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About Tri-weekly Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1873-1874 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1873)
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Case received three tons of flour from Wo-tpoit, on the lGth. KIT For fresh Oysters, in every style, call nt the Paukku JlorsK Kkstyueaxt. The party at Port Stevens was highly enjoyed by nil who attended it. The 37th here was mild and spring like, the J3th cold as blaze.-. Monday next will he the anniversary of the 350,000 lire in Portland. Thirteen years ago to-dar South Caro lina seceded horn the TJnioh. Eben Parker started for Portland with the letter mail at 10K a. m. Thurs day. ttST Oysters in every style, at all hours of day or night, at the Pauki.u I1els: Kkstau uot, Main street, Astoria. There are 50,G50 acres of agricultural lands in this county, of an equalized value of 239,751 CO. Adams of Nchalem, reports a foot of snow on that river, and from eight to twelve feet on the route beyond, to Forest Grove. The Oriilamme reached St. Helens, and discharged freight and passengers for 1 Portland, on the Ib'th. Pour days from Astoria. TA neat, clean, cosev place, for gentle men and ladies to enjoy a dish of fresh Oysters is ut tho 1aukj:k Iioitsk ji:sr.vui:.vNr. In 1S70 Clatsop county cast 200 votes for Slater and Wilson lor Congress in 1S72, 3S1 votes were ca-t for "Wilton and Burnett, and last October 219 were cast for Nesmith and Hi Smith. The Yaruna's new propeller lost two fans on the 16th. If they had Eugene Spedden's patent hub, the cost would be but a trifle compared to what it will be to fix up the whole thing. It was sent to Portland on the ISth. Brick are imported to this county at a cost of from 16 to 1S a thousand but that business is about to be stopped by the manufacture of the article at Astoria. As good brick as can be made anywhere, can be made here, for 8 a thousand, Charley Dexter lias succeeded in put ting up 2,000 pounds of superb fall salmon, trout, etc, besides 150 gallons of duck oil, at his Seaside fishery this fall. The duck oil was all disposed of in Astoria, and the iish are sent to California. Oregon lias 257 miles of railroad with in her boundaries but not a rail to the sea. The very places for a railroad to pay, from Astoria to the Wallamet valley, and up the Columbia river to Walla "Walla, are neglected for an offshoot to Puget Sound. The Dixie Thomson left Portland on the 8th inst., at 7 a. m. for Astoria u give it up," went back, started again at 10 a. ir. on the 17th, made it in 27 hours, arriv ing here with the mail atl r. m. on the ISth. After an hour at Astoria, started back .again. If the Spanish navigators did name our lovely State, it was on account of its marjoram (origanum), and the circum stance does not entitle tha slaughterers of the Virginius passengers, officers and crew to any favorable comments from this quarter. "We are with Lorraine this time. Capt. Spedden of this city has thought of a very simple device to save money on propellers, by inventing a hub, to which may be added a fan at pleasure, without the.necessity of removing the hub. It at once recomends itself to favor when seen by practical za en. isTOBiA, Oregon, Saturday Evening, rurr.r.i 'i:" -'- ll!,:.i.1-' ' ' mJx.i .',;-.', vsjAaii;rr.:TwvYtt.jjaugrx COajTJffTTTtflCATION OPEXED FROM POStfri.AXiO, BY WAY OF TheOccan Steamer four days Breaking ice. SV. Helen Reached at Last Passen gers and Cargo Transferred to River Boats, Reach Portland. Two "Weeks' ice Blockade bursted on ly as far up as St. Helens. Sea Vessels in the "VJaUoxnot Canssot Get out Twenty Ships, and 800, OOO Bushels of Wheat Detained fovi-woweolis, still unable to move One Large Yhcat Firm Suspended Willi the Shipping Ships Coming from, the Sea all the time, but un- 'able to get more than twenty-eight miles above Astoria. Large fleet at Astoria awaiting the Opening of the River. The Corvallis Gazette, advocating the building of the Yaqunia railroad, com plains of the Poitland capitalists and press being opposed to every thing that docs not enter their door, and truthfully says: " "Whatever tends to build up the State, j develop il resources and invito population, will correspondingly beneiit Poitland and other commercial centres. The best in-tere-ts. of the State will suffer so long a we have but one outlet to the ocean, and that subject to periodical ice-blockades." The harbor at Astoria has been open thus far and was never known to be closed. But of what use is it to the State if the in terior cannot reach it. If the grain had been pushed down the river and stored at Astoria in anticipation of an ice-blockade vessels could have loaded and proceeded to sea without delay during during the past two weeks of suspended navigation. But the vessels loading at Portland caught by the cold weather could not have gotten away. Again, the "Wallamet will some times be low so that vessels cannot bring down the grain until late, as is the case this year, there not being yet enough water in the upper "Wallamet for free navigation. During such seasons the grain connot be brought down for storage except by rail to Portland, and thence by boat to Astoria. With a road from Astoria to Junction city, through the west-side counties, the grain could be run down to the seaboard at any and all times. When there is suffi cient water in the rivcr,and that not frozen, mo.