THE WEST SHORE.
Vol. 10.
Portland, Oregon, June, 1884.
No. 6.
ESTABLISHED 1873.
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TABLK OF CONTENTS.
Page
Alaskan Explorations 1M)
iiigKush Bottom
('line and Purnsol Rack 1H1
Chronology of Kvents 1IM
Clarke's Fork Mines 170
Country and City Life.., lttl
Cumrd'Alene Mines 1H
Kducation in Pioneer Dnys 1HI
Kditorial IMS
Fabulous Btmite of Anian 175
Government ljund in Kittitas Co. .. 1HU
Kittitas County, W. T 1W2
Large Wages and Kasy Work IHD
Note of the Northwest HIS
Our Industries and Resources, No, 4 177
Papuan Young Ladies 1HS
Pictures Itl
Pure Water for Stock 11
Bain Multiple's Scheme IKS
Seattle lilt
Sliaiie of Heads IN)
Temple of Riuilbec 110
Too Much Land "Claimed" 170
Too Much of a Hood Thing IW
Vacant Land in Lake Cuunty IKtt
Waste of Food 17H
Water from Eucalyptus Roots lttl
Advices from Mr. Newton H. Chittenden, received
on the 2d of June, are to the effect that he had just
returned to Skidgate from a canoe voyage of thirty days.
The second of his letters on Queen Charlotte Islands will
appear in the July number of The West Shore, embrac
ing his observations during that period.
"Why are there more fires in "hard times" than in
seasons of general prosperity ? This is a question which
the insurance companies and business men wIiobo prop
erty is endangered by these fires of obscure origin would
be glad to have satisfactorily answered A proper solu
tion of the mystery would be of great assistance in devis
ing an adequate remedy.
Several measures of great importance to the West,
and, in fact, the whole material interests of the country,
have been compelled to take a back Beat while the repre
sentatives of the two great parties in Congress have
devoted their salaried time for six months to "holding
each other level." Questions vital to the nation's pros
perity are made to play second fiddle to political jobbery.
We are a progressive people; but if such a policy is con
tinued our progression will resemble that of the modest
crawfish.
The Oregon & California Railroad aptwars to have at
last recognized the value of Southern Oregon as a fruit
producing region and the magnitude to which that indus
try can be developed under proper conditions. The most
important of these conditions is a low freight tariff, so
adjusted as to offer equal, or nearly so, facilities for
reaching the Portland market, and thus the markets of
the whole Northwest, to the fruit growers of quite an
extended region of country, irrespective of their relative
distance from this city. The available fruit region lies
contiguous to the road a distance of 150 miles along it
line, and the best interests of the fruit industry, and con
sequently of the company itself, require that tho pro
ducer at tho extreme southern end of that district bo
enabled to reach tho market with his product at a cost
but Blightly greater, if at all, than his competitor 150
miles further north. In this way only cm) that great
industry be developed to tho enormous proportions it can
bo made to assume. Much has Wen said alout com
polling railroads to base their tariff entirely upon dis- .
tance, every extra mile traveled to cost so many extra
cents per ton; but to insist ujmhi this is to fly to an
extreme as productive of as many evils as flow from tho
present system of discrimination between terminal and
intermediate jHtints. To properly foster this growing
industry, the fruit raisers of Rogue River Valley should
be placed as nearly as possible on nu equality with those
of the Umpqua, so far as reaching market is concerned.
The company has announced a uniform rate of thirty
cents per hundred pounds from all points between Rose
burg and Ashland, by the car load, and Itoxos in the
knock down, from Portland to all stations south of liar
risburg, for twenty cents. This is certainly a move in
the right direction, but it stops short of completeness.
The rate should be made to apply to lots less than n car
loud. In the condition in which the trade now exists, it
is seldom that h producer or shipper has a full car load to
send at one time, especially of the moro valuable and
perishable varieties, and he is thus debarred from the
advantages offered by tho company. Tho tariff seema to
be predicated upon a thriving and extensive business
instead upon a budding industry seeking for an oppor
tunity to expand Special rates should bo made for car
loads when such shipments become tho general rule and
not the exception. Until then the small shipments should
receive the benefit of tho low freights now conceded only
to the large ones. Tho express companies have made a
rate on apples, pars, cherries, pnauhes, grapes and ber
ries of $1 per hundred between Oakland and Riddle
$1.25 between Glondale and Orant's Pass, and $1.50
south of that point This is a great reduction on former
express rates, ami enables such fruit as requires a quick
market to be shipped on favorable terms. The stops
taken by tho railroad and express compnuies are exerting
a good influence ujxm tho fruit industry of that portion
of the State.
All persons receiving this number of The Wrst '
Shore are invitod to become regular sulmeribom to the
magazine. It is the only illustrated publication on the
Pacific Coast nnd the only one in the world making a
specialty of giving original illustrations of tho grand
scenery of this region and reliable information of its
industries and resources. See the published terivs at the
howl of this page.