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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1889)
WEST SHORE. PUBLItHCD CVCDV ATUDY. L SAMUEL, Pub., I7I-3-B Second St., PORTLAND, OR. Knltnit In Ikt fm( Offlrt m VIiiiiwi, Onon, ur tmntrnmUm Wroufft (A mum nl road mid nil, t. UMCRIPTION RATIS Strictly In Adunnca. On Var, la Munthe, i oo I Thru Munthi, I I) I Slnglt Lopiei, .10 (VCupiea will In no cm be Mnl to iubacriben beyond the term paid for, The WilT 8hori offeri the Beit Medium for Advertis ers of any publication on the Pacific Coast. I'oHTI.AN l, (Hk(KN, hATCWiAV, NoVKMIIkR ONE of tin' greatest manufacturing t'litiTprinrH of tin' west in tho iron works at Oswego, nix miles iiImivi' Portland, on the went dank of the Wil lamette, whose extensive plant iH illustrated in thin number, I'lirtlaiKl fails utterly to realize the mag nitude ami iiiiNirtaiii'c of thin industry, which in con verting tin- iron of her hill into money for the miort of her business. The company in manufacturing a mi erior quality of iron pipe, lining charcoal in tho fur naces, which in Is-nig uned in large quantities in San Francisco, Portland, 'LVoma, Seattle ami other cities of the Pacific coast. It him contractu now that will tax its present capacity to its full extent for the next two years However, the iticHtion of doubling the plant is under consideration, and this will undoubtedly noon N' "I I" View of the imiiortance of this industry Ui the city the Wkst Smohk is of the opinion that no men handling the public ney in a trust urollicial I capacity, should ever give his consent to the sending ' of a single dollar out of the city for the purely. f any material this company can supply. Portland can not afford, for the nominal saving f a few dollar, to fail to give so iin.rtaut a home industry its emtio., nous and cheerful suport. ! discovery of gold in California, as mines were then j being worked in the southern portion of the state. Rut even if it were, the monument should bear the names ; of others, ns well as that of Marshall. It was Captain i Sutter's enterprise in settling in the Sacramento val 1 ley and sending Marshall into the mountains to build a saw mill, that led directly to the discovery, and the ' latter was but an accidental agent. But for Sutter's j efforts, the discovery would not have been made for J years. Marshal! lived a useless life and died a loafer. If a monument to commemorate the discovery of gold is to be erected, it is well that Marshall's name, and even Bennett's, should be carved on it, but also there Hhould appear the names of John A. Sutter, Charles M. Weber, John Bidwell, Peter Lassen, Pearson B. Redding, and others of the pioneer settlers of the Sac ramento valley, whose labors rendered the discovery possible and so shaped tho condition of affairs that ad vantage could be taken of it. Again has the question ns to who discovered gold in California Un brought up by the proiti,,,, (o rrwl a monument Jnhi.-h W. Marshall, and the t-laiina of Charles Bennett, frequently put forth, are again presented by a man who " knows all the (M " from hearsay. The evidence of a score f n-lial.lt. Jtvple, and the diary of Captain Sutter, has settled U-yond a doubt the fact that James W. MurslwU was the man who discovered gold in the tail rare at (,lim aUit the '.'.MIi of January. MsM . ,)t generally Ulieved and demonstrated that it was the veritable royal metal. This was not, !,,.., . tf)i A contract has been entered into, which took effect November 1, by which there shall be a joint operation of the lines of the Union Pacific and Chicago & North western roads, each company to furnish its proportion of the equipments and take an agreed share of the re ceipts. By traffic agreements now in force by these companies this makes a through line from New York to Portland and Puget sound. Through passenger trains will be run direct between Chicago and Pacific coast points. This combination is made by the Union Pacific to place itself on an equal footing with the Northern Pacific, which company began some weeks ago to operate a through service to Chicago by way of the Wisconsin Central. Theso moves all point to the early combination of the railroads of tho country into Heveral gigantic systems, each of which will have ter minal points on the Atlantic, Pacific and the gulf. A surveying corps to finally locate tho lino of the ireat Northern formerly known as the Manitoba sys tem, from (ireat Falls, Montana, westward across the K's ky mountaina to Missoula, has taken tho field, and '"iiMruction work on tho lino will be commenced n 'H'ly in the spring as tho weather will permit. It i later! that the (ireat Northern is buying up tho stock f the Seattle, Lake Shore it Kastern, with theinten ti"n of making that road a part of its line and sectir it terminal rights in Seattle. However this may Hu-re i little doubt that theso two roads will con t. probably at Spokane Falls, and that by way of the (Iregon Railway & Navigation lino, which will be MwHtmla ere long, the Creat Northern will secure 'ltrJ'-'' to Portland, thus giving Portland and Seattle """""r thr,,,lt.h route to the cast over an entirely n w system.