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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1879)
228 THE WEST SHORE. August, 1879 On this page will le found an en graving of the new city hall at Vie- iiin, n. C It it a substantial itructure (if stone and brick, in keeping with the balance of the buildings in this beauti ful city. It is completed as far as lh0WA hnt in really Only a Wing of what the building will be when en tirely finished, a few years hence. The iity oiiiiers already occupy the com- modlotll offices set aside for them in ibis wing, and the city council holds its weekly matting! in the large room on the upper floor. To the right of the dty ball nay ba seen the Masonic temple, also an elegant I nick slimline, nisi completed by the Masonic frater nity oi Ictoria. bushel, and yielded 14 bushels to the acre. Thi hi an average rrop. Mr. Ilowen adds: " We have but one crop in live which we call good." We re gret very much that Mr. H. did not state what their good crops yielded per acre; but if there is any rust-stricken field of any size in the State of Oregon, which yielded less than 14 bushels of merchantable wheat per acre, we should like to hear of it. It must be borne in mind too that I. astern Oregon and the great wheat-producing Walla Walla country have larger crops this year than ever before, and not a par ticle of 1 list has appeared in that sec lion. Fall wheat everywhere yields absorbing subject, crops, came up for discussion, when thf jjentlcman wliu : shared the scat with us, and who had just given us highly seasoned dishes on the early downfall of the country, based on his personal observation, having, at he claimed, traveled extensively and examined the rust carefully, pointed to a field just then seen from the car window and remarked: "Now, that wheat is hardly worth cutting." "No,"' said a well known Marion county farmer on the seat behind us, who had up to this time actively opposed our neighbor's gloomy predictions ; u as wheal it is not worth cutting, but it it the finest patch of oats I have seen this KM I NIK CITY HAM, U Vti rORIA, H. C Pram a Photo by R, Mtynarf, III! OUTLOOK heavily, and that bugbear rust has Notwithstanding the carelesi and imaged spring wheat only, ami that damaging articta pubHahad by the 'j on low ground, The actual Oregon prws regarding our crop proa- "rusl iuflcrer" will be (bund on low pevts, Wr have niiv u-asoti 1,, hovr ground in the counties of .i and that KMcxpoit -.1 win at limn iht I'.i I am , whilst vi ,1,,,,,,, ,.ls H.vn ,,iu Northwest will be uu gtwajtai than done in Douglas, Benton and Polk, and any previous wwn in the history of very little, If any. in Marion county. tlu .... 11.- A A. II l fV.. . ... .,......,. .,h-,si ;i inn nesenp. 1.1 show how very little is known of lion ..I which will lie I. mud on page lust, and how easily exaggerated re- 146 ha done m.ihc damage, but b n.rts f daman earn into circulation. no MOM as much ... SMM paOpla we note the f,.wig. as e ,.f the mountains' is well watered, has a rich, w.mio nave iiMKi.eve. wa NH Dt hundred instances vshich have come ,,Blk l i" convenient to tout hue us a sample oi Iowa wheat, kindly uuder our observation within the past Inere ls rot"n m tnW v" -sent u by 1. W. Bowen, Esq, It i.ofthree weeks: Whilst on the () . C .'Uv,," "fivc ,,r thirl WH rue J, o. . o ,e n. k. nam a, few days ago, the all- Chance is an unseen cause. GRAVE'S CREEK VALLEY, IDAHO. There is plenty of good farming land on Crane's creek still open I'm settle mcnt, and there are few places that nfTer bctlcr inducements to settlers. Siiu.it, d midway between the -.itlc- in. Mis mi the Payette and the I'pptl Wciser, it would have all the advan tages of the extensive stock ran'c in the country between those valleys, lie sides being nearer market than the I'ppcr Weiser countrv. The portion of the vallev near the haae of the for the