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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1879)
April, 1879. THE WEST SHORE. 163 INFORMATION WAVTvn l Word has reached Council Mulls, Iowa, that Dennis High! was murdered in Washington Territory last February, and his relatives arc very anxious to learn his fate. Dennis, or Capt. Might, is described as a man of about 55 years of age, and formerly from northern Vermont. He has been on thi9 coast for twenty years. Any information about him wdl be gratefully received by his brother, B. W. Ilight, at Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa. Ik L. W. SVLLtNl will send his ad dress to this office, or to his folks in Missouri, he will hear something to his advantage. Washington County Imphovk- m B NTs. Forest (J rove is looking up. Keal estate is rapidly changing bands there, at present, at advanced prices. A new road to Tillamook is being laid out by the O. & C. R. K., under the super! ntendency of Mr. A. Tyler. This road will open up a line body of government and railroad lands, thirty five miles in length by one to one and one-half miles in width. The lands are as line as any in the Willamette valley, are covered with brush anil timber, and offer an excellent opportunity for homes for incoming immigrants. Thh Assotiu Flat, located in Colum bia county, W. T., where otdy two years ago the first settlers located their claims, is rapidly tilling up. It already has a good school-house, a store, a post otlice, with a weekly mail, a blacksmith shop and a lumbering mill, in the midst of nn abundance of timber convenient for the settlement. Two hundred set tlers are already located there, but there is room for more. The country in the vicinity of Tom eroy and Fatah City, in Columbia county, is one of the finest sections in Washington Territory. It is now fist tilling up with an industrious and pros, perous class of people, and before the lapse of many years it will enjoy all the advantages of enlightened civiliza tion. Good school houses, mills, etc., arc already in operation or in course of construction to supply the growing wants of the community. These are the best evidences of u permanent nnd prosperous country, and we arc glad to note that the people of the locality named have faith in it, and arc laying the foundations of the future socicn "I the country on an enduring basis. The villages are also growing rapidly, and from the character of some of the build ings, we judge their proprietor have unbounded faith in their future. The Ten ilorial Enter rise, of Vir ginia City, Nevada, says : "A great State is Oregon, greater than those who have never been there comprehend. Its rivers, its forests, its mountains and its valleys are colossal. It grows an immensity as one studies it, until at length even the careless visitor wakes ui) to realize that the State is an empire 01 nsen ; mil 11 11 were ny some convulsion ol nature wrenched tiom the continent and made an island in the sea, it would possess every attribute necessary to supply the needs of a mighty people. It is yet in many re spects rude and uncouth; the road over land is a dillicult ami weary one; the bar at the mouth of the Magnificent Columbia is a perpetual menace to in land deniens, and so, in some places, progress is slow; nut this does not allei the character of the State, ot dim for a moment its wonderful possibilities. It is a heller place for the young and in dustrious t' an Nevada. It gives 110 promise of a swift fortune, hut its prom isc is sure of an honest and beautiful home to anyone who with humbleness and with faith makes an lione t Struggle to win one. There is less owgen in the blood in Oregon than in Nevada, but gray hairs do not come so iiuickly there as here. All the material pins perity of the State has for its backing an agricultural region which is the best on the coast, and so broad in extent that there is room for all who may go there for a long time to come. 1 he San loaouin and Lower Sacramento valleys to-day hardly give a si-ii of ap proaching spring. In the great Wil lamette valley, 600 miles north, the wheat fields are green. TwcnM tears hence the face of this Slate cannot be much changed, but in that time then will be a hundred thousand new homes, and a hundred thousand new gardens ami orchards established in Oregon. It is a good field for the prospector; its mines have hardly as yet been scratched over. It is a splendid place lor the tanner, for Orci'on and the vast country to the north of it is yet to be the granary of the coast. We know of no places which promise better returns to the cnnitalist. for investment, than i'ottland ami Albany, in Oregon. One is to In a great entry and shipping Hrt, I he other a great commercial center, and both are backed 1V a vast agru 11II111111 n-.riou the surest L'uaranlce which caiiital can have w hile with its end less forest and measureless iron tad coal fields, Oregon gics a sun promise lv and limited nroirress. And iho men and women of the greater por tion of Oregon are a strong, bright race. They arc more careful and more ihriftv than our own people, for what they have has lieen obtained by toil and care and thrift. SOUTHERN ORBOOM MINKS. The claim of V. S. Kalis, at Willow Springs, is paving five ounces per day for the work of four hands, ground sluicing. News from Silver creek is still fa vorable. Apiece worth naarlv seven bundled dollars has been found in the claim of Hlnck Co. Chinaman Lin's ground is evidently belter than it was last yeai w lieu it paid over a hundred dollars per day to the pipe. News from llriggs' creek, in Jose phine county, is llattering, I'Yrrcn ,V Co. have recently found some hr.u gold in their claim, one nugget weigh iug $17 and another fs& being found in the gravel three fwl from the bed rock. Robh, Bckleson Co., of the Star Gulch mine, made a partial clean up last week altei right days run, wash iug up sis 1 one OUnCeC. It is known that that then is still a 1 oiisidel able amount in t licit rook rest which will not he cleaned DO till ttl end of the season, .-enliiitl. Oregon' crop prospect arc good. Walla Wall. 1 is of the most beau til'ul ami desiiable cities mi the I'm lis Const. All its residences air m at and cosy, ami the houses generally me sui loumlcd ly shinliliri v, I1111I ami shade tree. The Lombard v poplar is very Common, and sonic of thein bine at tained to a gieat height. All it sheets and lots me well watcicd some think thai they an- loo well watered, in some cases, for health or comfort which is probably correct. Hut this can easily In- remedied by the city authorities. I hi y I on Newt. I'asi Timk. 1i unity the steamer John f mic, Ciipt. lames Troup, made i!n ! list time OH record lietwren Wallula ar.d Lewistou. She went up in fourteen hour nnd thirty-live min utes, ami disi h irged her cargo and r-. turned to Wallula in ten hour and thirty minutes, making a total of mile in twenty-live hour and five minutes, Including foot landings. This is an average of 1 ('-j miles eilhei way. The tale is over ten utiles an hour up stream mid SBOVl twenty down stream. A parsnip wn dug in a Hake r City garden recently which measure d ! , mchc in lengtlt and is incite In circumference. A HAI.K interest in the Douglas county "big steer," previously men tioned in these columns, uld for ". visbh esc w Over i," immigrant arrived here during the week ending April loth.