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TBLS MORNING OREGQNIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1905.
PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE STATE OF OREGON
PROGRESS IDE
ON IKE H!
Rural Telephone Lines Do
Much to Relieve the
Loneliness.
ON FEEDING OF CATTLE
What the Orchardsr-the Small Farms
and the Ranges Arc Doing In.
the Way of Developing
v the Land..
Progress 1b made each week in extend
ing the telephone connections between
farms In the. outlying districts. Too
much cannot be said In favor of this
abollsher of solitariness on the farm.
Especially for the wife and children, as
the Winter approaches, and the roads
get muddy. Expense Is trifling as com
pared with benefits gained. Read the fol
lowing as an example:
"The Langell Valley Telephone Com
pany was organized by the farmers' of
Langell Valley. It connects with both
the Spring Valley and Poe 'Valley Tele
phone Companies' lines all of which
were created by the farmers for mu
tual benefit- There arc ISO subscribers
on the three lines, which npw have nearly
200 miles of line. The line is almost com
pleted to the Falls, and will be finished
.in a short time."
one who saw the cattle at the stock
show can forget the Splawn Hereford..
They have found other fields to conquer.
By a notein the Yakima Republic it Is
learned' that - Mr. Splawn has Just got
home from "Westminster, B. C, at which
show these cattle took fourteen first
prizes, three seconds, four grand cham
pionships and four championships also
the silver cup for the best display herd.
"Who shall say that he does not get his
rewards. Doubtless Oregon has secured
some of this splendid stock. If the
breeders failed to buy It was poor policy.
It Is to be hoped that some of the
cattiomen have noted what Mr. Gwinn,
secretary of the National Livestock As
sociation had to say on finishing off
range-fed steers on well cured hay. It
has become almost a common belief that
cattle so fed cannot compete in the fat
stock market with corn-fed animals. But
Mr. Gwinn instances a herd recently fed
on hay from the wild grass In tho Big
Horn district In Montana, which, in Chi
cago, ranked with the best finished off
on corn. This verifies the experience of
some of the local breeders, who have
fed largely on alfalfa hay for finishing,
with great success. Some of the ripest
market steers sent to this market have
been hayfed, from Southern Oregon.
Cattle raisers are learning the lesson that
the condition of the animal depends on
the constituents of its ration, regardless
of the source from which such constitu
ents have come, and that forage plants,
Jn due proportions, will supply all the
flesh and fat forming foods needed.
The following item from Grant County
Is one of many:
"H. EL Gardner, an independent buyer
from Seattle, is in the valley buying fat
steers. He has secured the G. S. L.
Smith bunch of steers in the Middle Fork
country, and also the J. "V. Galbraith fat
steers in this valley. Mr. Gardner Is not
buying many cows. For the steers he
pays from 2.50 to $175 per hundred."
Only a day or two ago a complaint was
heard from the hill ranges In Lincoln
County that tho usual group of buyers
had hot shown up this Fall, although
good cattle, in small bunches, were plen
tiful there.
Again 'and again has it been heard, and
more, emphatically since the stock show.
that a packing plant In Portland would
not only be a paying enterprise to its
founders, but would Immensely benefit
the state. This needs no demonstration.
The cry has been for more manufactures,
more factories. Here Is raw material at
its best. In abundance, within easy hall.
but Oregonlans suffer it all to be ship
ped 2000 miles and more, to help fill the
pockets of this poor persecuted Beef
Trust. By the way. Is It true that this
same Beef Trust has signed contracts to
buy out the Alaska Salmon Canneries,
with their 35 plants? The San Francisco
papers are saying that this is the case.
Undoubtedly Portland has the capital
for this undertaking if It has the mind
Is it deterred by recollections of Com
missioner Garfield's report on the Chicago
Packers, with the 75 cents a head profit
on the cattle slaughtered, and no more?
