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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1907)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1907. PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST F IRON MlfJES Rich Ore Thought to Exist Near Portland. EXPERTS CALL-IT GOOD Deve lopment Promised of St. Helens Property That May Make This State the Leading Producer of the Pacific Coast. ST. HELENS. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) A discovery that may prove of great benefit to the Iron industry of the world and make Portland one of the greatest manufacturing cities of this continent, has recently been made In Columbia County, about 30 miles from Portland, by the Prescott Brothers, experienced iron men. whose home until recently was in the neighborhood of the famous Mecaba range of Wisconsin. They are all col lege bred men, one being a graduate of the Houghton School of Mines, Michigan, and another from DePauw University, Indiana. They have all had years of ex perience In the Iron business, in both shaft and mine, and are fully qualified to pass upon any proposition involving the question of quantity and quality of Iron ore. They have been investigating Columbia County's Iron resources for about eight mouths, and are fully satisfied that It excels In quantity and quality the famous Mecaba range, whose richness and pro ductivity put the Iron Mountain region out of business. The iron area extends between the Beaver and Clatskanle and the head waters of Scappoose Creek and the Nehalem River, part of it being in Wash ington County, and throughout this scope of country there are many places where It shows In considerable quantities, rang ing in depth from ten to 200 feet, and possibly much deeper. Oswego ore ran 18 to 24 per cent, ' and required 22 per cent of fluxing material. It is claimed that the firm who ran the Oswego Iron Works the last year of Us active career, upon a lease and paying a royalty upon the iron, made a profit of 175,000. and It Is understood the Only reason that property is not now running ts because it is under the contral of the Heel trust. The Iron ore of Columbia County runs, according to the assays made by "Wells & Proebstel, of Portland, s high as 77 per cent In oxides, which means about 64 per cent metallic Iron. This is higher than any iron ore known, even that of the Chopin mine in the Menominee range, Michigan. The Menominee range is what is known s a deep mine and hard ore proposition, while the iron discovery In Columbia County is soft ore and can be worke with steam shovels, blasting powder being used to shatter it. The ore carries no sulphur, no arsenic, no titanic acid, and less than two-tenths f 1 per cent of phosphorus, according to An assay made by Moore, of the Irondale furnace. It contains a small per cent of lime and will require only 7 per cent of flux, as against 22 per cenf at Oswego, an advantage which, places It in a class above any iron heretofore discovered on the Pacific C,oast. It Is possible that the marl which exists in large quantities in this county, may furnish the fluxing ma terial. All of this ground is to be proved by drilling, but there Is one property, about four miles west of St. Helens; which has been thoroughly explored, and It is claimed that this body contains 60,000,000 tons of ore of the very highest grade. This is the property it is proposed to open up as soon as possible, and there seems to be no doubt of the ability to secure means. A logging railroad makes a cut 20 feet deep through this iron, and it can be put on the water's edge at a very trifling cost. It is the Intention of the promoters to build a 100-ton plant in the vicinity of St. Helens, and it Is claimed such a plant will pay 30 per cent upon a capitalization of $2,500,000. If the project is successful. It means that Columhla County will be the greatest Iron producing region in the' United States. The ore Is what is known as "Bessemer" and will make the highest grade of steel. There Is a possibility that before many years Oregon may control the iron trade of the West and that the clangor of rolling mills may supersede the softer sound of the gang paws as iron takes the place of lumber along Port land's waterfront. MONEY IX CRANBERRY MARSH Coos Bay Farmers Add' New Crop That Brings Profit. MAESHFIELD, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The growing -of cranberries is proving to be one of the most profit able farm crops for Coos County. Sev eral ranch-owners for. a number of years past have raised the crop with profit, but it was not generally taken tip until the past year. Now quite a number have planted cranberry marshes. Land which is known as peat or veg etable bog is required for the raising of the crop, and nearby there must be an unlimited supply of fresh water, which can be placed under control. There are, however, many such tracts of land In the county, and cranberry