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THE MORNING- OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 190. LTH OF HIRE Mi CHOPS PS! EGON'SBDUNTY Cost of Producing Orchard to Bearing State. Mountain Districts Yielding Treasure to Product of Commonwealth. WHERE PEACH ORIGINATED 12 INDUSTRIAL OREGON FARM, ORCHARD, FACTORY, MINE AND STREAM CREDITABLE FAIR EXHIBITS Measures of Coal "and Immense De posits of Hematite on Both Sides of Columbia Merit Atten tion and Development. Baker County deserves the thanks of the state for the value and variety of the minerals in her Fair exhibit. The fol lowing list does not exhaust the cata logue. "Almost every metal known to sci ence is shown in this exhibit, one of the largest of its kind at the Exposition. Huge chunks and small bits of gold, sllvor, copper, cinnabar or quicksilver, lead, cobalt, gypsum, marbles, granite as highly polished and as beautiful as the famous Vermont output, limestone and antimony, used to harden steel, are ar tietlcaliy displayed In cabinets, trays and cases." Copper mining in Josephine County is active. Grant's Pass is the center. The Southern Oregonian prints the following item: "Several four and six-horse mule teams from Takilma, located in the southern part of Josephine County, arrive at Grant's Pass daily with coppor matte. The smelter is running under the man agement of W. S. Keith and is con verting into matte 150 tons of ore daily, and is employing about 100 mon at the emolter and mine." The following correspondent's letter from the Greenhorn district is of Inter est, especially in the account of the re suscitation of the Bonanza mine: Eastern Oregon Activity. A hurried trip through the Greenhorn mining district last week brought the correspondent of The Oregonian in touch with some matters of interest to the mining world. The Bonanza mine at Goiser has again put on an air of activ ity. The company several months ngo, while under the management of Mr. Thatcher, suspended operations, partially dismantled the property for which it had given over $500.06 and sold a part of the equipment. The reason given was that the mine was worked out and of no furthor value. Mr. Geiser was not satis lied, and confident that the property he had sold -was still of great value offered to verify his judgment. He proposed to the Eastern -people to buy back the mine. He offered to bond and lease it under certain terms pay 25 per cent of the gross product during the life of a long lease with the privilege of buying the mine for $400,608. Fortune has favored him In finding ore and now 26 stamps are crushing about 75 tons of good ore. Concentrates are go ing out daily to the Sumpter smelter, about 49 men are employed on and about the mill and mine and an air of pros perity is in evidence everywhere. Other Mines Shipping. 4 The Pyx mine has found a very rich Btroak of ore in a wide vein. It is re ported that the Sumpter smelter paid J3600 for 19 sacks and that there are sev eral tons more In the mine. Sam Law has 50 tons of good ore on the dump which he is sacking to mill as soon as the Humboldt starts up. Dr. Jackson, of the Humboldt, returned Friday to Greenhorn and the mine and mill are expected to commence operations this coming week. The mill has Just been completed and is a fine one. The only thing which may delay operations is the want of water. This is very scarce this season everywhere throughout this whole region. Saturday Greenhorn City ysas stirred up on account of a strike in the Big John. A six-foot voln of very rich ore was developed and all parties interested lay off to celebrate Kelly, of the I.X.L., got back Sunday with news that -orders were out to re sume. The Snow Creek and other Smith mines are grinding away as usual. On the way out we met TV. A. Mc Naughton. of the Oregon Electric Com pany of Prairie City. He was going into the Greenhorn district to contract power. He claims to have 2000 horse power for sale. The present condition of affairs on account of the dry season will be an argumentin his favor wherever he goes. Greenhorn City has contracted to put in a gravity water system. The money has been borrowed and work commenced. She will soon have a big flow of water and a floating indebtedness. Black Diamonds Abundant. One of the illustrations on this page is of a scene which may be paralleled at many points of what are believed, or known, to be coal districts in Oregon. In the general awakening of the state at large her mineral interests have shared. Columbia County, bordering on the great river and the corresponding tract of land on the north bank are full of promise. In Columbia County the iron ore deposits, in close nolghborhood to Che coal, indi cate high grades of