How much profit is needed in sight to
unloose tho purse strings? Or Is it that
the field for disposal of the products is
not wide enough? Surely the margin be
tween the 52.73 a hundred on good steers
on foot, and the 12 to 15 cents a pound
on beefon the butcher's counter Is wide
enough, even taking the percentage of
loss on slaughtering into the account.
While these conditions in the cattle
market continue the price of sheep holds
or rises. Here is another note from
Grant County, which does not stand
alone:
"The Jonas Brothers sold 1200 head of
ewes to John Johnson, who lives north
of Long Creek. Price paid, $4 per head."
The La Grande Observer has the fol
lowing:
"Mr. C F. Donohue, the sheep fcuyer.
went to Elgin Saturday morning to bring
out 27 .double deck cars of sheep to be
shipped to wood Park, HI., to be fat
tened for the Chicago markets. In buy.
Jng sheep in tills section Mr. . Donohue
simply purchased options obtained on
sheep as far back as December, 1901. The
original purchase prices of the options
were 3 cents a pound for lambs and ne
paid a premium on this price, making it
perhaps the largest price obtained for
lambs ever before.
"Mr. Donohue ships these animals to
his feeding pen, 10 miles from Chicago,
and for feed. Imports screenings from
Canada. The screenings are composed of
cockle seed, buckwheat and the small
grains of wheat that go through the
sieves of the, machines. These screen
ings are supposed to be burned under the
Canadian laws, but may be brought out
for feed. The sheep readily eat this and
oecome fat Jn a short time. Before turn
ing them on the market the sheep are
xdlpped. Mr. Donohue has contracted his
wool for 27 cents a pound iri Chicago,
wnicn insure&fmm a. handsome profit.'
Another Instance of profit going to Illl
Tiols that might be kept at home.
County. Competition at Fair.
''Attention is drawn to the success of
Linn County in Its exhibit of wool and
mohair. Possibly part of this is due to
the care and taste displayed in the ar
rangement in the county booth. But
there .can be no question of the excel
lence, essential and, remarkable, of both
these staples. Encouragement is thus
given to. the Valley farmers who handle
their flocks as part of the products of
the farm, one of Its leading industries,
though by no means the sole one. To
this method rotation in crops lends Itself
Ho more-readily in that the forage plants
grown for sheep feed contribute so essen
tially to raising the fertility or the entire
farm. The time is at hand when all well
managed farms will show a regular plan
of rotation, in which each field will share
in fertilization in its due course In
older countries it is not uncommon to
see, hung on the wall of the farmer's
den or sitting-room, an enlarged-ground
plan of the farm, with the crops to be
raised NToach field for several years
ahead plainly shown. Thus system, once
introduced. Is more easily followed up.
Before passing to other mRtters. the fol
lowing example should be studied: In
June last tho Corvallis Gazette, printed
an account or air. sorter s results or nis
small flock of thoroughbred Cotswolds.
A case directly In point of what has
been said about Valley farmers using
sheep as one, though not the only, or the
principal, one of the farm Industries:
"Last week J. M. Porter finished shear
ing his sheep; there were all told 3S head
of Cotswolds. The fleeces of 12 registered
ewes weighed In the aggregate 211 pounds.
or 177-12 pounds to the ewe. A regis
tered ram's fleece weighed 22 pounds. The
poorest showing made was by a tooth
less ewe and her fleece weighed 11 pounds.
The 3S head produced in the aggregate 55S
pounds of wool. This was sold to S. L.
Kline at 28 cents per pound, and brought
Mr. Porter 5156.24. The registered ewes'
fleeces were worth on an average of $4.90
each, while the fleece of the registered
ram brought $6.44. Can anybody in the
state beat this? The average for the 38
head was 14 8-19 pounds per head."
The Albany papers, though gratified at
the recognition won, are anything but
pleased at the grouping of the counties
by the judges, and division of the prizes.
