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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 22, 1890)
WEST SHORE. under escort to cut firewood. At night they had to crouch in a dark corner of the house, out of sight of the common fire, and were fed on such sc raj of ofTal at their masters deigned to itch to them. Hut there waa a Mr old o;uaw who could not get much of the warmth herself, and so itiel the slaves. They were indebted to her for many a dried clam stealthily hidden under the matting within reach of them. Also they had a friend in the ion of Hoar kin, and afterwards when he came to Victoria !ang often entertained him and treated him like a white man out of gratitude. Ilearskin himself waa a good hearted man, hut Kdenshaw was a horror to both of them. These two lavra were worth hiring, Itooney being an able-Unlied Irishman, and Lang a tall broad-shouldered Scotchman, though this matter turned hii hair gray. Tho ycjuu 1 meanwhile hal been plundered and broken up, and now a dispute arose between Kdcnshaw and lb-art kin as to a division of the sjwil. Kdcnshaw paid he would kill tang rsther than surrender him to Ilcarskin, and twice tang had his head on a block to be chnpjd off before IVarskin gave in. The latter liked tang, and would rather le him than him killed. At lat the unfortunates were taken to Kurt Fimpson and there purchased by Captain McNeill, who wis then smmd in command under John Work. McNeill gave them each a striped shirt, corduroy trousers snd shoes, and shipped them on the iWnur to be taken to Victoria, where they did not arrive before rVptember. Mr. tang afterwards became a most rcsjH-ctrd cititn and tho pioneer ship builder of Victoria. The author ities for this story, which now sees the light for the firt time, are Mr. Lang, Kdenshaw, ( who is still living), the Iknrtr'i log, Dr. Dawson, K. Whymjwr and others. II. It. A. V a. WOODBURN, OREGON. HK vast and rich agricultural country that is trib utary to Woodburn, and the great railroad fa cilities here afforded, are rapidly tending to make it one of the large towns in the Willam ette Talley. A portion of the territory included In the corjwirate limits was first platted in hi I. Its progrts s was slow at first, but Uing upon tb main liniof the Houthern Pacific railroad, which conrfU Portland with Fan Francis, it gradually l-rame lU trading iint fur the large section of country Immrdi ately surrounding it Vm the compl'lion of th Orrgonlan Uailaay tVs narrow r",k" li ''" t longing to th Southern Pacific, and s-n ti I ma le standard gauge more utenled agricultural dittrkt wu ma le tributary to Wulturn. Th pl Is a l terably situated, Wng aUut thirty-five mV distant from Portland, and Is the crnlcr of one of the tv fertile districts in Oregon. This section has bmg n famous as bring on of th lest producing portions of the Willamette valley. It U now nearly fifty yrart since this part of the valley was first settled, and it Is doubtful if, during ttat time, any other portion of th United Htatea could lw Utter agricultural returns than the tillers of the sil have obtained in this r tion of the state. targe crops of wheat, oats, barley, corn, )tps and fruits are annually obtained. The district that lks to Wwlburn f r its sup plies ti tends north a distance of aUmt ten miles, west to the Willamette, river, south alut sii or right miles, and east to the f t of the Cascade mountains, which are about twenty mites distant AH the land lying north and west is prairie, and that lying sulh and rast was originally nearly all timWr land. In the prairie section the land Is almost entirely under culti vation, and is mostly held In large traits, whit atut one-half the land in the timUr srctUi is under culti vation, and Is held by small owners lp ti two years ago Wilhurn contained a p pu tationof only and today it numUrs within the on mile square the incorporated limits of lln twn a imputation of about Mi). The many advantage surrounding it are rp!Jiy tending to liurraw the number of its inhabitants. Woodburn has mub to 1 proud of. It r' a fin graded school, upit whose rolls are the tamr of about '.") children It Is almt to build anolhrr sh 1 in ord-r to arnnjno date the fifty additional children how srrking adli sion, and to inret tlx wants of its rspidly inerraslng population. A church Is to I built Imiivdl- ately by th rirtbyUrisiis. He largr.i nursery in tl northwest is Wtrd Ure. Tl first raMry tr- t rl in Oregon, outi ! of IVrtUtfl, is tr. hr. WoIburn jisefi a humhrr of prjrous n.er chants who titty Ufje stks of g !, rap4l! if supplying the n-"!s if lU t'wn sol tU gfat Itum Ur tf farmers who nn lrv U t tl.'ir trs A gl hU Is on of the attrJ live faturrt of ih lwn A suUUntial bfi'k bnil ling with Iron trimti.it wdl siori UcrecUd, wbih will U iru tr as a Unk by the banking nioj-any r'ntly orginlied In Wwl burn. This Unk will I ieatly UttdM and pro vill with fire and l;r!r pr-f vault aul af. Ar rangMoerits are t Ui inade g U lU ts!! liihment brr of a Ufp ti-mtU'i nM, U U iIpj'l with lU ii-t ajp'vird rvIUr unUity, A wsUr works system will s.- n U r t p!'t'd whUh will fuf fdsh U town with sn iUtUn i jpply of g A wa!f, "U n f this ll ta last I t tnkty ytt mr. tU tun t'fn of U-ir way, vnhirriM! ty Um;.s, m that lU if!"I r kfwr sJsewlft ar ,rre unkrwn I'ri" are ftll on abdvt al us, aiJ art sVaJ.ly alumlr g si U Mra gr s 5