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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1877)
December. THE WEST SHORE. 57 THE SOUNDS 0' NIGHT. Sweet, murmuring founds o' night ! What charms th' eoli&n anthems bear, That float upon the dreamy air, 80 mellow-toned and light ! Now faint the distant foot-falls grow, Then sinking, die in echoes low; Anon soft, silvery uotes redound, And dwindle into trembling sound, Whilst all seems lulled and calm, and iu enchant ment bound! Faint, whispering sounds u' night ! I know you still, as oft of yore Ere sorrow's gloom bad shadowed o'er My soul so fresh and bright wandered by the lakelet lone, Where zephyrs sighed in tender tone Amongst the drooping willows nigh, And borne on perfumed wings, rose high I'p rale and wavering tleld, where slumbering all Sad, solemn sounds 0' night ! The clock o'erhead, pulsating slow, Proclaims each moment's ebb and flow, As if to stay its flight : And with each measured move and stop Tick, tick, tick, tick, and drop by drop Time's Ocean doth itself expel Along that stream, whose surging swell Impels its ceaseless course down drear Oblivion's Dell. tfiiiLL. STICK A PIN HERE. HOW TO SICURB TRADE IS OREGON AND WASH 1NCT0S TERRITORY. "As nearly all our merchants are aware, crops never fail in Oregon or Washington, anil that all legitimate business flourishes there equally as well mand for lumber, nor never can. Lum-1 her has been selling all the season at from $16 to $30 per thousand, ami at: no time has the demand been supplied. There are now more than one hundred families in this county without a shel ter for winter, because lumber cannot be had to build, and at the present rate' of immigration there can be no telling how many will be obliged to burrow In the ground like a coyote, and if this, winter should be a severe one, there will probably be some suffering. Ev ery wood shed or shelter of anv kind is occupied for a dwelling house; build ings that were expected to be complet-1 ed before this time, arc unfinished for want of lumber. People intending to come here will do well to delay until spring, when it is honed that saw mill I men will see the golden opportunities in this and Stevens counties, and im prove them. Palouse Gazette. Lincoln. The Palouse Gazette says: This new town in Whitman county, better known about here as Chase's Mill, is thriving equally as fast as other young places. A grist mill is located here, and a sawmill will soon be in operation. A postottice lias been established, with Mr . Chas. Chase as P. M. School advantages are not neg lected; a school is organised and a COLUMBIA COUNTY, W. T. Columbia county embraces a com pact body of fertile land of greater ex tent than any other county ot Wash ington Territory or Eastern Oregon. From Dry Creek to Snake River, along the slopes of the Blue Moun tains, a distance of eighty-fire, miles, there is a belt of country unsurpassed in the world for the culture of wheat. On the heads of Coppei, Wilson Hol low, Hog Eye, Whiskey Creek, Ton chet, Path, Tucannon, Patha, and At sotin, large land tracts are found, with in easy distance of timber, the soil of which is a deep loam, easily plowed with one span of horses, and water is found where there is no running streams, in abundance, by digging from fifteen to twenty feet. This laud will all produce at a moderate estimate, thirty-five bushels of wheat to the acre, and a failure from drouth is unknown.! Besides its agricultural properties, it cannot be surpassed as a sheep or cat tle range. Sheep particularly do re markably well on these mountain sides. In the heat of summer they can be taken to the shades of the pines and in winter the pines can be felled and made into boards or shakes, and sheds easily and cheaply made. Much of this land is vet unoccupied) and all peaches and apples in perfection. All vines and berries grow luxuriantly. Sorghum, sugar beets and hops can be cultivated with profit Our climate is temperate warm days ami cool nights in summer. The" fall months are lovely beyond description. The winters, as a "rule, are mild. During the last winter there was not sufficient snow at any one time to admit of using sleighs. Dayton AVwj, Fkkk Fakms. In a recent article the Lewlston Teller points its Jfto a country where large numbers of immi grants can find homes. It says: "There is land enough for thousands to obtain each too acres of tire best wheat lauds. There are farms enough on the head waters of the Potlatch, to supply a large colony of many hundred families. South of Lewiston and east