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PHASES OF GROWERS DESIRE tTnn County Horticulturists Discuss Improvements in Shipment of Fruit. SUPREME STATE PRODUCTS Expert Assures Assembled Orchard lsts That Oregon Leads Colorado, Utah and Idaho In " the. Quality of Yield. ALBANY, Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.) Linn County fruitgrowers are consider ing a plan of adopting- a uniform style of packing and securing a corps of killed packers to prepare all the fruit of the county for market during the coming season. This plan was broached at a meeting of the Linn County Hor ticultural Society in the Court House ' here yesterday afternoon and elicited favorable comment. Definite action on the matter will be taken at a later meeting of the society. The proposed plan is for all fruit growers In the county, through the medium of the Horticultural Society, to adopt a certain size and style of box for packing this years crop of fruits. Each box would bear a suitable label eetting forth the fact that the fruit was from Linn County. It is also planned to secure or train a corps of packers to prepare the fruit for mar ket according to the best methods of commercial packing. They will have them visit all the large commercial or chards. It is believed this plan would do more than any other one thing to place Linn County fruit to the front. It Is a new thing in this part of the state to have fruitgrowers working in such harmony and using a uniform method of marketing, but it seems likely to be realized this Fall. Culture and Marketing. Aside from the consideration of this proposed plan, a number of Important matters 'regarding fruit culture and marketing were discussed at the meet ing of the Horticultural Society yester day. A leading feature of the meeting was an address by F. T. Morton, of Grand Junction, Colo., who is a horti culturist of 25 years' experience, and lias grown fruit In Colorado. Utah and Idaho. He pronounced Oregon the best fruit-growing place in the world. He Is looking for a location in this state and announced he would engage in fruitgrowing at some point In the Wil lamette or Rogue River Valleys. He believed Linn County peculiarly adapt ed for fruitgrowing. Mr. Morton stated that Colorado, Utah and Idaho will not produce fruit which is the equal of Oregon fruit in size, quality, color or keeping quali ties. The humus condition of the soil and ample sunshine produce good fruit, he sall, and Oregon has both. Nature has adapted this state for the crrowing of apples, pears, cherries, peaches and small berries better than any place in the world, he declared. Oregon's Advantages. "I don't find Oregon as Colorado or Idaho silver-lined, gold-rlmmed, copper-bottomed and iron-ribbed." he said, "but gold-crowned with glorious fruit, and it would be well for all homeseek ers to take a word of advice from one whose experience dates back 25 years In soil and fruit culture and nutgrow lng. I have found Oregon free from frost, with a natural climate for fruit and outgrowing and the garden of Na ture for any vegetable or fruit." Mr. Morton said any fruit would grow In Oregon with careful and Intelligent cultivation. He emphasized the neces sity of scientific culture and said Ore gon growers are exceedingly fortunate compared with those of other states in the matter of fruit diseases. ' There is no blight here to fight, and fruit tree Vests are not so destructive. The cod ling moth, so dangerous In Colorado, the speaker said. Is easily controlled here. Mr. .Morton commented favorably on the rapid growth of fruitgrowing evi dent in Linn County, improvement in methods of culture being as marked aa the rapid Increase of new orchards. ALBANY PLANS APPLE FAIR Linn County Horticultural Society Enthusiastic Over Prospects. ALBANY. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.) An apple fair, similar to the one held last year, but of greater scope, will be held in Albany this Fall. This was determined upon at a meeting of, the Linn County Jiorticultural Society yesterday afternoon and the action was inspired by the un qualified success of last year's fair, which was the first event of the kind ever at tempted here. The Horticultural Society appointed ths following committee on arrangements for this year's exhibition: County Fruit In spector E. C. Roberts, chairman: D. W. Rumba UK h. Representative L A. Munkers, J. L. Tomllnson and ex-Co-mty Judge C H. Stewart. The society Invited the Al bany Commercial Club to participate In the management of the fair this year, and a committee from that organization will be earned later to co-operate with the foregoing committee In making the fair a Buocaas. It Is planned to make the coming fair an event of Uiree days. The date has not yet been av-t and will depend to a certain extent on the time of fruit ripening. Be sides the display of apples, which it Is purposed to make unprecedented in the Willamette Valley, programmes will be given each afternoon and evening of the fan- and there will be schools of in struction In different phases of horticul ture. A number of valuable prizes. In cluding at least 15 silver cups, will be given for the exhibits. CHEHALIS HAY IS STORED Other Crops hi Valley All Give Good Prospect. EUIA, Wash.. Aug. 16. 