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The proceedings of the con vention were published in the leading journals of the coast, but the project received no encouragement from legislators, nor did Lane lend himself to the scheme farther than to present the memorial to congress.

11 On the contrary, he wrote to the Jacksonville malecon- tents that he could not approve of their action, which would, as he could easily discern, delay the admission of Oregon as a state, a consummation wished for by his supporters, to whom he essayed to add the demo crats of southern Oregon.

Nothing further was thenceforward heard of the projected new territory.

Nothing was more indicative of the change taking place with the introduction of gold than the improve ment in the means of transportation on the Willamette and Columbia rivers, which was now performed by steamboats.

The navigation of the Willamette was much im peded by rocks and rapids.