, 1858-03-05

our Territory in cultivation, millions Of
dollars worth Of -four and ceriels could be
annually exported. Ash is, owing to the
high price which labor commands, very
many Of our farmers do not pretend to pro-
duce more than is required for their own
subsistence.
Next in the list is coal, Of which it ap-
pears that 1894 tons have been shipped to
San Francisco, and elsewhere, coastwise,
worth $26,9l2. OF the immense coal
veins that are supposed to underlay a vast
extent Of country, bordering our Northern
line, but one mine or vein has been opened
but one shaft sunk to any considerable
depth. We allude to the one on the claim
occupied by Col FrrzHuGH, of BelIingham
Bay; and operations there may be said to
have just commenced. Ere many years. if
we nre not grately mistaken, the coaling in
terest will he formidable rival to that Of
numbering, and second only in Importance
to IL; and in both, perhaps. millions of dol
lars worth will be registered as exported
which is now recorded by thousands or tens
Of thousands
OF furs. the Hudson's Bay Company
continue in the almost undiSputed monopo-
lly. Bat our third great Territorial inter
est-that Of our fisheries and whaling
grounds, is capable Of being made second to
none other that we have enumerated; but
as yet, we might say, absolutely nothing
has been done to take advantage Of the
wealth that might inure in the establish
ment of fisheries, Ia New England. We
are well assured that for salmon, cod, hali'
but, trout, sturgeon, ETC., our inland sea is
preferable 10 any portion Of the Atlantic
for the establishment Of fisheries At pres
ent, all the fish caught, or oil taken is by
the Indians, and yet it will be seen that
over $4,000 worth Of the former, and $4,000
worth of the latter has been shipped from
our borders Hero, again, millions might
be made to occupy the place OF thousands
And it must be rccollected that the state
ment hcreunto annexed has feferencs only
to the exports from the District Of PngSt
Sound. What the exports ria of the Col
umbia river has been during the same peri
cd, we have no means Of conjecturing =
We have reason to believe, however, that
there are, at convenient intervals, saw and
Touring mills between the Cascade falls and
the mouth Of the Columbia. The Messrs.
BRADsHAw, BIsHoPs, & Co, Gen. H. ]. G..
MAxoN, Hon. A. S. ABERNErHY, are engag-
ed In either the Touring or numbering busi-
ness, in that direction. We should judge
that at least one third more grain was
raised annually south Of the Puget Sound
District, than to the northward, along its
waters. Lewis is said to be the best agri-
cultural county in the Territory, and there
is perhaps more grain raised, and a great
er amount Of bacon made therein, each
year, than any other; yet large proportion
Of the surplus finds its way down the Cow
litz to the Columbia. The land along the
Cowlitz river, in Cowlitz county, is not sur
passed in productiVeness by any in the
Territory; and it is probable that larger
quantity Of vegetables are aunually export
ed from that county than any other. The
citizens Of Clarke, Pacific, Wakiakum and
Chehalis are largely engaged in stock rails
ing and agricultural pursuits; besides, the
Oyster trade Of Shoalwater Bay with Cal
ifornia and Oregon has grown to be Of very
considerable Importance. We should judge
that the exports ria the Columbia river,
we're fully half, il not two-thirds, as much
as those ria Puget Sound. But, on the
presumption that the exports by way Of the
Columbia river, during the past year,
amounted to but half that exported from
the Puget Sound District, the citizens Of
our Territory will have pocke;ed the neat
little sum of $sl5,S62 81; and promising
our population to be s,OOO-this sOOnid be
a fraction Orsr one hundred and ttOO dollars
10 erery man, sOoman aud child s0ithiR our
borders! .-ia
As 10 the number Of sailing vessels that
have visited the Sound and Straits for car
goes, during the past year, we feel safe in
saying, that along the whole line of the
Pacific coast, San Francisco, only, can ex-
hibit larger shipping report.
hJ- The weather for the past fortnight
has been balmy and spring-like, with an
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