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Ufl and Tlllanicoli. Jut rompUtad and
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work w dona on tha antarprlaa. nd
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final rvor' offlciaMr notlfytn him
that ! t hfn -otnplatad.
T- iy t-al lr. I.ytio waa a happr
m.n . ' n h.- .it In Ml offlca In iha
Wr.i. l-arc" inMlr.B and amlnd J
that rrp..rt l a hr.mlll- atatmnt to
tttr-r- who know Mr. Lytl. Ha la al-
wa i:if1 naturej and amlllny,
ihr m a.-s tMat lie pnt In buUdln
a nil ;aj t! riih a wlldrnaa ha ha
had i.'n:v f -aie for worry. Whlla
It l.v.i a f.- aray lialra to lil hrad.
nov l.Mt :r J h l flnt'he.l. h la -
tra--ti'narl v harfr an.! rontrnt
Now t'.int lh road la virtually com
plete! Ir.o n.-t t-i will b to oper
ate if liiflnlt plana for Inausuratlna;
aert ! have not heen rompletad. Con-aln-ra;e
talla:lni mnt ha dona on
rertnln portion 'f the property before
the movement of heavy train will be
permitted
l-lrac Tea I a Makea Trie.
Vhe Drt imln that ever ran from
I'nrtland Into Till.imook operated over
the line lam Monday. In addition to
Mr. 1.tla It carried J. P. O'Prl.-n. vtce
prei.ent anil renera! manaicer of the
fouihrrn J-afin." anrt .-V. R. N.
Iln. (Seorae ". Roach ke. aealatant
(r'ral manuaer and chief engineer
of t:-. itmf properttea; C. Uytla.
a:i . n I manager of the new road, and
I. Miller. chief engineer. Thl
tra:n ronaisted of a day coach and Mr.
o .rn private car. While It mored
over t ie road In comparative eaae. the
trip e'uiwrd that soma portion of
tra.k are not yet ready for regular
tram iervl-e.
t'ruAMal precaution must be taken In
preparing to att'ept tratde on thla road,
aa tie freight movement will be ex -rr.':
.lv hr v from the atart. Many
"TALE OF A HILLTOP" REVEALS
SECRETS OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS
Mr Squirrel RwnU The WHo Would In-ade HU H.unta-B.by Birds Taught by Admiring Parent, to Sing
Lays "Brer EahhiU'i" Life Ends. -
nv AWlfi LAVRA attLt.rR.
FROM our hilltop ramp. In the Sum
mer jut gone, we looked out on
a lan ls'-ape of green and blue and
red. posterime. but of a rara beauty.
Kaatwirit. v feel below ua. lay the
level, widespread valley, a atretch of
B-reen field, broken by dark green
woods that followed laay brooka and
a meanJerlng river.
The plain was Jotted by white farm
houses with Mg. red barn, and boasted
fiva amali towns, which w could sea
oust plain. y when tb ray of tb
aun. low in tb west, struck straight
aoroea the vaiiey. The horlson waa
bounded by the dim blue Caacad
Mountains, ascept on irerv clear daya
in June, when w aaw Mount Jeffer
son a white peak over a dip In the
ranae. and the snowy summit of Mount
H.M. seemingly floating In tha air
above t .-. hate. Kouth of ua. glimpsed
throuttii our surrounding oak trees, lay
a b:ue spur of the Coast Mountain,
very ruged and bold above th fare
ground of roiling red Mil wlta orch
ard, so young that wo could not sea
the-.n. b-.t with plenty of green never-
helesa In tb ravine where round
topped oaks and pointed fir grw.
A narrow rU road ran over in high
lands to the town, three mile away,
and sitting on our r-oreh many hours
la the Punnier. we cam to know the
teams and their driver who ram and
went that wav. and who wa opening
cur own gate, three-quarters of a mile.
M the crow f lea. froiw oar hilltop.
Coastwsrd lay k-coard bill, erco-
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ivznrz c assets, sesrxes-
tarV' OV".7"-: t.
nillll'n of feet of timber already hai
been cut and U awaiting th day when
ervlce will be atarted that It may be
moved to one of the many aawmlll
aerved by the road. Nothing- aerve to
"cut a railroad to plece" o much a
a heavy logging train. While Mr.
