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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1889)
j::h WEST SHORE. first plant, with the advancement of methods and means for smelting and manufacturing iron, liecainc too antiquated to HTinit of profitable working, and tin worb were shut down a few yearn. Thru the new company, with abundant capital, took hold of the en terprise, oeiicd a new mine, built a new furnace and added the pipe works, and equipped the whole plant in the Is-st manner jsissible. The institution in thor oughly modern in every particular. The product in equal to the lieht turned out anywhere, and it iH build ing up imt only a reputation for itself, hut for the state and the city of Portland an well. It certainly de serves the hearty encouragement of all business men. HOODO ROCKS. Y AN V curioiiK rock formatioiiH are seen by trav J I cIith on our western railroad lines and rivers, ' y and most of these have received titles suggest ed by their appearance or surroundings. Fa miliar among these are the " I (evil's Slide," in Weber canyon, " Pompey' Pillar," in Yellowstone valley, the castellated rocks of the Missouri, "Castle Rock " and " KiMister Itoek " of the Columbia. There are, how ever, many others whose name ami location are not so well known, but which are very curious and striking in their character and often form a central figure in a landscaM' of great beauty or iniosing grandeur. Such an one it " lloodo Itock," illustrated on the last page. It is near iMiald. a station on the Canadian Pacilic, in the Selkirk mountains. The profile of a human face is very distinct, and its queer head covering, ris ing bIhivc such a countena , is enough to earn for it the title it Iran. The scenery of that portion of Itrit ish Columbia is grand in the extreme, ami travelers are enthusiastic in its praise. (iovemor Wollley says in his annual rcN,rt that Arizona wants more railroads ami less Mormons. So far as railroads are concerned, Nevada has the same nml; yet they would not I in so had a condition if the railroad they already have were managed m,.re in the interest of the territories through wliioh they run Nevada has Int., " U.tded ,, ,.V(,r ;,,, (,M, ,.;intraj Pacific built its line. Next Tuesday, the fifth of NuvemUr, ,ul0 vote on the quel ion of tateh,4 There is little doubl that the constitution will . rutiti.-.l bv a Urge majority, though thcrv is m. opiiti,,,, ,t, i," um of .vrtain pvisions it iN.ntains. There r i think their interest Utter serve,! ,v ...j ' Idaho in an undcvdoH conditio,,, lmt , " ilv , J iiiiml er i not large. HABITAT OF THE BUFFALO. 51 IE great home of the buffalo was the plains, val leys and table lands east of the Rocky moun tains, whore the early trappers and pioneers found them in grent droves numbering thou sands in each band. A writer in an eastern paper re cently asserted that buffalo never existed west of the Rockies, but he seems to have been in error in making so sweeping a statement. A correspondent of the Orr ijmiini) states that in 1X77 the remains of a buffalo in excellent state of preservation were plowed up in a field on Ncwsoiue creek, Crook county, Oregon, and of this Col. F. J. Parker, of the Walla Walla Slnltmnn, says " We have not the slightest doubt but that the gentleman in question tells the truth, for we have our self seen portions of skulls with buffalo horns at tached to them plowed up on Eagle creek, near Pow der river, in Eastern Oregon, and have handled others that have been resurrected at various times. Further more, in 1S7G, while mining in that section, we talked with Ex-(!overnor dale, who resided on Eagle creek, and was one of the very first men who set ftxit on Or egon soil, and he stated that when he first came to Oregon buffalo still existed, but were getting scarce, and that the last one was killed by the father of the prese t Xez Perco chief, Joseph, on Burnt river, in I S IT. ( Iovemor (iale further stated that in those days the trappers belonging to the fur companies would con gregate at Fort lloise and get up expeditions to Fort Hall, in the I'pper Snake river country, for a buffalo hunt, ami the meat would be dried ana brought back for winter use. Two years afterward, during the Pan nack war, as we were riding on the slope of liig Camas prairie, in Alturas county, Idaho, we picked up a well preserved buffalo horn, and saw several others scat tered around. There is no earthly doubt but that buf falo existed in Eastern Oregen within the last forty yearn, and it is a question that should be settled. We have no doubt but that their bones are being ploughed up in the localities we have mentioned, and in future it is to be hoped that fair specimens will be preserved as mementoes of the past." The journal of Lewis and Clarke throws some light on this subject, since it states that the Nez Perces were accustomed to cross the mountains to the east on i buffalo hunt annually. If buffalo were plentiful this "ide of the mountains the Nez Perces would not have ventured into the country of their warlike and power ful enemies, the Crows and Maekfeet, for the purse 't hunting them. That the Hudson's Ray Co. trappers use, Fort Hall as a base of orations in hunting Imf talo d.K-s not prove that the actual hunting was done west of the H.M-kii s, since Fort Hall was the farthest 'i"t of all the Pritish company's posts. That buffalo "" existed in the Columbia basin' is proved bv the '"'lies that have Wen found and bv tbo fact that a few K1ltti)ltii.iw. ... t . . 1 . were seen ty such early pioneers as Jlr.'-aie, 'M that they ever roamed this region in great bands; 'luring the present century at least, haa yet to be Iwm, rr t. indications seem to point the otherwav.