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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1887)
NORTHWESTERN NEWS AND INFORMATION. 191 pany for the purpose erf erecting a paper mill in that city. The cit irons are subscribing to the capital stock with their proverbial liberality. Manila and straw paper ami board will be manufactured, alo pajer pails, etc., etc. The ample water power, the near supply of straw, and the eaw with which cottonwood pulp may Iks obtained, unite to maVe Spokane Kail an almost unrivaled cite for an enterprise of this character. Oheoox Maxb. The Oregon Lime Compa ny haa been incorporated, with a capital itock of Io0.000.00, for the purpose of working the marble quarried near Huntington. It is the In tention of the company to saw the marble into slabs for monument, mantels and other mer chantable articles, and to reduce the chip and refuse- to lime, for which there is a ready mar ket. Prof. J. E. Clayton lias pronounced the marble the (Incut yet found on the coast. It takes a beautiful polish, and makes an unsur passed quality of lime. Yaquxa Hakbor. During the six months ending April 30th, the Yaqulna bar was crossed by steam vessel sixty-six times, the net regis tered tonnage being thirty thousand tons. No accidents have occurred, and there is no reason to associate any eupccial danger with the en trance to Yaqulna bay. In a short time, three staunch iron steamers will be plying regularly on the route between Yaquina and Fan Fran cisco, leaving each jort every three days. ThU will certainly become a favorite route for freight and paHscngers to and from the Willamette val ley. y Water Powm Fara.-Mr. Aaron Um, of ltoHfburg, Oregon, offers the free perpUul uie of his water wer at that pla-e, to any party who will erect and operate a woolen mill at that place. The only cx-nse attached to it U the dam, in connection ith a flouring mill now there. The wools of the Umjqua rank first In the Oregon market, and a million jound can lie annually grown In that region. The market for woolen good Is large and Inc reading. Thi is a most generous and advantageous offer, and some woolen fact' sliould improve the opof tunity. . 1'ehjletox to Wai.u u.-Tbe Oregon A Washington H. tt. Co., organized to bcild a railroad from Pendleton to the Northern Farifl at Wallula, ha let the contract for complete construction of the line, and work I now in progress. Ttie farmer along the line have giv en the right of way, and have Joined freely with the buaincsa men of Pendleton In subscribing 100,000.00 for the road. The !ock la owned chiefly in Pendleton. It la expected that the road will be opened for trsflk alwut the flret of Novemtwr. Tie main line will 1 thirty mile in length, with a branch, of fifteen miles, to Centrcvillc. The only bridge required will be one across Walla Walla river. Majjitoa Exuxstox.-Traek laying on the western extension of the Manitoba syntera I progretwing at the rate of seven mile In twen ty-four hours. Two thousand four hundred teams are employed in grading. It is exi ted that trains will be ninnlng into Fort Pnton by the first of rVptemW. Tlie location from Great Falls to Teuton will soon be completed, and the work of grading eatward from (ireat Falls will then s commenced. IVfore the year Is out, the trains of the Manitoba system will U run ning into Helena. It Is the common opinion that the road will be quickly extended to some sea-port In Oregon or Washington. Part Pi it MitL-The proprietors of a j jur mill at Carlitos, Cab, have leased Young's) river falls, near Astoria, for a rlod of ten years. They ill at once erect a mill for reduc ing spruce timber to pulp, f the manufacture of pape r. Cottonwood has been in common use for Ibis purjMH, but it Is found that sprue yield take a largw a percentage of Hp, and a this timber grons in exhauntltM quantities In the vklnity of the fall, this ha been arret ed a a suitable location for the mill. The fait will aupply four hundred home poer, a em ployed by the company. The Jilp HI I shipt-M to the California mill, and, pibly, other mill will m supplied. It is esjrded that the fcew lnduntry a ill I In operation In July. A P.n Unit Cif.-The Ftft Pdakelry saw mill recently cut thre bun lred and three thw sand left of lumber in a run of ten lour. Tll exc-cded anything tevlouly acrompUMon Puget wiul A few day UW, tU Taoa Mill Co. mado a ten hour run, cutting a Ml of four hundred and sixWn thousand eight hun dred and sixty-four fat. Tl Jund-f of ordinary alarf , such a U cut daily, and bad but little larg stuff in it. Tbl wa by Ut tl larval cut ever made on th Pacific rwwt, and had only lrn exewded by ot iMst Fl!,