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ST. Johns review M should Patronize Advertise In The Review tu cirvoMiuit i UI nM. hie iiml It lour" iln fidll. Itl U'ttlT tllHIl ft daily in the field. IT WILL REPAY VOU TE ST. JOHNS REVIEW Devoted to the Intcrcsti of the Peninsula, th Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOL. 2 ST.' JOHNS, ORKGON, FRIDAY, FISBRUARY 2, 1906. NO. t3 Ishepard, Dobie & Peterson ! k 5 K3 a 3 1 1 1 ! s Two fine cottages on Lively Street. A great bar (N vain at Come quick if want this. 600 you PHONE 4061 t, ! HOW THEY' WORK. SA&H GLAZING DOORS WE CARRY "ODD" SASH IN STOCK Columns Spindles Brackets Lime and Cement Paints Oils Glass Redwood Gutter St. Johns "D." ST. JOHNS SASH AND DOOR CO. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL IHONE SCOTT 4063 Hi JERSEY STREET R. WILCOX, EDMONDSON CO., Hardware, Tinware, Plumbing Tin Roofs. Gutters, etc. Scott 4065 ST. JWNS. Or Dray and Baggage Line Phone Scott 1308. Piauo Moving a Specialty. Leave orders at lUackhurn's I'urniture store ami they will receive prompt attention. "For Rent" and "For ! cards for sale at this office, Sale" Our Special Corrospond.int Tells About The "Cross-Ronds." We were dumped rather uncerc moiiiousiy trom 11 est. jomis car one day last week, at n place caller smiths crossing, aim, ns tite car and trailer with a wild shriek of th whistle, tore off down the track, the dulcet tones of the conductor came floating back on the breeze, saying ''Go north if yuh want Maegley junction." North might have been straight up lor all we knew. A road, cross nig the car track at right angles, was plainly the only avenue of es cape, borne hundred feet each side, the laud had been cleared and an array of white painted lot stakes planted, giving to the tenantlcss locality the cheerful atmosphere of a cemetery. Heyoud this, a circle of timber cut off the outside world. We hud . hurried some distance down the road when one of the party discovered n ,'ttew kind of stake made of a piece of dry goods Dox and Inscribed xi.si -8. Prom the stake on through the tall timber and underbrush there stretched tut aisle of clearing, arched in by over hanging boughs. Mocking the far end a half-mile away, loomed the corner of a new gray house. What mutters it that a man builds his nest in the deep wood 1 The surveyors arrive with their implements, trample his garden, scare his chickens, "chain" his house and disappear. Later the railroatl company comes to buy. Does he refuse to part with his home, they condemn it and take it anyway, bueh Is the txMialty of progress. "Hey, yuh follerin' the rail road?" Heliind tissata mcloucholy native with horse and wagon. "Yes," we replied: "Can you show us the way to Maegley Junction?" "Foller yer nose and that line 'o stakes," said he, jerking his thumb in the direction of the gray house, "and yer can't miss it." "Diirn the railroads!" he added, as he pre pared to drive on. wiiais uie matter wttn me railroads?" I inquired. "Wall, yuh see," ns he spat out of, the wagon, spread his knees and settled his elbows and upjer trunk comfortably thereon, "Father writ me as how the railroads was goiu through my laud and fer me to come down and Tight 'cm. Wall, I did. Now they're goiu' to miss the ground fur enough not to pay fur it nud spile it anyway." lie indi cated with his finger a strip 35x100 feet eiioloed in 11 rickety txlc fence, lying near the surveyed line. "Hut your laud will increase fu value just the same, I said. Wall, not much," he replied dismally. "They II cut n deep hole back there to put their track in an' go tootin' and rtttubliu' by, all times of day and night. Then there'll be tramps follerin' up, stealiu' chickens and beggiu' and the cliiLem'll lie gcttiu' 011 the the track and be kilt. I tell you they' re tut good. Hunt the rail roads," and the jeviiinist lumlicrcd leisurely on up the muddy highway. inking the advise given we gathered up all hindering skirts and coat-tails and set out after the stakes. It was a fearsome journey. Through backyards and chicken yards, under clotheslines and shade trees, around houses and swails, over fences, boarded, railed and barb-wired, through newly-plowed fields where stakf were scattered to the lour winds, into the twilight gloom of deep forests, where rabbits scurried and squimls chattered at our invasion and Mack berry vines tore at our clothing; scolded by women, barked at Ly dogs, followed by small boys, we tasted in a second degree all the delights and sorrows of a civil engineer: "xi28," "X127;" here is one at the side Vn if" lipre it crosses the road ready for teams to be hooked on. In the fence corner a pile of shovels and picks gave mute testimony ofS recent activity. To the left a dense Z column of smoke arose where the ' right of way was being cleared. Crows held an inquest over a pile of tin-cans near one of the tents. In' the background male chickens crowed and cows lay peacefully on J St. Johns Land Co. the green crass chewing their cud. Little do they guess that this white cloud of tents lias come to bring turmoil and clamor over thicr quiet fields. A voice could be heard, thinned by the distance. "Five-six-nine." It was echoed nearby. "Five-six- nine." Across the divide stood a man with a surveyor's rod. Near by, the engineer leside his transit wrote down the elevations given. f hey were determining the grade. 