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THE MORNIXG OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER, 5, 1906. 12 PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE STATE OF OREGON TELLS OF WALKER Li E Ben B. Williams Returns From Trip Into New Nevada Mining District. CAMPAIGNING IN DESERT "Tenderfeet" Joining Grand Rush to Stake Claims In Indian Reserva tion Suffered Many Hardships. Motley Army of Argonauts. Bronzed by the glare of the desert sun and thankful to exchange the parching heat of the Nevada sand hills for the low-hanging Winter rain clouds and per icnnlal verdure of the "Willamette Valley, Ben B. Williams, one of the 6000 or more -of fortune-seekers who Joined the stam ,pede Into the mineral belt of the Walker Lake Indian reservation, ( which was thrown open to mining locations a little more than a week ago. Is back In Port land again after an absence of nearly a month. He tells an interesting story of the great stampede and the Incidents of the days Immediately preceding it, during which the motley array of adventurers assem bled on the boundaries of the forbidden territory and awaited with impatience the signal for the rush to begin, literally baking by day in the blazing heat of the sun on the shadeless plains and shivering by night in a temperature 40 degrees lower at dawn than at sunset. "Our party, headed by an experienced plainsman and prospector, fared far bet ter than the majority,'- declared Williams yesterday, "but I'll say frankly that I wouldn't go through the experience of that two weeks again for the richest mine in the State of Nevada, and there are some rich ones, too." Thanks to his greater opportunities, Williams also fared better than the ma jority in staking claims in the new dis trict, securing five claims on and about Elate Mountain, at the northern end of the mineral belt, where the surface in dications are that the highest grade gold and copper ore in the reservation lies awaitins development. Portland capitalists have opened nego tiations with him for an Interest in his holdings and he will remain here several days to meet them before going on to his home in Seattle, where he has for some time past been operating as a min ing broker and hag been active In vari ous lines of business. Tenderfeet of the Tenderfeet. , In view of the fact that a majority of the stampeders were "tenderfeet'' of the "tenderfeet," wholly ignorant of desert travel and without the slightest knowl edge of the country for which they were headed. Williams thinks it little short of miraculous that there was so little actual suffering among weaker recruits who Joined the army, especially among the many women and fewer children who par ticipated In the grand rush. "They came on foot and by every con ceivable mode of conveyance," said Wil liams yesterday at the Hotel Portland. "On horseback, in buggies. In spring wagons and In prairie schooners, come with packhorses, some with burros and some with their outfits strapped on their backs. Most of them were fairly well. If not wisely, provisioned, but few were supplied with water and many of them endured the pangs of thirst from start to finish. Many would have perished had they been alone, for only the charity of their more far-sighted comrades saved them. Our little party helped out a large number of half-perishing women and chil dren and the same spirit of generosity was manifested everywhere. "The case of one roan was typical. He raid he was a bartender, and from the eymptoms I believe that his diagnosis was correct. He had a packhorse loaded with a case or two of canned goods, a sack of flour, about the same weight of sugar, a case of beer and a case of whifky, while on the horse he was rid ing he had his blankets, coffee, miscella neous supplies., cooking outfit, a box of cigars and two gallons of water to last him and his horse for several days in a burning desert. Few of the so-called springs contained any water at that time of the year and what little there was we found so strong ly Impregnated with alkali that not even the burros would drink It. Heard of Xo Bloodshed. "Considered merely as a stampede the opening of the Walker Lake reserve was a success, for there were no fatalities and the reports of fighting and bloodshed have been greatly exaggerated. Few of the stampeders were armed and that few had only little popguns with which to shoot rabbits. In fact the only man's size guns I saw during the whole time were the rifles In the bands of the mounted In dian policemen who patrolled the boun daries and preserved the best of order:. 