TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON
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OREGON STATE NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Brief Resume of Happenings
of the Week Collected for
Oor Readers
THE MARKETS
PORTLAND
Wheat — Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat. 68 He; soft white and west
ern white, 60c; hard winter,
northern spring and western red,
58%e.
Hay— Buying prices, f.o.b., Portland;
Alfalfa, Yakima, $14.50.
Butterfat— 22 & 23c.
Eggs— Ranch. 17 @ 18c.
Cattle— Steers, good, $6.50 @ 7.00.
Hogs— Good to choice, $5.00 & 5.75.
Lambs — Good to choice, $6.50 ®
7.00.
Seattle
Wheat — Soft white and western
white, 62c; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, 62c;
bluestem, 71c.
Butterfat— 23c.
Eggs— Ranch, 18 @ 19c.
Hogs— Good to choice, $5.55 @ 5.90.
Cattle— Choice steers, $6.25 & 6.75.
Sheep— Spring lambs, $5.00 & 6.50.
Spokane
Cattle— Steers, good, $6.00 @ 6.50.
Hogs— Good to choice, $5.25 @ 5.50.
Lambs— Medium to good, $5.50 &
6.25.
Downy mildew, scourge of the hop
Industry, has started to appear on
the hop vines generally throughout
the entire valley, according to G. R.
Hoerner, agent of the United States
department of agriculture. Immedi
ate control steps are urged to pre
vent its spread and it is recommend
ed that spikes be removed, leaves
stripped and a Bordeaux spray ap
plied.
Hop prices gained fractionally
when one carload. 125 bales, was
sold at Salem for 75 Vj cents a pound.
This is a half cent higher than any
previous sale. Some local growers
have insured their remaining bales
of hops for 80 cents a pound, indi
cating a belief that the price is due
ftg further increases.
Large yields of Royal Anne and
Bing cherries are predicted in Lane
county by C. E. Stewart, county fruit
inspector, who has been well over the
fruit districts in the county. This
year’s crop of cherries will be well
over the average in most varieties,
he said. Prunes and apples are show
ing up poorly.
The skeletons of about 250 In
dians. some of whom were signers of
the ’'peace treaty” , bet ween the red-
skips and the government, • will be
transferred from an island near Big
BSdV fo the.-Washington shore. The
rdinatns* wil llje, placed in small ce
dar ieaekets made by Indians.^
•' Improvementin market conditions,
coupled with the rdCent order of the
state utilities commissioner, reduc
ing materially the rate for hauling
logs over the Valley & Siletz and Sou
thern -Sadfic railroads, may result
id the reopening of the C. K. Spauld
ing plant at Salem.
H. A. Busterud, local lumberman,
has been named export sales manager
for the Coos Bay Lumber company.
FOr a number eif years he has been
connected with the Coos Bay Logging
company at North Bend. His new
duties will require his residence in
Portland.
A Benson cigar raft containing 5,-
000,000 feet of Douglas fir logs has
left the mouth of the Columbia river
for San Diego. It is being towed by
the tug Roosevelt and is exp '*e1 to
reach its destination in a for'.n’ rht.
A report filed with the Riddle c'tv
council by W. H. Wann, certified
public accountant, shows the manipu
lation of city fund3 in the Riddle
State bank, resulting in the pros
pective loss of $10,149 by the city.
The Astoria Chamber of Com
merce directors have formally indors
ed daylight saving and will support
the effort sponsored by the Junior
Service club to have clocks stepped
up one hour during the summer.
The city council of Hood River
has gone c.n record in favor of a port
and a new jnupiçipal lighting unit,
to be financed by funds from the Re
construction Finance corporation on
a self-liquidating basis.
Depositors of the defuntt First
National bank'of Springfield are re
ceiving a- first dividend of 45 per
cent. The first payment represents
about $38,000.
Unfavorable weather and untoward
conditions have greatly damaged the
prune crop iD Marion county.
Ronald Carl Flnster, I, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Flnster, West Salem,
suffered fatal injuries last Monday
when he was run over by a truck
driven by John Henry Falk. The ac
cident occurred at a street intersec
tion, after the child had fallen out
of an automobile in which he waa
riding with his parents.
Thursday. June 8, 1933
Howe About:
SALMON A FISH
OF GREAT VALUE
Martin Johnson
Virtue Among Kings
Railroads
Supports a Vast Industry on
Pacific Coast.
By ED HOWE
P r * p a r * 4 hy N a t io n a l U * o c r * p h l e Society.
Killing rattlesnakes Is highly dan
W a s h in g to n . L>. C .— W N U S i-rv lc *.
• K M . B a ll S y n d ic * « * .— W N U S * r r k *
gerous work, according to Charles
OME two thousand Chinook sal
LTHOUGH
born
In
a
country
town
Dyer, Roberts creek rancher. Dyer
nu>n front the Pacific coasL
in Kansas, there is a famous and
located two rattlesnake dens near hla
which were hatched In the aquar
rich
man
named
Mnrtin
Johnson.
