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Tlic Importance of Railroad Connec
tion.. Hon. Jas. H. Slater Ex-Representative
from this State, on January
22, 1872, deli veml a most able speech
in Congress in reganl to the necessity
of granting aid to the Portland .Dalles
and Silt Lake Railroad. The speech
has not been generally circulated,
and it is but recently that we receiv
ed a copy of it. It is now somewhat
out of date, but the following extract
is of such general interest that we re
publish it at this time. It pictures
our condition most trutlif ully, and
gives facts which are not generally
understood in the Eastern States.
Mr. Slater, io speaking of the geo
graphical position of our State, and
its extent, says:
In order to h.ive a complete un
derstanding of the matter under con
sideration it is necessary to notice
the geographical position of of Ore
gon as respects not only her sister
States and Territories, but also as
respects the countries which lie be
yond her western Pacific waters; to
estimate her material resources and
capabilities; to take in to account
her vast territorial area and
her meagre population, and to con
sider carefully her relations to the
great commercial currents and cen
ters of the United States, from which
alone we may be able to proximate a
correct estimation of the beneficial
influence the completion of the pro
posed line of railroad will have in
developing and peopling new sec
tions of our country, aud in opening
new thoroughfares of business and
new lines of commercial intercourse.
Situated in the far northwest of
the Union, Oregon is separated from
the States of the Mississippi valley
by a vast arid and almost treeless re
gion of more than one thousand miles
in extent from east to west, having
no connection with those States by
railroads or interior river navigation.
Her position has been and now is
one of complete isolation from her
sister States as respects the usual
means of commercial intercommuni
cation, excepting so far as intercourse
may be had by means of the Pacific
ocean on the west and the Columbia
river on the north. This isolation
has been so complete in the past as
to greatly retard her growth and set
tleinent, restrict licr enterprise, pre
vent the devolopemont of her resour
ces, and limit her homo trade and
foreign commerce. Indeed, until
quite recently but little was known
on this side of the continent respect
ing her material interest", her vast
resources, mild climate, great rich
ness of soil, and the range of her
fruits aud agricultural products.
And even now the important position,
geogratihicallv, which she holds in
respect to the commercial centers of
the United States and the commerce
of the Pacific ocean, now tending
toward the United States, is but
vaguely realized.
But thanks to the triumph of en
gineering skill the completion of the
Pacific railrood, und the great revo
lution which this great work has in
augurated in the commercial world,
lias not only served to awaken the
hopes of her people and inspire them
with new confidence in the near fu
ture of Oregon, but it is also direct
ing the attention of business, railroaa
and commercial men of tho United
States to her great and multiplied
resources and the advantages of her
position with reference to transcon
tinental railroad connections.
Stretching through seven degrees
of longitude and four degrees of lati
tude, Oregon embraces within her
territorial limits, more than ninety
five thousand square miles; larger
than the great States of New York
and Pennsylvania combined; large
enough to make the two States of
Illinois and Indiana, and have scraps
enough left to make two more States
as large as Connecticut and JJhodC
Island; large enough to carve out of
her territory the six New England
States and have mountains enough
left to make another State as large as
the State of Maine, with Mount Hood
undisposed of. It is true, her vast
territory is somewhat furrowed with
dark and frowning- mountain ranges,
whose peaks in some instances rise
to perpetual snow, but between their
rugged ridges or -hid away in their
fastnesses are valleys of surpassing
beauty and fertility.
To give an idea of her territorial
extent I have drawn a comparison
with other and more prosperous
States; and now let me extend the
comparison to, her valleys. The
Willamette valley alone is as large as
either of the States of Vermont, New
Hampshire, or Massachusettes. The
Umpqua aud Rogue River valleys
are each as large as the State of Con
necticut. Between the coast moun
tains (which extend the whole length
of the State) and the Pacific ocean
there are timbered valleys sufficient
in the aggregate to make half a dozen
or more States of the size of Rhode
Island; and east of the Cascade range
(which is the range of the State) the
aggregate of her agricultural valleys
will equal the territorial extent of
the State of Indiana. But her moun
tains are not without value in an es
timate of their material wealth.
