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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
NORTHWESTERN NEWS AND INFORMATION. out of the Bruncau, in.l will cover fifty thou-Uinwoi!, IhiI 4 nimh larger growth. Thi sand acres or more. Other and smaller diU he valuable tindrr id.-mld I turned Into money are talked of and will he eonKtrwtfd in ! tf U-fn f t- ,.f ." VVrr tttm it Into shn future, Iwt the above named are the nuwt im- Manv tlwHiMnd dollar' worth U Ue twt cedar portant ditch enterprise, and will he carried to haa heen destroyed in thi manner already, ami the pine will meet the Mine (ate if hot taken out in the near future. completion in the near future. Oregon Statiktu-h. The aftNCHHincnt valu ation of Oregon, for the year 1HH0, hnw the following total hy count ie: Multnomah Linn Marion -Umatilla Yamhill Ijine Polk -iVmglaH Union Grant Washington Wasco Clackamas Raker Jackson Ilenton Clabtop lake Crook C'OOH Gilliam Morrow Columbia Klamath JoHephino Curry Tillamook I'm White Kivkr Yamkv. Kt of Ta- coma ami ithcat of Seattle, lie the I'pjwr 18.7il,10.0t White river valley, conmatlng of one hundred .ViW.H'.W.OO Mmare mile of agricultural and graalng Utvl, 4,h57,3,.W.OO lying Mwccn tle Cam-ade ntounUlna ami tlie 4,:tiKl,UJ2.00 confluence of the White and Orwn rivera. Tlie 4,03M,KI7.0 line of the (Wade divinion of tlie Nurtltcrn :t,iH'.t,V.C.(X) Pacific en the valley, and the Ull.m of 2,t01 ,054.00 Knunii'law ha Wen entahlUlied. Tula give 2,RO2,4H.00 the pettier a g.d outlet fur their atovk, hay, 2,?.5,4O7.O0 hojm and grain. Hie Umtrr found throughout 2,7i!O,22O.O0 all of thin t'prr White river valley on the hot 2,1101 ,W0.O0 torn Iambi, in 11M near o dene a on the tawcr - 2,51 8,140.00 White and hiyallup valley. It conaUta, gen 2,515,020.00 erally.of a aiuall growth of vim-maple and abler. 2,n4S,250.00 Much of thin land haa tern cleared at an ei 21214,r,l)i.l)0 pciiHO of hut $10 n r acre. That the oil U rich. 2,210,750 (K) i atleated hy the cn produecd. In yield ami 2,0W,105.00 quality, the ho rained in Uila valley are aecoml 1,K,0ti2.00 to now, cx(i-iUlie rained in the Hu k. In veg 1,347,721.00 etable, hoi ami grain, the yield are larger 1 ,288,07.1.00 than in any mrtion of tlw hiyallup valley. The 1,179,722.00 foot-hill of the C&M-ade mountain fumUh an 840,354.00 almoxt unlimited range for Un k. Nearly all 720,1 KH.00 tlie government and railroad land haa la-en 70tt,2:I.O0 taken, lut immigrant dciring to mrcha laml fil8,i24.O0 and engage in agricultural uroiilv ran find 441, U17.00 here chear laml than in the Hurk or luyal 2H5.OH1l.00 hip valley eater hi I cleared, in a nrlgMa hooil of cntcrriing American ami thrifty (Jer- 178,148,022.00 man, ami loratcd aireiwible to market. A conaiderable portion of tlie fruit ami vegetable The Toiti.e Valley. In the northeatern rained in thi valley find tlielr market at lJe eitremity of Cowlitx county, W. T., i a valley coal mine mirth of Green river ami aouth of fifteen milea long by four in width, lying along While river. TW are no valley laml on IV theToutle, a tributary of the Cow lit. Tlie noil get imiml imire eaily drained. Spring are ia of the Waver-dam and black alluvium char- abundant, ami water eaily obtained ty digging acter, no well known in thi region fur it great well, fertility. There ia room in te valley f.ir la hundred familiea, and for a nuny more the Samta, ltii. Nine mile north of hnake adjoining Ioa and la-am lie. There are lut river, ami taenty miU front llolw City, U li fe aettler tliere now, ami tly will I glad ! In of Nampe, a irtalion on the On-gon M-1 welrame new uiea. Kxtending wentaard U Uw. It lie on a great plain nlrng at many mile over Ue highUmU l-taeen tl- three humlre.1 ami arventy nve tur milra. north and aouth hramlie of Hk- Toutle, i an or tao humlre-l ami forty thouaaml arrw U immenae body-aome aar tliotwamU of am- r-'l famdng laml. Nearly all Ihla laml U of red pine timl-er of great girth ami taJlne-; fertile aoil, trwy L the 4w aa m aa the alao aicuce, tamarack, and a quantity of -t aage hnt.li U tlwl off ami Irrigating Atrhr. kiml of llm!r. aotiehat irarmMinir dug. One man ran Ur aa amr ia a day. It