UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. 



asylum lands have been deeded to tlio college for 

 this purpose. The action of the regents in 1!)00 

 prohibiting participation by the students in inter- 

 collegiate athletic contests was followed last year 

 by the adoption of a resolution permitting such 

 competition, provided that agreement should be 

 had with other colleges for reforming the rules 

 governing the games. 



The Monmouth Normal School graduated a 

 class of 24; Eastern Oregon State Normal School, 

 at Weston, 11; Southern Oregon State Normal 

 School, at Ashland, 4; Albany College, 15. 



In July the Oregon Text-Book Commissioners 

 finished their work of selecting text-books for 

 adoption by the State, which were to be in use in 

 all the schools within fifteen months. The esti- 

 mated cost of the change of books was about $99,- 

 600, or $1.10 per pupil. 



Charities and Corrections. The legislative 

 committee for the inspection of the Oregon Sol- 

 diers' Home made a satisfactory report of its 

 condition, and recommended a general appropria- 

 tion of $?4,000 and several special appropriations. 



Feb. 18 the patients at the Oregon Insane Asy- 

 lum numbered 1,200, more than there had ever 

 been before at one time. In July there were 

 1,236 under treatment. 



March 31 the number of convicts in the Oregon 

 Penitentiary was 295, an increase of 17 from the 

 beginning of the year. 



Productions. The wheat-crop of 1901 was es- 

 timated at more than 14,000,000 bushels, about 

 half that of Washington. The hop production, 

 which in 1900 reached 82,000 bales, was estimated 

 in 1901 at 60,000 to 65,000 bales, but the crop was 

 said to be of the first quality. In October the 

 Secretary of Agriculture estimated the beet-sugar 

 production of Oregon at 2,000 tons, the same as 

 that of Washington. In November the estimate 

 of the salmon pack, s.pring and autumn, placed it 

 at about 240,000 cases. 



The report of Oregon manufactures for 1900 

 returns 3,088 establishments, against 1,523 in 

 1890. The capital represented in 1900 was $33,- 

 422,393; salaries, $1,323,155; average number of 

 wage-earners, 17,236; total wages, $8,333,433. 

 The miscellaneous expenses were $2,242,795; cost 

 of materials used, $26,099,855; value of products, 

 including custom work and repairing, $46,000,- 

 587. The percentage of population engaged in 

 manufactures was 4.2. The assessed value of 

 real estate represented was $117,804,874; value of 

 land and buildings invested in manufactures, ex- 

 clusive of rented property, $10,282,493. The share 

 of Multnomah County in the total value of manu- 

 factures was $24,750,579, and that of the city of 

 Portland $23,451,132. 



Among the more important industries in which 

 gains were made between 1890 and 1900 were fish 

 canning and preserving, flouring and grist-mill 

 operations, lumber manufacture and woodwork- 

 ing, wooden ship-building and boat-building, 

 slaughtering and meat-packing, and the manu- 

 facture of woolen goods. 



About 900,000,000 feet of lumber were sawed 

 in Oregon in 1900, the value of which was $8,- 

 802,500. The output of 1901 was much larger, 

 about one-third of the whole being cut in Port- 

 land. 



The Oregon Women's Flax Fiber Association 

 has demonstrated the practicability of establish- 

 ing a profitable flax-growing industry in the State. 

 The association has received encouragement from 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, to 

 which its samples have been submitted, and is 

 making earnest and well-directed efforts to place 

 the industry under State control. 

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Under diroH 



inrlit of Agrirulii 



made of the poi.-.i 



loss to the .stock -i 



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spread poisonous | 



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camass, larkspur, vvater-ht-m 



Legislative Session.- -Ti 

 elected .John II. Mitchell I' 

 Among the enactments of the 

 following: 



Relating to primary elections in citi.- .,i , n <,r 

 than 10,000 inhabitants, and to counties <,i :,n.iii,i| 

 or more, and such other counties as muv volun- 

 tarily adopt the act. The act is to govern all 

 the operations of political parties within a single 

 county. 



Looking to the election of United States Sen- 

 ators by direct vote of the people. 



For the protection of union labels. 



Providing for submission to the people of the 

 amendment for the initiative and referendum. 

 Thereby 8 per cent, of the voters may propose any 

 amendment to the Constitution, or any desired 

 law to be. voted upon at a general election. Fur- 

 thermore, on petition of 5 per cent, of the voters, 

 approval or disapproval of any State legislation, 

 except some emergency laws, is, under the initia- 

 tive and referendum, left to the vote of the people. 



Creating the office of State bacteriologist. 



Providing for enforcement of respect for the 

 United States flag. 



Enacting the Torrens system of public-land reg- 

 istration. 



A new bicycle law, authorizing county courts 

 to construct bicycle paths and to levy a license 

 tax of $1 upon each person riding a bicycle in the 

 county. 



Providing for a $3 road poll-tax, from which 

 active members of the National Guard are ex- 

 empt. 



Establishing an experiment station at Union. 



Making personal property taxable in the city 

 or county where it is located. 



Appropriating $8,000 for a monument to the 

 Oregon soldiers. 



A new game code, and a new scalp-bounty law. 



The general and special appropriations of this 

 Legislature were considerably larger than those 

 of the one preceding. The total amount In 1899 

 was $1,389,044.25; in 1901, $1,792,911.88. Of this 

 sum, $787,222.43 was for State institutions. 



Scalp Bounty. The amount of bounty war- 

 rants issued under the old law was $120,000. 

 Upon these there was due in September, 1901, 

 about $12,000 interest, making a total of $132.000. 

 The last Legislature levied a tax of 1 mill, which 

 produced approximately $117,000, which sum has 

 been paid into the State treasury from the several 

 counties. 



Transportation. Oregon has about 2,000 

 miles of railroad. A recent addition is that of the 

 Columbia Southern, which in October had in oper- 

 ation 70 miles, from Biggs to Shaniko. and was 

 projected 100 miles farther south. It is allied 

 with the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Com- 

 pany, which has about 600 miles of track, besides 

 its 290 miles of water lines in the State. 

 Southern Pacific Company now operates abo 

 700 miles in Oregon. 



Portland. Many laws of the last Legis 

 affecting Portland " have an important bear 

 upon the administration and expenditures 

 citv making, on the whole, a large redtictu 

 expenses. The Portland charter bill, which t 

 Legislature passed, was vetoed by the C 



