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Development and I'rogres of the Vari ous Industries on the FaclOo Ooaat Kvarythlag I'oluta to Bright and Troaperou Future Oregon. A new steamer for the ooal trade is soon to be pnt ou between San Fran oisoo and Coqnille City. A mining and coal-shipping cor poration bus been sturted at Bandou, with a capital stock of (160,000. The building of the Astoria railroad has already consumed (400,000, whioh is at the rate of $50,000 per month. A rabbit drive fad is now being in dulged iu by the citizens of Lakeview, and thousands of the animals have been killed. It is estimated that the wool orop alone sold to such good advantage that 000,000 was disbursed in the vicinity of The Dulles last year. Benton oounty, now having six flour liiif mills, is to possess a seventh. The new mill is to be of a oomplete roller process and to contain modern ma ohinery. Pendleton is soon to have a new boteL A leading property-bolder of that ctiy has about completed arrange ments for erecting a brick edifice on the oorner of Main and Railroad streets. The Portland Oregonian has award ed (160 prize for the best definition of a baby. The Heppner lady who won the prize sent in this answer: "A tiny feather from the wing of love, dropped into the saored lap of motherhood." An outside market for hops raised in this state would be a most welcome boon to growers, who are very much oiroamsoribed in their movements. An experiment of this nature was recently tried in California when 60,000 pounds were sent to Isswioh, England. The farmers around Roseburg have been cashing up their wheat, taking advantage of the prevailing advanoe of the market value of that commodity; the result is much ooin is being plaoed in circulation whioh cannot be accen tuated with the opening season. A (5,000 nugget was recently fonnd in the Virtue mine near Baker City. It consisted of a single slab of gold weighing in all about (6,000 worth, and required no retorting before ship ment to the mint at can J! ranoisoo. A three days run in this mine has just produced (64,000. Tillamook's lumber report shows that over 3,000,000 feet were sawed there in 1896. Of the three largest mills, one has a capacity of 60,000 feet, another 30,000 feet, and the other 36, 000 feet Suppose the outpnt to be 40,000 feet per day as a low estimate, the combined product of all the mills for 800 days would be 13,000,000 feet An enterprise whioh is to be of great importance to the communities in the Rogue river valley will be the proposed Highland canal, whioh is now taking definite shape. The matter was for mally brought to the attention of the board of trade, before whom represent atives of the oompany appeared by in vitation, and detailed plans and speci fications on points touohing on the en terprise. The Willamette river seems to be steadily deepening every year and also increasing in volume of water. In plaoes the ohannel has an entirely dif ferent course than that remembered by the oldest settlers. It really seems to be going back to its old bed of prehis toric times. Suoh radical ohanges have taken plaoe in the ohnnels of other rivers, but the cause of whioh has been just as deeply involved in mystery. Washington. County immigration conventions are all the rage in the Evergreen state this month. A resumption of the operations of the paper mills at Everett is a matter of considerable importanoe to that town. A consignment of Kaffir corn will soon arrive from Kansas and an effort will be made to induoe Adams oounty farmers to gve it a thorough trial. The people of Puyallup are rejoicing in the mildness of its climate, whioh fact is evidenced by the presence of blooming roses and chrysanthemums. Specimen photographs of Whatcom oounty timber have been forwarded to an Eastern polyteohnio institution, to be used in the regular oourse of study. Another large batch of land has been patented by the Northern Paoifio rail way. It oonsistsof 696,818 acres lying in Yakima, Walla Walla and Frank lin oounties. To this state has been secured a sep arate distriot for river and harbor im provements by the authorities at Wash ington. An engineering offioe will be established at Seattle.. The Ritzville farmers and business men are very joyful on aooount of the bright prospects for a good year. Sum mer fallowed ground is permeated three or four foot with moisture and a good crop is almost assured. A good suggestion has been made to build flatboats with a capacity of ten or fifteen tons, to be loaded with ore at or near Fail-view mining camp, B. C, in the Oesoyoos division upon the Okanogan river, and float them down to Wenatchee. The