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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1908. Lester Herrick & Eerrick Certified Public Accountants PHASES OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEASON IS ACTIVE BUSY ALOi COAST , Office - Wells Fargo Building. to other Offices San Francisco Merchants Exchange Seattle Alaska Building Los Angeles Union Trust Building New York S3 Broad Street Chicago 189 La Salle Street WHAT EUGENE IS DOING TO ATTRACT SETTLERS TO OREGON Many Buildings Started at Eugene. Outlook- for Spring Is Bright in Coos. 12 STONE AND CEMENT USED Aotahle Improvements Planned, Which Contribute to the Pros perity of the Oregon College Town. EI'GEXR, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) The building: season in Eugone has fairly opened and the year inns will be a more active one than 1W7, with the probable record at the close of the year of being the greatest building year in the history of Kugene. There are scores of residences In course of construction all over the city, in fact this class of building has been progress ing all Winter. Some of the residences under construction are the best that have yet been put up, a very noticeable feature being the extent in which stone and ce ment are used in these residence struc tures. A short time ago a canvas? of the town showed but one vacant house, and the number of people coming here daily de manded a betterment of conditions for the homeseeker and this in part accounts for the activity in building In the resi dence sections. But the facts that ma terial, especially lumber, is cheaper than it has been for some time and that labor is more plentiful, enabling the builder to complete a house in a reasonable length of time at a considerably lower cost than could have been done a year or two ago, have been strong factors In causing the increased activity in building. But the erection of public buildings and business houses maintains the same pro portion to former years as does the build ing of dwellings. The Eugene 0neral Hospital on College Hill, has just been completed and is now in operation. The Eugene Divinity School, a tine stone building, Is in process of construction and will be finished sometime during the year. It will be a three-story building entirely of stono and one of the finest In the Willamette Valley. The new Pres byterian church at the corner of Tenth and Pearl streets is being rapidly ad vanced and is to be completed by August 10. This is to be of stone and will prob ably be the finest Protestant church builu ing. outside of the city of Portland, In Oregon. The Southern Pacific Company has promised to begin work on the new depot here by April 1 and It is said that no better station will be ereeteu between Portland and Sacramento. The Board of Directors have decided to build an addi tion of several rooms to me new High School building, which will relieve the congested condition of t'.ie schools until Fall, when it will be necessary to pro vide another building. Excavations are being made for the business building to be erected by F. L. Chambers on "Willamette street, between Sixth and Seventh streets, which is to of brick. The foundation Is completed for the. JIuIln brick and stone building on Ninth street, between Willamette and Oak, and just across the street frame wbrk Is up for the Patterson brick build ing. F. C Potts has let the contract for a laree brick building to be constructed on Olive street, between Eighth and Ninth, and S. B. Finnegan will build a like structure adjoining It during the Spring or Summer. The Hodes building on Willamette street, "between Eighth and Ninth, is be ing remodeled for & theater building. Beside these changes it 1s not improbable that five large brick buildings will be constructed In the business section, three of them In that block on Willamette street between Sixth and Seventh streets destroyed by fire during the past Sum tner. This building, with the continuance of the street car line through East Eugene toward Springfield, and the paving of the side streets joining Willamette and F.leventh street, which Joins the town and the University of Oregon campus, will make the building and construction im provements In Eugene for the period of J DOS exceed those of any previous year by far. TALKS BEAR MUCH FRUIT FARMERS BUYING GRAFTING ANT SPRAYING SUPPLIES. Men Badly Needed in Rural Dis tricts Especially to Cut Wood.' High Prices Will Prevail. SALEM. Or., Fob. 16. (Special.) That the educational work among fruitgrowers by such men as M- O. Lownsdale and E. C. Armstrong has been productive of great results In this