Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-26

place; it's future prosperity must entirely de- pend upon mining industry, while new set 1 dement's more favored by reason of nearness | to the railroad are constantly arising to con- test for share of the business hitherto claimed by their elder sister. One day at the territorial capital was full plenty and yet 8 fortunate visit for us, as we here made the acquaintance of a leading lawyer who as an attorney for the Northern Pacific gave us valuable information during the remain der of our journey over the road, which he
 took here en route to San Francisco as del egate to the G. A. R.
 Sunday, the 25th, finds us up at Duncan,
 station in the Flathead reservation and sit uated on Clark's fork of the Columbia river,
 beautiful stream, larger than the Housa-
 tonic at Falls Village and which we follow
 for hours amid scenery that would delight
 an artist. At Heron we change engines and
 turn back our watches to correspond with
 Pacific time. At this point through the
 kindness of Assistant Manager J. M. Buck
 ley, by introduction of our lawyer friend,
 Colonel S., we are invited to the managers
 private car to witness the circuitous passage
 around Lake Pen d'Orille. This lake is
 great favorite among knights of the rod and
 gun, and to accommodate all such the North ern Pacific company are building hotel on
 the north side, where a view of water forty
 miles in length by eight miles wide is ob- tained. The mountains are full of bear, elk, deer, etc., while there is no end to the wild ducks on the water; and as for fish-well, in crossing trestle at one angle of the lake we saw trout by the thousand, many of them
 very large.
 The outlet of the lake is Clark's Fork,
 same as the inlet, and after passing Sands
 Point, Idaho, we bid adieu to the river,
 which after running hundreds of miles and
 coquetting with our British neighbors again
 gladdens our vision at Ainsworth, W. T.,
 where it receives the waters of Snake and
 with a new name rolls the Columbia,
 gladdening and enriching for nearly three
 hundred miles two empires that border it's shores
 Portland, Oregon, is one of the objective points for the tourist over the Northern Pa cife and is well worth visit. We find here a dullness in all branches of business owing in part to collapse of the Willard boom and the uncertainty of the future control Of the Northern Pacific road. If the road should be retained by the present management and the extension completed to Puget Sound then the O. R. and N. company and Portland must both suffer. That the treacherous sand bar at the mouth of the Columbia is great
 hindrance and loss to navigation to Portland is what the Puget papers claim, and all such aspersions are as stoutly denied by the Port land press. To give zest to the fight the ship Besse on the 24th of July, in attempt ing to enter the river, struck on the bar and
 became total loss, including cargo, which latter was railroad iron intended for the Northern Pacific extension. This to the
 locker on in Portland is called the irony of
 fate. A trip to Ilwaco at the mouth of the
 Columbia was made on the O. R. and N pal
 ace steamer Olympia-one of Villards pets where we view the Pacific on an incoming
 tide and robed in all the splendor of the set
 ting sun. A day passed among the salmon
 fisheries and canneries, with Astoria as our
 base, was our enjoyment on the 18th,
 view of which and the return journey may
 form material for another brief letter if time
 permits. J. D. D.