The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1871-07-21

0n 'iiO aciHc oce"b oh les Wdy w loi~
eign market, and we are no longer living
10 "hole in the ground" and forced to
20 to market when it suits the river to
rise or the p. I. Company to send us a
boat. But VIC now go when the market
calls for US, and it suits our convenience
to respond. No, our lands are not too
high; they are worth every dollar that
we ask for them, and in five years from
to-day they vii! be worth from 25 to so
per cent. more than they are now selling
at Make note Of this, and mark the
result. Wc do not pretend to say that it
Is the richness Of our soil that renders
our lands so valuable, but it is the pc
culiar adaptability Of the climate and soil
to the growing of wheat, oats, flax, &c,
and entire absence Of dcleterious inau>
cnces, all Of which combined enables the
farmer to to count upon his crop with as
much certainty as banker counts upon
the punctual payment Of his well secured
notes. We have seen much richer land
than is found in Oregon, but in our trav.
els from the st. Lawrence river 10 the
Pacific ocean we have never met with
soil that produced n good crop with as
much certainty, or with so small amount
Of labor as 10 the Willamette valley. Go
into the great State of New York and see
a man work oil Summer Ga short one, il
is true), pulling pigeon grass out Of the
corn hills Of ten acre lot, with his fin
gers, then sprinkliug spoonful or two
of plaster or bone dust around the little
spires of corn, to enable them to get the
start Of the Canada thistles, and ask him
if he had land that would bring him 90
bushels of good wheat to the acre, Of
which he could cultivate 100 acres with
less labor than he bcstows on his ten or
fifteen acres Of corn, whether he would
take $50 per acre for such land. Go to
the same man again 10 the month of Jan
uary or February, at the hour Of mid
night, when he is out in the barnyard
giving his cattle little hay TO induce
them to stir about to prevent them from
freezing, and ask him if he had farm of
such land as above described, in climate
J so genial and warm that his cattle would
be out feeding upon luxurious grass at
that season of the year, whether he would
think $50 per acre, with good improve
mcnts, was too much for it. Don't you
think he would say i, no? We gae&s he
would. No, gentlemen, our lands are
not too high, aud had you not been mis-
: led in this matter, but had come to Ore.
gon understanding just how land was
rating here, you would probably have
bevG we'll satisfied. But you were dis
appointed, and that was what disgusted
you. II was not that you really thought
upon serious reflection, after fairly weigh.
ing all the circumstances, that land in
Oregon is really held above its intrinsic
value. An intelligent farmer has jnsi
! left our Office, Who is now raising his
, tenth crop in Oregon. He says that his
, tenth crop would average over 20 BUSH
: els per acre, and that he bought farm a,
/ sls per acre and paid for it out Of the
products Of the said farm in two years,
Fand had a small margin left He says
further that, with wheat at 81 per bushel
T he can pay for any good farm at $50
per acre. in three years, ont of the prod
ucts OF the farm. lie is this year rails
ing 800 acres of wheat, with the help oi
two boys able TO do about mems work,
+ and expects 70 hire few days work in
= harvcsi-that 800 acres of wheat will be
, worth $4,000 Mt harvest. unless wbea,
materially declines. Is his land worth
$50 per acreg He thinks il is, and
thinks he is not mistaken. But there are
! plenty OF good farms for sale in Oregon
S for from ten TO twenty dollars per acre
{ some OF which might suit some men as
:. well as the higher priced land aud there
are still lower priced lands. upon which
n good living could be made, with one
r half the labor expended upon lands il
n some of the Eastern States. Govern
. ment land is about all absorbed in tho
!, Willamette valley, but there are place.
in Oregon where excellent locations foi
t stock raising, wool growing, &c, may be
D made on Government lands, if person.
0 ale willing to go into the frontier settle
q ments, some of which are now being rap
idly settling up, of which We may have
s more to say hereafter.-R. T.. Special