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sirable for homes, in every part of East Oregon, but chiefly in the central and southern portions. As the country settles up the cattle-raisers will be restricted to narrower limits, and agriculture force from the earth the wealth now lying unrecognized.

The following is a comparative statement of the counties of East Oregon at the beginning of the year 1890.

Acres of Improved Laud.

Value of

Land.

I Value of Town

Lots.

Value of

Farm

Animals.

Gross Valua tion of all Property.

Indebtedness.

Exemption.

Tax Equalized

by County

Board.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Dollars.

Baker. .

101,816

424.801

311,845

364,400

2,719,368

780,252

139,180

1,799,936

Crook. .

81,799

396,276

62,505

862,877

2,008,822

570.130

128,400

1,310,272

Gilliam. .

81,988

371,031

273,823

561,978

2,000,387

524,303

130,450

1,364,416

Harney.

154.520

396,276

9,422

1,011,224

1,727,024

189,039

65,449

1,472,486

Grant. .

114,716

300,415

10,260

990,123

2,249,356

572,396

1,684,290

Klamath.

841,437

562,612

88,314

480,317

1,607,491

345,063

146*865

1,115,563

Lake. ..

79,462

321,805

864,148

2,180.079

385,829-

115,894

1,678,366

Malheur.

103,863

231,699

11,915

720,201

1,332,292

210,176

61,119

1,046,977

Morrow.

126,279

417,735

158,355

624,533

2,344,415

810,176

255,444

1,333,824

Sherman.

Umatilla.

380,209

2,247,585

1,052,379

885,980

8.396,759

2,666,262

590*,700

5,055,469

Union. .

275,414

1,496,350

376,414

749,570

4,587,645

1,405,600

311,285

2,812,290

Wallowa.

72,731

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426,154

1.291,642

383,875

151,209

756,567

Wasco. .

169,777

649,609

722,142

560,839

3,758,026

929,900

201,460

2,623,666

The amount of mortgages recorded against property in Baker County is $88,191; G-illiam, $159,207 ; Klamath, $80,223 ; Lake, $192,194.

Wagon-road land, not included in the above, is valued in Lake County at $92,406 ; in Wasco the number of acres is estimated at 68,609 ; in Crook County at 229,969. Railroad land in Morrow County is valued at $272,000.

Travel in Eastern Oregon is often not very agreeable, unless one could choose his route, his season, and his conveyance. Early spring gives the greater chances of comfort; by which I mean a more agreeable temperature than either summer or winter, and less dust and drought than autumn. The few railway lines, excepting the O. R. and N., are not fitted up for tourist travel, but only for the short trips between local points. From The Dalles to Umatilla the road runs along the sandy belt near the Columbia, with only the sullen river and the bare hills to which to turn your eyes. From Umatilla it whirls you across six or eight miles of sage-brush, when it strikes