The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-29
THE DAIRY INTEREsrs or THE UNITED
ST aTES

Sa6 OAlhx tNT66k6IS Of If46
STATES.
|. The importance OF the daily in
terests of the country issquickly seen
in considering, the following figures:
From the census reports we learn
that 672,2o4, 900 pounds of butter
were made on farms and 90, 9,421, 900
pounds at Notwithstanding a total
of sol, eco pounds. Also that
2s,26o,ooo pounds Of cheese were
made on farms and 2f5, ,s65, 800
pounds were made at factories, Civ
ing total of 243, l45 900 pounds OF
cheese. The butter, at an average
price Of 80 cents per pound, would
therefore be worth s24o.4s7, 500, and
the value Of the cheese product, at
Is cents average per pound, would
be $al, l,6os,s5o. BESIDES this, over
100000 pounds of oleomargarine
were also manufactured.
The growth of these branches of
farm product has been rapid. The
total production of butter in the
United States and Territories in
1850 was sls ,s45,so6 pounds, and in
1860 1851, ,372 pounds. OF cheese
io5, ,5s5.s 500 pounds ir 1885,. and
les, ,e6s, ,927 pounds in 1860. Cheese
is especially rich i'll fesh-forming
constituents, and is therefore highly
nutritioas article of diet we'll adapted
to the use OF the laboring ,,pan, and
capable of doing more to repair the
waste of muscular exertion than
many times it's weight Of butter or
fat meat. Still it appears tha, cheese
does not enter largely into the daily
food Of the working classes of this
country, as it does In Europe and
Great Britain. The cheese exported
from the United States last year
amounted to 127,9s9,7s2 pounds,
valued at $l4,O5s,975. If cheese
making were as thoroughly under
stood in this conntry as it Is in Eu-
rope the demand would be still great
ly increased. Our dairymer, how
ever, are enterprising, and we may
expect that before long the processes
of American cheese manufacture will
reach that perfection, which alone
contributes TO uniformity Of excel
lence and distinctiveness of character.
Wild Rose valley is on the pro-
posed line of railroad from Spokane
Falls to Fort Colville. The valley
lies part in Stevens and part in Spo-
kane counties. The valley is well
watered, the Little Spokane forms
the eastern b6ahdry, the SPOKANE,
where it sweeps to the north, forms
the western boundry, and two or
three little creeks traverse it in many
directions.
Colfax Vidette: John Mcclellan,
engineer of the Ainsworth bridge,
who has been attending court at
Colfax, informs us that there are 100
men at work quarrying rcck at
Granite point, and that sixty men
arc at work fitting stone. As soon
as the water goes down in Snake
river hinge force of masons and car
penters viii be set to work on con-
struction, and the bridge is expected
to be completed some time this fall.
When finished the bridge will be
good and substantial structure. /
Lewiston {Idaho) News: One of
the Oregon Short Line surveyors ar
rived in town on Monday from En-
gineer Clark's company, and informed
us that they had located the line of
the road ON the Idaho side of the
river for a distance OF eighty -one
miles below Burnt river, and the En-
gineer Moscrip was locating the road
up the river, and that the two parties
were not more than eighteen miles
apart. The more the engineers see
Of the Snake river route the more
they are impressed with its advan-
tages over all other routes. There
is not the slightest doubt but that
the road will be built down Snake
river at an early date.
A beautiful young girl was about
TO be married to a bachelor seventy