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OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 2 1906
No 25
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Three 1 0-Acre Tracts
Will Be Planted In
Clackamas
Three commoroial apple orchards
will be planted in Clackamas County
on ten acre tracts this fall aud the
first one will be set oat within 10
days on Judge T. F. Ryan's place in
the RiueArson olaim adjoining Glad
stone. Jatues H. Reid, fruit Com
missioner of the first district, was in
the city Monday atfernoou and made
publio his plans. He is working in
co-operation with the Oregon Agri
cultural College at Corvallis and
Prof. Lewis ot that institution will,
with the help of Mr. Reid, direot the
work. The college was at first dis
posed to place (only one commercial
orchard in Clackamas County, but Mr.
Reid wanted to try three of them and
finally 'nduoed the College staff to
fall iii wiiii his ideas.
The other two orchards will be
planted at Molalla and Garfield or in
the vicinity of these places but the
ground has not yet beeu secured and
Commissioner Reid and Judge Ryan
are looking for suitable locations.
They want a ten acre tract near
Molalla and near the main road, the
other ten acre tract near Garfield or
George The land slicfMd ha'e a slight
western slope, but this is not essential.
All three of the tracts will be
planted in planes that hare a com
mercial value. Several varieties will
be tried and the State will furnish
the trees, superintend the planting
and will also superintend the spraying
aud pruning for eight years after
which time the orchards will be turn
ed over to the owners of the ground.
All cultivating must be done under
the direction of Prof. Lewis and Mr.
Reid. The owners of the tracts will
be allowed to plant crops between the
trees for three or four years but such
crops must be recommended by either
Prof. Lewis or Mr. Reid. Correspond
ence from owners of land in the
vicinity of Molalla, Garfisld or
George is invited, relative to the
matter, and all inquiries should be
addressed to Judge Ryan at Oregon
City. Replies must be in his hands
within 15 or 20 days as the orchards
will be planted this fall, if possible.
It is likely that the Judge will be
deluged with applications for the
opportunity of the prospective growers
which saves him the cost of trees and
gives him an education along
horticultural lines is not offered every
day. Mr. Reid has great faith in
OlacKamas County as an apple country
aud he has always claimed that thi?
county can produce just as good
apples as the Hood River Vsllty
section.
J. W. Grasle, of Milwankie, has
some very flue Spitzenburg apples in
cold storage that he intends to ex
hibit at the annual meeting ofS the
State Horticultural Society, which
will be held in Portland, January
8th. Mark Levy, of Milwankie, has
some choice Lady apples to place on
exhibition at the same time. Clack
amas County expects to be awarded
two of the cups that are offered as
prizes for apple exhibits and is reason
ably certain of securing one of these
cups. Mr. Reid says that any Clack
amas County grower who has apples
suitable for exhibition, to express
them to Mark Levy, care of James H.
Reid, Portland, Oregon, and they
will be taken care of.
Dancing Club Organized.
The Willamette Club was organized
Monday evening with about 60 mem
bers, which will probably be inrceased
to CO before the end of the season.
This club has bten formed for the
purpose of giving a series of four
dauciag parties, to be held during the
later part of November, December,
January and February. John P.
Keating was elected president of the
club aud other officers and committees
were chosen.
NET $3000
IN ONE YEAR
Clarke Bros , of Mulino, Make
' Practical Demonstration
of Good Farming.
Farming along intelligent lines
shows what can be done in Clackamas
County, and Clarke Bros., who have
a place near Mulino consisting of 90
acres of good farm land, report a net
profit ot $3,000 for one years crops.
This is the first year that Clarke
Bros, have been on the place. They
have 26 acres ot prunes and have re
cently constructed one of the finest
and best prune dryers in the Btate,
having a capaoity ot ten tons
They have 13 acres in hops from
which they realized 40 bales this year.
(Mr. Clarke was in town Saturday and
says that orops are better from this
place than have been produced in
previous years. He is well pleased
with the results of the year's work.
J. A. Byers, of Clackamas Station,
haB three boxes of fine apples of the
Northern Spy variety in the show
window of Lipman, Wolfe & Co. The
apples are labled "Give Clackamas a
Chance," and the fruit certainly can
not be excelled. Mr. Byers is a well
known farmer and takes great pride
in his apple orchard. He is produc
ing fruit there that will bear compar
ison with apples produced elsewhere
in this country.
