Even Their So-Called Settlements Of A Year Or Two, When They Take Up
Land And Build Cabins, Are Only Another Kind Of Camp, In No Common
Sense Homes.
Never a tree is planted, nor do they plant themselves,
but like good soldiers in time of war are ever ready to march.
Their
journey of life is indeed a journey with very matter-of-fact thorns in
the way, though not wholly wanting in compensation.
One of the most influential of the motives that brought the early
settlers to these shores, apart from that natural instinct to scatter
and multiply which urges even sober salmon to climb the Rocky
Mountains, was their desire to find a country at once fertile and
winterless, where their flocks and herds could find pasture all the
year, thus doing away with the long and tiresome period of haying and
feeding necessary in the eastern and old western States and
Territories. Cheap land and good land there was in abundance in
Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Iowa; but there the labor of
providing for animals of the farm was very great, and much of that
labor was crowded together into a few summer months, while to keep
cool in summers and warm in the icy winters was well-nigh impossible
to poor farmers.
Along the coast and throughout the greater part of western Oregon in
general, snow seldom falls on the lowlands to a greater depth than a
few inches, and never lies long. Grass is green all winter.
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