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-THE MOUSING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1906.
PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE STATE OF OREGON
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KLAMATH CANAL
Portland Contractors Will Fin
ish Task in About Eight
Months.
FIRST. GROUND BROKEN
Laborers Arc Xow DlRjrins: Fourteen-Foot
Tunnel "Under the
Connly Scat Many 3fcn
and Teams Working.
KiLAMATH FALLS. Or., March 2.
(Special.) It Is the intention of Mason.
Davis & Co., contractors for the first nine
miles of canal under the Klamath project,
of the-United States Reclamation Service,
to complete the entire work In olght
months, Instead of consuming the twelve
month allotted for the labor. It Is the
belief of the contractors that much great
er economy can be practiced by hurrying
the task to completion, and that the delay
Incident to an early cold snap next Winter
may likewise be avoided, so far as affect
ing their work is concerned, by bavlng
the- big waterway finished by the begin
ning of December.
Accompanying cuts from photographs
Fhow the scene when the first earth was
broken for the excavation at the east en
trance to the tunnel that Is to pierce the
high hill at the northern limit -of Klam
ath Falls, and under a part of the town
site. The spot where the work was com
menced Is in the boundary line of the
town and within about 100 yards of what
will be the east portal of the tunnel. Here
a deep cut will be made, narrowing down
from the normal width of the canal to the
33 feet width of the tunnel, through
which tho water will be diverted from
Link River and Upper Klamath Lake.
"Work From Both Ends.
It has been decided that work in the
tunnel will proceed from each portal and
also from a shaft to be sunk at the cen
ter, thus enabling the use of four shifts
In drilling, blasting and removing the
formation that stands between the canal
and its source of supply. By working
from a shaft In each direction, the use of
an air compressor will be avoided at
either of the end sections, and still with
the size of bore good fresh air will be
naturally supplied to the miners em
ployed. Subcontractors will probably secure" the
tunnel work, but It Is understood that all
of the excavating of the canal will be
done by the contracting firm.
Horses and mules In considerable num
bers have been bought in this county by
tho contractors, in addition to those
shipped in from Portland. Recently. Cal
ifornia parties bought a large number of
horses weighing over 1200 pounds for rail
road grading in that state, but the ma
jority of horses used on the canal here
are below that weight. Owing to the dis
tance it is necessary to move the dirt In
some parts of the excavating, it Is said
that heavy horses are not nearly so desir
able as animals of medium weight and
size.
Contractors Buy Much Feed.
, Representatives of tho contracting firm
bought up lnrge quantities of grain and
hay to suffice until the time for the first
crop of new hay, and Archie Mason Is
authority for the statement that no diffi
culty whatever will bo experienced In re
gard to feed, owing to the necessary
amount having been secured.
This is very fortunate, for there Is little
hay remaining on hand In the Valley, the
unusual number of stock fed and ranges
being covered with snow for some seven
or eight weeks, makes forage prices rather
high. Alfalfa is now worth $12.50 loose
and $15 baled, per ton.
liAXD 3X KLAMATH COUNTY
Lnrpc Areas Must Be Subdivided and
Sold Settlers.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., March 25.
(Special.) Advices received from railroad
immigration agents and from the volume
of correspondence received by the Com
mercial Club, by county officials and cit
izens generally, it is apparent that there
is to be a heavy movement from the Mid
dle West and from all over the Coast re
gion to Klamath County, Oregon, and into
Siskiyou and Modoc Counties. Jn Cali
fornia, because of the reclamation proj
ect. Many people have the idea that Gov
ernment land can be acquired under the
canal system at this time and expect to
be located on homesteads. This Is not
tho case, as nearly all of the Government
land to be reclaimed is now in the beds
of lakes and In swamps, none of which
will be open to settlement for three or
four years. There la considerable land
offered, however, that Is held in private
ownership and must be disposed of be
cause the Government will only allow
ownors to receive water for 1C0 acres, or
loss, and then the owner must be a resi
dent. As this -county has heretofore been a
stockralslng section, chleflv, there are
many largo tracts that must now be sub
divided and sold to persons who will cul
tivate the land and perfect water rights
in accordance with the regulations. Much
of this land has been sold during the past
year, but an aggregate of several thou
sand acres still remains.