hematite. The coal so far discovered is said to be still of the lignite quality. But no sufficient depth has yet been reached to test the belief that bituminous coal underlies the lig nite. This mineral is found, indeed, at many points, but generally in thin veins, and separated by layers of shale and clay. The entry of the railroad into the Nehalem district will encourage develop ment on a far larger scale than has hith erto been practicable. IMMENSE TIMBER RESERVES Oregon and California Laud Grant Embraces Vast Area. Magnitude -of the holdings of the owners of the Orogon and California land grant in Oregon timber are not generally appreciated. Certainly they are withhold from market, and the same course may be followed for many years to come. But the fact remains that Mr. Harrlman and his associates have so great and overwhelming an interest in Oregon forests that his answer at Cottage Grove, to a local deputation which approached him for a revision of lumber freight rates on his last visit but one, was probably justified from his standpoint. "You see." Bald ho. "that we own or con trol the bulk of the timber from the California lino to the Columbia, and the Wqyorhacuser people hold about the same jrosltion in Washington, so you may ex &ct us to run the business to suit our "fielves." This wag said at the time that the y 1. Clatsop Timber. 2. Infant Coalmine, Colombia County. 8. North Santiam Water Power. 4. Niagara on North S act lam. car famine was at Its height in Lane Counjy, and the Booth-Kelly people wore notorious sufferers. Of course, nothing can be done about it: the title to the timber has become a vested In terest of many years' standing. Nothing tells more loudly the im mensity of the resources of the state than that, while these railroad and syndicate ownerships (withdrawn from market) cover such enormous areas, yet, from the balance, last year's out put of a billion feet and over may be continued and still enlarged for many years to come. We notice a statement of President Helmrlch, of the Great Southern Rail road, now nearly completed between The Dalles and Dufur. that the lumber traffic was the chief object of this road. For many miles this road, as regards timber freights, will have a huge ad vantage over the Columbia Southern. liFACTURIl INDUSTRY OREGON OFFERS FIELD RICH IN OPPORTUNITY. Improvements of Existing Plants and Development of New Lines in Various Sections. Most of the leather used in Orogon for many years has been a California product. The following Item is very satisfactory reading. We hope many readers will verify the statement by examining the exhibit at the Exposition: "In the Linn County exhibit the finest collection of tanned and dressed leathers can be found. The exhibit compares fa vorably with the fine showing made in the California building, and many hold that it is even better than the California exhibit. The Linn County leather exhibit Is the product of the tannery of Kellen berger Sz Mayer, of Lebanon, these gen tlemen having provided 16 grades of finely tanned leather, running from the heaviest sole leather to the finest grade of uppers, making a collection that Is not equaled in the Fair grounds. The exhibit has been the center of attraction since the leather was placed in the booth, and is one of the best collections ever seen at a world's fair. In addition to the varieties of leath er there, the Lebanon tannery will bring four more varieties to the Fair, adding them to the exhibit and still further in creasing the value of the display," says the Albany Herald. Many efforts have been made, .and some have attained good success. In the line of fruit-canning and preserving in Oregon. As in so many other industries, attempts based on insufficient capital, and where the factories have been badly located, have either failed, or have dragged along. Every Intrinsic reason points to great success. The results of the examination made by the Illinois gentlemen named In the following extract from the f?alem Statesman will be carefully watched: "Among the many people who are now visiting Salem are two gentlemen, business men and manufacturers, of Bloomlngton, Hi., and who are at present looking up a site for the erection of a mammoth can ning and preserving plant. The parties are Messrs. Syxnonds and Douglas, of .Bloomlngton, who have large interests In canning plants in Southern Illinois. " 'We have beon to Montana, Wyoming, Washington and California,' said Mr, Douglas, looking up a location for a canning plant, but are more impressed with Oregon than any place we have yet visited. Of the counties we have looked over In Oregon, Marlon and Yamhill Coun ties look the best, as the shipping facili ties are excellent. 