They abound with valuable minerals
and metals, such as coal, iron, lead,
copper, gold and silver, and for the
most part are covered with dense for
ests of the finest and most valuable
timber, and from their sides come
leaping innumerable water courses,
suflicient when utilized to turn all
the spindles of New England. Add to
all . this her almost inexhaustible
stock range, upon her table-lands
and grass-covered hills and lower
ranges of mountains, diterally suffi
cient to feed the herds -'upon a thou
sand hills, and you have a picture of
COURTESY OF
UNIVERSITY
material and undeveloped wealth tin-
surpajsed, if epualled, in the United
States, or elsewhere.
Yet, to occupy this vast territory.
develope these immense resources of
material wealth, to furnish the capi
tal and build the immense lines of
railroads necessary to bring us into
connection with the conmercial cen
ters of the United States, we have
about as many people men, women
and children as we have square
miles of territory. It is asked why
it is that Oregon has ' wotfressed so
slowly in settlement and population,
having been first setd thirty yean
;o.' I have already intimated that
isolation was the cause: "but let me
here read the answer of a distin
guished gentleman of this House
from Pennsylvania, Mr. Kelly j made
to this verv question. It is found
in an eloquent and able address de
livered by that gentleman at the city
01 l'liuaueipnia, uie izui 01 last j une.
Speaking of our northwest coast, he
said ;
" Do you ask, as others have done,
why with such stores of wealth, wait
ing to respond with such boundless
uenerosities to the wants of man, the
population does not equal one man,
woman or child to each square mile i
If vou do, the answer is ready. It
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is because tne people ana govern
ment of the United States did not
promptly respond to the suggestion
of Asa Y 11 tney, ana either by the
means proposed by him, or those
they should select, connect our ter
ritory with the great lakes by rail
way. Had that been done, and the
way been then opened to emigrants,
Washington Territory would long
since have been divided into two or
more States; California and Oregon
would be great commercial rivals,
and the population of our Pacific
States would equal or exceed that
busy and blessed New England.
To reach the golden land of the
Pacific coat has been a matter of too
much time and expense for the poor
man, ana too full of trials for fami
lies. The fact that, in spite of these
almost insuperable difficulties, so
mauy intelligent people have found
their way thither, is a testimonial to
the wonderful attractions of the
country and the immense rewards it
offers to industry and enterprise.
Look at the dreary miles of travels
which had to be made with ox teams
from the Missouri river to Portland,
Oregon, over a hot arid waste of sand
ami sasre-brusii. lor more than a
thousand miles of this long and wea
risome road the emigrant, starting
out with his family to seek a new
home, was compelled to guard by
day and by night his all from the
tierce and stealthy nttaqka of the red
man of the plains; and too often,
where he made his camp at night, to
rest himsej; his wife, and little, ones,
became their graves on the morrow.
Such are some of the difficulties
which have been encountered in the
settlement of that section of the
United States. But I do not desire
to recount the perils and hardships
of the past ; our hopes and expecta
tions have to do with tho future
The completion of the Uuion Pacific
railroad to Salt Lake annihilated, so
to speak, more than half of the dis
tance intervening between Oregon
and the great lines of speedy com
munication reaching eastward from
Omaha; and now it is the remaining
distance from Salt Lake to Portlrwid
we aro anxious to span with railroad.
Life's Brightest Hour.
Not long since I met a gentleman
who is assessed for more than a mil
lion, silvered was his hair, care upon
his brow, and he stooped beneath
ins uuraen or wealth. We were
speaking of that period of life when
we had realized the most perfect en
joyment, or rather, when we had
found happiness to be nearest unal-
loyed. I'll tell you," said the mil
lionaire, ' when was the happiest
nour 01 my Me. At the age of one
and twenty I had saved $800. I was
earmng o00 a year.- and my father
did not take it from me only requit
ing that I pay for my board. At the
age of twenty-one I had secured
pretty cottage, just outside the city.