8peolal.) Ideal weatber prevailed during baying time In the Cbehalls Valley, and the crop waa safely stored without damage to a single too. on account of rain. Tbe bay crop was an average one and the quality si good thai year. Some oats tava bt-ea slightly Injured by the rains (na of the week, but generally, toe UNIFORM PACKING INDUSTRIAL G. H. COODESOCGH'S STRAWBERRY FIELD AT CLATSKAXIE. dTSKANIE, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) One thousand six hundred and forty-nine pounds of strawberries, amounting to a'cash value of JU9.92, were marketed this season from G. H. Goodencugh's garden at the edge of the town, occupying a space 160 feet long by 55 feet wide. Picking for market began May 26, and ended July 17, after which two families did their home canning from the vines. The field consists of 18 rows set three feet apart and is set to Excelsior, Altof and Magoon varities. No irrigation whatever was resorted to, but the ground is carefully cultivated. The vines were mowed oft and the field burned over after picking ceased and a new growth, which will begin producing a Fall crop about the first of October, has already started. The Fall crop will last until the cold weather begins, which is usually some time after Thanksgiving. crop is out of danger. The dry weather that prevailed all Summer shortened tne yield some. But little wheat is raised in the valley, and that only for home use. AH doubt as to the potato crop has been removed and the yield this year will be as good as usual. Late potatoes will do better than the early ones, the Fall rains helping them out. The first celery of the season was marketed today. There is con siderable of it raised around here, and the product brings such good prices that It is only a matter of time when it will be ex tensively grown here, the -conditions and soil being ideal for its growth. MAIL SERVICE IMPROVED Condon Railway Points Benefit by New Schedule. CONDON, Of.. Aug. IS. (Special.) There Is rejoicing here over the Inauguration of a more adequate mail service between points on the Condon railway branch and those on the Columbia Southern. Heretofore it has taken three days and some time longer to get return mall be tween points on these lines. This slow method of carrying the mail was due to the fact that the Pendleton local did not stop at Arlington so as to take the branch mail. Now a closed mail sack is made up by the . mail clerk, placed on train No. 7 at Arlington and carried the same day to Wasco, Moro Grass Valley and otner points. ; BLOCK AT HOOD RIVER Brick Structure to Be Erected for $45,000. HOOD RIVER. Aug. 16. (Special.) Work was begun Saturday on the con struction of a new brick block, 100x65 feet, on what Is considered Hood River s most valuable building corner. The new structure will entail an Investment or H5.000 and Is being erected by Charles and E. O. Hall, Eastern men who have been here a comparatively short time. The plans provide for a two-story building with full basement fronting on Oak street. The front will be of Newburg pressed brick. When finished the building Will be the largest and best equipped In the city. Fair at Pendleton, Sept. 28 to Oct. 3 PENDLETON, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) Pendleton hopes to have en excellent fair this year, the date for the Third District Oregon agricultural fair being September 28 to October 3. Preparations are already under way for representative exhibits from several Eastern Oregon counties. ?1 ii The accompanvlng picture was The old snag Is a spruce and was a donkey engine. The diameter of large, being but a fair specimen of Tillamook County. This Is amply th lought until he was Induced to have himself and family photograpnea witn GROWTH IN THE PACIFIC SMALL BERRY PATCH PRODUCES 1649 POUNDS OF FRUIT r - r ? wv;, ..V 7 . SETS HARVEST OH BUSY SEASON OX PCDDIX'G RIVER BOTTOM. Industry of Raising Onion Sets for Market Becoming Important and Valuable One. HUBBARD, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) Harvesting of onion sets is In progress on Pudding River bottom, near this place. The harvest consists of pulling the onions and laying them away for further ripening and drying In the sun, to be later carted away to the storing sheds. The onion har vest fits In well with the grain har vest, as boys and girls and men who are not able to "make their hand" with the thresher can earn from 3 to $4 per day pulling