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Nor DEAD YEr.-Every year since-the
discovery of mines in the upper country
there have been those here predicting that
the town of Wala Walla would ego u"
with the season Their predictions have
been verified to this extent--that the town
has " gone up" in the scale Of improvement
with each year, instead of receding as their.
language implied: And we now assert, as
we have heretofore done in opposition to
these prophets Of evil that the town will
continue to prosper just as surely and
steadily as formerly. We never expect to
see It attain the proportions Of large city;
but in the nature Of things it must always
be a, thriving town SO long, as there are gold
mines worked anywhere between the Cas-
cade and Rocky mountains And who
expects to live to see the day that the mines
q Of the upper country will all be worked out
Certainly any one who can imagine bis
lease of life SO long displays a amentabe ig-
norance Of the resources of the country
When the days Of {" small thing" come,
we have mines to be worked on every noun
tain stream from the Cascade to the Rocky
mountains and from the California line to
British Columbia, as good as those that
o have been mined in the older countries for
+. hundreds Of years, which must give en-
ployment to the thousands Of future genera
tions This proposition may seem startling
to those who have never given the subject a
thought, but to those who have prospeeted
the country and never failed to find the
f" color" it will not seem at all incredible.
But to speak Of present prospects: the
same causes that have given life and ac-
tiyity to the town heretofore will continue
to animate it. Unlike the points on the riv-
er spoken Of, Walla WaIla is not dependent
for its support solely upon being ashipping
point for goods to the mines but the agri-
cultural resources Of the surrounding valley
is her great Source Of wealth and the wealth
that has accrued to her citizens has come
by far more from the produce shipped to
the mines and furnished to those on the diff
b ferentroads and engaged 10 the business Of
transportation than from The profits on goods
sold to the same points. This is the solid
wealth Of the country, and from the profits
derived therefrom no "remittances' have to
be made below to pay for ''stocks," but
the money, excepting the small amounts re-
quired for the purchase Of imported articles,
remains at home and in the hands of the
producers. This makes our community a
wealthy one, and as such why should it not
continue to prosper The same fertile
lands which have heretofore fed the miners
continue to yield as abundantg - may more
abundantly than ever, and the F'returns" to
the farmers and meWhants continue to come
in as regularly. With the agricultural couu-
try surrounding US there is a sufficient To-
cal trade here to support large town,
which no point on the river can boast off, and
while the producers Of the country receive
their incomes from those who dig the gold
from the mines the merchants and mechan-
les of the town get their proportion of it in
supplying the producers with goods and
manufactures As miners and packers
must always come here for at least liberal
share Of their provisions, it cannot be ez-
pected that their purchases will be confined
to provisions alone; SO the goods dealers and
mechanics will also continue to receive com
siderable patronage from that source But
looking to the future, we do not expect that
all the wealth that accrues to the valley is
to come from supplying the miners with
produce. With as good grazing lands as
there are in the world surrounding US, we
expect to see thousands Of sheep pastured
upon them in the course of few Years at
most, and woolen manufactures dotting the
streams Of the valley and manufacturing
their hundreds of thousands Of dollars worth
of goods annually to supply the surrounding
country. The grass grows "free' upon the
hillsides, and the water to turn the michin-
cry will cost nothing. All kinds Of woolen
goods can be manufactured cheaper here
than they can be imported. Capitalists
"a will not fail to see this and profit by it..
Then, with gold mines surrounding US,
with the best agricultural valley east Of the.
mountaips, with no rival point possessing
anything like equal advantages, we can see.
no reasonable ground on which any one can
base the prediction that Walla Walla, in
our day, is destined to i" go VI" except in
ia the the literal sense that it is to "go up" in
the scale of improvement.
The LINKT.N RoAD.p-Mr. Charles
Bessefer made trip up the mountains last