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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1877)
VOL. 3 No. 4. POKTLAND, OREGON, DECEMBER, 1877. AN OREGON WINTER, Whilst bleak December winds are sweeping over all the Eastern aim Western States, we in the most north western section of the Union, in the same latitude as New York, but with climate tempered by the Gulf Stream, are still basking In the mellow sunshine of n late Indian summer. At this writing, December 22, the sun is bright overhead, with the thermometer ranging from 55 to 70 degrees. Roses and many of the more tender varieties of shrubs are in full bloom outdoors. The grass is growing finely, wild straw berries are blooming on the hill-sides, whilst now and then blackberries and raspberries are still being gathered from belated bushes. Just think of it, you dwellers of New York, Boston, "Philadelphia, Chicago, and other large cities, who are paying fancy prices for a diminutive hot-house bouquet to dec orate your Christmas or New Years1 dinner-table with, that here in dear Oregon it is within reach of the poor est to have their Christmas tree dec orated with the very choicest of flow ers, grown in Nature's most favored floral park, "the Pacific Northwest." Nor is this an unusual winter. During the winter of 1876-7 the grass at no time slopped growing, and at no time were roseduishes without either buds or full blown roses. To a new-comer our winter rains may at first seem disagree able, and yet they insure m never failing and bountiful crops, whilst poor, parched up California, is longing fo these verv rains. Once acclimatised U Oregon, and no sane person wmild ever wish to live anywhere else. 1 11 WE WISH I A M cm i MAS