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Historical Society, City Hall Oregon City ourier COURIER ESTABLISHED MAY, 1883 HERALD ESTABLISHED JULY, 1893 INDEPENDENT ESTABLISHED 1898 OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 12,1901 18th YEAR, NO. 47 EDWARD HUGHES i ' . ' - : : 182 Madison St. West end of Bridge, Portland, Oregon GENERAL AGENT FOR Aultmari & Taylor's Celebrated Threshing Machinery Steam and Gas Engines, Saw Mills, Etc, CONSOLIDATED IMPLEMENT GOMP'Y SUCCESSOR TO Crrebe, Ilarcler & Co. 182; 184, 186 Madison Street, VVest End of Bridge, DEALERS IN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS AND VEHICLES Remember we have the finest stock of th best makes to be found in Portland, including Farm and Spring Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, and Carts, Mowers, Rakers, Tedders and Hav Tools, Hay Presses, Grain Drills, Plows, Cultivators, Disc and Spring Tooth Harrow, Pumos Harness, Bicycles, Etc. Main Store and Warehouse, No. 140, 146 Sixth Street North, PORTLAND, - . OREGON 1 POPE & CO. HEADQUARTERS FOR Hardware, Stoves. Syracuse Chilled and Steel Plows, Harrows and Cultivators, Planet Jr., , Drills and Hoes, 'Spray Pumps, Imperial Bicycles. PLUMBING A SPECIALTY Oor. Fourth and Main Sts. OREGON CITY ! Of H. Schrader All kinds of Fine Bread SUCCESSOR TO JOSEPH KUERTEN'S Bakery and Confectionery 7th Street, Oregon Will give to every in quality 18 years foreman' of the Main St. Bakery 5 .1 i 4- -' Up-to-date Confectionery of all kinds City, Oregon satisfaction customer and prices. I baked the Wedding Cake for your parent and I'll bake yours too snows ur this hock Oil Indications in Multnomah and Clackamas. E. S. McCoy, who made the 6rst in vestigation ot the Gresham district for oil indications, paid to an Oregonian re porter that the company which he rep resents will begin boring within a short time in the vicinity of Gresham, ami he declared that be had not the slighter doubt but a tirst-class quality of petro leum will be tound, and in j&rge quan tises. It will be, he says, paraffine oil. Mr. McCoy spent about 20 yean in the oil regions of Pennsylvania, and else where, and what information he has on the subject of oil and oil country he de rived from observation and personal ex perience. He says he never saw belter indications anywhere he has been that showe 1 presence of oil than in a certain district which extends southward from the Base lina road through to Pleasant Home, and even to Clackamas river. Mr. McCoy made hiB first investigations through this reaiou nearly 10 years ago, and preparations were then made to be gin b.ring for oil. George B. Markle was to furnish money for the work, and di 1 make arrangements to begin work with some Pennsylvania oil men, but the panic came along, and he went into bankruptcy, and the whole matter fell through. Mr. McCoy, in speaking of his investigations, said : ''I base-my cunclustona that there is an oil region from the character of the nick found. I made a most thorough invemiation, following the channel of the Sandy river, which has cut through the rock many hundreds of feet deep in places, and exposing the porous rock in which oil is found. This was traced for miles southwestward to Revenue's and the rock is found in abundance. It can be plainly seen, expoaeri through the cutting pnwer of the fandy river. I then traced this supposahle oil belt all about (ireslu'in to Pleasant Home and on to the CI ickanias, by ifoing into the deep cun oun and eximining the strata. 1 find t lie oil-htnala Is solid and not broken, which i the ve. y best indica tion that the oil is held in quantities ai.d when stunk there may be what are called gu.-hers. "In the Pleasant Home district we have the indications of ti e exirtence of petroleum in tlie wells of William New and Joseph Bailey When they w -re t-inking their wells they came to :lav that was saturated with oil, and it per meated that water bo that it could not bo used. Now when the water is low the oil will flow freely into the wells mentioned, but in the winter, when the weather is cold and water is plentiful, theje is no oil. The indications in these wells are the same as those first found in Virginia. I have no faith in the seepage oi 911 inajnas oeen mentioned.,-, it. bus-,1 not the best of indication, as the best authorities on the Bnhject hold. The best indications are the porous rock, and we find that mainly south of the Base line road and along the Sandy river. 