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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
,2 THE WEJ ont time, seventy girls and one hundred and eleven lxys, representing twenty nine tribe. There are twenty-nine Nez Perce Indiana, from Idaho; eight Uma tilla and twenty Wasco, from Extern Oregon; twenty-aix Yakima, from East ern Washington; fifteen Payallup and eleven Snohomish, from Western Wash ington; three Sitka and five Stickeen, from Alaska; five Clatsop, from near tho mouth of the Columbia river; three Santiam and two Calipooia, from the Willamette valley; nine Klamath, seven lloguo river and one Modoc, from South ern Oregon; eight Piute, from Nevada, Idaho and Oregon; two Crow, from Mon Una, and from one to four of the widely-scattered Warm Springs, Spokane, Clallam, Skokomif h, Neah Bay, Tootoo- T SHORE. nia, Chehalis, Shasta Costa, Tenino, Snake and Chippeway tribes. A class of nineteen graduated last June, and a much larger one will complete the course at the end of the preflent school year. The influence these graduates must ex ert upon their friends and relatives on their return to their former homes, can not but be highly beneficial in its effect upon the relations between the two races. Were the way paved for the bet ter working of this influence, bythe dis persion of the tribal congregations and location of the various families upon separate tracts of land, then those en gaged in the noble work of bringing this race into the light of civilization, would feel that their labors were not in vain. H. L. Wells. SMALL FARMING IN OREGON. A CAREFUL examination of the re- have come to farm, and have located by cord of the State Board of Im- purchase or entry, is not over the sum migration, the statements of bank- of two thousand dollars; that is, tl ey ert and business men throughout the have that sum for investment, and, of Ul n reply to the inquiries of a cir- course, a few hundred dollars for the caUr letter lamed by the Immigration purchase of stock, implements, etc Dur- alZT T1 Bale8 ing the Past year abt My per cent, of fammg property during the past of the immigration has been of this char- tho IXnZ S T W 8apPrt f acter 14 ha8 been mftde "P of practical Ine 1 1 , T f farmer8 married- der the age of thir- of Z lZgll " hyh and Northwest- tional and inUmatTa! 17 t f eVery desirable 68 to wJSJ' welcomed. Indeed, with refer- ly JS da2 eDCe to the Present conditioA of agricul- in quction, and which ha LfV .5 tUre manacture in this state, it is t!y in making the T than Wedth to U tigh, were in the tkJIZ t mSensible in bank vault8' or "ing to find locauCtrwn m r C,t1 h " MBM j proUble that J T! W 68 "rag uni iu Uh hfUiiU e introductory to what it is desirable to who say, here, about small farming in Ore-
