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THE WEST SHORE.
Coast This is the manufacture of artificial eton& Port-1
land cement and an extra fine quality of Band procured
iom distanca np the Randy are the inprwUmita. The
product in atrong and durable, and may Be readily fash
ioned in any dnHirable shape for ornamental purposes.
It has supplied stone facings for several buildings, and
the handsome Masonic temple now being erected in that
city is using facings, oornioos, etc, of this material. Such
industries are of double value to the community giving
employment to labor and lessening the cost of construc
tion of our large buildings.
The latent addition to frontier railroad towns is Far
well, U. 0. It lies on the Columbia River at the point
where that stream is to be crossed by the Canadian
Pacific. It already has a permanent population of some
three hundred, uhiefly from the East, among whom are
many ladies of refinement. As is usually the case, the
rowdy element is quite prominent, but the friends of law
and order are sufiluieutly strong to keep it under control.
Improvement in this respect will be rapid as the town
becomes older. The steamer Kootenai makes semi
weekly tris from Farwell to Little Dalles, W. T., taking
in all the supplies used by the town and the railroad,
amounting to 400 tons per week. A substantial bridge is
being constructed across the Columbia at that point
To the south of Prosser Falls, Yakima County, W. T.,
lies a broad, rolling, bunch grass region locally known as
M Horse Heaven." It has been for years a noted stock
region, but has had the reputation of being "too dry" for
an agricultural country. Hinoe it has been discovered
that the greater portion of Columbia River lands which
have been similarly classed are good wheat lands, many
claims have boen taken in Horse Heaven. The present
season has been such as to furnish a tclinble test, since
the long dry spell which threatened ruin to crojw in older
grain district did not seem to affect the growing wheat
in that region as injuriously as elsewhere. Both Govern
ment and railroad lands may be had in Horse Heaven,
and immigrant looking for open prairie wheat land' will
find it thore.
The solid citixens of Seattle have organized a com
pany known as the "Seattlo, Lake Shore I Eastern Rail
way Company" with a capital stock of 150,000.000, for
the purpose of building a railroad and telegraph line
from that city to Eastern Washington. The initial point
is Smith's Cove, just north of the city proper, where work
has already linen oomraenoed, from which the road will
be built to Union Ray, on Lake Washington, and thence
to Squak Valley, which point, it is believed, will be
reached within a year. A country rioh in timber, ooal
iron and agricultural resources will be tapped by that
portion of the line, from which a profitable traflio may at
onoe be obtained. From Squak Valley the proposed
route is through the Snoqualmie Pass; thence to the
most feasible crossing of the Columbia; thence hy one
hue to alia W alia and by another to Spokane Falls.
As an example of enterprise may be moutiouod the
feat recently awx.mplished bv H.ierinteiidont Havens, of
the Idahoan Mine, and Mr. Williams, of the Haley Iron
W orka. Immediately Uwn assuming charge of the mine
Mr. Havens ordered complete pumping and hoisting
machinery from Mr. Milium. The latter ordered the
boiler and pumping rig from Denver and the column nd
pump from Chicago by telegraph, to eome by fast freight
1 hey were shipped the same day. Nine days later thev
had arrived, been sot np at the mine, and the tooting of
the atonm whistle announoed their readiness for business.
A large fore lias Iwen put to work, and it is expected
Uut wUuu sixty days Ui mou will U omploywd i u,e
Idahoan. It is onlv about a year since the Wood River
country received facilities whioh enable the miners to
import machinery at railroad speed. It emntrnflto favor
ably with the slow, tedious, vexatious and expensive
teaming of former days.
Several new machines will be tested thia summer on
the beach sands at Yaquina Bay and other points where
it is well known that fine gold dust abounds in the heavy
sand. A number of machines for separating the gold
and sand have been invented, but none have yet proved
a perfect success. When such a machine is constructed,
the "golden san-'sof the Pacific" will be something more
than a name. At Coos Bay a simple machine, whose
cost of construction is only $25, is reported to be taking
$23 per ton from sand that by former methods yielded
only $1.50 per ton. Its essential features are a copper
cylinder containing quicksilver and chemicals. The sand
is passed through this, the chemicals serving to remove
rust from the gold and render it susceptible to amalga
mation with the quicksilver. The maohine is not pat
ented, but the owners will not disclose the nature of the
cleaning compound used.
There are now many prospeotors in the hills and
. w vy v.i lv a Ud T O
ood prospects and are now taking out good ores. These
ull times would send hundreds more to the foothills if
iney coma sen the quartz taken out to defray expenses.
minora OOula anil tllA minrfz ihav fnlra nnf AU
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perity of Helena than any flush times we have ever seen.
There is not a particle of doubt that suoh works as would
- v-u....u iiimui n au jjuou ores wouia cause a
vast amount of prospecting for new discoveries, and the
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and develoDinir of hnndrmla nnw iin ui
to be very valuable. And besides, many thousand tons
of good quartz now lying on the dumps all through our
mountains would be worked, and would furnish the means
to pay for further developments. Independent.
This is the way the Husbandman states a well known
fact, and if Oregon, Washington and Idaho had been
inclm od with Montana, the statement would have oon
tamed na mnnh (rath ! - i i .. m.
t. c7 7 . a wmer neia: ine
lexns 4Wwj wishes to know what makes a yearling
steer worth $10 more in Montana than in Texas. The
explanation la VBrv aimnla Tl. l: ; il .
Ti- . .: "D jomiug is worm mora
I here is something about Montana climate, Montana feed
ana Mnntjint vntaw tk.t l n . . .
kl tl . ne yearlings look so
beautiful in the avm nf ti.. ' ll-l . 7
-j w. u owiukiuvu iuat vney iairiv
vearn to possess the beauties. Even the gaunt, hungry-
K 40 tiP of horns,
HPl? M Mntented leck never seen in the Lone Star
m3 raOTl IftVorat18 oonditiona. And besides,
to T are u80,004 thRt thft0W have
t ,?'P np to see which shall look on while the others
the Cal&p0 B; C-therthest Pint west where
he Unadisn Pacifio tonchea Fraser River, promisee to
SnrcoSr y?Prtntt'-. " i theVKrand
KuZsnJtT ?rrive by train trom both
TA-n4??? times weekly from Victoria
increTIYt&JE110 " bui,dinK ""itions to
erZ?nT'0ra,,UO,i?Uo,n9 40 meet the demand of
summer tL?1 -Muqh, work do this
summer on the town site and the streets will be mnob.
improved in condition. The huge" ate? tenl and the
yumping worU by which it will L fillod tZ 'the ritS