Lytle 1 eager to handle thl kind of
buainea. he want to be certain that
he can handle It uninterruptedly be
fore he accepte any of It.
Warla-a Beat Timber Tapped.
The road tap what haa been de
clared to be the flneat body of tand
Inr timber In the world. It conlt
of vartoua kind of Or. pine and red
cedar. It haa been estimated that with
contlnuou operation It will require
more than !0 year to move It.
While thla will provide the heavleat
traffic In the Immediate future, many
other poaatnilltlea for buainea are con
tained at nearly every point. Tilla
mook long ha been famoue a the
arda. blc enough to see. the desolata , there was a thumping; sound, and ln
hurat timber" of the fir that old In- . restoration ahowed a timid cottontail
dlans 111 about, and Mount Hebo. and ! rabbit hopping about. It was only the
from that way every sfternoon came a . first of a series of early morning- call,
breese with tb roar of the aurf In It. which persisted In epite of the half
On the north a foreat cut off our view door being closed and the visitors be
of a little wandering valley, unless w ' Ins; greeted by a rain of footwear; and
went to peer down tnto it from a green
clearing om distance away. Hot 1
am leaving out our own red orchard
land and field of green sloping to
warda the south and west, down to th
whit farmhouse and barn hid from u
by th curve of tb hliL
Wild airaw iU m Detlcat.
Our cabin and tent were t In a
grove of mo-a-grown oak, with tall,
aracaful haaela. with a few chlttera
amorvat them, and brake on th j
ground. In front of th cabin beyona
the oak lay a trlp of wild traw
kerrv vines. It wa a famous atraw
perry patch, and after th white drift
of blossoms had changed to red fruit
people usei to drive up In buggies with
lard pall for your thrifty emjntry
housewife buy no empty bucket xo
ask If they might pick the berrl:
and wa wauld see their head bobbins
about during a whole afternoon.
No one bad lived on th oak -crowned
hill until w cam on th flrt of Jun
but th wild animals, whoea home It
bad been, ahowed no resentment at our
Intrusion, whll some of them were
even rw-r friendly than waa really
plraaanT In the tent some aoft l!k
pompon disappeared from a pair of
red allpper and th fuss front a pair
of brawn quilted ones. We were never
sur f th culprit, but on mornlna-
THK SUNDAY OflECJOMAX. rORTLAXD. OCTOBER 15. 1911.
beat dairy
It cheeae
district In the Northwet.
I known the world dver.
Thl Industry will be deveiopea on a
more extenrlve b1 a natural re
ault of the Improved tranaportatlon
facllltiea offered by the rellroad. Agri
culture ha been neglected In the Tilla
mook district because of the lack of
a market. With the road In operation
thl fault will be removed. The oil
la adapted to almoat every purpose.
One of the chief function of th
new railroad will be to aerve the beach
resorts that already are f lourlshlna; be
tween the city of Tillamook and the
promontory io mllea north. Numerous
eottaa-aa have been built by Portland
residents, who. heretofore, have vlalteH
them annually, traveling- by boat, ins
team line will 'make them more ac
cessible and will add to the tourist
travel in that direction every year.
Trawt ream Kollewe.
After It crosse the Coast Range the
road follow the Salmonberry River.
w onen raw iiiim nr...i .1 ...-
the tent floor where he had taken wp
his abode. In June tiny green worms
came spinning down from'the oak tree,
winging bark and forth In the breese
and seising every opportunity to meas
ure. with the spirit of tailors, the gar
ment we worn. At th cabin a cricket
made himself at home, and a very un
conventional cricket he was. Ignoring
the hearth where all well brought up
cricket are heard and not seen, ta-
tlonlng himself. Instead, by the lamp
on the living-room table, it may te
that ha waa a fastidious cricket and
knew as well a we that the fireplace
wa not a perfect structure artistically,
although It waa the masterpiece of a
village mason and cheered us mightily
on cold June nights.
Tl Wrre shy.
