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STATISTICS OF OREGON.
BY A. J. DUFUB;
CLIMATE.
The climate of this State is
peculiarly mild for a country in as
high a latitude as this, although
that portion lying east of the Cas
cade range, and known as eastern
Oregon, lias a climate similar in
some respects to that of the North
western States of the upper Missis
sippi. The winters are generally
of short duration in this locality
cold and dry, but not subject" to
the extremes known to the same
latitude east ol the Rocky Moun
tains, nor liable to those long and
cold rains and sudden changes so
disagreeable in those States.
The summers are generally hot
and dry, but not sultry and oppres
sive. The nights during the warmest
weather of the season are cool and
refreshing, and the days are ren
dered delightful by a salubrious
mountain air. The springs and
falls are long, mild and pleasant,
with occasional showers of rain,
sufficient to give life and vigor to
vegetation, and render productive
the fertile soil.
the climate of western Oregon
is even, temperate and mild, the
thermometer seldom falling to 10
or rising to 80 degrees above zero,
although a difference of a few
degrees from this are sometimes,
in extreme cases, reached. The
atmosphere has a humid tendency,
and probably lesembles that of
England more than any other por
tion of the world. Cattle have to
be fed but a short time during any
part of the year.
Mr. Hill, in his essay says :
" The ainnmt of rain which falls
in this part of the State (Willamette
Valley) during the rainy season
has been greatly exaggerated, as
will be seen by reference to the
annexed tabels, which exhibit more
specifically the dhnatical peculiari
ties of the State :
Table l.thowin comparative mean, temperature.
Number of vears of ol scrvatioa . ! 11.51 11.6; 3 1-3
Spring temperature jdl.lt;
Summer temperature (il.3(
Autumn temperature i3.,)"
Winter temperature 42.4'
Whole time... 52. IS
52.151 53.00
07.13 ! 70.3ft
53.41 1 52.21
W.27 55.59
53.0C 52.75)
The only point in Eastern Ore
gon where the temperature of which
is exhibited in this table is Dalles
City, which, situated as it is,
immediately at the base of the Cas
cade Mountains, does not fairly
represent the temperature of the
extensive vallevs father east, which
constitute the agriculture region
of that country. The summer in
most of those valleys, as well as
on the table lands, is much warmer
than at the Dalles.
The winter temperature, it will
be observed, is much higher than
that of other States in the same
latitude, while that of the spring
is nearly the same, and the sum
mers not quite so high.
Table 2, sliowinar number of rainy days during
winter at places named, respectively.
Peoria,
Month. As'.oiia. 2 j Illinois.
1S.57-S 18 8-i 55MOi '56-7 6-7 57-8
November.. -fl W TiT (T TTj 16 "
December... 25 14 15 13 10 7
January.... 17 15) 10 15 4 j 6
February .. 0 20 17 -6 10 j 8
Total 72 65) 70 43 S3 : 37
Phis table includes all rainy
davs
without reverence to wnether
it rained all or onlv part ot tne
day. It also includes all snowy
days, very few of which are seen
in Oregon in all ordinary winters.
From a record kept of the weather
for 18GS-9, by E. I. Dufur, who
resides between the Willamette and
Columbia rivers, six miles east of
Portland, it appears that there has
been but eight continuous rainy
days during the months of No
vember, December, Januarv and
February, the four rainy or winter
months of the season. During
the same time there were seventy
three entirely clear days, and the
rest were variable, partly rainv
and cloudy. Snow was seen but
once during the four months, and
then only a few Makes Mying in
the air none to whiten the ground.
Hoar frost occured thirteen times
during these months, with but
four nights sufficiently cold to
freeze ice the thickness of window
glass. Many of the hardiest kinds
of plants kept green during the
entire winter. On the 14th of
February bees were seen busily at
work, returning to the hive laden
with pollen, and Mowers were in
blossom in each of the months
during this season. This has been
a very favorable winter, but a
OREGON CITY,
number of such have occurred since
the settleYnent of Ol'cfron.
