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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1921)
TTTE MOItNIXG OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, JXTLY 4, 1021 11 OF PORTLAND HIGH Average Per Capita $15, as Acainst $61.85 for Nation. CITY IS IN TWO CLASSES Population Fairly Split Between Tbose Who Save and Those IVlio Do Not, Say Bankers. All Portland may be divided Into two camps, the persons having ac counts in savinfrs banks and those who do not. In the most general way this -would split the population fairly accurately in two, say bankers. Regular savings banks hold 10S.935 accounts, a figure that is swelled con siderably by postal savings accounts, not included in the banking figures. These 108,935 accounts represent com bined savings of $39,953,1)17.58. These ligures are as of May 1. A slight analysis of the totals here shown indicates that the city is one where thrift prevails to a commend able extent. The average of each savings account in the Portland banks is J 366. This compares favorably with imilar figures in Seattle, Wash., where average savings accounts amount to f3i4. Making a country-wide analysis of the savings figures gives Portland an even better rating.. Basing the popu lation on the official census figure of 268.288, Portland shows average sav ings per capita of 154, as against only j1.85 for the entire population f the United States. On July 1, date of the regular Inter est payment to savings depositors for the period from January to June, in elusive, Portland savings banks paid approximately 1599.308.75. The aver age paid to each account for the first half of the year was 15.49. With a period of falling costs of liv ing actually here, bankers point out that the present is an especially fa vorable time to exercise thrift and they believe the existing savings ac counts should be swelled consistently, while many new outs should be added during the remainder of the current year. How wholesale prices and railway wages have aspired to hit the aky, while freight rates have been far more modest, is shown in a graph Just isaued by the Southern Pacific and accompanied by an analysis of conditions the railroads have faced by Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the executive committee. The diagram shows rates of rail way wages at present at 340, the highest point they have ever attained, with the year 1900 being 100. Wages reached their peak in May. 1920. and have since pursued a straight, un flagging line at that eminence. Wholesale prices, which reached their peak in May, 1920, have been declining sharply ever since, dropping half way back to the 1900 norm of 100. Railway freight rates on the frraph show a rather slow and halting ad vance from the days of 19U0 to the end of 1920. when the upward flight was arrested, it appears, and they have been going along at the com paratively very low peak of just be low 180 since. Mr. Krutt?chnitt's summary of the diagram contains explanatory matter as follows: "About 1905. 16 years ago, as shown in the above graph, wholesale prices and railway wages began climbing; a summit never be fore dreamed of was reached in May, 1920. In the same year, 1905, railway freight rates began falling and con tinued uninterruptedly, reaching the lowest level in 17 years in 1916 and 1917. Decisions rendered in 1914. 1915 and 1917 in three appeals to the inter state commerce commission for better rates afforded but slight relief, so that at the beginning of federal con trol In 1918 freight rates were slight ly less than in 1900, wh.ile wholesale prices were 120 per cent more than In 1900. The federal railroad admin istration made a subtsantial rate in crease in June, 1918, which, however, fell far short of establishing any proper relation between freight rates and costs of commodities; and, not withstanding the continued and rapid rise of prices and insistent demands of labor for higher pay, the railroad administration refused to act, either aa to rates or wages, and forced the olution of these difficult problems on the owners after the return of their properties March 1, 1920. The federal labor board, by a decision ef fective in May, 1920, increased wages an average of 21 per cent, raising them to a level 240 per cent above those of 1900. Wholesale prices were also S40 per cent higher than in 1900, while freight rates were but 30 per cent higher. The rate increase finally authorized by the Interstate commerce commission, about the first of September, 1920, raised freight rates to a level of only 59 per cent higher than in 1900. Wholesale prices then had fallen, but