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 dred feet of road aud made a number of surveys aloiiir the Columbia river for the company. These efforts of Col. Chapman and his son Unally attracted the attentiou of Eastern capitalists, and greatly conduced towards securing the present railroad development of the State. Another worthy puldie enterprise was the establishment of the Jelieisou street ferry at PoitlaucL The new ferry is a^aeat piiblie conveuienco, and is tln' only ouo of many which succeeded in overcomin-r tlio opposition of the parties* who own the Stark street ferry. Mr. Chapman was also cliieliy enj^'ayjed in or>,'aniziny and making successful the East Portland water company, which, after a long fight, gained a local franchise and promptly built water works. He still controls the ferry company and owns a considerable interest in the East Portland water company. Mr. Chapman has been quite successful as a journalist, having made the "Sunday Mercury," of which he owns a half interest, one of the most successful and best paying papers in Portland. He is temperate in all his habits, using neither liquor or tobacco, strange as it may appear in an active politician. He is still a young man, unmarried, and promises to be one of the " solid men" of the metropolis.

L. SAMUELS, The enterprising aud progressive editor and proprietor of the " West Shore," is a gentleman who has done as much as any other for the i)oi)ula- tion and advancement of this State and the entire Northwest. He wns born in Germany about thirty-four years ago, aud came to America in childhood, drifting westward as far as Sacramento, California, where he was raised and received his education. Having a love for the nevtspafier business, he started out as a newsboy, and gradually worked his way up until in a few years later he became the jjroprietor of the " Traveler's (Juide," a weekly publication, which he conducted successfully for three years. He then came to Oregon, and becoming impressed with the great natural advantages of the State, determined to do what he could to make them known to the outer world, and accordingly, in 1875, he commenced the publication of the "West Shore," as a monthly journal. Mr. Samuels' object in establishing the "West Shore" was for the purj^ose of setting forth the superior advan- tages which this country offers to the immigrant, and to give all the neces- sary information in a simple and comprehensive manner. From the very outset the "West Shore" has beeu a success: making its advent as a small and unpretentious neAvspaper, it has made for itself a world-wide reputation and stands to-day unrivaled in its particular field of journalism. And fur- ther than this, its object has been accomplished, aud through its instru- mentality thousands and thousands of immigrants have been encouraged to locate iu our State. In order to bring about this grand result/Mr. Samuels has spared neither time nor money; he has established agencies all over the United States aud iu Europe, aud very frequently he has went so far even as to have editions printed in the Gorman aud Scandinavian An- guao-es and sent on to those countries, that their inhabitants might read ni their native tongue. He has at the present time a corps of Held artists and a number of lithographers constantly employed, and the leading journals