THERE IS NO BETTER WAY FOR THE BUSINESS MEN OF OREGON CIT TO REACH THE PEOPLE OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY THAN THROUGH THE COURIER COLU:
OREOON
COURIER
24th YEAR.
OREGON" CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9 1906
No 25
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HERE IN OUR
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eport of Ogle Miners
eceived With
atisf action
Enthusiasm was the main spring of
. the auunnl meeting of the Btook
holdjrsof the Ogle Mountain Mining
Company which 'was held Monday
afternoon in Knapp's Hal'. There
were a large number of stockholders
present from all parts of Claokatuns
Oonnty Bnd the confidence expressed
in the directorate insured their unani
mous re-eleetion, as follows: P. A.
Fairclough, J. B. Fairclongh, J. V.
Harless. S. H. Walker, Charles
Albright. Several gold bricks from
the mines were exhibited, showing
the output, and the satisfaction of the
stockholders was manifested. ' The
management of the mines submitted a
report.showing that the plant consisted
of two 5-stamp bstteries, concentrator
ore crusher and imple steam power to
operate this machinery to its full
capaoity. The company has also in
stalled an aorial tramway within the
past few mouths for the purpose of
taking the ore from the mines to the
mill. This is a great improvement
and one that has been very satis
factory. The company lias just pur
chased a dynamo and the mines will
be lighted by electricity.
Monday evening the board of
directors held a meeting and , the
following officers were chosen : P. A.
Fairclough, president and manager;
J. - B. Fairclough, seoretary and
treasure: J. V. Harless, vice
president. I The members ' ' the bewd d'cussed
plans for" the development of the
property. The same enthusiasm' wub
shown as at the stockholders meeting.
The miners will go in this week and
will be able to obtain sufficient help
..to renew operations on a larger scale
than heretofore.
RICH MINES
SHOWING UP
Representative Huntley Has
Stock In '$600 Per
Day Concern.
Representative Clyde . G. Huntley
returned Thursday from a four days'
trip in Eastern Oregon, and while
absent he visited the property of the
Commercial Mining Company in
which he is interested. These olaims
are in the Rye Valley, in Baker
County, and the stock is held by Mr.
Huntley and nine Purtlnad men. The
mine is being run dav arid night with
ten stamps, and 27 men are employed.
More than $000 per day is now being
EXTRACTS FROM RATE BILL
Principal and Important Parts of Inter State
merce Act Recently Passed by Congress.
The term ''common cirrier" as used
in this Act shall inclodo express com
panies and sleeping car companies.
The term "railroau, " as use in this
Act, shall include all bridges and
fnrries used or operated. in connection
with any rai'road, and also all the
road in use by any corporation operat
ing a railroad, whether owned or
operated under a cfnttact, agreement,
or lease, and shall also include all
switches, spurs, tracks, and terminal
facilities of every kind used or
necessary in the transportation of the
peisous or property designated herein,
and als-i all freight depots, yard", nd
grounds used or necessary in the
transportation or delivery of any of
said property; and the term "trans
portation" shall include cars and
other vehicles and all instrumentalities
and facilities or shipment or carriage,
irrespective of ownership or of any
contract, express or implied, for the
use thereof and a'l services in con
nection with the receipt, delive-y,
elevation, and tanefer in transit,
ventilation, refrigeration or icing,
storage, and handling of foperty
transported; and it'shall be the duty
of every carrier subject tn the pro
visions of this Act to provide and
taken out, and the owners are jubilant
over the prospects. The quality of
the ore is shewing op well, and there
appears to be no likelihood of a slump
In the production
Mr. Huntley, while in Eastern Ore
gon, met wit'i other members of the
state legislature at Pendleton and
visited the jnte mill o erated by the
state penitentiary at Walla Walla,
Wa h. The establishment of a similar
industry a!, the Oregon penitentiary
has long been advocated but it does
not seem practicable. Nearly 1200,000
would have to be invested in
machinery at the beginning, whioh is
at best, an experiment. The raw
material is controlled by a trust,
which is able to determine the price
of grain sacks.
H. BIGEL0W
NOT GUILTY
State Fails to Convict Him On
Charge of Dumping Saw
dust In Stream.