'Our party was greatly surprised, said he, 'to find such magnificent fruit and vegetables as are raised on the Coast, and only, wish wo could have been here a few weeks earlier to see the Oregon cherries we have heardtso much about. We wore told the fruit raised on the Coast did not possess the same flavor as our Eastern fruit, but find it equally,as fine and almost double the size. Your Yellow Newtown Pippins. Spitsenbergs, Jonathan, Northern Spys, Wine Sap and Ben Davis apples are splendid, and as for vegetables, the qual ity and flavor is astonishing. We had occasion to sample some of the famous Oregon Telephone peas, and found them delicious. We are also highly pleased with the squashes, beamv egg plant, as paragus and melons. " 'Should .we locate here, we intend to PWBS. :ltV:aSi .if ' 7jU3 bred cattle and stock pay better than I HIIIM erect a large plant, and will bring quite a number of families with us.' " The following item from the East Ore gonian notes the gpread of the substitu tion of electric motors for steam power in the nourli.g-mllL In no industry are the advantages more marked: "The Island City Flouring Mills are substituting -electric motors for steam power, which has 'boon used In the mills since they were constructed. Kiddle Bros, are owners of the mills, and also own the La Grande and Union gristmills. It Is probable tliat all these plants will use electricity before long, as fuel is very costly, and elctric power will bo cheap since the installation of the Morgan Lake power plant above La Grande." Oregon has been known for many years to possess deposits of the ferruginous earths, whence the ochres, siennas and Indian reds are prepared. No systematic effort has yet been made at introducing the manufacture, which is quite profit able. It seems, from the appended note, that a co-operative plan Is to be intro duced, where stockholders and operatives shall be the some persons: "St. Johns has received a proposition from the Oregon Slennc Paint Company to establish a factorv at that ptece. and the matter Is pending before the Board of Trade. It is proposed to organize a Joint stock company In which all the operatives will be stockholders. The men at the head of the company say they have a TO-acre tract in the southern part of Lane County, near Walker, which contains the pigment from which paint is made, and is said to be superior, it Is expected that tne St. Johns Board of Trade will take the matter up at once" From ready-made clothes to ready-made houses seems a natural advance. The Salem Statesman tells of actual accom plishment. This Is no novelty in older countries. The mills in Norway have shipped houses to England for many years, complete In all their parts, and marked ready for erection whon their des tination Is reached '"xn&t Salem is developing her manu facturing Industries Is being made more and more exident from time to time. The latest evidence of this Is in the report that the Spauldlng Lumber Company is shipping today two entire houses all ready to set. up. everything being ready to band, cut, sawed and fitted." Is No Heavy Salmon Run. Various exchanges confirm the fol lowing statement from the Astorlan: "Chris Olsen, of Chinook, was In the city and states there is no large run of fish this year, but a steady run. and that all the trappers have caught moro fish up to the present time than last year. The same report comes from the up-river seiners. None of them will make any great amount of money this year unices a large run comes later In the month. "Old-tlmo fishermen predict that there will be no large run on account of there being no freshet in the- river. When there is a freshet in the river lasting two or three weeks It keeps the salmon outside the river, and when it ceases they enter in the heavy runs." The sockcyo run on Puget Sound is prematurely closing. Thus an average pack for Oregon and Washington, and no more. Is expected. Wm DHT-UHB MING Has Increased Land Values in Eastern Oregon. GRAIN CROPS THRIVE WELL Diversified Farming Has Found Fa vor Wherever Tried Through Increased Return Realized. Gains Many Advocates. While irrigation Is in the air It is well to keep In mind the possibilities of "the dry-land farmer. The following account from the Baker City Democrat Is exactly In line: "In the office of the Development League yesterday afternoon was exhibited some splendid specimens of oats, rye, wheat and barley grown on dry land. A few years ago this land was not worth 25 cents an acre on, the market, and even today thousands of acres of the same land are open to entry. It Is dawning, however, upon the Eastern man visiting this country, and some of the Oregon reared men that this land contains the choice acres of the