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f 4 '. VOL. XIV. orrcOHiltnc A FKEE TALK ABOUT RAILROADS. Bi'simit, llcnt'iti Co., Or., Toll. 15, 1882. .litf r illntinttn 1'nriilir! & An you invito comment on your rnilro.id j"irticlo of hut wimk, nnil ns you nro nlways IfoVery lc I itl about publishing lumiiiiiiiii-atioii jfi.vii thu country, I thought I would nay a, SJn regard to rnilro-iilit in general, lint -.v Kill not expect much from ho far hack lu jiiriil ilintrictas "Cow precinct." Theoretically I run in favor of railroa'U, practically I mil not; that it, if roads wcro liiiilt anil operated as thoyshould bo, on sound limine" principles, nml just enough of tlii'in f.ir tti.t nofiW i.f t riiiitiiwirt-iitinii. I would ru i gard thorn an a liK'Mini'i hut an wo find them to-day, tlm country throughout (with n low ram exception.), thry urn n ciiimm to tlm com iminity. Thin in putting it strong, hut it in none tlm li-mt true. For instnticu, for tint I'a ciflc Coast, if we hail hut iimi granil double track trans-continental railro.nl, wiOU'iupl"il, nftcr tlm in.iiiiiiir 01 the English railway, or that of tho Pennsylvania roul, it uoulil canily do tho huniui-mi, with a fc funlnrit, for the entire country. A for, Oii-gmi, a few bwal Hum connecting with the ocean ami Columbia river, cachownr-d anil operated independently, or, better yet, hy tho government, ami a k'uwU linn to connect with tho train-continental would ho sullieieiit for tlm mods of our State many mid many yiarn to conin These. if built and m-iiingnd on iiouiiil limine pnn. ciplcn, and controlled by Uw, ho an to brine, but a fair leturn on tlm capital iuvmtl, all would Hintf praium, and there would be no war, or rumor of war, ngainsl railroad'. t Hut, a a matter of fact, how do we find fttoirr! In thn first place, there arc vastly too many roaiN, and If nil of Mr. Villard's pro- f jecU are completed, at well an tho other line now building, Oregon will noon bo like a man with a ten-aero farm buying a $1,000 .train throahcr. In tho nee 1 place, they are built on uimound principles, subsidized with hind by tlm government, and the tock greatly in flated or watered, and made to p.iy dividends on capital it doeu't posucs. In thu third place, tl.ey are controlled and operated in a thicvUh and gambling manner. Kailioadn are chiefly built for tho purpose of removing the products of Jho country, and the farmer must patronlo them indirectly, ut leant, whether he would or not. And it is not right nor juit in any hoiho of the wool for Block jobbers And speculators to build roads indiscriini- i'natcly through the country, whero they are wanted mid nhcro they are not, operato tlicm in an extravagant maiiiicr, and call on tl.e farmer to foot thu bills, for foot them ho mint, sooner or later. When a boy I lived on tho baiikii of tho Mississippi, fifty mile, fiom any railroad. The farmers shipped their hoop-polos and pumpkins, their wheat, corn, fruit, fat hog. hand beef tocin vr llat-boat or .teambovt to ffBt. Ljuis or Now Orleans, received fair prices Ifor their prwlucU and were happy. Now 'fceru are three railroads in that country, ami ot one steamboat whero theio were formerly I ten, freights and fans ro mucl liiglur, inonov is scaicerand times harder than lor- wcrly, and thecounty has n 8100,000 law suit ou hand in regard to repudiating certain rail road bonds which aro said to bo unlawful, and which wcro voted to aid in tho construction of the road. At tho clove of tho-war I removed to Western Iowa and settled in Ida county, 100 miles from any railroad, but soon two lines wore pushed across tho State, one going 80 miles south, and the other 40 miles north of us, and wo wore left completely isolated. Hut every body prospered cattle hod almost .41 unfunded range, corn was always fifty f trflKs per bushel, and other products in pro- I 'fortion. No farms wore mortnagod nor any Lrfannors badly in debt. Hut many were not tj4tlsllod, longed forn railroad, for direct com- munication with tho world, you know. And nd at Ust, somo live years ago, they got it, It and got it bad. A railroad branch of the great "Northwestern" was built tluough the middlo of the county. Today nearly every quarter section has a family upon itj stock UA irtisiiig is almost out of tho question) corn, kySiihe great staple, averages about L'O cunts pur WjjTjPtuihel, whoat 50 cents, and