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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1885)
THE WEST SHORE. 319 in her refusal to go aboard a sinking ship? "BoihuI" he snid, " I'll try her again." 1 b Ul' Snlly nlonc, that nothing was to be allowed to balk' him and his reasoning was purely formal. 1i1UHSm5W i'V'i"t? hT ""Propitious, he waited ou till a bright day late m May-a day when all animate Nature was fancying , its truing, foolish way, that it was going to bask out of doors forevermore. As ho rode through Holloway Lane it was scarce recognizable as the track of his two winter journeys. N mlko could Ik . made now, even with his eyes shut. Though aftorn.Hm, and about the same time as on the hwt occasion, it was broad davand sunshine when ho entered Hintock Abbas, and the details of the Knap dairy-house wero visible far up the road. He saw Sally in the garden, and was set vibrating. He had first intended to go on to the inn; but "No, he said, ',' 1 11 tie my horso to the garden gate. If all goes well it can soon bo takoii round; if not, I mount and ride away." The tall shade of the horseman darkened the room in which MrB. Hall sat, and made her start, for he had rid den by a side path to the top of the slopo, where riders seldom came. In a few seconds he was in the garden with Sally. Five, ay, three, minutes did the business at tlie back of that row of bees. Though spring had coino, and heavenly blue consecrated the scene. Durum succeeded not "No," said Sally firmly. "1 will never, never marry you, Mr. Darton. 1 would have once; but now I never can." " But " implored Mr. Darton. And witli a burst of real eloquence he wont on to declare all sorts of things that lie would do for her. He would drivo her to see her mother every week; take her to Loudon: settle so much money upon her; heaven knows what he did not promise, suggest and tempt her with, lint it availed nothing. She iutorposed with a stout negative, which closed the coarse oi His argument like an iron gate across a high way. Darlon pnused. "Then," said he simply, "you hadn't heard of my supposed failure when vou declined last time?" "I had not," she said. "Hut if I had 'twould have been all the same." "And 'tis not because of any Boroucss from my slight ing you years agor " No. That soreness is long pout." "Ah. then vou despise me. Sullvl" "No," she slowly answorod, "1 don't altogether de soise vou. I don't think vou unite such a hero as 1 once dirt that's all. The truth is. I am happy enough as I am, and I don't mean to marry at all. Sow may ask a favor, sir?" She snoke with an inclTuhla charm which, whenever he thought of it, made him curse his loss of her as long as he lived "To any extent." "1'lenna do not nut this Question to mo any more. Friends as long as you like, but lovers and married never." "I never will." said Darton. "Not if I live a hun dred years." Aud he never did That he had worn out his wel (vmiA in Imr linart urns nnlv too plain. When his stepchildren had grown up, ami were placed out in life, all communication between Darton anil It was only bv chance that, years after, he learnt that Sally, notwithstanding the solicitations her attractions urew uown w , refused several offers of marriage, aud steadily adhered to her purpose of leading a single life. NOTES OF THE NORTHWEST. Derm f,e vrnr r-ndiiu Auu.-L SI il...-. - .. 75.1v i' !rom I'WinRjfcm, Montana, 3ft! cars, containing ),i!IK).7(H) pounds of fro 0I1L Tim !..-,... il " 2,000,000 pound of lumlH.r, followed by cattle, horses, sheep, lime, wool, hay and coal. While tniucra at llotmton. M ing or the ntiL'a copper vein, nt n iliulmuui io r.u.t below the surface, they out a blind ledge of great width, assaying $204 )(er ton in free gold. Tim tunnel in which this vein was cut had Imhui run Hill) feet Active operatioim have been commenced I II mmlillitf the ooal mines on Trail Creek. Montiom l.V.im nwi W tons per day are being taken out and shipiied to Helena and other poinU atomi the railroad. M. iiitiiiiuV coal will in tho future lie one of her most valuable re sources. A quarter interest in the Kim Orlu. a hlidi i-n,l. silver mine of llutto, has been s dd for I0,(XM. A few montlis ago tins was considered a comparatively value, less proseet, but a streak of rich ore was struck which, upon development, proved to 1st iicrmanoiit The mine is opened by a sixty ami a ninety foot shaft Kx-Oovernor Woods, Hon. John H. Mitchell and others hnvo incorporated the Wiishougal Hallway and Improvement Company, with a capital stock of MOO.OOO. Their declared object is to construct a narrow gauge Mail in Clarke County, W. T., running from tho Columbia Itiver, at the inotitli or the Wasliougal, to the Cascade MoiintaiiiH, near Mount Adams, a distance of tlfty miles. Htich a road would tap a magnificent timber Mt Several turn of oro from the Wakoosta aud Alameda lodges, Madison County, Montana, were recently shimied to Omaha for reduction. The various lots yielded from '211 ounces silver and 1.3 ounces gold (sir ton to 1170 silver and 'MM gold. The lowest grade was sent simply as a test to show whether it would pay to ship low grade ores. Tho result shows that there is a vast amount of ore that can be sent from those mines to Omaha with good returns. Au oil wjII, 1 10 feet deep, has been sunk inar tho lino of the Oregon Short Line, one and one-half miles from Fossil Station, Wyoming. The well has been sunk through "Iaramiu' sandstone. Attention was called to the oil by numerous oily springs in tho vicinity. The substance is a fine lubricating oil of a dark roil-brown color, of medium hmhmI1o gravity, and need no prnlimU nary treatment for use ou the railroad as a lubricant The discovery is of great iniKirUnce to tho Union l'auilla Two other wells are luting put down. Many fine samples of ore are Isiing brought in from tho Cle-elum district in Washington Territory. Tho (lalena, President and Mack Honey Coml locations aro eveoMNl to a depth of from llfUmn to sixty fimt, and show clearly dell in! lodge carrying gold, silver and lead, assaying as nigh as IHKj in gold and silver to the ton. Owners oi Llu ttiuiu ledges aro auxiously waiting inch of too Northern rauilm to lint them in easy railnsid ooin mil location with Portland ami for the Cascades Dram tho ouUide world gunsrally. They will then Im prepared to furnish a steady supply of ore to any ruduction com aiiy that may be organized in this city. The party under Lieutenant O'Neal, which started out somo weeks ago to explore tho Olympic lUugn, was recalled before completing tin trip acrtwa tho moun tain. The Lieuteuant confirms the previous rniiorU of an extousiva and fertile rolling country back of tho foot.