O c o G o 4 9 0 DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, LITERATURE, AND THE DEST INTERESTS OF OREGON VOLT 9. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1875. NO. 11. A. .r " ; v fii 1) 'ii' - ::(ni f itv THfY "ffv h -f - O THE ENTERPRISE. i LOCM DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER F K T II K Trmtr, Bwineu Man, k Family Circle. IWUBujYEUT FRIDAY. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. fittlCIAL PAPER TOR CLACKAMAS CO. ..WKICF-In KterVbI!k RulUllfiR. one ,,"H:' Y:..ni i'...iidinir. Maui ht. lx Term f MtOmcrlptlowi .. r.n Ono Year. In Advance $50 n'""' ..Ml, Mnll. " 1-50 " - II A - Term or Advertising Transient advertisements, Including '""V . .s -j ....... r.. r twelve all I.jinin ..-'---, it " i , lirS ne Vfi'fK....... " v . For each ulu,a Ins-rUon... I.JW o. :..ia..in.- -t:ir:::;;;;;;;;;;;;;:: ,: Hlf . 1'UNI yuri;r ..,.,..,,,.,, 1H) SOCIETY NO TICES. - - OHKCON' LOPUK NO. 3, I. I. . i'., Meet every ThnrsdaV iggfjv renin ' t7' ol.ek, in i the Odd Fellows Hall. Mum trt. MemlKirsot ur- ,l. i..vit. . t atti'iiii. 1V nlor MHiiKVCA ni:c:ui:i: i.im; i no. S. I. O. O. F., Me tH on Uu; -f: N4rotut ami Fourth Tues- fH xl.W evenlliirs eaen limnm, ,t i i ..Vl,wl- in the O.l.l F.-MowV Hall. MemlHTsof the Decree are inritetl to attend. ."uh.tnomaii i.oi)c;i-; xt. i, a.f. A A. M,., llol(U its regular eoin- A iiinnietioiiH on tip? First anl iV Tiiinl Saturday h in ra-h inontli, at 7 dVliK'k front the'JUh of Sep. timber to tho 20th f Mureli ; and 7'i t.Vl.M-k from tlie -Dtli of Mareh to tho iOth of Sjitemler. Urethren in gool tndiii' an. invited to attend. Itv order of Y. M. FALLS i:XCAMPMKXT NO. 1,1. O. - . m mm o. F., Mn-t.s at o.l.l I'fiiows Hill oiith First aiKlThirdTues th. F.itriareliM in go-i-l taii liii-.r are iiivitel toattend. fMl'K HXC.VMP.HKAr -t. U. V. M.t- Md F.dlo vs Hall, in Ore ,,, t'itr r.jt. n M'Hi'l v ev-nlns. at i ., v... M-nitT r Hi - or.l-r r.- in tii .1 tt -ii 'I. M. . A 11 IKY, C. J. vl. i:eV.v. It. S. mi-'Tly - . -K II (! H I .V It S S C.I Ii S. .J. V. NOKKIS. M. J J. PIIVSK'IW AXU Sl UUKOX, i n ; .v c r : i' ti x. 0 l"l-Si:ors in t. V .hariiia;i"s Hrie yi tin Sir- W. AY. MO UK LAM), ATTORN EY-AT-LW; OUKUON CITV, OKKCiOX. K'I-K Street, oHe tle art II . H. lltTKL A T ATTORN EY-AT-L AW: 01EQON CITY, - - OREGON. OFFICE Cuarman brick, Main st. cs 5oarlS7iAf. JOHNSON & McCOWN iTTORNRYi M C01X&EL0RS AT-LAW Oregon City, Oregon. WllI praeti? in all the Courts of tho ntrJ. Hpelnl ttntion Rten to c in tb V. H. Itndtinc- at Oregon City. rprW72-tf. Xa. T. II A IZ I N, ATTORffl EY-AT-L AW, OREGON CITY, : : OREGON. OFFICE-Over street. Poi s Tin Store, Main 21niar73-lf. Dr. S. PARKER, 1ATE OK roUTLAMD. OFFERS HIS J services as Physician and Surgeon to t he people of Clackamas county, who may at any time be In need of a physician. He ha opened an o'llce at Ward A Harding's lpug Store wliore ha can be found at all timws of th day w"hn not engaged In pro fessional uUls. Rsidenoe, .Main Street, next d'r but one above R. Cnufield's store. October 23. 17 1. tf JOHN M. HACOX, IMPORTER AXI DEATJR In hVioks. Stationery, i-. rrum cry. etc.. etc. Orefria City. Oroti. At Chsrmsn Jfc Warner's old stand. ately oectipUd !..- S. Ackeman. Main st OREGON CITY BREWERY. Henry llumbol, H AVINtt PI1RCHAS- ed the atxtwe Isrew rrv wishes io iniorm i ne nuuni- iimi ne is now pre pared to manufacture sNn.1 qual ify of J, AG BR RRJtR. as irood as can ;be ol4ained anywhere in the state. Orders solicited and promptly lilted OYSTER SALOON - '- a n n li ESTivUR A MT ! LOUIS tyiAL, Proprietor. A Main Street, A - - - Orrgnn City. fYSTER-S Will. BE SERVED FROM ' and after th l date during the Winter fason. Tho beM qualities of FRENCH and AMERICAN CANDIES. Ic ' for sal- in quantities to suit. JOHN SCHR AM, 3Iain St., Oregon City. MAMFACTIRER AND IMPORTER OF .Sltl-ry-IIarl- etc WHICH HE OFFEUS AS CHAP AS can be had In tho State, at WHOLESALE OR RETAIL - try l warrant my goods its represented. 