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THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY. JULY 21, 1909. PLEA IDE FOR TEXTILE MILLS Mational Expert Tells of Op portunities for Factories in Oregon. WOOL IS SHIPPED EAST There It Is Manufactured and Sent Back, Entailing Loss to State, Says E. TV'. France, Who Grows Enthusiastic Over Country. 'In 15 years this can be made the greatest manufacturing district tn the Vnlted States If the people will but awaken to the possibilities of the coun try" This Is the word brougrht to Portland by one of the foremost experts on tex tile manufacturing in the United States. E. W. France, founder of the Philadel phia Textile School. - Mr. France was In Portland yesterday on his return from the A-Y-P Exposition and left last nlRht for California. His visit was solely one of recreation, and to see a country which te had never before visited. "Every dny I stay here the more en thusiastic I become." said Air. France, yesterday. Philadelphia, as you are aware. Is the greatest center of textile manufacturing In the United States. There we make everyfhing from hosiery to tapestries. Today I visited a number of Portland's large department stores and there 1 found only the coarsest of goods tiiat were manufactured In the West and jvt you have the best raw material that la obtainable right at your doors. Oregon Wool Sot Excelled. "There Is no better wool grown In America than Oregon wool. Putting all grades of woolen fabrics at 100 I should say Oregon wool is capable of pVoducing To per cent of them. 1 am told that Ore gon produces 19.000,000 pounds of wool each year and that 10,000.000 pounds of this are shipped East to be manufactured into worsteds. Not one pound of worsted is manufactured in this state. Yet nearly every man I meet here IB wearing worsted clothing and In the Winter time your women generally wear worsted tkirts and suits. "Why not manufacture the worsteds your people wear where the raw material ia produced? "It seems to me the answer to this is the people are not educated up to the possibilities of this section. You have gone into manufactories in other lines ex tensively. You advertise your crackers and your furniture far and wide. The Northwest, perhaps, has built up first those Industries that will bring the quick est returns, but In my Judgment the time has now arrived to turn attention to Industries that will perhaps not pay the manufacturer so great a profit but will be of great benefit to the community at large. "Suppose a manufactory pays only 10 per cent on the investment and "yet In creases the revenues and prosperity of the people 30 per cent. Is It not a great thing for the country? "Establish textile mills and the thou sands of employes will rent homes and many will soon own them. They will buy from the butcher, from the shoe mer chant from the baker and from the grocer. Climatic Conditions Best. 'The climatic condition for the success ful operation of such enterprises cannot be equaled in any place or country with which I am acquainted and I have stud led textile manufacturing In England and in all the countries of Europpe to the borders of Russia. "You have water power on the Pacific Coast aufficlent to run all the tcxtixle mills In the United States. There is no country on the globe that Is the equal of this Coast In that respect, with the rosrlble exception of Switzerland, and Switzerland Is too small and too rugged for the successful establishment of any lare numtwr of Industries. "In Portland you have San Francisco, I AneWes and all of California to the south. To the north are Seattle and Ta c.ima and that great country of Alaska. ' Then to the east of you are the people i you are now supplying with other articles i of manufacture. "Think, too. for a minute, what U means to ship all this wool to the East to lw manufactured Into fabrics and then shijped back to the Pacific Coast. " ith the wool you ship the dirt it con tains and all the vegrtahle matter It has ettract.-tl. Flaclrur it on t"ie most con- ' s -rvntive basis, the shrinkage in wool Is SO per cent. In other wonts. 