The weekly union record., 1866-03-03
Correspondence.
OREGON CITY.

OREGON CITY.
EDITOR UNION RECORD Nearly twenty
years have passed away into the invisible
future since the glittering dust was FIRST dis
covered in this beautiful State. Since that
eventfal period, many changes have taken place
Large and fourishing cities, smiling villages.
and neat white cottages, have sprung up sud
denly hike Jonah's gourd-then disappeared
like the mist of the morning before the rising
splendor Of the sun. The valleys have been
exalted-the mountains and hills have been
made low-the crooked made straight, and the
rough places plain. Everything here is frail
and unstable. Passing away" is inscribed
upon the pillars of nearly every mining camp
in the State. But there are exceptions to the
general rule.
CHEROKEE FLAT.
Ten years ago, there were but few families
around this community. and number of useless
creatures called bachelors. But the darklipg
clouds have disappeared, and the golden rays
of civilization, improvement. and glorious
success, have shone upon it. Thank fortune
many of the old bachelors and their miserable,
low, dirty, smoky huts, have vanished away, to
give place to dozens Of families. Under the
new dispeusation Tor ladies' dispensation). We
have neat white houses, beautiful gardens, with
fruitful trees, delicious fruit, and fragrant
flowers and, above all, good society. Under
the soft and gentle reign Of Spring. all begins
to smile; life in thousand ways breaks forth;
all is verdure, and fragrance. and beauty; all
is joyous. What variety of colors, what bar
mony of sounds The valleys stand thick with
rising corn, and the little bills rejoice on every
side.
THE MINES.
II, by some supernatural power, We could
raise the Table Mountain from its natural bed,
and place it away down in the burning sand
of New Mexico, or the sage brush Of Nevada,
or the towering mountains Of the Arctic Ocean,
there would be more excitement about it than
there was when the rebels of the Sodom of the
United States fred on Fort Sumter Mining
in this county is in its infancy, and the work
of exploration hardly begun. The territory
between Morris Ravine and Cherokee is
immense. Valuable repositories will yet be
found all along Oregon Gulch and under the
Table Mountain. We believe, and we have
good reasons TO believe, that there is one of the
richest leads in the State running under the
Table Mountain. All we need for the deve
opment OF rich mines is capital, and the right
kind of men to use it. Then old Butte will
sou, pass through the fiery furnace to glorious
success. We ne glad to see that quartz
mining, the great interest OF onr State, has
baen aroused from its sumbers, and We believe
soon will be firmly established as one of the
most permanent and paying pursuits in the
county. A tendency of Improvement OF former
abuses is visible in some parts of our county.
Companies are being organized en- business and
not on speculative principles. The fendish
spirit of speculation has been crushed.
CAMBRIAN MINING COMPANY.
This Company is composed of practical
miners and mechanics. They do nearly all the
work themselves. They are not required to
pay one hundred and fifty dollars per month to
an inexperienced hand las is often done) 10
superintend their works. They have one of the
best mills ever introduced into this county.
They have a monster pump, with nine inch
pipe. They commenced pumping last Monday
The slope is down some eighty feet
from the surface. The lead is from twenty to
twenty -four inches thick, and the indications
are that it is rich, and that they will soon reap
a golden harvest. The new mill is situated on
the east and west branches Of Oregon gulch
near Oregon City. six miles north east from
Orovie. Yonrs truly, j. j. 2.