Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-09-20

HYDE PARK VERMONT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1865.

enough that it pays them to wash and to
re-wash the golden sands of these famous
valleys. l.Eese
The scenery of this region is full of
various beauty. Of conspicuous single
objects, Pilot Knob, great chunk of bare
rock standing on mountain top. ranks
next to Mount Shasta; it must be 800 to
1000 feet high in itself, and seen from
all quarters, 1t has become famous as a
pilot to the early emigrants in their jour
ney across the mountains.
The hills are rich with pine forests, and
these grow thicker and the trees larger
and of greater variety, as also the valleys
widen and seem more fertile, as the roads
progress into Oregon. FRS rival the pines
and grow to similar size. 100 and 200 feet
high and three to five feet in diameter.
Further up in Oregon. about the Columbia
river, the fir even dominates, and is the
chief timber, and specimens of it are re-
corded that are IL feet through and 300
feet high The oak, too, has its victo-
ries in the valleys, and we ride through
groves and parks of it that are indescrib-
ably beautiful. That fascination parasite
the mistletoe--appears, too, and shrouds
the branches of the oak with its rich, ten
der green, and feeds on its rugged life
Many an oak had succumbed to the gree
dy bunch boughs of the mistletoe, that
fastened themselves upon it, and despite
its beauty and the sentimental reputation
it brings to US from BritishI poets, eau
shrink from its touch and sight. More
graceful and inviting and less absorbing
Of life-rather token Of death was the
+, pendant Spanish moss, hanging gray and
sere and sad from the pine branches and
trunks, along our way in southern Oregon
! The birch, the ash, the spruce, the arbor
vitae, and the balsam, all contribute to
: these forests. Rut they do not rob your
Connecticut valley of its precious elms
to their individual beauty no tree here
: can offer successful rivalry. In aggregates,
: however, for forests of trees, for size and
: beauty of pines and spruces and frs, for
s amount and quality of timber as timber
and for groves of oaks, there can be nc
K competition in the East to the Sierra Ne
b vadas and the coast mountains and theil
It intermediate valleys in California anC
IS Oregon. They form the perpetual wonder
e and admiration and enthusiasm of th'
c traveller.
= The cross valleys of the Rogue aud Ump
= qua rivers present many rich fields foI
/" culture The soil is gravelly loan
! ;, warm and fertile. more favorable for fruit'
- y especially the grape and the peach, thar
- the more northern valleys of Oregon. Blu
the way to market is long and hard; anc
the products of agriculture here mus
: mainly 60 out on the hoof or in wool. 6,
:, that the temptation to the farmer is no
- - yet very strong Yet we found fev
!, rich farms and prosperous gentleman
,f farmers.
,r Joe Lane, famous in Oregon politics
,e lives in one of these valleys; his occupa
,r ton of public life is gone; he fell GU
IN with portion of his own party, and wa
% put out by the uprising volume of loya
ID and anti.slavery sentiment, wherein b
i. has never shown any sympathy. He wa
G. an able but low, coarse and grovelinj
is politician.
a A man Of another description and his
a. tory is Mr.. Jesse Applegate, whose fam
a as an old pioneer an honest. intelligen
r. gentleman, incorruptible in thought an,
st act, and the maker of good cider, KEEP
A. increasing as we neared his home in th
Or Umpqua and we made bold to stop an
RS tell him we had come to see him and ca
l. his breakfast We did all to our suprem
satisfaction, finding vigorous old man
8. who had been here twenty-five years, pal
70 ticipated largely in the growth and histc
ID ry Of the country, and the conversion @
70 its people to right political principles; clea
70 aud strong and original in thought an
"a its expsession, with views upon our pub
ts ts lie affairs worthy the heed of our wisest
Il every way, indeed, such man as 20
"a wonder to find here in the woods, rejoic
ts to find anywhere, and hunger to have i
lv his rightful position, conspicuous in th
ID government. Oregon ought surely to sen
in Jesse Applegate to Washington and th
" general testimony is that she would wei
he not SO implacably hostile to all th
US US helping arts Of politician and placeseek'
81 which is, of course, only another reaso
Nv why she should do what she yet does no
y, ~ Mr. Applegate has sent his three sol
eu - to the war, and remains in their place
y. carry on his farm of two thousand acre
? But farming here he says, is but chea
~, careless process labor is so dear, al
%. o,,sin grows 50 easily, and the market
rn 50 distant, that there is no incentive I
ng real re cultivation IL the business Ora
.! or grows naturally, abunasntly' u, tlmotl
rs. seed thrown upon the unbroken soll CIV
,or the best of permanent moving and
!, abundant the feed upon hill and Pla'
he .hat even that is only improved as pl