OREGON. 



buildings at the State Agricultural College at Cor- 

 vallis. 



Appropriating $1,000 to establish a library for the 

 use of convicts m the State Penitentiary. 



Giving to laborers and material men a lien upon 

 mines for or on which their labor and material are 

 used. 



To punish minors over sixteen years of age for ob- 

 taining or attempting to obtain intoxicating liquors 

 under false pretenses. 



To make employes and laborers preferred creditors 

 to the extent of $100 each. 



To protect the title of owners of floating logs, tim- 

 ber, and lumber. 



Giving to any person who clears any land, or im- 

 proves it by ditching, diking, or tiling a lien on 

 such land for his labor. 



To provide for the further establishment and de- 

 velopment of the State Eeform School. 



Kevising the law regulating liens of laborers in 

 timber and logging camps. 



To regulate the practice of pharmacy and the sale 

 of poisons. 



To license and regulate life and casualty insurance 

 companies and societies. 



Granting to railroads hereafter constructed a right 

 of way through lands of the State on paying $1 

 an acre therefor, and also the right to take timber, 

 stone, and water, and necessary ground for depots, 

 side tracks, turn tables, and water stations. 



Education. The following statistics cover 

 the school year ending in 1891 : Children of 

 school age (four to twenty-one years), -106,172 ; 

 children enrolled in public schools, 72,322 ; en- 

 rolled in private schools, 6,666 ; not attending 

 any school, 29,616 ; male teachers in the public 

 schools, 1.059 ; average monthly salary, $49.10; 

 female teachers, 1,582 ; average monthly salary, 

 $41.00 ; teachers in private schools, 296 ; value 

 of school property, $1,906,431.90; school dis- 

 tricts in the State, 1,747; school-houses built 

 during the year, 113. There are 50 universi- 

 ties, colleges, and academies in the State, em- 

 ploying 234 teachers and having 4,879 pupils. 



The State Normal School at Monmouth is 

 flourishing, the number of pupils in attendance 

 at the close of this year being 345. At the 

 State University 352 pupils were enrolled dur- 

 ing the year ending in June, of whom 217 were 

 in the collegiate department, 36 in the law de- 

 partment, and 20 in the medical department. 

 The receipts for the year were $27,996.12 and 

 the disbursements $25,368.20. 



Insane Asylum. There were 628 patients at 

 the State Insane Asylum on Jan. 1. The num- 

 ber had increased to 722 on Nov. 1, and before 

 the close of the year the limit to the capacity 

 of the institution was reached. The increase of 

 patients for the year was nearly equal to the 

 total increase for the two preceding years. 



The Prison. At the close of the year there 

 were 384 convicts in the State Penitentiary, of 

 whom 217 were employed in the foundry, 44 

 were unable to work, 56 had no employment, 

 and the remainder were engaged in and about 

 the prison buildings. 



Fisheries. Statistics of the State Fish Com- 

 mission, for 1891 show that there were packed 

 on the Oregon side of Columbia river 245,550 

 cases of salmon, or v 11, 786,400 pounds, valued at 

 $1,227,750; Nehalern, river, 3,500 cases, or 168,- 

 000 pounds, valued at $14,000 ; Tillamook Bay, 

 3,850 cases, or 184,000 pounds, valued at $15,- 

 400; Coquille river, 4,000 cases, or 192,000 



pounds, valued at $16,000 ; Rogue river, 21,000 

 cases, or 1,008.000 pounds, valued at $105,000; 

 total for Oregon, 277,900 cases, or 13,338,400 

 pounds, valued at $1,378,150. 



There are 13 canneries in Oregon on Columbia 

 river, with buildings and machinery valued at 

 $180,000, and 12 in other parts of the State 

 valued at $56,000. 



The total number of men employed in the 

 fishing industry is 2,590; the average rate of 

 wages for the fishing season $245.06, and the 

 total amount paid in wages $634,720. 



Hops. The production of hops in 1890 in the 

 State is shown by counties in the following 

 table : 



Coal. Out-croppings of coal have been found 

 in nineteen counties in Oregon, both east and 

 west of the Cascade range, but mining operations 

 are reported only in Coos County. These mines 

 are at Marshfield, on Coos bay. The Coos 

 County field covers an area of several hundred 

 square miles, and is a fair quality of lignite. 



Portage Railroad. The commission ap- 

 pointed by the Legislature this year to build 

 portage railways around the rapids of Columbia 

 river, after trying without success to obtain 

 assistance from the United States, decided in 

 May to apply all the money at their disposal to 

 building and equipping a railway around the 

 Cascades, so-called, in that river. An engineer 

 was appointed, under whose direction the work 

 had been nearly completed at the end of the 

 year, at a cost within the appropriation. The 

 length of the road is seven eighths of a mile. 



The World's Fair. The Legislature of this 

 year adjourned without appropriating money to 

 secure a State exhibit at the World's Fair, al- 

 though a bill for that purpose was presented for 

 its consideration. The State Board of Agricult- 

 ure thereupon appointed a committee, which 

 issued a call in March for a convention of rep- 

 resentative men to meet at Portland on June 15. 

 There were no substantial results from this 

 movement, however, and in October the State 

 Board of Commerce undertook the problem. A 

 committee was appointed, and under its direc- 

 tion subscription papers were put in circulation, 

 but up to the close of the year no encouraging 

 progress had been made in raising funds. 



Decision. The State Supreme Court in April, 

 in the case of Maxwell vs. Tillamook County, 

 rendered a decision declaring unconstitutional 

 an act of the Legislature of 1889 appropriating 

 money to aid in building a wagon road in the 

 defendant county. The sict was found to be 

 repugnant to the clause of the State Constitution 

 forbidding local and special legislation. 





