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About The Telephone=register. (McMinnville, Or.) 1889-1953 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1890)
ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED IN he PEOPLE Know The Telephone-Register ----- THE VALUE OF----- BRING THE BEST RESl'hTS! IA NEWS MEDIUM Adrrrtisers thould keep thi* in vnind. Siih- rtantial eridtner of thi* fort ron be *ern of th i» ojfire. THAT I» OSE O. THF. REASONS WHY Till- I TELEPHONE-REGISTER ENJOYS THE GARG I ESI < IR< ELATION OF ANY NEWSPAPER PVR LISHEH IN YAMHILLCOVNTY Circulation Guaranteed Greater Than That of Any Other Paper Published in YamhiH County. Consolidated Feb. 1,1889. city of M c M innville . mcminnvili . f ; hihtokv . EIGHT PAGES. i M c M innville , O regon , T hursday , march 27.1890. i »Ht climat »:. when lie di««l lie left litth- projierty.. The [xsiple of this city n««ignize his! Th“ Flur»! liiiHKinable Without any liras. harks. worth and we all know that the city ■ would be larger to-day if his master1 It lias lieen many years since the brain was managing things. thermometer* of this section of Oregon The city was Incorporated in 1876 and registered zero. The dropping of the tin* first trustees elected were Andrew mercury lx*low zero would cause more Shuck, C. J). Johnson, B. F. Hartman, commotion than an earthquake. The T. J. Khadden ami H. G. Burns. coldest weather imaginable is four or Nothing will Ixitlier him. Plenty of hay and grain from tlie prolific soil lias lieen stored away in tlie b.irn to feed Her Advantages ami Surround Not many years ago the spot marked his stock through fall work. Tlie winter ings Described. <ioes not worry him, for grass will lie by the beautiful city of McMinnville was a waving grain fiehi an<l a few plentiful in his (mature by the creek. INCORPORATED IN THE YEAR 76 years before that the foot of a white But, we are on our way to the moun man had never made an imprint on tains. The road makes a turn and we Fourteen Years old and Acknowl the fertile soil. Of course our readers are on rising ground, we have entered edged to be the Most Beautiful want to know why tlie tow n is named SOCIETY AND EDVCATION. five degrees above. Snow is seldom the fixithills ami the sea breeze is deli City in Oregon. Tlie Metropo McMinnville, ami when the town was seen and when it does fall it does not cious. Coming oft’ the fields of glisten lis of the best County in the fonmled. stay any length of time. Stock can ing wheat ami finding its way through State. Healthy and Fair. Great The founder of the city of McMinn run at large all seasons of the year, un tlie small fir groves it strikes us ami we Educational Facilities. Plenty ville was W. T. Newby who was Lorn ‘S. There is a very ««minion impression, cared for, ami get fat. The heavy frosts are reminded of the pleasure we are <»f Pure Air and Water. Light in McMinnville, Warren county, Tenn. among thus«* who are unacquaint««! of the ( astern states are unknown; al seeking. We bang the horse» on the ed by Electricity The Mecca Marell 25, 1820. He moveil to Missouri with tlie west, Unit society here is in a though frosts occur, they are not low- Imck with a 15 foot hazel switch wliieli of Oregon. very difterent state front what it is in enough in temperature to injure the we cut a mile or so Imck and up we go. the older sections of the ««»untry, and fruit, etc. From October to the first of The horse is not at all lotii to move In 1876 the town of McMinnville was that the iiew-conier will find things April the winter rains are falling and He wants mountain life for a time and inc«ii-{xinite<l. Not a long time ago, but here, as tosocinl and religious life and while unconifortabk to a new corner I a feast of (x?a vine ami a drink of pure, long enough to milk«-it the fairest city educational interests very different from they are tlie delight of one who lias be I cold mountain w ater. We are in the of the state of Oregon. what they are at tlie <*ast. To a ««-rtaiii come acclimated. 