The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-03-21
Thousands Of Farmers Coming to
Oregon to Locate.
BOOKING FOR FARM LANDS
Gistsop County Offers Special induce
ments for Thrifty Farmers Upon Its
Fertile Lands, Where Crops Never
Fail and Good Prices Prevail.

According 70 the dispatches pub
Eshed in Sundays Atsorian all the
aranscontinental railroads out of Chi
eago are unable to secure sufficient
transportation facilities to accommo-
date the large number of people com
ing to this coast. and the dispatches
further state that hundreds of ear
vania and New Work pass st. Paul on
every train, bound for Idaho. Wash
ngtcn and Oregon. That most of
them have sufficient means TO buy a
Farm and cultivate it. The question
interesting the peopel Of oregon is,
where win all this great army of farm
ers locate.
Representatives of nearly every
county in Oregon are in Portland to
meet these people. They have copies
sf local papers containing a descrip-
tfon of the resources of their respect,
I've counties. together with other liter
ature showing the inducements Of
fered to settlers: with description
and price of farm lands. and in this
way, nearly all the PEOPLE arriving in
Portland are sent to the Willamette
valley and eastern oregon. ClatsopI
sUunty has no representatives in Port
land It hasn't even an exhibition or
the. resources Of the county at the
Lewis and Clark fair. 1t has no copies
ef the local newspapers or other litera-
ture to distribute among the new COM
ers, consequently few, If any of them
VII come to Clatsop county to locate.
If Astoria had a commercial organi- !
ntion interested in building up the
city and county, developing its re- |
sources and some one in Portland to |
meet these people and bring them tC |
this city, there is no doubt but hun, |
dreds of them could be induced to To-
cate here. There is not a county In
she state that has so many and varied
resources; so many inducements to
offer; so many acres of rich agricul-
tural land and dairy land that is as
well adapted to agricultural pursuits
as Clatsop county. There is no coun-
ty in the state where farming win pay
rs well as in Clatsop county; where
there is such good market, in direct
communication with all parts of the ,
United States and the world, where
scean and rail meet and where thers
> such demand for farm products as /,
n Clatsop county.
In addition to this Clatsop county !,
has the most nealthful and delightful !,
Innate in the world. Eastern Oregon /,
has many acres Of fine land. but the +;
winters are almost identical with those c
Il the east, which a large number or ;,
'astern farmers have been compiled
o leave on account of the extreme
old. The Willamette valley has many
'cres Of fine lands, but the summers
re excessively warm, and last year b
most OF the crops were failure on ac- >
Uunt Of the drouth. With Clatsop
ounty 1t is wholly different. There is I
70 cold weather, and the invigoratine L
freezes from the ocean in the sumIne,
makes Astoria and Clatsop county +
'aradise. Pulmonary troubles are $
frequently epidemic in eastern Oregon, 6
fevers abound in the william
tie valley but the salt air, propelled t.
" ocean breezes, drives all malaria
Hay, and the mildness of the winters a
eeps out pulmonary diseases. There n
8 less sickness and fewer deaths I'm
'latsop county than in any other coun- $
Y Of its size on the coast. There are z
ume of the inducements Clatsop coun-
Y offers to the eastern farmers who
re loking for homes.
But as long as no effort is being
't - commercial VI lSdIILdllOIlS OF -.
he city and county to bring these i'm
'ortant matters to the attention OF
he carloads Of eastern visitors daily
rriving in Oregon looking for homes b
is extremely doubtful If they will be
pprised of the many Inducements
waiting them, and they will be taken :,
D other localities and located on farm. =
ne lands to the exclusion Of county q,
hat possesses more natural resources.
etter lands and cheaper prices than
ny other county in the state. There
s not single person in Portland to o
peak good word for Clatsop county d
nd there is not single person i'm u
astoria who would meet any Of these ''
'aople at the trains or boats, II
hey we're sent here, and the indiea-
ions are that the centennial year will I
o by without Astoria or Clatsop coun. \
y deriving any benefit from it, simply X
ecaues 1t lacks ambition and enter
rise.