New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-07-28
Affair. I'm Oregon.

I laTSt Va u4iNDti
How parents with human feeling can expose tender
infants TO the pers and woes Of that long, dreary
march when 10 do so they are obliged 70 leave or
cross the richest and grandest valley on earth re
cannot imagine We do hope that no more cldI-
dren will be started in that fearful jouey until
tolerable road has been made with restinp-places,
dep6ts Of provisions and herds OF cattle TO be ira
ded Tor at leas, every two three hundred miles.
1t is cruelty TO take children such journey IN
der existing circumstances
The Editor OF the St Ions .Ne1e Era ewes ne
the following We b. it that The story Oh
goods OF all kinds being so abundant and cheap Ia
Oregon in the absence Of Protection does mol hod
out On the contrary. Farming implements Hard
rare Housebod Implements SC. are much want
al and . c.,,o or two from Yankee land would
nv. gc,d profit. though they have all urope ASIA
and Africa 10 buv from free Of duty. After they
shall have been supplied with best American Axes
ut go or sl2 per dozen with Nails Glass Screws
Carpenters Tools SC. in proportion. the Oregon
ans will be astonshed to learn from Walkers Re
ports and Richie Editorials how atrocousy they
have been swindled b. the Tarfi-But to the
Era article:
practical man who has Jus; returned from Oregon in
which place he lived nearly year-iie vent from
Indiana last wear and is returning 10 that place
with The intention OF removing permanently Ia Oregon
He has Travelled over large portion OF tha, country
agd has been close observer He says that the people
OF Oregon VIII be very much rejoced 10 learn that the
Oregon question has been settled that they viii object
the REIMBURSEMENT OF ancouyer Island but VIII con
slider great object have the boundary settled that
they do consider II matter OF great importance
where the line shall but matter O va-timpOrtance
10 their peace prosperity and safety that II shoad oc
finally adjusted
The elnigrants will be rejoiced when they hear OF
the Oregon treaty He represents that there are now
about G0O0 settlers Oregon one fourth OF whom are
foreigners or hall breed- and threcourths American
emigrauts The provisional government l. well sus
tsined justice well administered and the lave properly
enforced The local legislature provides by law that
each settler shall have one section or mile square Oh
land which he surveyed with the cardinal points
aud marked either By natural or artificial land marks
description must be recorded, and the settler must
either continue IT, IL he Leaves it ne must pay
tax on his claim i've dollars per year Tor two years
and il he continue absent more than two years he Tor
ieits hll claim whatever
The people are anxious for the United states TO es
tablsh territorial government IN order that they may
have grcatcr permanently and security anu also that
they may have base aud range lines and regular sSs
OF surveys oi the public lands Inc people are IN
dustrously making farms and improvements they now
make considerable surplus OF wheat beyond the wants
the territory they saw and export much lumber ana
sci! II considerable quantity OF hsh.
The farmers getting line stocks Of hogs. horses
sheep and cattle they trade principally with the sand
wich Islands ana get their suppies oil merchandise
principally from the Hudson Bay Company who supply
them with groceries and merchandise on reasonable
terms The Cushugs OF Newburyport aud Governor
aberneihy have III Oregon City but then stocks
are not heavy The people need very much farming
implements tools of every kind, castings hollow ware
and household kitchen furniture, and such things
shipped round from the East would be good Investments
The water power OF the country IL very line and th"
people very much need additional mills and machinery
they also need curdng machines TO work up their wool
The climate, is mild in the Willamette valley-ihey had
no snow all last winter and they seldom have snow OF
any depth and -,ill Immediately East OF them are sev
eral high mountain peaks that covered with perpc
ual snow They can pillow nj any time during the win
ter and Wheat may Ice advantageously sown nj any
time from September to April. They raise from - 10
80 bushc, OF Wheat TO the acre tie showed us some
specimens OF Oregon Wheat which were unusually
fine.
The farmers paying some attention 10 orchards
and nurseries Under OF Congress some per
have undertaken 10 make road across the ms
chdc mountains. To surmount the greatest am
Guilty III reaching Oregon. One hundred anu sixty
mile, across the Cascade. range present difficulties
aud peris 10 the emsnt than the whole distance from
the Missouri 10 the ocean.
The persons alluded To have undertaken 10 cut Wa
ron road ncross this range oil mountains condition
that they shall receive five dollars ior each wagon that
over Tor two years to come They engage 10
have II ready for the cmlgran's OF the present year
MANY OF the cmigrmts last year suffered prodgiously
in attempting To cross these mountains.
Our intelligent informant thinks that Congress ought
make appropriation without delay 10 tiah" sood
road the Cascade range into the Willamette Val
lev and then wagon travel conveniently from Mis-
souri, the Pacific and the construction oi such road
AT this time is beyond the ability OF the cmigrRnts
Ships ascend the Columbia -iN miles above the
mouth the Willamette 10 Fort Vancouver; and
twenty miles farther up the rivcr II interrupted by
high perpendicular falls above that point are several
other high tall, and the river l. only navigated by
birch light boat that are carried across ma
NY portaecs Ships ascend the Willamette 10 within
miles OF Oregon City, and sieonOoais may come
H., ia, CITY m ltf
TALL OF - feet, which affords the hnes water power IN
the world
Above the falls a, Oregon City the Willamette could
hc uayigatri 10y steamboats, for 100 miles The Nalu
mc,,c Valley is very rich and desirable and contains
the principal settlements There is settlement ON the
just below the mouth OF the Oregon aud one be
tween the NHllRmctlc aud the Pacific. y lew Ainerl-
eau settlers have located Pugets Sound and are
erecting Il mill M that point
The country between the Oregon and Puscts Sound
is generally mountainous, but II has many ieruie val
lcys tine timber and good water. Puscts Sound Is
said be the best the coast and there also good
harhor nj the mouth of the Columbia.
There great quantity OF iron ore ~ Mount Hood
in Oregon and stone coal has been discovered ani
worked IN the WaHmctte Valley about loo miles above
Oregon City Some OF the cmlgrints ARE trying to eX
porc from Fort Bocy on Lewis river direct 10
the upper end OF the Wallamcc Valley. and II they
succeed 1t VIII shorten the route 10 Oregon very much
lS' The GioJe is in bad way because we
sometimes speak OF II gentleman who stands high
in its good eraces SIMPLY as Polk Now We have
said some hard thnei-the harder because true
OF that individual but surely nothing severe as
this complaint entered on his behalf No great
man needs handle TO his name Napoleon or
| Washington Sounds well enough and if Polk
! is behttlme appellation the fault is not ours
| We speak OF that person the same as though he
'ce,t II erea, man the Globe admits the universal
consciousness that he is net by taking offence at
f; the designation We know thai Polk speaks OF
the Editor OF the Globe simply Slamm which
is abou, the wisest saving OF the former ON record.
We can't help thinking our neghbor Was hard
pushed for topic when he wrote his last leader.
He had two items OF news in IT, however consid
erably ahead OF the Te!esraph-to VII, that the
Editor OF The Tribune CLAIMS TO be considered the
leader Of the Wing party, and that the Express
IS the organ OF the Ming party. No other paper
has the news.