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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1883)
128 THE WEST SHORE. June, 1883, WESTERN OREGON. The First National Hank of Salem has com menced business. The business men are endeav oring o secure a woolen mill in the city. . Albany it showing commemlable enterprise in ill cflTiirll In tilalilith iinnU mill A ..1: I '-v.i ifiiu, j iiauuiiui bank was recently opened, and other business project! are under consideration. At Oregon City they are feeling quite happy ucr ine assurance. 01 Mr. Villard that the plendid water power at that place will be utilized In the near future by extensive manufacturing en terprises. Clackamas county offers great induce ments lo settlers. In the foothills of the Cascade mountains, stys the Enterf'riu ; There are yet thousands of acres of good gov ernment or railroad lands open (or settlement, or purchase at reasonable figures. Hundreds of sec tioni of such lands are in close proximity to schools, churches, imst oflic.-s and stores, ami are within one d ty's drive of either Oregon City or Portland, liy living on such places the selllcr would have an almost unlimited slock range and his fencing might altogether l confined to the land he wished to cultivate. The soil in the foot hll 1 is of the richest kind, well watered and no lack rd timlier. and no healthier climate exists in the l nite.1 Stales. C01.UMMA County has an area of 680 square miles and 1 population of 2,500. It has a water frunugeof ten miles on Willamette slough and fifty on the Columbia. Its chief resources are coal, Iron and limber, though there is much good agricultural land unlilled. The bottom lands along the rivers are subiect 1(1 nvrrflittu in 1.... and when the water recedes a luxurious growth of ' mkllnK M'ltndid pasturage and hay. Tha dairy business i. qui,e txWntivty canied on in these favo.ed localities. Compara lively little (aiming is done along the river, the 1um!ring business absorbing the attention of the people. Every stream of any ,i hu cleared of obstructions w that log, can be run don Ihem in high water season. Log, are also hauled lo the bottom lands and when Ihey are floated by the fieshcts are made up Into raft, and owed 10 the mill, on .he river, .0 Portland, and even lo Astoria. On Scappoosc creek is the Rich Und null, whose product is hauled to Gosa, landing for shipment. At St. Helens, the County seal, i. t).e mill of Muckle Brothers. It U the latest in the county, hu . capacity of 40.000 fei per dsy, and runs constantly The proprictoia, James and Charles Muckle, a,e enter prising blaine- men lnJ m g They hart recently filled . contract fo, ,0,000 000 fct of tie. and bridge imbe, for ,he raiuU They supply ,h. loci ma.ke. and also male direc .hlpmenl. lo Hongkong, Australia, and ClT fomuv Th, mill. mtn bujll fi(f,n J Unbeea under he pr, managenvem eight ran, Connected wiih ),,-. s . ... Upland. Muckle sl h. ve Vle store and carry a heavy stock of goods, two ware houses being used besides the salesroom. They also own the steamer Latona, which is used for the mill and business generally. Quarries are in the vicinity where paving stones are taken out. At Columbia City, two miles below St. Helens, is another saw mill. In the country tributary to this place are extensive bodies of excellent iron ore and large coal deposits, both of which will no doubt be utilized at no distant day. Enterprise, ten miles further down the Columbia, is the shin ping point for a saw mill situated several miles back from the river. Many fine farms are located in the vicinity. At Rainier is a mill cutting 25,000 feet per day. There are also a small ship yard, a barrel factory and the cannerv of A. W. Herry & Co., where salmon, smelt, salmon trout and caviar are prepared for market. In Beaver valley there are two mills, and much lumber, shingles, cordwood and charcoal are sent out and shipped at Cedar Landing. There is a large settlement in the valley and plenty of room for others. Near Bradbury, twelve miles below maimer, mere is some good land along the river. Logging is the principal business. In the Clats kanie valley and in the vicinity of Marshland mH Woods' Landing is the best farming land in the couniy. a large mill will soon be put up in the valley. Across the mountains fmm W,in ... II VWUO Landing to Riverside, in Nehalem valley, it is ....... mn. wear this point there is a saw mill. Up the valley twelve miles is the town of Pitts burg, having both a saw and grist mill. In the valley i, much good land open to settlement, enough to give homes to 5,000 people. The water power is excellent, large coal deposits have been discovered and sulendirt i;ml t,..L tbe valley and the surrounding mountains. The H 1-co ".iroad Irom Forest Grove to Astoria will pass throuoh the vallev nA 11,... k.! .... free communication with the remainder of the tme. The resources of ColmK;. .. , ivumy are almost entirely undeveloped, and great induce- Thetur' 17 Tll"5 Wh0Mn utilile lhe The railroad from Portland to Kalama runs along olaatV Th tafnd Passes,h'6h Colum -."I'Mig me tuuniy. Lank County isoneofthetr.m. i .. . . mm 111051 pro ductive in the state of rr,n part oflhisnrand v.,...