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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1877)
June. THE IDAHO INDIAN WAR. For the information of our readers at home, as well as intending immi grants, who may be led by sensational newspaper reports to believe that we are having an Indian war in Oregon, we have prepared a very correct map of the seat of war and surroundings. There are no hostile Indians north or west of Snake river, so that the entire disturbance is in Idaho Territory. Lewiston, in Idaho, is the nearest town to the Washington Territory line, and people there have been arming them selves, so that they should be prepared In case of the Indians making a sudden tlescent on them for ammunition. Otherwise no alarm need be appre hended. It is not at all likely that the Indians without being whipped out will come out of the mountainous districts, where they are now congregated in the sections lying between Salmon river, Mt Idaho and White Bird creek. Mt. idaho is the most exposed of any of the towns. The settlers in that locality who were not murdered at the first outbreak have all come in to places of safety, and a prompt and liberal appli cation of powder and bullets will soon cure these festive redskins of their ma rauding inclinations. We have correct- ly placed all the towns, streams and fer ries in the Walla Walla valley on our map, for although they really do not constitute u the seat of war," some of them may be, owing to their proximity mentioned in some of the sensational "special" dispatches to our "live dailies." Our readers will do well to save this map for future use, and to intending im migrants can say : come right along, as here in Oregon and Washington we are as safe from Indians as are the in habitants of any portion of New York or Pennsylvania. W.A. Livcrmore, Esq., from Dallas, Polk county, says : I think your paper superexccllent, and being the first and only illustrated paper in Oregon, devoted to the inter ests of Oregon and Washington Terri tory, and giving correct pictures of our wonderful and picturesque scencrv, all, together with the enterprise of its pub lisher, make it fully worthy of patron age ; therefore send it along for anoth er year. Mr. I. A. Clark writes to us from Oysterville : I think your paper a grand success. It should he patronised by every one interested in the welfare of the Sorth west. I had it last year, and must have it again this year, therefore send for one year one copy to my address, and one each to the three addresses of my friends in the East mentioned below. rah SH xtfrr ief-t- h w- r k wtra S h THE WEST SHORE. " Keep your money at home by pat ronizing home industries. " This sen tence has before this appeared in The West Shore. It is one, however, that cannot be too often impressed on the minds of our readers. It is only by stopping the continual drain on our money coflers for substantial and lux uries that we can ever hope to rank as a wealthy State. An article is no better because it bears the Parisian or New York trade mark. The folly of buying imported goods is illustrated in cloths. Oregon raises the best wools in the world. Eastern manufacturer! pm chase it and ship it back as French cloth. For this privilege we pay very handsomely. On the other hand, we have a splendid woolen-mill at, Oregon City, which gives employment to a large number of hands, and those in turn again keep up other industries. In fact, it has often been asserted that Oregon City would soon pass out of existence if the wool and flourlng-mUla there were to shut down. Since our residence in Oregon, for six veal's, we have given Oregon manufactures a thorough trial, and have made it a rule in the office as well as in our household affairs, never to purchase an article, be it ever so small, from abroad if a simi- THE SEAT OP WAR IN IDAHO AND lar article is being made at home : and we speak knowingly when we say that Oregon manufactures in nearly every instance have proved to be of superior quality. A visit to the establishment of Jacobs Itros. & Co., the agents of the Oregon City Woolen Mills, and an ex amination of their beautiful cloths and flannels, will convince any judge of the article that Oregon can manufacture tine cloths and cashmeres. The same might be said of our furniture. The Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Co. make up as rich and elegant furniture as can be purchased any where, yet some of our M noddies" will persist in sending abroad simply to have furni ture from San Francisco or New York not that it is any better or cheaper ; no, bless you, but it does look so grand, you know, to have furuiture from New York even if it does kill home indus tries This list might be extended to wagons, stoves, and even soap, of which a much better article is being made here by Irving tV Co. than any that is brought from San Francisco, but the above will suffice. Let us all com bine to