'The great mob was cheerful, plucky and philosophical and even after the rush was over and every claim in the belt worth staking had been located from two to fifteen deep, there was no soreness and no crying. Not a roan or woman played the baby act and so far as I heard there was not a shot fired during the stampede. or immediately after it. except by. the Indian policemen, who fired a volley over the heads of some San Francisco 'soon- i r $ STAMPED Photo by Douglass, North Bend. SCENE IX NORTH BEND, OB. NORTH BEND, Or.. Nov. 3. Special.) The above photo shows a section of North Bend on which thousands of dollars are now being spent In grading streets and leveling lots. It Is la this section of the city that the new $50,000 hotel will be located. The Sisters of Mercy Hospital appears at Tne left and the school building on the hill to the right. ers' who had ventured In over the line and staked claims before the appointed hour. "The word 'staking' is another joke of that stampeae. As a matter of fact there is not In the district where our party was a stick of timber big enough to make a peg for a cribbage board and the claims were 'monumented,' the locator piling up a heap of sones at each point on his claim to be marked and placing his notice on top of the stones. "But I am saving the biggest Joke of all for the last. That was the manner In which the reserve was actually opened. But let's begin at the beginning. Our party of eight. Including a bartender, a French Canadian logger, an ex-marine who had served on the battleship Iowa during the Spanish-American War. a railroad man. a college student, a typi cal Irish adventurer and myself, was or ganized by the Nevada Exploration Com pany, a big and wealthy corporation of that state, and was headed by D. C. Beach, one of the company's men, a vet eran plainsman, ex-cowboy, Indian scout and prospector who is known from the Mexican line to Alaska. Found Supplies Reasonable. "I had been in Tonopah and Goldfields and started for the reserve from the for mer place. We made our first camp at Wabusco on the night of October 20. the opening being set for 12 o'clock noon on the 29th. Our next camp was at Yerring ton. where we found supplies reasonable, despite the fact that the stores were fairly turning people away, and stampeders were sleeping tn the streets. Possibly if I had not been a Mason I would have been in the same fix. Our next and final stop was at Badger Springs. What a misnomer that was and Is' There wasn't water enough to bathe a sand flea, and it was full of copper and alkali. "We were well supplied with provis ions and had plenty to eat as well as two barrels of water, but in spite of that we endured hardships enough. That was Thursday nfsht, and then tnere was uno camp. Friday there were ten. Saturday morning there were 18 and Saturday af-,-. richer 2S. there -were 37, aver aging from four to eight to the camp. "Beach had it arranged just wnai should do and had told us what claims we were to locate for the company, after , .v,i.-Vi wa would be at lib erty to stake whatever looked good to us Wo had prospected the country and knew every outcrop in it. He pofoted us along tne line ana ujcii us we could use our own Judgment about going in: that we need not go in before the time set. but that II we ura uu arrested the company would see us out of trouble. "t c9tir,rwi nut in the sage orusn. elje miles northeast of Badger Springs, at 9:30 the night before the opening. This was right in the shadow of the Slate Mountain, whicn is iua ot uis sso fine ore. Thre I lay in my blankets v,o i-oftlsmnkea. scorpions and horned toads, with which the whole coun try Is infested, and waited lor aayiigni, keeping a weather eye on the howling coyotes that circled around with the evi dent intent oi stealing mj rauw from under my head and eating it. as they really did do witn some oi mo peders. Arrested as a - owner- "t .,,,,, t was m'ltside of the reserve. but about 4:30 o'clock in the morning v.,- vikert the hlankets off me and there stood two big Indian policemen. David McKlniey ana ijuuiw Ti- v Thev told me I was x aiif-y utility's - -- half a mile inside of the line, and placing me under arrest. Kinaiy dui m mu with me for the agency at Schurz. . . . urtranA lii-e.elv. un tne way we iiici. - Z an educated Indian policeman and a good fellow despite his red skin. Be t foit-i.. rmnA -inffiB handed talker I persuaded Greely that I was Just an Ignorant tenueriout ana i. ma... do it and he told the Indians to release me and point out the line. "I fell in with a fellow they called Tammany' after it was daylight and 'Tammany and I decided to take a chance. We crawled two miles over sharp rocks and through Band and sage brush until wo were well inside the reserve and within a quarter of a mile of the claims we had our eyes on. "It -was arranged .that the Indian po licemen should fire their rifles at 12 sharp for the curtain to go up. but the most ludicrous part of the whole af fair is that a ratty little Jackrabbit spoiled the plan and started the stam pede at