THE ''MOUSING OBEGOKIAX, TTJESDAT. OCTOBER 17. 1911. 1 " ' ' ;Jm?rr 1 Nice Bis S mm w Special Cut Prices on Underwear Flannel Shirts Sweaters Sweatercoats Cashmere Sox Knit Yarn Sox Colored Blankets White Blankets Indian Robes Carded Wool Represents Great Big Sale With Very Little Prices In the Spring of the year a man's thoughts may run to poetry and the beauties of nature, but just now the average man is thinking of warm underwear to keep his body warm, and a few good pairs of sox to keep his feet dry. These are practical things and in thinking of them let the mind dwell for a moment on the store where these things are carried in large quantities and are now being sold at a great saving in prices. v Blanket Seconds There's nothing wrong with Blan ket "seconds" as far as durability goes. During tha season's "run" at the T"ttl, every pair that is not entirely perfect is laid aside as a "second." The reason may be only a slight defect in color, or perhaps the border woven in wrong or a few stitches dropped in the weaving. A great saving oportunity during this sale, for all of these Blankets go at HALF PRICE. Blankets Washed Customers of this store who have purchased Browns ville Blankets may bring' them in up until October 15th, at which time we will send them all together to the mill to be WASHED. We only do this once each year for the accommodation of our customers. The mill makes a charge of 50 cents per pair, which about covers the actual cost. Remember, this is the only time during the year that our mill will bother with the washing1 of Blankets. Buy White Wool Blankets at Once These Blankets are made of the very finest grade of Oregon lambs-wool, are pure white, with neat blue, pink or lemon colored borders. There are absolutely none better to.be had. Note the startling reductions: S 3.50 White Wool Blankets $2.65 5.50 White Wool Blanket $4.00 $ 6.50 White Wool Blanket $5.00 S 8.00 White Wool Blanket $6.50 810.00 White Wool Blanket . .$7.50 Ifh I : 1 ' : Underwear Worth Up to $2 for 95c Big reduction possible by the fact that the mills have ceased trm-tang a number of lines that we cannot fill in on ; a speedy sale of these lines now desired. Help' yourself. While they last, at, per garment 95 Savings on Men's Sox 20c Wool Sox 12 126 25c Cashmere Sox 20c 25c Yarn Sox 206 35c Cashmere Sox 256 35c Yarn Sox 256 50o Cashmere Sox 356 50o Yarn Sox 406 75c Yarn Sox . . . 506 Brownsville Woolen Mill Store Two Stores Third and Morrison Third and Stark Carded Wool for Comforts Special Price 85c Pound Our Colored Wool Blankets Are Cut Included in this lot are dark mottled grays, light silver grays, sanitary browns and dark golden browns, all on sale at the following price cuts: $ 3.50 Colored Wool Blankets $2.65 $ 4.00 Colored Wool Blankets $3.00 $ 4.60 Colored Wool Blankets $3.60 $ 6.50 Colored Wool Blankets $4-50 $ 6.60 Colored Wool Blankets J.uu $ 8.00 Colored Wool Blankets $3.00 $10.00 Colored Wool Blankets $8.00 All Wool Sweater Coats Are Reduced Nothing is quite so comfortable during the cold weather as a "Brownsville" Wool Sweater Coat. Prices run down hill for this sale as below: $1.50 Wool Sweater Coats S1.25 $1.75 Wool Sweater Coats Sl-50 $2.50 Wool Sweater Coats S2.00 $3.00 Wool Sweater Coats S2.50 $4.00 Wool Sweater Coats $3.00 People who know the joy of sleep ing on a thin mattress made of fine carded wool or the comforts filled with soft fleecy wool, will hurry to this sale to secure a few rolls at this special price. The mill has recently sent us a large quantity of this wool nicely carded and put up in three pound rolls, just the right size for a bed. Men's Wool Under- wear Is Now Less Every garment on our shelves is of sterling quality, for which the "Old Brownsville" is so deservedly famous. Prices are clipped like this: Men's $1.00 Wool Underwear now ? .75 Men's $1.25 Wool Underwear now...... ..-$ .&5 Men's $1.60 Wool Underwear now $1.25 s - Men's $1.75 Wool Underwear now $1.35 Men's $2.00 Wool Underwear now $1.50 Men's $2.50 Wool Underwear now. .......... $1.75 Men's $3.00 Wool Underwear now $2.00 lU.UU YVIllte WOOl Clium r..f i t ' I I '. 1 - Ithrougn WMwra 'ursgwn nu rwi- i i i land. Ill' CHANCE SEEN FOR WEST UMATILLA Readjustment of $20,000,000 Allotment Gives Hope of Project's Completion. LAND OWNERS BIG FACTORS Tlsrjr Cm Do Mm-h to Bring About rropwd KxlcnMon Fqnltr l"rcr Flntfhlnj of Irrlja tlon Work at Once. R V HARRT J. BROWN. OREGONIA.V NEWS BfRKAl, Wash lnrton. Oct. 1. There soon will be a readjustment of rrealdrnt Taffa orlit Inal allotment of the 120.000.009 fund provided oy Consrress for hastenlns; completion of Government Irrigation project. Investta-atlona made in tha field by the Secretary of tha Interior and by the director and chief engineer of the Reclamation fcervlc enow thla to be Decenary. n the Interest of ood administration. Will any portion of thla $;0.000.000 be a'.'