1'lie only sick weath foothills proper. Here and there a farm Before going into th«- details ol the extent this is tru<‘. It is only those of er Is when they stop and tlie tempera house is seen nestling near a e»n»l grove grow lit ane early settlement it is just an enterprising ami adventurous turn ture falls a few degrees. From April to with a spring gushing from the hillside that its surroundings should receive at of mind who seek homes in :1 a new October the «lays are long and sweet, near hy. Twenty or thirty acn*s ot tention. ««»untr.v, anil the general spirit of the filled with that peculiar something fertile land in cultivation is noticed and First of all it is th«- ««»uiity seat of west is more activ, and lilx*ral and in which makes an Oregon day so difteretit away up there on the Imld hill is s«-en a Yamhill <«>unty. Y«»u ask mi ol«l Ore no pin««* is it mon* so than in this s««*- from those of «itlier states, Tlie blue Imml of cattle. They are owne«i by this gonian, in any part of the state his tion. But the entire west is too new to sky alxive is not dotte«i with a cloud thrifty fanner and w ill lx* turned off to opinion as to whieli county is tlie Ix-st have lx«*n settled by the desix-mlents of for months. Tlie grass is kept green by the cattle buyerthisfall forquitea num and his answer is, invariably, Yamhill. a single pair, or tlie few pioneers who the heavy evening dews. Everything ber of gold twenty dollar bits. Here we Although the name Yamhill is the pushed<mt into tlie wilderness hut a few is growing and evidences of peace and pass a crowd of rosy cheeked, laughing laughing st«x-k of the state, tin- (xnple IF. 7’. Newby. years ago. Most of the people who plenty can lx- seen on every hand. The Ixjys and girls just out of school. Nodis- who laugh at it an- willing to give the esae written in their happy healthy faces. county its <hs«-rts. Th«' name which i , in 1839 and that stat«* not lx*ing particu- have settled in this city and vicinity difterenee in tlie average thermometer No pale cheek and weakened eye here. by months <l<x*s not vary from the suitsit Isut ami tli«- one in«ist use«! in l larly fair to him he started for Oregon, came here after they had attained ma They have breathed God’s health giver; mentioning it is “The Banner <'ounty.” arriving here in 1.843. H<* located at ture growtli and the habits of life and warmest to tlie coldest, over :ttl°. July they have rested their eyes after hours McMinnville is situate«! in tlie midst of Oregon City, then the trailing station thought were fixed. The vast majority is the hottest month, but the cool sea of hard study, U|x»n calm and ]x*a<«*ful the best land in tlie ««unity. It is a of tlie Willamette valley. In 1844 lie of those now here came from the older breeze makes life comfortable by iiegin- nature. Their lives have been true to gr-at stretch of level ixjuntry extend left Oregon City ami came into Yam settled east; they lirouglit witli them ning to blow alxiut I o’clock, the sul all tlie precipts of health. They will triest part of the day. This delicious ing from tlie f«x»t liiils of the Coast ; hill ««unity, which ««intained at that their ««»liege educations, theeasern cul make men and women. Men suitable mountains on th«' west to the Willam timesix settlers. Somedifiiculty wasex- ture; they have lost nothing but the iir«x*ze from old «x-ean finds its way to ette river on til«- east and from tlie Che- I ix*rieiieed with th Indians who mad«* narrow pride of section; w hich arises the plain of McMinnville through a to be the huslmnd of earth’s fairest creature, wives suitable for a man. halmi mountains in the nortliern part raids upon the cattle. Mr. Newby was i from a lack of knowletlge of all that pass in the mountains to the southwest Their lives have not and will not l»e of the ««ninty to the isiunty line on the! an intensely progressive man and in lies beyond th«* narrow limits of that of its. it is |x'i-funi<*d by passing over contracted. They Ixiw ond each has a the tops of tlie giant firs and fomef« to south, without a break. It is not |x'r- 185:! he erected a grist mill on Baker «««•tion in which they were ixirn and “go<xi evening sir” to say to tlie strang fectly flat but w ith just enough rise and 1 en«*k. The old mill was burned down raimsi. They, in conjunction witli the us laden with health. The «-liniale of this