The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1893-02-07

Interesting Details of Neighborhood
DoinRs.


ENDERsBY, Feb. Especial. The
thermometer today is at zero. Snow
is very deep and badly drifted. Stock
are doing well around home, but great
many are on the range yet, there being
TOO much snow to look for them at pres
ent, and we fear a good many will perish
before they can be brought in.
The stage resumed its regular route by
Endersby this morning, bringing the
first mail for week on account of snow
drifts.
Professor Frazer gave a sociable at
Dufur Saturday night which was grand
success. The Dufur revival meeting
has closed.
We noticed in late issue of THE
CHRONICLE, a special from Corvallis,
written from the Oregon Agricultural
college and signed "Bunchgrass." He
! starts out complaining of the fog hang
ing over the little town and the scarcity
of work in the little fog ridden burg.
| One might suppose he was laboring
man looking for job; but as we follow
him down to the agricultural college we
find he aims at something higher than
days labor. We put him down as one of
| those great big agricultural. Professors
that we had the pleasure of seeing few
weeks ago holding Farmers Institute
at Dufur. Yes. "Bunchgrass," we hap
pened to be there; and found to our
disappointment they could not tell
\ whether beans grew on sage brush or on
a cactus. He goes on to tell us that the
Il citizens OF our fair state don't have to
i bear but a small proportion of the ex-
4 penses of this great institution, but that
Uncle Sam, with his usual lavish hand,
has given of the peoples domain 10000
acres of the peoples land, to be trans
ferred to actual settlers; or land grab
bers for cash, to be used in this, as he
calls it "a great institution"
The people at large never suffered any
thing at the hands of Uncle Sans Civ
ing subsidies of land to corporations and
institutions that always has been and
always will be burden to the people
If Uncle Sam was as good at finishing
the work he undertook twenty years ago
at the Cascades, it would be ten times
more to the people of Oregon, than al
the agricultural colleges on the coast
, Then, he says, the people around Cor
, Wallis went down into their pockets
built and gave to the state fine build
ing of brick. Well they might. s.
. would any little dead town in the stat
e do the same thing; if, by SO doing the
r could build up great institution tha
D intend to spend as much money as the
intend to do. And now your man
g readers may see what this giving by tn
n people OF Corvallis to the state amount
o to. The state has since erected tw
t domitory boarding halls, also tw
q story mechanical building of brick, an
d has commenced station building, an
s not satisfied with that they ask the pre-
q ent legislature to finish the last name
q building, "and thds give the chemist
# chance to learn that Eastern Oregon
N capable of producing something mo-
J. thap bunch grass and sage brush" all
IN other buildings too numerous to mentiol
" tits pity the state can't give none
m enough to finish building for the gre
ID chemist and transport soil from Easter
3. Oregon so he can tell the people wheth
rt it will sprout beans or not. 1t has be'
b. tried and proven, years ago, that !
r. have the best soil in Eastern Oregon +
rv cereals that there is in the state, also
,is fruits and vegetables. II the state wou
Is- build portage railroad at the dalles,
would do moro for Oregon than all t