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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1886)
THE WEST SHORE. 227 It is reported that nt last a machine has been mado which saves all the gold in the black saml mines of the ocean beach. It is the invention of Abe Rose, who is working it at his mine at Randolph, and consists of a set of Bluices containing peculiar devices on tho bottom for bopuratiug tho wiuJ and gold. Tho uuichiucs can bo cheaply constructed, and if they succeed everywhere aB well as at Randolph, will come into general use. Latest advices from tho East are to the effect that the New York hop crop is practically ruined by lion and honey dew. The importance of this fact can only le realized by one who knows that New York produces four-fifths of the entire orop of tho United States. If, then, there is to be less than half as many hops put on the market from this country as last year, tho prion, which is now but from five to seven cents wr pound, must advance materially, much to tho ndvantugo of growers in Oregon, Washington and California, where a good avorago yield iB exacted. The Oregon raoifio Railroad and Oregon Develop. mont Company have issued a circular stating the ar rangements made for accommodating mnmliera of tho Q. A. R. who desire to attend tho grand re-union in San Francisco. Fare from Corvallis or Yaquina to Sau Francisco and return will be tlO.OO, and if morn than one hundred and twenty-five go, a rolmto of t'2.00 on each full ticket will be given. Tliis offers a splendid opportunity for momliers of the order in Western Ore gon to attend conveniently and cheaply. These ratal can be obtained at the company's oflice in Corvallis, on presentation, of proper certificate from tho iost oom mandor. It is desirable that names le placed on file as early as posBiblo to avoid inconvenience at tho last mo ment tm. .,ti, n,.,uil Piitjiliimio of the Oregon State Uui- versity, located at Eugon City, has boon roceivod. It is a neatly printed pamphlet of sixty-two pages, issued from the offlco of the Eugeno City IlryMnr, biuI oon tains a list of oflieors, faculty, students and graduates, with calendar, course of instruction, and all information in regard to government of the institution and its rela tion to the state. Special attention is callod to the statute giving each county one free scholarship in the collegiate department, and one additional for each mom ber of the legislature. Persons dosiring more informa tion about free scholarships should apply to their county superintendent of schools. Catalogues may be had by addressing the secretary of the faculty, at Eugene City, Oregon. At a meeting of the Fruit and Vegetable Orowert' Association of the United States, recently held at Col umbus, Ohio, Ezra Arnold, of Illinois, presented ipeci. fications and drawings of a cheap evaorster made by himself, which he claimed to have nsed with letter suc cess than tho more elaborate and Mimive one. It is very sinfple and call I made by any one at a trilling cost Mr. Arnold preBcutod to the association his title to the evaporator on condition that it would appropriate a suflloient sum to cover the expense of procuring illus trated descriptions and directions for making and using them. It was his idea that thousands of people would avail themselves of this opportunity to dry fruit who or. dinarily could not afford to do so. Any one desiring one of these illustrated circulars should address W. Or lando Smith, secretary of the association, Ir one hun dred and four, Alliance, Ohio, and enclose stamp for ro turn postage. Work is progressing rapidly on tho Montana Central, , and will soon lie completed and rails laid if arrange, ments for shipping them can lie made. Tho Montana Northern, from Great Falls to Assinalioino, on tho inter national boundary, has surveying parties at work from both euds of the lino. Tho Can .dian raoifio will soon liegin work ou a lino running south from Mapln Creek to connect with Assinalioino, and before tho end of the year tho entire .route from Helena, by way of Oreat Falls anil Fort Denton, to tho Canadian Pacific nt Ma plo Creek will lo under contract and partially construe ted. This is an invasion of Montana by the Manitoba system which tho Northern Paeiflo will probably couu teract by running a branch to Fort llenton, from either Helena, Livingston or Hillings. A company has lawn organized to parallel the Montana Central's line from Helena to Red Mountain, and It Is asserted mat tne same will bo dona with the lino to llenton. The Maui toba lino is being pushed westward from Devil's lake at a rapid rate to meet the Montana Northern, and the ap. poaranoos indicate that in another year Helena will have two moro Eastern outlets, one by the Canadian Paeiflo and one by the Manitobn. NEW BALLOON. A new dirigible balloon, of colossal dimensions, is now in course of construction in lWlin. The inventor, Herr Gaswindt, hopes to overcomo the grand dilllculty in aronnutios-tho attainment of a sped greater than tho average velocity of tho wind-by the enormous sixa of the balloon. A aeries of meteorological observation extending over several years, lias shown that near the surface of the earth the velocity of the wind in the tern perate Wine rarely exceed twelve meters ier second, and Herr Gaswindt expect to attain a speed of not less than fourteen to fifteen meter. A um of two hundred thousand marks, it is said, has already been offered for the patent The baloon is one hundred and fifty meter in length and fifteen meter in diameter, with a capacity of eighteen thousand cubio meter, aliout ten time a great a that of the Ronard and Krelm balloon. The to tal weight is aliout forty-three thousand smnds, the en velope and netting alone representing ten thousand pounds. The propelling machinery consist of two Hti-iuil engines .;f fifty horeviwer each. ' The oust is wu timated at mm hundred thousand marks (.'1,00I).
