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& VOL. XV. orrrwomlcnct. Notes by the Wayside. Editor Willlamete Farmer : Pursuant to arrangement I left Oregon City on the morning of May 28th, for Eugene, for the purpose of giving a series of lectures on the subject of Agriculture, through Lane county. Our worthy State Master, Judge Boise, joined me at Salem and arriving at Eugene we were met by Brothers Bond, Zum wnltz and other members of our Order, with whom we proceeded to the court house where we were favored with an elo quent and instructive address from Worthy Master Boi-e, which was eagerly listened to by an intelligent audience. As State lecturer I endeavored to enter tain our friends with a survey of our work in the noble cause for which we arc laboring, and found patrons becoming more zealous, and the business com munity more lenient towards our senti ments than during my visit of last year. Eugene has made marked progress in improvements since that time and bids fair, wo think, to become at no distant day a thriving city. .Leaving this pros perous and handsome town wc accom panied Brother Bond to his pleasant home, where were made far more than needful arrangements for our comfort, passing on our way, through as fine a sec tion of country as the eye of man could desire to behold. Tlie broad fields of wheat looked romarkably well and bid fair to yield an abundant harvest. On the 29th wc visited Grand Prairie Grange, where wo received a cordial wel come from the citizens of an excellent farming country. I saw in that section hundreds of aerosol wheat which I think will yield forty bushels ier acre. We passed a pleasant night with Brother and Sifter Zumwaltz, and on the 30th, accom panied with Brothers Bond and Zum waltz, we went to Springfield, where we had a very interesting meeting. This place is located in a beautiful valley nestl ing in the forks of the Willamette and Mohawk rivers. Here also the grain fields promised a golden harvest. On the 31st, after a pleasant drive, wo found ourselves at the hall of Goshen Grange, when we addres:-ed the the members in an open meeting. Their hall is situated over the store of Brother Matlock, who seems to luivo the welfaie of the farmer at heart. Both Brother and Sister Matlock are active parous, and with other membere did all in their power to make the occasion one of profit and pleasure to all present. The member.-hip of Goshen Grange has con siderably increased in the last year. We met here Brother Roscoe Knox, working as usual for the good of the Order, ever ready to labor mentally and physically for the elevation of the masses. On Juno 1st, we went by rail to Cottage Grove and addressed the citizens endeavor ing to lay before them the principles and objects of our Order in as clear and con sic a Planner as possible. The grange sentiment seems to have materially ad vanced here, and the place shows indica tions of prosperity. Then wo were met by Bro. Landreth, of Siualaw, who kindly conveyed us over a rolling and picturesque svetion of coun try, to the residence of Bro. and Sister Crow, who cordially entertained us for the night, and on Juno 2d, we attended a picnic at Siuslaw Grange hall, where the entire community appear to partake of Bro. Simpson's spirit, as the hall was filled with energetic fanners and the tables were laden with tho luxurious productions of that fertile valley everything about this place denotes thrift and prosperity. The crops are good ; stock is in excellent condition. There is here a prosperous grange. The addresses made were interspersed with de lightful music and followed by the read ing of selections by Brother Thomas Smith of "Bunch Grass" entitled "How Betsy and I canio to Quarrel" and "How BeUy and I mado up," which, rendered in his natural, comic style, added merriment to the occasion, and all regretted when tho hour of closing exercises, the hearty hand shaking and the genial good-bye had arrived ; after which Brother Simp son took us to his pleasant but lonely home, anu ins hbui hiwwi ".' Sadly did we miss the cheerful welcome j given us on our previous visit by Sister . Simpson, but although she has gone be-. foro us, to that brighter world, her mem ory will l fondly cherished, and her bright example will ever serve as a beacon of light, to guide her dutiful children through this world of toil and danger. On tho 4th Judge Boise was compelled , to return to Salem while Brother Smith and myself stopped at Harnsburg. where we were pleasantly entertained by Brother; and Sister Train, who arc zealous laborers in our field. We found crops less for ward as we came in a northerly course, and fruit so far as we have seen in the Willamette valley, may be said to be a failure. The 7th found me in company with Brothers Shipley and Miller at the Powell's Valley Grange where we had an interest ing meeting during tho day accompanied with a most bountiful and delicious din ner. In the evening we addressed a pub lic meeting at the hall which was well at tended. Music was exceedingly good and the young people followed with a dance which seemed enjoyable to all. The far mers in that vicinity have turned their attention to the raising of grass and stock, from which they realize a greater profit than from grain. The grange has under its hall, a co-operative store, from which they are realizing