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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 11, 190Q. :BIC IRRIGATION PROJECT XXXESSB STOBJLGB ktVltm S"OB POWDEH HXVE& VATiT.TOT. Plasm for Reservoirs to Hold "Wter (or tho Samnier-Appro-red ny Go v ex naaeat Inapeotois t- BAXHR CtTT, Or., Nor. JSOt An im mense storage Irrigation system for a portion of Powder River Valley la planned and being- promoted In Baker City. Pow der River Is the only stream of any Im portance available for watering this val ley, and even then In the Bummer season ' does not afford enough -water to Irrigate much of the land. Reservoirs for stor ing water In the wet season Is the hope of the undeveloped agricultural region, as in most other sections of arid Eastern Ore gon. A bona fide effort to construct such a reservoir In the Powder River Valley causes all landowners to view the enter prise with much interest. The Powder River Land & Irirgation Company Is the name of the conoem that contemplates the work. During the past week the company had J. C Ulrich, the noted Government authority on Irrigation matters, visit the ground and report oa Its feasibility. Before Mr. Ulrlch's serv ice could, be had, permission of T8tv1 Com missioner Hermann had to bo secured for him to leave Colorado and Wyoming, -where bo Is at present engaged. Mr. Ulrica reported to the company that the projeot was feasible, from the engineer's view point, as well as practicable from the farmer's. Not being familiar with the volume of the Powder River In the wet season, he was unable to say how much water could be Impounded then. Those -who know the vast Quantities of water rushing with torrent force down this stream do not Question that the 2SO.000.000 cublo foot reservoir now planned can bo Quickly filled, and that the second reser voir of about equal capacity, which is be ing considered In case the first proves In sufficient, can also be stored during a short period of the wet season. The canal to supply the reservoir t-pa Powder River five miles above Baker City, and Is 11 miles long before reaching the reservoir. Two miles east of the city Is the proposed site of tho first reservoir. A distributing ditch will then lead 10 or IS miles down through Powder River Val ley, passing through what is known as Burnt Hollow, where the placing of the second reservoir Is contemplated. A dam CO feet high. 20 feet wide at the top, and 2300 feet long, will fence off a basin about three-quarters of a mile In diameter, to form the first reservoir. Mr. Ulrlch's estimate of the cost of this dam Is $126,0)0. The dam across the mouth of Burnt Hol low, where the second reservoir Is con templated, will cost about $75,000. The supply, or Inlet canal, is estimated to cost $40,000, and tho outlet canal $10,000. As it is necessary to construct only the first reservoir for the commencement of the enterprise, the total estimated cost is $176,000. The company has control of about 7000 acres of land that will be made tributary to the ditch, and by extending the distributing canal a little further than It is now staked, approximately 10,000 acres more can be reached. Project Is Practicable. A few Baker City business men organ ized the Powder River Land & Irrigation Company last December. The officers are: J. H. Parker, president; W. J. Patterson, vice-president; William Pollman, treas urer; Fred R. Mellls, secretary; F. S. Lack, t superintendent; J. I Rand, attor ney: C. M. Foster, surveyor, and J. H. Parker, P. Basche, William Pollman, F. S. Lack, W. J. Patterson, Isldor Fuchs and F-ed R. Mellls, directors. The com pany has not tho capital to carry on the - work-of construction, but has- expended -""756naraDe'moriey In getting the project into siape so lhat outside capital may be interested. Now that Mr. Ulrlch has reported favorably. Eastern or foreign capitalists will be asked to Inspect the project. One of the Important conditions prescribed by Mr. Ulrlch was securing contracts with landowners, who will be affected, -for at least the capacity of the canal and reservoir. These contract wiltfbe solicited immediately, conditioned, of course, upon construction being com pleted. Farmers will be asked to sign an) agreement to take so much water. WSen a sufficient number of these men ate "signed up, the members of the corn piny believe little difficulty will be experi enced in drawing the attention of capital, for profits will then be a matter of arith metical calculation. After speaking generally of the tract to be irrigated, Mr. Ulrlch says in his report:- I Stall of this area Is sagebrush country, almost perfectly level throughout xne half I nearest the river, and gently undulating as the hills to the east are approached. Its Quality is uniformly first class, except in a few spots, which show boqo alkali; and the half lying to the east, adjacent ( to the foothills, is unsurpassed in Quality by any land found in this part of the country. i Irrigation Will Be Effective "The climate does not appear to differ ,. materially from that which characterizes most" of the arid belt in Colorado and Wyomine, except that the Winters and Springs are marked by greater humidity, and