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tations. To this list of agricultural productions we may also add all sorts of manu¬ 
factures—sash, doors, window blinds, furniture, wagons, carriages, hubs, spokes, felloes, 
bows, hames, ax-helves, auger-handles, ox-yokes and bows, and almost everything you 
can name. 
Mechanical labor is worth from $3 to $5 per day; farm labor from $18 to $25 per 
month ; day laborers in town want from $1 to $2 per day. With cotton 11 to 12 cents 
as the base for these prices, you may well conclude we are fairly on the road to ruin. 
When I add that potatoes are worth $1 50 and turnips $1 per bushel; eggs, 25 to 50 
• cents, per dozen; fowls, 35 to 50 cents apiece ; cabbages, 25 to 75 cents per head; and 
a handful of greens a dime, you may judge there is great need for some one to make 
endeavors to have these things produced at home. A dish of strawberries and milk for 
a family of six, say a half-gallon of each, would not cost less than $1 50 to $2. 
WASHINGTON TERRITORY. • 
Our correspondent in Pierce County, Washington Territory, writes as 
follows: a 
Washington Territory contains, in round numbers, seventy thousand square miles, 
with a great variety of soil, climate, and resources. In this vast region there are less 
than twenty-five thousand inhabitants. The Cascade Mountains extend northward 
from Columbia River, which forms the southern boundary of the Territory, to the forty- 
ninth parallel of latitude, and beyond into British Columbia. The Territory is thus 
divided into two equal parts; that east of this mountain range being principally a 
prairie country, with extensive grazing grounds, and rich valleys of arable land ; while 
the portion west of the mountains is in the main timbered lands; yet it too is inter¬ 
sected by many valleys, with fertile alluvial bottoms. . xl 
The climate of these two divisions differs as widely as the soil artiLexposure, the 
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