The teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1876-1878, 1878-03-02

in the United States. They are not
like the pine lands of the south and
west, valuable only for their timber.
The fir and cedar timber Of the north
west stands in a heavy but rich clay
soil. It needs but the removal Of the
timber and the genial warmth of the
sun, to produce the grasses, and veget-
ables, and even the cereals in abund-
ance. The above is predicated of tim
Der lands proper. Besides these there
are in Western Washington large
area of valley and tide lands. The first
named are covered with heavy growth
of ash. cedar, curl maple-vine maple
cotton wood, and where the soil is of
clay loan, cedar. Both are Of mex
haustible fertility. No where else can
the production of these lands be equal
ed SO far as the cereals are concerned.
l can safely say that fifty bushels Of
wheat, seventy five of oats, and sixty of
barley is the average yield per acre on
these lands.
These valley lands, as we'll as those of
Eastern Washington, are eminently
adapted to the production of the hop.
This plant, grown upon these lands, is
free from mildew and all other diseases,
excellent in quality, and is extensively
cultivated. Not less than ten thousand
bales were raised last season. Sixteen
hundred pounds per acre the second
season, and twenty-five hundred the
third year and afterwards is an average
crop.
Eastern Washington is mostly prai-
RE country. Its surface is that Of long
and heavy swells or fluctuations. These
are covered with a luxuriant growth of
bunch grass. The soil is rich in vol
canic ash. Its climate is equitable and
mild; hence as pastoral and agricul-
tural country it is unequalled. Vast
herds of cattle, sheep, and horses roam
over its undulations, subsisting winter
and summer on its natural pasturage
alone. This country, with Eastern
Oregon and Northern Idaho, sends vast
quantities Of beef and mutton to Cali
fornia, Nevada. and British Columbia
annually. 1t costs nothing to raise
horses, sheep, or cattle but little care
and attention. Already the country is
quite fully sto cked, but the limit of its
natural pasturage in this regard is far
from being reached.
The great basin lying between the
Wind River and Cascade ranges of
and north of the 44th de-
gee of north latitude, is destined, in
tie near future, to be the granary of
America. The Columbia River, with
its various tributaries, drains this vast
basin. 1t is the Danube of America.
AS the country along the Danube and
its tributaries has been producing wheat
'or the last two thousand years, without
any diminutiou Of quantity, and is in
fact the granary of the Eastern CONT
nent, so will this vast country lying on
The Columbia and its tributaries in no
distant future be sending its surplus
millions to the markets of the world.
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Walla Walla and Columbia Counties,
with a population of about twelve thous-
and, last year produced a surplus of
over million of bushels. Whitman
and Yakima will add half a million
more, Island, Whatcom, Snohomish,
Clark and King half a million more.
In fact Washington Territory the last
year exported more grain than Califor-
MIA, the great grain exporting State Of
the Pacific coast, exported for any one
year for eight years after her admission
into the Union as State. In fact,
give Eastern Washington cheap and
ample transportation to the Sound, and
she will more than double her exporta-