



563.85. including the balance left from the j 

 inir i .-nil. Tin- disbursements W.T.- * ! 



i.ch $121. 

 966.03 Wa* In the credit ..ft!i- -. n. nil fund. There 



was a floating debl of ir^ilmn *">" 



for ill.- >er wn. fixed t\\ 4 milk 

 Tin- total vnliinli.nl of |r-|N-riv in the counties was 

 $I51.MfH.67i>. ,.f which 18.687,699 was entitled t.. 



:inr the taxable pn'j 



The court sustained the counties in n- 

 llu- action of III- l-wird (see ' Annual C\ 

 for 1X96. page 624) * fnr n- the valuation of per- 

 sonal prourrtr WM concerned The valuation for 

 tin-tax oTUNBis: Urww. $14- 



In ei.iiMM,uen< f the failure of the Legislature 



to juiss appropriation lulls, tin- Auditor 



nn> claims airainst tin- treasury for State in- 

 Mitutions. ' commission, -i-s. and tin- like, 



red by iln- court. Suits \\i-iv brought, 

 an- 1 the Supreme Court rendered a dcci-ion. A 

 rv<iuiriuir the Auditor to draw warrant* f..r t In- 

 payment of tin- salaries of Stair official^ and oilier 

 elaltaif specifically authoiiBed by legislative action. 

 other claims ai:aint tin-' State, the decision 

 it tin- duty of the Secretary to JMISS upon the 

 claims and allow or disallow them. 



M..te iBitttattau. Following wen- the 



amounts last appropriated f<>r dependent classes 

 nndconvi, -i- : [nssne, *:n 1.415; convicts. $i:{!.^ir, : 

 reforming b,,y>. $*1.24X; old soldiers, $3.V 

 Mind. $18,330: d.-af mutes, $46,896; nonresident 

 |MN, r . $\(MM : Portland Homo, $5,000; Alhan\ Or- 

 phans* Home, $5,000; Salem (>r|.liaii->' Bonne, 

 $5,000: Portland Hal.v Hom.-. *|.IMMI : i:,.fu-.- 

 Houi.-. ^5.000; Magdalen lion,,.. $4.000; Boys' 

 nd (JirN" Aid Society. s-J.:i<M>: I'atto,, Home, 



it on. $4,000; 

 ndergarton, $ 1.500: total, $?oi.7^:. 



The A-ylum for tin- In-am- ha- more than 1,100 

 jatient-. The number of employees is about 14n. 

 I'he coxt of takin.v patients to the institution dur- 

 ine; the last l.iennial period was $2K.1-VS. 

 There were in .May :',~*\ convict^ in ih,. IVnitcn- 

 'Hte ooat for oonfejing prisoners during the 

 last" biennial p<-ri..d wa> > Th.-re are now 



i the Penitentiary. About HM an- 

 fnrnislH**! \vrrk in the stove foundry, but as ouile a 

 large stock of stoves i> aln-ady on liand, the lessees 

 of the foundry are not pushii::; that work vigor- 

 ously. A few others are furnished work at team- 

 ing, gardening, or on the farm. The rest an- for 

 the moM part idle. 



Kdnraflon. The annual distribution of M-hool 

 money in Aui.". from the interest on the 



Irreducible M-h.Kil fund, jjave $1.04 jr m/n'(a to a 

 school |*i|uilnti..ii ' 



./lie. had in 10M 



than -VKI xtu>: th.- (oinniencrincnt 



in- 1'. irradunt.il. The. busiiu-x and pre- 



n abolished and the 



course in .and a chair of Modern Lan- 



guages was established this year. 



The Agricultural College, at r..r\ all is. had a total 



enrollment of :517. and graduate-! ,f IT. 



f the course of study from three 



years to four i- tho prinripal cause for the redn,- 



.i--r of graduates, which was 51 in 



1895 and : 



Railroad-. .n is credit, d with 51 mil- 



new track this v ar. The fir-t train on the Colum- 



^uthern was nin or-t. 3. The r-.ad is 

 lend from Hiffjr Matir.n muth throuirh Sherman. 

 Was^o. m Counties to PrineviUe, about 190 



mil*-. rr^ent terminus, js only 10 



mil*- w road will open one of the i 



:,sof the State. 



