All Over Oregon And Washington Observations On the Country Its Scenery Soil
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Time was when all this valley waved in early sum- mer with luxuriant native grasses, red and white clover, and beautiful wild flowers. When the first herds of California cattle, purchased in that country, and driven over the mountains of Southern Oregon, with great la- bor, and danger from the hostility of the Indians, to supply the Mission and the earliest settlers, they might wallow through grass breast-high on the prairies, and higher than their heads in the creek-bottoms. These herds increa...sed rapidly; and the country being sparsely settled, they were allowed to roam at will over it. Stock-raising was an easy and lucrative business in Oregon at an early day : in the first place, because cat- tle were scarce among the settlers ; and next, because after they had become more numerous, they came sud- denly into demand as food for the freshly imported mining population with which the gold discovery flooded 184 OREGON AND WASHINGTON. the southern portion of the State. The stock -owner put his brand on his herd, and turned them out to " summer and winter" themselves on the abundance of the virgin prairies.
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