Table 3, sho-n-in? the amount in inches at Astoria,
Oregon, ana 1 eona., Illinois, respectively.
Astoria.
Peoria, 111.
Month.
1858 lSj'Jj l00i 18371 1858
J anuary. . . .
February...
M.trch .....
April
May
Juaj
Jul,'
August, . . . ,
September.
Octohcr. . . .
Vovein 'cr. .
Decemlvr. .
58110
80 12
83,21.
.30 j 0.
69 5.
.581 3.
69 1 1.
04; 3.
40 j 2.
75i 1.
24 1 5.
54 2.
U6 ; 2.
...j 1.
37! 1-48
32 1.0.5
84 i 3.15
35) i 6.25
80 ! 10.64
4!)
o.l)j
5.85
3.24
2.5)6
3.24
4.85
6.10.12.4!! 1
Total. 2..i
60.-73 82.95 01.23 30.88 4!).56
From this table it appears that
the amount of rain at' Astoria is a
little less than double that at Peo
ria, the one ill a country where the
only winter known is a rainy
season, and the other in a count rv
distinguished for its cold and dry
winters.
SOIL AND PRODtTCTiOXS,
The soil and productions of this
State have been too jrenel'allv
noticed in the previous description
of the several counties, to require
any lengthy mention in this place,
.Although the two great natural
envisions or tne ;tatc, known as
Eastern and Western Oregon, are
quite distinctive in there features,
as far as regards soil and climate,
still there are some qualities gen
eral in their character which apply
equally well to both sections of
country. The gencraly adaptation
of the soil and climate to produce
cereals in their greatest perfection,
and especially wheat appears not
to be confined to any particular
locality or section.
The resources of Eastern Oregon
for grazing and stock raising pur
poses, with its millions of acres of
bunch grass, possessing the most
nutritious properties and fattening
qualities of any pasture lands in
the world, are known to be equally :
well adapted to the production of
wheat.
Capt. R. R. Thompson, a close
observer, and a gentleman well
acquainted with, and well quali
fied to judge of the natural
resources of the State, gives it as
his decided opinion, that Eastern
Oregon possesses a greater amount
of arable land adapted to the pro
duction of the cereals, than the
western portion of the State, which
is now considered one of the best
grain growiug districts, in porpor
tion to its extent of territory, of
any locality in the United States,
lioth sections appear to be equally
well adapted to the production of
fruit, but roots and vegetables,
although casly raised and produced
in abundance in the eastern, appear
to grow to greater perfection in
the western portion of the State.
J. Ross Brown, in his late report
on the mineral resources of the
States and Territories west of the
Rocky Mountains, speaking of
Oregon, says : " Oregon is pecu
liarly an agriculture and fruit
growing State, though by no
means deficient in valuable mineral
resources. Possessing a climate of
unrivaled salubrity, abonding in
vast tracts of rich arble lands,
heavily timbered throughout its
mountain ranges, watered by innu
merable springs and streams, and
subject to none of the drawbacks
arising from the chilling winds,
and seasons of aridity, which pre
vails father south, it is justly con
sidered the most favorite region of
the Pacific slope, IIS fii home for an
agriculture, fruit growing and man
facturing population. As yet it is
but thinly settled, a tact owing m
part to the injudicious system pur
sued under the. donation act of
1852, by which large tracts of land
(320 acres to single settlers, G40 to
married couples), were held by
persons who were unable to culti
vate them, and in part to the insuf
ficiency, of communicating with
the markets of the world. These
drawbacks however will soon be
remedied by the establishment of
Railroads, the increase of steam
navigation, and the consequent
accession of population. The won
derful richness of the valleys, the
extraordinary inducements to set
tlement by families, the beauty of
the scenery, and heaitnnuness oi
the climate, must soon attract large
immigations.
The writer has traveled this
State from the Columbia River to
the southern boundary, and can
safely assert that there is no equal
extent of the country on the
Pacific slope abounding in such a
variety of attractions to those who
j seek pleasant homes. The Willam
ette, the Lmpqua, Rogue River,
and many others, are regions unri
valed for farming and stock rais-
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HEALTH.