considerable profit. My next place of speaking will bo Farming ton on Juno 23. Perhaps you may hear from me again during mv travels in behalf of the grange. H. E. Hayus. Taxing Foreign Money. Oak G r.ovr, Juno 1, 1883. En'itor Willamette Farmer: In tho Farmer of June 1st we find an editorial on "Mortgage Tax Law," wherein the statement is made as follows : "But the courts also decide that money loaned by foreign corporations is not liablo to Oregon laws ; that a foreign corporation can loan money at whatever premium it chooses to demand, and it cannot foe taxed hero when it pays taxes in another coun try." Will you have the kindness, Mr. Editor, to court or cite us to that law so that we can find it? In other words, we desire to find tho law prohibiting the State of Oregon from taxing foreign cor porations doing business in this State. Very respectfully, Geo. H. Eileiis. Reply. It was the decision of tho Court wc alluded to, not any Statute. Probably it was a decision made on a principle of common law, not statute law. As to the particulars, we mado that statement after hearing that the courts had so decided. Not long since wo asked an agent of a foreign corporation why, if such a decision was mado by the courts, he was unwilling to loan money here, and the answer was that his clients did not wish to loan money in a State that showed a disposition to pass vexatious laws. Now, we stato these things as mat ters as news or common report, not hav ing any personal interest or leaning to wards money lenders, and we don't wish to have our readers misunderstand us. Tho decision in question wo have no es pecial knowledge of, save that such con struction was put upon it. Wo have not time to study legal matters, unless they are especially important to tho public, but if our readers desire we will try to give the particulars of this decision. Every in telligent man should know that law is a very uncertain matter. Tho enactment of laws is merely an invitation for the courts to put their own construction on them. The men who make them often learn that they did not enact what they intended to, hut something else. East Winds. Fox Valley, June 19, 18S3. Eilitnr Willametto Farmer: Please allow me the privilege of asking you a few questions, and first let mo fctate my reasons for asking them. About a year ago there was a letter written by T. Z. Matthews, of Clackamas county, to the Farming World, wherein he stated that there was an Eastern wind that blew in the fall and spring that was detrimental to man and beast, and vegetables, and vegetables, and made many other state menu that needed correction, which I did correct through the same paper, to which Mr. Matthews replied. I will give you his own words: "It surprises me to find a man who has been hero for thirty years and has not learned that great part of tho eastern winds which blow is so detrimen tal to people, animals and vegetables. It proves one of two tiling?, he must bo a dull student of the natural laws of this part of Oregon, or he is so blinded by the flowery description given by tho railroad scribe and land shark, which has been made so often that they have it by heart and think it is true." He further says that Mr. Gardner refers the readers of the Farming World to an agricultural pajcr for figures and facts, which paper, he goes on to tay, accompanied the railroad PORTLAND, OREGON, pamphlets that were sent out to tho States and deceived so many immigrants. Now, Mr. Editor, just .that simple statement that I mado through the Farming World has brought me three letters or inquiries how to obtain the Willamette Farmer. I tell them to send .$2.50 to the editor of that paper to Portland, Oregon, and it would be forwarded to any address. I answered a letter from John Smith, of Texas, last mail with the same intent. Now, Mr. Editor, will you please say through the Farmer whether or not you have those eastern winds as above des cribed, as wc have none such up here. Yours truly, A. D. Gardner. tetter From Benton County. Wallport, Or., Juno 18, 1883. Editor Willamette Farmer : I see in your valuable paper that there arc a great many immigrants coming to this country seeking homes. I thought I would give you a description of this part of the country. There is enough land here at this place for from fiifteen to twenty settlers. It is level and fertile, and lies on a stream called Yoch-hate that heads in the mountains. Its course is due west until it enters into the ocean eight miles south of Alsea Bay. The valley is heavily for five and a half miles up it before striking the open country ; then you come to prairie and brush land. There are but few settlers on the creek only myself and a young man. Anyone wishing a homo would do well to come soon, for the country will be settled up, as since writing tho above another family has come in and taken up a claim. Be sides, there have been several in looking at the laud, and they have selected places and will soon be back to settle there. Tho game here consists of bear, elk and deer ; salmon run up the streams in the spring and fall, and there is plenty of trout ; besides, a person can go from here to the beach and catch all the salt water fish that he would want to use. You can go and return in one day easily. Yours respectfully, James Ingram. From Seattle to Cheney, w. T. Cheney, W. T., June 15, 