The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-03-10
coRRE sPorT DEr1CE


called names in the article which
elicits this letter, would net have in.
duced mo to trouble you with it, for
two reasons First, / freely admit the
Otegonian "owed me one" for tho un.
varnished character ] gave it in the ro-
Gently published book, "Two Yesrs in
Oregon" TO which The articles frequent
ly alludes; and, second, because / have
vivid remembrance Of tho amenities
which passed between Mr. J. Nipple
Mitchell and Mr.. Harvey W. Scott
some short timo ago, when those gen
tlemon indnlged in personal controversy
Of the baser sort, and I haye no desire
10 bc led into like position; and If
New York were little nearer in point
Of time, | would have left Col. Hogg to
take up the cudgols, If ho felt inclined
10 do 80.
Still, though am not either tho
attorney" or the resident manager Of
the Oregon Pacific" yet, as FOR vice
president Of that road year and more
past, It's interests Gro TO some extent
committed 10 ME. Therefore, since
tho article in the Sunday Oregoufan
may do some harm unless It's mis-htats-
nenis aro exposed, ] trouble you wit b
this letter
Tho Sunday Oregonian MAKES itHolf
responsible for the following assertions
Il will try to answer, but not 70 dis
tort, them:
|. That the steamer l'aqiGaa, 4 good
model, and "well powered az to her
machinery" where did he learn his
Englisbl') and "thus equipped with
fuel and stores" q did not suppose that
"modsl," "power' or machinery"
were properly described ss either ''fuel"
OF "stofes," but we live and learn, lsft
Portland for Ya1uina Bay On tho 18Th
Of January, and arrived or Yaquira
bar two days later, having laid over
one night in Astoria. That shc lay oil
Yaquina bar with fires banked and
steam up ioi 81. idgs, finding tho bar
80 rough that il was impossible to
enter the harbor; that she then return
ed TO Astoria and "lay" there til the
south westerly wAa.Lor was ended, n=d
then taking in moro fuel, started cut
landed her cargo at Yaquina, largo
portion being freight for the 0. T. II. r..
That Capt. Denny, being interviewed
in Astoria by an AstoSiaa reporter,
gavo as .he reason for hia inability to
enter the port Of Iaquina, that she
water on the bar was too shallow, aud
broke in depth Of fourteen feet az high
tide. This last Statement, tho Oregon
idn says, is type Jcyosid question.
Now for facss; Tho Ya7aiaa left
Astoria on Friday; was of Seal Rocks,
eight miles south Of HaqGina, on Sun
day morning early; steamed up sppo-
site tho bar a. high water, not fAr from
nine o'clock, and Immediately went
off out Of sight to The north and west.
On Monday morning ot / o'clock she
was away OF to the north and west Of
Cape Foulwealber, 50 far or ihnt Il was
q matter Of dSub. if il were the Yaquina
or .hc Tillamook schocner, though
pretty good glasses = ere directed at her
from the lighthouse point at Yaquina.
By noon on Monday she was out Of
sight, and, by Tuesday morning shs
was back at Astoria. So much for IT,.
ing of Iaquina for six days uaablc 70
enter.
The bar at 1aquina on Sunday morn
ing was not nearly 80 rough as the
Columbia bar on Tuesday. So sag the
Yaq,tina's passengers. When rho was
of the bar on Sunday the tide gauge
at Newport, set up BY tbe y. $. la
gineers, showed 20 feet Of water on the
bar A. high tide on Monday the bar
was quite smooth, aud it was in like
case ON Tuesday aud "Wednesday. All
this does not rest on my mero state
msnts, but can be dsaosed 10, if nee
essary. by a. least fifteen witnesses.
2. pass by the account Of my cor
respondence with M.. Hatch, tho own
or Of the Iaquiaa, because, though
grossly missiated, il has no public
interest.
!. 3. But tho Orsyonian goes on to say
that tho real rea1on for my "outbnrst
Of senselesS churlishness" was because
the "ncgotiators of tho Oregon Pacific
bonds bad Asated tho same in Wall
street upon the statement that Yaqaina
bar had an average depth Ct 81 feet Of
water at low tide, which is just two
feet deeper thaz San Francisco" Now,
the writer of this statement was either
utterly ignorent ofwhat he was ritins
about, or elso he-well, suppose we
say, nisstated. The published circular
Of the Oregon Pacific is before me,
giving the depth on the bar as ."about
Is feet at high tide and it is on the
basis Of this that Col. IIsgg is now, as
is well known, working at Washing
ton to try to get a faYo,able re-
sponse from Congress- TO tho pray
or of tho Oregon Leeisla.6re Of
Of 1880 for an appropriation Of $780,
600 for tho Yaquina Improvement.
4. Again, tho oregonian has the
good taste and wit TO assert that
Colonel T. Edgerton Hogg and Mr..
Nash are floating their "untamed fs-
line" stock on tho Now York market,
on the representation that Yaquina bar
has 81 feet at low tido-and the
Oregonian thon asks why tho steamers
with our steel rails did not 90 direct to
Ysquina instead OF trans shipping at
San Francisco .
AS Yaquina was not then n port Of
entry, Col. Hogg could not have had
the rails landed there when they ar
rived on this coast. AS to tho 'un-
tanned feline" epithet, the people Of
Oregon know best where they apply,
and can Judge for themselves of the
kind of opposition through which the