THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1901.
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PREFER RUNOaGRAM.
Sptmisli . Gulch Mine Discovered
Nearly 40 Tear Aco Being
s Regnlarly Worked.
Wheeler, Oregon's youngest county, Is
about 70 -miles Ion? and S3 miles wide. It
Is chlofly a stockraising region. It is not
Xhlckly settled, the recent census giving
It only 2442 inhabitants, but those, who
live within its boundaries enjoy a high
degree of" prosperity. When the county
-was created, in 1SS9. it assumed a debt
from the parent counties of $33,922, which
it has already cut down to $20,000. Be
sides it has paid current expenses and
paid $3000 for record books, transcribing
records and office furniture.
In the way of resources, Wheeler Coun
ty has 161,175 sheep, according to the last
semiannual report of the county stock in
spector, 12,000 cattle, 6000 horses and 1000
bogs. The amount of hay is not record
ed, but a sufficient quantity is raised on
the rich creek bottoms to feed the stock
during the Winter months which vary
from one to three. At this writing (De
cember 18, 1900), the weather is warm and
mild, the hills are beautifully green, and
no snow has fallen. Grain enough is
raised for the county's needs, but prac
tically none for export, not that It could
"not be raised, but because the average
Wheeler County stockman would rather
have one acre of good bunch grass than
two., acres of doubtful grain, which, when
you get it, all too often barely pays the
coat of production.
After the stock industry, the next val
uable of Wheeler's resources is the tim
ber belt extending almost wlthouf a
break from one end of the county to the
other. Some day, we believe, this will
be the county's most valuable resource,
when the railroad, which during the past
year has come from GO to within 30 miles
of us, taps It. At present, there are six
sawmills in the county, which are taxed
to their utmost capacity to meet the
growing demand for lumber.
Ranking next to timber in value, ate
our mines, the great value of which has
never been noised abroad, and, In fact,
was little known until 1000 by the people
of Wheeler County themselves. The
mines In this cdunty are situated in the
Camp Watson Mountains, a spur of the
Blue Mountains, about five miles from its
southern boundary, In what is known as
the .Spanish Gulch district. So far, they
are not extensive, but the placers are
tlch, and there is great promise in the
quartz;
These mines were discovered In 1S52 by
two. Mexican or Spanish packers, who
while - packing provisions from The Dalles
to the Canyon City mines, round a pocket
In "a. ledge ;that'cro"sses the gulch In "the
vicinity of the old "trail. In the Fall of
186i a company, was organized in Canyon
City, tovprpspect the Spanish Gulch re
gion, the moving spirit In the enterprise
belijg.the late Dr. J. M, McCoy, well
kno'wn to the pioneers of Grant County,
and "for many years a resident of East
Portland. This company surveyed and
dug the ' first ditch In that section. It
was seven miles long, and water was
turned into it from Rock Creek in 1E63.
The company used the hydraulic process,
with 'a "distributing chest," the most
improved method of that day, which has
Jong since given way to the "giant," In
1871 another ditch, five miles long, was
made, the water for it also coming from
Rock Creek. Another ditch followed In
1872, and later, two other ditches, each
KEWYOIUC
CINCINNATTI
CHICAGO
Represented by
IU Zi. EDWARDS.
BOSTON
ATLANTA
PORTLAND
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PUBLISHERS OF
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXT-BOOKS
HIGHEST AWARDS AT PARIS
Received TWO GRAND PRIX
And.... THREE MEDALS...
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1900
FOR SUPERIOR TEXT.BOOKS IN
Elementary Education. . . Grand Prix
Secondary Education .. .Grand Prix
Industrial and Commercial Education Gold Medal
Agricultural Education , Silver Medal
Higher Education ....;... ..Silver Medal
From Photo by Moore, Porttyid.
RESIDENCE OF THE LATE HENRY FAILING, WEST SIDE OF FIFTH
a'i, BirnvEBs TAyiion and salmon. Portland.
working them on their own account, with
the result that out of the placers alone
the yield last year was over $20,000. The
best placer claim Is owned by Robert
Cannon and Charles Johnson, who In a
10 weeks' run last Summer, with four
men, cleaned up $5900. They took out
quite a number of nuggets worth from
$50 to $100, and one nugget weighing 1G
ounces, value $272. William Waterman &
Co. cleaned up $2000 In a four weeks' run.
Joles & Co., of The Dalles, who own a
gqod placer mine In the district, took
out about $4000.
