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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1889)
WKST SHOKK. :tl7 WASHINGTON NOTES. The Sfttttle land office received nearly fso.000 during October. Centralia i taking action for securing electric lights and water works. Among the buBinees projects in pros pect for Ellensburgh are a beef packing house to cost $150,000, and an iron fur nace. K. J. Estop, a fruit raiser near Olympia, recommends Italian prunes, Bartlett pears and Royal Ann cherries as the three lead ing fruits suited to that loculity. A deposit of fire clay has been discov ered twelve miles north of Seattle. Prep arations are in progress for establish ing a brick manufacturing plant there. The contract for the erection of a new court hone for King county, at Seattle, has been let, the price being (HU.OOO. The work of construction will be begun at once. This will be the finest county build ing in the state. The Cornwall company is buy on llel lingharn bay, having 300 men employed on the railroad from Whatcom to New Westminster, 100 on the water works and large forces at work on the saw mill and electric light plant for the the bay cities. The saw mill of Black man Bros., at Sno homish, was burned in September and the company is now prerlng to build a more extensive plant, including saw mill, shin le mill, sash and door factory and dry kiln, capable of turning out 100,000 feet of lumber a day. Finally Seattle tins been (riven freight rates over the Northern Tactile on equal terms with Tacoma, and, as a consequence, the ijueen City eipecta to grow rapidly in imK)rtance at a transcontinental terminus Tliis concession, however, comes too Ute to head oft" the other lines projected to give Seattle feeders and shipping advan tages and it will be interesting to watch the competition that will ensue. Articles incorporating the Tacoma A Olympia Railway A Navigation Company have been filed with the secretary of Washington, with capital of $1,000,000. The object of the concern is to orate a continuous Irantiiortation line from Taco ma in a northwesterly direction across Ad miralty inlet, Hood's canal and through the Olympic mountain region, either to the Strait of Fuca or the Tacillc ocean. Mail Order Department of Farmers & Mechanics Store, 200-202-204-208 First, and 0-8 Taylor Sts., PORTLAND, OR. Onr Mail Ordar Depart man t it fully ormmlxdl ami unilor careful .tiparviaiiia. Hatnpl. fre upon application, tiixxti Mot o. o. d. or un raoaipt of mniillanoa bj mail ur aapreaa. Wa ar direct tin. purtara uf FINE MILLINERY, DRY AND FANCY COODS, ETC, Clothing, Oautt' Fumlahiitf Honda, Halt and Cat, Root anil Hhiwa, tlnxwrina anil Prvrilona, SAM. LOWIN8TIIN, Praaldont. WM, KAPUI, oratary. OREGON FURNITURE MANUFACTURING CO, OfTlce and Salesrooms, 308 and 210 First Street, 7;om..I PORTLAND, OR. IS'LtrtSXTK,1 Faotoi 107 and 809 Hi Ami Knralns nmh aa ahuwa tn llna pa per nan iliina Inr lha rmlilun nt I ha DnrlhwMt li; A. Andanon a Co., 1 1 S Alilar Ml., I'u rl land, t)tiiil. I'rintlnfilaparlmiHil eiMiiplata In ilauil, EDWARD DEKUM & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, 40 and 01 Washington 8t:, PORTLAND, OR. Cerman and French Publications Always In Stock. USElSDiSlOBEIlTlUE For Beautifying and Preserving the Comploxlon. GUIUXSON A CO., UK Third Kt., Alilnstim H'lillni, Portland, Or. NATIONAL BANKS. Parties oi call upon or write rganUIng National Hanks n Oregon ami Wa.1.1 " " I J-'rJ.f writs to the andmlipwl, who wIsIm to imrohaae p tt worth IIOVVAKD K (XM)UWIN, Wright's lllm-k, Tacoma, Wash. FAST BLACK STOCKINGS, That will ut faU la wahlns o rub (! M tha M of el.iUiln. WE HAVE THEM4-r Id all and prioa. fi.e What, U and ahiMran. SPECIAL INDUCEMENT m BUl i, PortUn.1. and mho w U onW b mail. Wa olfaf at a aalr. d.rl hnltlLhU. IWuab.m 1,1.. Plr. Or.Wa.rl,. OLDS & KING, FIRST AND TAYLOR STRUTS, PORTLAND, ORICON.