New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-08-25
OREGON.
General view of the Country.


sore,pondenceo OF The y. Y. Tribune
MILWAUKEE, Oregon, Friday, April 30, lSJ2.
From NV own observations lam not pre-
pared to give you as fine picture, so ilatterng
an account of the present aspect OF things here as
could wish, or as perhaps more thorough know
ledge of the country vii! elicit. Certain | am,
however, that the elements of great State eX
list here, and that time will surely develOpe its re
sources. Now il is feeble its rugged hills vast
plains, and beautiful valleys, are untamed, and the
few people. who are wide spread over its surface,
have to contend against all the evils incident to
remote border settlements and others peculiar 20
the Pacific coast.
It's land about which so many extravagant
stories have been told, in regard to its
inexhaustible mines Of gold, rich agricultural pro
ducts with little labor &c.-that hundreds have
been induced to leave their Western homes, with
barely sufficient means to enable them TO each
here with their families. Arriving too late in the
season to raise crOp-.ith long, dreary, rainy
season before them, fit subjects often for chills and
fever and variety of bilious complaints-there
follow often want and restitution. Others come
by the Sea, and twothirds of all who come in this
gold they first sought there. They have no fami-
hes, who come in this way, and ofcourse the males
greatly preponderate-this is misfortune, an
evil that time only can remedy. IL is not home,
where wife, mother or sister is not There
be society, men become careless lose restraint
and sympathy. The finer feelings, only conceived
and nurtured where her smile reigns, forgotten
here amid the tolls and ceaseless strife for gold.
| am convinced then that far the better plan for
those who seek this golden land, is to come in
colonies over the mountains and make permanent
homes in which case the family and often the i'm.
mediate connections join and there is less longing
for the old home and friends they drive their stock
and bring farming implements, so Indispensable and
for which great prices have now TO be paid here.
In this case, too, none are supposed TO Join coli
ony without means to subsist one year after arri-
val, wukom depending upon The country 10 'rhtch
they migrate.
The climate Of Oregon is truly delightful; no
State upon the Atlantic side can compare with
it in this respect. II is not "A continuous rain in
winter, as has been represented; nor II constant
ga ring sun in summer. The winter is dsagreea-
bic, for rain is frequent, aud continues often until
the spring season is well advanced aud the roads
too, are universally bad during the winter months
Yet after the rains have gone the summer comes
on so beautifully, without the many aud sudden
changes If spring 10 summer hey Ond tn noun
taius-withOut the tomatoes ana conclusions of
nature so frequent there, ana. most important of
ali. without tue attendant cOUghS and other trOu-
bes 10 our sensitive lungs. There ave Showers
seasonab'e rain- during Jule and July, after these
no more ram may bf expected until the last of De-
tOber; then, nov ever, the crops have come 10
maturity the fruit and product uitn- garden have
been gathered, ready for winter again, though the
regular rains do not commence untu about the
middle of November. Snow rartly falls IN Middle
and Lower Oregon, and sleghlng IS never known.
The temperature L. remarkably even throughput
the year; by reference Tn a meteorological record
kept here for several years. | observe thHt in
1870 the waTmrst div was m January 4 think
the 9th. For the last men,h my thermometer kept
on the north side q the EOGs~. has been very UNI
form at co Fshreuhet during the whole day-but
toward evening it commences as regularly to fall
and the right is cool, sufficiently SO 10 require
thick covers upon the bed, ard like this it con-
tinue> all sumner. There are no rarm nights in
Oregon.
In summer there is always a light northery
breeze; 10 high winds ever come ; and if the wind
changes, II is 10 the south, and rain il u certain
consequence but as | said before the summer
rains come in June and July, and only then is the
course of the wind at all changed A stsaddy
and regularly. too, does the wind blow from the
south IN winter, and when It c-ases the rain is
certainly done. To the great regularity of the
seasons, then. and the even and mid temperature
OF the climate Is such univ sTsai good health II be
attributed. The people mere, VINO are much IN the
ot.n ar, are the most robust, healthy. looking,
TINT / ave eNerrl-t with.
HE plnry Of rhe ar ,-tW.en the great snow
Mountains ard the Pacihc coast is Away, re-