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lalwr furnished the foundry. The expenses for 

 tin- same period were $10,<M2. 



An addition was Imilt during tin 1 year to the 

 Stiilo Ueform School at Salem. An industrial 

 luiilding, to be used for shops exclusively, will 

 SIM in be erected. There were 72 boys in the. 

 school at the time of the report. 



1 dnrut ion. Ai the close of the full term in 

 Deoember the State University at Kugeiif iiad 

 enrolled 88 students in the collegiate depart- 

 ment and 115 in the preparatory course. /. W. 

 .loluison, who has been president during the 

 seventeen years of the existence of the universi- 

 ty, retired in September, taking the chair of 

 Latin, and Charles II. Chapman, from Johns 

 Hopkins University, was inaugurated president. 



Portland University received during the year 

 a liberal bequest from James Abraham, to be 

 used for founding and sustaining a school of 

 theology. 



The Legislature appropriated $26,000 for im- 

 provements at the State Agricultural College at 

 Corvallis. Of the first year's class of 130, about 

 100 were young men, and 69 of these were tak- 

 ing the mechanical course. A class of 18. the 

 largest ever graduated, took their diplomas in 

 June. 



The total enrollment for the year at the State 

 Normal School, at Monmouth, exclusive of the 

 training department, was 262. 



The Indian School, at Chemawa, had an at- 

 tendance in March of 318. as many as could be 

 accommodated. There are 6 teachers for the 

 common and high school branches, and 15 for 

 industrial teaching. The superintendent said : 

 "The report that we give good board, clean 

 lodging, and three square meals on Sunday is a 

 great drawing card for the youthful Indian, and 

 instead of drumming up pupils we have to turn 

 away many who voluntarily make application 

 to enter the school." 



Railroads. The Oregon Pacific was sold, 

 Dec. 15, by the sheriff at Corvallis, for $200,000, 

 the buyers acting for a joint committee of the 

 bondholders and holders of receivers' certificates. 

 Just before the sale, attorneys representing the 

 Giant Powder Company and the owners of the 

 Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain 

 Wagon Road Company gave notice to intend- 

 ing purchasers of their claim in the property. 

 On Dec. 26 the sale was set aside by Judge Ful- 

 lerton, who said that those most interested in 

 the confirmation or rejection of the sale were 

 the labor and supply creditors, and that they 

 seemed to oppose the confirmation. 



The Coos Bay, Roseburg and Eastern Rail- 

 road had cars running in May to Coquille City 

 from Marshfield and for some distance above 

 Coquille City. Coquille City is 18 miles from 

 Marshfield. and Myrtle Point is 9 miles above 

 the former place. The distance from Myrtle 

 Point to Rosoburg is about 60 miles, with the 

 Coast mountains intervening. 



Salmon. A dispatch from Astoria of July 

 26 says: "The total Columbia river salmon pack 

 to date is 195.000 cases, with only thirteen days' 

 more fishing to close the season. An approxi- 

 mate estimate of this year's total pack on the 

 Columbia places the figures at 281,000 cases, in- 

 clusive of the catch at the Cascades. This, 

 when compared with the output of the past four- 



teen years, is the most startling falling off that 

 has ever occurred in the history of the industry 

 on the coast." 



Suirar HM'ts. The agricultural experiment 

 station furnished to farmers in various parts 

 of the State, in 1891, imported sugar-beet seeds 

 with directions for cultivation. 1 he analysis of 

 the returns from 12 counties gave an average of 

 1 J'K! per cent, sugar, of an average purity of 

 78*08. Beets should contain not less than 12 per 

 cent, sugar, the typical beet weighing about 

 600 grammes having 14 per cent, sugar and a 

 purity of about 80. 



Wool. This year has been especially hard for 

 the wool grower. The record of local sales was 

 down in July and August to about 1,000.000 

 pounds a week, against a usual 3,000,000 to 

 4,000,000 for the same period, though the yield 

 was unusually large. The report of the trade at 

 The Dalles for the year, compared with that of 

 1892, was as follows : In 1892 5,532,000 pounds 

 were received and paid for at an average of 16 

 cents a pound, making cash received $865,120 ; 

 mutton, 130,000 head, at $2.25 each, $292,500 ; 

 wool pelts, at 11 j cents a pound. 6 pounds each, 

 $41,400 ; making a total of $1,219,020. 



In 1893 the amount was as follows : Wool re- 

 ceived, 5,120.000 pounds, and placed at 7 cents a 

 pound, $358,750 ; mutton sheep, at average of 

 $1.50 each (170,000), $255.000 ; wool pelts, 19,000, 

 6 pounds each, at 4 cents a pound, $46,080 ; total 

 receipts. 1893, $659,830. 



Lumber. A report of the Consul-General at 

 Melbourne gives some details of the trade in 

 Pacific coast lumber in Australia : 



What is known to the trade as Oregon has become 

 a standard building timber, and the demand for it 

 will keep pace with whatever building or improve- 

 ment is done in the colonies. This is shown by the 

 importations into the colony of Victoria during the 

 past seven years, the greatest period of building and 

 improvement the colony has ever known. The im- 

 portations of Oregon, wnieh amounted in 1866 to 31,- 

 341,179 superficial feet, rose to 55,487,61)4 superficial 

 feet in 1888, but has since declined to 12,000,000 super- 

 ficial feet in 1892, and it is estimated that there are 

 in importers' and trade hands about 12,000,000 super- 

 ficial feet, which, with from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 feet 

 afloat, will furnish a full supply for twelve months or 

 more to come, as the normal consumption is not more 

 than that amount per annum. 



The Capitol. The State Capitol, which was 

 begun in 1873 on the site of the old State House, 

 which had been burned, is now complete, the 

 Legislature of 1891 having appropriated $100,- 

 000 for the dome. This is of iron and steel, is 

 54 feet in the clear, and reaches a height of 100 

 feet from the ridge of the roof. Themiilding is 

 275 by 136 feet. 3 stories in height, and is of brick 

 and stone. The cost has come within the origi- 

 nal estimate of $500,000. 



Wagon-Road Lands. The Supreme Court 

 decided in March, against the California and 

 Oregon Land Company, to set aside and declare 

 void the title of the Land Company to tracts in 

 Oregon purchased by the company from Ar- 

 sons acquiring title "from grantees under what 

 are known as the wagon-road land grants, under 

 acts of Congress, and the decision of the lower 

 court is affirmed. This is the end of a long 

 series of suits looking to the forfeiture of the 

 several land grants of the different wagon-road 



