THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 18&2.
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MAMMOTH AND FLOOD.
On a recent trip to Malheur county
Mr. C. E. Bayard visited the hydraulic
nines now in operation at old El'dorado
aty, and while there secured the two
well-preserved samples of mastodon teeth
which are on exhibition in The Chbon
iclb window today. There is only one
place outside the Inland Empire, where
. better preserved remains are found of
the mammoth, and that is Siberia, ac
cording to Howorth's "Mammoth and
Flood," in which a new theory is ad
vanced with regard to the remains of
mammoths and other large animals in
the soil of Siberia. All over that great
plain, wherever the ground is frozen
hard, are found mammoths and other
animals preserved very fresh, so that
the wolves and bears can feed upon
their remains.
These mammoths have been found
from the eastern border clear to the Obi
river. They have been " found under
conditions which make it certain that
they could not have lived unless the
surroundings and climate had, at the
time they existed, been entirely different
from the present conditions. The re
mains of the plants on which they fed
are also found, and southern contem
porary shells are discovered with the re
mains, pointing to climate conditions
which no longer exist.
Mr. Howorth believes that the pla
teau is one of the most recent features
in the known physical geography of the
world, and that its rapid elevation
caused the tremendous change of cli
mate which has enabled the bodies of
the great beasts to be preserved intact
as we find them. He says that unless
these animals had been frozen imme
diately after they died, and remained
frozen to this'day, they would certainly
have decayed and disappeared. A sin
gle Siberian summer sun would have
destroyed them completely. It is
lenown that further east the bones of
great animals have been found 17,000
feet above the sea under conditions
which Falconer declared to be absolutely
incompatible with their mode of life.
The relics cause profound reflection, at
all events, wherever found.
IMPORTANCE OF WATERWAYS.
The Chbosiclb has often, referred to
the traffic of the great lakes to show the
wonderful development of a country &l
.forded cheap water transportation ai
against the high all rail routes, and ap
plied the lessons to our own Inland Em
pirh, with an open Columbia river, free
to all craft, as the lakes are. The Ore
gonian, we are pleased to see from the
fnllowinir excerpt, is coming around to
our ways of thinking. It said yesterday
"few people realize the growing impor
tance of the commerce of the great lakes,
between such cities as Chicago, Mil
waukee, Duluth, Detroit, Cleveland,
Erie and Buffalo, despite the wonderful
system of railroads traversing that sec
tion of the Union. There is a steady in
crease in shipping from year to year
29,400 tons of new tonage were built in
1884, and this increased gradually to
111,856 tons in 1891. Lake builders now
have contracts to deliver in the spring
forty-nine vessels, valued at $6,909,500.
This ereat growth in commerce is the
double result of the development of the
western agricultural lands and the in'
crease of industries and population
The construction of a canal for vessels of
deep draught to pass fully loaded- from
the lakes to the ocean and back again
would not only increase the quantity
and value of lake commerce, but will
place the navy in position to defend it
from attack." Admitting what you say
Bro., why cannot you see that the same
develoDment here would result in a
greater growth of commerce, increase
our industries and population ; and per
haps, if a little eelfisnness was rubbed
out, make a city of Portland.
Another new party was organized in
Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, styled the
industrial legion of the United States,
by prominent leaders of the people's
party, who are also prominent in the
farmers alliance. The object of the
legion is to carry out politically the
measures embodied in the principles of
the Omaha platform of the people's
party, together with free speech, a free
ballot and a fair count. The industrial
legion is composed of three classes. The
first class is to consist of the male mem
bers over twenty-one years to be known
as the senior class. The second will be
the junior class, which will consist of
the male members under twenty-one
and over fourteen, who shall be educated j
and trained to become members of the
people's party. The third class will be
known as the woman's aid corps, which
is intened as an auxiliary to the senior
legion. The legion is modeled much
after the Grand Army, and partakes of
the secret organization character, while
the meetings may be secret or open, at
the option of the members. The found
ers of the legion are prominent leaders
of the seven great industrial organiza
tions composing the people's party, to
gether with the foremost people's party
members.