tbo date when Irrigation must be be gun lsAoorrespondlngiy later, and the -period during srhloh It is required Is some- what ahorter. From the testimony which I have received from ranchmen, and oth- ers who have lived in tie valley many years; it does not appar that much irri vgatlon is needed during tho months of April and May. there being usually consid- terabla rainfall then, though those who have facilities for doing so find it greatly to their advantage to irrigate the land thoroughly which is under cultlvatSoa at this tlmo. It is during the months of June, July and August, and particularly in July, that the greatest need for water ,1b felt, and It Is then that shortage of supply Is experienced In the river. ,j "The rainfall recorded at tnls station, as furnished by the signal officer located ai Baker City, exceeds but slightly that t experienced In Colorado and Wyoming, the normal for tho year being given for about 16 inches. But the absence of high 'winds, which prevail in most portions of the arid region. Insures that a given amount of precipitation is retained longer In the sou, and. less water is required hero than is found necessary in most of the - arid region -enjoying the same amount of rainfall. Whero water for early irrigation can be obtained or application during the months of April and May, and the land Is -vfell soaked prior to June 15, it does not appear that more than one Irrigation wfu be required for ordinary crops, such as TFbcat, oats, potatoes, eta, after June 15, end two -irrigations should suffloe for al jfalfa -and most other crops, after this date. In the absence of statistics upon (this point, it would be impossible for me o say definitely how much water would bo required for the successful conduct of agricultural operations in this valley, and I ,mut base my conclusions on this ' .point upon the results accomplished, in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah "under sim ilar conditions. In Colorado it has been my experience that it requires from six "to nine inches of water in depth to ac complish thoroughly an Irrigation: the smaller figure being found sufficient for Iqost crops where the land is compara tively level, and where care and skill is exercised in its application. Assuming, therefore, that one-half the area which will be farmed in this valley will be grain, which -after June 1 to 15. will usually re quire only one application of water, and ttfaat-tfce other 'half will be alfalfa and other crops requiring two irrigations after this, data, Jt may be safely assunvid that one and one-half irrigations will be suf ficient for the whole area after June 15. Heeded "Water Can Be Stored. 'Under this assumption it would appear that the amount of tfater required wouldj. be three-quarters of an acre foot applied after June IS each year to the whole area. This volume would have to be supplied by storage, since the river after this date cannot be relied upon to furnish water for direct Irrigation, It is my opinion that there Is no question at issue concerning the amount of water available for tho re quirements of this enterprise, provided the company can at reasonable expense con struct reservoirs of sufficient capacity and suitable location to serve the lands which It Is here proposed to reclaim." Mr. Ulrich recommends that a supply canal of at least 100 cubic feet per second be constructed, as it will be used for di rect Irrigation from the river until after Juno, 15, and will also be required to fill the big reservoirs during tho wet or waste season. A deep, narrow canal for the work of supplying Is recommended from experience in such work in other arid regions. The reservoir, estimated to hold I about 230,000,000 cubic feet, he says, "will ' THE VOTE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. COUNTIES. Complete: tOiia Seattlo count shows discrepancy will be Q i & : : : : : a : o : : : . .!::!jp55 : i-L-i ' 1 ' t-I I ' I ' - 1 Adams .................. 62 214 80 Asotin 69 13 Chehalia 1643 799 750 ... 1330 835 453 ...14401440 C52 662 778 ... Chelan .. .. CO . ... 100 25 Clallam ... .. 230 ... 009 468 1601 ... 626 624 364 S71 257 ... Clark 16451993 652 ...15181262 2561 ... 1611 1611 987 , 967 .624 ... Columbia 896 712 184 ... 837 75Sf 79 ... 8S4f 886 Tfllf 697f 1S5 ... Cowlitz . 545 500 J ... 500 ... Douglas 515 OS ... 101 S99 626 ...'227 438 449 669 566 ... 130 Ferryv .... 413 365 901 ... 636 432 416 819 81S ... 400 Franklin ... 60...., 100 50 Garfield 523 437 91 ... '451 601 ... ' CO 50S 500 426 427 76 ... Island - 150 100 125 ... Jeiterson .. 300 ... .-. 025 285 ... Kingf 10071 79S2J 2,039 ... 8741 9012 ... 271 S741 9134 8O0CJS9 400 ... Kitsap 834 499 335 ... 807 6C5 242 ... 851 53 494 617 350 ... Kittitas .... .s 200 Klickitat v. 350 330 350 ... Lewis C 1004 1371 533 ... 17941511 253 470 ... Lincoln 250 700 .- 300 Mason a 60 60 ... Okanogan 320 ..i Padflc 60S 293 500 ... 658 313 323 ... 450 ... Pierce :. 59703549 2,421 ... 47215118 ... 397 6015 5681 3204 30621 2,715 ... San Juan 433 263 170i 145 ... 153 ... Skagit. 681 .. 303 ...I 612 ... Skamania .IIA ... 2SJ 1 j ... 431 ... ... ... ... ...) 30 Snohomish )287S2372 6601 ...2501 2761 ... 