othor products iu yl proportion. According to the Auditor's stste- I roent. which was lately puoiisuuu, .leaujr three-fourths of tho farms wore undor mort ge, many so hoavily onoumbored they cau never be redeemed. A few years ago an antb monopoly movement was gotten up, and un der iU Ufluenop a law was enacted by tho " State Legislature fixing a uniform freight and pasiengcr tariff on all tno raiiroaus, wmcii w1aUaU discriminating between points. ThiUw waa both wise and just, and was a Vi great benefit to produo.rs, and although it lV ill til A A JLl mri D wyrr ? '" ' ' - - " "' had thn eficct of lowering freights fully one third, the railroad magnates mJimittcd t'i it like littlo turn. Hut, lo I when tho LegiHla turn convened, sumo four years after with tho grand old Krptihhcan pirty iu tho major ity, in the ratio of about Tuir to ono tho way in which that law was repealed was a uiutiou lo tinners. And from tint day to this no memb r hai had the audacity to prnposn tho ro enacting; of so ohnnxirnis a incuHitre for fear of being designated "firangcr," with hrfy seed nr other viln things in his hair. Ill tho moan time, tho old discriuiiuatini; and unjust rates am ru istah1ihcd, mid, lo all appearances, will no remain. And thu Itcpuhlirtni banner still waves. I'nilroa Im havo proved too ex peinivo a luxury for Iowa farmers. Now, look at California, thu whole Stain virtually under the control of a single corporation, with the power to discriminate between any points, and ruin tlm piosprcts of any merchant, busi ness tlrm. industrial enterpriso of anv kind, or uven a whole town of community who daru nay miirht ngainsl it. And under existing eirrumstnneiH. it is as utterly impossible for its agricultural community to help themselves as for a rich man to pass through the eye of n neodlo, or a camel to enter tho kint'dom of heaven. Now. what is trim of California, Iowa and Illinois, will, when Mr Villard's plans am coii'timmateil, ! titiu of Orcg"ii, or else facts aro not fact WVon our jirojpcti-d roads aru all finished, tho prosperous days for tlm Ore.'on farmer will bo gone, never tore, turn. Tlm bargu lines on thu Mississippi (vou see thev aro going back to first principles there) willacausu tonnagn tn bo so low iu tint direction, and tho multiplicity of r.niboads, with tho enormous watered tock to pay div idends upon, will cauu it to be so high here, that the Oregon farmers will htand about tho fame hIihw as a negro at an election (in a Democratic precinct) a few yiars henco, un less tho people arousu to their interest, which thev will not do All tho roads and telegraph lines ill tho land will bo subject to tho control, ho far as freight is concerned, of a single manngemrnt, who will fix rates as absolutely ns the 1'opo dictates doctrines to tlm latliolic Church. Anil lngrei ami an Stnto legislature will old and abet them Whtt .Stanford, Dillon and Huntington havo done for California, flould, Vanderbilt. Vil lard and others of like proM'iisities will do for Oregon. Wcrrt railroad building stopped and wo go back to first principles enough to Improve our rivers and harWs and establish a merchant marine, tho nation would 1m) much better otr. Of course, there aro somo branches of business that railroads will improve. Hut I havii written of tho community in general. In a short article it is impossible to give the ml jeet the attention it should have, ho 1 havo merely touched on a few points. Hoping you may too fit to give it space iu your valuable paper, I will suhscriha myself very respect fully, J. II. Aumicii. UK.MAKK.H. Mr. Aldrich, iu his able communication, gives tho experience of tho countries ho has lived iu, ami concludes wo shall feel tho same here. His views coincide with our editorial in this bsuo asking, "Is Competition Tossi blu !" Wo arc glad to havo so speedy an as sent to our opinions on this htibject. Wo know littld of Mr. Villard's methods, and whatever they may lie, all tho people caro for is to havo necessary transportation at reasonable rates. Tho 0. 