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.