, 1859-08-19

and the wood he burns and if he goes TO mill
or market, he must have team, pack on his back;
and what is more, he don't get half the produce per
acre.
The following examples will practically Illustrate
the advantages Of these bottom lands
g was told by Mr. jackson, living in the Arkan.
saw Valley, on the Cowtz that on a single acre of
this vine maple and alder bottom he raised the wear
before ssrsn hundred bushels Of onions which he sold
for one dollar per bushc the ground gatherd into
heaps and there millions Of acres in Washington
and Oregon unoccuped that will yield the same pro
duct.
"Mr Shotwel living on a tributary of the Chehalis
river (Back riyer told that last fall he gathered
from about six Of this bottom land, which had
cost him just two months labor to clear up, two hun
dred and fifty bushels Of wheat, two hundred Of p0ta-
toes, and two thousand heads Of cabbage. By haul
ing to Olympia, II miles, (oyer hard level r0ad) he
got two dollars per bushe for his wheat, seventyfye
cents per bushel for his potatoes, and twenty cents
head for his cabbage-yelding return for his labor,
from six of land, Of ten hundred and Jty dol
lars. Mr.. Shotwell and Mr.. jackson are men Of IN
questioned integrity. The yield Of wheat was over
sixty bushels per acre. After such practical ilustra
tons the above will any sensible hesitate to
undertake the making farm on these river bottoms
The river bottoms are healthy, Except those of
the Columbia and lower Willamette, where the June
floods cover the bottoms,) any part Of the world.
Emigrants bound for Chehalis Valley and Grays Har-
Dor, the Sound should ferry their teams from the
Cascades to the mouth Of the Cowtz, lat cost of
about 81 per head) where they have a good wagon
tOdu " ulhSlVub pdl 70 VI VIC lelIltOIgs
In speaking of the natural resources of
Washington and Oregon, he says:
an my judgment, the now dormant resources of
Oregon and Washington are greater than were the
resources Of all New England, when our Pilgrim Faith
ers landed on the rock of Plymouth and the same
indOmitable energy that has made New England what
she is will give to Us as large population, and as
widely extended commerce long before the eud Of the
present century Since left Illinois, six years ago,
she has advanced in population and improvement in
greater ratio than would be necessary to realize this
prediction within the next twenty years. Do you
recoect the lecture | read before the yceum in
Springfield in 1885, entitled Illinois twenty years
hence As visionary as my predictions were then
thought to be, they have been realized more than
three fold, although then drew upon my fancy as
strongly as was capable Of.
There is no longer any danger from Indians or
MOrmons, and those preiering to settle east Of the
Cascade range of mountains for the purpose of stock
raising exclusively can do s0>with perfect safety.
can, however, show you as desirable locations for
grazing purposes the lower part of the Chehalis
on Gray's Harbor, and on the Humptolup river, as
any reasonable man should desire, and where you will
be convenient to the best markets of the Pacific
coast"
DR.. Henry has been engaged for the past year in
surveying the country north of Grays Harbor and the
lower Chehalis, part of our Territory hitherto en-
tirely unknown and until within the last six months
entirely unoccupied. We understand that there is
body of land in that vicinity, some 40 or so miles
square, equal in beauty and fertility with navigable
streams, to any part Of the Pacific coast and with
not more than a dozen white settlers upon It, Now
that attention has been called to that portion Of our
Territory we doubt not that it will rapidly fll up.
We hope emigrants now on their way to the Pacific
will visit our Territory before permanently locating
elsewhere"