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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1880)
July-August, 1880. THE WEST SHORE 210 Tims, while it affects to minister to the abiding weal of millions, it never fails to ultimately pay interest ami principal for whatsoever lubaidica mat have been extended to it, and compen sate! a thousand (bid the accidental and minor inconveniences it may have caused in such affairs as arc merely of a local character and appertaining only to in dividuals and not to communities. The man of broad and liberal views sees in these great industrial confeder acies only so many instruments In the hands of Omnipotence for carrying Out the great programme of human eleva tion and happiness. There is not a well informed statesman, political economist or ecclesiastic in the laud who would not subscribe to the principles here enunciated, well knowing that w Pro bono publico" should he the true shih boleth in these days of electricity and steam. Many tmcharitahle things have been said about the Pacific Division of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, and yet that corporation is one of the great commercial thews of the l'acil'n Northwest, and it has done more to promote the substantial welfare of the l'uget Sound country and British Co lumbia than all the other transportation lines in the Territory. The work now being prosecuted by that company cast of the mountains is destined to 1 ill mi nate in an achievement for Oregon and Washington which will he second only to what the discovery of gold achieved for California and Nevada in 1849 and 'So. All along the line of the road now in process ol building, the whoh country is literally undergoing a bus Iness revolution (while an impetus has been given to immigration never before know n in the annals of Idaho, Montana, Eastern Oregon ami Eastern Washin ton. The rush tothe Skagit gold fields h been as nothing compared with the tide which has been setting in, for inon than n year, to Yakima, Walla Walla and Spokane counties and the adjoining country. The former was, in the main, a rush iff penniless adventurers; the hitter, a rush of solid business nu n and well-to-do emigrants. Nothing hut the extension of the Northern l'acilic Railroad has caused this mightv uprising among the pro. pie; and here we have a glimpse of the clhcucy and potency of great railroad corporations as modern civilieis and human! Sen. A few years ago, it re quired two days of dreary stage travel ing to go from the head of l'uget Sound to the Columbia river. The regular fare was fifteen dollars, exclu sive of what was paid for a night's odging and live meals, making the total coast of a trip from Olympia to Portland about twenty dollars. Now, tne journey is made in ten hours, at o total cost of seven dollars ami seventy- five cent-. Thus, it will he seen that, through the agency of railroads, old things have passed away and all things have become new. Judging by the sflidcs now making iy the Northern l'acilic Railroad 1 !om- pany east of the Cascade Mountains, lupled with the facilities offered by the Oregon Railway and Navia- lion Company, the time will not be ong before we shall have a tllrecl steamer and railroad mule from Port land to Chicago and thence to the Al- antic seaboard. Il will soon be an old- fashioned thing for l'uget Sounders and Oregonians to go by steamer to San Francisco in order to reach the Eastern States by an overland railway route. We have thus endevored to BMWttl the oft-repealed qUtttion'Whal has the Northern Pacific Railroad Compani done, and what is it doing ;' And we trust that in another issue, we may be enabled to give a siiniliar show ng rel ative to the Importance of other trans portation lines along this part of the OOast, both railroad and steamship com- paniesi All honor to these noblo corporations, TRri AOonl fnrlhn Sohuicr l'latio, Jamea & Hoist 1, mi IMano, Geo. Wood's Origan, l .01 In- Ac Hlakc Organ. Tin- Uiur.t stosa f Musical Qoods, Plot urea, Frames, Al liums, etc., north ,,r San I r.iuclwi, I4H front st., (i mend Mock,) PanteM Oh HENRY E. 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