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WlLiAMETTE FARMUR: PORTLAND, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 11,
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THE STATE OF TKAE.
t'ommanlratlsn of UrtrtUry Krld Brad lo
lite Board or Trade at lit bint Mrrtlag.
Gentlemen:
Auotlier harvest has passed, anil it agnln be
come our duty to report to you ttie progress
made in the oommcrco and trade of Oregon
during the year ending August 1st, 1880, for
wracn, considering an circumstances, wo nave
every reason to bo thankful. Unaccustomed
s we aro to lunation in Oregon, wo confess
that events which havo transpired since our
annual meeting of 1870, giro us strong hopes
during tho next ten years of a development
1 and progress second to none of the other States.
Immigration keeps (lowing towards our shores,
and nttliough tho Western and Southern States,
owing to their nearness to the Atlantic coast,
still absorb n vast amount of tho foreign and
Eastern immigartion, yot wo are steadily in
creasing and amassing as a State, and greater
wealth and prosperity, compared with our
population, than our sister State of California.
In former years, nine-tenths of all tho immi
grants destined for tho 1'aciSo coast, via the
Union and Central l'acifla railroads, settled
in California! but now nearly one-half of such
now settlers find their way to Oregon nnd
Washington Territory, together with a largo
proportion from California itself, tho ovidenco
of which lies in tho fact that, although thcro
aro now running between San Francisco and
Portland four of tho largest and finest ocean
steamers alloat, witli a carrying capacity, in
freight and passongcrs, seven times greater
than tho steamers of 1873, vet these ocean
steamers aro at all times fully employed.
Accordingly, tho recent census reports show
that our Mocks and herds in Eastern Oregon
nnd Washington still continue- to increase;
that our wool exports keep paco with other
developments) that our import and domestic
shipping trado is augmented each year) and
that Portland as a great entcrpot of commerce
for tho cutiroNorth l'acificcoast,stillholdsand
will continua to possess, tho gate or distribu
ting point through which passes that vast and
increasing trado not only of Eastern Oregon
and Washington, hut also of Western and
Southwestern Oregon and portions of Idaho
and Western Washington.
TlffANCM.
Nevertheless last year's short wheat crop in
tho Willamctto valley, mouov was moro plen
tiful at tho banks than usual, and as a neces
sary conscrjuunco no stringency was felt in
financial matters. Hates of interest continuo
to depreciate, ami therefore, liko other com
modities, money is in search of investments,
nnd is moro nbiiudant. City real cstato has
absorbed and will continuo to absorb a largo
proportion of such moneys, especially con
sidering tho confidenco our citizens exhibit in
the future value, of citv real estate. This
year's salmon trado, together witli tho vast
sums drawn from Now York and London for
railroad building has increased tho exchange
business of the banks, and accommodations
either for city or country Improvements, or
for legitimate trade, aro easily obtained.
IIMULTH OK WIIKAT CHOI' OK 1871).
Ill our last report to you, in September, 1 870
wo anticipated that our wheat exports, ending
August IstrlSSO. wonM'not exceed 140.000
tons. Tho result, lias proved 1870 to liayo
been, after all," not such 'an uuprolltnblavcnr
as was anticipated, and that our whcatuxpa'rt
therefor Jincluding flour) amounted In 177,700
tons,- of winch 120,000 toils' camo 'from West
ern Oregon nnd tho roinaindcr from East of
tho Mountains. Prices ruled, high, resulting
in a return to the producar of over a dollar per
bushel. Taking tlii following, which wo find
to be correct, tho financial returns from our
wheat crop of 1870, yielded us nearly seven
millions of dollars t
cntAui. viilis.
Wheat lo droit BrlUln .(MUM tl.ltU.11!
to California WJ.SOJ M3,n
to other jiorte. KH.OOO 4V7,3M
Total.
MT,701
Adding to tlioso figures the export of flour,
wo obtain tho following results i
Flour, 130.491 turrets (or reduced U wheat,
1(11,111 ocuUli) to (treat IlrlUln; value.:. I 6K,1S
Clour to Hin Fruiclwn, lui,077 turrets (equal
to;i..).l:llceiiuli);vluo WJ.CM
Wheat anl flour In wsrthousce at Furtland
am AsUirlaAuiruit lit, ltWO;alue...,. U4.310
Total receipts from wheat and flour eiports
for the year lb79. ,, ,.W,CW,1W
These wheat shipments to Sail Francisco
ought not to bo' considered domestic, but
practically foreign shipments, reshipped at
that city fur Great Uritaiii.
riiooTurr of wheat chop of 1SS0.
Wu havo every reason to le thankful for
tho yield of grain in Western Oregon this Fall,
n ield which competent judges statu as the
largest yet. produced In quantity per aero
therefrom, especially in thu Willamette valley,
and estimated to exceed by (i.1 per cent, that
of 1870. Furthermore, its quality and condi
tion aro excellent. Hut whilo this is lo in
Wcrttaru Oregon, the returns from Eastern
Oregon and Washington Territory are scarcely
so favorable. There has, however, lcn a
much larger area seeded in wheat therein ami
in consequence, while tho average yield ikt
Acre will Ixi less this year than last, yet the
quantity to lo carried to Portland and Astoria
from oiit of tho mountains will bo large, unless
prices rule lower in tho Winter.
