1: Page Eichteen 80th Anniversary; Edition, The Oregon Statesman LdcaticM Miwion Mills Brought Here by Jason Lee; Institute for Indians Placed Where Willamette Campus Now is; School Later, Sold and Became Oregon Institute Deterrninedlj By ROUBERT MOULTON OATKE of the loyalty oi thefborn booster TTThat were the circumstances which determined the lo-but fs of no less interest on that ; caiiuu ui uaicui i iuuucin luoMiiwuB vca us limb Rome, the Eternal City; grew Into being merely because traders gathered near a convenient ford where men crossed the Tiber, Salem was located at its present site because Mill Creok Was needed to turn the wheels of the mission mills. j; ; '. ' In tracing the founding of Salem we find it to be the offspring of the Oregon Mission and hence inextricably as sociated with the first American advance into the Pacific west. The story of four western Indians visiting St. Louis in the year 183 1-3 z in an euori? to find religions help had spread like wild fire through the church. The press was filled with; stories of Indians being torn away from aocestoral hunting grounds to be sent to reservations by the gov-1 ernmtnt, under its new I Indian policy. Cooper's Indians seemed river. He finally selected a site about i mil or more from the Mission mills on what is now the Willamette, campus. He wanted the school far enough away from tU mills, and the little itttUment which was srowlac up around them, to avoid too much contact account. Salem Laid out j ' On Grand Scale 1 i Salem,. Ilines tell , us, "con-tainea- a population lot four thousand, five; hundred, ranking next to Portland in ' size and commercial importance ' . The. dollars seventy-fire thpusand This company has been remark ably successful, j and . has added immensely to tile wealth of Sa lem. . ,:; I ; '-.M.i ' "In addition to this, Salem is blessed .; with ''extensive lumber lng manufactories,; sash factories. founderies, , machine shops,, and every Other ' branch of mechan ic rf i THE CAPITOL WITHOUT THE CAP real to the people of the day. To j between the Indian pupil and the , whites and yet close enough for convenient supervision, The missionaries realised that they must provide a school for their own children and those of the white, settlers who war ba the romantic appeal for religious help Jason Lee and four helpers responded. They made their way across the plains and mountains in company with Captain Wyeth. an American fur trader, reach- " ; . v. ; ' s ' Mk . - ' v I'll ' '-"A t . - i j - - ,. '. i . J little capital of prtfgon, espiecl ally, as to the number '; of 'law yers in comparison with the pop ulation. . Twenty j disciples j ,of Blackstone ought to be sufficient to set ' the ,whole population Of Salem, of leas than five thous- and, by the ears;,; and yet ; it .j . i - !-f'- t ' would be difficult to find a more well-d ispoeed , peace f ul, a n d q u le t community in any country than constitute the society : of. this growing fown. Perhaps this is to be attributed to a kind.; or countering Influence exerted by an equal number of ministers of the gospel of- peace whose ' resi dences . are within ' the precincts of the 'city. At any; rate, the peo ple of this community, under jhe discipline and Instruction of thee two professions, filled by ' so able and influential a body of men, ought to be, iasi they really are, a gospel-loving and law- ahlding people." M t lng Fort Vancouver In the autumn ginning to come Into the Willam ette Valley. To accomplish this they elected a board of trustees wnich was instructed to organise a school destined to grow Into a university as the country was set tled. A site was selected about two and a half miles from the present location of Salem and building operations started. A townslte was to he platted that the sale of lots might build an of 1834. Farm Developed -For Indian Children Jason Lee located his mission on the banks of the Willamette River at a site about tea miles from! where Salem Is now locat ed. At this place he built a log house which served as home for the missionaries and school and orphanage for the Indian chll- r -Copjrrlfta i eorUy CroatM stadia. SOUTH AND EAST FRONTS OJ" STATE CAPITOL BEFORE EAST PORTICO nno i.i,)suwv J'U cciunk uva& HAS tTVl t g I e 1- - -i f i ism and Industry