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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, lOHTLANT, MARCH 20," 1010.
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We Want You to See
Suburban Home Acres
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Go out today.' "We have an agent on the
tract all day Sundays and in the af ter
noon week days.
SubTghan Honip Acres are located just 114
miles from the city limits, on the O. W. P.
line, at Gilbert Station, 10c fare, 35 minutes
from Morrison bridge.
TThy pay $600 or $800 for a lot 50x100 feet
when you can for the same money get an
acre, being as much as six lots, and but a
little farther out.
The Suburban Home Acre tract is a beau
tiful, nearly level, piece of land of the very
best soil for the growing of all kinds of
fruit, berries and vegetables.
DO YOU WANT TO
MAKE $10?
If you do, read this. We want you to
write us an advertisement for Suburban
Home Acres for next Sunday. We intend
to run a quarter-page advertisement in
next Sunday's papers; get us up an ad
vertisement and send it in before Friday
morning, March 25, for ' the space we
speak of, and wc guarantee to pay you
$10 if we use the advertisement you gend
in. Go out today and look the trae,t over,
so you will know how to get up the ad
vertisement. Don't think you cannot
write an advertisement; it may be just
your forte. If Ave think your advertise
ment is the best we will use it and pay
you $10. If you want more information,
call at our office or see us on the ground.
Moore
$10
$10
Acreage Is Going to Be
in Demand
People have been buying lots until they arc
tired of it. A lot is only sufficient to build
a residence on, but on an acre you can not
only build your house, but a little barn, keep
a cow, raise chickens, grow fruit, berries
and vegetables; in fact, make a living for
your family if you get out of work.
Suburban Home Acres are all cleared
and water, piped to each acre. Water
free for one year from this date.
Price of acre tracts in Suburban Homa
Acres from $600 to $1000, but we are going
to make a special offer on the first ten lots
sold, to parties that wTill commence building
a home within thirty days from the time of
purchase, of just $i00 off of the list price.
Company
Phone on Ground 2823 Call Lents
304-305 Henry Building
PHONES MAIN 2707, A 2707
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Following firms are authorized agents for Suburban Home Acres: BUILDING & INVESTMENT CO., J. A. HARBKE and J.T. ENNIS, 428 Henry Bldg.; L. K. MOORE, 517Board of Trade
FRUIT LOOKS GOOD
Indications in Boise Valley Are
for Best Crop in History.
WORE LAND IS PLANTED
rruitmen Take Steps to Install
Heating Apparatus In Orchards
to Guard Blossoms Against
Frosts--Weather Now Ideal.
"BOISE, Idaho, March 19. Speclal.)
Solse Valley, with Its fertile lands and
lch sweeping benches, will. If the pres
ent weather conditions prevail, enjoy, the
largest fruit crop of Its history. Con
servatively speaking-, the crop will bring
hundreds of thousands of dollars to Boise
Valley farmers this year, more than ever
kefore, due to the fact that a large num
ber f orchards will come into full bear
ing. The horticulturist is the most en
thusiastic resident of the valley, for Ida
3ao eunshine and its rich soil is bringing
profitable results.
The fruit crop expected the coming sea
eon will not be an off-year one, for a
small yield and an off-year' was the ex
perience of horticulturists last season. Al
though prices were high, the yield was of
ouch a nature as hardly to pay some of
the growers for caring for their fruit.
They are all living in hope of a big crop
this season.
An unusual "Winter, the worst in 25
years, has made amends to some extent
by ushering in warm days that have al
ready started the peach and prune trees
to budding.
If the late frosts can be guarded against
the valley will grow any and all varieties
of fruit. The latest frost preventatives
have been installed by the more pro
gressive farmers and orchard heating Is
the slogan to which they are rallying.
This means, protection for the apple,
peach, prune, apricot and pear buds.
Large acreage will be planted in the
valley this Spring to commercial orchards
and "Winter apple? will greatly predomi
nate. It is the Intention of the Wilson
Orchard Company to plant several hun
dred acres to fruit. This, company re
cently sold out a large tract of orchard
land, but has about 67 acres left. H. B.
Allen and the McBirney Fruit Company
have also made plans to S3t out hun
dreds of trees, while parties from Iowa,
who recently purchased the old CurtiEs
farm, near Meridian, have taken steps
towards planting the entire farm of 200
acres to fruit.
The small-tract farmer is also coming
Into his own and will plant a great many
trees this year. Gradually the old hay
ranches, for which this valley has been
so well known, are being out into orchard
tarms.
The tendency is fast gaining ground to
eubdivide the larger farms into profit
able acreage properties, the popular sizes
feeing five, ten and 20-acre tracts. In
order to encourage the Industry, numer
ous labor-saving devices have been in
stalled. At Meridian, located in the cen
ter of the valley, is the Boise-Payette
Spray Manufacturing Company. This la
ths only plant of lis kind between Ogden.
