Dayton tribune., June 21, 1912, Image 5

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
PACKING PLANT PLANNED.
NEW TOMATO RECORDS SET.
Meat Products Will Be Supplied to O. A. C. Students Harvest Unusually
Stockholders on Coast.
Heavy Crop of Vegetable.
A co-operative meat-packing plant
to provide consumers in Portland and
San Francisco with meat and meat
products at wholesale prices will be
launched this week in Ashland, Or.,
by a number of prominent capitalists
of Southern Oregon, including Benton
Bowers and George Owen, of the Ro­
gue River valley, and W. A. Shoe­
maker, of Ashland. Officers of the
company will be elected at a meeting
early in the week and articles of incor­
poration will be filed as soon there­
after as possiblle.
Work will be begun at once on a
plant to cost $300,000, fully equipped
for the handling of meats and their
by-products, and it is expected the
concern will be ready to commence
shipments early in the fall. Accord­
ing to W. A. Shoemaker, who has
been promoting the company, the
money to finance the plant is being
secured rapidly and everything is in
readiness to go ahead with the work.
The capitalization of the company
is to be $300,000, with 3000 shares of
the par value of $100. Half of these
have been subscribed in San Francisco
and the other half in Portland. The
plan, as devised, is to sell the meat
products to the holders of stock. A
limit of three shares has been made
for each stockholder and efforts have
been made to distribute the shares as
generally as possible.
Meat depots will be established in
each of the two cities, at which the
stockholders can secure fresh meats
or any of the meat products daily at
wholesale prices. These depots will
be supplied directly from the packing
plant.
The promoters of the company have
selected Ashland as the site for the
plant, because of its proximity to the
cattle and sheep country and its posi­
tion midway between Portland and
San Francisco. The livestock will be
secured from the vast livestock ranges
of Southern Oregon and Northern Cal­
ifornia.
The livestock owners are
greatly interested in the project, and
have promised support because of the
benefits to be derived by being able to
dispose of their produce so near home.
GOOD YEAR PREDICTED.
Weyerhaeuser Representative
Timber Trade Bettering.
Says
Klamath Falls—“I anticipate the
greatest activity throughout this
part of Oregon by timbermen this
summer ever witnessed in the annals
of the country,” said Mike Dooher,
one of the leading timber cruisers of
this county.
Mr. Dooher was for many years
with the Weyerhaeuser Timber com­
pany, operating in many parts of the
United States where Frederick Wey­
erhaeuser has holdings. Since that he
has been in Oregon and kept in close
touch with the wood and timber in­
terests of the world.
‘‘Activities of the big timber men
are held back just at this time by the
approaching presidential campaign,”
said Mr Dooher. ‘‘Just as soon as the
conventions have been held and the
men selected to represent the two
parties in the coming campaign, the
timber men of the United States will
draw their conclusions as to who will
fill the presidential chair for the next
four years. Their actions in so far as
they go toward developing the timber
interests of the country and preparing
for a campaign of activity in the
timber. Every move of the timber­
men of the entire country goes to
show that this contention is true.
‘‘Timber men of note from all parts
of the country have been turning their
attention toward Klamath for the past
year more than ever before.
During
the past few months representatives
of the big interests have been hover­
ing about Klamath county and the
large timber belts of this section
awaiting word from those behind
them to grab every acre of timber
that can be found on the market in
this country.”
Woolen Mills to Be Enlarged.
St. Johns—Plans for the enlarge­
ment of the Portland Woolen Mills of
this city have been prepared by Arch­
itect L. I. Thompson, of Portland.
The plans and specifications call for
two stories high, 85 by 200 feeL It
will be erected adjoining their present
large plant The lower story will be
used for storage purposes and the up­
per story for a loom room, with a ca-
picity of 20 or more machines.
Hood River Water Low.