H. Bigelcw, a sawmill operator on
the Abemathv, was .Thursday ac
quitted of t'e charge of dumping saw
dust and other lumber waste in the
waters of the Abrenatby. The jury
was out about 15 minutes, and the
case lasted allday. The failure of
the prosecution to secure a conviction
in this case will probably result in the
dismissal of the oases against the
Willamette Pulp & Paper Company,
and Rambo & Mumpower, who were
arrested along with the Crown
Columbia Pulp & Paper Company,
and Bigelow, for the same offense.
The State secured a conviction against
the Crown-Coin nibia Pulp & Paper
Company, who have not yet been
sentenced.
George O. Brownell defended
Bigelow and also defended C. E.
DuBois. who was tri d some weeks
ago on the same charge, the first trial
of his case resulting in a disagreement
and the second in an acquittal. . The
Stata believes that the evideuoe in all
of the cases that have been tried was
sufficient to convict, but Mr.
Brownell succeeded in bringing about
the acquittal of his clients. The
prosecution of the sawdust oases has
aroused considerable interest, but con
viction in a majority of the cases lias
not been obtained, and tiie expense to
the county has been 10 small item.
Com-
furnish such transportation upon
reasonable request therefore, ' and to
establish through routes and just and
reasonable rates applicable thereto.
All charges made for any service
rendered or to to be rendered in the
transportation of passengers or
property as aforesaid, or in connec
tion therewith, shall be just and
reasonable; and every an jnst and un
reasonable charge for such service or
anyfpart thereof is probibitedjand de
clared to be unlawful.
No common carrier subject to the
provisions of this Act shall, after
January first, nineteen hundred and
seven, directly or indirectlr. issue or
give any interstate free ticket, free
pass, or free transportation for
passengers, except to its employees
and their families, its officers, agents,
surgeons, phjbiciaos, and attorneys
at law; to min;sters of religion,
Traveling secretaries of railroad Yoong
Men's Christian Associations, inmates
of hospita s and charitable and
eleemosynary institutions, and persons
exclusively engaged sn charitable and
eleemosynary woik; to indigent,
destitute and homeless persons, and to
such persons when transportated by
charitable societies or hospitals, and
REV. E. CLARENCE OAKLEY
the neoessary.agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates of the
National Homes or State Homes for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and of
Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, includ
ing those about to enter and those re
turning home after discharge, and
boards of managers of such Homes; to
necessary care takers of live stock,
poultry, and fruit ; to employees on
sleeping cars, express cars, and to
linemen of telegraph and telephone
companies ; to Railway Mail Service
employees, post-oBce inspectors,
oustoms inspectors and immigration
inspectors to newsboys on trains,
baggage agents, witnesses attending
any legal investigation in whioh the
common oarrier is interested, persons
injured in wrecks and physicians and
nurses attending such persons: Pro
vided, That this provision shall not
be construed to prohibit the inter
change of passes for the officers,
agents, and employees of common
carriers, and their families; nor to
prohibit any common oarrier from
carrying passengers free with the
object of providing relief in cases of
general epidemic, pestilence, or other
calamitous visitation. Any common
carrier violating this provision shall
be deemed guilty of a , misdemeanor
and for each offenoe, on conviction,
shall pay to the United States a
penalty of not less than one hundred
dollars nor more than two thousand
dollars, and any person, other than
the persous exceptedjin.this provision,
who uses any such interstate free
tioketiree pass, or free transporta
tion, shall be subject to a like
penalty. '
From after May first, nineteen
hundred and eight, it shall be unlaw
ful for any railroad company to trans
port from any State, Territory, or the
District of Columbia, to any other
State, Territory, or the Distroit of
Columbia, or to any foreign country,
any" article or commodity, other than
timber and the manufactured products
thereof, manufactured, mined, or-
produoed by it, os under its authority,
or which it may own in wi.olefor in
part, or in which it may have any in
terest direct or indirect except such
articles or commodities as may be
necessary and intended for its use in
the conduct of its business as a
oommon carrier.
Any common carrier sub ject to the
provisions of this Act, upon applica
tion of any lateral, branch line of
railroad, or of any shipper tendering
interstate traffic for transportation,
shall construot, maintain, and operate
upon reasonable terms a switch con
nection with any such lateral, branoh
line railroad, or private side track
whioh may be constructed to connect
with its railroad, where such connec
tion is reasonably practicable and can
be put in with safety and will furnish
sufficient business to justify the con
struction and maintainance of the
same ; and shall furnish oars for the
movement of such tiafflo to the beet
of its ability witnunt discrimination
in favor of or against any such shipper.
