Morning Oregonian., April 28, 1902, Page 4, Image 4

THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, APRIL' 28, 1902.
THEY CHANGED PULPITS
HARNESSING THE ROGUE
AXD CABSJSD SOME. COMMOTION
AMOXG SALEM CHURCHMEN.
"WORK BKGINS OX THE DAMMING
OF RIVER ABOVE GRAXTS PASS.
Dr. Knight, a Consrrcprntionalist, and
Rev.Ir. Eliot, a Unitarian, Spoke
In Each Other's Churches.
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SALEM, April 27.-Rev. P. 8. Knight,
a Congregational minister of this city,
today caused some talk among his more
orthodox clerical brethren by exchang
ing pulpits for the day with Rev. W. G.
Eliot Jr., Salem pastor of the Unitarian
Church Society. At the present time Rev.
3Ir. Knight is serving as pastor for the
Congregational church at Corvallls, but
has no regular Salem congregation. To
day, both morning and evening. Rev. Mr.
Eliot addressed the Corvallls Congrega
tionalists, -while Revt Mr. Knight deliv
ered two sermons to the Salem Unitarian
congregation.
About a year ago, Rev. Mr. Eliot ap
plied for membership in the Salem Minis
terial Association and was denied admis
eion to that organization. The Incident at
the time caused some discussion and re
sulted in more or less newspaper corre
spondence. Rev. Mr. Knight is one of the pioneer
Congregational ministers in Oregon and
has always been actlely engaged in re
ligious work. He founded in thi3 city the
Central Congregational church, which
now has a large membership and Is one of
the flourishing religious organizations of
Salem. Rev. Mr. Knight is an able
speaker and has alwajs been i liberal in
his- views along religious lines. Being
questioned on the subject by an Oregon
Jan reporter, Mr. Knight said:
"I am surprised that any notice should
be taken of what seems to me so rea
sonable an affair as this exchange of pul
pits. I was glad thirty years ago to show
d. similar courtesy to Rev. T. L. Eliot,
father of the present pastor of TJnlty
church in Salem, and I am sure I havo
never had any reason to regret my action.
"When I seek or accept an exchange of
pulpits I consider the qualities of tho
man rather than the latitude or longitude
of his creed, or the denominational tall
to his theological kite. I am sure no
orje can criticise my judgment on that
e core in this instance, however it may be
with Mr. Eliot
"Several occasional attendants at my
sen ice in Corvallls claim to be Unitar
ians in. belief cultivated and -w orthy peo
ple and I thought such an exchango
"would be but a reasonable courtesy to
them.
"Of course, such 'an exchange implies no
" "i ielding of any doctrinal point, any more
than It would if I exchanged with a
Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist or Chris
tian. It is a long-cherished belief with
me that these minor differences between
sects should be ignored when earnest
Christians confront tho real problems of
practical work.
"I have given Mr. Eliot the same lib
erty in my pulpit that I would give to
any Christian gentleman, and he has ex
tended a similar courtesy to me; and I
am sure that when the day has passed
neither his congregation nor mine will
dream that anything strango has hap
pened." rams In Demand.
The real estate market is more lively
In the Willamette "Valley this season than
it has been since 1893 This asertlon Is
confirmed by all dealers. The Increased
number of sales Is directly caused by the
large immigration of home-seekers from
the Eastern States which is considerably
larger this jear than for several years
past.
"More farms have been sold in this "vi
cinity this Spring than since the good
times of 1S93," said Fred Hurst, one of
Salem's representative roalestate deal
ers today. "Property valuations are good
and the demand Is unusually great. Nu
merous sales Involving the largest farms
in Marion County have been consummated,
tho considerations rarglng from 51000 to
$12,000. Sales are largely cash transac
tions, little time being asked. The de
mand Is principally for large stock farms
and improved agricultural lands."
Among pome of the larger property sales
that have recently been made in this
county, was the sale by J. C Thompson,
of his 3C3-acre farm near Turner, to M. K.
Grimes and sons, of Burlington, Kansas,
the consideration being ?11,000. Alex Mc
Klnney sold his 250-acre farm near McCoy
to a recent arrival from "Wisconsin, a Mr.
