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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1883)
June, 1883. 3 THE WEST SHORE. Transportation. Boats now run daily lietween New Tacpmaand Victoria, lo accommodate the increasing travel. The fluent tleamer on the upper waters it the ft. '. Kitket, a new boat of the C. P. N. Co. running on the Fraei mcr route fiom Victoria. Ilnggin Tevii have licgun the construction of a line from the Anaconda mine near Butte City 10 their imcller, with a possible extension to Black'foot. A ileaiiier called the Idaho has been built at Montesano, W. T., to navigate Chehalis and Mack riven. She ii sixty feet long and draws only twelve inches of water. Thn ugh travel on the Northern Pacific, includ ing singes across the unfinished gap, was inaugu rated in May. The length of the stage route will gradually decrease ai work progresses on the road. Fifty miles of the branch road from Billings to Foil Benton have been placed under contract to be completed the coming fall. It is expected that the line will 1 extended to Denton next year. A branch line from Missoula up the Bitter Root valley is contemplated by the Northern Pacific, opening up one of the best agricultural sections of Western Montana and a region rich in minerals and limber. The contemplated branch of the Utah and Northern road to the National Park will run ui Ruby river lo Virginia City, crow the divide lo Madison river and continue up that stream to Hie Hole basin. It is expected that wotk wi be commenced upon it Iwfore long. iimiiimci won icrry ooai 10 le used in transporting trains across the Columbia, between Kalama and Ignore, has lieen shipped in sections and is now on the way by an. It has a ca pacuy 01 unity cars and is excelled in site onlvbv the &lai.o, used by the Central Pacific at Bcnicia. Agents of Boston capitalists have examined the country between Roseburg and Coos bay with re peri m us coal and limlwr resomcei and the feasibility of a tailioad, and have returned with favorable rcxrt. The pimpects for a road from Koseburg to the coast are blighter than ever be. fote. Die bridge across the Willamette will be l,lS6 feet long, exclusive of approaches. The draw span will be.391 fect;in length with nivotal tr, in the center. F.at of this will 1 a tpan of 264 fret, while et will l two more of the same length. The btidge is to be of the rocsit tuhttan lial kind, and will have a double track. Work lhas at last been commenced upon the lascaurtam.ion 01 the Xotthern.Pacific, connect inS tsirmana elem Washington. A parly uken mi new near Yakima City with in mictions lo push wettwatd aero the mountains and arukih.r is'tll .L 1 r. .. . """ iioro me main line tnwaids tkinu It it expected that 1,000 en will toon be dumbuted along the route. The signs that the Noithein Pacific will I competed by the first of ScptemUr tiill continue LivotmtilV TtuMdM 1:. 1 1 . 1 v.m ,uicu Utirna two wrens ..go, lnd the nark on the west ha jus, tcen Knutittl to Missoula. At a low .wage j one mile per day o each eod, the 16 rmlM yet to be laid will all be down before September. The road bed is all graded and the bridge work so far progressed as to be ready for the track as fast as it approaches. To provide for the possi bility of a delay in the completion of the Mullan tunnel, a temporary track it being laid over the summit on a grade of 212 feet to the mile. In order to connect Boise City with the great railway system of the west, the business men of that place consider necessary a line from the city to the proposed junction of the Oregon Short Line with the 0. R. & N. Co. on Burnt river. They have incorporated the Idaho, Utah and Oregon R. K. Co. with a capital stock of $5,000,000 to construct the following railroad and telegraph lines : From Boise City, in Ada county, Idaho, in a west and northerly direction to a point on Burnt river, in Baker county, Oregon, with a branch from tome point in Ada county to Horse shoe Bend, on the Payette river in Boise county, Idaho; and from Boise City in an easterly direc tion to Atlanta, in Alturas county, Idaho, with a branch line to Idaho City, in Boise county ; and from Boise City, in a southeasterly direction, to Ogden, Utah. The success of this project, or the more important part of it, would add ma terially to the prosperity of Boise and the country tributary to that city. The bill which recently passed the Provincial Legislature of British Columbia subsidising the Columbia and Kootenai Railway and Transporta tion company, granted it the right to build, equip uu uuiimam a continuous line ot railway fiom tne outlet of Kootenai lake, throueh the Selkirk range ol mountains, to