040 THE WEST SHORE.
trial line have iblj Wn run from there to an assay value of two thousand one hundred
several point on the Canadian Faafic, m h a, and twenty ounces d silver. The company
Nw WeMminsW, Fort Hammond, Suma and have the privilege of drawing on the smelting
II.,-.. The MiU. fa rrrl.l an extremely fa- work for ninety yet cent, of this value on its
vorable on,, rendering a line Wy of ronstrm- Wn forwarded. An assaycr he .ling the con
ti.,,, with few curves and low grades. It pa- fidenre of the I cnver company states the .vilne
e thr-s.gh a comparatively well settled h-rmi, ' the ore, he having made tests that enable him
whirh will jrive the road good liral business to do so. On the lead, nothing can U drawn
from the Mart. TV Hi-lion fro... S-attle to until it has lcen smelted. The work on the
Snohomish will I- completed by the mi.MI f four ledges owne.l by this company is progress
S -mlrr, and contra. I will probably U- h t ing favorably, and it is hojwl that in the course
for other ftitionn. "f a (ihort timi' t,,(,' wil1 ,K5 in a m'li'i,m to
turn out ore at the rate of two or three car loads
Tub Sai.wox Tac k. The salmon season on Hrweek.
th Columbia closed by law on the thirty-first of
July. Tl.p park is nearly a hundred thousand Si-okane Faixh. The city of Sokane Fulls
en- 1pm than last year, and hut little more is growing at a rapid pace. New buildings are
than half that of In!, notwithstanding the in- going up rapidly in every quarter. Hays the
rreawl number of fishermen and Iswts. The HhmuirU: " JVtwccn the railroad and river, on
total ,a k is three hundred anl fifty-four thou- Howard street, twelve buildings are in the
sand caws, the largest by any one cannery I course of erection. (Contractor ttrook has six
ing twenty-five thousand eight hundred and brick structures in hand at present. He has
seventy. Tho sin has but well U'gun on orders for one million brick, has delivered the
other streams, ho that the quantity of outside last kiln of four hundred thousand, and is corn
fall j Kick can not yet ls stated. I te ports from meiu ing to take brick from one of three hun
Alaska are to the elfirt that the season there is drcd and seventy-five thousand. On the edges
late and th pnjrts for a large park not good, of town, over the river, and everywhere, houses
Ueports from Fram-r river are to the effect fiat are going up and scores of residents are draw
the F.ritish Columbia pack w ill he light. ing plans and getting ready to build themselves
homes. The demand for houses is greater than
The I'mukmi. Tinm.k. Many loys, and the supply, and consequently rent is a little
even mm, though having no trade, love to work high. It is only of late that houses have been
ith tools, and would he glad to receive assist- built for the sjs'cial purpose of renting, and
arx-e in learning, the use of them. All surh renters have been only too glad to get anything,
should ult rile for the Fniver-al Tinker and The medium class 0f houses, which are usually
Amateur's Assistant. This is a new monthly demanded by people of moderate means, are
journal, devoted to amateur pursuits, und tells, just Is-ginning to Ikj erected, and are always en
from an amateur's s!andint, a!out turning gaged Is-fore they aa finished. At the present
and lathe work, painting, staining, working rate, a population of ten thousand inhabitants
drawings, organ and piano building, cl.rks, is not many months ahead."
photivraphy, wood carving, Uat building, car-
l-entry, bonn-made furniture, U.k binding, (mkhki.d, W. T.-The southward extension
Fremh ..lihing, wo.n1 finishing, fret work, of the Sjokane A Palouse road, crossing the
amateur printing, the magic lantern, etc. The 0. U. k N. line attiarlield, has enlivened mat
).iMal is profusely illu-trated. MiU-ription, ters at that place, and the prospects for a good
It year, Hngln ...pi.-s, L rents. Ad- business town springing up are good. Saysthe
drvM Hodgson iVrtrand. Frond way, New (iarlield Kntrrmw. itself one of the late evi-
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,0 ' lences of the town's growth: " Six years ago
the 0. H. fi N. Co. made the first survey from
ImiMiiuWut M.ui.-Of these ,;,., Colfax up the North l'aloiise river, to the mouth
s.tuatl near the line of the Canadian iVific, of silver creek, thence up Silver creek and
in the N lk.rk motintams, the Virtoria tU,h,',f across the divide to Fine rreek, a distance of
mjh: ''Tl.es lknk Mining Smelting Cm,,. Mm, miles, and there it ended at that time.
jny, U lile-Olle-Yi a, t, ,bip, th,ir firM car Two years later we had assurance from the nil
l.od.forvonthc -,th in-tant, to the -melting nKl n,lnpany that tlie wou,,, ,(,liIt
work at Vnver Tl,e -h.pment umuA of within one year from that time. With the.se
fiftrrn and one half tons of t-d w, uving ex,rUtions, and with a U-autiful hxation fora