Year: 1863

find their employment as lucrative as that
| Of any other class; and nothing will be
required of them but good degree of in
dustry, to secure plenty and prosperity.
The effect OF these mines will be to give
snch stimulus to all other interests of
the State, as will cause Oregon to take up
her line of march in good earnest, on the
highway of Improvement


Silver, Lead and Copper, are found in
the State, and may prove valuable re-
sources.


Iron ore yielding sixty per cent of pure
metal, of excellent quality, is found six
miles from Portland, in quantities literally
inexhaustible Some of this ore has been
worked into nails and implements, but
only for experiment. At other points there
is any quantity of iron. 1t is estimated
that the State contains sufficiency of iron
ore, if worked, to supply almost the entire
Nation. Nothing but enterprise is want
ed to render these now useless rocks,
source of incalculable wealth to individu-
ais, and to the State


Coal is found in several places. In
Coos County, it is worked to some extent,
with profit


HARBORS.


There are already opened four ports of
entry in this State. Tie most important
harbor is that of the Columbia River but
it is not the ouly one likely to assume
much Importance. Umpqua River, Port
Oxford and the Coquille want nothing but
the settlement of the rich districts sur
rounding them, to bring them into consid-
Grafton as commercial points while veg
sells have entered several others and found
good harbors Yaquina Bay: first brought
to notice only year ago, is said to be an
exeellen, harbor, extending thirty miles
into the coast, and easy Of access from the
heart of the Willamette Valley.
HEALTH


1t would seem invidious to discriminate
in favor of any portion of the State of Or
| egon, in respect to its salubrity. Every
thing that nature could do to render a
country perfectly healthful, has been done
| for this State The mountain air, not less
than the mountain water, has a vivifying
influence and the gentle breezes of sum-
mer, coming fresh from the sea, are a
pleasant and effectual preventive against
all the violent diseases ordinarily to be
feared in dry and sultry regions,


The climate of Oregon is thought to be
unfavorable to the health of persons who
are predisposed to pulmonary affections
This is probably true. Notwithstanding
this general opinion, however, it is found
that fewer persons die here of consunip-
| ton, in proportion to the population, than
in any one of the New Eng'an States
And it is certainly beyond question, that
in every other respect, there 10 no other
State in the Union. worthy to be compar
ed with this for salubrity of climate.
Persons are frequently met with here,
who had been unable to perform any
labor for years before leaving the east, on
account of i'll health, but have become
rugged and strong in this country, and are
now regularly engaged in their callings,
without any physical Inconvenience what
ever.


MISCELLANEOUS.
Some peculiarities and special adaptation
of this State, deserve to be more partic-
ularly noticed.


SHEEP-A very intelligent writer OF
New England calls Oregon n mammoth
sheep pasture" From what has been ex-
hibited of its soil, climate and mines, 1t
will be perceived, that, with equal pro
priety, and no greater allowance of hyper
bt.|s, it might be denominated, also,
mammoth grain field and vegetable gar
den, and mammoth gold placer. In q
country EN- inently fitted by nature for SO
many branches of business, as Oregon,
discrim nation in favor of any one partic-
ularly, will seem unwarranted, not to say
unjust But certainly if Oregon has
specially, it i. her pre- -eminence as
wool growing-country. Until very recent
ly, little attention has been paid to the
matter of sheep raising; but it is now be-
coming one of the staple interests of the
State Sheep thrive better here than in
any other State. Disease amongst them
is exceedingly rare. They increrse here
faster than in the east, and the wool is Of
excellent quality. Only one manufactory
of WOODEN goods is yet il active operation.