, 1866-08-24

Ed. SrArEsMAE Again fnd time to DROP
you line. Although Il am doing "uothiug in
particular" still this is such lively place i
can't be said that any one is really idle here
Even the Montgomery street bnmmers keep
themselves busy bobbibg from grocery to gro.
esri." prays, wagons, express wagons, omni-
buses, men, women, children and dogs keep
moving ''along. Muscle shell bonnets, false
calves, fitting hoops, and waterfalls hutter in
the eye and breeze. Blythe way, think the
} wind Of a San Francisco afternoon might let the
fitting hoops "out;" but 1t seems quite the re-
verse. The wind acts as an aolian attach
ment'-benenHcia in assisting the expose.
Banking houses are as plentiful here as gro,
cery stores with you. The banking interest
seems to have centered in aud around the corr
ner of Montgomery and California streets. In
this part of the city property ranges from $1,000
to $1,000 per foot front, without buildings |
The heavy importing houses still holdIon to
Front and Battery streets, hut the increase Of
trade is forcing other streets into the wholesale
trade. If, as an old Spanish prophecy has it,
San Francisco is to be destroyed by an earth
or it will ruin some (uOw) very wealthy, enter
prising men, who are "laying themselves out"
on fine buildings.
Since my last letter quite a large stock Of
goods have went for ward for Montana, via the
Columbia river and Wallula. 1t is now getting
so late in the season there is no help for those
who wish to get into Montana with goods and
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the Columbia river and Wallula The San Fran
cisco merchants grind tbeirteeth aud-send for.
ward their goods. So great has been the rush
to get goods aboard the Oregon steamers for
Montana and Idaho Territories since my last
that drays have been compelled to take their
stand on the piers at IL o'clock at night I-ev-
cry one being anxious to get in ahead. The
Scene presented something like the sight in
Portland during the Salmon river excitement.
| Still, quite large amount of goods are going
forward to Los Angeles, Chico and Red Bluffs
for different points in Montana and Idaho Terri.
tories.
Puget Sound is still talked Of as point for
vessels to land goods for Montana and Idaho
Territories, and if railroad is built from Wal
lula to Salt Lake City, or one pointing that way,
connecting lick will be built from some point
on the Sound, thus cutting off Portland entirely
and making much shorter route 1t is claimed
that goods can be landed in either of the Terri |
tories from San Francisco, via the Sound, tbepcs |
to, Wallula, at one quarter less than it now
costs VIA the Columbia river, with what facii>
ties now exist. There is a rumor current bere
that one or more of the owners Of the o. S. N.
Co. are becoming quite disguSted with the ac-
tions of the Company, and are preparing to
checkmate them, after the style ofsome of their
California neighbors, who kept gnawiug at the
vitals of the C. s. n Co. for years, by opposi-
ton. Two or three of tie stockholders, who.
cannot get any satisfaction relative to their lit.
tie old twenty-five or thirty thou and dollars
worth Of stock, it is understood, own some ma.
chinery and also have (or own) an interest in a
saw mill, and that the mill is engaged now saw
ing lumber for a steamboat and that it is the
intention Of these parties to put the boat on the
Columbia, between Wallula and Lewiston.
This Is the tery link that the merchants of San
Francisco want mended. 1t is claimed by the
builders of the boat that they can make & fat
profit freighting from Wallula to Palouse land.
ing and Lewiston at one half the price now
charged by the o. S. N. Co. That $3.50 per
ton from Wallula to White Bluffs (6O miles)
and $50 per ton to Palouse Landing (6o miles)
is an outrage. Then, again, to charge SIS fare
to White Bluffs and $40 fare TO Palouse Land
ing is another outrage of too gariug a nature
to be overlooked.
This may seem a small wedge to split so big
a buG)lk as the o. S. N. Co.; but it is conino
from the right quarter. The wedge begins to
WORK at the heart. 1t comes from those within
the family circle, who are supposed to know a
little something of the workings Of this vast
family Even little petty outside opposition
would annoy theo. s. N. Co. considerably, for
II Is generally believed here that since Col.
huekle went out of the Company there is not a
steamboat man left in it. It is true, enc or two
OF the Company did run kind of wheelbsr-
row OF steamer on the Willamette river that
"ould carry about as much freight as prairie I
schooner This vessel used to make its four.
teen miles day. The balance Of the Companv
are clerks, merchants, bankers and Indian 9
Agents. The ability of some of them to make q
money in the merchantile business when Oregon I
was hr woods was Of the simplest character. t
1t consisted almost wholly in buying an article c
Tor one dollar having the cheek to ask a Gus. I
toner i've dollars for it. As for any knowledge of
merchantIle pursuits than the above it was all
nonSen'sj that WAS merchandising; the way I
they had seen it done when they were DRIVING Q
trucks in New York City. !.
ou' enough OF this. The San Francisco mer- it
chants are delighted at even this little opening
hat presents itself, and wish the new enter. =,
,rise from WAllula to Lewiston success, andsso b
'O' TRAvELER. sl
THE AT sIAcoE.-We are informed by Judge I
'yehe, who has just returned from SimcOe, tba,
hre occurred there on last Friday. dsstrovino