The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-10-31

1H4 ItAtGa &AA&t nave DEEH HNA&k HtAht
q market for everything farmer can
raise on irrigated farms Most of our
citizens think Of Oregon and Wash
ington as a cold. bleak region. when
right TO the reverse of that is true.
In Oregon and Washington 1t rarely
ever freezes and such thing as hy-
drants bursting is hardly ever heard
of In the timbered regions of both
states 1t rains almost every day dur
ing the winter months. not hard
enough TO wash the lands and they
say over there when the time of year
comes for 1t to rain they want to
see ii rain every day. When 1t rains
the winds are from the Pacific ocean,
producing pleasant atmosphere.
Then they say the gentle rains fill
the earth with water and this ma
lures their fruit, hay. hops. potatoes,
garden truck, etc. The evidence of
prosperity from every source is to
be seen on every hand After / had
worn off the new after arriving at
Portland, | sat down at our boarding
house one night and decided to go
up the Willamette river valley forty
miles to see Mr.. Matt Small. a cousin
of Dr. Small of this city He crossed
the plains from Tennessee and settled
near where he now resides In 1853.
Took his party just one year with OK
teams To make the trip. Mr.. Small
now owns one thousand acres and
has three well improved homes on
his tract. His land in red and almost
as stiff as our Ellis county black
land He grows red clover and tim
othy as well as kentuck or Tennes-
see. where he came from. He makes
from IS to so bushels of wheat per
acre In his back yard there are
cherry trees that measure three feet
ia circumference The cherries were
ripened and gathered. Mr.. Small
said they never failed 10 yield a
/ large crop of luscious berries.
Prunes and apple orchards he also
had In abundance. Peaches, he
said, were not sure crop. though
all the other fruits he mentioned, he
said never failed him. Now am
going 10 tell some things | don I
/ suppose many OF our Texans will
| believe. Mr.. Small Is a strict Cum
berland Presbyterian and he vouches
/ for the truth of the statement that
| he had In one corner of his garden
/ two grape vines that never failed 10
| yield him a ton each of grapes
every year This section of Oregon
| is devoted largely 10 growing hops
/ from which lager beer In made. Mr.
/ Small had no hops growing. Said
! he would not grow anything TO de-
| baueh his fellow man. yet one of his
| neighbors last year cleared 81 900
1 off twelve acres. He made 1900
pounds OF hops TO the acre and sold
I them at so cents per pound This
| season the hop growers are only get
| ting Is cents per pound. Four hun
dred hop pickers left Portland one
/ day while we were there for the hop
/ fields They scout around out there
/ hunting hops to pick like cotton pick
/ ers do I'm Texas, and they make about
! the same wages. The day We left
/ Seattle about one hundred Indians
/ from a reservation in Washington an
! loaded from the boat we returned TO
! Tacoma on. going out TO the hop
| fields close 10 Seattle, and they
/ were indeed a motley crew. with
[ their bundles, coffee pots, skfllets
and papooses. this last named being
| their children The small ones are
/ invariably strapped TO the squaw s
back There are still a great many
/ Red Men west of the Rocky noun
/ tains. but IL has been long time
since they went on the warpatn
/ have the honor OF having taken
some little part in the last outbreak
| Of Indians in the United States
| Geronimo. who, after eluding the
/ troops in Arizona for several years
/ an killing IN IA gyHn4 M W
/ finally run down by General Miles
and captured with all his band /
/ boarded at the same hotel with Gen
eral Miles In Arizona and went on
/ one or two raids after Geronimo and
saw the old scoundrel the next day
after he was captured. and ! feel
now when | think of the good men |
helped To bury that he and his band
had killed like killing him instead
OF exhibiting him as the government
has done at the st. Louis Exposition
and other places. While going over
on the boat from Tacoma 20 Sc
attie | met Ex-Governor Powers Of
the state OF Maine and now a con
gresham from that state. He knew
our Jack Beall. his wife and boy. and
although a Yankee from as far north
l as one E0hfu foIHts ne Was SpitH-
did companion. He is quite rich and
away up in the councils of the re-
publican party / spent several
hours with him as pleasantly as any
had while gone Among other
questions | asked him. was when he
was going 20 let us democrats in
again we had been out Til we were
getting mighty hungry. Tie said. Il
am an American first and when we
get too corrupt ! want 60 see the
democrats in When I left him
said Governor | think YOU are
about the cleverest and most honest
blue front Yankee | ever met. and
like yon and am glad 20 have met
YOU And he aaid 80 me. come "a
Washington 10 see Jack BeRll and