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OREGON CITY COURI ER 28th YEAR. OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 14 1911 No. 49 HOLDING CITY'S GROilTH It's a Case of "Move on" for New Comers. RENTING HOUSES ARE NEEDED What's the Use of Boosting With Nothing to Boost? , To an easterner tbe hearty loyalty of tlie people of Oregon City and the surrounding country is striking. It seems as if they mast all belong to the Order of Tall Talk and each man endeavoring to pass the chairs. ".And cue people have something to talk about. With thousands of the richest Meres of this old dump of a world surrounding Oregon City, and the millions of dollars invested in the manufactories at the fails, the man who isn't a booster for the city should be deported. But there is another view an east erner sees. All you optimists wsiit a bigger Or egon City, and you know it is com ing. Now, how is it coming unless you provide the means? The Northwestern Railroad gives it ont that during the thirty days the one-way excursion rates from the East were in force 85.000 people were brought into Oregon by this road alone. Let as suppose a fractional few of these home seekers, soil seekers and climate seekers came to Oregon City. What would yon do with them? with no rentable houses m the oitv today, a prospective resident simply has to go on get out. A newcomer dneBn't build or bay a house the first week. He is from Missouri until he learns the gaits, and he wants a shelter while yon show him. Oregon Oity wants fair-priced rent ing houses. The demand is here, and the lack of supply seems strange. Such houses would be an investment to the builders and an investment to the business interests. There is another movement that will build np a town fast and perma nentlyan individual or association project that will build medium priced homes and sell them on easy pay ments. This puts a home in reach of the man who works by the day and it makes of that man a permanent, loyal citizen, and a man who will stay on his job. If Oregon City is .o grow, Its peo ple must let it grow, otherwise you are boosting for outside real estate and Portland's business places. We have a good growing start, but it is not the right kind of a start. Nearly every house nuder way is a home for its builder and not a residence for a The Electric Service is at YOUR, complete command any hour of the day or night It will heat Baby's milk in an electric water heater in three min utes at 3 A. M., just as easily as any other time. No matter when is the hour of your need, the electric servant responds instantly. You can't tire it out. You may have light, heat, power one or all at the pressing of a button And the cost of the service is well within the means of the average family WHY NOT TALK TO US ADOUT IT? Telephone Main 668, or A-6 131 Portland Railway, Light &' Power Co. Seventh and Alder Streets A MONEY IN THE BANK PROPOSITION Good Roads Come High They Are Worth It , But Many times it is a hard proposition to beat it into a taxpayer's head that big expenditures on permanent high way work is the real move, but it is not nearlv so hard a proposition as it ouoe was, for farmers are using their heads these days. Good roads are just as much an in vestment to a farmer and add to the value of his properly just as directly as does the building of a new barn or house or the clearing of a field. It's no more nor no less than an invest mentmoney on interest. Good roads is now a national issue, and some of these days we will make France take notice. Oregon roads are one of the first propositions that a new comer looks at, for they mean market or no mar ket. The oounty court last week showed its disposition in favor of the good roads idea, and their policy is for liberal expenditures for lasting im provements, and famers who are alive above lie ears should be witb.them on any honest proposition for better highways. Have Purchased Timber Tract. The Kilmer & Einzle sawmill of Oanby has purchased 320 sores of tim ber land on the Abernethy oreek. about three miles from this oity, where they intend erecting a sawmill. It is reported that there are about one hundred and fifty million teet of tim ber on the land. This firm intend erecting their sawmill in about two or three months. Oregon Oity will be tlie main market for the new con oern. Big Guns at Corvallis. Judge Ben Lindsay, the man who has oleaned op and disinfected Den ver, and ex-Governor Folk, the man who put fear in the hearts of the grafting politioial bunoh in St. Louis, are both to address the students of the State Agricultural College at Corvallis this month, Judge Lindsay April 10 and Mr. Folk the 11th. Grange Meeting at Abernenthy. Pomona Grange of Abernethy will meet in 'an all day session on Satur day, April 16. A splendid program will be given. Several good speakers have been secured to give talks, and the ladies will serve a dinner at noon. now comer. The city wants reliable booses. It's up to our city to stand still or spread oat. We want something more than booster days we want something to boost. Think it over. Servant that is Neve Off Duty FARMER GETS Portland Horse Traders Turn the