4 f w st T s
VOJL. Xlll.
A WORD PI SEASON,
f Now that wool it bringing a great ileal of
money into the country, and considerable
wheat ii being told, we request all whose tub
tcriptlont are not prepaid, to remit for the
tame at toon at pouible.
Money being to tcarce in the country, for a
year back, we hare not intitted on prepay,
ment, at we intended to do, and at a conie
quence, for that time we have experienced the
mott teriout troubles we have ever known in
the nowtpaper boiineat.
All we need it prompt payment of accounts,
and we hope, if thit hint reaches you, you
wilt excuse thit dun and not fail to make the
remittance.
The date to. which you are paid It on the
tag with your address, and If it it not correct
inform ut without delay when and where you
made the payment
At wo cannot afford to tend out duns by
mail at a cost of (25, we take litis method and
hope it will not be labor wasted.
GOLDEN RULES fORYOPNO BEE KEEPERS.
Collins l 0., Denton Co., Oregon.
Kill tor Willamette Farmer:
I send you a fow golden rules to publish
for the benefit of the young lieo keepers of
Oregon and Washington.
1. Keep your beet at home.
2. If you depend on your neighlxiri for
lieo patturo let him havo your licet also.
3. You should lo very careful not to ovor
stock vourtelf with beet in the start, Wore
you becomo fsmiliar with tho business.
4. Also keep your pasture ahead of your
bees.
5. Your hives should be made of the v.ry
best of inch lumber and every hive and rack
should-bo' mado just tho tamo, so every rack
or piece will ri '.ny hive, lly all means use
tho self ttarttilj, ',ek. It will save you much
time and trouble and all your combs will be
built straight. Thit rack it easy made and
durable) will never tag nor warp. It can be
used in any 'kind of hive, is easy put in and
there is no danger in taking it out.
0. If you have a drone laying queen, or a
non.prolifio queen, destroy her at onco and
replace with a prolific queen. If you don't
your bees will dwindle away and you will W
t minus ono colony of bees.
7. The average lifo it a worker bee in
Summer is about eight weeks, although in
the best of honey harvest it is much shorter
than that, to you should keep good, prolilio
( queens and your colony strong, the stronger
your colony the more honev you get. Keep
all the combs in tho hive covered if it takes
every bee you have to do it.
8. Natural twarint for new lgiuners and
a few of them. Let your bees swarm and
move the old hive several yards away, and
place the new one in itt place. Thit will pre
vent them from swarming any more that year
and give you two, good, strong colonic, just
the thing for honey. However, the young
colony is apt to swarm again if you don't
crowd it with honey boxes. The first honey
box should be put on in about ten days.
Perhaps you will hear from me again. There
is nothing that tills me so full of joy and glee
at the sound of swarming bees. My coat is
off, my tleevet rolled upj I start for them
with brush and cupt I strive to fill my snug
made hive and get the queen in well alive.
Yours truly, Win. Mc Willis
STOCK JOBBINO CROP REPORT.
London special to N. Y. World of date
June SO, tayt the harvest prospect of KngUnd
have been somewhat improved by copious
showers, but at best it will fall below the
average.
Report have been transmitted by cable this
week from New York to the effect that the
crops throughout the United States will "be
very much below the average, that the stock
oo hand it very light, and that you will not
have more than enough from thit year't liar.
vest to supply your own requirements. Thit
account astonished the whole public, which
hat never regarded a general failure of the
cropt in America at a possible event. The
first result was to teud down the prices of all
American railroad stockt, the Fall compared
with that of last week being very probable.
Thit morning the Standard correspondent was
hocutted into sending the whole of previous
reports by cable; that his first account was
greatly exaggerated, and that the harvest will
not turn out to bad at was at first expected.
The public mind however hat been unsettled
cn the subject, and if the reports in question
were intended, at they no doubt were, to
-serve the ends of a great bear combined in
Wall ttrtet, the authors have ever' reason to
congratulate themselves upon their success.
' Ne" York politicaiit are getting pious.
