THE WEST SHORE.
Tacoma, W. T.
October, 1888.
Portland, Or.
VOL. XI.
NO, 10.
ESTABLISHED 1878.
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An llliulrnlnt Journal of (Irnernl Information, ttttnlrd to tk Amtummntt at
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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-