Inland Empire. No matter whether we want new people hero or not. they are coming, taking up these lands and working them In modern meth ods. Irrigation or no irrigation. "M. S. Bond, who three years ago had only two or three hundred dollars to his name, and Is now worth that many thousands, besides possessing several hun dred acres of dry land clear of all in cumbrances from which he has made these thousands, has demonstrated the feasibility of dry-land farming and tho profits to be made therefrom. It only requires system, careful culture on In telligent lines. These lands will raise anything planted In them. If you don't believe It go and see for yourself. If you don't see right away it may be too late, because the Eastern man is coming in and paying a premium for this class of land where crops know no failure. "Diversified farming is rapidly taking the place In the Inland Empire of the big ranges. A few years ao nothing was known here but a few large stock ranges and enough hay farms under Ir rigation to make the necessary Winter feed. Now we are raising in Powder Valley all kinds of grain, fruits, hogs, poultry, butter, and every other thing produced on a farm. Farms of 40 and 0 acres are paying a handsome annual profit to families of five and six people. It Is being learned that this class of high farming pays better than taking chances on one hlng and maybe have that a failure every other year. High- bred cattle and stock pay better than the wild variety and smaller." The live people of Baker County in tond to supply the Fair visitors with ocular demonstration. See the following Item: "The dry-land farmers of Missouri Flats, who believe that the rest of the J world requires something of the 'show mo method, before conviction can be I made, yesterday responded to the re- quest of George Chandler for specimens of this season's husbandry growth, by furnishing him with liberal sheaves of wheat, barley, oats, alfalfa and grain hay. These samples embrace those taken from both Fall and Spring-sown acreage. They have stems and heads which indicate that they spring from rich virgin soil, some of the wheat from the McKIttrlck and Bond places stood seven feet high and one average head had S3 healthy kernels." Morrow County Is not behindhand. Here J is another list of products from unlrrl- gated land. Seeing 1.9 believing, and the county exhibit at the Fair Is the place to be convinced: "Judge Ayers shipped to Portland Tues day a fine collection of grasses and grain for tne Morrow County exnibit at the Lewis and Clark Fair. The collection consists of club, bluestem and red chaff wheat, oats, barley, rye, long grass and bunch grass. A sample of the long grass, which is not yet matured, and which Is not yet of full growth, measured 25 feet and three Inches in length." Last week we drew attention to the sheep industry of Eastern Oregon. Here follows an item confirmatory of the profits of .sheep raising: "Last week one of our progressive sheep men recently sold a hunch of 2500 lambs to W. B. Potter, ofSpray. at $2.12 per head. This h? the top price paid for Iambs In this vicinity thus far for Fall delivery." Monument Enterprise. IN REM OF COMMERCE KEEN RIVALRY BETWEEN ORE GON COUNTIES TO EXCEL. Each Section Has Good Reason for Pride in Its Special Product. Our energetic friends In Coos County have studied the art of advertising to some purpose. Five lines may condense much information, for which see below: "Coos County haa 1578 square miles and a population of about 12,000 people. It has 13.557.C00.Oj0 feet of standard mer chantable Umber and 450 square milea of lignite coal measures." When other counties in Oregon not only learn the advertising lesson, but enter ! Into friendly rivalry which shall give the best example, good will result. For In stance, Hood River takes In hand to ad vertise that from that little valley (only 23 miles by four) 520O.CO0 worth of straw berries have been sold, and that a big apple crop Is expected. Now the Hepp ner Gazette takes that for a text and urges Morrow County people on after thla fashion: "Heppner thla season has shipped out and sold $500.00 worth of wool. Who saw a single car placarded telling anything about It? On the long trip East how many people knew anything about these cars? Heppner wool brought 5300,000 more than Hood River strawberries and wool money Is just at good as straw berry money. We shipped 1175.000 worth of oheep. How many heard about this, not to say anything about our horseg and cattle which run Into the thousands?" "Then we have the advantage of a dou ble shot, the same as Hood River. While Hood River Is marketing her big apple crop this Fall we will bo selling a wheat crop that will make the, fruit value In