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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