Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-08-28
WRITES Of OREGON
AND WASHINGTON

Master J. Pilley has returned from
his vacation trip to the west and
writes as follows:
My first stop was at 6 E. Jonnson's
place which is located about eighteen
miles south east of Albany, Oregon.
Mr.. johnson formerly owned a machine
shop on Third street in Baraboo and
now has ranch of about forty acres
nearly all of it being worked. There
is one strip of land that is called river
bottom and is worth about 81 900 per
acre. The rest of the ranch is called
second she land and is not worth so
much.
The crops were doing very good when
[ left. Mr.. Johnson said that his
oats would thrash close to one hun
dred bushels an acre. The potatoes
yielded last year on an average of one
candy bucket full to the hill and the
prospects are good for the same yield
this year. The carrots that were
grown last year on breaking soil would
just nicely fit in a medium sized
water pail. Other crops such as
onions STRAWBERRIES, loganberries, cher
ries, wheat and barley yielded exceed
ingIy good.
While on my stay at the Johnson
home visited some of the nearby
saw-tnills. It is great sight to see
trees that are two hundred feet high
and from 4 to s feet through, felled and
worked up into lumber. The ferns in
the forest and along the roadside grow
to be twelve and fifteen feet high.
The elderberry grows to be small
shade trees like the large boxelder
here and the hazel nuts bushes grow
to be fifteen feet in height.
My next visit was to the coast at
Newport. There I enjoyed the fresh
sea breeze and shell and agate hunting
on the beach.
From Mr.. Johnson's place | went to
Oregon City, Oregon, where / made
a short visit with Frank F. Fisher,
who formerly resided in Baraboo.
He lives about four miles out Of the
city on small ranch of about fourteen
acres. Mr.. Fisher has about forty
fruit bearing trees of apples, plums,
cherries, pears, prunes and peaches
He also raises other farm crops such
as potatoes, wheat, hay and corn.
Mr.. Fisher has over two hundred sin
gle comb white leghorn chickens and
has foe market for both fowls and
eggs. Eggs are now forty cents a
dozen in that country.
L then went to Seattle where /
spent nearly week visiting the fol-
lowing friends who once resided in
Baraboo. Miss Mary, Sarah, Annie,
Jennie and nj argaret Miller and Fred
Coates and family. | took a boat from
Seattle to Everett, Wash. where visit
ed William Senzig, who was known
here as Will Kiefer. Mr.. Senzig is
making his home there and working
al the barber trade. ALI Poop lie men-
toned here are well, working and doing
fine
[ made one more trip and that was
10 the navy yards at Bremerton. |
saw and went through some of the
large gun boats, namely the Colorado,
Milwaa..1sc :, ee >ss-ss aaoossland st. Louis
The climate of Oregon and Wash
ington is the best have seen. The
dry season starts In about the first of
July and lasts until about the last of
and during that time the
days are warm but when the breeze
comes in from the ocean it makes the
climate an ideal one. The nights are
cool and therefore it is not hard for
any one to catch little sleep. 1 think
that on the whole Oregon or Washing
ton is not bad place to live.
Master j. Pilley.