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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1883)
THE WEST SHORE. 76 STOCK. Fifty dollars per head re being refused for beef cattle in Grant county, Oregon. A itock farm in Crook county, Oregon, consist in), of ,no acres of land, 7,000 sliccp, 1,000 horses and cattle, and farm implements, was re cently sold for $70,000. A band of 146 cattle in the Yakima country was recently sold for $69 a head. At such prices it would seem as though every farmer would find it profitable to raise 1 few cattle for the market. At least twice the usual amount of capital will this year be invested in sheep in Northern Mon tana, in the region tributary to Uenton. Great attention is being paid to the improvement of flocks. The Snohomish, Skikomish and Snoqualmie valleys are spoken of as capable of supporting cattle enough to supply the markets of I'uget sound. In the old logging districts the grazing land is excellent, and will no doubt mkiii I utilized. There is no letter food for fattening hogs than the camas. It grows in damp, miushy ground and upon the sides of mountains where the soi it rich and moist. It spreads rapidly and is hard to kill out. Farmers would find it to their ad vantage to plant small patches of camas for their wine. The attention paid to Importing and breeding Peicheron horses in Kogue river valley is making that rrgion the lest place in Oregon to secure work horses. The advantage of sailing high piiced horses is too evident to need comment, It costs but little more and they sell fur three times u much ai the ordinary scrub. The great increase in the price of liccf has given an unusual impulse to the slock industry in Montana, Idaho and Eastern Oregon. The con st ruction of railroads has also an important effect upon the business, cheaening the transportation and placing cattle in the market in better condi lion. Large drafts have Iwcn made for eastern shipment, especially in Oregon and Washington, so as to reduce the present num'ier on the ranges materially 1 but new men are embarking in the business, new ranges ate ling occupied, and a great increase is sure to follow. The settlements for agricultural purposes are gradually curtailing the ranges in many localities, and this must te suit in the practice of keeping smaller bands. hacn larmer can eng4j;e in the business in a small way and the aggtegate number of cattle he unre duced. Th New York Sun sneaks as follows of an industry which we firmly believe will be estal lished within a few years 1 "The esperiment of shipping dressed beef from Chicago to the east has been watched with considerable interest by persons extensively en gagej in cattle raising in the far west, esecially in Montana lernlory. U has yielded results so satisfactory to its promoters that the plan of slaughtering cattle on the great ranges in Mon tana, whet they are fatted, and sending the berj in refrigerator cais to New York and New F.ng land is now tertouslv talked of. It is held that lber are two reasons why the Chicago dreswd beef is not in perfect condition when it arrives in this market 1 First, the cattle on their arrival at the Chicago raids, thouuh in bri trr nintitiin than tl they had made the lunger journey to New York, are not fit to be killed ; and secondly. fore an made. With 1. t K.n invented which 1 re rieeraior car nuw , , . ... ..... ., , .. preserves the evenness of temperature necessary 'A genucn-u u nu survey, u, preserves me siusaw country) ftnd ,g weU acquamted wth ,,,,. ,0 be informed as to the needs of region from personal observation, has kindly fur. u...t J ih.t . refrigerator car which nished us the following for publication : 4 . 1 . t I tM. CiiinlniH vi tav Htvir.tfv in a sir act a flu .1....1J 1 11.. n.u, the Duroose lor whicn tnose iuc s - -r wix, a.c;La u,nl,l he worth at least a mil- empties into the Pacific ocean in latitude 43 58- ..... T. 1 ..:u.....:. ... .k- xt..v ... , ..j ,k. u-m that norm, 11s ihhiuum inuuuura u.c me nona on do ars o Us inventor, and they Deneve inai . ; 1 1 v .1. r l- l " . i..iii.nt be lone be- Fork and Lake creek, both of which enter Wlin inuutcmcma u r,m. t.,,, V,-l. ,v. almost perlect refrigerator car will be "'" " .- u. . . I f tiHa iuaIm anH (VlA tartar eawm miU such a car, they say, beel siaugn- " ... . oKnvA anA art nar1w Annal in riti In th main . a n.im.or.nH t nnon the Montana ranires W"-""M ' ... ... ,i.ii., in New York in a state which stream at their junction. , Tide water extends up ' itl iti. Ciiiolftait lurantir.fiv mil AC &TA tm vnlnma nt will do away with all theobections now raised u , against the beef that is sent here from the Chi- water flowing in at the head of lde is ul 3,x, .,....u... i.... tk. latest obstacle, cubic feet per second. The width of the river at 0 ..... 