11. & N. Co. is planning and building a perfect system, and look to tho rapid development of thu country to support it. This community has the benefit of such construction, and has tho jowcr to control tho franchises it bos granted, so we don't see what difference it makes who builds our roads, nor any reason to condemn them iu advance. If wo haven't confidence in our selves, wo ought not to havo any roads. What tho above says about California is all true, but even there tho ptoplo havo revised their State Constitution, and assumed arbi trary control of all railroads by a commission of their own election. A commission elected by tho popular vote coutiols those roads to day. Toe reason wo so earnestly favor tho opening of tho Columbia river is because we soa the necessity of cheap. water transpor tation, Mr. Aldrich writes well and with forco.and if all thu farmers of Oregon had his clear head, tlieru would bu little chance- for any railroad monopoly to oppress the people. QOOD WOBDB IN QOOD BEABOW. We get many encouraging and kindly let ters fiom peoplo who appreciate the effort we make to furnish tho farmers of the Pacitlo Northwest with a useful journal, and to lin. efit thorn to tho extent of our ability, but it is seldom that any ono fathoms our views and motives so fully, and accords us tho measure of praise we try hard to d.servo so pleasantly and earnestly, as does the writer of the fob lowing letter, who is known and respected far and noar. While wo aro anxious to have friends, it is more than ordinarily satisfactory to count among our friends such Christian voterani as Kldor Sweeney. If we deserve tho good opinion of such men, wo can go ou work ing with more hopn and oonfidenco, Walla' Walla, Feb. 17, 1882, Editor Willamette Farmer I I am exceedingly well pleased with the Fakhkk. I never for a moment fear its being road by fatniliu. It is the clear unmistakable PORTLAND, OREGON, advocate of what is right and proper, and al ways iu very chaste and well selected Ian guigo. The sons and daughters of farmers, who patronizo tho Pakmkr, will grow no in telligent men and women. Your "Corner" for tho children is admirable. If parcntu only knew what a factor thcro is in the real, pract cal education of their children, tho Faiimkh would have the widest circulation of any pa per on Ibis coivt. The children who attend school six months in tho year, and who read tho Fakmkii all the year, will grow up with. much better practical education, and will havo a far letter general intelligence than they would gain by lcing in school all the time without tho paper. Your views of mo nopolies aro certainly correct equal and sim ple justice to all men. Mr. Villard ha done much for this upper couutry in the way of de creasing freight. Kvery reduction in freight is adding to the prico of wheat at home. When tho railroad shall have been finished to Portland, I have no doubt tho freight will he again reduced. Mr. 1-Mitor, wo would like your views on tho TarifTquestion for the in struction of your readers. You are not anked to show us your political views of tho subject. Our political policy is : tho hrt mm for office whether Hepuhlican or Democrat. Hut tho Tariff question is not clear to somo of us. It seems to mo that it was right in tho days of our Republic to protect our home industries, until wo could get a good start and bo able to live, but the continuance of mi sh protective tariff for a great length of time results in a great monopoly. It also teems to inc that a tariff ut all is necessarily clasi legislation licnefits a few works against tho many. Hut give us Wif, not politics. Once nsore. Look over your old filu of papers, and republish many good things, for you have manynew readers now,' and tho old ones have forgotten. Succcis to the Faumkk. Trulv. Ac., A. W. SWKE.NKr. Letter from Tangent. Tanhknt, Linn Co., Or., Feb. U, 1SS2. Kditor Willamette Fanner : I will send you a few items from this place, which you may uso as you sco fit. Tho weather for tho past week Iias been quite stormy, with rain, w ind and miow, so there is no farm work goiug on. There has been a good deal of sickness in the neighborhood this Fall ami Winter, typhoid fever principally. Thcro was ono death, a son of Mr. K. L. Hryan, ou Monday, the Cth instant. Peoplo are generally pretty well at present. Tho officers of Tangent Orango were installed on Saturday, January 28, by Worthy State Deputy It. K. Irvine, John Luper, Master, and J. II. Scott, Secretary The Grauge met iu open session. The hall was well filled, thcro being many visiting members from neighbor ing Granges, and many who wore not mem berg. Installation ceremonies being over, all repaired to tho lower