ti:zu mar. mornmB, ii vuo story I heard is true. "It seems that while the stampeders were all lined up awaiting the signal tome idiot pecked away at the Jack rabbit, Just for fun, and missed. The Indian policeman nearby -laughed loudly, and forgetting himself, drew a dead bead on bunny and sent him into the Kingdom come. And with the death of that little rabbit the rush was on. It was useless for the Indian to yell 'mistake' for the thing was out of his hands Everything Soon Staked. "Now we were inside of the line two miles, yet before we had got the sand out of our eyes enough to begin stak ing, the little hills as far as we could see were covered with men and women, all busy staking ground of every kind, bad and good alike. Not a square foot was overlooked. "By 12 o'clock noon every claim in the district had been staked and staked again, for the word went down the lino like wild fire. "The pleasantest thing about all this overlapping was that many of the dis putes were settled right on the ground by two-handed arbitration, yet there will be much litigation, especially in around Hawthorne, at the southern end of the lake, and about Buckbrush, near er where we were. In the Slate Moun tain district, where my claims are, there will be far less litigation."' Williams says most of the stam peders were California and Nevada people and saw but few from the Pa cific Northwest. He will return to Nevada within a few weeks. 1 4-" ir:v-,v?S r. : tf-'-vv.-; -.s v. i ? . 7 HEBE IS A SrX-I'OtND POTATO GROWN XEAB WAIXOWA. WALLOWA, Or., Nov. 4. fSpcclal.) A large Early Rose potato raised by O. J. Falrchild, of this place, has been placed on exhibition here. Tne potato, which measures almost 13 Inches in lensth and weighs 6 pounds and 10 ounces, was grown without Irrigation on Mr. Fairchlld's ranch, two miles south of here. The potato was exhibited at th Wallowa County Fair, where It took first prize, being by far the largest Early Hose potato exhibited. Such pota toes are not uncommon on Mr. Fairchlld's garden ranch south of this place. PRESENT AUTCMX THE DRYEST IN ITS HISTORY. One-Third of Wheatgrowlng Sec tion In Xo Condition for Fall Sowing Stockmen Worried. PENDLETON, Or.. Nov.. 4. (Special-) Umatilla County Is now suffering and will probably suffer for some time longer from the effects of the driest Fall within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Indeed many of the old-timers say that never since the advent of the white man to this country has there been such a long period of dry weather at this season of the year. As a result, about one-third of the wheat-growing section of the county is too dry for seeding. Some who started seeding after the light fall of rain earlier in the season have stopped, while many say that it is even now too late for safe Fall sowing in the light soil district and have decided to wait until Spring, even though the Spring seeding is not supposed to yield so large or so sure a crop as grain sowed in the Fall. The wheatgrowers, however, are not the only ones who are suffering; for the stockmen are confronted with even more serious conditions. The light early rains started the grass on the Fall range all right, but there was not enough moisture received to keep it growing, and now when it Is eaten off it remains short. Because of this many of the sheep and cattlemen have kept their flocks and droves on the Summer range in the high mountains notwithstanding the fact that they are liable to be caught any time in a heavy snowstorm which would be es pecially disastrous to the sheep. Others have brought their stock out on to the Fall range, which is rapidly being consumed with the result that they will be compelled to begin feeding many weeks earlier than usual. A consequent shortage of hay before Spring Is therefore feared in some quarters The section of the wheat belt that is effected the most by the dry weather is that north of this city, or west of the W. & C. R. Railroad and north of the O. R. & N., and comprising about one third of the' wheat-producing area of the county. This is commonly designated as the light soil land and is the section in which wheat Is more subject to being frozen out. On the other hand the reservation land to the south and east of Pendleton is heavier, retains what moisture is received, and consequently most of the farmers there are going ahead with their seeding and grain that was sown earlier in the season Is now up and growing nicely. Some good has resulted from the freak season, though, for it Is said that the Summer fallow fields were never fouler with weeds than this year, and the pe culiar conditions have been especially favorable for the killing of these pests. It seems, however, that all sections of Eastern Oregon have not been treated alike In the matter of weather, for Jim Clark, the John