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" - - VOL. XIV. 0rrc0mIcnc Summer Fallowing in Folk County. . McCoy; Polk Co., Dec. 11, 1883. Editor Willamette Farmer: f If yon will stand clear and giro me a little ?imm T will twm t- b,i. fan. aemm am ll... portant subject of summer fallowing land. There is considerable of summer fallow in this rj iju vi mo luuubjr bins bcswU) uuuer Tftnoua f mnffpR. Hfr'.Tfmonh Watt lita a tat rf ftrt acres adjoining my farm that he summer fal lowed. He plowed it in May and June, and when plowing the most of it the ground was to dry that there was not a particle of moist fldirt to be seen. It broke up in large chunks 'land remained that way all summer. When Mr. Watt got through plowing, ha put his heep on the land, and it was bad luck to the heep, for it was very rough for them to run oyer and the dogs had a good chance to kill them, or at least it appeared so, as I counted iwtnty-five that had been killed by dogs, or died from some other cause while on the sum mer fallow. When Mr. Watt got through with his summer fallow he then collected his forces to save his summer fallow. He cm- ployed myself and son, with teams, to help t him. Ho told my son to take a barrow and for me to take a seeder. My son being but a I boy, the first day he complained to me that the clods were so big that he fell down over them; and the harrow upset. so much that he could not get along. I went on with my seeder and the first few rounds I got along splendid, except that the clods made the seeder jump a little; but the first thing I knew I was badly shipwrecked and could not tell where I had gone. I then reported to Mr. Watt and tela him my troubles. He told me to tike a harrow. I did so, and we moved on. All wetit on very well, except I would sometimes get a little. out of my coarse. .Mr.' Watt told me to s t stakes to go by, and I did o, aod,thn I had 'no trouble to" keep.in line But the Question is.. what -'eood did it do to v harrow whea' voii could' not-tell where, vou had gone J So we went, on, and finally got tnrougn, ana tne ram came, and" the Wheat ,jand wild oats came up, and it is hard in some j parts to tell which there is the most of,' wheat ', or oats. At this time it lcoks very well, ex- ff eept that it looks a little smutt d where the seeder got out ot its course, out tnat will not matter much if Mr. Watt's theory is good, that the winter will freeze the wild oats nil to death. I hope it will come out all right; if it does, this is much the cheapest and test way to summer fallow. ' Now, Mr. Editor, if you will be a little patient with me I will five you a little of my experience in Rummer fallow. ' Last summer a year ago 1 had 50 acres of .land that was very foul. I plowed it up in February and March, except tbree acres that I left tovolur teer for hay, and that, after I cut the hay, I plowed in July. Six acres of the first I plowed and planted in beans. My beans came up and grew finely. I cultivated them well and kept them as clean as any garden. The balance I let lay until just before harvest, when I plowed apd harrowed it well. By the time I got through with that, wheat harvest was on hand. 1 got through with that, and by this time my bean crop was ripe, but alas! the rain came, and kept coming, but at last there was a few days that it did not rain, but kept cloudy. In these few days I pulled and threshed my beans, amounting to 120 bushels. Now I thought I had it all right. I took them in mv hftrn .nil fLf-rpaH thftm nn th flnftr hnfc , the tint thing I knew they began to smoko. ; Then I thought I would make hog feed out of them. I cooked up a pot full ot them ar.d tock them out to my hogs, but the hogs thanked me and walked away. I could see no way to save them, so I thought I would make manure nit of them, and I hauled them out into my field and poured them out. By this time I began to think I had all the rota tion of crops I wanted. When I got my bean y amn off 1 unwed mv lwan nAteh and hav natrh to wheat, and the remainder of my summer fallow I let lay until spring, and then I plowed it again. This was the third plowing, and the result was at harvest I had a mess of wild oats and wheat on all except my bean patch. On that I had cultivated 10 thorough I think I growed nearly all the oats, but on the bal ance when I plowed to kill one crop I turned another crop up, ready to grow. So yon'see, when I got through my land waa in very little better condition for a crop than' when I first began. My motto will now be to plow once, while the ground is in good order, say in Feb ruary and March, and when it is in good or der harrow it well and let the oats come