Price 10 cents
Oregon City, Oregon, January 3, 1902.
19th Year, No. 33
Published Weekly by A. V. Cheney.
Subscription Price $1.50 a Year.
Entered at Oregon City Post Office as Second
Class Matter.
OUR OWN OREGON
Publisher's Announcement
It is with pardonable pride that the pub
lisher of the Oregon City Courier-Herald
calls attention of the public to the contents
of this second New Year number. From the
title page to the finis the contents are inter
esting and finely illustrated, and a credit to
our town and county. The facts set forth in
the articles-herein are the result of careful
study and diligent research, and deal with the
varied resources of this, the best county in the
state, embellished with numerous costly half
tone engravings illustrating the features en
ntimerated and the prominent citizens men
tioned, who so materially assisted in making
this publication possible and a success. This
issue is a souvenir gem, and you need not be
ashamed to send one to your friend in the
East, as it will compare very favorably, me
chanically, as well as otherwise, with similar
publications, and hundreds will be sent away
by residents of this county, besides being
kept on the reading table of nearly every
family in the county. The publication of
such an edition is the proper work of a
board of trade or similar organization, but as
it is hard to keep such in existence, especially
as regards to finances, The Courier-Herald
in its usual enterprising manner, took upon
itself the burden of such a souvenir, knowing
full well that the public-spirited men of this
county would assist materially such a legiti
mate .nterprise. in many ways, for which we
kind,., thank them. It now behooves the
residents of the county to purchase several
copies each and send to neighbors and friends
who do not receive the best newspaper in
Clackamas County weekly, and to prospec
tive emigrants in the east.
The edition last year was exhausted a
week after publication on account of the de
mand which exceeded our expectations. This
year we print additional thousands so all can
be supplied. We can only ask that this num
ber give as universal satisfaction as our first.
V A
7 '5'
AM
j-HE future
' Republic
of the
is a
problem that of
ten seriously con
fronts the mind
of the thought
f u I, patriotic
citizen. In the
prognostications
t y 'K we make in
tV i-Ja I attempts to par-S-f
tially solve it.
we are too often
to a degree, pes
simistic. Think
you that the
half -starved,
scurvy - stricken
early navigators
who sailed along
the Oregon
Coast, to them
an unknown land
of wonders, had
r. ,,..,, --n uie luuuest
w . . r r, uear Oregon City h i n t in their
dreams that that strange, savage empire,
girt by angry waves winch beat against the
led of lofty, forest-clad headlands, would
at some time in the golden future "flow with
milk and honey," having become the seat of
a civilization and a wealth far exceeding
their remotest conceptions?
Taking this retrospective view, is it not
alone reasonable, but logical, to predict that
the future both for the state and the nation
vyill be glorious; that we, as a people, will
rise higher and higher in wealth not alone,
but also 111 nobility of character? Abundance
ot material wealth and a genial people hav-
1 , v
ing a sound mind in a well-nourished body,
go together.
What the Willamette Valley is now is but
an indistinct foretelling of what it will be.
This is not rodomontade. It is admitted by
all, even by those who prefer the terrific cold
of Minnesota and of the Lake Superior re
gion to the abundant warm rains of the
Webfoot Winter, to be the "Garden spot of
Oregon," and naturally one of the most fa
vored spots on the surface of the globe. It
is most remarkable that the great majority
of those Who leave the state, with the de
clared intention of never, never coming
back, for they are sick of Oregon, you know,
do return; and are really glad to get back.
Let the Oregonian roam the wide world
over, but he finds no rest for the sole of his
feet until he again stands on Webfoot soil.
As yet the Willamette Valley is a "poor
man's country," land in most localities being
cheap. But its semi-tropical climate and
other special advantages will draw such a
large population that its empty places will be
filled up. Holdings will become restricted to,
what the owner con profitably use. Then land ,
will rise and this valley will no longer be the
"promised land" of the man long on muscle
and nerve, but short on cash.
The Willamette Valley, where the rose
blushes in the gardens the year round, can
give homes and plenty of food and raiment
to a million of free people. Commerce with
all nations, agriculture, horticulture and
mining will fill their cornucopia. The Ore
gon ship of state may be struck by squalls
in her voyage, but do not fear for her; she
will ride through all storms safely.
The Oregon patriarch may calm his mind,
troubled about the future of his beloved
WIU.AMETTE FAU.S, OREGON CITY