JL'tah, and Hood River, Or. The com
pany Is capitalize for $25,000 and the
stockholders are all frultmen of the val
ley. The Stephens Orchard & Nursery Com
pany has a valuable tract of 300 acres
of land in the valley and has set it out to
commercial orchard. It is considered
one of the most perfect young orchards
in Idaho.
Kampa, ss well as Boise, orchardlsts
are giving the matter of orchard heating
not a little attention. This city is lo
cated at the western end of the valley.
J. W. Pittenger. of the Narapa nursery,
at present has one of the largest orchards
In this section, containing: fruits of all
kinds. He has equipped his orchard with
a complete heating plant and is acting in
co-operation with the Boise Valley Fruit
growers' Association in this work. Oil
by the tralnload is to be furnished the
valley by the association for the, purpose
of suplpying heating plants In orchards.
BEREAVED COW IS SUICIDE
Calf Had Been Taken From Her and
Converted Into Veal.
LURAY, Va., March 19. John P. Kib
ler's neighbors are talking of the
strange suicide of one of his cows after
she had mourned the loss of a calf,
which had been converted into veal.
With other cows, she was pastured In
a field in which there was an old well
containing several feet of water.
Persons who heard the cow uttering
plaintive sounds saw her look into the
well, then walk away about 100 yards.
Then, as if her mind had been firmly
made up, she walked deliberately to the
opening and plunged into it, head first
Tom Johnson Said to Be III.
NEW YORK. March 19. Tom L. John
son, formerly mayor of Cleveland, is
again at Prince George Hotel in this
city, and Is again understood to be ill.
His physicians refuse to discuss the
case.
METAL WORKS OCCUPIED
OTjAXT AT PARK AND EVERETT
IIAS BIG OUTPUT.
Solder, Babbit and Tjpo Metals
Manufactured Extensively In
Heavy New Structure.
One of the heaviest timbered build
ings in Portland is that which has re
cently been finished and occupied by
the Pacific Metal Works, at the north
west corner of Park and Everett
streets.' This structure, occupying" a
full quarter block and two stories high,
was designed by Emil Schacht & Son,
architects, and Is a building construct
ed to carry" immense weights. The
floors, built on 24-inch timbers, are car
rying weights of 1000 pounds to the
square foot, and this Is about the heav
iest load possible for a building of mill
construction.
In this factory the main product is
solder, babbit metal and type metal, al
though the stock carried Includes sheet
metal, copper and other metals of many
kinds. The manufacturing is done it;
a large foundry, 70x30 feet, where the
furnaces and intricate machinery are
such as to make possible an output to
supply the greater part of the North
west. Here is manufactured the great
er part of the metal used in the stereo
typing rooms and printing offices in
the Pacific Northwest. .The raw ma
terials used are lead, tin and antimony,
which are brought in by water and car
ried in stock in large quantities.
The first floor, except that part used
for the foundry and offices, is set asiue
for ' storage purposes, and the entire
second floor is given over to this pur
pose. In the basement there are also
storage rooms for the heaviest materi
als carried.
The building is now fully occupied
and the plant is in operation, employ
ing almost a score of mechanics in the
foundry and other departments.
LINE MAY DOUBLE STOCK
Nippon Vusen Kalslia Plans In An
ticipation of Big Tariff Change.
VICTORIA, B. C, March 19. Accord
ing to advices by the Empress of India,
the Nippon "i'usen Kaisha, which operates
steamships to America, Europe, India,
etc., has a proposal under consideration
to double its present capital of $11,000,
000. A similar effort was made during
the boom which followed the Russo-Japanese
War, but owing to the disapproval
of the Emperor, who holds stock, the
proposal was dropped.
The customs tariff bill now under con
sideration contemplates a prohibitive
duty on imported steamers of J7.60 per
ton on vessels new and old. The duty
proposed is arousing much opposition.
The Osaka Asahl says it will result in
foreign freighters, driven west of Singa
pore by competition of Japanese tramps,
again obtaining supremacy in Chinese
and Japanese waters. Shipyard owners
and line companies are supporting the
proposal.
It is reported in Pekin that Kang Yu
Wei, the, reformer who fled from Pekin
in 1899, has been-pardoned and recalled
to Pekin to play in' China the role of
the late Prince I to in Japan.
Russian newspapers at Harbin and
Vladivostok state that large numbers of
Japanese, posing as commercial travelers
but really spies, are engaged in the
Trans-Baikal district.
BEEF SUBSTITUTE FOUND
At 20 Mark Antony was the hero of
Rome; Hannibal was in command of ths
entire Carthaginian army; Charles Dickens
produced hia best and moat popular novel,
'Oliver Twist"; Howe Invented the sewing
machine; Benjamin Franklin had written his
best philosophical work, "Poor Richard."
FACTORY JUST OCCUPIED IS OF HEAVIEST MILL CONSTRUCTION.
