ONTARIO. 



OREGON. 



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lation shall not apply to " logs or timber cut and in 

 use in Canada for any purpose for which logs or 

 timber in the unmanufactured state are or may be 

 used." The Lieutenant Governor in Council is au- 

 thorized to make any further or additional regula- 

 tions necessary to enable the Commissioner of Crown 

 Lands to carry into effect the object and intent of 

 the regulations. 



This was strongly objected to by the Michigan 

 lumbermen and by all Americans holding Canadian 

 timber limits. What followed was described by Mr. 

 Hardy in the House on Aug. 23, 1898: 



" 1. The Government has received intimation that 

 American lumbermen holding timber limits in On- 

 tario have presented to the Government of the 

 United States objections to the act of last session 

 respecting the manufacture of pine cut on the 

 Crown domain. 2. That these representations have 

 been forwarded to the Imperial Government, and 

 through the proper channels to the Government of 

 Canada. 3. The correspondence has been trans- 

 mitted to the Government of the province by the 

 Federal Government for an answer, but not for 

 publicity until further consideration by all parties 

 concerned. 4. Dispatches answering the complaints 

 have been forwarded to the Federal Government on 

 behalf of the province, in which the contention of 

 the American lumbermen is opposed throughout. 

 5. Had the correspondence been public, it would 

 have been laid upon the table of the House. 6. I 

 have reason to believe that the dispatches of this 

 Government in reply to the American claim, or 

 some of them, have been forw.arded to the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States by the Government 

 of Canada, but I am not aware whether any reply 

 has been received. 7. The Government under- 

 stands that counsel have been retained by the 

 American lumbermen." 



The matter has since come before the Interna- 

 tional Conference at Quebec and Washington. 

 Between 1892 and 1896 the Canadian export of 

 pine alone to the States increased from 32,000,000 

 feet, valued at $261,479, to 211,000,000 feet, valued 

 at $1,859,369. 



Mines and Minerals. Ontario mineral pro- 

 duction made great progress in 1898, and at the 

 close of the year it was announced that the famous 

 Sultana mine in the north of the province had been 

 sold for $2,000,000 cash. The following table from 

 the "Annual Report of the Bureau of Mines" speaks 

 for itself : 



The total value of the metal product for the six 

 lonths of 1898 was $840,811, against $1,042,779 for 

 lie whole of 1897. 



During the year practical surveys were made of 



great thirty-mile belt of corundum which had 



an discovered in Renfrew County. This valuable 



lineral was found to exist in immense quantities 



id regulations were duly made for its develop- 



Bnt. 



THEODORE THCRSTOX OEER, 

 GOVERNOR OF OREGON. 



OREGON, a Pacific coast State, admitted to the 

 Union Feb. 14, 1859; area, 96.030 square miles. 

 The population was 13.294 in 1850; 52,465 in 1860 

 90,923 in 1870; 174,768 in 1880; 313,767 in 1890. 

 By the State census of 1895 it was 362,762. Cap- 

 ital, Salem. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, William P. 

 Lord ; Secretary of 

 State and Auditor, 

 Harrison R. Kin- 

 caid ; Treasurer, 

 Philip Metschan ; 

 Attorney-General, 

 C. M. Idleman ; Su- 

 perintendent of In- 

 struction, George 

 M. Irwin ; Adju- 

 tant General, B. B. 

 Tuttle all Repub- 

 licans ; Fish and 

 Game Protector, 

 Hollister D. Mc- 

 Guire ; Food and 

 Dairy Commission- 

 er, W. W. Baker; 

 Railroad Commis- 

 sioners, I. A. Ma- 

 crum, J. B. Eddy, 

 and A. I. Wagner ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Frank A. 

 Moore; Associate Justices, Robert S. Bean and 

 Charles E. Wolverton; Clerk, J. J. Murphy all 

 Republicans. 



Finances. The receipts into the State treasury 

 during the biennial term ending Dec. 31, 1898, in- 

 cluding the balance on hand, were $2,777,031.50; 

 the disbursements from the several funds were 

 $2,013,322.27; leaving a balance of $763,699.23. 

 Oregon has no State debt. The principal of the 

 common-school fund, which was $150,398.28 at the 

 close of 1896, is now nearly three times as much. 

 The tax levy for 1899 is greatly increased, on ac- 

 count of appropriations made by the special session, 

 for objects not anticipated or contemplated by the 

 board when the tax levy was made, to wit : $33,- 

 000 for the eastern Oregon Asylum lands, $41,000 

 for the unorganized Legislature of 1897, $15,000 for 

 the Omaha Exposition, $25,000 for an agricultural 

 college building, and others, making in all about 

 $200.000 in excess of the amount levied by the 

 board, or one fourth of the entire tax levy. The 

 rate for 1898 was 3 mills, for 1899 it is fixed at 

 5i 7 - mills. 



Education. The State Superintendent recom- 

 mends in his report that third-grade certificates be 

 abolished ; that the course of study to be pursued 

 by students in private schools who desire to obtain 

 State diplomas be made uniform ; that the law 

 making county superintendents ex officio members 

 of the State Board of Examiners be amended so 

 that all examination papers of candidates for State 

 or life diplomas must be passed upon by members 

 of the State Board of Examiners under supervision 

 of the State Superintendent ; that the number of 

 subjects upon which applicants for State and life 

 diplomas must be examined be increased ; that only 

 normal schools established by the State be per- 

 mitted to grant teachers' diplomas, and that the 

 number of such schools be limited to three one 

 each at Monmouth, Ashland, and W r eston. 



The Portland schools had 11,345 pupils and 278 

 teachers during the year ending in^ June. The 

 school population of the State is 129,956. 



The State University at Eugene has more than 

 500 students. 



Under the present system the State has a loan 



