THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1903.
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Phases of the Industrial Growth in the Pacific Northwest
ACTIVE SEASON
BAKER
MIES
Several Old Properties Will Be
Reopened and Others
Improved.
MEW RAILROAD PROJECTS
Lines Are Being: Constructed and
Others Planned Which Will
Facilitate Shipment of Ore
In Eastern Oregon.
PENDLETON'. Or., June 28. (Special.)
A correspondent who has just returned
from a week's journey through the mines
of Baker County and the agricultural
districts of Baker nd Umatilla counties
was struck with many evidences of im
provement and growth.
Baker City, the county seat of Baker
County, is putting up many substantial
business blocks, including the Citizens
National Bank and the new County
Courthouse, which is to be three stories
high, built entirely of stone, with ce
ment floor to the basement. The build
ing will be heated by steam, lighted by
both gas and electricity. The jail will
be on the third floor and a private stair
way will lead to the courtroom below.
This arrangement lessens the chance of
escape of prisoners. There will be an
elevator, private offices for County Clerk.
Sheriff, County Surveyor and Assessor,
und ample sanitary arrangements
throughout the structure. As it is now,
all the county officers are using the new
City Hall, the Council Chamber being
' "used as a courtroom. The -new Court
house will be under cover by January 1
next and it will then take another year
to entirely complete and furnish the
building. The total cost wilf approx
imate J1TSXK).
The mines of Baker County are all more
or less active this year. The Highland
mine, on the same ledge as the United
Elkhorn, 25 miles west of Baker City,
under new management and with Eastern
stockholders behind the mine, resumed
work last February. A force of men is
crosacutting a tunnel on the BOD level
which it contemplates developing as
rapidly as possible.
Operating Virtue Mine.
The famous old Virtue is now- running
under the management of J. K. Romig,
who has put in a new electric hoist, and
the mine is also lighted by electricity.
The drills are operated by air. In Its
, day this was one of the richest producers
in the state.
The Red Boy,- once the property of
Godfrey & Taber, near Granite, is under
new ownership. It is also operated by
electricity, developed at Olive Lake,
where the Fremont Power Company has
a large plant, only a few miles from the
mine. This plant also furnishes power
and lights to other mines near Bourne.
In the Bourne district, eight miles north
of Sumpter, the Columbia and North
Pole are turning out their usual monthly
dividends.
At Geiser. the celebrated Bonanza mine,
which made the fortune of the Geisers
and also that of part of the Tollman
family in Baker City, after ups and
downs and passing through various hands
was some time ago re-leased to Al Geiser,
the original discoverer, who has taken,
out some gold from it since he acquired
the lease.
May Ueopen Elkhorn.
it is reported that the United Elkhorn,
the property of F. P. Hays, of Phila
delphia, will reopen this season, but Mr.
Field, the manager, is in the East and
no confirmation of the report is at hand.
The Golden Star mine. In Camp Car
son, some 26 miles northwest of Baker
City, is a rich lead and silver property,
equipped with modern machinery. It be
longs to an Eastern syndicate and is
under the management of J: V. Messner.
At present the mine employs only about
12 men.
Twenty miles east of Baker City is the
well-known Indian mine, also the prop
erty of an Eastern syndicate, under the
management of J. W. Messner. This
mine is not doing much this season, but
It Is expected to put on a larger force
of men next "Winter.
In the Cornucopia district, 60 miles east
of Baker City, the Union Companion
mine, the property of Searles, of New
York, Is BKain more or less a rich pro
ducer, and employs quite a number of
men.
1 Down on Snake River, some 75 miles
southeast of Baker City, Is the Iron Dyke
mine, a copper property, under the man
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To the left of the College buildings is Faculty Hill, on which ar
the right of the college buildings is the new College Park addition, on
all the houses was broken.
agement of F. E. Pearce, which is not
doing much but surface work this Sum
mer, waiting for the railroad, which Is
now under construction.
In Baker County there will be large
crops this year, as there are much more
land under cultivation and many more
miles of irrigation ditches than ever be
fore in the history of the county. Fruits
promise not so well as usual, as the late
fiosts in April nipped the buds. But veg
etables will be abundant in all sections
of the county. . It is thought the peaches
of Snake River will produce abundantly,
and they are of the finest varieties.
Arid Land 3Iade Fertile.
Surrounding Echo, a lithe station on
the main line of the O. R. & N. Railroad,
about 27 miles west of Pendleton, is a
large body of what was once sagebrush
land, the home of the rabbit only. Now
capital has built many miles of irrigation
ditches, taking the water from the Uma
tilla River, and thousands of acres have
been redeemed and are readily selling at
high prices to Eastern farmers who are
tired of the uncertainty of crops In Kan
sas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. These Irri
gated lands near Echo produce three
crops of alfalfa each season, and alfalfa
now is a better product than the output
of some of the copper mines In Baker
County.
