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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1882)
iyi 1 88a. THE WEST SHORE. 83 -at ,s the truth of the case, and when interests, . for notwithstanding a Very tem pump,with steam upday and night, vumc. u una country, or goes to . . , n , . . oii -ftl, drawing Us supply from the Columbia ar.y otner tor this purpose, he is fooling ' . river, has the capacity of keeping the ric is a secondarv consideration. The DulV vrfii;.r n ..-n;nnni lKnrl nv th nrtniu A Rlak drawing its supply from the Columbia .a;,vay nis time. The description of this "'"""""ai mmning is rem- tank fuli witn every hydrant open. section, including all of Eastern Oregon I erected to avoid overcrowding. J' Any building of the group can be ana Washington, as given by this class The new court house shown is also brought under six to eight streams of .01 men, ana as nave oeen published by to ke fin:sw A,trina .v. v, .,i water in leu than one minutes time newsnanpra thaf havo rrivAit tVinlv In. I s ' I -ft., u. A, .r.w. fi-. I. .11 Tk fnrmTfS;- (CZ .l"! . " " while not particularly eaud v in architect. S":' . 1 m ..uui wra muic buuiv.c, wui . nre company is wcii-unncu, me rn- have no weight with sensible people. ure, will have a substantial and lasting wav company eivtn? one hour of its It has been proved that where there appearance. time for this purpose on the last oat- is a man who is willinsr to work when. The hotels of this nlace will com. 1 urday or every month. ever opportunity offers, that man will pare favorably with any city in the The ' location of The Dalles offers nt go hungry very long at a time, northwest. The leading ones are the splendid inducements for the erection i. ere are inousanas oi good farms in cosmopolitan and Umatilla House. I or other tnanutacturing enterprises, a i :stern uregon tor such men, who have 1 he former is under the proprietorship woolen mill, with fc good business man ( ly to signify their intention to occupy and personal management of Thomas at the head, would be a most profitable t-:m m order to hold them, and possess Smith, formerly of the Chemeketa at investment here. South and easterly n good a farm as can be found any- Salem; and the latter is owned and of The Dalles are a number of small A J i 1 1 I i II .1 I m r .1. . . t . a v iere. Ana tnose wno want such ad. Kepi by Messrs. nanoiey at Mnnott. towns that have come into notice with- v ntages now is the ODDOrtunitv offered. Both houses do a most Hourishinir bus-1 in the last few vears.whicharecenterafor .. . i. i : : . " i i aon i come expecting? to hnd an iness. trade and nostal facilities. The lead. 'en.' California is the nearest to that The ODcra house, owned bv Messrs. i na one of these is Prineville. which c. any piace on tne racihe slope. And Max vogt Lo., is a credit to the has its own newspapers and a number ! . II.. . .L' . . 1 v ll Ji ?l .tt . ii t tal ... ..I - - t igiBius usuany nnu mis out Deiore piace, ana lurnisnes me oesi public nan I or large mercantile esuDiisnmems. i j gc. aj, uuniuicic, especially wic uypcr cuui iry. , HAILHOAI) INTERI'RISKS IN TIIK i ;se wno come irom tne western states i ne resiuences nave every appearance COUNTY. tJ"- . V"? lo . - " 1", . T ' 1 llZm Two yearsand a half ago the O. R. v ctuu. jjui iuhkc atari lor iHSicrn tan even ucucaiiciiHicii as cicumu. fOrlo, v - " ... ,u f ..:i...l :r . w ;v " r' "V 7 . , r:: " . construction, havine The Dalles as a uom wnicn win xurnisn some luca oi k,.. tu. u..:u fr any man who has a spark of ambi t: i, of a grain of get-up in his compo on, can soon insure his own success base. They enlarged and built new and commodious machine shops and round houses and have spared no time the prevailing style of architecture. THE CAR MANUFACTORY ' its towns. of the Uregon Railway aud Navigation or means for the purpose of putting the The Dalles the rnuntv seat U a I ropany is located here and furnishes improvements tn a condition lor con ' I .1 I I ! I ftt A. . L . rut i r l .l .l j I ciiiuiuy mem, iu iiiuic innii nutc nun i vciiiciico nnu ihuiii. auun aa me a muc lawn 01 nooui inrce mousnna dre(. -t r.munerfltive ratei of trrtat railroad entei-nriie wat brourh 1 " ahitants. 