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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1882)
September 1882;" THE WEST SHORE. ,65 Matt warn wunuiu acwue wj m. luiu - - port of entry, or the river banks and rugged hills. X settler can safely locate and make a good home, wd eventually a model farm in any county west of the Cascade mountains Deiween me caniornia and British liue. DAVENPORT. It has been generally known for some time that L.J Luh nwMnUJ tw. I lOWnSllC Company MU vccii uigauigtu 111 Dudley nd Spokane Falls to build up an interior town at Cottonwood Springs. This section of the coun try has long been known as the best farming area of Spokane county, with perhaps no exception. The Rockford and Farmington countries are per haps no better. At present a large immigration is pouring into the country adjacent to the springs, and it is fast becoming the center of a large com' munity. We are informed by letter from Cheney that the name of the new town will be Davenport, given in honor of the well-known banker and merchant at Cheney. At present Jehn H. Nicholls is the proprietor of a store at the town, and a firm in which Mr. Davenport and others are interested will soon be in the field with a large stock of general mer chandise. The townsite is said to be very fine. with an abundance of water from magnificent springs and rich soil. Roads from all directions lead into the place, which has been a camping spot for travelers and stock men ever since the country has been known to white men. Far and near on all sides extends the open, rolling farming country; at present covered with a rank growth ot bunch grass. Where now is one vast rolling prairie, with here and there farm houses scattered, will before another two years be vast fields of golden gram, wavintr in the summer breeze, The lands are not hilly as in the famous Palouse fegion, but the soil is equal to any in that local y. Water can easily be obtained in wells and treams, and at easy distance wood for fuel and fencing is found on the hillsides sloping toward to we Spokane river and other streams. Fort Spokane lies at no ereat distance awav. nd the place is centrally located northwest of "Prague, Cheney and Spokane Falls. It is but question of a short time until the vast farming 'ca 01 which this particular section ii onlv rge portion, will be opened up by a railroad fnning from the line of the Northern Pacific to farthest extremity. Indeed, two lines are al edy proposed that will tan that entire country. We know of no more promising land than that of ",ca davenport ii the center, and it can hardly be otherwise but Davenport will soon rank as Me of our best towns. The factor of adjacent K"n ana general farming lands, well sup. Fiiea with water and timber, ii ure to build town. This Davenport has in an eminent degree, .l The liberality of the management of nil f I?- N Co especially toward the peo- P'e Of T)91ln 1. II I J t . ..-J.I.- : . " wen Known ana nas excuea ine rpnse and admiration of many, and the cupidity overii. L-i ueciors 01 a cenain district, Khooi h not ,M away.deireo ,0 rePair lheir - cuii.iuing inc cost mcicui i JP Pplied to the company's representative at u a w. . e . . ' . . . .. di. . ..,or 350. modestly stating mat. me wouia probably be able to raise the re- "inino Sen ia i. n. . ! Lnnif . 7J . : " "na me yra yips, ctLuk X' 1 ' matchi -D" - . .1.1.. j'..hk New Lands. North of the T im. fir.-. there are three prairies at a distance of from three to five miles from Peone, and about I7"miles from Sookane Falls. Th f - w..iii uuui illiiV, ..... 01 nne prairie son; a nne stream of water passes across two of llicui into the Little Spokane; and a great abundance of the finest kind of rail and building material is immediately ' at hand. The soil varies in different places from a black loam to a lighter soil, and there is no scabland about. It is quite near the proposed line of the railroad toiolville,.and nearfeone prairie, liesules these lands there is a tine body ot meadow lands up and down the Little Spokane that is convenient to mart and excellent timber. A Mr. Snnw tnnlr tilt loaded wagons through this country with no diffi culty at all, not even having to double teams on a single hill. There are a few settlers on the first prairie, but none in the other two, which are the Kect arrnrrlincr tn Mr. Snow's description. There b r is said to be a good timber range for stock about the prairies, and the streams and woods abound in game. The prairies are said to grow excellent bunch grass, and the wild rose bush, an indicator of good soil, is found in abundance. On these prairies and meadow lands a colony or lull fiftv families could locate to excellent advantage. The lands are just being surveyed and can probably be hied on by January next. Shoalwater. Bay. Shoalwater Bay, W. T. most appropriately named, embraces at high tide a surface area estimated at eigiity square mues, thniit one-half of which is laid bare at low tide. The entrance is five and one-half miles wide from Leadbetter point on the south to Lewis or Toke point on the north. There are two chan nel. the north and south, with a large shoal called ,t,. mWrile sands, lvinp between them. The bar t ih. north channel is about a mile in extent, and has three and a quarter fathoms at low water ; at .t,- .ith chnnne the bar is about a miie in wm..i ltV BWtltl with four fathoms of water upon it. lioou -u 1. . fm.nrl throughout the bay, but pilots . .c.ss.rvto follow them. An arm stretches southward for fourteen or fifteen miles' towards n.t,-.'