GOTHAM EPICUREVJfS
TESTING PORPOISE.
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PLANT OK PACU'iC METAL WOKK.S, PAUK AA O KVKUKTT STREETS.
Bones Are Good for Buttons and
Sfeat May Be Converted Into
Frankfurters Sans Muzzles.
NEW YORK, March 19. Try Davy
Jones' latest, which he has taken out
of his locker for the purpose of beat
ing the beef trust. It's porpoise. It
is coming on the New York market
soon and there are restaurants in Bos
ton, the very home of the sacred fish,
which are advertising this marine sub
stitute for sirloin. Porpoises, being
mammals, may be eaten with relish by
persons who would run a mile to get
away from halibut or mackerel.
Their top layer may be used for shoes
and satchels, and hundreds of women of
fashion wearing belts of porpoise hide
think they are far more stylish than
suede. Soup bones do not grow on por
poises, but they have flippers from
which a delectable soup is made, known
as "Potage fin de siecle." The bones
are good for buttons and the meat is
good to eat, and may also be converted
into frankfurters which need no muz
zles. There is hanging up In an establish
ment not many miles from the City
Hall a consignment of excellent bo
lognas, half steer and half porpoise.
On the even days of the month they toss
their heads upward and on the odd
days they are permitted to swim in
vats of brine.
When it is determined how well por
poise bologna will keep it will be put
on the market. There is no regulation
applying to its sale in this country,
and- there being no statute to forbid
its introduction it looks as though it
would slip in on its merits and shine
on the menus of the leading hotels.
"Porpoise meat," said Dr. W. T. Tuck.
in charge of the local bureau of th
Department of Animal Industry, "is not
at all bad. I have tasted it and founil
it good. The porpoise, being a mam
mal, has firm, red flesh, and there i
only a faint suggestion of the fishy
taste. Porpoises are caught in nets
off the North Carolina coast and are
then slauglered like other animals.
"I have never tested the nutritive
value of the flesh, but I see no reason
why it should not bo fairly satisfactory
as food. As to those bologna sausages,
if they are placed on the market the
regulations require that they shall b
labelled as consisting of half beef and
half porpoise."
Although the Department of Agri
culture does not look with disfavor on
the selling of porpoise, which sailors
regard as infinitely superior to salt
horse, there is a prejudice against re
tailing sea cow for beef.
Purine the last three years there ha
been a fairly uteiwly Increase In the quan
tity of natural jpa. used In this country
f'V" domeHtlc purposes, a docreaee In tha
quantity used for manufacturing purposes
and an Increase In the averasre price.
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H IL, AT NEHALEM
The following is a clipping from the NEHALEM ENTERPRISE, of March 11, 1910:
The increasing interest in the developments at the oil well by our citizens was fully ap
parent Sunday. A large number could be seen in that vicinity, taking in the sights and to
satisfy their curiosity. The progress of the drilling operations will henceforth be noted with
interest, and, if indications are a source by which we may judge tiie presence of oil, the day
may not be far distant when the hope of those directly interested in the development of the
project will be fully realized.
Latest report from the Necarney City Hydrocarbon Oil Co. 's oil well, in the Nehalem Oil Basin:
Saturday, the 13th inst., there was another explosion of gas that threw the water, mud and oil over
the top of the casing for an hour. This was the most extensive blow-out we have had, and it brought with
it the greatest evidence of oil shown so far. This oil well is going to SURPRISE the people o Ore
gon SOON. "
A friend of the writer made these Temarks a few weeks ago: "I had just as well been worth at
least a million of dollars, for I was in California when the first oil well was being sunk and had the
money to buy enough 'of the stock to make me the above amount, but it was the first well, and I was
afraid." That man bought our stock for the reason, he said, that California did not have nearly as good
a showing when they bored their first well as -we-have in our first well at Nehalem, and also for this
reason: The oil companies in California were nearly all capitalized up into the millions, while our cap
italization was but for fifty thousand.
On the first day of April, 1910, the stock of this company will be advanced from $2.50 per share to
$10.00 per share, if not entirely withdrawn before that date. Some people may think this is . simply a
scheme to sell stock. Those who think so are certainly at liberty to think what they please, but they
will discover their error when too late. This oil proposition is being handled oh the dead square, and
handled right, no matter what the thought may be otherwise, and there are people who are going to wish
they had bought this stock for $2.50, $10.00 or even $50.00 per share, for we firmly believe we are going
to strike a flow of oil there that will astonish the whole United States, and that SOON, aud then the stock
will be worth from Two to Five Hundred Dollars per share.
News Received Since Above Was Written
NEHALEM, March 19. No question of oil here any more. Only question now is quantity. Would
not be surprised to strike the great oil deposit any moment. O. J. SMITn, "Driller.
. C jH. Oil Company
274 Oak Street, Portland, Oregon
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