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O o O 0 O O o o G Tfcc ENTERPRISE. OREGON CITF, OBECO.X, DEC 11, 1871. The Cause of Oregon's Poverty. 1" The great draw-back to the prosper- 'i i ity and wealth of Oregon is the need of home manufacture, or the creation of such articles as are taking from us the great wealth which we produce annually for purchasing agricultural implements, and other articles which we should manufacture at home, and O thus retain our money to be circulat ed in our own State. There is no richer State in the Union than Orer gon, and if it were not for her great wealth, the State would have long since been bankrupt. There is a population in Oregon of about one hundred thousand people, men, wo men and children. Of these, there are forty thousand between the ages of four t.nd twenty, leaving sixty thousand adult persons. Of this number we may safely say that but one half i-e wealth producing.bring- i to thirty thousand. This sand will this year pro- i to the amount of three I his is certainly a very nue for the amount of pop ing it dO'j thirty thj duce wei. million, larjre re. ulation. JJut then we have to ship out of the country this entire sum, or nearly so, for articles which the entire one hundred thousand con snmCj and hence, when we balance accounts at the close of the year, it is found that we have sent away the 3 entire surplus earnings of our pro ducing population. To prove this fact we can show the figures for what we have stated. In October, Weils, Fargo & Co. shipped from Portland, in coin, bullion and currency, over two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars; in November the same com pany sent away $lil,4o0 50, coin, $23,S0G 90, bullion and $1,972 42 currency. Those two months figure up, per month, to the round sum of (allowing the currency at market rates) 3182,888 17. Now let us av erage this sum for the year, and we have $21G,4M 00 per month, and fcr the year, $2,597,229 02. But this two million and over a half does not cover all onr shipments. It is safe to calculato that at least 250,000 is sent out of our Statcannually through postal orders. It is also safe to say that at least 500,000 goes out annu ally by draft from our bankers and brokers, auj it is equally safe to say that 250,000 is taken away by mer chants who go with it when they purchase their goods. Do not get wared at these figures, because of their enormity, for they represent simple facts. We thus have the to tal sum of onp million to add to the above, and a Jbrand total of 3,597, 229 02. Is Jjiere any wonder that Oregon docs . t prosjier? This great I subi goes out annually to enrich oth er commnnitk. These figures tell us very plainly why we have not more money in circulation in our State. Just f;r one moment figure up m your .ruinu me enormous nmoiflit and into Jess man sixty thousand persons Can any other State in this Union show an equally favorable produc tiveness? We say there is not. But all this appears to avail us nothing towards developing our own resourc es or enriching our people. It is true we get in exchange fov this mon ey such articles as we wear and con sume, and the greater part goes for implements which shonld be made in our own State and the bulk of the money kept in circulation among us. We could manufacture our farming implements and thus save at least one million dollars annually in our State, and wc can raise flax and man ufacture our own grain sacks, and other material, which would save from 300,000 to 100,000 per annum. This item comes directly from our farmers. If we would create manu factures in our own State, at least two third oi this sum oconld be re tained here. It would create a con suming population, and a great deal of monoy now paid for freight on ar ticles inqiorted and exported, would l! a clear profit to the producer. There is scarcely an article we now import that we cannot manufacture, ami in order that the people should realizo tho results of their industry nd advantages, they must turn their attention in thia direction. of cAin here represented. which i.yYreated and brought circulate j J by a population of Clackanas County This county is located! on the nav igable waters of the Willamette river and bounded on the north by Mult nomah, wes-l by Washington, south by Marion and on the east by the Cascade range of mountains. Ore gon City, the county seat, presents better inducements to. the capitalist who wishes to to make successful in vestments in any manufacturing en terprise, or to the industrious me chanic with limited means, than any other locality of equal size on the Pacific coast, and perhaps in the Union. It also presents superior induce ments to the industrious farmer. Land in this county is worth from three to five dollars per acre, this is where there is little improvement, or no improvement, and open lands. Wild or vacant lands can be had by homesteading or pre-emption, and railroad and school