They ask Grace beore undertaking any kind
jjapoltieal jub.
UNIVERSALIST STATE COKVEMTIOH.
The Oregon Universalist State Convention
met with the First Universalist Church of Or
egon on June Oth, 1881. Delegates were in at
tendance from Dallas, Coquelle Oity, Dayton,
W. T., and Lewiston, I. T. Upon motion,
Mrs. C. C. Kelly, of Albany, was admitted to
a seat in the convention.
Reports of committees indicated that there
had not !een much business transacted during
tho past year, though fully at much at was
expected.
The Committee on F. 0. and I), wero in
structed to inquire into the reason for A. Mor
rison and David Sires not preaching more reg
ularly. Tho Committee on Ilookt anil Tracts
reported that they had distributed 10,000
pages if tracts in the last year. The Secreta
ry of the convention was instructed to write
to all tho clerks of tho churches or parishes
for the names of persons having missionary
boxes also tho number of each box. Tho of
ficers elected for the ensuing year are fort
l'rcsident Hew K. A, McAllister, Lewiston,
I. T. Vico resident M. C. Drown, Dallas,
Or.) Sccictary A. ltrown, Dallas, 0r, Treas
urer J. M. Tharp, Ilalsoy Stato Missionary
Hew A. J. Wiulc. 1'ltco of holding next
convention i Dallas.
The Committee; app dntcd Kxecutivo Com
mittee! J. M. Tharp, Halscy j J, H. Wiglo
Harrisburgi 0. F. Sylvester, Lebanon; A.
Drown, Dallas, and I'. Janney, Turner. Com
mittee on F. 0. k I), i How A. J. Wigle. L.
(1, Kddleuiaii, A. Condra, Hon, J. II. Nosier,
and K. l'ing. Committee on Arrangements!
Miss Jennie Drown, David Scan, and A.
Drown, all of Dallas,
Anionc the many resolution! which were in.
traduced are the following, which were
unanimously aooptcdt
Whkhkah, The oilicers and members of
this convention havo undo a great sacrifice to
attend this meeting and in keeping'up its in
tcresta from the beginning; and, whereas, the
Inctrinea that we hold are of mreat interest to
humanity in leading the mind to a better un
derstanding of God at a Father and man at a
brother belonging to the great family) and,
whereas, many nl our tutor churches aro
isnorant of our faith t De it thereforo resolv
ed 1st, wo believe in God the Father of all ;
2d, in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Urotherand
Savior of all; M, in one Holy spirit, the Com
forter, tent from God to lead aiu instruct His
children in the ways of life, and will finally
brine all toult to a knowledge of tho truth.
iikkhkah, It hat plo.tcdthe Supremo
Kuler ol the universe to remove our iieloveil
brother Hew Scriah StcNcnt, of Ferndale, W.
T., from his field of action in this world to a
hichcr statu of leing, therefore,
Hicsolvkd, That while we deeply feel and
deplore his lost, we humbly submit to Him
who doth all tliiugt; and that we in conven
tion assembled do hereby tender to his bereav
ed family our deepest, heartfelt spmpathy,
praying the God of Heaven to blest them in
their bereavement; and further,
Hr."oLVKU, That our Secretary be instruct
ed to furnish his family with a copy of the
foregoing preamble and resolution;
IUmilvko, That our Secretary cause the
proceedings of the convention to te published
in the Star and Covenant and a nynopsis of
the sime in the willamkttk r akmkk.
A. J. Wim.it, Secretary.
Diversified Fannin.
Imlrlfnilenc. lilter Hide.
While traveling through our fertile valley
the stranger it forcibly struck with the lame
ness if the prospect presented by the
various farms though which the
railroad passes. At each farm is
the same round of orchard; mall garden,
meadow and wheat fields. Nowhcie do we
see, at in tho Host, an attempt to raise cropt of
peat, !ean, root crops, buckwheat, or aiiy
of tho thousand and one articles which go
to make up the diversified husbandry by
which the Kastcrn farmer will make his sixty
or seventy acres yields him an income equal
to that which our Oregon fanners reap from
a wheat farm of two hundred to thiee hundred
acres. When the farmers of Oregon are pre
pared with diversity of products to meet,
the detnands of the market, then, and not
till then, will we cease to hear the cry of hard
times. This year wheat is very low, while
hay brings a high price, and every farmer hat
wheat to tell, while only a very few have hay.
