Features the first appearance of a two-page "Report of Mr. Medary, from the committee . . . of the citizens of Columbus to collect information in relation to the territory of Oregon." The report is illustrated by an engraved "Map of the Territory of Oregon" by H.F. Wheeler, quite unusual for a newspaper of this period. The report and map were later published as a pamphlet, "Report on the Territory of Oregon," last seen at auction in the 1969 Streeter sale, VI:3353, where it brought $450.
