East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-03-27

Antelope, ore, March 25.-"Bend,
did you say? Well, yes. Are you
going over into the Bend country?"
That's where l am headed for. Do
you know anything about that sec
ton of the world?" well, yes; 1
just came from there, and l think
that it's just the country for a poor
man to go to. I've been up there for
the last six months, took up a home
stead, bought so acres of land and /
have a part of it under cultivation the |
remainder is all covered with good
timber which will be worth quite a
sum whenever we get a railroad, |
which will not be very long"
How much of the 24O acres
have you under cultivation, and what
kind of timber is there on the re-
mainder?"
well, er-, l only have about an
acre that l sowed to rye, but it hasn't
come up yet. Last year my neighbor
on the east sowed ten acres that made
/ four and half tons of good hay and
I hadn't it got frost-bitten in June
would have gone a ton and a half to
the acre.
THE timber on mine is principally
yellow pine and lots of it will make
logs 90 or 80 feet long; of course,
there is some knots in it as you will
FIND i'm all timber near the mountains.
\ good deal of the timber is sage
brush and juniper.
81 haven't the least doubt but what
this will be, in the course of a few
years, one of the best agricultural sec
tons in Eastern Oregon; of course,
It's all new now, and it will take time
TO develop it.
THE Bend country has all the ad-
5 "a tages Of the Yakima country aud
= TIERS nc reason Why it won't be
| heard from in time. The soil is hun
dreds of feet deep; water is being
brought from the Deschutes river in
abundance; the summers are warm
I and all we will have to do in order to
a get a crop is to pillow and plant All
, the elements of nature are in its
=. favor.
Bend has 1000 inhabitants right
. now. ENtINDOuN Is happy anu man
ing money. l haven't talked to &
!, man south of The Dalles. but what
thinks it's the paradise of oregon
= Well, 1 guess it's about bedtime anC
as | want to go away on the stage il
the morning, I'll retire; but, say /
= you fellers want a good home you'C
'e better get in there pretty soon, as it..
d going fast"
The Other Side.
"a Did that fellow say he was locate,
at Bend? III bet he's got propert,
there that's for sale and burned cheal
d too I've been over there for the pas
l. two years watching that country an
ot the people and of all the misery an
IS discontentment l ever saw that besS
> them all.
lie "I own $50 acres within a mile O
lie Bend and if any one of you wants
for 500, I'll make you a warrant
deed for it in the morning, and tax
one-half down and the rest in a yea
without interest.
10 "I thought just like that other fel
+ low when l first went over there, br
n. after seeing the prospect of two goo
crops of hay frozen down to tn
ground in June and July l gave u
ia the ghost. There's plenty of soil an
or lots of water but no climate"
l. What kind of a soil is it?''
III well. the foundation is layer {
'e lava covered over with ashes or tn
dust of worn rocks; some places it
B. pretty deep, in others 1t hardly cover
lie the lava, and in many places tn
V. lava comes to the top where nothin
ty will grow.
Id 1.-The timber, where there is any,
is very small and it would be almost in
possible to get a log two feet in dian
II eter 10 feet long; of course, there al
"a exceptions but, candidly speaking
"A there's no timber worth speakin
about. Sagebrush, juniper and Law
"A cover the greatest part. You kno
is what 1 mean when 1 say juniper.
will grow right on top of bed I
lava and dies in good soil.
IL "In bet my 320 acres of land th'
ny there isn't "A man in Crook count
d. who has a ranch away from here an
lg don't own any at Bend. who will spea
ne of its greatness!
at 1--WE seen lots of people come
w there with from $500 to $500 an
are rot able to get away today.
n my friend. you can believe me
ar not, but my advice to a man of fe
n dollars is to stay away from Bend"
ya NJ. S. w.