Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-07-26
: rrip 10 r,c,or,a ana Portland.

" our 'ow,men and friends have mad, The vny-
aye 20 san Francisco in the fne new steam.
ship, Alameda and Mariposa that il seem, IN.
necessary to say anything about this portion
Of the trip eNcep, that il your good fortune
should have happened to place YOU upon the
Alameda IN the charge oi Captain Morse,
you will have learned thoroughly how the
troubles and worries Of sea life can be
ameloratcd and softened by the couresies and
attentions Of faithful and cdieien, officers. II
IS to Captain Morse the writer owes the pleas
ure Of the Victorian part OF the trip.
We left san Francisco roth July by the |
steamer Mexico, Captain Huntington, for Vic.
tora with los cabin passengers and % Storage, |
besides $50 Cinnamon who had come on board !
from the steamer roko The voyage up was
unusually pleasant, the rough Northwest winds /
and heavy seas which may ordinarily he ex
pected upon this coast had subsidized into
smooth water and ligh, hrcezes so that the
/ time passed quickly away until the third NOR.
/ ming at daylight, which in these attitudes was
three o'clock NJ. when we found ourselves in
the Straits Of Fuca, and at a. NJ were OFF
the wharf at the outer harbor OF Victoria await
ing the arrival Of the health officer He came
oil very shortly and gave us the startling inform
alton that after we had left san Francisco n
case Of small pox had been found upon the
Toxic and as our $50 Cinnamon had been ex-
posed 10 it, we must all go into close quaran.
entine for twenty.one days, The news was
startling 1t is quite different matter to be
+ ashox, Tree, and being confined with $50 9TH
els upon ship where there was probability
Of being exposed to a loathsome disease and an
equal probability II the disease did break out
that goodly number Of our company must
: die, aid very possibly you or ! to be one Of
them Such thoughts run rapidly through
ones mind, and it was not undressing to
watch how diheren, parties gave expression
TO their feeling. One lady said. " will not
remain on board, | have money and friends
Of influence and will not stop Several
others OF the ladies began to cry bitterly. The
! expressions from the men generally were that
, ii was an outrage, this coupled with adject.
ives Of varied degrees of strength. One said,
there will be a meeting eve cannot stand
, it," and 50 on. All had something to say OF
, propose but nothing could be done. The
I agent Of the ship, Mr.. Ri,het, proposed to
I the government, to place hulk in quarantine
and pu, the Cinnamon upon it, allowing the
!, cabin passengers to keep their quarantine
4 upon the steamer. This seemed to me then
c to be reasonable proposal and now when |
: think of it onot understand howit wasrefused
;. but i, was refused, promptly. After day OF
t two our quarantine was reduced to sixteen
y. DAYS. You will no, care to know exactly how
we spent all that time, sufhceitto saythait came
l. to an end on the second OF July, as we had had
/, no sickness whatever and you may possibly
l. imagine the eagcrness with which we stepped
. upon the wharf a, Victoria once more free.
;, We stopped there only one day it is Z
II beautiful place with pleasant drives and :
Il first rate harbor, but as we had already beer
:, fourteen days IN tie ntigk6orhood and hat
e devoured the scene with our glasses. We wer,
quite anxious to get out OF it fearing that small
T. pox might break out again and the passenger
~ be hunted up for another quarantine.
III wish had your magic pen, Mr. Editor
so to describe the beautiful trip down the Puge
u Sound, you could give it the poetical toucl
80 which my plain prose can never accomplish
/ We LEFT at S A. NJ. arriving at Port TOWNSEND
III at 9. where there was an examination by III
As custom house officials. Then we called q
3 several, mall towns, Port Madison, Port Gan,
bic and others well known to the ISLANDS a
q, the furnishers OF cargo Tor lumber which
ID distributed all through the Pacific. At 81
h ". we reached Seattle the aspiran, for III
-. of about ten thousand, is full of life and actis
n, ity ami looks as though it was just in its ir
"A fancy From the price demanded FOR corne
n. lots should Judge that the owners were
IN little ahead Of the times. For instance, for
,ol lot Of 90 by 100 the sum Of $40, 500 W.
he asked.
IN Five o'clock found US at Tacoma the rv,
no of Seattle, and hourishng town, but ! al
h not competent to judge Of the merits as con
nd pared with that place. Here we take cars f
~, Kalama, on the Columbia river, and thence
.r. steamer to Portland, arriving at early mornr
he on the Fourth Of July This city consid
~. one OF the most promising places on the coas
The opening Of the Northern Pacific rairos
across the continent offers to emigrants thou
ands of acres Of fine farming and stock land
VI in healthy wel-watered districts, with GOO
- facilities for transportation.
- In the valley Of the Willamette alone, whit
;" is about 90 miles wide and 400 miles in leng
'"e may be found hundreds Of thousands Of acr
re- Of some Of the most fertile lands in the mort
W. west, Other parts Of Oregon offer especial {
'e" eilitie. for stock and sheep raising, which a
already great industries
was told tina, the crop OF hops from Or
:" gon and Washington Territory for the ye
vs. would amount To fifty thousand bales.
'"s good iron mine has been discovered, Al
"" machinery for working il is already upon Z
ground. There is large amount OF capital
!" the city, and altogether il seems as though 1
g" future Of Portland would be very prosp,
Gus one.
"b One OF the great business interests Of Greg
the :, -, -, ., ,a 1t, =
!" Of the canneries near the Cascades, you sh
~ hear about it. The largest part Of this bu
ga" ness is done on the lower part u the Columb
y" near Astoria, where the fish are caught entir'
by seines, il is estimated that over five hu
e, drea niles in length Of seines are at this iii
a"' employed in this way.
Nc
!. From The deck OF the steamer as cross
The bar at noon at the mouth OF the Column
| counted 22S boats engaged in seine fshiI