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THE OOHINO FRUIT IHDUBTBY.
St. Paul, Minn., April 10, 1883.
Editor Willamette Farmer:
Your favor of the 4th received asking m
for a letter upon the prospect for the fruit
business next autumn, when the Northern
Pacifio Railway will have made St. Paul trio
utary to the North Pacific Slope. We view
the future of thi trade as of great promise.
The crreat Northwest, so rapidly peopling
with the better class of settlers, a very Urge
portion of whom are from New England and
the Middle States, is a non-producer but great
consumer oi fruit, and the want of it is re
garded as the greatest of their deprivations.
The complaint is almost universal. We are
positively certain that St. Paul can be made
a distributing conter for a vast trade in fruit,
north, touth, east and west. Atready a very
large bns'ness, to extreme disadvantage, is
progressing in this market. The fruit from
the south and east, excepting apples, comes to
as largely disordered, and where reasonably
fresh and bright looking commands extreme
prices. Notwithstanding the unjust discrimi
nation and high tariff rates of the Central
and Union Pacific Railways, a considerable
business was done in St. Paul with the fruit
growers of California last year. In our re
cent conversation with Mr. John Muir, of the
Northern Pacific Railway, we found him dis
posed to pursue a very liberal policy and wil
ing to do all in his power to foster this trade.
Not having had in our market a quality of
fruit equal to that you mention, it is difficult
for us to say whether or not your green fruits
srill stand the $800 per cir charge for trans
portation. Apples certainly will not, but
plums, cherries, peaches and pears should,, if
they can be brought here from California.
We doubt if you could realize on the dried
fruit in quantity the prices you say you are
now getting. The pitted fruit, like sample
tent us, wonld bring, at wholesale, about 18
cents In our'market at present. The prunes
would pro"obly sell at 12J oents, as the Ger
man, French and Turkish prunes regulate the
price on these good', and they are in turn
regulated by the apple and peach crop of the
South. In canned fruit an enormous business
can certainly be done. Excepting, possibly,
Denver and Chicago, our city is about the
largest distributing point for these goods in
the United States. Your goods will come di
rectly in competition with those of Curtiss
Brother", and the Oneida Community which
stand the highest and alongside those of Cali
fornia. We also think that a fine busineii
oan be done with your coast in canned vege
tables, which we understand are grown in
great quantity with you and are of a fine
quality. We shall be pleased to furnish the
growers ot your State with any information
they may require regarding the style of pack
ing beat adapted for our own trade, our terms
for handling, eto.
Yours very truly,
Drake Brothers.
"Give the Boys a Chance."
Portland, April 14, 1883.
Editor Willamette Farmer :
Your correspondent carries the idea all
through bis article that I have held my boy
up as an example, as a pattern for immitation,
as a sample copy; such was not the intention
and such is not a fair interpretation of the
case.-1 have mentioned incidents in his career
as they ocoured; mentioned his faults, not as
worthy of imitation, but to illustrate our
manner of treating them. The boy has his
faults; where is the boy that has nonet If
we allow him considerable lattitude and free
dom, he acts free and natural; the faults crop
out, he commits them unconscious of wrong,
or of any wrong intention, hence does not try
to deceive or conceal them. It gives us the
opportunity to learn their faults, of showing
them to the child, showing the difference be-,
tween right and wrong. It gives ns the oppor
tunity of imparting a practical lesson and
when done In kindness and love he will not
forget it; it will be far mote effective, for the
good of the child, than the system of "send
ing them off with a flea in their ears." Hour
boy eommits a fault, he is frank to own it;
does not try to conceal it. But how is it with
the boy that, at a general rule, gets a flea
in his ear for every nffence ? Does he not try
to conceal it? Doe he not stoutly deny it so
long aa be thinks the denial will avert merited
punishment, thus adding to the origiual
offence the rice of l)ingT The one method
tends to develop frankness, truthfulness and
honest) ; the other, prevarication and deceit.
Somebody I don't recilltct the author has
amid : "Self preservation is the first law of
nature." It is a principle recognized by law
makers and in our coojrts of justice, and is
often quoted as a universal principle. The
plea of self defence if honestly made, is the
strongest plea a man can make in court.
