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weekly im vm
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE STATE
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR BENTON COOfiTY
Corvaliis, Dec. 10., 1880.
W. B. CARTBR,
m OREGON PACIFIC
In another column we print from
the Oregonian, of the 14th instant,
a letter from Colonel Hogg, written
apparently in response to an invita
tion from some eastern capitalists, as
twbat he had to say in reply to the
attack contained in the letter from
"Examiner," published in the Ore
gonian of the 8th of November.
Ic oassiri, note for an instant, the
kind of ofosition to be met. It
took the siiipe of a circular sent by
post on the 14th of November to
every firm and person who bad, or
might have, or might be supposed to
have any intention of investing in
the bonds of the Oregon Pacific
Railway. It was headed "Caution
to Investors The True Inwardness
of the So-Called Oregon Pacific,
It professed to bea reprint from the
Oregonian of the criticisms of that
journal on the prospectus and circu
lar issued by the financial company,
who had undertaken the sale of the
bonds of the Oregon Pacific.
But not only, as we all know, was
the attack in question not penned by
the editor of the Oregonian, but in
printing it, it was stated to have been
Bent to them with a request for its
publication.
Moreover, as we noted last week
it was not even a true copy, but' was
garbled in seventeen paragraphs out
of twenty-six. Where " Examiner's"
letter admitted that the Willamette
Valley and Coast Railroad had ten
miles of completed road, the circu
lar gave therrf one ; where " Exam
iner" stated it to be " understood "
that Mr. Hogg and his associates had
paid a lump sum of only $130,000 for
the 800,000 acres of the Eastern Ore
gon land, the circular names $13,000
as the price ; and so on, concluding
with another suggestion of falsehood
in saying that the viewer, (indicat
ing the editor, or responsible writer
of the Oregonian), had written it as
a warning in the public interest,
whfie it was really " Examiner " mas
querading in the disguise of a public
spirited citizen "of "Oregon.
Ix would be too much to expect
that the Oregonian, which published
the attack without note or comment,
although it knew as well as the rest of
ns what ar tissue of. falsehoods and
misrepresentation it was giving to
the world, should print Colonel
Hogg's reply without endeavoring to
weaken its force, and, indeed, de
prive it of all vitality.
We reprint then- article appearing
fn the same number of the journal, as
the letter in question, so that our
readers may judge for themselves if
our criticisms are just or not. The
Oregonian proposes to give every
interest of the northwest a fair hear
ing. There is the text by way of
sermon it sets out forthwith to mis
represent utterly the letter on which
it claims to be commenting fairly.
What a familiar trick this is.
Have yon not often heard an argu
ment like this, where one party
. evades the force of his adversary by
Betting up a caricature of his argu
ment and then proceeding to demol
ish that.
The Oregonian alleges that the
tone of Colonel Hogg's letter shows
it,o be his idea of his mission that
he'is to change, nnd, in fact, com
pletely revolutionize the course of
commerce in the northwest ; and
again, that " his main plan is to su
persede Portland, and" render it a su
perfluous and unnecessary factor in
the commercial development and
economy of the northwest."
Where in his letter is the vestige
of evidence of either ? So far as we
ean see the chief aim of the Oregon
Pacific is to mind its own business,
have its harbor opened, its railway
built, and then to leave to time and
nature the solution of the question
whether Portland is to succeed in
getting trade and commerce for ever
to run up bill. They seem to us to de
pend greatly on the development of
an immense new country, at present
untouched by railroads. Are they
not justified in this? The experi
ence ot Oregon at large can best an
swer this question in pointing to the
rate of increase in population and in
material resources of all kinds since
the first railroad was opened in the
State.
By all means let Portland proceed
to develop her mission, if she has one,
to become the mistress of the com
merce of the northwest. But let it
be by fair means. Let her not forget
the lessons of the history of the last
thirty years.
Our belief, nay our conviction is,
that the rising State ot Oregon will
ere this generation has passed away,
see within our borders six cities as
great as Portland is to-day. After
all what has she to boast of
to retain the monopoly of to-ijay ?
