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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1880)
March, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. 9' productions, settled upon. The southern ami erst- The grains raised in the county are Brn P,,l ll(" of the county is most dense wheat, oats, barley, rye, flax Mid corn, v populated, while the north-western Wheat will avciage thirty bushels to P01'li,m is sP'i"selv settled, and only a the acre, and crops of fifty buihela are ' ima" a,"r,,,,,t f land entered. There not unfrequent Oats average sixty a' IO(' claims of government land In and occasionally a hundred bushels are :l" l):lrts ot" county open for settle obtained. Barley yields about the same !mcnt' Government lands may be en as oats. Rye, forty to fifty bushels. tered under the homestead, pre-emption Corn will average about twentv-live bushels to the acre. The yield of tim othy hay is from two to four tons. All kinds of vegetables are here raised. Potatoes will average about three hun dred bushels to the acre. Most of the tender vegetables are at present raised on Snake river, hut with proper care they can be raised In other portions of tne county. t his county is well adapt ed to fruit raising, but there are at present, very few large orchards. How ever, our farmers are paying more at tention to this industry, and in the fu ture we may expect to be classed among the fruit raising counties of the Territory. Some seasons we may ex pect a partial failure of the fruit crop, caused by early frosts, but this very seldom occurs. Crops never fail in the Falouse country. STOCK Of all kinds do well here, and stock raising, especially horses and sheep, is a profitable branch of industry. In win ter it is necessary to prepare plenty of hay for cattle, as they do not succeed in obtaining food by pawing in the same manner as horses and sheep. Hogs do well throughout the entire county, bM are less profitable than horses, cattle and I sheep, owing to the fact that they are brbladen by law, from running at large. IJsut notwithstanding this, then is plen ty ot hacon m the country lor home consumption. During ordinary winters, cattle need but little feed, and generally beef of the fust quality is killed oil" the Brass during die entire winter. 1 he (prices for slock are generally good. IWork horses sell at from fifty to one j L, ll;m. lundred dollars per head. Cattle range ,.. ' ,;,. f . IIIUIII M:eil WOIUIJS MM XiiUlMIS, Ml twenty and twcniy-five dollars for four wear olds, bheep are worth three dol lars per head, alter being sheared. Hogs are at present, quite cheap, aver aging about three and a half cents gross weight. The following are the present prices fcsked by our merchants for the ordinary Articles of household use: flour, per barrel SI 00 nun, ptr pound 16 lam, pir pound 16 Htouiuurt, psr pousd. .. Kl VOdi-c, pT pound 28 IBRer, pur pound Ifl Ben, per pound MS jvrup, per i jmllon keg 00 Coal Oil, per 6 Killoii enn 4 00 Ken, per box l Vtto 2 50 kill, from 10'e up, ttc; Iruui lu'edovii I.' 0OVKINMSMT LANDS. Not more than one-tenth of the gov Bumcm lands in this county have been and timber-culture laws. THK N. p. n. it. The line of the N. 1', R. R. com mences at the mouth of Snake river in the southwestern portion of this coun ty, and extends in a northeasterly direc tion for about one hundred and eight miles and leaves the county at the north west corner of Township 10 , Range 17 E, being near the north side of Big Lake. The N. 1'. R. R. has in this county about one and a half million acres of land, which they are offering to cash purchasers for $:() per acre, exe cuting for the same an Instrument called a cash certificate, for which they will substitute a deed in fee simple as soon as they receive title from the govern ment. They also offer liberal Inducements to parties who wish to purchase on time, but charge such purchasers i00 per acre, to be paid, one-fourth cash down, and the rest in four equal annual payments, with interest at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. The following table will afford the reader an idea of how time purchasers arc dealt with and how annual pay mi nts of principal ami Interest are made. For example, take a ipiatlcr section, of one hundred and sixty acres of land, which, at .oo per acre, amounts t" $640,001 OSSb down nt Km of MIOSSM SMI) 00 t minimi pt)iuoiittl20, int. fU 80, total, 1,1 1,0 2l " " 120, 2ft 20, lit 21) ;id " " 120, " 111 80, " U HO :ith " " 120, H 40, " 128 10 Upon the receipt of the lirsl pa menl (ii nine puicuaseis, ,nc oinccis 01 the contract in dupli- relaiued in the office and the Othei given lo the pur chaser. The contracts me very con veniently arranged with tables for re cording payments, which are set down on both original and duplicate, thus avoiding any possibility of mistake. If time purchasers fail to meet their obli gations tn tin- company they fbrfcil thelf right of purchase, hut that they may not entirely lose the money paid for lands, blanks are also piovided with forms oi assignment, SO If a man cannot pay, he can sell bis contract and the party pur chasing will be credited with the amounts paid by the original contract ing party. In selling lands the company extend a preference to actual settlers on the lauds, and will hold the same for them a reasonable length of time. The lands mi which there are no settlers or improvements will lc sold to the first applicant in quantities of not more than a section to each purchaser. THK ). K. Hi I'll. Have secured the light 01 way for a railroad from Texas Ferry, on' Snake river, to a point on Union Flat, a dis tance of thirty miles from the place of beginning. These thirty miles will be built during the coming summer, and the mad will be extended further Into the grain producing districts of the county as soon as the directors decide upon a route. It is more than likely that the road will be extended to Col fax in the course of a few months, ami from here into the fertile sections em braced in the Paradise Valley, Silver creek and l'ine creek regions. The consti uciin.i of ibese railroads will afford employment for a large number of men ami horses,aad a ready market for all the country can produce. Immigrants are already commencing to arrive, and it is predicted that the counties of Whitman, Spokane and Stevens will, during the coining sum mer, have an addition of twenty thous and to their population. From all quarters come news of the tide of im migration that is lo pom in upon uH. And to them, if ihcy be patient ami industrious, the present population ex tend a hearty welcome, and SMUranCC that during the season of 1SS1 Whil man county and Knstcrn Washington will be one of the most prosperous sec tions under the sun. 'nou.ie dinette. Walla Walla, W.T., has a population of more than four thousand. The fol lowing religious denominations are there represented : Calholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist-Episcopal, Methodist t 'lunch South, Chris, tian, United Brethren, Advcntist, Con gregational ami Cumberland I'rcshy. iciian. Five parochial ami private ami three public schools are supported. The l n c Masons are represented by three Lodges and Iwo Chapters ; the Odd Fellows, Knights ef Pythias and Good Templars by one I .odgc ca, b. . A young Udy was sitting with a gal lant captain in a charmingly decorated recess. On her knee was a diminutive nine. In the adjoining room with door open, were the rest of H- pany. Said the little niei r, in a jealous and very audible voice, N Auntie, klsa mo too." Evidently something had just happened. M You should say twice, Ethel, dear; two is not gi annual," was the immediate lejoiuder. Alas! no more women over thirty will ever be married in ( hi, sgol The law requires all marriage licenses, with the ages of the contracting parties, to be published in n daily paper and of coarse no lady ever gen ovei thirty, ese .1 a igg,,... . It is well that viitue is its own re ward, for it rarely obtains any other.