1,000 DEER SKI IIS WANTED. AND ALSO, VI.I. OTHER KINDS OF HIDES, FOR which I will pay the highes market price in cash Bring on your hides and get your coin for them. JOHX RPHRAM, Saddle and Harness Maker. Oregon City, Oregon, July 11, l.S7:3-m3. WAGON AND CARRIAGE ill A jV U F ACTOttI T 1 milE UXDEUSloXED, JL having increased the di mensions f his premises, at ine oui sianu on tne Corner of Muin and Third Street, Orogon City, Oregon, Takes this method of informing his old pa trons, and as many new ones as maybe pleased to call, that he Is now prepared, with ample room, good materials, and the very best of mechanics, to build anew, re construct, make, paint, iron and turn out all complete, any sort of a vehicle from a common Cart to a Concord Coach. Try me. nin-Wmitliinr, Horse or Ox Klioeing- and (tuneral Jobbing neatly, quickly, and cheaply done. DAVID SMITH. AT i E. D KELLY'S, M UX STREET, HRECOX TITV, JFST ARRIVED. DIRECT FROM SAN Francisco, all the LATEST STYLES of Fall and Winter IrErtt & Bonnets, Trimmed and I'ntrinimed, for Fall nml Winter wear, which we olfcr to the ladi'-s f Oregon I'ity and vicinity at exceedingly lciw Prices. MILLINERY GOODS. MILLINERY GOODS. HATS AND BONNETS. HATS AND BONNETS. FEATHESS AND FLOVERS, FTHRS AND FLOWERS. RIS30NS AND GRNAFviEFJTS. RIBBONS AND ORNAMENTS. CALL AND EXAMINE. CALL AND EXAMINE. o troiioi.. to show goods, and no one urgedtopnrcha.se. Our desire Is to please our numerous customers. Oregon City, Oct. 2:1, 1ST i. tf D K Y G () () Q LOTH ISM Q 115 !) iO I now off t i h is stock of ( SothIs at lrices far below any other house in the State. Times are hard and money scarce a nil I will give every one the worth of their money. I also keep a full assortment of OREGON CITY MADK Men anil Hoys (lot hi it if, I'mle riven r , h'lu it nelM. Hlnnketx, T S A N D S H o E S T) S c I G And Yarns. A I.SO (irorerlcpi, : Cutlery, i Jewelry, I NotioiiK, M it lea I IiiKtritnients, Toys, Etc., TT11E j Lowest Prices For CASH A S H T () B A C C O S A S c A V s .AT... AIEVY'S. oetlf 3. P. WARD. OF.OROK A. IIARTr?fO. WARD & HARDING, DRUGGISTS AND APOTHECARIES, KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A general assortment of Iimii and Chemioals, Perfumer-, Soaps (oinhtaml Uruhes.. Trnn.se. Supporlrrn, Shoulder Rrares Kaneyand Tet Article, . ALSO . Kerosene Oil. Lamp Chimneys, Cl, Pally, Paints Olli arni.hri and Dye St iifTs, riKK vUXES AXD Liqi ORS FOR DiriXAL PURPOSES. ME" PATENT MEDICINES. VTC "-'-J m v 7"Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, and all orders correctly an swered. 7"Opon at all hours of the night. VA11 accounts must be paid monthly novfitf WARD A HARDING. ' COME AND SEE US! A1 LL PARTIES HAVING ACCOUNTS with AViUiams . Ilardinir can see how the same stands at the end of the month. We want some money. octcotf THE SXJUST. WEEKLY AND DAILY FOR 1ST5. 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Bacon, .Sec. derJ5w2 WASHINGTON LETTER. Washington, Dec, tit 1874. The paier purporting to be the administration organ in tbis city Las apparently at last awakened to a re alization of the true condition of affairs in this country. f la an article some days since the editor (whose words may be taken as a criterian of the "White House" opinions) frank ly (?) confesses, after reviewing the results of the recent elections, that something must be done, and" closes by a fervid exhortation to the Con gressmen, praying that they "go to work" and " do something positive," for on their action depends the life or death of the party. The fact is the condition of the Republican par ty in Congress is certainly very ludi crous, but at the same time it appeals to the sympathies of the compassion ate. Its members, with the wounds of their recent flagellations at the polls still fresh upon them, are forced to grunt and sweat beneath their weary load of responsibilities. Baffled and bewildered by a stagger ing defeat at the hands of their for mer constituents, they are neverthe less peremptorily commanded by their party task-masters to go to work and set things right on a ninety days notice. Within that brief interval they are to straighten out the crook ed doings of years, afford relief and aid to a country prostrate and suffer ing from their misrule, revivify the expiring public credit, condone for party misdemeanors by acts useful and amply meet for repentance, erase from siprut the uisuonorauie record of years of profligacy, by a few master strokes of legislation: in short to blot out the past, and there by to place the tottering party again upon its feet. Such is tlie task set before the band of dispirited Radi cals now in Congress, and sick and sore though they are, they, one and all, agree that ' something must be done," but as to what that something should be, and wLat its effects would be when done, there is confusion and division; though in the mean time there is no lack of stimulation and advisors among their friends, for from all (matters come clamorous demands of "go to work." As to these individual advisors, their name is legion, each one has an infalliable remedy of his own, but all unite in goading on their jailed servants to " do something." The same is true, though