Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-03-08
Letter from Oregon.
PORTLAND. OREGON, Feb. 10.

way to the Atlantic seaboard, within
the past year, by the great overland
railway, and in whatever else they
differ as to what they have seen or
heard in the various sections they
have visited or tarried, they all unite
in saying that in nothing was their
pride of home more wounded or their
ideas of the geographical intelligence
of their countrymen on that side more
at fault than in matters and intorma
tion concerning Oregon. Scarcely
anywhere did any of them meet peo
pie who know of the geographical TO-
cation of this State or its notable fea-
lures, either as to natural resources
or that which the labor and enter
prise and skill Of man has developed.
Even in New England, so boosted for
the enlightenment Of its masses, almost
nothing seems to be known of Oregon,
save it be apocryphal scraps derived
from poets, or the very imperfect
sketchings of that class Of fashionable
tourists who care more for the har-
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f,I ron,din,. ofno.;aa, al tho5.uno
fond 70 SLotob thoo for f,o.. rooIit;os
o,d tho noins +obinor oorros+ ;ntou;
ocnt dissertations oftbc country tbropob
which they have nosscd Theirs NAV
VOL he tcrrod uhird..o,o Vows - IN
asmncb ~ the writors onnoar onIv to
boro Skinned ovo. ,ho land without
ever aIigbting from the vino 70 min.
ole with the Inhabitants to learn oe
the trade bnsinoss and labor indrs.
tries. or Of the resources and wants
and what has been done toward the
DEVELOPMENT Of the one or the sun.
plying ofthe other. Yet New Eng
land forms no execution to the rule
North and South East and West the
same want of information concerning
Oregon was discovered Even in hi.
pois Iowa and Missouri from which
States the great majority Of the nio.
neor settlers Of tho vilds of OREGON
emiorated there anncars to he unite
a. mpcb icroronco oftbo country %
:, otbor nor,iors from rboroo ,boro
hoe hoor littIo ave., or,; rrotio, l;,hor
IN Wow Of this coodiIior or tbircy
On vopr side Of rho continent norbons
# will NOT be doomed inornro,,rioto
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tent a wealth Of resources nor ovcou
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bnildinu for lumber and for incl anc
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perpetual snow-as Bierstadt's Noun
Hood" orandlv +, lis the world. Sh,
| has rich mines of roId-DIacer auC
! quartz and also Of iron and conner
and great coal beds-somc abroad,
deveIoped which have been proftabl,
worked for fen Years mast And :,
has she as fertile and nroIifc farmin,
lands and as lpvrrions rrazirc foId
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