In 1883 alone, there were 282 illustrations used in the magazine's twelve regular issues. In 1884, Clarence L. Smith, another excellent artist and lithographer, joined the staff as head of the art department. Two years later, William H. Byrnes replaced Epting, allowing the flow of illustrations to continue without interruption. Samuel also run the West Shore Lithographing and Engraving Company, using the magazine's art staff to produce illustrations for catalogs, maps, portraits, printed labels, and business forms for banks and others commercial enterprises. Samuel regularly advertised this business in issues of West Shore, allowing the magazine illustrations to highlight the quality of the lithography and engraving work his company produced. In 1886, Smith, Epting, Burr, and Byrnes were among the founding members of the Pacific Northwest's first artist organization, the Portland Art Club. Samuel, though not an artist, was also a founding member of the club. West Shore announced the formation of the new art club in its February 1886 edition. Other members of the Portland Art Club who contributed works to West Shore included Cleveland S. Rockwell, James E. Stuart, Charles Clyde Benton Cooke, Edward Lincoln Espey, and Grafton Tyler Brown. Over the years, the illustrations originally published in West Shore have been reproduced in a wide variety of books and articles. Today, the magazine's illustrations provide a detailed record of the Pacific Northwest as it existed in the second half of the nineteenth century. The original prints also retain value as artwork and are sold in many antique print galleries, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Notable contributors Lindsay Applegate, Oregon pioneer Addie Lucia Ballou, San Francisco poet and social reformer Henry L. Benson, Oregon politician and state Supreme Court justice Grafton Tyler Brown, artist and the only known nineteenth century black American lithographer Thomas Condon, pioneer minister, paleontologist and Oregon's first State Geologist Belle W. Cooke, Oregon poet Charles Clyde Benton Cooke, Oregon artist Edward Lincoln Espey, Oregon artist Frances Fuller Victor, historian Charles A. Gilman, Pacific Northwest wilderness explorer and Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota Ella Higginson, poet laureate of Washington State George H. Himes, founder of Oregon Pioneer Association and Oregon Historical Society Joseph Lane, Governor of Oregon and United States Senator Richard Maynard, British Columbia photographer Joaquin Miller, adventurer and poet Cleveland S. Rockwell, topographical engineer, cartographer and landscape painter Eugene Semple, governor of Washington Territory Samuel L. Simpson, Oregon's first poet laureate William Gladstone Steel,