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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1889)
WEST SHORE. of the Pacific TIic Mount Olympus Water Company linn been organised with a capital stock of fVKI.lKHI, mnl will bring water from Little (Juilcine river, flow ing ilnwn fnnii the titoti iitiii 11 from n point twenty-three mile from tin- city and at an elevation of l.'ix) feet love it. When thin in complete.! port Townsend will kcm the fment water supply in the went ami excel lent protection from lire. On the western slope of tin Cascade mountains, in Oregon, ari a immUr of mineral districts in which there are many ledge of great promise. In the vicin ity of the Santiain ami contiguous to the route of the Oregon iVilie are several of these districts which will receive a great stimulus from the construction of the railroad. Many milieu have been located ami a large amount of development work done. The ledge show free gold ami silver sulphurets, and many of the assays are very h:gh in hotli. North of thi district i the (Vkama, which ha hitherto Un almoxt inacces sible, hut which can reach the railroad by an easily count riK ted road leading .uth twenty mile. Some of the ledge are of great width and how g m d ore, while other are iiit small hut of great richness. Most of them are owned hy 1'ortland men, while the Santiain mine. In-long chiefly to reident of Salem Hnd Albany. ireal development will iimUhtedly U- made in (hi region .n, and the (Wade will "ac,uire a reputa tion for mineral espial to that of the mountain further to the cant. Thre, new tea..,rr., of .Vsm ton each and having a , of eighteen knot, are to I. M1ilt j England for th-Canadian IVillc route from Uritish Columbia to Japan and China They are to n.t IMIIMI each and he of the same ,.odc d de,ig ',!, North (irrmait l.h-yd ,,nWt Lh. There i f1H,d Wild d.,H I the f,.g ,h Wl ,,,.,, Un.m fth.,,d.tical leader, ho ,). ,,, f Ing up our foreign trade ., merchant ...anne ,v mean of l;dy or ,nvial contract, S, h , f, " l.orn a. th.,hould.dvie,heln (,f t1(.ir ,,.., ; rven if they rauiiot iovernor iVnnoyer should receive ,.nM . n,or.l,un.,r,ofneryci.i,eninhie,r,,r,ohavehe .hinaUw.mfo H..hingiR(11I1(.onlvlilii nutting that the .vrri,or'. ,,..1 ,; . ... W.ng in the ,,,,,er he i on the right tra, in ' "'T. in jrrM r k nh.Ml,nofi,indu,t7ohllMV1 ,h' M H-rUnl in the NurlUrrtt , " )f tore of the laws that have been made to keep it from utter decay ought to be speedily punished. On Monday the twenty-third of September the Southern Oregon State Board of Agriculture will open it district fuir at Central Point, in Jackson county The fair of the second district will open at The Dalles on the name day. These will undoubtedly be splendid exhibitions of the products and industries of those por tions of the state, well worth the visit of anyone at all interested in agriculture, fruit growing or stock rais ing. Good speed programmes have been prepared. Centralia comes forward with a strong bid for the capital of Washington, thus competing with Olympia west of the mountains, as North Yakima and Ellens burgh are competing east of them. When present rail road projects are carried to completion Centralia will certainly lie a very accessible point, and with the lib eral land grant offered the new Btate might do much worse than select that enterprising little city for its seat of government. The fin-men's tournament held this week in Taco ma was participated in by representatives of the fire departments of the principal cities of Oregon, Wash ington mid British Columbia. The interest manifested and the proficiency displayed show that the volunteer lire departments of the northwest are of a very supe rior character and ready to do gallant battle with the destroying element. That is a bad story that conies from Washington in reference to a town site grabbing syndicate that is al lied to have W lading nigh mn;va, jn Northorn Montana. If the reported iniquity can lie fastened the (irent Falls Water Power and Town Site Co., that concern ought to be smashed. If the story is MMt will not be hard to establish the fact. ' Now that passenger trains on the Oregon & Wash 'Kt;'n road have commenced running to Pendleton, 1'iiH'i.es ln that city, already one of the most pros-l- ro m Orvgon, should largely increase. With this '" road and the opening of the reservation, soon to oiuphHlnM, Pendleten will make rapid advance- K the Italian citizens of San Francisco are in ear ; 1,1 1 movement to stock the rivers of their na ''"'"'thquinnatMlmon from the Pacific const, ' V h,'?k ' of lhe Colu' river. While they Utrt they had better get the best.
