The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-12-20

claims, picking out all the choice land.
After the government surveys were made
those donation claims stood inviolate. The
lines run like drunken mans pathway,
and Of course DISCREPANCIES anything like
regularity 10 roAds or lines, and 90
many Of those old settlers, or their
heirs, hold on to the original claims undi-
vided. Il embraces the settlement of the
country and the advantages of schools.
Where the large claims have been divided
and cut up into small farms, good commun-
tiles are found and the country 10 prosper
Gus and social advantages good. In many
localities, especially in the prairie sections,
the general surroundings are similar to
what we find 10 the old eastern states. The
principal products are wheat, barley, oats,
hops, grass, vegetables of various kind aud
fruit. As the season for putting in crops
ofsmall grain lasts from September to lst
Of May, farmers do but little in the way of
hiring, as they can select their own time in
putting IN their crops a. the season suits.
Sometimes wheat is sown in June and pas
tured and let 90 until the following year
and it makes q good crop. Both fall and
spring wheat is raised. As regards fruit it
is an excellent climate for almost all kinds
raised In the temperate Zones except peach
IS, they do not usually do we'll here. The
average crop Of wheat is 20 bushels per acre
though frequently crops OF thirty and forty
are raised, other crops in proportion. The
price of wheat is from fifty to ninety cents
per bushel. Considerable attention is paid
to the raising of pork, which is made by
feeding small grain, and to the raising OF
horses and cattle, especially in the last iu-
dustry profitable in the foot hills of the
mountains where pasture lands are more
abundant however, the gathering Of the
cattle from the timber range is 80 difficult
that it discourages many from pursuing the
business.
Returning to Salem after a fambs of
several days over a portion of Salem prairie.
Howell prairie, the Waldo hills (Which is q
good body Of wheat land of rsdish
nature), and through some of the timber
regions east Of the city, we boarded the
train for this place, which is one of the old.
eat towns in the state, situated also on the
Willamette river at or near the head of
steamboat navigation. The town boasts of
population Of about 1000 souls.
A number OF churches and other build.
iugs Of note are all evidence that Albany is
town of some importance. A large canal
taken out Of the Santana river 10 miles
southeast Of the town near Leblanc, furnish.
es the town with "a excellent water power,
several Touring mills and other industries
seem to be doing a thriving business. The
Albany prairie lying east of the town is of
considerable size aud one of the finest in
the state. 1t is some Is miles in width and
so or so in length and we'll improved.
Leblanc, IS miles esst of Albany, has pop
ulstion OF some seven or eight hundred, it
boasts OF having one Of the finest Acade-
mics in the state.
Sodaville, four miles southeast Of Salem,
is place of some note ~ q watering
place, there being strong soda spring
there.
Having spent nearly week rambling
over the Albany prairie enjoying the hospi-
tality of the good whole-souled people of
the country, We had opportunity to learn
much of this section of the state as we'll as
much of the state in general JS.F.