275) ...... 600... Spokane '... 153941 50S3- 61 ... 4548 5872 ... 13315264 5328 50S6 4083 262... Stevens .1 . 800 Thurston ., 300 420 300 ... Wahkiakum -.:. 319 180 190... 266 203 S6 ... 298 297 187 183 100 ... Walla Walla 21231541 C82 ... 1907 1T"7 330 ...2055 207414551457 610 ... Whatcom 1269211444 1,250 ... 3670 19o4 700i 900 ... Whitman 12366128261 ...1460 2050 3123 ... 1063 2358 2344 2735J2705 ...1377 Yakima V. . I 483J... Aj3A l - Totals 13,8S6I139lT3....42646939 ..Jrj ... ...J12A7712648 Net plurality ........l2.4957.......... ...2676 ... ...f ...f ...f 9,529 ... cleared up by the official count. be about sufficient to cover 6400 acres to a depth of one foot. If, as herinbefore as sumed, tho application of water after June 35 to an average depth of three quarters of a foot will suffice for tho re quirements of an acre of land, the same having previously been well Irrigated without the agency of tho reservoir, the amount of water thus impounded will be sufficient to complete ' the irrigation of about S500 acres." If the supply canal has a capacity of 60 cubic feet a second. Mr. Ulrich estimates that it will fill the first reservoir In 45 days of continuous running. Cost of construction, he says, will be rather heavy, but not to such an extent as to render the system Imprac ticable. After the 10-mlle point of the supply canal Is passed, cost Is then a minimum. The outlet canal skirts the rolling foothills, from which position a belt of land from three to five miles in width between it and the river may be watered effectively- Should the second reservoir at Burnt HolldV be constructed, another large area would be opened for Irrigation. Closing his report, Mr. Ul rlch says: Load Values Will Be Raised. "This enterprise, taken as a whole, possesses considerable merit. The cost of the plant per acre of land reclaimed Is considerably above the average of those constructed throughout most of the arid region, except In California. This is, of course, a disadvantage, and a possible element of weakness. On the other hand. It enjoys many decided advantages not usually possessed by such enterprises. Its Immediate proximity to a vigorous, growing town like Baker City, which Is the natural distributing point for an im portant and prosperous mining region, constitutes an asset of undoubted value. The unquestioned natural superiority of the land to be reclaimed, and Its Immedi ate proximity to Baker City, are advan tages enjoyed by few similar enterprises -nlth which I am familiar. Unless I am much mistaken in the quality of the land, 'it will be worth from $ W to $50 an acre within five years of the date upon which this plant is completed." JTctt Councilman at Tho Dalles. THE DALLES, Nov. 10. At the meet ing of the City Council lost evening, F. H. Wakefield, ex-Assessor of Wasco County, was elected Councilman from the Second Ward, to succeed Hon. A. A Jayne, re signed. Washinfftoxx Notes. The new school building at Davenport Is nearlng completion. A saloon at Harrington was robbed of $15 Wednesday morning. ' A poultry show will be held at Walla Walla the last week In January. The corner-stone of the new Christian Science Church at Tacoma was laid Thursday. The liowis County Ministerial Associa tion will meet to organize Tuesday, No vember 13, at Chchalls. Tho sale of railroad tickets from North Yakima to points on the line of the Northern Pacific during October amount ed to over $5000. President E. A. Bryan, of the Washing ton Agricultural College, left last week for New Haven, where he will attend the National Association of Agricultural Col leges, to be held November 12 to 15. It Is reported that Samuel Gllpatrick, of Stanwood, was so angry on receiving the news over his telephone that McKin ley waB elected that he tore down the Instrument and threw it into the river. The sale of stamps at North Yakima last month was the greatest in the his tory of the office, $1146 78. The sale for the corresponding month last year was $988. For the seven months of the year Just closed there Is an increase over the same period last year of $142 61. One hundred and fifty Tacoma sports men have organized the Dlerlnger Shoot ing Club, and have leased from Crawford Anderson 320 acres of land, which will be turned Into a preserve. H. T. Denham has been elected president of the new club, and Frank Klessig secretary. Smallpox is Taging in -uornton, 20 miles north of Colfax, where there are about two dozen cases, none considered serious. The county has hired a trained nurse and sent her to take care of the worst cases. The disease has spread rapidly, and much uneasiness is felt. There are no case3 in any pther part of the county. Ralph Sheldon and John Herring, the two boys apprehended at Seattle a week ago for sandbagging Emil Brandt at Sno homish, on the night of October 30, were arraigned before, Justice of the Peace C W. Graham Friday. Herring had made a statement practically admitting their guilt at the time of the arrest, and both waived examination and were bound over to the Superior Court In $50) bonds. In default of -which they were again lodged In the County Jail at Everett. Mr. Brandt, their 'victim, is fast