Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1874 — Go West, Young Man! [ARTICLE]

Go West, Young Man!

The Crown Point Herald publishes the following letter from Mr. Henry Doering, a former resident of Jasper county, who is now living at Harrisburgh, Linn county, Oregon: . “This is a cool, damp climate, not very good for persons suffering with reumatisin or consumption, otherwise general health is good. The valleys are beautiful and, fertile, blit they are small in proportion to the mountains. This is a good eonntrydor persons to come to who havC plenty of gold and.silver, but the poor people had detter east of the mountains. Good land I

and improvements can be bought here at from twenty to forty dollars per acre; there may be two million acres of this kindpf land in Oregon, and the balance is too high as a gift, and dangerous oi access. Many claims are made by people who will never be as well ofl as they were before coming here. *The mountainous regon is high and rough and impossible to travel in all directions. We have 200 acres of plowed land which will yield from 20 to 30 bushels of wheat per acre, which this year has sold for one dollar per bushel. The good land here is generally owned in tracts of 320 to 640 acres, seldom less than a half section, and if you want to buy you must, take the whole tract, and pay one-half or one-quarter down, balance drawing twelve per cent interest. With the exception of during the rain in the winter, a man can work his farm tb.e year round, lie can sow grain every month in the year, lie can put in 100 acres of wheat, do all the work himself, gather 3,000 bushels and leave enough on the grtfund to fatten 40 bogs. There is plenty of govi rnment land I-ere, yet you might travel a whole year looking for a claim, and then find none worth haying.”