This feeling Js apparent In other counties
also. Division of prizes between two
evenly balanced contestants has." of
course, been recognized at other exhibi
tions as defensible if rifct--necessary. In
the case before us It has beon promoted to
a principle, and Is regrettable.
Alfalfa in the Valley.
Newberg is the town in question.
"E. S. Craven was in town Tuesday
with a sample of alfalfa grown on his
place this Summer. The sample, a fair
average, measured three feet."
Only three years ago a California man
was seoklng for a farm In any one of the
Valley counties on which he could grow
alfalfa, and could not find It. There Is
plenty to be found now.
Orchard, 3rethods and Products.
Not many months ago some pessimistic
brethren announced that the prune crop
in the Valley was a failure. But they
are fooled. This comes from Albany:
"The Tbig prune dryer of the iiassclle
Bros. & Fortmlller completed the work of
drying prunes last evening. and the en
ergies of the firm will now be directed
toward packing and shipping their prod
uct. Several carloads have already beon.
shipped East, three cars are ready to go
today, and the force of packers Is work
ing rapidly to prepare the entire stock
for shipment. About 50 carloads of prunes
are in the hands of the firm and will be
sent East as fast as packed. William
Fortmlller, of the firm, went to Halsey
last night, where today he will purchase
a lot of prunes for their Eastern trade,
and other lots In various sections of the
country will be added to the stock of the
Albany firm."
In the "Winter of In Chicago Oregon-dried
prunes were selling in many
"of the stores as California fruit at 12
cents a pound, and selling freely, too. The
growers in Oregon received, if memory
serves, 2 cents a pound for this same
fruit-
Many of the growers have been setting
out English walnuts on .quite a large
scale. There b,as been some discourage
ment at slow growth and suffering from
late frosts. The suggestion that follows
is from the Medford MaiL Mr.'Schermer-
horn's experiment is worth trying else
where. He says:
"You have noticed how those English
walnut trees in front of my place have
grown during the past five years? Frost
for several years during their early exist
ence used to cropoff a couple or three
Inches of the first Tollage every Spring' It
don't do it any more. How. did I fix 'em?
Well, I'll tell you. During late Fall.vor
early Winter, I mulch them heavily with
coarse straw and manure. When the
Winter rains come this Is thoroughly
soaked and the ground underneath- nat
urally gets pretty wet and the few cold,
frosty nights we have chills it to quite
an extent. This mulching I leave around
the trees until all danger from frost has
passed in the Spring. When it Is taken
away the sun soon warms the earth and
the foliage appears but not early enough
to be caught by the frost. Having dis
covered that this scheme works so well
with my trees I have wondered If It
would not be a valuable means of pro
tecting the fruit trees from frost."
The Irrigon Irrigator prints this: "The
young orchards of our settlement are be
ginning to show, and another year will
make a great difference in tho appear
ance of things. While our frult-bcaring
trees are coming on. why not have some
hedges growing? The amount of ground
occupied by them is small and the expense
slight. Most of us own a little tract
which has been cleared, fenccd""and set
to trees."
He heads the paragraph "Protect Tour
Trees." He would make his advice more
useful if he would give hi hedge a name.
Wliat kind of plant will he use? It Is
true enough that a closeigrown, well
clipped hedge serves as a wind-break.
But where hedge plants grow as quickly
as they do In Oregon, and need as much
labor, he will find he has a good-sized
contract on his hands. A straggly, un-
pruned and undipped, neglected hedge Is
the worst kind of an eyesore. Do any or
us remember the osage orange hedge on
the old Nesmlth place at Derry, which
used to mark the limits of the orohard
from the West Sldo Railroad? That was
a case in point, ana was me largest
specimen of a hedge that memory recalls
in Oregon.
Although this page is suppposod to con
fine itself to Oregon, the following Item is
too good to miss. It is from a washing
ton paper, needless U remark:
"At Puyallup, Wash., Pelor Phllben has
picked from one acre of canes 1000 crates
of blackberries, and it is believed there
are 200 crates in the patch yet unpicked.