Tho following is our estimated surplus for
export during tlio present liarvcat year, end
ing August 1, 1SSO, including wheat reduced
to tlouri
TOSS.
From Willamette v alley ami Western Oregon. . 1W.0U)
From lU.U'rn Oregon, and lUstern Washington
Territory . e, i 70,000
(roo,ooo
It is much to bo regretted that not only ore
prices low, but charters aro high, exceeding
sixty. shilling per ton, while tho .number of
vessels known to be heading for Qregoin aro
not as lirgo as was anticipated In tho Spring:
Taking present prices as tho average for this
ycir, tho financial rosult to this State and
Territory from this year's wheat crop, would
bo $7,0111,000, or a little over one million dol
lars greater in money value than wo realized
last) car. That is to say, from 200,000 tons
to be exported this year, we will, (at present
prices) realize only 7,0 10,000, whilo from
177,000 tons exported last year (whiuh was a
short harvest) we rcaliiod $1,601), 14$. The
oat crop all over Western Oregon is alovo the
average and prices have not fallen in sympathy
with the wheat market, as it is Ixdieved we
have a fair market in our own State this year
for oats.
HALMO.V EXPORTS.
During the year just closed we have export
ed 4.11,303 cases of salmon, tho greater portion
of which realized tho low est prices ruling since
this industry was first establislied on tho Col
umbia river. These cases Terrcsent part of
tho catch of 1 870 and a part of 1 8S0, and there
fore do not.show a fair basis of. tho catch of
each separate season. This Spring and Sum
mer catch has exceeded anticipations, and
630,000 cases have heon packed during 1880.
tho prices of which in oil foreign markets tend
upwards. The progress of this industry calls
for special mention. In 1873 the catch was
231,500 cases, which was then considered an
enormous yield. 1877 yielded 400,000 cases,
and in 1870 we had 435,000 cases, while this
year we have reached our maximum of .130,000
cases, showing tho vastextentaiidthefinoncial
value of preserving its salmon fisheries. The
'action of your board last year in exposing and
condemning tho practice of labelling foreign
brands and selling the same as "Columbia
River Salmon," has had tho desired effect, but
legislation ought to bo obtained declaring it n
penal oflenso to continuo tho malpractices.
Your board will uotico that it was successful
in its efforts, in Congress to obtain a rcbato on
tin exported In salmon cases
Tho reckless loss of life and tho distress to
families which follows by tho fool-hardiness to
fishermen going outsldo tho Columbia bar
ought to be stopped, and some legislation ob
tained to prevent tho recurrence of such dis
tressing accidents.
WOOL KXrORTS.
This season's product has also increased, and
obtained fairpnecs. Wo estimated tho yield
all over this State and WosMnifton Territory
last year as about soven millions of pounds,
but tho result has proved tho clip of 1870 to
have been much larger. ToSanPranciscoalono
wo exported 7,183,8i") pounds, in addition to
which the mill) in tho Willamctto valley ab
sorbed 022,000 pounds, and tho Dayton mills,
of Eastern Washington, 125,000 pounds, mak
ing tho clip of 1870 amount to ovrr 8.000.000
Siunds, realizing $2,303,270 to our people,
ompetent judges estimate this year's clip to
exceed ten millions of pounds, but tho details
of which has not yet been received by us. It
is to 1)0 regretted that Boston wool buyers
claim that our valley wools arc depreciating in
quality. Effort should bo made to stop tills
evil, othorwisa the good namo which wo for
merly acquired for growing wool will not only
bo lost but prices therefor depreciate and thus
seriously allcct the present prolltablo naturo
of ono of tho four most important Industries
of Oregon.
lNCMUflt or STOCK OF EASTMIN OltEOON,
Tho census statistics, to which wo have had
access, show that in Eastern Oregon tho busi
ness of cattle raising is going to be a largo and
profitable trado. Tho Western cities unques
tionably prefer Oregon beef to thoso of Color
ado and Texas, and as a necessary consequence
our cattlo aro exported overland in large num
bers to tho various depots in the Union Pacific
railroad. Those extensivo ranges of south
eastern and middlo Oregon aro especially
adapted to this industry, favorablo prices ob
tained tor which encourago us to nopo lor a
lareo development therein. With tho North
ern Pacillo railroad completed to and from tho
r-asicm states, a greater impetus will beeivcn
to this trade, keenins- in view the peculiar
advantages which tho vacant lands of hastern
Oregon and .Eastern Washington Territory
now offer for these industries.
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nivr.n iMrnovr.MK.NT.
This most Important matter, iu which tho
citizens of Portland have a deep interest, has
had moro than usual attention from your
board. It is wotl that tho pcoplo of this
State and Territory should know that tho im-
iiruvciiiuiii. ui an rivura ami liny, is ui equally
if not of greater importance to this city than
to tho particular community desiring tho samo.