-t of the wheat near its banks will doubtless be carried by boats. But there are large quantities of grain raised at a distance from the rivers, requiring a rail road for its transportation. Preezes and droutks will occasion great need of the railroad. Several million bushels are now stored in the upper counties awaiting rains and thaws, which would have been to the sea side before this, if the iron track had been extended to this point Astoria, the sea port of Oregon; accessible at all times to vessels of the largest class. The Cornelius paper estimates the sav ing to the west-side counties, by a railroad to Astoiia, at 360,000 per annum. To this should be added the benefits accruing to the whole State from such a road. Ore gon has reached a commercial importance that will not admit of one day of blockade without great losses. There have been dif ficulties, expenses, and delays, by reason of shoals and low water, ever since har vest, culminating in a freeze-up of two weeks, which is not fully open yet. Dur ing these two weeks a large fleet of vessels have arrived in the river, but have been unable to approach nearer their destination or, for the want of telegraphic commu nication, to even report themselves; and several of these were to be at Portland by a certain day, or forfeit their charters. Is not the whole State of Oregon concerned in a matter of such moment? Is this not of sufficient importance to interest every inhabitant of the State? Other ships were at Astoria, lightering the cargo from Port land which they were unable to bring down the river with them. To go to sea only partially loaded would be expensive to the shipper, who must pay freight on cargo noton'board; and to detain the vessel after her "lay days" were up, would cost the charter party one hundred dollars or more for every day so detained. Vessels were at Portland, also, partially loaded when the freczebegan, and have since completed but have not been able to get out. "Ves sels loaded, at tho beginning of the freeze, started down, got into the ice and have not been heard from since. The ice still fills the river from St. Helens to the mouth of the Wallamet, so that ocean vessels can not get to or from Portland. A slough, branching off from the Wallamet river, a few miles above its mouth, runs along the hills emptying into the Columbia river, at St. Helens, about thirty miles below Port land. This slough being sheltered, does not alwa3Ts closewhen the Columbia river, between the mouth of the slough and the mouth (proper) of the Wallamet, a dis tance of about twenty miles, docs close; but it is shallow, narrow, and crooked, and only river boats can pass through it. By way of this sheltered channel the last mail got through, and the passengers and cargo of the Oriilamme from San Prancis co, being transferred to river boats, were taken to Portland. When two weeks' blockade will break old firms, engaged in exporting giain as the Portland papers intimate iias been done, by this stoppage the injury is great. The losses occasioned by not having thro' communication with the soa port for the past fortnight, have been enough to pay a year's interest on the cost of extending the road from Portland to Astoria. But the present losses to individuals, andthe State, do not make up all the damage done to Oregon. It is known abroad that this State has no reliable highway to tide wa ter. That however much the farmers may be blest with bountiful harvest?, they may be cursed with impassable highways, and the groaning bins become a burden. The producer and the manufacturer alike, who arc depending on exporting and import ing, also aro likely to be cramped every year, until a railroad is extended to the seaboard. Strangers will consider these disadvantages, and hesitate before invest ing their capital and time in a State subject to such embarrassments. jSow is the time for Oregonians to move, and emphatically " set some things right." OYER T1EE SKMJXTALST STo.2. 2STe2iale3ii Valley, Oregon. On the road to Nehalem, five miles from Astoria, is the bridge at Moffit's. A mile and a half more brings the south Walisky. Pour miles further on is the Klaskanine. Here are some good productive land and some very hospitable people. Travelers to Nehalem stay hero over night, and start early the next morning. A short ride of three miles brings you to the South Klaskanine; in two more you cross the up per part of Young's river. Pive miles from that j'ou 1 each the base of Saddle mountain. The woods are dense on each side of the narrow path; you ride in single file; it is August,and ripe berries are abun dant on your right and left. You seize the bushes with your gloved hand, break them off, and eat the berries as 3'ou ride. Pive miles from Saddle mountain is tho Humbug river. Two and a half miles more brings you to Alder creek. There are several good farms on Alder creek but not more than two or three settlers. Two and a half miles more, and you reach