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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1887)
nq THE WEST SHORE. mmiihI, across the Cascade mountains, sound possesses attractions of a high or. I pil ing Tacoma, and Seattle as well, by a der. Its shores, which, in the main, short extension of a road already built come down, in bluffy steeps, to the very I from that city, the advantages of being margin of the waters, are lined with L terminal joinU of a great trauacoiili- verdant firs. Here and there, the roll- f " nnUl road, as well as available ship- ing hills are broken, where some stream ping oinU for all that portion of the pours down from the mountains and fjvhi agricultural, pnstoral and mining flows through a fertile valley, covered region lying between the Cascade and with a rank growth of forests of cedar, Ilocky mountains, and accessible to the fir, maple, alder, cottonwood and creep- j Northern Facific road. ing vines, save where the hand of man The advantages of the sound, as a has cleared a way for the plow, and con- ' manufacturing region, are great Its verted the forest wild into green mead- fariliti for easy and cheap interchange ows and fields of grain. Back from the of product have been mentioned; also shores, the forests rise in successive ter- it supplies of coal, iron, timber and races as they climb the mountain sides limestone. The road soon to be com- and soften their rugged outlines clear to pl.-Ul will give it easy access to the their summits, save where, here and wheat, wool, stock, hides and ores of the there, some giant snow peak thrusts its inland empire, as well aa an opportunity hoary head far above the green mantle to Hupply that vast and rapidly develop- of the mountains, and challenges the nig region with coal, lumber, merchan- traveler's eye, from whatever direction dine and manufactured products. Es- he may be approaching. On a clear, h-m ly , ,t designed by nature for warm, bracing day in early summer time, ' lip building, and is the most available the traveler down the sound has almost I ' harbor on th Iacfic coast for a naval constantly in view one of these snowy Ut,o and navy yarcL Ships may be summits. Mount Rainier, to the south- tructed nearly a hundred miles in- east; Mount Baker, to the northeast; la ,1 from points where ample defenses and the long serrated ridge of the Olym' llZ J frTl i?y, eDemy' Pi to -t, all hold their W JZn7lRk?ffre8h Th6 Calm' deeP of the sound, til which UnS TMt fre8U f fl6ct the 8Un'8ray8 b7 day, and by night f teD Bering ifghfof Unb U now Wh6e the moon- A journey down its winding r-1 mTu 5 Cbannel8' th& it. narrow passage' 1 and iron' but a Yew f Maon ita of islands' past its 'O tbingneUv in J 8 fwa Clties and busy mills, the eye con- i- 7Zli1U0n- new and ever chang- ly for the government J !Dg land8CaP of beauty, is one never to diridoxU to rtco&n L L U frg0ttn him o takes it when ' opportunity offered. V he a clear m Ml moon combine to re- Vm a picture standpoint Pu dav 8 W. L. Henry.