While on the subject of saving the
King of Fishes to the Columbia river,
perhaps Prof. Jordan is unaware of the
magnitude of appliances at hand tending
to destroy the fish. S. B. Graham, of
Ilwaco, who is good authority on this
topic, says that during the season of
1892 there were 350 traps on the lower
Columbia liver. The traps cost from
350 to $500 each, according to the depth
of tlte water. The total amount in
vested in pound-net fishing on the river
is soir.ethinjj near fiou,uuu. mere is
considerable more fishing done on the
river with gill-nets than with pound
nets. The gill-nets vary in length from
200 to 3-'0 feet, and a general outfit costs
from 4350 to $400. There are about
2,000 gill-net boats on the river, and the
average catch per boat this season was
about 300 fish. As it requires two men
for each boat, one may readily see that
it was almost impossible for a li-h to
escape;- and as for the spawn, that if
literally raked to death by the leai! !ii;rs
of the gill-nets passing over the KimLs
the natural spawning beds of th-- sul- i
mon. The average catch per tra;. thi-!
eeason was about 600 fish, cohmhu. z i '
salmon which were worth $1 each ; steel- j the hundreds of
heads worth 15 cents apiece, and blue- j trans t ci tation of
backs worth 10 cents each.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC NEXT YEAR.
Unless one of ' two events occur
next year the passenger traffic of Amer
ican, railways will- be something enor
mous incident to the Columbian exposi
tion. These two drawbacks are first,
the possibility of cholera becoming epi
demic, and second, the liklihood of a
great strike among railway employes for
higher wages at a time when not to
comply with their demand will seriously
cripple the railroads and damage the
fair. Otherwise the railroads should do
such a volume of passenger business as
will enable the companies to pay fat and
comfortable dividends to their stock'
holders. From this tbe Financial News
expects at any time to see a great boom
in American railway shares.
The general public is not so much in
terested in stock speculation in this con
nection as in having the railways regu
late their rates to some reasonable figure.
The fare will not be the most expensive
item in the cost of a visit to the exposi
tion, but low rates tend to draw larger
crowds, where higher rates discourage
attendance. If a low rate be made by
all the railroads, whereby the people
living in the extreme ends of the coun
try mav go to Chicago and return at a
moderate pric, the fare will be deluged
with visitors nnd the aggregate returns
to the roads will be preaier than if com
paratively few people went at a higher
rate. It remains to be seen whether the
railroad companies will act with judg
ment in this respect. The vast bulk of
their business must come from the peo
ple of this country. The influx of for
eign travel will be relatively small.
After having secured their handsome
returns the western roads might advan
tageously invest it by the building of
new branches and spurs. Excepting
the work of the Great Northern in ex
tending its main line to the - Pacific,
railroad construction in the northwest
has not been very vigorously pushed
during the past two years. Any num
ber of wealthy mining and agricultural
districts in the Inland Empire are but
awaiting means of transportation to de
velop their latent resources. Central
Oregon and Washington are among
them. Given cheap rates and promise
of railway extension into these districts
with the pro tits accruing, ana tne peo
ple of the Pacific northwest will attend
the fair in a body.
J. FOLCO,
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GES,
The Pendleton gentlemen who have
taken hold of that Columbia river island
enterprise deserves much credit. The
East Oregonian believes they will make
a success, and if they do their example
will be worth thousands of dollars to the
people. They propose to grow, figura
tively speaking, two or more blades of
grass where none have grown before.
This is much better work, and deserving
of more reward, than capturing land
through deception and deceit, or hun
gering after office in order that a private
snap may be Becured, or soliciting vic
tims to borrow money at ruinous rates
of interest. It would be a blessing if
others would embark in similar indus
trial enterprises instead of struggling to
succeed by tearing down.
It is humiliating to be obliged to ad
mit that we have, in the chair of chem
ist, at the Oregon State Agricultural col
lege experiment station, a man who is
so ignorant of the real conditions of soil
and climate in this state as to attempt to
palm off upon the public a lot of ante
diluvian literature descriptive of our
soils. And it is equally as humiliating
to feel that our great, glorious, intelli
gent onZi daily newspaper gives publicity
to the stuff, to the actual detriment of a
very large number of its patrons and to
the disparagement of truth. He must
be a numbskull to attribute to the
causes which he does tbefruitfulness
of the valley, ignoring the true sources ;
and when he. asserts that "the main
growth of Eastern Oregon is sage brush
and bunchgrass," with less than half a
dozen lines to follow in explanation of
his wild and absurd remark, he simply
makes it apparent that he is incompetent
to fill the position for which our tax
paying citizens, are called upon to foot
his bills, and he should be asked to step
down and out, before he produces er
roneous impressions concerning the soils
of Oregon which may require years of
hard work to eradicate.
The mining claim which the notorious
Matt Graham salted so artistically that
British company has eagerly wasted
over $1,000,000 upon it in Idaho, has at
last been abandoned as absolutely worth
less. Not a single pav streak could be
iiiiid: nothing but barren' country
r-rk, through which four thousand feet
-f sh:il"! and tunnels have been driven
by th hopeful miners. The splendid
miiiii.g ami mining macninery, tne origi
nal c Ht if which ran away up into
thousands, and the
which, into that al
most inaccessible country, cost a gener
ous fortune, has all been abandoned,
and the superintendent will now pro'
ceed to England and report to the vic
timized company, who will then decide
what to do with their expensive outfit.
