Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-08-14
WKED aeEsE MOUNTAIN.

These glorious mountains still exist,
and still form i very conspicuous part
of the far fan=d Umatilia county whose
soil yields the farmer So bushels OF
wheat to the acre in return for his la
Dor. and the very best quality Of wheat
at that. How astonishing it must De to
man nov and then, to run across a
regular professional grumbler, (who has
all his life been hunting for Paradise
lostl and to near him whine, and wish.
ing that he had meyer left Nebraska OF
Iowa, and wishing himself back in Kan
sas or some other one of those nice
places in which the cyclones do the
reaping and the hail storms do the
threshing, that is if the drought or the
frost has not killed the wheat, or if the
grasshopper or the chintzbug or the
Ressian fly does not claim first mort
gage on the crops. The crops back
there will range from to Is, or per-
haps in some exceptional cases as high
as 20 bushels per acre. Mr.. Grumbler
will inform you that here we only get
80 cents bushel tor our wheat, while
back there the farmer gets a dollar a
busheI for all he sells. The crops here
are sure success every year and the
yield will reach from 80 to 55 bushels
per acre; back there there are chances
OF failure to every one chance Of a
hit, and it only yields the farmer from
5 to 20 bushels per acre; what benefit is
it to the farmer there if wheat is del
lar Il busnel? | have only stated few
hscts and said nothing about our de-
liahtfu climate, and lots of Other good
points bat We enjoy out here and which
does not exist ON the other side of the
Rocky N ountains.
Many of those who used to be wood
ranches are now being turned inte
farms. TIE average yield of wheat
here this year is about 40 bushels pei
acre. Corn, tobacco, vegetables of all
kinds, even hups, and in tact everything
in the line of crops has been tried here
and has proved success. In some
points of produce we can beat the best
: valley farmer, corn excepted. Corr
will only yield abort so to 65 bushel:
: per acre here. Everything else doe
better than that here Ill proportion.
Speaking about wood choppers quit
: ting their trade for that of farming; i
: is said that in jury triai held in th'
, city of Weston recently, III which
few wood choppers were summoned a
witnesses on one side OF the case, ant
some citizens of Weston on the othe
side, the jury failed to agree. one d
the jurymen, Il sentleman(:) OF Westol
is reported to have said that he woul'
rather believe the testimony given b.
II one of those citizens of Weston thai
the testimony given by or 10 of thos
wood choppers-just as though WOO
chopper was not just as good, just a
honest, just as honorable as anybod
else! Some OF these wood choppers al
c talking very strongly of removing
, Weston to start barber shops, put on
= boiled shirt and be somebody,
We have been having 5 month
= term Of school on the mountain th
!. summer. After paying $5S per mont
y for teacher we viii still have plent
Of money left in The treasury to run
q or 5 months longer this fall. We hay
:, had a splendid, orderly and instructiv
:. school. We were fortunate enough la:
. spring to secure the service Of Prof. T
7. l.. Smith IA cousin to our estaeme
e county school superintendent. Pro
y Smith is teacher of more than ordir
ary ability. Every parent is highl
t. pleased and well satisfied and feels tha
e. the money paid out to such a teache
d. will be a source of great revenue t
,e their children in the future,-one
30 which they can never be robbed
t. r. F JOHNSON