60 per cent of that on which freight must be paid s..es down the sewer before we get in Philadelphia that which we can use in miking textiles. Savin? In Freight Great. "I believe in textile manufacturing In th'.s country. The saving of freight paid on the ) per cent of waste matter would offset from the beginning the difference between the article manufactured in the Kust and that made In the West due to the inexperience of your workmen, and mike for the cost of introducing the rew material." "Would there not likely be a prejudice acalnst Western-manufactured goods thai woukl be hard to overcome V was asked. "Yes. you would probably have to meet the same conditions we did years ago in the East. There was a time when there was a prejudice against American-made goods, but It exists no longer. True, thjro are some persons now who prefer a foreign article perhaps of an exclusive pattern, but the great buying public :s now wearing American-made clothing al most exclusively. With the superior qualify of wool grown in Oregon there s nj reason why mills here could not make woolen gooC.s uniier the supervision and with the aid of exptrts of equal ability that would sell by the side of the Eastern article made from the same quality of ra material. Compares Coast With South. "As 1 view It, this country Is somewhat in the same situation as was the South fc.'fore the advent of the cotton mill. The Southern people finally awoke to the fact tl.at the cotton they produced was being sent to the Northern mill, manufactured Into clothing and shippod back to them to purchase. The Northern manufacturing eenteiy were bulldirur libraries and grow ing in prosperity on money that should r kept in the South. Investors bought up second-hand machinery for new South ern mil!. and brought In experts from the North. These experts did not understand the Southern people. They tried to drive the mill employes who. as a rule, had grown up In indolence. The Southern cot ton mills at the start were failures. But by and by young Southern men who had learned the business took charge of the mills. They understood the people afd they made success of the industry. There are two wide differences be tween the South then and the West of to. day. however. The Southern planters were without capital to establish cotton mli:. They sold one year's crop to pay the debts of the preceding year. That was when cotton was at 6 cente. Now 13 to 15 cents, the Southern planter haa wiped the slate clean and baa capital of bis own- " The 'West, however, haa abundant capital, and it is already populated by people of culture, progress and energy. Should lust East Know. What means would 1 suggest for get ting textile mills located here? Let one of your commercial bodies educate the East into the opportunities that are ppen here. The East does not know the1 West. It looks upon it as a country made up of small towns. It knows nothing of your great cities. Let these commercial bodies induce some man who has made a success as manager of an Eastern manufactory to enter this field and invest some money with local capital. One successful mill will bring others and in a few years you will have them all coming this way. "The woolgrovfer, too. will be bene fited by home manufacture of woolen textiles. A grower now by some method of culture may Increase his production several pounds to the fleece. The East ern buyer comes and examines the wool offered by this grower as to uni formity of length, texttire, fineness there are doxens of factors that go to make up the grades of wool and of fers 15 cents per pound for that which the grower had counte'd on receiving; 20 cents for. The grower demands the 20 cents and the buyer insists that' for his purpose the wool Is worth but 15 cents. Perhaps this Is true and per haps it is not. But if the mills are located near the grower, he soon will learn what kind of wool' Is demanded for the purposes of such mills and will eeek and learn to produce wool accord- '""I'had been told of the possibilities of this country," concluded Mr. France, but took In a percentage of It as Western brag. I never dreamed of the extent of its resources. The climate Is delightful and I begin to long to remain here." Mr. France Is consulted as a textile expert by the greatest manufacturers of the country and was called before the ways and means committee of Congress when the tariff bill was form ing to give his views on the duty on textiles. Yesterday he was entertained in Portland by some of the leading business men at luncheon at the Com mercial Club. There were present in addition to Mr. France. W. P. Olds of Olds. Wortman & King: Fletcher Linn, president of the Manufacturers' Asso ciation: Adolph Jacobs, of the Oregon City Woolen Mills: and E. L Thomp son, manager of the Portland Woolen Mill. ' EMBROIDERY FROM PRISON Mrs. Kelly, of Consumers' League, Startles Audience. Mrs. Florence Kelly, general secre tary or the National Consumers" League. h,.r mi.llenre at the Portland Heights Club yesterday afternoon when she said, In answer to aquery, iu the greater part of the French hand embroidered lingerie sold In this coun try is made in prisons. Mrs. Kelly ex plained, however, that the Paris branch of the Consumers' League had recently succeeded in getting certain factories in France to bring about conditions for their women employes which would en title them to the use of a label similar to that used in America to certify that the articles bearing tl.em comply with these conditions: Do not employ child labor. Do not run at night. Do not send out goods to be made In sweat shops. Do not break the law. There are now 67 factories In Amer ica, Mrs. Kelly said, which comply with these conditions and make use of the Consumers' League label. Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Kelly will speak at a parlor meeting on Willam ette Heights at the home of Mrs. R. B. Lampson, 349 Thirty-second , street. Thursday afternoon she will speak at the Irvington Club and Thursday even ing at the Taylor-street Methodist Church. v EXPECTS BIG CATCH where he will be met by the Washington Fish Commission's launch and taken down the river. Outlook Bright for Fisheries, Says Commissioner. HEAVY RUNS ON SOUND New Hatchery Is to Be Erected on Chehalis River as Present One Has Not Been Success, Re ports J. S. Riesland. Profitable fishing seasons this year are the outlook on both the Columbia River and Puget Sound, according to John S. Rlseland. of Belllngham, Washington State Fish Commissioner who is at the Oregon. "I have not received much Information of late concerning the fish catch on the Colubmla, but the reports of the blue back run in the Spring were exceedingly good." said Mr. Rlseland. "I am now on my way down the river, where I expect to spend a week looking over the situa tion. 'This is what is known aa the 'big year" on Puget Sound. The best sockeye runs come In cycles of four years apart. We do not expect the main run until July 22 to July 26, but the canneries are now getting quite a number of Ash. I left Belllngham Monday morning and the Paclilc American Fisheries Company and Welch Bros, had about 20,000 lish in their canneries. This is not a comparatively large number, but Indicates that the sockeye season is opening. The canneries on Puget Sound had a good run of Spring salmon." In reply to a question Mr. Rlseland said that the Columbia River had been free from clashes' of authority this year or trouble between the Oregon and Wash ington fishermen. "The new uniform fishing laws are working well." said he. "The boundary question has not been fully settled, but I look .for the two states to petition Con gress to permit them to appoint a com mission to determine the location of the boundary line as best suits them. This, you know, was suggested by the United States Supreme ourt In its last decision, denying the petition for a rehearing In the. case affecting the boundary line on the lower river. "The new trout hatchery In Clark County is practically completed and is ready for operation. I have already sent 100.000 - eggs from Lake Chelan to be hatched there and distributed from that point. The hatchery is located on a small tributary of the Lewis River, but It Is not the Intention to liberate the young trout in the river. They will be used to stock lakes that have seepage outlets. Clark County has a very fine lake of that character which will be stocked with trout from the new hatch ery. The plant will be able, to take care of 1,000.000 to 1,500,000 eggs each season. "Next week we will dispose of the salmon hatchery on the Chehalis River, which is located so near the mouth of the stream that It has proved impracticable. The fish are not in the right condition for spawning when taken there. We have had an eying station located about 2& miles up the river, from which we would send the eggs back to the hatchery but this proved- expensive, so we have been authorized by the Leg islature to sell the hatchery and locate a new one on the river. The new hatchery will probably be placed on the site of the present eying station. "The present hatchery Is located on the proposed right of way of the Union Pa cific railway's extension to Grays Har bar and we expect tne railway compay to bid on the property." Mr. Riseland will go to Kalama today. DON CARLOS AND HIS TRAINED APE THAT IS APPEARING AT MIDSUMMER CARNIVAL. DON) rVA.W.T siiu . r-- " tr - - At - ''V " ' ' c , II:. 1. v x ; -v.-. 