Pacific coast is er who is passing and w ishing lie was fall in tlie surfais' to give it |x*rfect last year to make nxim for a large saw ' sons ami «laughters of the pioneers one of them. drainage. Tiiis lieautiful ami prolific mill which is now under eoui-se of ««m- have establish««! schools and ehurches made mild by tlie humid Japan current We have left far liehind tin- last habi plain is dolttsl here anil there witli fir struetion. The site of the old mill Ixi- and Htx-ial relations, and in no stx-tion which Hows by our shores. The fruit an«l otik groves, not liixivy forests of ciniiein time tin* site of McMinnville. It w Inch has lxx*n long enough, and w hich trees are in lilossom, wild flowers in tation of man and are now in sublime timlx'r but still eiiougli titnlx-r is in was situateil at tin- foot of Thiril street. has Inxxftne thickly «-nough aettkd to seed, sowing is over, lx*fore the hard 'solitude. Nothing around us all is sight to keep the fires of the farm i In 1854 Mr. Newby started a store ami |x*rmit of their existence, will those lie w inter break up in the same latitude quiet as death. Tlie only disturbing houses brightly burning for years to th«* nucleus of th«* present thriving city found wanting in numlx-r or inferior in on tlie Atlantic eoast, Wild berries j element is our thoughts. Silence, silence are picked in April and thousands of i everywhere. 1). ath has not entered here <«>me mill to supply tlie demand of th«' had lx«*n formed. In the following quality to similar sections in the east. It must not lx- supposed however, them are in the market in the latter The foot of man in all probability has city. When tiiis supply fails tliemoun year, 1855, the town of McMinnvilk tains and f«xit hills are iwereil with a was found««l, Mr. Newby naming it tlint tli«* new-comer will find in this re part of May and the first of June. I never desecrated the sacred precincts. growth which will supply tlie wants of after his old home. spect all that be has lx«*n accustomed I It is eternity in its quietness. A cool OI K PLEAS! KES. tlie ]x«i|il«'for years and years. On«' I breeze strikes us, the firslwgin to moan, Mr. Newby in politics was a demo to at home. Even tlie old settled east in <*o«»l and Shady Della Beside we have been in the realms of eternal peculiar tiling alxiut tiiis timber: It lias crat and held th«* otli««- of assessor in presents variety, and on«* s««*tion is not Babbling: Brooks. all grown sin««' th«' settlement of the 1S48 and ill 187»» was elected to the state exactly like another, even there are | silence and have returned. With a gixxi anil had, «ksirabk and undesira ««ninty. In 1843when the first settler senate. ltesides the glorious climate this sec ' sigh we l«xik al «out us, tlie tall trunks of s«*t his f«x»t in Yamhill county lie saw He was m:irrie<l in 1841; Miss Sara J. ble neighlxirlKHxls and as our peopk tion presents other features which the firs stand straight and |x*r(x*ndieu- a perlect prairie, w ith here and there a Gray lx*ing his ehol<«>, having hy her have com«* from the east it must lx* so make it as attractive. On a hot summer lar; their tops are interlaced so that no tall fir or an old gnnrksl imk stamiing eight «-bildren. Mr. Newby died on here. But persons who could not lx* day when the nerves have been strain ray of sunlight penetrates the semi in loneliness. Since then around ilies« Octolx-r 22, 1884 ami his deatli was al satisfie«! w ith tlies«x-iety of this favonxl ed Io I heir fullest tension and the Ixxiy «larkness; a carpet of tir Ixiws and moss pion««*! tree», like tlie human pion«er, I most a calamity to this city. I s««*tion must lx* fit subjects for treat- I as well as the brain calls for a relaxation, stretches lx*fore us. One cannot help lias grown a large family. He lia«l progress written on every I inent in a mail lions«' and we «Io not one lisik to the west of us tempts us to hut think that it will he a desecration The se«'tion iinm««lintely surrouiuling film-of his lieing and lie was the one want them. As good schoolsand church- throw asid< the restraint of business of nature when the hardy mountaineer this city is tlie lxs*t wlieat pnxlueing section in the state. Many