When oar boy was set upon by superior num
bers, he felt that he was in danger and on the
Impulse of the moment acted upon this prin
ciple and tried to defend himself, and became
hr was successful against numbers your cor
respondent jumps at the conclusion that he is
somewhat of a pugilist, when the troth Is, it
is very seldom that he ever has a quarrel with
his playmates and was never known to be the
aggressor. As to his moral status, he attends
church and sabbath school when he has an
opportunity, learns and says his prayers, Is
fond of good bo-k and papers and is a favor
ite with all his teachers. Bad boys are rarely
favorites with their teachers. I agree with
your correspondent in teaching the boys and
girls too, all the good things he has outlined,
but I would not "put so many fleas in their
ears;" I would treat a child Of six years very
differently from one of sixteen, for the same
offence; use other means rather than coercion,
but coercion if it be necessary to secure
proper respect and obedience. The boy or
youth that persists in wrong doing from
malice or pure cussedness, should be re
strained within proper bounds by strong
coercion. Such cases are rare if the better
course has been pursued. Children and youth
are ambitious to do right when their better
natures are prop rly appealed to.
(Concluded.) J. B. Knapp.
Winter Wheat
Balm Grove Farm, Or., April 16, 18S3.
Editor Willamette Farmer:
In reading over the last issue i saw a piece
in regard to winter wheat, which stated that
the Farmer did not know of a piece of winter
wheat in the valley that stood the late severe
froat. I know of two pieces in this put of
tbe country that stood the winter well. A
variety known as the Losen wheat was
brought from Minnesota four years ago. Mr.
G. M. Qisendoffer sent for it by mail, and has
been raising it ever since. He tells me that
it stoid the frost well, while other kinds
sowed by the side of it were all killed our. I
sowed four bnshels of a variety called Odessa
which was not hurt. That was all I had left
from 120 acres. Those two kinds are all that
I know of but what was killed in this part of
the oountiy. The farmers are almost through
seeding. They have a few acres to put in
when the rain ceases. Orain looks fine that
was sown on the first of March, and there will
be an abundant yield if no heavy frosts
occur. Linn Count Farmer.! "
FARMIrTO NOTES.
. (Crop prospects ire fairly.good in Western,
and all reports from east of the mountains
speak of an outlook that is at good as can be
desired. In this valley the cold rains of early
April kept the resown wheat fields back and
caused some apprehension as to the fate of
wheat sown on low land that had been over
flowed to aome degree, but now we see every
where we go that, wheat fields look well, and
hear from all parts of the country that wheat
fields promise a good harvest. The Willam
ette valley may not realize as much as if the
fall sown grain had stood, but we may expect
as much or more than last year's surplus, with
a fair prospect that the surplus 'will equal
that of 1881, which'was over four millions of
bushels. The old wheat 'fields were not only
resown but we understand that a large acreage
ot spring grain has been sown in add.tion.
We had hoped that onr farmers would take
ho'd of ensilage this season. We have shown,
often, that the expense of sowing ensilage need
not be' heavy, as rude means answer the pur
pose ; also, our country can produce corn for
this purpose to good advantage, at there are
many large growths of corn that cannot be
depended on to ripen with us that will grow
enough to make ensilige. Take this view of
it, and also consider that we grow clover, rye,
peas and other crops that work well into ensi
lage pits and it woald seem not only possible
but very easy to make ensilage here, and when
made our dairymen can make sweet hulier
from it all winter and keep California butter
nut of our market. This matter of ensilage
deserves first civs notice of diirymen and
stock men generally. When our people com
mence it in earnest they will think strange
thev neglected it so long. Before leaving this
subject we will add that the mature exper
ience of practical men, at the East, is almost
entirely in favor of ensilage as cheaper and
better than any other system of winter feed
ing for all kinds of stock.
Mixed farming was a difficult matter to deal
with here, only three years ago, but, as usual
time and circumstances have decided the
question. Changed conditions have made it
necessary to change the system of agriculture.
The man who cannot change to suit tbe times
will be badly left behiod. Mixed farming is
already inaugurated and those who conduct it
wjth prudence will succeed. We are experi
menting somewhat in that direction, not ex
pecting to succeed in even-thing, but doing it
to teat different things for the benefit of
farmers.
The fruit prospect teems to be good all
through the vallev. So far there have been
no frosts to do injury since February. It is
possible that the cold rains have damaged
aome irons nut our own prospect is iair lur
heavy field and such teems to be the general
rale.
It is early vet for Hardens, meadows and
late town crops to make a showing, but tbe
season promises enough moisture to guarantee
gooJ crops in all directions, we venture to
anticipate a successful year for agriculture all
through the far Northwest, and have no doubt
that this season will bear out our favorite
assertion, that "Good Farming Pays."
Weak muscles and nerves. tluorishnet of
thought and inactivity, cured by Brown's
Iron Baton.