The 1000 crates netted Phllben SW. It Is
believed this one acre Is the world's black
berry record."
Sugar Beets Analysis.
Pursuing what Is of interest In relation
to sugar-beet culture In Eastern Oregon,
no apology is needed for reprinting an ar
ticle from the Bend. Bullotln. The loca
tion Is the experimental farm of the Des
chutes Irrigation Company, near Bend,
In Crook County. The comment of Pro
fessor Knisely seems well dosorved. The
article says:
"The analyses of the two samples taken,
respectively September C and September
22, arc as follows:
Sept. G. Sept. 22.
Per ecnt. Ter cent.
Solids It) Juice 17.G0 3OA0
Sugar In Juice 10.00 1S.70
Specific gravity of Juice 1.07272 1.0S31
'Professor A. L. Knisely. the chemist
of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment
Station, comments as follows: ,
" The samples seem in excellent con
dition and verjr. firm. The purity and per
cent of sugarln the samples are very
promising, as they stand' high.
"The yields and the quality of the
beets here are all that could be desired,
and the results obtained are far better
than one could reasonably expect on new
land.
"Eighteen and seven-tenths per cent
sugar In Juice and9LG per cent purity Is
an excellent showing for new land. In
the Grand Ronde Valley the beets ana
lyzed 15.6 per cent sugar and S4.6 per cent
purity the first year, and this has been
said to be higher than any first year else
where. The standard of excellence In
sugar beets Is a weight of 20 to 24 ounces,
a sugar percentage of 1G to IS and purity
S5. A percentage of 18.7 Is far above the
average, the range being from 10 to 21.
The purity per cent of S1.6 Is extraordi
narily high, as the range Is from 70 to 9L
"The yield compares very favorably with
the yields In some districts where the In
dustry Is established. In "Union County
we are told they expect no more than 10
tons per acre this year. At Sugar City,
Colo., the average of 140 beet-growers Is
11 tons. The average of the United States
In 1904 was 8.4 tons. And this first raw
year on the D. L & P. farm, within two
miles of Bend, the production Is 10.6 tons
to the acre, of beets that fairly beat the
world.
"This beet is of the variety known as
the Klein Wanzlebener. The seed was
planted May 10 and Irrigated five times
during the season. The actual yield is
10.8 t6ns to the acre. The average weight
of the- beets Is 9.C ounces, while Individ
uals run as high as 44 ounces."
TELL YOUR ntlENDS
In the East About Low Colonltt Sates Via
the Union Iaciflc
Until October 31 very low rates are -tai
pfreet from the East and Middle w- tL
the Pacific Northwest, via the Union Pa
cific, Oregon Short Line and Oregon Rail
road & Navigation Company. Ask or
write your nearest O. R. & N. agent for
particulars, and ten your friends of the
rare opportunity to visit this section.
Habitual constipation - cured and the
bowels strengthened by tho regular ue
of Carter's Little Liver Pills in small
doses. Don't fonret this.
AN OREGON APriiE ORCHARD. CENTRAL POINT. SOUTHERN OREGON.
STREAMS OF THE STATE TO BE
USED FOR BOTH PURPOSES.
Ample Supply tcTWatcr Arid Lands
and Turn the Wheels
of Industry.
Electric power is now to be sup
plied to the Cracker Creek mines from
the Rock Creek power plant. Right
of way had to be obtained from tho
Department of the Interior to cross the
divide from Rock Creek into the
Cracker basin. Permission having
been granted it Is stated that work
has been begun. The Sumpter Ameri
can publishes the following item:
"In speaking of the matter, Geo.
