THE MORNING- OREGONI, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1906.
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Great Mortality Due to Earth
quake in Ecuador.
TIDAL WAVES SWAMP TOWN
Eruption of Volcano Rocks Earth
and Flings Ocean on,. Shore.
'Many Bodies "Washed
j up Along: Coast.
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GUAYAQUIL,, Feb. H. Passengers from
the province ol Dsmeraldas, in the ex
treme northeastern part of Ecuador, who
arrived hero today, report that earth
quake shocks were felt there January 31.
and that several towns in the provinces
of JSsmcraldas and Manaba were seriously
damaged.
At Esmaraldas City several houses col
lapsed. Including the government house.
The village of Pinguagl, near the Colom
bian frontier, was Inundated by a tidal
wave and many Inhabitants were drowned.
Ninety bodies were washed Ashore at Tu
maco. At Rio Verde several houses col
lapsed. During eight days 25 shocks were -felt
In EamcraJdas.
The Colombian village of Guacada also'
was inundated by a tidal wave, and 200
persons .were drowned.
The eruption of the Colombian volfcano
of Cumbal caused the earthquake.
THE AUTO PROBLEM.
Jlight of Locomotive Owners to Mo
nopolize the Streets.
Lambert Tree, in Chicago News.
So many people dcrh'e pleasure xrom
the use of the automobile, so many use
it for practical business purposes and so
much capital has come to be invested in
its manufacture and that of the various
applicances which go with and form an
essential part of it, that it is difficult at
this time, when the auto fever is at its
.height, to inquire Into its ralson d'etre on
the public streets and highways without
exciting resentment in extended circles.
Some persons are unable to see why,
they may not exercise the freedom of lo
comotion along the public thoroughfares
in any kind of conveyance which suits
their Inclination, without stopping to con
sider that this is only true provided their
mode of locomotion does not interfere
with the safe use of" the thoroughfares
by other persons having an equal right
to their freedom, whether they be on foot
or riding in ordinary vehicles drawn by
horses. '
Liberty in a state of society does not
mean the right to pursue one's sweet will,
without regard to whether it conflicts
with the safety or general welfaro of
the remaining members of it having
equal rights. If it did, the laws prevent
ing the storing of gunpowder in certain
places, firing of guns, the running at
large of swine, the driving of horned cat
tic, racing horses or passage of railway
trains through the public streets and a
hundred other wise laws and ordinances
in restraint of the citizen's entire liberty
of action would have to be consigned to
the waste basket
There are also persons who are sucli
devotee- at the jflirlne of prpgress. thatW
they tremble at" the thought of 'quesj
tlomng, the fullest freedom, to the ,u
of lnvehtlo"hs having for their purpose
more speedy locomotion by those who
have the means to command them.
Serious differences of opinion exist,
however, as to what constitutes progress,
and it is not always safe to jump at a'
conclusion that every new Invention, even
in the way . of rapid locomotion, Is the
genuine article and denotes a rise in the
world's methods of doing things.
It cannot be possible, however, that
cither of these classes is entirely blind to
the fact that a conveyance as dangerous
in its destructive power as the ordinary
railroad locomotive has been introduced
upon crowded city streets and frequently
traveled country roads, in the hands, for
the most part, of Incompetent or Igno
rant persons, or is able to disguise from
itself that their introduction has been
followed by accidents so frequent and so
distressingly fatal as to make it apparent
that the perils of street life have been
increased more than 50 per cent since
their appearance.
Indeed, it is perhaps not too much to
say that some of the more conservative
of the owners of machines and devotees
of rapid transit are beginning, la a half
hearted way, to admit that the authori
ties do possess the right to make laws
and ordinances subjecting them to some
sort of regulation.
Without reference to what is trans
piring dally in other cities in the way of
auto accidents, scarcely a day now passes
in Chicago and Its vicinity on which citi
zens are not killed or injured in the pub
lic streets, either directly or. indirectly
by means of these modern Juggernaut
cars, which are increasing in number
every day.