recovering, and wlllvundoubtedly fully recorerv- DAY FOR GIVING THANKS AXXVAJt FROOXiAKATIOar OS THE GOVER2TOB. OV OREGON. Thursday, November 29, the National Holiday, Is Set Aside People Hsvr Bnch, to JJe Grateful For SALEM, Or., Nov. 10. Governor Geer today issued the following Thanksgiving proclamation: "In conformity with a time-honored cus tom established by President Washington, 111 years ago, at the suggestion of Con gress to "recommend to the people of the United States a nay of public thanksgiv ing and prayer, to be observed by the ac knowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God,' the President of the United States has set apart Thursday, the 29th of No vember, as the day upon whlch.our-people that Rosrers has over 700 plurality. The are requested to rest from their labor and give thanks to the Supreme Ruler of the universe for the many blessings vouchsafed to them during the past year. "The people of Oregon have special rea sons for engaging In the thanksgiving exercises, since this has been one of the most satisfactory years In all lines of material prosperity our state has ever known. At no time in our history can It be said that our people have enjoyed greater freedom from contagious or other diseases, or from want or calamity of any kind. There Is an abundance of the nec essaries of life everywhere, easily within the reach of all classes of our people, .and as high a percentage of our popula tion Is 'employed upon terms of satis factory remuneration as has ever prevail ed In the history of the state. Our schools ' are liberally supported, largely by the munificence of the general government through the agency of a perpetual endow ment, and ore well attended In all our rural as well as In our more populous dis tricts. Ourpeople are orderly and peace prevails everywhere within the domain of our cherished commonwealth whose future Is undlmmed by any presage of untoward circumstances. "On the occasions of our indulgence in general thanksgiving, wo should not fall to remember with grateful hearts the courage and high purpose that animated our pioneer fathers and mothers, who, with a fortitude surpassed only by the children of Israel, sought out and re deemed thl3 promised land of the West, and not only gave It to us, their de scendants, as a goodly heritage, but added It permanently to the growing Jurisdic tion of a conquering civilization, to be enjoyed and shared by those who, In later years, have come among us to become a part ofr our stable citizenship. We have a form of government, both state and National, under which the greatest meas ure of freedom Is guaranteed to the hum blest citizen, as well as to those pos sessed of a greater portion of material wealth. To all these Is to be added the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of the Individual conscience. "Recognizing that, as a Christian Na tion, It Is our duty to praise God, from whom all blessings flow, I, T. T. Geer, Governor of Oregon, do hereby designate Thursday, the 29th day of November, 1900, as a day of general thanksgiving and praise to the Giver of all good for the unnumbered mercies granted us during the year and century Just closing, and I recommend that our people, as far as pos sible, abstain from their usual vocations on that day, and that It may be devoted In some appropriate manner to an ex pression of gratitude to the Lord of Hosts for his remembrance of us as a Nation and state, and that deeds of charity may be -performed wherever possible. In cases where the burdens of our fellow men, through misfortune or other causes, may be reached by the tangible evidences of the promptings of generous hearts. " "Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.' "Done at the Capitol, at Salem, on this the JOth day of November, in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred. "By the Governor, T. T. GEER." KORTHWEST DEAD. Mrs. 31. S. Donahue, of Engeno. Mrs. M. S. Donahue died at her home in Eugene, November 6, of paralysis, aft er an illness of three days. Deceased was born In Pennsylvania In 1828. Several years of her early life were spent In Ne braska. In 1862 she carao to Baker Coun ty, Oregon,and then to the Willamette Valley. Her husband died In ISSJ. Since then, she had, for most of the time, re sided in Portland, and was an influential member of the Taylor-Street" Church, lu that city. She had been a resident but a short time prior to her death. Two chil dren, R. M. Donahup and M. C Donahue, of Portland, survive her. Ttto Deaths at The Dalles. THE DALLES, Or., Nov. 10. James Lane died last night at his home In this city, at tho age of 25 years. Some months ago Mr. Lane was kicked In the back by a wild horse, to which Injury his death was attributed. He left a -wife. De ceased had resided in this city about 10 years, and conducted a transfer business. Geneva, the 8-year-old daughter of Louis Frits, of this city, died last night, after a two weeks illness with scarlet fever. TVnUam Stewart, of John. Day. HEPPNER, Or Nov. 10. A. report reached here last night from John .Day that William Stewart had died of lock jaw. Her was a prominent Grant County stockman, and was