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t Governor Gibbs Raises a Regiment. In 1864 Governor Gibbs was ordered by the War Department to raise a regiment of infantry volunteers, a difficult task which he creditably accomplished. There was so much opposition to the requirements of the Governor's proclamation that it was seriously proposed to resort to conscription, but this drastic course was finally abandoned.

The Salmon Industry. From time immemorial the coast tribes of Oregon Indians have subsisted largely on fish — mostly salmon—which find their way into all our mountain streams. When Captain Wyeth came to Oregon in the riiftto by Weister. OBEOON SALMON CANNERY early 30's, he conceived the possibility of shipping salmon to outside markets and he established a plant for salting them for commercial purposes. TTiis plant was located at Fort William—Wyeth's trading station on the west shore of Sauvie's Island, opposite the Scappoose Mountain. Furthermore he recognized the fact that the salmon industry

appropriating a portion of her blue riding skirt, inasmuch as suitable cloth for the field could not be purchased. The national emblem was then publicly dedicated; and at the Fourth of July celebration following it was announced that this was the first time the "Stars and Stripes" floated to the breezes of Eastern Oregon on an occasion of that kind.