The improvement of tho Columbia bar. upper
and lower Willamctti and upper and lower
Columbia rivers and Cascades, will all draw
trado to Portland. Your efforts havo there
fore properly-lwon directed during tho past
year to obtaining from Congress an cfjti.il dis
tribution of government money on such im
provements. That tho lower Columbia river
should bo improved at as early a day as possi
ble, is an admitted fact, for tho reason that
an expenditure of something less than $100,
000 will now allow tho largest class of foreign
vessels to navigato this great channel of com
merce, and tako away and bring to tho pcoplo
of tho Interior of both Eastern and Western
Oregon and Washington at cheaper rates of
transportation tho increasing products which
they export ami tho various necessaries of lifo
which tlioy consumo and require 'to import,
this improvement alone benefiting three
fourths of tho entire population of this State
and Territory. Tho improvement of tho
Columbia bar, which in a corresponding degree
is of equal importance, next demands and has
formerly been given, your attention. Tho
memorials to Congress which your Committee
ou Navigation procured signed, contained over
5,000 signatures of residents of tho county of
Multnomah, (thus showing the interest which
this city takes therein) and were duly present
ed to Congress. Of considerable importance
to tho Stato at large, is tho locks at tho Lower
Cascades, now under construction, developing
in a greater measure that eastern country to
which wo look forward with pride as the
future granary of the North Pacitio Coast.
Thoso three river improvements in tho order
in which they are named, require the atten
tion of our Senators and Ilcpresentativcs, who
cannot fail to sco that in carrying through
tho same they aro conferring tho greatest
benefits which can accrue to this Stato and to
iU domeatio and foreign commerce at largo,
Tho late high waVr on the Columbia has
slightly altcied tho channels of that river in
several places, and which wa aro pleased to
see is having the attention of that zealous
officer, Col. (lilleapio, in charge of our river
improvements. Likewise tlio Tillamook light
liouso appropriation and tho new surveys tiitl
tomporary improvement of tho Columbia liar,
all of which are proceeding ns favorably and
speedily as we could desire.
Wo ought to feel indebted to tho govern
ment for sending Gen. Wright, tho chief en
gineer at 'Washington of tho harbor and river
improvements, to inspect and report to thu
government the various claims wo make for
river improvements. Such a visit is of vast
consequence to Oregon, ami as tno general is
now among us we trust your boaid will not
fail to seo and represent to him personally our
wants.
nt.OTAOB .t.lUTOWAOK.
This matter has recently come again before
you, and will come before tho Legislature now
in session. That a thorough revision of our
laws on this important subject is necessary, is
lieyond question. The present high rato for
charters from Portland and thu scarcity of
ships at this port is caused in n great measure
through the want of adequate towage facilitcs.
Steam tugs of tho largest and most jiowerful
capscity would double our foreign export
shipping trado In two years, to obtain which
lilxrul fixed rates of pilotage and towage should
lie allowed by tho Legislature, not for small
tugs but specially given to powerful steam
tuirs which can in anv weather tow into nort
and over the Columbia bar, (liko what is done
in all other ports) tho largest vessels proceed
ing to and from Oicgon. The mode of bring
im; about and oneratincr such a desirable
change, when made, is lor tho consideration
ot tlio Legislature! hut that It Is essentially
necessary for tho largest class of steam tugs,
and these only, to be employed on the bar, is
a matter which all shipping firms and pro
ducers of the State recognizo and are mutually
interested therein.
IMFOIITK.
Your board having recently succeeded in
obtaining tlio treasury department to license
the ocean steamers between han r rancisco and
Portland to carry bonded eooels and merchan
dise, so that the duties theron may bo paid
litre, wo trust will enable us hereafter to ob
tain a satisfactory estimate iwnicli otherwise
has lieen impossible) ot tho value of foreign
imports into Oregon. Enough information
has been produced to show us, however, that
during tho past year our imports hsvo in
creased wonderfully, the value of which has
been swelled by tlio l&rgo quantities of steel
and iron raiU and railway material
imported into this Stato during 1800.
The large number of bags imported
into Oregon each year, and necessary to en
able its people to liarveat and ship their
wheat abroad, brings witli it the disagreeable
fact that we aro paying largo and heavy ditties
to tho federal government for tho privilcgo of
shipping our wheat abroad equal to two and a
quarter cents on every sack of wheat wo ox
port to Great Britain or elsewhere. Such a
largo item saved to tho farmers of Oregon
when prices of wheat aro low as during this
year, is of itself a great profit to our produ
cers. So also witli tho heavy and excessive
duties on steel and Iron rails placed on
our railways, all of which have In
tho end to bo homo by tho increased prices
which railroad companies must charge for tho
transportation of wheat and produco to tide
water. These subjects demand your especial
attention and consideration, ami strong rep
resentations should bo mado to Congress to
modify tho duties on sacks and steel and iron
rails and railroad material Imported into Ore
gon, to procure cheaper Interior transporta
tion to tide water, and export her produco
abroad.
RAILROAD KXTKNStONH IK OREGON.
