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and firm.£WMATCBM COIHTV.onon Captain Henry Boeder, after being ^ absence for several months on an ex-tended visit to his old home in Ohio, re-at turned to Whatcom on Thursday. He was accompanied by the Misses Fonts, daughters of Wm. H. Foots, our present Sohool Superintendent.h- The ooal company at present operafc-ing on the Skagit Kiver, nave now alto-ail gather about 2000 acres of ooal lands on that stream, on which they get the fin-ffi- est quality of bituminous coal. As yet to they have onlv prospected to a depth of »ot fjo feet. The oompany have also a fine oft vein of magnetio iron, which yields be about 45 per oent.~ The potato crop on Oroaa and the other islands in that vicinity is unusually good this season, and will average - j five tons to the acre. Mr. Bobinson, of Oroas Island, informs us that from one-al» eighth of an acre he raised this year tie 1000 pounds of as fine tubers as a Land or Leaguer ever worked his jaws over.id, A. J. Perry, of Semiahmoo, is at pr^-on ent in San h rancisoo, negotiating for the to purchase of a large sawmill, which he rt intends to put in operation nesr Semi-da ahmoo. It will out at the start about ;o- 25,000 feet per day, and will oost, engine he included, in the neighborhood of $6000. ho Mr. Perry will leave for home on the at, 90th inst. The mill will be in operation rd by June next.t*6 A small Indian ohild was picked upon the beach at Semiahmoo, last Thura*n day, by William Hagadorn. The infant, had evidently been placed there by itsaa inhuman mother, and left to perishmiserably or be washed away by the!~’ incoming tide. The ohild seemed to beperfectly well, excepting that it ap-peared subject to fits. Mr. Hagadornbrought the waif down in a small boat*** to Anacortes on Friday, where he tookit on the Weloome and conveyed it toTulalip, to be placed in charge of the18 Sisters.—Enterprise. les ~
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Seattle Daily Post Intelligencer
Seattle, Washington, US
Tue, Oct 31, 1882
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