varieties of w heat have been intnxlu«'ed an«l it is Ix'lievisl that all liave Ixx'ii su««x “sfully grown. With Forlrait or W. T. Newby the Founder of the City. PRICE 10 CENTS. VOL. II. NO. 8. THK I'RFAMKKV. A Factory W Ilk a Capacity ot line Thou*, anti rounds per l»ay. V 'jw'lTÎ* F.ASTKKX MAN « «IMF IO A IIOMFOF KF AI.TH ANI» l-I.FNTV. A tlrst-chiss creamery is In o|x*ration in this city having l««*n liuilt during tin* last summer. The <*a|mcity 1« Itux» pounds of laitter per day. It lias not yet lieen run t«i the extent of its capacity forth«* reason of not having enough cows in this vicinity to furnish the «Tenn for such a largi* rim. This suni- mer it S ex|a«*tt«l that at kasl 5<0 |H«iiiid*. |«*r «lay w ill lx* pnxlu<««l, nearly all the farmer» in thia s»«*tion having signifiisl their w illingness t<> keep all tin* «-ows |xissiblc for the pur]x»se. The «■reamery ia ««Hitrolksl by an imsirpi * rat««l <*oni|niny of laisinexa, men of thia city ami fiuim rs of tills vi«*inity. t’olii storage nxims have lx«*n built ill con- m««i«»u ami it is |x«ssi!«k for tlie rnxiii- cry tin* k««*p tin* «-x««*ss tor market. They liavi* not l»s*n ns««l for this put» |xise as tlie factory cannot supply, or lias not y«*t, oiic-t«*nth tli«* d«*niaq«L No Ix-tter «lairy «-ountry exists in tlie world than lie» within ten inlks of this «*it\, in t la* fiuithills of the (’oast moun- tnin«. This fact is fast lax-oming know n and |x-ople an* devoting more time to the brisxiing of milk pnxlueing cattle, w itli w hich to st«x-k tin* ««Hiiitry which is fast Ixx-oining s«-tttod. When tlii- s»*.*tion <>f dairy ««ninny is fully ■x-ttl«si McMinnville will lx- th«- market and shipping |x»int of an immense amount of dairy pnxiiietx. The manager of the creamery is M. <’.liliiis who lias tollowe«! tlie lmsin«*ss for y«*ars. lie uiiderstaii«!« th«* minnt«*“l details of butter working and turns out a pnxluct eqitdl to tin- givtit errameriea of tin* east. For some years he was as- *«<x*iate«l with tin- Hillslxiro cn*umery anil was tlie <lirt«*l instrument hy w liieli its pnxlucts gain<«l th«- reputa tion they now have. tai will lx* consumed by the bright-eyed not lx* long lien««*, tin* west side will doe and fawn that are just lowering i receive more attention from th«* tourists their heads to lx* refreshed. Tin* fall is I who will to a <«*rtain extent lx* coin» hr ikon in several places on its way ]x*ll«*d to vi«-w tiiis inagnlfi<«*nt <*ountry, down and the old moss covend nx'ks which heretofore has Ixs-n neglect««! by an* crowned with a sheen rivaling di them lx*caus«*of the out of the way vine purity in its whiteness. Beside means of getting lien*. this beautiful brook we have <*ani|x*d Witli tin- piin-luise of lx*fore. The sun is some two hours up Guage lilies liv tlie S. and entering the log hut which we anolliergreat selieine lias lxssinie know n Our Fruit.. erected some years ago we are at our in which this <*ompany intends to ««m- ' Who has spent a summer here ami journey’s end. Now to catch a ilozen trol tin* railroa«! inter« sts of tlie state. artful trout for sup|x*r. In order to <io tiiis new lines of road has visited tin* numerous orchards in this vicinity, that <i«s-s not loudly aav must lx* built inimixiiately to supply TKANSFOKTATION FACILITI». ; the wants of this rapidly settling «ee- tluit the fruits of tills sis-tion sur|HU«x McMinnville to be l-pon the Main Line to i tion. The Narrow < iuag«* was buiit as anything that they have ever tasted lie- California and to tlie Sea. a coni]x*ting line ami paralells the fore? They <io not forget them; it is Im- The present transportation facilities 1 Southern l’aeifi«- road from l*ortlan«l to |KMsible to for getonr great Royal Ann are gixxi, McMinnville lx-ing situated 1 the junction when* it crosses the road cherries too large for one bite, or our upon the West Hide division of tlie i some thru* mil«*« south of this city. i Ixaiutlful peach plum, or the exquisite Southern Pacific railroad. Projiosals The <«»a«t counties are fust tilling up flavor of our Bartlett p>‘ars, mote deli for bids for the furnishing of -I o . ihm » ties with |x«iple and tliey are crying for cious than anything else. Who that has st roll« d