Much activity is also noticeable In rail
road circles in Eastern Oregon. In Baker
County, the Oregon Short' Line Is build
ing the long-talked-of line of road down
Snake River on the Oregon side, former
ly known as the Northwest Railway, now
the Snake River Railroad. The contrac
tors are under bonds to have the line
built as far as the Iron Dyke by January
T-.mwTV TONS M? AT.FAT.FA
COUNTY.
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FIELD OX FARM OF JOHN M. CRAWFORD, JiEAB'SEWBERG. HAY .
CUT FROM JUKE 8 TO 12. SECOND CROP NOW 15 INCHES HIGH.
1 next. This will give an outlet by rail
for all the ores of the mines of the Seven
Devils section of Idaho and the mines of
the Oregon side of the Snake, even those
In the Cornucopia district. It is said that
an electric road will be built from the
Snake River, at Iron Dyke, to Pine, which
will lessen the haul by team from Cornu
copia. W. L. Vinson has finally floated the
scheme of building a narrow-gauge rail
road from Baker City to Eagle Valley
and on through to Pine and perhaps even
tually to the Snake River. The name of
the road is the Eagle Valley Railway
Company. A Cincinnati syndicate fur
nished the money for building the first 25
miles.
Another scheme talked of in Baker
City is the building of an electric rail
road from Baker City, skirting the hills
to the west, thence through the little
town of Haines and back to BakerN City
thrpugh the rich Missouri Flat farming
country.
CREAMERY FOR CLATSKANIE
Farmers Sign Contracts for Cream
Output of Next Five Years.
CLATSKANIE, Or., June 28. (Spe
cial.) A meeting of Nehalem Valley
farmers -was held at Mist, nine miles
from here, Tuesday afternoon, to make
arrangements for the establishment of
a creamery at that" plaee. J. C. Lang,
a practical creamery man from Wis
consin, has been working: the proposi
tion up among the farmers for the past
three weeks and has succeeded in in
teresting them to the extent of ob
taining contracts for five years to take
all their cream at within one and one
half cents per pound of the highest
market price for butter, they also to
put up suitable buildings and furnish
the boiler for the operation of the
plant. Between 4000 and 5000 gallons
of crcira are shipped monthly from this
district to Portland creameries, and
dairying is yet in its infancy.
Newest effects In Garden Ties. $3.50
and $4.00. at Rosenthal's, Seventh and
Washington.
PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, LOOKING TOWARD THE
IRRIGATION FOR
CROPS -IN VALLEY
Experiments, Show Increased
Yields Valuable in Pro
ducing Forage.
FIGURES ON COST LACKING
Work of Government Incomplete,
Yet Reports Satisfactory In
Proving Possibilities of Add
ing to Farmers' Profits.
SALEM, Or., June 28. (Special.) That
Irrigation In the Willamette Valley will
Insure crops in seasons of early drought
and will Increase the yield of crops In
A
OFF 25 ACRES IN YAMHILL t
ordinary seasons are conclusions reached
by A. P. Stover, who Is in charge of ir
rigation experiments In this state. The
use of irrigation in this part of the
state he finds particularly valuable In
the production of garden crops and In
the, growing of forage crops for dairy
herds. These tentative conclusions are
announced in a. report just issued from
the United States Department of Agri
culture, giving an account of experi
mental work in Willamette Valley.
To what extent irrigation farming in
this valley may be conducted with finan
cial success is a matter not discussed
in the report and apparently not very
definitely indicated by the experiments.
Mr. Stover says that in order to arrive at
conclusive results the experiments must
be extended over a period of years. His
present reporf is made chiefly for the
purpose of showing what progress has
been made and encouraging and aiding
others to conduct experiments along this
line.
Cost and Profit Figures Lacking.
The report is very complete and satis
factory so far as It relates to methods
pursued and results attained In the form
of increased yields, but it is noticeably
wanting in figures with dollar marks be
fore them. The work thus far does not
show the relation between cost of Irriga
tion of various crops and the value of
the increased yield. This Is a matter of
detail which will, presumably, be worked
out in the future. Mr. Stover is appar
ently iquite well satisfied that Irrigation
will pay when resorted to on some kinds
of soil and for the production of some
kinds of crops. The amount of expense
a man will be warranted in incurring in
order to irrigate various crops Is one of
the problems yet to be solved.
Corn, potatoes, onions, hops, clover and
vetch are the crops with which the ex
periments have thus far been conducted.