Hood River — Whenever the fire
alarm sounds in Hood River hereafter,
because of action just taken by the
Board of Aidermen, the citizen who
leaves his hydrant running will sub­
ject himself to a fine of $50. This
action was deemed necessary by the
council because of inadequacy of the
water system in case of a serious fire.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis.—Two students at Oregon Agri­
cultural college, George McFarland,
of Sitka, Alaska, and John Franklin,
of Seattle, who are doing special work
in greenhouse vegetable forcing, have
set a tnew record for indoor tomato
producers. These students are now
harvesting a heavy crop of unusually
fine tomatoes, some weighing 20
ounces, which are being taken from
plants grown from seed sown January
1. The first fruit was picked on May
20.
“There are six varieties being
tested,” said Professor Bouquet, when
discussing the work of the student
tomato-growers. “The varieties are:
Bonny Best, Stoad, Jewell, Lorillard,
Comet * and Early Anna.
Several
methods of pollination have been em­
ployed to test their efficiency and the
yield of every plant is being noted
carefully, so that there will be a
fairly accurate test of the behavior of
each of the varieties, for this year, at
least. At the present time the Bonny
Best is ' yielding fine, large, smooth
tomatoes.
“The seed of this crop was sown
January 1 and the plants set in the
bed March 15. The first picking was
made May 20. Fertilizer experiments
are carried on also, with individual
plants in each row.”
COLUMBIA RIVER LAUDED.
Harvard Professor Says It Is Worth
Four Rhines and Two Hudsons.
Hood River — “The Hood River
Gorge looks very much like certain
parts of the rivet Oar near Berne, in
Switzerland,” declared Professor Al­
bert Bushnell, who was here visiting
his niece, Mrs. Robert T. Newhall.
Professor Bushnell, who is a member
of Harvard faculty, is exchange pro­
fessor this year for the four Western
colleges, Know, Grinnell, Beloit and
the University of Colorado.
He is in
the department of history and has
written a number of well-known text­
books.
“Nowhere in Switzerland,
Europe or America,” says Professor
Bushnell, “is there a waterway to
compare with the Columbia from Port­
land to Hood River.
This part of
the Columbia is worth four Rhines
and two Hudsons. Few streams in the
world carry such a force of water;
fewer still have such a setting of
mountain crags and cascades. The
people of Oregon do not realize how
much their snow peaks add to the at­
tractiveness of the state.
The Three
Sisters, Jefferson and Hood, are a
part of a series of the most splendid
volcanic snow-capped cones in the
world.”
ASHES DESTROY ALL LIFE.
Portions of Kadiak Island Buried 20 Naval Forces Prepare to Remain In
Feet by Volcanic Outburst.
Island Many Weeks.
Juneau, Alaska—Governor Walter
E. Clark has received the following
dispatch from Kadiak:
“Kadiak island is covered with 12
inches of ashes. Ashes have stopped
falling, but conditions here are terri­
ble. The people were taken aboard
the revenue cutter Manning, which ia
leaving for other stations to obtain
food.
“On some parts of the island the
ashes are 20 feet deep. Vegetation
and animal life have been killed and
the wireless station at the town of
Kadiak destroyed. Conditions at Kar­
luk must be terrible.”
Governor Clark cabled to Washing­
ton asking $100,000 from congress for
relief purposes in the stricken district.
The volcano has resumed its normal
state and the atmosphere is clearing,
so that boats will be able to get into
the stricken district with relief.
At Uyak the fall of ashes amounted
to four inches. The people there are
not suffering. This was one of the
places on Kadiak island where it was
feared the greatest damage was done,
and the news from there gives hope
that all persons on Kadihk island are
safe.
No word has been received from
Afognak island, which lies only a few
miles north of Kadiak island,- and
fears for the inhabitants’ fate are ex­
pressed. Afognak, which is included
in the Chugach national forest and fish
culture reserve, has a population of
600. The island is in a direct line
with the course taken by the ashes
and sand from Katmai.
A light rain fell at Seward. The
water was charged with sulphuric acid,
which is killing all vegetation and
eating into the metal work of build­
ings.
The tug Printer left with relief for
the town of Kadiak.
AVIATOR MAKES RECORD.
Flies From Portland Skyscraper and
Lands at Vancouver, Wash.