PORTLAND, OREGON,
HARNEY VAILET,
Its Situation, Besewrees suad Fmtmre Pre
peelst Climate, ete.
From the Lakeview Examiner.
Recently, in company with a couple oi
Alturasites, we paid a hasty visit to the
Hsrney valley, and will give the readers of
the Examiner the benefit of our observations
while in that section. The Harney valley is
located about 160 miles northeast from Lake
view, and is distant about 24o miles from The
Dalles, from which point it draws its supplies.
EXTENT Or THE VALLET.
Harney valley is about twenty-five milts
square, is nesrly level, and embraces some of
the finest land in tbe state. Probably three
fourths of the entire valley is swampy in
character, and two lakes, Malheur and Har
ney, lie in the so-ithern part. Sylvia's river,
a stream of no mean proportions, puts
into the valley in the northwest
corner, and flows southward to Harney lake,
and is the southwest boundary of the Malheur
reservation, which has but recently been re
stored to the public domain. The swamp
land referred to produces hay in abundance,
while the mountain ranges surrounding the
valley are covered with a thick growth of
bunch grass, recognized by all stock men to
be the finest of wild grasses for stock. Nu
merous small streams put into the valley from
all sides, affording abundant water for irri
gating purposes where needed.
CHARACTER OP THE SOIL.
In the northern part of the valley, the por
tion visited, the bottom lands along the creeks
are a rich blaek loam, covered with sod, while
on the higher ground the same soil with a
liberal sprinkling of sand is found. A heavy
growth of wild rye and rank sage brush is
found on this, and the soil has the appear
ance of being able to produce anything with
proper care, and we are confident that ceretli
of all kinds can be successfully cultivated,
and that they will 'yield astonishing crops.
No attempts at farming have yet been made
in the surveyed portion of the valley, though
we heard of several who intended to make an'
effort in that direotion this season.
CLIMATE, ETC
The olimate Is much the same at that of
Goose Lake, Surprise and other valleys in
northern California, the temperature last win
ter falling as low as 25 deg. below zero. As
this was an exceptionally cold winter through
out the state it will be seen that the Harney
valley compares very favorably in point of
temperature with the southern valleys, in
many of which the mercury fell several de
grees lower. The most serious drawback the
country now has to contend with is the mis
representations of its climate by parties hav
ing large stock interests in the vicinity, aa
these are desirous o! keeping out settlers that
they may reap the full advantage of the mag
nificent range. Every suggestion heretofore
made in rerard to raising grain or other crops
has met with auch a storm of ridicule from
those interested in discouraging such indus
tries that no attempt at cultivation has been
made. When it is considered that there ia
now in the Harney valluy and the adjacent
mountains something like 150,000 head of
cattle, and that the ranges is of such extent
that it is able to furnish feed for this vast
number of cattle for years to come, it Is easy
to see why the cattle men are so anxious to
prevent the settlement of tbe country.
TIMBER RESOURCES.
The mountains to tbe north and northwest
of Harney valley are covered with a dense
growth of pine, juniper, mahogany and other
woods, but on the south and west the timber
is very scattering, and what there is consists
of scrubby juniper and mahogany, with a few
stunted pines. The timber on the north, how
ever, is of good quality and makes excellent
lumber, posts, rails, eto.
POPULATION, TOWNS, ETO.
The population of the Harney valley is es
timated by those best calculated to know at
about three hundred, and is increasing rap
idly. The principal settlement is in the
northwest corner of the valley, where the
thriving little town of Eagan is located.
Eighteen miles to the east is the settlement in
the vicinity of old Camp Harney, now aban
doned as a military post. Eagan has two gen
eral merchandise stores, two saloons, a hotel,
a blacksmith shop and a livery stable. It has
been in existence as a town hut about one
year, and owing to the fact that lumber was
acitce, there being but one mill, distant
twenty-five miles, and no planing machinery,
the buildings do not make any pretensions to
elegance either in finish or design, but they
afford a shelter, and the inhabitants are satis
fied and thankful for this. The business men
of the place are courteous and aflVile, and
have a way of miking the traveler feel com
fortable and at home, which can not be im
proved upon even in older and more polished
communities. They have an abiding faith in
tbe future greatness of their town, and are
ready and willing to give the prospect ve set
tler all information tending to help him in bis
selection of a home, and will even go with
with him to point out disirable locations.
They all pull together, and work with a will
for tbe interests of their town, and there is
no better or surer way to build up a prosperous
community than this. The principal shipping
point for Eagan is The Dalles, from which gro
ceries and other merchandise are freighted.
