Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-10-22

/ tuouBu thc country was suuerlug more lrum
/ drought than for ten years before.
Yours respectfully,
THos. II. CASFIELn.
WALLA WALLA CITY, July 10, 1863.
/ Ihos. n. CaHfeid, Esq, Manager oftle North
/ erH Pacific Railroad:
/ DEAR SIZE In laying before your people
facts and evidence reatyeto the resources Of this
/ country, its climate, soil. Sr. il will be my Oh
/ ject to state nothing but what can be relied on
/ by yourselves in looking to the interest or adj
I vantage this part Of Washington Territory NAV
be to your enterprze, and also satisfy the euii-
grants who may from knowledge disseminated by
you, be induced 10 seek homes in its beautiful
valleys Having spent ID winters il this valley,
residing here with my family over ten years, I
claim To be able to tell something Of the climate
and resources Of the country.
WHITES.
Our winters are, Tor this latitude, exceedingly
mild, it seldom being necessary TO feed stock
at all during the season ; and the only win
ter that has occurred here since the country was
I first known blythe white men, that really re-
/ quire feed 20 sustain horses and cattle during
the winter, was that Of 1861 and ~. when the
snow fell 20 the depth Of -3 iucaes, and remained
on the ground Though not this depth all the
time) from the 22ui Of December until the 10Th
I oi Feb The grass was so abundant. however
that horses ot my own wIutered well that never
saw from Oct until March. We usually have
from three TO eight inches of snow az a time,
often repeated twice or three times during the
winter, but seldom remaining on the gr1uud
more than eight or ten days At time, and more
frequently only two or three days Seven out Of
thirteen winters the ground has not been -o
frozen that plowiu- could not be done al any
time and but twice has the ground been fro4-
en- TO the depth Of eight or ten inches !
have realized the fact that after our seyerest
winters, especially heavy freezing. we raise cur
best crops, and On the whole | make II a point
TO prepare some feed for my stock and look for
ward, hoping for what IS termed here "rlther
hard WINTER as hlrbinger OF health and
prosperity for the coming season.
FRUIT
our climate Is particularly adapted o. the
raising Of fruit And as an index TO lis general
features | will give you a list OF some Of our
fruits, with the.r time OF rpeniug.
APPLES.
Red As,-.can, Early Harvest, Rel June S.
heran Grab, SC, from the frh 90 the ljth 0t
July Early Penaack, Summer Queen. Sweet
Pear Main Gollen Sweet, &c. let Of august
We raise al the .eai'uE varieties Of winter ap-
pies common in the E-st. such as yellow New
Tor Pppin, " iue-ap JAuiting Ieukshury's Winter
b'lsh' ta1-ury hlsstti Rhode Island Greeuiug
clio" i'e-la9Ner Nc-, which are general gather
ell during me later part o. October. Those intend
ei ilr long keePae .are gathered a little earlier.
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Early Rarcrpe, Early York. Nc rpcu from the
10Th ofju.y Co the 5ta ct August. Elriy il0,-
lDfh rf AurY-+ NTs1+, f, Ct...-- 10 D..
sept And me lniian, w.thal the late varieties,
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