It has ever been thus since Oregon first enter
ed in competition with the world in the race
for wealth. Our farmers produce and tell
wheat; and frequently pay out all their iur
plut tor F-aitem hams, lard, butter, etc., and
for early California vegetables. When our
fanners can suply our own market with all
these things; and when home Manufactures
can supply our wagons, carriages and mach
inery; then we may hope to tee tho flush
times; but until that time comet we may look
for periods of financial depreiion similar to
the one through which we aro now passing.
Some complaint reach ua concerning the
non-arrival of tho F.ikmf.k at several points,
until they are a week old. We put our paper,
into the mail so that it leave I'ortland regu
larly every Friday morning, and wo can assure
our friends that it is no oversight of ours. We
will enquire and try to rectify the error.
PORTLAND, OREGON,
OROWIKO AND DRTOtO PRUNES.
Mohawk, Lane Co., Or., June 5, 1881.
Kditor Willamette Farmers
I would like to get tho experience of prac
tical fruit men and dealers at to the prac
ticability and profit in raiting and drying
prunct. The editor of tho "Fruit Recorder"
atked Mr. Smith, nf Wathlngton Territory, to
give hit experience, but Mr. S. referred him
to Mr. 1'attcraon, of San Jose, Cal. I am well
aware that prunct can be grown lu Oregon,
but the objection I hear againit them it that
in drying they crack opn. Our prominent
nurterymen tay that prunes aro a very profit
abto crop, and I havo no doubt they are per
fectly honest in their tisertloni, but there are
many, ok your readers in thit SUte and else
where, who would like to hear from froit'men
and orchardiita throughout tho Stato. I am
advised that tho Umpqua is just the place for
prunes, plums and pcachci. I have always
heard that iron is good for fruit tices. Well,
I am living whero in every gulch bursts forth
a spring, whoso water it to badly trinctttred
with iron at to almost unfit it for tiro. Now
I havo about 700 trees nearly ready to bud,
and tho experience of others will assist mo in
selecting tho kind of prunes or plums, wheth
er ono or lioth to put into stock,
J. S. Cllfhcnil.L,
Anmwkh. -We open thit subject with pleas
ure, for general consideration and discussion,
and at wo have now been for six years grow
ing plum and prune trcea and studying the
prospects for fruit culture, wo commence the
discussion with aomo facta and conclusions
from our own experience.
Somo time since five or six ycart ago we
published a lengthy communication fiom Mr.
Patterson, ft San Jose, Cal,, on the culture of
plums and prunes. Wo havn followed his ad
vice with fair success, and in growing an
orchard of 3000 trees, now commencing to
bear well, wo have learned something about
the way to grow tuch fruit in Oregon, and
litre it our experience.
Our orchard it in the red hills, quite near
Silem, on quite high and dry land, underlaid
by marl bed rock of great depth. The red toil
it strongly Impregnated with iron. We plow
ed dead furrowt to suit lines of trees, planted
trees in those furrowt, quito high, then hilled
around them, and plowed towards treet to
ridgo them well; and treet to planted and eul
tivated have mado far better growth than
somo at first tet lower in tho ground.
Wo havo not overcultivated, but just
enough to iniuro healthy growth, and have
the now wood ripen early, to that OctoW
frosts will not find trees growing, and tap up,
which it alwayt dangerous: We have never
had plow or harrow in tho orchard after the
first week In July.
Seek a location fret at possible from frosts.
This is important, at frosts that damage fruit
budi or bloom destroy fruit prospects, Sandy
banks, almost bluffs, along a stream, have
bcea found favorable for constant liearing.