t h rough any of «air prune or for the construction of tlie roa«i from ' trans|xirt:itioii facilities. Astoria at the Corvallis to Junction City are already mouth of the <'ohtnibia lias orguniz««! cluirds when the fruit was maturing, but will have our fruit upon his own calle«! for by tlie railroad company and a company anil is buihling a roa«l south talik, no matter where liis home may the interest««! citizens of this city have | through tlie fertile ami timlx*red section lie, if he can timl it dried or «-annwi in n«*eived assurances from Mr. Kohler, lietween the mountains and the <«iast. his local market«? til«* manager, that the roa«l w ill lx* ««in The Southern Pacific ixnnpany also in We m««i more tree« planted, for the structed immediately. To on«- cogni tend to tup tiiis section and at tin* sum«' demand is mon- than the supply. Our zant with tlie railroad lines of thestate, time give the interior counties <lir««*t communication witli the <l««*psea. The fanners are fast seeing that thia intention is to make the Narrow Guage country isdestimsi to I m * the gn*at frul lines on lxitli side.« of th«* river broad ■“«•tion of the state and are planting guage roads and to discard the ]ire**nt more gnaiml to orchards. Several large line from Lafayette to Sheridan. Th«' tract« have lx«in set out during the |xist track will !«• extended from Lafayette year ami iiioii - will la- tile coining sum THF. « ITVS l¡ltO»TH. mer. to St. Joseph where it w ill conneet with Now, the fruit planters have some th«- present broad guage mid ««intinue The ( haiiicex in the County Sent anti Other up the main track to this city where trouble in pnwuring trees, but when Chan<«**. th«1 roa«l w ill branch ofl'an<l a new road tlie numery which is contemplated in The grow th of McMinnvilk- Ixitli as built on this siile of tlie South Yamhill the “Fairlawn” property Is in condition, a trailing ««-liter and in (xipulntion lias river to Slicridun. By tills several long this difficulty will I m * dissipat««) and lx-en marvelous during the (mst lew bridges are sav««l and tlie same country more attention will be given to fruit years. Not many years ago her inhab is traverwsl. From Hheridmi the road culture. Fruits of all kinds grow hen- itants ««xil'l lx- <*ount«*d on your fingers, will lx' extended by meitnsof the Grand luxuriantly. Strawla*rrivs In their ««a* today nearly tin««- thousaml |k«>ple fiml Rond«' Pass through the in nintains, son as well ns lihicklxTries an- sol«l to a home and means of sustenance with where it will paralell th ■ coast ai««l con consumers nt tlie rah-of six gallons for in her limits. Th«* building of the rail nect with th«* Astoria A South Coast, si. Whole can one find them chea|iet'.> Cherry tn«*» in this neighlxirhixMl road through th«* city in the fall of 1879 now Ix'ing eonstrtK't««!. By tiiis yon gave McMinnville the impetus, ami we will si«' that dinx't communication will have brought $lo | st tn«* at the age of are pl«*asc«i to note that its motion lias lx1 ha«i with tlie <h«'ji wu at Astoria and six years. Eighty trees can la- planted not died away but tlie city is striving all this iinincn.-M' pr*xlticing section, mid U|s«n an acre of grouml. Kup|i«Me the for better things every day. esjxs-ially M«-Minnvill< . will lx- greatly trees only bring ow-tourth ax inuch, Lafayette situated about I’m* miles lx*nefltt«'d. This is not u wihl cat this is consideraliie mon* than <*an be from this eity is th«* oiliest town in tin* s«'henie but <>n<- witli a soli«I foundation. mad«- from wli«*at nt 75 cent« per county and one of tin- oldest in the The question is of .»itch inij“»rtall<s-1 lull bushel. state. SI»* was tlie <«»unty seat previ <'. P. Huntington w ill arrive here «lur Minerals« ous to November 1887. On that date ing III«* month ol April ami will |x'rsnn- Thejieople no doillit are Hwan- that a special election was held ami tlie (ieo ally ins|x» i the entin' route and visit On-gon is rich in minerals. Home of the pie of the county said by a majority of the citi«»« through which tli«*se ««inteni- liest gold mines in the world I«oing lo- over four hundnsl, that hereafter Mc plated roa«ls w ill l«‘ built. Work on cat««l within her iKiuiidaries. Yamhill Minnville would lx* th«* «nunty seat. the Narrow Guage lin«*s has alreadi county [ nishcsm - s minerals of «liftèrent Th«* building of a fine «-ourt housi* was <'oninien<x'«l an«! Ix'tore fall miles of th« kinds but as yet not enough attention immediately eomniene««l and on the roa«l w ill !