No great country, howovcr vast its resour
ces and unexampled its climate, can attain
prosperity without a net-work or system of
railroads diversified into every availahlo set
tlement or extemdvo tract of farming land, tho
ovidenco of which Iks in tho fact that Eastern
Oregon ten years ago, which now ships 60,000
to 70,000 tons of wheat to Portland, hod then
to rccclvo all her flour from this city. Tho
corporation or individual who succeeds In con
ferring, as Henry Villard, Esq., has nobly
done, upon a community tho benefits tn bo de
rived from tho Oregon Hallway and Naviga
tii n Company's contemplated system of rail
roads In Eastern Oregon and Washington, is
a national benefactor, deserving tho thanks of
the Stato at large. Thcso hastern Oregon
railroads whilo materially benefiting tho city
of Portland, are in a still greater degree bene
fiting and enhancing the valuo of all proper
ties in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washing
ton. This proposed net-work, when com
pleted to Portland and extended through all
tho availahlo lands East of tho Cascades,
(which tho Northern Pacifio docs not pene
trate), will, without tho proposed eastern con
nection, number 400 miles, and all from and
through valuable farming postural lands East
oi tho utscadot to a termination at Fortlauil.
Already 113 miles of this projected system
havo nearly been completed and will soon bo
in operation, and keening in view tho well
known energy and ability, financially and
otherwise, of Mr. Villard and his associates,
there can bo no doubt this entire railroad sys
tem will, within a fow vears. bo in operation
all over Eastern Oregon nnd Washington, if
nob uciiui ciAeviicicce w u vnilliuvtiuil Willi Iliu
Union Pacific. In tho samo country tlio
Nurthrrn Pacific is making rapid progress in
the direction of Pen d'Orcillc, and aro now
constructing 200 miles of its main linothroush
Eastern Washington to moct a counccting
party irom Montana working tins way. its
annual receipts aro increasing so rapidly that
its financial ability in tho monoy market to
raise funds to complete its enterprise to Port
land and Puget Sound "from tlio Atlantic to
tho Pacifio" is beyond question. As every
attempt will bo tnsde by other Pacifio rail
roads to tako away tlio Northern Pacifio's land
grant in tho uuxt Concrcss. it will bo for wmr
board and tlio piople of Oregon through your
ii-iucncuwebiveieiiei uy spuciue representations,
to take such steps as will eiiablo us to
strengthen their hands when they coma to ask
from Congress the extension of timo required.
In Eastern Oregon, a foreign company, the
Oregonlan Hallway Company, organized under
a general act of the last Legislature of Oregon,
passed in 1878, and by tho Tetritory of Wash
lugton, passed In 1870, aro now constructing
a system of narrow gauge railways on tho east
and west sides of tho Willamctto valloy,
under which tlioy expect to have 120 miles
in running operation by the middlo of Novem
ber, and tho next year to oxtoud their lines
southwards, and also northwards to Portland,
making a distance of nearly 200 miles in
Western Oregon, expected to bo completes! by
thu end of next year. Further eitenslunifjvu
proposed thereafter to Eastern Oregon. The
O, k C. H. H. Co. havo built eleven miles,
branch from Albany to Lebanon, and have
also completed their West Side road as far as
Corvalhs, a distance of 74 miles, during the
year now closed. A company called tho Ne
vada and Oregon Hailrotd Company are a'so
building a road from Henn, on tho Central
Pacifio Kailroad, to Gooso Lake, in South
eastern Oret'on, intenilinjr to continua the
same to the Willamette Valley. Thcso roads
win an terminate cvciuuniiy at 1 ortlaud, so
that, unless some unexpected financial collapse
takes place, tho prospects that Portland w ill,
(only when hor river improvements cm tho
Willametteand Columbia rivers aro comoletudl
continuo to bo w hat she is to-day, tho second
city on the Pacifio Coast to San Francisco.aud
havo railroad connection from tho Atlantic to
tlio 1'acitio within fivo year,
HAiinoit np um'riK.
Tho board of engineers authorized bv Con
gress to mako this selection have chosen Port
Orford, in Southern Oicgon. That this har
bor of refuge if ovrr built wilt confer any
great bencht on this Stato corresponding with
liio amount m money wtucli will bo expended
in iie construction is viry doubtful. Injced,
taking a modcrato view of it, tho chances aro
that tho expenditure of money necessary to
bo authorized from timo to timo by Congress
will seriously retard the greater improvements
riquired in our rivers, and which taken alto
gether will not amount to anything liko the
sums to bo expended on this harbor of refuge
alone. Your lioard's views ou this matter
should bo convoyed to our Senators and Kcpro
tentatives. BANKIll'lT LAW.
It is a recognized fait that tho nliolitioii nf
the national bankrupt law in 1870, and the
failure of the legislature of this State topssa
an a.lequnto act in iU stead, has materially
restricted thu interior trado of tho country
with Portland, and given cloak for irresponsi
ble nicrchanU carrying on coninromiHta with
their creditors. Your board has during the
last year communicated with various boards id
trade iu other States thereon, and a bill, it is
believed, will be paused by tho next Congress
remedying the evils complained of. Mean
time, if our Stato Legislature, now in scision,
would alter tho present assignment law so as
to enable tho general lxxly of creditors to
choose tho insolvent's assignee, somo relief
noum uu givcu ins iiicrcaiuuo community at
largo.
OENEKAL SUTTtrui,
Heal Estate Value. During the winter of
1870, a sudden depreciation in tho values i,f
farmiug lauds in tno Willammtttu valley took
place on account of rust, which for the first
time iu the history of the State attacked tho
lowlands. Hut tfiis depression did not con
tinue long and farming lauds havo once more
regained their former buoyancy and would
have gone higher hail it not been for the low
price of wheat this Fall. In this city values
of all real estate, Improved and unimproved,
have increased with the confidenco felt in tho
future development of the country through
railroad building therein all terminating in
this city. Building in Portland continues to
progress with confidence, and as yet no infla.
tion or unwarranted values teem to be placed
on real estate, nine-tenths of investors pre
feringto hold than to sell at present prices.