to a less extent, of the Re publican Congressmen themselves Butler declares that the future of the party uangs on tne late oi ins o.uo convertible bond and currency bill. To this, Dawes objects, and declares that tho secret of success lies in con traction and not expansion, while Mr. Smith, of New York, would so legislate as to have no payment in greenbacks of debts contracted after next July, and Kelley, of Tenn thunders forth his conviction that convcrtable bonds and pig-iron would inaugurate a political millen mum, and so forth and so on. One thing, how ever, is certain, that with so many different doctors to admin ister the remedies, tho Radical party in the house will not be likely to die of inanition, though they have likely chance of relief through insan ity or exhaustion. That it is absurd in any event to suppose that a stroke or two of such legislation is going to restore the Republican party to the esteem and confidence of the people, is a self-evident fact. The late elec tions were the result of mature de liberation on the part of the people, and hence no special pleading or speedy legislation can alter or set it aside; so that the party must abstain from its agonizing cry for salvation and devote the remainder of its days of activity to a contrite and sincere enueavor alter puuiic purity ana a decent resignation to its fate. mi . x ue convening oi tne second, ses sion of the 4.3d Congress was marked by no unusual proceedings, nor has the first week seen any' extraordina ry legislation, for as previously said there appears to be a want of execu tive ability and unity among the members. The most active body is the Third House, whose members are here iu largo force, with fresh arrivals oy every train, mere is every indication that the lobby ists are going to make a vigorous campaign this winter, many circum stances leading them to suppose that the situation will be a favorable one, and their necessities will lend to heir fifThrt tlm vinr nf dpsnalr ine railroau suosidy men, particu- . lanv, ku luunt; u suuug and winning nght for more spoils. They place much stress for their suc cess upon the fact that this is a last session, and at its close many mem bers are to retire from public life, and they rather admit there is little COURTESY OF BANCROFT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, hope for their schemes , for a long time hereafter, unless they aro able to carry them thronght this winter. So those who have taken upon them selves the duty of guarding the Na tional Treasury, will do well to redouble their watchfulness, at least daring the continuance of the pres ent session. The jobbers do not pro pose to let the grass grow under their feet, and it remains - to be seen, whether their guardings of Uncle Sam's strong box will make their moves with equal celerity. Relative to Congressional matters, the subjects most considered have been the President's Message and the Report of the Committee on the District of Columbia. Tlie Message, though much longer than its prede cessor, cannot be as able a prod no tion, for when viewed from a literary stand-point it is comparatively a failure, and in sound common sense, and general legislative ability, it is sadly defective. On two subjects the President exhibits a trace of tem per which cannot be found in any prc: vious message. At the mention of civil service reform, ho became de cidedly " snappislr," and shows undisguised consciousness of failure. Though, as usual, he fails to credit himself with any of the blame, making Congress responsible not only for the short-comings of the past, but also for the entire collapse of the reformatory scheme in the near future. Tho other topic on which the Pres ident displays his temper, is tho southern condition, lie presists m his. policy toward the reconstructed States, and, unlike many of his crit ics, evidently regards it as a conserv ative one. The message, taking ev erything into consideration, deserves more to be commended for what it omits than what it contains. Tho magnificent "improvement" schemes which were anticipated were not brought forward, and the revision of our ship-building interests is passed over without any mention of the plan of subsidizing American lines. View ing tho document, as a whole, it must bo admitted that the President shows a growing familiarity with public affairs, a somewhat bold and independent style of treating of them and a conservative tendency in his opinions aud ideas. In reference to the district of Co lumbia affairs, of paramount import ance, is tho report of the Congres sional