that are on top. Then pat the sheep on and culti vate shallow and kill the crop that ha grown. Then in the fall sow your wheat and narrow it in. I think with this mode of summer fal low you will be sure of a clean crop. j Tn pnnrlminn- Mr Mttm- T will my, ttiat J we don't like the change you propose to make f r in the Wilumkttk Farmer, as we believe it to be the beat family piper on the coast as it is. I remain, as ever, yours truly, Samuel Robbins. Why Dont They Advertiser Portland, Jan. 15, 1633. ditor Willamette Farmer: Lait week a farmer living some fifty miles np the valley came to me to enquire where he onld purchase a gcrd Shcrthorn lull. I fur nished him the desired information, giving him the n-racs and addres'es of several gen tlemen, well Lcown breeders of teat kicdefj r stock. He takes the Farmer and reads it. In looking over its columns I see not an ad vertisement of that kind. Now it dors strike me that men of intelligence and enterprise sufficient to induce them to breed that kindo' stock, preserve their pedigrees and recor.l the animals in the American herd book men like Reed & Ldd, Geo. W. Dimmick, C. T. How. ard, and others I might na-ne who do this as a business for the profit, should go n step fur ther and let farmers know what they have for sale, and where they can be found. I have just looked over the pages of the North Pa cific Rural Spirit and find only one advertise ment, that of William Niles of'L'i Angeles, California, over a thousand miles away, ad vertising horned stock; also in tho North western Farmer and Dairyman I find only the advertisement of the Powell Brother", of Pennsylvania, four thousand miles away. Now, what is the iu'erence to bo drawn, both at home and abroad wherever these papers happen to circulate ? Why, that Ore gon has no improved stock of this kind. And what is tho consequence? Our enterprising farmers who with to improve their stock and their dairies send off one thousand or four thousand miles to supply this want, when within thirty miles of their own doors they can procure hotter animals at less cost, and less than one-tenth the expense, sending their money entirely or.t of the State, iusttad of being retained and circulated at hme. It strikes me, Mr. Editor, that there is a' screw lose somewhere, and that these people want stirring up. This is the time of year when farmers and breeders are looking out for ani mals for the improvement of their stock, ard if they cannot find them at home they wil send abroad for them, and those who have them for sale will lose the opportunity and have to keep them over, and will wonder why their efforts are not better appreciated. There is not a week' passes but that I have enquiries of this kind, verbal and by letier, for dairy cows to purchase, others who wish to sell, others who have dairies to rent, others skilled in dairy business seeking employment, all seeking in'orination of this kind, and where should they look for it more naturally than in farm journals; and in what way can farmers and breeders make known such wants so cheaply, and so effectually, and to so large a number las'-tbrcughlthe medium of the Farmer and farm journals ? To-day I have had another application from oneo'f our largest dairymen; he wants two bulls, and did not know where ta find them; he says all the large, full grown animals of that kind are picked up to do service in the logging teams. So brother farmers adver tise and let it be kown what you have got. J. B. Knapp. A Farmer's Story. Reedville, Or., January 5, 18S2. I will in as short a manner as I can tell now small an amount of money a family can get along with, and have a good healthy living, Five years ago last November I bought a place of 120 acres, because it was good land, and cheap. The purchase price was $1 ICO, five years' time, with interest at 10 per cent.. payable annually. There had been a small piece of ground cleared and one hundred apple trees set out, about half of which are living now, but it had grown up in small fir fr.m ne to five, feet high, and was all to clear over again. There, was no other cleared land on the place, and no i fencing except that around the orchard. I had a good span of hones and wagon, 3 good average cows, 3 or 4 pigs, 5 hens and 1 rooster, which comonseJ all the stock I had, and I don't think I hid a dollar in money. I told my wife that we had now a place on which to make money, and that we would have to be as economical as possible without being stirgy, to which she agreed. Now the business commences. A memoran dum ot all we bought was strictly kept. The first year we bought out of the store a little over $60 worth ot goods, the