, 1878-07-13

thst numl'eT ui cnws. and nor over 500
or 500 head ul cattle all told. No sheep
or kept in lh' v.lhy. and hut few hog =,
prohrhlr less than mr." kept hya singh
~ 'h-r in the Whir River or Slaughter
settlements rlr'se who give the most
a'trniinn ~ stock ar J Foster. Burns,
Il rr, McNai', KavarauYh, Van ASSET
mud Ciynrr. Thos' " q evs to have u
finr ,twrk II cattle usually prefer the
Durham o' all othcrS. All thnse named
niove h yr either grade Dnrhnms OF
carefully srlcctc'I milking stnck. Jor
Foster AMI John Burn. each have some
firy head oi cattle and not lar from
thirty COWS.
should the attention of the settlement
bc iurrrd to liiry business nsiis leading
pursuit, and nuMhr oi cheese iactories
he established. 500 rows cuufl be kept
in the settlement a numlwr are quite
anxlous for suurthing ui that kind To he
c>tallish"d there. aud would readily aid
any responsible p,ris who understood
the business and would go ahend in the
matter. Thus Mr. Burr would keep
some thirty cuvs. would put up addi
tlolial buildings SCI that all person
would have TO do would be to com
mence husihrss. The well water on his
place is v,ry clear and cold and prob
ably comes from the high lands in sufli.
cicnt quantity for good sized establish
mcnt. HIS place would lie a good loca-
tion tor such factory. as below him on
the same side of the river Conklin, Mari
erte. aud Jordan could easily keep 150
cows, so thar without going above his
place, another year the milk OF 200 cows
could he brought there, should factory
b. started on n hasis such such as to
win public confidence. Another excel
lent location would be Burns ranch
where is beautiful stream of water
from the high lands. Burns, McNatt,
Westran and ]. Foster could easily keep
over 800 COWS even Foster alone could
keep NOT lar from 100 cows, and coul,l
clear up hi>fanch in another year so as
to keep twice that amount, so that his
place alone would support large cheese
factory. On the north side of the river
IL very convenient location would be
near Van Asset's or Dudley's places.
Dudley runs the Terry place, and he,
Van ASSET and Clymer could keep full
200 cow, and other farmers in the vi.
cinity could keep MS many more. 1t is
very strange, with the excellent stock Vt
COWS found in the Duwamish and
White River settlements that none have
gone into the cheese making business, as
this is something in which there could
he no danger of successful competition
from California or elsewhere, as no other
region yields So great crops Of grass that
keeps green all the summer through.
They now have in those settlements the
fields of tame grasses necessary, their
stock Is good enough, all they need is an
increase in the number OF cows, and the
starting Of the factories. What men of
experience will start the movement
No more favorable conditions could he
found anywhere for the successful estab-
lishment of cheese factories on an extcn-
slve scale, so as to make cheese not only
for domestic use, but for export as we'll.
CHIEF PRODUCTIONS.
At present the chief productions of the
valley are hay and potatoes. Probably
there is not far from 800 acres now in
mra'l"w land, and this year it will yield
fully $500 tons oi hay.
Dudley cuts 20 acres
Van ASSET " SIS
Nc Natt, 80
Yrster. 40
Wcstran d" IS
Burns 30
Jordan. Burr, Conklin SDd Steele .bout
20 acr,S ruth, and o'hrs in lea quen
ii,irs.
There are many plA orchards, some