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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.
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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.