Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-10-22

beautiful streams and most splend d timber
W hen you gel TO LInnton. you take through
| an immense body Of most beautiful FL. re
dar and other timber, ten miles 10 the Fal-
laty PA rs, (pralrles, which are certainly
the most beautiful you ever saw. They
consist of a succession Of small prliries
about three miles long. and from one TO
two miles wide. These plains, as they
are here allied. bear away TO the South
west, until they connect with the wide and
beautiful country upon the Yam Hill river.
which ruEs Into the Willamette above the
falls some 20 miles, and heads in toward
the sea. This Yam Hill Valley runs with
IN fifteen miles of the sea. The Falatv
Plains are almost surrounded By ridge OF
mountains in the shape of horse shoe.
The open end toward the Yam Hill coun
try These plains lie as handsomely us
you would have them, just rolling enough
To carry off the water, are rich and have
no & gravel or stone.
The soil is black, on clay foundation.
The timber comes up the very edge of the
prairie, so that in FIVE steps you can be out
OF the prairie and in The thickesi, tallest,
most beautiful timber YOU ever saw. The
trees are mostly fir, from very small sap
lings to one and half feet diameter at
The foot. and about one hundred 10 one hun
dred and fifty fee, high. and as straight as
pine timber generally is. Along all The
little branches that run from the prairies,
is plenty of ash, and white oak timber,
which makes excellent frewood, &C.
These plains are covered with green
grass, as rich as blue grass, which is green
all winter. You break up prairie here.
with one yoke Of oxen or two horses.
The hills and mountains upon the border
of the prares in this country are covered
with grass, as fine range as could be-
imagined. ana which can never be exhaus-
ted. The whole Willamette valley three
hundred miles long, and from fftv to one
hundred miles ide, is about snch q coun-
Try as have desc ribbed TO you, and most
o. i, is yet unoccuped by any one.
Farming is psrhaps the most profitable
Of all business done in Ibis country 1t is
so easy to open farm here, as you have
such fine timber for all purposes. You
plough all Winter and all Summer if you
choose. In fact you can plough all the
wear. dCIuhiIt So" WDGdt lGOIn Inc
18th October 10 18th May, and make as
much per acre as in Missouri. Irish pota-
toes grow here finer than any where in
The world. perhaps. | saw five rcres OF
land sown in wheat in May lst. which pro-
duced one hundred and ter bushels. If YOU
SOW late. You put in more seed. Corn can
be raised, but not SO we'll as wheat You
can raise enough for all purposes, as you
need none except FOR bread.
As 10 the climate, il is the finest YOU ev-
er saw. Winter commences in December
and ends in February. This has been
about rs wet season as they have had.
The rains commenced in very gentle show
ers, about the 18th Of November, and do
ring the bllance OF November. il rained
about one day in eight. In December it
rained about one day il. five ; and IN Janu-
airy it rained or showed about every other
day. In Feernary, aLoui tho 1st. we had
IA slight snow. which melted as it fell, and
one Sigh, rain succeeded it the next dav.
and warm weather ina gnnble. The Goth
| November we had small snow. which
was gone IN three days. In December
we had very little snow. which melted q :
ii fell In January we had a good deal Of
snow, all of which mel ed as it fell. except
one snow about six inches deep. which Law
sbou, three days. The ground has scarce
! " ben frozen an inch deep this Winter.
| The rains here are mostly very light,
mostly drizzing rain. and they are very
warm. and not like the cold fall and spring
rain in Missouri.
| | woulG rather have weeks rain than
two days snow. believe man can do
twice the work here in the Winter than
| in Missouri. and If he is mechanic he
can work every day. The rains are now
past and the grass is growing finely
| Flowers are opening, and have been in
formed by VIM O'Neal and others. the
| best of authority, that strawberries have
been IN bloom all the winter. know |
saw them on the Is. Defender last
have lived since the 5tn January IN log
cabin, loo- OF loose plank. laid on sleepers
| high from the ground, with only boa rds
nailed on the cracks; and have burned
much less wood. aud not suffered half the
cold as would have done in Missouri.
Ttav never daub the cracks Of their hou-
ses here.
! American cows are worth here from fff.
ty 10 seventy FIVE dollars. Oxen from ff-
~ five 10 one hundred and twenty five dol
lars per yoke. This is the finest country
for raising cattle you ever saw. They
keep FAT all winter. Batter sells al twenty
TO twenty re cents. And, what did not
expect 10 find, this is a good country for
| hogs. AT all events you have here plenty
of grass, a root they cali wappa,o, and al
so plenty of white oak mast. A first rate
market can be had here for any aad eve,
thing, and you have never seen bushes.
more brisk. Times are first rate. and
evey body busy. The manufacturing
power is unsurpassed in this world. There
are more fine mill sites than on ever saw.
Such water power. as ,ha, at the falls OF
Platte. csanoi 5e found any where. The
timber Of Inc country is fir. white cedar,
oak. ash, maple, cherry. cotton wood, and
some others you never saw.
! Great plenty OF wild fruit here. The
hazel md elder grow here Ten times a,
large as in The states. We make hoop
poles and scrub brooms Of The hazel
You viii find trees here even more than