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0regon Historical ow
ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL.. 32. NO. 47.
OREGON CITY, OREGON,
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1906.
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STRONG MEN
MONEY ADDED TO MILL
PAID UP CAPITAL OF OREGON
CITY M. & L. Co. NOW
$40,000.
n. R. LANG ELECTED PRESIDENT
Capacity of Plant Will Be Doubled,
Will Run Night and Day
and Employ Fifty
Men.
The Oregon City Mill & Lumber
company held a meeting last night
that means much for the future pros
perity of this city. That lusty young
industry that is flourishing like a
green bay tree by the river, was fur
ther strengthened by the admission
of strong business men and additional
capital.
The new men who subscribed liber
ally to the capital stock last night are
N. R. Lang, J. W. Moffitt, C. G. Hunt
ley, J. E. Hedges and Franklin T.
Griffith.
The total, fully paid-up capital
stock now issued amounts to $40,000,
and still further capital will be ad
ded. .
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The mill will be doubled in capacity
and will be run night and day, giv
ing constant employment to 50 men
at the mill, besides the large number
employed in subsidary industries.
It is the intention and plan of the
enlarged company to use all the out
put of the saw mills in the eastern
part of the county, enabling those
mills to run steadily at full capacity.
The following board of directors
was elected at last night's meeting:
N. R. Lang, Franklin T. Griffith, W.
A. Huntley, L. Adams, B. Kuppen
bender. The board selected officers
as follows: N. R. Lang, president;
Franklin T. Griffith, vice-president;
How much dp you wish to pay?
Come here for a $1.00 Watch
. s Or a $100.00 one .,
Or atl prices in between.
We are Watch specialists. U is a branch of our busi
. ness that we think just about the most important of any.
We personally select all our time pieces, and we mean
it when we tell you that today we are able to meet your
Watch needs with particular advantage to you.
For years we have studied Watch values from one end
to the other and you can safely trust to our experience.
Would like to have you call at your convenience and
give us the opportunity of placing our watches before
you.
Burmeister and Andrcsen
Suspension Bridge Cor. The Oregon City Jewelers.
AMD MORE
W. A. Huntley, secretary; B. Kuppen
bender mill superintendent; J. A.
Moehnke, mill secretary.
The .plant of the company ' is now
taxed to its capacity. Hardly a day
passes but what a car-load or more of
lumber, moulding, doors, windows,
etc., is shipped out. The company
lately sent a car of mouldings to New
York city. A car-load of builders' ma
terial was shipped to Idaho Monday.
There is no longer a shortage In
cars and the company is able to handle
their orders with prompt attention.
VIOLA VOTES FOR
COUNTY SEAT ROAD
WANT GOOD HIGHWAY . TO ORE
GON CITY CHEERS FOR
JUDGE DIMICK.
"Viola, Oct. 30. 'The taxpayers of
this road . district voted Saturday to
levy a 5 mill road tax that will be
used to improve the road from Clear
Creek bridge ' to the bridge - across
Little Clear creek, a distance of about
one mile. . From the Little Clear
creek bridge to Oregon City the road
is already improved, so we will have
uninterrupted communication with
the county seat all winter.
Saturday's meeting was well attend
ed and harmonious; the chairman be
ing Road Supervisor James T. Fullam.
The secretary was Alonzo Tenny.
County Judge G. B. Dimick was pres
ent at the meeting.- The vote was 24
to 18, most of the opposition coming
from those living along the ' present
improved stretch of the road.
Judge Dimick was given an enthus
iastic reception for his trouble in at
tending the meeting and explaining
the law, and was given a unanimous
vote of thanks in, spite of his protest.
Where Baby Salmon Receive Care
Interesting Account of a Visit to the Clackamas Station
of the United States Government Fish Hatcheries.
No where in Clackamas county can
be found a more busy place than the
station of the U. S. Fish Hatcheries
that is situated some four miles
from the mouth of the Clackamas.
A Star correspondent with a num
ber of friends spent a most enjoy
able afternoon Sunday in examining
this station which is under the man
agement of J. H. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson was very courteous in
explaining every detail of the business
from the receiving of the eggs until
they are distributed in every section
of this northwest, to stock up streams
with young salmon trout.
On account of the very high water
in the Clackamas rivr the work of
getting the eggs from the female sal
mon which go up the Clackamas to
spawn, has been delayed about ten
days. However, now the water has
somewhat subsided 'and the work is
going on in earnest.
At present, only four sets of troughs
are needed to handle the number of
eggs that are already in the hatchery.
These troughs contain over two mil
lion eggs that are in all sstages of
hatching. The full capacity of the
hatchery is about ten million eggs
and it is expected that the full num
ber of . eggs will be placed in the
hatchery about November 25.
