Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-08-02
EMIGRATIoN TO OREGON.

| Not less than ten thousand of fellow citizens
have this year left the fertile prares Of the Great
Valley encounter the perils and privations Of the
tedious overland journey TO Oregon. That journey
will cost the emigrants at least six months effort
/ and endurance-n most cases eight or ten months,
counting from the time Of leaving their homeswl expose
them many weary days of famine and nights of drenchng
chilling it will inevitably cost the lives Of some delicate
and children, and will leave the survivors, at the com
Of winter Of ncessant rain and seet still hundreds Of
miles from the Willamette which Is their general destination
But suppose they should reach Vancouver by the first of De-
cember (which not half Of them possibly do their food
consumed their clothing out their generally bro
ken abandoned the stony deserts of Eastern Oregon
what they then to do Where the dwellings, the
PROVISIONS the clothing for this immense multitude Who
will provide them with the barcst neccssaes of life The
British agency has done for their last but
Its means not inexhausbe and fairly decline
parting with all its goods time adventuers who may be
in California before another year expires We fear that the
coming winter will be of extreme suffering with thousands
of these misguided people
We have spoken though all who set out would succeed
in reaching Oregon, but that is by certain. We
hear with pleasure that large party had concluded seal
ing the great dividing RIDGE to turn south by the Salt Lake
and proceed down the Colorado California, and
Oregon This wise it desirable every way since there
will be settlers Oregon this winter than there likely
TO be food and shelter for Upper California fair
ty-not equal to Virginia and Ohio, by great dcano APP
proach Kentucky and Mssou-but the climate is temperate
and the soil reasonably fertile But Oregon is not toeraby
fertile couny-nota tenth part of its surface be cul
yated at ALL while there not mile square of which
good crop of Indian he best staple whether for
beas) be raised The multitude Of snow-coyered
ans, visible from every hababe part Of Oregon cool
nights at NIL however ervd the days. and heavy o
after whitening heat of frequent Nothing that
frost kills be raised in Oregon. Wheat grows there
though not naturally in Ohio Western New York.
but mddling crop is generally obtained Rye does well
But the wheat should this year be struck with frost the
period when frost is fatal the potato crop should encounter
drought and the is usually very dry there
the coming winter will be hard for the
And why they there They abandon the richest and
most inviting region the face Of the EARTH where every
grain and grass grow in uxuant perfection, where millions
Of of the best land offered to them s25 per
be paid for when they please and where they absolutely
shielded against foes from every quarter They leave the
most beautiful and bounteous praes and forests to wander
two thousand miles through the most desoae region the sun
shonc upon and reach country inferior TO New England
at last Was there such faulty short Of suicide
We hear that party which started early in the season
from Iowa. and did not rendezvous Independence but at
tempted to strike through the great trail more directly has
lost itself in the region of the Upper Missouri, and will be
obliged to turn back for want of provisions fso their mis-
fortune is which its members should reverenty thank
Heaven for--N. y. Tribune.