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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1882)
THE WEST SHORE. the gate kill. The strength of this cais on will U- mainly obtained by the four clcd ginler which lorm it dcckK at different heights from the bottom or Mil timber. These girders will be formed by tending leaven of timber, or Uvcm of planking over one another, thus avoiding crow-grain structure, and by bolting edgewise attaining the rigid ity of solid grown timber to the width of twenty feet in each girder. The water to fill the dock is admitted through the caisson, the flow being regulated by slide valves operated by ncrcwH at the upper deck. The oper ation of docking and pumping out a ship will on the average probably oc cupy nlwut three hours time. The pumping machinery for emptying the dock is designed by J. C. Henderson, Chief Engineer of the 0. R. & N. Co.'s steamship line. The pumps are two in number, eighteen inches in diameter, of the centrifugal style, manufactured by Chirk k Van Wie, of Syracuse, X. Y. Each pump will be driven by a com pound engine of ample power for the speed required which will be obtained without gearing of any kind. It is expected the Portland Dry Dock, when completed, will have cost $125,000 and that it will be in full operation early next year. Adjoining the dry dock there is now under construction a wharf, the largest on the continent. It will be 2,600 feet in length, two stories in hight and have in the center an immense grain elevator. This, like the dry dock, is the property of the O. H. & N. Co., and will form another great convenience to the ship, ping interest of the Pacific Northwest. No Rats. In all the expositions, able and otherwise ot the great ad vantages and resources of Eastern Washington, we do not remember of weinif her freedom from a certain af fliction mentioned with more telling effect, than a few day ago in the Rureau of Immigration. A party of would be settlers were ex amining the exhibition of grain with great interest, meanwhile plying the gentleman in charge with questions. While thus engaged, a man who had Ukcn just a little" too much entered and joined in the fusilade of questions. All had been answered to the evident satisfaction of the inquirers, when our Al the prntnt wrilinj ,h Jrttil, . i Pu beta Jetetmintu. ne .-.-a aA nn more: "Shay, shay, iriCIIU tacmjvu - Misher.do yeh ave any snakes up tnarr v at the renlv. "but it will be ot special interest to you to learn that if you get ten times nuier man j If vmi i?et the delerium tremens, as long as you live east of the mountains, you'll never see rats." It is a peculiar lact tnu r.aswiu Washington Territory is entirly free from rats. The mischievous meddlers und lobby ists who largely for mercenary purposes bamboozled a green member of con gress into presenting a bill, looking to the forfeiture of certain railroad land grants, have subsided. An examination of the N. P. 11. R. erant. as well as a view from the side of right and equity, gave them no hope of creating more than a scare, and even in this they were not successful. Won't some kind soul pass around the hat tor the reiiei 01 tne lobby? A WONDERFUL CLIMATE. A letter from Tacoma, on Puget Sound, the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad, dated Jan uary 25th, addressed to the editor of the Philadelphia New Northwest, says: " For four days past I have been spad ing up my garden, and pruning and setting out plants." 'Twas so last year; it is so every year. There is not a winter month in Oregon or Washington Territory in which flowers and plants of many kinds do not bloom in the onen air. A Missourian, writing to the St. Louis Jonrnal of Agriculture of the won derful climate of this region, savs: "Last winter t88o and 1881 all kinds of stock grazed through the whole winter in Clark Lewis, Wahkiakum and,Chehali scoun- es, m wasmngton Territory; and on the 3,st day of March, 1881, at Cape Disappointment, 496" feet above the level of the sea. all kinrla nf ,a " sv4 uuvrcia were in bloom, also red and white clover; and the tame , ... : b'Muov' "nc uvcr . .,, ncgnr.. un the 3d day of Anril th ri -r i: ... .1 r. . mcu van- couver Barracks, located at Vancouver, c cou y, vyash.ngton Territory, ana saw wiM n um. ui ' 1 ., - I hi uiossom, ana 2 IVXJJ ,autered ...v3t uosiures, grass led. In Minnesota, at tfiat time, tLy had nlenlC ".snow, with extreme cold weathe? In Missouri and Illinois the weathe - " u ury lood. The Reception Room for Immigrants On the grain exhibit' stand, at the rooms of q Bureau of Immigration in this city, appears a State motto, "Alt's volat fropriis," (sne flj with her own wings.) That this motto is wi chosen is-apparent on every hand. There is ni an article that is needed for the comfort of mi or beast, but what is produced, or can be foum in the Pacific Northwest, of a superior qualii Immigrants from different parts of the globe wj visit the Bureau rooms and examine the displai admit this fact. The Bureau of Immigration managed by Mr. Paul Schulze, and is under tl patronage of the different railway companies. 1 answer the numerous letters of inquiry about tl Pacific Northwest, and transact the general but ness of the office, Mr. S. requires eight assistant Notwithstanding the immense good the Bureau i accomplishing, in making our capabilities know abroad, they make no parade, no fuss, ask no tii or assistance from the State, and therefore bu few of our own residents are aware of the exist ence of this important factor in settling up -thi Pacific Northwest. The rooms are located railroad headquarters, corner of North Front am D streets, and are open to the public daily, ex cept Sundays, from 8:30 a. m. to 5:30?. m. Ii would not be a bad idea for some of our resident' to drop in, learn what is being done for thein and at the same time become better acquainted with the capabilities and advantages of the Pacific Northwest. , .-'.:! , ' i .:: '.,' The Grand Union Depot. In this numbe will be found an illustration of the accepted plan for the Grand Union Depot, to be erected heri by the different lines of railway centering in thi city. It is said that when finished it will be th largest structure of the kind in the world; son idea of its immensity may be formed when tb reader understands that, with its courtyards, it wi cover twelve full blocks of ground. It will bounded by H and M, Seventh and Eight streets. The principal entrance will be at Par, and H streets, and should the idea be carried x of throwing the Park blocks into one continuoi boulevard, it will give this city pleasant and w necessary recreation grounds of over two miles i length. In erecting the depot none but the on lasting materials stone, granite and iron arei be used. Samples from the different Oregon ui Washington Territory stone-quarries have alrea been forwarded to Mr. Villard at New York, ul as soon as a selection is made, and the compasii obtain the right to occupy the streets, construct will be commenced. The architect's and enf neer's estimates place the cost of construction! $1,500,000. ' All the different business offices' the companies will be located In this building)! fact it will be the general headquarters for trtf portation lines. There can be no possible d4 but what the expenditure of one and a half d lions of dollars in the construction of this dep will be a great benefit to Portland, and when co pleted it will be a structure that every citiienm be justly proud of. All silly twaddle about W obstructions may as well cease. . The fact is, site of the depot at present is an unsightly iwmf has no streets, and neyer will have any, unless railroad companies see fit to make streets. present they own nine-tenths of the property joining the depot grounds, and the hardship street obstructions, after they have made streets, will tall nrh ttn.thr in thar 0 shoulders. ; . . .. r