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
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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-