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raised for a mere trifle, and the cost of shipping a barrel of beef from 

 the Columbia river, east of Puget Sound — where in winter it is cold 

 enough to pack — by rail to the Sound, and thence to Liverpool or 

 London by ship, is but two dollars and fifty cents, allowing for insur- 

 ance and transhipment. In fact, it will cost less per bushel to ship 

 wheat from the Pelouse country to Liverpool than it does from West- 

 ern Illinois or Iowa, and in the former place, with the same class of 

 culture, thirty bushels to the acre may be had as against fifteen to 

 twenty in the latter. Col. Mercer showed specimens of wool which 

 were pronounced first quality by Mr. F. D. Curtis. 



Adjourned. 