growing promises to be one of the most important of the farming industries of the community. W. D. McFarlan, who is 'the pioneer cranberry man of the- Pacific Coast, has followed the business in Coos County for many years. He has a six acre marsh which has never failed to yield a large crop. He has never made less than $200 an acre clear profit, some seasons the net amount has been greater. Excepting at harvest time, when help is needed in picking, one man can attend to a marsh of IS or 20 acres and have time for other farm work, as the crop is flooded during the Winter and needs no attention. The yield- on the Coos County cranberry marshes this year is particularly good. GOOD SHOWING AT ' NEWPORT Popular Summer Resort Carries Out Many Improvements. NEWPORT, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) Newport Is making a very creditable showing. - One year ago the City Council and Newport Improvement Company commenced to wot is for a railroad, saw mills and other Industries for the town. It was soon found that the C. & E. R. R. held all of the available waterfront and did not care to assist any sawmills, hav ing timber Interests of its own, or favor any movement that would attract notice to the country until it should have ac quired title to more timber land. The extension of the Une from Yaquina City to Newport was promised and a franchise was granted on condition that the road was to be built to Newport by September 1 of this year. A survey was made but nothing more was done. At the first meet ing of the Newport City Council after September 1 steps were taken to annul the franchise, and as soon as the neces sary action has been taken to set it aside, an effort will be made to get some other road tt build to Newport. . . The city has a Summer resort business which is worth from $50,000 to $75,000 a year to a railroad. It is hoped that with these advantages and such franchises and perhaps a small bonus in land and money the city will be able to induce some railroad to build a line to this place. A route for such a line could be located through an extensive timber area which would furnish freight both ways. Newport is growing steadily. More than 30 houses have been built since the first of the year. An extensive cement bulkhead has been built on the water front property owned by the city. An addition to the city school building giving four large school rooms, a recttation room and a library was also recently com pleted. Streets have been graded and sidewalks built and the sanitary condition of the city greatly improved 4n the past year. The Summer visitors leave from $250,000 to $300,000 each year and the busi ness increases at the rate of 20 per cent each year. T BE UP VALLEY ORCHARDISTS SHOULD BOOST COMING FAIR. M. O. Lownsdale Urges Apple , growers to Make Good Show ing of Their Products. , i LA FAYETTE, Or., Oct. 20. (An Open Letter to the Applegrowers of the Wil lamette Valley.) It Is up to you, gentle men, to enhance or to mar the reputa tion of your valley as an apple producing section. During the past year a vigorous campaign has been waged against cer tain Intolerant individuals who would have liked to ignore us and had at tempted to elbow us off the earth. But we have not been elbowed: and perhaps we shall not be Ignored. The apple war has resulted in the closing of several ignoring stands and forced recognition of the possibilities of your valley. Tills fight has been waged almost single handed. Not a little help was given by a few energetic growers at the hastily arranged display made at Portland last November. But beyond this nothing. It is up to you now, gentlemen, to help in the fight; up to you to maintain the prestige regained by last year's display and its sequences, by making, a telling display at the Willamette Valley Apple Fair, to be held In Portland November 14, 15 and 16. Many sof our nearby critics are from Missouri. Bat them in the eye with such a display as will prove beyond all cavil that there are thousands of acres of apple lands In our valley, and that It is fustian to say that a certain little rook ery . In the hills is the hatching place for the angels of God who are supposed to farm its apple fields. The time' has passed when we could sit at ease and chuckle, one to the other,' "our apples are the best In the world." We must show what we are doing; must show our intolerant neigh bors that we are still on the map and that we will fight for our own; must show them that our fruit is Just as good as in the days when our i Valley apples sold for $20, $40 and $60 per box; when Captain Crawford, of Yamhill County, sold the product of one tree for $160; when Mr. Llewelling, of our valley, sold a box containing 75 apples for $75. Let us show our critics the same fruit grown today. The display at the fair this year will consist of plate exhibits, as well as com mercially packed boxes. This will give a pleasing variety to the