Portland—Aviation science took an­
other stride’ toward perfection when
Silas Christofferson, the youthful
Portland bird-man, successfully pilot­
ed his biplane from the top of the
Multnomah Hotel building to Van­
couver, Wash.
He flew the eight
miles, crossing the Willamette and
Columbia rivers, in 12 minutes.
Other aviators have made speedier
journeys, but it remained for the un­
licensed ex-automobile racer to be the
pioneer in trusting his heavier-than-
air machine in a start from the midst
of the business section of a city.
Only once from the time the aero­
plane glided from the roof into the air
until it loomed in the distance as a
small bird, did the machine display
signs of uncertainty, and that came
when it crossed the Willamette at a
height of approximately 900 feet.
Then it was only a slight tremble. It
soon recovered perfect equilibrium
COMAN EXPECTS BIG;CROP.
and soared majestically on its way.
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The landing was made at Vancouver
Agent for Hill Line« Predict« Grain exactly 12 minutes after the start, a
crowd gathering in the Washington
Yield Will Break Record.
Portland — W. E. Coman, general city to witness the end of the spectac­
freight and passenger agent of the ular voyage.
North Bank road and the Hill lines in
TREASURE CABIN LOCATED.
Oregon, has returned from a week’s
trip through Eastern Washington, the
Puget Sound country and Willamette Search Made Near Medford for Loot
of Failed California Bank.
Valley. He says every district he
visited gives promise of bumper crops.
Medford, Or.—J. M. Howard, pio­
“Industrial and crop conditions in neer prospector, after a weary search
Oregon and Washington are most sat­ of six years, has located the cabin on
isfactory,” said Mr. Coman. “In the the banks of a mountain stream,
wheat belts of Eastern Oregon and which is said to have been the home
Eastern Washington, growing grain of the men burying a vast treasure
never looked better. Farmers are pre­ looted from the Adams Express com­
paring to harvest the biggest crop pany bank when it failed in San Fran­
ever grown in the Northwest.
cisco in the early ’50s. Now he needs
“In all fruit districts I visited I only to find one Charles H. Owens, of
found conditions excellent for im­ Michigan, ¡who came to Medford six
mense crops.
The apple yield prob­ years ago and started him on his long
ably will be the largest in the history search for the hidden cabin.
of the Northwest.
It was six years ago that Owens
“Our lines are preparing now to first appeared on the scene in Medford
meet the situation at crop-moving and enlisted the aid of Howard, who
time. It will take hundreds of cars knows every canyon in Southern Ore­
to move the grain and fruit crops this gon. Owens knew the exact location
year. The railroads will have much of the treasure, but this information
new rolling stock to handle the traffic. ” he did not divulge.
The man who
told it to Owens died shortly after.
State Law Bounty Is Limit Lot.
Salem—Holding that the state board
of fish and game commissioners have
no power to offer a bounty for cougar
scalps other than that provided by the
regular state law, which is paid by
the oounty and the state. Assistant
Attorney General Van Winkle fur­
nished an opinion for that body. The
commission desired to know if it could
give additional bounty of $10 from the
funds collected by the commission to
J. B. Hill for five skins.
Motorboats Become Populer.
Hood River—During the past week
the first motor boats have ruffled the
surface of the waters of the streams
of the White Salmon and Hood rivers.
The little launches used by the local
ferries, plying between this city and
Washington bank points, are popular
pleasure craft now on the summer
evenings after 8 o’clock, when the
day’s schedules of ferry trips are fin­
ished.
CUBAN TASK DIFFICULT.
Suffragette« Win Mercy.
London—The sentences of the mili­
tant suffragettes, Mrs.
Emmaline
Pankhurst and Mr. and Mrs. Pethick
Lawrence, joint editors of Votes for
Women, have been modified by Regin­
ald McKenna, home secretary. The
prisoners will finish as first-class mis­
demeanants the term of nine months’
imprisonment to which they were con­
demned at the Old Bailey sessions on
May 22, instead of serving as ordinary
criminals.
