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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1884)
268 THE WEST SHORE. TEXAS VS. OREGON. A LETTER recently published in a Texas pnper drew il. out a statistical reply in the Eugene City Guard, written by Mr. George Bulsliaw, one of the most promi nent ami successful agriculturists of the State, from which a few comparisons nre selected: "The first place bo says the lnnd is poor and so are the people. Oregon is not a corn country; but I see in the statistical report for last yoar that our corn crop averaged 23.9 bushels per acre, while lexas averaged only li).o bushels. The aver ago for Oregon wheat per acre was 1C.7 bushels; Texas, 8.15; Oregon wheat production, 13,122,400 bushels; Texas, 4,301,000. Of oats Oregon's average was 24.G; Texas, 22.8. So you see that Oregon loads her in wheat 8 bushels per aero, and produces over three times as many bushels. Barley, Oregon, 27.4 per acre; Texas, 18.8. Potatoes, Oregon, 110.(5 bushels per acre; Texas, C0.9. Hay, Oregon, per acre, 1.39 tons; Texas, 1.15 tons. Now about tlio groat Willamette Valley not making more than five good farms in Texas. I am at a loss to know what ho c ill good farms, but suppose he moans size in place of good soil and well cultivated ones, so I will take size ns his moaning. The trouble is, nearly all the farms are too largo, my own being 1,280 acres, and my neighbors' on throe sides averaging as largo, and there are thou sands of such farms in the groat Willamette Valley, and larger. It would bo much better for tho country if they were made smaller. Cash value of farm products per acre in 1882: Oregon, corn, $19.12; Texas, 11.19; wheat, Oregon, 14.19; Texas, 18.92; rye, Oregon, 1185; Texas, 111.(58, and ho on. Value of farm animals: Oregon horses, average price per head over three years old, $80; Texas, fl2; Oregon mules, 91; Texas, m; Oregon milk cows, 31; Texas, 22; the average difference in price Ixung tho immo with sheep, hog and other stock. Now alwut this bacon loing 8hipMd from the East i am aware that mime have triod the experiment and have HhipiHMl small amount, but they have generally suffered a loss by so doing. Now nlxmt our exerts, as the writer intimates that we ship nothing abroad. In 1882 the Columbia Itivor exerts amounted to $15,500,930, includ ing a largo amount of bacon. I amid name all the arti cles separately, but they are too numerous. I will now show tho difference in valuo of all farm product sold cxiHirted, consumed or on hand by each agriculturist! value per capita, made annually; Oregon, $48s 52 while Texan is only $181.47, cosh value. Average value per acre of farms, Oregon, $13.50; Texas, $170. How the health of Oregmi compares with that of Texas- From an offlcial report of tho Surgoon-General of the United States Army the deaths at tho military ,xhU i Orecon are 1 fe a population of 529; frontier of Texas. 1 te fi7 What ,th. SUite debt of Toxos islam noting hereTorel wdl , mentum y PstilimU,. nt the hUite debt of Oi-egou , Hnnll. - At the Centennial Oreg.m rece.ved more premiums from her agricultural prcxlucUon. than any other State, d at the two world fa., held t Phdadelphia and Paris, received a gold modal and d.ploma for the W wheat of all nations. This wheat was all from the great Willamette Valley of which the gentleman speaks so disrespectfully. Diffor ence in weight of 100 grains of wheat weighed at Wast ington at the Department of Agriculture: Oregon's heaviest 100 grains, 5.745 grammes; lightest, 4.253 Texas' heaviest, 4740; lightest, 2.409. The Willamette Valley soil and climate is adapted to raising all varieties of white wheat, while Texas only grows three, having to be satisfied with the red-bearded low grade varieties." 'i e -. Errata. In the list of officers of Oregon Pacific Railroad Company, on page 232, read T. Edgenton Hogg for T. Edgerton Hogg, and Norman S. Bentley for Nor man S. Beatty. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS. July. 1 -Egyptian rebels defeated, with loss of 2,003, by the Madir of Dongala. , W I.. Squires, of Seattle, appointed Governor of Washington TerritorV Allan Pinkerton, the grant detective, died in Chicago. presented to the 3 Fitx John Porter relief bill vetoed bv the Presiflnnt.. 3- Hevere rubber fnotory, Chelsea. Mass.. burned; loss, $100,000. 