If any ooramoncarrier shall fail to in
stall and operate any snch switch or
connection as aforesaid, on applisation
therefor in writing by any shipper,
such shipper may make complaint to
the Commission, as provided in
section thirteen of this Act, and the
Commission shall hear and investigate
the same and shall determine as to
the safety and piacticability thereof
and justification and reasonable com
pensation therefor and the Commission
may make an order, as provided in
section fifteen of this Act, directing
the common carrier to comply with
the provisions of this, section in
accordance with such order, and such
order shall be enforced as hereinafter
provided for the enforcement of all
orders by the Commission, other than
orders for the payment of money.
That if any common carrier subject
to the provisions of this Act shall,
directly or indirectly, by any special
rate, rebate, drawback, or other de
vice, charge, demand, collect, or re
ceive from any rwrson or perrons a
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Rev. E. Clarence Oakley, of the
First Congregational Olrarch of
Eugene, who has been chosen pas
tor of the Oregon City Congrega
tional Church, is about GO years
of age and has-been -kj Eugene two
years. He was ten yearsin Tacoma
and four years in Oakland, Calif.
Mr. Oakley is a man of scholarly
attainments and is one of the best
pulpit orators in the state. His
religions work was commonced in
the east and he was for several
years at Detroit, Michigan. Mr.
Oakley wi'l arrive here with his
wife in January.
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TEN STAMPS
TO OPERATE
Ogle Mines Will Run Full
Blast This Winter.
CAPITAL IS ATTRACTED
Electric Lighting Plant Will
Soon Be Installed and
Work Will Be Pushed
Forward Vigorously.
P. A. Fairclough and Mr. and Mrs.
John B. Fairclough came in from the
Ogle Mountain mines Thursday to
attend the annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Ogle Mountain
Mining Company. Mr. Fairclough
slates that' it has been extromely
difficult to proonre men to w irk in the
mines on account of the prevailing
scarcity of hands, but this condition
has been relieved inya measure by the
end of the harvesting season. Men
are not easy to obtain to work in the
mine, but there has been no difficulty
in holding them once they commence
work, and Mr. Fairlcough expects to
run the mill to its capacity this
Winter, starting immediately after
his return to the mines next week.
The five stamp mill has been running
part'of the time during the past mouth
with good results, and the second
five-stamp mill will be started up.
It is expected that with ten sran.pa
in operation, the showing will be
satisfactory in every particular.
The bucket tramway to bring the
ore frm the mine to the mill is now
in place and is giving excellent results
aid it is the intent ion'of the company
to install an eleotrio lighting plant as
soon at possible, with a capacity of
800 lamps
The showing that has been made at
the Ogle mines and the possibilities
that exist there have attracted the
attention of outside capital, and the
report is current that others have taken
up claims not far from the Ogle
Mountain Mining Company. W. E.
Patten, the mining expert who was
here several weeks ago, has located
tWD claims on the other side of the
mountain, and will arrive here about
November 10, to go out to his claims,
and has arranged to take in 8500
pounds of supplies for the winter.
He Is a Booster.
Tom Richardson says he was in
Hood River a few months ago and
remarked to Hon. E. L. Smith that
he would like to taste one of those
fine Hood River apples.
Mr. Smith said, "Yon go on up to
my house and I will be there soon and
show you some." So Tom wandered
up on the hill to the Smith dc mincilo,
and soon E. L. came in with an im
poverished look and a handful of
cho'oe apples. As Tom was eating
one he said to Mr. Smith, "My, but
those are fine; did yon raise I hem on
yoar place? ' "Raise them," said E.
L., "Raise them? I should say not.
I paid three dollars a box for them,
and such a price is a blamed out
rage." And yet they do say that E. L. is a
Hood River booster. The Palles
Optim'st.
Attend National Orange.
State Master A. T. Buxton and Mrs.
Buxton leave this week to attend the
session of the National Grang3, which
will convene at Denver, Col., about
November 15. They are the repre
sentatives of the Oregon Grange, and
go with tpecial'instructions to present
the Oregon farmer's ideas of postal
reform, as outlined in the renolutious
which were adipted by the Oregon
State Grange.
OWN VALLEY
Apples of Willamette Are
Equal to Hood River.
L0WNSDALE OFFERS TEST
Claims of' Growing Centers
Due In a Measure to the
Prevailing Lack of
Information.
