The Sunday Oregonian., August 27, 1905, PART TWO, Image 13

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PART TWO
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VOL. XXIV.
PORTIjAjSD, OREGON, 'SUXDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1905.
XO. 35.
35c, 30c, 25c TUXEDO VEILING, ALL COLORS, GREAT BARGAIN AT 15c
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Values Up to $20.00 Newest
Fall and Winter Coats at
A SAMPLE COLLECTION A prominent New York coatmaker shipped to
us a sample collection of 75 coats after our cloak buyer had left New York for
home. This sample collection, only a few of a style, all the latest and newest ideas,,
will be offered at the very beginning of the season at the extraordinary low price of
$11.75
These coats are made in 40 and 44-inch lengths, in box empire and paddock styles, made of fine
all-wool tan covert cloth, kerseys in black, tan and castor, also of fancy- tweeds. Some are in '
the new loose-fitting shapes, strapped with cloth and trimmed with stitched velvet; others are
made half fitting in collarless and notch collar styles. The yokes are lined with fine quality,.
satin. Values up to $20.00. Your choice tomorrow sft $11.75
See corner window.
New Fall Suits
Never before have we shown such a
large collection of early Fall Suits and
Coats as we will show tomorrow in
our cloak and suit rooms. Early buying
and prompt deliveries have enabled us
to offer more choice and up-to-date
garments at this season than ever be
fore. The assortment comprises all the new
est in 40 to 54-inch long coat suits,
in tight and semi-fitting. Empire
coats, tourist coats, some short, box
coat effects, and all with kilted, plait
ed or circular skirts, priced from
15.00 to S75.00.
$20
New Fall Suits
SPECIAL VALUE AT
New Fall Suits of fine all-wool
pan cheviots in black and navy.
The coat is made in the new
40-inch fly front coat back
style with notched velvet collar,
cloth strapped and all lined with
black satin. The skirt is made
in the new gored and fan plait
ed shape. Special
value at
$20
New Fall Coats
We are showing the very latest models
in medium and full length coats;
made of kersey, broadcloth and the
popular tan covert cloth, some tight
fitting, some semi-fitting, others
loose fitting, in plain tailored and
fancy cloth trimmed effects. We dis
play more new coats at this season
of the year than ever before. Our as
sortment is the largest shown in the
city, quality considered. Our prices
are the lowest, from $12.50 up to
$50.00.
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First Fall Showing Robinson 6c
Wells English Tailored Hats
Tomorrow, Monday, we will show many new Fall millinery goods.
Among them we have ready the first display of "Robinson & Wells" English
tailored street hats. A line that has won great distinction among Portland's
dressy women. Included are all the new and clever ideas brought out by this
well-known London house. A VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE,-WHICH
SHOULD BE REMEMBERED, IS THAT WE ARE THE ONLY
PORTLAND HOUSE handling this RENOWNED make of hats, thereby
insuring our customers that each hat is exclusive in every particular. Prices
' are very moderate, considering the quality.
Ready-to-Wear Hats $3.50
Special for Monday We offer another very fine line of hand-made silk and
r' cnennie Draia, reaay-to-wear nats Jimoracing six or tne leading small
A V turf3311 and large dress shapes. All the latest colorings to be had. These
r J goods require no trimming. Special value at 9J.0O
New felt shapes on show Monday. New trimmings on show Monday.
New trimmed hats on show Monday.
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Introductory
Silk Sale
Great introductory sale of silks in two
of" the most popular weaves for the com
ing season.
3000 yards 21-inch wide changeable Mes-
salines, the newest fabric shown and
promises to be very popular in all col
or combinations. Best $1.25 value. In
troductory sale price )8
2500 yards checked Louisines in three
sizes of checks. Colors are brown, navy,
garnet, green and silver. Best 85c silk
ever offered. Introductory sale price
69
75-50c Lace Allover 25c
2000 yards Nottingham Lace Allover for
waists, dresses and yokes, 18 inches wide in
white, butter and ecru. Regular price 75c to
50c for this sale 25
$1.5095c Val. Lace 60c
French Valenciennes and Round Mesh Val.
