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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
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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