a point on the Columbi river as near as practicable to the junction of the Kootenai with the Columbia river in British Co. lumbia; also a line of steamers suitable for pas sengcr and freight traffic, and other vessels, upon the Colambia river to and from the point on the Columbia liver where the Columbia and Kootenai railway from Kootenai lake terminates, to that point on thi woct hr., r .u. r- , . -- me coiumuia river where the Canadian Pacific railway shall strike the .u river ana cross the same near the Eagle pass. ... v....clallun 01 me undertaking nM,m.A i. the company the government ol British Columbia grants to it all alternate sections of land on each .e oi ine route, or routes, proposed tn .:. gated by the company's steamers and n, Ihe railway ,h,H pas,, provided lhe amount o the grant shall not exceed 750,0c . .1 company has a capital stock of $? , 000,000, and its incorporate.. .i...,., . . . luusmt mm we interests in iK .! .,. . 11 ,.. v ln" are eeking to develop. We have previously called attention to the agricultural and mineral wealth of th irw nati RJ sk: .w.,.- ",u "" ""me lor opening un th.i There are splendid rmn :.: " ... . "h - ,,-..... lor enterprising men. VVk .L: 1 "7..p.Dun,nRunot carried 0 more ex tensively on Pucet sound it i. A.m...,. . " " "'""-un 10 explain. -n-nl,y ,, ,,duetonolhi Wt pn failure of ship-builder, to realise he -'-tag ,es offered there for work o7, a We will ot be surprid at any time abluhed a, ,me )k)iiu "More than . d.uen new steamboat, will' be dow on the stocks. This is better than ever was done before, but H is still within the demand, to supply which east. ern ship-yards have been called upon, while boats are constantly being sent here from Oregon and Califof nia. A considerable number of schooners, barkentines and barks have been built on Pu;t sound during the past few yeats, and two fine large ships. These show what can be done, and would be worth boasting of were not a greater number of like vessels built during the same period of time at the less advantageously located port of San Francisco. "A ship-yard here has the pick of its lumber from the yard or the mill, or, what is better, can go to the logs in the boom and have cut the dimensions wanted. Better sticks are obtained, and the waste is less. Further, the home yard saves $8 a thousand feet on the transportation ot lumber compared with the San Francisco yard. This makes a difference in favor of the Puget sound builder of from $1,500 to $3,000 on every vessel built of from 200 to 500 tons measure ment. "What is needed, and what would pay here, is a yard on a large scale, covering a surface of twenty acres, and having a front to the Sound of several hundred feet, perhaps a thousand. Here should be steam power and shops, and ways for the hauling out of vessels of ten or twelve hundred tons measurement. They should be able to re pair any mishap to any ordinary wooden ship. They should be able to build and equip, from keel to masthead, sail vessels fit for coastwise or foreign trade, and they should be able to turn out, machinery and all, steamers like the Wash ington or North Pacific, and even larger or bet ter ones. To do all this would require a capital of over a hundred thousand dollars, and would necessitate the employmen' of at least two hun dred men. There is nothing visionary in what we have written. The proposition is bassd upon the present trade of the coast, upon work now being done, partly here, but principally in the docks and yards of San Francisco." The Red Bluff and Hot Snrini?i minim? districts, in Montana, are attracting considerable attention. A rich, free gold quartz ledce has been discov ered seven miles north of Boise City, Idaho. The famous Atlantic Cable mine, in Deer Lodge county, Montana, has been re-opened after years of idleness. The Virginia City Reduction Company is build ing reduction works of fifty tons daily capacity, at Virginia City, Montana. The Smoky Bullion mine, in Alturas county, Idaho, has been incorporated. A stamp mill will be erected this season. The Silver Creek Mining Co. has begun opera tions on their ledge in the Coast Range, twenty miles west o( Dallas, Oregon. ' More discoveries have been 11 ade in the new Horse Prairie district, near Red Rock, Montana, on the Utah and Northern railroad. The ores carry gold, silver and copper. Blackburn is the name of new mining camp on Little Lost river, Idaho, seventy miles west of Camas Station on the U. & N. road. Until re cently it was known simply as the Big Sink country. The principal lode can be traced a dis tauce of six mile, and fifteen locations have been made upon it A smelter will toon be ereeted.