Twenty thousand inhabitants, a few
banks and wharves, tome fine stores.
Where are her manufactories, where
her permanent sources of wealth i
A hundred miles up one great river,
and twelve np another ; a hundred
and twenty-five miles of towage and
pilotage between her and the sea,
the highway of nations ; a mountain
ranee between her and the interior of
the Sta'e; accidental is her posi
tion, artificial is her eonimand of the
commerce she boasts of ; baseless her
dreams of empire. Portland will
share in the progress of the State as
Oregon develops, so will Portland
grow. Let her make hay Jwhilst
the eun of monopoly shines on her.
But she may retard, she will never
prohibit the uprising of other cities
the opening of new commercial clian
nels.
The friends of the Oregon Pacific
have nothing to fear. Nature is
with them, and behind them they
have the moral support of the valley
population, waiting for the cutting
through the barrier of Portland's en
mity for the waters of commerce' to
flow through, seeking ever the near
est, simplest way to communication
with the great world without.
CONTROL.
Some of our readers will remember
the scene in the " Pickwick Papers,"
where the immortal Sam Weller is
reading to his corpulent father his
valentine love-letter to the pretty
housemaid. Sam was not a good
writer, and so after a bit he came to
a word that bot hered him. " Here's
a c and a i and a d," says Sam, " but
I forget what this word is." " Cir-
enmwented," suggested his father.
" No, that ain't it," says Sam ; "oh,
circumscribed, that's it." 'That
ain't such a good word as circum
wented, Sammy," says his father.
"Think not," says Sam ; " oh but it's
a tenderer word."
There is a good deal of human na
tare in that scene. Many men use
long words and high-toned expres
sions in a sense of their own. They
think they are " tenderer " perhaps,
at any rate, they have the pleasure in
rolling them like sweet morsels under
their tongue. A man's character be
trays itself oftentimes in the words
he is fond of ; they slip out naturally
enough, and he is not conscious
how he exhibits himself to those who
hear and take note. Something like'
the expression on a face, which no
man is ever clever hypocrite enough
to disguise all the time.
Now this is the kind of revelation
we in Oregon have been treated to,
ever since the publication in October
of that famous circular of Mr. Vil
lard's, which caused so much com
ment when the carriers' bill was be
fore the Legislature, We make no
apology for coming back to these
matters so often. They concern ns
all very closely, and it is our own
fault if we are deaf to the lessons
they teach. In politics there is a
kind of lull, the great contest has
been fought and decided; but the in
terests of our State press on us ; if
we do not our part manfully here, we
are traitors to our own future and
our childrens' too. What were the
two leading points of the " policy "
Mr. Villard announced ? '"The ex
clusive control of the Columbia river,
which is the backoone of our enter
prise," and the meeting of through
lines, pusmng westwaras into tneJ
State "at such points and in such
manner as to prevent the establishing
of opposing interests in our own Ter
ritory" The papers tell us how unblushingly
this policy is being carried oat. In
this very issue are additional proofs
of the way opposing interests are
sometimes fought.
What is exclusive control"! If a
a public road leads to my house and
a stage driver blocks it against every
vehicle but his own if by force or
fraud or threats he forbids the use
ot that road to all other carriages but
his if neither I nor any other man can
even walk or drive a wagon along
that road without hi6 leave, then he
has " exclusive control."
If I have a stream or water privi
lege running through ray land, and a
man comes and builds a mill without,
my leave, and will neither let me
have nor sell th right to build a
mill to any oilier parties, and by
force or threats maintains himself
there, even though he cannot use a
fourth of the water that flows by,
he has "exclusive control" of that
stream. If 1 have built mvselt a
house, and a man comes to the prop
erty next me, and builds a high wall
round my house that I can neither
see through nor over, he has exclu
sive control of my light and air. If
a man binds my hands and with pis
tol to my head forces me to walk
along the road he points, he has ex
elusive control of' my movements.
If in olden days a Southern man
owned a slave, he had him under his
exclusive control.