recently hooked in the leg by a vicious cow. Fay Taxes Wltn County Warrants. HEEPNER, Or., Nor. 1.0. The Morrow County Court yesterday made an import ant order allowing the Sheriff to accept in" payment for all taxes, dollar, for. dol lar, county warrants, on which no in- Partial Est. Partial Est, Partial Est. voto. plu. vote, plu. vote. plu. MS WS3'o?3S-re0'2E?S3 terest had accumulated or was claimed. The county's excellent financial condi tion admits of this being done. It Js prac tically out of debt. Treasurer Llchten thal yesterday turned over to Clerk Crawford canceled warrants, school or ders, etc, he had paid, amounting to $S000, and today received from Sheriff Matlock $9000 taxes collected. Kerr Oregron Incorporations. BATVravT, Pr.. Nov. Ml Artioles of in corporation were filed In the office of Seo ietary of State Dunbar this week as follows:1- 5E P. Isaacs Mining Company, Portland; $50,000; Edwin S. Isaacs. John Fulton, Edwin 9. Buffum. Craig Ditch Company, Bnterprise, Wal lowa County; $400; George S. Craig, SalKe B. Craig, NV. F. Craig. Bonanza Lodge, No. 143, X. Q. Ov F Bonanza, Klamath County; $1200; S. H. Patterson, John S. Shook, Henry Vinson. Porcupine Hydraullo Mining Company, Portland, $30,000i George M. Miller, C C Newcastle, L G. Davidson. Foshay & Mason, Albany; $30,000; D. P. Mason, R. C Stlllmacher, Flora A. Mason; object, to conduct a -drug busi ness. Consolidated Implement Company. Port land; $10,000; A. H. Breyman, J. F. 0IXn nell, W. L. Archambeau. Standard Carpet & Furniture Company, Portland; supplemental articles changing the name to "Taubenheimer & Schmeer' Carpet & Furniture Company. East Fork. Irrigating Company, Hood River; supplementary articles increasing the capital stock to $50,000. Tho Northwestern Guaranty Company, Moro; $10,000; W. H. Moore. H. A. Moore, L H. Moore. Comio Criticisms. Portland Evening Telegram. The Tacoma papers are the funniest in the land. No comic sheet of the times equals them in humor. Here, for in stance, is the News saying: , Governor Rogers' re-election, -whila the re mainder of the fusion state ticket suffers de feat, 'is primarily duo to Republican treachery In Seattle. There Is a lot more of this sort of ac cusation, and fierce and furious charge3 that Seattle threw Frink down, and yet the same paper publishes these among other returns from Pierce County and Tacoma: JdcKInley's majority, 22S2; Cush- man's majority (Republican candidate for Congress), 3032; Jones' majority (Republi can candidate for Congress), 2542; Rogers' majority over Frink, 397. Thus Rogers, Democratic candidate for Governor, in Pierce County, Including Tacoma, ran 2649 ahead of Bryan, and an average of over 3000 ahead of the Democratic candi date for Congress; and yet the Tacoma paper alleges that Frink -was betrayed and beaten In Seattle. To an outsider it looks as if the alleged "treachery" of which Frink was the victim occurred in Tacoma as much as anywhere But what could be expected? The Tacoma papers had been supporting him vociferously and voluminously during the campaign. XSpldemlo of Diphtheria. OREGON CITY, Nov. 30. Heposts from Canby today Indicate that the diphtheria epidemic is becoming serious among chil dren. Another death occurred last night, the victim being the 4-year-old child of Jacob Smith. There are now seven well doveloped cases, four children in the -Hutchinson -family being ill with the com plaint, and a child of City Marshal H. C. Gilmore is not expected to recover. Both the Canby and Riverside schools were ordered closed yesterday until the epi demic abates. At first the disease was believed to be tonsilltls. Dipatch-Boat Back from. Nome. SEATTLE, Nov. 10. The Army dispatch-boat Seward arrived from Nome today with 53 passengers, most of whom are returning Government employes. The transport Oopack. bound for Manila with a cargo of horses and mules from this port, was spoken by the Serwardat Dutch Harbor. Syndicate to Build Nome Railway. TACOMA, Nov. 10. R. O. Lazier, Just returned from Nome, claims to be backed by an English syndicate In the project to build a. partially surveyed railroad from Granite Harbor to Council City, in the Golovln Bay district, a distance of S5 miles. He says the route offers no seri ous difficulties to construction. Contract Price for Prisoners' Meals. FOREST GROVE, .Or.. Nov. 10. Wash ington County prisoners will be fed for the next 12 months at the expense of 14 cents per meaL This Is the contract price, In response to an' advertisement for sealed bids. Received, at Asylum. SALEM, Or,, Nov. la-Henrletta Rob ertson, aged 34 years, and a resident of Falls City, Polk County, was received at the asylum today. Oreson Pfota. The bell for the Dallas College has ar rived. Wilbur Academy is equipping' a gym nasium. Eagle Point organized a football team last week. An athletic association has been formed at Falls City. The militia company of Albany wants to play football with the Eugene com pany. Tho annual meeting of the State Board of Agriculture will be hela at Salem, De cember 11. University of Oregon freshmen will play football with the Portland Academy eleven at Eugene, November 24. E. J. Farlow and F. M. Drake, while