Development of the Statu. Traveling all
over the State, both iu Eastern and Western
Oregon, one cannot fail to seo great changes
and improvements, and that the people are
reaping tne nencnt oi moneys ixing spent In
railroad construction. Labor is fully em
ployed at remunerative rates of wages, and
oiitldcnco both in the future of this city and
btoio seems to pervade all classes of the) com
munity) while transportation charges on tho
Willammctto river and tho Railroads of
Western Oregon aro nondcratc, and tho
prico of sackj, agricultural ImplomenU and
other commodities used by the producer are
cheaper in prico thisyear than previous years.
Immigration and Travel botween San Fran
ciaco and Portland om tho steamships are
still Increasing, while immigrants aro arriving
overland In wagons to settle in our midst in
larger numbers than formerly. The character
of tlioso magnificent ocean steamers of tho O.
II. t N. Co. has helped materially to incrcaso
our population, and fow persons return from
our Stato dissatisfied with our resources.
Abroad and in our sister States and Territo
ries Oregon's reputation is being wielo spread,
and tho prospects aro as we become better
known our immigration wrll incrcaso in a
greater ratio than It has done even intho past,
caused by tho development In railways, anil
the new lands which will bo opoued thereby
to tho immigrants and new oomors in search
of homes.
Manufactories Unfortunately fewncwlargo
enterprises of this naturo havo been added to
thoso now in oporation. althoush In the coun
try districts minor improvements aro being
tnaelo. With the great water power facilities
which our stato possesses, and In such abund
ance, with timber and tho raw material hero
and moderato transportation facilities, there
cannot bo a doubt but maiiufaotuilng enter
prises will In this Stato eventually incrcaso
and dlsplaco tho present Urge very large, In
deedImports from the Eastern States of ag
ricultural implements and all sorts of wooden
nnd iron ware, nails, etc., used in this Stato.
Tho profitable extensions mado by the Oregon
Iron Works Company at Oswego show tho
chances thoro are for tho development of such
industries, and what is necessary to bring out
such a result is the co-operation of a few of
our prominent and wealthy citizens In enter
prises such as tho establishment of rolling
mills, and tho erection of a sugar refinery in
or near Portland. Tho repairs to the exten
sion of railroads already existing in this Stato
and Washington Territory would keep well
employed a small rolling mill in Oregon for
years to come.
IIMICIKATlON Or TIIR ftKCRKTARl.
In parting with your board as Its Secretary
for six years I cannot sufficiently express the
pleasure it has given me to co-opotate with
you in tho various publio duties to which you
havo so repeatedly called me, and I trust your
board will iu the future progress In the pub
lic's confidenco as it has dono in tho past, anil
continuo to bo a disinterested institution,
whoso whnlo aim and objects aro and havo
been tho development of tho entire State at
large, favoring no section in particular, indi
vidual or corporation,
STATISTICAL I.NroKMATlON,
Under a former resolution this year' de
tailed statistics will fail to bo mado up on tho
first of January next. Hut I havo compiled
tho usual abstract statement of our export at
thn harvest year ending 1st ol August, I860,
which you will ho pleased to notice exceeds
fifteen millions of dollars. None but those
working with statistical Information can ap
preciate, as I do, tho valuablo services which
thu Commercial Jltjxrttr of this city renders
thu mercantile community from timo to time,
and thoso which Mr. J, It. Farish, its editor,
has rendered to mo as a member of t'10 statis
tical committee of your boad. I rcu.aln, gen
tlemen, your obedient servant.
WlLtlAnHr.li, See.
Portland, Oregon, Sept. 13. 1680.
dr.4Rirr.mr tUMHAHra kdi'out.
Wo aro under obligation to Secretary
Earhnrt for copies of tho reports of tlio
various Stato CTicials. Wo inulco tho
following ox t met from tlio Socrcitary'H
Report :
8TATK I.Nnr.IITEIWEm.
Tlio npgrcpate amount of Stats indebtod
nras, September 1, 1878, was 8737,717 ."VI ex
clusive of accrued Interest upon outstanding
warrsnts, etc., and includim? tlio Indian war
debt of 1877-8. Tlio tout amount of tlio
Stato debt, September 1, 1880, exclusive of
interest, was fJ 11,370 IS, allowing a rod no
tion iluriui; biennial term just ended of $220,
an 19.
Tbe present indebtedness is shown by tlio
following statement)
IIONU4 DKAKINII fKVKN Mill CUNT. lNTtrifveT.
Soldiers' relief bonds, payablo
July 1, 1881 $ 701 10
Tlio soldiers' liounty Imnda, pay
able January 1, 187.1 23,850 00
Willamette Kails canal bonds, pay
able January 1, 188 151,000 00
Modoe war IkuuIs, payaulo Janu
ary 1.1 SS0 132,021 78
Umatilla war bonds, payablo Jan
uary 1, 1800 45,475 51
8350,508
WAHIIANTS.
