Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-09-28

An order on a store is rs current here as
, note on the State Bank of Indiana is
with YOU. Coffee is 80 l-3 cts. per To-;
Ten, 81 per h.; Sugar, IL IL cts I; PHO,
Cloth. Sc per yd.; cheapest Calicoas. 374
cts per vd; Linen. 5 par I'd; fine Cloth,
$40 10 Slf per yd-; SHIRTS. 81. 30; Pan.a-
foons 81; Vests. s. piece; Sao"s. 50 a
p,ir; Boots. Sl2 pair. There is bat one
+, HITTER in Oregon. who works NJ his trade.
| aud ho sells wool hats n, 5 80; far hats
| from IS to $40. Beef. IL Cts. per ID;
! Pork. SO per cw..; Bacon, SID cwt---
There are but few cooking vessels bro't
here cxcnr, large Dl.ch ovens. which are
sold a. $40 piece; in kettles arc sold
hgh-thn prico of a p'nt tn cup IS ID CTS.
Flour Is 5 1 par c.yt., ani i: the only cheap
thing in Oregon.
The rn,rcf1nts here are Yankea padars
and mere swin1iers; for when they sell
their poor goois high, they viii ony give
the ,rifiny sum Of g. cts. Il bushel for
wheat. and then 1t must be delivered at
some warehouse on the rivers. Fart OF
this wheat i taken - Oregon City AMI
/ manufactured into -four, which is shipped
/ to tho Sandwich Islands and sold for ; IL
/ per barrel. and part taken By the Hold
sons Bay Company north"ari - the Rus
T sian possassioi.s. and sod at Sd per busaa'
/ Thus you may SEQ how are spacu'atoi
on hero. We need more capital, an! fc ~
cr poor people. When first came here.
wages for day labor was > ,oo; bu. now
i, Is only - c,s., this change is because
there are 50 many poor people here who
have to work from HON, for n living. and
SO few rich, ones 10 hlro them. Every
yoar brings a new recruit Of poor people
nnI bat few rich ones; IN short. tie whole
story is: this country cannot prosper with
oul more capital.
Oregon is divided into egh, counties
which have courts in them 1T stated times
the same as in tho States. Tho lcgisIa-
,ure mco,s evory winter in Oregon CITY
i, consisted last winter of Il members.
There is no Senate. The Governor holds
his Off co two voars. Tho government is
onlv tcmpornry-adop.ed by the citizons
until The United States extends her laws
over them. The Presidents first N ,ss,ga
arrived here in Juns I3i6), the other has
not yet come.
Now is tho great Salmon season; thous-
anis of them re now NJ the Falls Of tho
Wilamett. Jumping ani irving - got ovor,
but cannot, as the pitch IS 80 feet. Many
of them keep running up,an1 being thrown
back bv the water un!ii they arc killed.
against the rocks, thoy arc picked up by
the Indians and eaton or sold.
In my asst tod yol should b al
homo in 1917; but rnns. see California
first. | have my three horses md al
things readv for the "trip" and tho com
pany intend TO s.a-, the first Of June. The
route lies W tho Wiilamc.t - is head
across Umpql1 mn Rogle's rivers. and
through the unaypiorod regions 10 tho Say
Of San Francisco. The distance is aboo
500 miles. ana j: will require - or III
DAYS TO travel il with pack horses. | an
going to tho American settlement on IN
, above Bay, and from thence down to III
western "Nonteroy.' am 80 near Cal
ifornia now must try to sec It. as th'n!
should ever regret no. using the oPportu
nitv if should return without making Tn
:, effort. Do not be uneasy about mo
. know how to take caro- Of myself. AlthG
hive been absent moro than two years
and heard nothing from you. have enJpy
cd myself well in mind and body; m
! rambIes have boon pleasant AMI ammo
:. ting Months have passed as days, an
> wears have soon gone BY; but am ne
fnrce,ful OF HOME; no. FORGET yon not
if 900 California. and get home again.
vii, wander M more. \ nj now with thes
! prospects before me-. bid you adlcu, unit
October 1913.
3 NATHAN'L. MCKINNEY.
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