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COURIER, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 WHO OWNS THE COUNTRY 6 OREGON CITY 1 ' : m f'- ,".imimni imw..Jmiiii'iiii i i iH'iiiiiiiiiiTnHMriminiMini .... in i -.. t)j'ffj ..' '..;.., . ..Tl1 ..:. ,J l i. ..-.....U-y El 1 ' ' II 'I E a BOSK t. tfl imik. mm i mm . . v m W O ? W TO they U InJiiULiU uuulli)juK u WELL? Uncle Sam or John D. Rockefeller. A few More Year and We Will all be "Hewers of Wood and Drawer of Water." By Frederick Upham Adams.. "I bave been making a rough calcula lation," paid Col. Monroe, studying a slip of paper covered with figures, "and it looks to me as if Mr. Rockefeller were worth more in wealth than our old friend Uncle Sam." "That cannot be possible," declared Judge Sawyer. "Do you mean to say that the assets of the National Govern ment do not foot up to more than a bil lion of dollars." "That's the way I figure it," answered the Colonel, "but it is possible that I am in error. The various departments do not make an annual inventory or is sue statements giving the money value of the property under their control, so it is impossible to say just what Uncle Sam is actually worth in dollars and cents, but I am satisfied that it is less thar, a billion. In other words, we have lived to see the day when one p ivate citizen can list more property than the Government of what claims to be the most powerful nation on the face of the globe," "1 thought that our navy alone cost . more than a bilion," said Postmaster Jenkins. "Well.it didn't," said Col. Monroe. "In this instance we have the figures, and they show that the cost of the 163 vessels which constitute our navy was about $173,000,000. If we add the va rious navy yards and other property, the total may be placed at $200,000,000. Mr. Kockeleller could duplicateour navy five times and bave plenty of money left. There are 143 custom-houseB, but they certainly did not cost more than $50,000,000. I don't believe that all the post offices in the country cost more than $100,000,000, but to bo on the safe side we will call the item $150,000,000." "There are 75,000 poBt-nflices in this country," declared Jenkin, pioud to dis play his knowledge. And at least 70,000 of them, including this one here in Linculuville, are totaled in buildings rented by the Government", returned Col. Monroe. "This amount I have named would rebuild all of the post oliire Ktructures owned by ihe Govern ment. If the army has $100,000,000 worth of property I do not know where it ia. HuppoBe we put the forts in at the same figure, aud add an extra hundred million for the lighthouses and life-sav ing Bureau. What eh e is there ?" "The public buildings in Washing ton," suggested Judge Sawer. "They conrtitute quite an item." "Not when you are dealing in bil lious," said the Colonel. "I would like to take a contract to duplicate the Na tional Capitol and all of the department buildings, including the SmithBoniau Institution and the National Museum, for the sum of $75,000,000, but, in order to be on the safe side, we will call it 1100,000,000. What else is there?" "The public school buildings," sug genled Postmaster Jenkins, alter a pause. "There is the biggest item of all. Why, the school buildings alone must have cost more than $1,000,000,000!" "In the first place place the National Govtrnment does not own the public school buildings and in the second place th;:ir value is far less than $1,000,000, 000," asserted Col. Monroe. "I cannot state, off hand, the number of these buildings, but 1 do recall that there are about 4J0.000 teachers. Let us assume that there are more than 300,000 school buildings and then Bee how many ol them we can build with $1,000,000,000. First we will eroct fifty, each costing $1,000 000. Then we w ill build fifty more, each costing $500, 000 Then we will contract for 200 buildings at an average price of $U60P 000 ; 1 000 school buildings atn aver, age price of $100,000, and 10,t 00 school biu.iln.gs at an average cost price of $-5,-000. This is a great country, Jenkins, and we are properly proud of our public school system and of the lavish way in which we have expended money on them; hut do you think that there are many line school buildings on earth" There are not 100 cities in the United Stales w hich can show a school edifice Costing $100,000, and thero are not l.OOJ which can bouai ol $25,000 school struc tures. "But we will lot the figures stand as I had them, I wish' to show you what Mr. Rockefeller could Jo with his $1,000,000 000. Now, we will put up I'o.OOO school buildings at a cost of $5,000 aoh ; 100,- 000 buildings, each costing $1,000, and 00,000 at nn average expense of $500. That would be enough to house all of the clnld'cti in the