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Land Tenure in Oregon.
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Another significant classification of the six different kinds of tenure may made with reference to the output of farm produce. The percentage of the total value of live stock on farms and of the relative value of other commodities pro- duced by the six classes of farmers as compared with the valuation of farm property handled by each class, will show the productive ability secured by the various ways of farming as well as the kind of farming in which each class of farmers was principally engaged.

TABLE 5.

PERCENTAGE OF THE VALUE OF LIVE STOCK ON FARMS AND OP THE VALUE OF FARM PRO- DUCTS, CLASSIFIED BY TENURE, IN THE UNITED STATES, WESTERN DIVISION, CALIFORNIA, WASHINGTON, AND OREGON, IN 1900.([1])

UNITED STATES.

Items. Owners. Part Owners Owners & Tenants Managers. Cash Tenants Share Tenants.
Live Stock 54.0 14.0 1.2 8.1 9.5 13.2
53.1 11.7 1.1 4.7 11.5 17.9
Property 51.0 12.5 1.2 5.2 12.1 18.0

WESTERN DIVISION.

Live Stock 49.2 16.3 0.5 24.9 4.8 4.3
Products 48.8 16.8 0.6 15.7 8.1 10.0
Property 46.1 16.6 0.7 15.5 9.3 11.8

CALIFORNIA.

Live Stock 41.6 15.0 0.5 20.7 12.7 9.5
Products 41.6 16.6 0.5 14.9 12.7 13.7
Property 40.6 16.0 0.5 18.1 11.4 13.4

WASHINGTON.

Live Stock 61.1 18.9 0.97 5.0 7.2 7.1
58.7 20.9 0.8 2.9 6.7 10.0
Property 57.2 21.3 0.9 3.4 6.6 10.6

OREGON.

Live Stock 58.6 15.5 0.9 13.3 5.0 6.7
Products 57.2 18.1 1.1 6.4 6.4 10.8
Property 53.8 17.4 1.3 6.3 8.3 12.9

Owners operated 53.8 per cent of the value of farm property in Oregon. On these farms was reported 58.6 per cent of all live stock in the State, and 57.2 per cent of the value of farm


  1. U. S. Census Reports for 1900, Twelfth Census, Vol. V, pp. 260-261.