were still 203 per cent higher than in 1900, while rail way wages remained 240 per cent higher." That the country Is developing a price level at which it will resume business in earnestMs the forecast of the National City bank. New York, In Its latest financial letter. "When this level is reached." it is said, "and we are approaching it more closely every day, the basis will be laid for sustained revival in general trade. Absence of buying in some industries even at the reduced price levels shows that the public is not con vinced yet that the movement will sot go further. "AH living costs and the expense of doing business are being lowered In response to an insistent demand for the abandonment of war sched ules. The figures of the national in industrial conference board show that within a year the cost of living has come down 20 per cent, although it U still 61 9 per cent aoove the level of 1914. Food prices within 13 montha have been lowered 33.8 per cent, fuel and light 7.2 per cent and shelter 8.2 per cent. The country is still des perately in need of new houses and apartments, for rentals are bur densome everywhere. Investigation shows that rentals consume from 15 to 30 per cent of the average wage earner's Income and that there Is lit tle chance of reducing them until capital and labor get together and a well-defined procamme for commu nity building is carried out. "The markets are on the verge of Important developments, any one of which might exercise an important Influence on security prices. Most business men are operating with great caution in the effort to avoid undue speculative risks and the evils of overstocking. Money market conditions are favorable and with the reduction in rediscount rates by re serve banks there have been freer offerings of money. The crop outlook Is for the most part satisfactory, and the indications are that the farmers will derive a large amount of new wealth from the coming harvest. The situation is interesting, and while no cne can speak with assurance as to the future, it deserves to be empha sized that underlying conditions are In many respects more favorable I man one year ago, and in some as pects considerably more propitious man tney were six months ago. N. -S. Gallinson, with the federal reserve bank at the 12th district headquarters. San Francisco, passed the. last of the week in Portland. Mr. Gallinson is engaged in a physical survey of the livestock industry, witn particular reference to sheep and wool, and his inquiry will occupy six weeks. He will leave this week for Pendleton and Spokane. He has either visited, or will visit, all live- ADVERTISING MAX LEAV FOR SAI.rcs rn.M'ERKHCii. L. Van Anderson. Jj. Van Anderson of the staff of the Hall & Emory Advertis ing agency, left Tuesday morn ing for Minneapolis to attend the annual sales conference of the King's Food Products com pany, where plans for a more aggressive campaign for put ting the products of that Oregon concern on the eastern markets will be taken up. Mr. Van Anderson was ac companied on the trip east by Karl Clarke, president, and Car-1 J. Eastman, eastern sales manager of the King's Food Products company. stock cities in the seven western states that comprise the 12th federal reserve district. BANK PLANS ALTERATIONS OREGON" CITY INSTITUTION' TO INCREASE ROOM SPACE. Booklet Tellins History or House la Issued on Fortieth Anni versary of Foundation. OREGON CITY. Or., July 3. (Spe cial.) The Bank of Oregon City, pio neer banking institution of Clack amas county, celebrated its 40th anni versary July 1. To mark the event a booklet bearing the title "After Forty Years and giving a resume of the bank's history, was distributed among its patrons. J The bank was incorporated March 9, 1881. by Thomas Charman, W. F. Highfield, E. L. Eastham, John Myers, Julius Logus. J. T. Apperson and Charles H. Cauf ield. pioneers whose names are linked with the early his tory of Oregon City. The first offi cers elected were Thomas Charman, president; E. L. Eastham. manager, and Charles H. Caufield, cashier. July 1. 