The west shore., July 01, 1885, Page 225, Image 31

THE WEST SHORE.
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This will no doubt soon become one of the loading urines
of the Territory.
The leading real estate firm of Spokime Falls is that
of Strobach & Munter, who have listed much city prop
erty and desirable land in that portion of Washington
Territory. They make a specialty of attending to United
States Land Office business and dealing in Government
land scrip. They also attend to collections and tho pay
ment of taxes for non-residonts. They solicit corre
spondence from intending sottlors.
The former owners of the Nellie Grant lode, situated
on the east side of Red Mountain, near Helena, Montana,
recently organized a company with a capital stock of
$000,000, and decided to immediately procure machinery,
pumps, hoisting works, etc., and place the mine on a pay
ing basis. There are enough ledgos of woll known rich
ness near Helena to make her one of the largest mining
centres in the world if her capitalists will only dovolop
them.
It is expected that work will soon be commenced in
Taoomi on the Boys' School, for which Bishop Paddock
has been laboring for some time; also upon a Chamber
of Commerce, a large and handsome brick structure to be
erected by the commercial organization of the city. It is
a peculiarity of Tacoma not to become discouraged by
the hard times, but to trust in the future and propare for
the good times in store for them. When they come no
city on the Coast will be bettor prepared to profit by
tnem man win laooma.
A combined quartz and placer mining district1 has
been discovered in the Eagle Creek Mountains, Union
County, Oregon. The existence of gold in that region is
something long known, but no important discoveries have
previously been roportod. The present find is near tho
confluence of Snake and Powder rivers, thirty miles from
Baker City. The quartz is free milling ore, and good
reUrns have been received from rock pounded in s hand
mortar. The extant and richness of this district cannot
yet be stated with authority,
The Royal Route, from Omaha to St Paul and from
St. Paul to Chicago, is the favorite route of travel between
those points. From St. Paul to Chicago it consists of
the Chicago A Northwestern, a road so well known to the
traveling public as to require no recommendation. In
the elegance of it cars, the sraxthnoss of the roadbed,
the neifoction in every little detail that adds to the coin-
fort and nloasure of passongors, the Royal Route takos
the lead. T. W. Teasdale, the General Passenger Agent,
has his headquarters at St. 1'uuL
The largest and most successful mining company in
Beaverhead County, Montana, is the llecla Consolidated,
at Glendale. Hie company now runs uiree lurnaoes
me smelters wuu
given to
' product
of the furnaces is about eight tons of bullion, valued at
1200 per ton. The present manager, Mr. li Knippen
hurry lifkJI dnrina the Dast four years brought the com
pany out of bankruptcy and plaood it on a splendid pay
ing basis.
Now that the Casino has closed iu season of popular
at uiouuw" " ""i"-' v - -
day and night, and the mines supply the smelters
about l.r0 tons por day. Direct employment is giv
300 men, and indirectly to 200 more. The daily pr
opera, it is meet that the effort of iU manager to give
Portland a good eutertaiumeut at popular prices receive
nAr acknowledgment Mr. Gross has been unsparing
ill
he has earned the oomniondation of the puhtin. We (tor
to see the Casino opened again under his management '
tor anothor season.
Building operations in Helena are progressing rapidly
in spite of the hard times that altliot the country gen
erally. On the Kith of June the Masons laid the comer,
stone of a superb temple. A new structure known as the
" Union mock is wing erected on Main street A
eculiarity of this building is the fact that the contractors
or sxoavatiug for the foundation out a streak of " imv
dirt," from which they took seventy-one loads, which wore
run through sluices and cleaned up 1004 in gold dust
If all foundations could be depended upon to do this.
contracts could be let very low in Helena.
Immigrants who desire to purchase lands will do well
to call upon Messrs. Rood, Wilson A Co,, No. 14 Ash
stroot, when they arrive in Portland. These geiitleuien
lo a goneral real estate busmoss, and make a specialty of
farming lands for immigrants. Colonel Reed is the reg
ulnrly delegated agent of the Marion County Immigra
tion Society, and is endorsed by the business men of
Salem and the leading citizens of that portion of the
Willamotte Valley, lie is well informed, having resided
there for many years, and parties calling at the olllee are
assured of receiving courteous attention and reliable
information.
Among the coming mining centres of note Is Missoula.
Montana. The city is surrounded by quarts lodges of
undoubted value, whi ill only neod developing to bring
Missoula into great promiiionoo. Several of the most
lileral-miiided citizens, such as W. 1L II. Dickinson, an
enterprising merchant and postmaster, and T. J. Demara,
of Frenohtown, are doing all they can to develop the
mineral resources or that region. Hacked by a few
friends, they maintain number of pnsqioctora in tho
field, and report the outlook as very onoourauinif. Two
and one-half miles from the city the Jumbo Mining Com
pany (Messrs. IJickinson, JIalloway, Mpriiiger A Kpler,)
navo four locations. These oovor an cntirs hill H00 feet
high, so situated that a 8,000-foot tunnel would reach
from wator to water. They have a tunnel in 200 feet, anil
are taking out ore which assavt $15 in gold and $0 in
silver. Twenty miles east of Missoula, ami only two ami
one-half miles from the Northern Paolflo by a gtxxl
wagon road, is the Wallace District rlcntyoi wood and
water is at hand. The surface cropping have been traced
for seven miles, and sixty quart locations have been
made. Ihe most prominent properties are the Kenne
bec, with a 00-foot tunnel ami a 75-foot shaft; Aladdin,
with a 50-foot tunnel and ore assaying pV) in gold and W
in silver; West Point, with ore assaying Si; Hidilen
Treasure, with a 25-foot tunnel and a 35-foot shaft and
ore assaying 112.35, tlie vein filling the full face of the
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snail ami extending an unknown wmiu ueyonu; ni ijw
renoe, with a DO-foot shaft, and ore choice pieces of which
assay 11,1)00 in gold, silver and copper. Ou Quarts
Creek, forty-eight miles from Missoula and thirty from
Frenohtown, lies the "J. B." lode, owned by J. U. Pier,
son and T. J. Demara. This lode is being thoroughly
develoed, aud already has a DO-foot shaft and tunuel
in 250 feet Assays range from 170 to 11,200, and the
rock is free milling gold ore. A 10 stamp mill has been
contrasted for.
Of the mineral and timber resources of that portion
of British Columbia lying along the line of the Canadian
Pacific, a correspondent of the Montreal lltrnll says: I
spent the whole of last summer exploring for minerals
and timber on the property of the Dominion Government
f i :. ..... in m.itiUin a liiili standard of excellence.
and has the satisfaction of knowing that in this respect
r . . i.i.i-If l... nkL,l V. -.1
and while he has not gained a large pecuniary reward, in tha forty-mile belt in the Rocky ami Holkirk nvmn-