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Show J'.OURNEY FRO:M: OREGON. Bia Blue Rivet·, and came into the country of the Kanzas Indians, t) from whom we had nothing to fear so long as we kept a strict guard; which we never failed to do in an Indian country. On the 24th, we met a small company bound fo1· Cali fom ia, and .on the ~5th, the wagons of Messrs. Adams & B~ssunette, Indian tra· ders, of Fort Platte. On the 27th, we crossecl the Kanzas River; ~v here, finding the water too deep to take our ba~gage on our horses, we were com· pellecl to carry -it over on our shoulders. · On the 2·9th, late -in the night, we passed the boundary line, between the States and the Indian Territory, and encamped near West Post, .Mjssouri, h.aviag become lost and bew.ildered among tho roads and fences, to which we were unaccustomed. The dat·k· ness of night hid every mark of civilization when we came; and ~ve slept, without appreciatiug the change. \V e awoke with the rising sun, to look upon fields, o1·chards, gardens, houses and villa· ges; our. country and our countrymen. NoTE.-By n little inadvertency this Chaptet· wus num<herod the samo os the pre~edin.{{ ono; it ~\' ill be perceived that it should bo VII. · • , "' • CHAPTER VIII. GEN:ERAL VIEVI OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA . Co~cluding rernnrks, giving a brie.f but general view of Oreo·on nnd Culiford 111:1 as regards the Agricultural, Manufac:turing, und Comm~rciul udvantave:<~ of those countries~ &c., &c. ., As we have now eornpleted our exolorations in both Orerron and t l:'l California~ we will make a few rcmarl\s upon their iltness fot· ths occupancy, and various uses of ci vii ized man. As we have nl1·cady said, the climate, in Oregon and California, i~ far mildet· and mote a~reeable, than it is in the sume parallel of latitude, any where on the Eastern side of the American eontinent • There is, we think, a dJfi'.::rence of perbap.-3 10 or 12 deg. vVe suppose that some may think this difference too rrreut, but when . ~ they recoiled that animals can live well through the winter, in Oregon, in the 47th deg. o.f North latitude, and that scarcely any snow falls during this season of tbe year; and that that which does fall, even 111 this high latitude, lays but a very short time, in the lowet· and more productive valleys; and that good beef is often killed iu mid-winter from the grass, any \vhere between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, South of the Columbia River; and then recolleet \\"hat the 'Vintet·s arc in the United Stutes, even as far South as the 25th <.leg. North, we are inclined to believe, that most, if not all, will be ready to believe, that weare nearly correct in rcga1·d to this matter. As the farmer's stock can live well all winter, not only through-out California but throurrh nea rly the whole of Oregon. he will ' \:'I \..1 here po~scss one advantage that he can never have East of the Rocky Mountn·!ns, c.X.cept in the most Southern part of the United States ; consequently, he will not be compelled, us he is in most parts of t.he great and fertile VallPy of the Missis::;ippi, to labor six months tG produce gra in and provender, to feed out, at the expense of nnothe1· six mouths' labor, to his stock. And there is not only in the tc.rritory of Oregon, but also in the province of California, .another grent advantage, tllut is, in<.le~d, paramount to all others |