Show SOMI WOUK ron SPARKS tiie following tablo shows tbu number of ucrcs of land assessed to Borne of tho principal mill companicH on Puget Bound < l or llio j car 1884 icniw HellhiRunm MHU r000 MooroLBmHli 6710 Port Mmllson Mill Company 7810 N HBbiiiBton Slill Compnny 14019 Port Illnkoly I Mill I Company mIn 1 hil 1ufjet Mill Company 80160 In general thoio aro but three wajs which title to goernment land in Washington Wash-ington Territory tan bo obtained iz I Under thu homestead and preemption laws and tbu timber land < l act In each of tlie n pet mil WHJB unj properly lualifled person may I obtain ICO acres of land Now the o arious companies own from 5000 1 11 iicies to 80000 acres each of land that A I fen jcars ago was Government land Each of these Mini iBtatcs included fiom 10 to filH ijuarlpr sections of Hud rcpro pcuting a Hiinihir number of entries Thine figures aio taken from the assessment assess-ment lolls of 1SSI I and of uour > e fall veiy fai short of rpvpaling the cnormona I extent of the present J land holdings of f the mill oomp lilies nR the same methods which enabled one company toncouiio 81100 acres have been diligently practiced prac-ticed dm ing tho last t 1110 l oirn and aio ctill eryninch in ogue There1 is woik hero for Jomnns kmei Hpuks and his special agents And < l when it is i done there will be weeping nnd gnnxhing of loath |