second year our bill was $75, and the third year 833. The fourth year was extravagant, $130, and the fifth was very extravagant $151.20. These amounts include tools and everything except a one-half interest in a harvester, $53 more. On the let of January, 1883, I had my note and mortgage in my pocket. I have cleared about 30 acres, the most of which wai very thickly covered with brush and timber. I think a rabbit would have pulled most of the fur off of him if be bad run through it The first and, second crop I lost almost entirely; but I learned a lesson. I cut my - grain and left it in the bunch.to care, as it waa oats and a little green. It commenced raining the next day, and it .was rain and sunshine until the sprouts were from one to four inches long, notwithstanding it' waa spread ' out on the ground. Finally it cleared off, and we had fine, dry weather nntil the oats were thor oughly dry. I had but little hay and no straw,, to I, hired a man and .hauled our loads, taking it up with a fork to prevent scattering. When I went to feed I shook all'fhe oats out I could conveniently and fed to myhorres, and the straw I fed to my cows and two year .m "?$': lings. I only bad enough to feed them a little night and morning, but I never had cattle to do as well on timothy bay as they did on that rotten-looking old straw. They were nearly as fat in the spring as they were in the fall, and I believe that 1 could have carried all that was wasted in my arms. If any of the readers of the Farmer should ever have any grain in such a fix try it, and see if it is not betterthan I have represented. No matter how big the bunches are if they are dry when they are put up. I have one mile of ditch, from 2 to 5 feet deep, 0 rods of it blicd. I have slashed and hruth'burned 25 acres, and sowed part to crass; built a barn 21x48 and 1G feet high I ! have 1 cow, 3 heifers, 2 steers, 29 head of i V PORTLAND, OREGON, stock hogs, 4 cheep, 3 dozen hens, 7 roosters, 6 ducks and enough prk in tho lurrel to last us n year. lost in the last year 1 row woith $50 and one horse woith $190. The chickens and epgs we sold each year, except last, paid for two-thirds i f all we bought. We bought no clot mg made np. I bought cloth that was gocd, and it did not cost half as much to do us Let me say right here, be fore I close, that I believe pride in dr ss is one of the main causes that has squeezed nine-tenths of the farmers out of tneir homes in this Stat", that have sold and gone to try their fortunes somewhere else. If they had bought in proportion to what they made in the start, probably they might he doing well now. When a man is at work his fine clothes does not make him do any more than ho would do if he had on common clothes, patched from top to bottom. Thero is no use m running to the house to put on fine clothes if one of our neighbors comes to see us, or even if we go to see them, We are acquainted and know whether the other can afford it or not. If we can't afford it we are talked of, about as follows : "He or she had better leave off so many fine clothes and pay their debts." To close, let us all try to live within our means, pay cash for all we buy, and pay where wo please. This is my rule, and 'I am going to stick tj it. Old Subscriber. Sowing Qrasg Seed. Dallas, Polk Co,, Oregon. Editor Willamette Farmer : I am an immigrant. Perhaps you will re member the undersigned's name. I have bought near Dallas ; I am going for grass and stock rather than grain, but all the grass is killed out. Consequently I have nono at pres ent, but have already purchased seed worth sixty dollars, and planted it before the rains came. Tne natives say that I will not succeed, but I am going to try. The sed I planted was two-thirds timothy one red clover, soil foothill, inclined to clay. But my main object tu writing is to ssk full information concern ing a certain grass, called Papalum Ovatum (French.) Want the English name for it if it has one, and if the true seed 'can be purchased in Portland, I believe the report concerning this grass can be found in tho agricultural re port of the government for 1879-80. Seeing your solicitaticns for correspondence, and knowing your willingness to do all the good you can for your country and import all the Information you can to us (poor farmers that have not quite enough to amalgamate, but seem to be jealous of each other,) I write this as an introductory, hoping to be able to repeat the close. James Douglass. Answer. We have found a reference to this grass, under its botanical name, in the agricultural report for 1870, when the writer says it is the best grass ho knows of, but that doesn't give