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THE WEST SHOR&
tiwttion. Much of it lie beyond the easy reach of irri
gating ditches leading from the natural reservoirs and
ctrcaiiiS. If kuuh laiiu as this can be successfully irri
gated by artesian wolls, it would seem aa though one of
our moHt perplexing problems were solved. Nothing but
tho actual construction of a number of wells in different
localities can fully determine the question.
Inspector Newell, after a recent visit to the Warm
Borings ltoservation in Wasco County, contributed a few
of his impressions to the Olympia Transcript, among
which were the following: The reservation contains
. 4A4.O00 acres of mountainous, hilly and bench lands,
covered (whore uncultivated) with sage brush and bunch
gross, which grows vigorously over the extensive plains
ud plateaus which lie between the mountains. The land
is generally of very gocxl soil, and will produce wheat,
oats, barley and the cultivated grasses equally as well as
with the best anywhere. The southern and western por
tion is well supplied with a thin growth of yellow pine,
which often attains a great size, affording abundance of
lumber for buildings and fences of an enduring quality.
The entire country, from the Dalles southward, is well
supplied with brooks and small rivers. Not much atten
tion is given by Indians to agriculture, they preferring,
there as elsewhere, to have horses and sheep, avoiding
neat cattle, not liking the labor which attaches to dairy
production. They have but a small area of grains and
vegetables. It is lamentable that so great an extent of
naturally good land should be wasted by a roaming and
unsteady people From the Dalles southward to the
northern boundary of the reservation the country is of
the same general and natural character, but much ira-
1roved. Many very highly cultivated farms abound with
Ine prosjMHjt for wheat aud fruit And thousands of
acres have within a year past been enclosed by barbed
wire fencing for herding and eveutmd cropping. The
entire oouutry for fifty miles southward demonstrates an
energetic spirit of improvement and determination to
secure an early profit from cultivation. It is all good
laud, with capabilities for largest results. The climate is
not severe in wiuter nor especially dry in summer, and
having less elovation than the same kind of country in
Southeastern Oregon, is less subject to the injurious
effects of chilly summer weather. Many villages have
sprung up all along the main road, indicating abundant
business aud proHjwrity. I have traveled over the ooun
ties of Wasco, Crook, Union, Umatilla and Klamath, in
Eastern Oregon, and carefully observed their condition.
Wetter land than Union, Umatilla and Wasoo contain is
not to be found ujhiu the Coast Indeed, Orogon, east
and west of the mountains, is a oouutry of remarkable
natural advantages, and the wonder exists that the popu
lation is so sparso in so desirable a region. I have here,
tofore written briefly of Western Oregon in all its extent
of possessions of soil, climate, seaboard, fishing, mining
aud timber interests, aud find by an extensive observa
tion of the eastern portion that there exists there a fitting
oouuterjiart for one of the greatest and wealthiest of
BUte. If Oregon was properly appreciated abroad the
population, from the insiguificaut number of a quarter of
million, would straightway reach many millions.
Ice cold water apriuklod upon cabUge plants infested
by the imiiorted cabbage, worm is claimed to be sure
death to that iuseot The water should be sprinklod
upon Ute cabbages during the heat of the day, when the
worms will roll off and die. The discovery of the remedy
is credited to Mr. Charlee 1L Erwin, of Tainted Tost
N. Y, and is communicated to the Iturul XctcYorker
by l'rof ossor C V. Uiley.
REFRIGERATOR CARS AND- PERISHABLE
FREIGHTS.
RAILWAY tonnage has reached its present magnitude
in this country by a rapidity of development little
dreamed of in the first stages of its growth. It has kept
on increasing with scarcely any check during prolonged
periods of general business depression, sustained as it is
by the ever-increasing products of a vast territory and
the industrial activities of a population increasing at the
rate of a million and a half a year. The carrying capa
city of the roads has grown with the demands made upon
it until there would seem to be no assignable limit to
either. Articles are transported every vear of a kind
that were never transported before; and if the cars
alrnolir in 11 oa era rrf oi nrvfai 4-Via na IvbDia anAiinl
cars are soon devised and built that are suitable for the
purpose. An illustration of. tins ib afforded in the re-
commodities within the last few years by means of refrig-
ciauu who. .uvary veur auua kj uit) volume OI UUB
traffic, and although the business is attended with some
drawbacks in the way of losses from delays in transit, it
is bound to keep on increasing to an indefinite extent
The shipment of dressed meats from Chicago and other
points further west to the Eastern seaboard has already
grown from small beginnings to a heavy trafEo, while the
semi-tropical fruit products of Cuba, Florida, Mexico and
Southern California are finding their way to Northern
markets during the warm season in larger quantities
every year in refrigerator cars so well adapted to the
purpose as to make the Iohsoh from tlm rmriuimkio
of the freight comparatively light The extent to Vhich
ium i-muuu oi wamo win oe developed in future is at
present a matter of ooniecture, but it is likely to be large.
In regard to dressed meats, everything depends upon
its condition and price at points of destination as com
pared with shipments on the hoof. The abuses practiced
in live stock transportation from the far West, under the
spur of competition, are necessarily attended with serious
shrinkage in weight, to say nothing of the alleged deter
ioration in the ouality of the meat, especially beeves,
upon reaching the Eastern stock yards. Only a few
years ago the dressed beef business between Chicago and
Iew York was in need of friends to sustain it against the
stock yard interest; but since then it has been steadily
gaining ground, and it is now said the number of cattle
slaughtered lost year Chicago by the principal dressed
beef shippers was 694,020, which was an increase of 20
flT mi of Preyioui ye"- To this must
be added 128,000 sheep shipped in carcass. The number
of dressed hogs is not stetei This would seem to sup-
P?i0l?,m.' f the fwm that dressed meats, and
especially beef, are received at destination in much better
condition "'fonsumption than when shipped alive. It
is also stated that the cold storage busbessVincreasing
at a corresponding rate, buildings for this purposehay.
ing been erected in upward of one hundWEastern
towns, exclusive of the chief cities, for reoeivingTeS
shipmenU-rAe National Car-liuiUler T,ng iams
, A oentleman in Philadelphia has received from a
missionary to Syria a life-Bi statue ofT kbg, teken
royal rolies, bearing in one hand a basket and in the
other a fir cone, . portion of the stone being covered 1 with
sharply cut hieroglyphics, which Assyrian whohus are
now endeavorino to tr.no!... tu- J""" onare are
temple of King WSTfaS 23i
reicned from 883 to RT.9 H rV conqueror who