"MUCH FRUIT MAY BE SAFE
Southern Oregon Growers Differ as
to Frost Damage.
ASHLAND. Or.. March 25. (Special.)
The first reports of damage to fruit by
frosts are usually, if not always, exag
gerated. The cold March weather has un
questionably done much damage to fruit
in all parts of the Rogue River Valley,
but there Is a difference of opinion as to
the extent of the freeze, and time only
will settle the question. Some of the re
liable and conservative applogrowers of
tlTe valley insist that fhe apples have
been practically wiped out. But others
insist Just as strongly that there are
plenty of live buds left yet, both on the
apple and pear trees.
Jn the Ashland district, where it was at
first thought tho peach crop had been
ruined, many growers arc reporting the
finding of live blossoms and buds, and
there are hopes that tho reports will con
tinue to grow better. -Cherries are not
believed, to have been injured at all.
The weather has grown seasonable
again, much to tho relief of stockgrow
crs, as well as frultmen.
Habitual constipation cured and the
bowels strengthened by the regular use
of .Carter's Little Liver Pills in small
doses. Doa't forget this.
KKAMATH FALLS IRRIGATION
Iowa People Purchase 30,000
Acres on Yaquina Bay.
FARMERS COMING WEST
Several Hundred Families Will Find
Homes in Hitherto Xcslcctcd
Sections of the State.
Jtallrond Jlunioro.
ALBANY. Or.. March 25. (Special.) The
transaction recently reported In The Ore
gonian whereby J. M. Tallman, of Cedar
Rapids, 3a., and S. E. Wightman. of Wa
tertown, S. D., have gained possession of
30.000 acres of land along the line of the
Corvallls & Eastern Railroad near Ya
quina .Bay, is one .of the most Important
realty transactions that has been consum
mated in Oregon for some time. The gen
tlemen who made the purchase are repre
sentatives of a large colonization scheme,
and have now returned to their Eastern
homes to report readiness to care for sev
eral hundred families.
These people are coming to Oregon to
live, and will populate one of the richest
and yet most neglected portions of the
valley. Their land will extond from the
interior through tho Coast Range Moun
tains to tideland on Yaquina Bay. It Is
now a sparsely-settled country, consisting
of considerable grazing and open land, fit
for cultivation, and many acres of land
covered with excellent timber ready for
the mill.
All this vast tract of land will be culti
vated and utilized by these thrifty farm
ers, who are coming West to escape the
rigors of Winter climate In Iowa and the
Da kotos. When the stretch from Benton
County to the coast along the' line of the
Corvallls & Eastern Railroad is thickly
settled by the large number of people who
compose the proposed colony, the region
between Albany and the coast will be
come' one of the important agricultural
and industrial districts of the state.
In this connection, extension of the Cor
vallls & Eastern Railroad into Eastern
Oregon Is a topic of discussion In Albany
again. If settlement of the country con
tiguous to the coast branch of the line
makes that end of the concern a paying
investment, will it not mean pie estab
lishment of extensive colonies along the
lino of the road in Eastern Oregon, and
the extension of the road into that in
terior country, Is a question that Is being
asked here.
Certain it is that Harrlman people arc
Interested In the colony in Lincoln County
in more or less degree, and the hundreds
of people who are to form the colony are
slated to come to Oregon over the Har
rlman lines. Of course tho Interest of the
Harrlman people may extend merely to
getting the colonists routed over their
lines for the business there Is In ft. but
local optimists try to think there is more
than that in it.
They like to think it means that Har
rlman is interested In the Corvallls &
Eastern Railroad, and now, when the Ore
gon territory Is the objective point of
great railroad operations, that Mr. Har
rlman has become aroused to the situa
tion and Is beginning the work of mak
ing good In tho Corvallls & Eastern Rail
road territory.