lands can be had at from 1 25 to 2 50. The taxes of the county are as low as any other county in the State, and have aver aged about 14 mills on the dollar for the past ten years. The bridges of the county are all free and have been built at public expense. Schools are convenient and churches scattered throughout the county, while in Or egon City we have five fine churches which sustain four resident preach ers, and a public school graded high in all the English branches. The general nature of the soil for farming purposes is good. Grain, vegetables and all kinds of fruits grow in abundance. In fact the . A. 1 m , county is Known xor its superior fruits. There is no better county in the State for diarying, and this en prise could be gone into 1 with but little expense. It is an excellent county for timothy grass. Its growth on our highest hills is luxuriant, and it serves to kill out the fern which grows in certain parts of the county. AJ1 the varieties of timber common to Oregon are found in this county. vJaK anu ash, suitable lor wagon timber and tho wood work of agri cultural implements, is abundant and of better quality than any other county in the State, and has been worked out by ja.r tios in the past with profit to themselves. The water for family use is unex celled. Pure living springs and mountain streams course through every section. The amount of water available for power is far in excess of any other county in the world, perhaps. j The falls of the Willamette at this jdacc, provides man with more than one million horse power. The fac tories of Lowell and Lawrence, were they here, would consume but ajxnr- tion of the water adapted by nature to milling and manufacturing pur poses in this town. Oswego can bo made to furnish one quarter of that amount, while Milwankie hassismili- Ieath of lion. V. V. nristow. It is withgj-egret that we are called npou to announce tho death of Hon. W. W. Bristow, State Senator from Lnne connty. Ho died at his resi-ot-aee in Eugene City last Tuesday, Mr. Uritov was an old pioneer of Oregon, having arrived here in 1847 with his father, and settled above Eugr.no City, what is known as Pleas ant Hill, and has been a resident of Lane county ever since. He was a man of superior intellect, honest and independent in all his actions; a firm .aid trne friend and a most devoted :md affectionate husband and father. lr was a member of our Constitu tional Convention; was a member of t .ir first State Seriate; and completed r,c second term in that body at ti c close of the last session. He has also filled other positions of honor and trust, and in every capacity lie discharged his dutv honestly and faithfully. He leaves a wife cant value in this respect, and the Clackamas, Molalla, Mill Creek, Tu alatin and many other streams which we might mention, furnish valuable locations for mill sites and water power. The temperature of this locality is even. iiiXcessivo heat and excessive cold is very rare. The general health of the county is good. Billio'us affec tions are little known among our people. We can offer good inducements to mechanics and tradesmen, who can bring capital with them. We could do better by them had our citizens the means to developo our great re sources. Professional men and teach ers we have but little need of at pres ent, as the places are well filled now. We want money, blood and muscle. The facilities for marketing and means of transportation in this coun ty are equal to any on the Pacific coast. This is a community of con sumers, chiefly laborers and operat ives. The same is true of Oswego where miners, choppers, teamsters, coal-burners, furnace-men, etc., from the bulk of population. We have at present four steamers plying between here and Portland daily, and besides five boats which pass through the locks and stop at this place, making uiree trips per week each, the cars pass through our town three times daily each way. We have one woolen manufactory, which is said to bo the best on the coast, is about 190 by GO feet, four stories high, and supplied with tho latest inproved machinery. The Os wego iron smelting works are in suc cessful operation, and are shipping about seventy tons weekly to San Francisco. There are several lum ber mills in the county, and plenty of material for more. The celebrated Imperial and Oregon City flouring mills are located in this city, and the famous Standard mill at Milwau kie. The only iron made on the coast is at Oswego, and is pronounc ed equal, if not superior to the best Scotch pig. We have a paper mill in successful operation below town. There is no doubt but the county is full of mineral wealth. We have coal and lime, and copper abounds in large quantities. At this place quite a business is carried on in sal mon fishing. The county is rich in everything that nature has been able to give it, an.l all that is wanted, is proper development, and for this purpose we ue lat'on. , Time for Action. The