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Title: Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc.
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Goddard, Frederick B. (Frederick Bartlett), b. 1834
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions 1865-1918 United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Frederick B. Goddard
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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amount to more than $2,000,000.The population of the county is about 25,000, and the assessmentrolls show an increase of eight hundred tax-payers in the lasttwelve months. Of the amount received last year for agricultur-al products, over half a million dollars was for the orange cropalone. There is fine agricidtural land in the county not now undercultivation, to support a population of 150,000 souls. Farm laboris most needed, and brings -^25 \)or month ; mechanics are alsoin demand. Good schools, both public and )»rivatc, are numerous ;also one college and one female seminary of high grade. This city is five hundred miles south of San Francisco, Avithgood ocean steamers and numerous sailing vessels for the accom-modation of travel and trade. The land is mostly untimbered, the foot-hills giving a good sup-ply of fire-wood. Building lumber is shipped from Santa Cruzand Oregon, and sells at 840 per thousand. lam, very resj)ectfully, yours truly, A. J. KING. THE ..... ^ORKPUBLIC LIBRARY
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OEEGON. Resting upon the nortliern boundaries of California andNevada, and lying along the Pacific Ocean for 275 miles, is thepromising and ;)rosperous State of Oregon. Its wonderfulbeauties, and its great natural advantages and resources, longsince attracted the attention and inspired the pen of Washing-ton Irving, and the development and progress of later yearsbear pleasing testimony to the prophetic importance whichthat gifted writer attached to this then comparatively unknownregion. To the emigrant whose inclinations tend to agriculturalpursuits, and who seeks to found a home where he may soonbecome independent, in a State which possesses a fertile soiland a healthful climate, Oregon emphatically commends her-self as in all respects answering his requirements. Until lateyears, owing to its remoteness from tbe great channels of in-tercourse, the popular impression of Oregon has been that itAvas a vast and sparsely settled region, almost out of theworld. But the people of Oregon are

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