The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-20
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

season of the year the very rocks are RI
oting in wilderness of green. Laugh
ing rivulets go rippling through mossy
roadbeds, or, widening in the low places,
lay asleep in silvery lakelets in which
little children play. White clover,
kept eaten by the happy cows as short
and crisp as fresh-mown grass, perfumes
the air with passing sweets. Ferns, as
luxuriant as feathery, droop low over
the lichens that face the overhanging
rocks which guard the brow of the
mighty cliffs as they lift their gray
heads heavenward.
Mount any one of the several rows of
winding steps that lead from the narrow
plain en- the riverside, where the busi-
ness part of the little city fourishes,
and you will be rewarded by view of
weird magnificence.
The roaring falls, as white as new
born snow, and as restless as a rolling !
weather beach, keep up for aye the |
ceaseless monotone of the Eternal, while |
mountains, purple as twilight and green
as emeralds, gaze solemnly upon the
scene with the same silent majesty of
demeanor with which they listened
when first they heard the morning stars
as they sang together in the mystic
shades of the long ago.
After a while you get accustomed to
the distant roar of the waters, and then
you hear the echo of the hammer, the
buzz of the saw, the rumble of the fac
tory, the rattle of wheels, the ripping
of laughter, and the din of the dinner
whistle. Now the Chinamen swarm
from the factory in drove, like so
many hogs. They are on their way to
the "mess-house.n Girls and older
women perch themselves in the win
dows of the great building for taste of
the delicious air that fans their cheeks
and fills their breath with invigorating
gladness. The men who were wading,
breast deep, moment ago, in the waters
of the "basin," where important i'm
provements are going on, climb from
their watery surroundings to the ada
cent banks and HE away to the noon
tide meal.
Now look around you, and behold an
other and nearer prospect. The peace
full town, under the bluff, raises its
church spires in such a manner as to
throw their shadows across the doors of
groggeries, as in many places more pre-
tonffa,,g White nd hara M
there a considerable mansion, sit costly
among trees and gardens. Little shops,
in which tidy women do deft work in
feminine apparel, dot the edge of the
sidewalk at intervals. Stores, abound
ing in everything in the commercial
line from a cambria needle to the mate
rials for a wooden factory, are flanked by
groeers' supplies upon the one hand and
hotels upon theother. Lawyers abound,
and the usual quota of county, State,
and Federal officers are serene and gen.
ial as is their wont. The oldest mer-
camille establishment in Oregon flour
Esq, which began its existence a quar-
ter of century ago under the firm
, name of Chairman & Warner. Mr.
Warner long since exchanged the yard
stick for the plow handle, and is one o.
the most successful farmers of the
9 county, while Mr.. Chairman goes or
with the old business, which, years ago
assumed gigantic proportions. The En-
@ terpri8e, a weekly journal under the
, management of Mr.. Dement,, is in {
y healthy and growing condition. The
: Cliff House, a well-kept hotel under tht
o supervision of Mr.. Rhodes, is driving {
thriving trade. Our old friend, J. NJ
! Bacon, Esq, has changed his head
, quarters to a more commodious build
y ing. Ed. Fellows has given up steam
9 boating for a grocer's business, in which
9 his good wife takes acceptable part
q The Jacobs brothers have sold their ele
CANT mansion to T. Chairman. Carey
!, johnson has built palatial residencr
, on the hill, and many other changes
~ more or less notable, attract US, not tht
q least of which is new literary venture
q entitled, "The Wooer of the Molalla, o
q the Conquest of Mary Ann" said by ex
perts to be the offspring of the genius o
our esteemed friend Charlie Church. I
4 is believed that the publication of thi
: venture in the columns of the Enterpris
q will add materially to the already larg
Is subscription list of that ably conducted
hebdOmadal.
\ After a pleasant and profitable season
! of distributing copies of "David ant
= Anna Matson" and recruiting for tn
3 Journal of Peace, the undersigned lef
Oregon City on the afternoon of the I2tl
y and strolled along the river margin t
= Cauemah; the walk of a mile, betweel
= the towering bluff upon one hand AM
the CLASSY waters of the Willamett
upon the other, setting the July sun t.
beating and beaming upon our corpor
osity, till, by the time our destination
was reached, our adipose tissue was in
u condition bordering on that of melte
J. butter. We had splendid view of th
d Locks, during the walk, with steame
l. going through, but couldn't stop to ad
ii mire lest we'd flatten out on the blister
e ing sidewalk like heated cake of NUT
II ton toIIou Ruf OOOd NTrc Elliot al