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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1889)
WEST SMOKE. .10 to the recent constitutional convention. Ho a fm. ful speaker and a tireless, worker. He linn nhvnys been an active republican anil has had a wide experience Mb in politics and in bitumens matters. HON. THOMAS C. GRIFFITTS. SHE nominee of the democratic party of Washing ton for national representative of the new Mate in lion. Thomas C. Grillitts, senior inemlicr of the law firm of Griflitts, Moore A Fcighan, of Spokane Falk Mr. (Irillitts wan Itom near Carthage, Illinois, IVceuiber ", IS"7. lie spent his youth on the farm and in the printing ollice of the (Viwjr llipuh limn', educated himself and was admitted to the bar at the age of twenty-three. In 1SS1 he moved to Salt bake City, where he practiced his profession success fully until about two and a half years ago, when he U nfed in Spokane Falls. Mr. (irillitts took a promi nent position among the members of the local bar and when the time came for choosing delegates to the con stitutional convention he was elected in a district ad mittedly republican. In that convention he served with distinction on the committees on judiciary and mi city, township and county organization, and his minority reports submitted in two or three instances were approved. Though always a democrat he had taken no active part in politics until nominated for delegate to the constitutional convention, lie is a ready speaker and live worker in whatever enterprises engage his attention. BLACK COD, SKIL OR BLECIREL. A COLONY of twenty Swede fishermen and their H families, under the leadership of Captain I.und- lsrg, have Is-en engaged in the catching and curing of skil, erroneously called "black cod," mi the coast of llritish Columbia the present Heas.ni. The set tlcnient is known as " I.undlicrg," "d is hauled on Saunders' harbor, which oilers many advantages. The two great necessities of a new home are to Is' had i i i . ii. . t ii... in aliinii tince wood am water, wi me mime. from shore, mid at a depth in no place less than '.'.Ml fathoms. Fish arc- plentiful, and of splendid iiiality, while their weight runs everywhere from live to thirty HHinds. After being properly cleaned, ami the heads and haeklN.iicit removed, the fish on king landed are taken to the salting house, which is fitted with com plete and modern machinery. Here they are first treated to a light salt hath, mid are afterward im mersed in a refined Swedish pickle, made from the fish theniHelves. This pickle, which is also plentifully used in packing the barrels, is guaranteed lo preserve the fish in good order in any climate. ly placing the fish in frchh water, with the tlcsh side down, the salt can all be removed and the tlsh made highly palatable for table use. If the skin side is down the milt doc not have so good an opmrtnnily to rscaie. Captain l.umllierg is of the opinion, that so long as the name "black cod" is used no market can lie found for this fish. It is not a cod and is far Hticrior to that l!h, being like Uith the mackerel and pickerel, hut N iter than either. Neither docs he like the Indian Word "skil," though that is the name given it in the Smith sonian reMirts. lie prefers "hl.vircl," and will brand all his fish with that title. ALASKA COAL FIELDS. TV1 A , has Is'en found in vast ipiautitics in Alaska, V ho extensive in fact as to tme the day In definitely when a substitute for that great fuel must be Might. On the east shore of Cook's In let, for a distance of two hundred miles these gnat coal measures have Is-en traced, and tbeireitent Is unknown. Three veins have Ihtd eiamined, which vary In thick ness from four to eight feet. The top one lies thirty feet from the surface beneath a covering of blue clay, ami Is tween the Vein are strata of fire clay four or live feet thick, which has Istii used In the canneries In the place of tire brick and found to be most excellent. From the water the coal vein are easily accessible, the highest elevation f. r from thirty to ninety mile from the inh t mi the cast ling but '.til (M At , , . it.. ;,,.,l,,,niil,le 1 ( iial wir s.r the iissiau liave taken out cihiI In siiiall great pine forest oiler an apparently inexliaustii.ie , oai ... . i ii i. ; .i,i fr..i,, iniHhtilies for veurs luist, ami government veeU supply j the latter, clear and cold, conies straight from .planum i r , , , . n . .1 i...,U. lime lined It to Mnc extent. Jolill IniMWcl organ- th ountain MreaniH. In addition to the twenh , Haw " ' . i, , I ... i ii .u i,., a comtmnv hist vear to work (lose mine, ami lisherineit now on the snot. Captain I.undls-rg experts seventeen newcomers shortly to swell the numbers ..f the little settlement. The weather this season has imt altogether favorable for fishing o.erations. and i.. a... .......I. l,u ,,t I.I...H what it would 'iii-nin'iuijr mi. run h imn in a company several cargo s have U-eii sent to market Coal har bor is a larg- and cure haven, completely laud locked and sheltered from slorun from any direction, Vessels mil v lie t tl wham ..r at anchor Iii rf" l l .i . :l . ! I 1 1 - ... uritv A rallrmi'l Wirec nine in imikwi w in roiiuri .i . . . I II...... I, m tint mi set .;u,crw,se have m. i.pia.., , , i ,,. ,,,! .!,wh.irvc, .hi. I. .nu.t runout . I,,,, IW market l,(XK) barrels of fish, a little of tins fo h, m ; U . f ( .mHuinption, but the greater part for exH,rt. .i- . . it will find a market in Austral.a.or m the , r ,m any other i.-. known. Mates. The fishing is done from three t vc, nob s M.r. . of I J
