The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-11-04

praise for Col. Hogg. he deserves the
highest place among those whom you love
to honor. By manly courage, devotion to
your interests, and untiring zeal. he has siic-
ceeded where success seemed impossible.
Yon have the priviledge Of enjoying with
him the fruits If victory, for many of you
gave both money and time freely, and now
while enthusiasm is at high tide, would it
not he well to prepare for the war certain to
be continued and give the general that has
thus far so ably conducted the campaign an
evidence uf your faith and candid support
by subscribing to the harbor fund. You
| keenly realize the strength and unscrupu-
lous character Of the enemy and must feel
the necessity of furnishing every possible
argument to receive farther recognition from
Congress.
Newport. Oct. %, 1882.
After which Col Hogs was introduced by
the President which was the occasion OF
another burst of enthusiastic applause; after
which the Colonel spoke as follows:
Gentlemen, Lasl;es, Felloao Citizens:
If there was lacking one element to testi-
fly to the cordiality of my greeting, it is
found in this crowded room upon such
temPestuous niTht. As came down the
street and into the hall to meet this throng,
| felt almost ashamed to see SO many ladies'
venturing from their homes on such night.
lassure you that the compliment you have
paid me- in meeting me here tonight. is fully
appreciated. i feel however, that you are
here as well to testify to the cencientious-
ness of your efforts as we'll as mine in ei-
deavoring to briBg about those conditions
which we are here to night to pass onr con-
grfulatipns upon one with another. A brief
year ago left you for the purpose of at an
| early day putting into active force plans
and purposes which we believed then to be
secure OF accomplishments.
But YOU did not reckon on the enmity and
force of the fnes of the central portion of the
state, of the Industrial portion, and their
determination that we should not (if i'll their
power to prevent it, carry forward our
plans for the development of the resources of
the st.te, and take your crops away and
bring to your doors the means OF reaplng the
profits of your praduce and business Their
long and persevering opposition was met till
it seemed at times that their success was
about to overthrow our schemes. But a
divinity preSitles; determined that circum-
stances shall not override justice, industry
aid persevering effort. You at home sent
| greetings to me in the east, you were Of
great service to ME in many things, you
gave ME courage by counsel and I have
Stlltcu w lCdAiLC ~ you 1oui H'pSo "hh Soi II
your good opinion But am not here to
make a speech but simply to tell you what
has been done and whit we intend to do.
All the opposition against our financial ar
ragements have been overthrown. The
means necessary to con -trfct the Oregon
| Pacific r lilway from Yaquina bay to the
eastern part of our state AMI thence to Boise
City have Ipeen secured, and we all hope
| the result will he speedy construction of
tl'e same [Applause:
The very opposition that we met with and
which at times seemed to he ov verwhelming,
called the attention of those who were seek
ing inv stsnents to eur project and thus the
perse.ering effort to defeat us was the best
| argument that our enterprise was good. We
| are tonight prepared tn say (and we believe
that facts will lear the assertion,) that be-
| fore the close of another twelve months the
Ore ron Pacific road will be built from va.
quina bay to point east of the Cascade
! fountains. Applause.
1t has been said that when our line from
Yaquina bay into the Willamette valley is
! completed, or roal will be starved tofeath
| by the roads traversing the valley north and
south. Oar response is that whether the
! lines running north AMI south give us one
ton of freight or not, are independent of
them After we shall have completed our
road to the valley it is our intention to
place stean targes upon the Willamette
river to ,lr;tw freight to us. Freights can
| he taken from the banks of Gods highway,
the river. and il requires no railroad to draw
| freight down that stream. When we shall
| have extended onr lines from east of the
Cascades up to tie Columbia river, upon
| that stream we will also place steam barges
| ani draw freiyh from north anil south on
| the Columbia AMI Snake rivers. But our
| immediat. work is the grand trunk line
| through to join hanls with those building
| to meet us at Boise City, and promise yon
| now that within two years and n haf we
will have the work completed, and by join
| igg with eastern companies will make a
| grand trunk line through from the east to
| Yaauina bay Tn behalf of that line we
| promise YOU, because the, people have a
ri 1ht to the promise, that this road shall
reap no advantage in watered stocks, that
| there shall be no mutations of stock neces.
sary to consume large earnings. We prom
| ise that it shall not cost a bushel of wheat
| to market bushel, and we ask no favors if
we do not carry as cheaply as any other line
of transportation. The Oregon Pacific line
| by its connections eastward from Boise
| City will be shorter than any of the trunk
hundred miles. If you will examine the
| line from Chicago. ~
Railroads may be built whenever there
is money to build them but they should
be built upon common sense principles
where they may earn fair return upon
| money invested and can be instrumental in
developing country. We had intended
to have pushed our line east from Yaquina
bay into the valley of the Willamette before
| the close of the present year, but the ele-
| ments over which we have no control have
compelled MS somewhat to modify our plans.
| Railroads may he built under any circum-
stances if money is to be squandered upon
| thers. but if lines are to he ,bnilt with econo.
my they must be constructed with reason
able regard to outlay OF money Early
/, winter will necessarily ly.5s COMPEL us t.
withdraw a great many men from our grades
! but our deep cuts. our saYmills, wharves,
warehouses and all other work which is
bsolutey necessary for. the speady con.
| struction of the road will progress without
| interruption. We are in siulil,r position tc
an army going into winter quarters to pre-
pre- for the spring campaign. Another
difficulty has been1in our way, all eastern
factories are crow lei with orders at high
pressure r,tes It is next to impossible t,
| get any thing for immediate delivery unless
is has been ordered twelve months in ad
vance. Our locomotives have been secured
and some of them are coming across t! 4
continent now; other portions of our mater
ial are being transported te us via Panam;
| ard that route will be open to US all winter
All the steel rails for the western section
fran1 Yaqnina bay TO make connection witt
the Oregon and California road have beeI
pur hased and shipped by steamers in thre
ships The first the Finchley, the secont