Committee, embodying a bill providing for the formation of a new government, the provisions of which, so far, meet with much opposition from the citizens. The probablo re sult will be the curtailment and amendment of the document to such an extent, that when passed the or iginal bill will bo scarcely recogniz able. Tho bono of contention is the right of suffrage, a subject which will doubtless cause Congress much trouble aud loss of time, and which may nnallv' compel tho Committee to present another report. Under the head of District matters, the theme of conversation is the an nouncement that Attorney-General Williams has directed the abandon ment of the Safe-burglary trial, an I announcement which has amazed ev ery lawyer in the city and which can not fail to alarm every man in the country who has read the proceed ings as far as tney nave gone. There lias already been sufficient evidence produced to convict the parties ar raigned. The public mind was sat isfied that the offices of justice had succeeded in getting upon the trial of the guilty, and at tho very moment when an expression of gratification was ready to burst forth at the pun ishment of the guilty, the startling announcement is made that the case has been abandoned by the prosecu tion, added to which the presiding Judge has directed the entry of a nolle proaetjui, thus ending ouo of the most shameful farces that has ever occurred in criminal jurisprudence. The excuse that the condition of the public mind is such as to prevent a fair trial, will not answer, as it is the sworn duty of those who con ducted the prosecution to do so with impartiality, a course of duty en tirely free from any intense feeling which may exist on tho subject in the District or elsewhere, but from the beginning of the proceedings, it was evident to an impartial observer, that the prosecuted parties were to be governed in all they said and did, by the authorities representing the Government. Tho excuse will not clear the Attorney-General and the powers that are behind him, of the fact of their complicity with the al leged conspirators Whitely, Har rington and others. Public opinion and its expression may be defied, but it can not be stifled, and when t.h evidence of fraud and corruption is once made clear, as it must be sooner ?T. 1:?te.r' tUen Wl11 thOSO who are be I hinl tlm spptip in KJcj .nw.A,.4.; i w ... itiio Li ikii r L( : i 1 1 1 1 1 feei the furious resentment of a peo- i pie huuui mey nave so basely dc- frauded. Ii. D. M. Boss Shepherd sits in hi SloO.000 mansion with tears in his eyes, and wonders why the people ask him how he made all that money in four years. Ol'CgOIT 111 i t. COMMUNICATED BY MB. WILLIAM 1IEID, LATE UNITED STATES VICE-CONSUL, DUNDEE, 'TO THE DUNEEE "ADVEK TISEH ," SCOTLAND. "Oregon is to my mind the fairest spot in the American Union." So said the -English traveler,. Captain Butler, in his work entitled "The Wild North "Land," after visiting all parts of the United States and the States of South America. I have not gone all over this North Ameri can continent,- and hence cannot per sonally vouch for Captain Butler's! statement; but I have visited fifteen of the American States, and so far as I have seen them, not one possesses such a combination of advantages, so many resources, and as healthy a climate as Oregon does to-day. From the moment we crossed the Columbia Bar down to tho present time we nave felt quite at home. Everything seems so much like home here (ex cept the climate is superior and the soil poorly cultivated) that I often cannot imagine that I am 7,000 miles away from Scotland. The first im pression you have on entering the Columbia River is the similarity of the scenery and the bay to what vou find in the Firth of Clyde, and con sequently a foreigner from our coun try feels at once attached to this, his adopted home, an'd on that account, home sickness soon wears ofl". I have met with several Scotchmen here who have been in Australia and South America, and they all agree while there resident they had an iu satiabLe desire to return to Scotland the scenery and country- being for eign to their Scotch ideas. But they say that since their arrival here tho desire to visit home or the craving for one's native country is gone. This is a great matter to a Scotch eini grant, and enables him more cheer fully to undertako the tourney to Oregon, knowing that he will find there everything pretty much so far as climate and scenery are con cerned like his native country. On that account alono I consider Oregon is pre-eminently suited to British