I g O 3Lt O IMC 33; I jfc OOUNT Y, ORHOON K'ATIDN: In lh- N'.rtliw.Mt.Tn part of Orcg..n. on the Columbia Kivit. with about 70 mile of river front. K i: A : AImiu. 70 wiiuire mile. 2'i,W.l'l hitch. J.UIU.K I.N1: I '.,72'; nrri H. "hi in land that is ui'tuaHy in cultivation and elrared, i-xc usivc of town lot. ,tN I II.I-A15I-K LAND: 11,1,71,1; ucri't- vhirh n.eltid.x nil timhi-r wlit-if there in r th:in Ion, l, 110 fn-t 011 11 ipmrtir nrri ion, 11U0 (ill loy- . f T lurid '.vhi-ti U not m.U;iMi- f..r :u.d in no condition ,il Cultivation. y: i A 1 m hi t . -veil an I u.n half to cijlil biliinn feet. .s.v 1 :i va t i: iimuki:: ii 1. i;t. 10. .vKD VAI.I'K. oK IIU.AI.I.K LAND '. ,:tr.f,. MAI. ASSI.SS.'.ii VAi.U.VIluN OK AM. I'I;.T.KTY ; i h nun mm. JII.I.S oK COt'N H 1;')AIK: .Ml') mii'v-i, Muni" if which H in lirst c!.i.s condition, 40111c in Lit con litioii nod ioini' invciy ioor omditinn. illl.i S oK UAII.UOAliS: About KT mill ", which include the main line of the S. 1. A- S and the various loytfinu: runda. oi l I.ATIoN: (VimiH of I ;ilii k'ives 10,'iSO hut u careful estimate this c:u ivrs it a'. I a t l.'i.OOO. .1.1 MAT. lci .M iaii- liuring the Hummer the thermometer rarely irnchi ;. lmi in the shade arid in the coldest weuther of winter z-ro weuther is almost unknown. During the winter months there is considerable rain, hut not too much. Just enough to insure crops. Crop failures are unknown. rUnlil CTS: Kr mm of all kir.d. specially apples, pears, plums ar.d lierrieH. Cr.iiu niidgrin.se; garden truck of all kinds and iluiryinir. SIIII'HNG: Ships from all parts of the world carry Columbia County products down the Columbia Itiver and to the market of the world. A throuKh line of Railroads tiuverse the county from the North to the South. River boats carry local products to local markets at low rate. LAND: Thousands of acre of first class land can be purchased at reasonable prices upon which are stump left from the timber operations. This land is especially suited for farming, fruit raising and dairying. ?; ST. HELENS A city on the Columbia River, 28 miles from Portland, with a population of 100 people. The County Seat of Columbia County. A Four year Standard Hikh School. Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal and Catholic Churches. All the leading fraternal orders. Gravity water system owned by the city suthcient to supply a city of 10,000 people. Kluctric lights, graded and macadamized streets, sewers. Principal industries are lumbering, shipbuilding, creosoting, stone quarrying, fishing and shipping. Two large (.aw mills with a capacity of 250.000 feet per day; more than 5 million feet of lumber shipped each month; several large ocean going vessels built each year; timber treated with creosote and shipped all along the coast. Two biR stone quarries and rock crushing plants in continuous operation. An average of 300 tons of Columbia River Salmon caught and marketed. A farming country back of it that cannot be excelled in the world. Several new business blocks now under construction. Five miles of sewer being built. A PAY ROLL OF NEARLY $100,000 PER MONTH. Many beautiful and attractive homes. INDUSTRIES: Lumbering and timber is the principal indnatry; there be ing about twenty-five saw mills. Salmon fishinf in th Columbia River is also an important industry. Farming and fruit raising; Stone quarrying; Ship buildinn and all kinds of lumber manufacturing planU. OPPORTUNITIES: There are fine opportunities for the amall farmer, dairy man, fruit grower and truck gardener. AIm a number of choice deep water sites for manufacturing plants. THE DELTA GARDENS: 12,000 acrei of low land along the Columbia Riter which have recently been dyked and are now in high state of cultivation especially adapted to growing of vegetable and small fruit. SCHOOLS: Four standard High Schools; locality. Grade schools i n each CHURCHES: Nearly all denominations represented. THE COUNTY OFFICERS: Circuit Judges, J. U. Campbell and J. A. Eakin District Attorney, W. B. Dillard County Judge, W. A. Harris County Clerk, H. E. LaBare Sheriff. A. E. Thompson Assessor, C. W. Blakesley School Superintendent, J. B. Wilkerson Treasurer, R. S. Hattan Coroner, F. H. Sherwood Surveyor, Geo. Conyers . Commissioners, John Farr, Louia Fluhrar. CITIES, TOWN. AND POST OFFICES: St. Helen Rainier ClaUkanie Houlton Scappoose Warren Deer Island Goble Yankton Vernonia Mist Quincy Mayger Marshland Columbia City Reuben Apiary Hudson Prescott Trenholm Inglis Patronize the Mist Advertisers! State News mm V si.vyff ' 'lyy : HP Are you getting more pay than you did last year? Are you reasonably sure of getting still more next year? If not, this is your time NOW to mail the coupon below and let the International Correspondence School explain how they can qualify you to enter a more important line of vork in your present occupation or in a different ont where you can command a higher salary at the start, with no limit to your earning power. In making this offer, all your cir cumstancca have been taken into con sideration, and it only remains for you to fill out and mail the coupon. How you can succeed with the aid of I.C.S. training by mail, as thousands like you have succeeded, will be fully ex plained at no cost whatever to you. lNTERNATICWLCORRESPOHDEMCEJCHOOLS ; Pke explain, without farther , obligation on my partjiow I can ; -i;a. fnr a larger salary in the 1 fenferbefore whico I have Hl4 TrlMr sbIU L riwtrlU mmrrfr ArltT PrfUM n 1 v ,11)1)11 CSS IXCr