1881, the bank opened of fices at Sixth and Main streets, and has continued business ever since in that location. At the time of its in ception It was the second bank in the section of the Willamette valley between Portland and Salem, and was the cixth bank doing business in the state. In June, 1918, the bank was admit ted to the federal reserve system. It being the tenth bank in the state to apply and meet the conditions im posed by the fed-eral reserve board. To better take care of its increas ing business extensive ' alterations will be made throughout the bank soon. The addition of two new tel ltrs wickets, a complete rearrange ment of the counters, new safe de posit box rooms, a commodious di rectors room, customers' room with telephone and women's rest room are among the improvements contem plated. VEW PROCESS IS PATENTED DeHberizing Plant Utilizes What Is Now AVaste at Mills. A patented process for defiberizing wood, using the waste slabs and wood of the sawmills in the process, has been secured by Uel S. McMillan of the Redwood Byproducts company of San Francisco, who is here this week taking the matter up with Portland lumber concerns. The process is the reclaiming of the waste, saving as much of the log as is possible and is in conformity with the plans of the forest reclamation service. Mr. McMillan's process has been In stalled by the British Columbia Wood-Wool company of Vancouver, B. C, and is said to have been used with a great deal of success in the redwood timber industries In Cali fornia. Manufacturers of paper, pulp. Insulating, packing, upholstering and other things of this nature are the ones interested ln the McMillan pro cess. According to the Inventor, less thn 33 per cent of the tree is now going into lumber and an equal percentage of the log is going to waste at the mills. The process of defiberizing will do away with all the waste to the log, the slabs being the part that is used in the process, it is said. The plan is reported to be the first of its Kina to oe introduced on the coast. SOIli SURVEY IS " COMPLETED Tests Made In Lower Powder River Irrigation Project. BAKER. Or.. July 8. (Special.) froressor w. Li. rowers, soil expert of the Oregon Agricultural college, has just finished a general soil sur vey of the Lewer Powder river Irri gation project. He made tests in six various sections to ascertain th depth of the soil and subsoil, in order to determine the amount of water necessary to irrigate and to recom mend what crops are most suited to the land. A report with the record of the chemical analysis Is expected within the near future. While a survey of the project is largely a matter of form, since some of the land is in eluded in the project has been an alyzed, the report will be used as a matter of record and authority ln advertising the project at a later date. 'k - - 'i I i? N Mi t, , ill r lit FRUIT MEN TO HOLD cormcE HERE Growers of 6 States o Form Plans for Marketing. MANY PROBLEMS LISTED Financing and Amalgatlon of Co operative Bodies Among Lead ing Subjects on Programme. Principles of fruit marketing, his tory and evils or the present system, national problems, elimination of wastes in assemDllng and warehous ing fruit at shipping points, amalga mation of existing co-operative asso ciations and financing of the indus try are some of the points to be cov ered by the western fruit marketing conference to be held in the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce in Port land July 11, 12 and 13. The pro gramme for the conference, which is being sponsored by the state farm bureaus of Oregon, Washington, Cali fornia, Montana, Idaho and Utah, was announced yesterday by P. O. Powell, secretary -treasurer of the Oregon state farm bureau, with headquarters in Portland. Remedy to Be Sougrht. The sessions, which are the out growth of a conference recently held at Yakima, Wash., are to constitute three days' hard work. Sightseeing trips, banquets and other entertain ment likely will be eliminated, ac cording to tentative plans, and eve nings will be taken up ln discussion of the grave problems confronting the fruit Industry of the -northwest, and an attempt will be made to map ou-t a constructive programme for remedying the situation. One of the principal addresses of the conference is scheduled to be given by Dr. Hector McPherson of Corvallis, director of the farm mar kets office. His subject will be "Fundamental principles of Fruit Marketing." Advertising plans will be covered by C. I. Lewis of Salem, assistant general manager of the Oregon Co operative Growers association. Pooling of Purchase Topic. The question of pooling purchases will have a prominent place on the programme. "Is pooling of purchases timely and practicable for western fruit growers?" will be the subject. A speaker has not yet been assigned. An address onthe history and evils of the present fruit market system is to be given by Colonel Weinstock of San Francisco. Samuel Adams of Chicago, editor of the American Fruit Grower, will re late national problems confronting fruit marketing. Methods of dissemination among the growers of the principles of market ing systems to obtain