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Pace Seven MT. JEFFERSON'S THERE BUT WHAT ELSE IS JUST THE SAME? ! i 'V. HI " r , , r r w -i-t-" TIT; I ft Oregon City, Ore., March 23, 1851 Salem. Ore.. March 28, 1931 J The earliest view of Salero now extant, so far as The Statesman knows, is the sketch made in 185S by Kuchel & Dreael. A platform was built Jn a tree growing in the block where the Bonesteele Moto company is . now located, corner Commercial and Bellevne streets, and the artist sketched the town which lay ont before him. Baker, Nesmith Doff Their Hats "It" was a shrewd scheme to import Baker to Oregon, to the honor of which Mr. A. Bush of Salem Is entitled. He was then the nestor of Oregon democracy tbut he was loyal to the govern ment. But Baker came and for the -first time in their lives he and Col. J. W. Nesmith met. It was at old "Patcheye" Byrne's saloon la Salem. Hon. Ben Hard ing performed the ceremony of introducing them. They betti took off their hats In fin mili tary style and shook hand cor dially." From East Portland I Vindicator reprintde in States man Jan. 2, 1885. March 9. 1891, "First big eight page issue of the Sunday Statesman." Irk left foreground is th first bridge acres a the creek, built about 1867. This was. lost in the "flood of 1861 and replaced, by ' covered bridge still familial o many Salem residentsll The second bridge act ved until in the '9Q' , V J The business district extended north from the bridge,th'ree blocks to State street and fast two blocks "considerable exeftetoent existed, and nearly every man within the limits of the 'city corporation who had m right to vote did so, while quite a number of illegal votes were cast. Messrs. N. W. Colwell and Wilie Kenyon were the candidates for 'mayor.' The vote stood as follows! lt ward, Kenyon 39, Col Well 25, John V. Ramsey 1. 3rd ward, Colwell 15, Kenyon none. In the 2nd ward the poll books were abstracted on the night of the elec tion and have not been recovered. It is said that in that ward Kenyon received 51 votes, and Colwell 19." NEGROES BARRED In 1857 Chief Justice Nelson held constitutional a law prohibiting negroes and mulattoes from coming into and residing in Oregon. The colored defendant was ordered to leave the territory within thirty days. Hunt Brothers Packing Co. Canned Fruits and Vegetables Salem, Oregon on State street. There were few houses north of State street. Rector's Hall Used ' For General Assembly One of the buildings on the wept side of State street was Rector's hall, a general assembly hall. The legislature held, sessions there and the state library was housed there ia the '50's. Nesmith ad for Sale of Flour On Mining Trip Advertisers in the first issue of The Statesman included R. P. Boise, attorney, Portland; R. B. Short, surveyor, Yam Hill Coun ty; Dement and Winston, general store; The Highland Mills, Oregon City. Nesmith and Owen had an ad telling persons going to the mines in the Klamath country to buy flour and bacon at Kesmith's Mills. THE GOVERNOR'S PAY "Mr. Watkins presented the fol lowing resolution: That in the opinion of this convention twelve dollars and fifty cents is an am ple salary for governor, provided, that after the good old schoolmas ter fashion, he boards around, and We congratulate The States man on this, their eightieth anniversary. The fruit canning industry was established in Salem some forty years ago and has grown with the city and community. Our aim is to be of service in this industry Along State; sir et, ' little to the right of the. centers tbV pic ture is the Betmett. nana,; distin guished by tti porchrflntiing the length of the fronts This.was-the northwest corner of ; State . and High streets. : The -next prominent building to the; "left Cw.a.thj? first county courf ' house," built s in 1853. Tlie two-story edifice ort to the that the committee of the whole be so instructed to report. - -"Mr. Chadwick moved to include Congratulations to The Statesman on its 80th Anniversary Your Eighty Years of Serv ice And Achievement in the Community ia a Record of Which you may Well be Proud. BISHOP'S CLOTHING AND WOOLEN MILLS STORE left of the court house was the First .Methodift church, the first one built, replaced in 1872 by the present brick. East of that is the two story Beers house, later the Capt. Miller home. The Oregon Institute building is scarcely discernible on the left mar gin of the picture. washing with board lost." Proceedings, constitutional conven tion, reported in Statesman, 1857."