The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-22

I 5-"7. APIopOS OF peuslOuSy IL viii
call public attention to the present COM
missioner Of pensions, who is striving
10 wipe out the present mode of obtain
ing pensions by creating boards of ex-
animation, whose duty will be to travel
over the country, and at stated places
examine all applicants. It is, of course,
impossible to give details of his pIans
here, but if a more pernicious one can
be invented, we would like to see it.
What guaranty have we that his boards
will not be as corrupt as he insinuates
the present examining surgeons are.
and, as for effeeting a saving, his asser-
tiOns are sheerest humbug. Travelling
boards who are paid large salaries and
all expenses are not at all likely to be
economical institutions.
Murphy still fingers with Us, and
works as hard as in the past, but there
are many back-sliders. Poor human
nature is as weak here as it has ever
been elsewhere, and we fear from what
we have seen that many an earnest re-
pentant Of the past four weeks will be
found hereafter among those who were
unable to hold out to the end. Years
ago Senator Dick Yates would thrill us
with his fiery eloquence when under his
resolutions Of reform, and yet a few
days would find them as bands of straw
and with him again in his cups. His
appetite was too strong, and though his
contrition was an earnest effort for free
dom, yet the chains of bis slavery were
too strong for him to permanently break.
Our board of health are considering
the problem involved in the great death
rate which exists among cur infant col
ored children, and seem unable to effect
a change for the better. They attribute
the alarming mortality to want of proper
care and food. They deny that any
epidemic exists among this class, and
show that did the colored parents give
their babies the same attention which
the whites extend to their children, the
mortality would not be greater among
the one than the other.
The atlas of Colorado, soon to be is
sued by the United States Geological
Survey Of the Territories, under Profess
sor F. V. Hayden, embodies the results
of the geological and geographical work
of the survey during the years from 1873
to 1876, inclusive. This atlas will con-
tain the following maps:
1st. a general drainage map of Colo
RADIO on scale of twelve miles to the
inch.
/ ID. An economic map Of the same
region, having at its basis the above
mentioned drainage map. This map
viii indicate the areas of arabic pasture,
timber, coal, mineral, aud desert lard,
=" ss s-aat details as possible on the
scale.
81. A general geological map on
which the areas, covered by the princi-
pal formations, will be shown. The
drainage map will form the basis for
this also.
4th. A map showing the scheme of
the primary triangulatiOn in the State.
Scale, twelve miles to the inch.
5th. Six typographical sheets show
ing the same area as that covered by
the general drainage map, but ia much
more detail. The scale of these sheets
is four miles to an inch. The relief OF
the country is indicated by contour
lines, at vertical intervals Of two hund
red feet. The area covered by each OF
these sheets is Il, 500 square miles.
9Th. Six geographical sheets, ofwhich
the basisare the six typographical sheets
just mentioned. On these the detailed
geology is expressed by colors.
With the appearance of this map,
Colorado will be better known, topo.
graphically and geologically, than any
other State. FELIX.
Washington, d. c., February p, 1878
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