Bird were with us all during June,
and the hilltop waa a Joyful place for
watching them, for we saw blrda which
haunt the lowlands during the Winter
months only and the Summer birds as
well. Some Western evening grosbeaks
fluttered In the treetopa one evening;
once a pair of cedar wax wing tept
daintily about In the oak In front of
the porch. black-heried grosbeaks sang
their melodious aongs from th top
moat limb; many robins lived In the
woods on pair bad a nest In a sway-
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saaMsaHa. .
one of the best trout-fishing stream
In the world. This stream- already U
popular with angler from all part
of the country and will become even
more so when it will be easier for
them to reach It.
Plans for the future status of the
road have not been made. Temporarily
and perhaps permanently It will re
main under Mr. Lytle's direct control.
The enterprise was financed by the
Hurrlman Interests and officials of that
system have been active In overseeing-
Ins; treetop near the house and the
trim little gray - breasted, chipping
sparrows hopped around the cabin get
ting food for their nestlings.
We never aw the shy, russet-backed
thrushes, but during the day we heard
them calling "whit, w-hit." softly in the
woods toward the east, and In the even
ing they sang their wild, free song of
piercing sweetness. The purple finches
led us a merry chase of flitting away
Just a w were on the point of dis
covering them; but after two weeks we
caught a gay. red-headed one snapping
young buds from the oaks, and jana
Ing now and then to shake from his
throat mellow notes that held us spell
bound. No song- In June gave us great
er pleasure than the one a gorgeoua.
red-capped tanager sang- from a limb
nar the porch, cocking his head at us
th while, a . If trying to make u be
lieve H wa all for u his happy, mur
muring love song! Another red-bonnet
was a big sapsucker that came swoop
ing to the tree trunks, where he ham
mered away right merrily; but the
most brilliant of our bird .neighbors
was the squawking bluejay." apparently
a bachelor, aolitary and cross. One lit
tle bird, calling and flying far up In
the treetopa, tantalised us all month,
if we bad not seen his whitish throat
several times, he would have seemed
"but a wandering; voice" like Wad
wortir Illusive cuckoo. Every evening
the white-crowned sparrow sang by
the spring and the vesper sparrow
from the grain field.
June, wa gone and July upon us. In
the strip below the house, the common
yarrow, for all It Is a weed, made a
brave flowery display before) It gave
way to thousands of dainty painted
rups of a most exquisite pink. In th
field th purple- blossoms blooned
end faded on the vetch, and the oat
bell tinkled faintly In tho breeze like
pagoda bell In an Oriental fairyland.
Then tha field turned yellow, w
heard the. click of the -mower, and be
fore we know It. th men came with
racks to haul the haycocks to the barn.
On th red orchard land beyond little
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a. - - .vo.. .v-:. v . - -. a v.t.
construction work. It Is probable that
eventually It will be consonaaiea wi.u
i.v,., h Southern Pacific or the
O -r R & N. Company. However, it
is' believed that Mr. Lytle will remain
closely Identified with It on account of
his familiarity with congmuna.
Vovemher 1 is the dale set tenta
tively for the opening of limited pas
nHr. hetw-een Portland and
Tillamook, but Mr. Lytle is not ready-
to announce this as a positive arrange
ment. .
green pinpoints, which were fruit
heran to show, but our distant
views of the Coast Mountains and the
Cascados were obscured by smoae m
Summer heat, which qulto blotted out
ih. Know-neaks and made even our
view- of the valley hazy and indistinct,
mi toi-ned "the moon, when It arne
up. to a round-red face grinning at all
tho country siae.
Birds Practice' Carols.
No ono enjoys hearing a beginner
practico music, but it is a different
matter when tho beginner is a bird. A
voung white-crowned sparrow near th
spring practiced his singing lesson at
dusk and sometime we tnoosni we
heard his father patiently teaching
him; but our special delight wa the
ambitious young vesper sparrow per
sistently practicing In the field. One
morning at 4:30 I heard him begin his
squeaky, little song-, and all that day
until he went to sleep late at night he
waa at It. He came and sat on the
fence near the house in the afternoon,
and certainly the song grew In sweet
ness and volume as the day advanced.
