OREGON 24th TSAR OFEGON CITY. - OF EG ON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 10. 1906 No 13 OREGON CITY INTEREST IS INCREASING VACATION VISIONS. COMPLAINT WATER BOARD HAS A KICK IN BULLETIN REGISTERED Oldest Town In Oregon Was Founded By McLoughlin. OUTPUT FROM FACTORIES Population Should Eventually Reach 280,000 Pay roll More Than $1,000,000. (From AugustlBullelln of P. G. E. Co.) Oregon Oity, the county seat of Clackamas Oouutv, is 13 miles distant froni Portland by water and 15 miles by rail. It is the southern terminus of the line of the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company aud is, histor ically spunking, one of the most m terentiug towus ot the Northwest Its traditions and legendary lore, together witu its piotnresque location near the magnificent tails of the Willamette, cause nil tourists who visit Portland to muke the trip to this liistorio spot Oregon City may, in a souse, be called the prehistoric town, since a settlement existed here 20 years before the pioneers of "The days of old, the days of gold, 1 The clays ot '4a," thought of cromsLg the plains, the deserts and the mountains, to convert the fore t primeval into farms, ham- lots aud oitie. As early as 1821) Dr. John MoLoughlin, chief factor of the Hudson bay Company, as the genial iustioe-loving monarch of a Kingdom consisting chiefly of redskins, with a sprinkling of white trappers ana Hunters, presided over the des tinies of this entire region Long before Portland, the present metropolis or Oregon, was thonght of, liistory was being made at this little village. Here the early settlers gathered in 1843 for sooiety and pro. tectiou, and here were fought the first battles between the white invaders and the native savages. Aside from her location at the Falls of the Willamette, one of the great water powers of the Continent aud which in itself is d stined to make her a manufacturing city i; no mean pro portions, Oregon City has other features of iuterest that attract atteu tion and challenge admiration. While the business center is ou the bnnk ol ' the river, the resideuce sfoti n on cnpies the commanding bluffs on the east. From this eminence one of the most uiaguiilc lit views imaginable is anorded. Below these rugged hills. dotted with mansions that would b a credit to nny Eastern metropolis, lies the city with its noise aud bustle of factory, the river winding its ser pentine way toward the Columbia, and the mighty Talis with its never ceasing turmoil of waters. Within a radius of little more than one mile from the Oregon City post office there is a resident population of more than 7.UOO people included in the suburban communities ol Caueniali, El. Gladstone, Clackamas Heights, Park Place,, Wnst Lynn, Windsor, West Side aud Wilamette Falls. The latter town is connected with the oity by the Willamette Falls electric line The prosperity of these communities is linked with that of Oregon Oi'y, and the progress of the whole keeps pace in large measure with the devel opment of the water power at the falls. r . A comparison of some of the great water powers of the country with that of the Falls of the Willamette may be of interest : Howe-Power. Oregon Oity, Oregon, 56,000 Minneapolis, Miun. 20,000 Holyoke, Mass. - 19,000 Manchester, N. H. 11,000 Lawrence, Mass. 12,000 Lowell, Mass. 11,845 It is a well-Known fact, borne out by the statistics ot American man ufactures that eventually an average population of fi.000 will follow the nse of 1,000 horse-power in the man ufacture of wool and miscellaneous industries. The Oregon, City Woclen Mill employs 850 hands and sends on!. . an annual product' worth more than 11.000,000. The Flouring Mills have a capacity of 270,000 barrels ot flour a year, requiring more than 1,000,000 bushels of wheat. About 75,000 tons of paper are sent to market annually from the Oregon City mills. This out put requires many millions of feet of timber, cotton-wood, white fir and spruce. There is also located at Oregon City a furniture factory, sash and door factory, two ice plants and numerous other