Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-04-14

WiDneshiek county men mere at "a
lem. The deputy sheriff, Mr.. Wall,
is from Windsor. Fayette Co. We
had a call from a son of Paul Fisher
the other day. They live out this
way from Portland. Julius Ruef OF
Gle mont bought farm here Tor
Sl25.OO an acre three years ago. He
could sell for 5000 an acre any day
and the city 's spreading all around
him. DR.. Cartwright is ason of the
veteran physician at Decorah.
An Iowa man came into the office
last night and said he had located
here, invested in forty or fifty lots
in different parts Of the city, sent
for his brother aud family, and all
this after investigating the big
booming cities on Puget Sound. He
says those places have no good
country behind them, while Salem
has the richest farming and fruit
region all around il. Portland is
now only three days from Chicago,
by the new Union Pacific limited
express, and within ten years that
will be cut down to two days, just
as The distance from Chicago to New
York is reduced to one day.
Our Salem business men took
$40, 900 stock in 200 hand cannery
in about 20 minutes a few weeks ago
and the building il half way up by
this time. f.. HoFER.
SALEM, Or, Mar. IL.
THE WINTER. WEATHER.
In q letter to the McGregor, Iowa,
News, Hon. II. b. Carter, pre- 81
dent of the First National bank at
Ashland, in southern Oregon, near
the mountains between California
and Oregon, the scene of the heavy
snow storm, says:
We hear of no season that COM
pares with the last, unless it may
be the winter of 1852 and '53. OF
that we first beard from an old-time
citizen of Clayton county, the late
Mr. Patch, formerly Of McGregor,
later of Elkader, and he il fully cor
roborated by "old Oregonians. "
Then the snow was two feet deep
in the valley, bat left in January
with II 4-days' rain; this year it was
Is inches ana did not disappear till
the middle Of February. In the
meantime a dozen miles south, the
snow was 10 feet deep in the Siskiou
mountains. with drifts so deep near
their crests that We are confident
that one summer cannot melt them.
And Ashland Butte, only II or Is
miles away, and in plain view from
portions of the town promises us a
vision of the beautiful" all thro' the
summer days.
We confidently hope and trust
that no such winter will return for
the next 81 years; and yet we have
known Aprils in Iowa, with their
storms and gales, that brought more
suffering, than any month we have
ever known on the Pacific
Coast. We looked often, but the
lowest we saw our thermometer was
II above zero, and the absence OF
severe winds, or their extreme
rarity, contributes more to our com
fort, than the higher temperature.
Ashland and its near vicinity suf-
fered comparatively little from
the floods, tho Ashland creek with
its average fall Of from 200 to 300 feet
per mile was fOaming torrent, and
Bear creek was a raging river, each
In places cutting new channels,
washing away II few acres of rich
bottom lands; at others leaving drifts
of trees, tl0od-wood, gravel and sand
some fences and small bridges are
missing and deep gullies are unwel,
come mementOes of the worst winter
in 81 years; but it is past, and lovely
spring has clothed valley, hills,
fields, and mouhtain-slopes in the
livery Of May. The myrtles, violets
and pansies are opening their bios,
SONS to the sun, but for the first
time within our knowledge) the
almonds failed TO bloom in Febru.
airy. Farmers and orchardists are
busy; building is resumed, the walls
of the opera house block are nearly
completed, and all seem hopeful and
confident of prosperous fruitful
year,