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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1889)
THE WEST SHORE would reach over $16,600,000.00. Of lead there were alwut twenty-six million two hundred and fifty thousand pounds, and this, at the rate of four cents, an average prk e for the year, would be $1,050,000.00. The grand total, at the lowest compu tation, is $38,485,000.00. Or, if we figure copper at the market value of leventeen cents, it would be $41,417,500.00. Taking the whole, however, at what it actually brought the producers, the total output of Montana for 1888 in the four metals, would be : gold, $4,250,000.00 ; silver, $19,509,000.00 ; copper, $13,fa5, 000.00; lead, $1,050,000.00, making a total of $38,485,000.00. Willamette Falls Excelsior Co. The first factory to be erected on the west side of the river at Oregon City is that of the Willamette Falls Excelsior Co., recently Incorporated as the sucsesBor of the small excelsior industry now carried on in that city. Three substantial buildings will be erected, and other upholstering materials besides excelsior will be manufac tured. The factory will be located at the foot of the locks and just on the west side of the lower lock. From the factory a slip will be run down to the wharf, which will be built over the locks. A flume will be built one thousand and fifty feet long. This will be open where the water is taken from the locks, then will be closed in, the closed part to be built four feci square. The fall immediately at the mill will be thirty-two feet, the wheels having a capacity of two hundred horse power. The company intends to have its machinery in place and ready to I set in motion in sixty days. Its wheel will probably I Uie first to turn on the west side. The site selected is an excellent one, well adapted to their use in every particular. With build ings made to suit their needs, they will be in prime shape to meet the demands of their growing trade.. The Great Sun River Caxal. An immense irrigation pro ject is on foot in Northern Montana, which promises to be car ried to a successful issue. Between Sun and Teton rivers Hps a vast area of bench lands, three million acres of which can be covered by a canal from Sun river. The Sun Hiver Canal Co. Ugan work on this great aqueduct several yean ago, and now, at an expense of $200,000.00, has completed two hundred miles ditrhes. Benton lake lias been tapped at an expense of $40,000.00, and one hundred miles of ditches constructed from it at a cost of $100,000.00. It is projd to extend the main canal so that this great area of bench lan-li can be covered by ditches leading out from it. The soil of that n-gion is a sandy loam, resting upon a subsoil of clay, which wv,t ftf crone. Irrigation will noil ,.,....., . .11 K f U rainfall is too light to I depend- ed upon, and successful cultivation requires the means A arti ficial watering to be at band if nested, me are. w -,i.i -:n t- ini.tin thousand farms of one hun- iiruicu "ill uiav uvmi; ill dred and sixty acres each, supplying home, directly to one hundred thouued people, and Indirectly w m Heal Estate in Vancouver, B. C.-One o the moat ( nent instances of rapid enhancement of real rsUt ' that of Vancouver, the Pacific coast terminus of the .reaj an adian Pacific railway, .ituated on Burrard inlet !'.n uriC bia. Three year, ago it wa. a wildcrnew. .No. .1 U . ntytf large and costly business structure, and handom ren, -Property then worth but a few dollar. pr most as much per front foot' on the wlrfV Identified with the growth of lb. city fry It. 11 J firm of Rand Broths, who bar. handled l. ci sands of dollar, as agents for other jrt ments in and near the city to the entire satisfaction of their pa trons in evenr Instance. Thee rentlemen are extensive deal- era in lands throughout the province, and ha v. an office in New cetminstcr, where they are engaged In large real estate trans actions. Person, front a distance who deaire to Invest in real estate in the province, or are seeking reliable Information on the subject, will find It convenient and f afe to address Hand Bros., Vancouver, B. C, by mail. Railroad roa Qciliite Valuv.A Urge amount of tltn- lcr land is being taken in the Qullcute valley. A gentleman just from there informs us that a numtar of claims have re cently been filed upon. A party consisting of ton or teelve U in town to-day, en route for that section to take timber claims. There is urgent need for more surveying to U done. Qulleute is in the extreme western end of Clallam county, l-orderlng on the Pacific ore an. It has some large and frrtile pralilre, sa iled oon by an enterprising and Industrious community. It needs an outlet other than by water, more than anything el. Mr. J. K. McDonald, of the Maon County A Grey's Harbor railroad, lias recently made a tour of Investigation, and we un derstand that the prospect bids fair for the whole tjulleute, Gray's harbor and intervening region to ! developed In the near future by a railroad system. Its outlet w ill to by connec tion south of t'nlon CHy with the Port Townsend Houtlwrn. Vrf TWnsrnd Argu$, Oaxmuali, W. T.-Oakesdale is an enterprising little town that has sprung up in the Palouse country within the pt two year.. It I. Incorjiorsted, has a population of alwnt five hun dred persona, and claims to U the largest shipping point on the Sjiokane A Palouse railway. It already has five large grain warehowes, anl two mote will be constructed on the comple tion of the Oregon lUileey A Navigation Company's line, which Is already graded to that olnt. The farmrra of lU vi cinity are about to establish a creamery on the operative plan, a large planing mill Is being built, and sundry other en Lfrprhw. re on foot. A bank and a flxtriog mill are among the urgent necessities now. The ton Is situated In a Uautiful valley and Is surrounded by sluj-ing bills, mil h ere easily UiM snd produce large crop, of grain, fruit and vegotablre. This town promise to mmm an Important UU cfiUr In the great Palouse country. 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