THE WEST SHORE.
Tacoma, W. T.
November, 1888.
Portland, Or.
ESTABLISHED 1878.
VOL, XI . NO. 11.
THE WEST SHORE.
An llluMralit Journal of Qtntral Information, inotrd to Nw dmlopmtnt of
Ik4 Unnl WtM.
Pxbll.had SImaltaiMoualjr tram Tuon, W. T, ud Portland, Or.
Riihaorintion prina, par annum Hn
To fiiroura miuntriaa, Including pnalaa ,.,. a gk
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L. SAMUEL.. Publinher.
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Owing to the dolay in ooin)luting tlio Canadian 1'aoifio
Railway, the publicntion of the numbor of Till Weht
Siioiie describing and illuHtrnting it ban boon postponed
accordingly. The lout spike will be driven early in
November, iind tho number will be issued about the 15th
of the month. The January issue will bo a large holiday
numbor, and will be published about the middle of De
cember. It will bo principally dovotod to Portland
Tub extension of the Casoadoa Uranoh of the North
ern Pacific from North Yakima aa far aa Ellonsburg is
more than probable It is estimated that noarly 100,000
bushels of wheat were raised this season in tlio Kittitas
Valley, and tho capabilities of that region are suflloiont
to induce the construction of tho road to Ellmmburg
without referonoe to its further extension to Pugnt
Sound. The Northern Pacific aoomi to hare entered
upon the shipmout of wheat to the East in earnest, and
in pursuance of this policy will naturally construct such
branch lines and extensions as will give it easy s cooes to
all the whoat producing areas tributary to tho road
Indications are that next year will begin now era
of active railroad construction. Two extensive lines in
Nebraska are projected by the Missouri Pacific, as ad
juncts of the Wabash system controlled by Gould, and it
is not iraprolmble that the Chicago A Northwestern may
begin at onoe a further progress westward, with a ter
minus on the Pacific iu view. This will open a fluid for
our lumbermen to cultivate. The projected government
railroads in China, to build which a loan of HO.000,000
has been negotiated, will also create a demand for certain
classes of lumber from this region, which Pugnt Hound
mills will no doubt be called upon to supply. Tho Pacific
Northwest cau receive nothing but benefit from the con
struction of roads leading in this direction, since they
open np the country and create a market for our pro.
ducU, add to our population and stimulate industry.
With punctuality, oroditahlo alike to the laborious
cuorgy of the author and the methodical business tactics
of the publisher, volume XX. (California III.), works of
Hubert Howo Dauoroft, has just reaohod us. It is a
clear and oouciso narrativo of many matters of historical
and biographical interest which occurred in California
during tho somewhat dull and primitive epoch of tho
yoars 1H'J"-18.0. Tho following allusion to what has
become nowouoof the principal features iu trade on this
Coast is interesting: "The fur trade is a branch of Call
foruian oommcroo rosjieothig which wo havo but little
information for the jicriod oovored by this chapter. For.
eigners secured most of tho otter skins by oontraliaud
methods; tlio Indians killed a few animals aa iu former
years; and in several instances Californians were rrgu
larly licensed by tho territorial authorities to engage in
otter hunting on tho count Hardly a vessel sailed with
out carrying away mora or less skins, which all traders
wore eager to obtain. The authorities, both of nation
and territory, understood tho importance of this export
and made some weak and unsuocessf ul efforU to develop
it, or at least to accuro tho legal revenue which evon aa
carried on at tho time it should yield"
Unfoiitunatkly for this region tho committee of tlio
Portland Hoard of Trade to whom was referred tlio quo.
Uon of holding a waterway oonvontion decided that audi
a step was unnecessary. An offort Is to bo made in Con.
gross to secure adequate appropriations for tho Columbia
and other streams of this region, and resolutions coming
from a oonveution of delegates from tho whole Paciflo ,
Northwest would havo vastly greater weight in support
of the efforts of our representative at Washington than
individual Hititioiis or resolutions of soarate boards of
trade. Aside from this it was unwlso for Portland to
throw cold water upon the oonveution project blio is
aocusod of lukowarmncas, if not actual hostility, to tho
oMiniiig of tho Columbia, and hero was an opportunity to
oonvinoo the doubting ones east of the Cascades that
such is not tho case. This opportunity has been will,
fully at least carelessly thrown away, and the result
cannot but be harmful to tho best interests of the city.
It is time for our business men to adort a broad gaugn
policy and do something to stem tho tide of hostility in
tho Inland Empire. The interests of Portland and tho
Interior are closely linked, and mutual good fueling
should be promoted in every manner possible. Every
man of experience and thought knows that Portland will
benefit mora by the opening of the Columbia than any
other locality, and it were tho part of true wisdom to call
this convention and demonstrate that we are in earnest
in this matter, whether we believe it to bo of any prsu.
tical value in aiding our representatives to stimulate
Congressional action or IkH.