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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1882)
4 THE WEST SHORE. January, 1882 asylum, are all here now, although (he asylum lor the insane in not yet com pleted. ThU public business and these institution make Salem a centre of cul luio and progress, and a pleasant place to live. 1 Iere annually meet the Stntc agricultural society and the Mate fair, where, ten to twenty thousand people Rather from all part of the State.many coming in at entire families in covered wagon, and camping in tent in the beautiful oak grove adjoining the fair ground. Here also i located the WII.I.AMKTTK UNIVERSITY. Thi well known and oldest institu tion of learning in Oregon, an cngrav ing of the main building nf which may he seen in thi issue, ha it literary de partment in Salem, and it medical de partment in Portland. It ha in actual attendance in it various branches of in at ruction, at present, over three hundred atudent. Il faculty consists of twenty six professor and instructors, most of whom are graluate of the bent eastern college, and have large experience in teaching. A woman' college department hn recently Iwcn ad. led to the facilities ol Instruction. It provide, a home for girl from a distance under the immc diate care and oversight of Mr. K. M. Andrew, the lady dean, who live in theaame building 3, an art department, conducted by Mis Delia M. Quivey, H. I'., a graduate in the school of fine arts of Syracuse University, N. Y., who teaches all branche of drawing, painting, decorative art; 3, a conserva tory of muic, Prof. W.J. Stabler, di rector, und Mi Nettie Pirr,intructor. The conservatory alone ha now one hundred and five pupil. , Aside from these ecial provision for home comfort and education of girl away from parental oversight, they are admitted into all the classes of the uni versity, in the usual course of study. The Cdlfgr Journal, per of sixteen page, and an annual catalogue are pub lished, which may be had on applica tion to the President, and in which may he found full particular of the school. One special advantage of the university ia the low price at which hoarding is furnished. Hoarding and incidrnt.il in the Woman' college for the entire school year, will cost a young lady only $ with everything furnished, except towels napkins pi)lowsherts and com forter. In the university hall,boyand young men loard with President Van Scoy for $2.50 per week, and they pro vide room furniture. The degree conferred, are Bachelor of Arts; Bachelor of Philosophy; Bach elor of Science; Mistress of English Literature, and Doctor of Medicine. The morals, refinement and beauty af the capital city, make it peculiarly fitted for the scat of a university. Beside the State buildings, the city is ornamented by many handsome and imposing churches, hotel and business house. The county court house cost ing over $100,000, the Chcmckctn hotel costing 120,000, and the Metho dist church would be an ornament to any city. Salem hn the largest and most flour ishing flouring milison the Pacific coast, which annually ship immense quanti ties of flour to the British Islands. Be side these, there is a bank, linseed oil works, foundry and machine shops, sash, door and furniture factories, marble work, the inevitable beer brew ery, with shop and store of every dc scription and population of about 5,000. Salem i now the permanent capital of the State, and it future prosperity is assured; and for this it made a long and valiant fight. The capital was at on lime moved to Corvallu in Benton county, and at another time Col. Chap man had it on wheel for removal to Eugene City in Lane county ; but it re turned again to Salem. The first capi. tal building at Salem was burned down and malicious gossip charged the mis fortune up to the envy of it rivals; but in the language of the Scotch ver dict, "it wa not proved." Salem is at the head of continuous navigation of the Willamette river, and located on the Oregon and California Railroad. Its leading citizens are making efforts to extend a local line of railway to the great wheat region of the Waldo hills country and make the city the ''Minne apolis" of the Pacific. The other town in the county, arc Silvcrton, the capital of the Waldo hill region, with a large and flourishing trade; Stayton, the central point on the upper Santiam; Jellerson, the chief town in the south end of the county, with a fine water power, flouring and saw milk Gcrvais, the capital of French prairie; Aurora, the central jwint of the German colony, with the smaller place of Buttcville,Champocg, Woodburn, Hubbard, Brooks, Turner, Marion, Sublimity and Aumsville. The German colony af Aurora, de serve more than a passing notice, the great success of which, showing, as it docs, what patient energy and perse verance, united with harmonious co operation can do in securing comfort and independence, to a colony of poor men, determined to succeed. When the . leaders of the German colony se lected the lands at Aurora for their fu ture home, it was by no means an invit ing spot. The country was in the main a dense lorest of heavy fir timber, or scattered firs and hazel brush, and it of fered no inducements but the soil, which must first be cleared by an enormous expenditure of toil and labor. But these German people, under the paternal leadership of Dr. Keil, were equal to the undertaking, and now, where once flourished the forest jungle, there can be seen a smiling village, the busy mills, the church, the school-house, and the only improved park for recreation worthy of the name of "a park" in Ore gon. This ha all been accomplished in a few years; an excellent example for others to imitate. Prior to Dr. Kcil's death, all property was held as a common estate, although each family was separate to itself and working on an individual farm in all respects; and the title to this fine estate covering some sixteen thousand acres of land was in vested in Dr. Keil. And since hisdeath the lands and property have all been divided and distributed among the fam ilcs of the commune in severalty, to the entire satisfaction of all, and making as it does, a proud monument to the honor v and integrity of its founder, and for so many years, trusted leader William Keil. COMMERCE AND INTERCOURSE. Marion county is already well suppli ed with facilities to build up a large and flourishing trade both at home and with adjoining sections. The Oregon and California Kailroad crosses the entire county from north to south, while the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co.'s narrow gauge line traverses the en tire width of the county, entering at Ray'a landing on the river on the north west, and passing out at the foot hills of the Cascade on the south-east. The Willamette river washing the entire western boundary of the county, affords a cheap and independent water way,