IiAXD VALUES INCREASED.
Promise of Railroad Brings Wallowa
County Farms Jnto Demand.
The East Oregonlan prints the follow
ing regarding the rise In land values
following the entry of the railroad Into
such a region as Wallowa County: Rich
in resources, splendid In scenery, but un
able to attract Its due share of popula
tion until the way Into and out of the
country is made easy. The rise In land
values, of course, means that the people
are there now or are flocking in to give
the bigger prices:
"Land that was worth, but $S per acre
seven years ago is now selling in Wal
lowa Valley at 550 to $TO per acre on the.
promise of the extension of the Elgin
branch of the O. R. & N. into the val
ley," said J. A. Burleigh, editor of the
Lostlne Democrat and ox-Representative
in the Legislature from Wallowa County,
who Is in Pendleton today on bis way
home from Portland and Walla Walla.
"Mr. Burleigh says the right of- way
through tho Wallowa Valley has been
practically all secured, and It Is prob
able that tho right for the entire line
through the valley will be secured with
out legal, proceedings, a record hereto
fore unknown in .Northwest railroad
building.
"THe Elgin extension is now being
graded rapidly toward the mouth of the
Wallowa River. 16 miles north of Elgin.
From the mouth of the Wallowa River
the line will follow the north side of the
Wallowa River, crossing that stream at
the wagon bridge near the mouth of the
aiinam River." '
MONET FOR EXPERIMENTS.
Station at Agricultural College to
Be Congratulated.
The people of Oregon, as well as the
staff of the Experiment Station at Cor
vallls. are to be congratulated on the
news of the passing by the United States
Senate of the bill previously passed by
the House, adding I5000 this year, and
promising further additions up to $15.00)
to the funds of the station. Only those
who are cognizant of tho 'many oppor-
COLONY
J W Tallman. mot
CANAL, VIKWKD FROM HILL UNDER WHlCn TCNNKL IS TO RK BORED.
tunltics for new work, and the develop
ment of work already begun there, can
appreciate the added usefulness which
the extra money will mean to this useful
institution.
New crops, their yields, their culture,
their commercial value, new breeds of
stock, their food and management, the
effect of irrigation under varying condi
tions of soil, of season, of quantity all
these things can now be handled to Just
twice the advantage with twice the
money. One point connected with this
Government Institution often escapes no
tice, it is this that the trained experts
In charge of this work hold on to their
offices from year to year, while their use
fulness continues or Is enlarged, without
regard to political change or fluctuations.
Thus it is possible for them to pursue
experimental work from season to season
to tho manifest benefit of results.
It Is permissible to express the gratifi
cation of many friends of the experiment
station on hearing that Professor E. F.
Pcrnot. the bacteriologist. Is recovering
from his dangerous Illness. His connec
tion with the experiment station has now
cxtonded over many years. His work
has always been faithful, and in many
cases of original value. It Is known that
In this most interesting department vari
ous investigations are pending, fraught
with much benefit to the state."
SIG BOOM IN ABERDEEN
TWO HOTELS TO BE DOUBLED IX
SIZE AND THEATER OPENED.
Northern Pacific Officials AMsit
Gray's Harbor Hostelry at
3IocIips to Be Jtcbuilt.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. March 25. (Spe
cial.) Aberdeen is to have two of the
largest hotels in the Pacific North
west, the Washington Hotel proprie
tors having decided to double Its ca
pacity by starting: work on a new ad
dition within a few weeks. The oxr
pendltuic planned is 525,300. The
Washington Hotel was built after the
fire of 1903 and was the first first-class
hotel to be built bore.
The Crescent Hotel, which is of ce
ment and brick, will also bo doubled
in size by the addition of two stories,
with elevators to carry the guests to
the upper floors. It will be the first
"skyscraper" in Aberdeen, although It
will be but four stories high. The cost
of this Improvement will be about
530,000.
