Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . ek, welearn that there were some four thousand miners in Portland fifteen days ago,awaiting the opening of navigation to the upper country. Hundreds were arriv-ing by every steamer, and the town was literally filled to overflowing. Underdate of April 5th, the same paper gives the following pertinent information:From one hundred and thirty to one hundred and forty passengers, on theirway to the mines, come up to Wallula on every steamer, and the majority ofthem foot it through to this plac
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Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . ek, welearn that there were some four thousand miners in Portland fifteen days ago, awaiting the opening of navigation to the upper country. Hundreds were arriv-ing by every steamer, and the town was literally filled to overflowing. Underdate of April 5th, the same paper gives the following pertinent information:From one hundred and thirty to one hundred and forty passengers, on theirway to the mines, come up to Wallula on every steamer, and the majority ofthem foot it through to this place (Walla Walla). By the last of May it wasestimated by some that between twenty-five and thirty thousand persons hadreached or were en route to the mining regions east of the Cascades, but con-servative men now in Walla Walla regard that a great overestimate. The mer-chants of Walla Walla profited largely through the patronage of the ever advanc-ing column of prospectors and miners, but the farmers did not fare so well, owingto the extreme devastations of the severe winter just passed. Enough has been. OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 129 said to indicate the causes which led to the rapid settlement and development ofEastern Washington and Oregon—an advancement that might have taken manyyears to accomplish had it not been for the discovery of gold in so romantic amanner. The yield of gold reported through regular channels for the year 1862aggregated fully seven million dollars, and it is certain that several millionswere also sent out through mediums which gave no record. In February, 1S62, food products and merchandise commanded the followingprices at Florence: flour, $1 per pound; bacon, $1.25; butter, $3; cheese, $1.50;lard, $1.25; sugar, $1.25; coffee, $2.00; tea, $2.50; gum boots per pair, $30;shovels, from twelve to sixteen dollars. That year of 1861 was a great year in the annals of Walla Walla County.Cattle drives, gold discovery, hard winter. Civil war! The last named stupendo