importance of establishing home manufactories of every kind cannot be overestimated by the peo ple of our State. It is a matter that interests the mechanic, farmer, mer chant, and business man of all class ! s. That Oregon City is the most favorable part of our State for the erection and successful carrying on of most kind of manufacturing en terpnses. is a conceded point, and while many other points 6ffer induce ments for manufacturing enterprises this place can' and does offer the best. That our people feel the im portance of home manufacturing, is attested by the fact that only a par tial canvass of the town showed the fact that the people were ready to subscribe handsomely to subsidize the Home Manufacturing Company to locate their works here. The Committee at the meeting held last Friday reported that six thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars had been snbscricbed as a bonus, and the meeting being satisfied that the sum of ten thousand could be luiseu ior mis purpose, in structed the President of the meet mg to make the tender of ten thou sand. This was done, but action having already been taken by the Directors, the proposition has thus far received no attention. This, it should be given away, and no con sideration was to have been received but the benefits resulting from the works here. Now if the citizens of this place ean afford to contribute ten thousand dollars as a bonus, why cannot they go to work and add the balance necessary to erect the works of their own, ana thus go on in the work of developing our town and improving our business prospects. The Home Manufacturing Company cannot supply one-half the demand of tho State, and besides, the pres ent appearance of the Company, would indicate that it will soon be one of the things of the past. Now is the time for the Oregon City peo ple, and those of the county to act and put into jractical use the advan tages nature has given them. Wo have heretofore p resented the advantages this city possesses as a manufacturing point, but we feel that we cannot too often repeat .this subject, so that, if our citizens will not do anything for themselves, Ave may draw the attention of others who are seeking places to invest their cajutal. But we trust that our peo ple will go to work in this matter without delaj'. If they can afford to donate 10,000 to others to bnlld a business upon, they certainly can afford to start on their own hook. It has been suggested that the cap ital stock could readily be obtained in this city for the starting of an ag ricultural implement manufacturins: establishment. Who will take the start in the matter and go to work in earnest m getting the stock taken? All we need is to get a commence ment, and we will soon find our town filling up with manufacturing enter- HOME ENTERPRISE. Lteetr Delivered ty REV. IR. CEO. II. ATKINSON. For the benefit of Orjroi City Libraiy, MONDAY EVENING, DEC. 7TH. ships per day, and send them to for eign ports with your home products. Not long ago your wrapping, and the paper for your daily and weekly journals was purchased in New York. Now one small establishment, near your city, supplies the demands of most of your State and the adjoining territories. nn.l unila n. snrrvllis Ladies and Gentlemen of the Library J abroad, saving many thousands of Asooc'uttion: dollars per annum to vour finances. The theme for this eveniner has I This mill needs only greater power, - I n-l:l. 41 r 11 a " 1 1 . 1 been somewhat changed. On com ing Saturday morning, I found you discussing home manufactures, and it occurred to me to prepare an ad dress more in'the line of your pres ent thinking. We can glide easily from the idea of personality to that of self reliance, and from that to the more concrete thought of home enterprise. Personality is the character that underlies the appearance. It is the progressive and finished life. Many unknown to fame, moving in the quiet home, or the wider circle of society have made the impression upon us of a distinct personality. Webster, Clay, Jackson, Adams, Washington, Walter Scott, Milton, which these falls offer, to" double and quatrouple its business. This also is a home enterprise. Three years ago your tubs and pails and washboards came f rpm for eign manufactories, at a very large cost for freight and material. To day, your one home factory supplies the demand of a large portion of this North-west coast with a better article than the imported, at much lower rates, saving cash to the buyer and to the State. By the skill and energy of a few saddlers and harness makers, the home trade in this line has been in part supplied for twenty years, great leakage of money has been stopped, and the coin recirculated among the people. A few other men have toiled at the bench, the lap stone and the last, yet have hardly kept pace with the demands of repair. Our boots and shoes have every such one had distinct per- been imported for a quarter