SHEEP FARMING IN OREGON.

Evening Star, Issue 3856, 3 July 1875, Page 3

SHEEP FARMING IN OREGON.

Mr Watson, who, a few years ago held th® position of manager of the N. Z and A L. Co.’s Clydevale Station, is no-v engaged in farming at Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon. He writes to a friend in this Province“ You ask my opini u of Eastern Oregon as a wool-growing oeun try, and of Oregon in general, and whether it is as suitable for the Britishers as the Colonies? I have travelled a great deal through this wide world, and on my travels 1 have, as an experienced stockman, stric l. observed the relative qualities of the great pastoral fields. 1 have examined Ciosely with the eye of a wool-grower tho rich plain* of the Australian Colonie ; I am well acquaint d with the rolling hills and dales of lovely '"aliforma ; I have traversed the great sav nnas o r the west, and crossed the verdant slo; os of the Roeky Mountains—the home of the an'elope and the buffalo, and in all my toun—during a period of many years—l have seen nothing to surpass in richness the rolling prairies of Eastern Oregon and. Eastern Washington Territory, on the North Pacific coaifc of the United States. East of the ■ a-c ;des we have a t«ry large area of country, many millions of acres, admir- bly adapted for wool growing, for the raising of horses, catfe, and dairying. There we have an immense district, at present too remote for profitable cultivation, but covered with an inexhaustible supply of native grasses. These immense pastures are generally well supplied with water, and comeatable to timber, and well adapted for slock raising.” The ‘Clutha Leader,’ to which we are indebted for tho above, says;—“ Wo are aware a considerable amount of influence is at present being employed to indu 'e a stream of immigration from amongst our set-ler* to that famed locality. We know also that it i j the intention of some to proceed thither shortly.”