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THE WEST SHORE.
December, 1881
KLAMATH HAS IN, SOUTHERN OREGON.
To whut extent Agriculture i practi
cable in the Kl.imHlh Ilaain, hat lccn a
vexed mid vexing question ever since
the first settlement of the country, but
practical tct and solution of the cjiil-m-tin
but already lccn begun. It can
not, of course, he mudc in one year, or
in two, Ixil it has at wc "'li ',('cn
gun. Thin year there were Rood crops
of barley, and wheat ruined near Link
villc not merely on low, moist land,
or in favored, sheltered tols, hut up
on the tage brush hind, dry mid high.
Jay 1 leach had hurley that threhhed
forty bushels to the acre. Kmmitt,
near IMevna, raised 1,100 bushels, av.
craving 35 bushel to the acre, and the
land wa plowed thin yenr for the firM
time. There arc 11U0 other farmer,
Messrs. Miller, Stearns, (I reeves,
Nurse, Itrown, Dyar, Fcrrcc and a
number of other, who have heen rain,
lug grain for a numher of year, and
who nearly always have fair crop.
Next season there will Iks a much
larger acreage town, particularly in
wheal. The tage hiush flat, across
from I.inkvillc to I.nst river gap,
thousand of acre will no douht pro
(luce grain, to far iu the noil in con
cerued, and it remain to he determ
ined whether the rlimntc will admit
of the profitable raining of wheat.
Thia year wat quite front y during the
summer, and destroyed the grain in
Langell and Lost river valleys lt in
the neighborhood of the Lake and
long Klamath river the grain matured
and filled well. If it will turn out a
well every year, a great diflcrciuc in
the prosperity of that part of Lake
county will toon k- iralixol.
After making many inquiries of far
mcra living in different paitt of the val
ley, we conclude that the acreage in
Full grain thU year in much larger than
it wa last season. Not only it thin the
case, but large area hat tn-en prepared
for early Spring towing. The indica
tion are very favorable for another
largo crop next harvest. We believe
it it safe to say (hat the area in grain it
one-fourth greater than it was last year
1 . . j . . 1 . .1 . . .
11 it mo taic 10 tty mat ue grain 1 in
belter condition now than then. If the
tpring season oen early, we cxcct to
oe a larger area put in tpring grain.
With an average season, the crop in
the Walla Walla valley next harvest
ought to Ik? our-third greater than
before. II I . lr).
Mcrrit Reynolds returned from his
tour of observation in the Wciser
country, Idaho Territory, on Monday.
IU mh that country is settling up very
fust. Wciser City in fast assuming fl
city-like aspect and much building has
been done, over 75 house having been
erected the past Summer; more will be
put up this Winter, but lumber cannot
be procured even at $30 per thousand.
Mcrrit say the sage brush land in
Wciser valley is quite good, though
light toil, the only serious difliculty
being irrigation. Water for this pur
pose will have to be procured by means
of a ditch, which will cost at the least
calculation, tevxx). Union Co. h'ecord.
On the (). K. .V N. Co.'s line the
truck in now laid from the lower
Cascade up to mid across Hood River,
also from the Dalles down six miles leav
ing a gap of only 16 miles to make it " nil
rail" from lower Cascade to Dayton
and Taxsas I crry.
Murphy, (irant k Co., the heaviest Dry floods
film tin the I'm ilic Coast and who have for koine
lime a( had a biam h establishment in this city
have now inoveil the same into the large store,
occupying li ilh lliHirs in l.conaid's Mime building
on Fust slteet, next to Wells F.ugo & Co. The
slink cauied dy the linn in I lie Cortland branch
i larc;c and coniilele, and nitniris.'i full line of
dry ikh1, notions furnishing goods and cloak
of Ihrir own manufacture. Mr. S. N. Alford
fyulily known to the dry good trade of the
Pacific Northwest foi ten years pant it the gen
eral talesman of the establishment, and through
hi untiring energy will no douhl secure the lion'i
shaic of the trade for the house he represent.
