The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1881-07-01


wagons, have caught the first flow
of the tide which will soon set
towards these shores In increased and
increasing volume. /
the man who wishes per-
homeand has the muscle and
industry sufficient to create one, for
tunate who secures tract of land
sufficient and adapted to that pur-
pose in the Yaquina Bay region. That
ample entrance at the mouth OF the
bay, which has been so much sneered
at and so Justify. decrled, will yet
find its uses. Those natural terraces
and gentle slopes on the shores of the
bay will be the sites Of luxurious
homes. The thousand hills round
about will have cattle on them"
l believe that every assertion there
made will stand n rigid test.
RECENT OBSERVATIONS.
During my recent prolonged visit
made somewhat careful study of
results. They may he summed up
rs far as the capacity OF the country
for dairy Ing purposes Is concerned.
The scarcely varying testimony was
that when the fern was burned and
Mezqulte grass seed sewed, two years
was ample time for planting splen-
did sod. With Alslke clover wher.
ever intelligeutly tried, better results
than with the Mezquite obtained. |
saw on the farm of DR.. w. Ii. Rich
matted growth OF Alslke, which
surpassed the thriitlest growth of Al.
falfa ever saw on the irrig Ited lands
of Southern California. / saw the
same thing on Mr.. Morrison's place
twenty-five miles from the. hay. DIR.
Rich Is doing good work In demon
strating the capacity OF the soil OF the
Yaquina region. He purposes TO let
his swine grow and thrive In the AL.
sike and then fatten them on the bar
ley and oats. he Will raise on his
tliked and reclaimed swamps. DIR.
Rich lives In the Toledo region
twelve miles from the bay, the future
garden spot OF the whole region. In
radius OF five miles within two
years over ten thousand fruit trees
have been set out. On the Olliilie
nursery the proprieiors of which are
two Portland printers, lIeGry Denlin-
ger aud w. j. Hum. ,hrey, who toll
at the cease" while the resident
partner, Geo. S. Briggs, keeps the
pillow, SPADE and pruning knife busy,
there are 5000 italian plums, 1000
1000 apples, so pears, so cherries
OF plums 90 yellow egg, so Petite
dAgen, and so OF other varieties, be.
sides aprieots, ounces and an expert
ment In the way uf soft shelled
aImo 1ds. All these in the orchard,
besides 5000 trees in the nursery. II.
n. Newt, Ell. G. Phelps and JOSEPH
Thompson, both Of the latter retired
knights OF the composing stick, have
also ilourishiDg nurseries, The spir
Il Of improvement Is abroad In thii
region, and II there were no resour
ces of fish, fruit, honey, lumber nnt
eggs, the unsurpassed capacity o
this region for dairy products, ough
TO commend II TO the watchful car,
and best offices OF the people wht
have been the loudest In The work @
defamation and ridicule. Every nov
and then, 50 frequently indeed as Il
become almost ~ monotonous as Mari
Twain's mule, the Oregonian and IN,
Standard go into dolefEl repinings be
cause the people of Portland have Il
import their butler from California
III they will give the people OF Va
qnina Bay and the AIsea half
chance they will furnish them NOR,
butter than they can consume, and o
a. good quality as they can get any
'ghere In the whole world But
the beggarIy policy which has fought
like blind cat tooth and toe-nai
agsinst the approach of n railroat
car, or a steam or sailing vessel, &
this section, Is 10 be continued an,
be successful to the end, small pits
to those Affected thereby II they hav,
to go without butter or cat oIcOmar
gerine.
Ser .ously, IN this matter would /
not be better to adopt Gen. Grant
broad and comprehensive view
tlan 10 putter and pIddle over loca
jealousies. Oregon enriched by tn,
opening OF a new port, enlarged b,
the addition Of thrifty population
Of thousands, where there are nov
hundreds, would become 4 bette
customer TO the metropolis. Sucl
has been The rule in California, sucl
would be the rule in Oregon. Thosl
who take contrary view edo but er
10 think 80 hrainsickly of things.
Railroad or no railroad II Il a.tOgeth
er to the interest OF Oregon that The
harbor improvements already COM
rnenced at Yaquina Bay should b.
pushed 10 completion. Except II
the matter OF Redwood lumber, thii
region would have the advantage O
HamboIdt county, in California, an,
Humboldt has population OF pearl,
20, 900 souls. As tolumber there ar
120, 900, 900 feet of lumber on Depo
and Poole sloughs tributary to Va
quina river, to say nothing of tia
vast forests on the head waters of tn
stream, on the Alsea and on the In.
dian reservation.
AS for myself believe with Wm
NJ. Simpson, OF Fix City, twenty
five miles from the the Bay, tha
there IL hardly quarter of section &
land IN all this nworthless mountain
Gus country" upon which an industri
GUS man could not make comforta
bic living and pleasant home.
close by saying that the pubii
man who consults the best interests o
Oregon will do all that he can to has
ten the development of the Coast re
gion ofOregon from Clatsop to Cur