Whether the running of these locomo
tivesfor that 1b what they are along
the public streets and roads Js compat
ible with the safe use of them by other
citizens, either on foot or in vehicles
drawn by horse-power, for which uses
they were originally laid out and intend
ed, and, if not, whether the use of them
by these locomotives is fair or legal, an
questions which may have to be, sooner
or later, tried out. At certain times of
the day andi night it Is as dangerous to
drive along certain streets or cross them
on foot as it would be to drive or walk
about any of the railroad switch yards
surrounding the city.
It does not require any great discern
ment to see that popular resentment Is
steadily increasing against this method
of street locomotion.
On the European continent .autos and
their occupants are frequently stoned and
sometimes fired Upon. In Great Britain,
while the same thing Is -being done to
some extent, the authorities are just
now trying the experiment of regulating
them by the infliction of severe penalties.
Thus, a man caught exceeding the speed
limit Is, on conviction, fined what would
be equivalent to $100 here, and the con
viction is Indorsed on his license. For the
second offense he is fined 5200. and this
conviction is also written thereon. For
the third offense, "besides" being fined, he
is deprived of his license.
OLD BRASS KNOCKER.
Is -Coming Back to Supersede the
Tinkling Bell.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
It has come to us. from the- East,
where all fads and fashions have their
first shape. and introduction, that the
old-fashioned brass knocker -will- -he
the proper thing hereafter on the front
floor of those who wish to keep up
"regularity" in society. It is con
ceivable that this fad is a most pleas
ant resurrection of the old-fashioned
times, the days when our grandfathers
delved and our grandmothers dug In
the washtub, and neither was ashamed
of their miraculous activity in either
line. But the knocker! What recol
lections it recalls' There are times
HUNDRED
ARE DEAD
when we like to look back. There are
scenes that we rejoice to recall. Senti
ment In these days is crushed, out of
Its proper sphere, and- there is nothing
left but the rush, swirl and push for
money. However, there is no man
with a heart" in him through which the
good, red blood of the forefathers
courses who will not welcome the re
turn of the knocker, notwithstanding
it is of ancient invention and inspira
tion. There are various kinds of knockers.
There is the baseball fan, who is said
to knock when he growls because his
home club loses a game. He Is a
.knocker of the first class, .but of low-
grade disposition. Then there Is tho
man who knocks on his fcllow-cm-
ploycs. He goes to the head of the
"department" with Ills trivial . stories
of the' remissness of his companion
workers. Wealso have the knocker
on everything-?! You have met him. Tho
weather is wrong, the neighbors don't
suit. But you know them, are ac
quainted with every characteristic of
the human knocker. He or she is a
disturbance in any community, and
should be suppressed. Of the other
knocker, the real thing! It is coming
at the command of fashion.
The old knocker on the door that
used to obtain over half a century ago
is a thing of noise, and at the same
time an article of beauty. The elec
tric bell of modernty Is impersonal. It
always rings with the same tone. The
majestic knocker has a personality of
its own. If there is a sudden call for
help from a "neighbor, the knocking on
the knocker can tell you Just as well
as if you went down to the door and
heard the tale of woe. There is the
timid knock, and we know that it if.
manipulated by soft hands daintily
gloved. It is a caller who comes with
smiles, -who .goes away to tell other
people what a careless and slovenly
housekeeper you are. Then there Is
the vigorous knock of the doctor, who
wants to abate the illness of any one
of the household who is sick. Then,
comes the last knock of all the un
dertaker. The blinds arc closed, the
parlor is darkened and the knocker is
wrapped with flannel so that 4t .won't
disturb the dead or waken the living
to a sorrowing sense of tho calamity.
Tho knocker is all right. It is truth
ful. Tou know who and what you are
going to meet before you answer the
Imperious summons of tho "rat-a-tat-tat."
God bless the rejuvenated knock
er that used to swing on the door. Its
rejuvenescence makes the old boys
young again. And that is something.
