Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1880-08-27

| for repairs. The whole country west
5 of the Cascades is enveloped in dense
| smoke caused by numerous and exten,
: sive fires in the timber, large quanti-
ties of which had been Frustrated by
the high winds of last Fall. Hence
the opportunities for seeing the i'm
provements along the river between
the Cascades and Portland were very
limited. But we noticed along the
north bank where we used to see moth
ing but forests of fur timbcs, large
number of farms cleared of the timber
and many fine wheat fields and Or
chards adorned the banks of the stream
and in several places fine farm resi-
dences indicated the prosperity of their
occupants. At Vancouver the wharf
and Warehouse showed the line of the
high water of the present season to
have been much above that of inter
vening years since 1876. The view
on approaching Portland was much OBJ
structed oy the dense smoke. We
found excellent quarters at the Clar-
endon. under our old friends Zieber 4
Knowles, who spare no pains in pro-
viding for the comfort of their guests,
and who suffer none to remain with
them whose bearing and conduct is in
any manner offensive to their guests
generally Hence the Clarendon is
always quiet and orderly. Their table
is supplied with as good as the market
affords, and the food is not dished up
in the manner of many hash houses of
much larger pretensions. OF Portland
much could be said that is commenda-
bic. At present it is the city of the
great northwest, and singular as it
may seem from its situation, being y
miles up the Willamette river from the
: Columbia, and that much off the main
route from eastern Oregon and Wash
ington to the sea, yet it has secured
all the trade of the upper Columbia
and all the freishting up and down the
Columbia is done via of Portland, and
so far as can now, with any degree of
assurance, be predicted, it will retain
this trade and traffic for years to come
despite the struggles of other points to
divert it elsewhere. The capital of the
north west is conferred in Portland, and
her business men are shrewd enough
to retain it here. Portland business
men work for Portland and for nc
other place, and they never did. The
. men of the late O. S. N. Company moi
only made themselves but they made
Portland what she now is, and in thai1
' transfer to the new Oregon Navigation
company, they have 50 Intervene,
. Portland with the trade, that the new
company is compelled to do more TO
" Portland than for any other town O
the northwest. While we are incline,
to the opinion that the greater part @
% the net profits of the new compan,
will find investment enough at tn
u east, yet enough will remain to be in
vested here to secure for Portland
. many years Of permanent prosperity
4 There is nothing that can make head
II way in gripping her prosperity til
" such time as the Northern Pacifi
- branch road is built from the mout
~ of the Snake to the Sound, whicI
!" achievement, in connection with til
'e completion of the Northern Fac;i;
. across the continent, will be na'l, t
10 make Portland stag'iatc little. On
y other achievement will affect n chang
10 in her destiny, and that will be IN
'e completion of the c,nals and locks a
&c The Cascades and Dalles, thus openin
'e the navigation to every kind of con
~ petition from the headwaters of tn
y Snake and Columbia rivers to Astoris
!" But while ,hese achievements are &c
lp ing forward, Portland men with thei
to capital are not going to sleep, but wi
lr so fortify their position and stron
4 hold upon the trade of the northwes
= that she will not lose her claims to b,
~ ing the queen of cities on the nortl
or west coast. l..
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