The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-01-16
IMPoRTANT CORRESPONDENCE.

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Mrs. 4. j. Duniir0y:-I enclose you
copy of q letter from a gentleman in
Dundee, Scotland. l also send you a
copy of the Dundee Advertiser of Octo-
Der 80, on the last page of which are two
letters relative to Oregon. You will see
by the enclosed letter what the gentle
man desires, and as the people of Port
land can answer the statements relative
to Portland better than l can, would
thank you to publish this correspond
ence in your paper. And also would
you be kind enough to have an item
inserted in the same or next issue briefly
answering the allegations in Mr.. Kidd's
letter, and neither going over or under
the truth, and have the names of several
well known gentlemen attached TO 1t
who were in Portland all the winter OF
1s7l-2.
! | was born only n few miles from
Dundee, and I would be very glad to
aid in any way in getting some of my
countrymen and women to this coast
where they can do so much better than
they can at home; but would not will
/ fully make q Misrepresentation, as it
would injure instead of aiding us. What
we need to build up both Oregon and
| Washington is capital and labor, and
both can be obtained not only from
Scotland, but from other parts of Europe,
by simply posting the right class of
people on the nature of our soil, climate
and resources. l will answer for Wash
ington, please to aid me in the Portland
question.
With kind regards, am respectfully
yours, EDWARD ELDERIDGE.
WHATCOM, w. T., January 4, 1874.
The following is the letter referred to:
OFFICE OF rHE CoSsuLArE or THE UxITED)
November p, lS5l
Hon. Eti,cdrd EldridJo:-You letter
with the enclosures are very interesting.
My Directors OF the Oregon and Wash
ington First Investment Company (of
which Company the Earle Of Airlie is
President, and | am Secretary read
them with interest. Mr. Leng, the edi-
tor Of the Dundee AdreTtiser, who is also
a director, desires me to say that he will
send you his paper once week, while
] will with pleasure send you q Dundee
paper once or twice week. VIII you
send me an article from your pen, de-
scriptive Of the country, its wants, ETC.,
etc, so that Mr.. Leng may publish it in
the Adrcrtbcr!
send you a newspaper with an arti-
Gle against Oregon. / answered it, de-
Tending it against an alleged forty-five
days consecutive rain. Is it really
true ? VIII you, if you can find that it
did not rain night and day for forty-five
days, send me q denial of the allegation
and get some ten or fifteen gentlemen to
add their names. My object is to take
away the damaging effects stated
therein. In this county and Fifeshire
many are looking with interest to your
} country. But if It is the case, as stated
by Mr. Kidd, that all agricultural and
mechanical ioutside) labor is wholly
suspended from November to May, /
must say it will very much damage the
future Of your country. OF course it is
not true, bat / wish you TO dwell most
= particularly on this latter subJeet-al-
legged suspension of labor from Novem-
ber to May-and, If it is untrue, please
get the signatures Of ten to twenty en-
ployers of labor in Washington Terri
tory denying the allegation. AS / am
to publish your answer, both as to the
country, rain, labor and its wants, etc.,
be careful what you write. Please make
your article on the rain and suspension
of labor a separate article from the other
matter, and get it signed. I am told
that Washington Territory is even more
wet than Oregon in winter, but less
rain in summer.
may mention that | intend going
out to Oregon and Washington ON a
visit in the spring of next year, in the
interest and at the request of my direc-
tors, and I should be glad to have a
meeting with you. Our Company loans
money to the extent Of one-third value
of lands on occupied farms in Oregon
and Washington Territory.
Thanking you for your very interest
ing letter, and hoping TO be of service
to you, am yours truly,
WILLIAM REID.