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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1886)
44 THE WEST SHORE. O, T. Rmill. ,.f !,. P,.r4!nn,l Art Dull Tn December, laat, some twonty gentlemen, pursuing professionally ome form of art, including in thoir number tlio stall ol The Weht Siioue, organize! tlio l'ortlHnd Art Club, for the benefit to bo derived from mutual iinprovonioiit by (iMuocmtion, for tlie encouragement (if art in the city, and for ocinl ploatmre, Tho club occupies the former Coun cil ClmmlxT, in the old Fimt National Bunk Building, which was kindly tendered them by Hon. II. W. Corbott. The ofllonn of the club, are II. W. Corbott, President; Cleveland lUn-kwoll, Vice President; Edward Espy, Sec retary; 0. T. Brown, Treasurer. A business mouting is hold every Fridny evening, and evoiy Monday night the club imxtU to skctdi from models. Each swond Friday all metidMini are required to present a composition on onio sunjoci jroviounly given out, which are displayed for examination and criticiHin. A vote in thou taken on their relative merit, as to conception and execution, and the three receiving tho greatest number of votes become uie inwrty ol tlie club, tlio others being taken by tho meiuiNT who iirojxxMHl tlio subject. At a recent mooting, Coinixmitioim woro nrtttouUsI on tho suhiect of " Rnmme." j i uggeaM by Mr. Curlmtt. and the throe here irivon wnrn decided to bo tho By bjmwmI vote thoy woro pre. . . i I i it k ... eiiuHi w ine rroHiiienL Jt ih, no doubt, a surprise to our own ciiiiteiiH, an well a to others, to learn that there 1 Yt , m are in i oriiand so many artists capable of such really good work. Tin lover of winter ajnirU must 1 prepared to seize tho golden moment as they fly if he would enjoy them in Portland. If ho follow tho example of tho fivo foolish rirgina and delay his preparation!), until tho snow comes, he will fair no bettor than they did KHjiecially was this Uiocaao tho p,u,t month. Just one day intervened 1m. tween the timo tho snow reached sullicieiit depth to make Kmh .(.ighing and the beginning of rapid thaw, and only th.o who were ready enjoyed the luxury of a sleigh rido a tor the approved f,ud.ion, with MIh, graceful cut- Ur, roliee, eUi., etc, Other VDM WiNitt.JLi.1 t, -...1.1. Tew moment of enjoy ,lt i rude an.l hastily oonstrucU ft! contrivance while .till others, who spent tho day of grace in improvismg ,, nondescript craft, were com H d lapmUlo.Ia.ul tho next day in tho slush. The kntor. ,nj, themselves for nearly a week, bt the lover, of citing ound their ,H,rt more limits yet iven for such a brief i.ri.l ..t ... .. . .i.i. ,. , " 'iBmiig, i oniand was '(jiiu May, 1885. Tho building is a four-story wooden struc ture two hundred and eighty-eight feet long and eighty feet wide, for about half the distance, and fifty-six the re. uiitiiiJor. It rests upon a solid stone fonndntion. Tho machinery consists of an eighty-four-inch Fourdrinier Pnner Machine, a Jordan Beater, five eiflitJ.nni-.j I ' ' r "'uiim. pound Hag Engines, Eotary and Vat Bleachers, four Vojltor Wood Pulp Machines, of three tons daily capac itv. a cane of ton Dryers, two stocks of CaleniWa . , tj - ") nuu general assortment of other necessary machinery. The power is Buppuuu oy uve jjeuei raier VYneels, Bggregat ing soven hundred horse-power, tho water being brought from LaCamas Lake, a mile and one-half bock nf fi.Q wuw UJ1U and one hundred and fifty feet above it Tho mill turns out Bix tons of paper in twenty-four hours, chiefly from tho Dull) of cotton-wood and straw, with a miVtiiro t etc. About eighty hands are employed at the mill, the monthly pay-roll averaging $3,000. Large sums are paid out for materials, chiefly in the vicinity of the mill whoro the supply of cotton-wood and straw is ample. The company has invested about $100,000 nt T,nn t Muvuuino, and is doing a good business, principally in Oregon and Washington, in News. Manila and Straw kind it mokos. The old mill at Clackamas, Oregon, be longs to this company, and is workincr on 8tw Pn. only, producing two and one-half tons per day. ' The gen- pnil nllli'n nf f lid raimnnnv ia of 19Q t . 1'"" VJ j- iUUl UlIBfU I OIV I 1 -r, . ' land, uregon. it nas, also, an agency in San Francisco. A haw mill with a daily capacity of w uu thirty thousand feet, has been built at Port Hadlock, near the lower end of Pugot Sound, where it is accessible by sailing vessels, without the services of A til IT. Til la ia nna of the largest mills on the Sound, the main buildine be- il... 1 1 1 1 n. m D nig unco uuuureu anu nity leet m length. Mhh. Azalh E. Osgood has written n titled "The Vision on the Mount," in which, in a serie of cantos, she follows the career of General Grant from the Mexican War to his death-bed on Mount McGregor. Tho poem has boon neatly published, with excellent por- aim 01 uie uero ana Uie author, and will, no doubt, meet with ready sale among the thousands of admire nf th great dofendor of the Union, who can not fail to appreci ate tho beauty and value of this tribute of love. J. Tho oomnywa. organic in April 1881. !,,! following .Uckholdor, d oflIwr r,S I P -6 Jont; J. K. Gill 'M ViZi n y c ' Vm1' At the Legislature now in SAfluinn nf Oltrmnia ofrnnff (T..J , . . . v-li0 ur oeing ninue to have the capital of Washington Territory removed to North Yakima. The citizens of that place, and the Northern Pacifio, also, have offered to donate a laree tract of land tar ntorial buildinga Geographically, North Yakima i near the centre of the Territory, and when the Cascadei Urauch is comoleted will ha either side. As a compromise between the Walla and Pugot Sound retnmm it i,m vrh Ti. ima will be chosen for the capital, since neither of th populous sections will bn 111 A OAaf fit Mr ernmout located in the other end of the Territory.