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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1878)
i u KAtiiuei. imtillMit-r, 1 1 H3MtimiiiSt. VOL. a-No. 11 POKTLAND, OREGON, JULY, 1878. SUMMER RESORTS IN MARION COUNTY. The eastern half of the county may be termed a natural park of exceeding beauty, made up of snow-peaks, tower ing verdure-clothed hills, mountain gorges, precipitous cliffs, primeval forests, crystal lakes, foaming cataracts, limpid streams and charming land scapes. The lover of Nature in her un tamed glory may revel in- sights and scenes of unsurpassed grandeur for weeks and months, and at every turn in the line of travel, new pictures Vt Ami intuulr nsilta, I.M t IKS thence look out through the silvery mist and behold all the varied beauties of the rainbow, mingling and re-mingling until the heavens seem one glad bow of promise. The scene is one of exceeding beauty. There is a narrow valley of good land for some miles above the falls, and several families have taken claims and are making homes amidst the mountain grandeur that spreads in loving folds around them. The approach to the falls is by a good wagon road, and just now there are many visitors there. TUB RESOURCES OF OREGON ami Washington territory. For one dollar, we will send a com plete file of one year's hack numbers of Tub Wkst Short1, including our mammoth July number, being 6J columns of letter press and illustra tions, containing more valuable Infor. mflfrah about the resources of the l'a citic .Northwest than could possibly be obtained from any other source. "His torical Adventures on the l'acilic (.'ohm," also, "Reminiscences and Notes of Laying Out the Old Immigrant TROUT. Fishing at Whatcom Lake, What com county, W. T., is most excellent just now. A pleasure p.utv, comnoscd of four ladies and three gentlemen, ic eently caught seventy-live line trout in two hours. A partial " clear up" at Hamilton & ChappcPs, on the Applcgalc, (Jack son countv) yielded one pint of gold duit. DouoLAI county claims the honor of raising the largest ox in the Slate. It 1 11 1 illl!f'uli& ''1 UNCONSCIOUS FA MIMA KIT V. spread before hi, astonished gaze, like the dissolving views off kaleidoscope. Silver Creek Falls i- (he most noted point of attraction to those Keeking a few tiays of recreation within this coun ty. They arc situated twenty-two miles east ol Salem, on Silver Creek. The stream is about thirty feet wide, and drops off an overhanging shelf of rock for a distance of 1S0 feet. The water leaps a limpid, sparkling stream, and falls a cloud of spray. Behind this wall of spray, the adventurer may find his way for seventy-five feet, and Two and a half miles north of cat from the main falls arc the North Sil ver Falls, very similar to thow abot'c named, save that the volume of water is much less. There is a trail leading from one fall to the other, hut no road. Good pasture land for summer range in the vicinity. The Santiam river from Smith's fer ry up into the mountains is an attract ive place for summer tourists, as it supplies abundance of trout and plenty of game, with cool zephyrs from the snow-clad hills 1-eyond. Route Into Southern Oregon tn 1846, are complete in these numbers. Hound in book form, they make a valuable ad dition to any library as well as a hand some present to friend in (he Kaslern State. NOT A SUCCESS, Joaquin Miller, as a dramatist, U .1 miserable failure. I lis " Danites " w as snubbed by the entire California press, and his latest production, " Vig ilantes," has been rejected by the Williamsons. is Hftj hands high, ami is owned by Clark & Mdiregor, of Korlmrg. ElOItT canning e-t.iblishitieuU, on Fnuer river, 11. C, will export ibool $8x,uoo wor;h of salmon this year. Tin season's exports of salmon from the Columbia river, up to the preset. I writing, amounts to oi one million of dollat-. NIlW thousand gallons of oil for ex port will be extracted fiom mlmtn Aemfj, in Wahkiakum nmuly, V. T., this letMOft. I 1