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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
lfi THE WEST SHORE. thrift an I in.lo.trj. belter plowing, bet- unimproved railway and private proper ty drainage, better stock, better pool- ty for half that sum. In the valley of try Utter fruit, better vegetables; but, the Willamette, on either side of the l-V that which makes the dreary isola- river, is an immense stretch of fertile tion of the country home impossible; country, having superior climatic condi tio create, in the young people espe- tions, and producing bountiful crops al rially, a bright, cheery, happy, inviting most throughout its extent No irriga micmI and educational condition. That tion is required, and, in every way, it is ia the moaning of the incoming immi- fitted to the demands of the small farm gratinn, and every right-thinking man er. It is, indeed, a part of the state will welcome the prospect in which everything necessary to make In apite of all this customary talk life agreeable, can be more rapidly and aUtut the drawlwcks, here in Oregon, to more easily secured than elsewhere in this nynU'tn of farming, it is very appar- our domain. Poverty will not press ent that the man who has from sixty to heavily, nor long remain a wearing com eighty Acres of land in the farming dis- panion in this region, for the simple rea trirU of this state, and who, after the son that land in such blocks as the poor thrifty, enterprising, industrious man- man needs, can be had, in the foot-hill iwr of the eastern farmer, cultivates his region of this section, without a great ground, lias fruits of the best, vegetables amount of money, and for the additional of th Unt, keeps jwultry for eggs and reason that, with a willingness to forego, fil has a little stock, some grain, bees on commencing, everything not absolute and Urries, in a won!, makes every rod ly necessary, it will, the first season, pro of fr.il yiold him money as a purchasing duce nearly all the food a family can wer, will not only live more comforta- need, by the simple labor of a man, aid My, but, at the end of ten years, will actu- edby wife or child; and there are few ally be worth more, and own a more val- districts, however removed from popula na Mo place, than does his neighbor with tion centers, where a poor man cannot, a thouAaud-Acre wheat field In the be- from time to time, earn a little money ginning, he will have required much less for necessaries, which cannot, at first, be Ziw . , T PrPrtional,y own, either by labor for neighbors or Zt InMtt.!t,,t the b wood ttiQg d Ruling, in clear- 17 thtivesto inghisown land. This will be . best il- T??1? ,T,here lQ8trated b? W8 an actual case, b C? Jf n 6 " In the ktter Part of Au 1885 a man 1 region kin JtL i n Ut frm 0hl0' acmpanied by his wife and tl" CWilui , &DJ U' chilJren the el a boy of thir-I-'HJm.U foT J came Emigration MU.eyareforfruitlUW PT and 8tated that he h the like; but it bwl. T' Wanted toonaa&m about a smaU r-iuiml for tU JJiJ !?U ? he W.arm to advantage. w lime, produce, toTo. f , 000186 of a day or he made Ande.prci4liycoriL ijSi ;chtoiceofterritory.andstartedinsearch dTUeimiU.ywiathe7- hw1home- He returned in October, 1880, lofiU in .null, improvli lf after g over his work for the tct1tyOrt.etlty.fitetUUn,&0acre f. or more Rnd "king w.iiul gratiou literature for his friends "back