.otfd to the weat aide extension of the I'matllla project In Oregon ? The answer la briefly this: Much de. pends upon the attitude of private owners of land on the I'matllla proje.-t the old project as well u the pro posed extension. They can do much to brins: about the adoption of the west side project, or they can render It Im possible for the Government to en ter upon this I. 000.000 enterprise. And the attitude of these land-owners will more than likely prove the determining; factor, so far as the West Vmatilla project ! concerned. Oresss I)iadalMe4 Asjalaat. From the stentfVolnt of equity, tha West I'matllla project should be con s' ructed at once. The President has admitted that and so has Secretary Fisher and the official of the Re clamation Service. Oregon haa been badly discriminated against In the dis tribution of funds available for irri gation construction work. But equity Is not the only ground on which money Is allotted. If It were, the West I'ma tllla project would have been adopted lonar ago. Another Important factor la engineer ing faslblHty. On thla count also Ore gon Is favored, for enginers who have surveved the West I'matllla project, wno have measured the available water ,upp!v. who have roughly outlined the storage and distributing system, and who have made estimates of cost, have all agreed that the project Is feaa Ible. Even the board of Army En gineers, which recommended the orig inal al'otment of the S30.000.000 fund. agreed that the project waa feasible from an engineering; standpoint, though they did not recommend any allotment for Its construction, -because they re garded it as separate and distinct from the original project on the east side of the river. So the element of engineer ing feasibility Is favorable. But a third consideration, and a vary Important consideration from the view point of the Secretary of the Interior, on whose recommendations the read justment will be based. Is feasibility from a business standpoint. "rrvea la Qoeatloaw That Is to say. will the project. If built, prove a financial success? Will all the Irrigable lands pass Into the hands of actual settlers who will build homes T Will lands now In private ownership be sold In small tracta to prospective settlers within a reason able time after water is available? In brief, will the project be thoroughly aettled. and will the settlers promptly comply with the law In the matter of making paymenta to the Government, reimbursing it for all the money spent In construction? These are the perplexing question that confront Secretary Fisher, and. while the Secretary has given no Inti mation whatever of Ma purposes. It is considered a safe statement that If these various questions all of them can be answered favorably, some way will be found to divert sufficient money from the IIu.OOO.OOO fund to get the West I'matllla project under way. If satisfactory answer cannot be made, there Is little hope for the adoption of the project at this time, or for some year to come. aadawaers Fsetsrs. Let It be repeated that the fate of the West I'matllla project rests very largely In the hands of private land owners They can render the project Immediately feasible, from the busi ness standpoint, and thus virtually In sure Its adoption, or they can maintain a selfish attitude and destroy all chance of Its adoption. This Is true of land owners on tha original project, as well as those on the west side. The West I'matllla project will re claim betwefn 40.000 and 0.OO0 acres of land, at an estimated cost of 10 per acre. Of this tolsl. only 17.000 acres are public land, the remainder being held hv the Northern Pacific, by other land-grant companies. desert land entrymen. or others who have acquired J It In various ways by ptin-nase. Roughly, about 33.0OO acre of the proposed project are In-private owner ship, assuming the aggregate area will be 60.000 acres. What are the owners of that land willing- to do? How far will they go to meet the Government, and how much will they do to make the project a success? To what extent will they pledge themselves and their lands? Attltade Set Favorable. If the land owner on the west lde have any thought of handling- their land as the private lands under the original project have been handled, there is no chance whatever that Sec retary Fisher will recommend the adoption of tha west side project. The attitude of the land ownera on the old project has not been such as to win favor. And the reason Is not bard to find. During; the past season water has been available for over 15.000 acres; not over 4000 acres have been actually Irrigated and cultivated, al though water right applications have been made for 13.200 acres. The reason Is that land owners are holding- their land at a price which does not com mand ready sale, and the bulk of the land which might be Irrigated lies Idle, because of the high prices that prevail. That the land would all have been taken by homesteaders had It been available for entry Is shown by the fact that every acre of Government land on the project