L. Thayer, who has charge of the. work
said: 'Work will be rushed with all
pot-slblc speed and. unless the unfore
seen happens, within 30 days the line
will be completed over the divide and
by Jan. 1 the company will be ready
to deliver,, electricity for power and
light purposes throughout the Crack
er Creek section. What contracts the
company now havo I cannot say, but
I do not think such a line would be
undertaken if it was not fully justi
fied "When asked if tho company In
tended entering Sumpter. he repllod:
That will be a matter of future con
sideration. The company has the
power, plenty of Jt and If it finds a
market here will certainly enter the
field. -It would be a comparatively
easy matter to reach "hc city from
Bourne and no doubt the matter will be
given, full attention "
Events at Eugene have given an
other proof of the readiness of out
side capital to invest In Oregon enter
prises. How wide the Influence of the
advertising Oregon has even already
gained from the Exposition cannot be
fully known. It suffices that the state
is rapidly becoming a favorable field.
The Eugene undertaking Is on a large
scale, and. It Is known that still fur
ther developments are In contempla
tion. The Register. prints the follow
ing: The option on the Lane County-
Electric Company's property here and
at Springfield was closed yesterday,
and every dollar's worth of stock Is
now owned by A. Welch, of Salem, L
W. Anderson, of Spokane, and Rhodes,
SInkler and Butcher, of -Philadelphia.
"The new owners take control from
the first of October, and the engineer
In charge will be here by the first of
next week. The price paid is under
stood to be a substantial advance over
the parvalue of the stock.
"The new company promises to put
in a full 24-Iiour service, and will pre
pare to supply manufactories with
power and otherwise improve the ser
vice. They propose to give the citizens
a satisfactory service at satisfactory
rates. One of the company s represen
tatives stated that the reason tney
could givr the city the low rates they
quoted was because of the magnitude
of the power plant required here. It
Is undoubtedly true, then, that the
company expects to build an electric
line from Eugene north to connect with
the lines from Portland.
"The closing- of the deal also means
a street railway system for Eugene.
Mr. Welch stated to the Register some
time ago that his company had con
sidered seriously running a line from
the depot here over to Springfield.'
Roseburg also has come Into line
with her sister municipalities. The re
cent vote in favor of city ownership
of light and water was: 192 -'in favor,
and but -13 against. The Review gives
the following forecast of procedure:
"As to the matter of municipal own
ershlD of water and light systems, the
next step to be taken will be to ask
.the legislature, which convenes In Jan
uary. 1907, to pass a bill authorizing
the city council of Roseburg to issue
bonds, not to exceed $200,003. This
authority given the council, no special
election may be necesary, the favorable
expression at Monday's election being
sufficient for the purpose of ascertain
ing the wishes of a majority of the
citizens.'
The tide in favor of municipal own-
While the water, and light (either gas
or electricity) are the only enterprises
proposed municipalities seem to be on
safe ground. Experience abroad, not
ably In England, has been that muni
cipalities get a taste for expending
money, easily borrowed on Security of
the city. In many fascinating direc
tions. Parks, theaters, libraries, baths,
street car lines, lodging houses, have
followed In rapid succession. Many
books can be consulted which give the
history of this era of expansive spend
ing. In England records show that tho
municipalities have burdened them
selves with undertakings of which
some three-sevenths are unremunera
tlve. howevercllghtfur they may be.
There it .seems that extravagance
rather than graft, in one form or an
other, is the path of danger.
The irrigation Idea Is spreading in
the Willamette Valley. Even at Junc
tion City, In Lane County, it is noted
that a small association, called The
Gilmore Water Power Company, has
been formed to utilize the waters of
Bear Creek for irrigation. The lands
belonging: to the stockholders in the
new corporation are .to be those first
benefited, then adjoining lands may
receive tho surplus. In thfe case the
forms of the corporation law have evi
dently been utilized to secure private
benefit from the creek waters, with
hardly a pretense of a public utility.
All the usual powers to divert water,
to do general mining and milling bus
iness, and the rest of it. arc claimed.