The visit of. the traffic managers of
the Northern Pacific Railway Company
to Gray's Harbor during the past week
indicates that this company intends to
pay more attention to this section than
it has done heretofore, no doubt
through fear of the reports of other
roads coming and taking a share of the
business. The passenger accommoda
tions have always been slow on the
Gray's Harbor branch and lumbermen
have been at great disadvantage for
months by reason of the shortage of
cars.
The managers when bore seemed
anxious to learn of the conditions and
promised .relief. It Is stated that exten
sive improvements are to be made In
the depot grounds and In trackage at
this point and in Hoqulaxn.
Preparations for the opening of the
Aberdeen Theater April 19 are to be
carried out on an elaborate scale. The
theater will have cost when complete.!
more than 530.300, and is far beyond
whut the theater patrons were ex
pecting:. The theater will scat 1200
persons and contains all the latest Im
provements for the comfort of patrons
and of-actors.
h bid Is to be made for theatrical
attractions on the ground that the the
ater has the best accommodations on
the Pacific Coast. All the dressing
rooms are well lighted, steam heated,
with cold and hot water, carpeted, and
with gas and electric lights. It has
been the hobby of Manngcr Benn, of
the company, to make the house par
ticularly attractive for actors.
Hoqulaxn business men are to bullJ
a Summer hotel at Mocllps to replace
the- one destroyed by fire after the
close of the season last year and the
first year of Its construction. Plans
arc being- drawn In this city for the
building which will be three stories
high and cost 530.000.
The Northern Pacific Company Is
anxious for .the hotel, as Mocllps Is on
the peninsular extension of the road
and the revenue from the Summer re
sort visitors is considerable and largely
helps to make the new branch a paying
proposition.
WEALTH III PINES
Billions of Feet of Uncut Tim
ber in Jackson County.
LUMBERMEN BUY HEAVILY
Railroads and Syndicates Active
Competitors in the Market New
Sawmills Tor Klamath
Falls Soon.
ASHLAND. Or.. March 25. (Special.)
Jackson County has billions of feet
of standing timber. Some of it is the
finest sugar and yellow pine In the
world. The eastern boundary line of
the county, which Is 25 milos east of
Ashland, runs through ono of the fin
est bodies of pine In tho world. It Is
said. Some quarter sections here will
yield 10.003.000 feet of lumber. Here Is
one body of 40,000 acres of pine held
by Pennsylvania Interests and valued
now at perhaps not less than 550 per
acre. A few years ago this land was
entered by Individuals under the tim
ber act and bought by them from the
Government for 52.50 per acre. They
sold and made a good profit, but the
bis capitalists who gathered the land
In from them are reaping the big
profits, which are growing- bigger year
by year. There arc other large hold
ings in this timber belt, which Is of
considerable extent arid reaches far
Into Klamath County.
Then there have been many indi
vidual holdings of residents of this
section who hnve exercised their tim
ber rights and have been holding their
claims on speculation. There has been
a particularly active market for these
claims the past few months. The Wey
erhueuser Company, which purchased
the LIndey railroad and timber Inter
ests from Laird to Pokegama for 51.
250.000, has had buyers out gathering
In all available timber land in this
belt which the railroad has begun to
penetrate.
Much Money Invested.
Tens of thousands of dollars have,
been scattered among- Ashland people
alone the past few months by this com
pany, and as much by the McCIoud
Railroad people, who have bcon their
competitors for the purchase of this
timber.
The Weyerhaeuser people arc to
build a big- mill or two, soon, on the
Klamath side of the slope, according
to their agents, who are in this sec
tion. They also contemplate extending
the railroad into the Klamath basin
proper.
There Is also another Immense body
of pine limber In Jackson County. It
Is In the Upper Rogue River region.
Here there Is a belt of over 200,0)0
acres without the Cascade reserve. In
side the reserve and withdrawn from
entry or private ownership there Is an
other 200.000 acres. Some of this land
will average 20.000 feet of lumber per
acre, a large part of It pine, with much
fine red and yellow fir. This belt will
undoubtedly be tapped by a railroad
ere a great while. The Medford &
Crater Lake Railroad, upon which
work has progressed. Including the
laying of rails, as far as Eagle Point.