give home manufactures the preference over imported goods, anil Oregon would soon be what she was by nature designed, " the richest State in the I'nion." The only victory over love is flight. COMB TO OREGON AND WASHINGTON, We bear complaints from California that hundreds of immigrants are re turning home after viewing that parched up and desert State, imagining all the Pacific coast to be the same wav, Califoruians, ever jealous of Oregon and Washington, dare not tell these immigrants that north of California lies a land where crops never fail, where droughtf chinchbugs, grasshoppers and hard winters are unknown ; where fish and game arc plentiful ; where the summers, fanned by the gentle sea breezes, anil the winters, protected by the Cascade and Coast Range of mountains, create such an agreeable climate as to make life a continual round of pleasure ; where the industri ous always thrive, but where there is no room for sluggards and drones such a land lies within two days1 trav el of the disappointed immigrant! to California, and yet rather than that Oregon should have this accession to her population, Califoruians induce these immigrants to return to their own homes, which arc either grasshopper cursed in summer or frozen up in win ter. As immigrants can procure half fare tickets from San Francisco to Or egon, which would make the expense ADJOININlJ WALLA WALLA VALLEY. very light indeed, we would advise them, regardless of what Califoruians may say of us, that they should pay this State a visit, and they will never regret the time or money expended in making the trip. La Oninde is situated near the foot of the Blue mountains, in the fertile valley of (iraude Ronde, one of the garden spots of famous Eastern Ore gon It is distant from Portland about three hundred miles, and is on the stage road leading from points on the Columbia river and Walla Walla to the different mining districts in that section of the State and Idaho Territory. It is a very flourishing place. I'nion coun ty, ot which La Grande is one of the principal towns, has an agreeable cli mate, the winters being dry and the summers very pleasant. Numerous small streams besides the (iraude Ronde river run throughout the valley. A railroad has been talked of to con nect Grande Ronde with the Columbia river. Isaac GlbtOfl, Esq., a prominent law yer of Ludlngton, Michigan, writes : I am much pleased with your paper. It certainly surpasses anything of the kind that I expected to sec from the State of Oregon, and speaks well for the enterprise of the proprietor and the wealth and intelligence of the people of your State. 181 OUR NATIONAL BIRTHDAY. Before another issue of this paper we shall have entered on the one hundred and second year of our national inde pendence. Most all cities in Oregon and Washington arc making prepara tions to celebrate on a grand scale, ex cept Portland. Our celebration here last year was largely attended by all towns of Oregon and the neighboring Territories, and lasted all the week. Portlanden desiring to return the com pliment have decided not to have a celebration of their own, but help our sister cities to observe the 4th at their homes in a becoming manner. Fire works are to be set oil" on the night of the th from the top of Mount Hood. We very much doubt if it will be at tended w ith any degree of success. However, it is an experiment worth trying. We wish our readers a pleas ant time, and if nothing happens to in terfere expect to have a good time out sell", "down by the sounding sea." Tygh valley, in Wasco county, is fill ing up rapidly, and it is expected that thousands of acres will be opened there for settlement this fall by the comple tion of the Woinack ditch to Oak tirove Plains. AN OREGON INVENTION, In the spring of 1S72 W. F. McCra ry, then postmaster at Raker City, in vented and patented an envelope. He fore it was ready to be placed in the market Mr. McCrary died, ami the patent went to Ins heirs, who have never made any attempt to do anything with it. During a recent visit to Ma ker City we were shown some of these envelopes, and feel fully convinced that an immense fortune awaits the person who will place them on the market. In general appearance and sie it is like the ordinary envelope, except that the lower lap forms a small pocket into which messages can be placed and sealed without destroying the cnvcloe, as would be the case with the present style, in case anything shauld have to be addeil to the original letter. We have been u-ing the McCrary envelope in our business correspondence for the past four weeks, and we must say they are a great convenience and saving in time and money. The reason for the favor which Ore gon wool meets in the markets of the world is that it is almost universally of unusual evenness of fiber. This is mostly owing to mild winters and abundance of feed, keeping sheep in good condition, so that the wool never stops growing.