any satisfaction. Perhaps somo of cur seedsmen who notice the inqury can hunt up the facts, and make custom by so do ing. Ed. Farmer. WHOSE FAULT IS IT 7 Portland, Jan, 16, 2SS3. Editor Willamette Farmer: Your correspondent ''Farmer," from Polk county, in your last issue portrays the situa tion admirably. He has expressed much within a small space; as the college boys would say, "mullum in parvo." His letter in every sentence gives evidence that he takes the papers, and good ones, too; that he reads, he thinks, and he digest what he reads; he understands the situation. And how true ic is, as he himself expresses it, that it is abso lutely necessary for a farmer, if he keeps up with the times, to take and read the papers, and that he will accomplish more by laboring only 10 hours a day, and spending the bslance of the time in reading and recreation, than to make a beast of burthen of himself and be everlastingly a drudge. How true it is also that it makes a vast difference, the kind and quality of ths papers he takes and reads. The new departure the Farmer has recently made in weeding out the trash and giving only a condensed summsiy of such news as is of real interest will, I am sure, be bailed with delight by every right thinking mind. Our dailies contain too much that is trash, and that ought to be suppressed; that is fit only for the bawdy home. In the name of all that is de cent and moral, why should we be compelled to place before our wives and children a dish of slum and cess-pool ? Whose fault but ours it we continue to tolerate it! Whose fault but the farmers' themselves If they continue this senseless life of drudgery f Starving his mental and intellectual nature, cultivating only the physical and muscular, and thus, as your correspondent aptly terms it, making a beaut of burden of himself. Here let me quote a sedtencefrom your cor respondent: ''The cost of a paper is abso lutely nothing when compared with the ad vantages it gives a man over him who does not read." How could we condense more solid truth iu fewer words ? Here is the evi dence of an intelligent, wide awake farmer of the Value and necessity of farmers taking and reading good papers. There in a seeming parallel in the compari son) cur correipondent has drawn between the American fanner and Ithmael, and a sim ilar thought has lten often expresicd amonz fsr.rers ard grangers that the hand of all other clats.s is turned an'ainst the 'aJrner. Now, Mr. Editor, I take iisuc with senti ineut; I fail to we a disposition iu ether class ts to opprois the farmer. They all wish pros perity for the farmer. Let u analyze a little '.f; ' 'TliTjA-.J Hi'T FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1883. and get at the bottom tacts. Other classes read more, think more, are inventive, wide awake, progressive; they are co-operating and turning to their own advantage surrounding conditions and circumstances; they they do their own business and make the most of it; they aro looking out for themselves, not for any other class, nor for the farmer, on the pricciple, that every man and evry clas mutt look out for himself, take care of him self. This state of things has been going on, is going on, while the farmer has remained stationary and is left in the background, way back. The farmer, like tho descendants of Ishmae), has stood still while tho world has E regressed, marched outward, and left him ehind. Tha descendants of Ishmael, the Bedouins of the desert, hold to-day the same manners and customs, the same routino life without change that their fathers did thrco thousand yi ars ago. When the angel foretold to Htgar that which has since become a mat ter of history, ho foresaw his unprogressive nature; that he would neither tiko a paper nor read it; that he would not affiliate or co operate with his fellow man; hence, in all the succeeding generations he has stood aionn; "his hand against every man, mid every man against him. The American farmer's condi tion is to day just what he has made it, and whose fault it but his own? And if he con tinues this same routine, and is Uft behind in the rage of life, who is to blame but himself? The world is in motion, and if tho farmer docs not movo he will be left behind. Again I say, take the Farmer and read it; take tho Amer ican Grange Bulletin and read it, and learn how other farmers are progressive. J. B. Knapp. Letter from Colfax, W. T. Coltax, W. T., January 3d, 1883. Editor Willamette Farmer: The weather at present is quite cold, the snow averaging three or four inches in depth, and the ground frozen to tho depth of several inches. We did not have near the amount of rainfall in this