The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-01-21
LETTER FROM OREGON.

i THE wEATIIER-TITE CLIMATE - THE
WHEAT CROP = TIE WILLIMETTE
VALLEY = SOCIETY - REFORMED
GANIEsTERs-GA1IE, ETC, ETC
EUGENE CITY, LANE Co., OREGON, Dec 49, '73.
MoRRIsTowN GAZETTE = As l
promised in my previous letters to
the GAZETTE that [ would keep you
posted as to Oregon; and, as the
weather is and has been such as to
make Oil 'web-footers'' Chose born
in the Willimette Valley, shiver,
grumble and use very forcible Ian
/ guage, I have took some trouble to
look up the weather report I
find from the reports of the q. S.
Signal Station of observation at
/ Portland, Oregon. that the lowest
point indicated by the thermometer
since November, 1870, was IA de
grees above zero compare this with
your weather, and that by private
records, to be the coldest since 1860.
The rain has not been the drawback
that Iexpected. There has not been
as much rain here since / came
(April LAST, up to this time, as usu-
ally falls in East Tennessee. I am
told b ID weather will soon be with
us--this has been the cry since Sep
tember. te eo..
ID Now, about the climate and coun-
try. The weather for the last fifteen
days has been all that any reason
alb farmer couldwant. 1t has been
winter e. the weather has been
just below freezing point-thaw but
little during the day, and freezing
just little at nights SUCH uniform
weather Inevert saw, but Oregonians
think it a very severe winter. We
have noswinds as you do in Tennes-
The smallest estimate of the Sla.-
plus Of wheat of this county Iane).
for 1873, is the enormous tonnage of
600, 00fD six hundredhthousantl BUSH
els. This is shipped direct, ovia
Portland, to foreign ports by vessels.
The1crops are. always good, some
years. better, and eftentimes q good
western ajectiye is the only way to
describe them. No failures have
ever been known in the cerial crops.
in Oregon. But in California. they
have. Let me say in justice to Cali
fornia. the farmer is better payed for
his labor. than, in any of the States
or Territories east Of the Sierras.
Some seasons, the Sacramento Amer
lean. San Joaquin, St. Clara yallies
produce enormously. Other years
the drouth makes failure only
wherein it is irrigated. The Wilt
mette Valley nerer falls. The hop,
wheat, oats and fax, are profitable
crops. Sheep and cattle are paying
investments here. Labor is paid
here.
The society here is very good, and |
people have a peculiar and rare
qualification of minding their own
business-this is a great blessing.
These are not so. anxious to force |
their lsectarian views on others as in
the older States. i fLo Il o. |
While travelling over the country I
last Spring. i fell in with two gen
tlemeR, who asked me to look over |
the calculations made for the build |
ing of chnrch. One of the party
was minister. the other an elder. I
After ratifying the calculation, said
it was made on a card. L spoke of +
the occurrence. The elder says, |
deuce of spades?" Yes Says the
minister)-''little cassino." It was
evident to my mind that these gen.
tleman were. reforlners. III
conclusion, let me say, / like
Oregon better than when l last
wrote. F
A man who can borrow the money, +
come out here, work as they do in
Tennessee, can pay his fare. and
debt and get back in one year with
more money than he can save from a
years hard labor there. They tell
me that there are weeks that very
little work can be done. An ordi-
nary shootist can kill and pick from
S2 to So worth of reathered game.
G.. A. M.