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MiwioauMtM -JSK'V' I h ? ' ; 5' '1 s. I ! - p& 1 it mm Salem, Friday, Nov. 8, 187G. STATE AGEICULTUEAL SOCIETY. Wo nro not nble to rivo the precise figures as to receipts of the Stale Fair und financial condition or the Stato Agricultural Society, but after conver sation with Mr. K. M. Wnito, Secre tary, we learn that he is now making his report, whicli will give the full par ticulars, and cannot make a deflnito fitati-ment until he lias had timo to .mnnintn that. As it is a matter of general interest we give tho following figures as approximating correctness, though not so near as we could wish. When tho Sucretary complete his re port wo shall give his figures. At tho close of tho year 1875 tho So ciety was in debt about $0,000, the re ceipts of that Fall Fair having been a little over $20,000, whicli reduced tho lr)bt from $11,000 to $.r),000 and gave great encouragement for tho future. Tho Fair of 1875 was hold at a timo when wheat was bearing a high pri"c and after an abundant harvest. The raceipts of that year wore in excess of tho most Minguino expectations and gavo encouragement to tho Board of Managers to undertake great improve ments and add over $2,000 to tho sum to be expended in premiums. Tho im provements made, ns preparation for the late Fair, cost tho Society fully $10,000. Tho introduction of water was cflcetcd at a cost of over $7,000; tho now Mechanics Hall cost $1,000, or over; fences were repaired, stables and booths built, tho grounds improved, all at a total cost of $10,000. Perhaps if tho indications of hard times had boon as plain as now tho Board would have hesitated to incur so much debt, and wo confess to hav ing entertained a feeling of apprehen sion lest tho stringency of money or uufortunato condition or weather, or both Hhould reduco tho receipts to leavo tho Society laboring undor cxtrcino embarrassment. Tito weather, how ever, was all that could bo desired, and notwithstanding tho low prices, high freights, and scant crops in many places, the Fair proved a groat success and the recoipls aggregated about $10,000, or at least within $1,G00 or tho receipts of the Fair of 1875. Tho present condition of tho ilnauces is about as followe: Tho debt or Jan uary 1, 1S7G was about $5,000; improve ments niado vera about $10,000 ; mak ing total or about $15,000. Tho receipts ol" tho lato Fair were, over expenses, tViout $5,000; caving tho Society at present undor a debt or about y 10,000. Tho attachment or tho people for our great week of Autumn holiday is amply sustained by their attendanco this Fall, at a timo or unusual depres sion In agricultural products and pear city or money in tho country. Tho present debt should cause the Society no apprehension in viowof the popular favor shown and support given. It will not bo udvisublo to add to this debt, but tho Managers can calculate with certainty on popular sympathy In making calculations for tho future, and hhould bo encouraged to do all that is possible to add to tho interest of the occasion in tho future. Tho success of tho Society should bo a gratitlcution to all our citizens. THE BOARD OF IMMIGRATION. It .soenis really as IT a narrow-mind ed policy piovallcd, when wo realize that no public steps nro to bo taken to tlis-,emlnate facts about Oregon for tho purpose of Inducing a good class of Immigration to come hero and possess nud cultivate our land. Tho board of Immigration that lias been in existence In tho past, utter do ing a great work, has finally resigned mid gone out or existence. No public money was appropriated for the pur posu of sustaining und continuing its operations, anil tho privato individuals