Did any oue hear till now of a man
venturing to try to establish, still less
asserting openly his right to the ex
clusive controUof a navigable river?
And such a river 1 God's highway
for these States, rolling in its majes
tic course to the sea fit to bear on
its broad bosom the commerce of a
nation, draining in its splendid prog
ress hundreds of thousands of miles
of fertile lands; full and free like the
air we breathe; a fit emblem of theben
lficence which has fitted these north
western Slates for thousands o&happy
homes. Exclusive control, of the
Columbia ! Mark the adjective and
notice the tale it tells. "Exclu
five?" Yes, by shutting out, by
closing the door and barring it in the
face of one entering. There lies the
sting, and this man, who has piled
dollar on dollar, wrung from the
farmers and traders of Oregon,
blushes not at the arrogance of the
claim he makes. But the Columbia
even does not content him. He and
his associates forsooth are to prevent
the establishing of opposing inter
ests in their oxen territory. Their
territory ! Who gave it to them ?
Did i hey beg, borrow or steal it? It
is of such stuff tyrants are tnatle.
We wonder they do not claim the
very houses we live in, the fields we
till. They do their best to levy toll
and tribute' on every bushel we
grow. Who has carried this free
State into Egypt to compel each one
of our farmers to bring his brick and
lay it on the overgrown pyramid of
their wealth and ambition ? And
moreover no one is to come to our
help without their permission. Oppos
ing interests are not to be permitted
to be established. W hy not t it
the people demand it, if the heaped
up produce of the fields lies waiting
for transport, if some of the fairest
regions of the earth lie tintilled, be
cause nothing would be left to the
brave man, who ventures there to
drive the plough, after paying their
exactions. Can nothing teach these
people that they are but folks who
have goods to sell, namely transpor
tation of the products of the Siate
and that all the world is free to come
and open a rival store? "Policies,"
" Exclusive Control," "Our Own Ter
ritory," these are the watch-words for
the people to print deep in their
memories, and to act on too when
occasion comes, as come it will.
But this same frequently used word
has been more recently before us.
Where was it? In this very circnlar
just Rent forth to deal a deadly stab
at the Oregon Pacific, we read that
"the proposed undertaking of the
Oregon Pacific will also imply the
necessity of overcoming tbe control
ing influence of the city of Portland."
What! Moie control? It is not
enough then that Oregon is to" be
" controlled " by Mr. Villard and his
associates; must it be controlled by
Portlanrf, too ? So many masters
a poor lookout for us all. But it is a
long lane that has no tnrning. It is
darkest just before dawn. A whisper
has reached ns that this foul blow of
the garbled circnlar did the Oregon
Pacific no real harm ; that on the
contrary, the virulence of the attack
opened a good many eyes it was in
tended to close, and that, therefore,
we may take courage, confident that
ere long, in spite of boastful words,
in defiance of vaiu threats, we shall
see the "establishing ot opposing
interests," in what may truthfully be
called our own Territory.
as having been received by your house
in Monday morning's mail.
This circnlar contains attacks pcn The
Oregon Pacific Railroad Company, some of
which give evidence of long preparation, and
all show apprehension of calamity to the
interests of the writer,- or those who em
ploy him, from the success of the new en
terprise, and great recklessness of state
ment in his effort to avert danger.
Overlooking its anonymous, therefore
cowardly, and presumably false character,
I have from regard to yourselves carefully
read it, rnd respectfully- return it, and
in reply to your inquiry submit the fol
lowing remarks upon such parts of its con
tents as seem at all to justify notice at the
hands of the Oregon Pacific E. E. Co., or
myself, even had the same statements em
anated from a responsible source, instead of
relying for a shadow of claim to attention
on the fact that they had obtained admis
sion under an assumed name to the columns
of the Portland Oregonian, concealing the
fact that that journal in admitting them,
disavowed all responsibility for the state
ments made, and accompanied fhem in the
same issue with our prospeetu and the
statements of our financial agents printed
in fall, in contrast with this anonymous at
tack, which, as there published, had no
part of the -offensive introduction and head
lines it bears in the circular you send, and
which was issued by its authors here on the
14th, having appeared in Oregon on the 8th,
and the quickest mail time not allowing the
arrival of the paper containing it here un
til the 18th.