FULL fXtfJli-1'-' llu1 ' H. V. REED, Manager PORTLAND, OREGON 505 McKay Building ruiULft ' (iri'uon lead the world in dry farm ing product. One man, Tillman Reu- ter. of Madras, with an exhitu, me tainK of which coat but $750, went to the Dry Farming Congress at Tulsa, Oklahoma, and ubaolutely on the quality of the grains, grasiiea. veifetables and fruit produced by dry farming methods in Oregon, he won the grand sweep stake prize over f anuda's 150,000 ex hibit over South America. Australlia and every other state in the union. The Great Northern and Northern Pa cific railways earh contributed $250 towards the expense of the exhibit. At the Chicago National Dairying Show a yearling Jersey heifer, exhib ited by Darrow Stump, the 12-year-old son of J. U. Stump, of Monmouth, Ore., carried olT the sweepstake prize over cattle from all parts of the United States. Oregon is noing into the greal land show to be held in Chicago the later part of this month and it is fully expected that tne exniou, wnu-n is piobahly the best ever assembled by the state, will land the tnird prize ol the series. Experts declare that Oregon has the best climate in the world for the pro duction of tlax and they predict that flax and flax mills will be to Oregon what cotton mills have been to the south. A co-operative manufatcuring firm is being promoted at Salem and it is expected to begin opera'ions within the near future. Coarse crashes and twines for sewing wheat bags nd for making nets will be the first articles turned out, but as soon as a market can h 4iliid the finer grade will be produced, such as linen, damask, table cloths and towels. About 1500 acres of flax will be needed to supply the first year's output of the factory. The thr urn that flax imnoverishes the soil is an exploded theory, it is declared On the contrary, it prepares the soil for heavy succeeding crop. That the Dallcs-Cellilo Canal will be completed and ready for the passage of boats in about another year is the opinion of F. C. Schubert of the United States enigneers, who has had charge of the work. With nearly all of the government appropriation available, Ubor olentiful and weather conditions less the June rise of the Columbia is unusually great, it is believed that next fall will see boats passing freely from Portland to points on the Upper Colum bia and Snake rivers. One acre of celery, grown a short distance west of the city of Hood River, is being garthered and marketed, mostly in Portland, and the truck grower expects to receive not less than $2000 from the crop. In addition to celery he is raising tomato s and peppers, both of which are extremely protfiable. will call at my office in St. Helens and make settlement within the next two weeks and save costs. Oct. 24th, 1913. M. E. Miller, $100 REWARD. persons who shut down one of Um water gate on the main line recently, or of any person or parson da an aging of in terfering with any water pipe on the line. By order of the Commission. B. B. QUICK, Se. For Rent Rooms in the Bank tl... .... r ... i ri.. r building. Steam heat, electric St Helens will pay $100 reward for the "ht. hot and cold water. arrest and conviction of the person or Columbia Co. Bank. COMMUNICATED llellaire. Mich., Oct. 30th, 1913. Editor St. Helens Mist My Dear Sir I have missed several copies of the Mist, but owing to late issue which fell upon me one evening of lute I saw an extended reference of a friend whom 1 have missed for several years. I was glad indeed to learn inai "Norm" was doing well and that the people of St. Helens had come to know him so well, as is indicated in the reference to him as man whom all are trying to induce to become your next mayor, for if Norm will consent to run unless he has changed very much, he will be elected He was quite a humor ist in this country and many times his friends insisted upon hi entertaining them at public recitals where h wa especially at home in song and humor ous recitation?, though he disliked vau deville. He has yet some quaint pro duction of "Honest John ClurW," an original composition, but here' to Mayor I.arabce. His many friends nere will be glad to know of the esteem in which he is held there, and he has many here, for he was never in a serious difficulty but once tnai me writer is aware of, and that was when he persuaded one of our best loved girls to unite her fortune with his. but it was the making of Norm for he realixed j that he had to make good to justify the choice she made. Truthfully yours, C. E. Densmore. NOTICE H. Larson, formerly in the mer cantile business at Warren, has placed his account in my hands for I collection. All i favorble. the work is being pushed 1 , . ... ,. . . . .,, tnemse ves inaeuiea 10 nr. lswu forward faster than ever before and un- GREAT COMBINATION OFFER The Mist management has made arrange ments with Portland Evening Telegram whereby we can give subscribers the advan tage of a gigantic combination offer for a limited period. Yon can get a Metropolitan evening paper with all the latest news from all over the world and all the news of St. Helens and vicinity in the Mist at a remark ably low price. The Evening Telegram is the best pap er in the state, market reports unexcelled, Saturday edition contains a magazine and comic section in colors. The Evening Telegram St. Helens Mist - - -Total Both Papers Through this office if paid in advance for 1 year, on or before Decem ber 31st, 1913 - . - - - $5.00 per year $1.50 per year $6.50 per year $4.75 r