Hillsboro, Oregon. 
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My dear Mr. Deane:- 
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I am suffering from a slight cold, ^hioh maxes it 
advisable to stay indoors and so you are to get a letter^ 
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We are passing through the end of the driest year Oregon 
has ever had. So dry that in some places corn planted in May did 
not scrout till September, and crops, such as we raise, have been 
very poor indeed. Hay w ft s almost a total failure and spring sown 
grain nearly as bad and w e are almost entirely out of our own feed 
except for silage, of whioh w e have plenty. We are buying both 
grain ana hay. still, we are shipping a good deal of both eieara and 
eggs, about 30 dosen of the latter daily, and I hope to make ends 
meet for the winter. We still have four months of winter ahead. It 
has not been cold yet, a few nights of hard frost, but the ground 
has always been soft and »e have iust passed through three weeks of 
almost incessant rain, much more than we had all last winter. All 
our fall work is done, some 30 acres of grain up and doing well, 
there is a little plowing still to do, but. it win make very little 
difference if it dees not gafc done till spring. 
in your last letter you ashed what I thought of the Jap 
question. We see much more of it here than you- The entire coast 
is more or less overrun with them. They settle on the be sty lands 
especially in the neighborhood of the larger fities and raise veg¬ 
etables,^ berries and,quite frequently, dairy products. The cities, 
too, have lots of them, Seattle has its Jap quarter with its stores 
importing houses, banhs, etc. Branches of the great banks are locat 
mg outside the area- In the country they rent or lease and in a 
few cases where possible, own land. Where it is unlawful for an 
alien to lease or buy, they evade the law by taking leases in the 
names of children born in this country for as long as 99 years- 