It is an amusing, as well as an un
worthy speotacle, to see The Ore
goniau defending itself against even a
fanioed slight to the reputation of
Hood River apples. For several years
The Oregonian has been very indus
triously worked by the advertising
bureau of Hood River, and it must be
admitted worked with a masteily
hand. Laudation of that fruitgrow
ing section' at the expense of other
localitiesjiad become such a habit
that when a slip was made in which
the Willamette Valley received a dole
ot praise, it was to be expected that
die great paper would be called to ao
count. But, seriously, it is gratifying to
note that a paper of ' the standing of
The Oregonian should even at this
late date herald the fact that as fine
apples.cau be grown in the Willamette
Valley as in any section of the state.
The.olaim that Hood River Valley
and the Rogue River section , are the
only real centors of applegrowing has
been due in a great measure to a lack
nf information as to the real status of
the fruit market, and not, I imagine,
to auv desire to iguoie or slight the
Willamette Valley.
For instance, it is not generally
known that two orchards in the Wil
lamette Valley produce more Spitzen
bergs than the whole Hood River
country. It is.not generally known,
but is nevertheless a fact, that at
least one grower lias for many years
received exaotly as much for his
apples as have the growers of any
other section in the state. It is not
generally known that, notwithstand
ing the great cry about $3 apples and
the puzzle about the poor man's sup
ply, Hood River is offering today
prime apples for 85 cents per box,
while the same fruit is selling in Yam
hill at considerably higher figures.
With trumpet blast it is announced
that "Hood River apples are the best
in the world because they keep until
midsummer." (A rather ticklish as
sertion for an horticultural authority
to make. ) It is not generally known
in this connection that in a test made
some years ago under the direction of
Hood River people, and in one of their
ownjwi.roliouses, Northern Spy apples
grown at Scappoose and shipped to
Hood River held up longer 'and better
in every way than the cnoicost Hood
River fruit.
Now, we of the Willamette Valley
do not consider the Northern Spy a
good keeper, and wonder what would
hare been the result if some of our
Vallov keepor had beou in the test. I
sussest to my good friends in Hood
River that it might b well to' conduct
a quiet lime test on Miie keping
quality of their apples, as compared
with the same varieties grown in
Yamhill, for instance. I have at this
moment a few apples in my ware
houses which I would gladly lend to
such an experiment.
The swagger of a braggart has
never appealed to me. His fame
has never been deserved. It has not
seemed politic to say that my section
could produoe better apples than any
other locality in the world. I have
traveled tn too many fruitgrowing
lands and have too often seen the fruits
ot other localities to make such an
idiotio assertion. But so much has
been published by information bureaus
andgby horticultural writers generally
in laudation of Hood River as the very
beet apple section in the state, that I
propose after my picking season is
finished, to make an exhibition in
the most public manner possible which
will demonstrate beyond all cavil,
beyond all sneer, beyond all ignoranoe,
and, I hopo, to the admiration of my
rivals, that as fine apples are grown
t day in old Yamhill as in Rogue
River Valley, Hood, River Valley or
any other valley in the State of Ore
gon
M. O. LONWSDALE,
of Lafayette, in The Oregonian.
Theodore Haag, axed 18 years, died
Saturday at the home of his father,
Christ Hang, at Clarkes. The boy
was stricken with typhoid fever and
was ill two days more than two
weeks. The funeral wa held at
Highland.
NOW IS
Fruit Growers of Willamette
Valley Should Attend to
Spraying Orchards
Now is the time tb renovate oid
orchards, to prune out dead limbs and
spray the trees to destroy inseot larvae
and to olean them of the moss. All
orchards and fruit trees found neg
lected next spring will be summarily
dealt with in accordance with
horticultural laws. Owners of old
orohards and fruit treeBhave no more
right to allow their fungous disease
and insect pests to invade tiieit
neighbors thrifty orchard than to
allow their cattle to break into his
wheat field.
Spraying should be done properly,
otherwise it is not only ot no value
whatever, but it is absolutely a waBte
nf time and expense. Beginners
particularly should bear this in mind.
When spraying for San Jose scale
every particle of the
tree should be
for one or two
uncovered may
thoroughly oovered,
inohes left anywhere
furnikh scale enough to reinfest the
whole tree in the oonrse of another
season. There are three things that
should be kept in mind continuously :
First, what disease or pest is to be
sprayed for; second, the time t3 maka
the application, and third, the kind
of solution to be applied. If all
would. bear in mind these three things
and work accordingly the work would
be comparatively easy and much
trouble- would be avoided and we
would soon see many pests rapidly
disappearing.
