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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1889)
WEST SHORE. 9.'. .11 OREGON NOTES. The Aitorian says this month has been the warmest October experienced in that locality for year. Berry bushea are bear ing their second crop of blossoms and green peas and cauliflowers are repeating their season's growth, Even the bees are continuing their early summer vocation. One of the largest flouring mill plants in the northwest, the Scotch mill at 8a Urn, lias been sold to Portland parties for $100,000. A mutton buyer from Chi cago purchased 6300 head of M sheep in the vicinity of Can yon City, in Grant county, a few days ago for which 1 f'.'.OO apiece were paid. Considerable dried fruit is being shipped from Salem to Montana. Shipments by the car load are going to Butte and I Ielena. One man hav ing forty acres in orchard has shipped Ave cur loads of dried fruit this season. A Building and Loan As sociation has been incorpo rated in Salem with a cap ital of $200,000. The incor H)rators ure local capitalists and the association is calcu lated to aid materially in promoting the advancement of the capital city. It is stated that in Wash ington county a wheat pool has )een formed governing the price of 40,000 bushels of wheat now ready for market. The farmers hold their grain together expecting to get more than the present cur rent price. The Grant county Htm re IKirt considerable excite ment in the vicinity of the old mln'ng camp of Marys ville, where rough gold was recently found underneath the cement that wai mistak en for bed rock by the early placer miners. The gold lies in cement gravel and there Pilars to be a very rich mine under the abandoned placer claims of other days. An old miner at Bonneville claims to have made a rich gold discovery in the Cascade mountains, a few miles south of that station. He has for some time been engaged in prospecting in a very myste rious manner and he has secured samples of quarts that appear to be very rich. The new raw mill at I.a Grande was put in 0wration last , week. This plant cost I'.W.OOO and will cut alwnt 1(1,000,000 feet of timlier a year. It Is the UrgM mill In Eastern Oregon and the largest manufac turing Unt in the state outside of Portland and ita suburb. National Family Paper. ol Author and Article will In Mil on aniihcalinn. Six Serial Stories, Fully llhutintnl, mil among Ilia nmt attmetlrr rvrr pililllinl. 1110 Short HKirlt-a Thrllld AilvnilnraMkHhna f TrmH lli'iillh mill ll)Tl. M llliirililml Mki-lrhra -1,000 Nhnrt Aril. If. . Popular Hrlrniw - NHliiml lllalnrr Outilmir NinrU-Anwilotfa-rtliiirllr - W II anil Humor-IWIry, Illustrated Supplements Wrr alvi-n with marl frrjr Imiiv during llir lt frar, mil lll Im- nm lliiiiril. Tliry give in Incrraar ol nmrlv nnr hall In tlin nmitrr ami llliulrnl loua without any liirrmaa In llir prlro nf (ha iimt, VV . il4W Tha lull Announcer. I Every Week, j Finely I f Illustrated. ' wsmm lid. no o I j FAMILIES, j mm 111 fl MM- . ' r 4 I I. -r,al mm Eminent Contributors. Artlrlraof grrat ralur ami Inlrrr.l will Ih glvrn In llir tnliinir for I) hj Bt. Hob. W. E. Gladitona, Hon. Jamai 0. Blaina, Juatm Mrfarlhy, M. P., Central Lord Wolaelay, Senator Geo. F. Hoar, Ho. John 0. Carllall, Sir Morell Mar.keniie, Prof. John Tyndall, Hon. Samuel S. Col, Eugene 8churler, C. A. Stephana, Ll. Fred. Schvaika, Anil On II I ml nllirr wrll-knnn ami fanrltr wrllrra. Four Holiday Numbers Are In firrparallnn, and will I Mifwllngljr allrnrtlirr, HIM with Ilia Tll mirk nf our famrllr wrllrra, and priifiiu'ly lllualralrtl. Thanksgiving Christmas New Year's Easter. Thraa Knur Huntrnlr Nuuilwre will Iw m-M Im hi-Ii .iih.i rllwr. HiiiiH-hiilil Arid Ira lll l .iil.ll.lml f rriirnllr. gltlng mrfal Inlutmn. linn on Art Work, r'eney Work, Kiulimlikry, lli Ihinrallnn ( llmiina, rimk Im, and lllnla on llouirkrriilng. 35,000 Prize Stories. rlr l Thoneanil (Morl-a he.r l-n rn.li..d. Tlir Ultra and ra nf llimr lirli will rrrrltr ll.r "rlr. r.nnol rt In- aiinounrr.l, Iml llir aue rr..ful Slorlra will lir iulill.hrl during llir romllig )rar. Till- rilllorlnle gl'r romprrhrn.lta lre ol liiilirlenl furrrnl rnla. Tim rhllilran'a I'a.o fonlalna rharnilnl Hlorlr., IVIurra, AnrnMre, lllirmra and I'unlra, alailnl In Ilia v"'"!"! rrailrra. Free to Jan., 1890. w KuWrlbrra who arn.l ai.lB bow, will rwl ! 'lr tr In Janimrr I.I. mini, and for a full r from lhal dam. Sieln ropin fn. ' mrnll-m Hit MvH: Mlrru, The Youth's Companion, Boston, Miss. (HXhI IIhtBi M.iiirf.lrr. or Hrai-iml Mlrr, al "r rl-.l m