a realization of defects, and to get remedies, will be discussed fully by W. S. Shearer of Lewiston, Idaho, president of the Idaho farm bureau federation. Storaare Prohlema Confronted. Other speakers and their eirbjects will be: Rumination of wastes in assembling and warehousing fruit at shipping points Ed Pierce of OnDortunityf Wasn., manager or Spokane Valley Growers' union. Refrigeration R. R. Pailthorp off Spo kane, government specialist In fruit stor age and railway transportation. Leading ana aupervieion or cars in tran sit w. J. Urquehart of Yakima, Willi., manager Yakima Valley Traffic Credit association. Storage at points or origin ana destina tion p. w. Graham of Seattle, western immigration and Industrial agent. Great Northern railway. watrr transDortation C. De Vers Fair child of Yakima, secretary deciduous bu. reau. Pacific Coast Producers' association. Increasing efficiency of distributing points C. H. Swigart of Yakima, mana ger Yakima Fruit Growers association. Banker to Discuss finances. Amalgamation of existing co-operative marketing associations and organizations of additional units George A. Mansfield of Medford, president of Oregon atate farm bureau. Financing the growers ana acceptance of fruit paper by local and federal reserve banks F. A. Duncan. Yakima. Wash., president Yakima National Dank. The future of co-operative marketing E. A. Bryan. Boise.- Idaho, atata commis sioner of education. Necessity for an annual western rruii marketing conference Ward M. Sacbett. Hamilton, Mont., manager iiomana iruu distributors. The committee In charge of the conference consists of H. L. Hull. Yakima, chairman; Dr. e. B. Nelson, Washington State college. Pullman, Wash., and A. G. Craig, East Farms, Wash. SCHOOL GETS REFRIGERATOR Corvallis College v Installs Plant With Large Capacity. The creamery department of the Oregon Agricultural college has be gun installing a new refrigeration plant, which win De larger man sim ilar plants in other agricultural schools on the coast. The plant has a capacity of nine tons of ice daily. The new plant will better equip the department for more efficient han dling of their experimental work and better instruction in the courses. A butter storage room with a ca pacity of 20.000 pounds has been con structed. An ice-cream hardening room is being made of the present refrigerator, which will be held at a constant zero temperature. A brine tank with a capacity of 60 gallons to be used in cooling the milk is be ing constructed. The present ice tank is to be replped and placed under the floor to same space. BIG PEAR CROP PREDICTED Fruit Company Heads Praise Con ditions In Rogue Valley. MEDFORD. Or.. July S. (Special.) Enthusiastic over the superb qual ity of the bumper apple crop in pros pect for the Rogue river valley, and bringing an abundance of marketing information as to the apple situation in general, W. H. Stewart, president, and George A. Charters, vice-president of the Stewart Fruit company, have spent the past few days in the valley examining the apples and pears on the trees. Both look for an exceptionally good pear crop next fall and a good apple market. The Stewart company wad recently made marketing agent for the Rogue River district of the Oregon Growers' association. . 20,000 TONS OF HAY SIGNED New Crop to Be Pooled and Offl- s cers of Association Elected. PENDLETON. Or., July 3. (Spe cial.) Twenty thousand tons of new crop hay have been contracted for by the Oregon Haygrowers' associa tion, newly formed co-operative or ganization composed of west-end Umatilla county and Morrow county producers, according to Fred Em- nion, county agent. This amount 1 represents the bulk of the product or Umatilla and Morrow counties. Complete organization of the asso ciation was effected at a meeting held in Hermiston. at which by-laws were adopted and permanent direc tors elected. A manager will be elected In the near future. Directors elected are: I. N. Bergen of Boardman. F. L. Jewett of Uma tilla. Eli Winsett of Hermiston. George Beddow of Columbia, Rex Sanford of Stanfield. Lee Savely of lower Butte creek, and Hawley J. Bean of Echo. Rex Sanford was elected temporary chairman and Dan Campbell, temporary secretary. Early Fruit Damaged by Rain. KELSO, Wash.. July 30. (Special.) Considerable damage has been done the early fruits of this vicinity by the heavy rains. Should the rains cease now the late varieties of cher ries will escape with but little dam age. No loss has yet been done to hay, and farmers are hopeful that the weather will clear and permit them to get in a record yield. USE OF LIN MIXING WITH