THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, FORTLA"D, APRIL 26, 1908.
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Of! GAR-WHEELS
Read how one of last week's
buyers came to be
interestedfin
0. R. & N. Will Run Two Farm
ing Demonstration Trains
in the Inland Empire.
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$450.00
FOR A CHOICE BUILDING LOT
$25.00 DOWN AND
$10.00 PER MONTH
EXPERTS TO MAKE TALKS
Washington Agricultural (ollCRe
Will C'o-operatet hy Sending Lec
turers Similar Trains In Wil
lamette Valley Later On.
Two spoeial farming dfmonstration
trains will be operated over the Oregon
and WashinKton lines of the O. R. & X
during the eomlng month. The first train
will rover the Walla Walla and Touchet
valleys and the other will visit the wheat
growing belt of Wasco, Morrow, Sherman
and nearby counties. The trains are
being run under the direction of R. B.
Miller, general freight agent for the J.
R. & N.. and the train into Washington
will have the co-operation of the Wash
ington Agricultural College tt Pullman,
nuile that run in this state will have the
assistance of the Oregon Agrlcu.tural
College at Corvallis.
The first of the two trains will be
started Monday, May 4, and will be out
three days. It will cover the Fataha,
Touchet and Walla Walla valleys and
the dates that the different stations will
be visited are as follows: Monday, May
4 Starburk. Pomeroy, Chard. May 5
Turner. Dayton. Huntsville, Waitsbur?.
Presoott and Walla Walla. May 6 Wal
lula and Touchet.
This train is the second in a scries to
be sent out by General Freight Agent
Miller. Its purpose is to assist in im
proving agricultural conditions through
out the territory and lectures will bo
given to farmers by agricultural experts
from the Washington state Institution.
Subjects that will be taken up on this
trip will be Summer fallow, conserva
tion of moisture, animal husbandry, horti
culture and dairying. Those who will ac
company the train are K. E. Elliott, pro
fessor of agriculture; George Severance,
agronomist: R. W. Thatcher, director ex
periment, station: G. W. Lawrence, wheat
specialist, and W. S. Thornber, professor
of horticulture, all from the Washington
Agricultural College: R. B. Miller, gen
eral freight agent for the O. R. & N..
and Byron Hunter, assistant agricultur
ist, farm management investigations,
bureau of plant industry.
Itinerary of Oregon Trains.
The Oregon train will be run through
Sherman, Gilliam. Morrow and Umatilla
counties, on May 11, 12, 13 and 14. Among
the subjects to be discussed by the Ore
gon Agricultural professors -who will ac
company the train, are livestock, fruit
growing, chemistry of the soil, rotation
of crops, conservation of moisture, gen
eral cultural methods. Stops will be mads
at the following stations: May 11 Kent,
Grass Valley. Moro, Wasco and Condon.
May 12 Clem, lone, Lexington and Hepp
Tier. May 13 Irrlgon, Hermiston, Echo,
Pilot Rock and Pendleton. May 14 Mil
ton. Weston, Athena, Adams and Pendle
ton. The following professors from the
Oregon Agricultural College will accom
pany the train: James Withycombe, direc
tor experiment station: C. I. Lewis; horti
culturist; C. B. Bradley, chemist, and
H. I. Scudder, agronomist. R. B. Miller
will be on the train, as well as Byron
Hunter.
Secretary Wilson of the Department of
Aprieulture has taken a special interest
in the work started by R. B. Miller and
will send a representative of the depart
ment to accompany the trains.
""The purpose of the company in send
ing out these trains." said Mr. Miller yes
terday, "is to grow profitable crops on
about 1.000.000 acres of land tributary to
the. lines of the O. R. & X.. which, under
the present method of Summer fallow, lie
idle each year. The ' conservation of
moisture and the replenishing of the soil
with organic matter, which will assist in
maturing larger wheat crops than are
now grown, is another object we have
In view, as well arf the establishment of
such physical conditions as will prevent
the exhaustion of the land In future
vear?.
Increase Population and Wealth.
