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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1889)
WEST SHORK. L SAMUEL, Pub., 171-3-5 Second St., PORTLAND, OR. tlmd l Ikt W (fi't Vortland, Orrym.far ttavmUmm tkrtnmh IK4 mnUt at prowl ciiui ruin. IUMCRIPTION ATII ltflcli in Adnc. On, Vr, In Wonlhi, I4 00 1 Thrtt Monlht, I I) I linflf Copiti, Hi 10 fCopiti will In no cix tw MM to iulwcribtii beyond lh Urm pti4 for. The Wiit Shori oftori the Best Medium for Advertle ere of any publication on the Pacific Coaat. IVHTUNII, OKMloX, ,ATI MIUV, O. ToluK 5, lSHtl. AOAIN ha llii' folly of jiiiri'ly Hrulative mining M Ihtm impressed with a heavy hand upon nuiny jutiplc, in the failure of tin1 liig Iteiid Tuimi'l A Mining Co. Thin -oininy tx nl(l :',(Nll),(NN) in constructing a lied n k tunnel H.fiiKt firt in length through a high hill around whose base Feather river ruiiH, in Puttc fount y, Cal.. fur the purpose of draining tin- river a distance of ten mile, with the exuviation of finding the yrrnvt'l in it bed rich in placer gold. Tin1 river IhnI ha lvn lail hare ami ha proved to In fill! of rock, to remove which cost an much in the (told extracted in worth. I.'ithunt mining cnterpris c are of great Wiiel'it to the country and add million of dollar to the nation' wealth. Imt it in such purely vuhitive M'hciiii'H a thin that have causnl mining every where to looked um a an uncertain mid haiardoiia busincs. A usual in such case, the stork holder who furnished the money had no practical knowledge (lf mining, nd it i doubtful if manv of them had the faintest conception of what was Iving umlertaken. Ir. K. V. IWr, of Ittitliilo, f patent incdieiiii' fame, wa president ami the largest to k holder. The thousand who have made a tunnel of their l-odirn Ct hi patent lustrum can now have the satisfaction of knowing that their m y ha madr a tunnrl through a California mountain. If the Nv.plc could reverse matter by drinking the clear water f Krathrr rivrr and turning the elixir through the tun nel, it const ruction would U a blessed U,n to th,. alllictrd instead of iimnumrnt to human folly. The I'acillo hm i mVtcd with ,uullV ihi,, f ahich it i. imil,h. to M-ak w ith a feeling of pride, and a few thing, that art. ralculat.il to make all decent men hang their head for shame, i if t Mt.r , mania for pru fighting W the m.t ,,,!,,, BIu the m.t to I rvgrvttd. fimu j,, ,.,m.f n the greatest center of population and business, the city of San Francisco, from which its demoralizing and brutalizing influence spreads throughout the coast. A few days ago, at one of the "clubs" organized for the patronage of this disgusting "sport," two men, link more than boys in size, fought until they were Wh so badly injured and exhausted that they could scarcely stand, and then the crowd of " gentlemen " who had assembled to witness this disgusting spectacle, his-d and taunted them in the most heartless and brutal manner. It is impossible, to conceive of a sKrt more Isastial in its efl'ects Mn the rising generation, and the authorities in San Francisco are sadly remiss in their duty in permitting it to continue. Nor is their the entire blame, for the better elements of society should rise up in righteous wrath and sweep these "clubs" from existence and purge the community of this mess of corruption. One of Portland's opportunities that ought to be ! improved is the projected railroad from Vancouver to ; the Yakima country. Such a road would place Port I land in direct and indeendeiit communication with t I region that is rapidly becoming the most opulouaand j productive in Washington. Kven if built no farther than Yakima it would be of vast commercial advan tage to the city, but its extension to the Okanogan ; mines and other sections of Eastern Washington would ! render it still more beneficial. Near the Klickitat pass, through which the line has been surveyed, have 1hcii discovered vast coal measures, and thousands of ! acre of as fine timber as can be found on the Pacific ; coast lie contiguous to tho line. No road projected in the northwest has more weighty reason for its con struction than this, and the business men of Portland should interest themselves in thus securing entrance to ' what will one day U one of tho best fields it will have at its command. Possibly our business men do not feel any interest in the deep harlsir convention which met at Toeka on the first of Octoln-r, hence the failure of Oregon and Washington to send delegates. If such U the j ease, their apathy must lie attributed to ignorance, i "or great agricultural, pastoral and mineral industries I hve direct interest in the establishment of a deep water harUir on the coast of Texas, the prime object of the convention. Besides this, much could I' a ; eomplished for our own harbors by establishing a gen S erul community of interest and union of effort with i other state west of the Mississippi. This is the third j year that we have neglected our plain interests in this matter, and it is to hojMHl that we will I repre sent. when another such Ixidy assembles to consider so iniortaiit a uestion.