All
farm and killed 35 of the reptiles.
ium of Washington's new De
Just as he had completed clubbing he had to start with was a good deal partment of Commerce building, will
the last snake to death, he slipped of natural sense (as most people have), he placed In Deep Creek lake, Mary
and fell over a steep bluff, narrowly and good parents and neighbors to land, whose waters dntln Into the up
teach him the Importance of polite
escaping death.
per Potomac It Is hoped the fish will
ness, fairness and Industry.
Probably at first he was ambitious find their way to salt water and re
Secretary of State Hoss urged in
a letter to Treasurer Holman that to fight Indians and hunt buffalo, but turn, In four years, to spawn, thus
gasoline refunds to farmers be paid was soun able to understand that such stocking the historic river.
Pacific salmon are the most valu
directly from fuel tax receipts before adventures were no longer available.
the money is turned over to the gen Happening on a book about Africa he able fishes, not only of the United
eral fund. Hoss said that inability determined to go there to take moving States but also of the entire western
of farmers to cash warrants Issued pictures of big game animals, capture hemisphere; and with the single ex
for refunds worked unnecessary them alive for sale to parks and mu ception of the sea herrings, they are
seums, etc., and now lives In a palnce commercially the leading tlshea of the
hardship.
in Niaroba, in South Africa. He has world.
In one year the aggregate catch of
First steps have been taken at The had wonderful adventures, met many
Dalles to raise a fund by subscription famous people, and appeared before salmon In the Pacific stntes. British
to be used in marking the graves of great audiences In every part of the Columbia, and Alaska wus upward of
four hundred million pounds; which,
17 unknown persons, probably Ore world.
Anyone who denounces Martin as sold in a canned, salted, smoked,
gon immigrants, whose burial place
was recently unearthed by a county Johnson because he Is famous and a frozen and fresh condition, had a mar
road crew on the Fifteen-Mile road gentleman, or says he acquired his for ket vulue of about $27,750.000. The
tune by means not available to every- ! canned product alone, consisting of
near Fairbanks.
body. Is a cad. Johnson's average In more than five million cases of 48 one
Baker & Kelly company of Salem decency has been a little alwve the pound cans, was worth $25,500,000.
is installing a new barreling plant at average of those who denounce him Thirty five thousand people were en
Banks and is contracting with straw because of his prosperity.
gaged In the different branches of the
berry growers. Continuous rain has
And 1 like his wife Osa. who Is also , Industry, and Hie Invested capital wus
resulted in heavy foliage on the from Kansas. I do not know either of fully $30,000.000.
plants, but berries are not setting. It them ; have seen them only In their
There are five distinct species of
is expected that the harvest will be wonderful public performances and salmons, which, having many charac
a month late.
paid for the privilege.
teristics In common, nevertheless dif
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ter strikingly In size, color, habits, dis
A new industry has been started
Every one is writing now; even trlhutlon, food value, and economic
at Cottage Grove by Robert H. Sav kings and business men are seeking Importance. The largest und most
age of Marshfield. It Is the manu such defense as print affords. There magnificent of all salmons Is the Chi
facturing of pencil slats. Six men la lately available a book by the re nook, Qulnnat. King, Spring, or Tyee
will be employed at the factory and cently deposed king of Spain, al salmon. It has an average weight of
more men will be used in getting the though the actual work was done by a nearly 25 pounds In the Columbia riv
material from which the slats are ghost writer. The title Is “By-Ways er, and Is often caught weighing 40 to
made.
of Royalty,” and the ghost writer, the
Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. Is
Old-timers report that the snow on thoroughly familiar with his subject.
Mary’s peak in the Coast Range It Is the first Intimate story of roy- j
mountains is lower down than they
alty I have ever read, and I wonder the
have ever seen it this time of year.
book does not attract more attention.
Several hundred head of cattle usu
The intimate life of a king Is as curl
ally are on the mountain for the
ous and strange to me as the Intimate
summer grazing by this time of year.
life of a Russian peasant, with his
tea
drinking, fleas, sheepskin clothing,
A dividend of $33,683 is being
paid depositors of the defunct Citi and running away from wolves and
The author, although a
zens* bank of Ashland. This, the famines.
third dividend to be paid, represents grand duke, writes surprisingly well;
10 per cent on savings and commer he believes democracy a false system,
cial accounts, bringing the total thus bnt is fair In dealing with IL
Having been a humble subject all
tar liquidated up to $142,927.
my life, and gazed on rulers only from
Early-planted gardens in Clatsop afar, I found many surprising state
county are suffering
considerable ments in the book, and quote one for
damage from slugs. The slugs remain your amazement:
“No major country has ever gone
hidden in the ground near the base
of plants during the day and feed bankrupt because of its king's mis
tresses, but the worst fate thnt ever
on the foliage at night.
befell a monarch befell the czar of
The Klamath Falls chamber of Russia because of being ruled by a
commerce and citizens of Klamath foolish wife.”