has been home steaded, and the demand far exceeded the supply. Moreover, it Is found that the most prosperous and thrifty farms on the Vmatilla project are the little farms of homesteaders, who acquired their land direct from the Government, or by assignment from original set tlers. ' TRUST ASKS FOB TIME AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY PROMISES TO OBEY IAW. Reorganization Plan Is Submittal With Pie for Protection FYom Any Interference. NEW YORK. Oct. 1. The American Tobacco Company's plan of reorganiza tion waa filed today In the United States Circuit Court. In addition to outlining the previously published plan of disintegration, the corporation and Its subsidiaries pray for an extension until March 1, 1911. for perfecting the reorganisation, for modification of the plan or other relief, "should unforeseen difficulties arise In the execution of said plan," and petitions for an order enjoining all persona from Interfering In any way with the carrying out of the plan. The American Tobacco Company and all other defendant to the suit Join In tte petition with the exception of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland, limited, the T'nited Cigar Store Company, and R. P. Rich ardson. Jr.. a Co. CANADA DELEGATION BUSY Alberta Makes Strong- Bid for 1912 Dry I'srm Congress. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo, Oct. 1. Lethbrldge, Alberta. Canada, la mak ing a determined effort to get the 112 aesston of the International Dry Farming Congress. Today 200 boost ers from that district arrived and at once launched a vigorous campaign. The Canadians have the largest ex hibit at the congress. A message of greeting from Presi dent Taft was read at the afternoon session. In responding to the address of welcome. President W. H. Olln. of Boise. Idaho. Agricultural College, dis cussed scientific agriculture. 10 STATES GREET California and Oregon Road Men Meet in Siskiyous. NORTHERN ROUTE VIEWED Highway Across Mountain Through Rogue River Valley to Bo Begun Soon by Jackson County. Enthusiasts Are Happy. ASHLAND, Or. Oct- IS. (Special.) Oregonlans and Californians to the number of E0 extended greetings across the state boundary line at the historic old Cole's Station, In the heart of the Siskiyous. this afternoon, the oo caalon being an official visit of tha members of the Cali fornia State Highway Commission on an automobile tour of Inspection view ing the route of the proposed Califor nia north and south highway to- be built under authority of a recent act providing for the expenditure of $18. 000.000 for the establishment of a sys tem of Improved highways for Cali fornia. On Invitation of Siskiyou County good roads advocates a party of rep resentative cltisens of Ashland and Medford. Including the Mayors of each city and members of the County Court, left Ashland at noon today In six automobiles and crossed the Sis kiyous to the state line In an hour and a half time, where they met a like party of Siskiyou County citizens and the members of the California State Commission. A banquet was spread under the tree in the lawn at Cole' Hotel and abort speeches were made by cltisens from both states, the tenor of each being to attract the Interest of the commis sion to the old pioneer Siskiyou high way, which haa linked the two states since the days when Pathfinder Fremont crossed It In his travels up and down the Coast In 1843. The Jackson County officials prom ised the Californians to begin the build ing of a permanent nignway acrosa i" Siskiyous from the California line through Rogue River Valley to the county boundary on me norm ni than June of next year. This announce- - mmIvaiI with cheers by the ITICIIl . - .j The visit of the California Commis sion to view the route is believed to be a long step toward the location of the proposed north to south highway ., w . k - .t.ta via the Siskiyous. and to Join with the main thoroughfare DEATH OUTRACES PARDON Auburn Prisoner Freed Out of Pity for Bon 'Who Dies. UTICA. N. Y, Oct. 16. Though Gov ernor Dlr wrote and signed Ms pardon while riding westward on a New York Central Limited train. Bernard L. Wrench, ent to Auburn prison for using some of the 'money of his home town of Whlteatown. reacnea nomo w lata to see hia son alive. The cries of the lad last week caused friends to Intercede with Gover nor Dlx. and he drew up a pardon after hearing the story. Wrench was released from Auburn as soon aa the necessary formalities could be complied with, and was hurried home in an auto mobile, but the boy died a few moments before his arrival. 21,000,000 Cigars Saved The Result of Our Buying Before th Failure of This' Year Cubsn Tobacco Crop 9o You who moke Van Dyck "Quality " cigar need'ot srorry. For -bcttdesthe new material tor $1,000,000$'" Van Dyck'a." oar Cuban warehouses bulge with to bacco for assay millions mora. Kings command no finer than Van. Uyci "Quality" Ogars. 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