The Agricultural Experiment Station at
Corvallis conducted the experimental
work In the Irrigation of corn and pota
toes. By means of a 4-horsepower gaso
line engine and a 34-inch centrifugal
pump, water was pumped to a height of
15 feet and turned Into a flume 700 feet
long, which conducted It to ditches In
the field. The first irrigation was on
June 29, when the corn was three inches
high, and the second a month later. The
being erected $66,950 worth of buildings. Only a few years ago this hill was planted with sugar beets. To
which $16,700 Is now being invested in new homes. The picture was taken a few weeks ago before ground for
corn was harvested in October and
showed the following results In yield of
green fodder per acre;
Corn, unlrrlgated. 5647 tiounds.
Corn, irrigated once, 7000 pounds.
Corn, irrigated twice, 9666 pounds.
Potatoes given the same treatment
showed the following yields per acre:
Potatoes, unlrrlgated, 2604 pounds.
Potatoes. Irrigated once, 67rtO pounds.
Potatoes, irrigated twice, 7500 pounds.
Effect on Onions and Hops.
The effect of Irrigation upon onions
was shown by work conducted by Rob
ert Gellatly, a market gardener, of
Philomath. The water was secured
from a ditch by gravity flow and the
amount applied during the season was
3.51 feet. The harvest showed that
from 24 rows unlrrlgated the yield
was 350 pounds, while from the same
number of rows of equal length, irri
gated, the yield was 850 pounds. The
Increase was not only total in quantity,
but in size and quality of the onions.
Oswald West, who has a hop-yard at
Corvallis, furnishes the information as
to the effects of irrigation upon hops.
He irrigated part of his yard by means
of a four-inch centrifugal pump, op
erated by a six-horse power gasoline
engine, pumping the water to a height
of 25 feet and discharging Into an 800
foot flume which conducted . the water
to the yard. Furrows were plowed
alongside the hop rows for the water
to run In through the yard. The cost
of gasoline for the season was $17.25.
About ID acres of a 25-acre yard was
lrrogated for a period of about 15 days
in July and August. Apparently the
crop from the Irrigated portion was
not harvested separate from that on
the unlrrlgated portion, for no sepa
rate results are given. The yard pro
duced 800 pounds per acre In 1906 and
1150 pounds per acre in 1907, the crop
on the unlrrlgated portion being esti
mated at about the same as In 1906.
' Clover Hay Experiments.
G. R. Bagley, of Hillsboro, conducted
experiments in the use of water on
vetch and clover crops. The land had
been cropped with grain for years and
an artificial hard-pan had formed at a
depth of about 8 to 10 inches. In pre
paring the ground, it. was subsoiled to
a depth of 16 to 2D inches. Vetch and
oats were sown In November and red
clover was sown in February. The
vetch crop was taken off by July 5.
Between July 10 and 25 water was ap
plied from a gravity ditch and 52 days
later the clover on tne subsoiled land
had grown to a height of three feet,
and that on land not subsoiled to a
height of 10 inches. The crops were
used for soiling during the months of
August, September, October and part
of November. Upon part of the Irri
gated land a second crop of clover was
harvested. No accurate weights were
secured, but it is estimated by Mr.'
Bagley that from the tract of eight
acres he took 20 tons of vetch hay, 100
tons of grten clover, four and one
half tons of clover hay and eight tons
of clover silage, besides having a
mulch crop left 6 to 10 inches high.
Mr. Bagley says this is the only in
stance within his knowledge in which
clover was harvested the same season
it was seeded. The irrigation required
only the work of one man for not to
exceed two days, making the cost not
to exceed 50 cents per acre.
MAKES TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS
State Engineer Ascertaining Fitness
of Oregon Lands for Irrigation.
SALEM, Or., June 28. (Special Cor
respondence.) Now that irrigation ex
periments are being conducted In the
Willamette Valley, the United States
Geological Survey, in co-operation with
the rstate engineer of Oregon, has be
gun a topographic survey of the val
ley for. the purpose of mapping the
lands and ascertaining the fitness of
their location for irrigation In the dry
Summer and drainage In the wet sea
son. The geological survey and the state
have been making topographic surveys
In Oregon for 20 years, but so far only
one quadrangle, that of Portland, has
ever been mapped in the Willamette
Valley. Up to the present time 18
quadrangles have been mapped and
these are about evenly divided between
areas located In National forests and
sections containing reclamation pro
jects. The work is very complete, and
at this time excellent maps can be
secured from the geological survey at
Washington, of tha following quad
rangles, which are either wholly or
partially In Oregon: Nampa, Welser
and Mitchell Butte on the Oregon
Idaho line; Telocaset, Baker City,
Sumpter and Ironside Mountain quad
rangles In the Blue Mountains; Port
land. Blalock Island and Umatilla quad
rangles along the Columbia River; Coos
Bay, Port Orford, Roseburg. Riddles,
Grants Pass, Ashland, Klamath and
Crater Lake quadrangles in Southern
Oregon. Most of these maps are on the
scale of two miles to the inch, and
show every detail of the country .in
cluding the elevations, contours, roads,
houses and many other features, and
are disposed of by the survey at cost,
5 cents a sheet.