significant indeed. "How will Hood River's bank deposits. larger, compare with Heppner. Heppner has two strong banks. The last sworn statement of the First National showed deposits of almost 570O.0GO." This variety of advertising, which deals with accomplished facts, may be com mended as preferable to that which re- counts single specimens of success, and thence assumes general results. Possibly this last sentence soundy trite, but the lesson may be learned to advantage, During the last week so much has been heard about the Columbia Bar and its dire necessities that one would think nothing was being done. It la therefore reassuring to clip from the Astoria Daily New the following: - "Material for the extension of the jetty is delivered at a lively rate from two quarries, and many workmen are placing it In position as fast as it is received. Approximately eight barge3 of rock are delivered there every day. From a point near Fort Stevens to the bar the depth of the channel runs from 45 to 2S feet deep, and In many points goes as high as SI feet above the low water stage." LIVING PETROLEIDI SPRING Oil Gushes From Enrth on Farm Neur Gresham. Every few months reports are circu lated of discoveries. The following item, from the East Multnomah Record, sounds likely to be the herald of the real thing: "A living spring of petroleum, flowing from the foot of a mountain, was found last Saturday on the farm of C. D. Candler, about six miles south of Gres ham. The first Indications were dis covered by an Eastern visitor named Collins, who Is thoroughly familiar with oil conditions. He saw a scum on the surface of some water flowing down the side of a mountain and made a test on the spot with a match. The scum proved to be oil and burned readily. After considerable search he located the source In a spring near the Junction of Big and Little Deep Creeks, where a hole was dug which filled In a short time. Samples were taken to Portland on Thursday for a test as to its quality, but the result has not been learned, although every indica tion Is that the oil is genuine crude pe troleum.' rrhe outcropplngs of the mountain where the spring was found show that Its formation is principally blue soan stone. That of Itself would indicate oil. and furthermore it has been known for several years that oil existed In this vicinity." PROGRESS ALONG DESCHUTES One Enterprise Has I f 0,000 Acres Ready for Patent. The Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company has made advance of wages on canal construction from J2 to 52.25 per day from August 1. with the hope that the raise will bring the force on canal work to 100 men and 60 teams. The work on the enlargement of the big flume Is to be completed this week, after which the water will flow permanently In Its new channel. Work is reported by the Bend Bulletin as In active progress on the several canals, and 140.000 acres ready for patent. When Governor Jler rlck, of Ohio, and hl3 party examined this enterprise and traveled slowly over the district two weeks ago, the Governor was specially attracted by the United States Government Experiment Station 'recently established. He noted the aim of the station to teach the exact quantity of water required for best results, and the effects of too little or too much. And the preparation of the land to receive the water was yet another object of Instruc tion. He summed up by sayinfe that he found the experiment station to be flour ishing In all respects. The Irrigation Company also has established at Bend an experimental farm. The results al ready secured prove all that has- been claimed for the fertility of the watered soli. President Smith, of State Board of Horticulture, Furnishes Figures From Experience in Hood River Valley. The following letter Is printed, with tho answer. Ip case others bride the writer are interested in tho origin and history of tho peach: "I am a member of Beaver Valley Grange No. 305, ami at our last meeting the question was asked: 'Where dW ".e poach originate?" No decided anw could be given and much Ueui?slti wvi had without settling the question. There fore I presume to beg that you will hI; us out by favoring with answer to th question if your time will permit. Thank ing you in advance and hoping U wor t be too much trouble. Ambrose It. Le vencz. Rainier. Or." Two theories are quoted of the origin of the peach. English hotantets Umorg whom Charles Darwin may be cited) be lieve the wild almond to be the fore father of the peach. And that the intro duction of the fruit in Europe and th t to America was by way of Persia a-i Ai4a Minor, whence the name "Perskr.. given to the peach. French botan! believe the peach to be indigenous .i China, where it was cultivated for manv years prior to the Christian era. T a almond does not grow wild In China, n r are wild peaches found there nowaday One observer found in Afghanistan a va riety of wild almond bearing fruit mu'h resembling the peach- The general belief among grower wr- have investigated Is that the fruit or'.g natcd In Asia Minor, and was thence car ried to Europe. But general belief Is no worth much In the face of edeoiilc evidence. Cost of Apple Orchards. President E. L. Smith, of the Su Board of Horticulture, writing from 1 River, where his experience h chiefly gained and hla Interests a-e situated, gives the following Intereatirg Information to The Oregonian. It i-.