Schultz, for 510,000. Mr. Bobbin's farm In
Polk County was purchased by an Iowa
immigrant for 510,000. The "Ward farm
near the State Reform School was taken
by an Oklahoma man for $4230. A new
comer from Idaho bought the Sarah Jones
farm of 160 acres, on the Hales Ferry road
south of Salem for 54000.
Direct dominations.
Governor Geer, as chairman of the Di
rect Nomination League meeting, held
Saturday, today announced the legisla
tion committee, which consists of E. M.
Crolsan, W. T. Slater, N. J. Judah, R. J.
Hendrickg and E. Hofer, all of Salenu
The work of the committee will be the
drafting of a bill providing for direct
nomination, at primaries for considera
tion of the State Legislature next Win
ter. E. M. Crolsan ls tho Republican
nominee for State Senator in Marion
County, Mr. Slater is candidate for Rep
resentative on the Democratic ticket, N.
J. Judah ls the present Salem City Re
corder, and R. J. Hendricks and E. Hofor
are editors of the Salem Statesman and
Daily Journal, respectively.
Organization of Labor.
The Salem Labor Union held a largely
attended mass meeting this afternoon and
elected "W. E. Miller, president of tho
union, and Roy Davis delegates to tho
convention of the State Federation of
Labor to be held in Portland May 5. The
carpenters of the city organized last
week. Other trades are forming unions
and great enthusiasm prevails among
wage-earners over tho prospect of better
ing their condition.
Salem Xotcs.
George Barker, the hobo who was re
leased from tho Marlon County jail Sat
urday morning, has been arrested for
furnishing Inmates of the county jail
the saw with which they almost accom
plished their escape late Saturday after
noon. Salem "Workmen last night received a
fraternal visit from C. C. Hogue, of Al
bany, Grand Master of the A, O. U. "W.
state organization. The ladies of the De
gree of Honor also entertained Mrs. WHda
Belknap, Grand Chleff of Honor of the
"Workmen auxiliary in Oregon.
HAPFEXIXGS AT U. OP O.
Colleague on Debating Team Rc
slgrns Address by 1". W. C. A.
UNIVERSITY; OF OREGON, April 27.
Tho University Y. W. C. A. was visited
this "week by Miss Bertha Conde, of
Chicago, the National student secretary
of the organization, and by Miss Mable
Stafford, the Pacific Coast secretary,
both of whom addressed a number of
meetings of the University girls. Both
women addressed the students and in
structors at assembly Friday evening.
Txacic 3?cet "With. Corvallls Denied.
Manager Goodrich, of the University of
Oregon track team, applied to the
faculty committee on athletics to hold
a track meet with the Oregon Agricultu
ral College, at Corvallls, but his request
was refused and the following resolu
tion passed:
"Since Intercollegiate relations have
been re-established between the students
of Pacific University, at Forest Grove
and the University of Oregon, tho com
mittee desires that the already pleasant
relations between the universities be
strengthened and the original schedule
be adhered to."
Society CfllcerK.
The following officers were elected at
a meeting of the Phllologian Society
Friday night: Edward Blythe, '02, presl-
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Henry C. Galey, one of the colleagues
on the university debating team, has
resigned to accept tho position of cashier
in the First National Bank of Roseburg. I
Mr. Gale's place on tho debating team
will be filled by RIddell, '03, of The Dalles.
The intercolleeiate debate with the Unl-
erslty of Washington takes placo about i
Hay 10, and the Oregon boys are hard
at work preparing their arguments.
The April Monthly.
The April number of the University
of Oregon Monthly contains tho oration
or J. Arthur Tamber, '02, on "Public
Opinion." Professor A. R. Swectser, of
the department of biology, has an illus
trated article on "Mushrooms, Toadstools
and Fairy Rings." This isuo contains
more than the usual number of original
stories and poems, all of which happen
to be written by the girl students. I
IiABOR VOTE Itf CLACKAMAS.
Republicans Believe They "Will Get
a Large Share of It.
