The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-11-06

could not be accomplished, ana tEc
project was relnquishcd. The bull
ding is now used as College, and
the institution promises much good
for Oregon.
There are bat few settlements a
bove. The country bears genera
resemblance to that on the west side
Of the river-beautiful mill streams,
fine prairics and excellent timber.
When the Forks Of the Willamette
are reached, the audience was bro't
to a country, which, for the beauty
of its Gorgeous, fertile and gently I'M
dulating prairies--its excellent tim
Der on the streams, its groves on the
prairies, and on the mounds which
rise out Of them, could not be sur
passed, and was entirely beyond his
powers of description. DR., White,
in his enthusiasm, called this portion
of the valley, "PAnADlsE"-and the
name was not inappropriate. This
will be the centre Of an immense
settlement, ard a laage town will be
likely to grow up at the head Of nav
igaton on the Willamette.
From the point here spoken of to
the southern termination Of the val
ley, there are large pr9irics, and this
is especially designed by nature for
a stock growing country. Here the
stock grower will find good water
and grass for stock the whole year
ronnd. Here fortunes can be made
in rearing cattle, horses and sheep,
and all the cost will be in herding
them.
The lecturer then led the way to
the Klameth and Umqua rivers.
These rivers empty into the Pacific
Ocean the first near the southern
boundary line of Oregon, and the
second degree or two north, There
is some good country in the Kameth
valley. The U1nqua valley, howcv-
err, is far superior, and presents a
country from ten 70 fifty miles wide,
connecting with the Willamette val
ley, and possessed Of al! the advan-
tagcs for sustaining prosperous set
Elements.
Mr.. Davidson described the coun-
try adjacent 20 Puget's sound as
most valuable. Forty rivers fell in
to the Sound. Those rivers were
filled with salmon; the valleys were
fertile, and the timber of the coun-
try was not surpassed in any portion
of the world. The country abound
cd in the most desirable and valua-
bic furs. Puget Sound possessed
harbors of unrivalled excellence.
The navics of the world might float
in them with ease. Nancouvcr's is
land had many commercial advan-
tagcs, was three hundred miles long,
abounded in timber, good fisheries,
and fertile land for cultivation. That
island would have made an excellent
State.
"Whcn we heard in Oregon"
said the lecturer, "that Mr.. Polk
had made tie declaration that sour
title to tie whole Of Oregon was
clear and indiSputable,' there was
one general enthusiastic expression
in his behalf. Had we then posses
scd the power. { continued the lectu-
rer,) the people of Oregon would
have reared him pyranid-wou!d
have elevated him upon its apex
and then surrounding him, would
have raised such shout rs would
have convulsed the whole of Oregon,
and overwhelmed the British man
of-war which lay in the Columbia
river, arrogantly dcfying us. Om
hearts lcapt at the thought that the
whole of Oregon was ours. But a
change has come over the scene.
Our government have since decided
that we have no CLAIMS north of for
ty-nine. Why then did they ilattei
us in the first instance that the whole
of Oregon--a country which embra-
ccd within her bosom the resources
of nation-was ours PA great
wrong has been donc.-We cannot
fathom the conduct Of our public
men. We have been wounded in
our pride and in our ambition. A
valuable portion of our territory is
lost-the whole of Vancouver is gone
the British have an equal right
with us in Pugets Sound, and an
equal right with us in the free navi-
cation Of the Columbia Ever.
The lecturer described the second
division Of Oregon-that portion
which lies between the Cascade anc
Blue Mountains. He said that there
was good land in this section, but il
required irrigation TO produce crops
especially was this the case in re.
gard to garden vegetables. The
country was good for grazing, ant
subject to greater extremes Of heat
and cold than the valley below. |
was a passablc but not a dcsirabl,
country. He had heard men whC
! had yisitpd this section. and hnt