Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-04-25

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eIxERAL vITw.
II, settlements ii PscIhe City and
Cbenook. and skm;ins the north bank OF
the Columbia rivrr, near its mouth hsd
attained sufficient prominence to JUSTIFY
III. establishment, o. q new county. Feb.
9TH. 1851, the Oregon Legislature passed
AN &C, setting off from Lewis county the
territory commencing a, Cape Di-appoi"t-
mrn, and following :he Pacific Coast
twenty five miles. thence due east thirty
miles. hence south TO the Columbia river
and down its channel to the place Of be-
ginning, Which new county was called Pa
cifc. A new apportionment by the Ore
eon Legislative Assembly (Feb. SHY gave
10 Lewis and Clarke counties a joint
member. and made Pacific and Clatsop
Representative district. The Council DIS
trict remained unchanged.
The census, the taking of which was
completed ir the early part of the year. ex'
hibits total population in Oregon Of 49,
294. From it is extracted the following
exhibit of the condition Of settlement
north Of the Columbia.
LEWIS COUNTY INCLUDING PACIFIC.
Total white population. .............'.:: 4o|
Males. ...''''''''' osr
Females ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. LID
There were returned as free colored 1Ol.
l. is impossible that this should allude to
negroes, of whom there were scarcely any
in Oregon. 1t does refer to class Of dis
charged servants of the Hudson's Bay Co.,
and the Red river immigrants Of 1S41,
colonized under the auspices of that COM
pany, which under their license Of trad"
could not hold lands. The design was to
occupy the country, strengthen the British
claim Of sovereignty to the soil and defeat
the claim of the United States. Of the
male population, 218 are natives Of the
United States and 1876 of foreign birth.
Thus it will be seen, by adding these two
elements of population, thnt in this county
the British lraven Of settlement still retained
the ascendency.
There were 146dwclling- houses erected,
occupied by that number of families; Is
pupils are returned, yet it appears that
during 1850, 90 had at some period during
the year attended a school. The money
expended in education, together with the
school tax realized in 1850, amounted to
$500. White children between the ages
Of and 20 years. OIL; whites over 20
years of age. unable to write, 6.
The following statistics possess . pecu.
liar interest:
No. OF farms ....s..s.s...s %
No. acres improved ................... l3,4tl
No Of acres unimproved ............. So,OA
Value With improvement. and imple.
menss ..............! .......--. oeG ,7S.
Th- above list contains the returns oil
the quality aud eoat~ass Of the Nisquslly
and Co-Et1 farms. With their Respective
areas - claimed By ;hs oGko<rs in charge.
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