SOIL DECLARED TO AID TILTH. W. L. Powers, of State Experime'nt Station, Sets Forth Benefits Obtained in Heavy Loams. More than 60 per cent of the "heavy" soils of western Oregon can be made more friable, more easily cultivated, and to produce better crops by the use of lime, according to W. L. Powers, chief in soils at Oregon agricultural experiment sta tion. The "heavy" eoila include the silt loams, the clay loams, the silty clays and the clays. Much of the "heavy" soil is acid ln nature, and acutely in need of physical improve ment, he said. "Lime lends to a 'heavy soil good tilth." Mr. Powers said. "Soils well supplied with lime are generally ln a good physical condition, while those deficient in that constituent possess poor 'tilth. The unfavorable prop erties of a 'heavy" soil are its marked tendenoy to run together and puddle when wet, and its equally bad dispo sition to crust and clod when dry. In troduction of lime, in proper form, crumbs the mass, rendering It friable, mellow and open. Good granulation established by lime is not easily de stroyed by heavy rains and other natural forces. "Granulation of soils by lime makes tillage more effective and less costly: renders soils permeable; aids recep tion, storage and distribution of moisture; facilitates control of evap oration: fosters nitrate production, and avoids nitrogen starvation, and fortifies against 'heaving' and winter killing. "Lime makes for good tilth, which Is the hub of an effective soil. With out it, the 'heavy soils are not at their beat." BORERS TAP BERRY ROOTS Burn Seriously Damaged Plants, Says Experiment Station. The loganberry - crown borers, which are found as elongated white worms tunneling within the crown and roots of the loganberry and raspberry, are causing unusual In Jury this season, according to advices received by the Oregon experiment station. Seriously injured plants should be dug up and burned in order to put a check to these borers, authorities de clare. The borer tunnels up in the new cane and girdles it from within, forming a bluish ring around Its base and causing the cane to wilt. Because , of this habit the best method of control as yet developed is as follows, the experiment station announces: "Visit the fields in late June and again in July, looking for the wilted canes, typical evidence of borer work. Grasp the wilted cane in a gloved hand and remove it by twist ing and pulling at the same time. The borer will generally be In the severed cane, but in case that It Is not. a wire should be pushed down into the stub left on the bush. The borer in the cane will die a short time after the cane has been broken off. Where rigorously followed up this treatment will reduce the infestation to a neg ligible factor." JERSEY SETS GOOD RECORD 316.81 Pounds or Butterrat Pro duced in 124 Days. CHEHALIS. Wash, July 3. (Spe cial.) N. C. Sorenaen, Lewis county's owner of the famous purebred Jersey cow, Gwendola Rosalre, which was brought to this section from auction sale at the Pacific International Stock show at Portland last November, re ports an encouraging test on this ani mal. In 124 days she has been on test Gwendola Rosalre has made. 6208 pounds of milk, which have produced 316.81 pounds of butterfat. Last year Gwendola Rosalre made 919 pounds of butterfat on official test- Another cow in Mr. Sorensen'a herd, which recently completed an official test of a year, is "Dahlia Forest Girl" 350444. This cow made 773.60 pounds of butterfat in 365 days, from 15,494 pounds of milk. Her test was started April 19. 1920, and the official fig ures were received recently by Mr. Sorensen from the American Jersey Cattle club. 4 0,0-0 0 SHEEP ISS COMBINE Co-operative Association Finds Fa vor With Farmers. Forty thousand sheep have been signed in ten western Oregon coun ties by the recently organized Ore gon Wool and Mohair Growers asso ciation, according to reports issued by the headquarters of that organ ization. The work was started only recently and is said to be finding favor with the farmers. The need of some means of mar keting the wool has been borne homo to the growers, as a result of their Inability to market during the last year. It is felt that a co-operative organization will be much more sue cessful in placing wool and mohair at good prices than Individual grow ers nave been able to do alone. The co-operative association was launched among the sheepmen as a result of the activities of the farm bureau. Cottage Grove Soil Is Praised. COTTAGE GROVE. Or., July 3. (Special.) What the soil of Cottage Grove country will do with very lit tle encouragement was indicated