“• siaiKlnrd gunge. lias la-en paid to them, Time will no first ot January lxs.-i the recoi*«ls were All till» niilroa«! Imihling mean» doubt develop the fact that the coast move«l into the new court house, the something to McMinnville. It IH««lll» mountains an- rich in g«>l«l, silver and picture of which you (*an see on anoth that th«* «'lty w ill double in |«opulattoii «■iniialair. < In nearly «-very small stream er page. The change of the county «luring th«'next five yean«, mi«l |x«ssil«- a person can find color. From time to seat gave to McMinnvilk* the prestige ly in lens tittle. With the pn-ent spir time fine s|HM-imen- have la.-n found which is necessary for the upbuilding it shown by th« |xxq»|c th«' town is hy |H-ople who wen- not practical mln. ' / /V of a town, since then her |x-opk* have Ixiund to Ix'com«* «me of great import- era nn«l did not know their worth until lx«*n «in th«* move and have taken every all««', mi«l is ii*iw the largi-»t and most ns-ollectlon of the spot where they were i J d! Opportunity to push th«-«*ity totlii* front. prominent in imj«roveinanl on tlie West pi«-k«-«l up hud f:««led away. Numerous ¿0* The picture of the public school in an- side. s|wcimens of th«- alaiv«- mention««! met •Ither page gives one an idea of tlie lib The city al»o has a memi» of trans-j als have I“« n found ami several pro^ erality of the |xsiple of tiiis city. Tiiis portation other than th«- railnxid. Th«' lading |Kirti<— have lately Ixs-n in the beautiful and well fitt««i up building Yamhill river which runs through the mountains. Silver ore Las l“«'ti found was erect««! in 188« ami :ilr«*a«ly the city is navigable during the winter in paying «piantitles In several plaits«In school is so crowded owing to the rapid iii«intlis to thi» city. This has Ixs-n th.- «tainty but toe tic.«*ssary «-apltal increas«-of the (xipulation that anotlier us««1 in llm«*s |«isi, tint for years tlie ha» not as yet las-n found to make It hous«* is Ix'ing talked of. I whistle of the »(•■mnlxiat has not lieeti pay. Coal also has I wii dlstaivered heard. Ol'l wareliouse« mi' still stand- Isitli in the mountains and in the range A Capital Flehl. I ing U| kiii th«' river liank» wliieli were of liills known Ils the “Rial Hills.” As a fielil for the operation of capital OREGON us««l for storing grain to lx* ship|x**l by The soil of these hill- is red in tailor McMinnvilk presents several advantag steamer. On«- serious oltstriiction in la-eaus«* of the immense amount of es not ptHHesHed by the other towns of the river, th«' falls at Lafayette, present iron ore «smtained in it. Tin ore for the valley. Tlu*«e are very ap|xuent to a liarrier to steam<*rs «luring low water, tin- large iron mill“ at <S\v«-gn |- taat-n visitors who visit the city. First of all but with tli«- ex|x'iiditure of «25,090 from this sana- range of hills un«l when the town is surrounded by a magnifi guiding hand of the city. Nearly every es and aspl«*asant s«K*ial relations arc to and hie away to the e«xil ami shady tir lumberman si*eks this paraiiise of «piiet- it isapimrent that thissid«* will, assixm | the» «•oul«l !“• ov«*n*ooie by incaus of this country is known tooutsiiie people cent section of country which pnxluces enterprise which exists in the town to lie found here as those that have Ixs-n c«xite<l mountains, when* solitude in all ness ami tlie ring of hisux disturhes tile as tiiis gap betw««n < ’orvalli» ami Junc one l«“'k, wliieli would make the river Interested in tlieae things t)i<*re is every wheat in abundance anil as a matter of day was start««! or hel|x*d in some man left lx*hind. This «-ounty (XHsesses all its grandness, and shade in its inteii.s- silence, But this is sure to come; these tion City is fillixl with a rou I Ixsl, I«*; course is thickly settled. Tlie vast ner hy him. He controlled acres of phases of s«x*ial lite: if th«* new-eonier ness, where