The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1905-04-05
OREGON.
MCMINNvILLE, Mar. 81, 1905

MCMINNvILLE, Mar. 81, 1905.
EDITOR News:
From the many inquiries re-
ceived concerning this great
Northwest, l see that many of
your readers are interested and
if you will kindly permit me the
space / shall endeavor to lend a
little information after a sojurn
of six years in this country. l
would first like to state that a
great many people have a mis-
taken idea of this country and l
think the expression wild and
woody west" is still in order when
speaking of it, but not so, for the
people, as a class, and there are
about twenty different national
ties represented, are up-to-date,
law abiding citizens, and / must
acknowledge, in c h u r c h S,
schools, and many enterprises
often surpass our eastern states.
We have six banks in this
county with a combined capital
of 100000, with 100000 de-
posits, and almost every one,
both men and women, have a de-
post in some of these banks, con-
sequently if the front door is not
locked when we lie down at night
we do not need to worry for we
are not likely to be molested.
Oregon is 1889, 200 acres larger
than Illinois and Indiana combin-
ed and there are $4,000, 900 acres
of unappropriated government
lands to be had for a mere moth
ing. However, much of the
choicest land has been taken up
and the remaining is not easy ac-
cessible at present, there being
40, 900 new settlers last year.
this year there are expected 2OO,-
600. The soil of these lands is
very fertile and the Stability and
productiveness is we'll illustrated
in the case of one man who set
tied on his farm in 1863 and has
cultivated it continuously, with
out fertilizer and last year the
yield was IS bushels of wheat to
the acre.
Oregon leads the world in hop
raising, annually producing near
ly one-half of the entire crop of
the u. S. 1,500 pounds to the
acre is not an uncommon yield
and at 1Oc per pound the net
profit is $40 per acre, while last
year the price was from zoe to
Csc per pound. Hop-picking lasts
from three to four weeks and the
pickers make from So to So. so
per day.
Oregon's fame as a fruit pro-
ducing state has already spread
to the ends of the earth. The
carrying and keeping qualities of
her apples, together with their
beauty, fragrance and flavor,
have found for them a market in
London, Liverpool, Scotland, ST.
IBERIA, Australia, &c. &c. From
one 16O-acre orchard $25, 900 is
netted every year.
The cherries of this section
have no equal. One tree last year
produced /, 76O pounds which sold
at SC per pound. The prune,
however is the king Of fruits.
There are many other profita-
BILE enterprises that could be men,
toned, such as the great timber
resources, the wealth of the fish
cries and the mines, poultry, &c,
and / must not fail to mention
the climate for of this Oregon
is very proud, and when ! speak
of the climate / have neference to
the western portion for the east
ern is different. There are but
two seasons the wet and the
dry. Mild, southerly winds pre-
vail during the winter, bringing
the farmers Oregon RAIN or
mist, the sure harbinger of un-
failing crops and good health.
The grass is green the year round
and roses and other flowers
bloom out of doors in mid winter.
The summers from Nav to OctO-