Eegarding it, I remark, firs that every
statement in the Prospectus attacked by
thi3 circular is true, and if stated as matter of
estimate, or opinion, is a fair deduction
from known facts.
Thisfis intended to apply to any state
ments in the circular not especially noticed
hereinafter.
The Oregon Pacific is not claimed to be
a completed railroad.
Its mortgage properly covers all the rail
road and other property it intends to con
struct and acquire, as well as that now con
stracted and in possession of the jointly
bound Willamette ' Valley and Coast Kail
road, or yet to be acquired by it.
It is proper that the latter should be so
tor it is to receive important aid,
LETTER FROM T. EQENT0N H0Q0.
New York, Nov. 1880.
John C. Short, Esq., president N. Y. 2V. E.
and Western Investment Company.
Dear Sir: I have replied as reqnested
by you to the letter of inquiry from your
correspondent which you send rae, asking
" what do you say in reply " to the state
ments of the anonymous circular enclosed to
you therein. j
The standing of these gentlemen justi
fies a departure in this instance from the
rule which forbids notice of anonymous at-
1 append hereto a copy of my letter,
which you are at liberty to show, in reply
to similar inquiries, should such be made.
As requested, 'I omit in this copy the
name of your correspondent. Yours truly,
T. Euenton Hogg,
President O. P. E. E. Co.
Copy.
bound
and its most valuable charter and franchise
contain features which assure security to
the holders of the whole bonded indebted
ness, its immunity from taxation on all its
property for twenty vears beincr of incal
culable value and a complete and sufficient
reason for constructing and operating under
its charter, instead of under that of the new
organization needed for the enlarged enter
terprise and its wider held.
I leave the 4th paragraph of the circular
to show the falseness of the 2d, as to
the amount of construction and property
in possession of the Willamette Valley and
toast Kailroad Company; but remark, that
the statement that the same has been vain
ly offered for sale is utterly fale.
1 he grant of lands from the state to the
latter company is not limited, as stated in
thf circular, to those around Yaquina Bay,
but in the langnage of the act ravers all the
tide and marsh lands in Benton county,
which fronts on the Pacific oe.;an for its en
tire western boundary. Yaqi.ina Bay and
Alsea Bay lie wholly within this county, the
former being navigable for 25 miles, and
the latter penetrating nearly as far, making.
altogether, a line of over 100 miles washed
by the tide, which risf-i and talis seven feet
and ten inches.
Back of this line are lands as fertile as are
to be found in the state.
Will any intelligent honest man fail to
appreciate at its proper value a statement,
by whomsoever made, that this property
has no value " and never will have, no mat
ter how many railroads are built to it."
I may quota here from a letter under date
of October 24th ultimo, addressed to the
Oregonian, and appearing in that paper the
following day. from Mr. Sol. Hirsch, presi
dent of the state senate of Oregon, an ea
ger partisan of the Oregon Railway and
navigation company and champion of the
supposed local interests of Portland, in
which he savs the grant to the W lllamette
Valley and Coast Railroad includes "greater
privileges and immunities than were ever
granted, to any railroad company by the
state."
The fifth paragraph of the circular
thinks it worthy of notice, that the Ore
gon Pacific Railroad Company proposes to
Kailroad Company a portion of its outlay!
I cite this puerility, but do not propose
to answer it. Only one capable of an an
onymous attack conld have written it.
The nroeoectus savs nothincr about the
land grant bcintt received direct from the
United States government.
It says the lands have very great value,
which is absolutely true.and against the state
ment of this anonymous scribbler on this
point, I cite the report of the commissioner
of the United States general land office for
1870, p'ge 157, and subsequent reports
from that office, and as to the value and
general character of the belt from which
they are selected, 1 refer to statements of
eminent authorities cited in the pamph'et
dated 1880, and issued by the Oregon
Railroad and Navigation Company, especial
attention being asked to the statements on
paaes 31 - to 49.
