OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER.
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MINERALS.
Within the boundaries of the State of
Oregon there are found a large number of
native mineral substances, of which the fol
lowing list contains those of the greatest in
dustrial importance: Coal, gold, iron, build
ing stones, brick and pottery clays, quick
silver, limestone, silver, copper, 'platinum
and iridium, chrome iron, lead, nickel and
antimony. These mineral resources, which
are probably unequalled in variety in any
other state or territory in the United States,
are already the foundation of many indus
tries, and will lead to many others when
properly developed. The whole population
of the "state could employ itself in quartz
mining and make a good living at it, and
there are other mineral resources almost as
great. The mineral resources oi Clackamas
County are iron ore, yellow ochre, gold
quartz, copper ore, andesite, galena, coal,
mineral water and potter's clay.
CLIMATE.
The climate of Oregon is apparently the
one thing which the people of the East find
it difficult to understand Oregon is so of
ten referred to as "the place where it rains
all the time." A more erroneous idea of
the rainfall of the state is impossible. The
official statement of B. S. Pague, of the
United States Weather Bureau, says: Over
the extreme western portion of the state,
west of the Coast Range of mountains, con
sisting of about one-tenth of the entire area
of the state, the rainfall if from 50 to 80
inches, or an amount about equal to that
which annually occurs along the Atlantic
Coast, from Norfolk southward to Key
West, and along the Gulf Coast at Eastern
Texas, covering Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama, a portion of Arkansas and a por
tion of Tennessee. Except this coast region
of Oregon, in all that portion of the state
west of the Cascade Mountains, about one
fourth of the area of the state, the annual
rainfall is equal in amount to that which oc
curs over that portion of the United States
east of a line drawn from Duluth to Omaha,
to Oklahoma, to San Antonio, thence to the
Gulf, except those portions before men
tioned. The remainder, or nearly three
fourths of the state, has an annual rainfall
equal to that of Colorado and New Mexico.
Oregon City has an annual rainfall of 43
inches. Chicago has 34 inches, St. Louis 41,
New Orleans 60. Galveston, 48, Nashville
50, Vicksburg 53. Jacksonville 54. Chatta
nooga 54, Cincinnati, 42, Washington City
43, New York and Boston, 45 inches. No
cold weather, no snow, very little frost and
scarcely a day in the year when work may
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STRAWBERRIES, Picket! Nov. 10, lyoi.
not be carried on out of doors, offer a great
inducement to one who is industrious and
wishes to live in comfore and amass a com
petence. Irrigation here is unknown, the
cool nights in the Summer season, even in
the absence of rain, supplying the necessary
moisture for the growing crops.
Gardening is carried on every month in
the year and vegetables and potatoes are left
in the ground until ready to be used. Fruit
bangs on the trees all Winter and in some
eases does not freeze. Berries are picked
many a time in January. The accompanying
view of a box of strawberries Was taken
about the 10th day of November, 1901, and
shows ripe and green berries and blossoms.
Ripe raspberries were picked as late as the
middle of December, iqoi. Vegetables and
fruit grow to enormous size.
STOCKRAIS1NG.
The advance in prices of sheep and cattle
has been the cause of our stockraisers pay
ing more attention to their flocks and herds,
with excellent results therefrom. The Logan
Cheese factory, the Stone creamery and sev
eral skimming stations have been instrumen
tal in bringing better grades of cattle to this
county. Co-operative creameries are now
being established throughout the entire Val
ley. The wealth of Oregon lies in its natural
resources, and those bountiful gratuities of
Omniscience are legion in Clackamas
County. But all the riches of this county
would be nil if the physical treasures of our
lands were not available of expeditious dis
tribution in a profitable market. This Clack
amas County enjoys as no other county in
the state. It is linked to the metropolis by
numerous wagon roads, the Southern Pa
cific Railroad, an electric railway and numer
ous boats plying the Willamette.
This county is comparatively new. What
it wants more than anything else to promote
its development is capital and purposeful
energy. Magnificent natural advantages lie
unimproved for lack of the necessary capi
tal. There are also many opportunities for
sober and industrious men who may not
rank as capitalists. We have a wide field
for honest, intelligent endeavor, but no room
for idlers or the shiftless, improvident and
reckless. It is a great country, but figs do
not grow on thistles here more than else
where, and profligacy and idleness will not
reap the rewards of virtue and industry.
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