THE OREGON STATE JOURNAL, Eugene City, Nov. 6, 1875

• Rare old Pacific Northwest publication

Today Eugene is the second largest city in Oregon. A typical newspaper of the day with news, interesting tidbits, and a wealth of advertisements.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, very nice condition.

Background: Printed just a decade after the community was incorporated, the November 6, 1875 issue of The Oregon State Journal is a rare and vital piece of Pacific Northwest history, capturing Eugene City during a crucial transitional era. While early Oregon territorial and state newspapers are exceptionally scarce due to low original print runs and poor survival rates, copies from this specific period carry heightened historical significance: they document a frontier agricultural community on the verge of its major identity shift, recorded just one year before the opening of the University of Oregon in 1876. Its four pages are packed with fascinating 19th-century content, blending localized frontier updates, legal notices, land claims, and unfiltered editorial commentary on inner pages with a rich, full-page mosaic of period advertisements, remedies, and merchant listings on the outer leaves. Surmounting its rarity, an intact, four-page complete issue that was never bound into a volume nor trimmed by a binder represents a preserved artifact offering an authentic slice of everyday life in the Willamette Valley.