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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1889)
MA WKST SHORE. ulimco ivmr atudav. supports thousands more. It is more than probable that the fight over tho Sutro tunnel property wJH so conducted as not to interfere with the use of the tun. iicl by the mining companies depending upon it L SAMUEL, Pub., 171-3-5 Second St., PORTLAND, OR. KnlirtH l tin fntl Offlu in 'urfumi, Ortym.for Iraiumiuum Ikrouuk lk auiiK at rw4 rfu ruin. URaCRIPTION RATH lirlotlf In Adne. On Vtr, III Montht, I4.001 Thrtt Munthi, 1 1) I lirilt Copm, III .10 l7"Coplt will In no cam bt mm lo tubKrlbtft beyond thi term fit lot. Th WilT Ihori offer the Beit Medium for Advertis er of any publication on the Pacific Coaet. I'OHTUXII, OkKUoN, hATl MIWY, Octohir 111, 1889. MOW to hiiild a large frame building within the lire M limits in a problem that the proprietor of Cor- dray'a Munee han apparently solved. To the urrfieial oliwrver tlie proi-cns Htrnis to 1 nim pie enough. A few h,Mm are net in the ground and Ixiardu nailed on them, making a high fence. Thin in then covered with canvas. A little later Home more IxwU arc act on top of the first ouch and more Umrds attached, making a two-story fence. Then the canvaH in removed and a nh.rt iron roof substituted for the canvaa, and lo! we have a two-story frame building covering a quarter of a block in the heart of the city. An oU-rvcr not o HUxrfieial, however, may dineover another ntep in the process, such, for instance, an a iiiict, unoHteiitatioiiH, private interview with somemie in authority. It would seem that if thin were not the cane. Hiieh fire trapn would never be crmitted in viola tion of city ordinance. lVHrty owners would like to know a little more aUmt thin matter. What will Uvome of the great Comstock lode if the threatened litigation should result in locking up the Sutm tunnel for a year or two? For ten yearn th.e mine have Urn ojrrat.il for Mock jobbing pur-pom-a, and nearly every cent taken out ha Urn put Uek into them to keep them going, and to cUe theni now would let the U.ttom out of the San Fram tH, Uwi market. Vrhp thin in not much to 1. ,,.. plorvd, but the cessation of wrk M Virginia City would I- a grrat calamity, throwing thousands of men out of rmployment and robbing their ,hl.rtj. of (h(, in(i value the collar of the mining Us-m a few years ago left it. Si long th, ru.uM.nk mine, 'yield enough to pay the rMM-se f operation, the ...ntinu anee of work in them will U U,U ,,,,, , , ti,i( biding, applying a livrlil.,N dirvtly to thousands of Je.-ple, and maintaining a business and market that Portland comes to the front with a genuine case of arbitration of labor troubles, in which the arbitrator plainly tells both parties that they were guilty of id attempt to infringe the natural rights of tho other. This in generally the case, in all instances of dillicultr U'tween capital and labor, each making a selfish and uneijuitable demand upon the other which can not be acceded to without surrendering a legal and natural right which ought not to be given up. Tho principle! laid down in Judge Shattuck's decision in this matter should be carefully studied, not only by the plumberi' union and the master plumbers' association, of this city, but by all trades unions and organizations of em ployers as well. They lay deep the foundation of in dividual right that theso combinations are prone to ig nore and violate, simply because they have the power to do so and selfishness prompts them to use it. Probably the most extensive maxillary railroad builder on the Pacific const is Mr. J. T. Flynn, of Port land, whose various transportation routes cover manj thousands of maps specially issued to show their lo cation. His latent enterprise is reported in the Ait patches from San Francisco, where he has "received assurance" that his projected road from Grant'i Paa to Crescent City, to meet Donahue's coast line, will be built. We certainly hopo that such a lino, or any oth er that will aid in the development of Southern Ore gon, will be constructed, but of more substantial ma terial than Mr. Flynn's jaw bone. Now in progress in Portland is tho largest, mod complete and most attractive exposition ever hold in the northwest. The gentlemen who conceived and haye carried out this great enterprise, as well a thf citizens generally, have reason to feel proud of thii successful crowning of the labor of the past two year The North Pacific Industrial Exposition has come at a permanent institution, and each passing year will it increase in volume, attractiveness and inlluenee for good. The San Francisco Chroniclt is making a fight to "eciire a three-cent faro on the cable roads of that citr. Thin is going too far, and is a movement in restraint of trade. What will the poor jurymen do if the pr htn of the companies are so cut down that they cinw longer employ thene gentlemen ? IXcs the Chr desire to deprive a large numbrr of respectable citi enn of an honest livelihood ?