Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-07-24

why Oregon is the Best Place For the
AcfnaI SETTLER

when man comes here and set
ties down to business either In field,
shop or store, he does not have to
deepnd on eastern money, as the
California boomers did, for their sup
port, for right at his back, i'm front,
and in every direction is spread out
a rich country that produces every
thing that mortal man desires, and
that too in the greatest abundance.
Frank Pixley, noted Californian,
and "a man who has travelled all over
the eastern states and from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, has his say
about Oregon, which is as follows:
"One Of the incidents that will re-
main longest and most pleasantly in
J my mind will be the trip to Oregon.
Oregon Is more beautiful than Cali-
fOrnia. Oregon pro-
duces apples superior to any that
come to our market; they are hard,
crisp. luscious and juicy; plums,
pears, prunes, potatoes, roots of all
kinds, grains Of all the coarser vari-
elies, onions and other vegetables
were presented at several of the vii
Iages through which we passed. We
saw most excellent aud well-eared
corn. Oregon ought to he, and we
/ believe IL, II frst-class dairy state.
/ IL Is a country Of grass from the beds
of its creeks to the SUBMITS of it's
hills--of rich, nutritious grasses,
with strong sod, that never dies
down under the burning suns; gras.
scs that must he cut, dried, turned
( to hay, and covered from rain to
carry the milking stock through the
winter. The grasses Of Oregon are
like those of New York-timothy,
red top, herds grass and clover-and
10y reason of the frequent rains,
crops of great abundance are pro-
duced. We can imagine no better
country for the production Of stall
fed beef, as hay, oats, grains and cat
tie feed of all kinds are cheap and
abundant
"rhere is n vast wealth of profit to
the Oregon farmer if he will send us
his butter and cheese, his chickens
and eggs, his apples and cider, and
all the lesser productions of his in
dustry In good and cleanly condition.
There ought to he no device of
cheese making practical in Switzer-
land or France that the Oregon
farmer could not improve; there
ought to be no trick in butter max
Ing that the Oregon dairyman does
not understand. There is u fortune
to he made I'm fat chickens and barn |
yard fowls, for, as II rule, our chick |
ems are lean and unfit to eat. We |
import cider in bottles from New |
Jersey, and make IL from dried APP
pies with acids. We should get it
fresh and pure from Oregon orch
ards. The average Oregon sheep Is,
we think, better bred, larger and
finer-fleeced than our California |
focks; at all events they look clean
er and more comfortable on their
green meadows than on our brown,
dusty plains. There are no large
landed estates In Oregon, 50 far as
we know Mt all events, the country
through which we passed is divided
INTO small holdings, and the farms
look as though they were occupied
and titled by the men and women
who owned them.
Oregon seems to supplement all
that California lacks, and each state
appears to the other market in
which to exchange its productions.
Oregon should supply California
with hams and bacon, as the coun-
try seems admirably adapted for
the raising OF swine, and its climate
Is better than ours for curing pork.
iitlt 10 Ib iiSbiouS tiiiiittt III I
Oregon, and, though its grander
ranges, with their loftier
peaks wrapped in mantles of eternal
SHOWS present landscape that is
most attractive, there Is very little
ce or snow In the lower valleys.
Cattle unhoused do very well during
he winter months, and sheep uu.
sheltered during lambing time do
not yield 10 the inclement season.
Water Is, of course, abundant, for
oregon Is country of frequent
aims, and abounds In rivulcts,
brooks and larger streams. In nevery .
'art of Oregon, in the lesser aud :
greater valleys, all are abundantly
with living streams of the !
lind that furnish constant ample Q
'ower for running all kinds ot II
nils and machinery, Sawmills,
Iourlng-mills, woolen-mills abound, {,
cheap dwellings, cheap u
BOD and cheap clothing aud bed j
ing. Oregon is a safer country in II