1 Via mMith to rnrnirn nf n mil Vatcinw nn then, to the success of the project.it is said, -- - - -k ' . I ha shannal nraHiinllu tin Hone nr (7n 1.1 1.. ,1,. .Winn nf the orpat firms Who ". "" B"J . .v- 1 , 11 .:.riun uiirni miles, forming a small bay, three-fourths of a mile are in that line of business in Chicago, so great s ..... ,u mB. ni.il in the nroiect sav thev 'de- Thence lt VyuOj narrows to the head ,.. .ni ian h.,.in through of water, where it is thirty rods wide. nwuiti us iwiiij'viivu s ! - o 1 il.noo tsnncaii tTifm th linn s share of the I profits. It is difficult to understand why, other within smooth' permanent banks. '. . . . , The average deDth of water, in the d obstacles Deing removea, me cauie raisers 111 . , , ,1 Montana cannot find a way of sending their beef twenty-five miles of tide water, is forty feet, and through to New York in refrigerator cars without ne P0,nl wnere lne aePln 15 '7 paying tribute to the Chicago men. Anything twenty feet. This point is situated fifteen miles that would cheapen the price of wholesome beef UP st"ra ftom the moutb. and here fourteen feet in New York would be a blessing to this great city. To the men who need it most, to give them strength for work, it has already become a luxury almost beyond their means." Temporarily, nt least, the shipment of dressed lieef, instead of live stock, would materially re duce the freight receipts of the railroads unless a high tariff be charged ; but we are of the opinion that the building up of this industry will cause a of water are found at low tide, or twenty feet at high tide. At the mouth of the river, on the bar, there are thirteen feet of water at low tide, or from eighteen to twenty feet at high tide. The distance from deep water inside, to deep water outside the bar, is very short, only about five hundred feet. The entrance here is peculiarly easy, from the fact that the channel extending from deep water to deep water, runs out to sea at right angles to the line of the breakers, so that a vessel in enter. tutu lit timnt nt Inrlilanln 1 f!nkl tk.i tv s.ivj...is,in ui iiv.ius.iiiui litiisl IIU11IU lliai Win I , , f . , 1 far exceed in amount the present shipment of live ,nB ,s not lnrown 5,ucw,sc lu " ""-J stock, and we think the railroad, will take thU quently not in danger of being beached. i ,1.. ....:.. ine character or trie country niong ini mo Tlfc" Wl lilt .UWICl.lt I ..... J I . 1 , 1 1 ...Ilk tnvaet nfl -. , mountainous ana aenseiy covereu wuu nv Enormous bones aie constantly beinc unearthed undercrowth. Immediately along the river and along Hangman and Pine creeks, in Spokane the tributaries, there are numerous small level county, W. T. Tusks twelve feet long and eight valleys or bottoms of the most fertile soil, suitable inches in diameter have been found in the mud for the production of fruit, vegetables and me 8 " large spring. I hey disintegrate cereals. The hills are all of sufficient fertility to rapidly when exposed to the elements. ...,.. . lK. . m.T . I BUIJ3C1 C ilia&lllt UUIUU3CS. - A new mud geyser has been dUrnvererl nn good locations for dairies to be found here, when Pelican creek, two miles east of Yellowstone the country is once opened. The forests of timber falls. It is Surrounded ! mm.....,, : valuable for lumherino nurnoses are very extensive, ,v .....v.vu3 nut spunks, 1 orr- , and when in action lame and the tributaries of the Siuslaw river, spread thrown high into the air. The force at times must be terrific, as the trees in all ,;;.. r. . distance of seventy-five yards are covered with Dhawalgive and Kuchinjinga, each about 28,000 nign, were considered the highest peaks ing, as they do, over a large area or cuum.,, afford better means for floating logs to market, than is found at any other harbor along the coast of Oregon. The lumbering interests here, alone, are of ample importance to warrant the opening the world ; lne n'BneSt peaks in country, and as an example we may oox the world until Mount Everest was discovered at the lumber trade and shipbuilding carried on and shown to have an altitude of 29,002 feet. t Coos bay. J- 7. ? '"? ''"nalayas. Recently Mount Salmon fishing is engaged in here during tne lkmaSofCl September and October, and hich has been approDriatelv rhn,Ji 11 ! " reasonable development would attora an c .. . j uiuuni .r a- : ..r mon eatu puilUMUU ui iuu,uuu wuiiii " . season. Although the fishing was but meageriy '""Wi Pillar i, lhe name of . ml.. f d last season, about S."" sandstone .nn f . k- k ... picicea and shipped, uy ine way or . -- sandstone 400 fed high, on the Yellowstone river, there i. quite a natural outlet from the Willamette near Uillines. h ,m..i .... n ... ... ,M... .2 .k. k . nu through , - " .apiain Clarke '""CJ nice usi.., - 1 . - he great explorer, and bear, the following in- RanKe f "ounljini, the poind- cnption carefully cut in scrint letter.. ..sjl-,. hlch 14 one hundred nd eventy-five feet aw i, Clarke, July 25 i8c cfi. f"A! J W,lll" the general level of the country. In view of Q the Northern lVirrha.n IJ .kAnder!wn' of ""tural wealth here it would seem, that the open- protected by a frame faced with gl lne of lhe S.iuslaw harbo' melilt due P'0'"" I VI 111C UU11U1! IIPnilflFl.