This hot been a boil year for frosts in April
and May, and locations where frosts did not
strike thit Spring may lo safe. Our orchard
it on high Itnd overlooking the Willamette,
and we consider the vicinity of a river very
favorable,
Mn. Lovcjoy, of Oregon City, maket a bin.
incaa of puttiiig up fruit. She tried drying
plums and prunes and now succeeds better at
canning the same fruit. Hither should pay,
but the home market is limited. We heard
the other day that she was contemplating a
contract.to can plums and prunes for a gen
tleman from Scotland now in Oregon. We
mutt look to a foreign market for both our
fresh and preserved fruit, if the business
greatly increases here, but the growth of the
l'acifis Northwest will supply a good market
for what is likely to lie grown for awhile to
come. Mr. I. F. Dradford, who hat a large
plum and prune orchard four milea south of
here, and it a careful and thinking man, dried
plums and prunes very tucessfully last year
realizing 20ctt for pitted plums and Ificts for
prunes cured with the stones in. Mr. Seth
Lu el ling, of Milwaukie, tent ut a box of
dried prunes last Fall; and la a man nf judg
ment and experience. We shall be glad to
hear from lioth these gentlemen at also from
Mr. Forgey, of Scio, and Mr. Duckman. of
Canby, and Mr. Hayes, of Oswego. AH
three of these have their own driers, invent
ed by themselves, at also it tho case with Mr.
Luelling, and they all ought to have valu
able experience to give relativo to fruit rait,
ing, and also aliout canning and drying the
same. There are, of course, others able to
give facta and experiences, and we hope to
call out valuable communications on thit im
portant topic, for we lielicve fruit to be a groat
resource of our future, and no party in Ore
gon ii perhaps to well adapted for its thorough
prosecution at Jackson county.
We havo 300 Hartlett peart crowing, ex
pecting that treet which are now beginning
FRIDAY, JUNE 24,
to bear wilt be able, when wo shall havo rail
road tonneriion through to Chicago and 8t.
Louis, to yield fruit that can 1e shipped Kast.
The IU'rtlet needs to be picked three weekt
More fully ripe, and ripen in the ihtde.
Thit maket it just the fruit to thip to best
advantage, liesidcs which, Oregon it tho
natural home of the pear, and our poin are
much more deliciout than those of California,
which it true of most of our fruit.
Mr. Churchill tiki aliout tho adaptability
of Douglaa'county for fruit. We havo very
little actual knowledge on thit point, but ha o
alwayt supposed it to be unsurpassed for fruit
growing generally, and shall be glad to hear
fully from Umpqua fruit growers.
It tome of our friendt In Coos and Curry
countiet will tell what thoy know about fruit
growing there it will bo a great deal in their
own lavor. It it known that Wasco county,
and Umatilla, raiso good fruit, and wo also
Invito communications from that acction of
country.
At.to beat varieties of plums and prunes to
grow,, the following fruits ripen in tho order
named t
1'cach plum, ripens aliout 10th of August.
Columbia plum, ripens aboul 20th August
Washington, plum, ripens about 1st Sept.
Petite Prune d'Argnoipent about IMhScpt.
Italian and German prune, aliout 20th Sept.
Vhereaa, the Coo's gidden drop and Heluo
claudo do Ilavay aro bothof the prune order
and very late, hanging on tho trees in the
cool weekt of Outolier almost a month after
commencing to ripen, to aro very favorable
for curing. The egg plum, and others, aro
valuable, and we only name the most noted.
HEW YORK WOOL MARKET.
New York KconomUt,
Fhiiiay Kvxsinu, June 10, 1881.