The ezhr and Grand Duke Alexan- I
county have recommended to Gover
nor Meier a $7,961,000 program of der were cousins;-the grand duke
city and county public works based t. knew the Russian royal family Inti
on federal funds.
mately and for many years. The
author concludes kings as husbands
The Bend and Redmond school dis average about as do draymen, den
tricts and union high school districts tists, clerks, merchants, lawyers, doc
A Chinook Salmon.
have warrant and bond indebtedness tors, and other town men. He thinks
totaling nearly $350,000, according it possible, however, thnt the average
to a survey of school districts in among farmers, aR to outside love af GO pounds, while occasionally exam
ples of over 100 pounds are taken.
Deschutes county.
fairs. may be a little higher than It
While found from California to China.
is among kings, owing to farmers be
An action has been filed in the* ing Isolated on lonely creekR and It attains Its greatest abundance In
the Sacramento, Columbia. Yukon and
circuit court to restrain the city of prairies.
other
large streams.
Lebanon from foreclosing delinquent
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Blueback Has Its Faults.
paving assessments for 1913 and sub
The moving picture people have
Tbe species called Blueback salmon
sequent years levied against Grant
about all the money now. hut the rad i>n the Columbia. Sockeye on Puget
street property.
Icals are not suggesting that they dl Sound, and Itedfish or Red Salmon In
W. E. Lamm of Klamath Falls an vide with the poor; that demand Is Alaska, averages only five pounds In
nounces that he will start his saw made on manufacturers and other use weight and never exceeds twelve. It
mill at Modoc Point, June 1, on a ful persons who haven't any.
atlains greatest abundance In the Co
One “movie” man In Hollywood uiinhia. the Fraser, and in various
basis of one 6-hour shift, with the
employment of about 100 men, form lately authorized his press agent to streams throughout Alaska. Its meat
broadcast the statement that his In is rich In quality, deep red in colot
er employes.
come from salary alone was half a and the tisn Is therefore in great de
Miss Flora Mason of Albany has million a year.
uiand for canning. While a beautiful
been re-elected president of the Wo
The class one railroads (meaning a fish when in salt water, with bright
man's Albany College league. Miss group comprising all the best ones)
Mason has served as head of the last year lost more than a hundred olue back and silver sides, after en
'ering fresh water It deteriorates rap
statewide organization during the and fifty million dollars, as against
oily in food value and appearance, the
past year.
a profit of sixteen million In 1931. head turns to olive green, and the en
The Pendleton city council has pas- Throughout the year of this t»-rriflc 'ire back ami sides heroine crimson
red an ordinance authorizing the de deficit, the class one railroads gave and filially dark blood red.
The Silver or Coho salmon, with a
posit of city funds in banks outside employment to hundreds of thousands
t.;e city at the discretion of the city of men at the highest average' wages general distribution in the coastal
tre: surer. Pendleton Is without a paid In the world; yet there Is not a streams, averages sfx pounds in weight
community In the country, or a Jury, and rarely exceeds 25 or 30.
bank.
that does not Join the government
The smallest species Is the Hump
Plantings of “Minnesota 13” seed and courts In efforts to further impov back. so called from the well-marked
corn treated with rodent, bird and erish the railroads.
nuchal hump developed .by the male In
worm-repellent chemicals are being
Bnt how the “movies.” of no use to fait The extremes of weight for ma
made on Lane county farms under anyone, prosper!
hire examples are three and eleven
the direction of the county agent.
j It is another exhibition of the Amer pounds, with four pounds as the aver
ican spirit, unintelligent und dishonest,
Earl Snell ow Arlington, speaker that must be changed before the coun age. The region of greatest abun
dance is Puget Sound to southeast
of the house of representatives at
try can again get on Its feet.
Alaska.
the last session, will deliver the Me
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The remaining species, the Dog or
morial Day address inw the American ■
Nothing
Is
ever
settled.
W,hen
1
Chum
salmon, averages eight pounds
Legion program at Redmond.
was a boy 1 heard quarreling which in weight. It is generally distributed
A 20 per cent Increase In wages greatly disturbed those taking part. and abundant, but. owing lo the poor
for Common laborers is announced I have heard the same quarreling qunllty of the flesh. Is the least Impor
by the Coos Bay Lumber company, i about the same subjects within an hour, tant of the group. The distortion of
which recently reopened. The increase now that I am In my eightieth year. the Jaws in the male during the breed
If, after death. I am restored to con Ing season, while characteristic of all
is from $2.50 to$3 per day.
sclousness 1 shall be surprised, but species, is particularly mucked In the
A 10 per cent reduction in the whether 1 land in the bosom of Abra
Dog salmon.
teachers’ salary budget of the Bend ham or In the clutches of the devil. I
The differences In spawning times
grade schools has been adopted by think I shall appreciate once knowing
and places of the different species of
the school board for the coming positively where I urn nt.
salmon are most Interesting. After
school year.