12 miles, is headed for this big tim
ber belt.
There arc numerous other smaller
belts, of timber lands in Jackson
County. Milling is carried on regularly
in the Neil-Creek district south of
Ashland a few miles, by the Ashland
Manufacturing Company, which oper
ates two sawmills and an extensive
box factory, and there Is an Important
Industry In this line at McdforJ. The
Towa Lumber Company handles the
products of several small mills In that
vicinity.
Boom at Central Point.
Central Point, which, as its name Indi
cates, is located in the central portion of
the Rogue River valley. Is showing con
siderable Improvement and KTowtn af the
present time. AHthe""rcant lots owned
by the townsltc company In the place,
about ICO In number, have Just been
bought up by a newcomer, and there have
been rumors that there Is to be some
TEAMS AND SCRAPERS AT WORK OX KLAMATH JTAIXS
thing doing at. Central Point. The town
Is to be supplied with a newspaper. It Is
rumored, as the next move In Its develop
ment programme.
The old historic town of Jacksonville is
also taking on some new life recently,
and the place which at one time was.
next to Portland, the most Important
point In Oregon, but which has been'dls
tanccd In the race for town supremacy In
Its own county for a number of years past
since the main line of the railroad left It
to one side, enjoying a revival of pros
perity. A number of new buildings have
been and are now being erected, and the
population is being added to by the de
velopment of the mining Industry In the
vicinity.
Minlnc; Near Jacksonville.
The Opp mine, which Is being developed
as few quartz properties have been devel
oped In this county, has a pay-roll of 30
men or more, and Is located within two
miles of the hospitable old county scat
town, while the development of the copper
prospects near the state line In the Elliott
Creek country Is also making business
for Jacksonville, from which the wagon
road leads to the new camp.
Rogue River Valley farmers are getting
the rural telephone habit like the pro
gressive agriculturists In other parts of
the country. One or two lines have been
built out of Medford. and the latest rural
line is among the farmers of Talent pre
cinct, who will soon ba connected with
the local exchange of the Sunset Com
pany, at Ashland, and have free switching
with tho latter place. They are now build
ing the line from the telephone company's
main line, and will lease the telephones
and have the company keep them In order.
LIFE BEYOND THE GRAVE
Thoughts on the Truism of Immor
tality and Recognition.
PORTLAND. March 23. (To the Editor.)
I do not believe such dogmas as contained In
the "Dream of a Dlbllever." published In
Vwr Iwue ef March 19. under the captain
of "Life Beyond the Grave." and over the
name of G. E. Caulcin. should go unchal
lenged. Tour correspondent doubtless anticipated an
Intelligent puWIc astounded by his Imagina
tive vlvidtty and hopelessly bewildered over
his masterful deposition of hi Ingenious ex
pletives. If so, hi disappointment was doubt
less" as complete as that or your readers who
perused hi article, for a close examination
of It leads one to the erratic rather than the
profound from the sane to the ineane. I
submit that If your correspondent possessed
that abnormal mental development to which
he lay claim he would not have Interposed
such an allegorical Illusion for a mumbling
Mock to the. feet of that class of aoclety
whlch today Is groping down the pathway of
life In a chaos of mingled sunshine and
shadow. The object of his article was
doubtlem the possession of the wreath of pub
lic admiration. The effect of It can be no
other than harmful, beclouding the mind al
ready dwarfed, diseased or deluded, with
an erratic picture of an insane Impossibility.
