The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1895-05-17
MANUFACTURERS.


a fine place for securing mill, which it
undoubtedly would; and this is an in
dustry that will soon be established
here, as the opportunity is too good to
long remain open. There is, besiles,
room for numerous other factories. A
woolen mill ought to have been running
long ago, and only the great difference
in wages between the Pacific and Attain
tic coasts has prevented it. AS wages
are gradually equalizing themselves
throughout the country, this objection
is not now tenable. We already have a
fine roller mill, producing 100 barrels of
-four daily, if run to it's full capacity /;
but there is room for more, as the sup.
Ply of wheat Is unlimited and the local
market utilizes the bran and shorts. A
cannery is another necessity, to use up
the surplus fruits and vegetables; and
soap factory would find plenty of ma
terial and a good market. We have a
fine packing establishment, it's prod
ucts ranking high and not beginning to
supply the demand.
A hume from the mountains brings a
large portion of the wood supply and
lumber for the local market. At it's
head are vast forests of hemlock, the
ming purposes; and as there are hun
dreds of dry hides shipped from here
East and brought back again in the
shape of manufactured products, it is
evident that a tannery, and with it a
shoe and harness factory, would be
profitable investments. Indeed, the
field is promising one, and the above
are only suggestions IN the line of what
might be done here.
SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.
Our educational facilities are good, the
public schools ranking with those of any
city in the state. We have in The
Dalles 1,240 children of school age, and
an average attendance of about 800, and
sixteen teachers are employed. The
city owns two fine brick school houses
and three wooden ones. Besides theee
the Catholics have here fine boarding
school for girls.
The religious denominations are well
represented. The Congregationalists
Methodists, Episcopalians, Catholics and
Lutherans all have fine church build
ings, and the Baptists two. In the Sc
lines the city is ahead rather than be
hind the great majority of cities of it
size.
CLIMATE.
The climate is delightful, the season.
being distinctly marked, but running
neither to the extremes of heat nor cold
The west wind, sweeping down over tn,
Cascades, reaches US laden with tn,
odor of cedar and pine, making it o
peculiar benefit to those who ar,
troubled with weak lungs. General,
the climate is considered remarkabl,
healthful one. It is not true that W,
had to import a corpse to start grave
yard, but it is true that persons do no
die oft9n-not more than once. Man,
who find life unbearable in the wet eli
mate of the coast, find relief at once ol
coming to the dry climate of Easter
Oregon. Another popularity is tina
diseases absolutely refuse to becom
epidemic. Diphtheria comes; it is al
isolated case. Scarlet fever-it claim
seldom more than two subjects, an,
neither is often fatal. Several time
within the past thirty years smallpo,
r has found its way here, but in nearl
= every case it was confined to the persol
t who brought it, or, at the worst, t
t those who were in the house with him
The death rate shows that the percen
/, tage is as small here as any where i
8 the United States. The nights are al
a ways, as elsewhere on the coast, COG
: aud conducive to refreshing sleep.
8 TEMPERATURE.
e The climate is equable for the latitude
9 the thermometer seldom going bee
f zero or above "a. In either case the ez
{ tremes are very short. Our extrem
9 cod weather seldom lasts more tha
g three or four days, and the same may b
t said Of the heat. The reason for this
o the prevailing west winds coming froI
the warm Japan gulf current, and fami
g iarly known here as "Chinook winds.
e In the summer this wind is moist an
e cool. and blows almost steadily gent
I breeze full of moisture. and benefci,
to all vegetation, almost taking Ii