of a bcutury ul mih tusb ui iuuut nun prises, ljet there be a start made and now is the time to make it. Our Climate. Oregon, taken as a whole, is cer tainly the finest State in the Union The seasons are pleasant and regular 1 V m ana we never nave a iailuro in our crops. We have but two seasons summer ana winter. The nrst is pleasant and not excessively warm, while the latter is rainy and open At this writing wo have had no coh weather, and during the past week vegetation has had the appearance of spring. Major McCown, yesterday, set out strawberry plants, and trees look as though they are ready to shoot forth their summer blossoms It is now the 11th of December, and no time have we had as cold weather as wo witnessed in Wisconsin in the fall of 1873. the latter part of Sen , 4 tember. Our rains are objected to by some because they make the roads muddy. If we are not mistaken, the roads in other States aro also bad and muddy when the snow goes off, which had kept mother earth cover ed up for five to six months. Teo pie in this State can work out of doors the entire year, notwithstand ing the rain, as it is generally warm and pleasant, and not what Eastern people would call hard. Then the greatest beauty is the regularity of our crops. No such things as grass hoppers walking over the field of our farmers and in one day destroying the work of several men for months. No drouths to make short crops, and a general harvest of from 23 to 40 bushels of wheat to the acre and 50 to 70 bushels of oats. This country is hardly appreciated, and we do not realize what a glorious climate we have unless wo go to other States and then compare by actual experi ment. Oregon has a glorious future before her. Taking all things into consideration, and she has more ad vantages than any other State in the Union. eapital and popu- Ire!ittentS lesae. We publish to-day, the President's message which was delivered last and ' Monday. We have not had time to three children and a large number of j give the document a careful reading relatives. The- all nave tue heart- i so as 1 felt sympathy oi ruanv menus in mis to review its a l aliliction. Peace be to the hon- ored remains of W. W. Beistow. . xs3ue. nt shall do contents so it our this next Rather bad Histort. Our friend Carter is rather out of the way in his history of the Gazette. The Gazette never was in any-wise connected with the Crista. The latter was started in 1S58 by T. B. Odeneal, and successfully conducted by him for just five weeks, wh -n he sold out to Hon. Jas. II. Slater, who changed the name to Corvcllis Uuioo, and he and tho writer of this, in 1BG1, sold out to P. J. Maloiie. who ran the paper until the latter part of 1S62, when it died, and in 1863 Mr, Qde neal started the Gazette as a.n inde? pendent local paper, and it has been everything since that time. sonulity. V e group them in mind, and study them as the artist does the statuary and paintings of a museum. Self-reliance is the source ot every distinct personality. In brief it is the consciousness of power and the will to use it. Home enterprise, in its concreto form, is the use of power, personal or mental. It comprehends the resources at command and the opportunity to use them. The spin ning wheel, hand-loom of olden time, the bobbin and flax wheel, the brake and hatchel, the home-made carpet, the flint and steel, and the later brimstone match were home enter prises. The boy wuh his book, spelling out the words by torchlight; the family library of half a dozen books; the log school house and church of tho pioneer, these are home enterprises of ten more difficult than later and costlier comforts and conveniences, it is easier to move the wheels of business on than to start them at first. The millionaire ;ell that the first thousand is the lardest to bo won. Homo enterprises appears in the ittle farm, with its patch of wheat, corn, rye, barley, oats, buckwlieat and ilax, its orchard, with a few trees of every kind, and its garden with every variety of vegetables that a family ever uses, besides tobacco plants and coffee beans to complete the list, on which the owner divides his time, furnishing a harvest only for himself, leaving littlo to sell. Iome enterprise appears in the saw mill, that supplants the pit-saw; in the planer, that displaces the jack- piane; in me grist mm, mat accom modates tho farmers of tho neigh liorbood. It is also tho complete flour mill that pays gold for wheat, and requires n hundred thousand bushels instead of a hundred for its swiftly whirling burrs. Home en terprise is the cotton manufactory, whoso products have crowded out of market the old Chinese ' Nankeen." Instead of buying their hand woven fabrics, England and America bay their raw materials, and sell them cheaper and better cloth, thus in creasing a market and awakening a vast nation to new ideas of living. Home enterprise is the use of ma chinery instead of the slowly acquir ed fckill and