United States." "I'll bet you are way over your $1,000, 000.000 '."exclaimed Jenkins lookingover the Colonel's shoulder as he. tabulated his estimates. "lVrhapsso, but I bave been very lij eval," Slid Col. Monroe, jutting down the figures. "Of course the school prop erty of the of the United States is not so exteiiMve as that for which I hae al. lowed, but $1,000,000,000 ;is nil awful sum of money, and 1 think 1 am inside 01 it." The - olonel figured for a minute in silence and then handed a slip of paper to Judge Sawyer. On it was the fol lowing tabulation : A NATIONAL SYSTEM OF SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS ERECTED AT AN EXPENSE OF LESS THAN A BILLION OF DOL LARS. 60 buildings at $1,000,000 each $60,000,000 50 ' " $500,000 each 25,000,000 200 " ' $260,(100 each 50.000,000 1,000 " " si oo.ooo euch loo.iioo.ooo 10,000 " " $26X00 each 250.000.0110 25,000 " 85.000 each 1 '5,000,000 100,000 " " 81,000 each '. 100,000,000 200,010 " " 8500 each 100,000,000 836,300 school buildings, $600,000,000 "You will observe that I have a mar gin which would be sufficient to dupli cate all of the great universities and col leges in the country," said Col. Monroe. "This gives one an idea of what a bil lion of dollars means. If we allow each of theBe buildings a plot of ground with a frontage of 100 feet the average width of a school lot we would have a row ol them 6,370 miles long. It would form a street lined on both sides with school building extecding from New York to San Francisco. This is one thing that Mr. Rockefeller could do with the money he has 'earned' since he evolved the trust theory of industry." "That is the most astouding illustra tion of the significance of a billion of dollars that I ever heard given," de clared Judge Sawyer. "It seems almost incredible! Are you sure there iB not some mistake in yourjligures, Colonel?" " You can verify or disprove them at your leisure, but I think you will find them accurate," replied Col. Monroe. "It enables one to understand o Mr. Carnegie, who has only a paltry quarter of a billion at his disposal, is able to give awaj hundreds ana thous ands of library buildings and hardly impair his original holdings. We know that Mr. Carnegie U worth' from $250, 000,000 to $400,000,000. ' He not only admits it, but iB proving it. Computed with Mr. Rockefeller he is a man in modest circumstances. I ven doubtmuch if Mr. Carnegie could buy out Uncle Sam. I was attempting to show that Mr. Rockefeller could do this when our friend Jenkins interrupted with his school pro position. You still think, do you not. Jenkins, that a man is entitled to all that he can get?" "I don't know what to think," said Jenkins, gazing hopelessly at the figures. "My head is all in a whirl 1 Your figures must all be wrong, Colonel. No man can be worth so much money as that." "Mr. Rockefeller received known dividends in an amount exceeding $40, 000,000 during the lattyear," stated Col. Monroe, "mat is at tne rate of 4 per cent on a billion of dollars, and in these days that is a fair rate of interest. There ia no more doubt that Mr. Rockefeller possesses more than a billion dollars' worth of paying property than there ia that Town this postoffice building and get rent from the government. But we are attempting to find out about how much Uncle Sam is worth, ills princi pal assets are in the navy, the custom houses, postllice buildingB.army supplies stations, etc., forts, lighthouses and pub lic buildings in Washington. Let's see how much they all figure up to on a rongh estimate." Col. Monroe was busy for several minutes, fin; lly handing to Judge Saw yer the following table: Unless they are, good health is impossible. l.m i0p b?t in th.e.bod7 Passes through and is filtered by healthy kidneys every three minutes. Sound kidneys strain out the impurities from the blood, diseased kidneys do not, hence you are sick. FOLEY'S KIDNEY UKt makes the kidneys wbll so they wiU eliminate the poisons from the blood. It removes the cause of the many diseases resulting from disordered kidneys which have allowed your whole system to become poisoned. BRheumism,Bad?,1od'Goyt'GraveI'DrPsy'Inflamm Bladder, Diabetes and Brighfs Disease, i J w?,y fS' ? aP due to, dlsordered Kidneys. A simple test for Kidney disease is to set aside your urine m a bottle or glass for twenty-four hours. If there is a sediment or a cloudy appearance, it indicates that your Kidneys are diseased, and unless something is done they become more and more affected until Brighfs Disease or Diabetes develops. di ,0L1EY'S KII)NEY CURE is the only preparation which will positively cure7 all forms of Kidney and Bladder troubles, and cure you permanently. It is a safe remedy and certain in results. If Ycu are a