vicinity, is evident from the unprecedented sales of grafting and spray materials by Salem dealers. During the iost few days of clear weather there lias been an immense demand for rosin, 1eeswax and tallow with which to make grafting wax, thus showing conclusively rim farmers are acting upon the advice of Mr. Lownsdale to cut down their old, neglected and diseased apple trees, with a view to grafting into the stumps. Much of the grafting this year, how ever, will be in younger trees. vshich were permitted to form a top so high as to be out of reach, or which are of unmarket able varieties. In most instances where old trees are cut down, they will be cut close to the ground nd the grafting will bo done next Winter in the shoots that come up from the old stump this Sum mer. A great many cherry orchards are being grafted to marketable varieties usually the Royal Anne where the orig inal troo is of a variety for which there is no demand. It Is estimated that 30 spray pumps have been sold here already this season, and probably twice as many more will be sold before the spraying season Is over. Most of the pumps are of the barrel kind, operated by hand, but a few power ma chines have been put 4nto use. The great majority of the orchardlsts have so few trees that they cannot afford to own power sprayers. Most of the large art-hard ists were already provided with power sprayers. The barrel pumps, though a little mere expensive to operate In proportion to the amount of work ac complished, will go far toward cleaning up the. neglected orchards and will be tised where tho orchards would be left uusprayed if power machines, requiring a considerable investment, were necessary. Though newspapers in Portland. . Ta coma and Seattle report that there are large numbers of Idle and hungry men in tho cities, farmers In the Willamette Val ley still have trouble in securing men ' - m-jp kmm jj 'i - r - --- -- n (i i jmiii l; ijiimtmiijimn.1 'i -:r . ?f:Xl 'yxlr? : K-feliJL JN'V : :Ps :' 1 ! CLIMPSli INTO PROMOTION DEPARTMENT OF EUGENE COMMERCIAL CLIB. EUGENE, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) The promotion department of the Eugene Commercial Club has sent Out 8300 pieces of mall matter dur ing the past two months. Of the corps of stenographers one is kept busy all the time with foreign correspondence. Eugene is the only Commercial Club on the Pacific Coast giving particular attention to this class of advertising, and only the best class of immigrants is chosen with which to do this publicity work. In addition to the regular corps of stenographers and typewriters employed in the office of the Com mercial Club, as shown above, the pupi!3 of the public schools are writing hundreds of letters to their friends in different parts of the coun try telling them about Oregon. While the outgoing letters and advertising matter refer largely to Lane County and Eugene, it Is expected that al! Oregon will reap a part of the benefits to come from an expenditure of over $12,000 a year, or 1000 a m onth, which the people of Eugene have contributed for the advertising of this section of the country. CHEESE OUTPUT IS LARGE TIIXAMOOK CREAMERY MAKES AXXUAL REPORT. Dairy Products for Past Year Ag . grcgate Over $50,000 in Value IVom One Institution. TILLAMOOK, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) One of the latest large cheese factories to report last year's business is the Tillamook Creamery, the second largest factory In the county as to the amount of milk received. For a number of years the Tillamook Creamery, which was one of the first factories started in the county, used to get more patronage than any other factory but the last few years the Maple Leaf Creamery Association has outdistaced it, for last year it had 3.533, 32 pounds of milk against 3,3oo,3S2 by the Tillamook Creamery. These two factories received 6,K78,744 pounds of milk and manufactured 735,000 pounds of cheese and 2770 pounds of but ter, the receipts being J103.871.25 for the two factories for last year. The Tilla mook Creamery report shows a gain of 160,776 pounds of milk, the exact figures enough to do their work. Farmers would ibe pleased If the city authorities would find some means of driving the idle men out Into the country that is, if the idle men really want work. As a result of the high prices for cord wood last Fall, farmers have been trying to get plenty of wood cut this Winter, but there is evidence that they are not getting as much cut as they would like. Owing to the slack offerings, the board of trustees' at the State Insane Asylum has raised Its price to $4 a cord again. It wae believed that there would be a good supply and that the board could buy at $3.50, but the supply Is not In evidence. There is a likelihood that the ruling price for first-growth fir wood in Salem next Summer will be up around $4.50 or $5 a cord. SESSION OP LETTER-CARRIERS Convention of Linn and Benton County Postmen. ALBANY. Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Next Saturday, February 22, has been, set as the date for the annual convention of rural mail carriers of Linn and Ben ton Counties, which will be held in this city. All of the carriers of the two counties are expected to be present and the arrangement committee has received word that visiting carriers will be here from Salem, McMlnnvllle, Independence, Woodburn and Gervais. There are now 31 rural free delivery routes In Linn and Benton Counties, covering a wide section of country and handling an immense business. Twenty six of these routes are In Linn County, distributed as follows: Albany, 6; Leba non. 4; Shedds, 3; Harrisburg, 3; Halsey, 2; Crabtree, 2; Scio, 2; Brownsville, Tan gent, Thomas and Waterloo, each 1. Of the five Benton County routes, Corvallis has four and Monroe one. The present officers of the Rural Car riers' Association of the two counties, who will be In charge of the annual con vention, are: President. H. M. Cum mings, of Corvallis: vice-president, J. R. Cochran, of Shedds; secretary, Roy Houser, of Albany; treasurer, Ben Mar tin, of Corvallis. , Besides transacting the regular busi ness of the Association and enjoying a, social session, the carriers will at this convention begin preliminary arrange ments for the entertainment of the State Association of Rular Letter Car riers, who will meet in Albany this year, probably in May. John H. Goins, one of the local carriers. Is secretary of the State Association. Native Sons Register. ALBANY, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Two for the year being 3,355.382 pounds. Of that amount, 3,304,162 pounds were con verted Into cheese and 51.220 pounds into butter. The entire output of cheese was 355,415 pounds, and that of butter 2770 pounds. The Value' of the entire product of the season was $50,682.49. The amount of butter fat In milk was 129,822.62 pounda. Average test .0384 per cent. Average yield, 10.76 pounds of cheese per 100 pounds of milk. Average price for butter fat, cheese, a little over 344 cents per pound; butter, 32 cents per pound. The Three Rivers Creamery Association at Hebo, reports 1,397,896 pounds of milk received for the nine months that factory was operated, which produced 52,988.57 pounds of butter fat. This made 149.163 pounds of cheese, which will bring the patrons about $21,000. Conditions Good at Elma. ELMA, Wash... Feb. 16. (Special.) Business conditions in Eastern Che halis County are Improving rapidly, and every mill and camp Is now prac .tlcally running full time and with a full crew. -Most of the shingle mills have started up and there has been no reduction in wages whatever In any of them. The same union wages are paid that were paid prior to the shut down. In the logging camps, however, wages have been reduced some, as well as in the sawmills, owing to the price of logs being lower than they were when the high wages prevailed last year. , men registered as electors in Linn County yesterday who are more than 60 years old and are native sons. They are Newton Crabtree, of Scio, who is 62 years old, and Scott Ward, of Albany, who is 60. Cyrus H. Walker, of Albany, is the oldest living white child born west of the Rocky mountains, and while he was born in the old Oregon Territory 69 years ago, his birthplace is not within the present limits of Oregon, so this leaves Mr. Crabtree the oldest native son, strictly speaking, who has thus far registered here. Lane County Fair Grounds. EUGENE. Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Op- FORMER BARREN WASTE PRODUCES 62 BUSHELS TO THE ACRE , - it VIEW OF OAT FIELD OX FARM Al()n. BEND, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) The illustration is a view of a field of oats grown on the segregation of the Deschutes Irrigation I & Power Company in the Bend country. The field Is on the farm , of Carl Ehret, only a short distance from Redmond, Or. It is a 1907 crop and yielded 62 bushels to the acre. A few montiiq r th. land was apparently a barren waste, covered with . sagebrush and ! T juniper. The wonderful transformation by irrigation is fully shown J in the above view. Hundreds of acres in this vicinity did as well last I season, one field of oats yielding as high as 83 bushels of oats to the 1 4 acre. t BIG DEAL IN REAL ESTATE TACOMA AND SEATTLE MEN BUY YAKIMA LANDS. lownsltes of Granger and Grand view Included in Transaction Involving 9300,000. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash.. Feb. 16. (Special.) A deal was closed In this city today for Takima realty and other prop erty Involving over $300,000, a Seattle and Tacoma company purchasing the entire holdings of the Granger Land Company, including the townsites of Granger and Grandview, together with all of tlie lat ter company's fruit canneries and other Industrial establishments, stores and buildings. The consolidation of these various Interests makes the strongest aggregation of capital ever Invested In one deal In Yakima Valley lands. The great Sunnyside canal, now the property of the Government, passes through these lands. This deal and the prominence of the people connected with the company mak ing the purchase emphasizes the state ments recently mncie concerning the re sumption of active work -throughout this district by the North Coast Railroad tions Have been secured and the grounds platted for the Lane'. County Fair Grounds. The tract is In the Huddleston Addition, very conveniently situated. A part of It which Is close in. will be sold as town lots to help form the organiza tion. The rest, consisting of over 65 acres, will be used for the fair. Prepara tions are actively going on to make the fair this Fall the best one in the history of the county. Especial care w-ill be given to showing tip well the resources of Lane and the possibilities of her orchard and agricultural lands. The different sec tions of Lane County have never 'before been- so well organized for this purpose as they are now. OF CARL EHRET, NEAR RED- on. Company on March J. It also attracts additional attention to the immediate purpose of the ' Yakima Inter-Valley Electric Railway Company, whose line is now being surveyed definitely from Granger to this city, passing thrpugh a rich portion of the territory just abquired by the Seattle-Tacoma company. To ' Manufacture lYuit Boxes. LYLE, Wash., Feb. 16. (Special.) Al bert E. Wright, a representative of Cali fornia capital. Is very busy up the Klick itat River, six miles from Lyle installing a sawmill. One of the features of the enterprise Is a double cable carllne up the mountain side, one-half mile long, which will work on the plan that the loaded car of logs descending will bring up the empties on the second cable. Mr. Wright hopes to soon have everything In working order very soon and will pay particular attention to the manufacture of orange and lemon boxes for California fruitgrowers. Planting Xut Trees in Linn. ALBANY, Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) A meeting to discuss walnut culture and to stimulate interest in that line of Industry will be held in Albany on Feb ruary 27. A number of walnut-growers will be present and will give instruc tion In the planting and care of wal nut, trees. Some new walnut orchards are being set out In this county and there will probably be a greatly in creased acreage during the coming two years. PUSHING TOWARD COAST MILWAUKEE EXTENDS TRAIN SERVICE TO TERRY, MONT. Railroad Expected to Reach Butte by May, This Year, and Puget Sound Cities in 1909. TERRY, Mont., Feb. 16. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway today ex tended to this city the train service of the company's Pacific Coast extension. The new line crosses the Yellowstone River for the first time at Terry. The train service is daily being extended be tween Aberdeen, Narmarth, N. D., and this city. The record of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul in building Its Pacific Coast extension, has. It is announced ' today, never been equalled in the matter of time by any similar undertaking. Track is now building at the rate of five miles per day and by the end of this wek the east and west track laying forces In Montana will meet in the vicinity of Miles City. - It is confidently expected that trains over the new transcontinental railway will be operated through to Butte by May, 1908. and Into Seattle and Tacoma about a year later. BEES POISONED BY SPRAY Mr. Dosch Says They Need Not Be Killed If Instructions Followed. HILLSDALE, Or., Feb. 1. (To th Editor.) In The Oregonian of last Monday appears a lonft article from Walla Walla on the eubject. Bees Poisoned by Spray Mix tures. The article asks. "Will the codling moth be exterminated in the valley at the expense of the bee industry? will the or chard pest and the little honey maker die together? The problem Is becoming a seri ous one," etc.. etc. There Js evidently something radically wrong here; either your correspondent has been misinformed or these orchardists have failed to learn the lessons taught by the members of the state board of horticulture and the professors of the Agricultural Ex perimental Stations, all of whom have (riven their best thoughts to this subject, ixsued bulletins and lectured at all the horticult ural meetings and farmers institutes. If your correspondent is quoted correctly then we all have failed to Impart the knowledge MANY NEW INDUSTRIES Advertising of Past Year Has At tracted 3Iany New Settlers From All Pars of the Country. MARSHFIELD. Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) Spring activities on Coos Bay are open ing with promise of a lively Summer. Two concrete business blocks, one to be occupied by the Flanagan & Bennett Bank, and the other by the First Trust & Savings Company, are nearing com pletion. The Rogers building, a brick structure. Is finished, and the Williams block, another concrete building, is in course of construction. Order now placed with the lumber companies indicate that scores of small cottages will be built this. Summer. As more extensive advertising has been done during the past year than ever- be fore, It Is anticipated that many new peo ple will come to Coos Bay and prepara tions are being made accordingly. Work on the new JTS.OOO hotel will begin at once, so Marshfield -will be better able than ever before to take care .of strang ers. East MarshHeld and Bay City, two settlements opposite Marshfield on the bay, have decided to incorporate, and an other municipality will be added to those bordering on Coos Bay. It is expected that active work will be done by local capital this Summer In dredging the upper bay to better pro vide for vessels. The increased lumber manufacturing plants will create a larger ocean traflic and the dredging becomes a necessity. The big plant of the C. A. Smith Lumber Company will be complet ed soon and will have a capacity of 25.001) feet an hour. The mill of tho Simpson Lumber Company at Porter is being enlarged and $30,000 will be expend ed on the plant. There is so much activity in the coal mining business that the holdings of the Southern Pacific Company at this point are to be greatly enlarged. The Lillian mine, owned by L. J. Simpson, of North Bend, and located on Coos River, is be ing reopened and will be in operation in ten days. Several smaller mines are also being opened. The Marshfield people have been mak ing an effort to improve the mail service. Inspector Vaiile recently visited the city and looked over the mail route from Roseburg to Marshfield. The roads are In bad shape and the mails have been somewhat slow, so it was decided to pe tition the department asking 'that every thing but the daily papers and letters be brought by boat from Portland once a week. It is thought that this arrange ment will lightn the mails so that the letters and daily papers can bo brought over the mountains more promptly. Farms Sold at Weston. WESTON. Or., Feb. 16. (Special.) The Adams place, two miles east of town, was sold yesterday by Walter Adams to R. W. Brown, formerly of Eureka Flat. The place contains 300 acres, much being good farm land, and the consideration is not given out. but Is said to have been about $60 an acre. The place Is well Improved, with a fine house and barn and gravity water works. It formerly belonged to ex Representative Henry C. Adams, and was among the first farms in this vicinity. Mr. Brown will seed the bot toms to alfalfa and will raise hogs and chickens and plant fruit trees. New Industry for Eugene. EUGENE. Or., Feb. 16. (Speciat.) Eugene expects shortly to have 1n op eration a complete concrete block ce ment brick manufacuring plant. The promotion department of the Com mercial Club has Interested parties who have a large plant at Niagara Falls, N. Y., and the managers will be here In a few days to make arrange ments for the establishment of the new plant. we aimed to teach. We have even gone so far as to have halftones made and pub lished, showing the blossoms, when to spray and when not to spray, so that no possible mistake could be made: In the face of all or which I am more than surprised, that the little honeymaker should be sacrificed. The codling moth does not exist, nor does its deadly work when the little busv bee gathers In the nectar from the blossoms. The result to be obtained by spraying with poisons is to kill the worm which begins to feed on the blossom end of tbe embryo apple or pear codling where the moth has laid its egg, and as soon as it hatches its first breakfast should kill it. But when there is no codling to speak of. nor moth to lay an egg