I was able to pay two-thirds of the
value oown, also to furnish it re
spectably. I was married on Sun
day a Sunday in June at my fath
er's house. My wife had come to
me poor in purse;' but rich in the
wealth of her womanhood. The
Sabbath and Sabbath night we pass
ed beneath my fathers roof, and on
Monday I went to work, leaving my
mother and sister to help in prepar
ing my home. On Monday evening,
when my labors' of the day were
done, I went not to my parental
shelter, as in the past, but to my
house my own house. The holy
atmosDhere of that hour seems to
surround me even in the memory
I opened the door of my cottage and
entered. I laid my hat on a little
stand in the hail and passed on to the
kitchen. I pushed open the door
and was in heaven! The table was
set against the wail. J. tie evening
meal was ready prepared by her
who had come to be my helpmate in
deed as well as in name and by the
table, with a throbbing, expectant
Iook upon her face,- 6tood my wife
I tried to speak and could not.
could only clasp the waiting angel to
my bosom, thus showing to her the
estactic burden of my heart. The
years have passed long, long years
anu wonaiy weattn nas nown in
upon me, and I am honored and en
vied, but as true as 'heaven I
would give it all every dollar for
the joy of that hour of that June
evening, long ago.
A Milwaukee man is bent on going
to sea. He has been reading the
JLnoch Arden class of stories til.
his soul is fired with an ambition to
b wreck 1 and come home and find
his wife marrieg to some other fellow,
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OF CALIFORNIA.
Commissioners.
LETTER FROM HON. WM. KEID.
State Board of IinnGRATiox, )
Portland, Ogn., Jan. 14, 1875. )
To etl iters qf the various nevespapers in
Uregon :
Gentlemex: I am directed by this
board to ask you kindly to insert in
your various publications the follow
ing address to the people of this
State is regard io our immigration
affairs: " ' ' " ' 1
Next to railroad connection with
the East, comes our immigration in
terests. Whatever political opinions
you man all entertain, wre feel that
one and all of yon are united upon
the necessity of immigration, and
hence we desire to ask you to lend
your influence in cordially co-oper
ating with us in carrying out the
objects we have in view. Every
section of tho State will be benehted
by a flow of immigration. Califor
nia is making gigantic efforts to dis
seminate her advantages for settle
ment to our citizens in the Eastern
States, and to the European nations.
Ave unfortunately, as an Immigra
tion Board, have no funds like those
which California has voted for im
migration purposes, and hence find
it "up hill work" to push this State's
interests abroad. But by one and
all of you stirring up the people to
the necessity of contributing liberal
ly to the immigration fund, we mav
yet be able to cope with California
in making Oregon s resources known
abroad. Pnblic spirit, if fully arous
ed to the advantages of immigration,
may do more for the cause than even
the State could have done had the
Legislature voted us (which it did
not) funds suflicient to carry on the
immigration interests of Oregon.
1 remain, gentlemen,
your obedient servant
William Ried,
State Com'er Immigration.
To the people of Oregon :
Entrusted by the Legislature to
take charge of the immigrants arriv
ing iu the State, and of inducing im
migrants from foreign countries to
Oregon, without funds to enable us
to do so, we are compelled to rely on
the generosity of tho public and so
licit subscriptions for the objects we
have in view.
The niany letters we have received
from sister States and foreign coun
tries satisfy us that by carefully dis
seminating information abroad as to
Oregon, and selecting for that pur
pose honorary State Commissioners
in these countries, a large immigra
tion would result. Thousands in
Europe aud the United States are
looking for a country with a combi
nation of advantages sucti as we pos
sess, and who, if their attention was
directed to Oregon would come and
settle amongst us. Prom Great
Britain, we are informed by one of
the gentlemen lately appointed an
emigrant commissioner and who re
cently visited us, that many of the
small farmers with means are desir
ing authentic information about Ore
gon but cannot procure the same.
