HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF OREGON, November 1, 1861

Fort Vancouver, November 1, 1861.

By oversight, this was not sent to department headquarters at an earlier day. It is now respectfully forwarded. A, CADY, Lieutenant-Colonel Seventh Infantry, Commanding District.

WILLARD’S HOTEL, October 19, 1861. THOMAS A. SCOTT:

DEAR Sir: While at Altoona last evening I received the following dispatch, which may be of interest:

The Pacific telegraph line completed to Utah. A dispatch from Brigham Young, dated Great Salt Lake City, October 18, to J. H. Wade, president of Pacific Telegraph Company, at Cleveland, Ohio, congratulates him and his associates upon the success of the enterprise, and expresses his devotion to the constitutional Government of the United States.

The line from San Francisco to Great Salt Lake City is nearly completed, and direct telegraphic communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific will no doubt be established by 1st of November.

Very respecttully, ANSON STAGER.