Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1888-05-19
LOCAL And GENERAL NEWS
Iiemized Account Of DOilgs in City and
Country.
AN OREGON TRAVELLER.
He Discusses OregOn's Situation From
an Eastern City. The Immigra-
tiOn Question.
AN OREGON TRAVELLER.

The writer is to-day in receipt of
letter from a resident of this stat
now travelling in the East, and h'
takes the liberty to make several sc
lections from the same.
1--WE stopped over one night a
Cheyenne, which we found to be {
very pretty city of about 5000 peo
pie, l should judge, although they
claim from eight to ten thousand
Her resources seem to be limited tC
the railroad business almost entirely
now, and, unless they develop the
surrounding country, Cheyenne has
past its best days"
"Although 1 knew much of Den.
yer and Colorado, yet, confess, ]
was not prepared to see such a city,
with so many signs of real prosper
ity as we found there. Denver GER
tainly contains so to 60 thousand
people-they claim 100, ,000-withap ap-
parent business to well sustain its
bustling, pushing, energetic, wide
awake people. There seems to be
no Grones or mossbacks there, and
with a sublime faith in themselves
and their future, no enterprise seems
too vast, nor obstacle too great but
they take hold of it with a vim and
courage that challenges the admira-
ton of all who come here and see
what this people have accomplished,
and what they are doing to make
their city what it is-The Metropolis
of the mountains and plains of the
Middle West. Iron fOundries, ma
chine shops, manufacturing enter
prises, stores and hotels, with a
thousand other branches of busi-
ness give work and wages, bred and
butter, bills and bank accounts to
the deserving people. l long to see
the day when the people, the towns
and cities of Oregon will show the
same enterprise that has so fully de-
veloped the possibilities of this great
Western city"
ain mingling with the people
with whom l have had the oppor-
tunity, so far, Of cOnversing, l find
butt few that have anything but
vague and indefinite ideas about
Oregon. Most of them have their
minds pre-occupied by large stories,
oft and well told, of the wonders of
California and Washington, but as
to Oregon, they seem to only know
it as a country of which it is said
that there it rains so much, and the
sun shines so little, that moss and
mould cover the land and the peo-
pie ealike. ,"
"By the iudicious expenditure of a
few thousand dollars, Oregon could
be brought before the people of this
populous country This letter, by
the way, was written from st. Louis,
and this may refer to all the Middle
West and Northwest, thousands,
yes tens of thousands, of whom,
having abundant capital and en-
ergy, could be turned to Oregon,
where they would help to develop
the mighty resources of that latent
empire of agriculture, horticulture
and mineral wealth, with Oregon's
immense capabilities and possibili-
tiles for manufacturing and COM
mercial enterprises, that all going
hand in hand, might soon place it
in the foreground of the great and
grand Pacific slope"
$50 far l have heard nothing of
Portland's efforts to advertise Ore
gon, since l left that city. Hope |
they do not intend to be content to
longer hide their light under BUSH !
el (of parsimOny), but that they Will
NIL the long felt want of some plan |
or system te reach the people look !
ing west for homes, and business" D."
The writer of the above is a close |
observer, and man Of sufficiently |
keen business abilities, to be able to
the situation, i'm the East,
fully. He intended to do all the
campaign work" he could for Ore
gon, while gone, and his statement
Of the case is worth considering by
boards.
Wants a Target Range.