champion soils of the world are to be found, while with a soil of such richness and fertility, and a climate so ideally adapted to the cultivation of grain and fruit, it is only natural that the harvests should be excellent.
College Place, two and a half miles distant, is such a pretty spot, and here is found the course of instruction for the Advents. Milton, on the Oregon side, is also a wheat and fruit country. Waitsburg and Dayton, Washington, are two prosperous towns. In addition to their large wheat crops, abundance of barley and rye is grown, and nowhere is the soil found so uniformly fertile as through this vast stretch of country; and nowhere on earth, it is certain, can wheat be raised more profitably. Nature has thus evidently marked out the same conditions at the town of Pomeroy. At Starbuck, a division
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