Pacific oounty bar association has taken steps to prevent Oregon law yers from practicing in the superior court ia the district which comprises Pacific, Wahkiakum and Lewis coun ties. The last legislature passed a law allowing only those lawyers from other states to pruotioe in Washington oourts whose states granted the same privileges to Washington lawyers. It appears that Oregon laws do not per mit lawyers residing in this state to practice there. Two carloads of machinery have ar rived from the East for the Seattle firm that successfully bid for two of the new warships. The buildings are now all in readiness, inoluding the building ways, whioh are oovered by a roofed shed 300x76 foot, giving ample room to build both the torpedo boat and the rev enue tug. Not the least significant of the recent extensions is the shop for steel shipbuilding which is now com pleted and ready to receive its ma chinery and tools. Real estate agents of Spokane are jubilant over the inorease of their stock in trade of alluring inducements. The bank clearances for the week ending January 36, exoeeded those of Seattle, Taooma and Helena. It may also be noted that the railroad traffic shows a remarkable inorease, and the hotels and restaurants are filled with more strangers than at this time for three years previous. This increase, together with ten big mines working in the Coeur d'Aloues and a lengthen ing list of shippers in the Slocan and Trail Creek districts; with wheat ad vancing until it is worth about 30 cents per bushel more than last year with new enterprises guaranteed for this city and with the other signs of new prosperity, Spokane has no oomplaint to register at this date.' Idaho. The late Goddard murder case cost the county of Nez Peroe (7,634. A shipment of 70,000 fruit trees was recently made from Mosoow to Camas Prairie. A Bnowslide carried away the mill at the Vanderbilt mine, two miles south of Hailey. Another payment is due the Nez Peroes in February of (150,000. It might be very handy these dull days to be an Indian. Development work on the Blaok Hor net has suspended for the present The owners will put up a ten-stamp mill for reducing and saving the gold. The maoihnery for the new paoking oompany at Idaho Falls has arrived and is being placed in position. Contracts have been made for a large number of hogs, so that slaughtering may com mence at once. The Boise mining exohange is start ing oil in a business-like manner. The members seem to be in earnest in the matter, and filled with a determin ation to score a success. The exohange promises to be a great benefit to the mining industry of the state. Some Indiana oitizens desiring to oome West have written for offers and inducements as a bonus for their start ing a wood-pulp milL It would re' quire considerable soft wood, such as cottonwood, linn, buokeve, eta All things being favorable another desir able industry will be started in Idaho. Montana. The diphtheria epidemic has died out at Belt and the publio sohools have reopened. Billings' latest enterprise is to con struct a (10,000 opera house with a capaoity for 600 persons. A recent fire at Helena destroyed a (30,000 milling plant of the Montana Lumberng & Manufacturing Com pany. A brewing oonoern has just finished a fine oold-storage house and are pre paring to put in bottling works in con nection with their establishment at Belt The assessed valuation of Montana is (134,076,585.50, while its indebted ness is only (3,798,080.83. For a young state that is only six years old, Montana is doing remarkably welL The munioipal authorities of Helena, under authority of a popular vote to that effeot, tried to dispose of about (600,000 worth of bonds recently, bear ing interest at 6 per cent There was only one bidder, and the matter was postponed for thirty days. British Columbia It is likely that the War Eagle will put up a milling plant of its own at Rossland. A new brewery is soon to be erected at Sappington. It will have a oold storage plant in the same building. The present air compressor at the Le Roi mine having proven too small, a new twenty-drill one will be put in. This oompany is a steady dividend payer. The people of Rossland are now con sidering the proposition of munioipal corporation. Two meetings have been held. At the first meeting a commit tee was appointed to learn the concen sus of the property-holders oh the sub ject This being favorable, at the second meeting a committee was di rected to draft resolutions to the legis lature, now in session, praying for in corporation. British Columbia possesses the unique distinction of containing the only quicksilver mine under the