hall, where thcro were two long tables filled with good things for tho huugry, which every body seemed to partake of with much satisfaction. Dinner over, the Grange was called to order, and tho pro gramme of the evening announced by the Master, Mr. Super, the Declaration of Pur poses of Patrons of Husbandry was read by Mrs Scott, of Samtridge Grango, after which the Worthy State Deputy addressed the Grango for nearly an hour, after which several speeches wcro mude by visiting members of tho Order. Tangent Grange is in a properous condition. Professor Kmcry preached to a large con gregation at this place last Sunday, many be ing present who seldom attend church, ex pecting to see a young couple married after service was over, but went away sadly diap pointed. Hut in the evening the Professor and a few of tho friends of the youug bride groom wore iuvited to the residence ot Rev. T. A. Moses, and thore and then were united in the holy bonds of wedlock Mr. William Jenks and Miss Susan Moses; and may they havo a long and happy union of prosperity. This ceremony being over, all partook of a splendid repast, and so endod the enjoyment of the day. John Dim-ek. Obituary. Kuoknk City, Feb. 15, 1882. Ulysses Grant Potter was born -in Lane county, Oregon, November 27, 1867. and died February 10, 1882. He waa dedicated to God by pious parents in his infancy, and grew up an obedient and dutiful son. Ho waa a great lover of Suuday school, and always had a strong desire for meutal and religious culture, and at the time of his death had been work iug hard on his father's farm preparatory to commencing a course of study at Eugene City. His death resulted from a fall caused by tho lines breaking while engaged in plow ing, letting him fall backward on his head, I. D. Dbivkb. Hanish humors and reiuviorato the stom ach, liver and bowels with King of the Blood see advertisement. ' T FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1882. OHrtfox tatiti"c res imi-. Compiled from (he Ker.rds File In Ike meof.tlieMcerriarjror HUle. "i. Co 2 y 8 ?5 f ti '?' 'iA ;"s'HMtjitii'jit ...l-.i.i.JMOUtiI..4ri-at n g. - A q U a . a tip & to f m. 0 it tJS" - . 1 tfr-t& .HY'iM i - 'A -lH As-'SW''s- y.s-i-fcrJ55 i tt a-"! -- U -js & - - -!& i ys s rT V - T t! - ft --"-. M - t -I ?. tiiHC'jt& -j Ui - fe so a, oa-js- 5 w 3E. hvi ' . Sf 2 ?. Z ., f 2 2. 5 S 13 g 5 ti97et"iuMM5'w.i5MMSMy.M es. n;' v s - m -1 f is rrE"'5at 7. ? -r . 1" Ij 2i if -t'-s iiureM tj-MPCf K 16 9 ! u A Ti n S m u o . rJ v x V -t-i - 4? L6.I!5S?S!4,V2ias-i"?"'l4r'Sr.ar.-!n 0 -i ?gtTq?t?,aAM5feSgtiyo5 PS, UK .! 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Ill Wlt- nrsa vt hereof, I have hereunto set rur hsntl and afflxeJ thodreat Seal of the But of Oregon. llono it the Capital at Salem this the 10th day of lobruary, A. I. 1SW2. R. P. EAKHART, Secretary of Stat. , Married. At the residence of the bride's parents, near Farmingtou, W. T., February 7, 1882, by Rev. J. S. Rhoads, J. T. Arrasmith and Miss Adelia Finch, all of Whitman county, W. T. At the residence of Mr. Albert Baker, near Irving, February 14th, by A. C. Jennings, J, l' Mr. Joseph Baker and Miss Rebecca A. Walters, all of Lane county, Oregou. A cormupondknt writing from Colfax, W, T., February 13th, says The weather haa been quite cold and disa greeable for more than a month, the snow averaging six or eight inches in depth, being in deep drifts in many places, inconveniencing travel very muck. III fll-s f ? ? ?4f a3 ? s rss pttSJJ'gls.?85-SSfis8Sit.Sa5i.Sii2 12 -'Vi-J-V-' jr flOIV fl'jsltft'-' HA ORCHARDS. NUMBER IV. Having shown at some length, though in a cursory way, what locations are desirable, what varieties of fruit thrive with us, and how trees are to be planted out and cultivated, we wind np the subject for the present by show ing the usos for fruit and the prospect for profit in growing and curing it. Of course, there will always be a limited, home market; limited to some extent, as is our home market for wheat and wool, bnt far exceeded by our capacity to produce. With the world for onr customer, we mut study what the world wants and wilt pay for. The home market and California demand for late keeping fruit will reqnire a great quantity of very choice varieties of every kind of fruit, snd'our cities and towns will alwavs import early fruits from the South. Besides this market from what we may