The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-01-18

along its banks is magnificent and SUBJ
lime. Its fisheries are destined to be-
come of vast importance. There are
now some thirty establishments within
80 miles Of each other, that have invests
ed from 81 200 to $4,000 capital each,
and to give you some idea of the bus
mess they do, 1 will mention one item.
One firm. that of Hapgood. Hume & Co
used $4,000 worth Of penny stamps, to
stamp their cans the past season, one
penny to each can. These fisheries are
but in their infancy Some are doubling
their capacities this winter for next sea
son. Some of these Establishments
can the Salmon in one pound and two
pound cans, like canning fruit, others
pickle in kits. Of half barrels and barrels,
others dry or smoke it. Some do all
three. Our mountains are As high, as
picturesque and romantic as any.
| There are many spots in the State
where person can stand in the same
tracks and see eight snow capre noun
tains in the Cascade range, rearing their
white heads thousands of feet above the
line Of vegetation. Mount Hood the
highest-looms up over seventeen thou
sand feet above the level Of the sea.
Our forests are large, well distributed
and easy OF access. The principal tim
Der is Fir, Spruce, Hemlock. Pine, Ce-
dar, Oak AID Ash, also Alder. The fir,
spruce, pine, cedar and hemlock, grow
very large--from 6 to IL feet in diane
ter, and from $50 to 800 feet Highland
| straight, some being 100 feet to the first
limb. Gold, Silver, Iron and Coal are
found in paying quantities IN many
places throughout the State. It will be
seen therefore that Oregon possesses
many advantages. The country is
| healthy. The climate mild and even.
| The soil rich aud fertile. The rivers
are broad and grand. The scenery
| weird and beautiful. Forests inexhaus-
tible--internal wealth abundant, and
territory enough to support one million
inhabitants--and we have at present
only about one hundred and twenty
! thousand. And why are there no more
people in such delightful country
First, because the country has been
misrepresented by her riuol sister which
got the first start, because gold was first
discovered within her borders. Second
ly, before the Overland r R. was built,
this country was comparatively isolated,
and the cost of coming here was enor-
nous. The journey was a long and
tedious one, and attended with many
hardships and even dangers but now
most unbroken bands Of iron, the journ-
ey becomes safe, easy, short and COM
paratively cheap. Third, because the
people in this country heretofore have
taken but little pains to let the world
know what country they possessed.
Some may wish to know if there is any
vacant land here yet. 1 answer yes.
There is enough land, within 25 miles of
this place, along the banks Of the Skip
penow, Lewis and Clarke, Young's,
Klaskamine, Walluska, Gray's River,
Deep and Chinook Rivers--tributnries
of the Columbia--for 500 Homesteads,
and 80 miles from here, in the Ne-ha-
lem Valley, is room for 500 more. The
land is as good - the land along the
Miami, Whiten Ater, Greensboro, or
Wabash, and will take as much work to
clear it, but then the timber is ready
sale, for cash, in shape of saw-logs,
wood, shingles, &c. But no one that is
afraid of work need come, we want bone
and muscle, we have enough drones.
To those that viii work, there is plenty
of room and a splendid opening.
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