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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1890)
WKST SIIOUK. a great (let of money U made here from rich of the oecupa tloni. Grain and stock are raised In nearly all parte of the state, and fruit raiding is also quite extorsive ; but In the Wil lamette valley in Wei-tern Oregon, for 100 miles north and south of Albany, U said to be the paradise of fruit-grower. Hi ii business, hai not been developed here yet, ai it hit been in California; and fruit lands whose real value ii fully ejual to those of California, rommand a comparatively small price. Paring my travels in California last year I found un improved fruit land generally selling at (100 to (2 W per acre, while in the Willamette valley of Oregon it is now worth 10 to (AO r acre. There is an Immense profit in these lands, when the fruit is produced; and people are now taking advantage of this here and setting out large orchards of prunes, (tears, cherries, plums, le aches and apples. In California an acre of good fruit-land with trees five years old is worth from (-'iOO to (1,000 in a fair location ; and this Is not unreasonable, when a tingle crop from this acre sells at fiOO to (400. The same profit can t made in Oregon from the fruit, and in the Increased value of the land a far greater profit; because lands in Oregon are so much Mow California prices. In Oregon prunes and Hart'ett pears are most profitable, since both com mand a good nice and bear shipment well. The FaclAc coat prunes are greatly suerior to others raised in our country, and hence the demand for them in eastern markets. It Is safe to say that a farmer here can eaily make (5 where he can make (1 in Virginia, and so other classes of Industrial workers and nearly all professional men here are better wid than on the Atlantic slope or Mississippi valley. These practical advan tages together with the grand ecenery make this e1lon won derfully attractive. A few da) ago an exploring party wti tent out by the Heat He Frtu to penetra'e Die unknown region about Mount Olym pus. It it under the command of Charles A. Karnes, formerly a lieutenant in the navy, and expects to bring back much valu able information about that lerrn incognita. A ode of signals hat len prepared, and the party will endeavor to signal from tome mountain peak at varlout dates agreed upon when there it no moon to dim the light. The dates and hours selected for signaling are the eleventh or twelfth, or the nineteenth or twen tieth of January, February and March, between eight and nine p. m., and between nine and ten p. tn. on the same dates in April, May and June. At the difficulty of getting their sup plies and materials across the mountains it very grrat.it is hardly exited that they will be in position to send any sig nals in January. The signaling will be preceded by an illum ination of red fire. Knongh material, hermetically sealed, hat been carried into the mountains to keep a red fltme forty fl high burning for an hour. Of course this flame will he con centrated and burned for a shorter time and in a larger volume that it may be more p'alnly Visible. After the illumination will come the series of mewaget sent by means of magnesium cartridges. Thee cartridges gi v out a great fl ih of tl.e mot powerful artificial light known to the !!. The signaling could be teen from any of tUe Olympic peaks, but It U the In tention to send the tignatt from a ak near the summit of Mount Olympus, and ibly from the very summit of that mountain itself. Mxitt Olymsw Is 1.1 V) feet high, and is the highest and mt northerly jak of the Olympic rang. The people of Victoria wdl have art excellent opportunity to read Ue signals, at Ibtt it the nearest rily faring that mountain peek. A a etperimeot rustic g (n0,O Ls being tea. Is by tbe great Anawde company in the tysteta of !etri rtSningof copper matte. If thlt la successful a large and costly plant will t put in and in future refining will be done In Montana Instetd of send ing the mitte from the smelters to eastern or Kurvan refin eries. Tliis will effect an enormous tavlng and will add one more element of priority to the new ttatt. The location of the new refinery hat not yet ben settled upon, and ssveral places are eager to secure lU It was considered certain that the locution would he selected at Three Forks. The building of the Hatte A, Uallatln branch, the election of Mr. Ilsggln as a director of the Not t hern l'aclflr, the Interest pun bused by the Anaconda people in the Kocky Fork coal mines, til pointed toward Three Forkt at a location for the big refinery. Hut of late talk it heard that the Kocky Fork coal, after repeated ex (teriments, it proving unsatifait)ry, and if thlt It the rase, the location it probably in doubt. The (irrat Falls people are full of hope, and are exerting themselvet to Induce the Anacon da company to build up there, while Missoula la putting for ward her expectations. Hie location of the refinery tt Anacon da it out of the tpirttlon on account of the lack of water, and if the Kocky Fork coal It unsatisfactory, Ureal Falls probably oc cupies the leading position in the race. North Yakima It taking active inrturea to secure nllrwtd connection with I'ortland. The Wir Hii. has seversi timet) called attention to the fact that a railroad Into the Yakima country it one of the most Importtnl lines I'ortland could build. A proositlon hat leen made to conntrui t a railroad from mens point on the Columbia, in Clarke county, to North Yakima within two years, to make that town a divUlon heal-pitrtrrt and build shoj there, provided North Yakima ople rtle a bonut of (100,000. A roumltte to raise the money was ap jointed, consisting of U. W. Jones, L's4. J. II. Thoiitat, Wm. Ker, J. C. Ma Crlmmon, John llattUet, H. W. Us and W. A. Cot. Notes are to he taken which will be turned over to a committee conaUtlng of Hon. I. H. llonUtt, J. I . Cor net I, of the Yakima National bank, and W. !.. Melnelg, of lU First National bank, who HI hold the same in truil until the con ditions of the sgreeinenl made with the railroad company art complied with. None of the money Is to I pal I until the torn pletion of the road, and sub ription itMes are to drat five per cent. Interest. Active building is to commence from the wet within one hundred and teenty days, and at the Yakima end inside of six months, and at least (I00,(i eindrd In Yakima county during the first year, providing the bowu is guaranteed. The Fourth of July mine, one of the rl Iwwl In the Okanogan country, Washington, has been nhad by a syndkete of Helena, Hutte and M. Loolt capitalist tU are to pwh U ! vvli4tsfful. That the j-roperty will shortly tnk among the large silver producers of the northwest and I, woie a grst dlv Mend ylng jfoperty it not iloobt! by any romtei,t mining men who have visited the mine. Tl vein It a true flMore, well defined and let In granite. TU general tharnter U the vein matter it very similar to that of the faivtt OrtniU moon tain at Ildllpburg. Mol. The ven It tip"! on the tor fare lt a dtame of 3.-0 M and sUss streaks of ore, varying rwn tit In- bet I sit feet, that aay all the way from U) to H7ournee in silver to the toj, On lU itry fit M Wv el tU fe U Ue rvfth dr.fi sUet an we Uel; Uu m In thl. knes hUi aMayt 71 ows U siltr. A single ear load of lU ore shlppe-I recently ti tU IftUna s!ter tV the on, U ten tots, M.ot after ting all tipenw of flight and treatment. Aa K!'44afto U the thange thai ouea orture la the tola ertli crjttUlat.1 la outi lr ige U thai U lU Cable fmpny,