THE ELLENSBURGH CAPITAL

October 15, 1887

 

CAPITOLIANS

Six new business blocks are contemplated in Ellensburgh in the spring. Mr. NASH has received a contract for repairing the upper bridge across the Yakima river. Mrs. J. S. ROGERS, of Ellensburgh, took the first premium for a crazy quilt at the Walla Walla fair. Mr. DAMON is putting up a large grain warehouse in connection with his mill across the Yakima. A grand ball and supper will be given by the band boys in the Davidson building during the fair. Mr. Geo. J. HURLEY, of the firm of KEENE & HURLEY, is the authorized agent of The Capital at Ruby City, Salmon River. L. BLUMAUER & Son are building a new warehouse on the alley between Main and Pearl Streets. This is to meet the demands of increasing trade. Gene WILSON, having located permanently in the Capital City, is erecting a neat cottage on Fifth street near Sprague. It will be ready for occupany next week. Dr. BEEBE has purchased from Mr. NASH four and one half lots on the bench in the northern part of town and will remove his residence there. The iron mines purchased by the Moss Bay Co., though Mr. KIRK, are the Iron Duke, Iron Boss, Roslyn, River and Iron Prince. They are located on Cle-elum river, about twenty miles north of the city of Cle-elum. Capt. L. W. NESTALL, who with his family resides at Ruby City, Salmon River, left for his home by the Ellensburgh road the other day. He says this route possesses many advantages over
all the others, and that he would rather go over it twice than the Spokane route once. The captain has been over both roads and knows whereof he speaks.

PERSONAL

Mrs. J. S. ROGERS, of this city, has gone to the Big Bend country on business and pleasure combined. She has considerable property in the vicinity of Okanogan. Mr. E. P. CADWELL, one of the rustlers of Tacoma, is in Ellensburgh. The gentleman came for the purpose of spying out the promised land. It struck him favorably and he will remain and grow up with the Capital City.

MINES OF CLE-ELUM

Recent Discovery of a Rich Silver Lode Through Mr. BEVERLY, one of the principal mine owners of Cle-elum, The Capital is enabled to obtain a few items of interest relative to the miners of that district. The latest discoveries are the Evening Star, Morning Star and the Butte, from the base of Ida Elmore Mountain, close to the Deer Lick lode....Taken together, they are the most promising
prospects in the district. The Deer Lick bids fair to become one of the largest mines on the ???.... This property is owned by MEIERS, BEVERLY and YORK. Three and a half miles from the Deer Lick is the Silver King which has completed a 100 foot tunnel... P J. FLINT has been working the ????line in the vicinity of the King, and has a tunnel in forty-five feet... The Bobtail, owned by Tacoma and Yakima parties.... The same company have commenced to sink on the Hawk ledge. The Ida Elmore, one of the richest gold mines in the Cascades, is lying idle, awaiting capital to develop it.

OUTFITTING IN THIS CITY

The following parties outfitted in this city this week: PALMER & McGRATH, six horses and a trail and four horse wagons, for Salmon River. They formerly freighted from Spokane Falls. Commodore BANDY, six mules and trail, for Salmon River. Formerly freighted from Spokane. SHREWSBURY & CRANE, four horses, for Salmon River. LUNSDEN, six horses and trail. Dr. SMITH, two four-horse teams, for Orondo. Merchant of Douglas City, four horses.

JOHNSON HOUSE BUS

The JOHNSON House keeps up with the procession and stands in with the capital movement. Messrs. JACKSON & MALONEY, the enterprising proprietors, this week landed a new bus direct from the St. Louis manufactory. It is a splendid vehicle with a seating capacity for fifteen, but there is always room for one more.

OTHER ITEMS

Dr. Oren J. CROUP, of the firm of CROUP Bros., Walla Walla, W. T. , has opened an office in Ellensburgh as a resident dentist... Office with Drs. NEWLAND & BEEBE. The Ellensburgh Fire Laddies should get out and practice. The joints of the new hand
engine will work the easier for a few practice drills, and it would be a sad thing for the town if a fire should start in its present unprotected condition. The first annual fair of the Kittitas Agricultural Association will open at Ellensburgh, on Tuesday, the 18th, and will hold till the 21st. The fair promises to be very attractive and the society should meet with great encouragement.

RETURNED FROM THE SALMON RIVER

Mayor MIRES and Samuel BLUMAUER, who left Ellensburgh on Friday last for Salmon River, returned on Thursday, after transacting considerable business at Ruby City. The trip was one of the quickest of the season and further demonstrates that the route from Ellensburgh is the shortest and best. The gentlemen report the mining camps in flourishing condition and everybody in the best of spirits. They met 23 heavily laden teams on the road, all from the great outfitting city of Ellensburgh.

KITTITAS MINERALS

OUR STEEL WORKS

A large steel plant on the Cascade Division of the Northern Pacific railroad is about to be erected by English capitalists. The location of the works will be at Cle-elum, a town just this side of the Cascade Mountains, in the center of a rich iron ore district. The company is an off-shoot from the Moss Bay Iron Company of England...

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