the Nehalem at Anderson's. Anderson's farm is twenty-five miles from the sea, the tillable land is five miles wide. At this point, it narrows in to the river and, except a few small, scattered, inacces sible places, there is no fertile land below; but the roughest, most discouraging countiy that ever c3tc ranged over. But here, and above, are several good farms, and room for more. Eight miles above, at the Pish Hawk, the bottom land is not more than a mile wide. Higher up the I Pish Hawk, there is excellent bench land and considerable bottom land. The same may be said of the iNorfh and the South Pish Hawk, Crow creek, Kline creek, Rock creek, and Big Rock creek, all tributaries of the Nehalem. On Aloore's creek are foundprairies, live miles wide, covered with wild rye nine feet long. The land on the iN'ehaleui is very preductive: five tons of hay to the acre, good Indian corn, excellent and large crops of potatoes, cabbages weighing sixty pounds, and beets eighteen, tobacco-leaves, eighteen inches wide, three foet long, of pleasant flavor none of the disagreeable aroma of California tobacco. Wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, peas, onions, carrots, andparsnipsj are produced in abundance, and of unsurpassed excellence. The woods supply black berries, also elder, red and blue whortle, salmon, sallal, arid goose berries, in abundance. Hazel nuts in endless profusion. The iSehalem and j its tributaries have untold numbers of Dec. 20, 1873. i-.ujiiL'uiyjTtB! mountain, and salmon trout. Tho peo ple catch them and put up a barrel or two for each family thoy also dry consider able numbers. The game consists mostly of elk, deer, pheasants, bear and quails. The hunters hardly ever fail to get a deer or an elk in less than a day's hunt. On the bottom lands, the timber is mostly alder, ash, hazel, cherry, vine-maple, crab-apple ; on the high lands, white and yellow jTew, cedar, dog-wood and yellow wood. There is, besides, a beautiful tree which grows almost as large as the fir it is found in groves, is free from low branch es, and has a fine top. The settlers call it larch, but one of the best naturalists in the State Prof. Collier does not so consider it. Specimens of silver and cop per quartz are to be found at almcst every house, but nobody has made it profitable to mine. Coal was found near the mouth of the .Nehalem, and worked for a short time, but the cost of transportation made the project fail. But every Summer finds two or three men going through the mountains, in hopes of finding gold or silver in paying quantities. The hope is not altogether a baseless vision, and if it be ever realized the fools and the wise ones will change places. " There are twenty-six houses in the valley. Most of them are log houses ; but some arc frame. There are some good frame barns in the valley. There is no saw mill in the valley; hut, two men, in a dajT, can saw out two hundred feet of nice lumber. Groceties, flour, clothes, farming and household utensils, have to be packed in on the banks of horses and mules. The settlers raise most all they need. They dress more for comfort than for show. As a matter of course, blue woolen shirts are more common thati polished white ones. Calico is the height of fashion , , Alost of the settlers have plenty of beef and pork and elk meat. In the Pall each rancher secures an elk or two for Winter supplies. The distance from market makes the largest crops useless, unless the farmer has hogs, horses and cattle enough to consume it. Last year men threw away hundreds of bushels of potatoes. Oats and wheat, and barley, and rye. are useless. There is no temptation to raise more so long as it is plain that there is already more than is needed. One advantage has been overleoked: the valley seems well adapted to fruit ; and the few apple and cherry trees that have been set out are very healthy looking. There has not been much effort made to raise apples, cherries, plums pears etc. The trouble of getting tress into the valley; the improbability of getting mon ey without a market for what is produced, and the necessity of supplying immediate wants; aro good reasons why none have large orchards, and most have none at all. The climate is healthy, in Winter it is a little colder than at Astoria, in Summer a little warmer. This, perhaps, accounts for 3Ir. Anderson's success in laising Indi an corn. The great drawback of the valley is want of communication. A civilized man does not like to live where he cannot get a letter or paper more than twice or three times a month, or once in two or three months, as the case may be. Tuulah. A handsome pair of Australian birds have been secured by Charles S. Wright from the Tongoy. Excklli:nt Those Sugar Cured Hams, and that Fresh ItolL Butter, Fresh Buckwheat, (this year's crop), Corn Meal, Cracked Wheat, iioininy, etc., at Cask's. liltf Married. At the house of Judge Coffinbury, on Clatsop plains, Dec. 14th, 1873, by Rev. W. J. Franklin, Thomas B. Bridwell, and Miss Sarah J. Coffinbury; all of Clatsop county Oregon. Teacher Wanted, 'A. Teacher, Male or Female, to teach in the District School, in District No. 3, Clatsop plains, Clatsop county, Oregon. Commuuicato to