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OREGON. 



emigration from the valley to Eastern Oregon 

 and Washington. The yield of the latter re- 

 gion in 1881, in excess of the demands for seed 

 anil home consumption, is estimated at 100,000 

 tons, delivered at the shipping centers in about 

 the following proportions : Ton 



Walla Walla. 22,000 



W eston 18,000 



AVaitsburg 7,500 



Dayton 10,000 



U|>|KT Snake River 12,500 



Milton 5,000 



Umatilla to mouth of Snake Kiver 10,000 



Kl!<-kitat 2,000 



Various small shipping points 10,000 



Total 100,000 



According to the estimates of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, the wheat-crop of Oregon 

 has been as follows: 1879, 7,486,492 bushels; 

 1880, 11,743,420; 1881, 13,889,000. 



The following table shows the canning of 

 Columbia River salmon during the ten years 

 ending 1880: 



The census returns of 1880 show, on the 

 Columbia River, twenty-nine canneries, having 

 a capital of $1,100,000 ; product, 539,587 cases, 

 and 25,900,176 pounds, in one-pound tins, val- 

 ued at $2,697,930; hands employed, 6,500. 



The following are the principal towns and 

 cities, with their population, in 1880: Baker 

 City, 1,258; Corvallis, 1,128; Oregon City, 

 1,263; Astoria, 2,803; Eugene, 1,117; Albany, 

 1,867; Salem, 2,538; Portland, 17,578; East 

 Portland, 2,409 ; Dalles, 2,232. 



The gold product of the State for the year 

 ending June 30, 1880, was $1,090,000 ; silver, 

 $15,000. 



The following statement shows the amount 

 of State taxes due from the several counties in 

 the State, as levied for the year 1881, together 

 with the total amount of taxable property : 



The number of patients in the Asylum for 

 the Insane is rapidly increasing, and was a- 

 follows : Number of patients on June 1, 1881, 

 304; admitted during the quarter, 33; re- 

 turned, 3 ; under treatment, 340 ; number dis- 

 charged during the quarter, 23; died, 6 ; num- 

 ber of patients in hospital August 31, 1881, 811. 

 The admissions during the quarter were much 

 larger than ever before, and the sum paid by t la- 

 State for their care and treatment during the 

 quarter amounted to $20,282.85. 



The total expenditure on account of the 

 School for Deaf-Mutes, for the year ending 

 May 1, 1881, was $3,619.48; number of pupils 

 enrolled, 31 ; average attendance, 27. 



At the beginning of the year, the Oregon 

 Railway and Navigation Company owned the 

 following lines of road in Oregon and "Wash- 

 ington: From the Dalles to Walla Walla, one 

 hundred and fifty-eight miles ; Blue Mountain 

 extension from Whitman Junction to the State 

 line, fourteen miles ; Cascade Portage, six miles. 

 During the year the company has acquired 

 by a lease of ninety-nine years the following 

 lines : Narrow-gauge line from Ray's Landing 

 to Brownsville, seventy miles; narrow-gauge 

 line from Ful quartz's Landing to Airlie, fifty- 

 three miles ; narrow-gauge line from Sheridan 

 Junction to Sheridan, seven miles; narrow- 

 gauge line from Perrydale to Smithfield, four 

 miles. 



The same company has constructed the fol- 

 lowing lines during the year : From Walla Wal- 

 la to Texas Ferry, sixty miles; with Dayton 

 branch from Bolles's Junction, thirteen miles : 

 grade-work on line from the Dalles to the Cas- 

 cades, forty-six miles ; grade-work from Uma- 

 tilla to Pendleton, thirty miles. 



During 1882 the company will build the fol- 

 lowing lines: From Umatilla toward Baker 

 City as far as possible probably one hundred 

 miles ; from Portland on to a point on the Ore- 

 gon side of the Columbia two miles below 

 Kalama, forty -three miles ; to extend the Col- 

 fax road from Rebel Flat to a point on the 

 Northern Pacific Railroad, forty miles east of 

 Ainsworth, fifty miles. 



The Oregon and California Railroad Com- 

 pany now owns two lines of road from Port- 

 land to Roseburg, two hundred miles ; from 

 Portland to Corvallis, one hundred miles. 

 During 1882 it will extend the east side line 

 toward the junction with the California end of 

 the line as far as possible. 



The Oregon Pacific Company during 1882 

 propose to build a line from Yaquina Bay east- 

 ward toward Bois6 City as far as possible, 

 probably one hundred and fifty miles. 



The relations of the Northern Pacific Rail- 

 road and the Oregon Railway and Navigation 

 Company are set forth in the report of Presi- 

 dent Villard to the stockholders of the latter, 

 dated September loth, in which he says that his 

 operations " resulted in the concentration of a 

 controlling interest in the stocks of the two com- 

 panies in an association of individuals, includ- 



