The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
THE OREGON AND CALIFORNIA ROAD.
"Oregon on Wheels"

The OSkaloosa (loWa) HeTGt0 or the ord
inst, contains long article on Oregon's
exhibit car. We give below portion of
the same:
Our readers are aware that car of Ore
gon products was promised as among the
fine and entertaining sig hts to be seen at
the County Fair That promise has been
fulfilled, for on Saturday evening the Car
came in on the Rock Islanl. Commissioner
Allen of the Oregon Board of Immigration is
in charge of the car and is very assiduous in
giving all information that can possibly be
desired What is it composed of? That is
a hard thing to answer. Very many kinds
of wheat, oats, rye and barley, of quality
never surpassed before; plurns, prunes, ap
Piles, nectarines, and everything of that sort
in endless variety, and in size and quality;
vegetables that will satisfy all that there
was no mistake made'by the Iowa editors
when they came home and spoke of the
many wonderful things that We're seen by
them in roaming from one end of Oregon to
the other. The contents of that car stand
as an undisputed fact that at least for once
the Iowa editor did not enlarge upon the
actual fact-if he even did only fair justice
to the products Oregon has. Iowa fears no
rival 1t extends to this splendid specimen
of Oregon enterprise cordial welcome. It
comes from great State, with great
hearted people making It's valleys TEEN with
the evidences of civilization. 1t wants
Iowa farmers and Iowa people and it pre-
sents these products as the reward that has
awaited the industry of the husbandman,
laboring where the seasons are certain and
where nature in all her elements is kindly
and we'll behaved.
s'The products that fill this car" said
Commissioner Allen, ''are simply the average
products of our State. So far as the fruit
is concerned, much of it was purchased i'll
the open market-and not specially selected
for exhibition purposes. As for the most of
the grain nearly all of the leading varieties
here shown could be duplicated on many
farms, equal in every respect, and in many
exhibits, far superior. What we want to
do is to make plain to you that Oregon is
something Of State even compared with
Iowa; that our products, in many respects,
cannot be matched by any of these interior
western states, great as they are in produc-
tive capacity. Of course we do not try to
compete with you on corn. In that we can
do something, but here is pre-eminently the
corn section of the world. Until recently
Oregon has only been reached by round
about way thro' Flsco. Now, however, the
Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line give
quick transit to Portland, and into our great
valleys. 1t is there where we want Iowa
farmers to come and break up some of the
large farms, by purchase. Our people know
how to extend a hearty welcome to all
worthy people seeking homes, and this car
is the big missionary to do the pentecostal
work of conversion-if the people can only
see it. You see with the richness of all
products we also have climate that [ can
d1dly believe cannot be matched anywhere
in this union. A mild climate, it strikes
me, would suit thousands of good people
better than the fearful rigors that have ex-
perienced in Iowa, for, you see, l was for
many years a resident of Iowa, and think
much of it. In Oregon, at Portland, have
never seen it colder than seven degrees
above zero, and that but once and for about
| two hours in one day. Our summers are
| equahle, nights always cool, and life in
general sense always enjoyable. Dove
| fertilize our land? No! Here is some
wheat which is the forty second consecutive
| crop grown ON the same land, and the last
crop was 45 busnel per acre. You have
heard it said that we could not grow timo.
| thy. How do those specimens strike you,
for land that could not grow them? We
have thirty different varieties of wild and
tame grasses here, which is probably as
many as this section could show. There
are twenty three different varieties of
wheat thirteen of oats, four of rye, six of
barley and as to the fruit-you can see it.
Where do we go? From here to the State
Fair of Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and thence
to Louisville and New Orleans, expecting to
be out until spring. or the end of the New
Orleans exposition. ''Seeing is believing, !"
you know, and we hope to corroborate even