The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-24
FIELDS OF YELLOW GRAIN.
Wheat Yield of Eastern Oregon
This Year Enormous.
SIXTY BUSHELS TO AN ACRE.
The Twelve Counties East Of the
Dasheis. or 5.I5O.000 More Than
Last Year-Far@ers Expect Over
% C<nts . BaaheI-Loa ming Money
Vow, Not Derrowfng-New Homes.


90 Ce.ts = BssAes-Leaninx Money
Vow. Not DerrowisE-xew Hsmes.
According TO C. ". Jennings. OF the Pen
aletea. Or. Tribune. who IS In Seattle for
few days. the farmers Of Eastern Ore
gon are In a mos; happy financial coudi-
tion this year. Their crops OF wheat. bar
ley and other cereals are simply enormous.
OF good graie. and are bringing high
enough prices 10 insure them against nard
times for many years 10 come.
IT Is eoassrvatively estimated thar the
twelve counties OF Oregon east Of the Cas-
cades. commonly known as Eastern Ore
son. viii this year raise i>,Nonp bushels
OF wheat. or within 2.0g1 90 bushels OF the
entire Yield Of the state in lss7" said Mr..
Jennings yesterday. This IS 5.i5a.ssao bush
els more than last years output OF East
era Ir=SGf1. bur reports from ;aressIng
already done 70 justify the assertion. Al
LEAST half of this Increase has oe~u grown
IN Cnat!ila county. known all over the
state as the banner county Of Oregon. Some
OF the yields that are being threshed there
are mammoth, almost beyond belief. I'm
agine outputs OF Atty TO sixty and even
sixty-two bushels TO the acre OF wheat
and yields OF forty TO forty five SO COM
mon as 10 be considered only fair: and yet
tina. is what Is being done there this year.
THE nsst report OF the season, which
came In about a month ago, was an av
erage. II l remember correctly, Of forty
two to the acre. This was considered an
exagxeratton. as in past seasons the aver
age Of the best grain has been from thirty
u1enis that even forty-iwo was far under
the best brought the conviction that 1885
Was going 10 lead all history OF that re-
markable district. The best yield ;hreshed
thus far belongs. l believe to q man
named Nelson, Of near Weston, who is
credited with getting s,xty-swo and h5if
bushels 10 the acre from quarter section.
Other yield OF f5 TO IS bushels in fields
or all the way from $50 to I.ero acres are
frequent. OF course. this Is the sali-sowa
grain, the spring wheat going from twenty
10 twenty-five, which IL five above the av-
erage of that class.
1T seems that the entire inland empire
is sharing IN this prosperity nothing but
good reports being received from the Pa
louise. Wslla Wal!a and Umatilia districts
Early in the SEASON reports were sent out
from the country around Garfield. Wash.
that the wheat was being damaged to a
great extent by the ravages of some mys-
10 be merely local
Holding for Good Prices.
There has not yet been much whsa. sold
In our district. bu, what has been disposed
OF has brought 80 to 81 cents This is ab0u,
10 cents below the quotations or last year.
Farmers are not showing much desire TO
sell. confident that before the fall season
Is over they will be getting IS Or 20 cents.
They are in a position 20 hold their grain
as long they care to- aua are simply
storing II liz anticipation OF better offers
1.-The acreage or Eastern Oregon wheat
this year exceeds by probably tenth tina.
OF 1880. In Umatiila county there being
10000 acres, agains. is0.oJo las, year We
are justly proud OF our county, As ii bears
the distinction Of producing In 1877 more
wealth than any other county in The Uni
ted States The actual output IN dollars
OF The grain fields and stock and sheep
ranges in taat year amounted 10 s33a for
every man. woman and child there and
this d.d not include the stock and grain
held over. but only that sold. The near
est approach 10 this yet heard OF was OF
one of your Washington counties. which
boosted az Per capita production Of $50.
This year the wealth Will be greater. as in
every line Of agriculture ;here has been a
great Improvement. Tmatil!a county's
wheat last year averaged twenty-five bush.
els 70 the acre: this year Il will be ten
more. including the spring -sown, and on
% go more acres; the wool clip Is also
greater. although &c what extern. do not
know as the product IS not moving yet:
sheep are commanding better prices. lambs
bringing from g. 20 s22S II head. and ewes
ana wethers All the way from s. % TO
s. -. and in the southern part Of the coun-
y there Is great activity Ia mining.
No More Mortgages.
Farmers no longer have any mortgages.
there not being a single one left. except In
eases whore the property owners wish TO
carry them 20 maturity. Instead Of being
borrowers, the farmers ~ the inland en-
pife are ioaning money. aving not enough
business FOR brokers 10 make a living or
The oaTk deposits 81 our county las year
amounted 10 s. 0na 00se Of which tw0-ghfrds
belonged 70 the farmers. amounting 70 an
average of from i,sto 70 s. SEQ fer each de-
posltor from the county. New farm build
ings arr gong up all over these great
wheat districts and the county is rapidly
assuming an appearance OF wealth and
conSsrtstf industry. Il is no longer only
tne city folk that take winter trir~ 10 the
souih, for IN the las. year fully half that
Went were farmers ! recall onr instance
~ young German sho WAS married las;
winter. He rented his farm, and with a
teyosit left IN the bank 20 start in with
sgsn. ~ departed wish his bride for trip
T. last a year through Europe.
There "a naturally a great Immigration
int3 our country This last spring about
iro families came overland from califor-
Ma. driven out 81 the Colder. state hy The
fau..ues ana dTdI'as. and they have start
- 81 a small way ami expect Ia b@ nam
b~rel among the solid eitizsns in very
few years
'Os course, rex: year there xil be
more at;estlon ta@n ever pad 70 farming
Already Tie present farmers have rented
Extra holdings. some az thAn Increasing
tse.r lands Hy half ard Others fvSn sha
cites are branching out in:o agg3cuisure.
Ru: 8, IS diTca}l - e@; wceat azni. ard