Your correspondent In bis frenzied dream
strikes like the blinded viper, caring not
where nor whom he hits. In his ravings he
strike at the universal belief in immortality
and while on hit rampage tramples mor
tality and those customs. laws and unwrit
ten requirement, an observance of and com
pliance with which the flight of time has
demonstrated to be conducive to the public
weal, -personal security and happiness. What
Inducement Is held forth for an observance
of the duties and an obedience to the law
growing out of the marital state. If we set
up an existence beyond the grave which Is
repulsive to every Immortal impulse beating
In the human breast? Why picture a future
tate Into which we must ultimately be ush
ered, but to be disappointed? No mind except
an erratic one. devoid of that divine humble
neea taught by a mingling of supreme hap
piness with deepest sorrow, could conjure a
picture of an after life, where the mother
with broken heart and trembling hands bad
consigned to the cold vaults of the grave the
body of her flrM-born babe, with no other
consolation save a burning hope to clasp her
child again to her breast In the Ufa beyond
the grave, would be ushered Into, a strange
sphere, lost amid unfamiliar ecenep. search
ing the recesses of the nether world for a
babe with golden lock and dimpled cheeks,
only to find her child withering away within
the grasp or age. The Intelligent who read
Hch chaff will spurn the suggestions The
public will trust to unconlrovertabte Impulses
of nature to guide the footstep of the Ig
norant In the paths of right.
Your correspondent at the close of hLs de
lirium, after rcxertlng to his night of ter
ror, states: "Icould come to the same con
clusion, as hundreds of times before, that this
life l the only one of which we have sat
isfactory evidence." It has been said and Is
doubtless true, that a man may state today
what he knows to be .absolutely false, but
that by repeating the statement continuously
his mind finally comes to believe the state
ment to be an absolute truth. It Is no
credit for your correspondent to convince
himself. Most of us are the foolish victims
of our own follies. The erratic dreamer con
vinces himself coma to his own conclusions.
The able thinker, the philosopher, convinces
others.
Tour correspondent writes of "satisfactory
evidence." ' Satisfactory to whom? "We."
your correspondent answers. Who are "We"?
Not "we" your correspondent, but "we" the
public the men. women and children living
today. Not contented with having drawn a
cartoon of Immortality, and. In his own blind
ness, convinced himself of Us artistic beauty,
he. transforms Jhlmself Into an autocratic
court, and upon evidence which he alone
elicits, submits and passes upon, renders a de
cision not for himself alone, but for the
public as well, that there Is not sufficient
evidence to warrant a conviction of & ' life
beyond the grave.
That liberal-minded class of thinkers who
are charitable enough to lead themielves to
dispense with a belief that there Is a hell
of fire and brimstone, will doubtless find
consolation In the thought, that, perhaps af
ter all. such a hell will b necessary in the
final Judgment to furnish satisfactory evidence
to such as your correspondent that there I
a life beyond the grave.
HENRY S. AVEgq-BrtOOK.
Ferry Sold, and Kates Doubled.
CASTL.E ROCK. "Wash.. March' 25.
(Special.) The ferry at this place,
owned by H. H. Powelson. has been sold
to V'. H. Williams. Since the sale was
made It Is announced that the rates will
be doubled.
J. "W. Tallman, fnoie.
IRRIGATION CANAL.
FOR IIS T ION
Mountain Streams in Baker
County Will Pump Water
to Arid Lands.
FOR $1 PER ACRE MONTHLY
Cost as Jiittlc as or JLcss Than
Gravity System Busy Times
for Quartz ' Miners in
Eastern Oregon.
BAKER CITY, Or.. March 23.-Spccial.)
Baker County promises to revolutionize
Irrigation by the use of electricity. The
proposition has been found to be not only
practlcal but as cheap and, in some in
stances, cheaper than Irrigation by the
gravity system. The proposition In Baker
County Is to Irrigate by means of pumps
run by electric motors. The Oregon Elec
tric Company is contracting to furnish
motive power sufficient to Irrigate one
acre of land for ?1 a month. The Irrigat
ing season does not last tor more thaa
three months at the longest, and this
would be 53 a year per acre. Experienced
farmers say that is as cheap as they can
Irrigate lands with a gravity system.
There Is great opportunity for the gen
eration of electricity by water power In
Baker County. Vast horsepower Is go
ing to waste season after season, and the
water Is not available for Irrigation owing
to the narrow confines of the gorges.