which the ne- mciiumg piane; Doraerea arouna i cessities oi tne country demand. with forest outlines. Here the Stores of all kmds hotels. II v. dren. A large farm was develop-I endowment for the new school. ed in an effort to make the mls-J Before the new school was fin sion self-supporting and te teach J ished Its founders had an oppor- the Indian children farming meth tunjtjr to purchase the new bulld- ods. j i lng erected by Lea. for th Indian The work among the Indian! I School. Lee's successor deterin- proved very discouraging. ; After lined to close the school which had the mission was established It was! been almost totally depopulated discovered mat tne vaiiejr inaians oy a raui disease which had were dying oft at an alarming I Spread among the Indian youth. rate. inrauca in luanoi rni Jarsre tnre-atnf-v ha.liinr oak, tne nr. tne maple, and the ery, stables, photograph galleries balm blend torether In hirmon-l o!aa Ll... ious beauty; and, indeed, na ture has been so lavish of the adornments with which she has decked the locality, that the ef forts of art seem but to mar and deface, rather than beautify. Sa lem Is laid out on a grand scale. Her streets are i from ninety to saloon, meat markets, druggists. n ! J-.. .. . UUuociicm unoj nu otner oust ues esiaonsnments which are requisite to givejlife, energy, and actlvityl !to a j growing wtown, abound in all pUrts of the city of Salem. Mercadi8lng especi ally, as Salem iihe center for a large lextent bfl conntrr. riftx a hundred feet wide, and -cross la every ;agricul&rkl resource. Is each other at right angles. Ex- carried iin very lextensivelv. and redlum through beinning with a in , a few years mi ....m . - i " icustftj orcuuc. ate aisu uiui ni I nAnmPfl - thA ed, ahd "these are beautified by rows of fine cottages and splen did-mansions, which appear on every hand. The public build which small men; capital raise themselves if. to ihdepen- dence. ' school with heart-rendlnf fre- which had cost the mission about been erected, but will doubtless - e . J l quency. Tne missionaries were tea thousand dollars was offered soon divided on the wisdom of to the new aohooi fnr continuing the work, some wanted l and dollars and the bargain was to give up the effort while otherij quickly accepted. The structure followed Jason Lee who felt that they were erectfn wa. maia the only hope was to expand the educational work of the mission He planned to establish a manual labor school into which would be gathered Indian youth from the entire northwest. To this end Lee recrossed the mountains ' and plains and sought reinforcements the proposed townslte left waiting tome pioneer farmer's olow. City of Salem Laid Oat Around Institute - Around the new school, which was opened in August, 1844, the trustees platted the present city of Salem. Their surveyor ran the j including many lay workmen. His lines of wide streets and the city company made the long voyage around the Horn reaching Oregon In May, 1840. With his new helper Lee started work extending Mission operations. To make the. work as near self-sustaining as possible he continued the farms, and also established a store, and built a small grist and saw mill. The nearest stream to the mission which could turn the mill wheels was about ten miles south, at the present site of Salem. The loca tion of the mills upon this stream gave It the name Mill Creek. A dam was erected and the mills built near the spot where today the Oregon Klectric crosses Mill Creek; The house which was of Salem came into being as the child of the school created by the missionaries which has grown in to Willamette university. - In 1845 a large group of set tlers came into the valley. The new townslte appealed to many because there was a school for be commenced in 1868. i The penitentiary, located here. and now a temporary building,! will be erected first, ahd the State House, Insane Asylum, and oth ers contemplated, as soon as .the bricks can be manufactured by the convicts of the prison. At present, the state rents apart ments in a brick block owned by Joseph Holman, Esq., for the use of the" legislature which answers fo the time being a very good purpose. Basis Laid Early ; For Manufacturing "Salem has laid the founda tions to become! in the future, and