1883. Editor Willamette Farmer: I have just returned from a trip to the Sound country, Tacoma and Seattle, and I am more than ever impiesscd with the immense icsourccs of the western por tion of our great Territory. Being a native of the State of Pennsylvania, I have a good idea of the wealth that will nec essarily flow into this country from tho timber and coal and iron which are found here. Also some idea of the employment it will give to labor, and it is safe to say that 500,000 laborers could bo set to work immediately around Pugct Sound an pay a handsome profit to the capital v ploying them, for no where in tho world can bo found such immense forests of finu saw timber along the very edgoyol tide water aheady to float to the market of the world as on Puget Sound ; their when wo tako in the immense coal fields, as great in extent as tho coal fields of Pennsylva nia, and down hill from the mines to tide water, a distance of from fivo to fifty miles, it can lie put afloat for the market of all countries needing coal cheaper than from any other place of which I have any knowledge. I met a young man in Seattle who was locating co.il mines for a syndicato or company, ho is operating in tlie Cedar river country. I asked him how he came to his conclusions as to what was coal land and ho said he fol lowed up the little creeks and brooks that (low into Cedar river and its tributaries and found coal croping out in ledges like stone quarries. Ho then hunted up the section or quarter section it was located on and reported it to his employers ; they immediately send a man to Olympia to the land office to purchase the land as coal land at $10 per acre, thus getting a half mile square of black diamonds for $1,000, that in all probability will boor is worth mora than that many thousand dollars. I think that in the near future tlinrf. will n n rmmilfitinn nf lit IfOut ntlWI half million in Western Washington, andfv when the timber iscleared from tho shores of Puget Sound we have a better farming country than the averago farming coun try along the Atlantic sea hoard, then when we consider that this wonderful lumbering and mineral country at having an immediate back ground of the most productive agricultural prairie land and extensive pasture fields sufficient to sup ply the coal and lumbering portion of tho Territory with bread, meat, vegeta bles and provender through for all time and a surplus besides. Wo certainly have the foundation for one of tho greatest states in the Union and I will make this prediction that in ten years from thecom-j FRIDAY, JUNE plction of the N. P. 11. It. there will be a population of one million in what is now Washington Territory. Now in regard to some little matters for the benefit of the emigrant. There is a little link or two that I find from talking with them that they should know which would relice them from bother and em barrassment. In the first place if the emigrant wishes to locate in a prairie country he should go cast of the moun tains especially if he is from the north western states and looking for a farm, of course a Pennsylvania man would know how to make a farm in Western Wash ington by clearing timber and brush. Why I speak of this is I met several em igrants on the Sound who were complain ing bitterly and said they had been in formed that the Puget Sound country was a good agricultural country. I told them that it wa, but it would be necessary for them to clear the land. I then asked them where they weic from, they said Iowa and Illinois. I then told them if they were looking for prairie homes to go east of the mountains. Another thing I wish to mention is this, almost every em igrant I talk with has an objective point or locality to stop in and he is bothered to know to what point to buy his ticket in order to arrive at his objective place for tho least money, and from my knowledge of the of the country I will state a few facts that will help the emigrant along if you are going to the upper Crab creek cnun try or lower Itock creek country by your ticket to Spragueif you are going to any of the following places buy your ticket to Cheney, viz : Sprangle, Pine City, Pino Cieek, Itock, Rock Lake, Plazer, Rosalia, Steptoo, Farmington, Alpha, Wavcrly, Upper Hangman Creek, Medical Lake, Willow Springs, Fairview, Deep Creek, Fairweather, Mondovia or Maloy Prairie. If you are going to Davenport, Larcns Camp, Spokane or the Great Bend local ities by your ticket to cither Sprague or Cheney; if you are going to Itockford Cour d'Aleno valley, buy tickets to either Spoknao Falls or Cheney ; if you are going to Morand Prairie, Little Spokane or Col villo valley, buy your ticket to Spokane Falls. I write this in tho interest of tho emigrant who wishes to arrive at his ob jective point in the most direct way and for the least money, the above informa tion is ixjsitively reliable. J. W. Range. How to If alee Bacon In Sbort Time. Farminotox, W. T., June 4, 1883. Editor Willamette Former : I wish to know how to cure meat to make into bacon in the shortest possible time from killing. I can make good bacon, but it takes me too long. If you know of any receipt, will you bo so kind as to name the price and what it will do? Yours truly, N. B. Parkman. Will some competent man reply to tbo 'Ed. Lane County Folneers. Tho pioneers of Lane county held a meeting at Eugene