manufacturing couoerns. The pay-roll of these industries amounts to more than $1,000,000 annually. The Portland General Electric . Company controls the vast power generated by the falls, and the head works, stations and various depart ments of the Company are perha s the most interesting sights in Oregon Ciiy. This plant, which is one of the largest west ot the Rocky Mountains, furnishes power lor lighting in the Cities of Portland. Oregon City, St. Johns and numerous suburbs, and for operating the railways of the Port land Consolidated Ky. Co., the Ore gon Water Power & Ry. Co. , and also tor a large number of manufacturing (Continued on page 4) ! Large Number af Votes Cast For Grange Women. MRS. B. FREDRICH LEADS Considerable Missionary Work Is Being Done By ( the Contestants In Many Granges. Iuterest in the Courier Sewing Machine Premium contest is increas ing aud a large number of votes were cast this week. Mrs. Olive A. Swal low, of Maple Lane Grange, and Mrs. l.iriie Irwin, ol 20th Century Grange of Barlow, eaoh have 105 votes. Mrs. B. Fredrich, of Warner Grange of New Era, leads with 110 votes. The contest now lias a fair start and only has a tew we ks to run and the most popular grange woman in Clack amas County will have to do con siderable missionary work to seonre thistine sewing machine without cost. Every five cents paid on subscription entitles the subscriber to one vote and thirty votes are given with eaoh yearly subscription f $1.05. The con test closes at 5 o'clock P. M. Sept. 8. There are several granges who have no representative in the contest thus far, but it is likely they will be enter ed later. Oswego Orange is a new one on the list this week. The vote up to the time cf going to press follows: " Maple Lane Grange No 396. ' Mrs. Jjomse Beard 80 55 95 105 65 25 85 75 40 85 2, 90 75 90 25 90 85 40 05 110 85 40 95 45 75 40 40 95 75 40 Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Mr. Sarah L. Derrick, Anna J. Lewis Olive A. Swallow R. Mautz Mrs. John Darling' Mrs. Martha Hobble - Mrs. Olive Wamook Molalla Grange No. 40. Mrs. Gertrude Maple Mra E. M. Mallatt , . Mrs. Mary Trullinger Miss Jennie Lee Miss Jennie Akins Tualatin Grange No. 111.' Mrs. Kate Turner Mra Rosa Krue - - Mrs. M F. Elligsen Garfield Grange No. 317. Mrs. Martha Davis Mrs. Surah Palmateer Mrs. Nora Looney Warner Grange No. 117 Mrs. B Friedrich Mrs Olive Meindl Mrs. May WBldron Mrs. Bessie Dnndas Milwaukie Grange No. 268. Mrs. John Kelso Mrs. O. E. Freytag Mrs. Dora Quant Mrs. H. G. Starkweather Mrs. I. S. Mnllan Central Grange No 278. Mrs. A una Spenoe Miss Bertha Soangler Miss Cora Jaggar Mrs. R. Giuther Mrs. II. Gris"nthwaite 80 85 75 '80 Twentieth Century Grange No. 841. alls. Amanda Jesse -Mrs. O. W. Quint Mrs. D.'O. Freeman Mrs. Lidie Irwin 40 45 105 60 40 80 45 Oswego Grange No. 175. Mrs. Mary Coon Mrs. Helen M. Ewing Miss Amy Nelson Mrs. E. A. Thompson STUDENTS ENTERTAINED. Pupils of Summer Normal Cuests of i Their Instructors. The students of the summer normal were entertained by the professors, Gary, Read and Zinser, Friday at Willamette spring. A most dilicious lunch, consisting of sandwiches, fruit. cake, pickles, lemontde and ice cream Wbs served in the grove nearby, after which many went crawfishing. The merry crowd returned to Ore gon City in the evening. All report a fine time. Those present were: Professors Gary, Read and Zinser, Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Minich, Grandma Gary, Misses Martha and Clara Koer ner, Sadie Evans, Eunice Garfield of OBwe.ro, Gracie Mae Smith of Salem, Marjorie Caufield, Daisy McAnulty ot Parkplace, Komar G. Stafford, Stella womer oi stacarta, Blanch Miller, Ellen Minche. Edith Bonfit. Kate Snodgrass, Hazel Cooper, Edna Gard. Mae Egge, Minnie Trullinger of Canby. Anna Bachmann, Beryl Batdorf, Nannie Andrus, DillaEkern, Retta Schogaan. Zell Gibbins. Sonhia Nordhousen of Aurora, Effie Morris, Winnifred Roake, Mabel Calkins, C. Athey. Edna Ken Knight and Messrs. Roy H. Trullinger and Otis E. Ramsby. Mrs. Lillian Lewis Read and Mra Allie C. Zinser were the invited guests