| Show T ANOTHER CHROMO I 5 r i 4t4i l to Something About Oregon and Its S Oitie > r I I 1 PORTLAND Oregon May 12th 1882 Editors Herald I believe my last was dated Rose burg Well we left there on the train for Portland 170 miles In our country we would call a rain storm but here it is pretty goo d Whe asking if there is much such weather Oh yes plenty but it will clear off next month I made the remark that a country with moss growing on trees and shingles from 4 inch to inches thick was not the country for me to live in A gentleman gentle-man spoke up Well now just hold on That is nothin for all these baldheaded old timers have got moss on their heads They have been here so long some of them really look as though they were petrified and holding out until nature should start fossiliferous museum Oregon City and Salem are very nice places also many others as a general gen-eral thing of good soil well watered profusely so The timber is well brushed up throughout the country At Auburn our crank gave us a matinee in which the knockdown trick and handcuff acts were very i nicely rendered to the entire satisfaction satis-faction of the principal actors He wheezed like a wind broken horse through the silver tube in his throat Some time ago he had an obstruction in the throat which was cut and a tube placed in In the excitement the little plug blew out and the escaping steam was mild Portland is considerable of a place and is increasing steadily and in a solid manner It is destined to be a heavy business centre as the roads stretch out and connect at the various vari-ous junctions Several large substantial sub-stantial buildings are in course of construction the outskirts are being dotted with new houses The Oregon Ore-gon R N company have a magnificent mag-nificent block of buildings for the various departments of their business busi-ness Hotels here are on the European Euro-pean plan and plenty of them with private boarding and lodging houses in abundance To a stranger it looks like a town of hotels The foundries are doing a good business Shipping is lively moving grain flour wagons machinery and merchandise mer-chandise as though something was doing up the country All the boats coming from Frisco are loaded for various points along the river I saw at least two runners at the wharf and depot but with glasses there may have been a few more It took all my time to watch the one with my luggage Per fear of writing you into futurity I will close Yours respectfully CHRCWIO |