and corporations that havo kept It up havo Anally become tired of tho thank loss effort and havo abandoned the work, after expending u very largo sum or money to very excellent ad vantage. Wo think It would havo boon a judi cious and out irely proper act for the lato I.egMaturo to have done nomo thing towards this work. Tho ends to bo accomplished are or great value and tho results or tho past effort havo been ssulllclont to show the necessity for Its continuance. Tho Board employed a clerk and made a practice of dissouiln- utlng pamphlets and documents con ceruliif our Stato and Its resources. It had ugont- In San Fnuiclsco and m Omaha, nnd took wains to receive em igrants and givo them nil tho informa tion possibly to facilitate their location in a satisfactory manner. The railroad company and many others contributed largely to the support of the Board and its operations, but it was a work in which tho whole Stato could very prooprly have joined. There prevails in Oregon too great a spirit of indifference to progress. The country has a great. future before it, which awaits the stimulating hand of progress, tiiat must be felt before we can hone to claim a tltho of our com ing destiny. Wo must havo people hero and they must bo enterprising and energetic or wo shall remain for ages to come "remote, solitary, slow," hid den by a fog of indolence nnd inactivi ty from the progressive regions of tho world. Give us population and it will crcato wealth, greatly increase our products, cause capital to invest in building our railroads, and when that is done wo cannot, if wo would, ex cludo from our borders tho multitudes who will flock hither to reap the ad vantages of our salubrious climate nnd wonderfully fertile soil. Wo havo latety conversed with men of note, who gravely declare that pop ulation and wealth, and progress will bo detrimental to us and no advantage. They cannot see why wo should incur any obligations to secure tho construc tion or railroad connection. They speak or thoso times as tho happiest when every man had his section or land and did as littlo with it ns lie was i mind to. To bo aure thero are men or enterprise among us, but thero is provalont moro or less or this spirit or backwardness that would givo moro for a wide stock rango than for schools and churches, towns and manufactur ers, wealth and population. ir wo but take a glimpse or tho future wo must concede that the unprogress- ivo man among us lias a perfect resem blance to tho cliacter in tho Pilgrim's Progress who was so busy scraping tho earth witli his muck rako that ho could not look up to seo tho nngel that hover ed above him to offer him a shining crown. Ho who stands on these shores hair a century from now must seo the commerce or the world, and especially that or tho rich nations or Asia, whit-" oningtho seas of tho North Pacific; manufacturies will build great centres or industry that will keep time to tho music or a thousand waterfalls ; tho great emporium ortho-north coast will rival tho glories of the city of tho Gol den Gato; tho wealth of our mines will compare with tho ancient riches of Peru; our social and intellectual culti vaation will equal the wondrful pro ductiveness or tho teeming soil ; tho homes or a million peoplo will fill tho valleys and tho plains and cover tho mountain sides. No Stato or equal nonulation will havo so great prosperi ty, and tho railroads that wo talk or so u'navailingly to-day will bo tho means of u cominerco ot which wo now can only dream. It is truo that we who woro tho pio neers havo dono much, and still can uovor expect to seo tho greatness wo believo to be in tho future. That re mains nlono for our children and their