hunting last Sunday, shot a pure white quail, says the Ashland Recall. The Port Orford-Myrtle Point mail route is now on Winter schedule, and three mall-carriers ore employed. Pupils of the Baker City schools are complying with tho vaccination require ment, and very few have left school. At Dallas is an apple tree laden with blossoms, and fully developed fruit, says the Ohserver. The tree boro a largo crop this season, and is again In full bloom. (Republicans of Grass Valley held a Jol lification Wednesday. A parade, a bon fire, a tin-can brigade and firing cf bombshells were events of the celebra tion. The Port Orford Tribune cays that one of ex-Sheriff Turner's fine animals at Gold Beach fell Into an old well 40 feet deep, and was lifted out with a block and taoklo practically uninjured. The Ministerial Association of Dallas organized Monday evening with tho fol lowing officers: President, Rov. Mr. Goodfriend; secretary. Rev. Mr. Deck. The association will meet tho first Mon day of each month. Postmaster Belt, of Dallas, has received -word from Washington that tho mall service between Dallas and Derry Station-has been changed to 12 rounl trips per week, Instead of six. The order re stores the former service. They can't run a bluff on John Hayes, says the Grass Valley Journal. A man offered to bet him his socks that .McKin ley would be elected. He immediately called the bluff, and the two left their Bocks with a stakeholder. Gorievieve Brown, the 8-year-old daugh ter of J. Q. Brown, bookkeeper of the Pokegama Sugar Pine Lumbering Com pany, was ,drowned Tuesday afternoon in tho .Klamath River. She, together with her older sister and two friends; was standing on a boom of logs. The boom broke and all fell into the river. The sister got out of the water and gave the alarm. The two friends, daughters of P. Xdnn, aged respectively 13 andJH, were rescued by Wuuam iierwin, wno pmngea Into ,the water and found them holding each, other across a log.-1 xno Doay,nasnoi "been recovered MENS That are in atop "with the season. No matter hoyr often you come these days you will find here neir spots of interest. The fashion trolley is on the wire in all departments at the new store. There's electricity in, suits, tnere's motion in overcoats, there's a constant come and go of pleased cuntomersTr-some of-them old patrons, but many of them new friends who come in to see our bright, new.stockanofdtjjpuy iug temptations too great to resist. 'x ' Men's Underwear In our large east front window our window trimmer has displayed a va riety of Men's cold weather antidotes. It will pay you to pause just a mo ment as you go that way today and see one of the richest gatherings of under garments ever displayed in Portland. WINTER UNDERWEAR , ot 50c, 75c, $1, $1.50, $2, and up to $8 a garment UP S.'E. COR. FOURTH AND MORRISON - n CIW A M n I M DDAVEft DA A nC ULlllrttil I till IV vf LU lValJ THIS IS THB PARAMOUNT ISSUE Cf MAIUO.V COUNTY. Farmers Shovr Interest by Using: Broad-Tire Wagons Results of Present System Not Lasting. SAI4SM, Nov. 10. If the labor and money which have been expended. on the public roads of Marlon County in the last 20 years had been used judiciously, the county would now be covered with a net work of the best macadamized roads In the country. As it ls, the county can boast of but a few short pieces of first class road, while there are miles of high ways almost Impassable during the rainy season of the year. The farmers are beginning to realize the folly of building temporary roads, and in every part of the county there ia a decided movement toward the perfection of grades and permanent graveling. The Improvement of public highways ls be coming the paramount issue, and tIU re main such until a satisfactory system of road-building has been established. Probably Marion County roads will compare favorably with those of other portions of the "Willamette Valley, and even with the roads of other sections of the Coast of the same age in develop ment. But they are far from perfect. In the first place, they were not laid out officially through a settled region, the highways were made to conform, to the boundaries of donation land claims. In either case, the matter of grades was a secondary consideration, and if a hill In tervened, the road was run over instead of around it. A very well-known In stance of this ls shown on the road that leads from Salem to Macleay, In the Wal--do Hills. That road formerly passed di rectly on the top' of a high, steep butte, and teams had to pass over the hill in going in either direction. The size of the load that could be hauled over the road was limited to the weight that could be hauled over the steepest part of that hill. About five years ago the farmers who had climbed the hill for a generation conceived the idea of going around the hill Instead of over It, and with but com paratively slight expense tho steepest part of tho road was avoided. The same condition exists on nearly every road that formerly prevailed on the Macleay road. With the exception of a short, steep hill at the Reform School, the road from Turner to Balem, ls on one of the best grades in the county. Every