by samples of orchard grass which O. W. Sheary has put on display. Ths grass measures seven feet four Inches in height and developed that unusual height in the shade of a small peach tree, dividing the nourishment of the soil with the tree. Mr. Sheary, whose place is iVi miles out on Coast fork, said he had cut lots of It this year measuring close to six feet. He has noted the destruction of hay crops ln other sections of the coun try and believes Oregon farmers can look for a good price for theirs this fall. FRUIT HARVEST ON ' ALL OVER VALLEY Canneries Get Large Tonnage of Cherries and Berries. SHIPMENTS EAST MADE Oregon Growers' Association He- ceives Thousands of Tons of e Fruit In Few AVceks. The fruit-harvesting season is now on in various sections of the state and a large tonnage of fruit is being received in spite of the difficulties of obtaining financial aid. Prices paid farmers are low compared with previous quotations. However, it is reported that the growers stand to make some profit. The Oregon Growers' Co-operative association at Salem Is reported to be handling more than 30 tons of loganberries dailv at its Klm ni.nt The Starr Fruit Products company 13 receiving a large tonnage of Royal Anne cherries from the Salem dis trict to be manufactured into Mara schino. Some cherries are to ha canned. The company is receiving a targe tonnage of cherries from Ump qua to be put up in .the Portland plant and from The Dalles section ior lie company s cannery there. Black Cherries Bent East. A large tonnas-e of strawberries has been placed in barrels at Salem at the association's plant and a con siderable tonnage of strawberries has been shipped green. The black cher ries of the Salem district are being boxed and shipped out daily to points an over the Pacifto northwest. At tirooKs a heavy tonnage of logan berries is being shipped daily to the Kings Products company's plant at The Dalles. More than 100 tons of black cher ries and about S00 tons of Royal Annes have been shipped green by the Oregon Growers to eastern points. The shipment of a large tonnage of Royal Annes to far eastern points was somewhat of an experiment, but the early reports indicate that the Royal Annes from The Dalles, the shipping point, carried in unusually good condition. A portion of the Royal Annes was furnished to the Liby, McNeil & Libby company at The Dalles and to the Starr Products company at that point. The association has furnished green peas there and will soon be moving early cabbage, apricots and peaches. Dallas Cherries Sold. The plant at Dallas is receiving cherries from Sheridan, Amity and Dallas acreage and is using them for maraschino purposes. The tonnage at Dallas has been sold to the Lyons California Glace Fruit company which has its employes at the plant putting 100 tons of Royal Annes Into barrels. The cannery at Falls City is receiv ing a heavy tonnage of gooseberries. strawberries, loganberries and cher ries from the Oregon growers. At Corvallis the Brownsville can ning company has been receiving aev. eral large truckloads of fruit daily for the Salem district, consisting largely of gooseberries, strawberries and loganberries. The Oregon canning company at Newberg is receiving a large tonnage of black cnernes ana the loganberries of that district have been sold to the Featherstone Prod ucts company of Cornelius. The black caps of the Newberg district are being handled by the Graves canning com pany. The Eugene Fruit Growers' associa tion has purchased some of the logan berries from the Umpqua valley from the Oregon Growers' association. The black cherries of the Willamette val ley, other than the large tonnage which is betng handled by the Ore gon Canning company of Newberg, are being shipped out from all parts of the valley as fresh fruit. Weather Causes Congestion. The larere drier of the Oregon Grow ers at Sheridan has been started and a large tonnage of loganberries will be dried there. The drier at cotts Mills will also be used for drying the berries. Loganberries from the Ump qua valley in southern Oregon are betng shipped out as iresn iruit, pari of them dried and part shipped to the Eugene cannery. Weather conditions have caused congestion at all fruit receiving sta tions. The Oregon Growers' Co-operative association is handling thou sands of tons of these fruits within a period of a few weeks, and making an effort to save and move.the large ton nage of fruit -in Oregon. DRY LAND GRAIN" IS GOOD Record. Crop Expected in Eastern Oregon Blue Mountains Section. BAKER, Or.. July 3. (Special.) Dry land grain crops throughout the Blue mountain section of eastern Oregon will establish a new record this year. Volunteer rye in fields that have not been sowed for three years will thresh, in some Instances, as high as IS bushels to the acre. While the markets may be low com pared with past prices, nature is doing ita best to offset the new low prices. At Brogan the fruit crop Is re ported exceptional and the prospects for the greatest peach crop in the history of the lower Willow creek $275,000 Boise, Idaho School District 6 Bonds Dated Due July 1.1920 July 1.1940 Optional July 1. 