Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-12-13
What Lincoln County Offers.

Will pay the homeseeKerS 10 see
W hat the opportunities and resours-
es of this county are. To the man
who is seeking for broad acres
where he may farm on a magpif-
cent and grand style; where he can
raise vast fields Of wheat or corn,
and having raised and marketed his
large crops finds that the profits are
exceeded by expenses, this county
offers no inducements. Neither
does it offer any inducements to the
man who believes firmly that nature
brought him into the world and
is therefore in honor bound to keep
him alive, without effort or exer-
ton on his part. But to the man
who is seeking small home, where
the labors of himself and family
will cultivate and improve it, he
will find it here. In Lincoln coun-
ty he will find a soil that for fertil-
ity cannot be excelled in any part
of the whole country. In these
mountains and along the streams he
will find valleys and dells where
man can live off of the fruits of his
labor and live like king on the
products of his own farm. In his
fields he can grow the finest vege
tables that ever graced a market;
in his orchards, if properly attend
ed, he can grow fruits that would
please the gaze and tickle the palate
of the veriest fruit epicure in the
world. Apples, Pearst Plumbs,
Prunes, Peaches, and all kinds of
similar fruits can be raised in an
abundance. His berry patches are
always fruitful when properly cared
for. On his meadow lands grow
the nutritious clover, timothy, and
other grasses, while the succulent
grasses upon which his herds feed
nine months in the year fattens his
beeves for market and causes his
milk cows to produce butter and
milk, the quality and quantity Of
which are unexcelled the country
around. The fence corners and
waste places will grow enough sun-
flowers to feed his poultry the year
round; the bees from his apiary
will furnish the finest of honey for
his table Then add to all these
things a climate that rarely ever
reaches the freezing point in the
winter, and never the excessively
hot point in summer, and one can
well ask, "What more can a man
wantl" I -,
Again we say it is true that there
are not nor never will be great and
vast fields of grain in Our country,
not because grain will not grow
and ripen here, but because the
topography Of the country forbids
it, the cultivatable bodies Of land
in the county are small, but they
are so numerous that the aggregate
is quite large. The smallncss OF
these bodies of agricultural land are
set down as drawbacks frequently
by the newcomer, when in fact it is
simply blessings ,r disguise. Il
prohibits the big farmer" who has
suffered so severely In the east
The result of these small bodies o.
) land is small homes. The county
will be more depsely populated
more highly cultivated, and will be
: filled with happy, prosperous ant
E selt-supporting people. The man
= who is living ON his own home, and
off the garden thereof he gets hi.
> vegetables, off of the orchard he
. gets his fruits of all kinds, his
: pork from off the clover field, his
milk and butter and his beef from
> his pastures, his honey from his
own bees, fish from the adjacent
= rivers and creeks, his fuel from his
timber wool for his clothing from
his flocks that roam the hillsides
is certainly the most independent
person on earth. This is no over.
drawn picture for within two
niles OF 'Hoiedo therc is a man vino
; enjoys all these blessings. Is not a
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