OREGON CITY, April 27. Thfeo hun
dred plurality for the Republican state,
district and county ticket. That is what
the Republican managers expect at tho
June election. During the past week the
outlook has brightened considerably, and
Senator Brownell said this afternoon that
he was confident not only of his own re
election, but of the success of the ticket
from top to bottom. Last night he went
to- Damascus, with John R. Shaver, candi
date for Sheriff, and mada an address to
the voters of that precinct. The Repub
licans carried Damascus at the election
of two ears ago, and Mr. Brownell was
greeted by a large audience. Mr. Shaver
expressed himself today as confident of
election, and his opponent ls regarded as
one of the strongest candidates on the
citizens' ticket.
Much interest Is apparent on the bear
ing of organized labor In this campaign.
Something over a month ago Federal La
bor Union, No. 9786, was organized in thi3
city, and now has a membership of 523,
with every prospect of Increasing to 800
before election day. Several candidates,
among them County Clerk E. H. Cooper,
who Is up for re-election on. the citizens'
ticket, have sought admission to the
union, but their applications have been
promptly rejected. "While many individ
ual members of tho organization take
great Interest in politics, and all shades
of political principles are represented, tho
officers of the union are wise enouch to
know that a mixture of unionism and pol
itics will be of no benefit to organized la
bor -with sincere motives for the upbuild
ing of the laboring classes. Deputy Coun
ty Clerk Elmer Dixon is assistant secre
tary of the union. When temporary or
ganization was effected he was appointed
to the offlee, and he was afterward per
manently elected to the position. Mr.
Dixon -has been continuously in office for
10 years. For four years he was Justice
of. the Peace for one of the Oregon City
precincts, and In 1S9G was elected County
Clek on the Populist landslide. Two years
later ho was re-elected by a small plu
rality over his Republican opponent, who
was comparatively unknown throughout
the county, and since his retirement in
1900 he has perved almost continuously as
a deputy under Clerk Cooper. Mr. Dixon
is now a candidate for County Judge on
the citizens' ticket Just what benefit he
will derive from association with the
union is impossible to say. His oppo
nent. Judge Ryan, who is a candidate for
re-election on the Republican ticket, ls
making bets that he will beat Dixon 400
votes. Judge Ryan's following is large,
and his record is without a blemish.
The platform adopted by the Republican
county convention speaks In no uncertain
terms on the labor question, and one
clause reajds as follows: "We Instruct
the nominees of this convention to both
branches of the Legislature, that. If elect
ed, they will make an eaVnest effort to
obtain legislation constituting eight hours
a da's work throughout the state." One
of the most prominent men in the union
undertook to have a Blmllar clause drafted
in the citizens' platform, but without suc
cess. Tho citizens evaded a direct stand
on tho proposition, and made the follow
ing declaration: "We demand that the
rights of labor, tho producer of wealth, be
respected, and to that end we demand that
our representatives in both branches of
the Legislature give an unprejudiced hear
ing to the claims of organized labor, and
grant them whenever based on Justice and
right." The Republicans think by a com
parison of the two platforms on the ques
tion that they will "have a large propor
tion ot the labor vote.
Alienation of His' Wife's Affections.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. Andrew W.
Lyons, formerly an acrobat, has brought
suit In this city against E. W. Crellin,
husband of Camllle D'ArvHIe, tho opera
singer, for $50,000 for the alienation of his
wife's affections. In his complaint Lyons
alleges that he was the former husband of
Mrs. Crellin, who In 1900 obtained a di
vorce in Chicago without Lyons' knowl
edge and subsequently married Crellin.
Mrs. Crellin is now In Brooklyn, appear
ing in vaudeville.
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THE ROYAL CHINOOK
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traps. Each day a cannery-tender comes
down and relieves the house-boat of the
fish that havo been picked up during the
day. The house-boats are big-beamed,
cumbersome affairs, and in the big run
last year sometimes received such large
quantities of fish that the tenders were
obliged to make a number of trips to
clean up the receipts. McGowan's Chi
nook receiving station, although located
but three miles from the cannery, re
ceived in a single day last Jury over 50,000
pounds of fish.
Methods of Talcing; Salmon.