sufferer, take FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE at once. It will make you well. Some Pronounced Incurable Mr. G. A. Stillson, a merchant of Tampico, 111., writes: "FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE is meeting with wonderful success. It has cured some cases here that physicians pronounced incurable. I myself am able to testify to its merits. My face today is a living picture of health and FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE has made it such." Had Lumbago and Kidney Trouble Edward Huss, a well known business man of Salisbury.Mo., writes: "I wish to say for the benefit of others, that I was a sufferer from lumbago and kidney trouble, and all the remedies I took gave me no relief. I began to take FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE, and after the use of three bottles I am cured." . nun iLiiimwn 1,111, ixiiu Two &izes, 50 Gents and $1.00. SOLD AND RECORDED BY Oregon City, Ore. CHARMAN & CO. Around Hubbard ONE OE THE FINEST COUNTRIES IN OREGON IS FOUND. The People Are Prosperous, the Crops Abundant, the Improvements Substantial. ESTIMATED ASSETS OF THE GOV ERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Navy 1200,000,000. ('iiHloniliKima Siumo.oOO ToKt-Olllce blliltllllgs 1:0(X0(.KX) Arm; wipplit'tt hihI slatlona luu.tKM.OOO Kortaaml Hmt'imls luo (W0,WR) Lighthouses mi. I lilo-snvltiK service .. 100,000,w) N hi ion H I CnplttU and publics bullillngi In YViishliiKloii 100,000,000 Total ,SOO,(00,000 "You see that there is a balance suf flciont to cover manv scattered items," mud Ool. Monroe. "I very nilich doubt u an expert appraiser could discover aHsuts in excess of the amount I have named. We, therefore, are the living witnesses to something never before ex perienced Hiuee the development of civilization, viz : a private citizen secure in tne possession of more property than is collectively own d by the nation of which he is a member. One man has legal and valid title to move moreproper ty than Is required to protect and con serve the holier, liberty, safety and or. derly administration of the atl'airs of 80 000,0tX)of people." "Perhaps Mr. Kockefeller will buy the Government," suggested Postmaster Jenkins. "Possibly," assented Col. Monroe. "Agaiu, it is possible that the Govern ment will buy Air. Rockefeller. If is inevitable that one or the other buys or ells." ONIONS The Way They Are drown In Clacka mas County. Ohm of the biggest and the host in dnutrii'S in umcKimms county anil lu fact in the Willamette valley in the onion industry.. It pays more (or the labor put into' it and for the capital in voslo'l 'ban almost any other industry in which a man can engage in this part of the world, Onion innd is very high priced land and is usually what is kuowu iu local parlance as Heaver Dam land That means as the merest tyro ought to know Unit it is land built up by beavers in their nieat industry in the construction of homes for thmaelves. While out hunting on last Thursday the attention of the editor of the Courier was called to a five acre tract of Beaver Dam Land jiiMt out from liarlow, this county, at the rise of the lull on ones way 10 macK. burg or more properly speaking on ones way to Polk Uribble'i or K. M. Marks This little farm was fenced off to itself and is wned by a man by the name of W. II. Sewards. This year he cultivat ed just tw and one half acres of land iu onions and harvested 2,340 bushels of as fine onions as every grew out of the ground. He bought this land from Cass Harlow off of the old liarlow place and 'mo ioi it ai me raieot f.ui per acre. It is doubtful if he would now take twice that much per acre for his farm. He raised every tiling else iu proportion to his ouious, pease, cabbage, tomatoes and potatoes and all did equally well on this markably tine soil. Mr. Seward has a large family ard lived in a small and unpretentious residence but in a few years if the onion crop continues to grow n sticti enormous otiautities he wi ivj In a mansion and own a tine farm of 100 acres or mi re. One day last week it was the privi lege oi me eaitor ol tnt uouner with dog and gun to visit the village of Hub bard, seventeen miles south of Oregon City on the Southern Pacific Kailroad. While the primary object of the trip was to bag a few China pheasants and other game that might come in the way, we also desired to viBit once a.ain the vil lage in which we had the pleasure of "teaching the young ideas how to shoot" now nineteen years ago. We were the guests of Mayor Grant B. Dimick, whose old home is within two miles of the peaceful village of Hubbard on the Pud ding river and Milton Kester, a promi nent farmer of the village with whom we roomed in the days now long gone by. With Mr. Kester