Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1892-02-25
A PLEASING PROPHECY.
Touching the Failure of the Richly En-
dOwed Olympic Peninsula.

Touchtng the Failure OF the Richly En-
dowed Olympic Peninsuia.
Aprnpos of the projected building of
the Aberdeen & Victoria Railroad from
Aberdeen to the Straits along the west
ern slope OF the Olympic mountains a
description OF the country north of Grays
harbor will he interesting. The gentle
man who related the following to the
Port Crescent Leader has resided on this
coast for years, has examined the terri
tory and his Judgment Of its resources is
to be relied on. He says in part:
"The time is coming, and l don't be-
Iieve it is far away, when the western
slope of the Olympic peninsula, from
Port Crescent, and for miles east of here
southwest to Grays harbor, will be
known as the greatest dairy country on
this continent; that great dairying in
terest will spring up there, and that
Olympic peninsula butter and cheese will
become famous all over the Pacific coast,
and possibly far beyond. 1 base this
prophecy on the fact that this peninsula
is, by reason of its natural endowments,
the finest dairy country on this continent !;
that here all the conditions necessary to
make dairying profitable in tie highest
degree exist in profusion. Washed By
the waters Of the Pacific ocean and the
Straits OF Fuca, as the ocean slope of this
peninsula is, and with a background of
majestic mountains, that admirably per-
form tine wor., of condensing the vapors
arising from the sea, such thing as a
drought is absolutely impossible there.
You will always have plenty Of rain, and
consequently, all sorts of vegetation will
prosper, especially grass.
"The soil throughout this whole PENN
sula, from we'll up on the foothills to the
coast, is rich. Much of it-hundreds of
thousands of acres, as 1 personally know
lis as good as the best land in Puyallup
or White river valleys. The formation
is the same, and the day is coming when
an acre Of the deep, fertile, inexhaustible
soil, so abundant between here and Grays
harbor, will be worth as much for agricul-
tural or dairying purposes as the Puyal-
lup lands. This will be great hop as
we'll as great dairy and stock country.
With good land, that produces all the
nutritious grasses most luxuriantly; with
and plenty of running water everywhere,
perfect pasturage can be had--not for a
few months in the year, but for eleven
months out of the twelve. Grass re-
mains green and sweet all the year iound
and is available for pasturage atall times.
"The climate, owing to the genial in
fluence Of Japan current, is so mild and
kind that the question of wintering
stock can never be serious or expensive.
stock will thrive out of doors, all the
year round, and very little winter feed
ing W Il be required.
"With unfailing pasturaee eleven
months in the year; with soil that pro-
duces the finest grasses-and notably
blue grass, rsd-top clover and alfalfa
in perfection with an abundance of run
ming water, and an ideal, al-the-year-
around climate for stock-why should
this not become great dairy country?
Here, the business can be carried on OH
the most satisfactory basis, economical
not only of means bnt time, and the larg-
est possible profits of the industry real
lied. After YOU get railroad through
the peninsula, from tho Straits to Grays
harDor, the question of getting to mar
ket" with the products of the dairy and
the farm will have been happily solved;
and when this railroad outlet is afforded,
l expect to see the country develop, and
develop rapidly and prosperously, on tho
lines have indicated. This will always
be great agricultural country; it will be
a great hop country; but it will also be a
great dairy country, and l would not be
surprised to see many comfortable for
tunes built here, with rolls of golden
butter as their basis; for az l said at the
outset, this is the finest dairy c. untry on
this continent, and its advantages will
be utilized by the butter and cheese
makers, as soon as a proper outlet to
market is afforded. We are now impor-
ting hundreds of tons of California, and
even Eastern butter to Washington every
year. There is no earthly reason why
we should do this, save that Washington
is still very young, and we have not yet
prepared to supply our people with our
own staple products. But we are devel-
oping rapidly, and this condition of af-
fairs will be remedied in a few years."