"Our plan contemplates tho increase of
population and the addition to the wealth
of the. country by cutting up large individ
ual holdings of land Into smaller tracts.
These things will provide a means
towards lessening the disastrous effects
which a failure of the wheat crop will
bring about.
"Tho wheat farms of Eastern Oregon
nd Washington are already large, and
the tendency Is to enlarge them further.
The result is that the population in the
country districts is not Increasing as it
should. We believe that these conditions
can be overcome through continuous oc
cupation of tho soil by a rotating system
of cropping and abandonment of the al
ternating Summer fallow in districts
where the precipitation Is sufficiently
frrat to make the latter unnecessary.
"All commercial organizations where
our demonstration trains will stop., are
working closely with us and are interest
ing themselves in the movement for the
IHirpose. of getting a lare attendance of
farmers. Invitations and Itineraries have
been mailed to every farmer in the terri
tory tributary to the towtis where tiie
trains will stop. Tho lectures to be given
will vary according to the needs of the
different sections. In counties where the
rainfall is light we will proceed along
different lines than In the wet counties,
where climatic and soil conditions are dif
ferent. "We propose to operate a farming dem
onstration train a little later over the
Southern Paifi.- linos in this state, and
others will undoubted- follow from time
to time,"
KY LINK MOUK T1IAX HIS AXCH
Adams K.xpei-ts Lewi-Inn K.vteiision
to lifm h Huntington.
That the Riparia-I.ewiston line, now
being completed by the o. II. & N. ts a
part of a new main line to ie built by
the company on to Huntington, thus
avoiding steep mountain grades between
Huntington and Pendleton, is the belief
of Charles Francis Adams. formerly
president of the Inion Pacific Railroad,
who is in Portland for a short visit. Mr.
Adams made a trip down the Snake River
by steamer from I.ewlston. where he had
an opportunity to Inspect the work done
on the new line.
"It is one of the most solid pieces of
railroad construction I ever saw," he
says, "and It would seem to me that the
engineers had more in their minds than
a branch line of railway."
Mr. Adams unquestionably refers to
the Huntington cutoff, the surveys for
which were made at the time he was
president of the. Cnion Pacific.
The excursionists from Portland to
I.ewlston on May 1 will be the first pas
si ngers to travel over the new road. The
trip will be made from Portland In ll'i
hours, but afttr the road Is put In good
Graded Streets, Bull Run Water,
Cement Walks, Two Garlines
We Will Build You a Home
on the
Installment Plan
at
JOHN P. SHARKEY GO.
122 i Sixth Street. Phones: A 2537, Main 550
N. B. Take W. R. car and get off at East Thirty-fifth
street. Our agents on the ground all day
ANNOUNCEMENT
WE ARE NOW. READY TO SELL
LOTS IN "DEL AURA BEACH"
Our plats and maps are now all ready for
inspection. Call and see our BIRDSEYE
VIEW of the property. Those buying first
will get ground-floor prices.
Delaura Beach Company
lioom 5, Lafayette building, 6th and Wash
ington Streets, Portland, Oregon.
Phones Main 2707, A 2707.
condition, this time will be considerably
reduced. The building of the roadbed is
said to hav been one of the most ex
pensive engineering projects In the Pa
cific Northwest. For a 'great part of the
distance between Riparia and Lewiston,
the valley of the Snake River Is a pre
cipitously walled gorge. The almost per
pendicular sides of the canyon .rise ab
ruptly from the water, which has made
necessary the blasting away of track
space from the rocky wall. Scenically,
the Snake River Gorge Is spectacular and
will be one of tho chief attractions for
tourists in this territory.
At Intervals, however, there are bars
along the bank of the river, which have
become immensely productive In apples,
peaches and cherries. The table land at
the top of the cliffs Is the great Washington-Idaho
wheat plateau. The new
line will thus develop a groat traffic
throughout this country, as well as haul
a large amount of through transconti
LINES OF OREGON
HERKW1TH is presented a revised
map of the Oregon lectric Rail
way Company's lines, those In op
eration and under construction, as well
as the lines located and projected by the
Electric Railway Company. The map Is
'A yXvs YL (fiV lresi Western Oregon.