onions. From a small beginning some 10 or 12 years ago the growing of onion sets haB grown so that, today Hubbard is the largest shipping point fq,r .onion seta in the Northwest, and men who are posted .on the onion market say that more sets are grown within a rarilut of two and a half miles from Hubbard than In all the remainder of the Pacific Northwest. Land that will grow good onion sets Is highly prized and a few acres are capable of making men rich. Once a jurgle,ef the wildest kind and a mire hole considered dangerous, certain parts of Pudding River bottom land are now a garden spot. An acre of this land will grow on an average 10,000 pounds of onion sets that sell at from 4 to 6 cents per pound, thus bringing the owner from $450 to 1500. There are "this year some 35 acres devoted to the growing of sets In the vicinity of Hubbard, the largest tract in one solid body being on tlfe farm of Mrs. J. B. Dimlck. where different parties have rented ground that totals eight acres. Mrs. Dimlck owns some 800 acres of farm land, but much moro help Is employed and greater returns are received from these eight acres than all the remainder of the farm. DEMAND FOR TEACHERS Few Applicants Appear for Exami nation in Gilliam. CONDON. Or.. Gilliam County ii Aug. 16. (Special.) in need of school TYPE OF SPRUCE TIMBER IN TILLAMOOK COUNTY. .i.i,u ,.v,i.. ..u ..j - : '-'':!;:":"'"':;: :.;.:-. s ,, 1 1 i 1 : t v - V Ii ip - V ) 1 ft SCENE ON FARM OF M. MELCHIOR. taken on the farm of M. Melchlor. one-half mile south of Tillamook City. being cut into logs for the purpose of hoisting onto a large log pile with the tree is a little over 11 feet at the butt, but it is not uncommonly the great timber abounding everywhere on the fertile bottom lands of shown by the fact that Mr. Melchlor did not give the matter a second A, teachers for only six applicants took the recent examinations held here. According 10 vouniy ecnooi superintendent J. C. Sturgill, very few contracts have yet been filed at his office and probably 25 dis tricts are still without Instructors for the coming school year. The wages paid In this county are well up to the average and teachers will average more than $50 per month. VALE WANTS IRRIGATION Commercial Club Learns of Con , st ruction Company Contracts. VALE, Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.) A Com mercial Club meeting was held here this week and a commmlttea was appointed to take up the matter of Government irri gation In this county. It was the opin ion of the club that favorable considera tion will be given the matter at this time. The project wag known as the Malheur and covered all the different streams in the north half of this county. H. L. Wal lace, who haa returned from New York, stated that the Federation bonds will be signed within a week. He has contracts with an Eastern construction company. NEW SEWERS FOR VALE Contracts Let to Construct an Ex ' tensive System. VALE, Or.. Aug. 15. (Special.) The city has let contracts for digging and install ing a sewer system for Vale. The main line only will be constructed at the pres ent time. It will extend down A street to the river. There is talk of an injunction being filed against the city by the Nevada Ditch Company, which takes its supply of water from the Malheur about one mile below the deposit from the sewer. FOLLOWS GERMANY'S LEAD Austria Takes Over All Remaining Private Railroads. VIENNA. Aug. 16. (Special.) Austria has Just followed the example of Ger many and at one swoop has converted all the remaining private railways into government railways. Every European state Is taking the matter in hand. France Is working at It, Belgium has al ready accomplished it; every progressive state, with the exception of Great Britain, which still believes in Joint stock management. BAN FRANCISCO VETERINARY COIXEGB Next session begins Sept. 16. Catalog free. Dr. Chas. Keaae. Pres.. 1818 Market St.. S. F. , i ? ' J tne tree icr ine uregiraiau. 1 NORTHWEST WATER FOR DESERT Half Million Acres to Be Util ized in Idaho. BUILD BIG DAM IN SNAKE Plttsbnrg Capitalists Propose to Spend $20,000,000 in Reclaim ing Extensive Fertile Tract in Southern Part of State. BOISE. Idaho, Aug. 16. (Special.) One of the most important irrigation deals ever closed in the Pacific Northwest has Just been brought to a successful Issue in this city with the Idaho State Land Board by which from 350.000 to 600,000 acres of desert land will be transformed, by taking water out of the Snake River In Southern Idaho, into a garden spot. The deal was not closed without a con flict of Interests, for two rival companies backed by Eastern capitalists presented their claims to the Land Board for the land which is segregated under the Carey act. A compromise was reached by which F.,H. iBuhj, of Sharon, Pa., who financed the original Twin Falls tract, and who