City, June 4th, for the purjMjHCof organizing. Some threo hun dred names were enrolled under this membership, dating down from 1853. Threo names are enrolled under the date of 1813. The following officers were elected . For President, Hon. John Whiteaker; Vice-President, Hon. A. S. Patterson; Recording Secretary, Hon. T. G. Hen dricks; Corresponding Secretary, Joshua J. Walton; Treasurer, Hon. R. B. Coch ran. Mr. Manning, of Douglcs county, Ore gon, presented the Association with a piece of an oak stump, from tho tree which the emigrants of 1846 felled and used for wood to make camp fires. This small band of emigrants camjied in Doug las county for several weeks and had noth ing to eat excepting venison. Pat Breed ing, one of Lane county's old pioneers, was the principal hunter for that little band of pioneers. Tho piece of tho old oak stump was accepted by tho associa tion wilh thanks to the donor, and tho "chunk" was ordered mado into a gavel for the u-o of tho presiding officer of this association. A I A U0 BaP'Ut "'"gymanof erKen,N Yi. Vstr.jna temnerance nun. sulfead wltli kid uey trouble, neuralgia, ai d dizzmeia almost to bhuduesi, ovT two years after he was told that Hop Hitter w .uld cure him, because he wuafraid of and pre ju liced against "Hitters." Sine- lii cure he says nooe need fear but trust in Hop Bitter: Vacant Lands. A large amount of vacant land may be found in the Willow Crrtk country, Umatilla county. The town of Heppner is in the midst of tun section. The Heppner Oautte, pub lished there by J. W Redmgton, can be had at $J.M) a year, f 1 CO fur six months, II for three months. Kubtcriptions may be left at the Fakmzh of e. Fabuik and Gazette t Way.ar. 29, 1883. AM IDEAL PICTURE. When we recognie that the farmers of the United States nuinbci one half of the poulation and own the improved lands that produce the corn, wheat, hay, cotton, sugar and all the products necessary to sustain life and maintain commerce, wu must also recognise that as a class farm crs possess the numerical strength to rule the nation. Then comes the question "Is it not tho duty of this solid and most important class of society to rule the nil' tion and protect every interest within it? Let us view tho matter, for a moment from an ideal standpoint. Let us sup pose that the producers of the nation are alive to their intcicsts and organized to carry out great principles. This means that they shall have community ol views and work consistently to effect like re sults. It docs not mean that they must agree upon all details, but realize the main facts and be prepared to work for their fulfillment. I he farmer should bo a friend of com mon schools, because it is necessary that his children should be educated. All the professions of life, the occupation that gives success to man, aie open to hischil dren, so he must secure education as a qualification for their success in life Even if they sensibly continue on the farm, they need education to fit them for influence and enable them to enjoy the highest intellectual pleasure. Education is the guarantee of freedom and go(xl government, and opens the door to tho highest success in whatever ignition man may be. Supposing that producers harmonizo in their views, what shull hinder them from being invincible in scouring legislation that shall create tho best social order and the puiest and most economical govern ment? Nothing. Tho producer has no occasion to aspire to bo a demagogue, and his true position makes him a foe to all such. He cannot refuse to capital its fair return, becauso ho knows that without such income it will not prosecute great enterprises, but ho can, if ho is organized for resistance, insure that monopoly Hhall not unduly tax the world, but shall be content with fair returns, and that is all it can ask and all that is needed to secure prosecution of all just enterprises. Looking around the world, we seo on every side signs of demoralization. Every where there is a constant struggle bo- Kween right and wrong. In politics, in government, in trade, in law and in reli gion even, the weakness and selfishness of human nature appear, straining always to overturn the right and elevate the wrong. Good men everywhere league together for protection nut! make war against wrong doing. It is this struggle that keeps up activity in well doing and elevates character, but it seems evident that organization and education can bo employed to make the right invincible. Wo assume that thogie.it body of the producers of our country sympathize with good principles. Organization is all that is needed to make them invincible. If they were prepaid! to work together they would find all good men ready to work with them. It is not our idea that pro ducers shall orgiinio aguinst thu world, but merely that they organizes for right principle anil for self protection. In such case they would have all good citizens in lino with them ready to co-ojiorato to se cure good results. A moment's inquiry will show that the producer lias the best element of society with him in all he can rightly require. Every class, except the depraved and law less, dermis on the fanner's prosperity. He represent "the gooso that lays the golden egg" for the Ix-nefitof tho commu nity Weaken his strength and the world sees hard times. If lie prosers, tlieio is prosperity all along tho