Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-02-19
Interesting Oregon News.
business, Labor. and Prospects.

va november, iIOiu Seiiuehi"i vi iH'"A
ligence residing there, says: !
The commerce between Tins point and
California has increased wonderfully, and
is daily extending. At this time there
are upwards of twenty-five vessels IN the
Columbia and Willamette rivers. One
million and half of dollars, in the shape
of lumber, was shipped for the California
market during last month alone, and the
demand for the article is too great TO be
supplied by our mills.
To those who contemplate emlgratIng,
it is certainly interesting that Oregon al
ready exports to California lumber almost
equal in value to the amount Of gold which
comes monthly from California to this
country. The chances for making money
10 farmers, laborers and artisans, is prob
ABLY as great in Oregon as in California,
as the latter will have to dependuPon the
former for many supplies. A letter OF
November IL, from gentleman who
went to San Francisco, then changed his
mind and went TO Oregon, where he seems
highly pleased, says:
There are numerous grand locations
along the Columbia, which will soon be
of some importance also along the III
lameue and the extensive plains IN the
interior, with the numerous water courses,
present great inducements to the agrlcul-
turist and grazier. On the 18th we were
at anchor at Portland, the head OF navlga-
ton, where all the cargoes are discharged
for their different destinations, by wagons.
Portland is the most beautiful site for
town that have yet seen, with the eXcep-
ton of Astoria, which must soon increase,
but not till steamboats, commence running;
they are now needed, as the navigation is
too dangerous for vessels over seven feet
draught.
| found all kinds Of goods scarce and
the merchants will hardly wait till you
open the goods-they are ready to take
them without looking at them. Produce
is as high as at San Francisco.
Freights from here to Oregon City
twelve miles, are S24 per ton; by water
fifty miles, So per hundred.
There are about thirty houses at this
place, (Portland) five stores, and il bids
fair to be town Of importance. Many
merchants from Salem, Oregon City and
Linn City come here for goods, and there
is an extensive back country thickly set
tied. Next spring there will be grand
rush to Rouge River and the Umqua !;
where gold has been discovered, and |
hope we shall have the benefit of it.
We take the following from the Oregon
Spectator of October:
Mouth ofthe ColumJia-Oregon Com
n,erce.-lt is with no ordinary feelings OF
qualification that we refer not only our Or
egon readers, but also the commercial
world, to the marine list found in another
column. This list affords tiattering lndl-
cations of a growing commerce IN this
Territory. Until very recent date, but
few vessels would venture to approach
this port. Such was the terror inspired
by the very name Of the mouth of the Co
lumbia, than it was only the more bold
and venturous that would favor us with
their visits. Great as was the national
interest at stake, the home government
refused or neglected TO do anything toward
the improvement of the entrance into the
Columbia. The wheat growers OF Ore
gon experienced so many drawbacks on
their bushes, that some have their wheat
in the granaries, and others suffered II to
90 to waste in the fields and, unhappily
for the present prosperity of Oregon, too
MANY of them are turning their attention
to other and more profitable pursuits.
Hence q flourishing trade in wheat and
flour, through false impressions and the
neglect of government, has passed, for the
present, into the hands of our South Amer
can neighbors. Wheat, flour, butter and
cheese, have been exported in limited
quantities. The chief business, however,
has been in the lumber trade. Already,
the trade has assumed the form of regu-
lar commerce. Notices. than five millions
feet of lumber, besides large number OF
house frames, have been exported from
this port this summer. The Oregon City
Milling Company alone, have shipped a
million feet in addition to the demands met
for city use. Three small vessels have
been built here this season; and all are
actively engaged in profitable trade.
A correspondent Of the Tribune gives
the following as to an advance in prices
and return of gold-seekers:
OREGON CRY, Oct. 81, 1919.
The prices in Oregon, of every descrip-
lion of goods, wares. merchandise and
provisions, are likewise in advance Of
those mentioned in my last notices of the
Oregon market. Six very plain cups and
saucers now sell at 50 so.
Seven vessels have just arrived in the
Columbia river with passengers from Cal
ifornia. They are principally citizens OF
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