PEACE-LOVING BENGALEES
The Most Intelligent, Industrious
and Efficient People in India.
Bengal does not fight, but it is through
the never-ceasing Industry of its vast
population, so much greater than that of
the United Kingdom, that Briysh India
Is enabled to pay Its way. That the .Ben
galees add nothing to the military
strength of, the empire is true, but then,
also, they deduct nothing from Its
strength on the frontier. No population
so vast was ever so peaceful or required
so little expenditure for garrison. A po
lice principally employed in detective
work is all that is needed, for forcible
resistance to the state is, and will prob
ably always remain, outside the Bengalee
scheme of life. They pay their taxes to
the hour, chiefly through their landlords;
they obey the legal -orders of any maglR-
tratc even when unsupported by physical
force; and when the great mutiny of 1E37
broke out, their quiescent but immovable
adhesion to the British side made the re
conquest of India a comparatively easy
possibility. If Calcutta had been filled
with a warlike population, and had risen,
as it almost Infallibly would, either the
Indian Empire would have been lost, or
It would have been re-established at an
expense of life and treasure eaual to that
ofthe war with Napoleon. ' "Throughout
t&t d&sgertks movement . Calcutta was
a trariquflly."Britlsh- as London oh a Sun
day" Moreover, this vast population.
though the remainder .of India stigma
tizes its men as women, has a character
of its own, with which Englishmen on the
other .aide of their heads should have some
sympathy.
Though Bengalees will not fight, they
are, and are reasonably proud of being,
the roost intellectual race in India, It is
useless for any student In any college
there to compete with a Bengalee rival.
In every native state they are the most
successful traders, and they would not
themselves admit the partial qualifica
tion. "Using with rare skill, especially In
satire, a language, a direct derivative of
the Sanscrit, which is not unjustly char
acterized as "the Italian of the East."
it 19 not fantastic to say that if India
ever produces a literature that makes an
impression on the West, it will proceed
from the subtle students of Bengal, who.
moreover, though they display no capa
city for nrt and little for machine-making,
will probably rival the Japanese In
their pursuit of scientific investigation,
and as money-makers- are surpassed only
by the Jews. The wealth of their great
capital, which is perhaps the second
wealthiest city within the British domin
ion, has been built up by themselves, and
by the steady orderliness which has made
of Calcutta a proverb throughout the
East. A man may be a millionaire there
and as safe as in Lombard street.
The people, in fact, with their cunning,
their thinking ability, and their capacity
for everything except -art,, constantly sug
gest to the observant the character which
the Romans attributed to the Greeks,
There is nothing they cannot learn, and
few things they cannot understand and
comment on with a gentle humorousness
which if you agree -with it is delight
ful, and if you disagree stings like a whip.
Naturally, though they cannot fight,
or at all events will not attempt to
probably from some peculiarity of race,
possibly also because "where the land Is
wateF the men are women." for Tiature fs
too good to them they are in their own
way a proud people, quite convinced in
their own minds of - their superiority to
the more violent races around them, and
not indisposed even in moments of ela
tion to include the British among these
violent races.
Cat Story Vouched Fcr.
Boston Herald.
This is a true cat story- A certain
cat, much petted and adored. Is believed
to understand language. It having re
peatedly acted upon what was said, to it.
but not long since it did far more and
better. It obeyed literally. The man of
the house Ib a great hunter. He loves to
shoulder his gun and bring down small
game, and one morning when lie was
setting forth for sport his wife called
oyft: "If you will bring home a rabbit
I will make a pie!" The cat sat by, but
said nothing. A few hours after, while
the wife was tusy with her sewing, the
cat appeared b her side carrying a rab
bit in his mouth, and then dropping the
"game" beside his mistress began to
sing and purr Wee a tin kettle on the fire.
Nothing will convince the friends of this
wonderful cat that he doesn't understand
all that is said in his presence, and, they
are now really afraid to mention a want
as the dear fellow will think he must Im
mediately gratify It, like another Marquis
of Carabas.
Ha'pennies In Australia.