The distance is about 240 miles, and freight is
4 cents per pound. Flour, bacon and grain
are hauled from Surprise and Goose Lake val
leys, it being more advantageous to ship from
those points. There is bat little gram in tbe
Harney valley, and this is worth six to seven
cents per pound. Bough lumber is worth $20
per M at the mill, and th. cost of hauling it
it 20 per M. Th Utter fiture it higher than
FRIDAY, MAY 4
there is any necessity, at it oould be hauled
for less with a guod margin for profit.
SETTLEMENT OF THE VALLEY.
The principal portion of the valley, lying as
it dots within the limits of the reservation has
not been surveyed, and settlers, of course, can
only have a squatters right to this lsnd. We
have heard of many who are intending to go
there and take upland, and doubtless there
will be considerable emigration to that section
in the next two or three years. An effort it
being made by land grabber! t' make the en
tire valley a twamp land district,
ana this will tend to discourage emigra
tion to a considerable extent. The line
of the Willamette valley and Cascade
Military wagon road company passes throu h
the valley, and while theie is no doubt that
this thieving corporation b s no right to
claim any of the land formerly inoluded in
the Malheur reservation, it is certain that it
will attempt to do so, and this will likewise
have its influence in discouraging settlement
upon the unsurveyed land,
WILD HOWL AND OTHER OAMC.
Every kn.wn variety of wild water fowl is
found in the Harney valley in innumerable
swarms and having been hunted but little
they are comparatively tame and would be a
bonai za for the sportsman who has been ac
customed to the disgusting shyness of the
birds in older settled communities. Of land
birds and animals there is but little less varie
ty, deer, antelope, elk, being found in large
numbers, while mountain sheep and bears are
occasionally met with, rabbits, coyotes, beav
er, otter, marten and numerous smaller spe
cies ot animals are found. Looked at from
the sportsman's point of view the oountry is
simply a paradire.
i MAIL FACILITIES
The lack of adequate mail facilities is an
other serious drawback to the settlement of
hit section. There are at present two mail
routes to E'gan, one from Canyon City and
the other from Prineville, both weekly. To
Rot a letter to San Francisco the time occu
pied is about sixteen days provided all con
nections are made, but when this, as is oftrn
the case, does not happen, it takes from 20 to
29 days, and to get an answer to a letter to
the laud oiiloe at Lakeview occupies from six
weeks to two months of time. Should the
mail route from Eagan to Lakeview not miss
fire, this difficulty will be obviated as com
munication between the places will not then
consume one fourth of the time now required.
That this route is badly needed theie is not a
doubt and it is to be hoped service will be put
on at an early day.
Schools In Klickitat County.
In seeking a new borne, on. of the first
questions the better and more desirable
class of people ask is, how about the
facilities for education? is in all new
countries advantages generally are atlil
very Inferior to thoie of the older aettled
regions, still we are not half so far in th.
backwoods as our Esstern frieuds seem to
imagine. Very few neighborhood! in the
country are without a fairly conveniend
and tolerably oomfoi table school house in
which school is maintained from 3 to 8
months in the year. Tbe capacity of our
teachers and tbe brightness and intelligence
of our scholars will compare favorably with
those oi almost any other section of the
country. It ia a rare thing for a parent
who is not anxious to give his children all
the educational advantages he can, and aa the
county becomes more thiokly populated our
schools will become larger and better. Here
in Ooldendale we have a good two-story
school building with four well furnished rooms
a ad can offer educational advantages equal to
almost any schiol below the grade of a oul
lege. Thaking into consideration the healthy
climate and the moial atmosphere that would
surround children, it would be hard to find a
more desirable place at which to educate them.
VtUtndaU OateUe.
What Enterprise Accupi.isnxs.--Among
all the foreign companies doiug business in
Oregon none bsve been more successful thsn
the Pacifio Mutual Life Insurance Company
This is mainly due to the energy and ability
of the agent, Mr. A. McKennie, who has had
charge of the company's affairs since it com
menced business here. It hss to day more
policies in the northwest than any other, and
among the best and wealthiet citizens,
Patrick Hogan. who died a short time since,
hsd a policy of 95000, and the late Charles
Hodge, one of $10,000. These policies were
promptly paid on the proof of death having
beeu filed, The management has never tx
peiienced the least trouTde in its settlements,
and the affairs of the company are so system
atically managed that tbe policy owners have
the utmost confidence in tbe agent aa well as
the soundness of tbe company, A company
that deals fairly with its policy holders de
serves the success which has been met by this
company,
II II I I III! I IISH ,1 IB
Nerveless Men,
Is there under the face of heaven a more
pitiful sight than a man who has lost nervt
power aud vim t And why is the tad specta
cle so common? Became diseases of the kid
neys, bladder. Hirer and urinary organs are so
prevalent I There is no need of ir, either.