Some very good quartz claims, with
veins from five to seven feet In width,
PORTLAND RAILWAY COMPANY
The past year has witnessed no dimin
ution in the operations of this company
in extending and improving its lines and
service. It has completed the extension
of Its' Sixteenth-street line Into the manu
facturing section of the city, reaching
the O. R. & N. boatyard, the Gov
ernment boatyard and the sawmills dis
trict. Nearlng completion is- the exten
sion to South Portland of the Fifth-street
line, affording to the southern part
of- the city badly needed transportation
facilities. For the greater portion of the
s
The illustration published herewith
directs attention to the American Book
Company's exhibit at the Paris Expo
sition, which, In competition with the
world, received the highest award and
premium possible to bestow. These
priceless tokens of merit were eagerly
sought for by school-book publishers
everywhere, a fact that greatly en
hances their value to the American
Book Company, as showing the supe
riority of Its productions over those
of any rival or competitor. In exist
ence at this time. The American Book
Company, by the way, represents the
pioneer school-book publishing con
cerns of the United States, having, by
purchase, In 1S89, acquired all the
properties of the original houses. It
is doubtful. Indeed, If the magnitude
of this enterprise Is even slightly
comprehended by the masses of the
people. Few, It Is believed, are aware
tthat there Is not a school, no matter
how large or how small, not only In
Oregon and other Pacific Coast States,
but throughout the "United States, In
which many of this company's books
are not In use. This truth once un
derstood will enable the thinker to
comprehend why the American Book
Company maintains the largest print
ing and binding plants on this conti
nent, and why It has been enabled to
greatly reduce the cost of school
books without deterioration of con
tents, the quality bf paper used, or
the superiority of Its b'ndlngs. All
the excellencies of school-book pub
lishing known to Its predecessors have
been not only maintained but added
to, by this company, yet today par
ents pay less for the books from
which th6lr children receive Instruc
tion than at any other period In the
history of this nation. It Is more than
50 years since the original houses com
prising this great Institution were first
established, and the last decade of this
half century has witnessed so great an
Improvement In American , school
books that Its truthful narration
would tax the credulity of any one not
closely Identified with the . largest
scholastic Institutions. These better
ments have "become so widely recog
nized, and the merits of the American
Book Company's products so- broadly
understood, that -the scope of civili
zation Is its fertile field.
It furnishes books for the English
schools In China, the American schools
In the Philippine Islands, publishes
them In Portuguese for the pupils of
Brazil and in Spanish for Cuba and
the South American countries. It
publishes, all told, about 7000 volumes
of school books, and each year adds
from 200 to 300 to Its list. These new
publications are, In many cases, Im
provements on books formerly Issued.
In every Instance, however, they rep
resent the best thought and labor of
distinguished educators persons of
national educational renown and the
perfection thus attained was fittingly
recognized at Paris when the awards
were made.
The publication of these new school
books, it may Interest readers of the
Photographs of Exhibit of American Boole Company, Pari Exposition, 1000.
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S&KSKKHBflmSBBBBSBAR barns and shops --
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Interior view of shops. Cars in process of cwstwcho Zi ' B
From photo by L. J. Hicks, Portland. jj- t J J ''lJi-y W-fe
? Machine shop and armature winding department.
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Oregonlan to know, Is attended with
large expense and considerable risk
to the publishers. First of all, the
writers and compilers of such school
books as the American Book Company
produces, are persons who have at
tained lofty places In the world of ed
ucation, and command large pay for
their services. Then there Is the cost
of type-setting, printing, binding, and
last, but not least, that of Introduc
tion and In advertising and revisions
which tend to make their publications
the more perfect. But suppose unfa
vorable criticism should result in
public rejection of a volume, what
then? Thousands of dollars have been
wasted. Fortunately the well-balanced
Intellect, ripened judgment and
scholarly attainments of those In
charge greatly diminish this risk, still
there Is always the possibility of the
loss of large expenditures on these
ventures. The American Book Com
pmy, however, Is never deterred by
these chances from the performance
of that It conceives to be Its duty
toward the world-wide public that It
serves.
What becomes of old or obsolete
school-book publications Is something
that the ordinary mortal seldom, if
ever, concerns himself about probably
never gives the subject more than a
passing thought of curiosity. To the
school-book publisher the matter has
an interesting phase. So soon as one
school book Is supplanted by another,
that Is, Is accepted as superior in
merit, the American Book Company
calls the old one In, from all' civilized
regions of the globe, and thousands
upon thousands of copies that have
never reached the pupils' desks are
at once destroyed. Their value has
departed. They are known no more.
Now, to speak locally, Oregon, as
well as Portland, has a lively Inter
est in the well-stocked branch of the
American Book Company, located In
this city since 1S93. Its coming. Imme
diately established Oregon and its
metropolis as the school book and ed
ucational center of the Pacific North
west. It brought to our doors school
book3 of merit, and educational facili
ties that we had not before enjoyed.
It assisted In bringing uniformity In
the price of text-books out of the
chaos of other days, and providing our
schoolrooms with all those superior
educational facilities previously pos
sessed somewhat exclusively, Dy
our friends of the Eastern states.
