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About Jacksonville post. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1906-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1914)
Ore’ 'il Historical Society l’itv Holl PDRTI AMD I FTTFP * LM1117 LL I 1 Ll\ There is no diecord at the Capital City, FOREST LANDS the entire citizenship is a chorus in its Commercial Club work. Recently the Club has almost doubled in member Ate Pul to Many Uses. 1 SODO Plan to Boost the Pacific North- ship and is planning tnany new under takings for the benefit of the surroun Special Permits in Force. ding territory as well as for the wel west in 1915. April 25 fare of the city. The Cherry Fair, es Almost every conceivable use to Set Aside as “Good pecially, is to be made bigger and bet which land may be put is represented ter than ever.” in the permits reported by the forest Roads Day.” At Eugene, M. J. Duryea has been service for special projects on the na I elected Commercial Club secretary for tional forests. Some of the uses shown another year. He is devoted to his range, alphabetically, from apiary Portland, Ore., April 14, (Special) — I work and Eugene appreciates him. through brickyard, cannery, cemetery, During the past week representatives Judd Fish has retired from the secre 1 church, cranberry marsh, fox ranch, of the four great railroads traversing taryship at The Dalles and his place marine railway, rifle range, and tur this territory joined with the commer will be filled by E. R. Hill, an experi pentine still, to wharf and whaling sta cial organizations of Portland, Spo enced man. tion. kane, Tacoma and Seattle in the pre Fossil is happy over a most success There are 15,000 permits in force for paration of plans for properly present-1 ful two months Commercial Club ex- such special uses, which are distribut ing the numerous attractions of the perince. ed geographically from Alaska to the Pacific Northwest to the tourists who Mexican line, and east to Florida. This » will next year make a pilgrimage to figure docs not include any of the 27,- the exposition at San Francisco. An Fi e Prevention Day 0J0 permits in force for grazing cattle other conference will be held in about ane sheep on the forests; nor the 6,000 two weeks at which time the details of some co-operative scheme will be Superintendent Wells has mailed a transactions for tne sale of timber, and worked out. It is probable that a tour circular to teachers calling attention the more than 38,000 permits issued ist bureau will be established at some to “Fire Prevention Day” April 18, last year for the free use of timber by Central point in the Middle West from designated by Governor West, and ask settlers, miners, and others in develop which efforts will be made to induce ing that suitable instruction be given ing their homesteads and claims; nor the nearly 300 permits for water power tourists to purchase tickets over lines along the following lines. serving the Northwest states. The ex 1 The danger and destructiveness development. California led all the national forest penses of such a bureau will be borne of fire states in the number of these special jointly by the railraods and the com 2 How fires usually start use permits, followed by Arizona, Col mercial clubs. 3 How to prevent fires orado, Montana and New Mexico, in 4 How to extinguish fires April 25 has been set aside as “Good the order named. The largest single (a) In your own clothes Roads Day” in Oregon and on that class of permits was for special pas In the clothes of others (b) date it is expected that not less than (c) A beginning fire in a build- tures, or corrals, to be used for lamb 2.00J husky men from the Portland Ad ing grounds, shearing pens, and the Club and similars organizations will ing (d) A beginning fire in a forest like. Next came rights of way fot don overalls, arm themselves with pick 5 The importance of fire drills in conduits, ditches, and flumes, practi and shovel, giah their trusty dinnerpail cally all of these being free. Various schools of fifty or more pupils. and go forth to do a more or less ser ious day’s work-on the roads. The 0. 1 The Superintendent also calls atten agricultural permits come third, tele W. R. & N. Ry. will run a train of flat tion to April 25, which has been set a- phone lines fourth with more than a cars to various points on the Columbia siue as “Good Roads Day,” and sug thousand permits for 6,500 miles of River Hfgliway^apd the gas company gests that proper instruction along this line, and drift fences for the control and various cohtractiong firms will loan line be given throughout the week pre of grazing animals, fifth. In both of these latter classes, too, practically tools. Governor West and the county ceding. all of the permits are free. Reservoirs He also advises that pupils do somt road official will be present to see that the amateur laborers do no loafing on practical work on the roads, even if it for which more tha- 600 free permits the job. All other parts of the state be nothirg more than throwing the were issued for the occupation of are expected to fall in line and aggre rocks and sticks out of the road be- more than 100,000 acres come sixth. The rest of the uses are not classified gate result should ne many miles of tween the school and their homes. though there are a large number of well improved roads. —------ »!»