Trick. DOPED TEAM COSTS $210 All is Not Horse that Prances and Steps High. What looks very much like the skin nieBt kind of a horse deal was opened np in tbe jnstioo court in Portland last week, when Uarl Ohristensen, a farmer of this oounty, brought an ao tion against Thomas Murphy and An drew uormley, horse traders. The Clackamas oounty farmer claims they put a big one over on him when he wasn't looking: that they gold bricked him w'th a "doped" team ; that the influence of the dope wore off before he got his pomes to Oregon Oity, and that when he re turned the team and demanded Ins money bacR he was given a note by Murphy, which note was worthless, but winch released Gormley. u the farmer has the straight ol the deal, it was very muoh a bunco. tie said he paid 1210 for the team. and has made four trips to Portland to oollect the note and the ohances are he will have to make several more before he gets the treasury cloth back that he paid for the uayuses. It is a little amusing to note a com ment on the oase in a Portland daily, that "complaints without number to the civil and oriminal courts, have been made against these traders" and tbat District Attorney Cameron says that if any new charges against them reach his office, they will have to go berore the grand jury. The amusement comes in the specu lation as to about how many Aim flams have to be palled off betore the district attorney thinks the crime pile is big enougli to go to the grand ju ry. All Looks Alike Now. Volume 1 No. 1 of the Appeal, at Milwaokie, started a flirtation with the publio last week Friday. It came Oat dressed in eight pages, trimmed with four columns, and withjthe state tnent that all coin looks alike. Edi tor Thomas will no doubt know less about how ooin looks about a year from now. A Birthday Present. Governor West made Howard Guil ferd of Portland happy by a pardon on his birthday. Guilferd was convioted of attempted jury. bribing in the trial of Banker Morris of Portland. SHERIFF'S SEMI ANNUAL REPORT Fine Showing for First Months of Term Six The following is the report of Sheriff Mass, showing the receipts ana expenditures 01 this county from uctooer i to April 1 : Delinquent tax collections, including tax sales f 5047.73 Delinquent tax penalty 498.64 Delinquent tax interest 4B1.R4 Total delinquent collections 5978.01 Ourrentjyear collections 407621 12 Discount 11083.55 Uurrent year net tax col lections 896588.57 Total tax collections 402566.68 Fees oollected 288.25 Fines collected 10.00 Total cash collections 402814 83 Paid county treasurer in tax collections 402298.18 Paid county treasurer in fees collected 238.25 Paid county olerk in fines 10 00 Gash on hand at close of business March 81st, 1911 268.40 USE BRAINS IN DAIRYING. Some Advice by One who Has Made Good. The Clear Oreek Oreamerv Co-end- operative Company, for the year ing Mar on 1, 1911, paid to patrons an average price of 34 oents per pound for better fat, and made nearly 94 tons of batter. Clear Crtek Creamery has an aver age of 250 patrons owning about 1500 cows supplying cream. These cows for tlie year earned approximately $68,000, or 42 per cow, making an average return to each patron of $252. How much do your oows return eaoh per year? Do you keep account on them?' It not, do so. Try them out with a pair of scales and a Bab cock tuster. If a cow is a genuine boarder, pass her on to the butcher: if the fault is yours, give her better oare than you have given her, and milk producing food and enough of it. Feeds high in protein produce the most milk, suoh as olover, peas, vetches and kale, fed ' with sufficient grain to keep oows in good condition. JNow is the time to sow kale in drills, to transplant later to l lie field. Kale planted tiiree feet eaoh wav in the field is easily cultivated, takes less hoeing and will give the plants room enough to develop on good ground. The nearer kale ground ap proaches good cabbage ground, the better the kale will be. The kale plant is a heavy feeder and delights in a rioh sou. Now, Mr. Dairyman, -if you are tempted to sometimes think that the dairy business is a slow business and a great deal of hard work, just re member to give your herd oredlt not only tor the creamery returns, but for the value of skim milk used on tlie farm, fertilizers that increase crop yields, heifer calves raised, increase in the value of your young stock and value of dairy products used bv the family. livery dairyman will admit there is work and plenty of it , Any other business successfully followed re quires a great dealof work and close attention to details. "If the farmer had a nice balanoe in the bank and at the end of tlie vear tbat balance was less than tlie year before one would have hard work to convince him that he was makiug money, lie would know better, If he has a good store of fertility in his farm and at the end of the year his method of farming has been such that he has wasted a considerable part of that fertility, even though he has in creased his bans balanoe, has he made any money? Many farmers will say yes. liiev oan see the money hut they cannot see the fertility, without which tbe money product must grow less every