But the essential aim Is by means of
a family corporation jof these Gllmorcs
to irrigate Mr. Gllmore's farm with Bear
Creek water. There seems to be no
help for it. Soon there will not be a
creek big enough for the' urchins to
catch minnows with a crooked pin
that will not be baptised afresh as
some Irrigation system. The Idea of
the irrigation law is to empower a
corporation with some show, at 'any
rate, of public utility to segregate
water, even to the detriment of private
land owners, and to claim water rights
In perpetuity by virtue of the outlay
which the corporation Is to make to
benefit all whose lands can be reached
by ditch or flume. In such cases as
that which has called for this notice
it seems to be forgotten that riparian
owners all along the course of the
ancient watercourse have some rights
to be respected. While the old maxim
holds, of course, that the law does
not concern itself about trifles, yet
there might be some means devised,
one would think, by which such
streams as properly lend themselves to
Irrigation purposes might be examined
and scheduled as fit.
While on the subject of minor Ir
rigation the following item from the
Irrigator is of Interest:
"'R. N. Stanfield, cashier of the Echo
bank, reports that Samuel Fortler
measured on his ranch In the fall of
1904 seven acres of lands and measured
the hay cut therefrom, finding it to be
76 tons, the same being two cuttings
only of the crop for that year. This
land was Irrigated but once that year
and for ten days only. It Is sale to
say that no other section of the world
can make a showing of soil which will
respond to such light irrigation and
give forth a crop of Ave and three
sevenths tons at one cutting. Butter
Creek leads the world for hay.
"We hope more of the Reclamation
Service people and Government Irri
gators will come to realize what man
ner of country this Is. and if an an
nual water supply can not be fur
nished for all of this country, from the
John Day or otherwise, that these peo
ple may be given a plain open ditch
for the distribution of flood waters
only. If this is done, "Umatilla mea
dows and the Butter Creek country
will be the most valuable spots In the
state of Oregon for hay" growing."
What Is a Sufficiency?
The State Board and their engineer
are reported to have reached a con
clusion, in the discussion with the Des
chutes Irrigation Company, that a
minimum supply of a second foot to the
100 acres shall be demanded,; as a con
dition for obtaining a state certificate
of satisfactory Irrigation. Here comes
In the danger of hard and fast rules
on this vital question. Conditions of
soil, porosity, subsoil, climate, seasons
for irrigation var everywhere. What
Is an adequate supljj of water, and no
more. In one district may, by satura
tion of subsoil and creation of subsoil
seepage, drown out the crops of lower
land owners. - This lesson was learned
for KOod at a meeting: of some fifteen
oc twenty irrigation farmers in the
Palouse country a couplo of years ago
One after another rose to add his tes
timony that his alfalfa was yellowed
and dwindling by reason of surplus
subsoil water from the upper Irrlga-
tlonists. There was great questioning
whether the law courts should not he
appealed to In the emergency to stop
the damage by injunction. The easiest
way for state officers Is, naturally, to
lay down u general rule and force
compliance with It. But ease for the
officer may be paid for by most seri
ous injury to the citizen, who. In that
event, is apt to be without romedy. In
the case before the Board it would
seem that the results of actual experi- j
ence should be at hand before any per
manent ruling should be framed.
Often all tho real parlies in interest
are the Irrigation Company on the one
hand, and the farmers actually using
the water on the othor. The state of
ficials should be in a position to render
aid in settling any controversy as to
quantity of water to be supplied for
the use of the Jand, but hardly to de
termine that in advance of actual ex
periment. It seems not to have en
tered into the calculation of the state
officers that, from the point of view
of the state, to diffuse the service of a
limited quantity of water over the
largest possible area is the point to be
gained. Not, how much water can
such a one use, but, with how little
can his culture of his land be developed
and Improved.