1930. Assessed value $20,562,291 Total debt 895,000 Population 25,000 77iis school district includes Boise City, the capital and metropolis of Idaho, and considerable adja cent acreage outside, the city limits. 1 Price to Yield 6 ': Wire Orders Collect. Ralph Schneeloch Co. J MUMICmU AND CORPORATION nHANCC CUHBCRMCN3 BUILCNS PoKTLAHa ORSOQM. valley are making the producers wear smiles that won't come oft. inroughout the Powder river. Burnt river, Willow creek and Mal heur valleya tha alfalfa and other ir rigated crops are simply wonderful. The first of July will see nearly every storage reservoir, large and mall, still filled to capacity. Ana for the first time in many years tha range is going to seed. There Is not enough livestock to keep it all clipped to the ground, and as result millions of new plants will spring up to fatten tha sheep and cattle. OREGOX HEN" WORLD FAMED Experiment Station Gets Inquiry From Constantinople. The fame of the Oregon hen and the results of tha development of high-laying atrains here has gone around the world. The Oregon ex--perlraent station recently received a letter from a party in Constantinople in which information was. asked re garding the famous Oregons, the new laying hens which have been devel oped at the station. The inquiry said the writer had been reading in a Paris paper about the remarkable results being accom plished at Oregon Agricultural col lege, and requested detailed Informa tion. utralia, England, Switzerland are among the countries from which let ters have been written for Oregon Agricultural college poultry and hatching eggs. Most of these requests have had to be refused, as it is Im possible to supply the demand from within the state. CANNERY AT EUGENE BUSY Loganberries and Cherries Ripen ing Simultaneously. EUGENE. Or.. July 3. (Special.) Loganberries and Royal Anne cher ries are ripening simultaneously in Lane county this year. This is un usual. Both crops are arriving at the cannery of the Eugene Fruit Grow ers' association in large quantities. Facilities for handling wall not be overtaxed, according to the plant su perintendents. The new cannery, which is in its second season of operation, was planned for the future, and much larger crops will be required to cause congestion. The force now numbers more than 100 persona. This number will be in creased. On account of the rapidity with which cherries and berries are ripen ing, it is predicted that large quanti ties of both will rot on the vines be cauea of lack of pickers. 3144 COWS TESTED IX MONTH 14 Inferior Animals Weeded From Herds of Oregon. Three thousand one hundred forty- four cows were tested during May in the six Oregon cow-testing associa tions. The average yield of milk was 986.6 pounds and of butter fat 39.47 pounds. This is the highest av erage yet reached in any month since association work started in the state, says E. B. Fitts of Oregon Agricul tural college extension service, who 1 in charge of the work. . Reports from the testers show that 14 inferior cows were weeded out of the herds and that one pure-bred bull was purchased. The Tillamook association leads all others in the state for the month with an average yield of 1141 pounds of milk and 47.84 pounds of butter rat from the 1073 cows tested. The Smith-Umpqua association won sec ond place with an average of 41.08 pounds of butter fat. LIME AVAILABLE AT $4 A TON First 500 Tons Produced at Gold Hill to Decide Future Cost. Lime for agricultural purposes may now be had through the Oregon state Hme board at 34 a ton f. o- b Gold Hill. Th freight rate will be ap proximately 25 per cent higher than the prevailing rate during 1919. The rate applies to carload lots of min imum of 30 tons. All orders should be placed through the secretary of the board, A. B. Cord ley of Corvallis. It is announced. The first 500 tons of lime produced by the board will determine the future cost of the lime. Sam Moore of Corvallis was elected chairman of the board to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Ben ton Bowers. Sales Orrices Moved. So great