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
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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
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4-
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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.
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