The Oregon Electric Company Intended to
make a business of supplying electric
power for the mines, and did not con
sider electricity as a means of irrigation
until it became necessary to irrigate a
small patch of land near the power plant
on Eagle Creek. An old motor was put
to work on a pump, and the result opened
up a wide field for use of electricity in
addition to offering- cheap Irrigation for
land that could not be reached by ditches
from the creeks.
Electric Power in Plenty.
Baker County has a number or large elec
tric power plants, and some of them are
generating more power than the mines
and cities demand. The Red Boy mine is
just completing one of the biggest plants
In the Eastern Oregon district. In the
construction of this plant the water was
made to do nearly all the work. A flume
was constructed and by hydraulic power
an entire hill was washed down Into the
channel of the creek, making a dam and
at the same time creating an immense
reservoir.
Another big project is the Ox Bow. but
there Is some question as to whether It
will be developed this year. This" Includes
tunneling through a bend In the Snake
River and securing a fall of about 50 feet
for the entire volume of the Snake, which
would be sufficient to generate electricity
for the entire mining district.
The Sanger mine is also putting in an
immense electric plant, to cost nearly
500.000. This water, as is that for the
Oregon Electric Company, Is taken from
Eagle Creek.
All the big mines are using electricity
as motive power. The Baker T.lght &
Power Company with the big plant on
Rock Creek and the steam plant In Ba
ker City, Is already furnishing power to
nearly every mine in the BaIsIey-"Elk-horn,
Sumpter and Bourne districts, and
every little camp has Its electric street
lights.
Interurbnn Iilne Projected.
There Is plenty of electric power in this
district and it is now proposed to con
struct an electric belt line railroad con
necting the farms and towns of Powder
Valley and Medical Springs district with
Baker City. W. J. Patterson, who has
been In Los Angeles during the "Winter,
writes that TV. J. Lack and John
Schmidt, vice-president of the Loan &
Trust Company, have succeeded In float
ing the bonds for this road and actual
operations will commence this Spring.
As yet there Is no local evidence of the
construction of the road, but the people
are very anxious that such roads as the
belt line and the one to Eagle Valley be
constructed.
Baker County this year expects to in
crease its output of gold by about Jl.
000.COO. The output for 19M and 1505 was
about one million for each year. This
year a number of the biggest mines
which have been Idle for several years
"will be producing, among them the Red
Boy, Standard. Bonanza, Gold Hill, Gold
Coin, the Virtue, the Mayf lower, the
Cornucopia and others. In addition there
will be more placers mined than ever be
fore on account of the heavy snow of
the Winter and the early Spring thaws.
Placer Miners Are Active.
The placer miners are already packing
into the hills so as to be on hand when
the water starts down the canyons. In
view of these facts prominent mining
men say they expect to see the total out
put from the Baker district amount to
?2.000,COO this year.
If the Gold Coin gets Its 100-stamp mill
In operation early enough in the season
and the ore proves to bo what It seems,
this total amount will be easy to reach,
for 100 stamps dropping on even a low
grade ore for an entire season will turn
out much gold. This mill will be the
largest In Oregon when installed.
CATTLE IN EASTERN OREGON
Many Thousand Head Winter-Fed
for California Market.
The following item from Klamath
County confirms much "that Is said in an
interesting article In another column.
"Louis Gerber, the well-known Klam
ath stockman, was in our city Tuesday.
Mr. Gerber Informed an Examiner re
porter that there are pot over 1000 head
of beef cattle left on the great Klamath
alfalfa feeding grounds. He says there
were over 20,000 tons of alfalfa hay fed
out there since November 1. and hay has
advanced to J7 and 5S per ton. Over
10.000 head of beef and 20.000 head of
sheep were "fed there for the California
market." Lakevlew Examiner.
The same paper has an article on the
supplying of the 15.000 laborers on the
line of the "Western Pacific with beef and
mutton from Lake County, and Its neigh
bor. Modoc, over the California line. It
Is condensed as follows:
."Lake and Modoc Counties have never
had a better opportunity to prove their
greatness than the one now offered. The
"Western Pacific has no lines to patron
ize, so that contractors will doubtless
be free to purchase where they please.