V J S J S I ( J X lrrS"Trvct;rn
h ' yJ I I V ' I ' nrS.arrjfo ACas7?rs. -
nental freight from the East by the new
low grade line.
Officials of the O. R. & N. report that
the new road is sufficiently near comple
tion for the excursion on May 1. A large
force of riveters has been working for
some weeks on the bridge across the
Clearwater River, and before May 1 the
last rivet will be driven and the last
chord laid.
K. ST. JOHN DIES IX THE EAST
Had Wide Acquaintance Among Ore
gon Railroadmen.
News received here this week that
K. St. John, one of the most widely
known railroad men in the state, has
passed" away at Wellesley, Mass.,
caused widespread regret throughout
the local railroad eotony. where Mr. S?t.
John was, well known and liked. He
ELECTRIC RAILWAY
authorized by Guy W. Talbot, general
manager of the company, and was pre
pared for him by the engineering firm of
W. 8. Barstow & Co., who are the en
gineers and builder of th Electric Rail
way Company's enterprises. A. glance at
The addition in the
city on the W.-W; carline one
block from the Clinton-Kelly school
A stranger walked into this office the other dar and addressing the near
est salesman, said: "What's the price of those EVANSTON lots?" Upon
' being informed that the prices were $400, he replied: "Well, here's a joke.
I've just been fully a mile and a half beyond your tract looking at a couple of
lots at $50 a lot more. I noticed EVANSTON on the way home." This roan
was not long deciding on two lots, and he'll double his money, just as sure as
he's a foot high. '
Only eleven lots remain in EVANSTON. This is the last announcement
. we wili make. The Spanton Company's selling contract, as we told you be
fore, expires the first of May. With our work so nearly done, there is no
longer a doubt about our completing our contract, but we want to do a little
better: make a finale of it toda
Those who bought in EVANSTON received a big concession, as it is con
ceded that the prices are from $o0 to $100 below the market. The difference
between these prices and the actual values goes into your pocket May 1st,
when our
Our agents at the tract all
day today (Sunday)
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270 Stark St., Ground Floor
III
loaves a nephew In Portland, J. L. Pc
Bcvoise, who was formerly traveling
passenger agent for the Rock Island,
working out of the Portland office.
Mr. St- John was widely known as
general passenger agent for the Rock
CO., BUILT, BUILDING
the network of lines at once presents the
magnitude of the Oregon Electric Rail
way Company's undertakings. So far
these lines extend only to Roseburg. and
future plans of the company have not been
announced. The Oregon Electric Railway
Company, aver since Its organisation, has
selling arrangement ends.
TO ILLUSTRATE
OCR POINT:
The corner of E. 28th and
Rhone Sts., EVANSTON, can
be bought today for $500. Ac
cording to values in the im
mediate vicinity, this is worth
$700 or more. Only the Span
ton selling contract makes it
possible at $500, and $50 down
and $10 a month makes this lot
yours. A small deposit will
hold it till your pay-day.
today is $300 on easiest possible terms.
You know where the Clinton Kelly School is. Well, EVANSTON is just
one block from there; fourteen minutes from the center of town, on the W.-W.
car. EVANSTON is surrounded with substantial and expensive homes.
Real estate men without exception admit that EVANSTON is the oppor
tunity of opportunities, and it would seem so, considering what we have done
in one short and stormy month. But May 1st it's all over; the selling contract
has expired; it's "exit Spanton Company." Remember, only eleven lots re
main a magnificent property and away below the market.
oamtaon
Island system in fact, few railroad
men in the United States enjoyed a
wider acquaintance or were more gen
erally Hkrd. He died In retirement
from the railroad service, having gotten
out of the harness and was living at
AND PROJECTED
had little to say. but went right ahead
doing things: and If It follows out Its
enterprising policy, the Willamette Val
ley will soon be covered with a network
of electric railways, developing Its mag
nificent resources as has never been done
by any previous anlAnu-U.