the sweet mountain airi trees w hich stand like giant» reaching tlie through line to Cnliforni i. Tlie iinvigable to tiiis city mid possibly lx*- reason to la-lieve that this «‘ounty will I yond. Tlie grouml at the falls is suit- >s- a great iron ami coal district. wealth stored ill tin- fertile soil of the lain! but his energfes were lx*nt toward is accustomed to tlie advantages in tiiis scentixi witli tin- |x*rfuniesofa thousand to tin- sky have a commercial value country on this side of tin* Willamette ■ alii«- for tli«' construction of a l«x*k ata surrounding country will make money the building up of manufacturies. One res|x-et, iifibril«*«l by a |xq»uloils commu lieautiful mountain Howers awaits us. ami th«* energetic American will turn river is higher and better adapt««l to sheep Husbandry* small <'X|“‘i«»«'. < '«ingress appropriated invested in McMinnville double without • it tin* greati-st schemes originate«! by nity, and wishes to enjoy them licit* lie One l«xik settles tlie matter, anil within them into dollars some «lay. I intnense («instruct a g«xiil roa<l lx«l, and is also The fixithill* near hen- pres**nt a several yisirs ago >2o,ooo for this pur- the aid of other means. The climate is him and <«m that is still practical if must seek the thickly settle«! jxirtion of an hour we are away to those sliatlv wealth is here, millions of feet of iutnlx*r less liable to overflow. When lieavy l«*rfeet and above all tin health of tlie •sma-one with the stamina necessary I the county surrouiniing this city, ami dells lx*side a lialililing brook in wliosi* pose, but somehow the money was nev fine flel«i for sheep raising. Tlieclimate is only waiting tor that iii | hi <-I oux de traftii* is carrieil on, i“itli freight and er expcn«led. There Is money in a is alxrtlt the xanit* as the valley, the city is gixxl. These an- tlie advantages to <-.irry it out will tnk«- hold of it is, tlie as a <«»ns<«(iience must pay mor«* for his <xxil Ixisom we know there are many stroyer of nature, the saw. passenger, it is (»referred to run trains hills not having an elevation of more not |xis««-“«-“si in a like ih*give by any bringing of a water ditch from tlie head lapil. If h«* wishes to take advantage beautiful trout only w aiting for a fly. Get out of here, you old fixil what are over a line w ith few liridge»; tiiis side steandxmt to run I i tiiis city, all it : town in the state. McMinnvilk is tlie waters of the Willamina t i this city, of the cheap government lands of re- 1 We have lx*en there many times liefore you doing, tiiis to the old horse that lacks is tlie man with sufficient energy 1 than •kill feet alxive th«* sea level. The has less stream.» to bridge and tlie healthiest city in til«' state. No one <le- a distan««* of eighte«'n miles. Mr. New moter and mon- spai-sely settle«! s««*tions but f«»r tile sake of our rentiers we will has stopped, w hile all thia contenipla- and bu-iness talent to inakc the eflbrt. I '.missi* luxuriant the year around and bridges are only short onus. All these McMinnville «■■tizeti“ in conjunction I the snow in the winter d«xw not n-nutin nies tiiis f:i<-t. Tile ixxil anil shady by formed a eon-.imny and had cxcava- lie must ex|xct to i'oregti some of the attempt toikscrilx* tlie country through tion has lieen going on. We must tret difficulties to <*onten«l with on tlie east mountains near us teiiqx-r tlie heat of vat.xi alxiut six miles of the ditch when ailvantages of s«*h«u»ls. churches and which we jmiss . with citizens of Salem are attempting I mon- than three w<«*ks at the outside. into camp to-night, The trail is found side incline our citizens to believe tiiat the summer and make it |x*rl«et; in through the wildness ol'xinie of the in- six'ial relations wliieli are afford««! Iiy to organiz«* a railroad ««inipan.v to build ■ The wild animals which prey on the For the first three or lour miles out of and down a canyon tlie horse is stunile this will lie used as tlie through line: a road from Salem via this city through | h'-nis have lieen exterminated. West winter they ki-cp out tlie «*»*l«l and chil <-or|xinitors, tin- ditch was brought into the more thickly settk«l neighlxirh<xxls. town we are {Missing along a broad, Hng. Hen* the trees are scattering and 1 lx*sid«*s the roiui from Junction to the tlie Nehalem Pas» to eonm-et w ith the , ern Oregon w«««l sell« for alxiut three ly blasts of the north ami olil <x*eiiii. (Hilities. This resulttsl in tlie alsind<in- smooth road witli tlie ripening grain, as we eonie to an o|ien spot a vision of California line is built on the west side Astoria A '»uuth t >a»t It. R., thus giv <«-:its per |xmn«i more than «>th«*r w«x»bi The wages of nachauies aie fur lx*tter McMinnvilk-is sumaimlixl by tin- great ment of what is McMinnville’s great standing in large fit-hls of one hiiinlreii splendor hursts iqxin our view. Direct of th«* river. Tlie river is crossed at ing tin- East si«l«' direct «-«uninunica- in the San Francisco market. The producing «ectkni of th«* state. We re reliance for water power. A fall of fifty here than in the East; ear|x*ntei-s re acre- or so on either hand. Soon the ly opposite a graceful water fall comes ti«»n to tlie sea. We h«qx* this niov«- Junction and through trains now go will lx* ina«l«*, but <lo not ailvance it a» price of wool in this city 1» usually from peat these fn«*ts so that our reii<ler.s will feet can l«e ohtaine«! by means of this ceive from «2.50 t«> 83.50 |x*r «lav, a«-- threshers will lx* at work and tlie hap trembling down to mix its .sparkling down on the west side. With the pur- a surety. 20 to .th <«*nts per pound. Numerous bear them in mind. ditch ami during the last year th«* pro eoniing <o their «'apabilities; liriek ma py fanner will lx- counting each sack dnqis with those of the noisy mountain ' chase of the Narrow Guage lines the sons from 83.50 to 85.00 per day; black As a lu-altli resort tills section pre fam» r» an* interested in the »li««-p buxi- ject has lieen reviswl ami it is almost as it i; is pilixl up thinking all the time stream, whose drops jump and sing in I Sou li r.i Pai lfic received te m t a| The amount of freight carried by tlie assured that this water will lx* lirouglit smiths, S3..5II; farm hands, $25 to «40 sents advantages not iiossi-ssed by tnatiy i tn*ss ill th«- fixithills and many are going that tlie years he spent in the frigid their eagerness to lie doing gixxi. Be lands on tlie west side convenient to Southern Paeifie r«xt<l to ami from this in. It is estimated that 50t) horse pow |x«r month; lalxirers, «2.00 to «2.50. and o:h<rs. We have known several people into it exelusively. Htoek sheep can be and barren east were as many years of yond, down in the valley, the lowing river an«l also in dose proximity to the city has doiible«! in tlie past year. This er can lx- generated by means of the printers $3.00 per «lav and 45 and 50 nearly «lead with consumption to re i-iught from »1.25 to $2-5ii |x-r head. A» his life w asted, herds are thirsty and are meandering Here lie is happy and present broad gunge nail. All these cents jier thousaml enis. The alxive is shows to g«xxl advantage the increase•>« contemplated ditch. gain their former health after a year’s , yet this valley has not lieen able to sup contented; lie is making money, ami toward this never failing source of re advantages are considered when the ply the demand for wool and mutton. only a partial list of th«- trades, Inn nic- business in the city. Our merchants Mr. Newby was first in all things, lie alter harvest lie will bundle his family freshment. But, before reaching the statement is made that this road in th«* residen t- in this favors I retion. For a<:hm«*ti«' ami bronchial aftectiou»» a are enlarging their st«x-ks in ortler to donated lain! to the college, lntilt clianic» of all kimis will know that the' You will never regret a pleasure or balance ot th«- trail«*« r»««*ive coni|x*iisa- into the wagon ami all hands will take haunts of men ami «lomestk* animals, future will lie the through line to t all- short resilience ill the tir forests is a meet the demands of the |x*opl<-. churches, warehouses, mills, stores, ami tion in tli«» known ratio. hunting trip to this part of the world. a two w«-ek- vacation at tlie s«*a side. some of th«we tiny drops of liquid erys- fornia. When thi- oci-ura, and it will sure cun-. n 1 ei ÍÍÍ j YAMHILL COUNTY