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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1888)
THE WEST SHORE. KrH-t. Tic cum form baa been adopted inside. Th- church wwi paid $10,000.00 for the lot, $3, iml lr the organ, and the church building will t JfhM.M. A lwgA nuraler of elegant residences are now bniMir.g. Ihnc include a house for Mr. George Khhvkt, t. (vt f 18,000.00; a house for Mrs. Stacy, to t M'JMOO; F. II Sander, $12,000.00; H. H. tlVWti; A. A. Bel!, $12,000.00; A. Mack uAnnh, HOmfni; John R Kinnear, $10,000.00; C. L Viriri.fi0; Dr. F. A. Churchill, ,000.00; W. H. Hh-vcm, -SmOO; and Cbas. M. Sheafe, SG, iMi. Amour houm built Lerotofore in Seattle r thrco reniilcna-a, which cost 10,000.00 each; a thi.t-n Lundr! arsons; an $80,000.00 hospital; a private ichool building, and a $12,000.00 l-olJic tcWI building. This city also claims the fl brick hunnm block north of San Francisco. h M front one hundred and eleven feet on U.luml.1 itreet, two Lund! Mill, live hundred and forty-eix feet on' Front W-v,. ilw nj fuor (lory jaildil)68 tb.s l n eipnse 0f $(,50,00000 .mm,. ,mH OFr,li0I!, dari lic ,, r lU"""1 lt ""W of $8.00, u was lw (u ,jricl r ,, 'ir.,TrW'-CliforDi and rno.jria. Tko fcaw mm , , . . ri iJIakeIy and "l-n ll m. II,,,. Ul J , , ' Wc,re 10 made . ,v. d ere in i . - ... i. - nun in nsva . tn-ot.l of Jlsftnn,, . I, "7 "tuff to "-1 1.. l.c!,e BiHj . E, J' lfc '""bfr cut was '''.lBilli!.i?,wt!wwu1TOeaBL portion. The Oregon Improvement Company's mill cut eight million feet of lumber in 1887, and made $20,000.00 worth of factory goods. The company has ciccu oiiu oiaitcu a new xiiui, me largest m the citv two hundred feet long by one hundred wide, in which will probably be cut twenty-five million feet of hm. ber this vear. The SeattlA TinmUr & n . ? Company cut last year seven million feet of lumber two million laths, made sixty thousand boxes and $80,000.00 worth of factory stuff, A new box factory has been added, with a capacity of ten thousand box es per month. The other - . uumpany will be increased fifty per cent this year. The West era mill cut two million feet of lumber last year, and fifty thousand laths, and made $9,800.00 worth of fac tory stuff. These figures will be doubled or trebled in 1888. The seven brick vards Ias 0r .... . . , j uou uui Ave mil ion brick; and the nine yards this year are ex pected to yield eight million. Pressed brick will be imported from California and the East, to the num ber of two hundred thousand or more, and at least frentj thousand tons of building stone from quarries elsewhere. Like stori u uA u.f , , . . . vrv wo nuimmiy lOia 01 other mill, of the furniture factories, of the iron work,, crscker fsetory) ice facloryi o re flourishing as never before, extending their opera tions from month tn m, .-j . . . Inr , i i . ' u S',U1B great promise M : Z n'rty-f0nr ""I ere incorpo- he 'eti0D 0f the Cascade di o thn fillip 7 It 6 iwuu. me oalmon river minea, Z Z l d th6 Mtof the for. those of iw T. ' were more tnan double Ktf will, h. . Th retal1 kade, of course, vowlf won, or even m commerce and wealth , me e,ements01 rtic!e like (Wa A "" precInded in SD W of Z I ' rolre could be filled. Aver; The lal " TterpTri8e8 iere be referred to SfaT 8,Lake8 Uni0a Md Washington ' o:"LW.M The cut f. from twelve to fit 7 ? thlrt' feet deP- nd -kSfflSS dtate r g The inleT d- t.mike " &TsilsUe "cam- f'w ago , horse car continued, four 6 " 1,116 w pat on two and one-