Tho current of our own markets for the pist
fortnight .r three woeks has been toward an
cib tide, for what causes we leave others to
fathom, but will remark we expected quite at
much two mohthi ago, and we now begin to
realize the full effect of the action of buyers
throughout tho Golden, tho Lone Star State,
Missouri, Kentucky, Ac. After a stubborn
contention in California, prices opened at IH
22o for Southern, and finally went up to 21l($
32o f.r tho finest Nuithciu mooIs. It must not
be overlooked here that those aro unwashed,
and that witi freight at 2fc, buying, insur
ance, interest, cartage, Ac, it will require -to
more a pound to cover all incidental charges
lauded in New York and lloston. All Phila
delphla dealers are much displeased at what
they style the injudicious purchasing of 'wools
in California, Kentucky, Ac, It is asserted
that all California and Texas wools will carry
a shriak of from 00 to 75 per cent. We know
that tome of those wools heretofore havo been
of a shrinkage to deceive experts, but we have
seen wools from both States that ate really
elegant and superior to any Capo or Montevi
deo wools imported. They are absolutely
beautiful and can bo teen at the otlices of
Messrs. Samuel Thompson, Nephew & Co.,
and Greene A Siebert, of this city. Verily we
are proud of this, for wo reserve to ourselves
the glory of shaming tho wool glowers of Cali
fornia and Texas into tho raising of tbeso
lianiltomc, crossbred merino wools. It is loud
ly asserted by the trade that wool buyers are
absolutely wild in Texas and California, and
we have dispatches from San Francisco and
San Antonio, confirming these view t and stat
ing that the markets are strong and active for
best selections, and tho wools weie taken rap
idly 2!K&32o for choice Northern in San Fran
cisco, and 2tife'J7c for selections in San Anto
nio, One New York house purchased last Fri
day at tho latter place four hundred thousand
pounds at our extreme figures, and they havo
a sufficiency of funds to carry their supplies
for a whole year.
The Kansas Wheat Crop.
St. Looih, June 18. The Republican's
Kansas city special tayt dispatches and let
ter received by leading agricultural imple
ments dealers in thit city from different parts
of Kantai report tint West of the lino from
Concord on the Central branch railroad, South
KIk on the Kansas city, I-awrcnco and aver
age. This embraces the Winter wheat dis
trict. Kast of the aliove named lino there
will not be more than half crop. The wheat
crop of the entire State vi ill not probably he
at larire at that of four years ago but the
general crop will be the largest ever known
in the State, Tho corn crop looks 'well and
promites to be the largest ever harvested in
Kama.
The spiritualists of Clackamas county, Oic
gon, and vicinity, will hold their annual camp
meeting at New Kra, beginning Thurulay,
July "ltd, ami continuing four days. Good
tjieakert and teat mediums will bo in attend
anot, and Ireo return tiekot for all u ho oome
by railroad, eat or west side.
1881.
OENERAL FARMING N TES.
Walla Walla Watchman I Tho trial of Mrs.
Thomas at Colfax last Saturday resulted in
her acquittal, for tho jury taidi "not guilty,"
and of couroo what a jury tayt, must be to,
but before God and man the is guilty of hav
ing been accessory to a mott foul and dastardly
murder, for which her husband wot hung and
for which the should havo been put in tho
penitentiary for lifo. To murder Drumtlcld
and Mrs. Amanda Shanks was premeditated
between the pair and the waa almost at guilty
at be wat. She acknowledged after the
trial, that the knew her hustiand killed hli
undo and would kill tho woman also.
ltaker County Koviellot Wm. A. Salley,
hat a band of over 2,000 sheep. Seventeen
bucks, of tho Merino variety, averaged nine
teen and three-quarter pounds of wool. Hit
entire band, big and little, old mid young,
avcrgu about six pounds apiece. Out of nine
hundred and twenty-ono lambs, only forty
ono died.
Mr. Alby, of Umatilla county, whilo driv
ing a band of eleven hundred sheep over tho
llluo Mountains met with a tungularacciduut,
tho entire hand leaping from n precipitous
bluff, falling a lung distance and killing nine
hundred and fifty outright. The lout to the
owner it estimated at $2.i00.
Tho Democrat tayt of tho Alliaiiy Fanners
Coi This company being composed of far
mers, ia fully alive to their interest t, and it
making many improvementi which will lie of
great benefit to atorcrt. A new .water wheel
of much greater power it being put in, which
will euabla them to operate their auction fant
without 'any trouble, and a full tet of rolling
screens will be put in, by tlm use of
which tho wheat will lie put in a condition
clean enough for grinding Just at clean at it
it at the flouring mills before it goes to tho
burn.