Day stockman, who has been in Pendleton for a few days on busi ness, says that the range In his part of the country was never better. They had heavy rains early in the season, which not only started the grass, but soaked the ground so that it was kept growing. The result is that the grass in places Is now sis or seven inches high, which is a record-breaker for this season' of the year. PURE WATER FOR WALLOWA Mains Bring Supply to Town From Bear Creek. WALLOWA. Or., Nov. 4 (Special.) The laying of the mains for Wallowa's city water system has been completed and the ice-cold waters of Bear Creek now flow Into the corporate limits of the city in quantity sufficient for a city of 4000 people. The system starts from a point two and one-fourth miles up Bear Creek and at an elevation of over 200 feet above town. The water is conveyed in eight-inch steel-bound oak-stave pipe, and has a pressure of over 100 pound3 to the square inch. The lateral mains ae six-inch pipes of the same kind. The cost of the system Is $10,000, and will be met by an issue of 20-year 6-per cent bonds. The system has not been accepted by the city council, pending the repairing of several leaks which were discovered in the mains. The contractors expect to have these repaired within a week, when the council will accept the work and allow pipes to be laid to the business houses and residences. ' ASTONISHES A CALIFORNIAN Thought He Knew Something About Apples Before Visiting Oregon. NORTH BEND. Or.. Nov. 4. (Spe cial.) "When farmers on the Oregon Coast can raise the crops they do with out any especial effort, I ' really wonder what they could produce if they adopted modern methods In farming," said A. C. Malone, late publisher of the Daily News, at Long Beach. Cal.. who is now at North Bend visiting friends . "I made the Journey overland from Eureka, Cal.. to North Bend," continued Mr. Malone. "and some of the things that I saw on that trip convinced me that the only' place to live is in Oregon. At Smith River. In Douglas County, I stopped several . days to visit friends and there I saw some of the finest apples ever grown. These apples were without a blemish, had a good flavor and were raised on trees that had been in bearing for years. The trees on which they were grown plainly showed that they had never been touched by a pruning hook v. and the ground was In an uncultivated state. "Now if such fruit can be grown on trees that are urucared for. what kind of apples could be raised if the trees were pruned and the ground on which they grew properly cultivated? I asked the farmer who owned the land why he did not raise apples for the market and he replied that he did not believe it would pay. , "I do not believe that a Callfornian has any right to come into your state and tell your people what they should do. for we have easy going folks In our own country. But we have no such soil In California as you have in Western Oregon. All you need is progressive farmers to properly develop the lands and you will have a veritable garden of Eden here." Mr. llalone will return to Long Beach to settle up some business affairs and then return to this country to take up his residence. WILL TAP RICH ORE SHOOT Los Angeles Capitalists Invest in -Gold Hill Mines. GOLD HILL, Or.. Nov. 4. (Special.) R. E. Doan. a prominent mining man from Los Angeles, who is operating mines in Arizona and California, arrived in Gold Hill yesterday. He and his as sociates have bonded the C. S. Lode in Water Gulch district, two miles from town, and have put a force of men on preparatory to driving an 800-foot tunnel on the vein to cut the extremely rich ore shoot, which was opened by shaft work a few years ago. This Is a large, contact vein, from 25 to 30 feet between walls, carrying boul ders of mineralized quartz, interspersed in a soft gangru material from one wall to the other, unlike any other vein in the district; and it is doubtful if it can be duplicated in structured features by any other ore vein in the state. This peculiar condition of vein matter has been the source of much comment by mining men who have visited this prop erty, with various theories advanced as to its cause. The -work now under way will demon strate the "whys and wherefores" of this condition. SIDELIGHTS ON THE PRESENT PORSPERITY OF BEAVER STATE The Record. Oakland Owl. S. C. Quant, of Driver Valley, grew a pumpkin that weighs 95 pounds. This pumpkin is an exhibition at the Oakland real estate office. Sign of Thanksgiving. Cottage Grove Western Oregon. Joe Garroutte yesterday killed the first lot of turkeys that has been slaughtered this season. Joe. so far as known, is champion picker. His best record is 100 turkeys and 110 chickens in one day. Some of the Other Spots. It is estimated that the fruit crop of Yakima County for the year 1906 will bring $750,000 to the valley. The apple crop this year, it Is estimated by con servative growers, was 100 per cent. It was the largest In the history of the valley, and was exceeded by that of no other district in America. Solving the Fuel Problem. Medford Tribune. A four-horse team loaded with coal, the product of the coal mine six miles east of Medford, passed through here this afternoon, bound for the Blue Ledge. The load consisted of 50 sacks, averaging 121 pounds each. Another load at the mine awaits transportation. A limited supply will be brought to Med ford in a lew days, and within 60 days an ample amount to supply the local market will be available. Outrageous Prices. The Dalles Optimist. Tom Richardson says he was in Hood River a few months ago and remarked to Hon. E. L. Smith that he would like to taste one of those fine Hood River apples. Mr. Smith said, "You go on up to my house and I will be there soon and show you some." So Tom wandered up on the hill to the Smith domicile, and soon E. L. came in with an impoverished look and ! a handful of choice apples. As Tom was eattng one he said to Mr. Smith, "My, but those are fine; did you raise them on your place?" "Raise them." said E. L., "Raise them? I should say not. I paid three dollars a box for them, and such a price is a blamed outrage." And yet they do say that E. L. is a Hood River booster. Yamhill Object Lesson. ' Dayton Optimist. The following history of 160 acres of land in Yamhill County for the past season is a valuable object lesson to anyone in this neighborhood or to pros pective settlers: Net Income from 132 sheep.. '. t M3 Gross Income from cows ..... 150 Gross Income from pig 25 S0O boxes green apples . 3ito 8 tons dried apples 600 1 ton dried pears .. 140 SO tons of dried prunes 2000 20 tonB timothy hay : 750 214 bufhels wheat 130 RrV bushels oats 12B , " $4734 The total expense for the year Is covered by $1200, leaving a net Income from the farm of $35S4. No account of garden is included in the above. Twice as many prunes could have been dried if they could have been saved. APPLE CROP URGE Grand Ronde Valley Fruit growers Richly Rewarded. WILL PLANT MORE TREES Value of Eastern Oregon Lands for Orchards Conclusively Demon strated Values Must Go Up in Consequence. LA. GRANDE, Or., Nov. 4. (Special.) Tourists traveling westward never tire In their praise of Grande Ronde Valley, es pecially at this season of the year when the farmer and .fruitgrower are bringing in their bounteous harvests. A drive through the apple districts near La Grande astonishes the stranger with the productiveness of the soil. Even the old settler must realize that wealth and op portunity are knocking at his door and will prepare to plant more orchards in the Spring. A conservative estimate places the num ber of trees that will be set out in the valley next Spring at 50,000. J. J. Nunn, of Utah, will plant the largest tract which will be 200 acres. One hundred and sixty acres will be put out on the Brooke tract and 70 acres by R. Campbell. The last two tracts are near Imblen, adjoining the 95 acres planted by the Oldenburg Fruit Association last Spring. This is by no means the entire list, but includes some of the largest ones. The principal varieties that are to be planted are Rome Beauties, Spitzenburgs. York Imperials and Ganos. Orchard lands in Union County are rapidly advancing in value, an increase of from 15 to 20 per cent in the last year. It will not be long until all of the mountain slopes and land that is adapted to apple culture will be planted to trees. Apple growing in this valley is no longer an experiment; the size of the fruit, the superiority of the quality, with the abuni dance of the yield, all prove this to be an apple country. A matter of wonder and comment is the difference in valua tion of bare orchard lands in this valley and elsewhere. At Hood River and in the White Salmon district orchard land without a furrow in it or a tree planted brings as high as $300 an acre; unimproved orchard land in this valley runs from $70 to $130 per acre. This difference is not due to lack of productiveness or Inferior fruit. Samples of yellow Newtowns picked from the Rynearson orchard will stand comparison in size, appearance and quality with the best from Hood River. The facts of the matter is that the value of new orchard land in the Grande Ronde is underrated and it often takes people a long time to know and realize what they have got Abundance in other resources may have" something to do with it. but beyond ques tion the time is not far distant when the undervaluation of orchard lassd in tnis vaney win oe a tning oi tne past. Apple picking has been favorably pro gressing for the last two weeks and if the present beautiful weather continues for a week or ten days a harvest will be complete which