The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-03-12
Ynqulna Bay Bar.


We refer to this matter of the Improve
ment Of Yaquina bar again, because we
feel deep and abiding interest in the vel
fare of the people of Linn and adjacent
counties whom It more Immediately effects.
We are entitled to Government aid in this
matter; we demand it as our right, as
Americans and a law abiding people.
While millions, upon millions have been
poured out OF the national treasury to inl-
prove the mouths of the Mississippi river,
and the various harbors on the Atlantic
coast, by which great and pOpulous cities
and States have grown and fiourished in
wealth and splc,sslor, and are still adding
to their riches and greatness, we of the
North Pacific have been left to get along
as best we may, While we have q nIagnit-
icent country, the equal OF any on which
the sunlight tails; while we have natural
advantages unsurpassed by none AMI equal
ed by few, yet we are poor in purse and
need the fostering care of the General
Government TO aid us III attaining onr full
growth. Oregon is yet in her swaddiing
clothes, and being go far away from the
head OF Government she has failed to re-
cefve the attention her rmerits demanded
yet she has grown and fiourisl.ed alone by
her Inherent strength and the riches of her
soil. To more rapid aud fuller develop
Incnt, and to the end that others may be
enabled to come and partake OF the bless
ings of our heaven-favored land, we ask of
Congress small appropriation to enable
our coast line. We ask an appropriation
sufficient to enable us to remove the ob-
strnctiOns, or bar. at the mouth OF Yaqui-
ma Bay We do not ask OF Congress money
for the benefit of one man or a corporation,
but for tire benefit of entire communities,
Of whole State. We are opening up
highway that will enable us to cheaply
transport our products to the marts of the
world, thus enhancing the value of our
lands, inducing emigration and capital,
the two great wants of our State, without
which our growth will be slow and the
development of our vast resources indifl-
nitely retarded.
Our Government has not been slow TO
extend aid for the improvement of other
channels looking to the widening and ex
tending the commerce of various points i'll
the older settled portions of the Union.
For these purposes money has been poured
out of the general funds with no stinted
hand, and rightly, too but while the
Government is thus building up and in
creasing the strength and wealth of her
Eastern border, she should not forget that
country, rich in soil, in minerals, in vast
forests of the fiuest timber in the world, in
fact a country unsurpassed on the habita-
bic globe in everything that aids in build
ing up and maintaining grand civiliza-
tion, that needs but little fostering care
now in ifs youth to make it grow and swell
into the granG proportions Of an empire
in the coming years.
We ask of the General Government .
small appropriation to enable lis to open a
harbor, shipping mart, where the naTies
of the world may come in and depart at
any season, in storm or sunshine har-
Dor that will never be obstrtFcted with ice
where shipping will not be delayed from
entering or from sa ling out Upon the ocean
by storms or any otlier Iiindranee; a har-
Dor which will be accessible at all seasons
of the year for the products of the William
ette Valley and Eastern Oregon, at low
rates Of freight, and where the piIotage, |
towage, ETC., will not be so exhorbitant as
to practically eat up half the value of the
produce where competing lines of rail
way will at once be built. thus insuring
the lowest rates of freight from the valley
TO tide water, all of which will inure di-
rectIy to the benefit of the farmer. the pro-
hope and stay of the Nation.
We ask the servants of the people to lay
asi,le their political differences for time,
and attend to the real wants of the country.
Let them dispassionately consider the vast
Interests involved in this matter. and as
sensible legislators there will be no hesi-
fancy in granting the appropriation asked
FOT.