hard toil of the human hand. It is the factory which takes your rude bolts of cedar and ash and in a few moments returns yon the finely finished tub and pail for a few dimes, articles better than you can learn to make. It is the mill that takes your flax and gives you oil from the seed, pressed cake for your cattle, and fibre for the loom. From it comes the fine linen, for apparel and house furnishing, thread for the net maker and shoe maker, bagging and wrapping for the grain merchant. Home enterprise burns the coal, digs and smelts tho ore, ereets the foun dry, furnishes the mill castings, the stoves, the new engines, the iron fronts. It creates the rolling mills and nail works, and cutlery shops, and supplies the smith with iron, and the stores with hardware. It puts machinery at work to carve and mold and turn the woods into all kinds of furniture, suiercediner the rude bench, and shelf, and deal table with comfortable and beautiful arti cles from the same materials. Home enterprise takes the wool from your sheep and gives you gold in ex change, or the well-fitted ready made clothing you need, at less cost. It puts tho carpet on your noor, nangs the curtains to your windows, frames and covers your couch witli comfort and ele gance. It adorns your abode with native woods, and unfolds the hid den wealth of your forests. It gives employment to the idle, encourages the grain grower and the orchardist. the lumberman and the iron worker, and sets in motion all forms of indus try. Wheat fields become broader and better tilled and more produc tive as the means of transportation increase in numbcrand capacity. xwenty-nve years ago not one steamer glided over our river. Soon two or three found a profitable trade part of the year. Then a half score were built. Now two score ply to ami fro, with increasing business. This morninpr a gentleman counted nine in sight, passing the falls, all in the wheat and flour trade. Two per day brinsr down from 300 to 400 tons to pass through your warehouse, cost ing perhaps G0 for the transfer, saving 300, over former rates, while hundreds of tons pass through the locks per week at reduced prices. These are home enterprises. Fivo years ago you had no railroad. This morning 40 freight cars wereconnted in one train, equal to 100 tons. Often at this season two trains per day pass through your city. This is, in some respects, a home enterprise, and is becoming more truley one by paying and assuring a better interest on the foreign capital invested. Your freight load from one to two dreds of thousands of dollars, mak incr every step we take over hill or plain to pay tribute to eastern skill arrd enterprise. Our hides and pelts go to California or around Cape Horn to be tanned and returned to us, or worked up for us. A few years ago we bought clotl and clothing entirely from the East, or from Europe, and paid gold for every article of apparel, thinking it impossible to escape this tax, and only glad to get reduction by compe tition in markets. Ave are still m this bondage to others to a great ex tent. Now. bv the energy of a few communities more especially your own citv woolen mills have been erected and put in operation with fair success. But the ireight on such fabrics is comparatively so cheap, and the time required to get the skill and means for the work and to gain a reputation for good pro ducts is so long, that it is hard to compete with other parts of the country and the world. A gentleman at the head of the Mission Mills at San Francisco, said to a man now in Portland: " I could not run this es tablishment unless J. had the cheap est labor. If I cannot get tins labor I must close up." But these home enterprises have developed tho wool interest of our State from a few thou sand pounds to millions annually, beside putting choice fabrics into the markets of the coast and the country. You had calls for Oregon flour twenty-five -ears ago in California and the Sandwich Islands. Fifteen years since you supplied the mines and the settlers east of the moun tains; but the demand ceased, and the California mills took your wheat in pay for their goods, and your flour went to foreign markets under their name. Now your Hour mills load ships for Liverpool and China, and your brands are sought in New York and London, Hong Kong and Glasgow alike. Your city mills have this season chartered and loaded and dispatched one ship of a thousand tons, for England, putting the wheat and flour on board in one hour from your warehouses; and now the same parties seek another charter, thus ex tending the reputation of this home enterprise out on the lines of com merce across two oceans and around our continent. One miller ventured a singlo cargo of wheat to England two years ago, and since then he has ventured four or five. The same man put 10,000 barrels of Hour on board the ship Puritan for Hong Kong, purchased by a Chinese firm in Portland. Four years ago we had one or two