Many volumes could be filled without
exhausting the evidence of like character.
The statements about the price originally
paid on the purchase of the lands are ab
surdly false, but if true, would no more re
late to or affect the present value as stated
truly by he -prospectus, than the aboriginal
sale of MWnhatten island for $22.
The statement that they are mostly
mountain wilderness will, when it is recol
lected tfiat they are selections from . a belt
containing twice the quantity running
across a state of unequalled average fer
tility, be seen to be in harmony with the
general character of this anonymous libel.
I pass the criticisms made upon the Ore
gon Pacific map accompanying the prospec
tus, merely asking you to verify the -pregnant
story it tells, by a comparison with the
United States land othce map of 187, ana
with reports of the United States land of
fice map of 1879, and with reports of the
United States surveyors in Oregon from
1870 forward.
As to the general features of Eastern
Oregon and the rapidity with which settle
ment is taking place there, I again refer you
to the authorities cited by the pamphlet of
the O. R. & N. Co., pages 31 to 49, which
though dated in the present year, fails to do
full justice to the present increased activity
of settlement.
In derogation of the estimates in the
prospectus for the freight and passenger
business of 1882 this writer makes some
statements as to the past so outrageously
false, as to seem a wanton ca-smny on the
business record of the state. He says the
number of passengers has never reached
15,000 (half of 30,000) in any one year,
while in fact the reports of the O. B. and
N. Co., show that for the portion of the
year ending June 3d, 1880, subsequent to
the consolidation, the -number of passen
gers transported by their line of ocean
olumbia river after a long sea voyage
choose instead, the hard journey from Jal
ifornia by stage, and then add the natural
effect of the opening at half the accustomed
rates of a short, safe and comfortable line,
with two years' growth of population and
business and to any fair mind the estimates
of the prospectus will seem within the
mark.
The anonymous writer labors to prove
that instead of business flowing inevitably,
as we claim, into the new short, safe and
cheap channel as soon as opened, that exist
ing interests will then be able to force it
still over the old, long, dangerous and ex
pensive way.
.No answer 13 neeaert by any sensible man
to such arguments. The capital and busi
ness enterprise ot Iroraand merchants will
be quick to seize upon the advantages of
the new and better channel.
Statistics obtained from absolutely relia
ble sources, show that the present year's
pfo.luiition of the counties tributary to the
Yatnuna Day route, exceed our estimates
for 1882.
The prospectus does not give S7 50 as the
price hitherto per ton to San Francisco, but
, aud abundant proof of the correctness
of the latter can be given from actual busi
ness transactions and othcial schedules ot
rates which were the basis of the state
ments made by us.
The outcome of competition, should it
arise, between a short new line, economi
cally built, aud a long old one, costing four
times as much to do the same service, can
be complacently anticipated by the former
and its probabilities are confidently sub
mitted by us to the business judgment of
capitalists.
ihe circular insinuates that the Aiary !5.
Ames of 14 feet, loaded draught, could not
enter a harbor stated by it to haye 16
feet aud which the United States coast sur
vev reports say, "Vessels drawing 15 feet
can enter, or depart from, with perfect
safety, and with the aid ot a tug those ot
deeper lrauj'ht.
I remark as to the Mary S. Ames, that
her captain and owners are having an oppor
tunity to explain in court their reasons for
violating their charter-party, and the in
snrance agent concerned in the farce may
perhaps avail himseif of the opportunity to
explain what motives controlled his action
regarding her.
The enterprise of the Scotch Company re
ferred to in this circular as hostile to ours,
is one which is looked upon by us in the
most friendly light, as affording at once a
direct avenue of connection with Portland
and Northern Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory. The management in Oregon of that
company possess substantial proofs of the
good will of our company and its tnends.
