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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
w THE WEST SHORE. U4MmimT, provide that the Helena assay hotel, $100,000.00 for harbor improvements, and Jh shall in all respects, similar to mints, $15,000.00 for a saw mill. fnr that Urn only, and not coin, Bhall be ui.uL.:-;tJ. This wo'iM ef!M a date of Kkipc-tiox Works. Besides the n?(luci;oU thing whirh would allow Montana's gold and works in Portland described and illustrated ilm ultn1 to leave the territory ready to be elsewhere in this number arrangements are lmnfnw! into coin. It would also provide a Iteing made to erect similar works in Taconig Imi market for bullion. and KHensburgh, W. T. The Tacoma Smelt- ing and Refining Works has been incorporated Oaaoox Crrr Wma I'owkk. The great falls for the purxse of constructing smelting works al On-fun City have Ut-n punluixed byasyn- with a daily capacity of fifty tons. No work .limtr of I'urlland and Oregon City capitaliHtB, has Ijeen done as yet, but the chief promoter of mho pne to promote the establishment of the enterprise is a capitalist thoroughly in earn- inamuVtorie. The roinny has purchased est in the matter. The Ellensburgh Mining the Uki and adjaent water jwwer, on the Milling and Smelting Co. has been incorpora- rt M- of the river, and seven hundred and ted, and is now engaged in selecting machinery filly tm of the land adjoining. This land for a sixty-stamp mill and a smelter of eighty ill Uid off into Works for residence pur- tons daily capacity. The erection of such works TIm. coti.ny donate ground is a prime necessity in the development of min- t null. and fadones, anl supply water power ing in this region. So many rich ledges have trnyrarafny, a an .ndu.vmcnt for the loca- bren discovered, in widely separated localities, the of v.nous ,ndu str.es. The scheme numlers of which have been worked sufficient' llZT. ly to demonstrate the extent and character of U" mer hrbw the falls, for which puq-ose the the ores they contain, that there need be no brush land, and comprises some of the richest To. m.m. ro.a m ihlrinB tll Wl1 ln ,a,. The main body of land to be so J im. there were MupH J Tm C ZT ' nd nake n nyUr million eight hundred and sixtvTrl n, "r m,le8 eaHt of Kuna to the moutb tl .ndt.rn.yht feet of lumber, and am T' 7,7 hundred and 7 thou8nd fobun-M and nineteen thousaud five hun L, fl ?dl d?.to C0Ver this body of M ami flfiyiK um of coal. The outnu Z v U'e SettIeA' ditch Ne York canal, '-C.rU 11,11 .,, lth ivairip " r Y th5 Idilho and 0reg Improvement rtlhirton.ihn.wm d lbnT nT'' U,e r,nBl f the NamPa ImProve- and fifty Ujft,. The nitm t Company, and an extension of the Strahorn ;wNl. o-hZS h T Ca,dwe11' Th tiers' ditch will 'Vt vena there, twe,v "5 TZ b kno Five Mile creek and "'T' in a few days. Tw,n. ?,lle.,reek country, and it is being con- ?V PMir liMig. were'erected" 1 ? the "Men under on these creeks. M,e,Uin Tl,etoui I n T enterPri by capitalist, who 'huh t S l-rove K.nU was $kT """ct the ditches as an investment to UMo.h.H Py IP- uv ttlm'anJ'"ver fifty thousand acres. -'SrrSSl ille there are two diteheB contem- rL5u21 ,Wmin41 Cities out!tr ""eoftheriver.tobetaken . JnwZZZ? WAftS wi la! Ca!;'r, near a' creek butte. No Ilrt MciTt't T ,0f ' PinV m " the Prelimiary surveys. They ' H ' W'J. lM,W0.(y) Jf fifty thousand to Jventy-fiv. thousand acres. Another one i. to take water