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TERRITORIAL PERIOD

1. John P. Young, Journalism in California, 5.
2. Seventh census, 1850.
3. Issue of December 10, 1846, Vol. 1, No. 23.
4. The telegraph had been invented in 1844 but its Pacific coast use was still far off.
5. Spectator, February 19, 1846.
6. Spectator, March 19, 1846.
7. Spectator, July 9, 1846.
8. July 23, 1846.
9. Spectator. March 19, 1846.
10. Spectator. June 11, 1846.
11. See article by Miss Edith Dobie, University of Washington history staff, in Washington Historical Quarterly, April, 1927.
12. Mr. Pettygrove soon moved to Portland. the new village "12 miles below this city."
13. Spectator, February 5, Vol. 1, No. 1.
14. Spectator, February 5, 1846, Vol. 1, No. 1.
15. Spectator, October 15, 1846, Vol. 1, No. 19.
16. December 10, under the editorship of George L. Curry.
17. loc. cit.
18. Spectator, April 29, 1847.
19. Spectator, March 14, 1847. Vol, 2. No. 3.
20. Vol. 2. No. 10.
21. In Vol. 1, No. 17, September 17, 1846.
22. Vol. 2, No. 2, February 18, 1847.
23. Oregon Historical Quarterly, v. 3, 337.
24. Issue of May 14.
25. April 2.
26. See page 49.
27. When the paper actually appeared, these men had faded from the picture, and the name of Asahel Bush, man who was to be a leader in Oregon life for many years, appeared as the editor. See page 75.
28. Himes. Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3. page 354-5.
29. Oregon pioneer of 1843.
30. Like H. A. G. Lee and some other Oregon newspaper men and printers, Hudson made a comfortable fortune ($21,000 in his case) in the California gold mines. He returned to Oregon and died at sea, in December, 1850, on his way back to the golden state.
31. By George H. Himes, O. H. Q., Vol, 3, 345-9.
32. George W. Fuller, A History of the Pacific Northwest, 289.
33. C. B. Bagley, O. H. Q., December, 1912.
34. It is the opinion of George H. Himes that the hiatus in the publication of the Oregon Statesman as the Statesman, in the period when it was dominated by the Unionist owner and carried the name Statesman and Unionist, clouds the Statesman's claim to unbroken continuity from territorial days. It is the general habit, however, to concede continuity to the Statesman, through its connection with the Unionist.
35. In the Oregonian's semi-centennial issue, December 4, 1900.
36. loc. cit. (Oregonian).
37. Citation from Ladd & Bush Quarterly.
38. Semi-centennial of Oregonian, December 4, 1900.
39. loc. cit.
40. Oregon State Journal, July 22, 1893.
41. Oregonian, December 4, 1900.
42. loc. cit.
43. Oregonian, January 6, 1887.
44. That of Millard Fillmore.