governor Geer Is making a tour OF
the eastern part of the state.
Judge Gray, prominent citizen of
Astoria, and a native of Oregon, is
dead. He was 63 years lod.
The merchantable lumber of the
Cascade forest reserve is estimated at
SO, 900 900, 900 feet, board measure.
The assessment valuation of Marion
county has increased per cent during
the past year, according to the assessor.
Senator Mitchell has departed for
Washington, where he will take up his
labors prior to the opening of congress.
The Willamette river is changing its
course at Salem and threatens to leave
that city high and dry unless steps are
taken to stop it.
Men under governmental supervision
have been doing considerable dynamit-
ing in the Willamette near Independ-
ence the past week. Several large
snags and boulders were dislodged,
making the upper river transportation
much safer than last winter, when two
or three steamers were sunk by running
into submerged snags.
The Willamette Valley Prune asso-
citation, of Salem, is shipping three
carloads of prunes day and is operat-
ing its packing house day and night.
All prunes are shipped in boxes bearing
the association brand. Sales are being
made on the basis price of 2A cents
for the four sizes in bags and a half
cent more for fruit in 25-pound boxes.
Judge Burnett has rendered a de-
cision which seems to be very sweeping
in its effect and which will prevent
hopbuyers from recovering possession
of hops covered by the ordinary con-
tract. The decision is to the effect that
the contract is mortgage and that the
grower can discharge it by paying the
money advanced to him, with interest.
Hops have reached 25 cents at Salem
and q good many sales are now looked
for.
Three hundred goats were shipped to
Montana from Monmouth a few days
ago.
Two new steamers, one for the
Columbia river and one for Puget sound
are being built in Portland.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new Booth-KeIly sawmill at Spring
field. The company hopes to have the
mill in operation by the first of the
year. 1t will have capacity of $780,
600 feet of lumber per day.
Oregon has a most promising copper
district in section little known.
This is the Imnaha, on the Snake river,
not far from where the Seven Devils is
located on the opposite side. AS yet
little development has been done.
The recent rains throughout the Will
lamette valley have enabled sthe farm
ers to push the work of fall seeding.
All fruit is picked and other fall work
over and a few days more of good
weather will enable the farmers to fin
ish seeding.
Printers of Oregon City have formed
a union.
The Necanicum spruce lumber COM
pany, of Seaside, is making some e1-
tensive improvements to its plant.
A majority of the Lewis and Clark
fair directors favor a special session of
the legislature to make an appropria-
tion for the exposition. They believe
this should be done at once in order to
let the other states have an opportunity
to see what we have done in the matter
and allow them to act accordingly.