LINN WANTS TREBLE DAMAGES.
Complains That II. Bigelow Cut Down
Trees on Land of Plaintiff. .
Treble damages is asked by B. F.
Linn, a sawmill operator of this
county, in the suit filed through
Attorneys U'Ren & Sohuebel against
H. Bigelow. Mr. Linn is the owner
of 160 acres of land and complains
that between April 1 and August 1,
100(1, Bigelow and his employes cut
down and oarried away 85 cedar trees
containing 150,000 teet of lumber, and
40 fir trees containing 35,000 feet
of lumbbr, board measure. According
to Mr. Linn, he was damaged by this
action to the extent of $335.
Linn sets out a second allegation
alleging that the defendant converted
to his own use 20 -cedar trees after
which he broke ground and built a
fhi-h dam with the trees across
Ahernathy Creek aud has since tres
passed on t Indian d oi'the plaintiff and
used the dam that he consrtucted,
damaging Linn to the extent of
$100.00. The plaintiff asks for 1305
damages.
Killed In Logging; Camp.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Montgomery
returned Sunday night from Houlton,
Columbia County, where they went to
attend the funearl of the late Samuel
Bogges, who was killed in a logging
camp near St. Helens Satuiday morn
ing. Bogges suffered frightful in
juries in the machinery. His arm
was torn off and he waB fatally
injured aiound the bead. He died
while being taken to a Portland
hospital on an ABtoria steamer.
Bogges was 23 years of age, aud was
well known in this city, where he
had many friends. He was formerly
employed) in tne paper mills, and
made his home for four years with
Mr. Montgomery's family. He is
survived ry a cousin, Mrs. Morris,
residing at Houlton.
OAKLEY'S CALL
IS UNANIMOUS
Eugene Man Chosen Pastor of
Congregational Church.
KNOWN AS PULPIT ORATOR
Rev. E. S. Bollinger's Successor
... Possesses Scholarly Attain
, ments Comes In
January.
Rev. E. Clarence Oakley, of the
First Congregational Church of
Eugene, was Sunday morning given a
unanimous call'to the pastorate of the
Congregational Ohuich ot this city,
to succeed Rev. E. S. Bollinger, for
eight years pastor of the Oregon City
Church, who resisned some mouths
ago to acoept the pulpit of the High
land Congregational Church in East
WATCH US GROW!
Next week the Courier will enlarge to a seven
column paper and this addition will give to our readers
about 250 inches more good, live county news. The
management of the Courier has had this step in con
templation for some time and we have finally concluded
to follow along our customary line of keeping abreast
of the times and ahead of our so-called competitors,
but in truth the Courier .has little competition in its
own field. There is no other newspaper that covers
Clackamas County as we do and our circulation and
consequent value as an advertising medium is just
about double that of other papers published in this
county. It is impossible for us to work alone and we
.continuously solicit the patronage and aid of those
who are interested in the growth and upbuilding of
Clackamas County. The coot of production in en
larging the Courier is not a small item but we believe
that the business people and others of this city and
county will meet us half way and perhaps a little more
in our constant endeavor to keep in the front rank.
Portland.
Mr. Oakley will be offered a salary
of $900 per year and the parsonage,
which is the same salary as Mr.
Bollinger received.
Mr. Oakley is about 50 years of age
and has been in Engene two years.
He was ten years in Tacoma, and four
years in Oakland, Cal. He is a man
of scholarly attainments arid is uue of
the best pulpit orators in tne state.
His religious work was commenced
in the east, and he was for several
years at Detroit, Mich. He has a
family consisting of Mrs. Oakley and
three sons, one of whom is married
and living in the east. The two
younger sons have beeu attending the
State University. They are prepar
ing to attend school in the east and
will not come to this city., 1c is
probable that Mr. Oakley and his wife
will not arrive in Oregon City until
next January, if he aooepts the call,
which is likely, as he was an
applicant for the vacant pulpit. Mr.
Oakley's healrh has not beeu good
in Lugene and when he was in this
city some weeks ago, he expressed
himself as delighted with the
surioundings.
