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Show v FRENCH FINANCIER BACKS NEW LINE PORTLAND, Ore, July IS. M. da Rodon. French financier, haa concluded conclud-ed an Inveatlgation of port facllltlea here which be announced waa preliminary prelimi-nary to hla proposed eetabllahment of a Una of at camera between Pacific coast porta and tha Orient. Veeaela for tha line, ha aald. ara to come from Montreal, where they were built during the war. He proposes to load eaatward with Chine ae coal and westward with lumber and other Pacific coaat product, prod-uct, ho aald. |