Sunday morning the Hatchery re-
CHURCH VOTES TO
CALL EUGENE PASTOR
CONGREGATION AL1STS llNANI-
MOUS IN DESIRE FOR REV.
C. 'E. OAKLEY.
The First Congregational church of
this city unanimously voted Sun
day to extend a call to Rev. C. E. Oak
ley, pastor of the First Congregational
church of Eugene, provided the mem
bers were able to complete the finan
cial conditions that his coming would
mean.
Rev. Oakley has a very high reputa
tion both as a pastor and preacher.
ceived 34 fish which yielded about"
190,000 eggs. To handle these eggs,
to see that the temperature is right, to
keep the troughs clean, and fresh
water running all the time, is no
mean task and great responsibility is
placed an Mr. Wilson and his assist
ants. A' careful record of the num
ber of eggs in each trough, with the
date when the eggs were first placed
there, is kept and everything is run on
a business basis.
Fifty days are required to hatch
eggs when the water has the tempera
ture which the Clackamas has.
After fifty days the small trout are
free from the egg and it is then that
the" most" infinite pains must be taken
with the young fish. As it is, a large
percentage of the eggs taken from
the salmon die or are destroyed.
It is . in April that the Hatchery
sends the young fish away to be plant
ed in the various streams of Oregon
and Washington and Idaho. . .
Some of the fish are retained at the
hatchery for several months and when
they are about a year old are turned
loose in a small lake which lies near
the main building.
It is well worth any one's "time to
take a trip up the Clackamas and
study the transformation of the fish
from a tiny egg till it gets old enough
to be, turned loose, in some stream
to take care of its self.
GAME PROTECTION
COSTS $30,000 A YEAR
HUNTERS' LICENSE FEES WILL
" AMOUNT TO OVER $20,000
' THIS YEAR.
A Salem dispatch gives the cost of
game protection, or alleged protection,
at $30,000 a year. The expenditures
up to September 30 were $21,000 and
at the same rate for remainder of
year .will total $28,000, to which must
be added $1700 salary and- expenses
of the game and forestry warden.
Practically all of the $28,000 go to
the payment of deputies and their ex
penses." The special game fund is derived
from the hunters' license fees and
fines collected from violators of the
game laws. The license fees last year
as stated recently in the Star, aggre
gated $17,000 and are expected this
year to amount to $20,000. The re
mainder of the funds is derived from
fines.
OBSTINATE JURORS
INCREASE THE TAXES
All the jurors of the panel for the
November term of the , circut court
have been served now. As usual,
Sheriff Beatie was compelled to serve
several out-of-town jurors personally
on account of their failure to accept
service by mail. The sheriff regu
larly runs across some of those chron
ic kickers who raise a howl about tax
es as soon as he appears on the scene.
A gentle reminder of how they them
selves contribute - to unnecessary , ex
pense generally silences them.
The jurors should remember that
they accepted service by ntail, the
expense to the county would be no
more than a two-cent stamp, whereas
if they compel the sheriff to get after
them in person, just so much addition
al expense is incurred by the county
through their failure to answer.
3 MODEL ORCHARDS
EOR CLACKAMAS
One at Oregon City, One at Molalla,
Third at Garfield or
George. '
Following closely upon, the an
nouncement that the Clackamas coun
ty Horticultural society had passed
resolutions empowering a committee
to locate a model, ten-acre apple or
chard in the county,- to be managed
according to directions from state au
thorities, comes the hews that three
of these ten-acre tracts are to be lo
cated here. One of them will be set
out on Judge Ryan's place on the Rin
earson donation land claim, below
Oregon City.1 The other two will prob
ably be located at Molalla and either
Garfield or George. . 'r
Horticultural Commissioner J. H.
Reid of Milwaukie and Prof. Lewis
of the Agricultural college have decid
ed that they must prove, conclusively
STRANUS OF BRIDGE
CABLES ARE ROTTED
APART UNDERGROUND
apples . as . the Hood River district.
Already individual fruit-growers, not
ably Mr. Byers and Mr. Tisen, man
ager of .Frank Busch's mountain ranch
have demonstrated what scientific
care can accomplish. These model
orchards, then, are designated as
great object lessons to the- farmers
and horticulturists, demonstrating
what can be accomplished by system
atic methods. The state will furnish
the trees under this arrangement, and
the only condition is that the owner
must care for the orchard according
to the instructions furnished by the
state authorities. Any persons in the
Molalla, George or Garfield districts,
who are willing to devote part of
their farms to the experiment, the
products of which remain the prop
erty of the owner, should corres
pond with, either Commissioner Reid
of Milwaukie or Judge Ryan of Ore
gon City. ,
FIRST CONVICTION
IN "SAWDUST" CASE
JURY. RETURNS A VERDICT OF
GUILTY AGAINST CROWN-
COLUMBIA CC.
