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WEST SHORE.
The citizens of Olympia, Washington, are informed by " a company
having ample capital," that they stand ready to establish a large sash and
door factory there if " sufficient inducement " in the shape of land or money
is offered,
Lane county, Oregon, reports a gross assessment of $0,882,352; indebt
edness $1,397,030; exemptions $553,324; net taxable property, $4,029,898.
Last year the figures were, $0,609,677, $1,292,192, $515,002, and $4,802,323,
respectively, showing practically the same proportions throughout.
The thriving city of Hoquiam, on Gray's harbor, Washington, has pur
chased a fine large engine and other apparatus for the protection of its
buildings from destruction by fire. Such precautions are prime requisites
In place which are being built np with frame structures, and Hoquiam has
set a worthy example for many older and more pretentious cities in the
northwest.
The capital stock of the Northwest Industrial Exposition at Spokane
Falls, Is $50,000; the building and equipments cost $108,000; the receipts
from the exposition were $25,000, leaving a deficiency of $58,000 to be paid
by the enterprising citizens managing the affair, or carried over as indebt
edness to be wiped out by future exhibitions. The city council is consider
ing the proposition of purchasing the property for $75,000 and leasing It to
the company for $6,000 a year.
Considerable difficulty is being experienced by parties engaged in min
ing for opals in the recently discovered fields near Moscow, Idaho, by water
filling the shafts almost as fast as it can be removed. Blasting the rock also
destroys the crystals. In Hungary and other places where opals are mined
the rock is saved Into b'.ocks and taken to the surface of the ground and
carefully broken. The same means will probably be employed at Moscow.
The parties most deeply Interested in the business are confident that large
returns will be made by the mines when properly operated.
In advocating the establishment at Boise City of a state mining and go
ological bureau, the Kelchum Keyilone says : Such an Institution would aid
materially in making known to visitors the great mineral resources of the
state, not by collecting and exhibiting rich samples of our various ores
which would be a part of its business, but the publication of its annual re
ports upon the condition of our mines and mining industry, which would
be authoritative, and, therefore, sought after and read by men having
means to invest in mines. Besides, it would serve as a preservatory of pet
rifactions, fossils, curios, stones and minerals of general and particular in
terest, all of which would be helpful in discovering facts and diffusing a
knowledge of local geological and mineralogical peculiarities, which could
but serve to stimulate prospecting on the one hand, and investment on the
other hand of much needed capital in mines already discovered, and their
development into sources of vast revenue to our people and state. That
our mines are rich beyond possibility of computation will not be disputed;
that the state and people should employ every agency in their power to
compass their early development ought not to be disputed.
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" Lay off your coat," said the first
politician at a Uamocratic conven
tion to the Becond You won't feel
it when you go out." "That's what
I'm afraid of," he replied. "I
attended the last Democratic con
vention." Lawrence American.
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leddy down-stairs wants ter see yer,
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mum; I nlver laid eyes on her he-
ton. Judge.
PKorisoR-Who was SldoniusT
Stuuknt There were several of
that name.
Phopissor-I mean the writer of
history and of elegies.
Student Oh, that was Sidonlus
Apollinaris. His second name was
conferred upon him because he was
a poet of the first water.-iVi .
DAniuwAY-Suppose you should
come around to my house some day,
walk up to my room, and find my
lifeless corpse in bed. What would
you dot
Clevertok-1 would Institute an
immediate search for that five dol
lars you owe me. Life.
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twenty-six now. Say yes, Ulta.-iVt.
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J 8POKANH FALLS. WAHlTiwri'roV.