8&t2             :              APPENDIX.
Parties going to Oregon by way of Chicago will find at the office of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, No. 52 Clark street, full information with respect to routes and connections, and locations in Oregon and Washington will be freely described and pamphlets furnished. Upon arriving at Portland immigrants will find it to their advantage to call at the office of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, corner Front and D streets, where valuable information can be obtained.
But one class of tickets (first-class) is sold over river lines. Emigrants' movables are carried at greatly reduced rates. The steamers and trains of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company leave Portland daily for The Dalles, Walla Walla, Eastern Oregon and all Columbia and Snake River points, and steamers also connect daily at Kalama with the Northern Pacific Railroad for Tacoma, Seattle and Victoria.' Trains also leave Portland daily on the Oregon and California railroad lines for all points in the Willamette Valley.
RULING PRICES.
Taken in the aggregate, the cost of living is less in Oregon and Washington Territory than in the Atlantic States, and no greater than in the Western States. Some commodities and general merchandise are held at higher prices than east of the Rocky Mountains; but all the products of the soil are comparatively cheap, notwithstanding the higher rates of wages. For the past two years, wheat in bulk at Portland has ranged from 80 cents to $1.60 per cental; oats, 45 to 50 cents; potatoes, 40 to 75 cents; flax seed, $2, and onions, $1 per bushel; best quality flour, $4.50 to $5 per barrel. Good farm horses cost about $100 each; oxen, $125 per yoke; good average milch cows, $25; sheep, $1.25 to $2.50 per head; wool, common graded, 25 cents per pound; beef on the hoof is worth 3 to 4 cents; butchered beef, 5 to 71 cents; choice cuts, 10 to 14 cents; chickens, per dozen, $3 to $5; tame ducks, per pair, $1.50; geese, per pair, $3; turkeys, per pair, $3; wild ducks, per pair, 50 to 75 cents; wild geese, per pair, $1.50; pheasants, per pair, 62 cents; grouse, per pair, 75 cents; venison, 10 to 12 cents per pound. Subjoined is the list of prices which ruled at Portland ;n December, 1881, for the articles named:
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.                        CANDLES.
Farm wagons, $103 to $140.              Paraffine, per pound, 22½ to 25 cents.
Gang plow, $100 to $110.                Grant's, per pound, 13 cents.
Walking plow, $10 to $30.             I Gross & Co., per pound, 15 cents.
Buckeye grain-drill, nine to eighteen hoe,  Emery's, 12 cents. $110 to $140.                                    DAIRY PRODUCTS.
Buckeye seeder and cultivator, eleven to four- IDAIRY r    OD CT .
~teen tooth, $90~.           Butter, fancy, fresh roll, per pound, 323
tFan  tooth, $35 to 40                  cents; good to fair, 15 to 30 cents; comFan mills, $35 to $40.
Feed mills (choppers) $65 to $                a100ll sapes, 10 to 20 cents.
Fee~lSpring wagons, $1406 to 0260.      Oregon cheese, new factory, per pound, 14 to
ns, $140 to  16 cents; good to choice, 15 to 16 cents.
COFFEE.                 Eggs, per dozen, 35 cents.
Old Government Java, per pound, 20 to 22            DRIED F   IT
cents.                *                            D        RIED FRUITS.
cents.
eosta Rica, per pound, 15 to 1ia cents.  Apples, machine cured, per pound, 10 cents. CGautemala, lS poun i 15 to 14 1 cents. r  Apples, sun cured, per pound, 7 cents.
Pears, sun cured, per pound, 5 to 6 cents.
COAL OIL.               i ears, machine cured, box, 10 cents.
Crystalline, 30 cents.                  Peaches, Plummer dried, per pound, 12 to 14
Downur's, 40 cents.                      cents.
Standard brands, per gallon, 30 to 35 cents.  Plums, sun cured, pitless, per pound, 10 Leval oil, 110 degrees, 80 cents.        cents.