small barks in that trade, chartered indeed by Chi nese merchants, but carrying our lumber and flour. This year already seven have left our port for the same destination, mostly chartered by the same Chinese merchants. These are home enterprises, in part, as the car goes are from our graneries and mills. They are only the beginning of larger fleets, spreading their white wings from our harbor and bound to the ports of Eurie and Asia and Occanica. Iug larmers are aroused to sow more, cultivate better and closer. One man from your own county came to borrow 150, in order to clear more land for "wheat. Being asked if it would pay, he replied that his brush land was cleared, fenced and sown for S1G per acre, and that the first crop would pay costs. A pre vious loan with wheat at one dollar per bushel had been paid from the first year's sale of the harvest. Another came so sell his farm m the woods and go to Lane county and buy prairie. He was asked the dif ference in freight per bushel between Eugene City and this city. Twelve cents, was the reply. That sum on 25 bushels, which you say your land will produce per acre annually, is 3 lour hazel land, yon say, can be cleared, ploughed, fenced, seeded and harvested for 20 per acre, and the interest on that sum is only 2 40; so you will gain sixty cents per acre the nrst year by clearing your land The second year you gain all above the cost of sowing and harvesting. besides this 3 interest per acre. Tho iarmer replied: 1 have 40 acres now ready for the plough, and 100 more as good to clear. I will not sell. He went home with a purpose to improve his farm and take advantage of tho cheaper freights, which his nearness to market afforded, thus increasing a much needed home enterprise in this partly forest covered conntry. It has not been found safe to trans port wheat in bulk through the tropics. The demand for sacks has reached vast proportions. Our mer chants bought about two million last year, costing the farmer here 15 cents apiece, amounting to 300,000 per annum, for this article alone, or at least six largo cargoes of wheat to pay for them. Our soil has been tested for flax, and proved by the products to be the best in the world for the seed and lint. We excel Ireland and Wes tern Europe with the advantage of new ground. Yet we express the oil for painting our houses, and send away the fibre for others to manufac ture into goods for our market, or we let it rot in heaps at the oil mill, or leave, it after threshing. Thia fact calls for a home enterprise, which must grow and repay the investment, while giving work to hundreds on the farms and in the shops. Individ uals have attempted to snpply wag ons, ploughs and other farming im plements, and have done good work in their small shops and with their limited capital, but the increasing demands have invited overwhelming importations and compelled these small home enterprises to stop. Farm machinery brought from abroad drains us of about 1,UOO,UOO per year. A. large per cent oi mis is freight money. Yet our forests abound in the best of woods and our mines abound in iron for all this work, but we allow the former to de cay or be burned off, and the latter to lie in its native beds. One man has been selling our ash and oak to California manufacturers for nine vears past, and is now cul ling oak forests at 10 per thousand on the etuinps, to provide lor that market. It is an amusing statement, though a rebuke to us, that when certain lumber was wanted for the fine N. P. R. R. coach they sent to San Fran cisco for Eastern wood, and received in return Oregon oak, ash and maple which fully met their demands. They now build every car and coach of native woods. The report is rife that spokes of Oregon oak are sent to San Francisco and returned mark ed Eastern timber. So strong has been the prejudice against the home products and in favaor of the import ed. A gentleman who had worked oak in Ohio, and in every State west, and who has made wagons here of our oak timber, declares it superior to any this side of Ohio. Another who has made and filled wagons in Washington county, confirms that statement with numerous tests of their strength and wearing power. Combine skill and capital in this branch, and yon can defy Eastern competition by what yon will gain in freight, while -you will have better articles, besides giving business to various classes, who now wait to fur nish the Inmber and iron, and to others who ask for employment as journeymen or apprentices. We pay thousands of dollars for axe-handles, yet onr grub oak, so abundent, excels the hickory in toughness. Two firms in Portland, before the fire of August 2, 1873, imported most of theirfurniture. Now they make all kinds out of our native woods, using machinery and employing about 40 hands, 8 of them apprentices, and thus save 50,000 per annum to the State. Our cotton-wood along the Will amette and Columbia, was deemed useless three years