Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1851-03-31
Oregon Gold and Farming.

l. "A gentleman from the country abov,
informed US, a few days since, that tn.
Gold fever had broken out again, ane
that it was likely to carry off some of ths
people from about Salem. 1t was causee
by the glowing accounts given by a party
that had just returned from the klamath
Gold they say has been taken out in $1,000
Jumps, from that down to SO Jumps; that
all the gold taken, is found in larger Jumps
than the richest gold mines Of California
have yet yielded. The implacable hostili.
ty Of the Indians renders it necessary to
keep up guard day and night They
represent the killing Of seven men, belong
ing to one company.
j The Indians on the Klamath and Rogue
rivers always manifested an open hostility
to the whites; particularly those who stop
ped on the way going to or returning from
California, for the purpose of prospecting
or digging on their lands. They repre-
resent the companies there as being too
small to accomplish much, as it required
the greater portion Of them to form the
necessary guard. They think it utter folly
for companies less than 80 persons each
going there to make money. Some per.
sons are talking about going there to win.
ter. We do not by this report, wish to
raise an excitement here; as the trip to
the Umpqua, lately performed, has con-
WINGED the more eager that to go there for
the purpose Of digging gold did not pay;
the opinion Of many to the contrary not
withstanding. za.ssssas Is. ssss7 .gs
The people here are getting somewhat
used to tho way reports are gotten up to
catch the inexperienced and unsuspecting.
There is not much doubt il the minds Of
those who are likely to know, that gold ex-
lists in remunerating quantities upon the
klamath; but the time lost in going there
and returning, together with the difficulties
to be encountered from Indians, makes a
trip there anything else than agreeable or
profitable; at this season Of the year espec-
tally. . f.ss .-.5 -. "a -
We have an agricultural country supe-
rior to any on the continent; it is worth
more than allthe gold mines in America.
The farmer here is the most independent
we have ever seen. Although he labors
but little he has the wherewith to obtain
anything that he may desire. A farmer
can make more money from one acre of
land in Oregon, when wheat is worth
SO cents per bushel, than be can in any of
the States, off the snme quantity of land,
when wheat commands 81 per bushel.-l
The yield per acre is not only double that
Of the States every year, but it is never.
failing crop. For the raising of wheat,
rye, barley and oats, Oregon can chal-
lenge, 1--WE might say, the world; but our
knowledge is no: sufficient to warrant the
to competition the agricul.
turalists Of the entire continent
We are aware this may sound large to
the farmers occupying the wheat-grcwing
lands of the Genessee country in New
York, or 10 those living in the Catootin
Valley ofMaryland. The fact is, the. rule
implements used for agricultural purposes,
are q complete iburlesque upon those Of the
States referred TO- The slovenly manner
ia which farming is done, too, would not
make the farmers bread in the States.-l
Several farmers have assured us they can
raise so bushels Of wheat to the acre. We
confess that that is more than we have
eysr seen; but these men tell US they have
The documents; TO prove its trulhfulness.-
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