to the reser vation line 500 farms can he taken goinl for wheat. Camas Prairie east has thousands upon thousands of acres of good wheat lands outside the reserva tion which the plow has never touched, but is ready for it, and lies unclaimed. The Palouse country only contains a small part of all the good wheat lands in this section that lie open to settle ment, and many localities may be se lected that aic nearer to market than any portion of the Palouse eoustry. I 1 1 s WW! B Si iHBofiS iffSufl ssnt-: . mWMBmmmmlnlM 69 IJa - - mc- VSBSlswF!i3HHKHsni H9I 1 v ' JK Jsl MbM sVfH MAr Vn SsflffiHSBAm fl Bf"ail IHjiJi H I In B A CIIU.I) CAM B Tp I NK THRESHOLD AND OPENED WIDE THE Immik. Bte ptgi 50. as "on. any part of the Pacific Coast. The trade of these regions is therefore highly desirable, and by liberal adver tising it can be almost entirely secured to San Francisco merchants. There is one paper published iu Oregon, which circulates among all classes, regardless of politics or religion. We refer to The West ShorK, a handsome sixteen-page illustrated jourunl. It is now in its third year of successful publica tion, and is a credit not only to Oregon but the entire Pacific Coast. A card inserted in its columns will reach more Oregon and Washington Territory merchants and mechanics than one in any other publication that we know vt'.San J-raneisco Journal of Com- The immigration la the Palouse country has been so unusually large this season, notwithstanding the Indian scare, that no kinds of manufactures have kept pace, ami the result is we have about four consumers to one pro. ducer. Tk-is is more noticeable in the article of lumber. The three saw mills in this county have not supplied the de- teacher employed. Mr. Chase, propri etor of the saw mill at that place, in forms us that immigrants can obtain such lumber as well enable them to build a shelter for the winter, in the absence of better building material, and that in the spring good lumber can be bad. There are a number of valu able claims yet to be taken about that vicinity. Ilth illMKk PARADISE Lope Island, located about 25 miles belt w Port Townscnd, In Washington Territoryt may rightly be named the hunter's paradise. Game of all kinds can be found there in abundance J.J. Hi nt, of Port Townseco, (nrorms us that himself and two other gentlemen brought d wn 28 deer in three days' hunt cn Lopei and the other small islands near it. Mi. H. claims that at t hat t'nie roe of ti e party were in gcul Imtirg ti'm, 1 ut they expect to do titnr the next tint even sections are open to settlement.! The government should and certainly will soon legislate so that titles can be secured on the railroad lands or odd 1 sections; these, however, are Open to settlement under regulations made by the company, and many of them at ready under improvement by settlers. w ho are guaranteed a prior right of purchase when the lands come into market, at uniform rates according to class. Of the land described above that on Assotin, Patha ami we believe on the head of Tucannon is outside of the railroad grant. The lands that lie adjacent to the streams that run through this county are already occupied; but there are immense tracts ot pastoral and agricultural laud between the streams not yet occupied, and in the whole of our county, the writer can didly believes there is not ten square miles that will not produce good crops when cultivated. The mountain sIoihts and tints are particularly adapted to the culture of small grain, the less elevated portion of the country also produce grain, and besides all the vegetables known t-) the tern crate zone, grape, It is reasonable to hope that a large portion of the present Ncz Perce reser vation will ere long be open to settle ment by the whites, and when -this takes place we will have room for 1,500 or IjOOO more farms of 160 acreH each, to be located iu the vicinity ol good highways to market. Also west of Snake iiei in Washington Terri tory, in Columbia county, lies another large tract of excellent wheat laud, which is only dotted here and there with settlors. Immigrants need not fear of all being absorbed for ycarh yet; but the early man can get his choice." Tim Puts 1 Hanks. In the time ol Demosthenes, 38531 B, ('. banking was carried on to a great extent in Athens. The first mention that occur of bank ing in Koine is in the year t(J It. C. The first bank established iu modern Europe TM the Hank of Venice A. I). Hs.7. 'I he Hank of Amsterdam was estab lished A. I). 1600, The Hank of England went into op. 1 eration Jan. 1, 100.5.
