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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1890)
WEST SHORE. 90G Mr. Samuel C. Price is one of the oldest settlers on the Pa niflii mail and civfifl ft bit of news relative to the Qaillayute river in Washington. He says it formerly entered into the north side of the bay near Large Rock islands, which prevent ed the forming of a bar across its mouth, and small schooners could safely enter the river. ' About sixteen years ago, during a freshet, the river made a new outlet through the beach, one mile north, and the old one was soon closed up. The present mouth is shifting and obstructed by sand bars. The former outlet was about twelve feet deep at low tide, of good width and was permanent. He thinks the expense of turning the river to its old channel would be small as compared with the increased harbor facilities it would give, and the material de velopment it would bring about. Portland is extremely fortunate in possessing such a place of amusement as Cordray's Musee and Theatre, where a first class variety entertainment is given for ten cents and a good dramatic performance for from ten to thirty cents additional. A place where such amusement can be bad at euch low prices and so conducted that the beet people of the city viBit it, can not be too highly recommended. A new leading lady has been engaged and will open July 21. She is Miss Esther Lyons, and has just terminated her engagement with the " Galley Slave " company, where she succeeded Mtos Jeffreys Lewis in the leading role. The Northern Pacific railroad has ordered fifteen new gain elevators erected along its newly constructed lines. On the PalouBe & Idaho branch they will be erected at Moscow, Voll mer, Kendrick, Juliaetta, Lewiston and Asotin. New elevators alonff the Central Washington and the Oregon and Washington railroads were located at Elwood, Coppei, Long's, Huntsville, Dayton, Dixie, Wilbur, Sunshine and Creston. They are all to be completed in time to handle the present crop of grain. The St. Louit Magazine, now in its twentieth year, contains Original Stories, PoemB, Timely Articles for advanced thinkers on various subjects, Papers on Health and Hygiene, Metaphys ics, Home and Society Topics, etc. Price $1.50 year, sample copy sent for 6 cents. Address, T. J. Gilmore, 001 Olive street, St. Louis, Mo. We will send the St. Zouu Magazine and West Shobk one year for $4.75. Address this office. Ex-Alderman Hite, of Boieman, Montana, is buBily engaged in constructing two boats, one of which is twelve and the other twenty-three feet in length. The latter will be propelled by steam. These Mr. Hite proposes to launch the coming fall at Livingston, and in company with one or two friends, will set out to navigate the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The Tacoma Belt Line railroad has been incorporated with a capital of $500,000, and with I. W. Anderson, D. B. Hayden, Thomas Hosmer, Edmund Bice and others, as incorporators. . The object of this company is to construct a line of railroad around the city of Tacoma from Meeker junction to Lake City, American Lake and Point Defiance. While exploring the old Chinook burial grounds, near As toria, Oregon, a Harrison " log cabin " medal was found, with other trinkets, with the date 1840 plainly visible. It was prob ably traded by some of the early pioneers to the happy Indian who wore it at a barter price far beyond its value. On Tuesday, July 29th, low rates will be in effect for the round trip between Union Pacific points and Salt Lake City, giving all an opportunity of indulging in the luxury of a salt water swim at the celebrated Garfield beach; making a day light trip through the beautiful Cache valley and enabling pass engers to view the magnificent scenery of Snake river. Tick ets, detailed time of trains and general information can be ob tained upon application to any ticket agent of the Union Pacific T. W. Leb, general passenger agent. The remains of a mastodon were found on Snake river, near Asotin, Idaho, last week. The tusks measured eight feet in length, and seven or eight inches in diameter at the but. They were formerly in the earth about fifteen feet, but had been exposed by the earth being washed from them. Articles incorporating the East Sk'e Street Car & Motor Co., at Baker City, Or., have been filed. The capital stock is fixed at $25,000. J. P. Faull, George Waggener, P. Basche and J. H. Parker are the directors. The object is to supply better street car service in that growing city. The William Ruble gold mines, in Josephine county, Ore gon, are, perhaps, the most valuable in the state, consisting of 350 acres of gold-bearing soil and rock, some of which are very rich in minerals. There was recently on exhibition at Salem $2,200 worth of these mines' products. The Independence & Monmouth railroad has been complet ed, thus connecting Independence and Monmouth, Oregon, by rail. It is the regular standard gauge, and the car to run on it haB arrived, and awaits the motor to operate it, which ex pected by the 20th of July. Kootenay, Idaho, think it has prospects ahead of becom ing a mining center, hoping, at an early day, to have a smelter and an extension of the Northern Pacific to the rich mines of that section. Spokane Falls and eastern capitalists are said to be investing in its mineB. About $8,000 worth of gold dust was on exhibition in Baker City last week, the result of a partial clear-up of the Nelson placer mines. It is estimated that those mines have produced $25,000 so far and will aggregate double that sum by the end of the season. The Yakima Street Railway & Power company, has been in corporated and capitalized at $100,000, and proposes to con struct the road from the north end of North Yakima, Washing ton, to a proposed park and gymnasium a few miles from the city limits. The Seatco Manufacturing company, which recently had its extensive plant burned out at Bucoda, Washington, has decid ed to rebuild at Bucoda, notwithstanding the flattering offers they have had to rebuild at Centralia and other places. The government has ordered additional life saving stations on the Pacific coast, to be established at the mouth of Umpqua river, at Coos bay, and at the mouth of the Coquille river; all of which are on the coast of Oregon. A paint mine has been found near Moscow, Idaho. It is said the Northern Pacific R. R. has purchased an interest in it.