, 1866-09-07
WsIiala corre.pOhdence.

WALIobAf DtPe. -
Ed. srATEsxlx:-summer is past and fall is
upon ms. As we have had long, cold spring
and ID outrageously hot sutimer. we may ex-
pect long fall, though not warm one We
may also expect long, though not a cold win
ter-what would be called an "open winter
a mean, uncertainSwinter to many, but fair for
animals.
Steamboat navigationto to Lewiston is supposed
to be "closed out' for the season. Suake river
! is very low. The Lewiston boat went below on
Friday morning last. White Bluffs trade ditto.
Steamer did not go up last Sunday as usual. |
understand the o. S. N. Co. have only lost about
$500 in running to White Bluffs. Still, if any
one wants to go up when steamer is kere she
Bluffs. The o. S. N. Co. are deserving Of great
deal of credit for their enterprise and lberality
towards the city of the Bluffs during the past
summer and the citizens of Walla' WalIs and
Wallula hereby tender their sincere thanks to
| the Company for the pleasure trips and Sunday
Omusements furnished them by said Company
during the past summer, by keeping Boat es-
pecally for their accommodation and pleasure.
We also feel under obligations as citizens Of this
Territory for the active part that the Conpany
have taken in developidg our resources Before
the Rump Congress, through their indefatfgable
Vice and ex-Vice Presidents, in endeavoting to
have a road built, at the expense of Uncle Sam,
from White Bluffs to somewhere in the Terrific
,in poin nm fho Eolu ur5bi ri
er about one hundred miles out fall knowledge
of truth for the travelling community, and runs
ming to any portion of Idaho or Montana, or to
any available portion of Washington Territory,
But then it must be remembered that if a road
could be bnit from the Bluffs, pointing towards
Montana or Salt Lake-no matter if it was one
hundred miles out of the way-that tte Bluffs
are about IS miles above Wallula, on the Co.
lumhia river, and the price of freight from Wal
lula to White Bluffs is 81 so per ton Don't you
see Now, suppose Uncle Sam should build the
road and all the trade and freight should go to
White Bluffs, instead of stopping at Umatilla
and Wallula, it would be fair to presume that
500 tons of freight per week would be landed at
the Bluffs. Now, as the Company would real
i5e ST. per ton more this freight .han they
would if landed at Wnlula, their treasury
would be replenishea 70 the tune of three thou
sand seven hundred and fifty dollars per week,
on freight alone. Now say that 500 passengers
per week would be landed at the same place,
which, at the price of fare from Wallula to the
Bluffs, (S5,OO) would be two thousand FIVE hun
dred dollars more, making in all So, $50 90 more
per week pouring into their now overburdened
treasury. 1t don's make particle of difference
to them if the passengers and freight are landed
one hundred miles out of their proper course.
Six or seven thousand dollars per week is worth
'going after" even if you have to go to Wash
iugton City after it.
But failing to "Reed their title clear" in this
matter, # was too barefdced even for a Rump
Congress they went in for a railroad from the
Columbia river, at some point near Wallula, to
Salt Lake Citv. This "somewhere near" is an
open question. Now, as a matter of course-or,
should say as matter of six or seven thou
sand dollars per week,-it is to the interest oi
the o. S. n. Co. to have this railroad strike the
Columbia river as high up as they can run their
boats, and wonld not be surprised to find their
next move would be to have it strike the Colum.
biN river at Priest Rapids !-.using as an argu.
ment that it should go as far north as possible
so as to secure the GoN'ille and Big Bend trade
We all know that when the White Bluff, pre-
eurption'' was taken up by the present proprie
| tor, his only reasons for doing SO were, that il
would be theproT er point to land goods for Col
vile, Kootenai and Rock Creek. These all liz
to the north, and the Bluffs are in north ives.
terly direction from Wallula. But now it is dis
covered that the Bluffs is the proper place tc
land goods and passengers that want to 60 d.
rectly east from Wailula, which is sixty-fvt
miles south from White Bluffs / Strange
isn't it? Such is life. Humbug is the order Of
the day. and so we CO. CrMrUx.
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