London Daily Chronicle.
Half-pennies are very scarce in Aus
tralia, so much so that an attempt once
made In Melbourne to run a half-penny
evening paper soon failed because people
had not the coin wherewith to purchase
it. And, if half-pence are rare, farth
ings are curiosities. A shrewd Melbourne
shopkeeper has imported some thousands
of bright, new King Edward farthings,
and he is reported to be doing a roaring
trade. They are piled up In heaps In his
windows and attract gaping crowds.
Every article he sells is so much and
three" farthlncs.
BOND OF HUH
Cubans Admit It Binds Them
to United States. -
OUR ALLY IN EMERGENCY
Fervent Speeches by JtcprcscntaUvcs
or Both Nations at Dedication
-of Monument on HI
' Cancy Battlefield.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Feb. 14. Cuban
gratitude. American cordiality and official
dignity marked tho celebration of the un
veiling this afternoon of the monument
at El Cancy in honor of the Americans
who lost their lives during the siege of
Santiago. Many thousands of people
crowded El Cancy road, but in spite of
this there was no serious blockade, tho
police management being perfect and the
road equal -to a city boulevard. At the
battlefield the Fifth Artillery and the
Cuban Artilcry bands atcrnatcd in play
ing mlltary and other airs.
Ueutcnant-General S. B. 2L Toung, on
behalf of President Roosevelt, greeted the
Cuban officials and people. General And
radc, representing President Palma, re
sponded and eloquently expressed the
national gratitude to the United States
and tho desire of Cuba to co-operate with
America Jn every respect He said in an
emergency America can depend upon
Cuba, as a military or commercial ally.
Rcar-Admlral Higginson, Brigadier-General
W. H. Blsbce, Brlgadlcr-Gcneral A.
L. Mills. Captain H. C Clark and Colonel
A. C. Sharpe. Americans, and General
Garcia Vol ex. Cuban, made patriotic
rpceches. Both the Cuban and United
States artillery fired a salute and Colonel
tV. C Hayes unveiled the monument.
Lleutcnant-Gcneral Chaffee, who pro
skied, spoke eloquently of the achieve
ments of the Army and complimented
Cuba upon her efficient government.
Tonight the Cuban officials dined the
American -ucsts and the clubs, enter
tained the visitors at an elaborate balL
The city was brillantly Illuminated. Tho
Americans will be received aboard the
transport Sumner and the auxiliary
cruiser Yankee tomorrow.
.The Sumner, having on board the San
tiago Battlefield Commission, and tho
Yankee arrived here this morning. They
landed detachments at Guantanamo yes
terday and dedicated the monument on
McCalla hill to the marines killed on that
battlefield. Two companies of Cuban ar
tilery. two companies of rural guards, a
detachment of artillery and the Havana
band took part In the ceremolnes.
PROFIT IN REFUSE.
Civilizing a Department Disposal of
Waste in A'cw York.
New York Sun.
Up to four years ago the best thing
the street-cleaning department could
find to do with the stuff collected from
the streets and homes of New York
was to tow It out to sea and dump
it overboard. There was a theory that
most of the stuff thus disposed of would
sink and the rest be carried away" from
shore by current and wave. The theory
was not held by seaside dwellers. They
knew that, much of the waste matter
drifted Inshore, to litter the beaches,
breed disease and depreciate the value
of real estate. It was a wasteful, a
dangerous, a most primitive solution
of a problem that every community
must tackle, and the street-cleaning de
partment, costly and inefficient, was
by no means a popular institution.
Today scarcely a trace of the old
system remains. Nothing is towed to
sea. The positively useless matter is
Incinerated with as little offense as
may be. Everything of value. or of
use Is turned to profit. The ashes and
heavy rubbish suitable for the purpose
are used to build new land for the city.
