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NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST
EPITOMIZED.
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