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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1889)
THE WEST SHORE. tU ttlrmU of C-,1 w.l to lb" Ool Jilroam !; tb iwrlhrul, a. Aid-raw and Highland to the bortk. 7U VtrUiH diatrirt includes an area of twenty rtcD 0rr nilrt, rmlirariiiK lL city of Victoria, iU (lorr, ('llro Lay, (inlin head, Mount Tolmie and CnUr kill. In tk vicinity of Odar kill aid (Vll-.ro I y tkcrf ia a gl d al of fine farming land, attd fruit railing is nw in iuit ritomivcly, tbo Utter Uing a citnrtively now departure for the fttfrirullariaU of tkat notion. Tkey are very iucc's ful io tkmr o-rat')tii, kowever, and are fat develop ing that Lranrh f industry. Comparatively little at ,,rvice One of the finest steamers on the Pacifio ooaat i run daily between Victoria and Vancouver to connect with the Canadian Pacific railway, so it is a real terminal point for that great transcontinental route, and the trip between the two cities, through the numberless beautiful little islands of the Gulf of Georgia, is one of the most picturesque imaginable. Daily boat ply to all important Paget sound ports, both in American and Canadian territory, and to points northward on the island and on the main land. San Francisco and Alaska steamers also stop there on their regular trips. Many of the steamers plying to and from Victoria are floating palaces, equipped with aiiililiiiHiii Jl; a ::rt LP mmP iw ' " t i mi ikt i ki iiuni, vii i,,,u I, , ruUn l.u ln ti(x en rullitkticg the soil of tU UUbd, I ut jtlr ret in tLat directum rapidly in. rrMitg Tlwtufb WatM on n i.Un.1. YicWia dm not u!?i fri.tn tU lar k of miUidn communication, ai that fart rntk'U imply. If it trre Cot implant a jJaor, if lU i.od nt a turd oti0 j,, llf,tjon islglt bet U Ike tu.t a-hftLtKn. Hut ku r(MWj( of tlat t-kU, ty UU or urr. UJ u, V,,. Krvta tkat jMtt tkry u.Ut in ! dinvti-u, to th it-Url. uvllu u, tk ottrna. ;rU of ll Pr,rlj, Tk-ri- U om tm.kip htr u, t ilu j fcD j atkrr t- Aaftl.ft, Uh lMit Urtf,V).rnmrtt tnUidtr iklch etftt.l tkrm t. ,,.ff ,ra rit f;KI every modern convenience, and swift trawlers. The only railway having a track into the city is the Esqui mau ik Nsnaimo road, which was completed only alwut two yean ago, extending up the coast a dis tance of orao seventy miles to the city of Nanaimo, "r rather, to Wellington, five miles beyond, where the clebrat.vl Wellington coal is mined. Daily passen ger trains are run on this road and the service is first class in every respect The first twenty-five miles from jctoria the road is built through a rough coun try. od an elevation of nearly a thousand feet is at twnL There are several high trestles and a tannel n ,hl1 "vtioD. nd lake, river, valley and mountain farbi.h an attractive variety of scenery. A number