102 THE WEST SHORE. wt . f,w .4 iu 1, 1,-M rr-nl to Kurojn ma U,,f.,,n ,;,,r,M M,mmM,u. or. KiM.-i-..-TI.e f.t rf.jinent of .,! fV-.W ! f,r IV,,(,n, Montana, m nude February W. Trk Uwmli MW.ni Central in U-inji H" ' toearljr .!, .!.,. it i. MI---IP-I that roa-1 will handle seven th n hor,lM-1 l,r. of c-l daily, fnn the &m.l Coulee mines, ,f! ,t i. , UW4U4 that th- demand on the Manitoba road will I- -,,, il,tkn.l !n daily. The Manitoba company re rr.t!r l.,w.-l n-t.trt f,r fifty-five thousand torm of rails. TW nil) Muhl- it to I 'iil-1 alMit five hundred miles of exten i.rt.ahd bran, he in Montana, and $0,000,000.00 will e ex-lnd,-dth;.n in luiMinjt and equipping more lines and nl,ir r.n to the Idaho U-nndary. The trilo at Oat Falls, it Umnu M in li-iiifih, and having K-ven piers, has just U n fn.j.Vt-l. I.'.oo ,".') of Montana Central IkjwIh were lit tijn t.'ie Now York market, and brought a premium of ten in t.l'.n-H j r it-nl., thongh the road is yet really less than one bun !r-l rm1c long. The Montana Central connects the Mani toba railroad ytem with I'.utte, a camp whom; total freight hipmcrit lt year amounted to five hundred and forty-one llound ton ; which hip'd seventy thousand tons of copper intt alone, and whuw- ronmmptiun of coke, coal, lumber and un hiix ry in grvaii r tlian that of all the rest of Montana com-Mi'ii-d. iu li i the town which the Montana Central is about It lap, and U (or this n-anoii that when j,000,000.00 worth of loi)d vtv thrown on the market they were eagerly taken at a heavy premium. Ai mm i"ii Mm.-Th Math Free Prtti, in speaking i4 nii of the reur m of Al.ka, mentions Poiiglas island, whidi iil.tit iwmtynV mile h.ng and tern miles wide, and ): lltif.tiing h-nglhwi- ,f the Wand, and locateil for thir ty .w tli..u.md five hundred Ut-, lies a gold-U-aring vein that U an a.tiul avmgo widtli of five hundred feet, with an -t;4 tiiU hundrvd fret in ,1,-pth utove drainage, or sea l ; ten cubic U f on? weighs a ton ; the ore will mill $0.00 cr t-n. Tl.U it the approximate value of ore in sight on what U known the Tr.alMI vein. Th,. actual amount of gold fv.U-l jrr month in , pt a wiH, though it is said to be Iln"i,.f which hvmmm i, dear prulit. There arjsix wir., wh... thotih it only ro-t thnn t-'xU,(KM.0o to put up th- ir -11.1 it work the mi,,,., Iuv nine- refund nun 000 00 i thnr ,l4,.i,., whi.l. they a-H,rt are inexhaustible! The (u .t u!.h. ,4 the ,;, 0M hKI ,!a, Wjni iH ni)t a, - .4 g,l. ftI tinr air,,M,,llit, Iwk of 7h,';'; al l,w n-ntaina that loom up in W ar,4 U, ., ,wh.t is called , he Slver IW,, aa i,,m.U, .4 rla.n,., which, ,!,, Mni. thm, W.thin a r.i..- ,4 t,n mil, ,h, J 1 -4,wPl!,,lltit,, Th,,Mt,,::;-:rz; Tm !m,a Km a M1Nr,lf ,o ,( . . ,. .--.k, jft!, ,4 ,l, p.;, , n" w ?1 " a rich dii I"H torn w ho oc- tt.pra.irft, ... . " - ""-vouimtna. n ......... i' . .... I'hwikh Iiim I wUna T., . . u r!,,!n montliH out thrxv claim, ,n, aw. com menced work in earnest, to ascertain whether there were.'in truth, any valuable ledges there. His persistent and welHi. retted efforts were rewarded with success, and he was soon fa. lowed by scores of others who were anxious to share in the fortunes to be found in this new, and now promising, district. The ores are chiefly rich in silver, but some give highly Batk factory returns in gold. A Tacoma company is now putting in reduction works at Salmon City. All who have visited the dis trict Bjieak in highest terms of the prospects, and it is the be lief of those capable of judging, that Salmon City will be the Leadville of Washington Territory. The trade of this terri tory is tributary to Tacoma, by the Big Bend and Salmon Rivet Transportation Co's. line of steamers, on the Upper Columbia, and connections to Ellensburgh or Yakima, and thence by the Cascade division of the Northern Pacific railroad. An Important Commercial City. Looking forward to the dense settlement of the now sparsely populated wheat regions of Eastern Washington, to the development of the rich mineral lelts of the Okanagan and other valleys, to the thorough clear ing and cultivation of the surpassingly rich agricultural valleys, that extend from the sound to the foothills of the Cascade mountains, to the constant increase of the output of the coal mines, to the further growth of the great lumber industry, to the establishment Of numerous manufacturing concerns, and to the advent of jobbing houses, to the building up of an extensive foreign commerce on Puget sound, the greatest and best of the natural harbors of the world looking forward to all these as sure to come, one can not but feel, while looking down on Ta coma from the forest-crowned heights at the head of Commence ment bay, that he has before him the beginning of what is destined to be one of the world's most important commercial cities. The foundations for such a city have been laid with in telligence and liberality, and all conditions are now favorable for rapid and substantial growth. Great progress has been made during the past few years, but still greater progress is sure to le made during the coming decade. Eugene V. Smalley, in Xorthuesl Magazine. Montana. The greatest length from west to east of Mon tana is five hundred and forty miles; the width, two hundred and seventy-five miles, and the superficial area, one hundred und forty-five thousand seven hundred and seventy-six square niiles, of which fully one-third is mountainous. The great watershed between the Atlantic and the Pacific, the main di vide of the Rocky mountains, runs through the western end, leaving about one-fourth of the territory on its western slope, and three fourths on the eastern. The western portion of the territory is exceedingly mountainous, while the eastern portion contains its grazing grounds and most of its agricultural val ). The mean altitude is three thousand feet above sea level. Mining has always lwn, and probably will continue to be, the "'j"ling industry. Montana's mineral progress has been mark- . y p.ga.ntic Htri,le8' In 1882 her precious metal output was fijjiit milliun dollars; in 1887 it was over twenty-five millions, a gain of seventeen millions in five years. What her probabH- y m ln this direction no one will dare to predict. The !"' n,y ,f the torr'tory is Helena, the capital, with a popula T' a77 t0 directory just issued, of nearly sixteen wn-t. It9 dnef mining camp, Butte, is the largest and twot 'I I" ,WOrM' Tho territory has a Voon of over to hundred thousand. ,lriU? tGoLU DlfVERY.-We are informed, on good a at a vc? rich quartz discovery has been made by