year. That is tlie reason lack ol ability to see that so many farmers are holding onto the bank balance, thinking they are setting rioh, even though the farm is growing poorer every year. ' noara s JJairy- nian. Two patrons of the creamery living in the same neighborhood, both; with nign grade dairy cows ot the Fame breed, were discussing the high price ol ieeds. une saia that he could not aBord to feed abundantly. The other said he couldn't afford to keep oows unless he did feed heavily. The for mer received $6 per cow and the laUer 115 per cow for the month of Decern ber,;1910. Each had the same number of oows. The latter had no green feed. The following is the report of J. W. Watts eight oows for 1909: Cows high grade Jersey and Quernsey. For the year 1909 eight cows returned $724 in cream checks or 190.60 per oow. The total pounds ot butter fat for the year was 2131 pounds or 266 8-8 pounds per oow. Mr. Watts is one of tbe veteran dairymen of the com munity, starting in the business when the creamery was established, also hauled cream for several years. Mr. Watts has bred op his herd until his cows are high producers. Besides his cream sales for 1909, he raised two Guernsey-Jersey grade heifers. He keeps well bred hogs to consume his dairy by-products, besides a flock of chickens to help keep np the grocery bill and supply the table with poultry and eggs. Mr. Watts is about fifteen miles from Portland and sells pota toes, early vegetables, corn, etc., in that market amounting to several hundred dollars a year. His dairy herd and the livestock keeps up the fertility of his farm so he can raise trucking crops, besides his hay and grain. Now is the time to have your Pana ma cleaned and blocked. Work done in satisfactory manner. W. Beier, 185 4th St., Portland. LIKE CHICAGO NEXT WEEK 10,000 to 20,000 Peo ple Expected Here. BIGGEST OF BOOSTER DAYS, Biggest Kind of Attractions and Big Day of Sports. If the forecaster will only spread out sunshine for this country uext week, Oregon City will b a whole lot like Ulucago next week, Saturday. Saturday, April 22. is tne horse show, street carnival and booster day the second annual big celebra tion for Oregon Oity and Secretary Lazelle savs to look for from fifteen to twenty thousand people in town, and he says it without a stage smile he means it. A year ago the first celebration was put on, lust as an experiment startor. and it made good. This year will be a big advance over 1910, tor the pro gram has something doing every min ute, there lb plenty of money behind the project, and it will be a case of touch elbows all day long. There will be street parades, high ring acts, horse show, the slide for lite, balloon aeceusion, aerial aots, brass bands, etc The Mill -r Amuse ment Co., with its six big shows, aud its open air free aots, will be here, and every n inute of the day there will be continuous entertainment for everybody. The promoters have given a lot of attention to the horse show, and this alone will be a big card ot thn big day About $200 is to be given in premiums aud there is no entry charge. Here's the inducements: Best draft stallion, any breed, 25, $15, $10, $5. Best draft mare, grade or pure brod, $5, $2.60. Best grade draft colt, under two years, $5, $2.60. Get ot sire, four colts under two years, exhibited with sire, $10, $5. rroduoe if dam, two colts under four years old, exhibited with dam, $5, (2.50. Best draft tram, to weigh hot loss than 270O pounds and properly hitched to heavy wagon or truck, $10, $5. Best (Joiicii, Hackney or Cleveland Bay Btallion, $10, $5. Best coach or general purpose team, properly hitohei to light wagon or carriage, 910, $5. Best Standard bred stallion, , $10, $5. . ... Best Standard Bred mare over years, to, $3.60. cest standard tired cult, under two years, $5, $2. '.0 Best driving team. itace horses barred. To he properly hitched to light carriage, $10, $5. Best single driver. Haoe horses barred. To be properly hitched to ight carriage, $5, $2.60. Best saddle horse, $5, $2.60. Best Shetland properly hitched to cart or buggy, $5, $2.50. All horses must be entered before nine o'clock, and must take part in the parade. Entrance tree. Make entries with M. J. Lu.elle, seoretary. Don't you miss this big celebration. It will be a whale and you will have the time of your life. There will be Hometiiing to entertain every minute from 9 am. until night, and then you will close the oelebration by a swell dance in Bunch's swellest of dancing halls. German-Americans Gathering. Thire was a large attendance of Germans at the meeting of the Deutsche Verein at Knapp's hall Sun day afternoon, 'and a program and dinner were heartily enjoyed Presi dent Gustave Scliuorr delivered the address, after which a program of! music, recitations and tableaux was rendered. President Galhraith of the Mackshurg verein gave the closing ad drees. Gorman dishes were prepared for the dinner. The Verein will go to Portland in a body May 1, the ocoa sion being the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the peace treaty with J! ranee and tlie comment oration of the famous poet, Frederick von Schiller, Jto be held at the lleilig