OREGON. 



613 



The imports, domestic and foreign, amounted 

 to $28,078,594. These figures are not in all 

 respects complete, but they are as nearly so as 

 it was possible to make them. The product of 

 the mines of eastern and southern Oregon is 

 at least $1,000,000. 



Railroads. The most important incident of 

 the year was the completion of the Northern 

 Pacific Railroad. Although but four months 

 had passed at the close of the year since the 

 last rail was laid, the advantages of direct con- 

 nection with the Eastern States were already 

 felt in every part of Oregon and Washington. 

 The new line is rapidly working a revolution 

 in the business of the country. Relations long 

 existing with San Francisco still retain a hold, 

 but their grasp is gradually loosening, and the 

 time is not far away when the people will only 

 buy in California things which are produced 

 there. The trade of the Northwest is turning 

 eastward, where buyers have equal opportu- 

 nities with the San Francisco houses which 

 have heretofore supplied them. 



The most conspicuous effect of the new di- 

 rect connection is the presence of hundreds and 

 thousands of new people. Immigrants were 

 arriving at the close of 1883 at a rate which 

 would add 40,000 to the population in a year. 

 Most of the new-comers are farmers, and near- 

 ly all have a little capital. 



The Northern Pacific, on the 1st of January, 

 had the following completed mileage in the 

 Northwest: 



Miles. 



From Wallula northeast to Montana 350 



From Kalama, on the Columbia river, to Tacoma, on 



Puget Sound 105 



From Tacoma southeast to Wilkson (about) 32 



Total 487 



Added during the year : 



Miles. 



From Portland to a point opposite Kalama 42 



From point opposite Ainsworth up to Yakima river 25 



Present total mileage 554 



The Yakima branch will be extended twenty- 

 five miles immediately. 



At the beginning of the year the Oregon and 

 Transcontinental Company had not a mile of 

 road in the Northwest, but since that time it 

 has completed two lines connecting with the 

 Northern Pacific, as follows : 



Miles. 

 From Stuck River Junction to Black River Junction (the 



link connecting Seattle and Tacoma) 20 



From Palouse Junction to "front," eight miles east of 



Colfax 101 



Total 121 



The latter road is being rapidly extended, 

 and will terminate at Moscow, I. T., reaching 

 that point early in 1884. 



At the beginning of the year the Oregon 



Railway and Navigation Company had the fol- 

 lowing mileage : 



Miles. 



From Portland to Bolles Junction W. T 270 



From Bolles Junction to Dayton, W . T 18 



From Bolles Junction to Riparia, W. T 81 



From Umatilla to Pendleton 48 



Total 857 



Added during the year : 



From Pendleton to four miles east of the summit of the 



Blue mountains 80 



From Walla Wall* to Blue Mountain station 20 



From Pendleton toward Blue Mountain station 7 



Total for the year 87 



Present total mileage 444 



The Baker City branch is being pushed with 

 vigor, and it is proposed to extend it to a junc- 

 tion with the Oregon Short Line at Hunting- 

 ton, 117 miles east of its present front, during 

 the coming year. The Pendleton and Walla 

 Walla link was to be completed early in 1884. 



At the beginning of the year the Oregon 

 and California Company had the following com- 

 pleted mileage : 



Miles. 

 From Portland south to the l> front," 54 miles south of 



Roseburg 252 



From Portland to Corvallis . 97 



Total 84 



Added during the year : 



Extension south of Roseburg 70 



Total present mileage 419 



During the coming year this line will be ex- 

 tended to a junction with the California sec- 

 tion of the road, south of the State line. 



The Oregon Improvement Company is build- 

 ing a line twenty-five miles or longer east from 

 Seattle to the coal-field's of Green river. It 

 will be completed early in 1884. 



The Oregon Short Line is coming rapidly 

 westward, and will meet the Oregon Railway 

 and Navigation road at Huntington, Idaho, in 

 the autumn of 1884. 



Temperance and Female Suffrage. The annual 

 meeting of the State Temperance Alliance was 

 held at Albany on February 21st. There were 

 present 287 delegates, representing 85 organi- 

 zations, as follows: Lodges, 29; churches, 20; 

 Sunday-schools, 18; alliances, etc., 7; Blue- 

 Rihbon Clubs, 4 ; W. 0. T. U., 3 ; Band of Hope, 

 2 ; United Order of Ancient Templars, 2. 



The Woman's Christian Temperance Asso- 

 ciation of Oregon held its annual meeting in 

 Portland, on June 15th. No action of special 

 importance was taken by either body. The 

 Oregon State Woman Suffrage Association held 

 its eleventh annual convention in Portland on 

 the 13th of February. Measures were taken 

 toward a vigorous campaign in behalf of the 

 constitutional amendment which is to be sub- 

 mitted to the people in June, 1884. 