lino of trades and professions, and, the nation ha full cofrurs in its treasury. The merchant and man ufacturer watch with intense anxiety tho promise of the hurvest. Tho railroads of the country soo their stock go up or down as crop prospects indicate what thu futuro earnings shall be. Steamers and vowels NO. 20. on our rivers and lakes, as well as on the ocean ; all depend upon the producer. His success means universal prosperity. He has, therefore, all tho good elements of society, from the merchant princo to the honest laborer, enlisted on his sido and ready to assist him to defend the right and protect him from all dangers that may threaten his own prosperity. This is no new theme with tho Farmer. We have discussed it before, and do It again, in the hopo to nrouso some greater interest in tho minds of readers. We always say : You, farmers, have tho nu merical strength. As a class, you natur ally favor the right. All the world de pends on you, and all good mon will stand with you in asserting the right. We do not say that tho world is entirely bad or that evil is increasing. There is evi dence of progress all the time, but there is room for greater progress than the world is likely to make without organized ef fort, and wo appeal to you ns possessing strength and intelligence and right views if you will only put forth your powers. We call this "An Ideal Ficturo" be causo it is, unfortunately, tho fact that the majority of the producing class are blind to their true interests, and seem ingly iucapablo of asserting themselves. They are given over to party politics, and lack the confidence that can insuro re sults. Whilo that is so, a word of en couragement may not lie thrown away. Tho world moves, and nothing can be nioro certain that, somctimo in tho fu turo, tho produco of tho world will govorn it fairly and justly, when they aro educated to know their power and uso it. North-Western Montana, Missoula. A correspondent of the Walla Walla Stattf man writes as follows from Missoula: This city, which will soon be in direct rail communication with Walla Walla, is as pleas antly looited and lively as any town In Mon tana. It is 409 iniloi by railrosd from Walla Walla. It is at an altitude nf .1 000 feot, and has a population of about 1,4U0. It has as level and as good n tow n ait" as Spokane. Set In an angl" of rolling green hills on thu north, and pine-olad, steep hills on the east, it pre splits a snug looking aspect. The Missoula river sweeps by, close to the southern edge of the city, in a slight curve, and Ho s off to tbo southwoit. About fivo miles off, near tho Missoula Post, it recoives tho waters of tho Hitter Root river; then winds along through a level green valley, anwugst pleas ant homes and sandy orch.irdt; while hero and there in the valtay can be seen numerous bands of horses and cattle. Rattlesnake creek, running by the east edgn of the city, coming from the mountains on the north, and the main river, pouring through the rough Hell Gate Cuiyon, the mouth of which is just cast of the city, form excellent water powers by whleh all the power necessary for manufacturing purpose can bo easily obtained. The N. P. R. R. runs by at the fo t of the hills, close by the city, oil the north. The company have a fine, level tract of land re served, close to the n'rthwait corner, on which to lav out a yard aud erect shops' station Imildings, etc. The Bitter Root valley, lb ninety miles long and from three to fifteen mile wide It lays almost due south of of Misioula. It has as fertile a valley as there Is in the Territory. Missoula will he the railroad shipping point for that vast extent of farming country until there is a branch road built unthe v.illey. Through trains from the Weit now run to Jocko Station, within forty-to miles of here, making thi trip in eight hours. Kud of track at present writing is within twenty-two miles of her. Through trains will be running to this placo by July The big trestle at O'Keef's canyon is neirly tom pleted, and timber for the other tnstles is mnatlv all on thu urouud. ready t ) he nut up. On the eistnnd the end of the track U within twenty miles of Helens. Uotwuen MksouU and Helena it is 1.15 miles. The gri le is ibout all completed ready to slap down the ties ami iron Two miles of track on each end can be land per day. S one can see the link can be connected easily in two months. Made a Han or Him Mr C. O. Wheeler. No. 23 Austin street, Cainhridgeport, Mass., makes tin following i..iT '. rv . i (it taut u. remaKsuie siaiemeui. wi tyti i, ioo, u writes as follows: "I luva been troubled with kidney disease tor nearly twenty ymrs) have suff red at times with terrible puns lu my back and limbs. I used n my me hcties, hut founil nothing reached mv u until I took Hunt's Remedy. I purchased a bottle, of A. I. (iiloti, 030 Treinorit street. Uoston, and lieforo I had used this one bottlu I found relief, ani continuing its use my pahis and waikness all disappeared, and I ie4 like a new man, with new life and viuor. Hunt's Reme ly did womUrs for me, and I have no hesitancy in recomineuding It to all atfii.'tsd with kidney or liver uiseaim, as I am rxw tive tha by its use they will find immediate relief. You may uso this letter lu any way you choaie, so that the people m IV know of a sure medicine for the cure of all disease)! of kidneys and hrer,"