The Grand Ronde and Sand Lake Clay wagon road, in Tillamook County, has, been opened to travel since April 1. The road is being constantly improved. The grades ---- ---- have been materially widened and improved. The road is a great value to settlers of the district. The whole section of country is being rapidly filled by desirable men and families.

The steamer Augusta sailed yesterday at 1:00 P.M. for Tillamook.

Anxious to Have Them-The steamer Gussie sailed at noon yesterday for Tillamook with a full cargo of freight. She took among other things a coop contained several pairs of Mon----pheasants, which are to be turned loose there to stock that section. Although some farmers in the Willamette valley complain of these birds as a pest, people of other sections are very anxious to secure them, and it will not be many years before they will be found in every state of the Union.  

Tillamook Life-Saving Station

Following is a copy of Hermann's bill, introduced March 28, to provide a life-saving station at the entrance of Tillamook bay:
Be it enacted, etc., that there be and is hereby established a life-saving station at the entrance of Tillamook bay, in the state of Oregon, and the secretary of the treasury is hereby required to provide for such establishment and supply the same with such necessary life-saving crew and furnishings as are provided by law and under existing regulations in like cases; provided, that the same shall not cost more than $10,000 which sum shall be available for said purpose out of the present year's estimates. 

Life-saving stations will be established at Tillamook bay and at the mouth of the Siuslaw river, $10,000 having been recommended for this purpose at each point. Disaster has often proved the necessity that exists for life-saving stations at these points, and it is hoped that the appropriation will be not be withheld and the construction delayed until further evidence of so distressing a character is furnished. The life-saving system of the government is a grand conception, and one that is a credit alike to the humanity of the nation and the executive ability of its superintendent. The Pacific coast has not been fairly dealt with in the distribution of this service , owing, perhaps, to its remoteness and the pressing demands of the service on the Atlantic gulf and lake coasts. The protection of life, as well as the growing commerce of this region demand attention from the life saving service and it is gratifying to note that persistent effort on the part of our representatives has at last been able to arouse it.