of honor. Mr. Scott Is Stock Inspector. The County Court has appointed Richard Scott, f Milwaukie.l deputy stock inspector for Clackamaw County. County Judge Dimick takes a deep in terest in the stock industry and the court made th appointment with the view of preventing a spreadjof con tagious diseases. ATTRACTIVE TO ANGLERS Clackamas C.unty Could Be Fishermen's Paradise. TROUT FRY FOR ASKING If Local Disciples of Isaak Walton Would Speak Great Results Would Follow Here. Clackamas County could easily be come the center of interest and attraction ot auglera iu Oregon. This statement is made by no less a person than Field Superintendent J. Nelson Wiener, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, who is in charge of the government hatchery operations in Oregcn and Washington. He says that in the state of Maine about $1,000,000 is distributed annually by fishermen and hunters in Buarcli of sport, and i his money goes into the pockets of the people. . The manner in , which this county oculd benefit is outlined by Mr. Wiener. The Bureau distributes every year millions of trout fry without cost and they can be obtained for the ask ing. The uiethod is to make an application, stating tl e location of the stream or lake, and giving particulars regarding the waters. Upon this ' in formation the officials of the Bureau are ahle to determine what species are be t adapted, and then the allotment is made. Mr. Wisner has just re ceived 100,000 black slotted trout eggs from Yellowstone Park. These were shipped from Gardiner and will be propagated at the Clackamas hatch ery aud when the fry are large enough they are distributed in lots from 5,000 and upwards as the applications re quest "If the anglers in this county," said Mr. Wisner, "would alt ask for a share in the annual distribution, the streams would be well stocked aud in a few years Clackamas County would be a fishermen's paradise." Superintendent Wisner returned a few days ago from the Columbia River, after an inspection of the hatcheries on Little White Salmon and Big White Salmon. These hatoh erieB will soon be placed in operation for the taking of fall salmon eggs. (Continued on page 8) Chicago Record -Herald. HOP BUYERS ARE IN LUCK Secure 55,000 Pounds at a Nominal Figure. CONTRACTED LAST SPRING Fifty Thousand Pounds Go to Portland , Firm and Growers Obtain 10 Cents. Big hop buyers have obtained a large number of hops in Clackamas Oonnty at a nominal price, under con tracts chat were executed soveral mouths ago. In the aggregate. 55,000 ponndB of 1900 hops are embraced in five contracts that were tiled Satur day afternoon in the office of the county recorder, and four of these contracts call for 10 cents whilo the fifth is one-half cent more. J. Sagor & Son, of Willamette, have agreed to deliver to McKinley Mitchell 5000 ponuds of their crop for lOJf oen's. JLUientlial Brothers, ot Port laud, are the buyers of the remaining four lots at 10 cents, as follows: W. W. and R. B. Graimua , of Portland, 80,000 pounds; M. O Young, of Wil sonvlle, 8000 poands; Jay Baker, ot Sherwood, 6000 pounds, and August Rotheiiberg of Wilson ville 6000 pound. Four contracts were made May IS, 1906. and the other in last Maroh, All of the agreements stipulate that the buyers shall advance a certain per cent for harvesting CIRCULAR SAW STRIKES HIM. Son ol William Martin . Terribly Injured at Beaver Creek. . The 30-year-old son of William Martin, a sawmill man o' Beaver Creek, was the victim of a teirible accident last Saturday afternoon at the mill. He was at work on the wood saw, when the circular machine flew otf, striking his shoulder and cut ting a severe gash about 13 inches long to his ribs. Dr. H. S. Mount was called from this oity and says there is hope for young Martin, who lost a great deal of blood, and is suffering from the shock to his system. Speaks For Itself Its Free with a year's sob scription to the Oregon City COURIER Oregon City, Oregon Residents of Hill Say They Are Unfairlv Treated. GROCER VOICES FEELING Mud Was Left on Seventh Last Winter and Nov. the Dust Is Six