The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-07-31
FROM IOWA.

NepHOfzEuN, IroiH It2o pen OF u. W. Jat'
nigan, who was here with the excur-
sionists. His article we consider worth
reproducing:
"Well, what do you think of the
Northwest" is the question that has
been propounded to us times innumer-
able since our return. 1t is a wonder
full country and has great things in
store for the future. The climate is
fine, the soil is productive and it's seen
cry is grand Its forests are inexhaust-
able and it's mineral wealth is not
known. The society is the very best
and there is not that frontier appear
ance among the people that one would
expect to find so far wesss. Many pee-
pie wonder why country with
such advantages of climate and 50 great
resources is SO sparsely settled, but
that is easily explained. 1t has only
been very short time since that coun-
try was readily accessible to the peo-
pie of the "States." Of late years the
route was over the Union Pacific TO
San Francisco and then by boat to
Portland. This made it long and
tedious journey. But it is not SO now.
We think the people of Oregon and
Washington Territory make great
mistake by wanting only those of
means to go there. The wealthy set
tie down in the towns and cities and
live at ease and do but little to devel-
op the country. The country needs
the industrious laboring man who is
not afraid to take off his coat and 20
to work. Iowa would never have at
tanned her present greatness had it not
been for the sturdy pioneer, poor fl
nancially, but rich in indomitable
pluck and physical manhood-and
these are they who will convert the
rich and fertile valleys of the Pacific
northwest into happy homes and event
ually into rich and prosperous commu-
mites. That country needs labor far
more than it does wealthy nabobs.
The poor man who is Industrious
stands better show there than here if
he has the independence to look out
for himself. Still, they advertise out
there for Immigrants with means to
settle up the country, and this is the
very class that don't have to work and
as long as they depend on such people,
the rich mines will go undeveloped,
the fertile valleys will remain sparsely
settled aud their majestic forests will
continue to nodd leisurely on the
mountain side. With all their posi-
bilities they ship their butter, pork and
eggs into that country from the States
as they speak of the East. We ate
Iowa butter at Seattle and away down
in Southern Oregon they fed us eggs
that had been shipped there from Fair
field, Iowa; chickens are worth from
six to eight dollars per dozen, hogs are
selling there nov tor IS per hundred
and their cured meats are shipped
there from Chicago. These things
ought all to be produced there. As
fruit country there is none better yet
there are people who have lived there
for years who do not raise anything in
the fruit line. 1t is true they raise
great crops of wheat out there but
there is not much profit in that. Di-
farming is what is needed to
make it profitable. The labor problem
is great question for the people out
there. The Chinese are there in all
their glory and if any Of our readers
have ever entertained the idea that
they are prosecuted set we are salts
fed visit to Portland would change
your opinion. They will work and
that is all the good you can say Of
them They stick to their heathenish
customs and their habits are simply
They can live on twe-bits
a week consequently they can save
more money at Scots. day than
white man can at SO. They have no
business in this country. They don't
belong to the type of manhood that
America wants consequently the laws
restricting their immigration ought to
he rigidly enforced and if there was
some way of getting rid Of those that
are now here would be good idea.