fair and will permit small growers to make special exhibits. Atl fruit should be in Portland by Saturday, November 9, to give plenty of time for repacking and arranging for exhibition. I will have my packers In Portland to assist In this work. All apples should be doubled wrapped In paper and packed in excelsior, or they will oertainly be marred in transit. All entries must "be made In due form by the evening of November IS, as fruit will be Judged before being shown to the public. The grand prise in the competitions will be a Studebaker wagon, donated- by the Studebaker Manufacturing Company, for the bst general exhibit. Cups have been offered for Spltsenbergs, Yellow New towns, Baldwins, Ben Davis, Oano, Ar kansas Black, Northern Spy and Jona than. Diplomas will be given for all other varieties shown. Better Fruit Publishing Company offers V cup for th best commercially packed box. I wish to announce that I will make a large exhibit at the fair, but as I am very closely Identified with the manage ment of the fair, and with the selection of judges. I do not care to enter my apples for competition. But they will be on exhibition to speak for themselves. . ' M. O. LOWNSDALE. IX NEED OF MORE RAILROADS Chehalis Valley's Development Is Retarded by'Lack of Facilities. ELMA, Wash., Oot 20 (Special.) Con ditions in the Chehalis Valley were never more prosperous than they are today, de spite the fact that the car shortage has limited the output of the lumbering camps and mills. Wages in the lumbering in dustry were never higher in years and very few idle menxare to be ound. The threatened shutdown of the mills has been staved off from time to time, and consid erable lumber is being piled up in the yards. The great needs of Grays Harbor coun try Is two more railroads and the numer ous surveys that have been made is al most a guarantee that they will be built. The Grays Harbor branch is said to be the best piece of producing line owned by the Northern Pacific Railway Company; that company has for many years ab sorbed and .controlled all the traffic of this great section .of the state; Its service has not been as good as it might be, and for that reason when the Sr. Paul and Union Pacific build to Grays Harbor and around the Peninsula, which they will within the next few years, they will be favored with much business originat ing here. Much Fall Grain in Linn. ALBANY, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) With Ideal seeding conditions for the past few weeks. Linn County farmers have been planting hundreds of acres in Fall grain. From present Indica tions the acreage of Fall grain this year will far exceed that planted last Fall. This Is due to the fact that last year continued rains made the seeding season unfavorable, -while this year a good rain came early to moisten the ground and since then it has been good weather for work. Rain is beginning to be needed now, however. KISr.K FOB SOUVENIR PHOTOS. Northwest Scenery Imperial Hotel. X At ' PRODUCTS OF LINCOLN COUNTY Two potatoes and three spples that completely filled a box 13 Inches long by 6H Lincoln County. The gift shows that this county is capable of producing fruits state. The apples are colored a rich rd. of exceptional flavor, and well formed, size and are entirely free from blemishes. CENSURES THE 1LBHS TOLEDO FRdTRAISER MAKES COMPtiAlNT. Colonel Frank J. Parker Says Railroads- Have Retarded Develop ment of Lincoln County. BY FRANK J. PARKER. Ihave read Mr. J. P. Stewart's com munication from Toledo, and The Ore gonian' s answer. Mr. Stewart Is one of the few . wide awake citizens of Lincoln County, and If the county had more men like him it would not be handicapped as it is. He has a profit-making creamery at Toledo and Is always to the fore in everything to keep things moving. He is the only man I know of who buys apples for ship plng and has offered for the pick of my orchard on Big Elk river no less than 35 cents per box. If he pays 15 cents for the box; as we have to (when we can get them), It will cost him 60 cents per box with the cost for picking, packing and transportation added. He should get $1.50 per box, for he only takes the best, which leaves a good margin of profit. Mr. Stewart knows the conditions down there as well, or better, than any one, but of course he has to stand up for the people, and as he as well as myself is an --old newspaper man, I do not blame him. For while it is a. cult for news papers to abuse and give people what Is coming to them, we will not allow any one else to do so. That we are an easy going community, and do no more work than we are obliged to is true and ell known. Now we know the complaint let us provide the remedy. About 20 years ago the Oregon Pacific Railroad, now the Corvallis & Eastern, owned a steamer that made regular trips to San Francisco and the rate on potatoes and apples was $2.50 per ton. They also had steamers running from Corvallis to