The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-04-07
STILL THE "OREGONI.AN.

If the s'Oreg6nian' would let the Oregon
Pacific Railroad alcre We can assure our
readers that we would do the same. Why
this railroad, its undertaking and managers
should be day by day set up as target for
the heavy, very heavy, artillery of Mr.
Harvey Scott in the Daily Oreyonian, and
every week also for the light, very light.
popgun practice Of the Sunday Oreyoniua, it
is hard to see, except on the paid to do it
theory, OF the two styles we prefer MIR
Scott's. We suppose he keeps the man OF
the Sunday Oregonian, like the fool
who used to be necessary of life in high
toned families before reading and writing
had become common accomplishments, to
enliven him up, and by shaking his cap and
bells every now and again, to make him
smile and keep from souring what little re
sidue of the milk of human kindness John
H. Mitchell has left in him. Curious taste
in wit though the Daily Oregonian must
have to suppose the stuff OF the Sunday
0regonian has life enough in it to keep till
Monday; and be dug up again and worth
cooking a second time. This last Monday
We read i'll a reprint that ''in or wears
time Portland viii have population of
100000; but that the Albany and Corvallis
journals consider that Portland ought to be
removed from its present site and trans
ferred to Yaquina Bay" and t.l.t Captain
Eads is to be asked to transfer his ship rail
way to, I aquina Bay, where it is to be laid
down over the bar so that vessels may
enter" These Portland writers find much
IN the Albany and Corvallis papers which
is in every sense news to us ''up the
Valley Speaking only for the Corvallis
GAZETTE we have not the slightest wish to
see Portland transferred to Yaquina Buy.
We do not love her enough. By all means
let her go on growing up like Jonah's 9ourd,
in one night If she can, till she becomes
really pleasant and suifcing shelter for the
cursing prophet of the OreJonjGR. No
one here will lay a finger to stop her. She
is perfectly welcome to every particle of
nourishment she can absorb. 1t is Jonah's
look out, not ours, that his shelter, should
last. Only we may be excused from shar-
ing all his pride and vainglory in his bower.
Bat is not the ship-railway allusion little
out of place as applied to Yaquina? That
bar is not quite wide enough for a clear run:
one decent sized ship on it would have
her jib- boom in the bay and her stern Win
dows in the Pacific ocean. Possibly the
railway might do somewhat better in the
Portland river If it is little premature
to ask Captain Eads to come out to oregon
this year perhaps the Oregoaian can say
exactly h.w long it will take to ':silt up
that that is the favorite expression of the
''leadiug journal''l the Willamette and
Columl,it.
One thing is sure, and that is that the
editor of the 0,sJoaiaa is no Scotchman, or
he would have been earlier taught the folly
of crying sinking fish, The Albany and
Corvallis journals sent their appeals to Con-
gress on the proper basis--namely this, We
have good harbor, help us to improve it.
1t was left to the OregoRiGR in its wisdom
to try the opposite ground, and to say in
effect-our city of Portland stands on
river which ''silting up" and neglect to-
gether will by degrees render unusable and
impossible for ships, but that is not our
lookout. .'Capital is concentrated here.
and you, producers of Oregon, shall send
your stuff here, to be taxed, and l:ghtered,
and trans shipped for all time. True, the
Columbia bar is dangerous. True. the pi-
lotage and towage charges are enormous.
True, steamer can get up to Portland by
blowing through the mud, but sailing ships
have not bottoms strong enough to stand
the rub. True, Portland may soon cease to
be a seaport at all. Therefore, says the
Oregonian- we all, and the shipowners,
of all countries, listen-cry out. you pro-
ducers, you graagers, you tillers OF the
soil; force your representatives to wiring |.