Kugene Guard i The meeting of the Siuslaw
Road Association wat held at tho Couit
Homo last Saturdy afternoon. The eommit
tees appointed to t dicit tulmcription reported
that they had obtained an aggregate of $334.
$2.10 of thit amount wat tulitcribcd in Kugene.
Thecominitteeiwercallowedtwoweekifarther
time in which to solicit subscriptions and tho
meeting adjourned to meet next Saturday,
Juno 2.1th.
A correspondent of tho I'ei.dlcton Tribune
says i Your readers would no Hon lit lie Inter
csted and surprised at the immensity of thit
season's growing crop, lying northeast of
Pendleton, which a few years ago wot cousi
dered valueless only for waring purposes.
We havo lieen figuring tome on acreage, yield,
etc, and will give the reaultt Commencing at
I'endleton and a line run North lfi miles,
thence Kast 111 miles, thence South to Wild
Horso creek and down to the creek at I'endle
ton, and containing 108,800 acres of land,
farmt nearly all enclosed with good fencing.
Now we estimate by tho belt information
obtained from our own observation that
seven-tenths are In cultivation in various kinds
of crops, inch at wheat, rye, oats, barley,
com and potatoes, and allow six-tenths for
wheat alono which we think is rather under
than above a correct estimate--tint would
give ut 0.1,280 acrea in growing wheat, cal
culate 20 bushelt per acre, which is far below
the present prospects, and wo havo 1,30.1,000
bushels,
Jackson County Democratic Times, Fred.
llaruchurg of Kdcn precinct owns a flock of
sheep, 270 in liumW, from which 2,100
pouuds ut wool was sheared thit Spring, S.
Furry, Sheep Inspector assures us that this
extraordinary yield is amply due to good
treatment, Mr. llarneburg feeding, sheltering
and keeping his heep in projier manner.
Grant County Newn Many who have sold
out their cattle are going to invest in the
sheep busmen. The latter bids fair to become
the leading industry of thit county, ami the
annual sales of wool and mutton sheep will
soon exceed the yearly output of gold during
tho palmiest days of placer mining,
I'ort Orford 1'osti Wool grim era of this
county are generally jubilant over the pros
pects of a large clip uud good prices. The
Winter just aat hss been an unusually favor
able one to wool growing interests, very few
sheep having lieen lost.
The Walla Walla Union, June 18th, says:
During tho past week we have interviewed
many furmera from all parts of tho country in
regard to the wheat crop. The general uns.
wcrt have been quite favorable. Some aro
fearful that the rains came too late to name
a full crop. Taking into account the fact that
the acreage is larger than lst year, and mak
ing duo allowance for tho shortage on light
toil, where the grain had began to head out
before tho rains, and the spotted character of
some of tho Held, wo are led to conclude that
the total yield of tho Walla Walli valley w ill
NO. 1!).
be fully up to, If not far in oxcrm of, the
ivcrtgo. It certainly promises to largely ex
cel both in quantity and quality tho harvttt
of 1880.
Jackson county farmen who three wctkt
ago wore elongated countenance! by reason of
tho absence of the usual Spring raits, have
octied their grumblings. The late bountiful
raint all over the county and State have rend
ered sure a bountiful crop of cultivated grain,
including that town late in tho Spring. In
deep, to present appearances, tho kernels of
tho Spring town grain promisci to till oven
better than the kernels of Fall town.
I'ort Orford l'ost: From private and re
liable sources wo learn that a dispatch was re
ceived lut Monday by Capt. Littlefield to the
effect that the preliminary arrangements for
commencing tho construction of the breakwa
ter at thit place are about completed, and that
the engineers to bo placed In charge of tho
work may bo expected at any time.