200 Persons May Be Dead.
Seward, Alaska—A cannery tender
from Uyak, on the Shelikoff strait
shore of Kadiak island, brought word
that the people there are safe, but it
is thought that seven fishing villages,
with a total population of 200, on the
Alaska peninsula, in the immediate
vicinity of Katmai volcano, were de­
stroyed by the recent volcanic erup­
tion.
Washington, D. C.—Naval officers
are of the opinion that their task of
policing eastern Cuba will be a long
one, for orders show that colliers are
being made ready to carry supplies to
the vessels in Cuban waters sufficient
to meet their needs for weeks.
The collier Hector is scheduled to
leave Hampton Roads for Key West,
and probably will proceed from there
to Guantanamo. The collier Celtic is
under orders to leave Boston within a
fortnight, and her cruise also in all
probability will end at Guantanamo.
The commander of the gunboat Pa­
ducah reports great uneasiness in San­
tiago and vicinity. Reports also came
of ominous movements of the insur­
rectos and of appeals for help from
plantation owners.
From one source cam* a rumor that
Cuba itself had fostered the insurrec­
tion for certain political purposes, but
that the movement had gone beyond
its control.
The State department
knows nothing to confirm this rumor.
There was talk at the War depart­
ment of sending some army officer to
Cuba to make an impartial investiga­
tion of conditions there and if possi­
ble to act as an intermediary in re­
storing peace between the factions.
It is the common belief that if in
the end intervention in Cuba is a nec­
essity, there must be sweeping
changes in the organic law of the re­
public to guard against the recurrence
of conditions that have made the pres­
ent insurrection possible.
RATE REDUCTION ORDERED.
Medford Merchants Win Contention
With Southern Pacific.
Washington, D. C.—The Interstate
Commerce commission has ordered a
reduction of from 11 to 12 cents a
hundred pounds in class rates one to
four, inclusive, on traffic over the
Southern Pacific from Medford, Or.,
to Hornbrook, Klamath, Ager, Mon­
tague, Gazelle, Edgewood, Weed, Sis­
son and Dunsmuir, Cal. This reduc­
tion is based on the showing of Med­
ford merchants that existing class
rates complained of are materially
higher than class rates over the same
road and for similar distances in Cali­
fornia.
Figures were produced to show that
the Southern Pacific maintains two
classes of rates, one on each side of
the Oregon-California line. The road
contended that the higher rates in
Oregon were justified by the mountain
grades, but the commission found
there was little difference between the
grades of Southern Oregon and North­
ern California. The new rates will go
into effect July 15.
HOUSE FAVORS BORAH BILL.
Irrigation Committee Urges Home­
stead Measure Be Passed.
VOLCANIC ASH
30 FEET DEEP
All Animal Life on Kadiak Is*
land Destroyed.
Only Water Fit for Use Is Distilled
By Revenue Cuttar Manning—
Natives Paric-Stricken.
Cordova, Alaska — Wireless mes­
sages received from the revenue cut­
ter Manning, in Kadiak harbor, and
from the Alaska Packers’ association
fishing stations at Karluk, Chignik
and Naknek, said that there has been
no report of loss of life on the island.
No word has been received from the
settlements on the mainland at the
foot of Katmai volcano, where the
greatest suffering exists, if any of the
people of that section survived the
eruption.
Captain Kireland W. Perry, of the
Manning, reported no more eruptions
have occurred and the air is slowly
clearing of the smoke and ash, the re­
turning light revealing in greater de­
gree the real horror and devastation
wrought by the outburst of the fiery
mountains.
The refugees who were aboard the
Manning have regained a certain
amount of confidence with the return
of normal conditions in the air and are
leaving the ship to endeavor to reach
their former homes, which lie in
ruins. The people on the island have
found it difficult to make their way
about, the ash in some places being
from 20 to 30 feet deep. Nearly all
the houses are in ruins and those that
withstood the attack of the hail of ash
and stones are uninhabitable because
of the fine silt which drifted through
every crevice, making useless the
stores of food and clothing.
The wharf at Kadiak, at which the
Manning has been lying, was kept
reasonably clear of ash by constant
playing of the cutter’s fire hose. Only
a small place was cleared and the
roads are virtually impassable.
