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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1882)
THE WEST SHORE. r ; t t ain on the bottom just eight r ' y the watch, and when it was U up it took three men to lift . " intents into the boat. There - 5 of all stages and conditions r " ous life. Little ones, middle i : 1 actual giants; some of which '.ZZZZ-ZZTZ covered with barnacles, vet er:rs, st;rs, perhaps, as many had lost one cr r ore legs in some life and death coir, ell s t:."i s!l t 1 ci ( r f r v: X I t far supremacy, years before I mg, crawling, squirming and at one another's limbs in one ' gled mass. Two castings of and after throwing overboard small ones yielded lully one 1 big red-backed crabs, with legs i as large as turkey's thighs. i man want to go into the busi canning crabs, he could find a 1 field for operations in Tilla ay. The big pot in our parlor i utilized to boil them in, and standing we gave quantities ve had crabs plain, crab salad, viled crabs until we all grew :.nd tired" of it. Porgie, smelt, J, flounder and rock cod fishing . bay is excellent, and but little reed be spent in catching a big , Every afternoon a gentle breeze up, and if. nothing more invit ''on the carpet," a pleasant boat y be had, to the different points est on the bay, to such classic Ox -bow Bend and Jawbone, store for the visitor is a night he" salmon fisherman, a visit to ster beds, and a berrying cam mong the mountains and along sks. -nook is Barncgat, and plenty esides. It not only has all the Dns incident to salt water, but ut streams right at hand, and in pleasures running up from y beach. There is no place on antic coast like this. You stand trout streams and oyster beds una and sun-bathing, grouse g and clam bottoms. At Tilla .he mountain and the beach have 1 the salt sea and the crystal have kissed and become as one, understand that a steamer wi Garibaldi next summer, which sss will take many passengers to ortsman'i elysium. To vary our stead of returning by schooner the "buckboard" at Hoquaston look Landing and Lincoln are other names for the same place) and crossed the mountains to North Yam- hill, where I took train for the me tropolis. Fully a third of the journey to North Yamhill is climbing moun tains, and notwithstanding the fact that you pay for a ride, the driver is very determined that you shall walk when ever the road assumes an "upward tend ency." This is the only drawback tnat know of to Tillamook, as a summer resort. My few weeks on the Iilla mook Land Spit, with genial A. B. Hallock for a host, whose generous hospitality was a constant flood of sun shine, will be treasured as one of the brightest memories in a happy life, and no opportunity shall escape me to sound its just praises. , THE FUTURE FARM OF WESTERN ORE CON AND WESTERN WASHINGTON. BY It IV, G. H. ATKINSON. ITS OWNER. The true American farm must be owned by the man who cultivates it t will not be possible to have a profit able tenantry in the United States, es pecially in the new States and TerritO' ries. Great Britain's profitable tenant farming grew out of feudal ideas and hab its, which have now so far faded out there, that the idea of personal owner ship gains and gives the best promise of relief to the present distress of land owner and tenant in Ireland, Scotland and England. The Southern planter was a feudal lord and his vassals were slaves; but the plantations are in pro cess of division and the freedmen are becoming citizens and land owners The revolution' broke feudalism into fragments in France, and all their peas antry became small farmers, each one cultivating his own two, or five, or ten or forty acres, making every acre rich and w'nning a support and more for himself and family. In the aggregate those small farmers have through per sonal ownership added many hundrc per cent, to the wealth and power of France, and have wrought out a grand Republic from the decomposing frag ments of Monarchy, Oligarchy and Aristocracy. Germany has been pas sing through a quieter process towards the same result. In Russia emancipation has been the signal for the same thing in future. Our own Static cannot fcoback to feu dalism, or peasant life, or tenantry or to plantations, worked by slaves, or even to vast estates tilled by hired laborers. The drift of thought and habit is for the farmer to own his farm. This has been true in Western Oregon, even under the errant of a half section each to hus band and wife to the first pioneers; and of a quarter section each to the second ow of immigrants, and now under the grant of a i6o-acre homestead. Our Nation stamps personal ownership, by he people, upon its land policy. West ern Oregon has emerged from the stock range policy and has quietly yielded to the home and farm policy. There are few large land owners, but their estates will be divided, and this whole area of icoby 490 miles will be a region of farms under the hand and care of their owners. THEIR SIZE. In a recent address (1879) before the American Agricultural Association, Ion. George B. Loring, U. S. Com missioner of Agriculture, remarked that, "The tenant farmers of Great Britain, the peasantry of Russia, the farmers of Germany, the small land holders of France, the agricultural citizens of the United States, all represent one indus try, yet how widely they differ in everything which goes to make up a man's condition as an intelligent being and as member of some form of state and society! The great question now occupying the minds of those inter ested in the welfare of civilized man as a member of society, is How can the comfort, prosperity and intelligence of the agricultural population be best sub served and promoted? England dis cusses the welfare of the tenant farmer. Russia considers the condition of the recently emancipated serfs and France is interested in the prosperity of an un ambitious, industrious, frugal body of small land-holders and cultivators. The American goes further and en quires: 'How can an American farmer, occupying a furm of usual dimensions here, (Uncharge his duty to the state as a voter and tax payer, and gratify his desires with regard to the education of his family, the comfort and culture of his home and the informing of his own mind and the gratification of his tastes, from the income, which he can derive from the cultivation of the land?' And this is the American problem of to-day." This is the problem of the farmer in Western Oregon and Western Wash-