pi rt recently, that fell further south. The streams were quite high, but not sufficiently sa so to do any damage of note. Wheat is worth 55, and oats 45o per bushel, and hay twelve to twenty dollars per ton, ac cording to quality, at Colfax. Very respectfully, J. V. Arrasmith. An Inquiry. Stimjtowm, Jan. 3, 18S3. Editor Willamette Farmer: Will some of your many readers please in form me through the Farmer what will cum leach lu sheep. SnnscRiiiER. Mr. Yeomans, writinc to us from WashouJ gal, W. T., under dato of January 0th, says : I have had private inquiries by mail, concern ing the Burrs de Anjou, as it was printed hy mistake, both in Mr. Ritz's article and mine. I am sorry it was not corrode d. This reminds me of the codlin moth of which I spoke to your son, hut could not quote any authority at the time, although quite certain of the spelling. In "Our Common Insects," by A. S. Packard, page 188, you will find it as 'Coddling Moth,'' or Carpoeapta PomoneUa, I wish you could get some of the old settlers, who have proved gooJ, practical, successful farmers to tell through your columns what they know about farming in the valley and hill lands west of the Cascades. Such con tributions would prove of great value to the Tenderfoot, and ought to add to the circula tion of your paper. Fair Treatment. Tho Chicago Tribune thinks the Northern Pacifio was not treated too generously, and says : The Northern Pacifio Railroad had nothing but its land grant from the govern ment, and most of the land when granted was supposed tu be worthless, as much of it has since proved to be. The Central and Union Pacifio not only had enormous grants of land, but they also had a cash subsidy of $05.000.000 a sum sufficient to build the roads without tho sale of an acre of land or the expenditure of a cent of private capital. The Northern Pacific, by comparison, was not too generously treated. It should be remem bered, too, that the latter road has opened up to settlement a new and fertile portion of the publie domain, and has alrtady made immense additions to the national wealth. The feeling is very general, In this section of the country at leait, that no substantial injustice will be done if the Northern Pa cifio shall be permitted to go on and com plete its road under the terms of the origi nal contract. A. Life in Danger. This is the fact concerning every man, won an and child who has in the body the seeds ot kidney, bladder, liver and urinary diseases, from which may spring Bright's Dis ease of the kidneys Such a prospect is sim ply terrible; and it is the duty of every one to be rid of the danger at onee. To do this infallibly, use lluuta Remedy, the great kid ney and liver remedy. The Russian Agricultural Department re ports the cereal crop of the empire as being in 1882 above the average. In France the country markets wire at litest po.Ul reports largely stocked with inferior wheats and prices on tbtso dsmp qualities were tending easier. France will iiipoit considerable quantities of American wheat during the next six months. Would not be without Holding's UursU Sal v, i j tin verdict of all who use it. Price 25e. - II'V I f'V7 Calitonla Crops and Markets We tako the following from tho San F.-in-sisco Commerriaf Herald of January 11th: The weather is fine and tho crop prospects exceedingly tncoul aging. The ttock of wheat in the Stito January 1st is variously esti mated at 8,000,009 centals, or the rquivalent cf 400,000 short tons. Much of this is of No. 2, or lower grades. There is very little choice milling left in the hands of producers. The wheat market is strong, both for spot and fu tures. As high at $1.80 per cental is paid for spot, and $1.83 bid for No. 1, February and March. Barley is lower, with a fair de gree of animation at the Call Boards, but at lower rates than those ruling in December. Oats aro hteady, with a fair demai'd, the stock here being well concentrated in few hands. Corn is lower, with a fair demand. Rye is motionlcts. Hops aro ot quired for at a considerable advance upon recent quota tion!. Hay keeps up well. Potatoes nrrive in liberal quantities, yet tho market exhibits firmness. Bran has d clincd to $15 per ton. Beans are in better demand and at somo ad vance in prices. Onions have risen in value. Butter is plentiful and is in buyers' favor. Clues.' is firm. Eggs are scarce and high, as well as tallow, miles are unchanged in valuo. Wool is in largo stock with very littlo inquiry. Unite a number of grain chait ra have been written during the week at a wide rango as to rates. Considering the large number of ves sels on the European berth, and the compara tive high price and