Th. urjand I 



i'let,-.l and in ojK-ratioii from Mai-lili.ld to M\nle 

 Point, '* mile-, and about ('(> mil-s remain 1^ ! 

 built. 



rt of the Otv-,,11 1,'ailroa.l and N;i 

 tion ( 'oinpaiiy for t he ten months ending April :'(> 

 shows the net i-arniiiirs t.. ha\e U-.-n s|.i;:;ii.i;:; |.s;. 

 an increase- over tin iod of the pr. 



: s:.|::.i ;- 



Th- -!;ofl Lin,' brrallie all illile|irlldent 



road March r>. 



Pl-odllcts. ' The Hre-oniai. 



f Xovi'inU-r. a summary of lie f pn-duds 



from '. c,. unties. H s follow: NVh- 8,014; 



li\e sto,-k. xi hay. X-.'.'.MI^. :,((! : L r,,|,| t 



-;.:.Mi : iis|,..*i.s;;.KK : i',.,ps.s- i. m .- 



ber, $1308,945; oat^ 



WOOl, $1,066,515 ; butter, chee-r. ai: 



!> : p. 1 .:- :her iii-od 



total. X'j; 



.ir-bi-i-t and flax culture are ;rro\vinr in the 

 and prt'ini-e to become important in-li. 

 The Fish ( 'ommissjoner's re|iort ha- I he fo|]o\\ m^ 

 statements : Tin- canned products of t he < 'olumbia 

 ri\.-r -aliuon li-her\ this year amounted 



oases, of which 476,934 were packed in the -priiu r 



and 7."i>17 in the tall. Of th.- total pa. k 40 

 cases were packed on the Oregon si<le and 1 i 

 cases on the NN'a-hin.irtoii side of t he riv- r. the total 

 value of the canned product arirrcira' i< 

 :il 1. In addition then- v .Mid pounds of 



salmon sold fresh and shipped Fa-t.the value of 

 which was $151.s4. The salmon fishery of the 

 Columbia river this year gave employment to l.l'.il 

 fi-herinen and 'J.'JTT shoremen ami cannery em- 

 ployees. The industry on the roast .streams and 

 bays furnished employment to s<!5 people." 



the amount of ffold produced in the State dur- 

 inir the y.-ar was placed later at a much higher fig- 

 ure than appear^ in the summary above, more than 

 $4.(KM>.(KM). There wa- renewed a.-livity in p.ld 

 mininir. ''id new district- have been opened in the 

 Cascade mountain-. 



Public Lands. The number of acres of vacant 

 public land- j|, the State i- -iven approximately as 



of which v have been surveyed. 



\ -nil was decided ill the Tinted State- court 

 in September involving the poss<---ioii o| about 

 1(M).(KM acres adjoining Columbia river on the 

 south. This tract wa- formerly claimed by both 

 the Northern Pacific Railway Company and the 

 Dalles Military \\ .._ < II. .ad Company, ihroii-h 

 coii-jre ional '-rants to them re-peetivel y. The 

 irrant to the Military \Vajrn Itoad Coni|>jin\ 

 made last, but the company and the other defend- 

 ants, its successors in interest, claimed that 1 he 

 irranl to the Northern Pacific ( < i.nipany. down t he 



Columbia rirer, nerer took eiTect. The contention 



of the t'nited State- was that the first irranl did 



re, and that, by an ad of 



passed in 1890, the hind v. ! to the public 



domain, and under this claim allowed much of the 

 land lobe entered by settlers at the Dalles Land 



Oflicc. Tin- decision '.-d t he (ioverilllienl. 



About 1.?<i< acre-, known a- Tule lake |an.|-. 

 have been in coiitro\-er-y f-.r -.me time. They 

 were irranted t-. th- swamp latids ami 



were sold to -ettler-. The tract i- designated on 

 maps as Tule hike, and the )iie-ti<.n was whether it 

 was* a lake at the time it was -ranted or swamp 

 lands as was claimed. The question wa< referred 

 to Surveyor-';, neral I laber-hain. who decided that 

 a lake, thu- making good I he title of the, 

 It is said that c-.nfu-ion has been cau-ed by 

 many such trad- in M -'on bein- laid 



down M laket beoanse they were at certain 

 overflowed. 