1 wo men came out of a tent railroad men from crown to toe. The older one with n jolly face but carrying a good sized fir stick sauntered over our way and looked inquiringly at us. A young man came down the road, and made as if to go into the field but paused 011 top of the fence. The railroad man forbade him to go farther, but l( ic sat 011 the top rail, watching the i surveyors at work. In the meantime something had evidently hapKMicd. Men began riling out from behind the tents. Horses and mules were being piletty hitched to plows and scniers. i lie pile of picks and shovels was melting rapidly away. One man started his plow through the lowest part in the divide. A scrajwr followed in his lead, another scraier look up the line of march, then a shovel. Like trained sol- tiers they fell in line and directly, two banks, each one hundred feet ong, had begun to grow on either side of the right of way. Grading lad been resumed oil the O. R. & N. "Quite a weighty trestle that was," we ventured to Mr. Newman, the jolly faced man. Mr. New man's lip curled. "Just a bluff," said he. "Iluilt entirely of four by sixes and toy railroad iron. Not safe for 11 man and wheelbarrow, to say nothing of a traiucar. Now WJien we builii," he added, "we mild tor keeps," waving his hand roitdly toward the ten inch ties, the eighty pound rails, spiked,' tied and leveled, and the cut fully flu shed and trenched. Work had not gone far 011 the grading when a man emerging from the Hill camp, proceeded to the ud of the graded work. From there he walked with long strides and eyes on the ground toward the Iiirriman camp. To some remark of Mr. Newman's, he made a laugh- ug rejoinder and passed 011. Mr. Newman informed us that the man was a civil engineer for the P. & S. company and that he was pacing the ground to be sure that no grading was being done within the disputed territory. There s 110 personal feeling here, PHONE UNION 3101 Z 4S t z ' t t 8 Z ! Z 3 Z z s- i FOUR CHOICE BUSINESS LOTS left on Jersey street, 25x100, $1000.00 and upward. These lots will double in value in one year and are the only good business lots left on Jersey street that are on the market. Kine lots in St. Johns Park, 50x106, with i6-feet alleys $275.00 and upwards $5.00 down and $5.00 per month. These lots are near the great Weyerhauoser site ST. JOHNS CENTRE In the very heart of St. Johns on Hur lington street, one block from Jersey street. I'uturu business property. Lots $,)oo and upwards, $25 down and $10.00 per month. A great opportunity to make big profits on very small investment. lowever," added he. 'vi .." xi2; . ' "a hub." says someone, whatever tnat may panics can fight it out up town but we men down here have 110 reason to hate one another, so we don't," Mr. Newman still cast uneasy glances at the man on the fence. Seeing his fellow railroader, whom he called Mac, he raised his stick to attract attention, then in dumb show indicated the man on the fence. Mac gave the young man one keen glance mid passed oil. Ik-fore that look the youth promptly fell off the fence and retreated to the road. He doubtless knew that with that one glance Mac had sized him up, his history, his religion, his character, his reputation, what I his parents had been, what his children would le. He had been numlcrcd, catalogued and pigeon holed for future reference. "No," said Mr. Newman, "we don't mind alxmt jcople going in side but that young man lingered , too long on the fence. I feared he might be taking our levels, so I stopped him. That is another in stance where it is wiser to walk on boldly that to sit astride the fence." z z , 4 4 St Johns Land Co., St. Johns 1'iione union a 1 01 Oregon The com'- Branch Office and Agency on (lie Ground. Try a pair of our Village School Shoes AND BE SATISFIED COUCH Phone Union -1066 & CO. 206-208 Philadelphia Street A vouth loitered tin as if he would sneak to Mr. Newman. His . - i - ..I : 1 . .. . mean, then a long sweeping curve. i,at was tilted over one eye, his F.ureka, we have arrived I btopj,amisi hfe pockets, his head hung and take a breath. forwaid at a weak angle, his pro- The two tents of the Portland muling lips glued ubotit the stem of and Seattle railway on the hill a clay pipe. "Say, mister, do you looked deserted. In thedip of land .nml any men?" below the highway the O. R. & N. tents squatted snugly over their piece of track, daring Mr. Hill to come and pull it tip To the right a small band of men sauntered idly about, smoking and talking. Horses auu mules, ready harnessed, ate out of the wagon beds. Plows and scrapers stood Mr. Newman did not look up. "Not today, we're full-handed." The loy slouched disgustedly away, doubtless blaming his luck that other men secured work when lie couldn't. A middle-aged gentleman with Continued on Last Page. 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