and his good dog we tramped the fertile wheat stubbles and poiato fields and gardens of the Pudding river valley for more than half a i'ay with fairly good luck, four China pheas ants, a mallard duck and Borne smaller game being the part that fell to the scribe. An excellent dinner 'Dreoared by Mrs. Dimick added to the pleasures of the outing. One who tramps on foot through this part of the valley can not but be im pressed with the fertility ol the soil and the abundance of the crops in the vicin ity of Hubbard and the general thrift ness of the people who happen to have their homes in that locality. New and well painted homeB, large, and fruitful orchards, broad grain fields, and pota toes without end or limit. In the town of Hubbard a halfadozen new houses have been erected this year including thre9 new store houses and several resi deuces. In addition the school district is just bringing to completion a fine graded school building which will have four school rooms and will employ for the present three teachers. Hubbard has three churches and an Odd Fellows lodge aud a lodge of Knights of Pythias The big crops of this locality are hops, potatoes, wheat, oats, barley .onions and onion sets, prunes, hay, clover seed, ap ples and other fruits. Down in the lower Pudding river bottom there are many Hundreds o acres of what is known as muck land or b- aver dam land. This land overflows in the winter season but gi'ows the most abundant .ciosb to be found any where. It is practically inexhaustible. This year John Dimick, who haB recently been admitted to the bar and who has now located in Salem, grew 60,000 pounds of onions and onion sets all of which he will market at a fine price. Mr, Chapman on whose farm we had the pleasure of hunting, harvested a large field of oats that run eight bushels to the acre. The oats were as high as a horse's back. Everything else grows in ime proportion . We passed through the apple orchard of Mr. (xeorge Dimick. All young trees and all full of the finest of apples. He markets all of the sound nice sptcimeus and cans and makes cider out of the de fective ones that would not keen The land in the neighborhood c.f Hub bard is worth from fifty to I00 per acre and much of the beaver dam land along ine 1 lidding river bottom is worth quite a good deal more and mnch of It can not be bought at all as it will pay for itself in a single season with a fair onion crop. The people in the neighborhood of Hubbard are of nearly all races and from many different states. Some old timers who hold donation land claims such as the Dimick farms are yet living here During recent years many Swedes and Germans and Scandinavians have come into this fertile valley and they are not only making good citizens but are materially building up the country. To Mr. Kester and his wife as well as to the Dimick family we are under many obligations for courtesies extended. A Typical South African Store. O ft. Larson, of Bay Villa, Sunda River, Cape Colony, conducts a sto.e typical of South Africa, at which can be purchased anything from the proverbial 'needle to an anchor" This store is situated in a valley Ditie mile from the nearest railway station and about twenty Ave miles from the nearest town. Mr Larson Bays: "I am favored with the costomof farmers within a radius of thirty miles, to many of whom I have supplied Chamberlain's remedies. All testify to their value in a household where a doctor's advice is almost out of the question. Within one mile of my store the population is perhaps sixtv Of these, within the past twelve months no less than fourteen have been abso lutely cured by Chamberlain's Cough Kemedy. This mtiBt surely be a rec ord." For sale by u. A. Harding. lit We Want Your Trade at Harris Grocery And are going to make special induce ments to close buyers. i I 1- 1 V 11 1 1 rt, t f m W i asa ana oraau rronts ts uur mono. 1 J. 1? . lULL, r"' "Thank the uood Lord I" pTplttl'mo a Georgia philosopher, "the railroad's1 done cut off dad's left leg, an' the mort-, kkj is iook on me mule !" Atlanta Con stitution. and For the letcst novelties in all kinds of laces and dress trimmings there is no store in Oregon City like the Fair. They sell men's underwear at the Fair at Rediculously low prices considering the values. An investigation will prove the truth of both the above statements. The Fair Store M. ROBINSON, Prop'r. All goods bought in bond. Purity and quality guaranteed Whiskies, Cigars A joker on an Iowa paper tells of a man that kicked over a hive of bees for suite and is now suffering with the stings of remorse. Gained Forty Pounds In Thirty Days For several months our younger brother had been troubled with indi gestion. 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