The close relationship, the mutual
Interest, existing between school-book
publishers and the public schools, so
rarely considered as they deserve.
have been largely enhanced by the
management of the company's affairs
In Portland. There Is no room for
quarrels or disputations between the
publisher: and the schools. They
work in hatmony, one with the other,
for the betterment of the schools of
the state, and conversations with local
educators show that at no time In
.Oregon's educational history has this
tranquillity been so clearly and bene
ficially apparent as It Is today. Cap
tain R. L.. Edwards. In charge of .the
Portland house, has worked lndetatl
gably to accomplish this result. The
merit of his labor deserves the suc
cess with which it has been crowned.
His house In Portland Is a large and
active business concern of our city,
and is sure to keep well abreast of
the progress of the commonwealth
and municipality In which It so de
servedly thrives.
The schools of a community are its
most sacred public Institutions and
It Is hoped that the sad experiences
of our sister state of Washington with
amateur school-book publishers will
never becloud the educational atmos
phere of 6regon. The schools of this
state ar.e among the best In the coun
try. They should ne,ver be degraded
by experiments.
pany. The view from Portland Heights
Is unexcelled anywhere. And th trip to
Vancouver, Wash., Including the ride on
the company's ferry-boat, Is one of raro
beauty and Interest. Throughout the past
Summer the rapidly Increasing travel to
these points has attested the appreciation
in which the traveling public holds the
frequent and convenient schedule service.
The receipts of a street railway company
constitute one of the best-known barom
eters of general business conditions. And
In thl3 respect the showng made by this
company for the past year Is a most won
derful one as compared with the situa
tion of a few years ago.
JHE EXTENSIVE PLANT
OF the
CITY CgL SUBURBAN RAILWAY COMPANY
PORTLAND. OR.
Machine shop and armature winding department.
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elx miles long. In these days tho placers
paid lalrjy well, but nothing of extraor
dinary valuo was found, and for many
years little was heard of them, during
which -time they were worked by Chlna-
' men, who leased the diggings from the
owners.
A year or two ago it came to the knowl
edge of .the mine owners that the China
men were cblnlng money out of the dig
ging's, and since then they have been
have recently been discovered in this dis
trict, ore from four assays of which av
erage $16. $19. $22 and $24, respectively.
One small stamp mill was put In a few
months ago, and others will follow soon.
It is the opinion of experienced miners
that some day there will be a great min
ing camp in the Spanish Gulch district.
JAMES S. STEWART.
Fossil, Or.
routo this provides a double-track sys
tem. In construction It is thoroughly
substantial and up to date. During the
year a considerable amount of new equip
ment has been purchased In the way of
modern motors, new cars for the Fifth
street line, 'and additional machinery for
the shops, for repairs and new work. The
motive power, rolling-stock and roadbed
have been well kept up. As a result of
capable service and the excellent condi
tion maintained in the rolling-stock and
roadbed, the company has enjoyed re
markable immunity from casualties and
accidents of .any kind. It seems some
what of an anomaly to speak qf the
scenic attractions of a city railway line,
but it is doubtful whether any other elec
trie line In this country, unless it be that
extending down the Niagara Gorge, af
fords the features of spectacular interest
reached by the Portland Railway Com-
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OOMFORTABZ23 VESTIBULED CARS. arr. HOOD AS SEEN FBOII FERRY ON THE COLUMBIA. IOYSsct.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIOXS OF THE PORTLAND RAILWAY COMPANY'S LINES.
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
One of the best electric street railway
systems to be found in any city In the
United States of Portland's size Is that
of the City & Suburban Railway Com
pany, of Portland. Tho tracks operated
by this company run In almost every di
rection of tho city, cars from 13 different
lines controlled by this system passing
Third and Morrison streets at almost
every minute of the day. It Is doubtful
If suburban residents in any city In the
West enjoy as complete and satisfactory
a service. The cars used on all of the
lines are handsome, up to date and com
fortable, tho roadbed is kept up In ex
cellent shape, and the people of Portland
can congratulate themselves that home
capital has provided such a modern and
model street-car system. There has been
a gratifying freedom from disaster and
casualty throughout it3 operation, which
I has been largely due to perfection of
equipment and roadbed and excellence of
service.
During the coming year the company
expects to expend about $200,000 In Im
provements ln rolling-stock, roadbed and
on the power-house. These betterments
will cover improvements on the Upper1 Al
blna line, double-tracking Williams ave
nue from Cherry street to Piedmont, anfl
electrifying the St. Johns line. A new
line will bo built out through Southeast
Portland to the Southern Pacific Bhops,
as well as extension double tracks
on lines now operating as single track.
The company Is now placing In its power
house another 900-horsepower direct con
nected dynamo. It also has a number of
new cars under construction at its shops.
The system has been a most potent fac
tor In the building up and development
of the suburban points which It reaches.
The St. Johns, East Ankeny, Mount Ta
bor, Waverly and Woodstock lines all
bear evidence to an activity and progress
fostered and encouraged by satisfactory
transportation facilities'.
A company is being organized at Union
for the purpose of manufacturing farm
rollers. The roller is a combination ot
three rollers so arranged as to adapt,ltself
to the surface of the ground, no matter
how rough or uneven.
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