chlldron, but it is our duty to work still for progress, and if wo cannot enter the promised land, wo should still hope, that, tlnUlng bomo Mount Pisgah's top wo can lean upon our staves and view the inheritance wo leavo to others. Consistency is a Jewel. Wo aro luformoil of a uiomber ofthe Legis lature who was very forwarJ In Uonouiu-luR Mr. Dufur, nml stood up nt his scut In tho House, when tho Cetitsunial bill as pend ing, to declaro lint Mr. Dnfur v?s dead headed on tho Central Piutfio railway to Philadelphia all the timo ho served as com missioner, aud had also collected the money for hU traveling oxponsosorthoStnto. Now tho fact aro that tho member himself was guilty of Just that vary inoauiiess, whllo Mr. Dufur was not. At the very moment ho was orating agalmt Dnfur, ho had a well-worn railroad pass lu his pockot, which ho received because ho was a member of tho Legislature, aud used freely, though he 1 nit .no. I co'lectal Am fall vitlenge of the Sttite, whereas Air. Dufur nlways wld his wav, wtiloh we know because we owned a ticket from Omaha to Chicago aud return, which he agreed to pur iiliaso far his own use. and Mai. llruce aud ho purchased their iu-uo:s toguiuor, msi spring, as tlio Major Informs us. Oregon-Made Farm Machines. We in informed that a company composed uf W. J. Herreu, Ur. Reynolds, Geo. Tillot soii, S. 1'otlou aud othora havo incorporated for the purpose of orgauulug to carry on ex (euslvely tho manufacture, of the t'o'tan Uorio Tower and Separator, of which wo have nindo truiuent iiiMitlou. The ouccimh of the tio.-M) power U gunrauteod aboo all queMion, an the lnvit made machine m use, and numbers of those who hao tried the HipamtorsHlsospeak welt of Its performance. We hhall publish evidence cf these ficiB hereafter. Wo consider the success or home msiinfscttiro of such machines very Jmpor Uut to our State. Aoknt roit Ourt-vss, Mr. J. II. Rabbin, or Hethel, Informs us that he has takeu the agency Tor the Whitney it Holme organs, aud has ordered a cirload that will soou ar rive and b ftr sate. WILLAMETTE FARMER. Meeting of the Board of Managers. The annual mooting of tho Board of Mnn nsera of tho Oregon State Agricultural So claty will be held at tho Sscretary's office, In Haiem, commencing on Tuesday, Novpmber 23th, at 10 a. m. E. M. Waite, Secretary. An Vnannvcrable Argtrment, Tho strongest argument which can be urged airalnst the advisability of administering such corro'lvo and nerve destroying polions as arsenic and quinine for Intermittent and remittent fecrs, Is the vatly iap e rlor success. In the pretention ana cure 01 tucu u ca08 of a medicine which U the very nntlpode of tho abo c-named drags, both In respect of Its composition and tho results wrought by It. Such a medicine ls rjostettcr'n Stomach Bitters, n purely vesrctahle pnp j aratlon. which not only crvllcU" with wonderm promptitude every trace of foer and ague, and kin dred types ot malarious dlsce, from the ejstem. but is a certain preventive of all maladies begotten of miasma-tainted air and water. These result" mineral anti-febrile remedies do not effect with certainty, and iheir continued use entails consequences h.ehly per nicious to tho system. The Bitters, on the contrary, not only afford speedy relief, bat establish health on a permanent basis. WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY 1876-'77. Second Terra Begins Nov. 13, lSIff. Third Term bezins Jan. 20. 