November, 1878.
THE WEST SHORE.
ago thoy are getting. H. E. Holmes' drug .tore
next claims our attention, and here, indeod, we find
a sample of wliat pluck and enterprise will do.
About 187'J Mr. Holmes came to take a look at
this country, wasn't very milch ploaaed with it,
and dotcrminod to roturn to his Eastern homo.'
Whilst sitting iti ono ot our Portland hotels he ac
cidentally picked Up uuo 0, our publication,
( The (laztlleer) and in it he noticed a glowing
description of Walla Walla ; next day found him
on his way there. He was so pleased with the
gouerol prospocU of tho placo, that he started a
drug store on a small scale. Close attention to
business, and a knack of making friends, have
placed Mr. Holmes whoro he It at the head of the
drug business in Walla Walla,
The Walla Walla bakery (soe illustration) is 0
catud in tho handsome brick building, thirty feet
front by sixty foot in dopth, and is the property of
O. Ilrochtol, who camo to this city in 1861. In
1880 he erected this building, at an excuse of
118,000, and it is considered as near fireproof as
brick and iron can possibly make a building,
llosides supplying Walla Walla with an excellent
article of bread and cakes, Mr. llrechtel does con
siderablo of an export business in crackers, ootn
tting successfully with San Francisco and East
ern manufactories, as ho uses steam in their
manufacture and has all tho latest improved ma
chinery. We might ranmi aU rioaans ,,r n,,.r n... ...
terprlslng liuslness Bra( banks, professional
men, and miiuu'acturlog plaoee, but tho waul of
space forbids. In our next number, however, wo
"hull illustrate and describe Dovell it 00.1
Planing mill ami furniture mnnuf.ictnry, the
lurgest establishment ur I he kind east of the Cas
cades. Leaving Wall Wnlla, nnl for the pres
ent skipping Waltsburg, of which wo shall apeak
hereafter, we come to
DAYTON,
Tho county seat of Columbia oouniy, a town of
most wonderful growth. We have heard of mlii
lim towns, built of canvas and lough board
shanties, going up In a night, but never have wo
heard of a town, at prate Ql ooiitalulng at least
l,.K Inhabitants, having stores built of brick, a
MaYMO woolen mill, ono of tho heat flouring mills
In tho upper country, and other luanufaelorlos,
eoinmodloua throe-atoiy hotels, several res
deuces costing each Jo,000 and one of them
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....skooms OK JOHNSON, KICKS . WINANs Wa..i.a Waua. W I.
nearly UtMO, In fact, one of the haudsni t
little ellloa on the I'ac (to Coast, all (reeled In
six years, on ground whore In INT.' grain was still
growing, liiyton Is picturesquely located on the
Toiiehel.ln a little valley between rolllug hills,
surrounded by some of the best farming soil In
Hie upper country, Is Ik, Ifully supplied With
clear, sparkling water from a rapid, littl on-
talu stream which also furnish I i Wl,i,
power, at present partly utilised. Dayton
make, strong pretentious to being rival of
Walla Walla which laouly .Hi mil . southwest
of II, and IU excellent locution, rapid growth
and ni ral prosperity, would certainly warrant
It In assuming air. over lis older and hcii,,i ,i,
domineering sister city, Walla Walla. Tho nat
ural outlet for Dayton, Is for the present, by way
of mfoouVAMnll long mad to illative Oily Oft
the Columbia river, ln.l before ,ny u,
the W. W. A a It. It. Ik will be exien.le.l, when
all Its shipments will tm made to Wailula.
In our last Issue, w Illustrated two of the
handsomest resiliences of the Iowa. In mis Is
sue we show the woolen mill In'sted here, and
wblch Is the means ol ill.tr butlng thousands ot
dollars annually. The raw wool tlHM by
"mill and which li bought In the Iminetllate
vl.'liilly.iimnu.il.u.a little over (:n,iMi per an
num, whilst for labor, outside of repalra anil In
cldontal eipenaes, nearly timi per annum are
expended. This In lUelf la ,ulla a help to the
town, although a po. unoy other maun
nio uring establlshmenU, each eooirli.uting Its
ipiola lowanls bringing life an I prosperity to the
I'1'" ' T,i" president ., the im M M
Well, a rcmiukahlyonlorprlalng ti, ifeaervltia
more than a passing notice, for II la mainly ow
ing to htm that the present town of Ihiylou la In
oilstone at nil. He waa horo In Vermont, but
raised In New York, ami came lo Ciillbirula In
eofih, llelug naturally of an en
terprising nature, bis (list veuliire on this Cimsl
was in ls.,1, whin he lisik an Immense drove of
hfigs i the first ever taken i from the Willamette
valley to California, and the foilowlug yar lot
lowad It up with an Immense hand of cattle. Ills
'lips to iiregon naturally got him acquainted
with the country and IU wants, and In MM, he
built a large flooring mill In lUigtie river valley,
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