nerson who has ever passed over that road, especially if he hauled a loaa to- ward Salem, has occasion to remember the hard pull up the Reform School hill. And yet the railroad runs on a level stretch of ground not far away. With but small additional expense, a road could be built around that hill, and for centuries to come It would afford an easy thoroughfare In this section of the Val ley. With half tho labor that has been expended In hauling loads over that hill a level road around tho hill could be built. Another Important Consideration. But while the farmers are directing their attention to the avoidance of heavy grades, a more popular Idea ls that of graveling the highways so as to obtain a hard wheeling surface. The-two improve ments should be made at the same, time, for when a permanent road is to be con structed. It should bo laid out on the best possible grades. In every part of the western end of the county the farmers are giving the roads a coating of gravel. In some Instances tho gravel ls put on, only to fill "chuck-holes"; in others it ls spread over the whole surface in a thin layer, while in a few cases a. heavy, sub stantial covering of gravel fs put on over a firm foundation, and a permanent road is built - The material used In surfacing the roads Lis the gravel taken from the river or old KcreeK oorcoms wnajevert ia moss con Tenient to the -place where It will be used. CLOTHES.. SUITS FOR BUSINESS In telling you of this particular line we might writ of a hundred (fifferent patterns would space permit "We have Business Suits at 10, $12, 15, 18 and 20, but we want to mention moie particularly today our choice show ing at 15.00 Fancy check and striped "Worsteds, the new Oxford nd Cambridge Mixtures and plain and fancy Cheviots. Single or double breasted fashionably cut garments. Suits that'would not have to blush should you bring, them face to face with the made-to-order at double the price. TO THE TIMES ALL THE TIME ' Th8 8Tavel ls hard and durable, but hav- lnS been worn round, and smooth by the faction of the water, it does not pack as solidly as crushed rock would do. Many loose stones are left on the surface in both Summer add Winter. But this ma terial is the best that can be had under present conditions, and it makes a road that ls immeasurably superior to the al most bottomless "highways" that exist where no graveling has been done. The cost of graveling a road depends solely upon the distance the material must be hauled. In Monitor precinct, in the north end of the county, the farmers have undertaken to put a 12-inch cover ing on three miles of road. In some places where the road is good, not so heavy a covering will bo put on. The farmers will do most of the work them selves, and will probably have help from the county to tho extent of one-fifth of the amount of labor contributed by the farmers. Counting the labor expended, it ls figured that the three miles of grav eling will cost $1760 per mile at the great est distance from the gravel supply. The road begins at the gravel pit and ex tends three miles away. When the work ls completed the farmers of that section will .have a road that will be good 13 months In the year, and will require but slight expense for "keeping In repair. Based upon property valuation, and the rate of taxation for road purposes, Mar ion County taxpayers should have ex pended $335,000 'on roads in the last 20 years. The taxpayers have "worked out" their road tax Instead of paying it In money, and in many cases perhaps the road work has been avoided entirely. In addition to the work required by law, the farmers have voluntarily contributed la bor to an amount about equal to that which the law prescribes. Tho figures given above include only the tax based on the average property valuation, and not money paid out by the County Court to road supervisors, or for special as sistance In road districts. The ordinary road tax, therefore. If honestly and Ju diciously expended, should have built not less than 100 miles of good hard-graveled road. While the farmers are entering upon an era of road improvement by perfecting grades and building gravel surfaces, they are furthering the good work by the use of wlde-tlre wagons. The out-of-datla narrow tire wagon Is easier to haul with for temporary purposes, but farmers are coming to the opinion that In the long run the wlde-tlre wagon ls the best. As every teamster knows, Tvhen a narrow tire wagon strikes a small stone, tho 1 stone glances to one side, and the team ls saved the exertion of lifting the load over the stone. But the loose rock is still there. A wlde-tlre wagon, on the con trary, would pass over the stone, crush ing it into the road surface and leaving the road smooth. The use of the wide- 1 tire wagon ls a problem In the preserva. j tion of roads, rawer tnan in tneir Dima- ing, and the moro public-spirited citizens, encouraged by the state laws, win grad ually make them the common load-bearing vehicles of the country. AFTER-ELECTION OPINIONS. Just after the memorable landslide ot four years ago it was announced that the free-silver party, headed by Hon. W. J. Bryan, would start out on a "cam paign of education" in the United States. The result of four years' of education, was made known Tuesday 'evening. The people are apt scholars. Grant's, Pass Observer. The political party that makes some particular class believe that it will make them Immensely prosperous can only do so by -robbing the massos of the' people. It i3 not the business of government to- manufacture prosperity and run a free delivery. The number of people in the be3t party in tho world who will never bo prosperous is large. They have not learned habits of economy and Industry.' Thoy are the grasshopper class, who never think lfs going to be cord untU Winter is all over them. The public schools do not teach industry and do mestlc virtues that make boys and glrkt f self-supporting. So tho only prosperity w can euarantee is that wmen comes irom labor. The -willingness to wor!c and the willingness to do without" luxurieaY-alono trrr2 i More Hats Sold Yesterday than during any one day this sea son, Portland men are finding ' the genuine value of The BREWER $3 HAT They are good, stylish, uniOn made hats. Better hats in fact than ordinary hatters sell for 4. Pcrby r Fedora Hats $1.90, worth $2.50 Derby or Fedora Hats" $2.50, worth $3.00 kr, THE RELIABLE CLOTHIER p leads to the poi of gold; at the end of th rainbow. Salem JournaL Wo have heard of men beinc talked death, but Bryan ls-tha nrst man wr: talked himself to death, Baker City publican. . Tho Oregon vote la remarkable, and canJ not be mlstoxen In its rebuke of Bryanlst and cheap money. It shows that Ore gon s newly acquired population is Re publican, and that her oncoming yours men are patriotic as well as sound think- era, However, under condlitons, backed up by true Democrats, it can hardly be claimed so .strongly Republican, as the Bound-Money Democratic voto is a si lent factor in Oregon's present 14,000 Re publican majority. Gervais Star. Bryanlsm has been repudiated. While it ls not probable ttiat "McKlnley could have been defeated by any Democrat en any kind of a platform, there la no ques tion that any prominent leader in the Democratic party, running upon even tho Kansas City platform, would havo made a better showing than did Mr. Bryan. The dangerous character of the man, or rather the incendiary and despicable ele ment in politics which ho represented. has had more to do with his defeat than contraction and debased currency com bined. Either of these issues was enough I to defeat the best man in the country who would espouse them. Corvauls Gazette. In th& contest, Bryan represented every thing that was a menace to the welfare and peace of the country, to order a"d popular government. McKlnley stood fr tho upholding of the Nation, the happi ness of its people, and tho honor of the flag at home and abroad. It ls a great National victory, and the people may well, as they do, rejoice over it. Mr Bryan and his followers In the modern I cave of Adulum have been given notice I that there ls no place in this country fori class hatred, and that his propaganda of! free riot, greed, hatred, repudiation of debts and debasement of the currency and dishonor to the flag have no hope of prevailing, now or henceforth. Ash land Tidings. Tho American people have again spoken their sentiments upon a National issue. and spoken it in a mighty loud voice. Taqulna News. The result of the election Tuesday was. anticipates 'me American people as a whole cannot be induced to vote agalrst tho flag of their country Their verdict on the 6th Inst, exalts this Republic. In tho eyes of all the nations of the -world. It was the voice of patriotism that declared the result the voice of progress, of en lightenment, of souqd money and a sound National policy. It came from those who enjoy the 'full dinner-pail, prosperous times and promised reward for loyalty to the substance of the country and its : development Portland New Age. International Athletic Alliance. NEW TORK, Nov. 10. It is possible that Australian athletes may be governed I by the rutec! now in .force in l&e United States. E. S. Marks, secretary ot the Amateur Athletic Union of Australasia. In a letter to Secretary Sullivan, of tho A, A. U., suggests an alliance with the An tipodean Brethren. Mr. Marks says that the A. A. U. of Australasia constitatlcn makes provision for alliances with simi lar organizations controlling aiaateur. athletics in other parts of the world. "We believe that much good would re sult from the Joining of bonds of tho gov- 'ernlng bodies ot all parts of the -world where tho Anglo-Saxon tongue is the-Na tional language,1 he said. "The -eeitm!-latlonof rules tdgovorn trade eonteste all the world over is eminently desirable, as is a comm6n definition of an amateur.' He suggests that perhaps in tho near future -a conference between delegate from the governing bodies fat England, the United States, Ca&ado,' SoutSi Afrlcsi and Aus"tralasiar may brftig' fibou absa luto unanlttflty in'rules of racing: Cherry-Time. O. D.. C in .Oood Wcr$" Cherrr red cap, banging hlco, In the. azure and th$. sun. i Now the cuckoo's, ceased hl. cr. All bis. Summer sqng ,1 dsae. 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