The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-24

goes to make life pleasant, it is the famous
Willamette Valley. In this favored To-
;ality the home seeker will lind every ad-
santage of climate, soil and society. He
enjoys winters without cold and summers
without heat. His land will produce anna
zingly and quantity of fruits is almost op
.ressive and of the finest quality. But he
must have money with which to buy, for
It would be absurd to believe that SO highly
favored locality had 50 far escaped the
knowledge Of the world. The entire valley
has been settled for mary years. They are
highly intelligent class of people who know
they have good thing and who cannot sell
out and ''go west" for they have reached
the verge. The land is, therefore, very
valuable and it takes great deal of money
to get farm"
''The boys of the Iowa press excursion
are ''all broke up" over the girls of the
Willamette Valley, Oregon. 1t is claimed
by experts that that section produces bet
ter looking women on the average than an !
| other in the United States"
Iowa Democrat Reporter: "a nd now
we return and Saturday morning awake at
A.b.ny, from whence we are lei by two
bands Of music, with a drum Inajur to board
"a steamer and fill an invitation, II M, up
the Willamette river, at Corvallis, where
these kind people try to excel all before in
their viands and kindness. Well, we are
all good eaters and partook lusti.y, even
our ladies seemed to have ''iousened a
tuck" so as to increase the storeage."
Upton Conservative: Oregon is vast
domain possessed of resources that an en-
pire might covet. Her valleys both in ex-
tent and productiveness. are unequalled.
Her hills and mountain sides bear mi lions
of acres of splendid timber, while many OF
them are ribbed with precious metals and
valuable ores; her climate never made al
honest enemy, and her fruit is unparalleled
for size and favor. Portland like nearly al
the other towns III the extreme northwest
is -cverrun with Cinnamon. Of he1 35, 00>
inhabitants 5000 belong to this despiset
race. They own some of the best business
blocks i'll the city, thus making it impossi
lie to get rid of them. At Eugene, Ashlane
Grants Pass, Albany and Corvallis. anil a
all the stations along the route, we wer
met by representative men of the press ant
People and were the recipients of one con
tinued ovation.
| One of the Iowa editors said: "Durin
r the entire western trip of nearly 5000 mile
we saw but two three intoxicated men
f and other members of the party say tn
e same thing. And yet there wer
e saloons on every side, all open and run
: ming at full blast There were two or thre
t fellows among the excursionists, however
: who kept well picked all sth, way, and
:. was common remark that the only drunk
ards to be seen in the west were those "
= had on our own train
Q President Swain of the Iowa Press assc
Il citation, in the Oskaloosa Herald conclude
n an account of his journeyings in the nortE
y. west, as follows: "rhese are not the mel
/. tales of traveller. 1t is perilous bushes
O to be sure, to GO into this sort of fgul
$ mysticism, and in the readers place W
). might not be able to coax ourselves to b.
!, lieve them. But these are the mllie
p things, the most casual facts, the meaeere
IS results of ordinary observation, that Can
to US in that section Of prodigous thing
!. We heve purposely refrained from telling
J., the really large things we saw, because v
;. have to live among this people and we hol
Is still to preserve IA reputation for veracity