theatre, where a living tableau, 40 feet high, undor the auspices of the Portland Torn Verein, will be one of the features. Let's Hear From You. The columns of this newspaper are open to any person to disouss matters of general interest, and we invite you to use them. A newspaper whose editor uses tlie ecu-tor on matters that do not chord with bis own ideas, aud whose clote co'uniunion policies make a waste tat-ket for all other matters such a sheet has little call for publio patron age in this day ot independnco. But we don't want your troubles and personal matters toll them to I he chief of police. V,e don't want abuse, nonsense or uny ''p. t-even" commun ications. We waut your opinions, ideas something to make people think and reason. If you have any of this line stowed in your attio, bring it out. Postoffice to Close Sundays. Commencing one wrek from Sunday, April 2'i, the oehvory windows at the Dostoflioe will be closed Sundays, and only those having lock boxes will be able to get their mail. This is a gen eral movement all over tlie United Statei, and the object is to give em ployees a day of rest. Growers state that peaches, pin me and prunes have been injured by the cold weather. THE JUNE BATTLE OF THE ROSES. Beautiful Feature of the Com ing Portland Festival. One of the many unique and pleas ing features of the Portland rose fes tival this year will be the "Shower of Roses," in which millioons of roBe buds, blotms and peals are hurled from a a train ot street cars by 100 young women in white and which has become one of the notable events of the annual Portland Rose Festival is to be repeated again this year, pro bably two and possibly three days of the festival weok, June 6-10. People of the fiaat, and for that matter, very few in this seotion ol the country have ever seen a spectacle line mis. The train comprising six cais is headed by a special car con taining a large band and Jas the pro cession travels through the streets, the thousands of pedestrians lining me route are simply bombarded with the beautiful roses. To add to the charm and interest of the spectaole, tne spectators usually enggage in "rose battle," pelting the young wo men with the fWers after they have Deen snoweroa in the streets. OUR CITY LAYS OVER BOASTING SALEM Half as Large, but Investments. and Payrolls Greater. Salem, the state capital, which oiaiins over 20,000 population, is hav ing a little item put in all tlie pa pers of the state advertising that it is a mannfaotoring center: that it has 45 factories, emulovs 1600 workmen v. ith a payroll of over $90,000 month uut there are others, Salem, not half so big in noon lation. who have all your gaits and then some. Uregon City has $10,000,000 Invested in manufactories: it emnlovs mora than 16,000 workmen and tiavs out uiuie iiihu wu,uuu monthly. Ana uregon (Jity doesn't have to employ a pre.s bureau to let the peo pie know about it, either. ELKS BUY PROPERTY. Purchase Three Lots and Wil . Build Temple Later. Last week 'the order of Elks pur- unuHea or v. r. nawiey three lots on Main street, extending to the river front, including the FuBey reisdenoe. which they now occupy, and it 1b understood that a handsome temple wiu oe erected later for the Bost Feo pie On Earth. And, by the way, when you look them over, Beveral of the handsome buildings in this city have been built by the different Booieties. Don't Miss the Match Box. Saturday evening the Twilight Dra matio Noolety will put on their first play, entitled "The Matoh Box," at the Twilight opera hones. This is a two aot comedy and is bound to please an audience. Some of the best talent has been seoured, and the cast of characters is as follows: Major nauway, J. tjurtis jyi. JJodds; Tom, his nephew, Wallace Johnson ; Blanch and Amy, his two daughters, Misses Marie Harvey and Grace Snooks; vvauoa, ins niece, Mrs. J. M. Dodds; ur. uregg, m. j Gazelle ; Ur. Urosby, Thos. Kellund; James, an Irish ser vant, Ohas. Caldwell; Peggy, an Irish servant, Mrs. r . M. Thompson. New soenory and a new curtain have been purchased by the sooiety for the oo cas.on. Later on a heavier 'play will be put on, and it is the intention of the membeis to give a play every month or so. Asks for Damages. A suit was filed here Monday by josopn uoniiell vs. The i'uget Hound Bridge and Dredging Oo. tie alleges that lie was injured while employed by this company, when they were constructing a dam for the Portland Kailway, Light and Power Oo. at Kiver Mill, on the Clackamas river tie alleges that the company built a tramway from the conorete mixing machine to a derrick, and be alleges that this tramway Is dangerous, but that he waB not informed ot the con dition. He also states that brakes on the car were deteotive aud that there was no way of stopping the speea oi tne car, ana that lie wa ordered to walk along the tramway, and hold back the car to keep it from running down the grade, lie was un able to do so and he was struck by the car and thrown down the grade, in juring his left leg and ankle and wrenching his spine and received per raanent injury. A big campaign against the pests that destroy orchards in Uregon is to be ttarted shortly by