Again, complaints are made that
when emigrants do arrive amongst
us, we give them neither attention,
guidance nor information, and do
not tell them where to get govern
ment, State or farm lands; and, as a
natural consequence, they discour
age their friends, who wonld have
followed them, from coming here.
In every overland train on the Pacific
railway there are on board a number
of emigrants destined for Oregon
who are turned back in California
for want of authentic information
about our State. From New Zealand
and Australia (Great Britain's colo
nies) , we have also letters enquiring
as to our country. It is to supply
these wants and to attend to immi
gration generally that we, at the re
quest of the Governor, accept oflice
as honorary immigration commis
sioners. But while we and the com
mittee of immigration, appointed by
the board of trade to assist vis, do
cheerfully give our services gratui
tously, cannot, nevertheless, carry
on an immigration scheme for the
benefit of this State without funds.
Already have we had appointed Em
igration Commissioners in a few for
eign countries who are crying out
for printed matter, statistics, pam
phlets, etc. These we cannot sup
ply without money, aud seeing the
Legislature has voted nothing
toward the objects in view, we must
appeal to the citizens of Oregon to
contribute liberally.
We would especially ask contribu
tions from Portland, Salem, Albany,
Corvallis, Eugene City, Astoria and
all other towrns in the State, who feel
an interest in immigration. Immi
grants coming hore, as a rule, not to
settle in Portland, but in the country
districts amongst the farmers, and
consequently all the country towns
will be much benefited by immigra
tion. We would also recommend (1)
that every county seat arrange a com
mittee of immigration, to whose care
Me would forward immigrants for
guidance and assistance; and (2) that
the people of every county raise
fnnds amongst themselves to print a
small pamphlet descriptive of the
county's local advantages for settlers
and send the same to us for distribu
tion abroad, on the steamers, and
among immigrants when they arrive.
The county so contributing funds
toward giving immigrants informa
tion of its lands, etc., in this way
will secure entirely the benefits of its
subscriptions.
Another mode in which the people
will materially aid onr labors and
benefit immigrants, is by informing
us of all situations vacant, or where
employment can be ott lined in the
different . portions of the . State.
Many immigrants call upon us en
The Immigration
quiring where labor may be obtain
ed, who would for themselves thus
be comfortably provided and would
also be developing the State.
We have secured a favorable con
tract with one of the Atlantic Steam
ship Companies for European emi
grants, and are negotiating with the
various railroad companies for re
duced emigrant passages to Oregon.
All the railroad and steamship com
panies within the State have gener
ously agreed to convey immigrants
to all parts of the interior at half the
usual rates.
There are other objects which we
are carrying ont, or have in view;
relative to immigration, of which we
will hereafter inform you; meantime
for the information of the people,
the following is the organization we
have adopted:
objects op the state boakd of im
migration. 1. To receive immigrants arriving
in the State; Rive them advice and
guidance to settle according to their
occupations and circumstances.
2. To procure from the railroad
and transportation companies for
immigrants proceeding to the interi
or, cheap steamer and railroad fares.
3. To print authentic information
as to the various counties of this
State, for gratuitous circulation, to
be handed to immigrants on their
arrival.
4. To forward abroad and to the
other States, samples of the various
grams, fruits, lumber and other pro
ducts of this State.
5. To keep a record and maps, for
use of immigrants, of the State, pub
lic and private lands and farms for
sale; the Board in no way undertak
ing sales of such lands, but simply
referring immigrants to the owners,
or agents of owners.
6. To keep a Labor Record, where
all employers wishing male or fe
male servants and skilled labor may
enroll their names, and wants; which
record shall be open to and be exam
ined by immigrants wishing situa
tions.
7. To distribute in the United
States and foreign countries pam
phlets, statistics aud details of the
State's resources, and also to forward
same to the State's Immigration
Commissioners in Europe and else
where. 1
8. To procure, at t'.e request and
expense of any citizen desiring it,
whatever agricultural or skilled lo-
bor he may wish from abroad,
through the State's honorary com
missioners, and f orwa d to them
conditions for settlement of
small color ies wishes by citizens.