This important subject, although
OREGON, SATURDAY, AJPRUL S3, 1870.
spoken of particularly In the report
on each of the counties, has been
so ably and truthfully described
by W. Lair Hill, we deem it proper
to quote entire in this place, " It
would seem invinious to discrim
inate iu favor of any portion of
the State of Oregon in respect to
salubrity. Everything that nature
could do to render a country per
fectly healthy has been done for
this State. The mountain air, not
less than the mountain water, has
a vivifying influence, and the gentle
oreezes oi summer, coming lresn
from the sea, are a pleasant and
effectual preventive against all the
violent diseases ordinarly to be
feared in dry and sultry regions.
The climate of Oregon is thought
to be unfavorable to the health of
persons who are predisposed to
pulmonary affections. This is prob
ably true. Notwithstanding this
i t i
crenerni opinion, nowever, it is
found that fewer persons die here
ot consumption, Hi porportion to
the population, than in any one of
the 2sew England States, And it
is certainly beyond question, that
in every other respect there is no
other State in the Union, worthy
to be compared with this for salu
brity of climate.
Persons are frequently met with
here who had been unable to pre
form any labor for Vears before
leaving the East on acount of ill
health, but have become rugged
and strong in this country, and are
now regularly engaged in their
callings, without any physical
inconvenience whatever.
Communicated.
IIISTOItr KEPEATING ITSELF A SECOND AT
TEMPT TO INTRODUCE SLAVERY IN A DlS
GLISEI) FORM THE BATTLES OF FKEEDOM
TO HE lOlOiIT OVEIt AG A IX.
From the Daily (Sale O Press.
We commend the folowing sen-
sioie ami statcsman-iiKe views irom
the pen of an honest and respected
citizen of Salem, and a life-long
Pepublican, to the earful perusal
of our readers, and especially to
the oppressed white laborers of
Oregon. We would be willing to
exchange a hundred such Jenmy
Diddlers as Jimmy O'Meara, the
" boiled shirted bummer," for one
such acquisition as Mr. Cranston,
any day.
" 1 he coming election is fought
with far greater consequences to
the people of this State than any
previous election that has ever
taken place here since the first set
tlement by the whites. If we will
only look back to the time when
the first settlements were made in
the Atlantic States, at which time
there was a great cry about a de-
mand for cheap labor to develope
the rich rccources ot the then new
country, and finally a resort m&de;
to obtain cheap labor from Africa,
although capital was scarce, and
other facilities were hard to obtain,
vet Aegroes were obtained to a
considerable extent by the aid
and through the Government of
the Mother Country, and against
the strongest protest of many of
the Colonist, and that kind of
cheap labor drove from the South
ern States free white labor to such
an extent that from the time of the
first settlement of the Colonies up
to 1800, notwithstanding the Slave
States coutame I threc-ritths of all
the territory belonging to the orig
inal thirteen, the population and
power of the Free States were more
than double that of the Slave Stat es.
The reason for this, was that free
white laborers could not compete
with, or by the side of the half
starved slave. All of the free
white laboring, enterprising young
men had to seek a more genial
place, than by the side of the slave
to obtain a livlihood for himself,
his wife and family, and a place to
educate his children, when he went
to the free North, though a more
frigid climate ami sterile soil, while
the South, with by far a finer cli
mate and soil, was not half as
wealthy and prosperous as the free
North, and what lamentations have
we heard all of our lives against
Emrland for planting the Africans
on this Continent. Yes, aud now,
when we look back we see the
present generation laying all the
blame on England, for forcing
slavery on the Colonies. The cause
of all the blood and treasure that
has been spent, and all the animos
ity, strife and alienation that exists
among us now ; all must admit
were brought about by the intro
duction of servile labor in the
South. Oh, too horrible the contem
plate ! Just to think that all this
brought about by monied aristoc
racy, seeking to reduce the price
of labor, or to get more labor for
less money. The great, and first
cause of the shedding ot all
the
blood since the world
began
has
oeen 10 retiuce tlie laboring men
on a level with the slave, or to en
slave man so as to bring him in the
power of autocrats or monied aris
tocracies, that they might compel
mm to do as they pleased, And
now, fellow citizens, I propose to
compare the present by the past,
and see what the present party,
now in power, arc seeking to do or
bring about. Wc all know that
the leaders of the present Republi
can party are almost to a man from
the Old Hunker Proslavery Dem
ocratic party, and, that too, of the
most, ultra type of that party;
yes, the leaders of the present
Republican party, though profess
ing to be clean, are like the sow
that was washed and has gone back
to her mire, or like the dog that
returned to his vomit. They are
now encouraging the migration or
importation of the Asiatics for the
same reason, and by the same in-
Muences and by the same class of
persons, who wish, and are to a
certain extent, monied aristocrats
like those who induced the migra
tion or importation of the Africans.
