THE WEST SHORE.
Thirteenth Year. NOVEMBER, 1887. Number 11.
HEPPNER AND MORROW COUNTY.
TRETCHING away The center of the county embraces iho
due south from the Heppner Hill region, one of the best
Columbia river, is stock raising sections in the state. Hero
Morrow county, yet wool, beef and horse flesh are produced
in its- isolated in- in profusion. The shoep industry of
' fancy, and embrac- Morrow county is a very important ono,
ing within its bor- and wool is the staple product Most
ders, sage brushflats, men engaged in tho sheep business hero
rolling prairies, pla- have been moderately successful at it
teaus, foothills and tim The stock man was tho pioneer of tho
bered mountains. Along county, and still holds his own as tho
its northern end is a stretch loader in finance and forehanded pros-
Wl'lf Ban anc BaSe anything perily. Of late years, sheep havo su
l?l but inviting, and yet forming perseded cattle to a largo eitcnt, fully
a favorite range for cattle and two hundred thousand of them being
horses, which seem to thrive and find now kept in the vicinity of llcppner.
grass where there is none in sight, al- Owing to tho rapid influx of immigrants,
though it does exist and keep green in largo areas of grazing land aro being
the shelter of the sage and greasewood. transformed into grain fields. Land for
Passing southward, you emerge from merly considered valuablo only for graz
this desolate stretch and enter a gently ing, is now producing from twenty to
undulating country, where tho nativo forty bushels of wheat to tho aero, and
bunch grass flourishes, and many farms from two to thrco tons of hay. There
have been, and are being, opened up. is much of this excellent land still open
More or less wheat is being raised, and to settlement
its yield deperds much on how it is cul- The southern scope of Morrow county
tivated, local lay of the ground, etc embraces a large area of tho wcutcrn
General agriculture may bo said to be, spur of tho Bluo mountains, and is des
88 yet, experimental in the county. Along tined to become a region of rich resourc
the water courses good crops are tho cs. It is well watered and timbered, and
rule, but the extent of tho narrow bot- will soon bo sought out by encrgetio
toms is quite limited ' people who aro not afraid of a littlo
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