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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1889)
WEST SHORE. 7.1 ml, blue, green and yellow nhawls, bright cnliro dress en of the " divided kirt" pattern, and beautiful moo carina complete n toilet that attract attention if not admiration. In a few days all this will end and the pack animals will again climb the mountain ride and the prow of the red cednr canoe will be turned to the northward. In nearly every canoe may lie wen a largo Saratoga trunk, filled to the cover with gaudily-colored garment A GREAT COPPER DISTRICT. Ori'KIl ore from the Seven iVvil district, in Ida ho, is passing through Cortland for shipment by sea to Swansea, England, for treatment in the great smelters and rctlnerie there. It can lw landed in England by thin route at lout the same ex pense a in St. Inui by rail. This district I the most extensive ropjter area yet found in the west, and only of all descriptions, and in one corner will renw a can- ! the fact that it is mile from any railroad, over rough vaa bug of bright fulver dollars. ; mountain road, has kept it from rapid development. Fifteen location are now Mug exploited, ami are inak f "...TVf V2 j'r-V; Q.t'' r'lf.j!") ' " ' , iug a wonderful showing. Nearly ItH),(m ton of ore have Ih-cii taken to the surfuce from these mines and are waiting facilities for reduction. This or will av erage from llfteen to twenty t cent. enpN'r, but that now I ring shipcd to England will run much higher than that. It I a tine smelting ore, and i situated in a region where timber and water abound. Everything Is fa vorable for easy and economical working of the mine except lranortatiou facilities, and these will not much longer I with, held. Such valuable property, some of it, anil that the best de veloped, in the hand of mining men of rxericnc and ample means, will ut long lm enull ted lo suffer from the lack of what capital ran easily give it, and a railroad from Weiser will no doubt nam be built northward into this great mineral region, When thi I done great sim llers will I erected and another Unite City will undoubtedly spring up amid the mountain of Idaho In the rant there Is consider, hie discussion of the iimtlol of eoloiiiiing the Yukon region, In Alaska, with eople from Ice laud The Icelander are used lo a far nmr rigorou climale than that of the region to which it I proMe to induce them to remove, anl there I no question but that they would pner and develop the resource of the coun try. The imputation of Iceland l als.ul ",' 'ul, nd it i proNeJ to Induce tin in all to reiiu.v lo AlaW in thk kiiji n "