1 . a n 9 ' a. mmm s V f ft ANIMAL THAT OBEYS COMMANDS GIVE! IX THREE LANGUAGES, FEA XI' RE OF CATHOLIC YOUNG MEN'S CLUB'S EXHIBITION. X Kid Don Carlos, one of the most interesting, attractions presented by the Catholic Young Men's Club, is only one of several animal features that Prof John Don Carlos brings before his interested audience at the Midsummer Carnival dally at Stanton street and Williams avenue. Upper Albina. Kid Don Carlos understands commands delivered In three different lan guages. English. Spanish and German, and obeys readily without aid of gest ures or other outside assistance. Don Carlos has had this ape a little over two years and considers it one of the finest specimens In captivity. The ani mal .stands 5 feet In height, weighing 95 pounds, and has the strength of a half dozen men. , The Catholic Young Men's Club presents many interesting features from an amusement standpoint. One of the greatest and most expensive attractions for the entire Fair will occur tonight at 7 o'clock, when the mammoth balloon race Is to be held. This will be a hotly contested aerial fight between capable and experienced aeronauts, and should prove of extreme Interest to the many who will gather to witness the contest. " DR. PRITCHETT IS GUEST Head of Carnegie Fund Will Visit . Western Schools. Dr. Henry Smith Prltehett, of New York, head of the Carnegie Foundation Fund, arrived In Portland yesterday from Seattle. He was a guest at an In formal dinner last night at the Com mercial Club given by 40 members of the Oregon Technology Association. E. F. Lawrence presided as toastmaster. Dr. Prltehett recently arrived from a tour of Alaska. It is probable that he will spend several weeks investigating the conditions of Northwest colleges. At noon today he will meet W. M. Ladd, W. B. Ayer, W. W. Cotton, 9. G. Reed, T. B. Wilcox and Robert Livingston, rep resentative of the board of overseers of the new Whitman College, at an Infor mal luncheon to be given at the Ar lington .Club. Prior -to assuming the duties as head of the Carnegie Foundation ' Fund, Dr. Prltehett was president for a decade of the Massachusetts Institute . of Technology. PHONES CAN BE LIGHTED Portland Man Invents Appliance for Automatic Instruments. An Improvement in connection with the automatic telephone has been made by R. B. Hallock, an employe of the O. R. A N. Company. The invention consists of a simple yet effective device for Illumi nating the dials of wall or desk tele phones so they can be manipulated In a dark room by merely turning a switch which connects the telephone current with the light, placed behind the dial. The light behind the disk glows until cut off at will and furnishes enough light to consult a telephone book or verify a number. In placing the device In the telephone, no enlargement or re arrange ment of the Instrument Is necessary, while additional expense of recharging or replacing of batteries Is entirely avoidable. BROTHER'S GIFT IS STOLEN Girl Accuses Sweetheart of Taking ' Gold Pin She Had Bought. Because her sweetheart, James Peters, a Southern Pacific ticket auditor, will not return a gold fraternal emblem. which she alleges he took from her early last December, Miss Agnes Kleckler, of 147 North Twenty-third street, yesterday morning swore to a warrant for his ar rest. Miss Kleckler says she purchased the pin for her brother as a Christmas pres ent and was showing it to Peters one night in a restaurant when he seized It and has continually refused to return It. Peters says it is all a joke. Probably the Cherry Slug. PORTLAND, July 20. (To the Edi tor.) Some sort of worm is destroying the foliage of the cherry trees in my vicinity. It does not attack any other kind of tree.- It is dark colored, or nearly black, and averages about half an Inch in length. It has a large head and an enormous appetite. Can you kindly tell us what it Is and how we can destroy it? L. W. M. On the shores of Cape Cod. Mass., there were, during a period of 20 years following 1881. as many as 1000 wrecks of vessels carrying precious cargoes of. human beings and freight. ROOK WANTS Portland Asked to Work for Crooked River Project. BIG TRACT TO IRRIGATE Bend Citizen Shows Importance of Reclaiming Land That Soon Is to Be Opened Up by Railroad Facilities. Portland Commercial bodies are be ing urged by residents of Crook Coun ty to aid in securing favorable action by the Reclamation Bureau on the pro posed Crooked River irrigation project In Central Oregon. Roscoe Howard, a resident of Bend, where he Is engaged in Irrigation work, was in Portland yesterday, strongly ad vocating some, action during the pros pective visit of Secretary of the Inte rior Balllnger to this city. "The Crooked River project is one that should be taken up and urged by Portland," said Mr. Howard yesterday, "for the reason that. In addition to being most feasible. It will result In the reclamation of a large tract of land tributary to the city. "In this project there Is contemplated the construction of storage reservoirs in Crook County on the upper Crooked River, conserving the Winter flow of the river and irrigating more than 100,000 acres of fine land around and between Prinevllle and Madras. "The Reclamation Service has made preliminary surveys for the project and