'I extended my investigations as far as Hubbard, in Marion county, and there is evidently a large and extensive oil belt, whiUi, in my judgment, will be de veloped and will be a big thing for the state.. The reason 1 think the oil is held in hrge quantities is the unb'oken condition of the strata. A well should be sunk in the belt. There is some seepage on Beaver Creek, and one fai mer out there thinks his tarm is worth its weight in gold, and in imagination he is already buying blocks in the heart of the city of Portland, and, while I don't want to discourage him or any others who are depending on this seep age, I do say that the presence of the oil rock, the porous rock, is the best ev idence and the one recognized by ex perts. We are going to find paraffine oil, I verily believe, whenever a well is sunk dirt-ctly in the ol belt that 1 have indicated. In my inveBtigations I found a fine mineral spring on the Sandy river several miles east of Pleasant Home, where oxide of iron is abundant. L sup pose very few people know of this spring I also found places where there was an outflow of gas. " No Fishing on tlie Cuiclcamas. Friday the fishermen of the Clacka mas river made an agreement with Water Bailiffs McOown and Smith by hich there will be no more illega1 fish ing on the Clackamas during the closed season. The agreement reads as fol lows: "We, the undersigned fishermen of the Clackamas river, hereby pledged ourselves to do no fishing on theClacKa mas river or any riv r over, which the state of Oregon has jurisdiction; during the closed season. We further pledge that we will allow the water bailiffs the use of our boats at any time during the c'ose.i season, and also give any inform i tion in regard to any illegal fishing of which we may know." This agreement was signed by the fol low ing finhermen : Louis Hinder, Fred Hinder, John Grinder, C. E. Smith . Oldenburg, H O.Jewell, Pearl Bcatnan, J. C. Pierce, George Himler and K Hinder. These are prrcically all the fishermen on the Clackamas river. One of the fishermen stated that the fisher men there would do all in their power to uphold the law on both the Clackamas and Willamette rivers, in assisting the bailiffs. While the agreement does not include fishing on the Willamette, Bailffa Moody and Blakesley are keeping a close wa'ch in Portland to prevent fish from coming j into the Portland market.' Since the ar-1 rest of Malarkey, a day or two ago, the' dealers ate beginning to find that the bailiffs Hie enforcing the law, and will ' not buy. Gap Closed. The operation of through trains be-' tween an Francisco and Los Angeles, : via Wurf and Santa Barbara, will begin on Sunday, March 31, -J)l, on the new Coaet Line. Two through trains duilv. The Coast Line Limited leaving each terminal in -the morning, equipped with 1 elegant cafe and parlor cars, will make ' daylight trips through the most pictur esque, varied and entertaining scenes en the continent. Inquire of agenti of ohe Southern Paciffc. W. C. IWMAN Agricultural Implements and Vehicles 210-214 FRONT STREET, PORTLAND, OREGON. Peerless Plows Steel and Chilled Road Carts ALSO Buffalo Hits, Harrows and Cultivators, Uwen' "Advance" Fanning Mills. write tor Catalogue and Refurnishing AGENTS FOR D.)wagi.-c Drills Hoi and I J sc Buggies NEW MODEL "STEEL BEAUTY." atoughton Wagons Prices. CALL And now for clean, new Lace Curtains, Portieres, Carpets, Rugs, Matting, Etc. The season is almost here when you'll need them. It will pay you to do your buy ing early. We are making some famous reductions now, find arc showing our very best designs. Lace Curtains, latest design, toe and 15. -per yard. if tztZZ , ' JOB THE HOUSEFURNISHER Sickle Grinders Mountain Hacks and Spring Wftgn ' ALSO 1 1 ay Presses, Morse Tower and Steam Feed and Root Cutters, Bon 3 and 'Cider Mills; ON 1.12 BEFORE BUYIIHG. Time 8D