) I THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1916.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
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Buy La Grande Gas Stock Now
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Cook and Heat With Gas This Winter
You owe it to your city and to yourself to support this institution. It will
increase the value of real estate and advance the city generally and pay stock
holders much better income than the ordinary investment can possibly return.
The La 0rande Gas Company owns and controls, by purchase and option
the rights in Eastern Oregon for a recently perfected process for the manu-.
facture of gas from mill refuse or any other waste matter of an oirgjanic
nature.
. "With this process, more good commercial gas can be manufactured from
a given quantity of waste, costing practically nothing, than from an equal
amount of coal costing $7 .to $8 per ton in Eastern Oregon.
Therefore, this company will be able to sell gas to the people of La
Grande at prices considerably lower than the rates charged in any other city
in Eastern Oregon and still show handsome returns to its stockholders.
One thing is certain: . If gas can be manufactured profitably from coal at
$7 per ton, in cities no larger than La Grande, this company can certainly
make money manufacturing it from waste that costs practically nothing and
that yields more gas per ton than does coal.
The discovery of .this process will mean a revolution in gas making meth
ods in all sections where coal is scarce and mill waste or other refuse is plen
tiful. - (
The .company will exact royalties from all gas companies in Eastern Ore
gon that it may see fit to license to use the process.
Thle company will, through the sale of its INDIVIDUAL GAS PLANT,
make gas possible for farmers and others not within reach of the city gas
mains. By means of this plant, which will be sold for a reasonable price, the
owner will be able to make all the gas he needs for cooking, lighting, heat
ing and power out of straw, wood waste or any other refuse at a practically
no cost. I
Before issuing the company a permit to proceed, the Corporation Com
missioner of the State of Oregon made a very thorough investigation of the
whlole proposition, calling upon the gas expert of the State Public Service De
partment to make a rigid examination of the process in question, and requir
ing the company to submit a statement showing their approximate earning
power. - '
The result of this investigation was entirely in favor of. the La Grande
Gas Company and the issuance of the permit by the Corporation Depart
ment virtually amounts to an endorsement by the State of the proposition.
The following is a copy of the state ment of probable earnings furnished
the Corporation Commissioner: .
Estimated Earnings Of
THE LA GRANDE GAS COMPANY
Investment $75,000 Net Earnings 12 per cent
ANNUAL GROSS INCOME
10,950 M feet of gas at $1.50 .......$16,425
3,650 gal. of tar at .06 219
219 tons Charcoal at $4 per ton 876 $17,520
ANNUAL OPERATING EXPENSE
900 tons Mill Waste $1 $ 900
Chemieles and Accessories 700
Gas Man at $3.00 per day 1,095
Outside Man at $2.50 per day 902.50
Office Girl at $1.50 per day &47.DU
Office Rent
Depreciation
Maintenance
Insurance
Taxes
Incidentals ...
"Unaccounted for"
600
800
550
300
750
755
620
$ 8,520
..$9,000
Annual Net Profit 12 per cent
The above earning of 12 per cent is based on conservative estimate of the
probable consumption of gas for Cooking alone and does not take into consid
eration the amount that will be used for Heating homes, stores and other
buildings nor does it include the profits to be derived from the sale of In
dividual Plants to farmers, or the Royalties that will be required of gas com
panies in Eastern Oregon that may desire to use the process.
Whatever earnings are realized from these features of the business will
be in addition to the estimated 12 per cent. ,-' .
La Grande Gas Company
Geo. E. Good, President; Dr. M. K. Hall, Vice-Pres.; Fred J. Holmes, Treas.
C. S. Dunn, Secretary; Julius Roesch, D ireetor.
Office, Sommer Hotel Building '
The La Grande National Bank and
The United States National Bank
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SELL GARS
FORMER LIGHT COMPANY AUDI
TOR WILL BE WITH LEIGHTON
Chandler Six Also Added to Maxwell
Line for This Territory.
' D, Taylor, for several years auditor
for the E. O. L. & P. Co. with head
quarters at Baker, has resigned his
indoor position and accepted a "place
in the sun" with Robert Leighton of
La Grande.
' Mr. Taylor, like most business peo
ple of today has decided to enter rV
gasolinr game, admitting that 1; is
the one great game of the present,
and he will be sales manager for tlis
Leighton garage, according to an
noun :ement made today ly Mr. Leign
ton, .
"I have induced Mr. Taylor to as
sociate himself with us," said Mr.
Leighton "and he will have charge of
the selling end of the business. Just
to keep him busy we are unloading a
carload of Maxwells and will have an
other car in shortly."
The Chandler Six, one of the popu
lar cars on the coast, has been added
to the Leighton agency and in the fu
ture the prospective automobile pur
chaser may take his choice at the one
garage of a Maxwell four or a Chand
ler Six.
Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. '. Po-
liticians here got their ears close to
the ground in anticipation of the
emergency-called convention of 'the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association which opens here Septem
ber 6th. This was shown by letters
and telegrams pouring in on suffrage
leaders here today.
With the leaders of the Women's
forces determined to follow up the vic
tories gained at the Democratic and
Republican national conventions, thej
' tality is taken in through the soles of
action to be taken by the delegates : the feet. Cleveland girls say tihat wa-
Wo nrnmisfiB to hold as much in- ter soaKea sanQ maKes tne Desi Kino.
Will Receive Subscriptions for This Stock
Missed Poverty by 61 Minutes.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 3. It came
to light today that because he was
born an hour before instead of an
iour after midnight of April 30, a
tiny, red-cheeked Indian boy who lives
on the Colville reservation, about 100
miles west of Spokune, will receive
160 acres of land from the govern
ment. When President Wilson signed
the proclamation recsntly throwing
open to settlement by homesteaders
the Colville reservation, he did not Children's Produce Market Opens,
know Ihow close he came to making
little Indian Joseph n poor boy. The
proclamation opening to settlement
approximately 350,000 acres of land
on the reservation reserved a quarter
section for each Indian child born
there before May 1. Accordingly, the
Indian baby who arrived at 11 o'clock
on the evening of April 30 is richer
by 160 acres than he would have been
had his prrival delayed 61 minutes.
Greeley, Colo., Aug. 3. Greeley
school children who started gardens
under the direction of Prof. F.
Ogle, city agriculturist, are selling
their produce today in the first chil
dren's market ever opened in Colo
rado. The parent home gardeners
also are making use of the market to
sell pastry articles, chickens, squabs
and rabbits.
Political Leaders Worried
pressed." Further than that Mrs. Catt
would say nothing. i
Sixty-seven state suffrage organi-'
zations covering every state in the Un-'
ion, are affiliated' with the national
suffrage association and will be rep
resented at the convention, which will !
extend from September sixth through '
the tenth. Altogether, more than a
thousand of the most representative I
women of the country will be in at-'
tendance. I
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Although the official program has!
not yet been made public, it is known
that a three-sided debate between the
supporters of State action, federal ac
tion and those iwho (believe in both,
wil) be one of the big features of the
convention. .
In the South the feeling is said to
be strong against the national suf
frage association abandoning any pol
icy that would lead to a straight fight
for a federal suffrage amendment.
In other sections of . the country,
however, notably in those states where
amendments to the state constitutions
take years of work and are regarded
as practically impossible, the senti
ment is reported to be equally strong
for the abandonment of state cam
paigns and a concentration of the Na
tional machinery for a drive on congress.
Both of these factions will he well
represented at the convention, as well
as those suffragists who believe in a
continuation of the policy of combined
federal and state action, which has
won 12 states for suffrage and con
verted millions of voters to believe in
it all over the nation.
The clash between these factions
will be watched with interest by the
politicians, because the outcome may
have a decided effect upon the fall
campaigns of both the leading parties.
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every hour of the
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but, every day of ,
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cent.
Barelegged Girls Dance.
Cleveland, Aug. 3. Barelegged
and, in most cases barefooted, Cleve
land girls are dancing on the beaches
of Lake Erie hero today. The fad wa
started by Miss Millie Peckham . and
Miss Byrle McCullom, following a
visit to San Francisco. They heard
that an English scientist said all vi-
terest for . the political wiseacres as I
the Maine elections.
More-over, this interest is being
stimulated by the air of mystery
which hovers over the suffrage con
vention, as comparatively little news
has leaked out to date concerning
either the program or the plans of the
leaders. Nor will the women at the
head of the movement relieve the
anxiety of the watchful political wait
ers with any advance information on
the subject, i
"We have called the convention so
that every phase of every subject
which concerns our cause, our pol
icies and our organization may prop
erly be considered," said Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Catt, president of the Na
tional American Woman Suffrage As
sociation, when interviewed here to
day.
"But what action are you going to
take?" said Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt, president of the National Ameri
can Woman Suffrage Association,
when interviewed here today.
"That will be for the convention to
decide," was the smiling reply. "You
may state, however, that no voice will
be silenced and no opinion sup-
of a dance floor.'
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Vote on Military Training.
Spokane, Wash.,' Aug. 2. How the
people of Spokane and .tributary ter
ritory feel on the question of uni
versal military training will be de
termined by a ballot started this week
by the Spokesman-Review, i in con
junction witihj leading business men
and manufacturers. Balloting places
have been opened in a score of down
town centers for the convenience of
the public, and every effort is being
made to bring out a representative
vote. The result of the voting will
be communicated to the association
for National Service, at whose request
the ballot is being taken. Sentiment
of Spokane business men is strongly
in favor of universal military train
ing, but this is the first attempt
to register a representative vote of
people of all classes. In a statement
outlining the plan, the Spokesman'
Review says: "The business men of
the city think, like the Spokesmanr
Review, that it is highly important
Spokane express itself on this ques
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