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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1885)
THE WEST SHORE. Tacoma, W. T. October, 1888. Portland, Or. VOL. XI. NO, 10. ESTABLISHED 1878. TIIK WEST SlIOKK. An llliulrnlnt Journal of (Irnernl Information, ttttnlrd to tk Amtummntt at Ikt Unut W-l. w I uhlUhad NlnmlUawuiialy from Tatoma, W. T Md Parttuil, Of. jii.tiiuuo prim, iir uinun Mm I r.in.iiiii nwnlriM, iuolwilii uaUaa w Himiliimiiiim .....,","! Si HulNwrnitiuii riirwimM h nwiiti'trn'l ialYo'r ur iui vrXrai Vinr rl.k. w. nwiw win nxmre Miuwriiiuuiu ml miun Mm, U SAMUEL, Publlnhor, fOSTLABO, 122 Front Bt. 808-010 Paoiflo At., TAOOkU. TABLt or WSTKSTH, Agricultural Unila f Hmilhurn Idaho. ., Anwrn i.li VnK Hnak lllM (lllu.lml.-l, ) ' lloMt'llyniii Valli? (lllu.lr.lmt, w M So . ( hruiHiliiitji of KwiU I'illon Mia lilrailala, Montana lllualntwl, lll'llH)'' .",,'!!!! hdiluriaj i;iirinira ! tli Knp !'.!!!! !!!!'!!"! Nutaa of Ilia Nurttiwa.1 , Tlia I'inal'rmk Minaa. , '(WihijI Hitw Minaa (IlluatniUd, ) .'.'.'.'!;;'! Old Mid N Japan, Nu.. ' "' .. 'i .. una .. 'A .. til ... .. ill .. IIU Two million burets of corn! Such in the crop of tue Uuitea States the present season, the grant bulk of it being rained in the MiBHiriainni Valley. Corn.f.wl iw.rl will be plentiful this winter, and tlio glucose factories win ruu lull blunt lor a yenr, at least. Elhewiierb in thiu number will be found illustrations and description of the Wood River oouutry. Tho major ity of our merchant u doubt but fuintly realize the character of that region and tho advantages to be derived by Portland in securing iU trade. If our business mon travolod more among these outlying sections they would hnve their ideas considerably broadened The pnoplo of Wood River are anxioua to trade with Portlaud, but they naturally desire the benefit to 1m mutuaL Let Portland place herself in a jxwitioii to promote tho mining indus try of Wood River aud there will be no difficulty in securing aud holding it rapidly iucreaHing trade. Auoi'T the middlo of October tho Inst spiko will be drivon uniting tho eastern and western ends of tlie Cauadiau Pacific Railway, and another iron baud will aan the continent. In aeveral reri)ecU the ojiening of thin now transcontinental road will Lave a great effect upon the trade both of the UniUxl HUtes and Canada. Rut little in known by the people of either oountry about the road itself and the region through which it passe. The next (November) uumher of The Wkht Biioiii will lie devoted to illustrations and descriptions of the road and the oouutry it is opening up to oorainerco, a region of grand aonuery and boundless agricultural, Nutoral, min eral and aylvan resource. Th h'urlhur$lcrn Mill aarcaatioally retnarka Uiat at the MiunoaoU Stale Fair many thousand dollars were offered aa premiuma for hunt race horse from all over the Union being allowed to oompete ; while to encourage the growing of wheat, the production and manufacture of which are the groaUwt ehmicuta in thoHtnto'a proaierity, tho munificent premium of Ueo dolhri waa offered. IW aibly the manager of our fairs will see in thin something to think about, la it not possible to make the old, time, honored schedule of premiuma a little mora flexible, so that it will better serve to encourage the jwtrtioular iiiduHtrica to whiuh this region ia adaptod, aud Uxm the growth of which so much of our future proority de pomla? Commkntino on tliu aiiiiounoemeiit of a graat nxluc tion in freight raUa on lumber from Portland to points in the interior, the XavthwrUrn Lumlwrmim aaya: "As Idaho and Montana are opened up by tho further con. struction of railroads, they should constitute a vaat market for Pacific Coaat fir and oedar. The railroad inaimgera that ignore the tralllo that such lumber trule would afford, failing to make rates to ahlppera that will auooeaitfully compete with Eastern, rate on lumber, will be unfit for their poaitioua." There are other products of this region beaidea lumW that tho railroads should seek to find a market for over their lines. It the man is a public benefactor who "makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before," what cannot bo said of rail road manager who, by proer ailjuatuieut of rates to local conditions, so stimulate business, production aud manu facture that his road transports two pounds of freight for every one it carried Ixifure? A HTtr in the right direction has been taken by the Vancouver Hoard of Trade lu starting a movement for the calling of a convention to oouaider the queatlou of im- provemeut of the Columbia aud Willamette rivers. The recent convention held by buaiuess men of the Missis- slppl Valley suggests! tho idea, and it should I carried out lieyond question more can be aoooiuiiliahod bv uniUxl action, aud by demonstrating how vital the ques tion seems in the eyes of our own people, than by leaving it entirely in the hnnda of our representative at Wash ington, aa haa been the cuatoin in the past The political Influence of this region, measured by its vote in Con gress, ia small almost to infinity, aud it would be a grand stroke of policy if a combination could lie formed with the people of the Mississippi Valley, so that the great "Father of Waters" aud the mighty "River of the West" could make united demand upon the (loverniueut for the aid they both sadly need ami richly deserve. Till best authorities of both Europe and America on the state of the grain market predict material advance in the price of wheat before the 1st of January, with a still greater advanoe later in the season. ChloagH Min-