British flag. It is situated on Kamloops lake, opposite Savonas, a small station on the Canadian Pacific, and the ore is a oinnabar, or native sulphide of mer cury. With only two retorts in opera tion the results have been surprising. From a test lot of twenty tons of crude cinnabar sixty flasks of quicksilver, weighing 4,690 pounds, were produced, valued at (3,130, at a cost of only (300. This mercury was sold in San Francisco; but in future, when the new retorts are built, the quicksilver will be dispatched to China for the manufacture of vermilUon. DECIDEDLY BETTER SUCH IS THE PRESENT TONE OF THE WHEAT MARKET. farmer Who Held On to Their Wheat Have an Opportunity to l"rollt by the Better Prlee Prevailing Con clusions on Sinut In Grain. The wheat market appears to be steadily improving and is relatively higher than the price in Chicago and Liverpool would warrant, says the Walla' Walla Statesman. As wheat started in last fall as low as thirty oents the rise of twentyoents and up wards is remarkably and decidedly en- oouraging to wheat growers. It is to be regretted that so many farmers found it imperatively necessary to dis pose of their wheat when the prioe hardly paid the cost of raising. Only a few of our most prosperous farmers have held on to their wheat, and now have an opportunity to profit by the better prices prevailing. Farmer Expect Higher Price. Apropos of the present boom, the Oregonian states that wheat goes up at local markets because farmers are hold ing on in expectation of higher prices, and, as charters must be filled, buyers mnst pay what is necessary to fill their orders. There is a possibility of bene fit in this to the farmers, if the result' is not the carrying over of too great a surplus here and elsewhere, so as to break the market down in the spring. Our farmers are in mush better posi tion to hold their wheat than they were prior to 1893, thanks to the eoonomioal teachings of hard times. The science of farming is incomplete without a knowledge of market conditions, and its practice is at a disadvantage unless the farmer is prepared to act upon this knowledge. Wheat exemplifies this. So, also, in an eminent degree, does fruitgrowing. Had the improvement oome earlier in the season, before so muoh of the grain had passed out of the growers' hands, the benefits would have been greater, but, even at this late date, a fair proportion of the orop is in first hands. While in the Eastern Oregon district ai ut Pendleton the wheat is well ole.tued up, there is said to be muoh grain remaining in the Palouse country, the great wheat-growing re gion of Washington. The cause of the present flurry has been shown to be the orop failure in Australia, whioh has opened up a new market for the Paoifio ooast; not, as some may believe, the European war scare. All the talk of probable hOBtil ities has thus far failed to excite the great wheat markets of the world. War scares have been used too often by wheat-pit manipulators to have any further value in this connection. Were it known to a oertainty that war was owning, things would be different Smut la Grain. The Montana experiment station sends out the following oonolusions on smut in grains: Stinking smut at tacks wheat only. Loose smuts at tack all of the small grains, but that of the oat is the most damaging, Clean seed, or that effectually treated for smut, will produoe a crop free from smut, but an adjoining smutty lleld may contaminate this grain for next year's orop. The only safeguard ia oareful treatment before planting. The disease in wheat may be entirely pre vented by thoroughly wetting the seed in a solution of copper sulphate, using eight ounoes to a gallon of water, bet this will lessen in some degree the vi tality of the seed. It may also Ik ef fectually prevented, without any dam age, by immersion for fifteen minutes in water raised to a temperature of 18! to 185 degrees Fahrenheit Oat smut may be completely prevented by treat ing the seed fifteen minutes in water raised to a temperature of 183 to 186 degrees Fahrenheit This treatment not only removes the smut but. pro motes the growth and inoreses the yield. It may also be prevented without in jury to the vitality, by immersing the feed twenty-four hours in a solution of potassium sulphide, made by dissolv ing one pound of the sulphide in twenty-four gallons of water. The oopper sulphate treatment, used for wheat, will effeotually kill the smut in oats, but will in some degree damage the germinating power of the grain. A Deelded Improvement. There is a decided improvement in wheat on the Paoifio ooast, and while wheat farmers never expeot to realise the