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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1878)
116 THE WEST SHORE. April, Who Should Comb. There are a great many families coming into the country, who have come to select lands and improve them. We welcome all llichj and can assure them there is still room for more. There are vast tracts of good lands yet to lie had. But there is a class coming that it will he difficult to provide for, and that is those who are in quest of situations as clerks and salesmen. There is scarcely a day hut the merchants are applied to for itu ations of different kinds. Of course they arc all supplied, and can not make room for any more. The professions are too well represented. Of doctors and lawyers we have an abundance, an 1 for skilled labor none need apply. In short, all non-producers will find it difficult to obtain employment. There has not been a winter since we have lived here, and that is 17 yean, that we have not seen a great many of the class mentioned above, who lived in some way off the hotel-keepers, chop houses and private parties; they are like old lame Jess, they "never missed a meal nor paid a cent." We therefore caution all this class against coming here, as our people hve had a full share of interlopers of that kind. We say, young man, by all means stay East. Even the farmers have nothing for this class to do, only at busy times during harvesting and threshing. Witlfa Wafta ( htion. AN KXTRAORDINARY FEAT. Herewith we give a representation of an extraordinary feat performed by His Excellency, Jung Ha hfldoor, Commander - in Chief and Prime Minister of Ncpaul, (lin ing bis stay al Pallia. The cxplo t consisted in riding to the summit of a large ma sonry granary on the back of a hill pony, winch ani mals are noted for their sure - footed noss and a ,ep more trying experiment, both to the rider's nerves and to the pony's paces, can scarcely be conceived. The height of the dome is about two hundred feet, wiiii iwu 1110M do 6 u tinny iii 1 10 o .1110 unuui 1 uub staircases leading to the summit. This granary was the first of a series proposed to be built at all the nrinclonl towns in the ioiiue of Mi liar, in or- - der to avert famine and . JiE- Wanl during the years of excessive drought ; the occasion Of its being built was the dreadful famine of At I- 1770. wlien near ly one-third of the popu lation of Iti bar Was swept flwlty men eating men, and mothers then' chil dren What prevented the completion of these granaries, does not ap pear. SUMMER I.AK1:. Among the most favored valleys of the Lake country, is that of Summer 1 take. It lies a few miles west of Che WflUCan and is separated from it by a high sage plain. West and south of the valley is a high mountain chain. Thfl side of this mountain next the lake is quite precipitous, but is covered with the finest bunch grass. Along its base are numerous springs, some of them forming streams of considerable I sie, which now across the narrow but OXtremety fertile valley into the lake. The clim.it is remarkably mild consid-. cling the great altitude of the valley, and is perhaps less (tasty than almost any other portion of Lake countv. We i aie informed that all kinds of vegeta bles which succeed in the most favored pails of Western Oregon, are grown Successful!) there. On the east side of'the lake, the country is more desert like; the Ant prominent feature to at-' tract attention being an alkali tl.it on iho lake border, Above which, when the wind blows continuously for a consid erable length of time which is not' seldom hovers a white cloud of alkali dust. Farther away is a high ridge surmfounted by a w all of volcanic rock, such as is usually known in the Lake I country as uH(o rock." This marks the Southern limit of the Oregon Dm ort so famous as a w inter pasture foi stock. In December, 1843, Capt. Jno. C- Fremont, traveling eastward on an Indian trail with his exploring party from the head of the Klamflth Marsh, looked down on this valley from the high ridge to the westward. While the "Pathfinder" stood in snow up to his hoot-tops, with a snow-storm "in full blast" about him, the sun shone brightly upon the lake and grassy val ley below. Winter and summer seemed to be the only words in the language sufficiently descriptive of the unusual scene, hence Fremont called the moun tain Winter Ridge and the beautiful body of water below him Summer Lake. The population of Summer Lake V al ley is already considerable, but we doubt not it will be greatly increased in the near future. Tidings. CHANCES FOR ENTERPRISING MEN, A man with a small capital could build up an immense business in a very short time by taking up a claim and establishing a summer hotel on the Co lumbia river, immediately back of Col lins' Landing, between Wind and Hald mountains. This is yet Government land, and on the plat are several won derful hot sulphur springs, which have cured many people of rheumatism and kindred diseases. One mile back from the river is a beautiful lake of about one mile in circumference.. A spark ling mountain stream in the immediate good point for a blacksmith, as farmers have to travel twenty-five miles to Col fax to have their blacksm'ith'ing done. At Almota, on the Snake river, is a splendid opening for a saw-mill. Logs can be rafted on the Clearwater into the Snake river down to Almota, where a splendid water-power privilege can be had, and all the lumber sold as fast as it is turned out from the mill. A few live men could find remuner ative employment by floating the drift wood which annually comes down the Clearwater and Snake rivers during high water, to some convenient landing place, and afterwards splitting and cording it. The O. S. N. Co. will pay $5 a cord cash on delivery, on the banks of the river, for it. A gang of from 100 to 200 men can make from $1 to $2.50 per day by washing for gold on the bars on the Snake and Columbia rivers. Gold in almost inexhaustible quantities is known to exist there, but it is so tine that it is difficult to obtain, and therefore no great fortune could be made at it, but certainly a great deal more than can be made by standing around corner saloons talking politics and guzzling cheap whisky. 