The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-01-13
LETTER FROM OREGON.
EUGENE CITY, LANE Co, OREGON,
1Onoas., hos OQfh 1914

! presents to answer so many as
can.
The premises are, that have
been III Oregon for twenty-one
months and know whereof
write.
THE TWO LAST WINTERS
here have been less disagreeablt
than the two preceding my Leaving
Tennessee, and the spring. summer
and fall (which is all one season
here) is very far superior-yes, it is
delightful. The extremes for the
first twelve months of my residence
in this valley, was in summer, "a
degrees and in winter IA degrees
above zero. This winter the cold
est was 81 degrees-one degree be-
low freezing.
am better pleased with Oregon
than ever!
THOSE PARTIES
who have come here from Tennessee
after CORRESPONDING with me and read.
ing the GAZETTE, write back to their
friends that ''Miller" has not over
drawn the country in any way, and
to come.
am not so rash as TO advise any
one to come unless | know their cir
cumstances, expectations and abili-
ties.
THE CLIMATE
is as diverse in the different coune
ties in Oregon, as in the different
States in the Union-yes, and more
The bleak Sierias wear their eternal
Shows. Eastern Oregon, the Wis
consin and Illinois weather, the
Umpana country, the East Pennsyl-
vania, the klamath Lake, the Kan>
sas, west of the coast range of
mountains, the Texas and Florida
weather, while in this great valley
we have, peculiarly, Oregon weather
not to be surpassed in the world
for health, grandeur of scenery.
productiveness, or pure water and
air.
THIS T-1EEEY
is about to be connected to the Gen.
tral Pacific by railroad from Port
land via. Eugene City, Oregon, to
Winnamuca, Nevada. A bill is now
before Congress asking simply for
right-of way and depot grounds. 1t
is to be constructed in the interest
Of the Central Pacific, or Stanford,
the Tom. Scott of the Pacific. The
interested party opposed is Oregon
and California cumming past our
town., or Ben. Holiday. the Oregon
Railroad King, who will be compelI-
ed to build his road on through to
California or "sell out" The Port
land, Dalls and Salt Lake Road will
be completed soon in. the interest of
the Union Pacific Railroad. or Van
dibelt. Other short lines of road
are being surveyed.
THE GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY
is far more wonderful than any
country to science. But as l know
nothing about it theoretically, l will
speak of fossils of extinct remains
of vegetables and animals have
seen and watched scholars 90 into
ecstasy over these petrifcations as
we find them, East of the Blue
Mountains there were deposites in a
fresh water lake to the thickness of
eighteen hundred feet deep, which
must have taken in due process of
time" millions of years to accumu-
late. Then came the eruption of
Blue Mountains, depositlHg molten
lava to the depth of two thousand
feet deep and extending for buns
dreds of miles, then the washing by
the little rain drops that formed
brooks, and then canyons that have
in another million Of years cut deeS
walls through this volcanic forma-
tion, and through lis deposite in
the lake beds to the remains of ami
mails and vegetables that are SO an
like those Of our own century as to
be truly wonderful Underneath
this 1000 feet of lava and 1900 feet
of lake deposits are the fossil re-
mains Of ten different species Of
horses. hippotami, palm leaves, and
representing all climates in such
Numbers that one who is a geologi-
cal scholar could satiate his learned
lust to state of bliss. The fact of
the remaius Of the hippotami ele-
phant, and the fan palm leaf, sug-
gests change of polarity or they
have got very far out of their zone
but the fossil jaw of horse that in
dicated Ire was six years old when
Ire died, and from the size must
have been not over twenty three
inches high. While the remains of
an animal (name unmentionablel
that lived in the fan and '.r,s:stv
part" showed forty-four t.,eth on
one side of his expose,l head. So
differential do appear from the liv-
ing animals of orf day, 1 will give
you brief description of'it. It has
we'll deFned and perfect dental or
ganGs to-wit 4 incessors, 2 CANNES,
Tor tusks) 6 biouspials ahdSs molars
on each taaxilH with the foraminal
depressions very destinctly marked
on each jaw, and the only. strange
deviation of one jaw from the other
WIS Beneath the superior canine was
the tnsk Of an elephant. The pecu-
liaritY of this animal was it varie
ties of habits. 1t had the grass and
root molars Of the garniverous the
CANNES of the carniverous. with hu-
man incessors and the tusks. They
were so we'll developed that fer al
OF its varieties DarWinlsth is not
strengthened by the fossil. A stu
dent of geology cannot be tied down
by flie chronology .ef tire Biblel
That certain partssef the ocean the
land is being lifted las it were) from
the water is sufficiently established
by the fact of the old Romans when