, 1867-03-01
wallula Correspondents.
WALLuLA, February 20, 1851.
LET Us REASON TOGETHER.


article under the head of "contemphblep The
editor commences BY using the following Ian
gusge: "We had occasion some time since to
mildly reprove some of our cotemporaries whose
zeal for their own locality was leading them in
reference thereto, beyond the limit of friendly
and honorable rivalry" Now this is all very
well, but the editors "mild reproof' only ex-
tended to the Dallss MOuntGinser, for seeming
glorhcatlon over the prospects of a change in
the management Of the o. s. N. Co., and as the
editors of the Pres dOa' I consider the Dalles a
rival of the sand town of rsnatilla, the Prsss
only wishes e convey the idea that the Dalles
:lould not siorify so boistsrousy over the sup
posed downfall of her rival, Portland but
now the scene is changed, and it is your Bull
that has gorsd my oxI
The editor of the Press in his "contemptible"
article, pitches head long into the editor of tie
Walla Wala StatesmGn for speaking good word
for walla Walla and Wallula, to the supposed
detriment of Umatilla. Ths Press endeaVors 10
fnd q good deal of constructive fault with the
editor for his Perambulatiug article In the issue
of the 18th instant Of the Statesman, and labors
faithfully to platter the Ito theI Prsss) offensive
article upon the editor and proprietor, Mr.. New
ell, and hopes at the same time, that the editor
of the Aountaineer will come to the rescue of the
Press and utterly annihilate the Statesman
Now had not the green eyed monster of jeal-
ousy so far protuded as to close the arena of
"friendly and honorable rivalry" in the editor
of the Prs'', be would certainly have read the
heading Ofthat article, and by reading be would
have found tito commence, "the editor abroad"
But If be was still disposed to think the head>
ing false, how does be reconcile the statement of
'makiug the trip but once in FIVE years." with
its having been written by the editor, Mr.. New
ell when the editor of the Press must know
that Mr.. Newell has made the trip oftener than
that in less than two years. Then, again, the
writer of that article says, "Eleven years ago,
10 the summer of 1855, we first ascended the
Columbia towards its source" Does this read
like the travels of Mr.. Newell, the editor Of the
Stdtesmdn, who at that time was engaged in the
Herald office, San Francisco, and bad never
seen the Columbia River ? In the year 1855, the
writer of this was a resident of California, and
had then never seen the Colu nbia 1t is fair to
presume that one of the editors of the "Press"
might have been seen" during the year 1855,
catching catfish in the Mississippi River, oppo-
site St. Louis, No. Ny dear "Press" you are
decidedly out of your reckoning in your "con-
temPtbls" article in applying the authorship
to Mr.. Newell an older 0regonau or WashS
ingtonian than any of us, was the author /; in
the course Of time you msy come 10 knoF him.
Ny dear boy, since you fud f.ult With ysur
nsighbors for thinking "there is DO place like
home," suppose we run up our ledger account
\ Of soms Of your home thrusts in favor of deartv
beloved and highly prized U ma-tick lime,
which you are endeavoripg to swell into the pro-
portions of New York, or san Francisco, aud
see how they will compare with "friendly and
honorable rivalry" 10 Jour is,Ls Of December
2id, 1866, you say that, -.lg the present
season Of navigation on / columbia, the q.
s. N. Co. have brought up the river two hund.
red thousand tons Of freight, twenty five thou.
sand tons of which were landed at wallrla,
and one hundred and seventy five thousand tons
! at Umatilla." You close the article in these
NSrds "Can any Of our neigLbors, or any one,
longer DOUBT the Humcrcial importance of Una
tilla ?" should thiGk not, if these figures are
correct it certainly beats f9rtl4>d' Dalles and
Wallula. Umatilla must have receiTed a large
amount OF goods from New York and San Fran
cisco direct without touching at Portland ,Dalles
out Cello. 1t will be noticed in the above
statement, that White Bluffs, Ringold city, (the
idea of Journalist leaving out two such impor>
tant points y Palouse and Lewiston, points
above Wallula, to which the steamers made week
" trips during the summer. But the "Press"
also informs Us that "Umatilla is at the head of
navigation, and you can I get it one mile above"
Strange, isn'tit7 If such is the case, why don
the people of Umatilla build good wagon roads
leading from their large and hourishing city
OF one hundred and seventy FIVE thousand tons
Of freight per annum-to Wallula, Walla Wal,
Ia, Touchet, Lewiston, Palouse, White Bluffs,
Ringgold City, Orc Fino, Elk City, Florence,
Warrens, Kootenai, ColTille, Big Bend and par
ticularly to Pen d'oreille City, Pen d'Oreille
Lake, TO connect Umatilla with the Lake steam.
ers2 This statement of the amount of freight
--N~N - lABub " man uD q Tree
look little favorable to our pompous rival
U-ma'tiekle-ms. As the editor of the "Press"
likes "friendly and honorable rivalry" let me
analyEe this statement oftwo hundred thousand
tons of freight having been brought up the Co.
luu6ia River from Cello, by the o. s. N. Co.,
during the season of 1866, and in doing so,
hope the editor of the "Press" will see the
honorable" part of the "rivalry:'
The whole freighting season of 1866, up the
Colsnbia, can be condensed into niue months.
1t is true the boats ran more than nine months,
but the freight didn't Now admitting that the
steamers made daily trips for nine months, (Sun.
days sIcePted,) which they did not do, the
season, we will say, commenced on the Ist of
April and closed on the slst of December This
would comprise 27S days this period cOmpri-
sed 40 Sundays. Deduct :hs Sundays, will
leave 2s5 running days, provided they made
daily trips (which they did not). Now divide
2sS days into lis, 900 tons, and you 6nd that