II'J
OUTHTANM.MI
Varrat4s drawing 10 per cent. In
terest payablo out of si.ccifio
funds tucli as swamp, overflow
ed, tide. livo per cent, and other
land funis, exclusno of interest. $131,530 00
Outstanding arrant e ptyablu
from special tax, exclusive of
interest. 20,337 70
$151,807 70
Tota, Sttto Indebtedness Sep
tember I, I8S0 JJ.ill.37fl 15
Tlio interest due upon the unpaid ludanco
nf tho outstanding warrant debt September I,
1880, was estimated at 813,000. This added
to thu principal, $20,337 70, makes an agcro
jjatu amount of $.1.'1,337 70 still duo. The
sum which ill he derived from tlio three,
null tax for 1A80, now in tho course of collec
tion, will extinguish this eutilo debt, and
luatuahrgo surplus iu thu treasury, which
may bo applied to tho erection of an inauo
asylum, or to tho completion of tho capitol
building. Tho purpose for which this tax was
created Hill thui Ikj accomplished and it may
lie discontinued.
The Modoo war debt, 8132,021 78 (princi.
pal) liecamo duo and delinquent ou tlio first
day of January of tlio present year. This
debt should le refunded and 7 per cent, bonds
re-isucd therefor, ptyablu iu ten years, cir at
the option of the Mate, ami a special tax of
one and cmedialf mills levied to bo applied to
tho extinguishment of the principal and inter
est of the whole of tl.e bonded war debt of
tho Slate.
Thu Willamette falls canal and lock bonds
authorized by act of Legislative Assviubly,
October 21, 1870, nayaUu from tho Stato laud
fund will become due is the lirst day of Jan.
uary next. This dettsHould also be refunded
and new bonds issued tUiefor,
s I
LATEST FROM MAIlfE.
The very latest news' from Mains shows a
large vote and probablyj no election of Gov
ernor by tho people. Jluth sides claim a plu
rality, but as the Legiiljturo is very largely
Kepumican, in cose tin Is no election by tlio
people, tho UepuUiul candidate will bo
elected there.
EXTRACT FROM
REPORT OF
TABLE
Showing Now Policies written dnrinjr tlio year 1879 of Lire
Insurance Companies doing business In California
. California Business.
Kama.
Location.
rT7T
It Sin
iHte...
ifyn Mf
Mutual lire.
Mr rumen t . . . ,
Hartfonl
New York
New York
J-Una
IlrooVWn Ufa.
GoulUbULIfe.
Oermanla Life
John Hancock Mutual Life. ,
Manhattan Life
Mutual Ufa
Nations! o( If. 8. of A. Life
New Kngtand Mutual Life
New York Lite
'Travelers. ,
Union Mutual Life
New York
Iloston
New York
New York
Washington, D.C.,
Iloston
Now York
Hartfonl
Augusta, Me. ,
'Prindpsllv accident business.
DEATH LOSSES PAID BY THE
PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INS. CO.
OF CALIFORNIA.
From January 1st to July 1st, 1880.
Nanisof Insured.
Residence,
Geo. (VNell
John Krauss
Msnuclfl. Veyna,,.,
Walter Miles..
Hsm. (1. Harrison...
Clmon Kotnilnskjr, ,
llyram Leonard
John Williams
Drill K. Doan
John Twaddle
CIim. M. Ifcnbrook,.
Christian Jensen ,,,.
Chas. 1'. Gray
Allan W. Malson....
Jaraca Mills..,...,,,
Win, Sharp ,,,,
Edw.J. o'Nell
II. II, Qattermann,,
John J. Meabvrn....
AlliertW. Foster....
James II, Donnelly
John II. Hmlth..,,,.,
Uenlcla. CJal. .
8an Francisco, Cat
jhcaioca, aiexico
F.I Dorado, Usl
Sacramento. Gal
8an Francisco, Cal.
ninierset, lows.,,
Marjssllle.Cal
Itsoo, Neiada ,
Fnnktcmn. Nevada
Downey City, Cal
stoore a f iai, ui
Dm Dolnes. Iowa
Beatlte, W.T
nan Jose, uu
Jackson, Cal
Han Francisco, Cal
llecertllle, Cal
retaluma, Cal
Olympla, W.T.
M. raul.-MInn
Orown's Valley, Cal
It will be sea br ike above that the PACIFIC MUTUAL did last
year, nearly twice the bualaoM of the LARGEST, and more than ALL
the other csomblned.
Tho Portland Hoard is composed of the following woll known men who rcpreiont
810,000 each i
JAMF.S UTF.KI.K, Cashier First N.Unll Dank.
J. A. 8TW)WllllirHlK, Wholesale laUi,r and Flui'lifl.
L. (!. IIKNUICIISKN.IIsnrlchun 4 0rnUlT.
(1. K. NOTTAI1K, I'hlslclan.
K. V, KOOKILS, Uen'l Ticket and Freight efent, 0.4 C.lt.It.Co.
c:
Manager for Oregon, Idaho nnd Washington Territories.
Oftico 102 First street, Portland, Oregon.
Incorporated 1834,
Home Mutual Insurance Co
OF CALIFORNIA.
FIRE ONLY.
