Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-10-29
BY a Letter to aNebraSka News
paper That Slanderd
Our State
Unparalleled; Resources That Are Proven
by StatementSsOf, Fact Contain
ed in1 ThiSs Paper

a / could take columns of your paper tC
!. tell you about our wonderful scenery
our forests and mountain ranges
e Large portions Of the state are being
! brought under cultivation by irrigation
enterprises Our state has grand and
noble rivers, finding their way from
the mountains TO the sea. These rivers
are re-stocked with many varieties of
salmon, forming large part Of the
worlds supply of this royal fish. Our
500 miles of coast line is indented
with many good harbors, beautiful
bays and delightful beaches, and sum
mer resorts. While in the Eastern
states it is principally the millionaires
who can afford TO spend their sum.
mers at the ocean, in Oregon, any
family Of moderate means can enjoy
this luxury on the beautiful beaches.
Your readers have all heard of our
great timber wealth and undeveloped
mineral resources. We are about see.
ond or third as a gold-producing state,
and our mountains are rich in attrac
tions for the prospector, and our coun'
try is simply overrun with timberland
locators. Western Oregon has just as
fine dairy region as any part of your
state with this difference, we have no
freezing in winter, and require no ice
in summer In addition to general
farming, cattle and swine raising, we
have in Oregon many big money
crops that produce annually more
wealth per capita from the soil than
probably any state in the Union.
What shall say of the glorious eli |
mate, the wonderful soil, the products,
the excellent water, abundant forests
and the unexplored mineral wealth of
this regions Your readers would call
many of my statements fairy tales,
and | could spin yarns by the hour,
based upon facts, that would be classed
by incredulous with the Arabian
Knights can best give you an idea
of our undeveloped, and to great ex-
tent unexplored commonwealth, by |
saying that it is twice as big as Ne.
braska, having about one-seventh the
population. Take with me birds
eye view of the Willamette valley, with /
which / happen to be the most familiar.
There is not finer farming region
lying out of doors. The beautiful blue
Willamette river, rising in the noun
tains, flows north into the Columbia,
ten miles above Portland. 1t takes |
people from the Missippi valley some
time 20 get their bearings, as the river
flowing in the opposite direction turns
them around. The valley is from ten
to go miles wide, level and very fer
tile, lying between the Coast Range
and the Cascade mountains. We enjoy |
a mild marine climate, this region |
falling under the influence of the Pa.
cihc ocean. Our streams are full of |
salmon from the sea and trout from |
The mountains, Our orchards are fam.
Gus for their apples, pears, prunes and
English walnuts. The finest varieties |
OF plums reach from two to FIVE times /
the size they do with you, although !
must admit that for high flavor and
hne quality for preserves, give me the
wild plums Of Nebraska. All small
fruits, from the strawberry TO the
blackberry, grow in such profusion that
selling becomes problem. But can.
neries are being rapidly established,
and our good things in this line are
going TO the ends of the world. We
grow all the grain crops that flourish
in Nebraska ON large scale, except
ing corn. but corn is becoming rapid
ly aeelimated just as il was in North
ern Iowa and Minnesota. Twenty
acre fields are not uncommon of early
white and yellow dant. Corn is the
great ensilage crop, being fed out OF
the silos Il months in the year, owing
10 the absence OF freezing temperature.
This is an ideal dairying country, as
our hptter'makers require neither ice
in summer nor artificial heat in win,
ter But besides dairying and farm,
ing such as you have, this region can
boast Of number of big money crops,
an risen TO the magnitude Of special
Industries. We ship from this vicinity
from four 10 six million dollars worth !