oil home countries, there will nlso be a demand for shipment Kast. The mining districts of Mon tana nnd Idaho will become productive when railroad construction makes it easier to work them. These mine will probably astonish tho world, and should call for a larce working population in th near future. Such a com munity always offers a food market for choice fruit. Wo lately copied from a Montana journal that treated of this very subject. That paper asured our people that they would need immense quantities of our fruits and vegetables. We can count on a reliable demand from that direction for all time. Eastern cities will require more fruit than we can supply, unless we begin to make or charding a scientific study. California is look ing East for consumers for their already im mense fruit product, and they are planting out enormously the present year, encouraged by success already gained. We have a great advantage in the superior flavor and richness of tho fruit growp in this climat. While California fruits are good, ours are better. While California boasts of very large fruit. ours are large enough, and the quality is so superior that they would hardly be realized as the same. Fruit grown near Salem, in the hills, we have compared with the same varie ties brought from elsewhere, and shown them to be much superior. Take a Bartlctt pear grown here, and it will be exquisite in flavor, and delicious in all respects, while a Cali fornia pear will be larger and look well, but will be coarser in texture ?nd flavor. Take our apples, pears, cherries, plums and prunes, and they attain the highest perfection in every respect; and when the world has the opportunity to patronize us, all these facts will be fully appreciated. We have eaten very fine peaches brought from California, but we never ate as good peaches in California, or brought from there, as we received last Fall, of the Early Crawford variety, from S. Luellinc. of Milwaukie. This is not a reliable peach country, but when wo do grow them, they possess all the flavor our climate can im part. So far as excellence is concerned we cannot be excelled, and oyr region has also a certainty of production that is important to the orchardist. We look upon canning and drying fruits as a field without limit, where we can command all the reputation we are entitled to. In this line we consider plums and prunes will be always profitable, because we have a certainty of production that exists in very few coun tries, and because our fruits possess flavor without superior. Here we are able to speak from experience. Last Summer we began to have fruit from an orchard five years old, and erected a dry house so as to prepare it in the best manner. The dried fruit we now have the family consider superior to their best canned fruit, and we realize how excellent fruit can be made by drying it with care and skill. At the rate we sold this fruit, we real ized $2 a bushel for the green fruit, and after allowing a fair price for the work of gathering and drying, we can have fully $1 SO per bushel net. But you will say ; If we send our fruit all over tho world and enter into competition with California, we must sell at lower prices than where we merely put a little choice fruit on the homn market. Let us see, then, what it will cost to gather and dry plums. With a large orchard and dryer so as to work to best advantage, we believe fruit can be gath ered and dried, and packed in plain shape, for 3 cents per pound for the dried product; and if we sell at 8 cents, and get 5 cents net, that will be GO cents forthe green fruit on the tree, That is a low estimate all round, and on that estimate wo propose to plant out fifty acres of trees. Dried apples and pears yield only one pound in eight or nine, while prunes yield one in three, and pitted plums one in four. The great profit in plums and prunes consists in this fact, and the further fact that while they are in good demaad. tho presenoe of the curculio in most countries U fatal to them. NO. 3. Plums have grown for thirty years here, and no curculio has ever been known in' Califonift or Oregon. There are, of course, some varieties that will not pay to grow, because they are poof bearers, or tender trees, or do not make good dried or canned products. Las week WeT enumerated the varieties that we plant, arid sometime will try to go