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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1878)
April. THE AVE ST SHORE. 117 lish The Whst Shore without them, and with a very"little trouble you can hunt up desirable home advertisements to fill the space usually taken up bj these quacks. Once, let the press re fuse their notices and these fellows would soon be forced into some legit mate calling. Arich concern, like the Orcgonian, certainly has no need to publish these quack advertisements nor has a live and enterprising journal as the Daily Bee of this city is, any right to pollute its columns with such trash. Come, gentlemen, out with every one of them. THE I'OTLASH COUNTRY. Twenty-five miles northeast of Lew- iston, (Idaho) between the Clearwater river and Potlash creek, is a rich section of black loam table land, all ready for the plow, known .as the Potlash coun try, with sufficient room to give good sized farms to 250 families, which, as yet, has not a single settler in it. The drawback there is that no roads lead into it, but at a small expense thev could easily be constructed, and in high water steamboats can run right up to it. At presenl it is reached by an easy trail, and in ten years from to-day lands on the Potlash will sell for twenty dol lars an acre. Now, then, who'll take 11 as a giu from Uncle Sam I April showers and green leave WHAT THEV THINK OF US. Tim Wkst Shore is frequently j spoken of in very complimentary terms I by the press of the Eastern States, as I well as the Pacific Coast. We should 1 have to occupy at least a full page of j our valuable space every issue were w e to reprint but one-half of the many nice 1 things said about us. Here is the latest 1 from l 'liii' ii'm n trmi CuatJ . I TllK West Shokh, the live paper j of the Pacific slope, conies to hand with j a beautiful new head, and sundry other J improvements. It is amply illustrated j and ably edited, and is invaluable for Ule luiillcuac amount ol lutoliiiaUun 11 gives concerning the resources and bus iness of the Western "jumping olf ploce." OREGON VS. CALIFORNIA. Mr. George A. Young, of this city, who, in company with Mr. Hilton, own sonic 6,000 head of sheep about sixty miles above the Dalles, lately sold to a San Francisco firm 514 head of mutton sheep, averaging So lbs. nctt weight each nt Ij a heed, delivered in San Francisco. Just think of it" the land of perpetual summers" coming to Or egon to buy their mutton; yes, and do not say it above a whisper their beef, potatoes, oats, and hundreds of other products necessary to sustain life as well. No, thank vou; no pofpshia) summers jn ours. Oregon, with its never failing crops and gentle showers, is the land to live and enjoy life in. 1 WAITINU '0S A HUE-