9. To attend to all other legitimate
immigration matters for the benefit
of this State not herein embraced.
In carrying out these desirable ob
jects we feel that we are not person
ally able to undertake all the duties
required, and accordingly the Board
of Trade of Portland have at our re
quest appointed an immigration com
mittee of six, who have generously
agreed to give us their assistance
and co-opcrute with us.
But, as already stated, the citizens
generally ought also to assist ns.
Every resident of Oregon will direct1
ly or indirectly le benefited by im
migration, and hence one and all
must cheerfully contribute to the
best of their ability.
And with that view the following
gentlemen have been appointed to
collect subscriptions in our city:
Portland E. J. Northrnp, jas. A.
Strowbridge, upper ward; D. W.
Williams, P. W. Gillette, middle
ward ; Capt. Ankuey, Geo. V. James,
lower ward.
Salem C. A. Reed, R. M. Wrade,
Jas. Clark.
Albany Thomas Monteith, W. P.
Bnrkhart, Geo. R. Helm.
Eugene City J. B. Underwood.
We would respectfully recommend
that citizens in the:r several locali
ties select a committee to receive
subscriptions for the printing of
their county pamphlets, aud for the
purpose of publishing a general
pamphlet by the State Commission
ers, subscriptions for which general
pamphlet should be forwarded direct
to this Board.
B. Goldsmith,
H. W. Corbett,
A. Leixexweber,
William Reid,
State Com'ers of Immigration.
Portland, Jan. 14, 1875.
What Can Oregon Exhibit r
Portland, Jan. 11, 1875.
This question has frequently been
asked ns, when urging prominent
citizens of our State to the import
ance of immediate action, if we ex
pect to have Oeegon creditably rep
resented at the coming exhibition to
be held at Philadelphia in 1876. It
seems to me that a more appropriate
question to oe asked in connection
with this subject would be: WThat is
there of real material wealth produc
ed from the rivers and seas; from the
soil, forests and mines, in which our
btate cannot make a creditable dis
play, and, in a majority of cases,
even excel, if our people will only
bring themselves to make the requir
ed effort ?
In the classification of articles for
exhibition, department 1, group 13,
includes logs and sections of trees,
samples of wood of all kinds, worked
timber and lumber for building,
lichens, mosses and ferns, gums, res
ins, &c. In this department what
would give a State more notoriety,
or our own Oregon a better adver
tisement, than specimens of our red
and yellow fir, the finest in the world
for piles, docks, masts and spars,
taken from perfectly sound trees,
ranging from 39 inches in diameter
and 315 feet in heighth, to others of
still greater altitude and a diameter
of fifteen feet ? What would be of
more interest to the Eastern capital
ist or more creditable to any State.
than a display of shooks, staves anq,
heading; shingles, clap-boards, bolts,
Doards, finishing lumber, floonnsr
and siding manufactured from our
beautiful white spruce and cedar,
with sections of -the same valuable
timber taken from trees from six to
ten feet in diameter, and 200 feet
without a limb. The fir timber in
its most gigantic proportions and
symmetry of form, may be found on
Blind Slough, in Columbia county;
Uutte Creek, Clackamas county, and,
in fact, in a score of other locali
ties in the State. The spruce and
cedar in abundance grows
to perfection along . the.' . lower
Columbia and the base .'of the
Coast range, from which the most
magnificent specimens for exhibition
could be obtained. Although Cali
fornia has the famous big trees, they
are of no practical utility, and wo
believe that for useful timber Oregon
and Washington territory are not
surpassed in the whole world, lheso
timbers scarcely equal in value and
importance our beautiful ornamental,
cabinet, finishing and furniture ma
terial, and the whole combined" aro
scarcely a tithing to the immense re
sources Orogon has to place before
the world at the Centennial Exhibi
tion. Shall the Spring of lb b find
the people of our State just awaken
ing to the fact that the entire civiliz
ed world have contributed the choic
est products of art, science, literature
and mechanical skill, to assist. in cel
ebrating the centennial birthday of
our nationality ? Shall other States
and territories be represented in
their mineral, mechanical and agri
cultural productions at this grand
exhibition, and Oregon pso rich in all
the natural material that goes to make 3
a people prosperous, happy and per
manently blest, neglect this golden
opportunity of advertising to the
world the immense resources of her
undeveloped wealth ?