will exceed all former estimates by 15 or 20 per cent. The ap ples are very highly colored and of good size. E. Z. Carbine has gathered 10,000 boxes from his 12 acres of 9-year-old trees Better Than Gold and Silver. Granite Gem. Finding galena ore in the country is one of the beat things yet. What One Grower Has Done. Medford Mall. E. J. DeHart last week shipped two carloads of Yellow Newtown Pippins from the Oaklawn orchards to Eng land. An additional shipment of 12 cars of Ben Davis apples from the same orchard will go to China. Mr. DeHart has realized an average profit of $400 per acre from his orchard this season. Specializing the Industry. Grant s Pass Observer. A man with a healthy commercial or chard of ten acres In bearing has an immediate independence and the basis of a fortune. Such an orchard should con tain one variety only, and of preference it should be the yellow Newton Pippin, if the soil is favorable. Irrigation would have to be provided, of course. They All Come to It East Oregonian. Miss Sadie Coppinger, who resides north of Echo, and who has made her self famous In Umatilla County by farm ing her own homestead and taking care of her own crop, has taken another farmer into partnership, and last even ing a marriage license was isued to Misi Coppinger and Tomie Thomas. Miss Coppinger owns a homestead a few miles north of Echo, and In 1905 is said to have harvested over $2il00 worth of grain, supervising the seeding and har. vesting of the crop herself. Hood River Fruit Notes. According to the Glacier, the Hood River apple crop will be 200,000 boxes. requiring 4"0 cars for shipment. To haul the apples to the depot there will be 4000 ordinary teamloads. The banner wagonload of apples so far this season was brought in Saturday by Lou Morse from the Chris. Dethman orchard, consisting of 134 boxes Spltzen- bergs, which brought $394. The banner crop, so far, has been re- ported by L. Struck, who will average $1400 an acre from three acres of prolific and high-priced Isewtons. Probably the largest yield of apples on any one tree In the Valley is reported by J. L. Carter, who took 43 boxes of apples from a tree of Rhode Island Greenings. Record-Breaking Jumper. Albany Herald. W. C. Farley owns a colt which he believes will beat anything In Oregon in high jumping. The other day as he was preparing to put the animal In the barn, after a short drive, ho left the colt standing alone while he closed the fence gate. Just as he had the gate shut the young colt became frightened at something and, with a quick turn, wheeled and dashed toward the fence. Notwithstanding that the horse was attached to a light, two wheeled cart, the animal vaulted the fence, which Is five feet high, carried the cart after him, and without waiting for Farley, ran to the fair grounds, where two ladies found him peacefully grazing by the roadside. The animal was easily captured and brought back to town and returned to the owner. which are of the Gano variety and 90 per cent of which will be four-tier apples and better. Mr. Lambert's orchard of 15 acres will yield 15,000 boxes. -The 20-acre orchard of the Rynearson sisters is run ning 1000 boxes of loose apples to the acre. F. L. Coykendall has 10 acres that will yield 7000 boxes of packed apples. J. B. Stoddard's place of 25 acres, about one third of which is in full bearing, will have an $S00O apple crop. W. V. Carbine will have from his 20 acres, about 50 per cent of which Is in full bearing. S0C0 boxes. These are among the - larger orchards now in bearing; the smaller ones In Fruit dale and May Park are yielding in the same proportion. Market quotations are high But the growers are not in a hurry to sell, being firm in the belief that be fore long they will be able to realize a net price of Jl to $1.25 a box. GARFIELD LEADS IN PAVING Eastern Washington . Town Adopts Crushed Rock System. GARFIELD. Wash., Nov. 4. (Special.) Probably no other town in Eastern Washington has made greater strides this year than Garfield. There have been made many substantial improvements all over the city. The streets have Deep put into splendid condition under the supervision of Mr. J. McPheters. who has had charge of road work not only in many western cities but in many large cities of the East. Garfield has ex pended on her streets this year $S0U0, and Mr. McPheters says the work has been done for one-third 6f the usual cost of such work in cities the size of Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. The streets so far put into condition are California street from Fourth east to the Northern Pacific depot. Main from Fourth east to the Northern Pacific railway crossing, and Third street from the O. R. & N. depot north to the Grammar School build ing. B. street will now be graded and macadamized from the O. R. & N. tracks to the Northern