made application to secure 'the new segregation, and Kuhn Brothers of Pitts burg, share alike on the new'segregatlon to be known as the Brueneau-Twin Falls oroiect. Mr. Buhl is given the irrigation proposition and the Kuhn Brothers the right-of-way and exclusive control of the water power and electric railroads for the tract. Means Expenditure ot Millions. The promoters on both sides are well pleased with the adjudication of the mat ter and the closing of the deal means the Immediate expenditure of several million dollars of Pittsburg money and the open ing of a larger tract of land than has ever before been presented to the homeseeker and investor in the history of this state or probably in the Northwest. The appli cation for the South Side Twin Falls pro moters was the only one to be presented to the State Land Board, the application of Kuhn (Brothers being withdrawn after a compromise had been reached". The exact acreage of the tract to be covered by the segregation has not been deter mined as yet by the State Land Board, a survey having to be made before tne ap plication is fixed with the interior depart ment. The price of water for the project Is placed at $50. water to be obtained irom the Mllner dam near the town of Twin Falls, by extending the canal of the South Side Twin Falls project, recently opened, about 46 miles through the land to be In cluded in the segregation. The application filed by the Kuhn Broth ers with the State Land Board was for 500,000 acres. This was withdrawn wnen the compromise had been reached In which It was decided between the two bid ders to turn the irrigation project over to the Buhl Interests. The price of water rights under the new .project as outlined by the Kuhn Brothers was J4d per acre, the project to cost about $20,000,000 when completed. yVUl Conserve Flood W aters. According to the arrangements now made the mammoth irrigation scheme by the Buhl interests alone will cost in the neighborhood of $12,000,000 when completed. The original price ot the water rights made in the application for segregation of 327.000 acres was placed at $60. The Board changed this price to $50, now the maxi mum price. Under the plans as proposed, a large reservoir will be constructed in Owyhee County south of the Snake River for the conservatfon of flood waters of the Snake River to be conveyed by canal to the land. The reservoir will have a storage capacity of about 500,000 acre-feet. Smaller reser vation dams will be constructed along the Snake River above the other dam and up as far as the headwaters of the river for the purpose of retaining the fiood waters of the stream. A large conduit, to convey the water across the Snake River Canyon, will be one of the big features of the new project. The Twin Falls South Side project's canal from the Mllner dam is at present 84 miles long and with the extension of 45miles made to cover the new project will have a total length of 129 miles. The great section of sage brush land in cluded in this immense project. Is located on the south side of the Snake River and in the center of the southern part of this state. The Twin Falls Irrigation & Power Company originally promoted and watered the famous Twin Falls tract, one of the finest Irrigation sections now to be found anywhere in the West. Three years ago the tract was a barren desert. Today it is furnishing homes for thousands of peo ple. The water was ail taken from tne Snake River by means of a system of canals and dams and transferred to the thirsty land. Today this same land is becoming a fruit section. Several towns, including that of Twin Falls, have be come thriving cities in three years, mod ern and up-to-date in every respect. The Twin Falls promoters opened on their original tract the south -and north sides or two sections of land in the tract. They recently opened the Salmon River tract consisting of 80.000 acres. The new tract in which both promoters, as mentioned before, have charge, lies to the west and south of the Snake River and the Twin Falls land. With water on it this great body of land, which is now a desert, will be a thriving farming com munity. Kuhn Brothers are to construct electric lines all over the project, obtain ing the power for the same from the fall of the Snake River. Already an electric line is being constructed on the Twin Falls tract. TO PAVE SEVEN STREETS Bids Are Advertised for by Linn County Metropolis. ALBANY, Or., Aug. 16. (Special.) That Albany's long campaign for paved streets is nearing actual completion is shown by the fact that advertisements have' appeared calling for bids for pav ing seven of the leading blocks in the business district. Bids will be received at the City Recorder's office until 7:30 P. M.. August 25. for paving the seven blocks with bitulithic pavement. 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