1 Tf is nratA nn thn smith I i u!!.... t rf- Ik.. i i t. . t ' - - i wages. lUHciuniKis are uaiu irom pj.u l inio annpc, nnu uctamc Known, a new s"j of the Columbia river in latitude to 4-oo carpenters, Si.oo to S.so; impetus was eiven this great "Inland -der: 6min. 18 ec . and in lnniri. blacksmsths, xxq to $4,005 black- Empire." Immigration began to real. . " 0 I :,L L.l It. . ff- I ! : ....!. . L I T t: 8 121 deg. 12 min. 7 SBC, as de- ",,m" "'"t P-SiJ.w, Fiuier., ie a KrCi nuin, iu yrevn wa mure . j l r e t u ri t e .u N3.oo; common laDorers, j.oo per tnan a county in waiuornia, and as a t: ained by Prof. John Clark of the d foremen, $135.00 to $150.00 per result, has been pouring Into this Inter- v. w. vcugijjuit.ni ami naiiuiiuuii.ai i monui. i nc enure iorce is in cnargciior oasin oy ine inousanas, wnicn is in veyini878. It assumes the digni- of C. C. Hobart, Master Mechanic, a creasing the population largely. The of inme imnnrtanre- it ha two gentleman wen quauned lor me posi- railroad is now completed to anake r l . tj...:j .11 w. :: I n : . 00 :i u 1 8everal lar- buoines. MtaMUh. u"uu,l,5 f" 'K fv ver, . u..u...t0 , oo nines ueyona v - o I inn rf-hni nmtr nl lnrnmnfivp ond I Walla WallA. malfincr ttn Anaratmrv ia f1tAam 1 tiaaasuacivaiti fuft fl n I t . I m a a . t...v ii'v..vn.rr,., gteamboats, tne company manuiactures roadot over ijo mtiet in lentrtn. ana a mills, water works, and near by, here nearly all their, own rolling stock, connection at Wallula with ati miles sjo art extensive salmon fishery; and and the day we visited, the last of a lot of Northern Pacific railway. All along iJ3 point of considerable commercial ol one nundrta nat car. was just be- these fines, railway stations have been . . , . . . . ing rolled out of the finishing depart- established, at which points thriving 1 rtance withal; being the entrepot ment The capacity of the factory can towns spring up, thereby affording f : an extensive region of country both be bet down at two fifteen-ton box cars accommodations and facilities not heth. r :h and south, including Grant coun- per day. The motive power for the erto enjoyed. The push that hatcharac ( whose export of wool is almost cabinet and machine shops is furnished terized this project from its first incep. , i .u-f r w..n nA iU. y three engines, one of them a " Cor- tion, will, before another year, send its ( at to that of wasco, ana tne cen- Iis8the fincbt WMtof the Rocky moun. trains of passenger and palace sleeping f point for mail routes and travel. uin( Lanor Mving macninery of the coaches, with mails and express, from '. t Wasco Independent Academy .is latest approved style is used in all de- the metropolis of Oregon to The Dalles ited here. The building is of brick, partmenti and nothing has leen left and on, to connect with other roads, 1 situated on an elevated plateau undone to make rapid and profitable (nearing completion) eastward, whose ... j c work possible. A direct .telegraph termine is the seaboard. It is not tlooking the city, commands a fine ,ine comiects the ,ho with the head iaying too much, when we aay these w of the surrounding country. It is 0fice ,n Portland. For protection of are some of the developments, the re ished with fine apparatus and other property, the working force have or sources, and its accumulated wealth of ntials necessary for a complete ganized a regular fire department, with over five and a half millions of - . , , . . ' i.- chief and assistant engineers. A ccn- dollars. If this Is the scale already lemic course, and last, but not least, Iocated Unk gt a tinjM reached ftm Jn ;ood faculty. Our illustration of 45)0Oo gallons of water, and is tapped past, what may it be if the future! new public school house will give by twenty-one hydrants with hose al- morning is so bright and foretelling. . feadtr 'nidetfofhowtheaiUzeniof ways attached, add judiciously ditri sf ftp 9 fc Mttrwlojtesl Takls.