1 stages of the water the year round, and enable the present company to reduce their rates for both freight and passage. In its present condition the Snake, es pecially, is a dangerous stream to navi gate, and a very few trips will use up the best hull ever launched from a ship, yard. A few weeks ago we made a trip to Lewiston, on the light draft steamer "Almota," commanded and handled by that old veteran steam boatman,Capt. Baughman, ably assisted by Capt. Gray, and notwithstanding all their care and experience the wheel was smashed into smithereens on "Homelv Rapids," and a hole stove into the hull on "Fish Hook Rapids." Of course these damages, delaying and using up the company's property, all have to come oat of the freight and pas senger traffic;, and although their rates seem high, they really cannot navigate such streams as the Snake river, in its present condition, and charge lower rates. A wedding was unavoidably post poned a few days ago, out in Rivcrton, ' AN EXTRAORDINARY FEAT." vicinity aboundl with trout, whlllt j wlthtll three miles, on the opposite side of the river, ileer and other game are ' plentiful, The scenery about there is ubllme, and a lew hundred dollars judiciously expended would make it one of the pleasantest ami most desirable lummer resorts ou the Pacific toast. Another enterprising man, or firm, would find it profitable to establish a pork-packing establishment at Almnta, or Wawawal, Both of these points are on the Snake river, and in the midst of as rich a section of country as can he found in Washington Territory, lings thrive there as they do no. where else, and once establish a packing establish incut where farmers could drive their hogs to, and receive the money for them, there would soon be a sufficient number raised to supply the demand. At present the supply, for want of a good market, i- rather limited. The country in the immediate vicin ity of Rosalia, in Whitman countv, is especially adapted to the dairying busi ness The milk of 400 cows will le furnished at a living price to any one who will build and 0verate a cheese factory at Rosalia. Thli is also a trer Iowa, because the bridegroom, on his ' way to "the residence of the bride's parents," in his happy, heedless mood, thoughtlessly and Ignorantly set his foot upon a cat one of those kind of eats that make their homes In the Sand hanks, and w hen trod upon, turn, and outrank the offense of Hamlet's uncle, ' which " smelted to heaven." The I wretched bridegroom walked away into the loneliest part of the country he could find to change his dollies, but even that precaution did not prevent the Associated Press Reporter from telegraphing all over the country, "The destruction by lire of a I.imbur ger cheese factory in Montgomery county." In the midst of life wc arc in cashmere bouquet, kind of. IMPROVEMENT OK THE SNAKE AND COLUMBIA K1VKRS. The rapid settling up of the Palouse country and other sections which use tin- Snake and Columbia rivers as means to bring their produce to market, demand that something be done at once to improv e navigation on these streams. A judicious expenditure of $100,000 in removing the obstructions at "Homely," "Five Mile," "Fi-h Hook." "Pin. Ttcc," Palouse" and "Texas" rapid-. Would place the rivers above Wallula in condition to K- navigable at all THE RED FLAG OF DANGER. Oregon and Washington Territory are at present overrun by the most abominable set of scoundrels that have oyer congregated in any country be fore. They go by the stolen title of " Doctor," some of them even claiming to be professors of medi cal colleges in the East. These fellows arc mostly by profession, tailors, shoemakers, barbers, etc., but never having acquired a sufficient knowledge of their trade to make a liv ing: at It, and being too lazy to split cordwood, they hang out a shingle as Doctor, and find news papers who are willing to sell themselves for a few paltry dollars, and an nounce to the world that these fellows arc really skilled physicians, when they have not the slight est knowledge of medicines. - One fellow, a former --vij-. barber of San Jose, CaL is .,o. - ,, ... .... ... ,vl ,.,v country announcing him self as a French doc tor. He recently inserted a card in the Oregonian in which that paper is made to say that this fel low is a skilled physician, and has performed many wonderful cures here. Armed with this paid advertisement, the fellow goes to Walla Walla, actually has it copied into the local press there and quoted from the Ortgonian and the poor sim pletons there swallow the whole dose at one gulp and really believe that an eminent physician from Paris has come to Walla Walla, out of pure love to mankind, to alleviate human suffering. We might enumerate other cases; one especially, of a burly, rather good looking, whisky guzzling quack, who makes his headquarters in this city and claims to cure anything and every thing, but we have not the space to spare in this issue. Each one of them shall shortly receive a neat biographical sketch in this paper. In the meantime, wc say to our readers beware of every fellow that claims to be a doctor and takes up a large amount of newspaper space in telling you what he can do. Xo regular physician ever advertises more than a simple professional caro; nor does a regular physician ever need to travel from place to place to hunt up patients. To our fellow-publishers we lay, it is your duty to refuse these advertisements. Wo manage to pel'-