that no distant day, a great manufacturing, city. By the exca vation of a ditch 'or canal of less than a mile In length, water is brought from the Santiam River In City, of Only 4500 v rne legal profession has a very strong representation in the UNEMPLOYMENT IN 94 "J. S. Coxey, a; .wealthy clti xen of Massllon, Ohio, Is plann ing a huge demonstration for May 1st; International . Labor day. He proposes on that day that 100,000 patriots will term inate on the steps of the capltol at Washington a Journey of sev eral hundred miles,' having- walk ed all the way1. The object of the visit will !be to demand the en actment of two bills,! one author ising the secretary i of the treas ury to Issue $&00,doo,001 treas ury notes) for the improvement of county roads and another, ex tending to a municipalities the right to issue non-Interest bear lng bonds and secure notes there on." statesman. Mch. 30. 1894. BOOSTER STUFF In 1890 an ad of Ore eon Land Co. said: fSalem will have four railroads inside of one year; As toria will have four railroads In ess than 'three years. Lots In Highland Park j addition were oif ferred at 1400-600. j S ; j: their children. The agent of the! the distance of about fourteen school was authorized to give one lot each to twenty desirable set tlers to encourage the developing of the newly projected town. The mills and mission offered some employment and the process of town development was quickly under way, for men go where men are. Bach year saw added set tlers coming into Oregon 'and Sa lem attracted her share of each built as the mission headquarters incoming group. The county seat is BLui b (.anaing, aitnough all signs of the old mills disappeared many years ago. White Children and Indians Kept Apart Lee decided to locate the new school away from the old Mission which was unhealthful because of overflowed low lands along the was located at Salem and the en terprising little city captured the prise of the State Capitol both of which brought much added business to the Infant city. There la an interesting pic- tare of Salem during the sixties from the pen of Oustavus Hines. The sketch shows every evidence miles, and Intersects the Willam ette Hirer at this place. By this arrangement a fall of forty feet or more has been; secured, ail within the limits of the city. It constitutes the; best, and,; per haps the easiest applied water- power In the state. . , i Already an extensive woolen factory, with four sets of carding machinery,' one tnousand Six hundred ! and eighty spindles,, and thirty-three looms, is driven constantly by! this power. It j employes one hundred and fifty operatives, uses, four hundred thousand pounds of wool ! annually. ; and produces one . thousand yards of cloth per day. In addition to this the company 'owns an exten- sive nounng mill, which they have erected at ai cost of about Statesman Has Seen History Modi By Bruce Dennis l Publisher, Klamath Falls Herald and News ! On this Eightieth birthday of your publication . The Oregon Statesman permit rne to offer my congratulations. It ' is . Indeed a gratifying ; thought when one thinks of a newspaper on the Pacific coast visiting j its readers constantly without interruption for four: sc6re years. , ' r M i "undrthe watchful eye of The Statesman the state not Oregon has made her growth J under that watchful prominent men have dome forth. m,CJlfd t!?1 the, Pathway of political and financial ?EL dl Pa away; under that watchful eye l2liJ?0f w"lth' haa 8rrown her people have pros pered, her; business enterprises have developed until hnntnl?68 hanging, political SJSf8be'afd rad,ai! station Oregon ia.iniis good condition as any of her sister states, i-- I L ; - Tf K Sfii?;?11- has "ever Altered In its course. Ir !.IdfcPVt?7"5ftM MaUve sessions, good' or bad; i Hs depicted for its readers the nature and eL0Svernorl "it 8uch hav beens.it has advo e? thoSghrfme ' Hving conditions and high- . "AU admit a newspaper is not a business j neither i8 it a profef s on, but it is something that SmeS more enlvt mTV anythinf se inorld toUdW Si v,0Th Statt!man could fot have , stood &Slfor'shiy?n'm lt Possessed tnat something'' so nearly kindred to a soulj l . . 'May the future be a bright future Oregon Statesman' just aa the present ireneration r