Yet in spite of his diligence he never
reaehad "full-throated ease": that may
come next Summer, when. I Mope, he
will be choir-master of matins and
vespers out in the grain field. In July
the lav and the robins disappeared
chickadees came about the house call
ing cheerily to one another as they
Mona. uoHide down to tha oak leaves,
and "wa watched tanagers at close
range snapping In fly-catcher fashion
at white moths: Juntoe perched In the
hainla. and one afternoon a black-
throated warbler caught a caterpillar
Just above me as I lay in the ham
mock; every evening a band of pigeons
flew overhead to roost In the deep
woods on the northern slope, and some
times a big shadow fell from a turkey
buzzard, wheeling as he searched for
carrion above the sheep pastures.
One day when he came down from
the treetops to sit on a low-hanging
limb, where something inspired him to
whisper a charming little song to him
self, and where we could e hi coat
Line Started by E. E. Lytle Friday and 13th Is Completed on Same
Day Superstitious Dislike Timber for 200 Years Is Tapped.
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a- well as his white shirt front.- w
found the wandering yolce". to be a
rireo- In the outskirts of the field
willow goldfinches looked for thistles,
while blue buntings sat on the fence,
and a pair of horned larks lingered a
few days on their way somewhere els.
Tale of "Brer Rabbit.'
Oolden butterflies flitted In sunlit
spaces In the woods, the measuring
worms tucked. themselves away in wee
white tents of their own weaving: the
bunny disappeared from under the tent
floor, and soon after the men in the
field cut -the feet off of a distracted
one before they could stop the mower.
They killed him. of course, and we al
ways feared that he was our little
"Brer Rabbit." for we never saw h'm
again- Hazelnuts, which we could
barely see tne nrsi 01 juno, B -,.ii
.w.e In Jul v. and squirrels came
to InsDect the crop, one jime
squirrel seemed especially Interested,
and when he had looked the bushes
over took up his abode in an oaa aoovo
the finest bush of all, a tall one that
swept the kitchen roof with Its
branches. When I caught mm mere.
with a pile of tell-tale nuns on m
ground below him, 1 saia: u
squirrel, those are my hazelnuts."
His answer was scolding, angry and
violent., and while I couldn t under
stand everything ne saia, tne y
the argument was this: I had plenty
other thlnes to eat. I had no need
for the hazelnuts: he did need them.
they were bread ana meat, io
always got his winter bupvii
those very bushes.
"But," I said, "the place Is ours: we
bought it."
Vain Interruption: He went on:
. "There isn't an acorn on the oak
trees here this Summer, and I shall
barely get through the season on hazel-
""utterly out-talked. I retreated finally
from his shrill scolding, silenced but
not convinced.
August: There were no flowers ex
cept purple thistles; and the nuts were
ripe: Handsome gray squirrels with
plumev tails (ah! but they are the
beautiful animals!) climbed the haz
.1. K..ji.. th. . Wands with their
weight. They never argued as the pine
squirrel did but went, as if conscience
smitten, bounding through the woods
at the mere sight of us; only when
we were very still they mistook us for
stumps, and there was a scene of mu
...i -rror one nav when one almost
ran over me as I sat in tire hammock
both the squirrels and I Jumped with
our hearts pounding wildly I could
... tv,. K..tinr In his throat. But he
recovered first and was gone. Pine
squirrels came too. but U was evident
before long that the argumentative
one had decided to. corner the nut
crop. He worked all day. early and
,, moonlieht nights, filling
th. 'caches- which he made about the
house: he went through the woods with
. i.or... darted iid a hazel and down
to the tlp'tf a mb. head first, nipped
off a nut, recovered himself, turned it
over and over in his paws, nibbling off
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hounded to his cache, which
was sometimes so deep that we could
see only the agitated tip of his tail
as he packed the nut away. When
about a dozen nuts were packed In
neatlv, like apples in a box, he con
cealed the place by scratching earth
and leaves over If.
Even Mr. Squirrel "Swore."
- Thoroughly convinced that the crop
was his he drove all competitors away.