scarcity of shipping wheat, and the 1 w quotations of cargoes en route, it is surprising that so many ikw engagem nts are being entered upon. Tho fleet in port on mc uerin exceeua vv,wv wu. i-risrng igeu hore and in neighboring ports, 05,000 tons and to arrive within five months 53,000 regis terel tons, against 51,000 tons same data hi't year. As a contrast in tho freight mirkvt, the British ship Prince Oscar cleared this week oa a basis of 1 17s Cd to Liverpool. In 1872 the samo vessel went out for Liverpool, her rate being 5 12s Gil. She had a freight list at that time amounting to $50,000. The rango ot the freight market to Cork, IT. K , 35i!)10 for wood and iron respectively. Wheat The market is strong for both spot and futures. No. 1 white is firmly held at $1 SO, and for February and March delivery $1 83 t' ctl is bid. At tho former rate liberal sales have been made for export. No. 2 white and other lower grades aro now sought after by shippers, owing to tho scarcity of good choice lots. Hops Thero Is a decided cliango for tho better, with an Eastern demand, which lira caused a rise in prico of 10c, now quotable at 00&S1 l lb. W. H. aud If. Lo May, under ilato of Loudon, December 20, report: Thero is an incicaaiug demand for all descriptions of hop', Tho market for American hops is qui et, owinir to the approach of tho holidays, but prices remain very firm; but any parcclsorced on tho market would no. rcalizu present prices. Continental markets aro advancing, and hop) are being rcslupped to supply their own brewers, who are intirely out ( stock. Old hops are in request, both for home con sumption and export. The imports of foreign hops into England last week were 1802 bales, and for the corresponding week last year, 1314 bales. Wool The market is very alow at this date under the weight of a 10,000,000 lbs of stock. We quote choice fall clip at I520c; fair, 13 14c; defective fall, 812. Cheese Prices aro higher. Stocks of all kinds are moderate. Western, 1415c; New York Stato factory, 1810c; California, 13 15c t lb. Eggs Are scarce at present. California, 35 30o f doz. Hidos We quote as follows: Heavy salted steers, 10llct'lh; light salted hides, cows ami steers, 3045 lbs, 0j; medium do, 46 44 tin, 10c; salted kips, lOJllo; salted cult, good demand for plump skim, 14l6c; hair goat, sound skins, 05 f 70c; medium, 50o; mall skins and kid, 625o each; deer skins, good summer shins, 3540c; medium, long hair, 25($30c; poor and winter tkum, 20c; ahecp skins, shearlings, 2530c; short wool, UOgOOc; medium wool, GCKgOOc; long wool, $1(1 35; dry hides, usual selection, lUu; dry kip, lUc; do, calf, 20c. Oats Our present stock is well concen trated in few hands. The spot demand is fair, but nothing doing in futures. We quote ex tra choicest $1 00; No. 1, $1 80(a) 1 86; No. 2, $1 72J1 774; Eastern, $1 05 i ctl. Potatoes The receipts are liberal, vet the market is firm. Hales aro slow. We quote CufteyCoveat$l 251 30; Humboldt Red, HOI 12); Petaluma and Tomales, f 1 15(2 1 20; River Rod, 80S 85c; Early Rose, 90c& $1 I' ctl. Tiik greatest favor you can do tho Will amette Farmer is to get your friends aud neighbors to become its subecribers. We ex pect to mske permanent friends when we be come acquainted, so we want to become ac quainted as widely as possible. When carpets are well cleaned sprinkle with sslt and fold. When laid, strew with slightly moistened bran before sweeping. Tlils with tome salt will freshen them up wonderfully. The Farmer values old frieuds, and hopes to maintain you all ou its list for '883, Pleaie look at the date on your tag and try to bu prompt in payment, for wo can't work with out money. 91 BOO ur year can be easily made at home woikingfor h. (i. Hideout & (Jo., 10 Barclay triH.t, .Sew York, hcml for their catalogue and full particular!?, il!-ly NO. 49 Jersey Cattle. Jerseys hive a weak t ointin their email de velopment of bono and muscle. Tho limited area of the Channel Islands is ton heavily stocked to admit of allowrg them ta ream over the fields for grimng. They wero teth ereel out, and prohibited, by such confine ment, from the exercise iieconsary to develop large, bony frames and heavy muscles. Mus cular power is not much rilled fer in such a state of confinement; and Nature, doclining to waste energy in producing it, builds up only such structures as aro adapted to tho situa tion. Uso determines sizo mid power. Hence the diminutive frames and muscles of tliii va riety of cattle. Other conditions being equal, small muscles indicate a small quantity of blood and a feeble constitution, with inability to endu-e hardships and cold. An inspection of Jersey cows t-ctraj a at