Olympla Malt Extract, good for grand
ma or baby. Only 15-100 of 1 per cent
alcohol. v Phone: Main 671. A 2467.
STATE COLLEGE
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STRUCTURES COSTING $423,150
BEIXG ERECTED.
Six New Buildings on Campus of
State Agricultural College In
Course of Construction.
STATE COLLEGE, Pullman, Wash.,
June 27. (Special.) The activity in ' the
building of new homes in Pullman and
the erection of new college buildings now
exceeds any previous record that has been
made In this city. There are under con
struction at the present time $423,150 worth
of new buildings In the town, which num
bers between 2000 and 3000 Inhabitants.
On the campus of the State College of
Washington six new buildings are being
erected at the cost of $322,000, namely, the
library and auditorium building, the reci
tation building, the domestic economy
building, a wing to the new veterinary
hospital, a new hydraulic laboratory
building and a new farm barn. These
buildings, when completed, will add about
160.000 square feet to the floor surface oc
cupied by the Washington State College,
nearly doubling Its present space.
In the new College Park Addition, re
centy opened up just southof the campus,
$16,700 is being invested in new buildings.
On Faculty Hill residence property costing
$66,950 is being erected. Twenty-five thou
sand dollars of this amount, however, con
sists of the cost of the new Methodist
Episcopal Church, and $10,000 of the
amount is for a students' clubhouse. On
Sunnyside Hill and Military Hill new
buildings are being erected at an approxi
mate cost of $2700. and on Methodist Hill
residence property costing $2500 1s being
built. In the business part of the city
new buildings and improvements are be
ing made at an approximate cost of
$12,300.
GRANTS PASS BOOK ISSUES
Sets Forth Resources of Great Fruit
District Strongly.
GRANTS PASS, Or., June 28. (Special.)
The Grarits Pass Commercial Club has
Just received from the printers' shop the
first installment of its beautiful advertis
ing book, consisting of about 100 pagjs
highly embellished with appropriate pic
tures portraying the natural resources
of the county and the various Industries.
In the make-up of the book the con
stant aim kept in view, was to obtain
pictures that would give a comprehensive
idea of lumbering, fruit culture, berry
raising, mining, fishing, stockraising.
manufacturing interests and many views
of real life, while here and there an
occasional picture appears of mountain
streams and trails that are delightful and
interesting to look upon.
Principal views of the business sections
of the city have found ample space, and
In an appropriate manner several types
of residences have been brought out. All
the cuts are clear, well defined and fin
ished in a brown tone so pleasing to the
eye that each full page illustration forms
a scene fit to be framed. The front page
Is embellished with the Flame Tokay
grape. The back cover Is a representation
of a river scene characteristic of the
Rogue as it Is wearing away its solid
bed of rock through a canyon of high
walls.
Besides the pictures there are many
short topics to the point on timber, gold,
grapes, fruit, the town, climate, peaches,
cherries, vineyards, hopgrowing. stock
raising, poultry, lumbering, mining, rents
and. wages, education and various other
interesting Items specially written for
those seeking Information concerning
Grants Pass and Rogue River Valley.
Resume Work on Road.
HILLSBORO. Or., June 28. (Special.)
Several contractors lately have been
looking over the work on the Pacific
Railway & Navigation between this point
and Tillamook, and present indications
are that construction Is soon to be re
sumed. The road is completed for about
20 miles out from this point, and six
months" uninterrupted work would com
plete the grade and bridge building into
Tillamook.
Oregon Electric Near Hillsboro.
HILLSBORO, Or., June 28. (Special.)
The Oregon Electric will have, the grade
ready for rails as far west as Hillsboro
within 30 days unless there Is delay over
procuring rights of way. A number of
suits have been filed In the Circuit Court
and condemnation will follow. Judge Mc
Bride will hold an adjourned session here
Monday. '
Fine New Hotel for Vale.
VALE. Or.. June 28. (Special.)
The new hotel at Vale is rapidly near
ing completion, and is expected to be
open for business August 1. F. L.
Johnson, of San Francisco, has secured
a lease of the building for a term of
years. There are 58 rooms, with hot
and cold water in each room, electric
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PORTLAND'S BEST
RESIDENCE SECTION
FIVE LOTS GIVEN AWAY
The building of homes is the most import
ant part of developing a new residence
section. For this reason, therefore, the
THE JACOBS-STINE COMPANY will
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