OregonCity Enterprise.
VOL. 30. NO. 43
OK KG ON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1903,
ESTABLISHED 1866
OHKT A.MIU.KR
ATTORNEY AT LAW
liml TltlrtMiHl Unn Office
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Will practice In nil Cotirti of the State
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ojip. Court lb'tiac, Oregon City, Oregon
1,,1'OKTEH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
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U'KEN A SCIIUE15EL
Attorney at Law.
Will practice in ill return, make collections
ml settlement of Kimlc.
Kurnlnli aliatraet ol title, If ml yon money
ml lend your money on llrnt niorgage.
Office In Enterprlso Building,
Oregon City, Oregon.
JOHN YOUNGER,
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Near Huntley's Drug Store,
FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN
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bo bought from ns or an v of our
dealers froiu$d..00to 118.00.
WI MAKE A VARIETY.
THE NEW HOME IS THE BEST.
Tlio Frl determines the strength or
Vi'iikni-HH of Hewing Machine. The
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Hlnunr points nmkin the jow Homo
the In-xt Hewing Machine to buy.
Wiite for CIRCULARS H1:V;;S3
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and examino the Htock. You will find a full line
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JVlaehine Shop
BUCKLEIN & KLEINSHMIDT, Proprietors.
(ienerl Machine Work of all kinds done. We carry in stock a line of Shafting
and Pulleys new and second hand. First clana Engine and Saw mill machinery.
Order hy Mail or Telephone promptly filled.
At rear of Pope'i Hardware Store. Oregon City, Oregon.
Oregon Washington State Fair Victories
ON BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS
Oregon Mate Fair 11)02
1-2-3 on Cock nirds, 6 in Competition
1st on Hen, io in Competition
I-j-3on I'utlets 40 in Competition
and on. . .Cockerel 21 in Competition
it on pen, II in Competition
1st in American Class
llv won I at on pulltita thn t 3
jrltra. Stork for aaln, l'K I" arnaoll.
J. MURROW & SON,
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Ej Fkuits, Etc., Call On the
KOZY KANDY KITCHEN
Brunswick House & Restaurant
Newly Furnished Rooms.
Meals at All Hours. Prices Reasonable.
Opposite Suspension Bridge.
Only First CIbhs Restaurant
In Town.
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Wiishliiirlon Slate Fair 11)02
We only sent 3 pullets, I hen and I
Cock and won on every entry but one
besides specinls, including best pen In
the show. Prizes won 1st Cock, 1st
Hen: 1st and and Pullet; 1st pen.
Kihlhlrlon Stork a perlnlty Home
crmiil pullnta for aale. Kgga S3. 00
Oregon City. Oregon.
Finest Chocolate Creams
ix the City. Also Cigars
and Toiucco.
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by tlruK'ulHti Sent ciU n rerelpt of price. M cenu and II 00
per box. WtLLIA-MS MJQ. CO., Prop., Cleveland, Ohio.
For Sale at HUNTLEY'S
BOOM IN CASCAKA
Trice of C'lilttlm Hark Soars
IllRh.
Twelve Oott Per I'oon.l In the Quota
tion tJathfring liark la
C'laikamaa.
The boom in mill on in cliittim nays
(he Corvallia Times. The man who owna
cliittim In quantity now can wear dia
mondii if he want to. Twelve cents per
pound U the nominally quoted rate that
dealers give out. It is however known
that half a cent more and even higher
figures have been paid for extra choice
lots within the past few days. Com
pared with the two and three quarters
and the three cents that - the bark
bronitht last year, or with the cent and a
half and the cent and three quartets that
it sold at a few years ago, tbe present
figures are amazing. Had a man in
vested $5,000 in bark last year, be could
sell it lor more than $L'0,000 today. Had
be put the lame amount in cliittim live
or six years ago when it went at a cent
and a half, be could live in a fine house
and support his mother-in-law and turn
up his nose at all bis wife's relations if
he wants to now.
I-oIh of cliittim sold in Corvallis at four
cents at the beginning of tbe present
seanon. Up to two weeks ago the price
was but little above five cents. Up to a
few days atfo some of the local dealers
bad still on hand all the bark they had
bought (luring the season. It Is under
stood several large lots of this character
were cloned out the latter part of last
week. The figure at which the bark
went Is not known but it was high
enough to leave a beautiful profit to the
dealers. In all it is understood, about
10 carloads will be bought and sold by
Corvallis dealers this season.