once to a physiolog. ist, their inferiority in these respects, and their inability to compete in lucged pastures and cold climates with hardier stock, which, like tho Dovont. and our common cattle, have, for long periods, been accustomed to run at large and "rough it," under circumstances of ten pretty severe. Imported Jerseys and thoir immediate descendant) must bo subject to the effects of tho habits under which tlif-y and th-ir ancestors havo been raised. Tune will chnngo them. Raised in this country, where they havo tho freedom of the fields for exer cise, they are gradually improving iu size, muscular development and hardiucB. Mining In Grant County. The Grant County JVeiew contains a review of mining interests in that county during the past year. It shows that while the bonanza da) a are over, when placer mining paid great profits for labor, there is yet money to be made working placers, and quartz veins offor inducements for being worked largely when ever the consti nation of railroads shall make transportation liotsilile nt reosonalle rates, Tho iVetr cnumoratra diflcrent creeks on which 470 men are at work mining for gold. During the year P3 eiuaitz veins havo boon located and recorded. A num'cr of them have been prospected with arastrua sufficient to show that under favi rub'e conditions they can bo worked to advantage. In the future tho mining districts of tho Blue Mountains will ho operated with loro capital, and made to add greatly to tho world's cash in hand. Quaitz veins that contain gedd and silver iu paying quantity abound, not only on the waters of John Day river, to the Meet, but on all tho waters that feed Snake river on the east. Time and building of railroad will de velop great riches in Grant county, iir.d in all other districts that Bin round that mountain rango. l'unsniiiilliiii Cinrel. An old physician, rctiicd from practice, having had placed in his lauds by an East In dia missionary tho forinul i of a simple vegeta ble remedy for tho speedy anil permanent curs for Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility anil all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curativo powers in thousands of cases, has folt it his duty to make it known to his suffering felfows. Actuated by this motive ami a desire to relieve suffering. I will send free of charge to (11 who desire it, this recipe, in German, French or .English, with full directions for preparingand using. Sent by mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. A. Norm, 14 Power's Block, N. Y. 3-rao. All are looking forward to better and more prosperous times next year, wheu tho rail road shall have been completed into the valley and a ready market thus lm created for tho many products which neither Baker or Umatilla counties can furnish so easily and ia such quantities. This season much grain and fruits have been shipped to thesu places, tending to make prices better. As high as $1 per bushel for wheat is being pai 1 now by 'oval millers, who find no troiihlu in ditpisiug of flour at $3 per barrel Apples aro worth 2) cents per pound, and uried plums and prunes are sold at 14 cents, undelivered at that. If some of those farmers on the McKeniie could transfer their orchards into this valley they could count on a snug incomo frcm those alone. Even in a land noted for its abundant grass and hay, beef, pork, etc., command a good figure, 8 to 10 cents being the ruling rates. Game of many kinds ia plentiful, par ticularly deer. tile, prairie chickens and ducks; Your correspondent has bagged sev eral over a hundred chickens in the last month, and a very choice pot pie thoy oati be concocted into, Union County Cor, Kwene Journal. The following is the amicsaiuent roll ou file in the County Clerk's room in Liuu county. It shows a healthy ttato of affairs- Number of acres of laud, 410,028; total value, $.'1,750, 165; number of acres of railroad land, 30,143; value, $10,813; value of town lots, ?t)'.'U,20l; improvements, $30(1, CI!) ; luirchandim and implements, $700,805; money, notes, accounts, store of stock, etc., $t ,fl.'lfl,77l , hoim-hohl furniture, watch, etc., $'.'28,221; horses and mules, 70.10; vslue, $380,431; cattle, 10,70'J; value, $102,560; sheep, 40,104; value, Vi,' Mil; swine, 0051; value, $l!),2lll. Gross valuo of property, $7,838, 131; indebtedness, $1,771,011; exemptions, $102,787,' taiahlo property. $5,574, 73'J; number nf polls, 1011 (lull clubbing rate wv the samo wu have always had, ami fur moru lrUnl than any other newspaper we know of give. Foe evi ry M.W naino nut now ou our list, ami $2.50 fur the year's miWilptiuu will receive four montlit' credit on his own time. J