For several years It has been the custom
to divide the business of Lake County,
moat of the beef cattle being driven west
to tho Southern Pacific line, either at
Montague or Gazelle, the wool and mer
chandise of the northern part of the
county donating to the Columbia South
ern, considerable cattle and horses be
ing driven to Ontario and "Wlnnemucea
from the casters part of the county;
while the business of the southern part
of the county goes to tho JN-C-O. There,
have been no exports except beef, niut-
ton, horses and mules and wool."
At last the local press- reports a move
ment for higher prices for cattle. The
following Is a sample:
"Cattle are slowly but surely rising in
price. Buyers are now offering 515 for
yearling steers and $22 for 2-year-olds.
This Is about $4 higher than the opening
price last Spring and is 51 higher than
last year's highest price."
VIEWS OF "PROF." FL0RES
He Belabors The Oregonlan and
Suggests Dynamite.
PORTLAND, JIarch 25. (To. the Editor.)
The Oregonlan need not go Into any con
vulsions nor high fevers about Socialism; So
cialism has outgrown Its diapers. It ls now
able to take care of Itself without any a
alstance from the every-day. common prep.
The pre. like the hypocritical clergy, la al
ways with the top dog. What Debs said the
other day was very plain and unmistakable.
There need be no complaint from mlneowners
and other slaveowners if they heed not the
warning that Debs gives them when he ays
to them: "If those mea are hanged in Idaho
or Colorado, you want to prepare to follow
them!" Xow, Isn't that a fair warning?
Haven't the capitalists prostituted all the
courts In these United States? Don't The Ore
gonlan well know that If some poor devil
down about Burnslde or bad-land district,
being hungry, stole a loaf of bread, the wise
detectives would In a few minutes hav him
landed In Jail, tried, convicted and. In the
penitentiary? Have not all your Judge? and
courts all gone o rotten that It Is rather a
reproach to bo called an American- citizen?
Don't The Oregonlan well know that hlstory
Is Just simply repeating Itself? You have
an army of detectives In these United States,
but not to detect and bring to Justice such
scoundrels as billionaire oil kings. "What's
the matter with a search warrant to search
the shack where the oil billionaire I hiding?
why don't The Oregonlan suggest some way
to bring that scoundrel law-breaker Rocke
feller to Justice?
Labor has ijot million of gold to" keep up
an army of detectives, else I tell you ther
could soreo black-hearted villainy be brought
to light from the "Inner circle" of the cap
italists. In conclusion. I would remind The
Oregonlan that "like begets like." and as
you "sow ?o shall you reap." If capital will
Indulge the pleasure and pastime of periodic
ally stringing up labor, then it must be pa
tient with labor when labor reciprocates In
kind with the accompanying modulations and
variation with dynamite In filx Hats. Look
at Russia! PROFESSOR X. D. FLO RES.
Why doesn't the learned Professor Flo
res himself suggest some way to bring
Rockefeller to justice? He Is not very
consistent to ask help from The Orego
nion after saying that the Socialists can
get along all right without the aid of the
press. But consistency Is the virtue of
little minds; It cannot be expected from
the towering Intellect of a Flores. Neith
er can gratitude, perhaps. The Oregonlan
has faithfully labored in the cause of
even-handed Justice for rich and poor
alike. It has had no "convulsions'' over
Socialism, but It has denounced the
wrongs which engender the Socialistic
movement. Possibly The Oregonlan has
quite as clear a perception of theso
wrongs as Professor Flores himself.
Had we an iron wedge and sledgeham
mer, and the Professor's head where these
means of instruction could be brought to
bear upon It. we would try to instill tho
Idea Into his beery mind that he and his
kind are worse enemies to honest, sensi
ble workmen than Rockefeller, with all
his misdeeds. They Identify labor with
dynamite. They disgust its friends. They
encourage Its enemies. They repay kind
ness with railing. They are ungrateful,
snarling curs who havo not sense enough
to know who their friends are. Decent
workmen may thank heaven that Flores
is a phenomenon as rare as he Is nau
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