prioea of a few years back, they are hopeful of getting some returns for their labor. The lowest point was reaobed in October, 1894, aooording to the Sacramento Bee, when it touched 76o per cental. Prioea now quoted are (1 to (1.03. This has been brought about by the shortness of crops in Austra lia and the Argentine Republic. Within the past few weeks seven vessels have loaded with full cargoes of grain from Fort Costa for Australia, while another vessel baa loaded with a full cargo for Cape Town, South Africa. There have been no shipments of grain from this port for Australia for some years past, and this is the first consignment of grain ever made to Africa. There is much more hopeful feeling on the part of wheat farmers and larger sales of seed whest and barley are being made by the warehouse and commission men of the central portion of the state than for any one season during the past five years. It is probable that there will be a full average acreage of wheat sown this season. Up to December 7 there were lying in the port of San Fran cisco vessels chartered for grain with a capacity of 84,984 tons, against 29,496 tons at the corresponding date last year, while the unengaged tonnage is but 17,699 sgainst 63,858 at the same period in 1984. HEARD THIRTY MILES AWAY. The Wonderful Mnele of the fit Bella of Bloecow. "Like the morning stars when they snnir together Is the melodious thunder of the bull In Kremlin Tower, and sweet as the harp of David are the bells of Vuldla," Is a Ilusslan saying. In the very heart of the vast, treeless plain of Central Russia, Moscow Is huddled together against the blasts. Above the hundreds of thousands who buy and noil In the markets the Kremlin lifts Its golden dome. Under Its semlspherical THE GREAT BELL OF MOSCOW. roof the great, brazen bell, of sixty tons weight, five times the size of Bis; ben, In London, swings lightly on bor ders of oak and steel. Twenty-four wen pull, not the bell, but the ponder ous clapper, until it strikes the side like a gigantic hammer. Out the ton) floats, full, deep, mellow, over the roofa of the city, over the plains. Thirty miles away the peasant crosses himself and the traveler kneels In the road to pray. There Is no sweeter music In all tb world than the music of Moscow's bells on Christmas day. The boom from th Kremlin wins response from 2,000 great bells and 6,000 small ones ail over the city, and such is the quality of tone of the largest bell In the world that It simply rises above the chorus of lesser bells like the lovely, higher keyed tenor In an oratorio. Bella of silver, bells of copper and tin, bells of brass, bells of mellow bronze, bells of strange alloys and strange unearthly tones like the voice of the pope's anger In the pontifical choir In Rome; chimes and peals and carillons swell the mighty anthem of praise that rises and knocks at the door of heaven on Christmas morning. The devout Russians look above for that light which never shono on sea or land. They they go to the bell chapel to worship. More than 200 years ago the great bell was cast Into the mold of clay. Wars passed over It, fire and flood and pestilence. For nearly two centuries It lay In the earth. When it was raised lt stood twenty-one feet high and was covered with Inscrip tions and carvings. A fire cracked It and a great piece fell out It was rais ed on to a pedestal of stone, the broke place serving as a door, an altar was) placed Inside and now every pilgrim to the city pauses for prayer at th bell chapel. Its computed weight kt 220 tons. AN AUTOMATIC VALVE. This One Partly Cloaea or Opens a in Pressure Ia More nr Leas. A valve adapted to close propordoo ately on an increase of pressure and open correspondingly with decreasing pressure In the flow of gas or other fluid Is shown In theaccompanylnglllas tratlon. The valve seat Is comparative ly deep and conical in shape, and tho valve Is held on a stem sliding loosely AUTOMATIC VALVE. In a cap on the lower end of a cage, which also slides loosely In the cap of the valve body, the cage being adapted to be raised or lowered by a threaded stem on which is a band wbeeL On the upper end of the valve stcsn fav a cap agaJnst which presses a colled spring, and an Increase In the pretaToro of the gas flowing through the valve, causing an increased pressure also against the top of the valve, moves tfco latter downward against the tensloa of the spring, thus decreasing the open ing between the valve seat and th valve, the spring lifting the valve and enlarging the opening as the pre decreases. The Russian Charg-e at Eylaav It was a raw and bitter day; durtng the morning there wars occaslosatl