Portland, with also living rates. What are the rates now? A few months ago a steamer from San Francisco called in at Newport or Ya quina and, as I am informed, was 'charged $140 per day for tying up at the wharf. Since the Oregon Pacific got into difficul ties and the road went into the hands of a receiver, about four years ago, and was sold for $100,000, including all the land, wharves, steamers and everything else belonging to the old company, the situa tion is about as it was 1n Oregon In early days, when the whole community went broke by betting on "Milliard's thousand dollar mare." . They ain't bought nothing-; ain't sold noth ing And in the whole country therealn't a darned oent left. It is hardly to be expected that when men can make nothing they are going to work for the pleasure of paying freight to a railroad that does nothing for them. I have taken old settlers of Lincoln County to the Southern Pacific officials on many occasions, and while tbey admit the adverse conditions they say they can do nothing, as the C. & E. road is under other management. If that is the case, the sooner they take the road over and operate it themselves under entirely new management the better for them and the country. As it is it seems to be the ob ject to keep up rates and give nothing in return. It is 150 miles from Portland to Elk City and the rate quoted me on apples is 45 cents per 100 pounds. Can you tell us If this is a fair pro rata rate. Bay from Hood river, Ashland, Rogue river, etc.? A friend of mine when I was a boy on the point of starting to this land of the free, said "Frank, if you have a friend, he will do something for you; If you make it worth his while, he will do a fiVeat deal more." Now the people of Lincoln County are not particularly down on the railroad. In fact they are friendly; therefore my advice Is to make It worth their while and something will be doing. I -read In a Lincoln County paper very recently some advice, to farmers to raise more-hay, as it is now quoted at $16 per ton. This, too, in a country where we boast it is green all the year round. Also there have been items ill the papers that residents cannot obtain dressed lumber from the mills for building, and advising them to supply the home demand before shipping it away. There Is great truth in this, for last Winter my house burned down, so I ordered a bill of lumber, gave the mill manager my plan and he wrote me a letter offering to supply it at the head of tide above Elk City for $115 in ten or twelve days. I sent the bill for lumber and engaged a carpenter here In Portland 4o come down and build the house. The man on my ranch also agreed to haul It to the place, as he and his family were to live In It. I also engaged the fittings, roof ing material, etc - That was last June. PRIZE APPLES ::-Sg. s,::: jr?,v f'v1 Do you imagine I got It? Ask my renter, and hear his opinion of the mill men of Toledo. Another thing I would sk Mr. Stewart to look up and remedy, if it is in his power. We formerly paid about 8 cents for apple boxes. Now they are 18 cents, and at last accounts none could be ob tained anywhere. Albany and Corvallis could not supply them. I could go on ad libitum ad infinitum, but enough said. There are faults all round which must be remedied. With the vast Immigration coming to Oregon there is bound to be an overflow to the Coast counties. Let Lincoln Coun ty take' the initiative and be up and do ing, raise less disturbance and more produce. I know The Oregonian and the rest of those who want to see a progres sive community will pat us on the back and give us every encouragement in the good work. " To conclude, I only hope the railroads will do their small share. When on Big Eilk river last week an old settler told me he had sent a lot of early apples to a Portland commission man. They were SO- long getting there that they rotted. Instead of receiving his little $2 per box he had a bill for the freight which, know ing the man, I do not think he will pay. Money In Colfax Apples. COLFAX, Wash., Oct 20. (Special.) C. F. Hornby, a rancher, living two miles west of Colfax, picked 117 boxes of King apples this week from 14 trees, netting $8.50 per tree. Mr. Hornby sold the ap ples to an Eastern firm for $1 per box, f. o. b. Colfax. At the same ratio, the yield would be "$400 per acre. George Ruedy, owner of the Colfax nursery sold his entire crop to a Great Falls, Mont., dealer for $1.25 per box, f. o. b. Colfax; the second car will leave Colfax next week containing 700 boxes. The Burrell Investment Company of Portland has a large packing plant at . Diamond and ex pects to ship 80 cars this year. One car of the Newtown apples will be shipped direct to London., School Attendance Grows. VALE, Or., Oct. - 20. (Special.) The school report for Vale shows a decided In crease this year over last. Professor Mayburry, who has cTfarge. reports there is about 30 pupils more this year than