the undersigned. J.A.PACKARD, d5 2v Skipanon, Oregon. School Rooks. I have latelyre ceived all the different kinds of New School Books required to be used in this State, that can now be found in San Francisco. Also, Slate pencils, Blotting pads, a good as sortment of Stationery, Drawing paper, CARD BOARD, Perforated board, Ink, (Carmine, Purple and Black). Likewise a new stock of Crockery, Clocks and a large assortment of Lamp Chimneys, all of which will be sold cheap for cash. I. W. CASE, oltf Chenumus st, Astoria, . No. 20. NEWSY ITTEUig. Gail Hamilton has had her life insured for 25,000. Brigham Young expects to marry acain Christnias-ove. Refined kerosene is offered at ten cents per gallon at Oil City, Pa. A church at Mt. Carmel, Illiniois, has been rented for a butcher shop. The basement of a church at Dixon, Kentucky, is used as a pig pen. Tho most foolish thing a fool can do is to marry a highly-gifted woman. Half the women that appear on thestreets of Nashville, and probably at Memphis also, arc dressed in mourning. Canal boats were towed from Albany to New York City for 2 a piece. There was an opposition war on the Hudson. Constantino Corti, the celebrated Ital ian sculptor, is dead. A colossal statue of Lucifer was one of his most admired works. A man at Dallas, Texas, succeeded in getting a whole apple in his mouth, but it. had to be cut to pieces before it could bo got out. A Virginia City, Montana, lunch-Gend has bet 150 that he can eat 1,000 eggs in 1,000 hours. He is at it now in one of the restaurants of that place. A Louisville gallant sat up with his gal until three o'clock in the morning, and the father swore out a wan ant for trespass and had him fined 20. Captain Jacks widows have shaken off their mourning, and now stand out array ed in 'sixteen yards of red and orange flan nel and No. nine cavalry boots. Tho authorities at Sing Sing, finding that the lightning rods on the prison con vey more prisoners than lightning to the ground, have decided to remove them. "Our fellow townman, John Knox, went galloping out of Centerville on a palo howe last night," is tho gist of a feeling obituary notice in a Louisiana paper. Alphonso used to call his adorable An gelina his turtle dove. He now drops tho " dove" and calls her " turtle" "becauso she wears such a huge shell on her belt. There are six saving banks in Lowell. Their aggregate deposits amount to ten millions of dollars of which at least three quarters are owned by the operatives. Mr. Davis, of California, found a box containing 40,000 in gold, and he became so excited over it that he dropped dead. People should beware how they find 40, 000. Mrs. Ellen Tupper, who is called the Beo Queen of Iowa, is considered the best living authority on ever3'thing relating to breeding and hiving bees, their habits and diseases. A Western editor met a well-educated farmer recently and informed him that he would like to havo something fiom his pen. The farmer sent him a pig, and charged him 9.75 for it. The other day a young Pittsburg bride was presented with a policy of msii-anco on her husband's life for 20,000. A terri ble temptation to a girl with a taint of emotional insanity. Dio Lewis denies the statement attribut ed to him that beans were good for the complexion. He says he would not eat beans if he was black as a black cat, or a yellow as a sunflower. The Boston Post, noticing the fact that 10,000 cubic yards of obstructions had been removed at " Hell Gate, near New York,-- says " They will get it open pretfy soon, so they can get in !" A.new way of preserving autumn leaves is to iron them with a warm (not hot) iron,, on which some spermaceti has been lightly rubbed. This preserves all the tints to perfection. About two million more of the ordinary, postage stamps were issued to postmasters during the month of October, than during any previous month in the history of tho postoffice department. Gerritt Smith has published a letter in which he takes strong ground! against granting State or Government aid to publ 'o schools. He urges that the school be leit, like the church, in the hands-of the people. The Nestors of the press may just take off" their hats to Mrs. Sarah J. llale, tho, editor of " Godey's Lady's Book," who i eighty-five years old, and is still vigorous in bodv and mind. She has been a widow since 1S22. Deserters are said to be returning to tho Newport, Ky., banaeks at the rate of four per day, taking advantage of the pardon held out by the President io his proclama tion to all who return by the first of Janu ary. A clergyman in Dundee, Scotland ha announced to his congregation that in consequence of his inability to afford coal for his study fire,he has discontinue! study ing and will preach his old sermons until coal can be procured. We are sorry to part with Capt. Clark Crandall, from the field of journalism in Oregon A man with so ready a pen, clear ideas, and jovial view of thought on most topics U rarely found, and ws shall hops to see him, ngain in some sanctum soon, where his abilities will b properly appreciated. If this field was only larcro enough for two, we should speedily offer Capt. C.andall a beat here, i-iAstor.a, with us. v n. u. 5r