Inches In Depth. Vigorous complaint has been regist ered by rewidents of the hill section of this city, against what they teim unrair treatment on the part or the municipal government. I'lio prevail ing sentiment has been manifested by Andrew Robertson, a well tuown Seventh street grocer, who says that some of the Main street merchants cannot see the town in a broad sense. " We are vt-ry thankful for the one b'efsing that we nceive," said Mr. Robertson, "that is the lighting svs tem ou the hill, but apart from this we do uot,get what we should have in any particular. The street sprinkler, re cently purchased by the oity, is util ized by private people for private pur poses and does not sprinkle Seventh street as it should do. I started a subscription to defray the expense of operating tins 'ice-cream wagon' on Seventh street but was given to un derstand that the timd for sprinkling was nearly taken up with dowu town and so abandoned the idea. "We do not have adequate police protection on the hill. The officer takes a look around for one or two hours during the evening, but aside from this the police leave the hill seotion severely alone. ! "Last winter when the mud was tlx Inches in depth on Seventh s reet, there was no effort made by the street 'leaning department of the city to have it hcraped off aud hs a con sequence we have a oorrespondiug n u in bet of inches of dust on the street this Bumu.er. It is very probabl" that when the firbt raiu comes ahmg we sii ill hare to get down and clean out the catch basins on the "treet. If seen s 1 1 s t) onle on the I 1 thai it is high time that something wan rioiw to relieve Hie axistiug conditiuu, " COUNTY COURT ADJOURNS. , Claims Paid to Men Who Assisted , Financially In Capturing Smith. The county court adjourned Friday, after a three days' Bession, and an order was made in pavmeiit ot the claims of E G. Cauilcld for 187.25. and Charles & Burns for 88, for money disbursed in oonuection with the attempt to .capture Desperado Prank Smith.' .', I The Myers and Beesnn roads were ordered opened, aud a warrant was prdered drawn for (he payment of the new rock , crusher.' The amount is $1825. .. The clerk was directed to se cure bids for' the construction of a new bridge across Try an Creek at Oswego. No action was taken on the com munication of the county clerk for storage uf old plats and records that are of no particular value. Mr. Green. man states that there aie old records all over the courthouse that are taking up room that is needed for other pur poses, and suggested that those records he stored in the basement In the room now used for what is left of the Lewis & Glrk exposition exhibit, which is in poor conditiou, Some ot the articles on display have been taken away. 1 PHONE FRANCHISE CRANTED. Clackamas County Will Have Net Work of Wires. The Northwest Long Distance Telephone Company, of Portland, has been granted a franchise by the County Court to erect poles, string wires and mantain a telephone service throughout Clackamas County. The franchise is.subject to the usual re strictions, 'it is generally understood that this company is under control of the Home or Automatic Telephone Company, and is seeking to gain a foothold in this section of the State. OlacKamas County already has a large number of mutual telephone systems, most of them being served and con nected by the Farmers and Independ ent Telephone Companv, of this oity. The Paciflo States Telephone & Tel egraph Company has au extensive system here and is planning many im provements, offering inducements to mutual linns to join hands wth their company at a nominal rate. More Water Rights Taken. Appropriations embraoing 820,000 miners inches of water from the Clack amas River have been filed in County Rcoorder Kamsby's office during the past week. S. B. Cobb tiled notioe of the appropriation of 100,000 inches last fcatorday from the Sandy River. J H. Alexander announces his intention of taking 20.000 inches from Bull Run and C. W.' Pallett will divert the'same amount of water Irom the Little Sandy. New Sprinkling Wagon