The problem of feeding the desti­
tute people is a serious one.
Efforts
are being made to reach the govern­
ment experimental farm near Kadiak,
which was stocked with a large herd
of imported cattle and sheep, which,
if found in fit condition, will be used
for food.
The only water the people at Ka­
diak are using is that distilled from
sea water by the Manning, all other
supplies being useless because of pol­
lution.
At the fishing stations of Karluk,
Chignik and Naknek, no loss of life
occurred, but great damage was done
by the fall of ashes.
Preparations
were made at the fishing stations to
take all on board the cannery tenders
and seek safety at sea, but the people
have decided to stay near their prop-,
erties as long as conditions are en­
durable.
It is feared that the fishing season
at all stations affected by the ash will
be a complete failure because of the
polluted water, large quantities of
pure water being necessary to prepare
the salmon for canning.
Total darkness covered the entire
section about the canneries, which are
on the shore of Shelikoff strait, for 40
hours.
Washington, D C.—The house irri­
gation committee favorably reported
the Borah bill which has passed the
senate, directing that patents be is­
sued to all homesteaders on govern­
ment irrigation projects as soon as
they comply with the homestead law
and cultivate half their entry, the
government to retain a lien upon the
land to cover all unpaid water charges.
This will enable reclamation settlers
to get title in three years instead of
waiting ten or more, as now required
by law.
An amendment requiring payment
AUTO PARADE GORGEOUS.
of 40 per cent of the water charges
before receiving the patent, was
Out-of-Tovvn Car« Win Three First«
struck out.
at Rose Festival.
Cuban Troops Are Active.
Havana—News from Washington,
that orders for additional warships at
Havana have been countermanded has
been received here with the liveliest
satisfaction, dissipating the peril of
immediate intervention.
The government continues to im­
press the fullest confidence in its abil­
ity to stamp out the insurrection.
General Monteagudo, who is in com­
mand of the Cuban troops in Oriente,
is so satisfied with military conditions
there that he does not deem it neces­
sary to augment the forces now in the
field with a contingent of 3000 veter­
ans offered by General Juan Mario
Menocal, ex-president of the Veterans’
association.
Government reports show that the
troops are still pursuing the insur­
gents in an effort to make an envelop­
ing movement, but the insurgents are
reported as threatening the city of
Guantanamo despite the presence
there of a strong force of marines and
a contingent of Cuban troops.
Portland — Three of the highest
prizes in the annual Rose Festival au­
tomobile parade were awarded to
neighboring Coast cities, Pasadena,
Cal., taking the highest honors of Fes­
tival week. The prize winner was
designed by a woman. The Seattle
Ad club’s entry took first prize for the
best decorations with artificial flowers,
and the Lyle, Washington, Commer­
cial club won first honors in the class
for clubs and societies. Several other
out-of-town entries received liberal
and cordial applause along the entire
route.
The parade was by far the largest
ever held in connection with the Rose
Festival, 500 cars participating.
Mississippi Again Rising.
Washington, D. C.—The floods in
Louisiana again have become serious,
necessitating another appeal to the
army for aid. A message to the War
department tells of the breaking of
every protection levee west of Bayou,
Louisiana, from Labadiville to the
Gulf of Mexico, about 90 miles, cover­
Striker« Threaten Violence.
ing almost every estate in the vicinity
London—In an inflammatory speech of the river.
Thousands are home­
to the dock strikers Ben Tillett, the less, and unless help is sent immedi­
leader, made a violent attack on Lord ately many will be suffering for food.
Davenport, chairman of the Port of
China Wants S63.0OO.0OO
London, whom he declared responsible
for the strike. He continued: “The
Peking—Premier Tang Shao Yi has
employers want the government to informed the financial group repre­
turn out the soldiers to shoot you. I senting the powers that he required
want to say that if there is any shoot­ 90,000,000 taels ($63,000,000) during
ing, 1 am going to take a gun and June. If he does not obtain this, he
shoot Lord Davenport.” The striker« ■ays, he will consider himself free to
attempted to bold up a meat convoy. borrow elsewhere.