The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-07-11
What" "OREGON' MEANS
Something of Her Resources
and Sublime Scenery.
THE WOOL AND WHEAT CROPS.
This Season Will be the Busiest and
Brightest the Farmers Have
Ever Known.
THE WOOL AND WHEAT CROPS.

buke against the vast majority of that
portion of the American public whose
privilege 1t is to occasionally go pleas.
ure seeking, is that they are apt to turn
their steps 10 foreign countries when al
their own doors are sights and wonders
far eclipsing in size, beauty, and inter.
est, anything they can gaze on abroad
That this rebuke is in a great measure
meritsd there can be no doubt whatever
Out of the ten thousand people in this
city I do not believe that fifty have
ever seen The Dalles, or the Cascade
locks, or the great Multnomah falls.
do not believe that ten have stood al
the foothills of Mount Hood or gazed
en- the beautiful little river that carries
its melted SHOWS down into the mighty
Columbia. And yet how many of us
were crazy to go to the Midwinter Fail
at San Francisco and to revel in a SER
les of artistic looking hothouses, car
peted with peanuts and enlivened by
the cry Of Cheap John fakirs, C'conces-
sionaires," 1 believe Mr.. De Young calls
them) yelling the superior attributes oil
the bearded woman or the lion with
seven legs. On the one hand dreary
ocean trip, a week of revelling (among
the peanuts) and you return home with
nasty taste in the mouth On the
other, voyage along river whose
shores, crowded with waterfalls, can
yons, and fertile valleys, speak peace
and delight at every mile; after that q
trip to some of natures grandest spec
tacles-Jefferson Hood, and laundering
cataracts, and your holiday closes with
a remembrance that will stay by you
as long as memory lasts. How many of
us really know what that word "Ore-
gon" stands for? To most it signifies
Portland Astoria, and the stretch of
river that joins the two cities. Its hun
dreds of miles Of smiling farms, its cat
tie ranches, its beauties, and its WON
ders, spread over vista whose bound
aries cover an area larger and more
all unthought of. Look at the map.
study out her size; gaze round you and
see her fertility, her millions of acres of
virgin soil, her giant trees whose tops
throw shadows at your very doors, her
waterways and her cloud-piercing peaks
this and much more is Oregon. once
hoo rd of old cattIar xt.ot o,,t ,,oo '.
Huntington, in Baker county, 1 think,
who was asked by two tourists whether
they had crossed the line into the next
state yet. The old man in a very melo-
dramatic manner stood in front of them
and throwing up his arms, replied: mo,
yer aint. An when you young gents
gets back home to yer mammies in New
Yark, or Philydelphy, or Row-chester,
an they asks yer to tell 'em all about
that ere little web-footed hole in the
ground called Oregon, you jest ups an
says, mann, that hole in the ground is
a mighty big hole Don't either of
y er ever forget that you oncet got TO a
place where an old feller told yer you
was four hundred miles east of the
great Pacific ocean-and still in Oregon"
That old man mightn't have had a col
lege education, but he knew better than
most of us of the immensity and splen-
dour covered by the name of our state.
But this is moralizing. want to tell
g..
fertility as evidenced in the vicinity of
The Dalles and the whole of Northeast
orn Oregon. The disastrous Columbia
river flood has wrought great destruc-
tion in several localities within our
boundaries, but nature has recompensed
us in many other ways and her bounty
in fish. wheat and wool has been un-
stinted. Never before in the history of
the state has our wool crop been So
large as it is this year. Our wheat crop
will be several hundred thousands of
bushels bigger than ever before, and
salmon are sYarming all the upper riv-
ers in countAss millions, defying thel
to handle half of what they
ran catch. The excellent weather con-
ditions. principally brought about by an
exceptionally cool month of June, will
be the means of a splendid wheat aver
age throughout the farming districtc,
and the acreage planted this year is !
larger than II ever has been. The cropl
is making the most favor
able progress, and by October thousands
Of fields Of rustling gold will be spread
over the whole wheat-growing portion
of the state. The only trouble will be in
Obtsining transportation for the grain
after it is gathered, and this difficulty
viii in all probability be a serious one.
expect to see the farmers begging the
railroad companies for cars inside Of
three months. and it seems to be very
doubtful whether they will get all they
want
The Dalles is just now one vast store
house for wool, and in every available
space is packed pile upon pile OF this
material awaiting shipment. The Wascol
Company's warehouse is
stacked to the roof, and Moody & Co.'S
srge building is loaded. In fact. the
wool came In from the surrounding
so rapidly that 1t was found
necessary to open up the big pavilion
IF the exhibition building, which was
also quickly filled to its utmost capacity.
And the wool has still kept coming in
steadily for the past three weeks, Sc
Ferely taxing the ingenuity OF the resi-
ients Of The Dalles to find storage for