The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-07-31
STATISTICS OF OREGON.

ton Is the richest agricultural county IN
the State. Placing tho number of in.
habitants at $500, aud the assessable
property at 81 100000, it gives to each
inhabitant of the county s42S so. Linn
comes next, with three millions OF prop.
erty and 5000 inhabitants or 1876 to each
inhabitant.
Here there are IL acres to each inhabi.
tant in cultivation, which aggregates one
seventeenth of the area Of the county
Douglas cultivates one eightieth of her
soil and allows seven acres of cultivated
land and $3.50 of property to each inhab.
liant. There is no statement of the
property of Lane, but S7th of her soil
is in cultivation which allows acres to
each inhabitant. A six hundredth part
of jackson is cultivated giving 3 acres TO
each inhabitant and S272 of property
Yamhill is put down at 161 acres and
Polk IS to each inhabitant, which is one
eighth for the former aud one third for
the latter of the total area. Polk aver
ages S246 to each person. Yamhill
makes no property statements. Wash.
iDgton has 81 acres and nearly $500 to
each person aud cultivates Eve seventicths
of her area. The report says that it is
estimated that mot more than one eighth
of this { [MariOn1 county has ever been
disturbed by the plOw." This is to insin-
uate that Marion does cultivats one eighth
of her area which would give the num-
Der at 2S7 900 acres, nearly three times
the acres that any other county cultivates
and probably more than three times what
Marion actually does.
The Society has made commendable
effort to collect and publish the iDfOrma-
ton contained in the report. In respect
of the physical description Of the State
and Of its natural resources they have
succeeded admirably. But their stats.
tics arc evidently in many particulars un-
reliable and calculated to mislead; aud
the method of procuring them through q
system of guess work could not have re-
suited otherwise.
It would seem that the same method
adopted to reach results in one county
ought to be adopted for the same purpose
in other counties. To illustrate: At the
last general election in Yamhill county
the vote was 1908 and Judge Deadly, who
compiled the statistics for this county,
very properly allows 6ve souls to the voter,
making for Yamhill population of 6O4O.
The same rule adopted for Linn county
With 2308 votes would give us a popula.
ton of IL, $40 instead Of the 5000 allow.
ed Us by the Committee. In Benton
where the vote last year was 1919, the
same process would show 1896 population
instead of $500. Marion with . popula.
tion only SOS greater than Linn claims to
cultivate much more than double the land
cultivated by the latter and yet Who does
not know, from the best evidences attain.
able, that the agricultural products ship
ped by Linn are largely in excess of those
shipped by Marion. From what reasons
does the Report proceed 20 the ecnclusiou
that little less than one seventeenth ol
Linn county is cultivated while Marion
Icultivates one eighth aud Yamhill nearly
one third !? With due regard for Judgc
Deadly and for the Committee, We say tha
an observation of the face of the country
fought to convince any man of judgmen
that Yamhill does not cultivate this pro
portion of her area, and that scarcely coun
ty in the State reaches one sixteenth in cul
tivation. There is manifest injustic
done Polk county, where each inhabitan
t is charged with cultivatiDg 10 acres AM
is allowed only s246. Here, where "
Il only cultivate IL acres each inhabitan
g represents 1923 so, and in Benton "
: presume tho difference is still greater
: Can it be imagined that farming is 8
8 much less profitable in Polk than in Lin
and Benton?
Douglas has about %, 600 acres undo
cultivation and the report says that sh
has "over one million acres of arabI
land" which is nearly eqdaI to the tota
area of Yamhill and Polk counties; an,
is nearly twice the amount of arabic Ian,
in Linn, county which has been univer
sally accorded the first place in Oregon
!, Giving to each, seven acres, the numbe
which each person there now represents
and Douglas viii require an additiona
population of over 138, 900, or more thai
81 times what she now has and nearl,
three times the population of the sntir
State. We shall be compelled to look Il
Chinese emigration for it, since at tn
present ratio Of increase, as shown by
comparison of the votes of '66 and ,68, i
: will require 303 years TO obtain the nee
essary white population. This is goo.
news for Douglas. We hope it is true
and yet statements SO different from tn
universally accepted state Of facts, ough
) to be well authenticated.
We have made this comparative exam
Iination with an appreciation of the labor