, 1852-11-13

give ours the preference.
We have no frost from April to the last
of September, and in fact very little frost
during any part of the year. It very sell
dom happens that any of our smaller streams
are covered with ice. We sometimes have
snow, but it rarely lies on the ground over
"A or SO hours. Snow is generally succeed
ed by rain, so that if the snow has not melt-
ed as fast as il reaches the earth, ii is soon
removed BY the rain. The general average
o. Fahrenheil's thermometer during winter,
is from "a to A degrees, and during the
summer from Cd TO 81 degrees. 4
Our fall wheat averages about % bushels
to the acre.
Our prairies contain from so to 10000
acres, and are separated by pieces Of wood
land varying from one-lOurih TO miles in
width. The timber may be found in groves
through the prairies and also in belts around
small and large prSqies.
The average extent Of the land from Pu
get Sound 10 the Cascade mountains is about
40 or 45 miles, and from the Sound 10 the
Coast range about IS miles.
At present you would experience very
little difficulty in procuring in one body a
sufficient amount Of land for from so 10 100
families to locate together so as to constitute
one settlement, giving to The greater number
(if mol ally Of the families portion Of prai>
rie land. The report which you have heard
about it being "almost impossible to find
anywhere a sufficient amount of arabic land
together to make any but a small settle
ment," is undoubtedly true as respects the
Willamette valley, but not SO as 10 the
country north of the Columbia. Although
very large number Of families desiring TO
locate in such manner as TO join farms, and
each family claiming 800 acres, might find
some difficulty in selecting tract where all
could have prairie, yet they would expert
ence none in finding spot where all could
have EXCELLENT LAND.
The timber on the borders of the prairies
is generally light.
1t is at present difficult TO procure vari-
ETY. Of good agricultural implements on Pu-
get Sound, although our merchants promise
to be amply supplied next year. 1t would
be well for you 10 ship your implements from
New York city to this place. At present,
freight has to be rc-shipped at San Francisco.
! am sorry to say that the proposed road
aoroos thS C-ss.4s mountains nerth Of the
Columbia has not yet been opened. need
scarcely mention that such work is stu
pendons undertaking for people so weak
in numbers as we are at present, but this
years Immigration has added considerably
to our strength, and from the great interest
the subject has excited among our citizens,
/ confdanlly trust and believe that the road
will be opened in time for the next years
immigration and if so, immigrants on the
road will be informed Of the fact in due sea-
son by persons sent out by our citizens for
that purpose.
- There is grist mill near Olympia, which
is lhe only one on the Sound, know Of
no stone in this country suitable for mill
stones, and il any Of your colony desire to
construct grist mill here, / would advise
them to slip suitable stones fom the East.
1t is considered that there is perhaps no
country in the world better adapted to the
raising Of sheep than Northern Oregon. =
But few Of our farmers have sheep, but the
Hudson Bay Company, at their trading post
Nesqually, have about 1000 bead Of the
SouIhdown, Leicester, Cheviol and Marino
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