In the several classifications of the
coming Centennial Exhibition, de
partment four comprises furniture
and manufactures of general use in
constructions and in dwellings.
Group forty of this department con
sists of cabinet, drawingroom, parlor
anil chamber suits, office and library
furniture, etc. Group forty-five of
the same department comprises sash,
doors, blinds, wainscoting, ceilings,
mantles, etc. Until recently it has
not been supposed that Oregon pro
duced any lumber lit for use in theso
departments, and almost all our line
furniture and ornamental cabinet
work was imported or manufactured
from material brought, from - the
East.- But in tufa, as in all other
natural resources, it is being demon
strated that our State cannot onlv
compare favorably, but is superior
in native ornomental and valuable
finishing wood" to any other part t f
the world.
Perhaps this assertion will be deem
ed extravagant by some, but to such
we would say: lou have onl- to visit
the oflice of Shindler & Lowenstein,
of this city,., to see specimens of cab
inet work manufactured from the
curl maple as well as a score of other
ornamental wood of Oregon growth.
superior in texture, density, varigat-
ed grain, and susceptible of receiv-o
lug u ujjuci i 11 1 ii iiiuu uiiy iiiiiuoya-
ny, black, walnut, rose or satin wood
imported into the State.
WTm. McAllister, of Philadelphia,
importer and manufacturer of fancv
cases for parlor musical instruments,
declared specimens of Oregon curl
maple we presented him while in that
city superior in every respect, for
beauty of finish, to the celebrated
ornamental wood from the black for
ests of Baden, which is imported at
a cost of several hundred dollars per
ton; and thi3 opinion was expressed
by the late J. Edgar Thompson rela
tive to using Oregon curl maple f or
panel work in the manufacture of
the Pulman palace car.
If we still feel disposed to doubt
the superiority of our Oregon finish
ing lumber we hate only to visit the
Palace hotel of San Francisco, whero
the best judgment and highest ' at
tainments in the art of construction
has been employed without regard
to cost or extravagant expenditure,
to erect a building superior in beau
ty and elegance of finish to any hotel
on the American continent; and there
we shall lind the doors, casings,
wainscoting, floors, and panel-w.ork,
mostly manufactured from Oregon
lumber shipped from our own wharves
ail3 cut at our mills.
And -shall we still hesitate and ask
what Can Oregon exhibit, while our
forests abound with untold millions
of timber, which, for finishing lum
ber and ship-building purposes,
wonld challenge the admiration of
the whole world ? While our curled
maple and laurel, our myrtle and ce
dar, our ash and yew-wood, our dog
wood and oak, are capable of receiv
ing a finish superior to variagated
marble, and of being manufactured
into specimens of furniture that
might well be coveted by a king ?
Even if our mosses, ferns and lich
ens were carefully selected and class
ified, scientifically arranged and ex
hibited in group 13 of department 1,
they would do honor to the donor
and be a credit to our State.
A. J. Dcptjr,
Com. Alternate, Oregon.
A noble ship is freighted with a
rich cargo. Her sails are set, tho
wind is fair; she is sailing swiftly on
the broad ocean, every thing beto
kens her onward . progress in a pros
perous voyage. She is hailed by an
other vessel:
"Ship ahoy! whither bound ?"
"Don't know."
"Have you a captain ?"
"Yes, but don't mind his orders."
"Have you a chart a compass, a
chronometer ?"
"Yes, but we never ns8 them," ;
Young man, onward bound on tho
ocean of life, how does this compare
with your experience-, your prospects,
your destinatioii 3 aa immortal bc
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