1ST7. Fourth Term begins April 9. IS". For full Information, addrcs Rev. .T. n. ROORK. ApMit, nr T. M. CATCH, ProIJTlt, Nov. 1, 1370ml Salem, Oregon. ONE DOLLAR vilii sEcunn the CHICAGO LEDGER Fon ONE YEAR- ThoI.KDaKRlKthoBiiST Family Paper in the Uni ted States, ably edited, handsomely printed: contain ing every wceK choiqe completed stories, an lntall ment of au interesting illustrated terial, and reneral reading for old and young, for the ftrcio", for the housewife, and for all classes. Special care is taken to inako lt tono-nnlformlychaste and moral. Send $1 and 15 cents for postage, and your address to Tills LEDGER, Chicago, Illinois. B. STRANG, Importer and Dealer In Improved Ranges, COOK. PAKL0R, AND BOX STOVES, And Manufacturer of Tin, Sheet-Iron & Copper WARE, Union Block. Commercial Street. SALEM, OREGOX. I RESPECTFUULY' INFORM ALL MY OLD friends and csutomers that I havo resnmed busi ness, and Invito tho public generally to call and exam ine my stock and learn my prices. Nov! ISTlitf MILWATJKIE ITORSEEY. Greatest Variety or FRUIT. TREES In Oregon, Consisting of Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, Prune, Cherry, Grape, Cherry Currant, Lawtoa Blackberry, Raspberry and Strawberry Sets, California Walnut, 231ack Walnut, Butternut, St. Filbert, WHICH WILL KE SOLD LOW, I'Olt CASH. SETH LUELLING, Proprietor MllwnnMe Nursery, Nov. 1, 1STI5. 400,000 FRUIT TREES, All ot the Bent Varieties. G. W, WALLING & SON, Ohwoj;o, Oi., Have tbU number of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, For pale, la their eitcntlve Nuwcry. Inclaillns the renmkiWe WALLXNGTS PEACH PLUM, XIio Iruliaii rnmo, And the beet varlcttci of 1'lum, I'ruue, E'eacli, AppBe, rear, Clicrrj-, Hut and Shade Trees, . . IN FULL ASSORTMENT. Send for Descriptive Catalogue. lirchAer cau lfliit tho WILUMKTTK NVRSK. UY, tHuico, vt they cin end U, Y. WALLINR. wliina aonmmof Trert t the Oian;cr.ttni Utt, ")ltT!.V.x:p, i K. " 3. iiiiiiE. r HAWLEY, DODD & CO., ponTiAU'D, mnaoir, OFFER FOR SALE A TULL LINE OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. SOLE AUENTS FOR THE DEERE MOLINE PLOWS, JOHN 25??& THE DEERE SULKY Tho drpntesr. Tjihnr-Aavlnir Tranlementa Sla X ,m'TO3'"raM3gfflg!M "MN id ,iXOi sold in Oregon in Thrco Months. Iron Beam, Iron Frame, Iron Wheels, iivery Farmer in the State is interested. Sole Agents for the JSo2a.a."Ctl3r JF . r aaa. "Wagons, And Light Spring Wagons, Doere Peerless Cultivators, and Buckeye Grain Drills, and Broadcast Seeders, and JFfVISM: OlilST MILLS, all tsixen ami prices. Bond lor Special CticiilarN. Portland, Sept. 28. KBMnEflfflmK FRANK BROS. & CO., SATS FRANCISCO. and Importers and Dealers in AGRICULTU ML IMPLEMENTS. Sole Pacific Coast Agents xcr : The Walter A. Wood Harvesting Machines Tho La Belle Wagon Worlss, Pond du Lac. Wisconsin, Manufacturers of the justly-celebrated LA BELLE WAGON, the Pride of the Pacific Coast. FAIOI. SI'ItINO, HACK, Oil FXI'BESSj Thimble, Skein, or Iron Aile ;-Wlde or Narrow Track ; Eastern Bed und 'J on liox. or California Mate Hack liril nnd Ton Box, with California andOicznn Kiillcr Ilrntcn tho HEST BIt-vKK M.ADB. tSrVIGHT DRAFT d WAKKANT'SD. Every Whrel Hulled In Holline oil before the tiro I" set; and thn Wujon has stood the ten of tho climate of Calllornla better thaa any other wa gon fn tho market, and runt? four to live hnndrrd prnnda lighter than any other, owlujr to onr uin;r a pkeln manufactured expressly for us from brats patterns nnd cast from the celebrated Lako Superior Iron, and from the supeiior maimer lu which our skeins arc set. Kery wheel balanced. R. D. BUFORD & CO., Manufacturers of THE BUFORD MM GANG AND- SULKY PLOW, AND The Browne Iron Sulky Plov. LIGliT DRAFT, Easily adjusted with Screws or Lcrcrs tor Level or Slde-liill Ground. THESE PLOWS aro rsrEctAiXY recommended to the raimerspj Oregon and Washington Torrltorv as the raot substantial and sYjiMr.TmcAi. nnd tho most basily oohtuolled, aud as doiu better work