emigrants. Well, we crossed tho Bar (about which we previously had heard so much), and were agreeably surprised to find it pretty much a hoax. So far as danger is concerned it is not for one moment to be compared to the entrance to the Taj-, while the shipping records of tho Columbia River prove that during a course of seven years only three vessels, outo nearly 3,000 arrivals and departures had been stranded, and these in con- seqneneo of the masters being ignor ant of and having no charts to the river or its month. Arrived at Astoria, ten miles from the sea, your first impression of the country is not prepossessing, xou expect to find a city of 10 000 inhab itants, and you find only a straggling village, with a population of l,h00 persons, and a magnificent Custom lfonso built of stone. The . normous bluffs or sand-hills crowding upon the town satisfy a stranger that no great citv can ever be located there, although it will always be an import ant seaport ; and you next begin to wonder what will Portland be if As toria (the first town after you enter Oregon) so disapioints you. How ever, the scenery removes your med itations, and you look around you to hnd at tho river a bay some five miles broad, on each side of which are dense forests sloping back upon the high banks, with tall trees growing to their very summits. The timber and these high banks obsenre your view of the better portions of the Lower Columbia River Valley, and your ocean steamer proceeds on her voyage up the uoiumoia itiver to Portland, passing through beautiful scenery for 100 miles on the way up with very little variation in the na ture of the Country except that the Columbia River gets gradually nar rower until you reach the mouth of the Willamette River, 12 miles from Portland, up which your steamer takes its course. What a mighty river the Columbia is! Navigable, except broken by two portages, far into tho interior, for seven hundred miles, on to British Columbia! Although satiated, as one naturally is. with the sight-seeing across the Pacific railway, you nevertheless at once realize the beauty of the scen ery of tho Columbia. You feel de lighted with the greenness of its banks and the tall trees (straight as an arrow) shooting up into the sky. Indeed, the ocean steamer's 110 miles trip from Astoria to Portland, up the river, is truly a panorama. When wo entered tho Columbia River it was May, and the salmon fishing sea son was at its height. I think we passed upwards of a dozen largo sal mon curing and canning establish ments on the way up, and were sur prised to see their magnitude and the number of people thev enm loved. The tiny, neat river steamers engaged in the fisheries, with their invariable stern wheels (tho practice in this country) attract your attention as tney quickly pass your ocean steam er. The present salmon catch (for ia41 represents a valno of two mil lion dollars, and tho number of cases (300,000) are exported to all parts of the world. Tho salmon are caught by gill nets, which are made to float across tho river, into which the un- concious salmon inserts his head and is captured. Thero were so many small boats filled with salmon aver aging from 25 to 30 pounds each, de livering their loads to the various fisheries, that we fancied they would soon depopulate the ColumbiaRiver. But there is no fear of sucli a con tincrencv. as the quantities of salmon in the river aro enormous. It is easy to purchase a 25 pound salmon at these fisheries for a shilling. - We reached the end of our long Joucn3y from Dundee and arrived at Portland on the nrorning' of the 20th of May. Portland agreeably surpris ed me. ' It is one of the prettiest lit tle cities in the United States. ' Ex cept the three principal streets (each about two miles long), all the others are shaded on every side with vari ous trees, which make the residences very picturesque, Portland is situ ated on the west bank of the Willam ette R-iver, and is divided from East Portland by that river. The eftyis built upon a platenn', which gradu ally increases in height as it recedes from the river, thus affording a mag-? nificent view of tho - snow-capped peaks of Mounts Hood,- St. Helens, Ranier and others of 1 the Cascade Range, which divides Eastern from Western Oregon. The southwestern limits of Portland afford a fine view of tlie town aud East Portland, and of the foreign ships," the river steam ers, tho spires and domes of tho em bryo city of the "Northwest. Those, with the numerous churches, schools and jmblic buildings, tower far above the surrounding dwellings. The streets of Portland