Uses Many Gallons Daily. CITY GETS NO INCOME Huge Volume of Water Is Taken From Reservoir and ' JViains and Pressure Is Reduced. The new sprinkling wagon, purchas ed by the city several weeks ago and operated by local merchants, is a fine machine but according to tne Board ot Water Commissioners it is playing havoo with the supplv. The spiinkler consumes between fifteen and twenty thousand gallons a day aud whenever the huge barrel is empty it is taken to the nearest hydrant aud kept there for ten minutes while 600 gallons of water ae being drawn out. The ordinary pressure maintained on the downtown main is 75 pounds, but w henever the sprinkling wiigou hits the hydrant the pressure drops down to about 40 pounds and stays there un til the drain is released. "This matter will oertainly be regulnted.next year," said a member of the Water Commission, "The present conditions are uulair to the people who pay for sprinkling priv eleges and the quantity of water taken for the sprinkling part is so great that it reduces our pressure aud does not permit us to give our usual good ser vice's to the householders who pay for the water they get. . The water works here are owned by the city and the oity derives no income from the water used iu lue spunkier and gets no bdiiufit. " We have a high pressure pump to B.md the water up tne hill into the reservoir aud the sprinkling cart also works on the hill and whenever empty taps a hyurant aud ta&es a huge vol ume of water from this reservoir. We are hardly equipped to (furnish so much water every day in the summer and filter it for the purpose of sprink ling ttiM streets, uuloss we are able to derive some revenue from it. " Supt. W. H. Howell, of the Water Commission, states that the constant use of the hydrants will probably necessitate epairs after if w m n hs. The problem is one (.liac is being carefully considered by the Water Boari aud some regulations will be mailt to provide for sprinkling next summer. EVANGELICAL CAMPMEETINQ. Orefoa Conference la Session si Jennings Lodge. Rev. O. Henderson presided Thurs day at the Young People's Alliance Convention, of the Oregon Evangelical Association, which opened at the con ference campground at Jennings Lodge. President Henderson gave a review of the work among the alliances of the state during the past year, taking for his topic, "Crossing the Treshold. He made a strong plea for n ore aotlvity and said that the policy of the organ ization should be to drop au "paia hearted opportunities" aud look ; for UD-to-date and progressive things. The Convention adopted his recom mendation that a speoial committee prepare a ceremony for the installation of officers The following subjects were disonssed : 1 "What Is the Best Method of Pro moting Church Loyalty Among ' the Young People," Anna 15'nst; "How Can We Promote the Spirit of Self- Douial?" Mrs. J. D. Walton; "What the Y. P. A. Stands For," H. ; Al bright. A public meoting was held Thursday night and the topic under disocssion was A Hall-Hour in uur nonies.--Rev. T. R. Hornsohuch delivered the convention sermon, VACATIONS FOR CARRIERS. Postal Employes Who Have Served One Year Crarted 15 Days Leave. flurrinra nil Mm rnrl routes running out. of Oregon City are entitled to a vacation, and Postmaster Tom P. Randall has been officially notified of this fact by the postal aepartmeni a Washington. Carriers who have not se'ved cm year are not given the privilege but all others are permitted to have 15 days leave on full pay. Their places are to be fllledjby bonded substitutes who will be paid at the rate of $600 per annum wnue employ ed. Three of the five carriers em ployed on the Oregon Oity routes are entitled,' to a vacation, and the other turn nnrr'iiirl will BnCDrfl A VadatiOD pro rata for the fiscal year epding June 80 last, amounting 10 huodi u days each. Postmaster Randallf will allot the time of vacations which will commence as soon as arrange ments canble made for substitutes. Mombers of the Knights andadies of Security to the number of 85 en Joyed a picnic in Canemah Pari Tues day afternoon.