Dining our late tiip to Victoria we visited the
establishment of Short & Simpson, (iunmakers,
and found therein a fine assortment of direct im-
portaliont of all kinds of sortsmcn' implements
as well as plated waie, cutlety, uu.liiellas. walk
mg canr, etc., etc. Anyone fioin "this side"
ill I Isnlh astonished and pleased at the large
variety, tupeiior quality and comparative low
price of their goods Mr. Short, the senior of
the fiim is a gun maker who graduated from one
if Ihe laigrst Belfast establishments and is master
of his tiale. Spoilsmen visiiing Victoria should
not fail lo call on Slmrt & Simpson.
inieinr metcnanti will do well lo send all
then isnlera for nuts of all kinds lemons limes,
orange ami tropical duits generally, in the Com
mission house of Mailt vy, ui Front Hrret
loiiland, thegon. He always hast full ttock
and lieing Ihe only direct imjiortcr in the North
cs ran offer sjs-eial inducements to the trade
Kssays on "Milton tnd History" ,y Lo,d
Macaulay it 1 handsomely printed tnd well
twuivd Usuk of J3 pages ,a j, , loslase
td lo any .t f f. S. on receipt of 35
M l-y Wuudiuir, Davir & Co., Seattle. It is
the hrsl (Mi up woik for the price that we have
ever teen.
For the srty Ivsl photographs til sites tnd
style, go to AMI . Galleiy on First ttrrvt leu
Monitoo and YamhilL
SPECULATION.
The Extent to Which it is Carried
and the Drain its Excitems r.t
Brings Upon the System.
A Few Wordi of Warning and Timely Sugges
tion! to American business men.
When Cvrus W. Field returned from his tour
around the world he was perfectly amaied at the
extent to which stock speculations had run, and
ihe thousand and one "wild cat" schemes which
were largely patronized by the too credulous pub
lie, even when there was not the remotest proba
bility that they would ever come to a successful
completion. He stepped into Delmonico's to dine,
and was pained to see the crowds which huddled
around the stock indicator, unable even to eat a
meal in peace, so disquieted were they under the
oeralions of the fever of speculation. Mr. Field
says he bought certain stock for an investment at
1.00 just oelore ne saneo. vn nis return, nnuing 11
ouoted at the fancy price of 1. 64 he sold, lie
could see no reason why such an advance should
have been made, and tearing a crash in the mar- .
ket he disposed of his stock as soon as possible.
This wild speculative mania prevails in London
and I'aris and lierlin, and in his opinion when
the crash comes it will involve the entire commer
cial world. Conservative men and the press see
these things and warn the people, but many will
not be stopied so long as they have a penny to
spare or can Inirrow, or until ruin comes irretriev
ably and awlully.
I he supreme ctlort ol our people should be to
cultivate moderation. Two things have united to
make the struggle for existence in this country the
most exacting and exciting found in the world: 1st.
The case with which successful men appear to
amass fortunes. 2d. The impression their success
makes on those who immigrate hither. As soon as
the intelligent loreigner arrives on our shores, he be
comes seized with the desire, not only of a com
fortable subsistence, but or a fortune, and every
ambition and energy of his being is directed to this
one porpose. This explains why our business
men give so little tune to physical recreation,
why they pay so little luted to the essential details
of politics their business and their families ex
haust their energies, and they have time, strength
and inclination for nothing else, except when an
imminent physical or political danger stares them
in the very face and eyes. The result of all this
is,that twenty years is the limit of a man's business
activity and success. It will lake him ordinarily
ten years lo accumulate his first thousand dollars
surplus, and in the remaining ten years, if he be
prudent and energetic, he may amass more or less
oft fortune. Hut in Ihe majority of cases, when
he has gotten his fortune he has ruined his health,
and finds no comfort whatever in that which he
had fondly hoed would complete the sum of hu
man happiness for him.
The exhaustion which lollows the inordinate
pursuit of wealth, we are told by the very best of
authorities, proceeds from impaired digestive or
gans. The brain has drawn upon them for all
they were worth to long that they suddenly give
way and the whole system falls into a miserable
collapse. The organs so susceptable to nervous ex
citement ire the kidneys and liver. The offices
ol these organs are to discharge poisons which are
collected from all parts of the body by the veins,
the kidneys eliminating them in a liquid form,
and the liver transforming part of them by a chem
ical process into digestive fluids, and utilizing the
remainder as t purgative. Both these organs de
mand a laige share of nervous force. If this force
is a.l exhausted by the brain, they become feeble,
olds settle in them.congeslion follows, the poison
canm get out of Ihe blood, digestion is impaired,
the U.wels become inactive because the liver fails to
furnish the natural cathartic, the bladder becomes
tcaifully inflamed, dnisy comes on 5 strange dis
order visit the head, heart, lungs, and ere the
person is aware of il, he it victim of chronic kid
ney am! liver disease, and a candidate for death
by Bright t disease of the kidneys.
And this is the end of all commercial life which