♦—----- apiaries, camps, summer hotels, and At a recent meeting ot the Manufac schools. The use of the government’s Homesteads. turer's Association of Oregon, sttong lands for schools is given free; for ho- resolutions were adopted favoring com tels a charge is made. mon point rates for Astoria. The dis There are some very good homesteads The principal which governs the crimination against Astoria and in fav now open for settlement in eastern charge is bused, according to the for- or of the Puget Sound and other Coast Oregon. Good rich soil, some timber est service, on whether or not the use cities, has been a serious handicap nut and does not require irrigation. Write of the land is sought by the permittee only to the development of Astoria but York B. Conway, Portland, Oregon. for a commercial purpose. If it is the to the entire Columbia River Kasin. Three years a U. S. Surveyor and intent of the user to make money from It is believed that the granting of ter timberman. Send $1.50 for large map a resource which belongs to the whole minal rates to Astoria will be of great and full instructions and information people, the service holds that he should benefit to the entire state of Oregon. by which you can locate yourself on an give a reasonable return for that use. “Commercial Clubs in Oregon are exceptionally good free homestead If, on the other hand, farmers want getting busy,” said Tom Richardson near small town and railroad to use goverment land for their own after a visit to numerous points telephone lines, irrigation works, ano throughout the state. “Salem is a no WANTED —Forty or fifty young pigs, schools, the goverrment gives them table example of community union. weaned. H. K. Hanna, Jacksonville that use without cost. K M M M * 5 Ä Baseball ll.ll IMI I 8 J! IM III 2 1-2 Per Cent Discount for Cash Trade ULRICH’S The Pioneer Store Jacksonville, Cre. III l ! IÍ Iti Lé. ( • COUNTRY EDITOR IN PANAMA by a man who lives in my own home York, the colors softly changa to a county in New York state. blue, bluer, bluest. Why this is I do not know, nor have 1 ever had a satis This ship ’ s company which was to • i ,. be thrown together into a little com factory explanation. It is the same Strange Lands and People Meet munity of close confinement tor a old salt ocean fill the way, but it is a month, soon began to make acquint- different colored ocean in the tropics. cn Voyage io the Isthmus ance. As Bill often remarked: “a The “Blue Caribbean” is all that its voyage is just what you make it.” and name implies. I know of no color ex as Recorded by the Bill was some busy little boy in the actly likely it. Something of the blue in mother.s wash tub only deeper- ‘making.* Editor of a Week- bluer. Aft, as the screw cuts the wa Of course a ship’s company of this I ter it throws a foamy lace over ths nature is bound to have its "buttinski” ly Newspa- blue, forming a combination which no but ours arrived on the return trip. I He was homeward bound from a three modiste ever produced. Over this deep per. blue sea is spread a blue canopy of an years tour in South America and he other shade, but just as unrivaled in had a picture of everything below tne its beauty. This change comes gradu equator. He had sudden impulses. SHIPS AT SEA ally and only opens in its fullness when Given a though he immediately was below the frost line, but is a gradual seized with a desire to express it. Were softening of the hard lines of the we in a group in the interesting part King Solomon may or may not have north, and a constant delight to the been the original paragrapber, but be of a story, along comes South Ameri- beholder. And so at sea one finds a co. “ Listen to this in Buenos Aires I that as it may be is credited with a new world, peopled by a new people, few good ones—some excellent. He saw the finest Capitol in the world. I [.for the mellowing climate seems to even had that rare quality, exercised got a picture of it.” Were we talking find an echo in the human conscious- by few, of admitting that there were taxicabs he would seized the conversa I ness, , ...... and men and women .. «'•••«"•> unfuld and tilings he coul I not understand, and a- tion. “You ought to see the taxicabs j form acquaintances, which would take in Rio. They are robbers. I says to mong them the ways of a ship at sea. I years of time on la id. No matter it’ Solomon has been dead these many me woif: ‘pipe the meter, pipe the j we forget once we land. It is estab- years but his perplexities in this re meter and every time they would rob I i lished that ship acquaintances "l-e for us.’, Newspapers were mentined. He gard still obtain. | the