Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1888 — WASHINGTON TERRITORY. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

Figures from the Annual Report of Gov. Bugene Semple. Eugene Semnlc, Governor of Washington Territory, in his annual report estimates the population of the Territory at 167,982, an increase of about 24,000 during the year. The taxable property is given at $84,621,182, a gain of over $65,000,1)00 in the last ten years, and a large increase over last year. Public lands have been entered during the year as follows: Original homestead entries. 312,740 acres; timber culture entries, 89.264 acres; cash entries, 133,8J3 acres; pre-emption filings. 359,613 acres; coal land. 18,720 acres; desert land. 24,000 acres, and timber land, 85,600 acres. During the year the Northern Pacific Railroad Company sold 268,700 acres. Coal mining, the report says, is in a prosperous condition, the mines having produced 1,133,801 tons, as against 525,705 during 1887. Gold and silver mining is also in a prosperous condition. The salmon pack for the year was 360,820 cases, but neither the canneries nor the fishermen have made anything on the year’s work. The Governor urges the admission of the Territory into the Union; recommends the allotment of lands in severalty to all Indians; a liberal appropriation for the enforcement of the Chinese exclusion act; the establishment of a port of entry on Gray’s harbor, and liberal appropriations for surveys of the public lands.