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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1880)
6ctober, 168 0. the wast SHORE. 57 located niul the right of way secured, this rond runs up on the Oregon side, tapping the farming section on Hood River. From the Dalles the rond is fin ished to John Days, and graded to Uma tilla. Track is now laid from a point fifteen miles below Umatilla to Walla Walla, and the road in full operation between Umatilla and Walla Walla. Track laying is being pushed ahead from both ends of the road. Grading is also completed from Walla Walla to Waitsburg and Dayton. At Junction four miles from Waitsburg, a branch road will run to Grange City, here it will cross Snake River and run by way of Taxsas Ferry to Colfax. Four miles above Grange City a road will BRITISH COI.UMWA. Times generally are improving in British Columbia. Settlers arc going in and availing themselves of the ex trnordinary liberal inducements of the Government, and gradually wild lands are being subdued both on the island and mainland. Altogether the outlook for our Canadian neighbors is rather encouraging. FrrzoiMHD Light. At the en trance to Esquimalt I Iarbor, H. C is one of the neatest and best arranged light houses on the Pacific. This is a very important point for the English Government, their Navy Yard and Supply Station are located here and the begins its march of 150 mile to tho sawmill. Thirty-five men nrp em ployed to start the pieces when any get stranded on the banks. At the saw mill n boom stretched across tho river prevent the further progress of tho timber. Since the first of September, when the first float commenced, 39,000 sawlogs, 40,000 R. R. ties, i,aoo cord of wood and several thousand telegraph poles have como down. Tho mill which is in chargo of Mr. J. A. Lcsourd, formerly, of this city, has a cutting capacity of 100,000 feet in 3.1 hours, and from November first will run night and day in order to supply the largo number of orders for lumber now ahead. This demand for the lumber is one of the best evidences of the prosperity of the upper country. '' Y - ' ; : .. .1-; ; '-.4; ..... ";:x v ; . ".saV, A'"-.v4:.' " :' 'l; A 3 . 4 -:rt FITZGUARD LIGHT ENTRANCE TO ESQUIMAU" IIARIIOR, I). C From I'liolo by R. Miyiuml. leave the main branch, proceed up the Fataha towards Lcwiston, passing one of the most fertile regions in Eastern Washington. A road is also located from Umatilla across the blue mountains towards JJakcr City. This road goes through Idaho and will finally connect with the Union Pacific. Below Taxsas Ferry the Government is improving the navi gation of Snake River, so that here after the suspension of navigation on thut River will lie unheard of. The Kittitas valley and Its tributaries re rapidly settling up, and many new improvements arc being made in v rious parts of the valley. construction of the Graving Dock now being pushed forward with all possible dispatch will add still more to the im portance of the harlior and light. A Novel Sioiit. The Snake and Clearwater rivers, for a distance of 100 miles alxivc Lcwiston. anil from thrri . . . Dougiu at irom $0 cents a piece up down to Taxsas Ferry, presents at j W(mJ. Any one purchasing two dol present the rather novel appearance of j nd R(iy ccnU wor,h of tow ,,, Gumpiionviu.k is the mime of pretentious village (?) on the Columbia River. Tho proprietor of this burg isn't at all stingy about the sixe of his town lots. Every lot Is said to have 100 feet river frontage, with a depth of from four to five miles, and can he a floating wood yard. Since the susjxrn sion of stcamlioat navigation on the Snake river, Mr. S. R. Smith, the pro pnetor of the Taxsus Ferry sawmill, has been floating down timW, but not in booms as is usually done. The tim ber is simply pitched into the river and at one time Is presented with hand some chromo worth more than the lots. This is the spot where the Wcidler Sawmill is located. Eastern Oregon and Washington shipped nearly 70,000 tons of eram ta I Portland last year.