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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1889)
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I, ...... 1 BiotilJa in i ' I t., 1 1. k .J t . . ,in,!, .hPD learel by being slashed down and burned, or : I off in.1 burned, and properly seeded, produce a few lav very little inferior to the bottoms, but runout CPJ r an! have to renewed either by cultivation or manure gvA mp The hill, bench and mountain landB bi IZm the valley are very extensive, and are steep only in a L famishing almost unlimited range for stock, even in their natural state, there being wild pea vine, brakes and mtl(.b other natural growth, besides some wild grass in places where timber is not too thick, upon which stock thrive and do well nearly the entire year. Work horses and milch cows are uiually shelter! and fed, especially in early spring, to produce the beat results. Lake Chelas RF.oiox.-Lake Chelan lies in the northern portion of Central Washington, in the southwestern part of Okanogan county, and is at once the largest and most beaati ful body of fresh water in the ' territory. Beginning within a few miles of the Columbia, with which it is connected byi short river, it extends sixty-five miles into the heart of the Caw-ade mountains, and is nine hundred feet above the sea level, and three hundred feet above the Columbia. It is navi gable to Tierce river, its chief tributary, a wild, turbulent stream heading in the mountains, where the main tributaries of the Skagit river take their source. The country immediate ly north of the lake is open, comprising a considerable area of bottom land in the valley of Pierce river. Some of the finest cottonwool and cedar timber may be found in this section, and valuable discoveries of gold and silver quartz have been made on the summit of the Cascades, the dividing line between Oka nogan and Skagit counties. The ledges were found two yean ago by parties from the sound, who went in from Skagit river, but the same parties now go in by the Chelan route, which is more accessible. Seven or eight claims have been opened np and the asssment work done this season. Next year opera tions will be continued on a more extensive scale. The won derful glaciers of that comparatively unknown and untalked of region will some dav attract wide attention. They are found in a resion extending about ten miles east and west, and twen ty-five or thirty miles north and south. Teaks of green ice, forty to fifty feet in height, tower heavenward and present a magnificent sjectacle. Here the Cascades reach their widest and highest range, the snow belt being seventy-five miles in brfadth east and west, in what is known as the Saw Tooth range. IVautiful shells, resembling oyster and clam shells, are found on the highest mountains, and there are solid banks of gravel forty to fifty feet through in the glacier country. Tbe agricultural lands which lie upon the lake and terraces of tbe hills on either side, covered with a dense growth of bunch grass, and which extend from the foot of the lake some ten or twelve miles, otfer to the farmer the orchardist or stock-raiser, opportunities sm h as no other locality can excel. Tbe mild winters, the soft, spring-like atmosphere of summer, the ab sence of cyclones and violent winds, and the pure, healthful atf r are tempting many to take up their abode near this beau tiful lake. Immense water power exists at the foot of the lake, here a stream varying in size and depth, according to the sea mi, atarls many thousand horse power in a distance of half a mile. This, coupled with the fact that abundance of timber can 1 rft,l to the outlet of the lake, and the further import ant fm that thin ,(W(.r ig immediately upon the border of od of the ri, agricultural regions in the northwest, offers pt inia-rmenu t(J th,. manufacturer. The country throughout ,iUl and small game, and there are no such trod taiMon the consent. In Uke Chelan there are four