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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1887)
WALLA WALLA AND VICINITY. aw and is the terminus of the narrow i road previously spoken of. ItZ. ,DC ? c'tT commanding posi good school, several churches, a numbe " ?V of stores, and possesses good watlw J ? " T fwt hicUhoU Jn" est wheat belts in the KortWJt lf?f TH fa i u- . we8lana,8 or a home, Ono who hiu read ilto for- LTtrhel8t 1 ST fn YhM " ZZtSlr fl rPCt the dcirable e n Pacific and the Oregon Railway 4 taken up and cultivate! for many years. Navigation systems. It i9 a railroad Farther away, and especially in thodi town and lies in the and region. When rection of the dry belt to tho northwest irrigation redeems the adjacent conn- ward, there is yet much land opa too try from its present unproductive con. cupation. There is, also, some nulroad dition, the town will no doubt become land yet unwilled upon. Il who would an important business point find a home within a few mile of tho The methods of agriculture in this re- city, or any of the surrounding town, gion are of the most improved kind, must purchase the claims of tLoso who Plowing is done chiefly in the fall, and have preceded him. The cn l hail the great crop is winter wheat A fail- at all price and in all conditions, from ure of fall-sown grain has not been the virgin, unfenced soil to tho culti known during the quarter of a century vated land, with farm building and ita of cultivation, and the conditions are provemenU. Many farmers hare more such that a failure is almost impossible, land than they can profitably cultivate. Spring opens early, and in March the and will sell; others will ditm of their grain is in an advanced condition. One property in order to Mire from active thing is especially noticeable, and that labor, while many others, who have taken is the use of the best kinds of machin- up land under t e government land law, ery. Thousands of dollars are spent an- but for various reasons have never im nually by the farmers in supplying them- proved their holdings, are prepared to selves with the latest and most econom- sell at a reasonable price. He who has ical machines and implements. The money to invest will find it more profit great house of Knapp, Burrell & Co., able, and far more agreeable to himwlf whose headquarters are in Portland, and family, to purchase durable land maintains a large establishment at Walla within reach of churches, schools, rail Walla, from which everything needed on roads, and the social enjoy menU of the, the farm in the shape of tools, machines, settled communities, than to go nto a wagons, eta, is supplied to the whole more primitive region and encounter tU va?t agricultural region tributary to the hardship, and disadvantag--. of Vur city. The affairs of the firm in this re- life, where he mujt wai r-ln-d. to gion are managed by Mr. F.IL Barnard, come to l.m and must d'ny Lis ehd b , uiauy j . i femflr the educational anJ so- whose acquaintance the tl oMoihtea. and the eme agn fa uA there, render him peculiariy W M manage bo large and f of in Jligrnc axJ a spirit of in prise, ThefadtbatthgTetfi it advantageous to maintain a Urge es- d"? , . , f mUi tablishment in Walla Walla, is another newer w