- I? Vs.. "W1" .n " ie tvi amette a v l y unsurpassed in the world for the salu, ,i,y iZj?? ,He of h. soil .d , " w-TT-lie. in Lane county The a ey composed mainly of level ? ,1 wllmg, fertile prairie. lM.r--i Bm'y np of ,Sb y a by with . narrow ah. alder, cedar, Z rl f"' ?aP,e' bal-. he aouth wet I' Z ZiTT " with forest, of fir nine L u"".'" 'mbered valley land, whichever fails i '.i Besides op.of wheat, "Pce hundan. "well as vegetableTanTf0 ,nd,othercel. variety. ih.,.V. ri":n? '" of nearly fVarv J lon lb. riveBTnd ".mXr'tere U,in the mountains, and' in v.T t ,,er corsei n thousand. f " he. .f hill. ,,- " 'he governmen, hV'd covered summits looming up in the distance In summer and winter alike j on the south, the Call pooya mountains, their foot hills covered with oak and their summits with evergreen; and on u.c wc sue neavny umoered Coast mountain The valley is green with verdure during the winter while the mountains are covered with snow almost to their base. Lane county has an area of 2,500,000 acres, of which about one-fourth i. level prairie and three-fourths timber and moun tain land. About 1,500,000 acres are surveyed and 1,000,000 acres, in the timber and mountains! are unsutveyed. Only 370,000 acres are no settled by a population of 12,000 or 13,000. Land can be purchased in the hills and in the little val leys in the mountains at $1.25 to $2.50 and $5 per acre, and choice improved farming land in the valley at ten, twenty, thirty and, near town, it forty and fifty dollars per acre, according to loca tion and the value of improvements. The opportunities for farming, stock raising,' lumbering and manufacturing are great Ten times the present population would not settle th county as thickly as many parts of the country aiong tne Atlantic coast and in the Mississippi valley. Splendid water power for manufacturing exists along nearly all the streams. The gross valuation of property in 1882 was $5,234,984. In addition to the staple crops of wheat, oats, pota toes, vegetables, etc., of which the yield is lam every year, Lane county produced and sold, in 1882 about $100,000 worth of hops. It is now the leading hop-growing county in the state. tugene City, the county seat, is one of the most important towns on the line of the Oregon and California road and has a population of over i.S00- It contains the state university, court house, a large public school, five churches, two newspapers, a flouring mill, wool carding and spinning mill, two sash and door factories, iron foundry, furniture factory, tannery, and many sub stantial businsss houses and neat residences. The other principal towns are Junction, Springfield, Lottage Grove, Cresswell, Coburg and Florence. SOUTHERN OREGON. It has been the general opinion that Klamath county was unfit for grain growing, but this seemi to have been erroneous. At Fort Klamath all the grain needed for the post is being raised this year. On Little K1.irr.mh lake is a field of V acres of three kinds of grain, growing splendidly, and near Linkville and on Klamath lake are several .mall fields, all doing well. , The Orpirnn Sni.t1.in Tmnru.nnt CnmnanV has been incorporated with capital stock of $4,000,000, "to purchase, improve, lease, mort- fjace and flicnnc nf anA tnun anA ritv lots. etC to build, equip and maintain one or mone lines of railroad and telegraph lines from the water. 01 Coo. bay. via Rncrhnro in ih eastern boundary , , . of the st(.te, and to build and run steamship, be tween Coos bay and all point between Sao Francisco and Sitka." Thi. mean, the develop ment of Coos county, and the transformation of Roseburp into nilman Mnirr nf considerable importance. When the Oregon and California road was extended and all the transfer busines Was ln k Ia. i l-J ..n,l,ai thoufh not as much as was predicted. The Oregon and California road hat decided to make Roaeburg