Mineral Springs on Clackamas.
Dee 'Wright, accompanied by Mrs.
Wright, leaves this week for the
headwaters of the Clhckamas River,
nearly 100 miles from this city, to
secure sauples of mineral waters for
a San Francisco firm. Ther are a
number of fine mineral springs, botli
hot and cold, on the headwaters of
the Clackamas, and Mr. Wright will
obtain samples of five of them. The
firm in the Eat City will analyze
the water,' with a view to investing
in the property.
VIOLA PEOPLE
LEVY 5 MILLS
Tax Voted For Improvement of
County Road.
EIGHTEEN WERE OPPOSED
Apportionment In Many Road
Districts Is Overdrawn
and Special Levies Are
Urged Byjudpe.
The taxpayer' of the Viola road dis
trict last Saturday afternoon voted to
levy a 5-niill road tax. The meeting
wan well attended and was
harmonious, the chairman being Road
Supervisor James ' T. Fullara. The
secretary was Alouzo Tenny. Couuty
Judge G. B. Diniiok was present at
the meeting. This' levy was made
for the purpose of improving the Ore-
gon City and Viola road from the
store at Viola to the bridge on Littlo
CI ear Creek, a distance of about one
mile. The vote was 24 to 18. Most
of the opposition came from the people
living on that end of the road
towards Oregon City, us this portion
is already improved.
It is probable that other road dis.
tricts in Clackamas County will make
special levies this year as in many
cases the road fund apportioned to the
several districts is overdrawn, and the
county will make no further apportion
ment. Districts having roads to im
piove this year will have to acconi.
plish the desired result through a
special levy, and many of them have
onnoluded to take such action.
Mr. Dimick says that the road
rn.ney, amounting to about $28,000
per year is not sufficient to care for
the roads of Clackamas County.
Some of the fund has to be turned
over to incorporated towns and aJarge
part of it is expended ou bridge con
struction and repairs. The county
has 3,200 miles of roads, and the
money secured from the general levy
is not enough to keep even the main
traveled thoroughfares in good con
dition. Many miles of road has been
constructed with the aid of popular
subscriptions, but this method Jiasnot
been satisfactory, as some people
have been able to evade the cost of
building by declining to subscribe.
Candidates For Councllmen.
Among the candidates that are com
ing into the field for couucilmen are
George Randall, from the first ward,
Fred J. Meyer and J. Betzel, from the
third ward, Charles W. Pope aud H.
C. Stevens, from the first ward, and
A. Kuapp, from the second ward.
Petitions for several of these gentle
;men are now in circulation.
40,000
Oregon City Mill & Lumber
Co. Will Double Its
Present Output
LIBRARY IS
ENCOURAGED
Mass Meeting of Delegates
From Organizations on
November J 6.
The publio library project for thiB
city is meeting with the encourage
ment it desorves, and a committee
meeting was held Friday at the
reotory of St. Paul's Church at which
Rev. and Mrs. P. E. Hammond, Mrs.
George" A.' Harding, Mrs M. M.
Charnian aud Mayor E. G. Caufield
were present. The mayor is entering
heartily into the spirit of the move
ment and will give it all the aid in
his power, officially aud otherwise.
The committee planned for a mass
meeting about November 16. To this
meeting there will be invited delega
tions of two members from every
organization in the city. This plan
is expeoted to insure the co-operation
of every worRing body aud will prob
ably arouse enthusiasm that has
otherwise laid dormant because the
matterhas not been brought promin
ently toj; he atentjou of all the poople.
The oommitte, however, will leave
no stone unturned to enlist the
services of representatives of the en
tire population. While no definite
plan of campaign haB yet been formu
lated, the organizationiswell under
way and the desired results are
anticipated without difficulty.
EARLY MORNING FIRE.
Rosenstein's Clothing Store Suffers
Severely From Water.
if ire broke out Monday morning in
tne basement of the Willamette Build
ing under the store of G. RoBBUBtein,
whose stock of clothing and other
merchaudis" is utterly mined. Hit
insurance of $1500 will not cover the
damage.
