The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-08-13
FROM OREGON
MEADOW, P.O. LANE County,
- nnonxnaa Y.als. Ql 1901

uGADOW, < ". LIAM OOuUGy,
49,. Oregon, July 81, 1901.
EDITOR ADvANCE:-Ith has ever been
against my rule to reply to other writ
ings unless l think it urgently neces-
sary. I have read and re-read DIS COM
munications to the ADVANCE from
Eugene, Oregon, of May Is and June
25. I do not know who he ia, and I
have wondered what his object could
be for such writing. conclude he
may be in the real estate business, or
he may be paid by those who are. or
he may he jesting. He says wheat
yields from rs to 40 bushels to the acre.
Barly, he is told, yields from so to SO
bushels, oats generally from 40 to 60,
light oats being unknown, so-he is told =.
Hay yields from two to four tons TO
the acre, and fine ready market, at from
10 to 20 dollars per ton.'' "a compet-
ence is here for men of small means,
but to the laborer it is the reverse. :"
He says: ''The principal advantage the
coast farmer has over his eastern bro
ther is he has S65 days in which to do
years work." He says, 1T is claimed
that the rainy season is what prevents
this country from producing it's own
corn," (tl'at is the fall rains, 800 bu-
shells potatoes to the acre!" He says
"he arrived here some two months ago"
He says, ''the flowers and their won-
derfut beauty; roses actual measure
ment over six inches across" mo
failure cf any crop was ever known"
"Apples 20 inches in circumference" 5"
''The apple tree is to be found in all
manner of places far from human habi-
tation loaded with fruit that is left to
fall and rot upon the ground" He
says, IL wish to speak mostly from ex-
perience," he says lit is his intention
to invariably stand by facts alone"
l have lived here over five years and
am we'll acquainted over some of the
Willamette valley, and to the ocean.
Wheat averages about IL bushels to
the acre, instead Of 324. I have seen
wheat that was never harvested. lit
had been the seed could not have been
procured again. Was that failure of
crops? have paid Is cents Il bushel for
poor, light oats. l saw hay, lots of it,
sell in Eugene City for five dollars per
ton, and sometime the farmers could
not even get that. God pity the man
that comes here with a large family,
and small means. But it is bad too,
for the day laborer, because the
country is not what it is represented to
ee. Poor crops and poor. worny fruit
and low prices for all we have to sell.
We cannot afford to hire help. His
'advautage of 365 days. That is Ore
gon style. They see no Sunday, many
Of them. He has been here two months
and knows more about Oregon now
than the man in the moon, who has
looked down on it thousands of times
through the Oregon mist and fog.
Why nearly everybody in the United
States know that it rains here on an
AL average half the year, off aud on, S.
men can do but little out of doors. Of
course they plow, they have to, the,
plow with their rubber coats and boots
on, and the furrows full of water clear
across the field. He says we cam,
raise corn because of fall ,ains after
Onf r.
cause it is not corn country, and
never will be, the nights are too cool.
Eight hundred bushels potatoes to
the acre''-um! 1.-The wonderful
flowers and their beauty" He may
have come in contact with may weed
and tar weed. "Roses six across" /
never saw one half that. have seen
many more wild flowers around Wor-
thington than l ever did here and
flowers more beautiful too. "Apples
twenty inches around" Now neigh
Dor D. -um! l once drove to the
valley for q load of apples and was
asked one dollar per bushel, hauld
apples home and threw them out, they
were so badly worm eaten. The "apple
trees away from human habitation
loaded. &C." Never heard of a single
instance. The railroad from Florence
to Eugene is only partly surveyed at
this writing, the surveying party left
yesterday and about fifty miles yet to
survey out of the seventy-nine. We
have very little wild fruit in this Sec
tion of Oregon or in any other Sec
tion.
There is great deal of poor land in
the great Willamette valley. Thou
sands of acres that / would not give
soc per acre for. There is much of It
such that a cow could not subsist on a
40 acres the year. Thousands of acres
of it are full of the wild rose, thorny.
large and dense, and stands under
water half the year.
repeat what have written before
Oregon is the poorest state 1 ever was
in and believe the poorest of forty
four states. Think of its large size,
then of its small population and it's
age. But we have a climate of the best,
water of the best, and plenty of fine
fuel, and we can raise plenty fruit and
crops of midling average. Ihave the
statistics in the house, but not time
now to tell you, about the wonderful