ship only, but this matters not. The way of a four funnel twin screw knew the newspaper game better than i We are now on the ship and nearing any man on the boat. Turning to a is just as mysterious today as were J the tropics where they never wo’l}, those of the ancient barques which the i man he bluntly inauired: “What’s and where they live for the day only. men of Tyre guided over the Aegean I 1 your business?” And the man replied ' “When in the tropics, sit down,” sai s i quietly: “I am the editor of the New ! Bill, dropping into a ch. ir, “and g-. t sea in Solomon’s time. But if we don’t understand the way j j York Sun.” For a whole moment h - acquainted.” says I, dropping into i.n- of a ship we can at least grasp the why I i was silent, but onlv fora moment. Ln- other of a ship. This ship of ours is going ' I ter in the day Miner remarked: “1 Let us close this letter at the ir.t to sea because way to the south of us ; don.t dare mention the crucifixion f oí where the sea gulls leave off and the men are tearing into the spine of a fear South America has been there an - flying fish beg'ti, for in all the voyage photograph.” continent and they need more supplies ¡got» I I we are never without winged compa I to assist in the final operation. In re- | But we got along with South Ameri ny. When the gulls leave, the flying moving the vertebrae of u hemisphere I ca and had about as much fun out fish appear and many other strange many accessories are required, and it : ’ him as he did with us. ! sea fowl are noticed. It is farther on is by the ships of the sea ilia' these 1 But I am ahead of the boat. We i tlpit we com«, to the pelican of whom are supplied. This ship of ours is load ! left Sandy Hook light and sailed ou’ i Swan, the (raveling man chanted, ed with piovisions and supplies for the | , into the unknown on a Saturday at “A rare old bird is the pelican. army of 40,000 who have labored long ' ' 5:15 p. m., and at noon Sunday We His hili holds more than his belly can and well at Panama. I were 190 miles on our way. We tool. ■ He can fill up his beak. Stored away below the hatches are the Captan’s word fot it, for truth t< [ With food for a weel, thousands of tons of freight, some for I tell some of us were not so much in- I Tho I don't see how the helhecan.” Panama and some for the island peo terested in the distance traveled as in j We are now in latitude 1-5- the third ples of the tropics. Whisked from the distance yet to come. The weather 1 morning out and we will soon sight dock by the spidery arms of the steam was rough and the water rougher. 1 our first laud, which happens to tie the winch and dropped below as gently as There are some things about a sea ■ island of San Salvador the first land eggs in a basket go the boxes and bales voyage which might be overlooked, and | of the new continent w hich Columbus an endless array of packages, till one j these things usaily happen on the first discovered on that Friday morning ov wonders where they manage to store , or second day out. I might as well be er four hundred years ago. It is one them. This ship of ours, while staunch ! frank in the matter und say at once if the Bahama group and we will re and true and ably manned, is by n<. (th4t to me things happened on both serve it for another week when we will means a large ship as ships of today | the first an 1 second day. And 1 was pause on our way to Panama long e- are measured but it is nevertheless out something besides days. nough to investigate Coral Isles of A- some baby of the seas; holding below To the son of the soil who expects ineriea. her hatches about the same tonnage as Lou D. MacWethy to find a floor under him when he contained in a loaded freight train one shakes off the dews of slumber, there hundred cars in It ngth. is something uncanny in stepping out The part of the cargo which interes INDUSTRIAL REVIEW onto a floor which may or may not be i ted me most was the cold storage de there. When you gain your equilibri partment where the food was kept for um you discover that you are loo.-ing the table. I inquired of the Captain and gaining weight so fast that you Manufacturing Enterprises and whether he was sure he had enough to haven’t time to figure whether you are last and he said he thought so. Two Improvements Providing above or below par. When you are days later I sent him word by my bed wafted skyward just at the turning Payrolls and Promot room steward that he might as well point you weigh about as much as a j throw it overboard as I wouldn’t need | tnougiit and when you sink, sink, sink, ing Develop vent ! it. He sent hack that I was doing I (oh the horror of that work sink) you i very well in lightening cargo and he i weigh about a ton more or less. But of Oregon thought he could carry the rest. before you have a chance to carry The most interesting part of about’» weight, up you go again and possibly ; cargo is the human cargo. As we jour- something else. Its a toss up whether (Prepared bv the State Bureau of In. I