The Republicans and their organs
are browbeating, and calling all
manner of ugly names, all wlio are
opposing the importation or migra
tion of Asiatics ; they are calling
them Copperheads, Democrats and
lazy Vagabonds. If to oppose the
migration or importation of Asia
tics makes a man a vagabond, a
Copperhead, or a Democrat, I am
all three, as w ere our Fathers who
made the importation or migration
of Africans a felony, the punish
ment of which was death. It is
our duty to do as our Fathers did,
and make the importation or mi
gration of Asiatics a felony and
incarcerate every one who will be
guilty of the crime in the peniten
tiary. The facilities now at com
mand, to wit; Fast sailing vessels,
and abundance of capital, will, in
a very few years, bring to this
coast a sufficient amount of cheap
servile China labor, to entirely
supplant and drive away from this
coast all free white labor, or bring
the laboring man or woman to a
level with the rat and dog eating
Chi naiuati, A condition much
desired by many of tiiose who
used to cull. themselves Proslavery
Rupublicans, and who opposed the
Emancipation Proclamation. I rec
ognize many of that class now who
are the loudest mouthed for China
importation,
placed in a
The laborers will be
hundred fold worse
condition than the same class were
in the Southern States. Ten mil
lion dollars will bring to this coast
five hundred thousand Chinamen:
five hundred thousand Chinamen,
controlled by ten million dollars,
in the hands of. capitalists, will
drive every laboring man on this
coast to do as the rich aristocrats
shall direct, or starve; a worse
state of things cannot be found in
any part of Northern Europe. You
who eat your daily bread by your
daily toil, spot ever'- man with
your vote, and spot him hard, who
advocates China importation or
migration. Your Congress and
State Legislature should take im
mediate steps, by penal laws, to
stop such importation or migra
tion. Party affiliation and usages
with all the party lashes, are to me
like scorched Max, when duty calls
I fear no party lash, but up at them
wherever found, and vote against
all such party trucksters and dem
agogues. We never want any more sla
very, we have got rid of African
Slaver, although the late slaves
are here, and they will always
stay, as they have no where else to
go, and we are in duty bound to
treat them well. They are com
paratively few in proportion to the
white population, and constantly
diminishing proportionally, in
number, lnirty years
ago
there
were about one-sixth of
our pop-
ulation colored, and now only
about one-ninth. Permit China
importation or migration five or
ten years more, with the Fifteenth
Amendment, and farewell Repub
lican institutions in America forev
er. The Mongolian race are not
the material on which to base Re
publican institutions, especially
whilst on trial amidst the surround
ing monarchies of Europe. There
cannot be independent free white
American citizens in sufficient num
bers on this coast to compete with
the few white laborers and their
herds of China surfs. If there is
not something done to put back
the dark cloud that is rising in the
1 C 1 i- t
wesr, oeiore we are enguiied, our
institutions, will sink into endless
night. But I have hope in the fu
. . 1. . . 1 s ,
lure; uiv nope iesi, under Vjod m
the Caucasian races, the sons of
Japhet, by whom the Islands of
the Gentiles were settled. The
Asiatics are the easiest people in
the world to enslave; they arc
wanted here by our soft-gloved ar
istocracy, but We will not have
them here. If you want them ele
vated and civilized don't bring
them here, to be used by the de
signing ricn who are never rich
enough, and when tTiey buy labor
will buy as cheap as possible, if
they have to send to China for
more. Freemen, demand of Con
gress and your State Legislature,
immediate laws passed, making it
a felony to bring them. Arise ye
hod-carriers, ye day laborers, ye
wood-choppers, ye miners, who
delve in the earth, ye men of all
work whilst you are yet free, and
drive from, power the whole set of
demagogues who are holding oflice
for pelf and plunder. No one par
ty should be left so long in power,
for the longer in power the worse
they grow.
