The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1876-01-14
tsood News New 10 wnea. ,.rower,.

GoO0 News to wheat tsxOwerS.
Again are the farmers of Oregon reap.
ing the beneficial appfication Of the old
saying that sit is an ill-wind which
blows nobody good" And this time
the wind which prostrates the great
wheat-producing portion of the mighty
EmIsEeot Isuesia ussprs the wheat pre-:
ducers Of our own tarthest Northwestern
State of the Union. The latest London
DISPATCHES come lasen with reports M
Russia that in Odessa there is unprece
dented stagnation in business Of every
kind, that real estate aud property val
ues have deprecated to so per cent. of
their former standard, tirat bankruptcies
are of daily occurrence, that wheat un-
sold and unsought is lying in the ware
houses. and that such time of general
and distressing dullness he's never been
known.
These are the facts; now for the
causes. Odessa Is the wheat field of
HussIa. 1t is from there that the Brit
ish grain markets used TO draw the 44
1O0ths, or nearly one-h of their total
imports of wheat when the imports from
the United States used to average only
about I4-l00ths. That was as tar back
as 1891, and the proportlonate tfrpefTs
stood nearly at the same gauge safstH
lew years ago.
Butt IN 1873 the statistics showed that
while the imports from Russia into Brit
Ish markets had slightly increased since
1851, and comprised 121-100ths of the
toqal imports there, the imports from
the United States had increased to an
er12rmous volume, and constituted 44
IUoths OF the total imports. And now,
IN the present wheat-export year from !
thf United States, wes6ad, while all the
tonnage that can be is employed in the
trAtfic from the Atlantic, and from San
francisco and Portland and Astoria,
There IS still ready market for every car
so and no diminution or drag in the de-
inand, the producers in Russia have nei-
ther an active market nor much call for
their crops. This is unfortunate for the |
farmers OF Odessa, but it is greatly TO
the benefit OF the wheat growers of this |
coast, and of Oregon, particularly. for it
IS the wheat of Oregon which las the
hest rank and that commands the hlgfi- I
est price and quickest sales in the Eng-
lish markets.
Ahe 8loscow Gcxzette grieyes over the
situation and counsels and urges the
Odessans to plant new lands, improve
the soil they now occupy, to apply more
skill IN agriculture, and all that: and it |
also calls for cheaper interior transpor-
tation. This is all good advice and wise |
ly urged bat it viii prove futile 50 far |
as the effort will ga to excel or even to !
equal Oregon IN the production of wheat |
whether as to the quality or the quauti-
ty grown per acre. And tE1ese main |
advantages in favor of our wheat pm |
ducers will Offset or overcomeAny advall-s
tage which Russia may eFenfnaTly v at
tain IN the items Of transportation sud
close proximity 70 tire English market.
And now that the entering wedge
which Oregon was fortunate enough fo I
insert into that chief grain market 81 the /
world on her own account less than eipht |
years ago has been driven SO far aud so |
successfully since, until from an insignif- I
cant venture It has become tile para
upon the grandeur Of the hopes and /
prospects this success reasonably presents
for the future. The Willamette Valley I
aione can give room aud field for thou
sands more to occupy and engage in
wheat culture. The counties to the
West and down the Columbia,can afford
room and occupation for other thousands
IN the same profitable employment and
the Umpqua and Rogue River and
Illinois valleys, and the vast areas il the
counties east of she Cascades, all admira.
bly, adapted for wheat, win enable tens
OF thousands TO locate upon fhan and
grow rich by the production of wheat
alone-every bushel of which will find
ready market in preference TO the wheat
OF any other country or cline because O.
ats admitted super-excell llence:
Inc knowledge Of these facts and of
TINS almost certain future development.
IT placed before the humAfeds 81 thea. /
sands npon the other side of the Rsfs,sS
Mountains and Europe who wish fo |.
emlgrate 10 the best and most rrosneros,e
agricultural country they can find. dur.
ing this Centennial year, could hardlv
fail Of good effect. Why not utilize tie
information ID printed form. suisablv
prepared, for ample distribution at tie
great Exposition at Philadelphia We
can beat the world IN wheat. Let us
fairly inform the world that we can AID
DO, and also that we have the fresh. new
lands, yet to Be taken and titled, that
win enable hardy and industrious and i
skillful farmers from every portion Of the
civilized globe 70 grow rich By the cul-
tivation Of them Eeeesss5sg Journal