In both the Deschutes projects it
has been noted here that Settlers' As
sociations have been formed and have
proceeded to organize and get to bus
iness. It Is certain, therefore, that no
wrong- will be done them without pub
licity and the Invoking of the power of
public opinion. The interests of the
Irrigation Companies and the settlers
on their lands are now, and will be
for years to come. Identical. Lands al
ready sold are not a large percentage
of those yet to becontracted. A satis
fied and prospering body of settlers is
worth to the Irrigation Companies all
the advertising In the world to sell the
rest of their lands. Depend on It the1
less interference by state officials be
tween these parties, and others sim
ilarly placed the better It will be for
all.
II FACTORIES AND SHOPS
WHAT IS BEING 3IADE IN THE
WAY OF PROGRESS.
NcvUines In Which Capital Could
Find Profitable Investment
In This State.
The Oregon Handle Factory, at New
berg, has. been rebuilt. In the Enterprise,
as recently as August IS, it was told that
the old factory was burned. The enlarged
one, rising from the ashes. Is now ready
for extended work. Let such energy be
recognized and pralsedi The Enterprise
says:
"Work on the Oregon Handle Factor
is progressing rapidly. Last week the
engine and boiler were placed In position
and the smokestack raised.. Mr, Oliver
expects In ten-days or two weeks, pos
sibly in less time to have the factory
equipped and running. On August 18
the plant was entirely destroyed by fire
and the indications are that in less than
two months the plant will be fully
equlpped and doing business In its new
home. The building, and in fact the en
tire plant, will be an Improvement over
the old one, and it has taken lots of hard
work and rustllngym the part of the com
pany to advance nhe work so rapidly.
Newberg is certainly to be congratulated
over the relocating of the plant at this
place In opposition to the strong pull that
was made for It at other points."
Portland people fall to recognize the ex
tent to which factory enterprises of all
kinds are finding, or have found, their
homes In this city. The list of the Manu
facturers' Association Is already a long
one, and Is growing rapidly. One very
Important factor In this development Is
the provision of electric power for general
factory use at reasonable rates. It will
not be long before additional power from
the Clackamas and the Sandy will be
available.
Not much has been heard lately of the
gentleman from Colorado. But it is un-
derstood to be likely that Mr. Pence will
once more display that energy which so
seriously affected Colonel Hawkins In the
borders of the. City Park. Doubtless la
this wide field there Is a place for him,
too.
Among smaller new indsnitries may ;e
noted that one recently established by
M. Sheasgreen, lately from Corvallis. f jr
the manufacture of boxes, wood pipe.
water tanks, sash and doors and wood
work in general.
The following item from the Salem
Statesman is interesting:
"Eight large flatcars arrived yesterday
to be used by the Spauldlng Sawmills In
shipping ties to different parts along tho
Southern Pacific line. As yet curs have
not been obtainable to ship the he.iy
orders which will go to Utah, but they are
expected to arrive at any time. The lnm
ber which Is to be shipped to the different
parts of Utah cannot be shipped on ordi
nary cars, as the size of the large timb rs
demands a much larger capacity "
It seems a far cry to send Oregon tim
bers to Utah. But. like Hood River ap
ples, quality tells In the market.
There was a long story In the East Or-
gonian the other day of the Japanese
government having sent an expert of that
nation to Ontario, to report on the pos
sible use of the dead salmon from the
hatcheries on the Snake River to make
fertilizer for shipment to Japan. A very
waste product. Indeed. It was statri
that this gentleman, a Stanford student,
was investigating the possibilities In tl ?
line at all the hatcheries on the Coast.
By the way. here Is another suggestion
for profit from waste products of t.'o
Portland Packing-House, now dreamed of.
Yet another side light: This Japanese. If
he decides to utilize the dead salmon. Is
to send them to Seattle (not Portlan.1)
for shipment to Yokohama.
OP THE FULL
ALL ALONG THE COAST OF ORE
GON COME GOOD REPORTS.
What Is BcIiifrDonc by the Salmon
Fisheries -and at the Vari
ous Hatcheries.