We looked out of the window, one day.
to see a big gray squirrel, four times
his size, running as fast as he could
from the angry pine squirrel, not. 00
hi. tracks chattering: what roust have
been squirrel swearing. Not only did he
drive off his enemies but even invaded
our kitchen and helped himself to the
nuts we bad harvested earlier In the
month with much pains and -stickers"
in our fingers. It was after this
that we named him the "little red
devil." and he took to scampering over
the roof. . ,
"He knows we're going away this
Autumn," we said, "and plans to take
the house." and as it to conurm u,
suspicions he appeared soon after in
the doorway and glanced in with the
air of a prospective tenant
Wild animals are not very obedient
The yellow and brown lizard reap
peared in the path. "Go away," I said,
but as she did not move. I threw a
stick which hit her by unhappy acci
dent as uncertain a weapon Is a stick
in the hands of a woman and broke off
two inches of tail. Even then she
waited to give me a reproachful f.lanre
and, slipped away quite Ignoring-the
piece ofall that lay grewsomely wig
gling hi the path. I say she, because
we found afterwards, behind our ward
rob In the tent fitting spot! a llz
ard'g cast off garment which we took
to b last year' one-piece dr9ss.
' Quail Come In August..
- With August the sparrows left us
and quaint Sierra creepers appeared,
woodpeckers hammered on the hard oak
apples for tiny grubs Inside, and as we
sat on the porch two wood pheasants
came ranning down the slope not 10
feet away, and the Jay, no bachelor
after all, but a devoted father, paraded
his brilliant family before our eyes,
and a big band of quail ' came .to the
very porch before they saw us. when
there arose a great whirring of wings
and a patter of hurrying reel in. me oas.
leaves.
In our southerly grain nein, ine
binder gave way to the thresher, an
old-fashioned thresher with eigni
horses going round and round ana
round, a ring master In the middle
cracking his whip, boys strawbucking,
teams drawn up waiting their turn, and
the animation of the scene increased by
the hay bailer with its crew working
below. It rained and the landscape
was like those unbelievable, misty, col
orless ones old Chinese artists loved to
paint: it cleared and the sky we had
much more skv above and about our
hilltops than valley dwellers know had
a host of soft, white clouds mat van
ished into thin air. Then for days it
was very smoky, until one evening- tha
breeze, returning from a vacation at
the coast, blew In once more and the
next morning our landscape was quite
plain again, green and yellow and red
and blue like a print by, Hokusai
but there was a new sharpness in tha
wind : and all day long the crickets
droned'a dirge for the Summer that
had gone In the night.
BRITAIN IS SQUEEZED OUT
American Harvester Company Places
Agents in Russia.
NIKOLAIEFP. Russ'ia, Oct. 14. (Spe
cial.) During the few years that have
elapsed since the consolidation of the
five American - agricultural machine
manufacturing, firms into the trust now
known as the International Harvester
Company, the operations of the con,
cern have proved a veritable industrial
Invasion of this country, and the Brit
ish firms which formerly held some
thing like a monopoly of agricultural
machinery are being practically
squeezed out of the Russian market.
The methods of the Americans and
the English are totally different. The
latter have been content to establish
themselves vin centers like Odessa,
Kharkoft and Reatoff and wait for
business to come to them, while their
more astute competitors have sought
out their clients by the employment
of expert travelers and the retention
of a small army of ubiquitous and ca
pable sub-agents in every village, ham
let and township in the interior grain
producing regions.
The American International Harvest
er Company has now its own well
stuffed agencies and depots in Odessa,
Kharkoft Rostoff. Riga, Moscow, Sa
mara. Omak and Vladivostok. The
number of the agency staffs varies
from 20 to B0 persons. The company's
operations extend over the whole of
European Russia and Siberia.- It has
established a factory at Lubertsy, In
the government of Warsaw, where it
is producing gas generators, black
naphtha engines, etc., which find a
ready and lucrative sale, but shortly
the works will be extended and fur
nished with the necessary plant and
appliances for the output of machinery
which it now imports from the head
quarters in phlcago.
The yearly turnover of the Odessa
agency, which covers six or seven
Southwestern governments, averages
about $3,500,000, and it Is steadily In
creasing. Xo Such Word a Fail.
Judge.
Little Johnny was found in the libra
ry, .busily snipping away at the open
dictionary.
"Johnnie," the father asked, "what In
the world are you doing?" j
"You see. father," answered the
bright shining light of the household,
"today at school the teacher said ther
was no such word as fail," and f I'm
cutting it out of the dictionary.
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