Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-06
OUR SISTER STATE.
TIE INTERVIEW WITH WILLIAM r.
MILLS ON OREGON.
He is Charmed with Oregon and r.
pccially the Yanilsin
Country.
From the Portland ora,,,,.o

From the Portland oregonIanl
On June Esd the Oregoaia,s reprinted an
interview had by San Francisco paper
| with William H. Mills General Land
Agent of the Southern Pacific Rail.
road and Vice-President of the California
State Board of Trade. The sentiments sr-
pressed by Mr.. Mills were the subject of
editorial comment in that Journal of June
18th. The Secretary of the Oreson I'm
migration Board thereupon wrote Mr.
Mills in relation to this subject. The Sec.
| retary's letter, together with Mr.. Mills "a
ply thereto, are herewith appended. The
subheads are ours:
| PORTLAND. Or, June 25. 1889.
William II Mills, ESQ, Ge1srdi EcNd TO-.
! Central Pacific Raiirodd sun r. aaciSeS 81
DEAR SIR: am in receipt of your favor of Inna
I'd relating to pamphlets aud circulars OF the
California State Board of Trade will be.uery
glad TO receive these reports and to study tbe,I
carefully In the interest of the work in which 7
am engaged. thank you for your courtesy in
rememb eripg my request.
Have read your interview upon Oregon nuh
| liShed in the San Francisco papers The Same
| has been le-published by the oreqonian ofthis
! city and has been the cause of editorial cnm
ment by that paper. believe generally SNEAK
| ing, you wish Oregon well; but | can nlasnjv
see that, while you may love Oregon 10 certaii,
extent, you love California much more STRONGLY
and that your love for California has blinded
you to the charms of her fairer sister OregNn
| However, we Certainly thank you for the Kind
words you have uttered concerning our State
and especially for the kind words about Port
land
trust that the future will fulfill the fopdest
expectations OF both California and Orepnn 50
| far as material prosperity and the happiness Of
| their citizens are concerned. Yours very truly,
WALLACE R. STRU BILE,
Mr.. MILLS REPLY
SAN FRANCISCO, June Is 1889
Wallace r. Strt'ble, Esq Secretd, yoE he OREGON
| Immigration Bolrd Portland Or-DEAR SIR:
have your esteemed favor OF June 18th enoios
! ing editorial comment upon an interview re-
| ported TO have been had with me by a San
[ Francisco paper.
| l am pleased with the amiable tenper of tho
| editorial referred to, more pleased when / re-
| member that If the interview had been given
| fully in the San Francisco paper there would
| have been much less occasion, for criticism by
\ the oregon press. l do not say that the paper
| interviewing me here published anything that
did not say. but | can with great eandor say
| that II did not publish all that did saw and
/ much of that which is left out would have given
| very different complexion to the whole work
| For illustration, the remark that Oregon was
| growing apples, and that We would do well to
| buy them of Oregon, was a very subordinate re
| mark The interviewer. who is one of The best
in the profession, took brief notes of the con
versation, and wrote up chiefly from memory
| Re would catch here and there an exact ex-
| preston, but my views on my trip were given
| in conversational way, and while in a sense
reason of omission, the absence of accurate rep
| resention.
INTERESTED IN OREGON, TOO
| You say that you believe, generally speaking,
| that l wish Oregon well. l am firmly con-
| WINGED that we are just as much Interested in
the growth of Oregon as we are of any county
| ID California, or of any section in California
and that Oregon is quite as much interested in
4 hp yrny a 10 &c Nf,ll l..
Part of its own territory; in short l do not adj
NIT for moment that there is or can be either
| rivalry or antagonism in the growth of wealth
population and prosperity between the different
sections of the Pacific coast 1t would be vastly
better for California to-day if 10 600 900 people
resided in Oregon, audit would be vastly better
| for oregon II an equal number resided in Cali
| fornia These are things that have advocated
ana commended for so often, and upon so many
different occasions, that feel slightly aggrievea
| that any other construction should have been
put upon any expression of mine under any
circumstances.
| YAMHILL Is ALL RIGHT.
| can see most brilliant future for Oregon
| and Washington Territory. l have seen no.
where on the Pacific coast country so. INVITING
| or pleasing as the Yamhill country OF YOUR
State. My visit there haunts my memory vet
as the strains O. sweet music will often haunt
the dreams of night That region of your
State, in my opinion. presents to the intelligent
visitor the most charming expression of thrift
comfort and even opulence of any part of the
Pacific coast have yet visited. What has been
done in Yamhill county can be done through
out the fooaaill and valley lands Of your State
am far from believing that apples are the
only fruit product of your State. | do believe
however, that facilities for transportation, the
organization of fiscal systems, and the new re-
lation of countries to each other, produced by
the existing and coming era of rapid transit
make it ludicious and economical to grow ey.
| erything in the climates and soils best adapted
to their growth; that the highest economy is
subserved by devoting the soil of any coun-
try TO the products most favored by nature
1" This is just as trre IN the question of ex-
change between Oregon and California as Can
ada and Cuba, or between England and India
| INTERCHANGEABLE PRODUCTS.
No man has real reason for jealousy as to
| the prosperity or wealth of his neighbor, be-
cause every man is producing something to
| resides in the purchasing power of his neigh
Dor. This is equally true of States and com
munities. The most advantageous commercial
| relation must exist between those occupying
to each other northerly and southerly relations
On the parallels of latitude climatic conditions
are analogous, and hence production is analo-
gous. But along the meridians of longitude
| contrasts exist between southern and northern
climates; hence the productions and the indus
| tries possess an economic supplemental rela.
ton. Every community should rejoice in the
| purchasing power of every other community in
commercial relation with it.
Beyond this, 1t gives me pleasure to note the
success Of countries in the development of their
| resources depends on the intelligence, energy
| and enterprise of the populations occupying the
| country. The most fertile countries under the
! sun remain sterile under the domination of
| sloth and ignorance, while the most sterile
| countries come to present the most fertile as
| pect when occupied by population possessing
industry, intelligence and energy.
NO FLIES ON PORTLAND.
| I think no impartial visitor to your State
could fail to note the substantial enterprise of
| the city of Portland and the thrift and energy
of her people, or fail to mark with high gratif-
cation the evidence of an incoming tide of
wealth and prosperity to the whole Northwest
l join with you, therefore, most heartily in
your patriotic trust that the future will fulfill
| the fondest expectations OF both California and
Oregon and beg leave to remain your most
obedient servant, WV. II. MILLS.
The two great future ironclads of the