The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-02-21


tion on the 18th Of March.
The medical class at the Willamette
University numbers eighteen students.
Clackamas county has 30 road dis
tricts and untold miles of rugged roads.
The Daily Statesman has been award
ed the city printing at Salem for one
year.
A number of business men Of Salem
have decided to form a Wharf Com
pany.
The lumber used in rebuilding the
woolen mills at Oregon City is TO 90
from this city.
The contractor has broken ground for
the erection of the new NJ. +. Church
South, at Salem.
1t has been said that the rebuilding of
the Oregon City Woolen Mills will be
begun this week.
The First Congregational Church at
Junction is putting up handsome edi-
flee for public worship.
The State University fund in the
hands Of the Board of School Commits
sioners is stated at S49,6SS 81, coin.
The spring clipof wool in Jackson and
Josephine counties promises well, the
winter having so far been very favora-
bic for sheep.
A convention Of Liun county farmers
will meet at Albany, March sth. They
talk of Z joint-stock company and a
warehouse at Astoria.
Fall wheat up the valley is growing
hnely and never looked better There
was a much greater breadth of land
sown in wheat last fall than ever before
in the State.
A Roseburg paper says that lumber is
in great demand and brings a round
price. Many new dwellings are in
course Of erection, and sidewalks are be-
ing laid by the mile.
a gentleman who has been exploring
the Southeastern part Of our state says
there are several valleys in that section
where thousands of families can find
pleasant homes, where sickness is hardly
known, and crops are never known to
fail.
a report from jackson states that per-
sons at a distance can have 10 idea of
the intensity Of the feeling there against
the Peace Commission policy. The peo-
pie there insist on the punishment of
the Indians who murdered their neigh
bors.
Yamhill county farmers are forming
an association which they call the Ore
gon Farmers League. It's object is to
render its members more efficient culti-
vators of the soil and raisers Of stock,
and to secure fair and equitable prices
for the production Of fields or flocks.
Business was transacted at the Land
Office - Oregon City, during the month
-of~s -tary as follows: y cash entries,
covering S22,6 acres; 15 homestead en-
tries, 1,4S2, Sc acres; : final homesteads,
l,Ol6,64 acres. Total, 17,7O9,11 acres.
Homestead patents received to No. 292.
The Salem Statesman understands
that the prospective opposition company
on the Willamette are making direct
propositions to the people at the several
warehouses and shipping towns, to
carry freight at reduced rates in case
they can make engagements with ship
pers for a stipulated length of time. At
somC Of the points along the river these
propositio have stirred up quite a
commotion, and we hear that public
meetings are TO be held to consider the
matter.
The town Of Forest Grove is improy-
ing very rapidly. Quite a number of
new residences have been erected, and
several others are soon to become re-
newed. The Trustees of the University
expect to be able before a great length
Of time to proceed with the new Col
lege building. The institution is more
prosperous than ever before. Business
in the village is comparatively active.
The place has grown more within the
last year, we are informed, than in any
previous year since its foundation.
The Statesman Of last Sunday has the
following weather item: yesterday, in
respect of weather, was the most re-
markable day Of the Winter. With the
exception that it did not freeze, there
was every style Of weather ever expe-
rienced in this world, or in any other,
so far as heard from. The sun shone al
most fierceIy several times; the zephyrs
were balmy half a dozen times; the
gales were stiff, cold and raw as ofteni
it hailed twice; rained 4 dozen times;
sleeted three times; there were half
dozen dead calms, without either sun
shine, wind or mist; and finally the day
wound up with a succession of snow
SQUALLS, with nOndescript interludes. II
was a day worthy to be put down in the
almanac"
The Corvallis Gazette, in an article on
Farmers Clubs" says: When the
farmer can realize fair price for his
produce, money is plenty and times are
good. If wheat had been seventy-five
or eighty cents at last harvest, las it
would have been but for a combination
among speculatOrs), and other products
in proportion, there would be no cry of
"hard times" now in Oregon. Specula-
tors combined against the farmers of