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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1887)
ilorthiucotcru Itciuo an gnforroatUro. N. T. Ssow Sim.-Work is progressing ra idly on the snow shed of the Northern I' ific cat of the C ades. The contractor are Glenn, lUmu-y A Co., who will use nearly five million feet i( IuihWt in the work. Idaho Pu rM Tin- Mom creek plaa-r mines, mtcen tiiil from Salmon City, Idaho, Lave U-n l-tided for iV),M).(), loan Eastern cotnjany. When tin? transfer in in!, the mines will U ojrncd on a large scale. A Cam h'Aum Nim.et. A iiii t of gold man recently found near Murray, Idaho, wishing A little more than thirty-three ouruvs, and talued at f-Vjn.Ofl. Thin in four ouna-s heavier than the largest previously found in the Co ur d'AIetie plavrs. , Amur Ii Hovi wtsTi. Work on the Oregon Pacific roundhouse, at Allany, Oregon, has Uxii commenced. It will le huilt of brick, will contain right engine utalls, and will coM fli', (Ml.d). Work on the machine shoj will lethe next undertaken ly the company. A project is on f't to establish woolen mills at Alhanv ith every jnii-t U suarM. l'osu Ijujm. The large white nid lilies, that are so muth admired, have almt all dis apared, and in their jlv comes the lotus flower, inewlut similar, only larger and of a rich cream color. It in said that the only re gion in the Wet where these (lowers are found, i in the Mississippi valley, Irtwevn Ihihiique and St. I'aul, and then in hut few places. y &A L'bonifU. I'titiiu Ktiik"Ai. The Montana Cen tral, whl h i a link in the Monit..ba system, i construding a line (rem Helena to P.utte. A brarw h c the Nortliern Pacific is abrn Mng con truted N tween thoxe two cities. IVth linen have vrvMrd to P-oulder, at whii h js.int the trtk arc lit ttj firt ajwt. IVtween Iioul dcrand I'.utte, the sunned linen rroM Other wvrral time. Tlie fight ltwe n the N'ortlw-rn Paif.c and th rw n.tnjany, a re vealed in fvjetcd roads, will k-ad to reural similar instances of paralleling lines, a notable one being the Northern and Manitoba, between Helena and Fort Ik-nton. I'akek Citv Railroad. The preliminary sur vey of a route for the proponed railroad from Paker City to Granite creek has ken com menced. The lieginning of this work indicates that the incorjsurators of the company are in earnest in the matter. The road would l of great lenefit to I'aker City, and to Portland as well, if the large reduction works, so much talked of, are ever erected. Vancouver to Yakima. A preliminary re coimoissance has lcen made of a route from Vancouver to (Joldendale and Yakima, for the Vancouver, Klickitat & Yakima R. R. Co. The party went through Klickitat pass, and encoun tered no serious obstacle to the construction of a railroad. The line passes through a splendid agricultural, timber, coal and stock region, and if huilt, will le a valuable one. Skattlk, L. S. it K. Railkoad. The ship I'triiun has arrived at Seattle, from Kngland, with a cargo of two thousand and seventy steel rail for the Seattle, Like Shore & Eastern. Track laying will le pushed rapidly ahead. The company declares its intention of penetrating Eastern Washington next summer, and is ne gotiating with the jeople of Walla Walla for a lonus for a line to that city. (Jrw:x Cn AKI.OTTK Coal The coal projcrty of W. A. Koliertson A Co., situated in Yaijuon valley, on the (Jucen Charlotte islands, has Urn landed for ninety days for 110,((i0.(xi. Ancxjx-rt will examine the property, and the sale will depend on his rejort. These inlands are on the coaht of Uritish Columbia, just muh of the Alankan line, and the superior quality of the coal found there has often been asserted by explorers. Gold (Ji'aetz ix the Cascades. Tlmt res idents of I'rownsville, Oregon, rwt-ntljr tliscov ere.1 a hslgc of gold quartz on the western sH of the Cascade mountains, between the Cali