THE WEST SHORE.
October, 1881
344
supposed fortune left. The road
were operated for years by the German
owner, under the management of Mr.
ViMerd, who frt hcrr n their pjcnf,
and whose fame U too well known to
need comment. Under hi manage
ment the road will oon lc constructed
through to San Francisco, lie ha
replaced the old itcamcrt of Ilolladay's
time with the cla of iron ttcamcn,
and no safer or more elegant or com
modious ship now aail the ocean than
thote employed in thii trade.
Scarce more than two year ago Mr.
Yillard came back to Oregon with a
tcheme to buy out the Oregon Steam
Navigation Company, and construct a
railroad tytcm for the entire agricultu
ral regloni cant of the Cascade range.
One lingular fact concerning him it the
boldne and openneM with which he
Operate. The efTect of hi continued
aucce U that he need les ccrcy
than moot men require and win hi
way by plain, open dealing. So he
came and 1olilly announced hi purpose
to build a railroad down the Columbia
and the O. S. N. Company sold out to
hint and hi associate. Two year ago
thi winter he announced that the
policy of hi associate wa to obtain
control of all transportation facilities of
the north coast and to day they have
them all secure. There i not a route
of importance they do not own, and
the management promise lilcial treat
ment, far more liberal than could be
afforded if the different line had to lc
molvcd back into their original coron
ations. The Northern Pacific R. R. St one ol
the great enterprise of the world and
wa apparently on the most prospcroti
bait and beyond the reach of interfer
ence. It had finally achieved the moot
positive Mice and had money in hand
to build it line through from Lake
Superior to the Pacific. To-day Yil
lard U it pretident and blend thi vast
enterprise into hi magnificent scheme,
that now extendi for two thousand
mile acro the continent and include
main and branch line 6,000 mile long.
Oregon pinned Iter faith on the North
ern Pacific, to te grievously ditap
pointed, but now we have the apparent
certainty that It will be a connected
line In operation before iSSf. It doc
not need that we recite the history of
Jay Cooke career, of the Billing's
management, and all the change that
have interfered to keep back this line,
for the present aspect showe that we
shall have thi road through as soon as
labor nrul money rnn possibly accom
plish it.
The history of the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company is one of the
romance of the present generation. It
completed the fame of Mr. Villard as
a railroad projector and financier, and
strange to say, it is this, comparatively
local enterprise, that has drawn to itsclt
the great northern transcontinental road
and all the other transportation lines on
land and sea, north of California. Soon
it will push an iron highway into every
grain producing section of the upper
country, and go south, to Hakcr city, to
meet the Oregon Branch of the Union
Pacific railroad, that is rapidly coming
thi way. Thi last mentioned route
will give us the first through connection
with the world in any direction and
other route will follow until we shall
have two, outlets to the eastward and
one along the coast to California.
The Villard management has also
taken in the control of the narrow
gunge road commenced in this valley,
that promised competition in transpor
tation, in the near future. Those roads
have lecn the subject of much public
interest on that account, but they also
yield to the inevitable and come under
the common way. The only separate
railroad enterprise remaining is the
Oregon Pacific Railroad that is being
constructed from Yaquina Hay to
Corvalli and promises to relieve the
freight market of the upper Willamette
country. It remain to be seen whether
it programme for this valley and also
for an eastern connection can be carried
out, or whether it too will in time, if
built, come into the Villard combina
tion. It friend claim that it i to be
the terminal portion of a great line that
shall reach direct from Chicago west to
Yaquina Hay. We shall toon ace
what it will do.
OUR ILLUSTRATION'S.
Our view of the Pacific Northwest
scenery presented in thi number em
brace very wide range, and arc, per.
hap, the bet variety we have ever
published in any one number.
The picturesque Castle Rock on the
headwater of the Sacramento river on
the Oregon and California ttage route,
the awe-inspiring canyon of Annie'
creek, in Jackson county, the beautiful
falls of the Rogue river, and the collec
tion of Jackson county's best buildings,
together with Mr. A. Klippel's com
prehensive article on Southern Oregon,
will give our readers a far better idea
of the southern portion of Oregon than
any thing heretofore published.
As an old land-mark, we furnish the
old block -house at the Cascades of the
Columbia river, a place of refuge. dur
ing the early Indian wars, but now use
less and rapidly going to decay.
The group of Oregon cereals are
taken from nature, and their size will,
no doubt, astonish eastern subscribers.
The picturesque view ot an Oregon
hop-yard may lead some e-f our readers
to suspect that human hands twined
the vines as represented; such, how
ever, is not the case. The picture is a
true one, and was made from nature at
the hop-yard of Lee Bros., in Lane
county, without preparing the place for
photography.
The U. S. light-house, at Cape Foul"
weather, is now looming into promi
nence, from the fact of it being the
very first light-house north of the pro
posed great city on Yaquina bay.
The 0. &. C. R. R. bridge, at Har
risburg, is the largest and most sub
stantial structure of the kind in 4he
Pacific Northwest. It spans the Wil
lamette river, and despite the storms
and floods of several years, is to-day as
staunch as the day it was first finished.
The view of the principal business
street in Salem, Oregon, the capital
city, will be interesting to many.
Lake Cour d' Alene, the Mecca of
Pacific coast tourists for iS8j. To
reach it we pass all of the Columbia
river's grand scenery, and the famous
falls of the Spokane. In the elegant
steamers and cars of the O. R. 4 N.
Co., and N. P. R. R it can now be
reached in twenty-four hours from
Portland, and by next summer when
the Dalles branch is finished, in less
time. The proximity of Fort Cour d
Alene, with its usual number of hand
some officers in irresistable regimentals!
will, perhaps, be an additional attrac
tion to tourists of the fairer .sex.
The residence of E. B. McFarland,
of McFarland & French, of The Dalles,
is one of the many elegant structures
lately erected at this thriving city, and
is, perhaps, the best proof that the men