has been the volume of sales handled by the Multicolor Sales company of Oregon, distributers of the Multicolor press, that the con cern has been forced to move its headquarters to the Board of Trade building, where larger office space could be rented, according to an an nouncement made last week by Jack Hamilton, head of that concern. Mr. Hamilton said that he attributed the big business which was being han dled to the display advertising run in The Oregonian. Overall Factory to Open. BAKER. Or.. July 3. (Special.) August 1 has been set as the date for the opening of the Mclntyre Silven Overall manufacturing plant cn the second and third stories of I.LI.I.!..M.J.?.l.!..UJ..!..U.ILM Essentials THE good name of this bank with its enviable record of more than three score years of contin uous activity is of im portance to the man or woman with funds to invest. The bonds which we offer are those which have been purchased by us only after careful in vestigation of t h e i r merits. BOND DEPT. LADD & TlLTON Bank Oldest In the Northwest, WASHINGTON AT THIRD . i- F for 20 years United Drug Go. 2C-year 8 Convertible Gold Bonds Due June 15, 1941 . Manufacturers of "Rexall" products. Has over 8000 drug store stockholders. Owns 227 Liggett's drug stores. Owns factories in New York, Boston, St. Louis New Haven, Albany, Toronto, etc. Gig-antic manufacturer of medicinal preparations, pharma ceuticals, hospital supplies, Tubber goods, perfumes, confec tionery, stationery, toilet preparations, etc. Sales for 1920, $68,428,179. Net earnings, averaged last three years $4,800,125, four times interest on all indebtedness. Bonds convertible into common stock. Annual sinking fund, $750,000, to purchase bonds in market up to 115. Callable at 115. Denominations $100, $500 and $1000. This is one of the etrongest and greatest merchandising concerns in the world. These bonds offer not only safety, but expectation for a large market profit. 20-year 8's at 100, to yield 8 without deduction for 2 normal federal Income tax. Wire Orders Collect.' Call, Write or Phone for Circular. Freeman, eoKmAMet saw nuuicisosi anklos Service Your banking requirements may be entrusted to this Bank with every confidence that care ful and efficient service will be rendered. The Canadian Bank of Commerce Portland Branch. Fourth and Stark Streets. 7 First Mortgages 7 We own and offer subject to prior sale the following mortgages: $2000 Secured by 5-room bungalow, values $5000, located 37th and Division streets. $4000 7-roora house, Colonial Heights, 23d, near Hawthorne ave nue; valuation $9500. $2200 Rose City Park house, 5-room bungalow; valuation $5000. Pacific Coast 319 Ry. Exch. Bldg. their building in this city. The plac ing of the new floor on the second story has been completed and the necessary benches and standards for machinery are nearly ready. Ma chinery will be installed shortly. A r:ow elevator received its firai try out yesterday. When the factory is completed 12 persons will e em ployed, and as business Increases more will be added. Fahey-Brockman Sign Attractive. Another contribution to the bril liance of Portland's "grsat white way" was made recently when the Fahey-Brockman company Installed a new electric sign at Sixth and Washington streets. The sign has r. roved to be one af the most attrac- Portland Manufacturers and Jobbers Univef sal Body Corporation Truck and Delivery Bodies Noted for DESIGN, QUALITY and WORKMANSHIP Illustration With Prices of Our Many Types Sent Upon Request 900 Sandy Blvd., Portland, Or. Phone 7913 Repair Work Quickly Done Rasmussen&Co. nrv SECOND and TAYLOR & Phone East 18S5. Res. East 177. D. F. Shope. President and General Manaeer. SHGPE BRICK CO. FACE AMI "HPiTlCt BRICK A SPECIALTY. 861 H East Morrlaos Street. mM u N.E.Cornor Smith & Camp Co. BOUND FLOOa Lumbermen Buildins riPTH AND STARK 'AT S7SO Mortgage Co. Phone: Main 675 tive in the city and the little green and white lights seem to chase ona mother about it. Russia produces more barley and rye than any other country and more wheat and oats than any other ex cept the United States. SfAVER BQAJID t FOR BETTER WALLS AND CEILINGS RASMUSSEN & CO. N. E. Cor. Second and Taylor Sta.. 1 BARRELS AND CASKS And All Kins of Cooperaa-e at Finke Bros. Cooperage Worts 254 Front St. Went End Htwtkone UrldKC Main 8143. Cascara Bark Eldrs. Wool. Pelt. Mohair We Are ln the Market. Write for Prices and Shipping Taga FOKTLAXD HIDE WOOL CO.. GEO RGB M. SULLIVAN. Manager. 107 LnioB Ave. K. Fori laud. Or. jfrnwifinrtTWii East Side Mill and Lumber Co. LUMBER. BOX SROOKS. GEM. ERAL MILL WORK. Sellwcetei sun U 130.1. KSSt