Traps, seinca and wheels have made
great changes in the fishing industry, and
many a gill-net man has gone over to
the ranks of the enemy and secured a
trap or a wheel, which has netted him
more money in a single season than he
could get out of the river with a gill-net
in five seasons. There were 25 seines In
operation on the Columbia River last sea
son, a few of them on Sand Island and
Dcsdemona sands, but the greater part of
them are on the sandy reaches running
out from the numerous small islands
above Astoria. Some of theso seines aro
about a mile long, and it is an interesting
sight at the finish, when they are hauled
ashore by men and hordes, with the
catch, making the water fairly foam. Aa
seining Is conducted in shallow water,
tho passengers on passing steamers do
not secure as good a view of the opera
tions as ls afforded them by tho trap
men. The Uwaco boats pass hundreds of
tho traps, going so close to some of them
that the guards occasionally brush agalnat
a trap-stake. This has made trap-fishing
pretty familiar work to lower river pas
sengers, and the flshwheels at the Cas
cades are equally well understood by up
river passengers.
All other methods of taking tho Royal
Chinook are prosaic, however, compared
with that of the gill-netter. Whether he
is drifting into the breakers with his life
staked against his vanishing net, rocking
at anchor between tides, beating home
with a full boatload or without a fiah, the
averago gill-netter unconsciously displays
a picturesque bearing, which invests him
with an interest that is missing from the
men who pole or padole out to traps with
a broad-beamed, fiat-bottomed boat, which
could never under any circumstances go
dancing over the water like that model
of beauty, a Columbia River fishing-boat.
The gill-netter who drifts into steamboat
channels ls also famous for the vocabu
lary which he has In command, when a
river boat takes a plsce out of his net,
and the profanity used on such occasions
Is fully as plcturesquo as the man who
uses It-
With the lower Tlver pretty well filled
with gill-nets leadlngln all directions, the
pilots on the night-boats have a difficult
task in working around through them
without running over them. The wheels
and rudders, and sometimes tho bows of
the boats play havoc with a net, if It la
picked up, and the pilots are vsry care-
fnl not to encounter them. A few years
ago an effort was made to compel fisher
men to carry a red and a green light in
order to show the pilots which vray their
nets were leading. The practice has ap
parently been abandoned, for now, when
any light at all is shown, it is a white
light, and the pilot has two guesses on
which to base his judgment as to where
he should go. The electric searchlights
have helped matters somewhat, but it is
impossible at times to distinguish the net
In the water until it ls too lato to go
around It.
A well-known pilot was picking his way
through the boats on the bay ono dark
night not very long ago, and in dodging
between two white lights suddenly flushed
a third boat dead ahead. The white light
was showing, but the warning blast of the
whistle failed to provoke a response from
the fish-boat, so a3 the steamer was al-1
most on top of the craft, the pilot leaned
out of the window, and rather emphatical
ly inquired, "Whero is your net?" The
fisherman was also emphatic In his lan
guage, as he said, "In tho boat, you darn
fool." The pilot made no further attempt
to avoid running over nets that trip.
The Cold Storage Plants.
Canned salmon mado Astoria and the
Columbia River famous the world over
and this method of marketing the fish was
for so many years the only one in use
that it is somewhat difficult to realize
that a mo6t formidable rival to the can
nery men has arisen in the cold-storago
plants. There are five of these institu
tions located In Astoria, and as each of
them has enlarged capacity over that
available a year ago, it 13 apparent that
their campaign for tbo pick of the Colum
bia. River salmon, will be more aggres
sive this year than It was last. This busi
ness is of recent date, hut In a way It has
materially widened the field for the salo
of Columbia River salmon, and has cre
ated a demand that will never be satis
fied with anything else.
