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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1887)
TIIK CITY AT THE FALLS. m school, with six teachers and an attend- for a summer residence Cool, health an co of two hundred and fifty scholars, f ul, free from all taint of malaria, easily A new frame building is in process of accessible from tho city by both boat erection, and will bo completed before, anil rail, with good flailing and hunting tho close of tho year. It will cost $3,- close at hand, it offers excellent advan. 000.00, and will not only bo ample in stzo tagea as a summer resort A largo ho to accommodate tho growth of tho town tel to accommodate boarders of this for a number of years, but will be high- class is ono of the urgent neds of tho ly ornamental, as will bo seen by refer- city. As it is, a number of Portland ring to the engraving on pago 57G. Thero families spend their summers here, find is, also, a goal school which has been ing homes in private residences, Ono maintained many years by tho llenedic- improvement of interest in this conucc tino sisters, an order of tho Catholic tion should not bo overlooked. Tho cel. church. This has an attendanco of six- ebratcd drive from Portland to tho White ty scholars. There aio five good church House is to bo extended to Oregon City buildings, belonging to the Methodist next year, tho work having been author Episcopal, IJaptit, Episcopal, Con'-rro- feed by tho counties of Multnomah anil gational and Catholio denominations. Clackamas, and tho surreys made. The Odd Fellows and Masons havoeach Clackamas county lie on both side a goxl hall building, and various organ- of tho Willamette, though chiefly east of izations of those orders. Tho A. O. U. tho river, and extends to tho summit of W. and tho K, of Ij. also have organixa- tho CWado mountains. It embraces an tions. 13y far tho most costly and orna- area of a million acres, one-half of which mental structure is tho county court is in tho hands of private individuals, house, completed in 1886. It is a solid and tho rcraaiudcr subject to eutry tin brick and cement structure, with atouo der tho homestead, preemption and tint facing, two stories and a basement in ber laws of tho United KUte. Tho O. height, and surmounted by a cupola, fe C. railroad owns considerable land, from which is obtained a splendid view which it sells at graded prices, and on of tho river above and below tho falls, lileral terras of psyment Tho surfaco and a largo stretch of the fields and tim- of the country is, in the main, hilly, bered hills by which tho city is sur- Tho streams, of which there are many, rounded. It stands between tho main run through canyons, tho laud Utteen street and tho river, in tho center of a thera being rolling plateau, rising Into block (seo engraving on pago fd5), and mountains as tho Cascade are reach!, a broad flight of stono steps leads up to Along the streams are many acres of al tho first floor entrance. This edifice cost luvial bottom lan in, tho sod black, d p IM.OOO.OO, and represents more for tho and rich. Tho greater tertian of tho money expended than any other public surface is of tho hill class, the soil bo structure in Oregon. Thero aro many ing a red loam, partaking of tho nature handsome, and even elegant, privato res- of a clay, with a hard clay sub soil, idences, nearly all of thera so situated Tbeao rolling plateaus aro covsred with as to command beautiful views of tho timber, there being bat a few small river and surrounding hills. Tho great- tract of open prairie land. Tho pre er number arc located on ilia bluffs, Tailing timber is fir, while cdar, sprue, where tho cool summer breezes render hemlock awl larch are found in qaiftti life there most agreeable. Indeed, this ty. Ash, maple, aldr and cottonwood is one of tho bet points near Portland grow along the stream, Of ing to the