WEST SHORE.
Put we are confident that this failure lays rather in the pur
chasers not getting quite as big a thing as was at first supposed,
nul not in the cause that the mine is entirely worthless. Tin
best mining men who have been over the ground affirm that
there is enough good ore there to repay the company back all
they have expended on the property, and tint tunneling and
drifting in the right direction might yet reveal a bonama.
Two attempts were made during (he summer to open up the
Willoughby & Ware property on Admiralty islund, but In both
cases the bonds were thrown up after developing the proerly
to some extent. Now the original owners are preparing to
erect a mill on the property next season, and as there is con
siderable good ore in sight, in all probability It will not be a
losing venture. Fret Prm, Juntau, Alatka.
IDAHO'S AGRICULTURE,
A gentleman writes us to inquire if we make any claims for
Idaho as an agricultural state. Most certainly we do. Though
she has vast mineral resources, we btlieve that Idaho will be
known preeminently as an agricultural slute. Agriculture is In
its Infancy here, yet this year's crops are retried as follows:
Wheat, 3,409,300 bushels; oats, 2.140,860 bushels; barley,
1,150,450 bushels; corn, 407,400 bushels; rye, 040,9 0 bushels;
grass seeds, 17,350 pounds; hay, 414.740 tons; potatoes, 1,85V
000 bushels; other vegetables, 8:18,000 bushels; spptu, 277,
000 bushels ; pears, 29,850 boxes ; peaches, 34,850 boxes ; plums
and prunes, 34,350 boxes; grapes, 18,200 taxes; berries of all
kinds, 70,000 boxes.
Live stock returned for assessment, which undoubtedly Is
much less than the true number: Thoroughbred horses, 1,113;
graded horses, 21,428; native horses, 105,203 j mules, 2,480;
jacks and jennies, 200 ; thoroughbred bulls, 1,400 ; thoroughred
cows, 1,440; graded bulls, 4,322; graded cows, i'l. 007; range
cattle, 350,225; work oxen, 1,422; Imported sheep, 3,120; grad
ed sheep, 05,600; common sheep, 317,274; Angora goals, 5,5o5;
hogs, 38,074. Is not all this a pretty good showing as an agri
cultural state in Its Infancy 7
For agricultural purposes there is no finer climate on I.,
globe than that found in Idaho-and the asms may eaM oi
its oil. In Northern Idaho rains are frequent, and there Is no
resort to Irrigation, which is necessary in Southern Idaho. Ap
ples, pears, plums and prunes, both In quantity and qnali y,
flourish In Idaho aa In the most favored spoti of th. www.
The amount of fruit raised per acre would seem fabulous In I .
statement to any one not familiar with the orchard, of this
young territory. One thousand bushels per acre is not an un
usual average of the apple crop. The avers, grain cro, m
be sUted at these figures: Wheat, forty bushel, to a re,
and In some season, the aversgs Is as high a. ... y busheto.
oate will average from .ixtyflv. to seventy l.n.he I. to . .
barley will avergge from forty-five to fifty bush,!, to t . a re.
Corn I. not a first-class crop In Idaho. '" J"
500 bushel, per acre, and om.limra a thousand Ual.rl toll.,
acre; onions, the same a. potato! bay. from " J
tons per acreUn average probably would b. a Huh h n
five ton. ; of timothy, clover and Alfalfa, there sre Uo ir
Idsho, and sometime, three. , ,
The abundant pasturage, th. great crop, of bay, JJ
mild winter., make Idaho an exceptionally fin. unhj
tock raising Ho, as an sgricul.ural country, " k
Mb. of tl.e union, taking It .11 In a", t4
Idaho. When . Urange, I. asked to ' J
b. ahould remember that Idaho, bjTal
jectod to great volcanic ove.flow, which In tit pwJ
tegration ha. left In th. aoll rich .uPI41- of uU and ml
which are the luxuriant supoit of plant and vegetable life
Hoitt Slalftmnn.
Tacoma enterprise propose, to shorten the journey between
that city and Olympla. At present tba quickest rout Is by
steamer around the head of the peninsula on which Tacoma Is
situated, the trip taking three hours, It Is proved to build a
street railway on Fifteenth street to the city limits and thence
across the peninsula to the narrows, a her. it will connect with
a line of steamers. This will reduce the lime fully an hour.
The motive power will probably 1 electricity. Th. building
of this line Is dependent upon securing a franchise on Flftenlh
street,
Contract has leen let for ties for tha Una of th. Heatlle- A
Northern between Anacortes and Hedro, and the line, which is
all graded and lor which tha steel rail, are now on hand, will
be In running order by tha first of July next. It a III tap lb.
Oregon Improvement (Vs. coal mine, on Skagit river, hum
which 1,000 tons dally will I forwarded to Anacortea for ship
ment. This coal is of a superior quality and will bs In great
demand. An extensive waif Is being constructed at Anacor
tes, which wi 111 become quit, an lmorlanl stopping point.
Notwithstanding th. report that only a three fourth, crop was
raised In th. country tributary to Pullman thla year, careful
Investigation shows a large yield, as the following figure. Indi
cate: 700,000 buahels of a heat, 75,000 bushels..! barley, Ml 00
Wl,el. of flax and 50.0(H) bushels of oats, making a grand to
tal of 010,000 bushels. Increased acreage and Ilia recent heavy
rains Indicate that next year the crop will U .till greater.
During th. past year several unsuccessful attempts were
mad. to strike natural gas by taring In th. vicinity of (to U
turn and Hoslyn, Washington. Tin eirlmenl hss not ln
.Undone,., and It Is rented that work will soon ta teanmed.
Th. Intention I. to tar. at different (da.. In th. talL...., H
ably ss far down aa Tranaway, unlesa tha tarings higher up
should 1 successful,
U.t aeek'. Ws.r Hmi contained an arllcl .bout th.
Cracker creek mine, of Itakar county, Oreg.m. The new
mm mill of lb. Kurek. A K.cal.lor ConaolU.trd Mining
Co. I. now In full o,r.tlo. Th. first run of or. from Ku e
ml F.iorlalor mine, wsa started on th. evening of Ita. Ilth
Inst. m
An o,rahou company ha been ...-or,.ted In rW'to
with 2M. rspltal. There ar. flva Inror,-. .tor. and h.
0 "lis to build and equip an opera hou-ln . at city h.
Sto on. of lb. flneat on th. IVlflc com.. Pre, .rat Ion.
for building hav. already begun.
The Nelson W mine, seven ndle. w..t of Itok.i City, to
on. i th. rlcheal pto.wr. on th. IVItk c-l. MU
.taut a ,:.r m Th. final clean -., , I to summe to
reported sa th. It Th. mln. to worked by by
draulle prismas.
Milton Oregon to growing r.,Illy. Tl.to 7-r -'
UoZ hav. L built a. again M In m. Mghtaan real
K, U.k budding and s.v.r.1 other Umm hon.
,r. now under coursa ol wnslrwllon.
Th. linger train, .eat over lb. Northern IVlfto era
.ulatora .ho are taond tor Oregon and Washington.