-swers a world of inquiries. The Medforl paper accepts the figures as reliable a-J applicable to the Rogue River cntry. except as to cost of land, which to surely considerably lower than the figures Mr. Smith glvos for Hood River. Per A-re Land ready for planting $20 Forty-eight trees, at 10 cents each. . . 4 SO Digging holes and planting trees, at cent.s each 2. S3 Cultivating with spring-tooth harrow, eight times each way. 52-Sft: culti vating with weed exterminator, twice each way. 51-40; pruning. ?2; heelnc base of trees. $1; resetting treea. 2ft. Total for one year, 47-70. Tetal fer first four yeart. 39 SO Flowing and cultivating, second and third years -I Oo Grand total for Hve years 3lt4S (Interest and taxes must be added te thU.j Yield. Fifth year, enough to pay expeasea ant yield small protlt. Seventh year, profit J 100 per aere. Tenth year onward. $200 to SftO per acre Price or Apples in 190-1. Fer Box. Sp!tzenburg8 1 Newtown pippins 1 75 Brother Jonathan 133 Baldwin t 00 Cost of cultivation, pruning, spray inc. picking, packing and hauling to mar ket so Mr. Smith Is to be commended also for his advice that 20 acres ta enough fr any ordinary fruitgrower, and that acres Is prqbably too large in moft eases Whether apple trees In Oregon will ever attain the age of many still bearing f-i England is very doubtful Indeed. Tho writer has in recollection a small orcha'-l in ono of the Eastern counties attache 1 to a house which was a monastery m tia time of King Henry VIII. It history wa3 traceable for more than 300 years. Som of the trees were over three feet li diameter of trunk and spread over a circle 50 feet across. They have maintained full bearing to this day. Probably the nature of the original stock had much to do with their vitality. EXTEND EXPERIMENTAL AVORK Method Employed In North Dukota May Help Onefron. The following precedent, drawn front North Dakota, may be suggestive to tha authorities of the State Agricultural Col lege of Orogon. No state has greater di versities of climate, rainfall, soil and gen eral conditions than Oregon. This sket-h, was printed In the Pendleton East Ore gonian: "The plan adopted by the State of Nor'h Dakota was to sand out students wh were about to graduate from the agricul tural college to conduct experiment tarrrs In different sections of the stxte whe e conditions were different from ths where the agricultural college wna lo cated. "The result of this experiment was thtt every section of the state was brougt into direct touch with the methods of scientific agriculture suited to each par ticular portion, and the people derived direct benetits from the education of tho students In the school. "The details of the plan wore to securo a tract of land In a corn district, and send, a student out to have charge of the crop experiment there and cause him to report upon the crop and the conditions under which It grew and was harvested; another was sent into a wheat district and made the same study and the same report on the wheat crops. Another was sent to a dairy district and studied forage feeds and raised such crops as were most adapt ed to the country, and he also made his report to the college at the end of the season: another was sent to the clover belt, another to the vetch district, another studied cow peas, and all the various por tions of the state were covered with thesa small experimental stations, and tho farmers began to get Interested. "In this way each portion of the state was given special attention. Soli and crop conditions in every part were care fully studied, and the reports were com plied and sent out as state college bul letins." Death of Helnpscd Barbarian. HUNTINGTON, Md.. Aug. 13.-Privnte advices from Missionary Stulls. formerly of this city, now at Freetown. "West Afri ca, announce the death there of Daniel Flicklnger "W'ilberforce. the educated African, who was for many years a mis sionary, but whose sensational recanta tion of the faith several years ago. accom panied by a resumption of heathenish Practices, created a sensation. a