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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,