last Spring a petition, signed by 1000 persons living in Crook County, was sent to the Interior Department re questing that this project be put through. "One point in favor of the Crooked River project Is the certainty that rail way transportation is soon to be given the district it is designed, to irrigate. The new railroad up the Deschutes will furnish transportation for materials needed ahd will Rive the reclaimed lands a good market. "I am informed that by the end of 1912 the United States Reclamation Service must spend, approximately, 2, 500.000 on reclamation work, in Oregon, exclusive of work already done. The law requires that 51 per cent of the re ceipts from the sale of public lands be expended on irrigation within the state of sale. "More reclamation work by the United States has been done In other states in proportion to the amount of money produced than in Oregon, for the reason that railroads have not reached the sections containing the most feas ible projects; consequently other states have benefited, and funds received from sales of land in Oregon have ac cumulated until $2,500,000 must be ex pended on Federal irrigation in the state before 1912. "There are several projects now un der consideration, among them the Malheur. Owyhee and Powder River. Some dissension obtains among the landowners of Malheur, but the people advocating the Owyhee and Powder River projects are strongly organized and are making every effort to have the Secretary of the Interior order that work proceed in their localities. "The Powder River project, while within the legal confines of this state, is virtually and practically Idaho ter ritory and Its development would do Oregon little direct good. "The Owyhee project comes some what under the same class, and, fur ther, it is remote from rail transporta tion, a situation making construction expensive and settlement difficult. "By concentrating the efforts of the city of Portland, through its commer cial bodies and those of the people of Crook County, we feet sure that we can induce the Reclamation Service to proceed with what is Known as the Crooked River project, which, if devel oped, will be of Incalculable benefit to all our section, and which will furnish a great productive territory to the city of Portland." IMPROVEMENT IS BLOCKED Division in Council Holds Vp Street Work In Oregon City. OREGON CITY, Or., July 20. (Spe cial.) One of the greatest fights ever waged over municipal Improvement In Oregon City Is the struggle now in progress as to whether Eleventh and Twelfth streets shall be Improved, or both, or neither. Dr. M. C. Strickland, member of the Council from the Third Ward, holds the balance of power, as five votes are necessary to pass an ordinance. Coun cilmen Anderson, Cooke, Betzel and Pope favor the Improvement of Twelfth street as against Eleventh, and Shee han, Knapp, Meyer and Michaels would like to see Eleventh street improved. Strickland has not declared himself and It is not known Just where he stands, but for several -meetings he has been absent from the Council, and, if he is not present at a special meeting to be held tomorrow night, neither ordinance can pass. It Is apparent that the sentiment of property owners is largely in favor of the Improvement of Eleventh street, 1f only one street Is to be improved in the northern section of the city, but it is feared that no definite action will be taken because of the division of opinion among the members of the Council. PERS0NALMENTI0N. J. M. Bower, a prominent lawyer tat New York City, is visiting Portland after an absence of 12 years. He is amazed at the city's growth since he first began practicing law here. Mr. Bower is a guest at the Hotel Oregon and will stay here until the end of the week. CHICAGO. July" 20. (Special.)-C. B. Dant. of Portland, Or., is at the Congress Hotel. NEW YORK, July 20. (Special.) Visit ors from the Northwest registered at leading hotels today are: From Portland J. B. Raymann, Mrs. J. B. Raymann, Miss O. Raymann, W. H. Raymann, at the Wolcott; E. L. Graham, at the Continental. From Seattle. H. D. Henvis, at the Imperial; El R. Hart, at the Union Square; W. L. Chllde, at the St. An drews. From North Yakima Wash. . Ci. Lucas, G. J. Listman, at the Grand Union From Spokane. C. T. Gillette, at the King Edward; H. B. Hills, Jr., at the Empire. From Tacoma. W. E. Newton and wife, at the Herald Square. Dawson Accused of Theft. CENTRALIA. Wash., July 20. (Spe cial.) S. Dawson was today bound over to the Superior Court from Justice Fle welling's court on the charge of grand larceny. He Is accused of stealing three mounted skins from the taxidermist shop of L. F. 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