Hunt's Remedy, the great kidney sod liver
medicine, Is a positive cure lor even the worst
maladies of this class. Many a man who has
lost nerve, vigor, manhood, enerary every
thing that makea lit. worth living has
been quickly and fully restored by Hunt's
Remedy,
Sheep shearing baa commenced in earnest
in Umatilla county. If tney will only put it
up in good order, it will greatly increase its
value.
1883.
THB rOTURE OF THIS REGION.
The other day we heard an intelligent man
deliberately argue that we have a tew years of
good times before us and then may look out
for a reaction. In about three years, he
thought, Portland would be deserted, or on
the wave, and t.:e country generally be in a
state of decline. We are going too fast and
have so this oraole of the pessimists thought
to receive a tremendous chick.
It is fortunate for society that "it takes all
sorts of people to make a world." Some oro
kert are needed to remind us of possible cal
astrophy. But if any region of the known
world has an eminent tnture before it, such a
future awaits the Far Northwest. We do
not join the ranks of the optomisto, for whom
no enthusiasm has too much exuberance, or
the pessimists who revel in doubt and are pro
phetio of disaster. There is a sensible course,
founded on experience and consistent with
fact, and we shall call the history of our own
country to mind to aolve for us the destiny of
this section.
It is not claiming too much to believe that
this portion of the United States is about to
assume importance of the highest degree.
Old atttlers have lived here in blissful ignor
ance many of them of the progress the
world is making. Our part has been unevent
ful. When we became exporters of wheat
and wool and sold cattle to be driven East, it
was an epoch in our history. Now it is only1
a matter of a. few weeks and we shall have
immediate connection with the great world
and fill an important place in Its commercal
interests.
Some men are nationally great and possess
comprehensive minds, with organizing power
and executive force to accomplish vast results.
Such men became connected with Oregon in
terests and enterprises a few years ago and
to day wield tremendous influence and handle
immense capital for the development oi the
resources of our region. Tbe croker, who im
msginet that all this enterprise is ephemeral,
cannot comprehend the views or the efforts of
such men, but work and progress will go on
at their bidding even if we shsll all fail in
comprehending it. Years ago one man studied
this region and saw here unbounded resources
that only needed to be handled1 right to de
velop into population, culticition, production,
manufactures and all the results that make
nations and States great and powerful else
where.
Tbe touoh of Midas, according to Grcciao
fable, turned everything to gold. We see the
touch of a fellow man inspire slumbering and
inanimate regions to become populous and
productive. His suggestions secure the con
struction of great lines of railroads. When
he favors it, great steamships tsll th ocean.
Mines of coal and iron are already worked
and wilt create for all this region prosperous
manufacturing industries. The whole oountry
of the Pacifio Northwest and the line of States
reaching eastward, feel the impulse of this
man s will and energy because unlimited cap
ital bat confidence In his judgment and re
sponds to hi appeals.
What does capital see to justify the vast
enterprises he has placed on foot ? Is he a
mere visionary or is he a man of wonderful
nerve, whose prescience can be depended on t
That be is net a visionary is to be Inferred
because men of superior judgment follow his
counsels and furnish the mesne to conduct all
these vast aid various enterprises. He Is
simply a man who realizes the value of this
Far Northwest. He has faith in its wonder
ful resources. He has the courage to under
take the development of this region and deal
with the greatest enterprisees modern science
and art have made possible, as other men deal
with the common incidents of every day life.
Let ur look at the capabilities and resources
this country possess that have enlisted mil
lions in such profusion. First, there is a
country extending from the Pacifio to Lake
Superior that will richly repay the conttruo
tion of railroads through it. There are
arable regions in Oregon and Washington
that will well repay the construction of
branch roads required to develope them.
The railroad system for this region must
prove a valuable property and will develop
Portland, its natural center, into a magnifi
cent metropolis.
