Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-25

| After the timber is cut the land is left
much cleaner than cut over land with
US, as the timbtr cuts clean and the tops
do not litter up the ground one-fourth
as much as ours.
| cannot attempt to describe the
beauty OF the river, which is Is feet
above low water mark just now
| will tell you also of the wheat
country of the Paulouse and Walia
Walla valleys, in eastern Washington,
which | saw on trip to Colfax and
Walla Walla. l have read, and the
natives tell, of the 40 bushels per acre
crops of wheat, which are harvested
year in and year out in this district.
talked with farmers and think | got
the facts For great many years.
wheat has been grown on this land,
which IS quite billy. They discovered
the crops were growing smaller and of
late years they have practiced system
OF summer fallowing. The land
cropped one year is idle the next but is
plowed and worked over several times,
the weeds being nearly exterminated in
this way. 1t is then sowed in the fall
and the next year yields from 26 to 40
bushel of wheat per acre. The wheat
is soft. Fine barley is also raised. The
farms are very large, often comprising
whole sections. The grain is now
headed out and looks we'll With ST. 90
wheat in Chicago, eastern Oregon wheat
worth about 20 cents. All the wheat is
sacked direct from the thresher and
most of it goes to the Pacific for ship
ment. With proper elevator facilities
and up-to-date grain carriers on the
Pacific, a saving OF 5cents per bushel
will be made on the sacklng charge.
How much the completion of the Pana-
ma canal will mean to these farmers
will not attempt to say, but it will be
millions, annually. This is almost ex-
clusiveiy q grain country, although /
saw some good orchards in the Palouse
country On this trip ! journeyed on
the Oregon Railway and Navigation r.
g., Hartman line This road follows
the south bank of the Columbia and the
scsnery is fine. Across the river, close
lJ following the north bank. is the fine
grade of Jim Hills n. P. line, running
froia Pasco, Wash, to Portland, and
crossing the Columbia, at Vancouver,
where a great bridge is being built.
At ST. Johns, suburb of Portland, it
crosses the Willamette with another
mighty structure.
/ have discovered an unpleasant
feature of Portland. firing of my
mother-in-law's cooking, | Undertook
to inquire for rooms and houses aud
found must get rid of the children be-
fore securing anything in this line. l
know Missionary money is often sent to
Africa, where the natives insist on feed
ing children to the crocodiles, to appease
the anger of their gods, but here in
Portland the landlords insist on
destroying the children and unlike the
African deities won't furnish the
crocodiles. Perhaps you will use your
influence to have some of the foreign
mission money expended in christianiz-
ing the benighte6 Portland landlords.
[ have met d number of old Wansau
residents in Portland lately, among
them being ID. A. Sanborn who has
offices at 595A lst street; Joe Feicht and
his sister, Mrs. John Lutzenberger, who
live at 945 Vancouver Ave, and Aug
Schlavinski, the latter and Joe Feicht
work in the s. Pacific freight depot
Mrs. Paul Powers, formerly Mildred
Sorrill, whose husband is manager of
the CowHtz County Lumber company,
lives at 18th and Everett streets; her
brother George is at Spokane. i also
met Bob McCoukcy the other day.
Mrs. King, formerly Rose Yonke-s of
Schefeld, lives here, her husbands q
6ler.
| Win LiljeGvert who is working in