THE WEST SHORE.
Tacoma, W. T.
August, 1883.
Portland, Or.
ESTABLISHED 1875.
VOL. xr. HO. a.
THE WEST SHORE,
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TWICE PRESIDENT of tht UNITED STATES.
Born at Point Pleasant, Ohio,
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Died at Mount McGregor, N. Y.,
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In Lift t Nation'! Praiarvar, In Otath t National Inharitinc.
ORATfrriNO u it ii to know that The Weht Siiori
has the good will of the press of the Northwest in gen
eral, and pleasant as it is to aee flattering notions of oar
publication in their columns, we most decline to hold
ourselves in any way responsible for any statements they
may see fit to make about us and our future movements.
Whenever The Weht Shore deoides to do anything of
Interest to its patrons or the public, due announcement
will be made in its own columns, and until this has been
done all may rest assured that no important changes of
any kind will be made. This, of course, does not apply
to that steady improvement in all the departments of the
magazine which is being made from month to mouth, and
which requires no announcement but its own presence.
Within the next sixty days the great Canadian Pacific
Railway will be completed, and another iron band will
link the Atlantic to the Pacific. In several reports it
will have a greater effect upon the conditions of trade
and travel than any f iU predecessors exoept the orig.
inal transcontinental line. Probably not until the 1st of
January will it be in complete operation for freight and
passenger traffic. The scenery along the route is grand,
and the reaooroea of the country through which it puses
are varied and valuable, and to the general public little
known. It will be the pleasant duty of The Weht Shore,
with both pen and brush, to make the public bettor no.
quaintcd with them, and for this purpose our artiata and
correspondents are now at work along the lino.
There is a lesson for Portland to be gleaned from a
study of the illustrations and descriptions of Butte glvou
in this issue. Of all the cities of the West, Dutte has
been the least aufferor from " hard times," and the reason
is a simple one. . Her population contains a large pro
portion of wage earners, all of them having steady em
ployment, earning good wages, and receiving their pay
regularly. Such a city keeps hard timea at a distance.
It is in our power to place ouraolvea, to a degree at least,
in the same situation, and one of the means of acooiu.
plishing such a result is the establishment of the reduc
tion works so of ton spokon of. We ueod, as a city, more
people living by their own lalxir, and fewer aubsUting on
the labor of others.
Frequently we hear of the discovery of mica tlojxwits
in quautity, aoonmpaiiled by the assertion that they con
tain enough to supply the world; but as time passes it
transpires that the deposits are not commercially valu
able, chiofly because sheets of sufficient sine cannot be
split from thorn. Deposits of this character are quite
numerous on the Coast, also gypsum, which is frequently
mistaken for mica. There are, however, several valuable
deposits which are being worked One of these is in
Idaho, not far from Lewiaton, and another in the vicinity
of Spokane Falls. A fine quality of mica is being ml nod
in British Columbia, 4.T0 miles northeast of Victoria, by
F. A. Foster. This splits into large and beautiful trans
parent sheets. This mineral ia improperly called isin
glass, and with many of Its nses the general publio is
familiar.
Uarveht is now progressing under the most favorable
conditions everywhere, and reports of a magnifloent crop
are coming in from all directions. Estimates of the total
yield of Oregon and Washington vary w duly, ranging
from 15,000,000 to 80,000,000 bushels, owing to the diffi
culty of determining the total acreage or the pro1able
average yield Even at the lowest estimate, with a fair
price, such as may be reasonably looked for before the
1st of January, we may auticlMite far letter times finan
cially before many months. Orave doubts are expressed
of the ability of the O. It. A N. Co. to handle Uie wheat
crop of the interior, especially in the Snake Hirer region,
and the extension of the Pslouae branch to Moscow, and
the Riparia branch into the Pataha country, Is urged as
at least a partial removal of the difficulty. Work on the
Moscow extension ia now in progress, but the other
project remains in abeyance. The whole Inland Empire