Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-12-12
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA.
NEVADA, Cal, Oct. 25, 1851.


you with ga letter. now, though late, redeem
the same by commencing with Sacramento, and
going the rounds to Oregon and returning to and
within California.
Sacramento like all other internal places in
California, is temporarily built, and in the dis
lance presents an suspicious appearance more
than its reality will justify. 1t is the thoroug
fare for all the northern region of gold digging.
Consequently it is place of much business,
and OF lively character. Merchandise of a
great amount, groceries, provisions, and all
things wanted for life is abundant, and compar-
ed with the times are cheap. Not finding it
favorable for the purse to be playing the laggard
in the place, put out with guide for the luba
river. Three days, delving in a sweering sun,
andln dust abundantly, introduced me into a mar
row dcfiI of the river, 60 miles from Sacramen-
TO, wherein are acme hundreds Of people, of all
grades and descriptions, Juggling and toiling in
turning the stream from its bed, ard tearing up
the foundations thereof, searching for and find
ing gold. Working in the water, digging lift.
ing and moving stones, pumping, rocking, form
ed the business of mining, with board of whole
some quality at oz.-Sl6 per. week, and lodg-
ing where you could catch it, with or without
blankets as you happen to be, and flcas for COM
pNnions in abundance. Eight days labor of this
kind, at IS and $40 per. day without board, COM
ploted my mining tour. Fearing the rains, it
then being the middle of Oct, and having no
claim agreeably to custom, and the river diggings
for the season rather falling, companies breaking
up, making preparations for winter dggings, all
together induced me to test the favorable report
| concerning Oregon. Accordingly two days re-
turned me to Sacramento, and took boat for San
Francisco. Among the almost numberlcss a.
mount of shippingin the harbor, | soon found
several bound for Oregon. Taking passage at
| $40, we wero soon out on the Pacific Ocean, and
| beating the head winds for Is days, we event
uay cast anchor in the Columbia river at Asto-
ria. This is small place, said to have been
founded or started by John Jacob Aston in form
er times where the Hudson Bay Company con-
| tro!led the business of this country. y small
| Fort is sustained here, and Of late the lumber
business to and with California has contributed
to the growth of the place. Being most treach-
erous'y used by the Capt. Of the beat, we were
compelled to land and walk our WY up to Port
| land in the best manner We could, having paid
! our money to be taken there For want of means
! sufficient we had TO take open whalc-boats, and
after siege of several days, lying out in the
stream, sometimes catching lodging among In
dlas in their filthy cabins, we at length arrived in
Portland, on the Willamette river II miles short
of Oregon City.
Portland, like all others Of sudden growth, is
the work Of day. a few capitalists are vcing
with Oregon City, by taking advantage Of the
rapids intervening between, making it not a
ready matter to 90 up that far with the large craft
reaching Portland. Two large steam saw mills
| give speed to the business Of the place. Goods
| during last winter were ushercd in from Cali
torna to such ali extent, as to bring them down
| equal to, if not below California prices. Leav-
ing Portland, Dec. 81. with two inches snow on
the ground, it being all l saw in Oregon, I push
edup the river miles, to the half way place, Mil
waukec. This is small place with two saw
! mills, store and few other buildings, equal to
the business of the place. While Portland is
arrog0ting TO itself more than its share and Ore
gon City striving to keep her own, Milwaukee,
! lying al the head Of unimpcded navigation, it lies
low between the contcnding parties in hopes OF
getting the spoils Of defeat from both sources
Like all other portions of the protested civilized
world they vie one with the other, and are ready
to deyour at the expense of their neighbours
Leaving Milwaukee, passed over another seven
miles 10 Oregon City. This is the place BY
nature that is intended to mcnopoIize the whole
country. The trivial difficulties Attending the
navigation up to this place Will soon be forgot
ten in the facilities offered; | may say IL al
most endless amount OF water power in that
place This is the Oldest place of business in
the territory, on account of the falls of the Will
Iamette, being navigable for one hundred miles
above. The advantages here for water power
will never all be used. A stream of water as
large as five or six Rock Rivers, pouring over a
! preciPice of % feet nearly pcrpendicularly, af-
fording water to turn hundreds of wheels, and
propelIiug all the machinery ever wanted on the
west side of the Nevada mountains, will ever
| give prcponderancc to the place, over and above
| its rivals. The advantages Of the surrounding
country for agriculture, its easy reception Of land
on either side and from above, south By the nav
I gaton of the river for one hundcd miles from
an abundantIy fertile country pouring in a heavy
tide of exports of lumber, wheat, oats, cattle
beef, bacon, butter and vegetables, and what will
soon be the easy reception of imports by any
craft that may penetrate its province, must and
will determine Oregon City to be parallel in
due time TO New York or Boston, Of the cast
FIGURING and saw mills already bostud the Ore
gon City side, and on the other side Linn CITY,
some heavy Touring establishments are in con-
temptation The country forming the William
cite valley is level from 60 to 100 miles between
the coast range on the west, and the blue hills
of the Nevada on the east, running up south to-
wards California, near 200 hundred miles, aud
north to the Columbia. It's products are album
dant. Wheat OF the finest kind, exceeding Biz
Foot Prairie SAMPLES is raised from one To sopr