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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1889)
WEST SHORE. The annual report of the Granite Mountain Mining Compa ny, of Montana, states that the total product of the Granite mines to date haa been $14,335,135.38, at the government stan dard value, while the total receipt have been only $10,088, 800.24, ahowing a difference of $3,340,335. 14, which in attributed to the government'! open hostility to silver. The company baa if cured ill the property necessary for ill purpurea and ii now free to devote its energies to the development and working of propeitlea already acquired. The property composing this greatest ailver mine known was located in the fall of 1872, but waa allowed to 1m from time to time until July 6, 1875, when what waa kt n aa the Granite Mountain lode claim waa again located, and a few daya later recorded. Three year afterward the Granite Mountain Extension lode waa located. The claims were thought to be good proepecta, but nothing more, until Charliw I). McClure acquired title to them by deed in 1880. Then the men comprising the present company were induced to take hold of the matter. The company was formed and de velopment work vigorously prosecuted with very gratifying re sult. Hie capital stock of the concern Is $10,000,000. During the eight yeara the mines have been operated they have paid $7,000,000 in fifty nine dividends, $2,800,000 of which were paid since the first of August, 1888. In the last reort of the last territorial governor of Montana the following careful estimates of the value of the exports of Uiat lusty young commonwealth for the put year are given : 04du4il?r $24,0)0,000 'PP 12,000,000 1,000000 nml oatll aoJ boiwi. WftOOO HhMirark. im(m Uw.au II i4m,pd U, Ho, nn,am ToUl wlu of nporli fur thtjrw ..$15,75010 Tliereare 1,785 miles of completed railroads in the ftate, 2W miles under construction, snd 87i miles surveyed but not yet being built. The following figures show the character of the land in Montana : Ar.rfM.UN...... flUB0r Am of oallml.U Uod Munuu Arm of Utnhw Und ....XlSnion) lad oa whloh M f rviml ta m B1 M Nnbw uf hunt la Inns 4 M On 20.1.VJ acres Uiere were raised 770,200 bushels of wheat and on 84,078 arm 3.02B.H7J bushels of oaU. More than on half of the tuUl grain product was raised In the Gallatin ami Hitter Hoot valleys, and ninetoen-twentieths were raited In the western or mountainous one-third of the state. Baker City, Oregon, Is moving to secure the locstion of the Oregon I Vide through tint city. It is the center of a rich min ing and stock country, and now enjoys a Urge trade that might be turned elsewhere if a railroad ia built through the country without touching IUker. There haa already been projected to th southeast from Itaker City, In order to better drain the section toward Canyon City, a railroad some twenty miles or more long, and there Is a likelihood that the Oregon Pacific will go there when it builds through Eastern Oregon. Klamath county, In Southern Oregon, produce, UrRe title of sugar tls of the best quality, and effort are bein. mad to aanir, the con.lru.1lon of a factory to manufacture u from that vegetable at Unkville. There I. an abundance of lime, woul and water at hand to he employed In the build lng and In U aeration of the factory, and the ciUiens of th town offer special inducements for the location of such an es tablishment there. Work has been begun at the Hillsboro end of the Astoria & South Coast railway, and matters in that town are considerably enlivened thereby. As Hillsboro is now assured of being made th point of junction of the Astoria & South Coast and the west side division of the Southern Pacific, all business interests are vastly Improved, and that capital of one of the oldest counties in the state is certain of a prosperity greater than it ever before enjoyed. Complaint has been made at the Port Townsend custom house that British Columbia fishermen are trespassing In American waters and taking large quantities of salmon. It is reported that veesols anchor just within British waters and send dories up the streams flowing Into Boundary bay to catch the fish. Two or three canneries are said to be kept running in British Columbia on salmon obtained in American waters. Recent improvements in the facilities for handling and work ing the ores of the Bed Jacket mine in Eastern Oregon reduce the cott at least $1.50 per ton. These consist of a tramway from the lower tunnel to the mill and dropping the ore so that it does not have to be bandied at the cniBher. The mill has a crushing capacity of forty-five tons a day, and ore enough is in sight to keep it running lor years. Eighty thousand feet of lumber are put into the Anaconda mine, near Butte, Montana, every day 25,000,000 feet a year. At the smelting works of the same company, at Anaconda, 108 cords of wood are used daily, or about 67,700 a year. All the timber used for mining purposes can be legally cut from gov ernment land, which privilege the mining companies usually take advantage of. The West Coast Improvement Company has selected the site for the erection of the largest shingle mill in the northwest at Seattle. The main building is to be 100x200 feet on the ground, and there will be fonr large dry houses besides. The capacity of the mill will be 300,000 shingles per day. The work of building will be begun at once and pushed a rapidly as pos sible to completion. Articles have been filed In Salem incorporating the Baker City Lime and Marble Company, with a capital of $25,000. There are abundant opportunities In Eastern Oregon for the de velopment of marble quanies and the lime Industry. Another recent Oregon incorporation is the Young Men's Investment Company, of Salem, wfth a capitalisation of $20,000. A considerable real estate sale was consummated in Boise City, Idaho, a few days agj with the understanding that the ground was to be used for depot, yard and shops of a railroad line soon to enter the town. Whether this was in the interests of the long-expected Oregon Pacific Is not stated. The first Grand Army post In Alaska was organised at Ju neau nearly a month ago. ,It is called Seward Tost No. 30, in honor of William II. Seward, who waa secretary of state at the time Alaska was purchased from the Russian government. Baker City Is supplied with as pure water as any city In the country, It being obtained from artesian wells. The mains are now being extended so as to supply every part of the town for fire protection and'domestic uses.