Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1844-10-22
LATER FROM Oregon.

/ -J OA'NNN't SN'y ~OhHS ASSA'
lam here in our new ioWn, which we
have named as above, in respect for DR.
Linn's services for this Territory. Our
plaGe is ten niles from Vancouver, on
the Willamette river, at the head Of ship
navigation, and three our four miles a,
bove. the mouth Of Willamette, and 25
miIesbelow thsWsllamette tteFalls.I have no
doubt that this place will be the great
commercial town in the territory. We
are selling lois at $50 each, and sell then
fast at that. At the Falls there is quite
a Town already. ewn two lots IN Ore.
gon City, (thS town Of the Falls,) They
are said 10 be worth Two hundred dollars
each.
| was six weeks at Vancouver, where
myself and family were most Hospitality
enlertsined by Dr.. Mclaughlin free Of
all charge. | find provisions high--pork
10 cents, beef &c. potatoes 40c. -four
81 per hundred. But fin1 1t costs me
as little, even less, TO live here than in
Weston. The salmon are running now,
and will continue TO run until October
next They generally commence rum
ming the last of February and end in
October. Al this point we purchased of
the Indians. ducks, geese, swans, salmon,
four loads Of powder and shot each.--
Feathers csst aboutl24 cents per pound.
There are more ducks, &c here than
yes ever saw; also, pheasants in great
numbers. They remain here all the Win
ter You can sell any thing here that
was ever sold, Stocking Gary ploughs,
s. each. We have a first rate black
smith living IN our place, who makes
fret rate Cary plows at 3l4 cents per h.,
he finding all. 81.
l have seen enough of The country 10
give You fair description Of it. You
have already some knowledge of is geog.
raphy. The first and second regions
d tfer materially in almost every thing
| shall only speak of this, the first res
goR, lying along the sea cost, AS you
come down the Columbia river, from The
Cascade, where the first region TERMS
naes, you see high mountains on each
SIDE ot the view, running close 10 its
banks, and covered TO their very sum-
mirs With heavy bodies of pine and fr,-
There are s0me narrow bottoms along
The river, which are covered with grass,
but which overflow in the Summer
You see many beautiful waterfalls, some
Of them 400 feet perpendicular. Mill
privileges ale plenty. When you get a.
bout fifteen miles Above Vancouver, the
mountains become lower on both sides,
aud gently decline ino wide valles,
covered with fir timber, a species Of pine.
The neck Of land between heWaIlametts
and Columbia, about five miles across,
il rich 5oltsm, bul overflows every
summer by the rise in the Columbia, which
Uses just like The Missouri, highest in
June and July.
The Willamette has high, but single
ridge of mountains on the west bank ,and
on the East bank, for several miles, this
wide valley is covered with fir and cedar.
When you come along the rivers you
will therefore see nothing inviting except
beautiful streams and most splendid time
ber. When you get TO LinnIo1, you take
through an immense body of most beau.
tilul fir, cedar, and other timber, ten
miles TO The Falla:y Plains, (praries, J
which are certainly the most beautiful
you ever saw. They consist of a sues
cesson of small prairies about three miles
long, and from one to two miles wide.
These plains, as they are here called
bear away 10 the Southwest, until they
connect with the wide and beautiful
county Hpon the Yam Hill River which
runs int the Willamette above the falls
some twenty miles, and heads in toward
the sea. This Yam Hill Valley iuns
within fifteen miles of the sea. TheFal>
laty Plains ars almost surrounded by a
ridge Of mOuntains lin the shape Of horse
shoe, the open end toward the Yam Hill
country. These plains lie as handsome.
ly as you would have them, just rolling
eaoush to carry eff the water, are rich
and have no gravel or stone.
The soil is black en- clay foundation
The timber comes up 10 :he very edge
of the prairie, so that in FIVE steps you
can be out Ofthe prairie and in the thick
est, tallest; most beautiful timber yOt
ever saw. The trees are mostly fir, from
very small ssplings to one lad hal
feet diamiter at the fsot, and about on
hundred 10 one hundred and fifty fee
high, and as straight as pine timber gen
|, orally is, Along all the little branche
that run from the prairie, is plenty 9
0 ash and white oak timber, which make
Q FsxCslleRt ireWoOd, Sc. These plain