E. Ckaxstox.
A Very Slight Difference.
From the Kansas City Times. I
Mr. Wendell Phillips and the
Supreme Court of the United
States do not at all agree in regard
to the time of the close of the late
war in fact, they radically disa-
gree. ine Court lias decided that
the war closed on the 17th day of
August, 18G6,the date of President
Jonhnson's proclamation to that
effect. Mr. Phillips, on the con
trary, holds that the war is still in
progress, and is as far apparently
from its conclusion as ever. The
Court bases its decision upon a
mere thing of words a shred of
worthies paper ; while Mr. Phillips
bases his upon the firm foundation
of facts, the presence of armies in
the Southern country, the abroga
tion of Courts and the substitution
of military commissions, the sword
m the place ot the law, and, it may
be, that inevitable antagonism of
thought and feeling that will exist
between the oppressed and the op
pressor. We must say that Mr.
Phillips has the best of the argu
ment. War does actually exist in
the South at the present time, with
all the concomitants of the outrage
of personal rights, the spoliation
of provity and the persecution of
the inhabitants of the country.
But strangely enough, instead of
Wishing to put an end to such a
disordered state of society, his
voice, like that of Moloch in the
council of the foul spirits in hell,
is still for wai. He says that the
South does not need laws nor peace,
but that it does need soldiers and
cannon and continued devastation.
The only thing that is wanting to
give point and consistency to this
opinion is that its author is emi
nently, in all his personal relations
and habits, a man of peace. His
campaigns are made in his own cosy
literary cabinet and he only par
ticipates in dangerous milirary ex
ploits in imagination.
Observing these things, the
Court, invested by law with full
power to help the helpless and to
shield the oppressed, makes no at
tempt to vindicate its opinion by
the exercise of its power. The
outraged people of the South have
appealed to it time and lime again,
but it avoids meeting the issues
that would afford them relief and
make good its position. Sitting in
stolid, stupid dignity, it has ceased
to be consistent even in its weak
ness and timidity, but occasionally
and foolishly tells the truth, and at
once abandons the results arising
from its own conclusions. Between
the two there is after all but little
difference.
Poverty in California.
The subjoined pitiful case is told
by the Stockton liidjpendtnt of
the 2d inst.:
Yesterday a genteel looking
man stopped in front of a residence
in this city, and asked the daugh
ter of the occupant, who chanced
to be standing at the gate, whether
help was needed to carry a load of
wood that lay on the sidewalk into
the back yard. She replied that
she liad two brothers, who would
probabiy carry it m when they
came home. lie said he would car
ry it for a dime. She then submit
ted the matter to her mother, who
repeated that the boys might as
well do the job. Thereupon the
man turned away with a despond
ent air, sind with the tears coursing
down his cheeks said, "there's no
use, I can't get auytlunrf to do."
This the girl reported to her moth
er, who thereupon sent for the man
and drew from him the following
recital of his case. Residing with
a wife and four children, at San
Francisco, the hard times in mat,
city prompted him to Mee to the
country, and he, with his family,
WO. 24,
accompanied" by a comrade who
, Lfta wife and tlr.e ; children behind.
him, came to Stockton some time
ago. He procured a cheap resi
dence on Market street, at the edge
of the tide, and has tramped,
tramped, tramped up and down
our st roots nfld through ther snb
erbs, ready and anxious to do any
kind of work 'for moderate pay,
but generally without success. The
other day he found a chance to saw
a lot of wopd, but hade no money
to buy a saw, went to Hart fc
Thrift, stated his case, they fur
nished him one on credit, he saw6tl
the wood, went to settkjwith them.