The big figures have caused many an
early contract to be broken. Tbe mor
tality among contracts has been actually
epidemic. Men who agreed to sell at
four or five cents, and gave out that they
would have a stipulated amonnto to sell,
did not deliver when the time came.
with a margin ol about seven or eight
cents on every pound of bark, the temp
tation to crawfitih was resistless, and
agreements were thrown lo the wind.
Its hard, too, for any man to see his
cliittim go at four or five cents when a
neighbor's is bringing twelve cents. Tbe
buyer for the San Francisco bouse who
slipped over into A lee a and bought np
large quantities of bark at six cents was
still waiting for bis bark to arrive at last
accounts. The delivery was to have
taken place by the let of September
He is represented to have engaged about
a earload. As near as can be learned
not even a wheelbarrow load was deliv
ered on time. He took the precaution
to give a check in part payment of tbe
porcliaxe price, in order to bind the bar
gain. The sellers say however, that he
represented when in Aleea that six cents
was the Corval.is price, when as a mat
ter of fact the price in Corvallis was
about donble that figure. It is possible
that the latter has something to do with
tbe fact tbat the hark doesn t come.
Tbe unexpectedly high figures bave
occasioned several paradoxes. A man
on Big Elk sold tbe bark off his own
farm and with the money purchased bis
neighbor's farm. Cbas. Overlander and
a partner engaged to clear the brush on
the Dalaba farm and for the job were to
receive all the cliittim bark on the place.
In Toledo the other day, they marketed
eight tons of bark for nearly $2,000,
which is more than the farm is worth,
and tbe eight tons sold only represents a
part of the bark on the place.
One man over in that country engaged
six tons of bark at the first of the season
to a Salem druggist at four cents a
pound, which is $80 per ton. The drug
gist hound np tbe contract in such a way
that delivery is assured. Ihe druggist
will get over $2)0 r ton for the bark or
$1,500 for what he paid $480 for. His
profit is over $1,000 on an original in
vestment of Icbs than $500.
A man on Nestucca was less fortunate.
He bought a ranch over there, stocked it
with goats, and was filled with visions of
prosperity to come from his new enter
prise. He was by the way an amateur
rancher who eniinved in the business as
a diversion and experiment. He had
230 goats on the place, for which be had
paid $4 per head. One day the news
came to him that all his goats were dead.
1 here was cbittim on the place and
when the other browse gave out I bey ate
cliittim and it physicked them all to
death. This is at least the way the
story is told west of tbe summit of the
coast range.
Two small boys rowed into Elk City
the other day with a few sacks of cbittim
in the bottom of their boat. They rowed
hack np the river with $03 in cash in
their pocket 8, the sale price of their little
bag of chittim. I lie money looked al
most as big as the pile of chittim, and
suggests that if the price soars much
higher it will be chittim instead of dia
monds that the rich and fashionable will
wear for jewels.
A pool of 13 tons of chittim sold at To
ledo the other day. Buyers from all
around were there to bid. The pool went
at 12 :0S cents per pound, or about $241
per ton.
The question of whether the bark will
continue at present prices or drop again
is one that men are studying. Most deal
ers expect it to drop. One tale is that
brokers in the East sold carloads here
and there lo medicine makers, expecting
to get the bark at the usual figures or
thereabouts, and then with the time for
delivery approaching they cinnot get tbe
goods without paying enormously for it.
All dealers figure that there Is inflation
somewhere in the quotations and that in
due time there will be a collapse.
On the other hand, cascara is fast com
ing into prominence as medicine. It is
no longer merely the ingredient of the
patent medicine. Physicians and manu
facturing druggists value it as a medi
cine, and it is regularly taking its place
among the favorite medicines on tbe
shelves of drug stores. Doctors recognize
it as one of the best bowel medicines in
the world. Properly used, it is said to
be a positive cure for chronic constipa
tion. In tincteurs, tablets and other
forms, it has come to be a regular ingre
dient in the prescriptions of up-to dale
practicing physicians. Coupled with the
new demand, is the fact that the original
supply is fast being exhausted. One or
two cars so far shipped thi season out of
Corvallis went to London, and another
went to Hamburg, Germany. Bo it is
certain that the old price of two cents
and nnder is not likely to ever be seen
again.
A sequence of the new prices is specu
lation upon the fact if chittim orchards
or forests will not herealter be cultivated.
Tbe question of planting trees is more or
less debated among people who think
seriously of setting out cbittim orchards.