After that date, you will have to
our purchasers, who will not sell below
the market value, if they sell at all. So
the unvarnished fact simply is that you
will realize an advance of from $50 to
$150 May 1st, by paying the small cash
payment required on one of the remain
ing eleven, before that time.
The "before-Mav-lst price" of an
other high, drv, sightly EVANSTON lot
is $400. You'd be lucky to get this after
May day for $500. Still -the same terms,
$50 cash and $10 monthly, makes jou the
landlord.
Among the entire eleven are three
irregularly-sized lots. These are slightly
smaller, but you get a handsome allow
ance for it. After May 1st, you'll have to
talk around the $400 mark to interest the
owner of these, although the proposition
his country home.
Old.
He was 63 years
Train to Vmat.illa Project.
Thcro Tv-111 be a special train run to tlie
new I'matilla irrigation project May 27
by the O. R. & N. to give th puhltc an
opportunity to look over the project.
Week-end rates will also be placed on
sale by the railroad company from Her
miston to the Government reservoir. The
special train will be run from ""Valla
Walla. I'matilla and Pendleton. The run
will he made to llermlston, the nearest
ralroad station to the blK dam and other
Irrigation work. Teams will be provided
to carry excursionists from Hermiston to
the center of the project, where work Is
now being completed.
LAMBS AND DECREMENT
Another single Tax Vision as S-pen
by P. S. Guilford.
TV EST PORT. Wash, April 25. (To
the Kditor.) If any of the property
exempted by the proposed Amendment
from taxation in the State of Oregon
comes under th" elass of values which
takes the '"unearned Increment." I
shall take pleasure in further discuss
ing that feature. 1 would point out
that natural opportunities. such as
mines, water power, timber, oil-wells,
site values, and special privileges con
st It ue "land value." These are the
vakies which the single taxer would
tax, and to which the "unearned incre
ment" pertains.
The following question has been
asked: If It Is right for aocletr to
take the "unearned Increment" when
It accrues, why should not society re
imburse the individual. In case of a
"decrement." as is the case when the
bottom goes out after a boom?
Iet me present an anlysls: The
boomers grab the land. They then
boom the town. The lambs are at
tracted. In order to live they must
have land. The boomer la "delighted."
The lamb Improves the land, builds
himself home, pays th t&xea. The
talk to
Coo
in
price of lots douhlrs. the second batch
of lambs buy. Since the land has been
sold far above its actual worth, the
holders have so much "watered stork."
Producers have to pay so high for the
privilege Pf producing that production
ceases. When production rpjisos, the
power to demand erases. After a cer
tain strain, the bubble bursts. The
wise boomers have held np confidence
long enough to unloadi Crash! It fs
tip to the lambs. Under the present
system the boomers sometimes pns
over a Pmnll share of the "unearned
increment" In tho form of charity to
the lambs, to reimburse them for bear
ing the "decrement.
The secret of the bottom failing out
is a follows: When specula t ion has
become so burdensome that capital and'
labor can support it no longer, capital
and labor have a quarrel and produc
tion ceases. The "unearned increment"
which results from the labor of soei
ety. vanishes, when society ceases to
labor, and the momentum of the fa 11
carries the price of land below Us rc;il
value, thus ca using thp "decrement."
It is the grabbing by the speculative
class of the "unearned Increment"
which causes the stoppage of labor and
the consequent "decrement." When
land become cheap, the ineentivc to
labor again appears and times pick
up.
With single tax, the boom, the "un
earned increment, the hard times, the
crash. the subsequent "deeremmt."
will vanish with its cause, land specu
lation. - p. s. oni.FOUO.
Debs' Jail Iteoord.
PORTLAND. Or.. April 23.-(To th"
IdJtor. Was Bugerie V. Debs snten ed
to jail for his part in the Chicago Hay
market riots? IXQITIREK.
No. He served six months In jail for
disobeying an Injunction of the Feder.il
court growing out of the railway strike
of 18J4.
Annlngs, Porch Curtains.
TVe collcit your patronage and guar
antee satisfaction. Agencies In every
town in the Northwest. Willamette
Ten A Awning Co. Main