Not only from the Columbia River, but
from the bays along the southward coast
comes news of a late, but weIcom r:irt
or Fall chlnooks. The Astorlan reports:
"For the first time In many years, a
quantity of good-grade royal chlnook sal
mon are coming Into the river in the reg
ular Fall run. As a rule, the later run
consists almost entirely of sllversldcs an.l
other inferior fish, but this year manj of
the up-river gillnctters have been maklrg
dally substantial catches of the Chinook.
Taken as a whole, however, the season
thus far has been somewhat disappoint
ing, and Jhc situation has only beet
saved by the excellent run of Fall fish In
Puget Sound."
And then this:
"Fish Warden Van Dusen Is in receipt
of a letter from William Kyle, a promi
nent fisherman and ex-canneryman on f.io
Sluslaw River, saying there is a good run
of chlnooks on. Tho writer attrlh.a'es
this to the excellent work of the hatchery
on the Sluslaw."
On Alsea Bay also, the salmon haa
been freely coming In.
The Fish "Warden gives good accounts
.from several of the hatcheries. He says:
"Reports received from the different
hatcheries arc to the effect that fro-.t
the chlnook salmon eggs have been se
cured as follows:
Salmon River hatchery 1 163 COO
McKenzie River hatchery station .1.S44.O30
Wallowa hatchery 1.43S,"CO
Umpqua River hatchery l,P2.fl0
Total 9.2S7COO
For the last 25 years spasmodic efforts
have been made to so construct fishwa.3
over the Oregon City Falls as to enahlo
the Willamette and its tributaries to be
come the breeding ground for millions of
the king of fish. Time and again t":a
Winter floods and freshets have swrrt
away these puny provisions. Tho Master
Fish Warden writes now more confidently
of success. Let his words stand as a
record for. or against him. as the Issc3
of the coming Winter shall determine:
"The work on the state flshway over tho
falls of the Willamette has been com
pleted by Contractor Harry Jones of Ore
gon City, in accordance with contract en
tered into August 12. lPOi". and. from tho
estimate made by Engineer A. S. Tee. tha
rock material blasted out and removed
amounted to 210 cubic yards. This work
has made the gradient of the fishway
very easy, and should assure us of r.o
more trouble on that score; but in order
to make It fully effective a permanent
splash board or cap at least 16 In:hcs
high should be put on top of the Portland
General Electric Company's concrete wall,
which parallels the flshway for a distance
of 150 feet on the west, in order to stop
to that extent, the side-pour of water
coming over that portion of the wall.
"With the assistance of this fishway,
we have been enabled this season to col
lect nearly 2,000,000 Spring chlnook salmon
eggs on the McKenzie River, which was
very fair considering the extremely law
stage of water In the river and the num
ber that were destroyed at the falls. 6ut
In the future, with what Improvement
we have made, and with the additional
Improvement of the capping on top of the
wall. I feel confident that, excepting ex
traordinary seasons, we can be assured
of" enough Spring salmon passing above
the falls to the upper tributary streams
to assure us of 5,000,00c or 6,000,000 eggs cn
the McKenzie River, and nearly that num
ber on the Santlam River every year
Wo treat &ad curs hundreli eyorr
laonth who miter from Felrlo and
other diseases of xaen, uch as Hydro
cele Varicocele. Stricture, Stomach,
XldBer and Bladder AtTectloa. Vital
Weakness, Nervoos Decline. Impo
teBCT Nocturnal luea and all t&at
lone train of symptoms and trouble
which arise from youthful errors ox
other excesses. ,
We havo a new specific treatment for
Gonorrhoea -which U prompt, sure, saf
and painless.
g rp hills and all blood taints we eura
to stay cured, and do not resort to pol
onou minerals.
Varicocele, Hydrocele, Files. Rectal
Clcers and Cancers we cure effectu
ally and without the use of the knife.
Consultation and examination free.
Write for symptom blanlc and book it
ycu cannot call.
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Eunday. 10 to 12.
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