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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1887)
m THE WEST SHORE. Wis. TV latw sawed soft white pine, while ture appropriated $10,000.00 for the establish- the Taeoma mill sawed on heavy and toiifch fir, ment of a fifli commission, whose duties should whi.h constitutes our principal lumU-r.. The include the maintenance of a salmon hatchery Port P.lakcly mill rcsjnded to this with a cut on some tributary of the Columbia, and one on of five hundred and seventh thousand feet, Kogue river. On the latter stream there is one mid thin stand at the head of the lift on this already in ojeration, which will receive assist- ,,,.,( ancc from the commission. Tlie major portion of the appropriation will, of course, be sj)ent Kmii-a, OMroox.-One of the busiest joints along the Columbia, whose importance in the ..i,th,.,.r('olmiibiafsKnappa. It has large fishing interests of the state overshadows all timUr interest, and is a splendid location for others. A few years ago, a hatchery wasestab- saw and planing mills. Kleven logging camjs, lished on the Clackamas, but was abandoned, representing many thousand dollars of annual This spot has l.een selected, by thecommission, e-nditurc, make that their headquarter, for the site of the main hatchery, and the old I ine f.irms are t icing develoj-d in that vicinity, buildings are being repaired and new ones erect The tiiiiU-r lands, when clcaad, make splen- ed. The work of spawning will probably not did r.iti;for stok, grass growing luxuriantly be commenced until about the first of August, wherever seed is f littered. The noil is fertile It will require more money than the amount of and ) ill Is well under cultivation. Much fine the appropriation to maintain this for two years, !-k is U-ing introduc ed. The tide lands skirt- until the legislature can again be apealedto, iug tin- river are being improved by the fisher- but the canners and fishermen will, no doubt, nun. One enterprising man has undertaken cheerfully contribute all the means required, she culture of cranls-rries. He has imjiortcd since it is acknowledged by all that such an in eu r.il b.irrcls of plant from Iioston, and set stitution is of vital importance to the fishing in I In-ill nut in the marsh lands along the river, dustry of the Columbia. II bin enterprise is a success, it will lead to the improvement of other marshes, since there are Orkoox Lands por Sale. A compilation of thousand of acres adapted to the business, the numerous tracts of land for sale at the rooms Ktnppa has a commodious hotel, and will erect of the state Isiard of immigration, shows the a Presbyterian church this summer. following totals, by counties : Multnomah, - 8,828 Polk, - - 3,280 Mi ii w, I num. The new mining camp of Tillamook, 1,S(0 Umatilla, i,820 Mii11.hi Is situated on the south fork of the (Vur Unc, 27,800 Marion, - 39,050 I' Aleiie river, alsmt twenty-two miles from Morrow, - - 1 ,0.'0 Yamhill, - 33,200 Warliicr, and at ntsut nix hundred and fifty iHjuglas, 100,780 Josephine, 10,230 feet gre.it r elevation. The town is situated on Jackson, 12,300 Grant, 1,250 a lvautiful level trad of Mine two hundred and Klamath, - 0,800 Linn,- - 30,200 fifty Hcr . ttlsnit one hundred and fifty of which Maker, - 0,800 IVnton, - 50,800 have bst ti already cleared otF, and the remain- Clackamas, 18,500 Coos, - 1,500 ilrr I Ifiiu' cleared as fast as jsmsible. There Columbia, 8,780 Crook, 80 fe five canyons putting into the Mullan prai- Clatsop, 3,280 Gilliam, - - 1,.'K)0 rie, the streams rmning out of which combine Union,- 3,780 Wasco, - 32,800 to ( .rm the South fork, which flows through one Washington, - 31,200 Total, - 407NMl e.l; of tbe prairie. In all of these canyons are With the exception of alsut thirty-six thou- riib leads of galena silver. S far, only two sand acres, all this is arable farming land; a b-tes have Ui-ii thoroughly prospsited. The large proration of it in cultivation at this time, Central i In almnt one hundred feet, and the and fairly well improved. Very few of the Milliter al"it four hundred feet, with very sat- farms in this list are occupied by the person of- Isf a. t ory results. Tin? imputation of Mullan is fering to sell. Many of them are parts of dona- oieeihing over five hundred, and jicople are tion claims, farms taken for debt, a second or g.in in rapidly. The projsrt of the place third plax that has come into the jsossension of niv very favorable mid the pojmlation will W the present owner, in one way or another. It vrenily IniTvaN-d ina stiort time. Should a rail- is safe to say, that, in point of fertility of soil, . road l built t Wardner, it will doubtless U character of improvements, convenience to mar- rtteiidM to Mullan in a short time. ket and transportation, the lands embraced in this lint will average with the gnat proportion hut II u in an s.-Th hit Oregon legisla- of farma in thU state. Many of those on record