Oregon (Jacksonville) Sentinel! Col, John
A. Hurlburt, Civil and Topographical Kn
giuecr ot tho 0. Si C. It, R. Co., arrived hero
on Thursday, rurouto for tho. Siskiyou mount
ains, Tho Colonel informs ut that a party of
"locators" aro at work running tho line south
of Hosclmrg. At tho end of month there will
bo flvo surveying parties in tho held between
Hoseburg mid tho California linn, trying to
find tho licst grade for a railroad route.
Tho Dalles Times: Spanish Hollow, it a
settlement situated 'aliout 20 miles Kast of
thit city, and it tplcdidly located for fanning
purposes. The bunch grass grows to a con
siderable height, and formerly furnlshtdfoed
to vast herds ot cattle which roamed orer the
almost illimitable hills; but the advanciug
wavo of Immigration bat driven the stockmen
further into the interior, and tho pleasant
(arm houto dots tho grasty plaint and valleyt
in that arctlon. Mr. Geo. Sharp, a resident
of Hpannlth Hollow, gave ut a .call on Satur
day last, and hs informi ut .thatf during the
present teason there hat been.quite an addi
tion to the population in that locality. 'A
great many have come from 'the Kant, and
then havo como from ueighlMring counties
in Washington Territory, and tome from the
Willamette Valley.
The Dalles Timet learnt that the 0. R. A.
N, Company aro in want of fully I, MX) more
men, piincipally laborers, though u fow
mechanics can find employment, Tho wages
will lie from $2 tu c"2.:0 a day, and steady em
ployment it guaranteed until snow and ico in
intcrferet with the work. 01 thrae, 1.000
ure needed on tho lino between The Dalles
and Cortland, and rest will lie put on tho road
lieyond Walla alia. This it a good chance
for men desiring employment, and none need
suffer for want of work when there is tuch a
demand.
A cnrrosiondent of the San Francisco
Chronicle has this to say. At The Dollef,
whero the traveler takes to the railway to com
plete his jouney to Wallula or Walla Walla,
the growth of a settlement, as it it affected by
the passage of a road, is very uoticable. A
couple of years ago The Dalles was a hamlet
of small hopes. To-day it Mttimes the dignity
of a municipality, a thriving, buttling thrifty
town of .1,0(10 or (1,000 inhabitants, with a tine
farming country for its support. About the
railway station n number uf bad character!
havo located, but thugrcnt hulk of thupopula
ton is composed of tho viiluanlo cUnea, who
como to add moral and fhuiiciil Mtlnigth to
tho place. The euilir)o it)' occupies a charm
ing locution, from which line view of the
mountainous country aru had,"
THE ORANQE IN YAMUILL COUNTY.
MuMi.SNVlLLK, June, III, I8SI,
Kditor Willamette Farmer:
Thinking a few linfi from this iiart might
interest your many leader, especially the
giangert, I venture to aay that on June the
18th 1 installed the oilicers of the North
Yamhill Grange, which ho been dormant for
some time, but lately revived, the uiciubcri
feeling that they van now take holu with
now lifo at they have again taken their place
in tliu rank with thu granger. The list of
olliccra I will givo as follows; A, II. Roberts,
Master; G. W. IVikius, Ovcr.ccri R. R.
l-iugMin, Lecturer; Samuel Robert, Steward
11. M. McCoy, A. S. Mary Stott, tti Mrt.
H. H, iughliu, T.jJnhu Deinaey, S,; K.
Shuck, G. K.j Mrs. Kutu l'crknn, Cere;
Mrs. 11. D. Deinaey, I'.; Airs, Sarah Roberts,
l'.l Mis, Hhoda Mi Coy, L. A. S,
I am in hope aoou to give to the reader of
the Faiimeii iuithvr proui of tho hie of thu
grange movement in Y mnhill u t theaiiccest
bo what ever It may I intern! to do my put ui
i hiiiiw now. ion, ii, r. rciLKK.
The Duke of Sutherluul Im ovprwtol him
self in greatly ltuwl with Aniirii, ThW j
very kind of ttudukv, -l A.uriWMn should
feci tnuoamgiht,