At Hiker's Island S4 acres have been
made already. Each acre is worth not
less than $10,000. Within four years 185'
acres more will have been made, land
built up from the bottom, made by
the city, adaptable to many municipal
uses, and made with -what four years
ago would have been dumped into the
sea at heavy expense. In Brooklyn
the city is redeeming the sunken mead
ows along Coney Island Creek. So far
SO acres of once worthless property
have been reclaimed. Now the Gov
ernment wants to buy ashes from the
cltyto complete the fill at Governor's
Island. A good record for four years.
The lighter rubbish is not wasted.
A contractor picks It over, paying a
good price for the privilege. What he
rejects goes into the furnaces under
the boilers at the Williamsburg bridge
and at the Forty-seventh street dump.
It lights the Williamsburg bridge, the
public schools in the vicinity, the street
cleaning department stables. These
plants are young now. At the Williams
burg bridge plant alone a saving in
the cost of final disposition of $75 a day
is made, and the light produced is
worth $80 daily. The operating ex
penses of the plant are paid by the
money received for the picking privi
lege. The Investment of city money
was $83,000. The revenue produced, by
it is $52,000 a year. This is a return of
C3 per cent a year. Here "is natural,
legitimate municipal ownership and
operation, not exploited as a political
Issue or a demagogic appeal to class
hatred.
This is only a page out of the his
tory of the street-cleaning department.
It tells only a part of the story of the
last four years of progress. One man
has written IU a man who made a real
effort to 'improve New York, a man
who has accomplished something. . It
Is a record to be proud of. On the ros
ter of those who are helping to civi
lize New York's municipal govern
ment the name of John McGaw Wood
bury stands pretty near the top.
POSSIBILITIES OF SCRAP.
High-Grade Steel Made From Very
Ordinary Material.
London Times.
How the highest class of steel can be
made from ordinary scrap, such as rail
ends, la explained by a correspondent. He
says: "The electric furnace, if employed
simply as a roelter, would not remove
either silicon, sulphjir or phorphorus to
any appreciable extent, and If rail-ends
were only melted down you would only
obtain a second-class steel, exactly as is
obtained when such material Is melted
in pots. Tho Kjellln furnace is really a
large pot-melting furnace. In which little
-purification Is effected, and hence, if rail
ends were melted In this furnace, second
class steel would be produced. To make
highest-class steel In this furnace it is
necessary to select pure Swedish Walloon
scrap, exactly as is done for highest-class
crucible steel, and hence I say in my
article that this furnace Is not so well
suited to English conditions as others.
owing to its lack of adaptability both as
regards materials which caff be used and
any variations in design, etc. The other
furnaces referred to Heroult, Keller and
Staasaso are et mere meHSag pots, but,
by the attltlee o-f suitable Hues, enable
the phosphorus, ailteea aad sulphur to be
very largely removed and carried away In
the slag; and thus steel of the highest
class can be prod seed from rail steel, or
even still more Impure scrap. I have seen
charges made from wrought iron scrap,
containing 0.36 to L23 per cent phosphorus.
In which the finished steel contained 0.01
per cent and under. There Is not the
sllghest difficulty in largely removing the
phosphorus and silicon by melting rail
ends ia an ordinary Basic Siemens fur
nace, although there is more difficulty
with the sulphur. The great advantage
that the electric furnace has over the
Siemens furnace is the absence of furnace
gases and practically a nonoxldlzlng at
mosphere. It is not even suggested that
the electricity has anything to do with the
removal of Impurities it is simply the
heating agent; but it enables- the impuri
ties to be removed from scrap Iron under
conditions that approach nearer to the
crucible process than any other method,
and probably under conditions where oc
clusion of gases takes place to very small
extent. To put the case another way: In
case of high-class crucible steel you must
select absolutely pure scrap and bar steel
and mix according to requirements. In an
electric furnace you take ordinary ma
terials and purify them to the required
extent bv addition of fluxes to form slag.
which can be renewed several times, ac
cording to the degree of purification re
quired while this purification Is going on
there are no gases In contact with th
steel other than the little air which leaks
into tho furnace."
STYLES IN JEWELRY.
Itcvlval of That Worn Forty or Fifty
. Years Ago.