It ia staled that a tree will grow to a di
ameter of six inches in six years. Such
a tree will yield ten to twenty pounds of
dried bark. In trees ot such age the bark
dries out more than In larger trees. Ten
pounds ol green bark makes dried pro
duct of about six or seven pounds. One
man, working UDder favorable conditions,
can peel 100 pounds of dried bark per
day. The peeling process is a business
with sleight and tricks that experts use
to a great advantage, and they peel with
greater celerity than novices do. Cbit
tim trees do not grow from cuttings, and
can only be produced from seed or root.
In peeling bark, the tree is killed, the
usual practic being, after peeling as
high at the operator can reach, to cut
the tree down in order to get the bark
from the upper part.
CUITTIM IK CLACKAMAS.
Gathering of cascara bark, or chittim
wood, has been resumed in this county
with the big advance tbat has taken
place in the price of this article. Trees
from which this bark ia obtained are nu
merous in the south end of the county,
and persons residing about Barlow are
making good wages. This bark formerly
sold at 2!4 cents a pound here and now
it finds a ready sale at a bit a pound.
SUIT FOB DAMAGES.
The big advance in the price of chittim
bark is responsible for a suit in the cir
cuit court wherein the Hurlburt-Xicklin
Mercantile Company, of Junction City,
sues Peter Colgaard, of Elmira, to re
cover $210, the amount tbe plaintiffs al
lege they would have made if a certain
contract for the sale of some chittim
bark had been lived up lo by the defend
ant, says the Eugene Guard.
Tbe plaintiffs allege tbat on Aug. 14,
1W3, they entered into a contrac'. with
Mr. Colgaard to furnish them 1300 or
1400 pounds of chittim bark at 5 cents
per pound, the price of tbat article at
tbat time. It seems that the defendant
has not fulfilled his contract and now
that the bark is selling at 20 cents per
pound, the plaintiffs claim that they are
damaged to tbe extent of $210, because
of Colgaard's failure to deliver tbe bark.
WHAT OREGON GIRLS CAS DO
Illustration of What Purpose, Backed
by Persistent Effort, Will Bring.
"There are two young ladies living be
tween Dallas and Salem, in Polk county,
who deserve honorable mention in the
class of successful men and women of
Oregon," says the Salem Statesman.
"Tbey are sisters. A little over two
years ago their father died, leaving them
a small farm on which were twelve acres
of prune trees. There was a $1500 mort
gage on the place. These young ladies
were not out of their 'teens' then, but
they did not sit down and give op hope.
They did not allow the little home to be
eaten up by the mortgage, and sold out
by tbe sheriff. They did not propose to
have such a record. They had strong
hands and good health, though tbey
were not possessed of any money with
which to hire help. But tbey could
work with their own hands, and they
went at it. They trimmed up and put
in fine shape the prune orchard, and in
other ways tended the farm in a manner
becoming thrifty husbandmen.
"During the little over two years since
their father died these young ladies have
paid off the $1600 mortgage, and they
have besides built an $800 bouse, and in
other ways added to tbe appearance and
comfort of their home. They are en
tirely out of debt.
"Their net profit from their prune
crop of last year was $1750 cash.
"This shows two or three things. It
shows, first, what willing bands and
stout hearts can do, even against odds.
And it shows that the state of Oregon,
and more especially the Willamette val
ley, is the place for workers. And it
shows, in addition, tbat there is money
in the business of raising prunes here.
Tbe prunes did a large part in paying off
the mortgage.
"There is no country nnder the sun
that offers better advantages for tbe
small farmer than are offered right here
in tbe Willamette valley. Tbe crops
here are sure as sure as they are in any
country under the sun and it does not
cost all one can make throughout the
twelve months to get one through tbe
cold winters and tbe hot summers, as it
does in the states east of tbe Rocky
mountaing.
"Oregon and the Willamette valley
are all right. These young ladies be
tween Salem and Dallas, whose accom
plishments made the occasion of this
article, are all right."
More Patents Received. Patents
have been received at the Oregon City
Land Office in favor of the following
named persons : Wilburn Weber Sale,
J no. M. Underwood and Marshall E.
Morgan, homesteads; Wm. G. Gosslin,
(7), Cbas. F. Adams, Phineas H. Dodge,
C. W. Clarke, and N. D. Johnson, lands
selected in lieu of other lands; Stephen
Desbautel, donation land claim. The
Desbautel patent has been pending for
some time and represents land located
near Gervais, Marion county.
niMtress After Eating Cared.
.In, lira W. T. Holland, of Grfiennhiircr.
La., who is well and favorably known,
says : "Two years ago 1 suuered greatly
from Indigestion. After eating, great
distress would invariably result, lasting
for an hour or so and my nights were
restless. 1 concluded to try Kodol Dys
pepsia Cure and it cured me entirely.