Lace and Insertion, 1 to 2 inches wide,
white, black and ecru. Regular price $1.50 to
95c per dozen, for .this sale, dozen 60
40c-20c Wash Laces 12c
5000 yards Point de Paris, Normandy and
Platte VaL Lace and Insertion, -A t0 SXA
inches wide. For waists, dresses, underwear,
etc Regular price 40c to 20c, this sale.X2
New Materials for
Early Fall Dresses
45-in. silk-finished French Henriettas
in the new Fall colors Prune, he
liotrope, olive, maroon, myrtle, wine,
navy, cardinal, etc., at $1.00
45-in. satin finished French Prunellas,
full line of new Fall shades. .$1.35
54-in. imported French and German
Chiffon Broadcloths, exquisite line
of new colorings, sponged, at, per
yard S1.75 to S3. 50
44-in. imported Scotch Clan Tartans.
for shirtwaist suits and waists. All
clans, at 1.25, 1.00, 85
38-in. new all-wool and mixed Suit
ings, specially adapted for misses'
school costumes in plaids, checks,
' mixtures, serges, Panamas, granites,
Venetians, in all colors, An immense
assortment. Choice at 50
Music Store
We Always Have Them First A1J the
song hits of the bijr successes The
Isle Bon? Bong, The Mayor of Tokio
and Fay Templeton's bihit
Nobody Bat Yen
AH the Exposition songs and all the
Trail songs, special 15
Drug Store
2 or 3-quart Fountain Syringes;
price $1.43, special
2 and 3-quart Hot Water Bottles;
price 6Sc, special
Pretty Celluloid Puff and Powder
regular 50c, special
Celluloid Soap Boxes, extra quality
lar 45c, special
iairy Soap; special, cake i.
Tuscan Castile Soap, three in box;
per box ."
regular
..9Sd
regular
..49d
Boxes ;
; fegu-..25d
,...3c
special,
..15
Leather Goods Store
Sajp of Handbags Walrus grain, dainty
leather bags in black, dark blue, brown;
regular price 85c, special 48
NEW FALL SILK BELTS 20 styles of
new black silk folded, plaited, shirred
arid appliqued Belts; special o0
Picture Store
A sale of fine burnished gilt oval Pictnro
Frames, black oval Picture Frames and
Mission Picture Frames.
A snap for the amateur photographer, or
those with portraits to frame. In two
styles, gilt and black beaded frames, and
Florentine Frames size of opening 6xS,
7x9, 8x10, 10x12; prices, regular 65cr 75c,
85c and $1.00, vour choice of anv
style . 39
500 new colored artotypes, framed in new
brown wood frames with the new brown
wood mat; special 25 $
Jewelry Store
More souvenirs in this department than
in all other stores put together, and our
prices are about one-half what you pay elsewhere.
500 Sterling Silver Spoons, variety of
handles, Fair buildings in bowl;
special 2o
1000 Sterling Silver Spoons, Mount Hood
and Salmon handle, gold bowls with
Fair buildings: special 35 $
1000 large Sterling Spoons, Salmon and
Mount Hood handles, with Fair buildings
in bowl; special 95
2000 Sterling Silver Teaspoons, Lewis and
Clark handle, also Mount Hood handle,
with gold and silver bowls, with Fair
buildings; special $1.50
August 29
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Great Irrigated Valley Below Level of Sea
ONCE DREADED COLORADO DESERT TRANSFORMED INTO
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IMPERIAL, CaL. Aup. 26. (Special.)
The history of arid America relates
many Interesting- tales of the crea
tion of vast deserts back In ancient
geologic times, but' none more Im
pressive than the story of the great
Colorado desert, In extreme southeast
ern California, the desert which has
become famous as the deathbed of o
many venturesome fortune-hunters.