Hart gave him a little job in his?
garden, settled for that $md fur
nished him some provisions on
credit. But for thee little kind
nesses the man would? have been
driven to desparatiou and his fam
ily left to starve. His companion
from San Fz-ancisqg put up at a
cheap hotel, vSQunablc to find
work and pay his board.
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EcEfciged by a I! fear.
" We copy the following from the
Shasta Courier of the 31st ult.:
Last Saturday evening, a large
bear visited the ranch of John Mil
ler, in Shasta Valley, a short dis
tance back of Cash's and Heard's
ranches, which was about the cool
est proceeding we ever heard of for
a bear. Just about darkhe Port
ugese employed at the ranch, on
going from the milk house to thc$
dwelling houseobserved some an
imal in the brush, which he sup
posed to be a coyote, and immedi
ately procured his gun to shSbt
him. His gun failing to go oM he
went after the coyote, to knock
him over the head with the butt,
and had advanced' but a few steps
when a huge bear made after him
and would have nabbed him, had
not the dog jumped on . the bear.
Even as it was, he had a very nar
row escape, just getting in the door
in time enough to close it and gain
assistance ofMrs. Hart, Miller's
sistc?, towards keeping it shut
against the bear. They nailed iTp
the door, and Mr Hart and her
children and the Portugese remain
ed in the upper story of the dwell
ing all night, arefullv watching
the bear, who sccme1 perfectly at
home about the premies, inside of
the fence, which enclosed about
two acres of ground. Mr. Miller,
being in Yreka at the time, thei
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only hope was to wait till morn
ing for assistance from the neigh
bors to kill the bear. The bear
made ever vn effort to get in Ahc
house, aud gnawed and scratched
the door and weather boarding con
siderably, but strange to say, nev
er attempted to get in the win
dows, which were on a level with
tne porcn m iroiu. railing 10 get
in the house, he drove the dog to
the top of a wood shed, a,nd after
making a general reconnoiter of
the premises, and devouring abut
a couple of bushels ofresged ap
ples from the cider press, he quietly
laid down a few yards from the
house, occasionally getting up on
his hind legs to take observations,
to see if he was monarch of all he
surveyed. There were a number
of pigs and chielens near by, but
he never troubled them, his great
lesire being to get m tne nouse.
undoubtedly .preferring good sweet
cider to his ordinary "grub of
chickens, pigs, etc. In the mom-
ing, Portugese cautiously emerged
from the backdoor, and hurried to
Cash's ranch, where Nelse Cash
and Billy Combs laughed at the
story, but seeing the poor felfihv
so much frightened, mounted their
horses with guns well loaded, and
started for Miller's house. On ar
riving sure enough they found
Bruin on band to welcome them.
As soon as they came up, the dog
made an attack on the bear, and
Nelse Cash raised his gun to fire,
but the gun failing to shoot, his
horse made a sharp turn, and cam
very near throwing him, to receive
the unwelcome embrace of hisoan
tagonist. Cash and Combs, aided
by the dog, then made a general
fight with the bear, plugging him
in the head withjbur bullets, with
out apparently much effect, until a
fifth struck him in the soft spot just
behind the fore paw. The bear
was quite lean, and it is supposed
if he had been in ordinary condi
tion, that he would weigh, accord-
ing to their judgment, about 400
pounds.
Two former fchool-mafe3 met afior a
lapse of yeara. " So you are married, Vic
torine?"' " Happy ?'7 "Oh yes perfectly.--
"You have children, of conrsc?'
" No : you know our lodging3 are so
small!" q
Young1 ladies are generally honest Imt
they wiil hook dresses.
The Comixg Max. A Waiter.
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