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minds to start for Oregon without delay, with theirl
eyes fastened upon some particular spot in Oregon!
suitable for their purposes.
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western parts of the state where there is rich soil for
farming and fruit-raising and plenty of grazing
ground for dairy herds and sheep.
Some of those hardy pioneers who transformed
the eastern states into Valleys of Paradise, back
there where the climate is severe both in winter and
in summer, would marvel over the opportunities there
are in Oregon to do a better job with better and bigger
returns, because nature makes it possible to do
farming in Oregon on a vastly more profitable scale.
In Bill Strandborg’s “Open Window,” Paul B.
McKee, who is managing the California-Oregon Power
Company’s interests at Medford, writes:
When I say that business conditions are good in our terri
tory I am speaking of a wide spread of agricultural country
extending north and south three hundred and fifty miles and
east and west one hundred miles. Many substantial towns
and scattered industrial plants give us a diversification of
business that is always helpful. While winter weather closes
down some of our logging camps and saw mills we make
gains in other directions.
The gross income for ten months of 1924 more than equalled
our entire year of 1923 and collections have been proportion
ately better.
New hotels, garages and other enterprises directly con
nected with tourist traffic
— - have made their appearance in
many of our towns indicating the importance of this new
industry.
Jobbing business grows rapidly at Medford as the back
country builds up. The pear industry enjoyed a very profit
able year, and lumber manufacturing has taken a big place
in the pay roll total of the Rogue River Valley. Klamath
Falls seems to have just fairly started as a great lumbering
and industrial center. Dunsmuir and Yreka, California, are
surprising us with new business contracts while Grants Pass
and Roseburg, Oregon, continue to make demands on us for
power that reflects a most encouraging expansion in every
line of activity.
This is just a ¡bird’s-eye view of the progress made
and in the making that is centered in the territory
in Southern Oregon in which Mr. McKee is located.
Here is another one from “The Open Window” from
J. P. Lottridge, in charge of the affairs of the Eastern
Oregon Light & Power Co., at Baker in Eastern
Oregon:
While business conditions in the territory served by the
Eastern Oregon Light and Power Company have not been
all that could 'be desired during the past year, the improve
ment in agricultural conditions leads me to believe that we
are going to see a marked improvement during the coming
year. I do not anticipate that this improvement will be
particularly noticeable during the next six months. Our
communities depend very largely on agriculture, lumber and
mining. During the winter months these activities are more
or less handicapped by winter conditions, so that it will be
three or four months at least before we can determine whether
or not the present indications of improved conditions are
substantial or not.
I have great faith in Eastern Oregon and feel that there
can be no doubt about its ultimate growth and prosperity.
The recent election gave all classes of business the
assurance they needed of fair treatment, and I feel that our
entire section will respond to this assurance at the first
opportunity.
The voices from other sections of the state are
chiming in with similar testimonials of progress and
activities that are indicative of an advance all along
the line.
Those who have friends “back east” who are con
templating coming west, should send them such litera
ture of Oregon as would help them to make up their
CHINA’S INTERNAL DILEMMA
rp HE POLITICAL situation in China where the I
ancient Manchu dynasty of kings was overthrown!
several years ago and a republic established after al
fashion, has come to a pass when it is difficult to say I
just what kind of government there is in China. Any-I
one trying to shed some light on the subject usually!
gets half through with his discource when new de
velopments have altered the situation sufficiently to I
prevent the finish of the discussion with a tangible!
conclusion.
Brigands and “carpet-baggers” are runing amuck I
all over the country, which is said to have a population
of more than four hundred million inhabitants. Chris-1
tianity and the occidentals’ civilization may have done
a great deal for a few individual Chinese people, but
there is evidently something yet to be added to the
mixture to make Christianity and Western civili
zation produce a satisfactory blend with Buddhism,
Confucianism and what is called oriental culture or
civilization, such as it is.
China’s outlook as a republic-was exceedingly bright,
but all the bright dreams have vanished and their
materialization can hardly be considered “a matter
of time.”
To understand Chinese politics, however, is proba
bly as much of a “Gordian knot” to the occidental as |
his problem to figure out how the Chinese hierogly
phic signs can be reduced to articulate human speech.
While the procession of chaos and insurrections
in China is constantly passing in review, and foreign
nations are maintaining military guards amounting
to army units of war strength around legations and
foreign business centers in the Chinese cities, with
foreign missions raided and the missionaries
murdered or carried off into the mountain retreats
by the bandit armies, where they are held for huge
ransom, the world is anxiously awaiting the results
of the peoples’ conference in China which was scheduled
to meet on the 24th of January. This conference
is called for the purpose of settling the issues between
the powers now in open warfare against one another;
the conservative, the reactionary, the progressive and
the radical elements. The element having the
strongest support is then supposed to be given the
power to organize the government.
One of the strongest factors in the Chinese
political field is the present president of southern
China, Sun Yat-Sen, who has the support of the so-
called Kwamintang party and the Christian General
Feng. The president of the rebellious northern sections,
Ohi-Juis, though a formidable factor, is not thought
strong enough to get the endorsement of the con
ference and become elected president of all China.
The army generals are, however, playing a strong
part as independent leaders, and predictions regard
ing the outcome of the conference vary.
Educated Chinese who venture to offer expla
nations may be right or wrong in their analysis of
cause and effect, but though they speak with re
luctance regarding foreign influences as potential