The bulk ot the salmon shipped by the
cold-storage plants is sent forward in
casks weighing about S50 pounds each,
The salmon are packed as soon as re-
ceived. and very littlo salt is used, thd
temperature of the rooms In which they
nre placed being low enough to keep them
In perfect condition. They are sent for
ward in refrigerator cars, and are put on
the markets in the big cities of the East,
looking rich, red and fresh as when they
camo out of the' water, and without
enough salt absorbed to require any soak
ing to freshen them. Unscrupulous pack
ers in former years put out some pretty
bad canned salmon, with Columbia River
brands on. and this practice worked in
calculable harm in causing a loss of con
fidence in this peerless fish. The cold
storage men will never encounter any
such obstacles, for their product speaks
for Itself, and the consumer In New York
has the same opportunity to select a fine
fat salmon that is afforded the consumer
In Astoria or Portland. While the bulk
of the catih goes forward in casks, some
of the fish are frozen solid, steelheads
being preferred for thla method of hand
ling. Until the fish disappears In the casks
or Is lcld away on the shelf in the freez-Ing-roomj
the cold-storage men handle
their business almost exactly the same
as it Is handled by thf canneries. Each'
of the plants keeps launches, which cruise
. iround the river and b&y picking up fish
rom the receiving stations, and they arc
weighed In, cleaned and decapitated the
same as they would be for canning. The
fishermen are paid the same rate as they
receive frdm the' canneries, except for
very large fisly which sometimes com
mand a premium. As et the canneries
use the larger part of the catch, and for
that reason the cold-storage men per
mit them to make the price, but in tho
past, whenever they have failed to secure
as many fish as they thought they needed
or were entitled to, tho cold-storage men
have lifted the price to pretty high fig
ures. Fish Warden Van Dusen's figures
for 1901 place the amount of salmon hand
led In Oregon, exclusive of the pack, at
nearly 5.500.000 pounds, of which nearly
everything except the comparatively small
amount used for home consumption was
handled by the cold-storage plants. Of
this amount 3.500,000 pounds were Chinook,
1,150,000 pounds steelheads, and the re
mainder bluebacks, silversldes and
chums.
The Catch for 11)02.
The run of fish up to the present time
has been light, although there are oc
casional lucky fishermen who have made
some fairly good catches, and a few of
the traps have done quite well. Most of
the fish have been of good size, and men
In the business estimate the catch to date
to be fully up to that ot last year.. With
the phenomenal run of last year still fresh
In their minds, there Is a very hopeful
feeling for a repetition of It again this
year. Last year the percentage of. the
total catch of the season, taken in April,
was but 4.43, and over 50 per cent of the
entire season's pack was caught in the
wonderful July run. While the continu
ation of this run swelled the percentage
in Angust to 2S.94, making nearly 80 per
cent of the entire pack caught in less than
two months. Thus far, the fish have been
uniformly of good size, not many excep
tionally large ones being taken, but all
of them being of excellent size for can
ning. The Astorlan, which Is owned by Mr.
Sam Elmore, a prominent member of the
j Columbia River Packers' Association, Is
out with a very doleful statement to tne
effect that the run of fish is very disap
pointing, compared with former jears,
but the cold-storage people state that it
Is about the eame as last year, and one
of the largest operators told me that up
to date, more fish had been taken than
were taken In the same period last year.
The Chinook trapmen mostly report
catches at least equal to those made in
April a year ago, and on Friday, some
heavy catches were made by the traps
near Ilwaco. It is quite a common prac
tice for Interested parties to send out
bullish or bearish news regarding the
catch, the market undoubtedly being In
fluenced to a certain extent by the color
ing, and the present season, and the news
it is bringing forth, does not dlfrer Irom J
its nredecessors. As but .i per cent
of the total catch last year was made
in the month of April, it is still full early
to begin worrying.
"Worlc of the Ilatclierlei.
Tho vital "necessity of artificial propa
gation has been proven bejond all ques
tion, and the results secured hae been
so satisfactory that it would not be at all 1
surprising if the catch showed an in-
crease from now on, as long as this moth- ,
od o replenishing the supp.y is contin- j
ued. The number of young fry turned I
loose in the season of 1901-2 was the lirg- j
est on record: in fact, was. nearly twice i
as large as in any prcUous season. It
reached tho enormous total of 5S,012,941
fish, compared with 26,283,500 in tho season
of 19C0-1, and 31,327,000 In the season of
1899-1900. If proportionate results to those
already secured are noticeable when these
fry return to the river as fully developed
fish, the matter of running the salmon
pack of the, Columbia Rher up to 1,000.000
cases will not be at all difficult.
