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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
(J0 THE WEST SHORE. ' lil bio in the awn, work will not be well pro Smith's cove, in that city, and made survey, prl u-f.v next June; but from that time to for a route across the Cascades by Snoqualmje the rl.-eoftheK-a-.n, im-at developments are pass. The company has sufficient capital to Li. J Lr (,n I'::: rr-lr. PllHh work' and wil1 at once constructi, on the first section of forty miles. The prime Tms Wiim Chor.-Tlie acreage of wheat in object to be accomplished is to build a line UM.-rn Onyn anl Katcrn Washington is through the magnificent timber lying east of iihk h (fn-ai-r tli. pn-H-ut H-:im than ever le- Seattle, to the iron mines near Snoqualmie pass. f.r, and the transportation facilities for mar- This will be accomplished the present season! k' titiif ilu-i-tiiiiiccMt will 1 far better than The ultimate purpose is to extend the line ilu jr have U-cn in the past. It in estimated across the Cascades and through the Kittitas tint f.xir hundred thousand tons of wheat will and Big Bend regions to Spokane Falls. I ncnt to tide water from the crop of 1887, , hi h in one-third more than the surplus crop Kooky Mountain Telegraph Co. Capitalist irfthatrvirionin 1. t'nder the influence of of Butte City, Montana, have incorporated the the owtanily inrn-a-ing railnaJ facilities, the Rocky Mountain Telegraph Co., with a capital yi.il wil! im-rvaw every year, since there is stock of $500,000.00, for the purpose of construct- alm.t I... limit to the quantity ..f wheat the ing lines of telegraph, as follows: From Butte irrval inland empire ran produce. to Portland and Victoria ; from Butte to Medi- -'i"e Hat, on the Canadian Pacific, by way of .UimT.x Mini:. The Montana Tin Min- Fort Benton, with a branch to Grand Forks ... (oinrany ha Wn ened fr five months Dakota; from Butte, by way of the Yellowstone in d.-vr .pm the m.mensc debits of tin ore valley, to Fargo, Dakota ; from Butte southward, l,rL7!'.rrn,t ' ,'rtynil,L'9fr,mI)inon- t0 Cheyenne' Salt Lake and San Francisco ll f JZZ I 'I T T'm Tl'CH6 HnC8 WU1 touch every to oi importance rom tw, n y to th.rty feet above the surface of in Montana. The first line to be constructed KJl r I"6 f IIelena' Benton, Assini- HM? q'wnnty ot ore almost inex- I-An-., 7 TT n'-Tr EL"ECTvSTATIsTIcs.-Therewereemployed tl" ririniir also pve satWartorv r,J,l ' Ur thouBand ai"l five men, with an av- m8 W roll of $400,500.00. There were ship- t'mniu ItmrkviTf..vTi.. .. Id by rail, two hundred and thirtv-six thou have finally ignvd t0 , Kand 81X hndred and forty-four tons of copper y and U that portion of their r JZT' T' 81Xt(n thou8and eight hundred and nine ftUI f their actual occupation xT CPPr matte' Rnd nine hundred and silver ore. Freight re of one hundred and forty an increase over the pre- a a! i . m . mainder of more thnn .. 1 ""-gunuousana ions, mere . .! Tret,mn were three hundred n,i .. , t . - wii-P, iimrh tt-Ul 1 oiaui Lfo ciufwjv crusnine ore. tvo t nrt "i T'h ,if a - j in , , ; , a."j ff.i)er produced wa8 113,246,500.00. n . 41 Un'U in VK ccm,;; , "J 19 by eighty-five electric lights, and ditiVhT "r,tW b and Z ,:aim8 6 Wtion, inclusive of the contiguous " m,,Cen,ma,eM4 .---.ecitizensofThe A K1Urtlh w ,)i'7,arelt'on,,idc"ng the question of bridging wti K il nm-IUthi . in KCn,nW at a Point about two miles above A vj ,h- 12 ?,a C,tJ'- J116 caches to the river are at C l"'1 Co' Wiwi "tir,a,?Vethe water mark.anditi. ""ndred and fifty feet wWch i(J conBi(lered H