ney towards Pan ama those who follow you go back to bed or crawl on deck. dustries and Statistics.) this series will find if they find inter- j I Its a toss anyway. But that sinking I The International association of est at all, that it pays to get acquaint motion is the woist. Every time the I Stonecutters are asking that Oregi n ed with the passengers as well as the floor sinks, something inside sinks and granite be used on the r.ew million dol I places along the route, and 1 will take every time the floor conies up some lar Portland postoflice. this opportunity to look over the pas thing inside wants to come up too. Voters at Eugene authorize a muni senger list. There are several booked And the worst of it all is that when cipal band, an armory, and the acquir- for “the cruise.” that is, from New you are tired of it the boat has just ii g of Skinner’s Butte by the city. York to New York, sticking to the commenced. James J. Hill has given $50,000 to boat and landing as occasion permits Sea sickess is another puzzler which the Christian Church Bible Schoo) for The points they visit will be Santiago, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica; Colon, Port Solomon might have pondered had he a new building at Eugene. Officials of the Rogue River Public Lim< n, Costa Rico, back to Colon and been so disposed. I have talked to ship surgeons, globe trotters, sailors Service corporation have been visiting I home via Kingston, where a cargo of in the forcastle and they all tell the (heir plants at Grants Pass and are I ( lruit is taken on. Among the cruisers same story You may go to sea for looking for a 5000 horse power site. we find an editor of one of New York’s years ai.it never know the sensation -if lgare dailies, accompanied by hi« wife A 3 10 000 Episcopal chjrch is to be sea sickness, and then of a sudden ;.nd daughter. A paity from Massa erected at Oregon Citv. comes a time when you get yours good chusetts. among them a young lady *urora is to have a $60,000 four-sto from Lynn, who entered a contest to and proper. Again you may have t ry Masonic temple this year. for a day or two on every voyage, and win. She won it you bet, and caught The Willamette Pacific Coos liav emerge from the trout le and eat all in her net, the hearts of all of the there is on the ship. Others never ov line is to have train sei vice to the «nJ men. ercome it. They have invented swing of the line in a week. Bound for Cuba was a traveling man ing rooms suspended on ball bearing North Bend and Marshfield are in ,rom Boston anJ a young Englishman ,h was locating on a large BUgar which are absolutely as level as a house vestigating wood block paving. A life saving station is to be built plantation. For Kingston a couple of flu >r, but the result, so far as curing young men from from Pittsburg, on ser sickness has proven to be an utter at Florence on the Siuslaw. sightseeing bent, and a couple of tired failure. But it is only inextreme cas A beautiful high school building has business men from Springfield. Mass , es that sea sickness interferes with been erected at Stanfield of Baker on a rest excursion, wnich they took more than one or two days of the jour County stone. playing golf under a tropic huii , 1L0 ney, and there i.- added zest in ones con The McVay tub, pail and package | proof. Also for Kingston was Hum- duct in the presence of food after e- Company of Minneapolis are looking merging from the affliction. butg-Arrurican marine engineer whose tor a site for a plant ill Oregon And so we will sail on our way into special hobby was the construction of Municipal Se -unties are all that is dry docks, and a mechanical engineer 'he third day, pausing on the aft deck selling from Origen in the east city, fist io watch a tiassenger shaking his from Omaha, whose mission wits the , school, courly and road bonds. construction of an immense starch at the sea gulls. "Follow, darn yer, plant in the north part of the island. but if you expect me to feed you any I I The $.1o00 has been raised for a can- This particular starch is derived from longer you will starve before you get nery at Cottage Grove. the casuva plant. It is a new industry ’ back to New York.” A proposition to construct 100 niil< a And right here begins the pleasure , of hard surface at a cost of $750,000 in f r the island ai.d an experiment. The ■ larch is used in the calico and cotton of a voyagi into the tropics. Unlike Linn county, will be submitted to print industry, and the starch hitherto a voyage “across” here is a change in \ ote. employed comes entirely ftom the is 1 every h >ur’s travel. Corvallis will construct fifty blocks The most striking change is th" paving this year. land of Java. I was interested to I.now that 1 hid traveled a thousan.l ch ¡nge in the co'or of the water as we the Eastern Oregon Editorial Also- miler to learn of a new industry fos- ( pass south. From the sort of jealous (Continued on page three.) of New i tered by American dollars, furnished gray green of the ocean