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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1879)
.66 THE WEST SHORE. June, 1879 and wt will add mother charm to it, ly having the bwbor of refuge started, too. Or, if you will wait but n short time, we will whirl you across the k C. K. K,, nnd with the iron horse wake the echoei In our forests, again and again. We will build up I city on the hay, that will rival in wealth, beauty and greatness, its fair sister of the Slate. To the invalid in search of vigorous health; to the tourist longing to sojourn for a while among these mIiI scenes, or to the wearv dweller in the city, who would exchange, for a brief season, llicir dusty streets and rattling vehicles for the cool, shady paths of our U-autiful groves, .mil ;i rustic seat neat sonic musical wain fall, we oiler superior inducements for a visit. Coast Mail. BARANOFF ISLAND. This island on which the town of Sitka, Alaska Ter rilon , is built, is one of a group or archipelago, discov ered in 1 7. 1 by Tschii ikoir, the companion of Hehring. The island is nnmcd in honor of llaianoff, a Siberian merchant of education and rare attainments, arid who was the real founder of the settlement of New Arch angel, or Sitka. The entire island is rich in gold bear ing QUartl Cfhltfc Fourteen miles from Sitka, near the In nil of Silver Hay and the locality which our engraving represents, are located the mines and works of the Alas ka tiold ami Silver Mining Company, composed en tilcly of Portland gentlemen, and of which Messrs. (.'. A. Aliky and W. T. Dodley are President and Secre tary resKTtivelv. TNI l l PI Kl i tOAHO n v. Though Idaho City has seen its palmy days and dc- ended from one glade of prosperity to another as the placer mines have Keen woiked out, until the "old tim i ts" think the camojis very dull, we can see in exam ining the country thai there' la a future for her as well at many other camps Oh this coast. Ii is true the sur tax' diggings aic prett) Well worked out and oulv the deeper claims are left running, and the yield of gold is not mar what it was. Hut there are' a great many sm.di quanta ledges which have not been considered large enoqgh to justify putting up milk and investing the money ucccsan foi machinery, These will now he worked by the Roheitson process. Three or four men will comhine and etei I the requisite machinery for their luooaterul working by this process, and these small ledges will furnish employment for hundreds of men, thus making up for the exhaustion of the placers. Be. side, their ate many large ledges whi.h thev have hillui'o Urn unable to operate on a.,..i ,f the base metals pn venting their successful woiking by the old process. These will now be iucces.sfull worked hi the m w process. And we will ventuie the assertion that Idaho (. .iv. m the ncM live year, will , ah, more than she has lost ,,, the last ten years ist ,, tb, one source. Then let a company H. Innm, ., , hviUlKk flume he put .n More creek and all thai mmmm bodv o lading MW lying in the cteek bol 1 helow anil tovsj the town be run through anj the bedrock cleaned T&ttSSLX. y- Many a son of toil U worth many ., ton ofwil. Men who always art on the square Chessnw n. Motto for milkmen-To the pure all thinn are nun- W ith vernier and hawkers everyday i, holler fo. Vou may take down your own stoveriioe if it soots von. Almost all of us are generous to a fault, if the fault hap pens to be our own. 1 BB BkI Snnj IHHi The most perfect type of "swecthome" is the bee-hh The Commuciratinn riohl,.,! A fVntiirv AHO)" M if should have been credited to Mr. S. A. Clarke.