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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
0, THE WEST SHORE. ha n k ft nnwttled hecau.s of the exiensc and many others which are incorporated ate U l-rinzinjc water upon it being too great for in- not listed on the Btock boards and their earn dividual wttler. Three months ago, the Nam- ings are, therefore, not made public. Among pi lmj.fovem.-ni (ni.iy LM out the town of them are the Cable and Pyrenees gold mhiV Xmpn l Wan the condmction of irrigating the Anaconda, Parrot and many other copper ditrh'-, pnitinirof main canal, from Boise mines, and the Bluebird, Colorado and Silver river, an 1 a nnnilx-r of distrihiiting ditches. Bow companies' silver mines. Wh-n completed, thm- will furnish a never- failina mipply of water, stiUicicnt to supply the Stock Shipments. During the year 1880 the entire trad, whiYh ran lie had hy contract with Northern Pacific handled the following quantity the company at email annual cunt, Igs and of live stock freight : or! ran I flitcd down riife river, through C attle from Montana, -th- ranal, to Nampi, when they can lie con- " " Washington, - 61,430 2,280 22,140 21,210 60 2,520 . 280 8,820 261.365 vrrt-l into IiiuiUt and fuel. Already fortv " " Dakota. U.ouand ai-n-a liave Wn entered in the land " " Or. and W. T. to Montana olfi.il at Id Mn f'ifr nn.l nriuar.U .f mm linn. ' ' " T f 1 Iflti.wn I. ta have Iwn sold hy the company. ' 107,060 TJW town i m situated that it will liecome the Sheep from Washington, - ' . jg 34Q hipping piint U quite a numher of outlying " " Oregon, - . . j;' Ispirirta, and in the point on the Oregon Short " " Montana, - . 7(3 '335 n.-ar-t 10 !!.,!.-,. City, an.l, continently, " local shipments, - - . tUI.I.. tf jnm tion with a hranch ' liw to that rity. The soil of that region in fPr- Tota1' 145,485 V. and will proluerall the fniits, cereals and 1IorrtL' from Washington. - . r.n(in ,n nit nonncrn an. 1 niKMle states. Idaho, - !rrvti.,n will rend.-r the crop a sure one, since " " Montana, -all d-rfnMii drouth iMhu avoided, and the " Dakota, dry uth.-r rf summer insures the harvesting rftlrn,pinp.tcm,i,in- With, water su 0,al - ",c man wiene tcrti e Tl,... : , . iJaim m, t-.11....- ..hi mere is a marked nmrnnan in fV, i,. hnT' Hl''lI;d, and indications point to a time, M.tm Mi..-TIm. twelve leading in,or- f' when Montana- Maho, Oregon Jl,im.,rfMl,nUna, "nl wlngton will be the breeding ground in divi.,nd, t., d.e : " f,,r a of horses required in the Eastern ;W 77:,0.oon TTklT; The dimatic conditions are highly my ,, Mlv..r,,iih. . . .m'M avora, and experience has shown that the J--J.-I -nd Uana, . . " "" of breeding and rearing horses for mar- ;;Mwuin . . 2 ."this region. 2T' ' ' ' Km, f lN R'VER C--One of the greatest irri- ' (- ' ' s o 1-, l conl"wti an elaborate rvniul' . ' OVW.OO of lan j 1 ' t'68 immenS6 ' ' 117.000OJ " "'een Sun river and the town T,4al . ' , 1 alk More than seven hundred thon- Wfl.U. n .k J R7:H-'l f0 (ii "? at"7.r ferliIe land wiU be covered by the nT ST, WlL VldiVi',(n l- hve r n f hh COIUl'any- Iing the past sum- . .11,hia U r-tei,h ami e, 10 1 I'0. er Canal Company has built l WUit 7',1Men,- I! "r ' 0(1 ab0,,t enty-six miles of canal MtJ-Jevelop. wh t;?t0f flume- ta has beendoneon 1- 2 J .nd fl; 1 hCn?after 1)6 the Teton canal im,V o.S,,n0',he'ino Z It , ' Part f the un river canal Womv.iniliriilua J ?n-,e9, at the head, seventeen thousand er8,nche" of water, and about half thi.