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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1887)
THK WEST SHORE. nvtallnnf fnr ffthlA TIRA and tVlO Trintn .mIv.Uv.. ' .ago, Kow'ibr. 1 Foreign vaneties, such as the Black luiny .lay'. 101 Hamburg, Muscatelle, Chasselas Musk, The groat desideratum in the whole and Rose Flame Tokay, Muscat of Alex! bvin cvn in th wHI watered Pslonse andria, etc., do well, and eeem better reon, is a gxd pasture grass, without adapted to the climate, soil, etc Grape which profitable mixed farming is well culture is only in its commencement, nigh imjxmsible. It is difficult to make but it is demonstrated that the hillsides ffu pastures in the wheat belt The in the vicinity of the Columbia, from native grasses are highly nutritious, but the Cascades to the eastern and northern letter adapted to beef and horses than mountain ranges, to an altitude of about to dairying. They seem to be a natural a thousand feet, are splendidly adapted f ml for horses, and as soon as our horse to grape culture. Walla Walla is al breeders will provide abundant feed for ready doing a good business in shipping winter, bo that the growth of the young fruit Many car loads are sent to East animals during the inclement season is ern Washington, Idaho, Montana, Dako not dwarfed and stunted by Bcant and ta and Minnesota. Much more could insufficient food, they will produce a and would be done if freight charges on brood of horses not inferior even to the railroads were such as to leave the pro hnrse of the blue grass regions of Ken- ducer and merchant a reasonable mar tucky. As More Btated, the vast bands gin. The day of lower rates is at hand, of rattle which ranged the hills in the and the fruit business will be stimulated early days have disappeared as the set- to large proportions thereby, tlomont of the country and the division Besides the City of Walla Walla, the of the lands into farms has progressed, most important business points in the There are many thousand horses, cattle county are Waitsburg, Prescott, Dixie, and sheep in the county, but not, as for- and Wallula. Waitsburg is a prosper uierly, in large bands. Each farmer has ous town of about seven hundred peo hia proportion. More and more atten- pie, situated on the Touchet river, and tiou is being paid to the improvement of on the 0. R. & N. Co's, line, twenty tock, and many pure blood and grade nine miles northeast of Walla Walla. It animals have been purchased during the will also be on the line of the proposed It few years. branch of the N p R R bom AinB. I ruit culture has received much at- worth. It has a roller flouring mill of a tonUon. Apples, pears, plums, prunes, capacity of one hundred and fifty bar and cherries are grown to perfection, rels per day, good common schools, a both , m to size and flavor, in all the set- number of churches, an academy under UM d,tricU of the Walla Walla coun- the auspices of the United Presbyterian iry hmall fnnt thrive marvelously. church, planing, oil and chop mills, and 1 eacoe. huco, well every second or a weekly newspaper. tlnlr: f CU!tUfe' <h0Ugh Pre9C0tt ""age of two hundred rm" WelL The itants, lying on the Touchet, and Ubfri.kJ7r i " P;l8aac8anJ y between Walla Walla and Waita l tXZZ' WU1 en,U bur 14 haa flouring miU of a capac- X h-r? d&D- ityof twohuudxedbarrels,agood8chool, Watulbh houL Dixie "uy ana thrifty, the grape lie8 ten miles northeast of Walla Walla,