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spending most of their Uvea at sea,
growing, accumulating fat, and stor
ing energy, tbe salmons move Inshoro
and ascend the streams. After once
beginning their upward Journey, they
take no food, and In fact are Incapa
ble of digesting and assimilating food.
Where They Spawn.
The Qulnnat salmon begins to run
In spring and pushes Its way to the
headwaters of the larger streams. In
the Columbia basin the species dis
tributes Itself over 90.000 square miles
of Washington. Oregon, Idaho, and
Moutana. Its upward limit being Insur
mountable obstructions or falls. In
the Snnke river and Y’ukon river tbe
spawning grounds lie 2,000 miles by
water from the «-a.
The »pawning streams of the Red
salmon are those that rise In lakes,
ami the siuiwnlng grounds are In the
effluents of those lakes. The run be
gins In May ami fish continue to come
In until October.
The Silver salmon enters the
streams from July to October or No
vember. but does not as a rule ascend
for long distances.
The Humpback runs Into fresh wa
ter In summer and fall, preferably In
short coast streams, and often spawns
within a few rods of the <>c«-un.
The schools of 1 tog salmon come In
to the stream rather late; In the Co
lumbia river uud Puget Sound the run
extends from August to late In No
vember, and In Alaska the height of
the season Is about the first of Sep
tember.
Now. whether the salmon travel In
the streams 2.000 miles or 200 feet to
reach their spawning grounds, and re
gardless of their physical condition at
the time they arrive a» the particular
places required for the proper devel
opment of eggs and young, every Indi
vidual of every species dies shortly
after spawning. This Is the most
characteristic and remarkable event
In the life of the Pacific salmons.
Why this Is tbe case Is one of na
ture's mysteries. It lias Its parallel
In some other fishes. In the may-fly,
which perishes after a few hours' ex
istence, and in the annunl plants. One
can only say of such that they have
served their purpose and are no long
er needed.
Artificial Propagation.
Tbe artificial propagation of sal
mon In the streams of the Pacific sea
board began at a comparatively early
date and has continued with yearly In
creasing extent and Importance, so
that at the present time more hatch
eries are devoted to the Pacific sal
mons than to any other fishes of tbe
western hemisphere.
The first salmon hatchery In the
West wag established In 1872, on the
Met'loud river In California. By Ex
ecutive order there was set aside a
large tract for a “pisdcultural pre
serve.'* which was fittingly named
Baird, after the first national com
missioner of fisheries: and Living
stone Stone, a pioneer fish culturlst,
wus placed In churge and continued
in thnt capacity for many years, over
coming many obstacle*, undergoing
many privations. re|>eatedly subjected
to great danger from attacks of In
dians and outlaws, while devising
methods which showed the possibili
ties of salmon culture and led to the
present extraordinary development of
this art.
The eggs of the salmons are .2 to
25 Inch In diameter, and nre the larg
est bandied by the fish culturlst. They
are easily obtained by Intercepting the
fish on tlielr way to the spawning
grounds by means of racks, traps,
seines, etc., and then, when exactly
ripe, by expressing by firm pressure
on the abdomen
Not Easy to Handle.
The size and activity of the salmons
make It necessary for two or three
men to work together In holding the
fish and relieving them of their eggs
anil milt, and the largest Individuals
are most readily managed by putting
them in a strait Jacket.
In view of the Inevitable death of
the salmon nfter spawning, an Im
provement over the old method of
forcible expulsion of eggs Is the stun
ning of the fish by a blow on the head
and taking of the eggs by abdominal
section. This, while greatly facilitat
ing the work of the spawn takers, adds
approximately in per cent to the egg
yield hy the saving of eggs that would
ordinarily he left In the abdominal
cavity.
Salmon eggs hatch slowly. Incuba
tion. beginning in late summer or
early autumn, continues until the fol
lowing spring or summer. de[>ending
on the temperature of the water. The
most protracted period of Incubation
thus far coining to the notice of fish
culturists Is that of the red salmon
at Karluk, Alaska, where eggs taken
In September may not hatch until the
following May or June, and in certain
seasons th? hatching time has been
prolonged to 270 days.
The annual deposits of young sal
mon in the waters of the Pacific sea
board by the bureau of fisheries, the
three coast slates, the Province of Brit
ish Columbia, and the private hatch
eries In Alaska now total many mil
lions. of which the largest quantity
represents the work of the federal
govern meni
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