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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1886)
THE' WEST SHORE(! 43 It is announced that the Oregon Pacifio will put an other large steamer on the route from Yaquina Vny to San Francisco, Rhe will 1W1 Yaquina Bay early in May with a cargo of railroad material from the East, and will then be run on the route aa a oompanion to the Pa qnina. The material will be used to extend the road to Albany. Stiienuocs efforts are being made to induce Congress to establish a publio park in that portion of Klamath County which contains the great natural wondor known as "Crater Lake." The tract SDeoifled enihruwa lint tjm Townships, making a park twelve miles wide by thirty lonu, a very small portion of the public domain. Ti i . region which will never be valuable for anv nurtimina f w j J- f agriculture, and should be protected by Congress from the clutch of those who will, ere long, Book to obtain pos session of the few practicable approaches to the Ink a f,r the purpose of extorting toll from visitors. The United States has had a sufficiently warning examplo in Niagara Falls, and should take steps so preserve all such natuml attractions as Crater Lake for the permanent and unham pered enjoyment of the people. At last the oontract for cutting the Cascades Tunnel has been let, and a definite time, May, 1888, fixed for its completion. The contract was awarded to Noluon Bon. nott, who has already done much construction work on the Northern Pacific, and who is required to givo bonds in the sura of 1100,000. There Boems no doubt now that within the specified time the Cascados Branch will be in running order, and both Tacoma and Seattlo will bo tor minal points of an ovorland route. The groat benefit both Eastern and Westorn Washington will enjoy from boing thus closely linked together are plainly apparout, and that the completion of this road will have a highly stimulating effect upon the whole Torritory possibly State by that time is undeniable. It is a matter of con graduation for the whole Northwest Tub fourteenth of February in r.,1l.it.i- ,1u in n.a lives of thousands of young people who are afflicted with il - .... . . e grauu passion in varying degrees of intensity. No ubt it is SO considered bv the voinm luwmln In 11, a mi. graving, though what tho butterfly thinks of it is not so certain. For ono wholo day cocxl old St Valentino ioiim hands with lliorrv little Puck, and a uliirinim limn tlimi . " n -... ; have of it together, scattering broadcast their missives of suuumoni ana burlesque. Nearly two thousand cattle mon from Texas, Wyom ing, Utah, California, Nebraska, Arizona, Nevada, Colo rado, Montana, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico, Indian Tor ritory and Mexioo( assembled in Denver on tho 27th of January, one hundred and seventy-four being accredited delegates to the first International Rango Cattlo and Horse Growers' Convention. Though mcmWs of the National Association, which was founded at St Louis, the companies and individuals represented by those dele gntos felt the necessity of organizing an association lim itod to mombers engaged in the range industry, as distill' guished from stock-raising in agricultural regions. The two systems are so distinct, and to a degree antagonistic, that the range men proposo a separate association as better means of farthering the interests of the range in dustry. The probabilities are that the now organization, representing more definite interests and better organized enterprises, will soon become more prominent and power ful than the National Association. OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. Thousands have admired the beauty of Multnomah Mis in tho summer timo, who have little idea of how dif. foront they appear in winter. During tho few weeks when ice forms in tho Columbia Gorge, the falls present a strange, but still beautiful, OHxct The spray is driven by tho shifting winds in all directions, till every jutting point or rock for many yards around has a long (mudant loo. h hen tho storm is over ami the icy crystals ulis- ten in tho sunlight, tho effect is indescribably beautiful. The scenery of tho Hooky Mountains, from Mexico to British Columbia, is peculiar to itself. Its leading char aetoriHtios aro Ixilduess of outline, prominence of barren itH'k, scantiness of timber, unique and fantastic rock for tuations. These features are specially observable in the accompanying engravings of tho Teton Itange, Prickly .'ear Canyon, and the large view from tho summit of Mullau Pass. Tho Tetons aro a spur of tho lUk'kios, ly. ing near the comers of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana, and just north of tho route of tho Oregon Short Lino. Their sharp, spire-like summits served a a landmark for the early trapiers, explorers and emigrants fur many weary miles of travel. 1 ho view across the mouutaius, east ward from tho summit ot Mullau Pane, is unsurpassed or beauty and grandeur. Iu tho distance lies the Prickly Poar Valley, in which is the City of Helena, and back of it riso tho Bolt Mountains, a parallel rango on the onpo. sitosido of the Missouri. Nearer by can be seen the track of the Northern Pacific winding its tortuous way down the mountain to the valley, doubling and turning so often that it is impossible to toll in which direction the train is going. Just beneath the point of observation lies the Mullau Tunnel, through which tho rood crosses the sum mit The peculiar rock formations are widely scattered through tho range, but aro probably tho most marked lu the castellated rocks of the upjior Missouri and the tribu tary streams. This is olsmrvablo in the sketches of Prickly Pear Canyon, tho Castle, the Old Yi oinaii and Turtle, oto. Iu passing through that region the travel, er's eye is constantly finding profile faces and peculiar figures among the rocks, whoso sharp and suggestivo out lines impress themselves upon his memory. To one who is at all imaginative iu his disposition, there is no end to the diversity of fantastic forms his eyes will discern. TliE three compositions on the subject of M Repose," are the work of Messrs. Edward Ey, E. W. Moore aud