It took the jury in the Crown-Colum-
bia Pulp & Paper company case Sat -
urday about five minutes to reach a
verdict' of guilty as charged in the
complaint of permitting lumber waste
and shavings tqbe discharged in the
Willamette river.
The case was opened at 1 o clock
Saturday afternoon. The jury was tak
en to the scene of the alleged viola
tion, and the next three hours were
taken up with the introduction of tes
timony. The arguments of counsel
occupied another hour, and the judge's
charge to the jury, quite detailed, took
about twenty. minutes. The jury re
tired in charge of Sheriff Beatie at
10 minutes of six and by six o'clock
lawyers and judge were ready to 're
ceive the verdict. ,
Ten witnesses werei summoned in
all. C. E. Dubois, W.' W.; Smith, G.
Brown, H. -W. Trembath, and C. Rail,
testified fo the state to the effect that
lumber waste was -being discharged
Into the river and that the fire which
was supposed to consume the refuse
was nothing short of-a "blind"-" For
the defense W. E. Pratt, J. M. Douth
it, W. Jackson, E. Daulton and H. A.
Webster were called. The defense
tried to, show that the matter com
plained of was neither lumber , waste )
nor planer shavings withing the mean
ing of the statute, that whatever vio
lation of the statute there was was
merely an accidental, technical vio
lation, or was an act of the individual
employed beyond the scope of their
authority.
The conviction of the Crown-Colum
bia corporation lends increased inter
est to the three cases still pending.
Deputy District Attorney Schuebel ex
pressed himself as satisfied with the
resultof Saturday's case and declared
that he intended to go right through
with the res"t of the cases pending.
"They are either going to fix up their
places to conform with .the law, or
take their medicine;- no matter who
Or what they are.' a ,
A. Newell of
was transacting
City, Monday.
Clackamas
Toute 1
business
in "Oregon
A void alum and alum phos
phate baking powders. The
label la requires that all
the ingredients be named
on the labels. Look out
for the alum compounds.
NOTE. Self ety lies in buying only
Royal Baking Powder, which is a
pure, cream of tartar baking powder,
- and the best that can be made.
WORKMEN ON SEWER EXPOSE
DANGEROUS CONDITION OF
THE ANCHORED ENDS.
OFFICIALS WILL ACT PROMPTLY
County Judge Dimick Makes Personal
Inspection Strands In
' . Every Cable Show
Corrosion. . .
When the county commissioners
meet on Wednesday, November 7, a
serious problem will confront the of
ficials in connection with the suspen-
sion bridge. In the past there has
been some question as tq its safety
so far as the piers are concerned,
but now a greater danger threatens
the cables are parting underground.
Workmen employed in repairing the
sewer on Seventh street In the rear
of Burmeister & Andresen's' jewelry,
and music store, reported that theyi
discovered a number of the strands
actually separated and rotted apart.
Judge Dimick inspected the premis
es, and other county officials looked
over the ground to ascertain the ex
tent of the danger which is threaten
ing. What they found tallied with
the report already given.
j There are seven . two-inch cables
i that support the bridge on each side.
The south side is the one which is
j exp0sed to view at present. In each
0f the seVen cables from ten to twelve
, strands are actually rotted apart, and
leave no connection whatever. The
same condition exists every few
inches on the two feet of cable now
exposed. ?
The chances . are that all along,
wherever the able is underground,
the same process of Jorrosion has
been going on, leaving practically no
hold whatsoever. . Though as yet no
indication , can bo seen, of the cable
giving away, the connection can only
be very slight at the best. When it
does, give, it will go with a snap, and
the results are likely to be very dis
astrous. It Is encouraging ' to learn that the
authorities appreciate the situation
and intend to take up the matter
speedily. At the next meeting, means
and methods of repairing the weak
ness and circumventing the danger
will be discussed, and some effort,
made to take . prompt action in the
matter-
Books for School Libraries.
Superintendent J. C. Zinser Monday
received several boxes of books, con
signed by the state librarytcommission
to Clackamas county. The selection
of these books was made last summer
and the f work of distributing among
the various districts in the county will
now proceed. The books received
Monday are valued at $800 and' weigh
ed 1800 pounds.
Sunflower Curiosity.
Mrs. J, Howell of Canemah planted
a lot of sunflowers this year, one of
which is quite a curiosity." It "has
twenty-one blossoms on the stalk.
Shoots from the main stalk have put
out blossoms which are perfect, some
thing very uncommon for these flow
ers.. The main stalk is about four
j feet high.
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J that Clackamas can pro3ucaas good