The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-02-01
MUREFHUM OREGON.

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HE BRrd y Statistics, mmigration
ind labor Exchange" have published
Epampllet efatiye to the resi- urces, soil,
.clilnalc an ! pro luctions.of ogegos, from
EmlnchWe AXE he followingasxtrGtsA
"TERRIToRY. = Oregon lies between
the 42nd and 18th parallels Of north lat
stud e, and -bstween Ehel II 7th1 meritlian
west from Greenwich and the Pacific
Ocean. The State has an average length,
eat andsses6 Of p Bout $50 mles, and
Breadth, north and south, of 275 miles,
and contains &c, $50 square miles, or,
81 SOC, GOO acres of land. Tt embraces
more territory than~the States of New
York and Pennsylvania combined In
population it has not to exceed 120, 900
inhabitants, while the two States just
named contained, according TO the Gen.
sus of 1860, an aggregate population Of
nearly 1000, 900. OF the entire area of
the State, about 25,0O0,0O0 acres are
adapted to agriculture, and shout the
same quantity to grazing purposes-the
remainder being mountain land, valuable
only for its immense forests of timber.
| OF the agricultural and grazing lands,
not over six per cent. has passed from
the government into the hands of pri-
vate parties, and the quantity under cul-
| tivation would not exceed two per cent"
| a. "THE CITY FaPoRTLAND.-Portla
the commercial capital of. Oregon, is
also the commercial depot whence the
| people of q region larger than New Eng
| land and the Middle States combined,
derive their supplies, including large
portion of the Territories Of Washing
| ton, idaho and Montana. The city is
situated on the west bank of the Villa
mette river, IL miles from its mouth. It
contains population Of about 10000
Inhabitants, is substantially built, has
we'll graded and we'll improved streets,
good wharves' and warehouses, and is
well supplied with water and gas. Ac
cording to the Directory for 1859, there
are in Portland :-44 attorneys, l assay
office, 2 architects, 8 dealers in agricul.
tural Implements, banking houses, 3
dealers in stationary, 9 dealers in boots
and shoes, 6 bakeries. 8 bag factories.
i dealers, crockery dealers, IL tobacco
dealers, 7 drug stores, foundries, 7
furniture dealers, 80 dealers in grocer
les and provisions, hardware stores,
Ia hotels, 8 livery stables, p retail dry
goods stores, 9 wholesale dry goods
stores, 8 produce dealers, 3 daily news
papers, real estate agents, 2 railroad
companies, 6 stove and tinware stores,
wagon and carriage makers and q va
riety Of other business houses-only the
most important being enumerated here.
Et2.The Willamette river is navigable to
Portland, at all seasons, for sea going
vessels. IA. line OF first class ocean
steamships runs regularly between Port
land and San Francisco. making three
trips per month, aud another line com
mpnicates regularly with Victoria, on
Vancouver Island, and the different
towns on Puget Sound.gt Portland, by
means of sailing vessels, enjoys direct
trade with New York, LIVERPOOL, the
Sandwich Islands and China, .affordine
Advantages for the importation of for
eign mereh andise and for the exporta
ton to distant markets of Oregon pro
tduce.a aEadj 90 1saaiD 3a9d sH4 sd
lan4sAccordingr to the Portland Directory
flor 1869, the total value of produce ship
fped from Portland during the year 1865
amounteI to S2,7 sc, 900. The amoun
> Of bullion shipped 10 San Francisco fol
the same period was S3,677,S50. The
market review Of the San Francisco Bull
| ietin gives the following as the ship
ments of produce from Portland to Sa1
| Francisco, Of the articles enumerated
I for the first nine months Of the curren
( year "a pples, 80, l49 boxesr;I butter
sos packages; -four, 400, 72O, sob sacks
Hides, q, z 81 !: salmon, 10, 900 packages
wheat, 81 o 10 sacks wool, 3,ll8 bales
3 Many articles of minor importance ar
not embraced in the list Gsaw alaf g
The trade of Portland with interio
, points on the Columbia anu Willamette
4 rivers engages 1.-The services constantly
of twelve or fifteen river steamers. A!
/ . distributing center, with ccnvenicn
I wharves and warehouses for re sbippin.
and packing, trade radiates in every di
rection. supplying the extensive mining
? agricultural and numbering regions o
] the State and surrounding territories.
"Insa businessspeint Of sview, Portlant
of the present day is the. second city o
impor tance On the Pncific coast. Situa
, ted near theTconfluence of two great riv
ers, and being the only outlet to the SCI
> afforded to the extensive regions drained
by the Columbia and its tributaries, it
, commercial Importance in the future il
not matter of speculation" ,saoa19q
y1F 60 bs1zB31-. $1,000 ---iE .gnos
to Mrs. GA1LoRD is doorskeeper atsdh
Leavenworth, Opera house, .s1stsaelb
} o. Ohio quilt a663 school houses las
I year. The length of the Capitol build
ing is 7ot ieetisflFos 8 .snoisosqzI
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