The easiest way of reaching Oregon. and the one usually traveled. is by rail to San Francisco. and thence by the circuitous seavoyage to Portland. And yet frota Salt Lake Valley to the settled portions of Oreron is not nearly so far as it is to where the seavoyage begins. Fron kelton. in Salt Lake Valley to San Francisco it is quite as far as it is to Astoria. in Oregon. and i need not add that a voyage on the ocean is regarded with undefined dread by emigrants with their fainIlies. who are unaccustomed to traveling by sea. It does seem to me that Congress ought to do something to lessen the difficulties of neaehing this great and inviting portion of our country. Hitherto we have not received the benelicial legislation that other States have had to aid in the building of railroads.
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