last. There has been one teacher added and two rooms have been completed that were never finished in the stone school houBe before this year. tK- .Sfc im MODERN OFFICE BUILDING FOR BIG COOS BAY MILL. MAKSHFIELD. Or.. Oct. 20. (Special). The office building for the milling plant of the C. A. Eraith Lumber Manufacturing Company, which firm is installing a large plant at Marsh field, win be as finely equipped as any on the Pacific Coast. The office building, which U only one of the many structures which will go to make up the plant, is about completed. The firm believes in making the employes as comfortable as possible, and with this idea in view the office building will in itself be the business seat of the big plant, rooming and boacding-house, place of amusement, hotel for entertainment of guests and a home which wilt afford every comfort and pleasure for the office force, both when working and when at leisure. Besides the general offices and those for the heads of departments, there will be sleeping rooms and parlors for those of the office force who care to live in the building. First-class meals will be served at reasonable charges. There will also be smoking and rest rooms, bowling alley, baths, billiard and pool rooms and other arrangements affording recreation and' amusement. Every modern convenience will be provided in the building and the furnishings and fittings will be first-class. ' Several sleeping - rooms and parlors will be reserved for the use of business visitors, whom the firm want to entertain while In the city, and these will be 'handsomely furnished and ruesta will enjoy the same luxury as though they were in m first-class city hotel. . The office building and a large boarding-house for the laborers were con structed, first on acoount of the need of places for the employes who are brought here' to live. Construction work is now being carried en on the mill proper and other buildings. Ihe plant when completed will be one of the largest sawmills on the Coasf, and' will employ 1000 to 1SO0 men. The work of building will continue for an other year, but the mill wlU be In operation early in 1808. AND POTATOES 4. 3f 'it in .'( V . v -Ji .; , ';r;::: FARMS THAT SHOW THEIR FERTILITY. inches wide were' received by The Oregonian yesterday from an unknown donor tn and vegetables fully equal to those grown in more widely advertised sections of the the largest being over 12 Inches in circumference. The potatoes are of unusual WILL OPEN UP M HIE QUICKSILVER CLAIMS READY TO DEVELOP. Years of Experiment on Processes for Treatment of Ore Are Finally Successful. . COTTAGE GROVE, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) There is not an industry In the State of Oregon where so much Is being done and so little said about It as the Black Butte quicksilver mines, 18 miles south of Cottage Grove, In the Coast Fork range. W. B. Dennis, the manager, acquired this property eight years ago and since that time not a day has been lost or money spared in the development of this prop erty. The company has now over three miles of tunnels and underground works. A village has been built that would be a credit to an addition to Portland. The cottages are all nicely designed, the yards are set with beau tiful lawns and flowers and the.drlve ways are well built and covered with crushed ores. Even the barns and fences are neatly painted and every thing kept in a state of neatness. It has been reported a number of times that thiB company has begun op erations, but this is a mistake. What has been done in the past has only been experimental, as the old process of treating cinnibar ores Mr. Dennis found to be top expensive and he went In with might and main determined to solve the problem of treating the ores for less money. After seven years' toil with all manner of tests he finally suc ceeded In solving the' problem. The small plant erected last year, was so satisfactory that he has patented the process. The company has a large force of skilled laborers at work erecting an immense plant, consisting of huge ore bins, large concrete) structures, for the segregation of the ores, and the most modern type of an electric plant that will have about 800 horse-power. This plant will furnish power for every department of this Immense plant with f A ' i mm ma a WHS 5 i 4. t - . ' speed motors to destroy the Iron In the ores. In addition, a large furnace was Just completed that was built of fire proof brick, shipped from California. The plant will be ready to begin opera tions next month. BRINGS MORE TIIAX $350,000 Vancouver Prune Market Is Strong. Other Industrial Activity. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe cial.) The greater part of Clark County's Immense prune crop is now In the pack ing houses. The packers are working night and day and are hardly able to keep the floors clear for the incoming prunes. Not a prune has been sold in this county for less than BVs cents and a great many have sold for 8 cents and upwards. It is now estimated that the entire crop will" sell for more than $3J0,0i0. Vancouver's prosperity received a de cided check last week when PIttock and Leadbetter's large plants were shut down. Two hundred men- were suddenly thrown out of employment. Fortunately, how ever, the shutdown is only temporary. They will be started again as soon as the stock of lumbernow on hand can be worked down. Everything is ready for the resumption of work on the Vancouver Street Rail-way.'-The engineers are expected to be. on hand tomorrow morning and the work will be rushed to completion. Senator Rands, the president of the new railway company, states that although there has been more delay than was expected, everything is now in readiness". The engineers will be at work tomorrow morning. The orders for material are being filled and no delay Is expected from that cause. IDAHO GRAIN IS HARVESTED Clearwater Country Cleans Up Largest Crop in Its History. LEWISTON. Idaho. Oct.' 20. (Special. With the completion of the harvest in the Ilo section of Nez Perce Prairie this week the most backward section of the Clearwater country is enabled to clean up on its grain crop and the big yield of 1907 is safely stored from the weather and saved to the farmers. The estimated grain yield for the Clearwater seotlon is fixed at 6,000,000 bushels,, an Increase of 25 per cent over former years, and the price is another 25 per cent Increase, leaving the farmers of this section in highly prosperous con dition asthe result of their labors for the year. The bulk of this crop is In wheat and In barley, the former being choice milling and the latter a prime variety of brew ing barley; the prices for both are be yond the current market of the Interior section. This grain is all being mar keted at warehouses on the Clearwater Short Line and on the new extension being built Into the Nes Perce and Camas Prairies from Culdesac , to Grangevllle. The market on the river points is today from 10 to 12 cents higher than on the line of the new road, owing to the fact that on the river the crop can be moved to market at once, though by a longer haul, while it is uncertain when the new. road will be completed to make its de livery from interior1 points. MORE WATER FOR ABERDEEN City Will Vote on Bond Issue for New System. ABERDEEN, Wash., Oct. 20. (Special.) In a district like Grays Harbor, where the total rainfall Is as .great as any por tion of the world, it would seem that the question of an adequate water supply would be an easy one to solve. In the past it has been easy. Until this year few, if any, persons stopped long enough to consides that perhaps Aberdeen might some day be placed in the Irrigated sec tion. The oldest Inhabitant would have laughed the suggestion to scorn. Never theless the past Summer in Aberdeen has been a very dry one. Mills have had to close for days at a time and the condi tions still, though Winter Is near, have not improved. , . The Mayor and Council ask the taxpay ers to vote bonds to the amount of $-'00,000 for the purpose of getting an adequate water supply. There is no doubt that the bonds will be voted. In the meantime the source of the water will be considered. - Engineers have examined the route and made sur veys of the ground between here and the Wynooche River, a distance of 30 miles and it has been found that $100,000 will provide the city with the necessary water. The amount of the bond issue is large but it will provide an extra $35,000 in case the money is needed and $65,000 to retire pres ent water bonds. For . Rent Wholesale storage ware house. Inquire Graves' Music Store. CITIES MAY MERGE Coos Bay Centers Already Have Common Interests. UNITE IN DREDGING BAY Marthfield, North Bend and Emptr Plan to Consolidate at Later Date, Making One Munici pality on Peninsula. ' ' V MARSHFIELD, Or., Oot. 20. (Special.) The plan of consolidating the cities on Coos Bay has been contemplated for a year or more, but while no definite ac tion toward making one municipality has been taken, the bay cities are Joining their Interests In several ways, which it Is believed will eventually lead up te the forming of one large city by Joining the small ones together. An ordinance now pending before the City Council, if passed, will bring the city limits of Marshfield to the recently extended limits of North Bend, so that the two cities Will literally connect. While Empire is soma diHtance below North Bend and nearer the entrance of the harbor, it will also ba Included In the consolidation which is be lieved to be the ultimate destiny of tin bay cities. At the present time Marshfield, North Bend and Empire are preparing to Join their Interests in a plan to dredge tha bay. A company is being formed for the purpose of buying and owning a suction dredge, and this will be used in widen ing the channel of the bay to 2000 feet and making