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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1889)
Im WEST SHORE. Land grabbers art trying to mako n great haul in Tacoma, and it in the duty of every citien of the new state to see tlmt it in only a water haul. Immediately adjoining the city in a section of win ml land, worth, at ruling prices, l(XHl xr aere, or l,'.'S(l,IKH), Thin in the proNrty of the state hy gift of the general govern ment for the HiipKirt of common schools, and it in the rililery of the coining generatiuna of schmd children that these shark have undertaken. Through the sec tion rutiH a gulch, in which in found placer gold in small iimntitieH. ami on the strength of this they have died ining claim to cover the entire section. Even if there should prove to he gold in paying uautitieH in the gulch, the upland ortion of the wet ion in free from it; hut tliin im the most valuahle jMirtioti. and its capture in the real ohject of the movement. The press of Tacoma should take a linn stand in opxsitiou to thin Isild Hellenic to r, the H mt f f (K. Hm valuahle section of the government grant, Uith cause the puhlie interests demand it and to protect itself from a charge of colliiHion with the schemers. Kapid transit will noon hecome one of Portland's melroMilitan features. Already several steam and ehvtrie motor had from (he city to various suburban tracti., hut in the streets of the city itself the plodding car horse in the only jNiwer relied uon. A change is U-ing made rapidly. On Second street the Fulton I'ark motor line in hejng conhtructed, and on Wash ington the rail are Ix-ing connected for the purMse of converting the line into an ehvtric road. (), Fifth street work in in progrc on the cahle road, which rill run up that street from (i to Market and out the latter to Portland Height. No douht the Third street liiw will I compelled to adopt the cl.vtric system to liiwl the competition of them, other roads, and every ritiien will rejoice to sec the manager of that line ex hiliiting a littl re life. When Joa.,mn Miller get through claiming to have named, dia-ovcrcd or originated overything on the Pacific c,t, which time will prohHhy H. ,-oinci-dent with hi death, there will more Itl,Mtio1 to those who knew .Umt tle thing when then,-mancn1g,,-k,.twMin1ortpant. A man who "i ki to anju.re crlil fr d,d . n,Vl,r for thought, hi l,ri never originated, and for ,Mtrv he never wrote, ought to rive Icm attention (rm ;,;. e and rulUf lr, ,vple; .d he would, were it no, h. th, lion, o literature e,, heir, H.k the br.y.ng a, hft U, i,;, a,,,,,, h pran on the strM corner. Thi. i. . world of diMpintnont Wh,. ! rva.l.few month P, ,U, pri,i(i , hcihI an exedition to Oregon to secure specimen of our fossils, we were infused with new hope and began to believe that there was a future in store for Oregon after all ; but, alas, woe be unto us 1 They enme no farther went than the John Day, and were satiny with a few tons of old bones, never coming far enough to even get a glimpse of the genuine Oregon fosnil, bo i ntill here to stop the wheels of progress, vote that a judge shall receive no more salary than a ditch digger, and raise thistles on his city property. The hotel spirit seems to have taken a linn huld uhiii the people, and every town and city that ftvli within itself a desire to grow and prosjntr is giving vent to this feeling through the erection of a large ho tel. Portland's example in this respect is being M lowed everywhere, a.,d the result will be that in i year or two every city of 'MX 10 people in the northwest will have a hotel the etial of which can not lie found in eastern cities of less than five times the population. The hcncfitH derived from these hostclries by the tnwnii H.sBexsiiig them have la-en so great that they art- ihiw looked umiii as a necessity everywhere. Nothing serves to impress upon the minds of the present generation the marked change that has taken place in the northwest since the pioneer icriod, than the occasional assembling of the men and women who laid the foundations of civilization. The pioneers of Southern Oregon, who passed through an ordeal of In dian war such as no other portion of the Pacific cuaul has exK-rienced, must feel a special pride in the result of their laliors and sacrifices, when they view the love ly Kngue river valley as it is to U seen to-day, with its hundreds of farms, oHards and vineviirils. anil ill many prosjierous and growing towns. AWrption of British gold in America d,r not s(Tin to Ih- confined to the selling of breweries and ""iiring mills to English syndicates. On its last tri. from Australia tin- Akmok brought .,: X,( Kill in Kn glish sovereign in payment for g.ssls.and these repre sentatives of royalty will go to the mint and lawn full Hedged American eagles. This incident sl... how valuable is our trade with the Australian colonic mid the story could l related in every quarter of thf glol- if the government would give our merchant in rine the assistance it requires. Uiisiana has Uvn defrauded by her state olliciali by an over issue of bonds and forgery to the amount "f million of dollars. ),. ho remembers the nd revolutionary way in which the "corrupt arprt l'g government," was overthrown in H71, will nat urally wonder to what extent its usurping succor an improvement.