The Future Wheat Region.
The great wheat region of th« future lies partly in Oregon, partly in Washington, and partly in Idaho. It begin 3to close under the Blue Mountains, includes the Umatilla Indian Reservation, reaches westward almost to the foot of the Cascade range in Oregon, and northwest to the Spokane and the Columbia. Walla Walla is its central point and its metropolis. Roughly outlined on the map, thu region is a crescent perhaps 250 rniies from tip to tip, it 3 concavity toward the northward, the round of its back iD Idaho. It includes not less than 10,000,000 acres of fine wheat land. Not more than one-twentieth of it is under cultivation, yet the surplus for expoitation thia yoir is not leas than 250,000 tons. — N. Y. Sun.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1860, 7 June 1884, Page 6
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130The Future Wheat Region. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1860, 7 June 1884, Page 6
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