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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."
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uggeaM by Mr. Curlmtt. and the throe here irivon wnrn
decided to bo tho By bjmwmI vote thoy woro pre.
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eiiuHi w ine rroHiiienL Jt ih, no doubt, a surprise to
our own ciiiiteiiH, an well a to others, to learn that there
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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
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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 .
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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 .
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land, uregon. it nas, also, an agency in San Francisco.
A haw mill with a daily capacity of
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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
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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.