It deeper so that the largest ves sels can at all times come Into the port. It is believed that the cities together can Jointly do more in this line thanlf sep arate projects are carried out. The C. A. Smith Lumber & Manufac turing Co., at Marshfield, is doing some dredging work individually in prepara tion for a large lumber vessel, the "Nan Smith," which has Just been completed at Newport News- It will be a steel steam schooner and will carry 2,225,000 feet of lumber 'and will be the largest lumber schooner on either the Atlantic or Pacific Coast and will be operated ex clusively out of Coos Bay. The schooner has just been launched and will be brought around tho Horn by Captain Nelson, formerly master of the M. F. Plant, plying between this port and San Francisco, and will reach Coos Bay about February 1. Marshfield and North Bend are to be connected in a very material way by a broad driveway, extending along tho waterfront between the two cities. Marsh field has built the new roadway to the city limits and Major L. J. Simpson, of North Bend, who has been foremost in the development of that city, has an nounced that he will build the rest of the road to North Bend at his own ex pense. Heretofore the only mode of trans portation between the two cities has been by gasoline launch or over a roadway which is practically Impassable In Win ter. The new driveway will make the dis tance between the two cities much shorter and a line of automobiles for the use of the general public will be operated over It. It is also expected that the electric line which is to be built by Hewitt and Bell, of Portland, will be started soon, i'he franchise is now In the hands of the City Council of Marshfield, and when it is passed the work will begin, all other rights of way having been obtained. Plans have also been completed for tha connection of Marshfield with East Marshfield, on the opposite side of the bay. The suburb has grown rapidly and. the city limits are to be extended so as to Include the district. The County Court has decided to give county aid for the es tablishment of a free ferry across the bay, on the condltidns that Marshfield build proper landing places. This ar rangement will make East Marshfield much more convenient as a place of res idence. CORVALLIS IS GROWING FAST Much Buildlnc Is in Progress and Schools Are Crowded. CORVALLIS, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) This town is enjoying a period of very great growth. Though 40 or 60 per cent has been added to the number of houses In the past three years none are vacant and houses are hard to get. For the quarter ending June 30. the PoBtoffice revenues showed an Increase of more than 20 per cent over the preceding year, and for the quarter ending September 20, the Increase was S0.4. January 1, appli cation Is to be made to the department at Washington for Installation of free mail delivery in the cily. An equally Important sign of growth, is in the public school enrollment. The number of pupils today is 22.5 per cent greater than a year ago. In one of the school buildings, school has been dis missed In order to give carpenters and painters time to finish up two additional rooms to accommodate the overflow, and the prospect is that two other unfinished rooms in the same building will have to be completed and occupied within the next few weeks, increasing the number of teachers from 13 to 17. The installa tion of a gravity - water system with water taken from Rock River near the snow line of Mary's Peak Is In progress. GREAT NORTHERN AIDS WORK Graugeville Extension to Reubens to Be Completed November 1. LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 20.-(Speclal.)-Word received from the prairie section Is to the effect that the force on the extension to Grangeville has been aug mented by the arrival of a bridge gang with a complete equipment of derrick and air car. from the Great Northern railway. The crew is in charge of Super intendent McKlnzle and it is expected with this help that the top of the hill at Reubens will be reached in two weeks. The completion of the line to Reubens by November 1 will allow the completion to Volimer by January 1, at which time It is expected that portion of the prairie line will be put in operation. There is some signlncance too in the fact that the construction forces of the Great Northern are rushed into Idaho to heln complete this lino of branch road. Activity on the part of the O. R. & N. In the operation of its part of the joint road is said to be the cause. New Opera House Is Completed. VALE, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.) The new opera-house is about completed and will be opened with a big dance. The size of the building ts SO by 60 and will be used for both an opera-house and dance hall. It is of native stone, with store rooms below. After serious' Illness Hood's Sarsa parilla imparts the strength and vigor 80 much needed. l