215 them cash to the amount of nearly $13,000,000.00. This was considered a conservative estimate, on the basis of the number of persons who visited the board's rooms in search of information about the country. The cash capital of eah immigrant varied in amount from $50,000.00 down. It is no wonder, in view of these facts, that Oregon is rapidly developing. Yet, of her immense area of ninety-five thousand square miles, improvement has barely begun. Along the compara tively few lines of railroad, and on the shores of the navigable streams, the land has been improved and numerous small towns have sprung up; but the vast interior yet remains almost as wild as ever. Even at the present rate of advancement, it must bo years be fore the woodman's axe shall have cleared the tem pled hills, or the farmer's plow shall have broken the " stubborn glebe " of all the plains, or the miner shall have delved in every recess wherein are hid den precious stores. The country is yet new, and rare opportunities are only waiting to be improved. It is a section filled with almost unlimited possibili ties. Patient and intelligent labor in any branch of legitimate business is amply rewarded. With the im provement of Oregon and other territory tributary to Portland, the city must reap a corresponding benefit As a prosperous city, Portland offers exceptional in ducements for people to locate at this point It is a pleasant city in which to live, Thero is ready cm ployment for capital in safo investment, and for labor at remunerative prices. Taxation is light, and all the advantages of modern improvements may bo enjoyed. From its location, with regard to grand, varied and picturesquo scenery, and tho attractions in tho jxrt of rod and gun, Portland is unrivaled as headquarters for tourists. Seasido resorts are near, and while there is not tho necessity that exists in inland towns for people to go to tho ocean to CBcajo heated terms in the cities, tho facilities for travel aro so convenient and cheap, that largo numbers of pcoplo avail them selves of tho opportunity for a change. IP SO. If bo there were a fpirit, joiwl in peace Above all wind gtwU In tho heavens high, And ho might mark tin mortal laugh or cry, According as the gloomed cloud Increase Or nuns beguile them into golden fleece, Methinks he would 1 li!te to imilo, to nigh (So placid he, so far within the iky, And knowing I tod's gn at love can never craw), That wc the puny yet tho prideful race MtiHt change as i-kies change; 1 like bal-s that fret Whcnso their yearning mother moves her brrai To ease her mothering, or turns her Iv v Aide a moment, reaching out to get Home wrapping soft to lull their limbs to rent. irjr'i Map: int.