Philadelphia Is as far from the ocean as
Port, and hat extensive Portland commerce,
but to connection with railroads creates its
obief importance. There will be prosperous
cities on the Sound, and should be, but Port
land will be the chief distributing point. The
action of the capitalists who are developing
the resource of this region determine, in
great part, the point that will be the com
mercial center. The expenditure of millions
in constructing a dry dock, building wharves,
depot, warehouses, and in forwarding many
other important enterprises at this joint
hows that ia their opinion this city will b a
NO. 12.
great sea port at well at the chief point for
inland commerce. The destiny of Portland If
to be decided by railroads.
Capital is always on the outlook for oppor
tunities, recognizes the value of this North'
west county, its immense resource, th
latent wealth 'that only needs the rdldaS
touch of enterprise to turn to gold, and
hastens to reap, the , profit that will remit
development. Wejread of the working of coal
and iron mines and .the eatabliahingfof works'
for reduction of i iron ore and manufactur of
iron. A great ship will be bnilt and launched
here within the year made of Oregon irosV
This means that millions of capital will be in
vetted in a business that oan be tucoesifull
otrried on and will redound to the great ad
vantage of the whole county. Coal 'and iroa
do not exist elsewhere on tbit ooatt as with
ns. They are the greatest known factors of
national and general prosperity th world
over. The' development of such, '"resources
means a great deal for the future of OrepOal
and Washington. i-K,
We shall also soon see the unlimited watsf
powers that exist west of the Cascades coa
verted to manufacturing uses. Populous
towns will spring np everywhere that a
woolen mill can be operated. Th completed
overland railroad and cheap fare will bring
thousands of working people here and rusk
it possible to mamufaoture everything needed
by the States and people of the Pacific Ouf
vast forests will be made into lumber and
'lipped to all the world. We have woods
that can be manufactured into wooden wsrsl
of every description. Furniture oan be madsf
here ard sent to all Pacifio countries. Befoftf
long manufacturer will see th folly of
folly of farming implementi to a oountry thsl
hat tuch forests and inch iron mines, and
all the farm machinery needed thi tide of tht
continent will be manufactured here. With
Iron and coal and valuable wood abonudingf
with flock of sheep yielding exoellent fieecetf
with water power to turn the spindle of tht
world; with the ocean to bear our products
to all lands, there la great worldly wisdom ia
the enterprise that seek to develop our coun
try and reap reward for so doing.
A to agricultural prospeota then i n
room for doubt Land will become mora and
more valuable and good farming will reap
rich harvests. The summing up of all our
resources and the possibility of their devel
opment need not be made with expectation of
unreasonable profits. Those who engage in
trade and manufactures will have to be con
tent with moderate rewards, and that i all
that is necessary to insure annual prosperity.
There need be no speculation, only prudent
effort, careful enterprise and well directed
industry in (tore, factory, workshop and farm
to earn a fail return and realize oomfortabl
success. The day of speculative venture is
never a happy or healthy time., Th fanner,
like tbe rest, must be satisfied with reasona
ble gains. II he is alive to hi Interests and
does his share to create commerce and supply
home needs, he will suooeed. On him ths
world depend more than upon any other
class. The agriculture of thi Northern Pa
oifio region will do it full share to oreatS
prosperity.
Looking at faots in the light of experience
we see that the great cities of the Atlantic)
seaboard are making at this time their great
est growth in wealth and population, A cen
tury hence they will be growing even faster
than now, London is spreading out yearly
to include miles ot what was farming land.
Our country is only commencing to grow at
nation, and this Pacifio Northwest ha not
yet fairly commenced. What ha been done,
looked at as we vlow Eastern cities centuries
old, is s;arce a beginning. This country is on
the eve of suoh growth and development that
its past will be dwarfed, by comparison, into
into Insignificance The future will show
work In many lines unknown to us, and will
handle with confidence enterprises the present
dares not entertain. Portland will grow for
a century to come, and will then be on ths
eve of greater things than we can even
imagine. The Willamette valley will In time
contain a million inhabitants perhaps1 two
millions and be the home of manufacturing
towns tbit shall work for all the Western
world. This must be to the Western what
New England has been to the Eastern aide of
tbe contineut.
We miubt carry tbe thought of what pro
gress ha in store into the regions of Pupet
Sound, and fancy what it commerce will be
and what cities will line it shores; show bow
Vie fisheiies and trade of the North Coast
will create wealth; go east of the Cascadet to
study its future and look iota its destinies,
There are buried treasures m the mountains
gold, silver and copper that will be made
productive. It is a vast field and au inviting
one, but too wide for thought to occupy.
Time will see shipments from this Northwest
Coast reach in value a hundred millions of
dollars annually for agricultural produota
alone. The farmer is to do hi part, and will
1 nap bit full share of reward.