Jeweler's Circular-Weekly.
"In fashions we have once more
come round to the somewhat heavy
and cumbersome styles popular in Jew
elry some 49 or 59 years ago the fads
and designs worn during the days of
crinoline, the -period Just before and
during and even for a few seasons
after the Civil War," said an uptown
New York dealer.
"Have you not noticed." he con
tinued, drawing a massive gold chain
with a pendant of Oriental or Egyp
tian design and studded with pearls
from the showcase, how Jewelry of this
general fashion is coming In again?
Why. a year ago I could no moro have
found a customer for this than I could
have found a buyer for the showy and
tawdry belt buckles that were so popular
about four years ago, and which would
not have commanded the price of the
material in them a season afterward.
"This chain with its pendant came Into
my possession about 39 years ago exactly
as It Is, with the exception, of course.
that I have had it polished up and prop
erly mounted. I got it for the price of old
gold, but somehow I never had the heart
to have it melted up, and this Is by no
means the only piece, of Jewelry that I
have acquired In the same way, and
that I have kept, contrary to the Judg
ment of others. Nor is tills by any means
the only Instance In which the course I
have pursued has pald'mc in the end.
"See here, and he brought out of the
showcase four or five other samples of old
style wares of the same school. "These
are all old stuff, that I have acquired in
the same way for the bare worth- of the
metal that is In them, and which I am
sure that I will be able to find a profitable
sale for enough to more than repay mo
for the purchase price and the Interest on
my Investment for the many years that
I have kept each, piece. That's the way
with styles. In five years it will be out
of fashion once more, but in another 30 or
W It will co mo in again."
How Old Is Marriage?
Harper's Weekly.
Tho discussion which has been carried
on concerning the question of the anti
quity of the marriage "rite receives somo
additional light in the current Issue from
a correspondent who asserts1 that the mar
riage ceremony, la Its sacramental cnar-
acter. not only goes back to the first age
of the church as affirmed by a previous
correspondent but to the earliest dawn of
history. It may be true, he says, mat
before the advent of Christianity there
were forms of marriage among the Ro
mans in which religion had no part, but
that was because the Influence of earlier
beliefs was passing away. The Institution
of sacred marriage Is asserted to oe as
old in the Indo-European race as the do
mestic religions "for the one could not
exist without the other."
Identity In a Street-Car.
Indianapolis News.
They were going to the theater. The car
was crowded, and there being two or
three oolite men left in Indianapolis, one
of the two or three gave her a seat in the
forward end of the car. He remained on
the platform to finish a cigar. She always
lets him do that.
When the conductor came along tho
smoker possessed of a "steady" girl pre
sented two tickets.
"Who is this for?" asked the ticket pro
curer. The lady up in front."
"Yes, but there are several up there."
"Oh. well, let's see: I'm paying for the
one under Eat-Em-Qu!ck Biscuits."
Mnzzlcd Women or Muscat,
Allahabad (India) Pioneer.
Women of the better class In Muscat
all wear muxxles. which barely allow
them to open the mouth or see with the
eye or sneeze. If there happens to be a
Cleopatra ln Muscat she will never
fascinate any Antony by the beauty of
her well-shaped nose, for It Is kept In
a specially made, ugly case. In which
it Is Impossible to tell Its shape. But
with all Its faults this Is a far better
system than that of cutting off the
nose, as men fn the Kangra district, in
India, are wont to do when any of
their spouses have proved too fascin
ating.
BETTER THAN PIE
Net Oaiy the New Feed Bat the Goad
Wife, Well.
When they brought the new food. Grape
Nuts. Into the house the husband sampled
it first and said. "It's better than pie!"
When It brought back the glow of health
to the wife's cheeks, his admiration for
it and her was Increased, so she says,
and the rest of her story follows:
"From childhood I was troubled with
constant and often acute Indigestion, and
when my baby was born It turned out
that he bad Inherited the awful ailment.
"A friend told me of Grape-Nuts and.
