New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-06
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
MORE or OREGON.


TO the Editor Of rae frtbw~e'
SIR: crossed the plains to Oregon twenty
years I'm Advance of the Union Pacific iniroad' ana
know something Of the hardshps endured ny the carry
setters-how much pluck, tact and perseverance, " To
quired TO mako the trip. when u TOOK S'A VII oo'o"
months have examined the coil with my own n'"uS'
md taken no mans word for It, The whole country
is well watered with pure. soft water Ihere IN NJ o
stono IN Orenop IL In q diversity Of hill and valley,
woodland and plain IL has no large tracts OF lana that
,nn, mo irrigated Nike Lower California The climate Is
80 mild so humid such heavy dews iah st nish1 .hs
everything grows all Summer inst the same ss we mao
frequent showers On this side OF the ROCKY MOUNTAINS
there are no big that ever heard PROOF
postye to my mind that where trees grow, as they do
IN avery mart Of Oregon $50 feet high with correspond
ing circumference that 1t takes pretty good soil to
nroduce them There people don't put earth on the
sunny side of rock to grow hill OF corn as they do In
New England.
There ia more vacant land Oregon than would mako
n stare like New-YoIk. II could establish an equi
brum between these two States ana take out some OF
the oyertaxed people. who toling here with very
noor remuneration and settle them there on lands OF
their own both country and people would DO benefited
Mr. Greeley gays the people won't go; that he has been
telling them TO 20 for the last 20 years. but they won't
do II that they want to be pent up ana crowded IN
great cities greater truth was never spoken IL
takes people to develop tue resources OF country and
como in crowds in nocks, like birds migrating The
great reason why this country IL not moro rapidly
settled IT, that people think II IL 80 far on hnd women
especially, don't seem 10 have the slightest con-
ception OF tho value OF real estate. III
they would only glance at tho pohaerous
volumes statute laws for the protection OF rear estate
both here ana In England they would get some idea OF
what value men place Oh landed property. They arc
having great many squabbles here about voting ut
would be a nice thing to do, dOubt, but let women
own land and they have something 10 stahu on ana
foothod at least In society Chinese LABOR IL no cheap
that they can their work DONE and carry on afarm
as well as men can. Our best farmers III the country
don't do all the work Themselves but they do the man.
aging and take OF the profits and women can do
This a easily az men, and 81 certainly pays better than
making shirts for IA cents apiece Many OF tho hard
ehps endured by tho early settlers were swept away by
the smoke from the first Pacific Railroad locomotives
Passengers loungng on cushioned seats, feadng inc
NEwYoRK TRIBUNE whirlod across the continent In
the short space OF days nsteado seven
months.
believe there f. better country In tho world for
ncone In commence new settlements in. Tho climate IL
delightful with no extremes of heat and cold We have
occasionally light SHOWS, which melt AZ soon as they fa
TO the ground In the last two Winters have not seen
fake floating in the air. We have hght rainy season
Oregon mist we call it-commencing IN NOVEMBER or
the first Of December BY February II clears up and
the farmers put IN tnelr
spontaneously there when planted. Some econorn
cal farmers that OF their 1me-har
vest tho third crop before rcplanng That, however, Is
downright robbery OF the soil. What we want IL one
million enterprisng, thoroughgoing men and women,
with n few CAPITALISTS sprinked In, to develop tho re-
sources OF the country We don't want any more men
coming and leaving their wives behind. VIC DON'T
need men that are not married. with children growing
up around them Where single men own all the land,
We cannot havo schOolhoUses aud churches ana tha5
society that tends to civilization.
Our heartbeats quickened, when, by aid OF tho tele
raph WIRE we the sound Of the last stroke that
connected the East with its living, active, toing mil
lions TO the mighty West. Now We thought, our coun-
try will be flooded with immigration. And when tho
tide did MT pour In as rapidly had anticipated, we
concluded that our friends In the East had lost track OF
us have found out this Winter that this ID tho true
reason They do Mt know where Oregonis Its annoy
ing to cay tho least, when you como from land you
love- and are proud TO own, whose romantic scenery.
give IL world wide renown TO have intelligent persons,
who have Travelled all Europe or wanted TO- ask
complasantly, "OregOn, OregOnl where's thatP
Ihaye felt that II controlling agent OF the Cali
fornla earthquakes would turn those subtcrranean
forces on tho Rocky Mountains AMI level them u tho
plains lust to let the people the beauties beyond
But on reflection, In my calmer moods, concluded
that we had better them for building purposes-for
the stone fronts in tho cities that will grace the plains
In the near future. NJ, L. sAwrELLE' NJ ~
No sl4 East Fltteenth-st., NowYork, April q, 1872