The west shore., April 01, 1884, Page 100, Image 8

THE WEST SHORE.
100
NOTE3 OF THE NORTHWEST.
The Heda Mining Company of Montana has reported
the gross profit of oirationn during 1883 as $(S5,39C.83,
of which WJO.OIX) were paid out in dividends. By gross
profit itt meant the excess above the actual operating
MHMIH'H.
Tlio bridgo of the Oregon Short Line spanning Snake
Kivor, at tho mouth of Burnt Uiver, is over 7(H) feet long,
mid is elevated some eighty-live feet above low water
mark. It is the largest and most costly on the line, and
will lie ready for use in a few weeks.
Two large saw mills mid box factories are nearly
fuiished in Astoria, and will lie in operation in a few
weeks. The canning season will Boon open and boxes
will Imi in great demand Over (illO.IXK) were used last
year, and fully as many will lie required the coming
season.
Tho Columbia Uiver I'iijmt Company has been incor
torated in Portland with a capital stock of $100,000, to
manufacture and deal in piier of all kinds. Mills will
lm ereetd at La Camas, in Clarke county, AV. T., where
usrior facilities aro offered. The work of construction
will 1st commenced immediately.
Tho Olyinpia A Chehalis Valley Hailroad Company is
preparing to extend its narrow guago road from Tenino
to the coal mines on Ilanaford Creek ; also to construct a
track on piling to deep water in the harlxir of Olympia.
H is the intention to make Olympia a rival of Tacoma
and Seattle in the shipment of coal. The Capital City lias
magnificent resources at her command, mid with proper
energy mid enU-rprise can so develop them as to render
Olympia one of tho great commercial jiorta of Pugot
nouiiiu
The llelenn A Denton Hailroad Company was recently
organized nt H.-lena, with a capital stock of $1,51)0,000.
me ohj.H-t of tho company is to construct a line of rail-
ay from JMeim to lort ltentoii. Popular interest in
""ovemcnt is very great, mid such a road would lie ol
vast InuicIU to both ritiiw. Fort llonton lies at the h,.,u
in iiKvigaiioii on tlio Missouri, and is the center of the
cattle and sheep intrust of Northern Montana. Vast
s.reu-nes oi imncli grass rang. and large areas of am i
nullum! I I -III I... I l . ... . .. . . "
.,.., , ,n, urouuui WlUiin tlfl Hi nm...a r.t l.
road The great wat..r i.werof the Missouri River Falls
.. reimeriM awssililo Tor manufacturing purges.
Men , of wealth and energy are interested in the road, and
.... .....K.uKHN io pushed to n completion.
The activity which is now lieing displayed in coil
rru ik in. uregon pilic r,M,d from Yaquinn Hay to
I OrVSlllH IS PAHKIIlit rr..,. ..:. .1? .. J
th.,,,,1 t ii.ii v.iV.... .I ' I, ,D Ul,,t "
, , "'""".iic Hiuy generally. The
.--..ym o UM pnuirprisp that it is their ultimate
...U-n ,o U emtinue ,1 riMU, Uie
and Hlue Mountmns 1. R.ise City or some other Buib
'0ltwo
: "M-ir employ, nd are not Uk
um vr hhort Ln, , has Wen
generally supposed The work already accomplished by
the Government engineers on the bar at Yaquina Bay has
been of great benefit. The three channels Have been
reduced to one by the construction of a jetty ; and though
this is still incomplete the depth of. wuler on the bar
has been increased several feet "When the work is done
there will be a depth of twenty feet at low tide.
Construction on the Canadian Pacific will be pushed
vigorously the present seaBon, the managers of the road
laving succeeded in their efforts to provide the necessary .
mi 1 1 -1 1 1 1 T T
means. Hie woi'K aneau is uiub uuuiueu uy iames xioss,
manager of construction. There will be some fifty con-
tractors, employing about 10,000 men. No Chinamen.
will be employed, but the laborers will consist chiefly of
men from the Western States, Ontario and Quebec, the
naiority of them being men specially engaged "Work
will be commenced at the summit of the Rocky Moun
tains, at Kicking Horse Pass. The Canadian Pacific has
finished 975 miles west of Winnipeg, leaving 300 miles to
e built to meet the work of 200 miles on the west end
from Port Moody to Kamloops, now being constructed by
the Canadian Government. This 200 miles will be done
liefore the mountain division work is completed, which
latter will require, probably, till the summer of 1886.
The Government has given the contractors two years in
which to finish their 200 miles and the -latter are making
their plans accordingly. Last year 376 miles of iron rails
were laid on the main line and 24 miles of sidings, of
which 123 miles were in the mountains and foothills of
the Rockies. The Canadian Pacific Company has con
tracted for steel rails to come out from England. The
work on tho east end, north of Lake Superior, has been
going on all winter, principally in blastingrock, there being
7,000 men there now. On the western division work will
be continued in the spring without interruption until
finished and all through next winter, reserving rock blnst
ing for that season. The outlook is so encouraging that
by the summer of 1886 this great northern route will be
opened for business.
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS.
March.
I Tnkarraii.tnrM from Kgyptinn rebels by tho British.... Firo at Portland,
1'1'ru"' H'MW....lKlwia inaugurated Provisional Oovereor of
-Kir l I' lira, N. Y.: loan, $175,(100.
3-JmUr. Hiuin aminint.il (lovornor of Malio.
norniorn I'ttClllU. nmr Miuumln, 9 irilloil ...1.1 aAvnrul wnnmlefL
..Twenty men buried by a cave in a
4 -Accident on !
-Opening of the Herman Roi'chntw
milium Hln.fr in K,,n,,M m:
1 J""""" ,V'n,,',.'l by a cloud burnt at Florence, Aritona. . .
, Li,' ".im,Sl ,h5 " Central ltnilroad, oonneoUug the United
in H'""" "I'll the ityof Mexico.
kin,?! to u- A Ul- !' ,work of Emma mine destroyed and 12 people
1 1-Miin liii. ."' ( ",u- harM b mow lide; IS people killed.
li-Smfi, ",K', y f5?tT mtiM by "", BeBxt-
S S ?1"!"" l onronuon met at NaBhTille. . . .Cyclone in Alabama,
by tliTirencl'. 1,u,,",",,Uh0:io". Aiiam, captuml from the Chinwe
l3,!l ni.,,ti!",,,f!r?ff,,V Bri,i"h Dn'lnr OeneralOraham.... One hundred
r III Jul, ,i P.,... 1 II i . -t'"".""i M n woi uiiuo oi & vwi.".i
i : 1,111
i nit, neniue.
. - i i.i .uinean oimx, W. T., dentroyed by Ann, '.
-Krt' S,"!!! x (ir"e"l! 1rduB iftcd by the robela bofora Khartoum.
KZive'UiilJ; V'kl noar 8alem, O., by explonioD of
liT" n'm Ban Kraaci-co. . .. Fire in Monroe, Or.j loan,
-flnia aam'' (-'" Kntuck8.mth (Carolina and Georgia. .
l-SeT "rTii t'. UuiHiana by flood in Mieaiwippi RiW.
tT -i..l'-rr"d" ".d Miuri-liKptian rebel, deluoled by O0-
li!I?i".ni.tm "'r.Tinnwb Wella."
ttt-Mob "in rrircinMi tZ?? I"1 ot 0aw,n. Viotoria. at Cannes, Franoe.
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