under all conumuKB max. cny uuier rLuti m mu market, The Famous BLACK HAWK SENCLE PLOW. EASIEST FOU MAX AXD 11EAST. NEVER FAILS TO CLEAN WELL. TIIKSn PLOWS have been TUor.ouoiiLY and severely tested In California nud elscn here, and found su perior to all others. ALL THESE PLOWS AEE FULLY WARRANTED TO BE Tlio 2233STC" 030. tlao IPrvoilio Coast. A full stock of Extras always oa hand for the above Plows. o 3- CONSTANTLY ON HAND : Cultivators. Sectl Sowers. ISarroYi'g, Drills, and Ktraw-cuUerg, Agricultural Hardware OF ALL AP'-'KOAKD KINDS. .pi' liy pending us your address, ami specifying tho articles wanted, wo will mail yon Dsscrtptive Circular aud Prico List free, ami will furnish auy further information 'de sired. W. S. NEWBURY, Manager, octlS Portland, Or. xSotioe. ritlir. coptrtnefrlilp heretofore exlillnf; under tho .&. stWoof llodje, Cdlef .t t'o wa distolved June n.lSTil.Iiy tho death of Mr Cha. E. Calef. 'i'bo af fairs of tho Ltto firm will ho fettltd and tho LurlneFS continued by the remaining partneis, under the name HODGE, SNEIiL, Jc CO. CUAS. UODQE. Gno. W. SNELL. l'ortlmd. Sept. 26. 1S70. Ira HODCE, SHELL & CO., Successor to HODGE, CALEF & CO., DEALERS I.V Drugs, Paints, Oils, WLVBOH GLASS, Etc,, Etc., Hot. "5 Tront and TJ First Strceli, POKTLAND, ... OBEGON, J. 3. niARDiLET. J. t. cocitnAS. BEAROSLEV & COCIIR.l., COMMISSION MSECHANT8, AMI osu.ee IN C:ilirorn!;i and Ort'goii 1'roduce, Na. 315 Davis Street. Ut ecu Cliy and Wahli jtoo, c&) Saa ZJi"3ta.oi"Ccs. ira ChineGe Laborers N BE VCKNISHED, avPAIILE Or" GRUB blnj, Wood-futtlnc, ic. upon application to c J. McCUAUKM A: CO., ,".:;, 51, 'i :' rront Slrfd. ir3tf 1-OKTL.VND. Whicli combine the greatest strength with extreme Lightness and Durability. JOHN DEERE is the Sole Patentee of the iv.a ,i Tilrt!r nnrl IW.Iflnfl "PVnrr. nnrl fhpli Plow is the only Plow so made, tho Shares nnd Mould-boards are also hardened by a pa tent process peculiar to the DEERE PLOWS. 1 Sole Acenu for AMD A&G PLOWS, vot invented. One Hundred and Fifty .rtjfftsjeji.-..,, ecanfuuiMjwjnu PORTLAND, LAND - BUYERS, -t.tte33.tiC23L ! AN ADJOURNED SALE OP THE TIIOS CROSS Land. In tlio Icinlty or Salem, will bo held at atthei'uUKT-HOUBK liOOh in SALEM, oa SAT UllDAV. Nov. llth, 1870, at 11 o'clock- a. la. These Lands, coneltlD of 2,037 Acres, of the richett and most prcducttvo lands in Marlon county, tlf-isted about seven miles north tf Salem, on the Willamette 111 vtr, together with House, Harm, Orchards, Fence, etc., and beinj part of the Purdy, Keuditll, tStevecrnn, bpon;, Darroush, and Vanoa Donation Land Claims ; together with 936 Acres, Lln? soatbeait of Salem, on the W. II. Rector and John llauu Donation Land Claim, lil positively b offered at PUBLIC SALE, At the time aud place above specified. The special attention of those desiring to purchase lands Is In, itcd to the advantages this sale will afford, both In tho location and character of the lands and tho ub.'ial terms upou uhtchthey will be told. To rurchafcrs of either of the abou- tracts In one body, one third cash, remainder in five anuual pay. raent. beanns tn per cent, interot. On smaller parcel, une third cash, remainder In thtte annual payments. with tuclto per cent, inltrti't. All pay. meuts to ha In lT 8. fold coin. Ten rer cent, of the CAbtl PAYMENT will be rcijnircd of purchaser on lbs da of sale. I'erfert Title will bo Given. Further Information may bo had, maps may ho seen, and oprmrtnnlty to visit and Inspect the preuv. tses 111 I e urTirded, upon application to TcIUHPHY &. WILSON, October 1C lbTC. Azects SALEJl. 11LU3. lJUllla, llalbCaUlomeCtUTis. Ad-drt- k. K. t i.tj Mi r.ijurii. ,'n Nurtry, 111. tw W.aVK!VXfflWt"SCrPVZT'S55r-''f--23-