If the fruit growers of the
Willamette valley would give as muoh
attention to Bpraying as do the grow
ers of Rood River and southern Ore
gon, they would not be so far behind
in getting a price for their irnit and
there woali then be no reason to
dodget'ie fruit inspeotor while on the
way to market with a load of fruit.
In those localities where fruit grow
ing is a success the fruit inspector is
a friend and adviser, instead ofbeing,
as some "prominent" growers near
Fortland seem to think, a fit subject
for injunction and . prosecution be
cause he . enforces the law agaiuet
marketing pest-infected fruit.
In some measures those people are
not blameworthy who have only a
small number ot tree? and who have
depeuded npon getting some outsider
with a bucket and pump and an un
certain mixture to do their spraying.
It is now encouraging to note that
there is a concern beginning business
in Portland whioh intends to make a
specialty of manufacturing sprays and
applying the same with the most np-to-date
appliances. So with suoli
means at hand there will be no ex
cuse for anybody to have a pest-ridden
orchard, nor for any one to plead with
or appeal to the courts for the
privilege of offering o the people his
inferior fruit.
There should be a law enacted for
THE COURIER LEADS
With this issue The Courier is enlarged to an
eight page seven column newspaper. This growth is
not spasmodic or lemporary, but the improvement
stays and the appearance of The Courier in its new
form has only to be seen to be appreciated.
The Courier is nearly 24 years of ag. That is
not old, for it is just getting
orous.
ine uouner stanas
leaa to tne betterment ot L-iacicamas Uounty. We
want an Annnal County Fair, thousands of acres of
apple orchards, productive mines, rural electric lines
and whtn we get these things, some of which are in
in sight, we are going after others.
Of course we cannot go it alone. We want your
help. It is worth something to every man and woman
in Clackamas County to have a newspaper that has
the interests of the whole county at heart. If you are
not a subscriber, of The Courier, you ought to be and
there is no time like the present. Get in line and
whoop things up. Let us advertise ourselves. Never
il d. 1 jJ Ijj lv lli'.'Vt. lfc nut icilU tO
the development of our vast and varied resources
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the prfW
vidin t'
T?i of fruit
growers, pto-
factutHM iv-i ! (;oalii r '
tpraying outfits Biiooid. ny t!
required standard and then "the irtui
inspeotor should see that it is properly
enforced.
Don't buy any nursery stock, no
matter from Whom or from where, un
less the same has been properly dlped
and inspected. While the majority of
the nurserymen are careful and honest
there are some people dealing in
shrnbery and nursery stock who will
bear watohiug.
I found young trees set out last spring
that were undoubtedly infested with
San Jose scale when they came from
the nursery. Anv one selling infested
nursery stock in ignorance is to say
the least criminally careless. When
he does it knowingly he Is a swindler
of the worst description, who not only
defrauds his customer of his money
but also sows the seeds of destruation
in his orchard. There should bo
statutes under whioh a grower can
punish those who take his money and
in retuin give that whioh is worse
than valueless.
Diseased and infested fruH should
be driven from onr markets, as it is
not only repulsive to the eye and
hurts the demand for the better grade
of fruit, but also Boatters itsload of
disease and pests both far aud near.
Visitors who expect to see something
fancy in "the famous land of big red
apples" will go away in disgust
Some people have called the wormy
apple the poor man's fruit, but poor
Indeed must be the .man who has to
pay 75 cents for 15 cents worth of
apples and 60 cent for the worm holes
and lice. Frnit lnapcr Deioh, -in
the Oregon Journal. i. 2
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Election By Referendum.
The annnal eleotion of officers of the
Sooialist party, which wilt
be held next month, will be done
through the medium of the referendum
vote of ttie entire membership of the
organization, and the installation"6f--
such officers will take place at the
January meeting of the society. This
action was decided at a meoting held
in Kuapp's hall Sunday afternoon.
Addresses were delivered by Q. R.
H. Miller and George W. Soramers,
aud Secretary Claude S. Howard, of
Mulino, read a paper on the "The
Enigma."
Outlaw Smith Ws Expensive.
In addition to the lives of a brave
sheriff of Clackamas County and a
valuable police offlcor, Frank Smith,
outlaw aud desperado, cost this oonnty
$518.47. This does not include the
reward of $250 offered and paid by
Oreogn Oity. The total amount paid
by the oonnty is shown by the semi
annual report of County Clerk Green
man. into its prime, and is vip;-
lor everytning that will
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