The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-07-22

notes. We have sesn much richer land
than is found in Oregon, but il eur tray
s1p from the st. Lawrence river T. the.
Pacific o6ean We have never met With
ssiiaa mat produced good crop with =.
much certainty, or with 20 small amount
Of labor As in the Willamette valley. Go
into the great State - New York and sse-
man work all Summer q short one, it
is true), pulling pigeon grass out Of thez
corn hills Of ten acre lot, with his hn-,
gers, then sprinkling spoonful or tive
Of plaster or bone -dnst around she Ettls
spires Of corn, to enable them e nat ths
start ofthe Canada thistles, and ask him
If he bad land that would bring him ze
bushels of good wheat to the sore, OF
which he could cultivats 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-
Ihe same man again in the month Of Jan-
uary or February, at the hour Of mid
night, when he is out in the basnysrd
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
SO genial and warm that his cattle would
be out feeding upon luxurious grass at
that season of the year, whether be would
think $50 per acre, with good improve
lnents, was too much for it. Don't you
'hink he would say no. We guess he
vould. No, gentlemen, our lands are
Dot too high, and had you not been mis-
led in this matter, but had come 20 Ore
.on understanding just how land was
ating here, you would probably have
'een well satisfied. But you were dis
ppointed, and that was what disgusted
pu. 1t was not that you really thought,
pon serious reflection, after fairly weigh
/ iig all the circumstances, that land in
oregon is really held above Its intrinsic
rlue. An intelligent farmer has just
eft our Office, who IS noy raising his
Il Ienth crop in Oregon. He says that his
tenth crop would average over 20 bush-
els per acre, and that be bought farm at
SIS per acre and paid for it out Of the
products of the said farm in two years,.
and had small margin left. He says
further that, with wheat at 81 per bushel
he can pay for any good farm ct $50
! per acre, in three years, out Of the prod
ucts of the farm He is this year fsis--
ing 800 acres of wheat. with the hslP Of
two boys able to do about mems work,
and expects to hire few days work in
harvest-that 800 acres of wheat will Sc
worth SO, 900 at harvest, unless wheat
materially declines. Is his land worth
$50 per acre? He thinks it ia, and
thinks he is not mistaken. But there are
plenty of good farms for sale in Oregon
for from ten to twenty dollars per acre ;
some of which might suit some men ~
well as the higher priced land and there
are still lower priced lands. upon which
good living could be made, vita enc
half the labor expended upon lands 10
some of the Eastern States. Govern
ment land is about all absorbed in the
Willamette valley, but there are places
in Oregon where excellent locations for
stock raising, wool growing, &C., may b
made on Government lands, if persons
ale willing to go into the frontier seltae,
ments, some of which are now being rap
idly settling up, Of which We nsy hav>
more to say hereafter.-R. r. Specfals