ago. This year six cargos of bolts have been ship ped to make sugar barrels, and an order received for 50.000 to be made by one firm here. The barrel hoop has also become an article of com merce. Two objections are made to any greater efforts in the way of home enterprise. One is that the market is very small. c must have more eople, says the object or, ere we at tempt manufactures. But Massachu setts has 1,457,352. nd supplies goods for ten times as many eople, whom they find abroad, and Great Britain has abont 35,0tH),(XK) and sends her goods to all the world. We send food to multitudes outside of our borders. Why not send clothing furniture and implements, if we have the material and power to make them? Why not take part in ship ping the needy and sharing the prof its? A captain on one of the Pacific Mail steamers to China, said a few days ago that most of their freight is flour for the Chinese, and were this lemand to cease, they could not con tinue the line. The Canton province alone has 21,000,000 people, and the Empire contains four hundred mil lions, who furnish us a growing mar ket for bread. For every keg of nails you pay 0, 1 50 of which is freight. In this small town from 30 to 40 tons are sold at a cost of 120 per ton. Count the annual cost for nails 4,000, 1,000 of it is freight and charges. Perhaps hundred times that amount are sold in the State, with a loss to us of twenty-five per cent, for trans iortation. At hand we have a furnace which sends off 70 tons of the best iron per . l lAl . week, ana mis amount can oe quad rupled, if home "enterprise would erect a rolling mill and nail factory to use it. Our orchards Id years ago paid several hundreds of thousands of dollars per annum. Lately they have been wasting. One company near you has begun to put canned fruit into the market with success, won largely by a woman's taste and skill in the preparation. Another orch ardist sends his dried plums to Phil- adelphia, and gams a reputation for himself and the State. Others pro pose by home culture to vie with the famous German prunes, which draw 5,000,000 from our national finances. Possibly the new drying process will put our abundant fruit harvests into the ready markets of the interior. and restore prosperity to this bus iness. If England sends cargos of wools and cottons to China, in exchange for tea and silks, why may not man ufacturers on our coast do the same? lheir country is even, more desti tute of forests than of material for clothing. Hence the vast quantities of lumber they now reauire of ns for their growing navy and merchant marine, for their buildings, wharves, bridges, and ultimately for their railroads. They, with others, call for many things which we caa sup- A second obiection is laL- cheap labor, preventing the invest ment of capital. We cannot compete in machinery, in implements, in fur niture, or in anv great entfirnrier say the capitalists, and must be sat isfied to farm and trade and wait. A drop of water falling a few feet will turn a spindle. A small stream will run a lathe or a plain. Five men guiding the machines in vour tub and pail factory meet the wants of a large trade in this line. 25 hands turn off cargos of flour every week with good . machinery and power in the mill. A hundred hands in a fac tory fill our largest warehouses with choice fabrics. A few men would supply the farmers with bagging, using machinery driven by the pow er that runs to waste by your city, and would put thousands of acres under flax culture, employing hands that wait listlessly at the corners. A tew more men caa famish the i uuu power c;ia . . . A ll I xueijis man an our began mand increased. aud more capital. east. frpin.1 ' chairs for our dwelling of which come from the' luaiei wis are here. Thi Le saveu. The wait to be set at work A lew men with ;.- i- . UT uninll ,.i 101 'k withstand competition. 1 H A Vermont blacksmith ni an interior village in in: ?Vedt to make nlonsrh W He SOnrvl.4 an.l "?.":P himself at Moli olJ0sLj President of the John Deerp . i factory, which turns ontV." ploughs out p.. per voar. T. , , feet distant another one tiin,,,UlJri!,' many, i hree miles off, anotb-r V 48 O t2 Ttl.l.- ...... 1 A. At ' . I ll . ' f ,u""j """'c, uui ineir mart., lecome th wlmU a h(tja.vl Mississippi and the coal field, them power to draw unlimiti chinery, summer and winterT and night, if need be, which ink ing skill and steadfast purpose JSr to the most prosieroii3 results This brief review of eii; possible home enternrisuta i a"i ting simnort in iho f t . "t- r ' ". r l"at you iacK in cneap labor, you 1 vast anil lifln ikru-ov Af. " "V." " TZS""' :-ueaP aat ials, cheap freights and tended markets. Past widely e,. fair extent. It remains to be"jn n ones that may grow to greatn," Nature waits for the hand ofu." The roar of your falls saks f J."" measured power, that runs t.. . " To you, it is common and unuotkw To the stranger it is a constant v.0I a