It affords me, in conclusion, great pleas
nre to say in addition to what is correctly
stated in our prospectus legarding conces
sional recognition of the importance pf our
harbor terminus, Yaquina bay, that the
legislature of Oregon at its session just
closed, adopted by the unanimous vote of
each house, a memorial urging congress at
its coming session to make without delay a
further appropriation ot 00,bOU to com
plete the improvement of the harbor, as
not only ot state but of national unpor
tance. as being the terminus of the Ore-
eon Pacific railroad, it is certain to become
the central outlet of the great Willamette
valley and of Eastern Oregon.
The consideration of the subject both in
Congress and the State legislature, rose
atxve all party issues.
The great length of the circular to which
you call my attention and the importance of
the enterprise committed to my charge, and
which is the subject of the venomous at
tack, are my excuse for trespassing to such
an extent on your attention. I remain
youra respectfully,
(Signed) T. KGENTON HOGCJ,
President O. P. E. R, Co.
ng is more than an ad venture, without suf
ficient bams to carry it. Of course the en
tcrprwo, it seriously attempted, depends
primarily on the yet unsolved problem of
nuking an entrance for snipping at Yaquina
R ly. It is just as well to state the facts
ibniit this matter, as every other. Aobodv
has or can have an actual and permanent in
terest in ignoring the facts of any case in
which he is interested. And we take it
that no railroad is likely to be built to
V aqmna say till, at least, it is aueurtomed
whether eovernment is likclv to do it. V
do not believe there is anybody in Oregon
who desires to throw any obstacle in the
way of the effort to accomplish this. Cer
tainly The Oregonian, which has always
opened its columns freely to everything of
fered in behalf of Yuquina Bay and Mr.
Hogg's proposed railway, has no desire of
the kind. Oregonian.
WILLAMETTE VALLEY VS TONNAGE
NO. "2."
Under this head, Nov. 8. I wrote an arti
cle and stated the ' ' picture was not en
couraging, but too near the truth to be
slighted. ' In the market report of the
Daily Otegonina, Dec. 2. you can find
this : " There is no new developments in
the charter market, and it now looks as
though shippers must of necessity send their
grain to San Francisco by steam for ship
ment from that port to .Europe. The
shading for my picture of the Willamette
V alley m distress, is being furnished faster
then could be desired. But is it not a lit
tle strange that none of the Portland papers
gives a reason for the scarcity of tonnage.
there can be no question but that every
one of them, as far as there influence went
had a hand in bringing the people to the
necessity ot shipping by the U. K. and N.
Co's. steamers. That company controls the
ciy of Portland and hs a mortgage on the
most of the editors, (there is one or
two honorable exceptions.) "Must of ne
cessity ;" yes, who has created the neces
sity from shipping the wheat crop of Wash
ington 1 erntory and Oregon by the O. K.
and N. Co. to be re-shipped to Europe from
San Francisco. Every rival smitten, every
endorsement of the Portland Board of
Trade that the Columbia bar was shoaling.
was one ot many steps towarus this schemo
of furnishing the O. R. N. Co.'s steamers
business at the expanse of the public. What
a prospect to see the " Emporium of the
whole State, a point to which all trade
north and South flows," "where all the
banks and commercial houses are located,"
" where all the wheat is bought, sold and
shipped," as "Examiner," a citizen of Ore
gon, residing in JNew York so pertinently
remarked awhile ago, reduced to shipping
by small steamer." to San Francisco. One
of the arguments often used when speaking
of Yaquina Bay, was "you can't ship by
foreign vessels, and we don t want to pay
tribute to California don't war.t our grain
handled so much," Yaquina would aford
a fine solution of this tonnage question if the
Oregon facihe Kailroad. was completed,
in a very short time there would be facili
ties for shipping sufficient to quiet all appre
hension in the future. The sonnor this
State feels the presence of a company seek
ing to deve'ope, rather than retard the vast
natnral resources of Oregon the. hotter.
Don't forget, however, for the i-.rrveirt, by and
with iheeonitent of ike ' Em 'iri'i n " its head
nj&t and editorial vtaJF. the o. ,7. 9 V. Co.
trill nf.vc. or try to muee hy sitamer the
cross i'f l.san. J.JAL'iO.
Newpiirt, Dec. 5, iSSO.