4 Bartholin's st itue of " Liberty Enlightening the World " pre United States, through Minister Morton, at Paris. O-Acoidonton Atlantic and Paoifio road, near Needles, Cal.; conductor killed and tt wounded. 7 Forty-eighth Congress adjourned.... Steamer Sarnio ashore on Ritt)leln Island, Ireland; passengers and orew saved. 10- Two tires in Portland. Or.; loss. $22,000. 11 Gmver Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks nominated for President and Vice-Preside it by the Democratic National Convention at Chicago. 1 -$ 15,1110 tire in Hilling, Montana. ll-llailroad acoi lent neir Penniston, England; 25 killed and 40 woundel. 17-UHoueof Lieu tenant A. W. Ureely and four companions in Smith Koindbjr Commander W. H. Schley, of I he ship Theti: 1 Belknap, Montana, nearly destroyed by fire. Death of June Gray Bwisshelin. JS Collision in Atlantio botwasa Spanish steamer Qitlan and English steamer Liuham; both sank; 150 pwple missing. 84 Keiitli of Bear-Admiral Goorge F. Emmons, at Prinoston, N. J... .John P.' St. John nominated for the Presidency by Prohibition Convention it Pittsburg. -Thirty-two fraras buildings burned at Taooma, W. T.i loss, $40,030. 7-Forty buildings burned at Devil's Lake, Dakota; loss, $aai. SH-Tmin fell through a bridge at Bloomtteld, Ind. 1 killed and nveral injured. 80-Proiieller J. M. Oiborne sank in Lake Superior; 8 persons drowned. Scenery or the Paclflo Northwest. The desire to poswws artistio pictures of the soenery of the Paoifio Northwest is a feeling shared in common by the residents of this region and the thousands of tourists who annually travel great diitmoos to behold it. To make a mi. fiictow collection of photographs is almost impossible, and is only aooom pushed at an expense far greater than the majority of people are willing or a hie to nnilnrgo. To meet this urgent want a ''Bouvenir Album of thePacifo Northwest has been issued, containing 85 art photographs of the most promi nent and representative scenes of Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho sad Montana. Among them are excellent pictures of Pyramid Park, Lake Com d Alene, Mount Hood, Multnomah Falls, Yellowstone Park. etc. The albom neatly bound in cloth, embossed with gold, and makes a neat ornament for tin center table. The pnoe, lb cents, only represents the cost of three ordimrr pliotograiiha. and brings this collection of 85 beautiful scenes within the means of all. Bent postage paid upon the receipt of lb oenta. L Sam" Publisher, Portland, Oregon.-A'usf Oreaonfan. There is a general dosire among people acquainted with the enterpriiee in progress about Vaquina Bay to invest in property at that favorite resort end future great commercial port. Those desiring to learn more of that region an r Jterra t'l l.h I il in.lni . ...J III..-. .: .I . -I tl.ii nnnhM. Minin nf tli horf .-.- .i. . . v i l .a! h. Nr. i ui i, , , nwuufc ino uny now in private nimi" i ww.. r.:-" J. W. HnuKtiolil. Hn nlil un.l ..,,l v....: k. uj; amort VsJIeT. He has for sale fort, acres not more than l.HUI feet above the 0. P. H. H. Co. terminal wharf; thirty-five acres nenr the oustom house, about H10 feet from the we er line; sixty-three aores within three-fourths of a mile of the custom how "! adjoining the town of Alexandria on the east; also some valuable lot. n hiur"lll',.10?toA,leXHnari- Mr. Brasstield is owner of the 'smojslW Hocks, lying at the end of the drive on South Beach, whioh is destined to become in. iBTonie resort for pleasure-seekers in the Northwest. Any of thi; proper C.ir IT.? reasonable rates. His terms and any further mion. uesireu can be had by addressing him at Newport, Benton County, Or. .i.J!te,nwrt'n. in Tacoma do not seem to be seriously alfeetsd b i liii A .7 "wrl"i throughout this region in common with the wj" uili.nVIL. 0'.,nlr, there seems to be a disposition ta take money ft" whueThS. mU'?rl"f, .in"t t real estate, where it cannot take to rt i aroma oilers such invatmanu ... . i. i i. ... . l i.m moaeff.eitiw W lSr2, .T11"lUm', .B'r"'" o' U kinds, suitable to the means of of tTatTi.. ' Tll"", w,th M"- Traver 4 (jolburn. leading real sstttt u i-H L r; Thww iwilenien are thoroughly acquainted with the fhrtf a d value of propeHv of all H-.ri.i. .j A.Zt Vi j i. ih. mattar ot ilXrri "l& . Letter, of inquiry wJH matiua. Tk - mir omoe is always open w mu IubiatA ,1. 11" 'necialty of attending to the Wines, of tTH timtUaS! iudioiou. investment of all moneys p - - l.