. K with an average width ol about tnrce Ajaiiti Lt and one-half miles. There are three islands in l K... Lnnun SS 111117. Pine and Round Islands IMC UUJ, - D' , ,. -the former the largest, being some six miles . j nA hn r mi es Wide. I nc iiiui lone mi" u"5 - - , .,e covered with shell-li.h, and salmon, codfish, .. .tv.n and herrine abound. It is nanuui, .u.Kv-.. - . .rt for wild ceese. swan, mallard and nv.-back duck, and other water fowl. The .u p,.li. Nesa . Necomancne ana YVlUUuaui, "i ' . . rivers, are the most important streams flow.ng , . !. Tk.r- i. a considerable quantity of un- into it. - . . . . occupied government lands, adapted to da.iy.ng r . . . .l.i..... -..u- aitrartlnir and farming, lying along tne ., settlers. ABOUT ADVERTISING HUMBUGS. Of all the worthless humlmcs in the world, the average advertising "scheme" is the wont. Portland, in particular, is infested with an Ine. sponsible lot of tramps who live by swindling people with all sorts of phamplets, maps, Imita tion newspapers, and a multitude ol other ue. vices, all of which, as between the tramp and his victim, simply mean something lor now incr. If the nennle who allow themselves to be cajoled into buying " space" In ot on theae seduc live schemes would reflect, befure signing the con. tract, that the chances are about ten to one that no one but the advertisers will ever see the thing completed, they might not sign at all. Asa mat ter of fact, If the tramp has enough printed " to go, round " among his advertisers, lie sets himself up as a model of inlcKrity and heroic seil-Ucniai, because he fully relics that he might have bor rowed the "scheme " from fully one-half his pa- trons to show to the other half while collecting his bill. When a man fails in evervthina else under the sun, he turns advertising agent or life insurance solicitor. We are fully aware mat meto ate nlenlv nf honoiable and capable gentlemen en gaged in both these occupations, and no one W more readily appreciate nor mute tuny cointwe with the tenor of this seeming unkind remark than they. The trouble is that those legitimately engaged in these callings are compelled to suffer from the odium which the tramp or illegitimate ciw .... brought upon them. The latter, by the extent to which they have carried the practice 01 lying representation, have rendetedlt almost Impossible 1 ..I f- l...Nnr4lli1tf for the former to transact incir Ewm .. Really to the business men who allow themselves to be so shamefully gulled belongs a .blame for this condition of things. There are plenty or men shrude enough to detect the sllghtert at tempt to bamboowl them In their own uu.--, who will Ulieve the advertising scheme man when he tells them lies so stupidly silly and transparent a. to carry contradiction upon the very face of them. The latter will solemnly guaraice .... culation of a number of copies of his map or pamphlet so foolishly great.lh.t any on. o. ot. narv sense should ice, uion reflection, that the gross amount of money received for the adver tisements would not cover me COS! 01 WW - alone. The consequence is that wnen tni icgm- mate representative of a reputab.e Journal cam upon this same business man the first question he . i i . !.! irik- ,,m. asks is, ' What is your circuianonr i m ber given be anywhere within the range of even double the truth, the accute man oi ou.mc w... laugh contemptuowly and exclaim, "Why, so- and-so was just here and oiiereu me a w.iu. l hi. for less money, and Ills circulation Is more than double yours!" a rnu respondent of the Cincinnati Cm- T. U... writing from Wall. W. J .L. !m;rrvfllinn lo ima ciiv. acter oi me n.mb . , , lent The people are largely of original New ,"t,,..J .cive. intelligent and hardy. The church, the school, and e ew.f . per J well suppor.ed-.he town of Wall. MM th0lWand inhabitanu. for Instance, having three dailies. Und can be had cheap, the price, vary ing of cour. with regard to loc.tior, on pre. n:mu lathe finest eounliy (Jod'i sun ever shone on-wlth California u a close second. It may -m strange for a "l.n to but wnat is tne uie u, - took the prlre for wheat, over all the world .1 lh Still and the W.ll.me,.. valley UU known as the "garden spot f tl , ,ul weTak of California 'and Oregon . -- m A i. i I. ri.mi.n which tan In no compare with California and T would detract Horn nci n -r--- exact truth, - StamiLiM (Colior) Gfcmxr. or proposed routes ot ..