upon it, what is the use of spraying to destroy something that does not exist? Un der no circumstances should trees be spray ed while In full bloom, for it is not only a useless expense, but a waste of time and material as well, and as appears In this Liver Pills Ask your doctor if he knows a better pill for a sluggish liver than Ayer's Pills. Then follow his advice. Ayers Pills It is impossible, simply impossible, for any one to enjoy the best of health if the bowels are consti pated. Undigested material, waste products, poison ous substances, must be daily removed from the body 'or there will be trouble, and often serious trouble, too. Ayer's Pills aid nature, that is all. We have no secrets! We puSlish the formulas of all our medicines. J. C. AYER CO., Manufacturing Chemists, Lowell, Mass. Rheumatism Dq you want to get rid of it ? If so, take Dr. Miles Nervine modified as di rected in pamphlet around bottle. In addition to the direct curative properties it has a soothing effect up on the nervous system by; which the rheumatic pains are controlled, and rest and sleep assured. It has made many cures of this painful disease, some of them after years of suffering. If it will cure others why not you. If your case is compli cated, write us for advice, it costs you nothing and may save you prolonged suffering. , "I was so crippled that I could scarcely walk. After having my shoes on for an hour or two I could manage to walk by suffering the pain. Then I began to have pains all through my system. My doctor told me I had an acute attack of Inflammatory rheumatism. I read about Dr. Miles' Nervine, bought a bottle and I com menced to get better from the start and for the past six months have scarcely any pain, and am able to walk as well as ever." JAS. H. SANDERS, P. O. Box 5, Rockaway, N. J. Your druggist sells Dr. Miles' Nerv ine, and we authorize him to return price of first bottle (only) if It fails to benefit you. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind Instance, destroy a useful and valuable honey-making insect. The first spray with poisons to destroy the codling worm is made after all the blos soms have fallen; tiie embryo codling apple or pear is then sufficiently developed to show, and before the blossom end closes, in whifh the moth usually iaya Its first ecc, so the poison Is present when the egg brings forth the worm. The moth does not work until the nights are warm, which are usually the latter part of May or early June, by which time the blooming season Is over and the bees no longer seek nectar on the fruit trees, but are found buzzing in the clover and alfalfa fields. In view of these facts, which have been preached so often and the methods fol lowed by so many scientific horticulturists, it almost seems criminal to spray while the trees are in lull bloom. Spray bulletins are published free anil can be had for the asking, from the stale boards of horticulture end Agricultural Col leges, and if these orchardists do not possess them, they should certainly add them to tholr libraries, read .up and bring themselves up-to-date. It Is a duty they owe to themselves, their neighbors, and again we all love honey. HF.NRY K. DOSCH. WILL PROEE INTO WRECK Railroad Commission Sets Investi gation for Tomorrow. Further investigation Into the wreck of the Sheridan passenger train near Forest Grove early last week will be conducted by the Oregon Railroad Commission. The hearing will be held In this city tomor row afternoon, beginning at 1 P. M. The session will be held In the auditorium of the Chamber of Commerce. All three members of the commission will attend. It is desired by the commission to ex amine additional Southern Pacific officials, as the inquiry made last week at Forest Grove was nflt as thorough as was de sired, hut it was impossible at that time to complete the investigation. It is likely that tomorrow will conclude the hearing on the wreck and that "the report of the commission will be forthcoming within a few days thereafter. , Duty or the Young Man. The duty which the yountr man of Portland owes to the city was the sub ject of the sermon at the Grace Meth odist Church last night, preached by the pastor. Rev. William H. lleppe. lie had received a number of communica tions from business men of the city, telling their ideas of what young men ought to do for Portland. These tho pastor read from the pulpit. Dr. Heppo said the young man Is often lost in the mass anrl docs not remember that he is a social unit, lie spoke of the cities as the storm renters of the Na tion, but said It was not impossible for a young man to live an exempKrj life In the city.