The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-11-21
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manufactures is so rapidly on the increase,
that the increased production of sheep car
ryug fine qualities OF wool has become q
question of leading Importance. The ne
cessity of supplying vast armies of men
with wooden clio hes has had marked effect
in stimulating the erection of wooden manu-
facturies in the last four years. The lack of
of cotton has also had much to do with the
increased use of woolen goods 1t appears
that in 1860 the United States consumed
about 9OoOO,Oo pounds of wool; and in
1864 the consumption had increased to l60,.
100000 pounds. Of the 10000, 900 used in
1860, there were 55, 900, 900 pounds produced
at home, and $1,000, 900 was imported.A In
1864, $4,000, 900 pounds were imported ,Sahd
lt4 100000 of pounds were produced at
home; which indicates an increase in four
years of neatly 100 per cent. in the wool
clip of the country. The returns tor 1860
include the produces of all the States, and
those of 1860 only comprise the yield of the
non-seceding States.
AhSiS' INV III piOuhUIy
heep in the United States, of which Caii
forna has 2,5O0,Oo0 and Oregon 25O, 900.
The pastures of California are already over
crowded with horses and neat stock, and
the increase of sheep, or Of other Kinds
of live stock, will have to stop. The
capacity of the Willamette Valley for the
subsistence of more than 10000 sheep is
questionable, and before that number is
reached, the far-sighted sheep ra sers OF
Western Oregon will begin. to branch their
ffocks and occupy the now untenanted prai.
ries of the GENITAL plain of the Columbia.
Basin. Bounded on the east by the Bitter
Root Mountains-west, by the Cascades
Range-south, by the Blue Mountains, and,
north by the International Boundary Line,
il an area of 45O miles from east to west,
and 2b0 miles from north to south, compris-
ing 500 square miles. Ninety-nne acres
in hundred of this almost imperial domain
are covered either with magnificent growth
of upland grasses, or occupied by rich,
hut limited, pieces of alluvial grounds. The
| narrow, rich streals of bottom lands which
bound the ten thousand creeks and rills of
his central plain, afford to the provident
stock raiser the means of producing an
abundance of the necessaries of life, for
even laige population, and Of securing the
safety in winter Of all tue live stock which
the uplands will support. The provident
hand Of nature has so divided these lands
between pastures and fields, that quarter
section of bottom land will control on an
average ten times as much upland. 1t seems
as it the country was SO shaped as to force
the inhabitants into a particular branch of
production, and to secure, by the irreversi-
BILE law of its topography, a fair distribution
of its advantages.
The course of events plainly indicates that,
at no remote period, these pastures are TO be
covered with fiocks md herds. The rapid
descent of the streams, from the adjacent
mcuntaius, furnishes ready to the. hand of
man the power, which needs only the appli
cation of human skill, to be utilized to the
advan age of mankind. The mode ate, but
positive climate, promises the inhabitants OF
this country degree of heal b and conse-
quent longevity, unequalled in any other
country, and the unapproachable grandeur
of the scenery Of mountains and plains
clothes life with romance which lends at.
traction to the meanest employments. The
manu- aetnriag INTEREST," growing cut o.
the pastoral pursuits of large population
will have the world for a ma ket for theil
fabrics. While the purely agrcu tural dis
uicts may be depressed by the lack of mar
ket, or by difficulties of transportation, tb,
light fabrics of the woolen mills can b,