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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1884)
342 THE WEST SHORE. THE MECHANICS' PAIR. The sixth annual exhibition of the Portland Mechan ics' Fair, tho most pnoooffnl in its history, has come to a close. Among the many thoughts to which it has given rise, two stand out prominently. Tho first is that the Imncfit of these expositions to the exhibitors, the city and tlxe State generally, is not adequately appreciated. If it ware, our many industries would be more fully repre sented. It could not then be said that we have a salmon canning industry, producing more than 3,000,000 per annum, and giving employment to 5,000 peoplo, which did not even display a label to tell of its existence; that our lumlioring interests remained carefully in the back ground; tli nt dozens of important industries again courted the obscurity they seem always to have sought People who are thus unprogrossive must expect to be brushed aside by more vigorous and intelligent competitors. The second thought was suggested by the few excellent manu facturing exhibits; that in those avenues of industry ixni which our people have entered with sufficient capi tal, and upon a scale extensive enough, to have their establishments thoroughly appointed and systematically organized, tho work done and gxxls manufactured nre the equal of the Iwst imported from the East It was in former (lays pretty generally true that when anything strictly first class was desired it had to be brought from abroad; but such is no loncer the case. We lnivn Iip tho best of workmon, the best of tools and the best of materials, and there is no reason why we should not execute tho lest of work. A sufficient illustration of this is tho JSorth Pacific Manufacturing Company, in. whose extensive shops were made the hose cart on evltiliitimi in the Machinery Hall, and the elegant cigar box wagon displayed by Wilzinski Bros. & Co. The stoves, woolen g.Kxls, artificial stone, paint, trunks, furniture, touts, and a dozen other manufactured articles, including iron work, all HiKak of tho infection of such manufactures as have Ikmmi eskblishwl here and are not afraid to submit their wares w uie scrutiny or the public. In this number we present enuravinim nf of the Main Hall and Machinery Hall, and portraita of uiu uuiciRw wno nave so successfully magged tho exhi bition. Theso gentlemen art deservim of ...!. or their unremitting labors, esjiccially Mr. Allen to wliuA infill !itit jtlT. 1 i ....wmsvu,,,,,, mU uuvouon Uie great success of tho extHwition is largely duo. These engravings nre executed in a manner similar U that which was on exhibition at the branch office of THE kht; Shore, and which attracted so much atten tion from visitors. The office was constantly surrounded by ixvplo engaged iu mailing copies of the magazine to their friends, fully ten thousand droned to all portion,, of tho United State, and Canada and many U foreign countries. JJot only did U,e pub lisher supply these copie. free of charge, but he paid the postage on them also. The placing of them free of ex lM.m. iu ..nu,m ui so many thousands of readers . uut w uiuijr inufut'iiu 10 una great region. It is currently rumored that a schem ia , syndicate of Denver cattle men to induce the Tnr Commissioner to execute to them a lease of tlm rw Kwwrotion tor a long torm ul years, the intention Win to lock up this valuable country as a grazing ground f a favored few. The idea is to obtain the consent of til Crows, a matter of no great difficulty on the part of men who are prepared to spend thousands of dollars for th" sake of securing privileges worth as many milliona This thing must not be. We sound this note of alarm to draw tliO n-fniitirii. rf rn i! (-1 nnifi Al. .' J 1 . ijiu uTOiniuu ui uui nu uuiB uuuieiupiateu outrage, and to urce immediate sterra heinrr t.nlr ATI fl niMiak U No means should be spared and no steps left untaken, to coiiuttu-tusiuiH movement, ano, innuence tnose who possess authority in the matter to throw their weight into the scale of opposition to such a wholesale bp.1i The Committee on Indian Affairs by conniving at such s measure wouiu nna inemseives oojects of. execration, and we verv much doubt if our ritizona umnld fnmnl,, un,: to such a wholesale robbery of the public domain, even il it oore uie sanction or tne law. Hillings rost. MR. W. HaT.PF.NNV. t.VlA OnvArnmAnr. irnirla rairnA from Salmon river at the nmthnro. And nf tho TslmJ - v. ww MUWU yesterday. He ascended the river in company with U.n 1trn 1 T I l 1 il . 1 ju.unnia. uiuiguu uuu j. uu iur hhvuiui miies in a canoe tm reports that the vallev of the stream is the most fiitaiwivn on the island Three miles from the mouth of the river the valley is four miles in width with mountains on either side. Eight miles further up a rocky canyon one mile in l u. u-.i it i ii Ti . i icngui ib iBiiuiiHu. ueyonu mis canyon ine river iorns Ami fllA VhIIav Wlllana clfTnln ViAirvvm Aa anrnmmr and la nlt very heavily timbered. The soil is good and deep. The J. ! . 1 . l l n ii i i l uuiuei, spruce anu nr. oome paicnes or goou timocr were seen, but they had been lately taken up. Mr. Hal penny thinks that Salmon river offers a frond field for settlors. Victoria Colonist. CHEONOLOQY OP EVENTS. 8entember. ont?: n..i w m i no nv iityuin, n. i. torn, fi.aiu. 7-lltliJrum, Idiiho, nearly deotroyed by fire; loss, $85,a....Clond-bont it ii.. -i i. .. . AA . . & ui uuuiin. nioxioo ; au lives Jottu 30-Buwmer Etttulo dt Sonora and sohooner Dora lost In a violent gl off th wMaiui uuwer l amurnia. October. J-Culliiiion on Denver & Kio Grande ruUroad at Aceouia, Colorado; M pwpU injured. 8 lloyal pnlnce at Copenhagen burned. ' 7-Kire at Wallula, W. T.; loan, $12,0(10.... Storm off Cape San Luoaa; tlioo- ... v Ki.ii umir irvw anu mnon oamage uone on we oum California. B-SixUi exhibition of the Portland Mwhanioa' Fair inaugurated. I -Chinese d.ifeated the French under Admiral Loux at Tamnui. 1 -Fronch under General Nenrior defeated Chinexe. 1-Nbi received of great tyihoon in Japan September 1J-17; nr l"" life and deatruotion of proerty....Greenrioh adopted a tin V meridian by the International Meridian Conference at Wanhiwttoa. U-Ohio State elecUon carried by Republican by ll.an majority; W4 Tif- iuia carried by Democrat by 4,(U) majority.... Fire at StockUia, OA: loas, IK1.1MV 17-Trainot Cincinnati & Ewtern railrord fell through bridge near Btlur. 0.; i killed and J badly injured... .BarneaviUe, Ga., nearly destroyed by I l-eu. Benjamin Alvord died at Wellington.... Bennett-Mackay AlUw cable landed at American aide..7 building burned at Renloa, W.14 lows f jt,nu !""llr,,",w1 N- Y- nefly Jeetroyed by fire. "-The Dutch Umhip JU.iudum burned in the Atlantic, 3 paxwn " crew uppowtl to be loaU a-SO-tVlshmti,,,, of ,(Wh birUlJay of Hif Mmm Mont4,fiore, the greet End" Hebrew philaiitliropiat. 7-Bevere .U)rm in North AOanUo ; several vessel wrecked. iaii?J U&on and Cardiff steamer at Penianoe and the German oruier N" on the Danish eo-f. S-llugh McCulluch appumtod Secretary of the Treasury. ' . 1"uininl men feU down shaft of a mine at IwodonuVry. S- killed.