Geutlkmen: At the request of Mr.
Short, I reply to your letter of the 16th in- steamships, was 17,333, while it is knowii
stant, calling attention to an anonymous Lthat the p- C- S- ? , U,ne "ried half that
circular, headed. 'Caution to Investors, Ti!0006
... , x ,r , both at excessive prices,
which you enclose to the New York, New Add to these numbers, those travellers,
England and Western investment Company, J who fearing the danger of .detention on the j
MR. HOGG AND HIS PROPOSED RAIL
WAY-
The Oregonian gives every interest of
the northwest a fair hearing. Therefore it
prints a letter from Mr. T. Egenton Hogg
m reply to a communication signed Ex
aminer," which appeared in its columns
about a month ago. Into the details of the
controversy thus raised we do not intend to
enter. A word or two, however, on a lead
ing phase of the subject may not be amiss
r mm the tne .of Mr. Ji ogg s letter it
evident that he conceives r.e haw a mission
to change, aud, in fact, completely revo'u
tionize the course of commerce in the north
west. This is a large undertaking, yet ve
can not but regard it as inspired by a praise
worthy ambition. It is just such a thing as
any man has a right to do it he can. Mr.
Hej'g'3 letter shows that his main plain is to
supersede Portland and render it a super
fliirons and unnecessary factor in the com
mercial development and economy of the
north we3t. ibis too is a commendable am
bition. We find no fault with it. In fact
we fori like encouraging him to procoed
For this, among other reasons, je print his
letter. We have no idea that it will great
ly alarm Portland. For ourselves we can
say with confidance that the issue will give
ns no trouble, as we can any day remove
The Oregonian to Yaquina Kay, and publish
it there. Others, we suppose, can pull up
as easilv. ruget hound people, however.
insist that Portlmd is to betaken up and
carried over there. On this subject there
mav be rivalry between I aqmna Hay and
Puget Sound. But Portland will try to
preserve her usual equanimity.
Of Mr. Hogg's resources for carrying out
his plans we have no positive knowledge
and are not made nwsre that any one else
is as yet more highly lavored m tins re
card. But we may suppose they are ample
in his judgment for the undertaking ; else
he would hardly say so much about the
matter.
But seriously, this subject has given rise
to more coutrovory than there is any pos
sible occasion (or.- If Mr. Hogg can work
his enterprise forward, by all means let him
do so. It appears, however, that it involves
the primary difficulties ot making a harbor
at Yaquina Bay and changing the course of
commerce ot the northwest irom channel
established in the first place by nature, an
now confirmed by converging railroad lines
either completed or in course of construe
tion. and by representing capital amounting
to twenty millions xf dollars, or more. To
be plain about Mr. Hogg's scheme, it seems
to be an adventure, based on no solid cap
ital, but depending on an effort to obtain
money on lands of no defined quantity or
quality, and of no definite, or at least at
the present time ot no ascertainable or posi
tive value at all in comparison with the
m.-.enitude of the proposed undertaking.
The prospectus issued by Mr. Hogg and his
associates was based on the assumption
that this route, if it were opened, would do
almost the entire business of Oregon at
profitable rates. Even supposing Yaquina
Bay were made a practicable harbor and
the road were built, it is apparent that the
competition of so many other railroads, not
to speak of river transportation, wouia pre
vent this expectation from being realized
Let us wish Mr. Hogg all possible succe.";
in pushing his proposed scheme, but let us
have some common sense in me presenta
tion of it. That is, let the absurd notion
be dropped that this is the great enterprise
destined to swallow np the commerce of
Oregon and close all other chinneis. It
Yaquina Bay can be converted into a har
bor, and a railway be built to it, the enter
prise will be one of much importance to a
portion, of the State. But as far greater
and more powerful interests are drawing
elsewhere, this is not likely in any event to
become our Wle of commerce, as Mr. Hogg
seems to imagine it will. In fact the sub
ject from this point of view hardly appears
worthy of serious statement, particularly
since nothing has yet been developed which
tends to show that the proposed undertaa-
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