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Show A correspondent irom Columbus) Oregon, Bays that many farmers have abandoned their waving wheat fields and gone with ft rush to the silver wells. In fact the excitement ia so great that fully one-third of the farmers far-mers of the Willamette valley will sell their larms or leave them, and put their all in the new mines. Concerning Con-cerning these mines, I do not think half tbo atones in regard to them are true. About one-fifth of the peoplo here own, or claim to own, an acre or no of the silver mud, and about one-third of those who do not have claims will Bell their properly to get an interest in the mines. |