The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-01-06
oREeoN's ADVANTAGES.

6nOulQ De MADE Tor inducing large I'M
migration to Oregon in the spring.
What we, the Northwest, needs Eis de-
velopment, and this can only come when
more people fill the land. A stream of
people pouring into the Northwest this
year would mean also an influx of capi-
tai and the rousing of our dormant re-
sources. The press of the state can do,
no better service than continually setting
forth the advantages we possess, as is
done in the following article, taken from
the Salem Statesman. The statements
made are true and show with what
pleasant surroundings we are blessed:
The Pacific Northwest states need no
other exposition of their advantages as
to soil, climate and production over
other parts of America than is furnished
by truthful comparison. Passing over
or discounting all private and local
claims of assertions, take the official
bulletins of the weather bureau in the
various states asauthority, as and the press
reports at large, and it will be found that
all these sources of information are in
favor of Oregon, as compared with other
states of the union.
Here, in all this region west of the
Rocky mountains and north of Califov-,
mia, the winters are delightful and the
spring salubrlous, while the crops of all
kinds promise exuberance of yield and
perfection of quality. The fruit interest
promise sufficient quantity to affect the
markets of the world, for great numbers
of new orchards are coming into bear
ing and the reports on their condi-
tion show that the yield will be i'm
mense. Our strawberries go to the
cities of the m1d-continent, and even
further, netting the growers 1915 case
of twenty-eight pounds gross weight.
We have an abundant yield of cherries
and the world is finding that Oregon and
Washington grow cherries; that are
without equal elsewhere. The plums,
peaches, prunes and our unrivaled pears
bring good returns.
The Oregonians read of cyclones,
cloudbursts, sun -blights and devastating
frosts, and the thousand ills that other
climes are heir to, and can answer that
the Northwest has never had a devas-
tating storm, and knows nothing of
Vicissitudes of heat and cold.
If the people east of the Rocky noun
taIns knew the delights of its air and
scenery and mountains and valleys and
streams, knew the fertility of.its soil and
the excellence of its products, the popu-
lation of this region would be multiplied
tenfold in less than ten years. The
drawback is this, namely that they don't
know, and with difficulty can be made
to believe, what the real attractions and
excellence of this country are.
Our own people indeed scarcely know
or realize the truth until they have the
experience of our climates and condi-
tions. Then they find out. Persons
who have been accustomed to life on the
Pacific slope, when they visit other
parts of the United States, at any sea-
son of the year, find uneasy, and at
times almost insupportable. There is
no comfort anywhere, winter or summer.
Every person who has lived for num-
Der of years on the change, relates the
same experience, tells the same story
They who have become accustomed to
this Incompatible climate never will
live anywhere else.
But how shsll we make these attrac-
tions known? It is impossible to con-
vince with words. Experience only will
suffice. Yet there are those who know,
and can induce friends who have conf
dence in them to come and make proof
for themselves. But, even after resi-
dence here, it always requires trip or
two from home to establish the convic-
tion that life elsewhere than in our Pa
cific states is intolerable.
This is not the language of exaggera-
ton or rapture. 1t is sober truth, to be
learned by every person who will try
life on our Pacific slope and compare or
contrast it with life elsewhere. But
even the loyal Oregonian is obliged to
make trips East, and suffer the torments
of climate there, in order to realize fully
what he possesses and enjoys at home.
The Cuban Insurgents are in a posi-
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