The fact that the pack of the river last
year was only about 230,000 cases Is not
a discouraging feature of the business
when the amount handled by cold-storage
houses is considered. Exact figures are
not easily arrhed at, but It 13 probable
that the entire catch of the year, reduced
to a "case basis" would have been in
excess of 325,000 cases. This is not a
discouraging showing when it is consid
ered that the pack fell below 310.00C cases
in 18S9. when there were no cold-storage
plants on the river. The fact that the
pack ran up In excess of G15.000 cases six
years later, exploded all theories tending
to the belief that salmon fishing and pack
ing was a dying Industry, and it will
require more than one failure Ik the sal
mon catch to cause any serious discour
agement among tho lower river cities and
towns, whose existence ls so largely de
pendent on this Industry.
Deal for the BIsr E. & E. Mine.
SUMPTER, Or.. April 27. A deal Is
pending for the big Eureka & Excelsior
mine, of this district, better known to the
Northwest as the E. & E. Jonathan
Bourne, of Portland, has the large In
terests, most of the other. Interests being
In control of St. Louis capltal'sts.
It is Impossible to predict a sale, or even
mutual agreement, as the E. & E. has
often been negotiated for, and fallen back
again because of the inability of the
owners to come to terms of agreement. It
Is the most elaborately equipped property
of the district, but has been Idle so long
that It Is suffering fiom neglect, especially
In the underground workings. All people
of this region concede that it Is a mine
requiring merely operation to jield, as
the last lessees made large money out of
it. The deal ma be consummated soon.
Ywmg u
Ki-A.HXvy v n Q
isorciers
There Is r.o such condition as weakness In a man undr 50 jears of are. other
than gtsnenl tkbtms. Prematureness. low of vltflltr. etc.. nre bJt eymotoms or
orae damage to the repro(lU"tHe -jtttm. caused by a contracted disorder or too-olt-cn
repeated a too-Ieng-conUij& excitement. In lcoklns for the location or jms
damage we Ei'rally find an enla-?ed. swollen ard inflamed prostate Eland. .v-tM3
pland i tlve ery center of the reproductive stem It can readily be nnderstofca taat
inflammation of It must cause disordered Junction. Thffs-e casi tre p-omptiy bene
fited by nrcrer treatment, otherwlce the patUrt goes from bad to worse Xbc s
sentlal -c!-t in all ff thm U the neceslt of the cure of the focus of the trouble.
In the pnwut' Many -roan have uneucce-'Erul.y fcated for a weakness which r.er
existed. In our e?eriene there 13 no drug In the pharmacopeia, taken Into the
stcr.ach, that will n lxntft this c1-ih of cases. Oi.r plan of treatment ls entirely
a l-cal one and p-omrt result ure cbtair d. as ludioted b- Increased clrculat'on
and return of natural lsar Our colored crart. which we mall on r.pr.llcatlon. ls In
teresting to any en- wisel-ic to study th aratomy of ths male.
I'OUTLAD OFFICE: SVf FnV'SCISCO OFFICEt
250 1-2 Alder Street, cor. 3d. SU7 Market Street, cor. 6th.
GRANT'S PASS, April 27. Work hag
begun on the damming of Rogue River
three miles above this city by the Golden
Drift Mining Company, which ls operat
ing In the Dry Diggings Ju3t above tho
site of the dam. The saw mill recently in
stalled on tho bank of the Rogue, near
the dam, to cut timbers for construction,
work, was started up yesterday, and a
"number of men havo been put to work
at the great undertaking of harnessing
the Rcgue. m. C. Ament, manager ot
the Golden Drift Company, says that it
expects to have the dam completed by tho
arrival of the Fall rains of this year.
The beginning ot this work marks the
starting of one of the greatest hy.draullc
ana irrigating enterprises on the Coast.
The damming of the mad waters of tho
Rogue would. In past ear3, have been
looked upon as an Impossibility, but the
achievements of modern engineering, cou
pled with enterprise and means, will make
the task a comparatively easy matter.
