, 1852-11-13
About our Climate.

Amongst The thousand and one misrcp-
resentations abroad, calculated to disparage
our territory abroad, and retard an other
wise willing and anxious immigration from
locating in our beautiful, healthy and fer
tile country-is one in reference TO the eli
mate of northern Oregon. It has been rep
resented that our winters here are very Sc
we're, as much SO as in any of the western
states; that we are subjected 10 tremen-
dous storms Of snow, falling 10 an incalcu-
liable depth; that stock cannot live here
in the winter season, without a competent
amount Of provender having been previous
ly secured for their subsistence, sc, sc.
Situated as our territory is. between the
10Th and 49th parallels Of norrh latitude, it
is not at all Astonishing that persons in the
states, UNNFoRMED in relation thereto,
should conclude that our territory is gov
erned by climate similar to that existing
between the same parallels on the Atlantic.
But as all Intelligent Oregonians KNOW that
such is not the case, and as they also Know
that there is little or no difference between
the climate here and that Of the Willamette
valley, the mantle Of charity is entirely too
small 10 conceal their wilful and disrepula-
Bile peryersion Of truth.
To those UNAcQUAINTED with the charac-
ter Of our climate-in the Willamette val
ley as well as in the siates-and wish 10
profit by statement Of FACTS, we would
remark, that the RAINY season commences
variously from the middle of October 10 the
middle Of November, and continues until the
middle of March, or first of April-the grass
maintaining its verdure throughout the win
ter, if it can be so called From the time
OF the first American settlement made here,
up 10 the present, the mercury in Fahren-
heiPs thermometer has but once been as low
as 3 degrecs-ths general average for the
winter months being from 25 10 Al degrees.
Ice here has never been known 10 exceed an
inch in thickness, or snow 10 remain on the
ground, at any one time, longer than forty.
eight hours. So much for the bugbear about
our winters.
AS Tor providing provendcr for stock, our
farmers never think of such thing, and
their cattle are as fat, summer and winter,
as those that arc slall-fed in any Of the states
The Hudson Bay Company, own from
ten to fifteen thousand head Of cattle and
sheep, which, from year to year, have been
permitted to roam At large on the Resaually
plains, unattended and unprovidcd for. af-
fording as delicious beef and mutton as could
be found in any market in the world
Our horses and swine receive but little more
attention than other domestic animals, and
are always in good plight for the saddle and
butchers stall
OF the beauty and grandeur of our sum-
mer months, 1t Is unnecessary for Us here to
speak, as their reputation for salubrity is
co-extensiye with the name of Oregon.
And when we take into consideration the
universal prevalence Of health cnioyed by
our citizens; the prospect of northern Ore,
gon soon becoming separate territory; the
determination on the part of our people 10
have road constructed across the Cascade
mountains during the next summer, for the
accommodation Of future immigration; the
tens of thousands Of acres Of fertile and un-
occupied lands by which we are surrounded;
our unriyallcd advantages in numbering and
fisheries our extensive water power, and
lnsxhaustiblr coal mines-all these coBsid-
erauOns combine 10 form an irresistible ar
gument that in a very few years our former
/ y neglected territory will assume the Pre-
ToSallyes Of Onc OF the STATS Of our gieal
conledcracy.