Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-05-03
o IL e N.--Ets Resources, Climate, &c.



From Her Delegate in Congress, 10 Dr.. J. II.
| WATSON, Of PajnierSrtLle, OHIO, dated WASH
ington, January 28th, 1850.
! My DEAR SIR Yours Of the 10Th inst. rea-
! ched me last night at u late hour. Upon peru
! sing it, perceived it contained so many distinct
| questions, thirty-tive in all, that | could not an
swer it Until another day. As read the narra-
| Tive Ul yOur bad luck, ! pin d, for | thank God
! that | en- teei but as | real the declaration,
! cannot ii | would, and would not if could" |
| involuntary exclaimed d" ! glory in hs'spank."
But, sir, can with mach propriety sympaihise
win you in hardahips, for have had to fight my
way through great tribulalion; and have always
thought that W tn health, one of the best boons of
Providence, would never ask quarter, but that
| would war and toll on. There is much good
sense in the adag9, that, "where there is LoU
| there is q way" Yes, to WILL is to do And
there is no class of people who need 50 much Of
this mental giant, this moral Hercules, as does
the hardy, warning, aboring, contendlng emf
grant. TO this class of people the country owes
! her greatness. But | perceive am writing You
a moral essay, so ! will return to the point OF
! cunsderation-the answer TO your hirty-tWO.
On the articles named in your first question,
! shirtng, caIicoes, sewing thread, thmbes, sCis-
sors, needles, tape, ribbons &c, with such other
articles as are comNonly used in families, are to
| be found there The markets OF Oregon will
always be supplied with such things hereafter,
as money is so plenty, and profits SO very consi-
derable, that our eastern merchants will not fail
to turn their attention thither IHthe four months
( succeeding the first Of last May. thirty-seven
vessels entered and departed the Columbia river,
with tonnage of nearly ten thousand tons,
Messrs Rowland &, AspiAwall are soon to COM
mence running their steamers to Astoria and.Nes-
3 H.. u. ~ ,.iti
! zens are to have sea steamer Of eight hundred
tons, ~ run semi-mohthly between San Francisco
and the above named ports, and Portland on the
| willamette river. These lines OF steamers will
! continue constantly hereafter. All, then, which
! remains TO be done 70 make Oregon, CLINT in
| commerce, is for people to flock thither, and en-
/ gage in the various ayocatlOns promotlYe OF com
mprce Mes.rs Rowland & Aspinwall, and
! Heart IL Coffin, and even citizens to embark
/ in the rice trade This carried on all along the
! whole Pacific coast, and 20 the Sandwich lands,
will add not little 80 enlarge our commercial
business. repeat, therefore, that in view Of
! these things, and many others not nEmed, and
that the mail is to b carried regularly 10 Oregon
hereafter, the day. are passed by, when our mar
kets can lack for all the requisites Of civilized
life. Crockery ware, covered by your second
question; can also b. bought, bat At prices twice
! as hiuh. at least. as in the states But YOU will
/ l'arn, before | am done, that you can better az
! ford 10 paw two prices i'll Oregon for what You
buy, than one price in Ohio. If man gets three
times as mach for his labor or what he has to
SELL re can afford to pay two prices and lay up
/ money bY the operation.
Cooking stoves with their apparatus, can b
purchased there. They, too, are very high, but
will uldou5tedy fall, as more come in. think
such stove as could be bought in our eastern
,i,i,s C,r ty-al,-o dollars vOuld soil OREGON
when | left, for threean four times thar amount
POS, kettles knives and forks, sad irons, &c.
J contained in your fourth question, can be bought
/ there, ant at prices, lower in proportion, than
stoves, still they are high High prices, yon are
, aware, are tie c T ain accomplishments OF new
country, and particularly is il the case, when mo-
! nov is plenty. Tables, chairs, bureaus, bed
steals of the coars9r kind, are made in Oregon,
and at prices high in proportion to other things.
But very little furniture has ever been imported
Your sixth question asks the price of gruce-
res received letter by last mail, dated Ore
gon CITY, September 18th, which gave the prices
Of articles, as follows wheat $500 per bushel,
flour per barrel Sl4.OO onions per baShel, $500,
beans per cushnl, $500. bacon per Id 20 to 30.
cents, hams 375 cents, lard, same, pork 3 cts.
beef PER cwt. s 800, jallow 20 cents, butter and
1 cheese. 50 cents, coarse brown sugar 25 nts,
loaf sugar 80 cents, green tea 81 ,25al 80, coffee
20 cents syrup, inferior quality, ) 80 per gal.
lamp oil, $500 per gal, nee 10 cents per To-, do
site factory, % cts. per yard. broad cloths
S5al5 per ward white flannel, 75lSl 80 per yd,
lumber per thousand, o e HUltred dollars, new
! SHADES. 81 90, salmon per barrel, $500, wood
per cord, $500, day sborprs. fur to sic dyitars
per day, and good mechanics, Ten to Si.r'esH doi-
lars per day. You see then, from the above, that
while YOU have 10 pay high, you sell high. Ev-
cry man who goes there, should practice rgo-
/ rous economy, for when man gets paid well,
then is the time to be saving Ask your mecha-
MICS how it would seem to work and receive ere
~ night Sjrteen dollars, even ten, SIR, each
/ Hjght say, tor that Is tho way they pay up IN
Oregon. There is no credit there, nor no need
of any. II man wants ali he has got TO do is To
work-that is right, for il is said and said rightly
that he who will not work, shall not eal-he
ought not deny the right OF any man. atho
he be as rich as Crpsus to spend his tins IN loa.
fling. mean moral right, growing out OF his
duties To man and God, and not that right which
is more properly permission OF the civil law.
| have mentioned the price OF broad cloths above.
Hats, boots, and shoes, may be set down at dou-
bic the prices in the states for similar articles.
There are no fine silk or fur hats in the country
The reason is, as | am informed by merchants
that the freight on these articles is so high, by
reason of their bulk. Consequently caps, and
what are called California hats, little round top
wool hat, are chiefly worn in the country. The
above covers your It'll question.
You can get garden seeds OF all kinds in the
country, but since they are so light would re-
commend that you take some along Iou would
want all kinds that you would in Ohio 1t is not
however, absolutely necessary, that you should
take any AS for plows, | am not able to tell you
the price. Those patent cast iron plows, used
in the States, have not been used there much
yet. The pillow which is mostly used, is made
in the country, each mechanic making his appro-
pirate part. The blacksmith makes the irons Of