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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1888)
THE WEST SHORE. drrl arrfi bw, and it cvi lently intends to carry on Mteniiv ortion. The largest atationary engine on ih" IVific coast ha jant been pat in, the cost of Lirh, in Hun Kftnriwv), was 1,000.00. Two hun dred and fifty mn are employed. Th IULtD and Talliot mines, at Kenton, have nl U-n worked m'nee 1Ss5. The coal is lignite, the teini faulty and mining unprofitable. Daring the yevt h".1) to 1V.", inclusive, those mines were made to yif'M one hundred and ninety-five thousand three hoodr! and mty-ninc tons. Kecapitulating, it is found that the conl minf'8 of King county have yield ed, in all, np to January 1, 1SSS, as follows : (Vlar M iin!in Uulu 1.710,0(10 tons lm::,os; " . l!i,L'.)7 " . 1!i.',,:;;!t " Uk ... .WW'Atom Th combined output of all other mines in the territory to the iamo date was one million two hun drvl thousand ten. There have, of late, been great iiiduccmoLU to incrcaao the traffic to the utmost rriv of cod m hig, h over lhe Maat( thedemand extraordinary, and the business very profitable One n,w mine is owning in King county at present and to more will ,0 M Wn as reached by rail, prob- ; -fore the end of tho year. Adding the antici lW reluct of the mine now owning to the proba- Mo pruJucU of tho minm 1rn.,K, I n. . h ;Jr':JnSSSwil1 Woiimato five ban ill f"1! V "7 ' Which Th. mint ,oicg j, thorn TU i i 1 I ariI1S for tho coming of "ins, rb fit, a:,!. g " ,he two l;, I'ituminoui n4 ' ? the re bi boint? fmm n . "Whracite ny promises to contest with the Oregon Improvement Company and Dansmuir (of Vancouver island) for the leading place among the great coal dealers of the Pacific coast Its capital is $5,000,000.00, and its properties equal to the best. It will ship from Seat tle, where it is now building a wharf. It will load by a new process, by which, instead of dropping the coal into bunkers, and again dropping it into the holds of ships, it will, by steam engine, lift the loaded car from the track and lower it to the ship's hatchway, then back to the track after emptying. In this way, breakage of the coal will be saved. D. H. Gilman is president of this company, Henry Crawford vice pres ident, W. J. Jennings secretary, J. A. Jameson treas urer, and F. H. Whitworth manager. Peter Kirk is the owner of nine hundred and sixty acres of first class coal land in township twenty-two north, range seven east, four miles beyond the road of me uommoia & rup;et bound Company. The eight veins range from four to ten feet in thickness, and the coal cokes finely. He is opening up a little, but will not do much until the railroad reaches him. Mr. Kirk is an English iron worker, and has long been connected with the Moss Bay Hematite Iron and Steel Works, of Maryport, which have sent sixty thou sand tons of steel rails to the Pacific coast during the past twelve months. He is interested in the Snoqual mio and Cle-Elum iron deposits, and expresses his in tention of establishing immense iron works'at some point Whether that Doint will ha fin!;, M Ue-tlnm, or whether he will bring Us iron ore to his coal mine, can not yet be stated. This favored region is almost as rich in iron as in coal. It is more remote from tide water, has never been reached by rail, and hence has remained, to this H nndeveloped The railroads, however, are push g into the iron conntry, and the excuse of inacces- 2 "0t r' sU ttonth Wer. Bog ore is foundin many places. Brown hematite hasbeendis- S,rr81nTlnie paM- 00 rect line of Seat le, Late Shore ft Eastern railway. In a re- t! " . i T" on Charles K. W briefly describes it as follows: o,lo,le, n 1 ' W'M "Pn '""'govern., re warW vertical Tl 7 im north and 80uth' nJ na'ml ,.i f;fty 'T mclnm froro 8il 10 "'lic iron m ' 1,16 hlckl!8' "e " Cliff," U Wt alduto L , i '"e8, 01 rtich in "etaffic iron und it nZ Z I n a". ite' ron F.i ' .eRI)ecial,y for the manufacture of iwimons of this or 'I tbe re8ult of an analysis of six Mab.lelj.liia hy one of fading assayers of