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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1889)
THE WE8T SHORE. II parents Jo Salem, where he attended the Willamotte University. In 1876 he crossed the mountains and located in Prineville, where he has since resided, and though in a democratic county, has served as sheriff two years and is now its representative in the legisla ture. Jonx Q. Wilson is a republican representative from Marion county, and a resident of Balem. ALBANY, OREGON. DURING the year jast closed the city of Albany haa shown remarkable progress and vitality, and ives indications of a future progress highly gratify. !ng to its intelligent and enterprising citizens. The tax roll shows a marked increase over the value of property the previous year. The total valuation is 21,322,510.00, divided into $770,881.00 real estate and 0545.G05.00 personal property. Upon this there Are indebtedness and exemptions to the amount of $200, tjOO.OO, leaving a net taxable value of $1,031,800.00 vpithin the limits of the city, which will yield a rcve nue of $4,501.06. The estimated population, based pon the tax roll, is three thousand one hundred and fity, not including recent arrivals and temporal y res i lents. The prosperity of Albany is based upon the excellence of the large area of tributary agricultural ! nd, upon its large and cheaply utilized water power, rnd upon its unrivaled transportation facilities, to v.hich are added valuable coal and gold and silver : lines now being developed. Linn county is one of the oldest settled portions f the celebrated Willamette valley, and has always ' Den noted for its excellent crops and fine farms. Its ; roducts are largely marketed through Albany, and i 'most the entire county is tributary to that city, as, '30, is a large area of fertile land lying on the west le of the Willamette river. There is much land i it partially improved lying between the city and the : ountains, which can be purchased at extremely low : tes, and in the foothills both government and rail : ad lands are open to settlement. Improved lands : ay also be found by those who have money to invest :' i that class of property in preference to buying Reaper land and making the improvements them. : Ives, The agricultural regions are gradually filling and yearly a greater area of land is put into pro :ctive condition. Many orchards are beiog set out, - d dairying is largely on the increase, both of these ; rrns of agricultural industry being profitable in this i pon. Albany feels the effect of this increase in ' pulation, production and values in the surrounding t antry, and its citizens are industriously engaged in the work of providing additional facilities for mat. keting the products and transacting tho business. The Santiam canal, an artificial waterway from the Santiam river to Albany, supplies tho power for manufacturing purposes. Tho canal if twenty feet wide, with a fall of four feet to tho mile, and carries a body of water three- feet deep, amounting to twenty thousand running feet per minute Tho supply of water can bo easily and cheaply doubled whenever the growth of manufacturing demands it. Shipping facilities are at hand superior to thoso possessed by any other city in the valley, and arrangements aro be ing made for others. On tho Willametto river steam, era of the O. R. it N. Co. ply botween tho city and Portland, while thoso of tho Oregon Pacific bring freight from up and down tho stream to tho railroad at Albany. Tho main lino of tho Southern Paciflo's Oregon system, connecting Portland and San Fran, cieco, passes through tho city, and from this (mint a branch runs to Lebanon, a thriving town to tho cast, ward. The Oregon Pacifio crosses tho Willametto at this point by means of a fine bridge, giving Albany access to tho ocean at Yaquina bay. This road is completed sixty miles east of tho city, and will bo finished across the Cascades by tho end of another year, making connection with an overland road in tho vicinity of Snake river, and placing Aibany on an other transcontinental system. A company has Uf n organized in Astoria to build a road from that city into the Willametto valley, and tho citizens of Albany have incorporated a company to conjcratfl with this movement and secure for their city tho terminus of tho Astoria lino. Construction has already been com. menced on tho lino south from Astoria, When this project is carried to succeaafal completion Albany will havo a third seaport from which to ship her pro ducts. From whatever joint tho city is viewed, tho fu. tare of Albany seems bright with promise Aitici. pations of rapid growth aro not baM upon theory merely, but upon tho continued ofwation of cause already at work, whoao effects aro now being Ml, and which must havo a steadily increasing influence upon tho welfare of tho city. No interior town in tho en. tire northwest offers greater promiso than do this thriving city of the Willamette. McMlNNVILLEB I'lUXMCUi ATTENTION has t0 frequently called in tho column of I nr. Wilht Hiiouk to the evidences of prnirity txhtbii! in McMinnrille ami the sur rounding country. YtinLill county has always -o scknolcdgd as the cream of the Willamette valley,