The dam to be constructed will furnish
unlimited power, which will be used la
Irrigating that portion of Rogue River
Valley surrounding Grant's Pass, and la
operating six giants every hour of the
day and night the entire year through,
and for 50 or 75 ears to come in the
rich auriferdus gravels of the Dry Dig
gings placer fields. The survejs for the
irrigating ditch have already been made,
and as soon as the dam Is under way
the ditch wlll be constructed. This ditch
will be s'tarted at a height of 50 feet
above the level of the T Hogue by
large rotary pumps, and will lead along
the base of the mountains toward and
around Grant's Pass. The- ditch will
reach all of the farms and orchards be
tween this city and the. dam and will also
reach all parts of the town and the
farms and orchards below here for a
number of miles. It will make produc
tive and fertile many hundred acres of
' ground at present comparatively worth
less and the orchards and vlnyeards al
ready under cultivation will be Improved
a hundred-fold.
The dam to be constructed will have
. width of SO feet on top and will be
100 feet In width on the bed of the stream.
It will set 45 feet Into the bank In order
to withstand the cutting power of tho
stream at high water. The site selected
Is an ideal one In every way for such
purpose. On one side the river has a
sheer bank of 45 feet, while on the other
it has a 25-fobt cement barik with a shelf
rock sloping from this to the nearby
mountains. On this shelf rock the power
houses will be built, having thus a firm
foundation and being amply protected
from the main current of the river. Tho
dam will have a fall of 20 feet and aside
from furnishing power for the large ro
tary or Irrigating pumps, will also operate
six large turbines furnishing 3000-horse
power for forcing the water up the pipe
line to the giants of the placer diggings-.
With this large dam completed across
the Rogue the future quetIon of power
for manufacturing and all other purposes
In Grant's Pass wliL be forever settled;
there is scarcely a limit to the amount
of power that the Rogue with such a fall
can furnish. All told, it w one of the
most beneficial and greatest enterpriser
ever undertaken in Southern Oregon.
DEVELOPING THE GOLCOXDA.
Great Thins Expected From the
Snmpter Mine.
SUMPTER: Or.. API-" 27. Dfivelopraent
work has been In progress one week under
the new owners of the famous Golconda
mine, of the Cracker Creek district. In
that time it has been proved that the
property ls not a thing of the past. It is
Impossible to develop new ore chutes In
one week, but the work has convinced
mining men that the mine has been mis
treated, and Is not barren by any means,
as many began to Infer from the surrender
of their option by the Pittsburg s ndlcate.
Superintendent J. F. Melkle, one of the
most conservative mining men of th.s re
gion, and President J. H. Robblns have
outlined a policy of development intended
to open up the ore chiites already dis
covered. A drift Is being run- on level
No. 2, from near the point where the su
perb ore chute was discovered, which
made the Golconda a million-rater in a
few dajs. The former management drift
ed In but one direction here, and as good
ore has been found at the opposite ex
treme of the drift. It is natural to Infer
that a good portion of the chute may jet
be found in the undeveloped portion of the
ledge that way and at depth. This theory
will be exploited by tho force on No. 2.
On Nos. 3 and two forces are engaged
in drifting. The" latter is the lowest
level, fiom which little ore has been re
moved. Three veins are found in the
mine, dipping slightly toward each other.
It was In the east vein, on the 200-foot
leel. that the famous ore chute was
struck. As Is usually tlie case where
mineral ledges are in close proximity, as
in the Golconda. it has been found that
there Is a sympathy in the deposit of
metals. This fact, already proved in the
development, strengthens the conclusions
that the sloping commenced will bring to
light come fine reserves of ore soon.
President Robblns hasstated that with
in three months the mill of the company
will be operating again, and if develop
ment should .prove as successful as antici
pated, the time will be materially short
ened. Thirty men are now engaged in
the underground operations.
This company of Pendleton business
men proved such a tireless, faithful oper
ators In the Corcord. where years of dead
development work was done without re
turns, till the mine was sold for S30O.OGO.
that the mining men of the community
have positive assurance that under their
management the Golconda will again be
placed In the ranks of the permanent pro
ducers, and it is possible that another
brilliant career, such as it enjoyed in the
past, will be heard of-
Sunday Excursionists Injnrcd.
FORT WAYNE, Ind.. April 27. The
regular Sunday excursion train on the
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway, be
tween this city and -Rome City, -Ind..
collided with a freight train at Wallen,
six miles from here, tonight. Two coaches
were overturned and about 35 persons
were badly shaken up. Four were ser
iously Injured. A relief train with a
number of physicians has been sent to
the scene. ,
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