prophesy der and of lieu f a..:.. and products, to go out on all channels of commerce. The miUts of coal and iron around you are oniT tested. The forests invite nwchinerv and new fields await tillage. Jo rV gion abounds more in life and than this in which we dwell. Indus, try is awarded with abundauco, auj thrift leads to plenty. lint while we speak of enterprise in the exercise of skill and en. rv we do not forget the calls of lnu,.! ity. It is noble to help another, l,nt more noble to aid him in helpiuV himself. It is a good thing to ha. schools, libraries and chnrdios. v.. should sustain them. Yet we value to these when we give work t the laborer, and employment to ti,e unemployed oi both sexes; when v,-e open the shop door and admit the son to learn a trade, juid bect.iiK a self reliant artisen, and find anit.il.!.. 1 dace for the strength and taste ..f the daughter, it is a problem, vli!tt is to be done with the youth grmvi" up around us. Almost forty iu,. sand, or thirty-six p-r ift." (. onr population, are within legal s-li.,i age, soon to be the men and wf.n,,, of our State. They need wcn-k-sla.j,, as well as farms and btock j.i!!i li and mining claims. Hni -i;tt -prises, in some of the iire-;i..ns ji, dicated, will solve this in. ai.ii open ways (if industry :ud j i -lit . :.s well as of comfort and l:apj.i:,-. that will be a credit to the ccnuv. ity and a source of its pioHaiiu. A Vahialdr Mrli al Tira! i.-r. llostotti-rs United .: A l:n:.n:- ..r 1J75 for distribution, ;" , llir.ii;!MM,i the United Stares, and .'ill civili.- d ihih. tries of tiu.' Western Il- iinsb r- wll published :li in- fir! ol 4:tnii:ir . in the Knjjlish, iertnan, Kr -n'-ii. N.to i:iti. Welsh, Swedish, Holland, ! !) n.ian :n. i Spanish l;uiuncs, and w. rUii :.. understand tlv? tru- philosophy i l. ;;:!! should read and io!l'r the vuliiat.il.- .in gestions it contains. In addition ln n :.- mirable medical tr-atis-' -a t i - - cau-s. prevent ion and cur.- of a r iti v;ri -ly .i diseases, it embraces a lar- ii'ie-nnt. . i information interest ini; to ! iwnMmtit, tt-e mechanic, th in in--r, th- turne r, Hi- planter, riie professional iiian: ami I Ii - calculat ions nr.; made lor such tin ridiHfi ami latitudes as ar-- most suitaM- ir a correct and comprehensive National t'al- endar. The nature, ns-s. and cAt raordinarv san itary effect s oi J tosp -tiers si wiii.-.i-Ii l.itt-r.. rhe staple tonii- ami att rative of innrv than half the Christian worlt. ar-- hilly set fort h in its pays, which are also iiit-r-sjiersed wit ii pictorial illustrations, alll- able recip-s for til' hous-hlt and ljirm.3 humorous an--cdt-s, ami ot her instructive and amusing r.i-nhn;r matter, ordinal ami s-l'-cr-tl. .Vni the Annuals to appear wit h the ojieiiin ol t he year, this will ! one of the most us Jul "arid may U- lia-I for t he asking. Th proprietors M ssr. llostelb r & Smith Pittsburgh, Pa., mi re ceipt of a two cent stamp, will toraard a copy by mail to any mtsoii who cannot prciire one in his neili horhond. 'Hi-' liittersaru sold in every city, town ami village, and art? extensively lised through out the entire civilized world. leatU Would le I psilI if the proclamations of the alchoholic nostrum mongers were true. Hut, alas! their terri ble exitants send thousands stawrinj; to theprave. Instead ol adding fuel to thu fire of disease with such deadly eoiupaiiMdR try the cooling, renovating, purifying, ami regulating effect of that inestimable com bination of herbal juices and extracts. Pi:. Walkeiis California Vimwak Hit ters t he nole siieciric for UvsKsia, Phys ical Debility.. Headache, Millions 0li Liver Com plaints, Jout, lite, uinatisiu, and Chronic Constipation. 9IAKHIKI. III Oregon tJity,on the, 3d inst., l y M. C. Athey, Mr. Chas. V . Johnson, f lienton county, jorI Miss Maria A. Mulvaney, of Clackamas count v. NEW TO-DAY. GEO. A. PRiSCEArCO. ORGANS AND frlELODEONS. The Oldest, Largest, and Most Perfect Man ufactory in tli'? L nited Mates. Ji'ow in use. Xo other Musical Instruments ever obtain ed the same IVtpuIarity. tt& Send for Price Lists. . ddress BfFKAM), T. decllwl 1 LL FEU l. I'AKKKK. PLEASE SETTLE. O.VS WHO OWE P.KLL I. late druggists, win " their bills at Johnson A McCown s and Collection office, who would be glad to receipt for the money. Lx.nl delay, id fare worse. lldecw Final SfUltuicni: In the matter of the estate of Isaac Crr deceased : & In the County Court of Clackamas County, Ore iron. iTIOE IH IIEHERY (ilKS J ha ' S. I Campbell, administrator o! lie Mtnlanl Ici'icl'mms deceased, h!" his final accounts for settlement, and tiu Court has set Monday, the Ilk dm" of J. unary, A 11., 175, at the Court House, in Oregon City, as the time and place for examining said "rnu accounts and hearing of objections thereto. S". W. KAN I 'Aid.., AtteRt: . muni y Judge. Jas. M. Frarer, County t h rk. , Dec. 11, 474-1. o COURTESY CF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY CF CALIFORNIA, r O 4 0 Ot