Speech #460063544

If there is no objection to the request of the Senator from Oregon. the memorial will be reported at length. The memorial was read. as follows: Memorial of the undersigned. officials of the State of Oregon. showeth: 1. That the population of the State is increasing at a very rapid rate. an immigration of upward of twenty thousand persons having been received in the year 1878. as proved by the statistics of the Portland Board of Trade. 2. That the principal towns of the State being situated. and the larger portion of the population settled in the Willamette Valley. the exports and imports from that country are being so largely increased that the need of additional oftls for the traffic of the State is severely felt. practically passengers and goods having now to pass both inward and outward through the port of Portland. situated on the Willametto River. only twelve miles from the northern boundary of the State. 3. That by the opening of the harbor called Yaquia Bay. a port will ho provided only sixty miles from the center of the Willamette Valley. never closed by ice or rendered inaccessible by stormy weather. and ofeing natural facilities by safe deepwater channel. commodious anchorage. and abundant space for all tho shipping that will resort there. 4.