Pacific depot. This will, when finished, put all the busi ness streets in first-class condition and from now on they will be free from mud and dust. The streets are 66 feet wide and after they have been put In condi tion will receive a coating of crushed stone hauled by teams from the quarry near town, and spread on the streets 12 Inches deep .in the center and 6 Inches deep at the curbing. The work done this season on the streets of Garfield is significant as mark ing the beginning of scientific road im provement by the county with the use of crushed stpne. The farmers through out the Garfield district are delighted with the city streets since they have been macadamized, and with but few exceptions would be willing to donate the labor to have similar work done in the country districts. The cost of the work on Garfield's streets has been about $1.50 a front foot, which has been paid by the property owners on the streets macadamized. County Commissioner McCay has been here from Oaksdale this week and in an interview said Garfield now has good, If not the best, streets In Whitman County. WILL BORE FOR PETROLEUM North Bend Business Men Secure Options on Land. NORTH BEND. Or., Nov. 4 (Spe cial. )North Bend business men have subscribed $5000 to be expended in boring for natural gas and oil In the vicinity of this city, and the work of sinking a well will be commenced at once. Last Spring, while sinking a well at the milk condensing plant, oil and gas In small quantities were discovered and that started a' number of people out on a hunt for these mineral products. Shortly after the discovery was macTe experts were brought here to look the ground over. . The experts reported that there was oil to be found. Another lot of ex perts was brought here less than a month ago. The report made by the ex perts who left here a week ago coin cided -with that of the men who examined the country last Summer. Placing faith in the reports several business men secured options on a large tract of land near North Bend and if the expectations of the men who are In terested are realized John D. Rockefeller will have another competitor in the oil market. Those who have examined the ground carefully agree that the entire Coos Bay country rests on Immense beds of coal and this leads them to believe that there Is also oil and natural gas In the vicin ity of these coal beds. Should oil be discovered here It Is but natural that a ready market would be found for large quantities of the fluid in Portland, as owing to the shorter haul the Coos Bay oil could be placed on the market there at a mush less price than the California produot. INTELLIGENT FARMING PAYS Newcomers In Clackamas County Demonstrate the Fact. OREGON CITY. Or . Nov. 4 (Special.) Clarke Bros, who own a farm of 90 acres near Mulino. have this year demon strated that practical farming along in telligent lines pays in Clackamas County. This Is the first year they have been on this farm, but they report a net profit of $3000 from the one year's crops. Of the 90 acres, there are 26 acres in prunes, and this crop was economically cured at their own drier of 10-tons ca pacity that is located on the farm. For-ty bales ot hops were harvested from a 13-acre yard, and the aggressive young agriculturists are highly pleased with the proceeds of their first year's work on this farm, which yielded crops above the average. Clackamas to Exhibit Apples. OREGON CITY. Or.. Nov. 4. (Special.) For the first time in years, Clackamas AN INDIAN PRINCESS OF COOS BAY t A. 3 LOTTIE, DAUGHTER NORTH BEND, Or., Nov. 3. Chief Jackson. 1 well known In this Indian chief, who Is said to be mors County applegrowers are arranging to exhibit some of their choicest apples at the annual meeting of the State Horti cultural Society, which will be held in Portland. January 8. J. W. Grasle and Mark Levy, both of Milwaukie, will show Spltzenberg and Lady apples, re spectively, while J. A. Byers. of Clacka mas, will exhibit some magnificent sam ples of the Northern Spy variety. MARKING OF APPLE BOXES Hood River Growers Will Urge Ac tion by the Legislature. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Nov. 3 (Special. ) StirrecJ to action by the story in The Oregonian of Willamette Valley apples being ajld to all intents and purposes as Hood River fruit, growers here are pre paring to have a bill introduced in the next legislature requiring shippers to mark boxes of apples so that they will show where they were grown. Growers have already approached Sen ator Whealdon in the matter and 6ay , that he has acquiesced to the plan and that the next session of the lawmakers of the state will have such a bill be fore it for consideration. Alleged that the privilege of buying apples in one locality and shipping them from another is an in justice to both places and damaging to the Duslness ana that they are willing to let the reputation of Hood River fruit rest on Its merits, but if other localities can grow just as good they ought to have the credit of it. They say, however, that the fruit raised elsewhere is not as good although it may look so and that it has not the keeping qualities of the Hood River variety on which It has made its reputation. First Concentrates Turned Out. LA GRANDE. Or., Nov. 4. (Special.) The machinery at the new mill of se Aurella Company's mines was started this week and made a run of 14 hours with most gratifying results. This is the first batch of concentrates ever pro duced in the Grande Ronde quartz dis trict. The estimated values are $300 to $S00 per ton. On account of the high altitude and advanced season of the year, there will be no attempt to run tha mill until Spring. Work will continue at the mines in getting out ore and sort ing for shipment to the smelter, leaving the lower grades for treatment later at the new mill. Looked for Some Red Apples. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Nov. 4.-(Special.)-Senator Fulton, who is on his way to Washington, in company with Mrs. Ful ton, for the coming session of Congress, stepped off the train when it reached here yesterday and after greeting an acquaint ance who was at the station, commenced looking eagerly In all directions as if in quest of something. When asked what he was looking for he replied: "Why. I am looking for some Hood River apples. I've been thinking about them ever since I left Portland. The Senator did not get any. however, as the boy who usually meets the trains with them was not in evidence. Corn In the Grand Ronde. LA GRANDE. Or.. Nov. 4 ( Special.) A corncrib is being built on the farm of George Pierce in Lower Cone, for the purpose of housing the product from a 15-acre tract of corn. It is estimated that the corn will average about ?5 bushels to the acre, which would not be classed as a failure, even on a Kan sas bottom, and is exceptionally good for Grande Ronde. The building of the crib is a decided novelty, being the first in the Valley. HOP SHORTAGE IN ENGLAND Quantity Available in Other Coun tries Will Be Deficient. ALAMEDA. Oct. 31. (To the E4it"t. I that G. E. BaJdwin. t'nited Sts's r.-.nsul at Nuremberg, has put the worM'p Top at 939.220 bales of 1S5 pound In mv 1tr to you. published th lflrh of October in The Oregonian, I put the. li06 world's crop r rws -000 bales, so later statistics show we are 2$. '"To bales "to the good" in our calculation In an editorial article In the Southeastern Gazette, published at Mardftone. the e-iiror writes very strongly of the statistical position. He says the "available supply la the short est on record since the Mack year of lsS2 " . . . ' Taking the figures as to consump tion and thoee of the aeason's production as the basis of comparison, we may assume that there was a surplus of English hops alor.e of liO.Oto cwts. . . If advices from the Continent are trustworthy, producers there have fared but little better than our home grow era. . . . There will, it is tolerably certain, be & considerable eurplus for ship ment from th Pacific Coast to this country, but taking the rosiest estimates put forward by shippers, the quantity muft fall a lcr.g way short of what ia required tc make up the deficiency tn the supply of new hops In the Enslieh market. . . . Thus altogether the position seems to us to Justify continued firm ness on the part of our home grower? Every hop they have produced will be wantM. and if they can hold out long enogh the price they are now asking prices which are reason able enough considering the exti aordinarlly heavy cot of production, should b forth coming' Thus the editor of the Southeastern Ga zette, pu bl i shed In Ma rd ston e. a nd one of the authorities on hop matters in Grat Erit ain. takes substantially the earn 6 view of the available supply of hops In the world as I did In the lengthy letter vou puhlishM fr---m me on the 19th of October last England will want to 20Aw bales, and before the lt of March I believe she will madlv pay 25c to Z&c t. o. b. here for choice Oo.ia hops. M. H. DL'RST. Cost of Capturing Murderer. OREGON CITT, Or.. Nov. 4. CSpe cial.) 'According1 to the semi-annual report of County Clerk Greenman, th expense to Clackamas County in run ning down and capturing Frank Smith, the desperado and triple-murderer, was $518.47. warrants to that amount hav ing been issued. Of that amount. $2S0 comprised the reward that was offered by the county for the slayer of the lat Sheriff John R. Shaver. . Say "No" when a dealer offers you a eubatitute for Hood's Sarsapartlla. Insist upon Hood s. t t : r "2 OF CHIEF JACKSOJf. (Special.') Princess Lottie, daughter of section ot Coos Bay. Her father Is "an t'oan 100 years of age. V