are laid out at right angles, running parallel with the river, nearly north and south, intersected with other streets run ning east and west. . As showing tho advance of civilization in this far west frontier country, we were sur prised to find iu Portland all the ar tificial requisites of. a large citv such as gas and water, both carried into the houses, and the streets light ed Avitli gas; steamers ami railways, whereon you find velvet cushioned settees and sofas. River steamers are generally fitted up with sleeping apartments or berths, and a large dining saloon, serving meals three times a day, with waiters ami other attendants as in a first-class hotel. Two shillings is the charge for din ners, and the same for sleeping apart ments, on these steamers, and al though there are a dozen liotels here you don't need, if you arc traveling up and down the river, to stay at a hotel unless you like; an iron street tramway (which Dundee has' not) two miles long on which cars are running every l'fteen minutes from G A. M. to 10 p. m.; and some really fine'schools" and colleges, where are taught the highest branches of learn ing. What surprises me most are the magnificent residences, some of which even surpass its elegance ami style those of your Dundee mer chants; and shops a few of them much finer than I have seen in your town and all these for a town of 13,000 inhabitants is really astonish ing. Portland has two railways one 200 miles long, up Western Ore gon; the other 50 miles, through tho west side of the Willametto Valley; and it has a connection daily by river steamer with tlie Northern Pacific Railway from Kalama to the Sound country, 130 miles long, ana Vancou ver Island. Other steamers daily navigate the Willamette River up the valley, also down the river to Astoria, and up the Columbia River (the third largest river in the United States) far into Eastern Oregon and eastern v asmngton going occa sionaily to Lewiston, 500 miles from Portland. Then there is a weekly ocean line to San Praneisco, and an other line to Sitka,- Alaska, while daily arrive British and American ships to convey wheat a'nd flour to Liverpool. Altogether Portland is so located that it is bound, with railroad connection, at no distant day to be a large city.- Tlie one great drawback to Portland and. indeed. to Oregon and the whole of this North Pacific country is the want of direct railway communication to the Atlantic; and yet (would yon lc- lievo it i) only three hundred and thirty miles of railroad are necessary to bo built to enftble passengers to reach Portland tva hours sooner from New York than they would reach San Francisco to-day. How ever, all the people are agitating at present and working hard for this desired railway connection in the .Legislative Assembly, and expect Congress will this winter also give its consent: so- thnt yon win. in two and a half years., reach Portland. V I w Oregon, from Liverpool -in sixteen days, by steam and rail, equally as soon as though yori had been going to San Francisco direct, and over the same line of railways as far as Win uemucca, on tho . Central Pacific Railway, which is only fifty miles from tlie southern boundary of Ore gon. When this Ts consummate?!, not only will these 330 miles of rail way become one of the highways to the North Pacific coast, and the most profitable short railway in tho United States, but the whole of this country will then fill up rapidly with people, and the population will at least in crease a hundred fold in two years. California's direct railway from Oma ha filled that State witli people in four years, aud yet it has not one half of tho resources of Oregon, nor the same annual certainty or quality of grain crops. Somo object to tho situation of Portland, but it is just where it ought to be at the head of ocean steam i?ivigation, and also at tho head of tho great grain-growing valley of Oregon (the Willamette Valley) which is about 150 mileslong by 50 miles broad; yet, although to day forwarding through Portland some four million bushels of grain to Europe, still not one sixth part of that valley is in cultivation. I shall next send you a short dis cription of Western and Eastern Or egon, and our travels through the Pugct Sound country and Southern Oregon. Yours truly, William Reid. "Patrick," said tho priest, "how much hay did you steal?" "Well, your reverence, I might as well con fess to the whole stack as I intend to take the balance to night." The most Enterprise. valuable prize The 0 ,i J G 9 O O O o 4 ' o 1 ; ! if o w - i f i o o o O O T5T?DVTT TV n at tphowti