The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1888-02-17
A MAN ABOUT TOWN.
The Man About Town has been intend
ing for sometime TO tell why he likes

Ing for sometime TO tell why he likes
LINN COUNTY
a little better than any other place in the
world. Here goes
Its location,-It extends about seventy |
miles from the shining caps of the Three
Sisters, whose alabaster toes stretch into the
county, in the southeast, and north of Mt
Jefferson towards the north, to the limpid |
waters of the Willamette, the peer of any
stream in the world, in the west, and forty |
miles from south to NORTH the north being |
lined partially by tho north fork Of the San.
tam, covering remarkably fertile country.
Branching streams tap the Santiam and
Willamette, irrigating the land of the coun.
try In an unsurpassed manner. 1t Is the
center of the Valley, may be approached
from all directions and is 'many idead"
county. These are facts that please us.
It's products.--Nearly everything except
the most tropical fruits can be raised here.
The county excels in cereals Of all kinds,
and in It's history has hardly failed to have a
crop. If the fall wheat once or twice in
forty years has been nipped the farmer i'm
mediately puts in Spring crop, and In the
fall we always have our warehouses about
full but practically our crops never fail
This is not exactly corn and buckwheat
county but enough could easily be raised
here for home production. In fruits we arc
at the top in apples, pears and plums, and
will not skulk when It comes to cherries,
berries, etc. Peaches and grapes are not ex-
actly our forte but we have some. Potatoes,
(even sweet potatoes) yield abundantly, and
gardening is better nowhere, every imagin.
able kind of vegetable fastening out of the
ground, as If in race, and multiplying pro-
digiously. We are satisfied our foothills
and the Cascades are full of minerals and
already many good discoveries have been
made but il needs capital to pour out the
shining metal that so much tickles the
eyes Of the surplus gatherers. The matter
of products particularly pleases us.
Climate.-Ahead of anything this side OF
Utopia for the man of judgment but one
must prefer rain to snow, and that is the
long and short of IT, II Is remarkably equal;
is never very hot, nor very cold. Il rains In
the winter and in the summer does not rain.
Anyone who says it rains all the time would
steal sheep. During the year there Is enough
water falls TO say rain on less than one
hundred seyenty-fye days. In 1887 the
total precipitation was 81 inches at Albany,
and 76.7o inches of this fell in january and
December. During the six months, May,
june, July, August, September and October
the rainfall was only 6.S5 inches. The
average temperature was s2.z0 degrees.
The hottest was 9S0 above zero and the cold
est g above zero. The nights are always
~ a.f.
We are remarkably well pleased with our
climate.
The people.-Taken as a whole they
equal those of any country in the world.
Fact. Through the Willamette Valley YOU
viii find as many good clothes as in 9ny
Valley in the East Of a like or larger popu-
lation, and just as much in style We men
ton this fact for some Eastern people seem
70 think we all wear COW boy hats and re-
volvers. We are as a rule a most peaceable
people. Great attention is paid to educa ton
and a school house may be seen at nearly
every cross roads. We are a reading peo-
pie. The average farmer here spends more
for reading matter than his Eastern brother,
and keeps posted about matters. II is an OBJ
served fact that our school children are
neater and better dressed than those In most
places beyond the Rockies. We are social,
death-we don't know anything about
pennics-and will sometimes help fallen
brother out Of the ditch. We have society
that can be enjoyed, and it contains all the
refinement that the most fastidious can de-
sire but of course we are not all alike and
haye hoodlums, Cinnamon and Salvation
Armies around us occasionally
The above are the four cardinal points of
our compass. There are plenty Of other
points between but when you have the
above you have the cream of what you
want to know about Linn county. Some
time we will refer to different parts, as we'll
as industries, particularly. Also prices, etc,
tor which at present see our market reports.
The Salvation Army cases cost Linn
county about $I25, an entirely useless ex-
pense, as they should never have been
brought, according TO the statement of the
Army men themselves IT appearing entirely
improbable that the cases could be sustain
ed. $I2s is too much to be thrown away
thus recklessly on Salvation Army whose
noisy demonstrations would almost drown
the roar Of Niagara,
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Last week another close call for big
item occurred in Albany. A seven shooter
and rifle were drawn but friends inter-
ferred, and things now sail along smoothly,
for the present.
There is little doubt that the famous Cali
fornia booms have been gigantic gambling
speculations after the fashion of the stock
speculations of days gone by Railroads
and real estate men have been the winners
and the suckers of course the losers The
M. A. T. hopes Oregon will be delivered
from such cyclones. We want a healthy
growth here and will get it. This is bet
ter county than Southern California, and
doctor'sbills are not as high.
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The Man About Town has just read about
how r A Bensel, Of Newport sent some
water agates to the Smithsonian Institute a
Washington and received thanks for thu
"chalcedeny pebbles containing liquid
Water, or we faint
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