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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1880)
Jul y-August, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. '9? At convenient places in the business water works, a very valuable piece of j ami in suits, with bath-rooms on second portion, are several large cisterns, property. Mr. Urooks has been a rcsi-1 and third floors. The rooms are all whilst from the fire-plugs on street cor-1 dent here since 1863, owns one of the 1 thoroughly ventilated and well fur- ! handsomest residences m the rtlnce. and ' nished. csnccullv ' ' I i nets a 42-lb. pressure is obtained. u the elegant ladies' parlor, 14 feet square. All the furniture for this immense cstahlish- The place boasts of a neat and roomy is an enterprising citizen Opera House, owned by Max Vogt The hotels of The Dalles are far & Co. It is constructed of brick, is en- above the average of what one would j ment was purchased of the Oregon tircly fire proof, and has a seating ca- expect to find at a place having but Furniture Manufacturing Company, parity of 600. 2,600 inhabitants. The Umatilla House, The present firm first started this hotel I In 1803, they afterwards enlarged and The general health of the inhabit- owned by I). Handlcy and N. It. Sin- ants is above the average. School fa- nod, is certainly the finest furnished cililies arc very good, and placet of worship numerous. The traveling facilities are excellent house to be found outside of Portland. It occupies Kx feet front by 1111 feel in depth, and cost nearly $K,ooo. The A daily line of the finest river steamers office is 30x40 feet, and contains the on the Pacific Coast, passing the grand- handsomest counter and most elegant est portion of the famous Columbia key-rack in the State. They are con river scenery, land you in Portland, structed of ash, maple and walnut, and after a refreshing trip of ten hours, at arc the work of the Oregon Furniture an expense of $5. A line of railway connect! the city with Celilo, and from t h e r e a steamer leaves daily for Eastern Oregon, Wash ington and Ida ho. The comple tion this summer of the O. R . ft N. Co.'s line of railway to Walla Walla will bring Eastern Wash ington yet nearer to The Dalles and add still more to its importance. Several lines of stages, making regular trips to r . jmBMS1 lav Esaws psii W"a'v- aVflMafl9?3M0m cosmopolitan HOTEL, Till: DALLES. Proa Photo by f. J. ;-hni. had the house nearly ready for occu pancy, when the big fire destroyed the entire establishment. They immedi ately rebuilt and opened the present house on October a 5, 1879. Some idea tif the business transacted by this house may be formed when we tell our read ers that the Umatilla House uses nearly $(kx) worth of meat every month, and that it furnishes, on an avcrii(e, 500 meals per day. The Cosmo politan is owned li y 'I' h o m . Smith, and al though a some what smaller house, is in mi way inferior to any hotel outside of Portland, Mr. Smith Hist optn ed the Empire Hotel at The Dalles, in 1H01; fi nail y he re moved to Salem, where the trav cling public will remember h i m a the genial pro the various mining districts, have their Manufacturing Company, of this city. I prlctor of the Chemckcta. In 1874, terminus here, whilst all the freights A large Macnealc & Urban safe fur- he became one of the proprietor of for Grant county and interior towns nishes a safe receptacle for the valuables the Occidental Hotel at Cortland, re are here transferred to " prairie schoon- of the guest. The lavatory is supplied maining there until 1 879. Hi hotel ers." The Oregon Railway .St Naviga- with marble basins and beautiful large at The Dulles king destroyed by the tiou Company's repair shops, employ- pier-glass. The billiard room is 50 big fire of 1 870, he rebuilt, and opened ing a large force of men, are located feet w ide and 40 feet in depth, contains the present house on the J7H1 of Oc here, and add to keep the money circu- four of Hrunswick, Uulkc's & Co.'i toiler of that year. The house has a lating amongst the prosperous and en- tables, and thirty elegant settees, cc tci prising business men of the place. dally designed for this house by Mr. frontage of 1 10 feet, by 40 feet in depth, with an I. 00 feet long. The rooms, of which there are 75, are all light, thoroughly ventilated, and neatly fur nished by the firm of Shimllcr Ac Chad bourne, of Portland. The billiard room ronliiifik lurn Ii.I.Im. ,.t . quality of flour p day, for which they hc(lc,i 7 " --npetent steward. Two Nlcrn ,d hc ' hM JJJ find a ready sale in the upper country, niKhu of easy stairs one from the f Decker ft Sort elegant piano. although thev shin considerably ... . X , L ' iiinmg-ruotri is jn reel, is neatly although they amp cons.ucrahly ID y , ,he floor, and here wo funiihed, and the table .re supplied Portland. 1 his firm a so own the cil v C-.l ... -I L! i. .ll I ' .. ''"" A very go.nl flouring mill is located Smmw I-wcntciii, .'resident of the here and owned by S. L, Brooks ami Oregon Furniture Manufacturing Corn Mr. I. M. Humason. They manu- Pny- The dining-room i 50x90 feet, facture about fifty barrel, of a .upcrior hM a fu" cort of attentive waiter, m . - - J I l.j WVJIII UJIUIUIIi.Bl.1, "'ii'J