I invested In a box and began to eat ac
cording to directions. It was after only
a few days that I found my long abused
stomach was growing stronger and that,.
the attacks of Inalgestlon were growing
less frequent, and In an incredibly short
time they ceased altogether. With my
perfect digestion restored came strong
nerves, clear, active brain, the glow of
health to my cheeks, and I know -I was
a better wife and mother and more agree
able to live with under the new condi
tions.
"When the boy came to be 10 months
old he developed such an appetite (his
dyspepsia disappeared with mine) that
his mother's milk was not sufficient for
him. He rejected all baby foods, however.
till I tried Grape-Nuts foods, at bus
band's suggestion. The youngster took to
it at once and has eaten it dally ever
since, thriving wonderfully on it. He
now demands it at every meal and was
much put out when, he dined at a hotel
a few days ago because the waitress
could not fill his order for Grape-Nuts.'
Name given by Fostum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
There's a reason.
WIH FE COMING
Southern Road Will Probably
Open Offices in This City.
MOVE FULL OF MEANING
3Iay Have Bearing on Extension
North. From Humboldt Bay,
for Which Survey Was
Once rMadc.
There Is said to be a strong nrobabllity
that before the year is over the Santa.
Fc will establish offices in Portland to
compete for tho transcontinental freight
and passenger business originating in the
acmc Northwest. Statistics are being
gathered by that road und figures arc in
the hands of Freight Traffic Manager W.
A. Bisxcll. of the San Francisco offices.
Showing the lumber traffic handled by
thb roads centering In Oreson and Wash
ington and what proportion of this busi
ness the Santa. Fc could reasonably ex
pect. Other tonnage to the East and
South la being figured on with a view to
placing representatives in Portland to
compete for business.
Charles Warren, central asrent of tho
Santa Fe at Salt Lake City, was In, Port
land during the past week and while he
ostensibly came on no sDcdal business
mission, it Is said he was looking after
me interests of his road. Other envoys
of the Santa Fe have been In Portland un
announced and have gone over the local
field and reported to the head offices.
That these reports have been so favorable
that serious consideration' is now being
given to establishing an office here Is
known.
Such a move on the cart of the Santa
Fe will probably be hastened because of
tho strong efforts now bcinc made by
other transcontinental roads to get Into
Portland and bid for Coast business. The
placing of an office here bv the Santa
Fe will have the effect of making known
tnc extent of tho business in this terri
tory among the Eastern railroaders and
would probably still further stimulate
railroad building on this Coast-
That the establishment of an agency in
Portland and its bidding for trade would
nave a deeper significance than appears
on tho face of tho proposition. Is the be-
lief of railroad men. who predict that
the Santa Fe Is about to build along its
survey north along the Oregon Coast
from Eureka, California. The placing of
an office here would, some say, be the
entering wedge toward making this point
the terminal of the Santa Fe.
Surveys were made north from Eureka.
where the' Santa Fe has already pur
chased the San Francisco Sc. Northwest
ern, a short road running Into Eureka and
operating 42 miles of track, north as far
as Yaqulnu Bay. This work was com
pleted four years ago and the men in
charge wont so far in collecting all pos
sible data that the soil was analyzed
along tho survey to determine what agri-
cutural products were best fitted for each
section of the country to be traversed.
A mineralogist also accompanied the
expedition and made a report on the in
dications he found for ores in the moun
tains penetrated by the survey. The re
port of the men comprising the expedi
tion was voluminous and complete data is
available for the use of the Santa Fe of
ficials when they decide to build north
from Eureka:
The engineer In charge of the survey
reported that for miles and miles the
country to be traversed. Is so level that
little or no grading would have to be donu
prior to the laying of ties. Four or five
short tunnels are said to be the only
ones required and for 600 miles the road
would be in sight of tho ocean. More
over there arc no mountains to climb, said
the engineer who made the survey.
The opening of an office here will be
regarded as full of significance by rail
road men who are allvo to the situation
and predict the Santa Fc will build
northward along tho Coast before very
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