Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1903-09-25
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N''"S nun lIIuS JIuJIlullJ anu inter
esiingly paints Lincoln county in the
Walla Walla Statesman
In these days Of vast irrigation en-
terprses it would naturally be, thought
that country where irrigation is un-
necessary and almost uhheard of would
not be asking for industrious immi-
grants. Yet that is the situation with
Lincoln county, Oregon. Embracing
rs it does the Pacific ocean on the
west for many miles north and south,
and taking in the Coast range to the
Willamette valley, there are thousands
upon thousands of acres of the finest
soil in the world, well timbered, where
everlasting springs abound, creeks and
rivers prolific with trout and salmon
and deer numerous in the hills uu-
known to the outside world andt very
sparsely settled.
The soil is good TO the tops of the
hi.ls ana is OF sandy loan which
yields immense crops of oats, rye, bar
ley, wheat, timothy and especially red
clover which often cuts from four to i've
tohs per acre. This year on Bear creek
a tributary of the Big Elk river, oats
when threshed yielded so bushels to the
acre. The finest favored apples in the
world grow here and strange to say the
insect pests like Goblin moth are un-
known and an apple with worm in
side Inever yet have found. In fact
the settlers say they will give a big dol
lar to any one who finds a wormy one.
Therefore tho expense attendant upon
orchards elsewhere 10y constant spray
ing is unknown. Now understand the
country as general thing is not "ready |
for the plow" as in other sections east
OF the Cascades but has to he cleared !
There are hundreds of acres of rich !
bottom lands covered with vine maple. |
cherry, hazel, etc. This is cut down in /
the ioll and winter, piled up in wiurows !
burned the following summer and then
sowcd with timothy and clover. by next
spring there is good pasture, then they .
l'tthe cattle, sheep and goats in to eat
of the sprouts and in couple years or
50 the stumps can be kicked out. AS
Ior vegetables, potatoes, cabbage, etc.
the yield is something wonderful. The
ehlLtIm tree from the bark of which
Cascara is made is indigenous to the
country. For the past few years the
settlers have made money by going to
the woods with their families in the
summer, skinnng the bark from the
trees and selling it as low as * cents
per pound But recently there has
been boom in this medicine aud il has
gone rs high as 2l cents per pound.
One man above here took a contract
last winter to slash land for the chittim
bark on it and has made $25GO this fall.
Betore the price went up we did not care
much who got it so long as they asked ,
our consent and promised SO per ton ;
royalty, but now it is jealousy guarded,
the seed OF the trees planted, for at six a
years cid a tree will Weld IA pounds of ,
bark when dued. Cattle are generally c
Ted the latter part OF winter toward ,
@pring' but my experience is that cattle +,
which are turHedout to rustic for them :
elves come DOT in better condition
than those that are fed all the time.
Sheep are mover fGd but make IA good i
living by browsing. Last wiuer tried Il
.o feed them clover hay but they would :
not eat it, never lost single head. =
The ewes began Iambiug about the first u
week in March, nearly every one had I
,wo lambs and only two died out of 700 i
head. The great secret in raising
lambs Is not to have them until March.
whom the young white and red clover
ONES out. There are many expcri-
ne",M farmers who read eastern uari.
'utural papers which say early lambs
we the best, While this NAV applv "
asst where spring lambs are in demand j
u high price it is different here, for II
early lambs mean that ii eve has -,
$50, as is their custom hereabouts. A
wSS is short SO you have to knock one X
n the head to raise the other. But 70
.ith ewes with big uddors full of milk -. -
is fun for them to raise both. an
Your readers will naturally ask, why. y
it'll. country possessing SO many ad- m
utagcS, it has not been settled years '"
20? III tell YOU why. About thirty ga,
ars ago the state OF Oregon granted II,
q greater part of this country to SUI
'gon road company 10 build road a.,
nm Corvallis to iaquina bay. 1t fiji Re
Y fell intn lhn nnssnA.inn OF . rArr