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iEldorado, Jan 29th., 1875*Locals.Editor Democrat;—We remember writing to you four or five years ago that this then thinly Inhabited sectionjof country would , as time roiled on, become settled by farmers and miners In the agricultural and mining districts. That time has come. Willow Creek Valley that had only four or five permanent settlers at the time we refer to is now located and occupied, from its confluence with the Malheur It ivei, to within fifteen miles of Itssource, by hardy, thrifty, intelligent farmers and stock raisers and their families, who have a plenty of fat cattle, horses hogs and sheep—their barn yards are also filled with immense stacks of superior hay, and their capacious cellars with a variety of vegetables of the largest and mostnutritious quality. Strangers are still arriving and making locations, and In a few years every niche and corner susceptible of cultivation and for grazing purposes will be filled. The same may be said of Burnt 111vor Valley and the Malheur andIts tributaries. School houses and a Post-office have been established on Willow Creek, and pure air and water, rich soiland large crops insure health, peace ami plenty to the people.Ditches an :l Mines.W. H. Pack wood, with his usual energy and perseverance, added eleven miles more of ditch above the original head ofthe Burnt River Ditch last summer, for thepurpose of keeping the water up to'its full head in the dry season, thereby insuring a full ditch of water from the Spring inlet until frost closes the mining season. The contract of eleven miles, from tlie tennr nus oj t-lie B. It. Bitch at Cottonwood creek to Discovery Gulch in the Easter a District or Amelia, will be finished before the hpecifled time (the first of May) and will a fiord water instead of mud, that has been use heretofore—to the enterprising miners of that District. The miners of Shasta District, with proverbial foresight, have madepreparations for the coming Spring.— Messrs. Lynn lt;k Co., Campbell Co.,Daily Kane, 3tiger Dickinan, Stover Lons-way, and others will all operate the nextSJ -1 i-f —season. -Lynn Co. have purchased the Reeves Ditch, and, with a great deal of hr bor, put it in fine condition to receive wa* ter in the Spring for the purpose of working their Rattlesnake and Rich Creek ground. Over the hill, in ltye Valley, thestamps are crushing the rock of Green’sDiscovery, without assuming the robe of our sayings (you will remember) has come to pass. ~Political.IVo hftrA linoh ruttitki* in Hif* PSKtBTH Tfil-
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Baker City Bedrock Democrat
Baker City, Oregon, US
Wed, Feb 03, 1875
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