Now mv slppn in refreshing and digestion
perfect." Sold by Geo. A. Harding.
For styles and prices go to Miss Goldsmith's.
SALMON IN ALASKA
U. S. Fish Commission Returns
From the North.
Many Laws Will Be Recommended for
Protection and Perpetuation of
the lndus'rj.
"The pack of salmon in Alaska this
year did not amount to more than ball a
pack." said J. Nelson Wisner, Jr., who
returned Saturday night from Skagway
and other Alaskan points. Mr. Wisner
was a member of the Alaskan Salmon
Commission that was appointed by Presi
dent Roosevelt to visit the northern coun
try and make an investigation of the fish
ing industry of Alaska.
The commission was headed by David
Starr Jordan, president of Stanford Uni
versity, and left Seattle June 15. Skag
way was the most northern point reached
while the commission extended its in
vestigations to the Skumagin Islands oo
the West. The members of the commis
sion were divided into separate commit
tees for working purposes, each division
having a particular part of the investiga
tion work to prosecute. The purpose of
the investigation was to devise the best
means for the perpetnation and extend
ing of tbe salmon industry of Alaska.
Reports will be prepared at once by the
different members of the commission,
covering every phase of the subject and
these will be forwarded to Washington
to be presented to Congress for immedi
ate action.
Mr. Wisner was attached so the culture
department of the commission, being the
member of the commission appointed to
represent the culture department of the
industry from the United States. Hig
work consisted of an investigation of tbe
hatcheries of Alaska and tbe manner in
which they are conducted. While Mr.
Wisner would not discuss in detail the
result of the investigations and observa
tions of the commission, it is known that
many important recommendations will
be made to Congress ia behalf of the sal
mon industry.
All of the five varieties of the salmon
family, found on the coast, thrive in the
Alaskan waters. Mr. Wisner attributes
the decreased pack of this fish in Alaska
this year to the lax laws that govern the
catching'of this fish. Under tbe present
laws the restrictions are not made that
the salmon may reach tbe spawning
grounds at the proper season and keep
ud tbe supply. Among other things, the
commission will recommend radical
changes in the fish laws now in force.
Laws providing for tbe needed restric
tions in the matter of catching the fish,
particularly in the streams where spawn
ing takes place, will bave the endorse
ment of the members of the commission.
Tbe removing of obstructions to the pro
pagation of tbe salmon, the building and
maintaining ot hatcheries by tbe govern
ment, tbe appointment of a board ot in
spection for Alaska, a statistician and a
naturalist, are among the necessary pro
visions tbat will likely be recommended
to Congress by tbe commission aa a re
sult of investigations.
The five varieties of the salmon family
tbat are found in Alaskan waters are :
Chinook, Blue Back, Silver Side, Hump
Back and Dog. Of tbe five tbe Chinook,
or Red Salmon, as it is known in Alaska,
is tbe most abundant. For every salmon
other than the Red Salmon tbat ia taken
by the fishermen, the present Alaskan
laws require that ten young Red Salmon
be released in the streams from which
the other varieties are taken. In order
to comply with this legal provision, the
big canneries maintain their own hatch
eries. Mr. Wisner reports tbat there are
two of the largest hatcheries in the world
in Alaska. They are located one each at
Loring and Karlek and by the end of the
year will have a capacity of 1,000,000,000
eggs each. The Alaskan Red Salmon is
what is known as the Blue Back in the
Columbia Rfver and is tbe best variety
for canning purposes.
Take the Enterprise fifty-two weeks
a year.
Woman Makes Matches. A match
factory managed by a woman and of suf
ficient importance to employ 18 people,
was one of the curiosities found by Jef
ferson Myers, president of the State Ex
position Commission, on his trip into
Oooe county in Lewis and Clark Fair in
terests, and a miniature of the factory in
working operation will probably be one
of the attractions at tbe exposition of
1905. Mrs. Elva Dyer, woman manager
of tbe unique industry, has definitely
promised to make a display of tbe factory
product, and is expected to agree to an
exhibit of actual matchmaking. Tbe
factory is located at Bandon, and is run
by San Francisco people. Three hun
dred cane, each containing a gross pack
age of matches, are turned out daily.
Tbe material used is burnt Port Oxford
cedar timber burned over perhaps forty
years ago being utilized. A profit of $50
a day is said to accrue from this little
known industry, and Mrs. Dyer is pros
pering. Exchange.
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