particularly into thai subject. Peara.do superbly with ns, and a few relia ble varieties have especial value. Some think pears will pay well to ship green, and also to can. They yield so little when dried that other fruits will pay better, but for canning or shipping green they may bo very valuable. If some orchardist will give us a list of fruits of all kinds best adapted to this region, we shall be much obliged. Remedy for Chicken Cholera. Editor Willamette Fanner: Noticing an article from Mrs. H. E. Cooper" in your paper some time since, decribing disease amongst her chickens. A correct diag nosis cannot be made from the description givsn, as the disease is of such a character that it would require an expert to make post mortem examinatiop, The disease il probibly tuberculosis (consumption) or gre- ganna. Consanguinity is a very fruitful source in producing consumption among poul try. As a rule, there is very little attention paid to the infusion of new blood into tho flocks, which is very essential in producing birds of good constitution. Gregarina is ft parasitic disease extremely infectious; when once introduced in'o the yards it is very difll' cult to eradicate. Symptoms of each disease) is very similar, dullness, (inking of the head ruffling of the ' plumage, unsteady gait, diarrhrea, vomiting of a yellow mucus, and extreme emaciation. Post mortem appear ances consist chiefly of tubercles or nodule seen all over the viscera, varying in size, and has a peculiar cheesy appearance. The Gre garina nodules are more distinct from itur rounding tissues han are the cheesy masses of tuberculosis. Treatment : Separate the birds that aro ' ailingfrom those that are well, and thoroughly cleanse the roosting place, drinking and feed"' ing troughs, also use disinfectants freely, sucn as lime, carboho acid, sulphate of iron, eta. To the wsll birds give a variety of feed, also put a teaspoonful of sulphate of iron in tho drinking water to every fifty chickens twice aV week, also infuse new blood of some hardy fowls. J. WmiTCOMBs". Revenue and Tariff Reform Hecessary. How to adjust the revenue and revise tho tariff to suit the circumstances of the nation St a question Congress is wrestling with, and handles with difficulty. We raise too mnck money and pay off the national debt so fast, that in a dozen years there will be no debt. It is proposed to take the revenue off many articles of common -consumption. It is potU tively necessary to re-adjust the tariff, be cause some manufacturers have outgrown it, and have become odious monopolies that aro an unjust tax on the people. Theae favored interests are so rich that they can raise a fund of millions to prevent legislation; different ia terests combine their forces to defeat anjr tariff reform. To defeat all efforts to reform the tariff suits those who grow rich under tk present scale of duties. It is not easy to ac complish the needed reform in ourreveMf system, but we happen to be the only natio in the world troubled with too much revenue1. History of Woman's Boffrace. We hare received from S. A. Wells Co., 753 Broadway, N. Y., a large and handsoaae) volume with the above title, forwarded to a by Mrs. Duniway. The editors are Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony and Matild J. Gage, distinguished leaders Si the move ment. As the preface states, the object of the work is to put into permanent shape tho facts relating to the woman suffrage move ment and furnish all existing information re lating to the subject. The collection, of per sonal sketches and private reminiscences give interest and value to the work, which con tains handsomely executed portraits of maly leading women who have devoted their live to the cause. There is a great deal of current history in the volume. It will be interesting reading for all intelligent people, and pos sesses especial interest for the advocates of Woman 'a Suffrage. The cause gains in char acter as well as members every year and W may look to see it made popular issue before the present generation go off the stage. We do not know the cost of this volune, (wUek seems a complete history to the present time, but is Vol. 1,) but anyone interested can lenrn from Mrs. Duniway. Garrison is a public beaefaator, because he sells better sewing machines for lees money than has ever been done in Oregon before, tf i-e'i" m :t
