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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1885)
352 THE WEST SHORE. It may lo economical, but hnrdly consistent, for the Government to buy its mail Hacks in n foreign country Ixcatmo tljfv enn bo had chcaocr tlmn tho home nroduct , , i-- i 1 111 view of tlm fuel (lint by liij'li tnriff Inws it prevents the eoplo individually from doing tlm mime thing. If to buy home products (it a high price in the proper wiper for Tom, Dick mid Hurry severally, it ought to bo bo for mo mime gentlemen jointly-the Government. Wnn the compliments of T. If. Crawford. f!i( SiiH.riiiU-iidciit, we have received tho neatly printed iwciiui Aiinuiil Jlcjx.rt or the Public Schools of Port Jmid. Tho work in from tho press of Messrs. Swojie k Taylor, mid shows that it in unnecessary to Bend out of Portland to s-uro good pamphlet nml lxHk work. In mw 01 hum luci it m U Ixt regretted tlmt the rejx.rt con tuiii twti cut of the Itiuh Selux.l pxccuteil in Din l'liul one of them fair and tho other miserab'lo-when better work or that kind ib done in thin city by parties whoso tuea contribute to the publication of the report. Xkvaha long ago suffered from tho prohibitory freight tariff of the Central Pacific, which waB so high that the agricultural productB of which tho State in cpa- '" ni mini market. Tliere are thousands of acr, of laud ill Nevada which will produeo largo yiohhi of grain, hay ami the finoHt quality of jiotatoes, but the want of a market Iihh provonted farmers cultivating it to lU full capacity, whilo the greater K,rtim ha not Imm brought under cultivation t all. Now that the rate to San l'ranciNoo hiut Ih-oii rcdmvd to four dollars per ton, the amount of farm nroducU tlmt u lll ;., . f. ....... i. ' thipiMsl from Nvd will Hurprixe tl.oHo who have .up. " poui'I uinvo in that State but sace brush and jack rabbit. Abtosinihx.j statistic f tho nUnk induBtry in tho H,W ru prehenuHi i.y the Hocrehiry of the National Cattle and Horse Grower1 Association, which iei.ibl.s in it Becond nuuual session iu St Louis ,, the ' .M ,,f NovemlK.r. It apx.ar that the association baa membra, f whom KSS were in attendance on the convention, m tmt it represent -t.VXKt.OOO cattlo, lO.tNIO.UK) horse and a cnpiUl of W.OOO.OOO.OOO. This u tlm m,t jH.werful ami wealthy organization of iu kind in the world, and when rival awmeiatioiiH ro alworbod a they no doubt to.,., will it Win oouatituto aggro! gatiou of capital nml uuiou of interest that will bo able U exert a u.,t powerful influence in what over direction it mny dc,,nv Pn,,H.ry managed, 8llt., Blt will !, of groat lH,efit to the pastoral industry of the . ",,,sl hXnU" l"" i danger of .uch gigau- tie organ.t,ou. developing iulo an equally monstrous ft II UrdB f trado of 1, nilU, Axtoria. (loldeinlalu, Van rmver, .1U Walla, !,., .,, W.iUuri, for y convmtiou, to taM.nil.1. .t The Dalle, on the 2J of December. Every locality interested in the opening of the Columbia is urged to send delegates, not to exceed twonty in number. No plnce has as great an interest in pouring chenp trnnpportntion from tho interior as La this city, notwithstanding by a stupid blunder the Board of Trade has succeeded in conveying the impression that the business men of this city were hostile to the move mout for opening the river. No man of thought does not recognize the fact that the opening of the Columbia is of vital importance to the future growth of Portland, and the loast we can do as a community is to send to The Dalles twenty able, earnest men, who will convince the loople of other sections that the business men .of Port land are with them in this matter. Two HUNDHi'.i) and eighty-two years ago Champlain entered the mouth of the St Lawrence in his search for a waterway across America, of whose great breadth not the faintest conception was had at that time. He pro. ceoded up the stream, confident that he had found a route to la Chine (China), until he encountered the great rapids where now stands the city of Montreal. Hera his progress was stayed, and the obstruction bis vessel en- countered has ever since been known as "Lachine Rapids. ' Under the control of skillful pilots steamers descend the rapids (see page 398) from the river above, but the current is too strong to be stemmed on the return trip. A canal ten miles in lencth loads around them mid is the artory of communication between the, lower and upper river. Uoautiful at all times, these rapids are especially grand during Winter's icy months, when snow and ico combine with the turbulent wator tn mnun a scene of unique and wonderful beauty. Two years ago President Villard of the Northern Pacific mado his triumphal journey across the continent with a swarm of invited guests from America and Eu roe, and amid the nonuinff of eh effervescence of stump orators the driving of the golden "i"-" "mL" novor urivon was colobratod. A few weeks later the "blind pool" was flooded with light, tillard fell from bin Jiiird nuu i.:.. display was ridiculed from one end of the land to the other. How different the scone in Eagle Pass on the 7th of November, when Vice-President Van Home and a few on cmis urove tho last plain iron spike of a railway 3,000 mil in length, one that had cost the people of Canada 1 10 000,0001 Happily for this country the Northern I acifio, whoso completion was thus so extravagantly cele brated, has become one of tlm world, it is to bo hojod that the great storm through which it paHsed will novnr Iu mv.ii.,i.,.n.i i... i.. ..l now so niodiBtly oompIetetL COMMIRHIOXES SPABKS has adminiKrA,! (I.a nffuim of the Land Office in a manner contrasting favorably with that of his predetynBors. In every act he has shown an earneat tUire to preaorve the rights of the Government, rotwt the public domain from the nefarious scheme of