The oriaiu of the fire'is. hard to de
termine but it caine from the furnaces
that are located in this basement,
which is shut off from the basements
under the storer of George A. Harding
and B. Robison in the same building,
by brick walls. When the fire depart
ment reached the scene tiie smoke was
pouring out of the front and rear
gratings of the basement in great
clonds, hindering the firemen in their
work, but the hoys labored with a
will and in spite of the difflcullies in
the way, soon had the flames under
control. The fire was confined to the
basement, but the (tore above was
flooded with water, and presents a
sorry sight. The merchandise in The
Fair store was slightly injured by
smoke.
The fire proof nature of the building
prevented its destruction. There are
fire wall partitions betweeu the stores,
and these saved to'ther damage.
Ogle Mountain Company Meeting.
The annual stockholders meeting of
the Ogle Mountain Mining Company
will be held Monday afternoon at 2
o'clock in Knapp's hall at which time
officers and directors will be elected
fnr the eiiBuing year. The stock
holders who are now at the mines
are expected in today for the purpose
of attending the meeting. Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Fairclough, Miss
Gertrude Fairclough and Al Fair-
clough will be among those who will
come in.
CAPITAL
With a paid np capital stook of
$40,000, the Oregon City Mill &
Lumber Company is planning to
double its output, aud Monday held
a meeting and elected the following
board of directors : N. R. Lang, W.
A. Huntloy, Pranliu T. Griffith, L.
Adams and B. Kuppenbender. Several
well known men have taken stock in
the corporation, N. R, Lang, J. W.
Mpffatt, C. G. Huntley, Franklin T.
Griffith and J. E. Hedges being among
them. These offloorshave been elect
ed : N. R. Lang, president j Franklin
T. Griffith, vice-president; W. A.
Huntley, 'ecretary; Conimeroial
Bank, treasurer; B. Kuppenbender,
mill ' superintendent; John A.
Moohuke, mill secretary.
The plant will be oporated night
aud day. th object of the company
being to provide a market for all the
lumber out by the sawmills in the
Eastern portion of OlaokamaB County,
and the company will also 'engage ex
tensively in the handling of lumber.
A spur from the main line of the
Southern Faoiflo Company will be
coustruotod, which will give the mill
two rail lines to the doors of the
factory, which already has connection
with the Oregon Water Power &
Railway Company, besides excellent
water shipping facilities.
The mill will make a specialty of
fir aud cedar doors, its capaoity being
about 250 doors per day. The manu
facture of flooring, window sash, ceil
ing, interior finish and mouldings
will also be extensively eugagod in.
The company has ample business ou
its books to keep running day and
night continuously for a ooiiBiderable
period and under the new plan will
provide steady employment at its
mills lor not less than 50 operatives,
and in addition thereto will indirectly
provide' stoady employment for the
men working in seven or eight of the
sawmills east of Orogou City. The
oompany has contracts for the eutire
output of several of these mills.
BACK FROM KANSAS.
A. H. Olmstead and Family Return From
the Land of Cyclones.
After a year in Kansas, A. II. Olm
stoad and family have returned to
Oregon, aud will in a few days go to
Raiuier where they have a place, to
reside for a time. Mr. Olmstead was
a resident of Logan for four yearn,
and was superintendent of the Logan
Cheese Factory. Mr. OlniBtead bus
little uro for Kansas as a place of
lesidouoe. He saw four cyclones in
one day whilo thore and was within
10 feet of one of them, which com
pletely wrecked a new church, six
houses aud two hams. Thd chnrch
was carried 40 feet in the air and the
inhabitants of the place fkd to their
oyclone cellars.
"Kansas ha the biggost oorn crop
she has ever known," said Mr.
Ulmsteaci, "and has helped to swell
the humpei crop of the United States
which is greater by 50,000,000 bushels
over any previous year. Ibom never
wassuchacrop in Kansas. There was
a great doal of ain there of lute and
in one place 17 inches of rain fell
within 24 hour?."
Mr. Olmstead says that thousands
of howeseekers are coming west on
every train.
The New Idea Cleaning aud Press
ing Parlors was sold Friday aud the
purchaser f mud that he had pur
chased a gold brick and tne m.tn who
sold it did not own all of it the
property. The matt r was placed in the
hands of tho sheriff a. id the doiutv
district attorney for adjustment and
tho case was settled out ot court by
the restitution ol a portion of the
porcha e money.