The Silver mountain swindle, while it
greatly benefited Matt Graham, , re
sulted disastrously for Idaho, as capital
ists will in future be wary of investing
money in ricli but undeveloped mines of
that state.
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JYIonthly meteorological Report.
Weather bureau, department of agriculture.
Station, Tho Dulles, Oregon, fqr the month of
uciooer, itna.
Latitude 45P 36' 18". Longitude 121 12 " west.
.uiiuue iit leei arjove sea level.
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Snow in the Cascades is reported to
be two feet deep at the Great Northern
tunnel, and a foot deep on the Wenat-
chee summit. The snowfall in that re
gion is heavier now than has been known
at this time for many seasons.
T1T11 TTT , , , , i ... ....
waiia vraua ceieDratea its third oi a
century anniversary last week. , The
village had first been called Walla Walla,
then Steptoeville, then Wailatpu, when,
on November 17th, 1859, the county
commissioners in answer to a petition
' and a protest, the former asking that a
town be laid out to be known as Wail
atpu, the latter that it be called Walla
Walla, laid out the town calling it Walla
Walla, designating it as the county seat,
and describing its boundaries.
It looks now as if the arrangement
' with Justice field has been broken, and
lie will hold his seat on the bench until
fter Mr. Cleveland's inauguration.
Geo. P. Rowell & Co., are wasting
their portage stamps on The Chronicle.
The Chronicle is the representative
daily and weekly of 20,000 people in the
Inland Empire, and is with Postmaster
Gen. Wannamaker "or any other man,"
as against any shyster advertising firm
who want all there is in the business on
their Bide of the ledger. Printers Ink is
nothing more nor less than an advertis
ing dodge, a scheme of Geo. P. Lowell,
and shonld pay single postage or quit.
Such publications as Printers Ink, if al
lowed to go by weight, . will lead to
quarterly payments as of old by every
newspaper in the United States, and the
Press of America should frown it down.
Cholera we are told, is waiting to
make a grand rush across our borders in
the spring. It is well to remember sag
gests the Oregonian, that the best safe
guard againt it is an intelligent, well-fed,
clean, self-respecting people. Pauper
ism, neglect, filth, overcrowding and
low diet are its chief allies. An intelli
gent economic and sanitary system is
the best preventive against epidemic
diseases .that has ever yet been devised.
Quarantine becomes necessary because
this system is not in general use among
mankind. y '
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Mean liarometer 29.964: highest burniurtp
30.506 (date 2'th): lowest barometer 29.609 (date
Mean temperature 53.2: tnirliest temperature.
as on .to, lowest lemperaiure, on 16tn.
ureaiesi aaiiy range ni temperature. 3o on 3a.
Least daily range of temperature, 12 on 10th.
MEAN TF.KPKK.ITUUE For. THIS MONTH IS'
1K72...
1S73 .
1S74...
1875. .
1876.
.61.5
.07.0
1877. .. .30.5 il882. .. .46.0 11887
1878. ...48.01 1S83. . . .48.0 1.888. . . .55.
11879. . .44.5 I1S84. . .50.5 18S9. . .-.55.
1S80. . . .54.0 11885. . . .51.0 1890. . . .55.
1881. . . .44.5 1886. . . .51.0 11891. . . .54.3
during the
.50.
Total excess in temperature
month for 18 years. 1 dee 7 min.
Total excess in temperature since January 1st,
W.(l.
Prevailing direction of wind. west.
Total precipitation, .90: number of davs on
which .01 inch or more of precipitation fell
ten.
TOTAL FBI C'H'ITA TION FOR THIS tlOKTII IN
1873 .1878 ... 1.53
1874 11879... 0.88
1875. ...4.80 11880... 0.12
1876 . . .2.37 1881. .. .2.02
1877.... 1.66 11882.... 2.30
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1884 .
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1886. .
18S7.
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1888. .-..0.95
1889. . . .0.90
1890. ...1.16
1891... 1.14
1892.... 0.90
Total deficiency in precipitation during month
fnr IK VMrn. O Al tnt.hre
Total deficiency in precipitation since January
Number of cloudless days, 22; partly cloudy
dftl-u. it' f'lnliflv rluva H
Date of frost (light) 16th.
Barometer reduced to sea level. T indicates
trace of precipitation.
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