The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1873-01-24
N0TEs FROM OREGON.

Ihere Is no AGRICULTURAL p'tIt VI uio
State Of Oregon making more prog
ress than Linn county. 1t Is forty
miles long by $50 broad, and includes
one Of the finest prairies In the Will
lamete Valley. The great wants of
Oregon are the completion OF the Ore
gon and California Railroad, the
Northern Pacific Railway, and line
At ships to New York and Liverpool.
The two former win bring in numer-
ous emigrants and settlers at moderate
expense; the two latter viii take away
the surplus produce to markets, which
will give the producers full advantage
of0pen markets and fair competition.
The first railroad win probably be fin
ished IN three years; the Northern
Pacific Railroad Is almost snre to be
completed In five years, and lines Of
ships to New York and Liverpool.
controlled by Portland merchants. will
be running by the time the latter rail-
I road reaches the Columbia River by
way Of the Blue mountains. Then
Oregon In her agricultural and COM
meWial resources and enterprises may
be said to be truly emancipated from
her tFammels. With this new life a
fresh and vigorous impulse will be Civ
EN- to all her varied industries and vast
resources of agriculture. manntactur-
ing. numbering, fishing and mining
interests.
THE ALBANY AND sANTIAM CANAL
Now being built. IL a sample Of what
is In store for the county Of Linn and
Oregon generally. This company was
incorporated only a few months since,
with a capital Of $50. 600: itcommenc-
!, ed work on the 9Th Of Octoberand will
have all the deep cutting completed III
January and the canal finished in a
year. The design of tile canal Is to I
bring the water from the sonth branch
of the Santiam river to Albany. n dis
lance of Twelve miles. The cutting
from the river for more than n mile Is
an average Of fifteen feet deep :twen-
ty feet willie at the bottom and fiftv
feet wide atthe tnp. This emitting will
cost $4,000. The balance on the
canal win he through an open priarie
ten miles. the cutting of which will
not require to be deeper than f0nr feet
and will cost from $500 to $1,000 a
mile. the tall from the Santiam river
to Albany is hundred feet and will |
require two locks on the line tn con
trol the water. The first and primary
object Of the canal Is to afford an ample
water power for all kinds of manufac-
turing purposes. 20 as t0make Albany
a great centre of manufacturing inter-
ests a. distinguished for It's wooden. |
agricultural and other manufactures a.
1t Is for its superior -four. The canal |
will supply at IT. completion at least |
water power for nine mills. witha fall |
for each varying from nine to twenty |
feet. The wat,r-pnwercn be extend
ed togpat proportions. Thedimcfors
do not intend to commit the common
hlunder Of asking too much for water
sites and the water-power OH the COR
trary. every facility will Ie offered tn
encourage the Investment Of capitalhv
manufacturers from all Irarts az the
United States and Europe. Mopt than
100000 bushels N wheat were slipped |
from Albany last year and at least | :
100000 fFnm the comfy at different
points between Albany aid Harris
burg. In less than ten wears fro,n
this, Linn county will produce 4, ,0GlO.- 1
900 nnshels 0f wheat. for the half If |
the wheat soil il lying comparatively |
idle ut present. and the ayerage bro
duction can and will he lIonbletl in that
time.
The canal viii be GyaiIaIlIe for tloaf
ing down logs and conveying timber
and lumber from the spIenlid forests
Of the Ca scades thar lIlle the banks Of
the Santiam. OH ita way from Mouin
jefferson. To supply the wants ot tir
farmers Of this lichaiMlmproYIne dis
triet Of country. and the vast aIm
growing denIandfor lnmberat Albany. |
THE DISCOVERY On COAL.
On tIla SoiIth F0rk IN flta gantiatn