The Colorado, desert is distinctive.
Of nil the deserts of the- "West It alone
lies beneath the level of the sea; It
alone was bullded by a river.
From the beginning: of time the
Colorado River, a snow-fed stream ris
ing on the west slope of the Rocky
Mountains, has been rushing- madly
toward the sea. discharging an im
mense volume of wnter Into the Gulf
of California. It does not trnverse
broad fluids and fertile valleys, but
throughout Its entire course has cut
Its tortuous way down mountain
gorges, until it finally reached the
gulf.
The Colorado has been an effective
tool in the hand of that great artist
Nuture. Through countless ages it lias
been carving out canyons, which for
scenic grandeur have no equal In the
ntire world. But the carving of these
canyons has meant the tearing away
of millions upon millions of tons of
solid rock. The process of erosion i
slow, and the rock has been removed
In minute particles, but these particles,
mingled with the sediment brought
down to the river by the melting
snows and . mountain streums, have
given the Colorado its reputation as a
muddy river, for it carries more silt
than any river In the United States,
sa've the Missouri.
Delta Dams Up Gulf.
Like all silt-bearing streams, the
Colorado has built a delta at its
mouth, a delta more expansive and
more unique than that of any other
river In the world. It was this delta
that eventually created the great Col
orado desert.
Back In prehistoric times, instead of
heading 70 miles south of the Interna
tional boundary line, the Gulf of Cali
fornia extended more than a 100 .miln
northward Into what Is now California.
It was walled In on either side by high
mountain ranges. The Colorado River
entered the gulf from the east, at a
point near the present Internatloml
boundary. There it depoaitel Its silt
and -solid matter, and soon began too
building- of a delta. The !elta stead'ly
pushed westward and southward until,
after years Innumerable, it reached
across the gulf, to the foot of the
ran go on the west. In seasons of low
water the delta formed an effective,
dam, shutting off the northern ex
tremity of the gulf from the jjulf
proper, creating what became. In fact,
a small inland sea. 100 miles In length
and 50 miles across at Its widest point.
Under the scorching rays of tne Bun
the waters of the inland sea. rapidly
evaporated, until the stu became per
fectly dry, leaving an enorraon sink,
at one point 2S7 feet bjlow the origi
nal level of the gulf.
Each Summer, with recurring high
water in the Colorado, there would be
an overflow Into this Inland ser:
river water would rush lri. arrying its
sf-liment with it. As the floods re
ceded, the water In the lnk again
dried up, leaving behind a thick de
posit of Mlt on the bed of tne former
gulf. This process of inundation con
tinued, probably for centuries, the
river each year overflowing Into tho
sink, each year atldinp new soil to
what it had doposited the year before.
Never, however, was the- sufficient
overflow to restore the inland sea:
only enough to cover the valley slight
ly and for a short time, for with each
successive dry season the flood waters
were carried off by evaporation or
sank into the soil.
The overflow Into the Colorado desert,
as the old seabed became known, con
tinued for centuries, until there was a
thick deposit of rich slit covering prac
tically the entire sink, the Imperial Val
ley, as It Is known today. But as the
deposits were made In the Imperial Val
ley, they were also made close to tha
river channel, and today, except In sea
sons of extreme high water, there 13 no
longer an overflow Into the Imperial Val
ley; the river Is unable to climb Its banks.
When the inland sea first evaporated,
a thick coating of salt was left on Its
bed. The annual Inrush of water from
the Colorado gradually carried this salt
to the lowest spot In the Valley, creating
what is known as the Salton Sink. Most
of the salt has been concentrated In thU
low area, forming a vast salt bed five
miles wide and 20 miles long, near the
(Concluded on rage 15.)
ALFALFA GROWN IN IMPERIAL VALLEY
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IT REACHES HEIGHT OK TEN FEET IN SIX MONTHS.