Los8CsPaidorrMUn$l,334,G33.44
LossesPaid Ogn$lG2,3G3.29
Oregon Brunch Office,
GEO. L. STORY, Manager,
(bnitliaut corns' ot fn mnt HwU ..,.,
Opposite 11.1 4 Tiltoa's llsnk,
1-OUTLAND, OUF.OON. epll-tf
WARNER'S SAFE
KIDNEY and LIVER
A 1'o.sltivc Cure Tor all Kid
iicy.Mvcr mid UrinaryTroublcN
of boili Mulo and FciiuiIch.
READ THE RECORD:
"llsaud my life," -K. II. Ukely, Bclina, Ala.
"It la the rcmitty that will cure the many diseases
eeiillar to woiikIi." Mother's Mavatlno.
"U lias tsuMcd scrcro tests and won endorsements
from some of tho lilj(hit medical Ulci.t In thernuiitr)r."
-New Vork World.
M No remedy heretofore discovered can no held for
one moment In c-ouiMrlson with lt.N
-U. A. Harvey, D.D., Washington, D. O.
This Great Natural Remedy la for
Bale by Druirfclat In all Parte ot
tho World.
Try it and Take no Other.
H. H.WARNER & CO.,
ltOCIIKSTKH, NKW VOllK.
SIBSON, CHURCH & CO.
Shipping and Commission
MERCHANTS.
X. J'J. Covnov of Anh and
Front fltvcctH,
rOIITLAND,
sepltf
OHF.GOK.
THE BISHOP SCOTT
;!t AHHilt K IIOOL,
AMI lilt HI'HOOI.
FOR BOYS AND YOUNG MEN
RKOI'K.VH AL'iU'nT 31, IW), WITH NKW AND
httur f.ultltks than ever before offered. In.
itrualon thorough. Hj. UI attention ul. to KinclMi,
tits bujs for IXiiice or lor Jlu.lnc.i. Jlu.lc, It.,k.
keeiJiu', Modern Languigc sue-etaafully Uught. Wend
for Cauloifiie. Addrms the Hector, the
UT. Ki:. II. lsMM MOKKItf, U l
Or tin- llbtd IhuUr:
fatOF. J. W. HILL,
JulliuJ 1'OltTLAMl), Oregon.
4bVrW fi) Jit
x not it in m:
INSURANCE
New Policies Written
Number. Amount Premium,
Ml
il,M5,M M
fM,37H M
17
13
IM
23
No report
IS
309
No report
71
11V.MJU VU
28,100 00
718,600 00
x.vui to
1,072 W
25,743 72
4,609 M
97,500 00
n.naoo
1,323,291 00
s6o,'m'oo
fW.I.OOO 00
4,810,900 00
3,054 M
49,219 A
"10,787 "(A
33,3M M
20,087 41
25!
1710
No report
33l!l
110,129,802 00,
M1.822 19
roller I
Number
Ami of
Policy
Premiums!
Paid
Net (lain.
8,382
6,8111
lO.teVI
4,470
I 1,000
600
1,080
1,000
8,000
I 16328
45 00
I,84f"72
4SI 40
664 43
720 M
2,403 40
J,043 3S
lit 00
600 35
880 12
712 M
1,673 20
2,848 73
1,011 72
4,872 20
004 24
020 30
1,800 M
802 22
1,678 80
873 20
2,823 00
(OS 87
SIS 67
20T 31
0,131
4,28ft
9,307
3,045
3,68(1
2,233
7,241
10,800
0,603
10,238
2,610
2,600
IB!
0,870
777
S34 00
0,1")
180
1,000
1,000
2,600
2,000
3,000
2,000
6,000
1,000
1,000
I.06S ftt
04 40
430 06
110 88
1,787 60
820 80
136 27
88 23
127 80
,,
80S BO
37B 70
2.600
1,181) 04
1,000
8,000
1,000
137 78
3,421 20
127 80
177 00
0,764
07
11,107
8,110
1,000
104 33
44,700
111,663 26
133,212 75
CIIAItra IMDOK. Ilodpi. Davis 4; Co.
a A. DOl.l'H, Attorney-at-Law.
J. McCltAKK.V, Wholesale Dealer.
J. K. UII.I, Ktatloner.
W. W. Hl'ALDI.NU, Wholesale Ilutcher.
tO FA It MKItS AND LAND
OWNERS.
A NEW HAILWAV LAMB OITsCK.
A Nan for ftrllllas; Oreon Isnsnlgraals em
Willamette s alley Lands,
Tlio Oreironlan Hallway Company directors has s or
dered a land oltlcej to lw riennl In Itorlland In connee.
Uon with that company's business. The narrow niura
r.t.teR01:Wm5,iAaM5T,,"i.'iwip &i- -
iler.lopeto a greater ealcnt lhanat present thoM Isiira
tracts of farming lands lylnir Idle along- the proposed
line of railway which It Is now constructing- Iu the
lllainctt Valley, and exx.llly along- tlio Cuast and
Cascade rang-ea In Western Oregon and In middle aud
Houtheaatern Oregon, and assist Immigrants to locale)
thereon on easy terms, so as to soiulre large and In
creasing freights and passenger, lafflo each sear for
their tarluus narrow gaugo lines, and contey Uieunjo
to Portland.
