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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1881)
January, 1881. the west shore. 7. mm t. ill 4. WAI.LA WALLA CO. COURT HOUSE AT WALLA WALLA, W. T. F. P. Allen, An-Mtecl I'hnlnliy llro-lrcl. it I WALLA WALLA. This, the metropolis of the. vast em pire east of the Cascades is next to Portland, the most busy looking and most city like place in the Pacific Northwest. It has a permanent and substantial backing, of yet but partialy developed agricultural wealth. The town is beautifully located in the centre of Walla Walla valley, contuins some very substantial business houses and residences with poplar trees, which give it a picturesque appearance. Its $50,000 court house ( stt illustra tion) is a credit to the enterprising in habitants of Walla Walla county. A very good daily paper, the Statesman and three most excellent weeklies, SUitfsmitH, Watihman and Union arc published here, their average circula tion comparing favorably with Port land papers. Walla Walla is connected by rail wuh the Columbia river at Umatilla, and within two mouths through trains will run to The Dalles, and in a short time to Dayton. Thirty miles beyond Walla Walla is the picturesque town of Dayton, with an ever increasing population, Where but a few years sincu we remember seeing some very fine whott growing on the then well-tilled farm of Jesse Day, Ls. There is no place on the Pacific Coast of its size that hat so many fine residences as Dayton, an evidence of wealth, culture and refine ment. Its citizens are alive to the edu cational interest of the place, the neat school building shown on page 14, (Continued oh fagt 16,) 1 ' "' ' mm I1' i (I 5 1 II 4 t MULTNOMAH Ctt COURT HOUSE-PwlUnJ, Onj.. IJNS COUSrY COURT IIQUSB-AIUay.Oifftt,