December.
THE WEST SHORE.
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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.
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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.