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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1889)
WEST SHORE. lices, surveyor's offices and vault and toilet rooms. On the upper iloor are a law library room 22xM feet, two witness rooms, court record vault, clerks' of fices, and two court rooms, each 30x112 feet in si.o and each having a jury room, consultation room, judges' chambers and private office in connection with them. The structure is thoroughly firo proof, its walls be ing masonry and its floors of Bteel and cement, sixty eight tons of steel being used in constructing the floors and partitions. It is certainly a substantial and high ly ornamental structure, and from tho lofty position it occupies will challenge tho attention and admiration of every traveler on Puget sound, even should ho fail to stop in the city, which is something of which few travelers are guilty. THE KICKING HORSE NATURAL BRIDGE. ONE of tho famous natural objects of America is the natural bridge of Virginia. Its outlines are familiar to every eye, as it forms one of every collection of engravings of American scenery and adorns a pago in every school geography. Equal ly familiar is tho story of tho young man who Bought to carve his name on its rocky walls higher than the name of any venturesome person who had preceded him, and who was saved from destruction by iciiig drawn up to tho top with a rope let down by those who had discovered his perilous position. It is certainly most picturesque and interesting because of tho asso ciations that cling about it, but the western portion of tho continent contains many natural bridges, some of which far exceed that of Virginia in size and tho ele ments of tho picturesque. One such is becoming quite familiar to tho tourists who visit tho National Park of the Yellowstone, where it forms one of the numerous attractions of that region of marvels. A still larger and more picturesque object of this nature is tho great natural bridge on Kicking Horse river, in ltritish Col umbia. Tho Canadian Pacific crosses the Rocky mountains by tho Kicking Horse pass, ascending the How river from Calgary to the summit of the puss and then descending tho Kicking How on tho western sloMi to tho Columbia. Not far from tho road is the wonderful natural bridge ihown in the largo two-page engraving in the center of this number. The river, which is a wild mountain torrent, has a considerable fall just l fre reaching tho hugo mass of rook through which it finds a passage, its pent-up waters boiling and surging through the narrow aperture with great force, while the sound of falling and dating water constantly lute tho ear of the sjKrtator. A glance at the cngrav ing will show tho peculiar rocky nature of tho rivers banks at this point and convey a slight impression of what all who have seen it declare- to lie one of tho most interesting, curious and picturesque scenes to Iw found m the Kocky mountains, that great region so alxmnding in natural wonders. The (VintniVfc defends the action of the San Fran cisco chandler of commerce in withdrawing from tho new Pacific coast organization on the ground that tho interests of tho city and other portion of the coast are not identical. Doe tho CnniiWc mean to say that San Francisco consider herself In a position hos tile to the Pacific coast generally, ami that her pros pority is to lie promoted by opposing the general good of all? Such seem to bo the situation, and San Fran cisco will not gain much in friendship and commercial good will by taking such a Hellish and unwise msI tion. The hint that the movement is in tho interest of tho Central and Southern Paeilie Is hardly worthy of notice, as the Chmnitlr is a fanatic on that subject and may ho indulged in a little canter with it pet hobby. It is certainly to be regretted that Vice President Morton should feel so lightly the dignity of the jmsi tion to which ho was elevated by the American ieoplo a to embark in the hotel business, or any other for that matter, during his term of office, the more so that ho is abundantly able to live in comfort and even luxury without tho revenue to lie derived from such a source. All good citi.eii of either party M that the dignity of the office bus Wen lowered, The absurd feature of tho whole affiiir is the mock seal for temperance and the crocodile tear of the democrat, who lift up their voices in unison with the ladies of the W. C. T. V. in expressions of horror. Politic develop funny situa tion sometimes. A hint comes from (iermany that she may sn'k to get a slice of Urnxil, during the troublous time ex acted to follow the change in the form of government. It is s.ssible that (iermany hn not fully digest"! the mottling of the pan-American congress now in session, but if not, her digestion will tw aided by a few sugge tion from varioii American government when she attempt to put her hint Into action. The Federal Steel Co. ha l'ii ineorM.ratel a a gigantic trust of the wire, barU wire and wire nail Industrie. This i the first time one of these robU combination haa had the candor to VUr it object in its title. The Co-oH-ratlv Highway lUlnry A Hurglary Association may Im e.evtcd to put in an early apH'aranee.