Farmers and other land owners w hose lands llo along
the proosl narrow gaugo line of road, and who,
through want of transiorUtlon facilities are unable to
cultivate or wish to dl, pose of the lands they own, or
part thereof, at present unproductive to themseltcs and
to Hie rltate, will thus hsie an organised agency In
dally communication with Immigrants at I'ortlsiid to
aell their lands, and may have the earn, cut up Into
smaller farms of let) to 320 acres and settled by Imml.
grants; and thereby the narrow gauge comiieny ciixict
to have an IncreAsex! scream of crona each iur L. La
carried by their ralUaya.
The company's land office here will organise agencies
in r.urur. si iwi f (inuKU ihi III in. i;nitHl nutc.
fordlswmlnatliiglnformatloiiabruulastotlrigonandot'
the vsi loin (rnilng land along IUlliieaofrallay;tar.
relive for UiolrafinoiUtlonejidM..ttli!me!iiftfaiiftitmiti.
tleaon Urge ami contiguous ImIIiscI land belonging to
farmers and will find purcluucrs from among Imml.
rants ami others arrlilng In the Htate for such smaller
,racU of land as may Im for sale all Ivinir klnn tii
Iiv.m.., ,,,icw ui im iKiina., uus nun ncr. tiso.
...... I !!.... ...I.. :.n l ... l . .
chasers to Imiwct In lron the various farms which
ngri
ma) m pltce-d In the hands of Ui. railway u.iniij'a
land otflie fur sale, half fare tlekels to and from tli.
stations nearest to such fsrins will bo riven l. tl. nm.
peny, and rexlue eel rates of freight chargul on his per
unal erfeets when carried to the firm he purchases.
tt hen salts aro mad. by the land otitis and tli seller
dealres one bslf or two ihlrds of the I The to ha ink!
nun urn ii, in. unn coiiimui)'s omce lulviliog I. tn. m.
migrant pureha.r from a third to a half of the price
liichand ay tho asm. to the sellrr-whleh, along
with whatever small Kirtkm of the pure haw print the
Immigrant's nitons enable him to y, will lumldtrably
re.luca the debt to the seller, who will rw-clie direct
from thu purchaser, a security over the laud for tho
third or half the prlea remaining unpaid. The lend
bttlce hss arranged to give sueh Immigrant purchaser or
purehaacrs sis to eight )irs' time to riyby Install.
mine irom en. prom, vt ni larm in. amount or money
thtymay adianeeiaiidiay to the seller. In this way
the narrow gaugo eiiiiijeii)' Islul oltlce Is enshlcd to
make a mutually advantageous sale of farming lande
btngalong the railnay, for selltrand pureliaaer. Tb.
former reeUee at omu In cah a half to twotlilrils of
me ue oi Hie urming una lie tells, whii. the letter
who Is generally a nun of limited me-ana, when he ar
rlvee In a new cuuutry has the aaalstanrej of the rait,
wav u4niuii)'etlllevln actually advanelng for lilm In
eh one-third to one-half of the purchase prlco of th
farm he buvs from tho aeller. Ileildea which h irt-ta
from six to eight year's time to make and prepuce from
the fiu the amount of money he hae borrowed font
the narrow gaugo railway couijen's land Office.
The advantage to acme to thu emiMiiv frr.ni mLI..
Iiahlngeuelioltlevls nuking It the machinery to get
settlers located on what U now unprodueth. lands
along Its line, and lurreawd imputation and settlements
and acreage In truM to Im carried by the railway there
after follow from tear to vear as a nutter of course;
while, ou tb. other hand, the bUte ri-cievcs thereby
n vine,. mi.! ii.Miuerr ui Mini Heretofore unpro
ductive, who thus get comfortably locatul ami Incrcaso
tin-agricultural wvalth of the country,
(V.I. J, II, Wheat, sltorney.at law, of this illy, and
Uuly land agent of tlio Northern Factflo railroad at
KaUma, has ln s.,liiU.l the land agent for the
narrow gauge ewuiiii , w Iiom oltlce will bo louetel In
that comiuii)'. building whenever arrangements are
complete!,
Fanners ami Land Owners who hare Lands for sale
along lh lints of railway will pleaae apply for blanks
and full iwrtlculire at the comiauiy'a oltlte, in llr.t
street, I'orlUnd, Oregon, Ui
JOHN H. MHIMT, Agent.
Approvr.1 1
MILU t)l HFIIt, Ixsel 1're.ldent.
A CARP.
minswiu.F.xi'osF. onk, V. A. tM, FOIL
I- mcrlv front Albany, Unit County, who uuiu to
ialla Walla U.t Hprlng, representing himself as
"wonderful contractor'' from Albany, putting on all
the si) le and dignity one could. This gentleman earns
to ui) hotel (the Columbian), and run a board bill of
lortythrwi dollars and Anally borroaed fifty more.
When he left the hotel ho ttrutk a Irlend and borrowed
ten dollars aud aalel me on account. I And he gulled
many other inraons previous to lulling Walla Vvalla.
I for one, Ullei.lu espoahig all siuh tramps to thw
worio. it. it. iiuu.mis, proprietor,
CuluiubUn lloul.
Walla Walla, W. T.
au77.ll
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