six experts from the state agricultural college, . In ac cordance with the legislative bill pro viding funds lor such work. Under the' direction of Dean A. B. Oordley of the college of agriculture, Prof. U. I. Lewis of the horticultural de partment, and Prof. H. S. Jackson of the entomology department, the col lege will establish division headquar ters in the principal fruit centers of the state Portland, Salem. Eugene, Koseburg, and perhaps Milton and from there the investigations will ex tend over the entire state. Thos. Brown's fish market on Fitth and Water streets has Icon remodeled and Mr. Brown is now in his new quarters. Since the fire about three weeks ago, Mr. Brown has had a counter in the Strebig market. OGLE WNII GIVES GO Rich Find May Send (the Stock Soaring. BIG PLANT TO BE ERECTED, Report of Miners Say the Real ; Thing Has Been Struck. Early In December the Courier pub lished exclusively the story of the Ogle Mountain Mine with illustra tions, and predioted after a careful survey of the country and a thorough investigation or the existing condi tions surrounding that "Clackamas county is on the eve of tbe geatest awakening that could be imagined by the most far seeing, that will spread her fame from one state to another throughout the entire Paolflo coast, and perhaps over the entire states, to the Atlantic The dream of ber oitizens has come true, and through the efforts of a few, there is about to be opened to the world one of the greatest gold mines that have made famous the entire West "A reality has at last been develop ed and there remains but the work of a few more strokes of .the fair drill to reach the great vein of gold bearing ore, for whioh "men have toiled day and night, delving deep into the bowels of tbe eart, have worked under the greatest hardship, aoooniptishing through herculean efforts "what tap pears to the layman impossible tasks." The above deductions were made after a oareful observation of the ter ritory by the manager of tlie Courier, and these predictions have been borne out by the announcement of tbe Ogle mining management that the rioh vein has been found ac last and that the. directors have concluded to at onoa prooeed to install the proper machin ery and equip the entire plant so that the new ores found may 'be properly worked and the greatest Deroentase of metals obtained from the working. Mr. Fairclough stated yesterday to a Courier representative that the work would oontinue bb in the nant for a few months, blocking oat Im mense quantities of the new and prec ious ore ana mat immediate iteps will be taken to operate on extensive and paying scale. x-iuui tun leuunB UK Bnienwuo opera tors and miners it is oertain that tha great vein of rioh ore has been found, muoh as expected, only oerhans more valuable, and that within not many months Ogle Mountain will bo a hive of industry, and that wealth from the bowels ol ;the earth will be flowing in a steady stream to modern machin ery iu an extensive plant. THINGS LOOK BRIGHT FOR NEW RAILROAD, ' i The Square Deal Policy Looks Good to Investors. It takes a lot besides money to build a railroad money ia really a detail. It takes Band, perseverance. enthusiasm and bull dog grit. It takes men who have faith in them selves, more in their neighbors and all kinds in the undertaking. Suoh men build railroads. The Claokamas Southern Droient Is a local enterprise, just a home affari, not as big as a Jim Hill nor as small ai a Jim Crow, but of more import ance to Oregon Oity and Clackamas oounty than the great transcontinen tal streaks of steel. Ihe project is a go there is very little doubt about this for the oeonle are behind it, have oonfidenoe in the men who are in it, and it looks like an investment as well as a develooer. One feature of the proposition that looks honest and whioh shows the di rectors have a lot of confidence in the people ooming through, is the toliov not to incur a single obligation unless the oash is in the bank to meet it. and to expend every dollar reoeived for the sale of stook la actual road work. Ths policy looks good to property ownurs, and Investors, and the direc tors have a right to be enthusiastio that enough stock oan be sold to com plete the road. One-fourth of the amount subscribed may be paid May 1, one-fourth Jane 1, one-fourth July ana one -fourth August 1. This makes subscriptions easy to handle and very little of a burden. The bad weather for the nast few days has made work along the right- of-way almost impossible, but from now on the work will be pushed. Selling in Rhyme. There'll be a sale for one and all April fourteenth in Weiuhard Hall ; Baked goods, iL Candies 4.1 .Sweet stuff galore ' ' ".r fe4 Baked beans and bread -,'J Pies and more. To all who wish the King's Daughters well Will surolv?buylI they haveljtolsell. Bay, bay, till yoar larders groan, i Till your change Is gone and"lTou make a tW lon- To Milk Consumers. Cams Jersey Dairy wl II oommenoa lelling pure milk and cream in Ore gon City on Monady morning, April 17. Dairy Inspected by state dairy Inspector, and herd tested for disease by U. S. government. Phone Beaver Oreek Mutual. Alfred A. Spansler Canby, Bt 1