The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-06-09
Several Niles Of County Road
Constructed in the County.
FARMING SECTIONS OPENED
Large Tracts Of Land 10 be Cut up Into
Small Tracts for Agricultural PuI.
poses-PIofts Aeeruing in Raising
Onions and Small Vegetables.

Unless a person takes trip over the
several miles Of new roads that have been
constructed in Clatsop county during the
past two years, they can form no idea OF
tn vast amount of beneficial work that
has been done and the large area OF agri.
cultural and grazing lands that have been
opened for settlement. Within radius
OF ten miles, in Il semicircle, good roads
have been built to distance of three
miles south Of Olney direct from Astoria /;
to Tucker creek and the Lewis and Clark;
to Seaside and to distance of nearly Il
miles south OF Seaside opening up some
OF the finest agricultural and dairying
lands to be found anywhere on the coast
In the work the county court has been
assisted by the enterprising farmers OF
Clatsop county. The district near olncy
on Youngs River, Tucker creek. Lewis
and Clark and the Necancum now have
accessible county roads to Astoria over
which there will be no trouble to haul the
products OF the farms. While Clatsop
county has not filled up very rapidly
with farmers during the past five years
the census reports show that these dis.
tricts have increased in the accession OF
farmers Farming in this vast district is
yet in its infancy, but with the building
of county roads 1t will be stimulated and
within the next two years it is expected
that this district will be able to supply
the Astoria market with all the farm
products used, and possibly leave a sur.
plus for shipment to Portland.
In what little advertisement Clatsop
county has received by commercial or.
CARNATIONS, there has been practically
nothing said about the farming oppor.
tunities Of the county, possibly for the
reason, that the farming lands were cut
off from the markets for the want of
good roads. Everything advertised has
been the salmon and timber resources
This has been productive of no good and
has been q waste Of money. There are
all the salmon canneries and cold storage
plants on the Columbia river that are re-
quired for the product. There are all the
logging camps necessary to supply the
demand for logs, and it is not necessary
to advertise these resources What Clat.
sop county wants and must have, is
farmers.
Commissioner Clarke stated TO an
Astorian representative yesterday, that
he was acquainted with a man in Wash
ington county that made $4,000 last
year from raising onions alone. Commis-
sioner Larsen stated that he knew a man
in Hillsboro that made $4,000 clear last
year off from one acre in raising onions.
There is not farmer near any of the
large cities in Oregon and Washington
that is not making a small fortune every
year raising small vegetables. Even the
Cinnamon of Astoria are making money
every year from their vegetable gardens
and over $4,000 was sent by these men
to China last year through the local
banks. If the Cinnamon can make money
raising vegetables, why cannot the white
farmers make money?
There are large number of young
men in Astoria just starting out in life
who seem to prefer the excitement and
temptations Of city life to the large pro.
fits and fortune acruing from farming
life. II they work twenty years in Asto.
ria in the employment Of someone else
nine out Of ten won't have money
enough at the expiration Of ten years to
buy new suit Of clothes, whereas, were
they to purchase five acres Of land and
cultivate it, inside of ten years they
would have good home and few thous-
and dollars in the banks.
1t is claimed by some that the pro-
ductiye lands in Clatsop county sell for
from $50 to 500 an acre and that they
can not afford to buy. II an acre of land
will yield a net profit Of $1,000 a year
in gardening, which experience has dem.
onstrated it will do, the lands are cheap
at that price. There is no better invest.
ment in Clatsop county than in fve.acre
tracts of land devoted to gardening.
CIatsop county lands have been known TO
yield net profit of $500 an acre in rails.
ing potatoes alone There is not farm
product known that will not grow and
yield abundently in Clatsop county, and
the wonder is that more young men do
not 60 to small farming instead Of work