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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1887)
r:A THE WEST SHORE. .j rr txinible. Besides the extensive car shops, irMMinzz ezsjzj tempered witn pru- Lnaoe. Lo, it L a steady, prcgres- there are alrej a number of bnck .ire parity, without the eranescent buildbgs, such as the school house, tie - V; which many terns cultivate at court bouse, three stores, a brewery aid ti, ein of tore solid aid sufetan- a bank, and several others are projected tlU tdvtntegea It has reeled itapres- and will be erected soon. The age of .t .JTd position through no fore- brick and mortar has fairly set in, and a bg procs, bet by reason of natural few years will see a great transform Cizvf, which are still at work and will tioa in the city's appearance, produce greater results b the future. Last year Sprague shipped fire hun Withost loping from crag to crag," as dred thousand pounds of wool and thir. it often dry b i peculate towns, far ty thousand bushels of wheat, the latter abore its actual Talue for business or combg from a region jest beginning to TftilnM purposes, property has been raise wheat for eiport, but which is capa steadily on the ascendant, keeping pace ble of producbg millions of bushed an with the growth of the city. Good res- nually. A large flouring mill has just idence property may still be purchased been erected by Messrs. Hoffman k Ste at from $75.(0 to $1(0.(0 per lot of f. vens, which is supplied with full roller ty by one hundred feet, and business machinery to the capacity of seventy property is hell tt reasonable figures, fire barrels of flour per day. The mo Tb are considerations worthy of note tire power will be steam. Ten times the by one looking for a good point to es- quantity of wheat received last year will Ubliish himself in bosicees, be brought to Sprague this season, the The impression Sprsgue makes upon greater portion of which will be convert the stranger who enters it by rail in ed into flour at the new milL Another either direction is a most favorable one. manufacturing institution is the brew It has as air of business and importance ery, a large stone and brick buildbg, which is generally remarked upon by erected at a cost of $00,000.(0. Its pro-tratel'-rs. Its large depot, numerous duct is of a superior quality, and finds side tracks, car shop, warehouses, pub- a market throughout Washington, Idaho lie buildings and business streets, are and Montana, evidence of thrift which can not fail to Sprague is a splendid location for a attract attention. The engravbgs on foundry and inachbe shop. The large 671, o72 and G7.'i give a general farming country tributary to it, with the view of the city, one of its busbess new and extensive quartz mining region, stre U and a number of its special fea- to which it is nearer than any other tun-, hich testify to its present condi- point on the railroad, render it a desira tioa, but can not sjak of its future pro, lie place for such an industry. There jte, which will be set forth in the fol- are a planing mill and lumber yard, a lowbg pag'-s. The wooden business brick yard and a number of other indus-houv-s erected early b the town's his- tries, such as a harness shop, blacksmith tory are gradually lbg superseded by shops, etc Nearly every kbd of busi suUUntial brick structures, and a ma- ness is well represented, a dozen stores jority of new buildings erected in that carrybg large and well selected stocks lortioa of the city will undoubtedly be of of goods, and doing a large trade with the better catena!. An eicellent qual- sections remote from the railroad, b ity of brick is manufactured near by, so eluding the new mines on Salmon river, that material of that kind is easily ob- There are two weekly papers, the Jour-