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About The Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1882)
Published Every Friday Morning Mr S. WOODCOCK. Subscription ratls: .Payable in Advance. ) tertear ti SO Hx Months, 1 60 Three Months 1 00 Slarla Copies. 10c All notices and advertisements intended for pub cation should be banded m by noon on w euuesuays Bates of advertising: made known on application. ' . a '- : ATTORNEYS. M. S. WOODCOCK, wA.ttornev "at - liaw, Corvallis, - - Oregon. KELSAY & KEESEE. attorneys - at - Law. Corvallis, - - Oregon. 19-2-yl. A. CHENOWETH. K. M. JOHNSON. CHENOWETH & JOHNSON, Attorneys - at - Law, Corvallis, - - Oregon. M-Myl J. R. BRYSON, A-ttorney - at - Law, AH business will receive prompt attention. Oollections a Specialty Oflce over Jacobs & Neugais' store, Corvallis, - - Oregon. M-iTyl E. HOLGATE, Attorney - at - Law, Corvallis, - - Oregon. VOL. XIX. CORVALLIS, OREGON, AUG. 4, 1882. NO. 32. City Stables I Daily StageLine FROM ALBANY THOS. EGLIN, TO CORVALLIS. " - Proprietor. On the Corner West of the Engine House CORVALLIS, - - OREGON. HAVING COMPLETED MY new and commodious BARX, 1 am better than ever prepared to keep the BEST OF TEAMS, BUGGIES. CARRIAGES AND SADDLE HORSES TO HIRE. At Reasonable Kates. at2T Particular attention riven to Boarding' Horses nurses isougm ana bold or i-xchanged. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. Having secured the contract for carrying the United States Mall and Express PROM Corvallis to Albany For the ensuing four years will leave Corrallis each mornine at 8 o'clock, arrivinc in Albany about 10 o'clock, and will start from Albany at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, returning to Corvallis about 3 o'clock This line will be orepared with good teams and care cul drivers and nice comfortable and EASY RIDING VEHICLES For the accommodation of the TRAVELLING PUBLIC. 19-27yl NEW FIRM J NEW GOODS! SPECIAL attention riven to collections, and money collected promptly paid over. Careful and prompt-attention given to fro Kite matters, con veyancing and searching of records, Ac LOANS NEGOTIATED. Will giv attention to buying, selling and leasing real state, and conducts a genural collecting and busi ness agency. Office on Second Street, one door north of Irvin's flhwe shop. 18:43yl PHYSICIANS. F. A. JOHNSON, Physician, Surgeon, And Electrician. Chronic DWeases nadc a specialty. Catarrh sue efullr treated. Also Oculist and Aurist. Office in Fisher's Block, one door West of Dr. F. A. Vincent's deutal office. Office hours rout 8 to 12 and from 1 to U o'clock. 19:27yl T. V. B. EMBREE, M. D, Physician. & Surgeon. Office 2 doors south of H. E. Harris' Store, COKVALLI", - - OKEGON. Residence on the southwest corner of block, north and west of the Methodist church. l:21-yrl. G. R. FARRA, M, D, Physician & Surgeon. 0 FFICS -OVER GRAHAM, HAMILTON & COS Drug Store. Corvallis, Oregon. 19:25yl DENTISTS. E. H. TAYLOR, The oldest established Dentist and the best outfit in Corvallis. All work kept in repair frss of charje and satisfac on ganBUttaeA Teeth extracted without pain by he use of Nitrous Oxide Gas. "STooms np-ti!'M nvr -lacobs & Neugas new Brick Store, Corvallis. Oregon. 19:27yi MISCELLANEOUS. MOORE & SPENCER: accessor to T. J tin ford.) Sharing, Shampooing, Hair Cutting, Hot and Cold Baths. Bnford's OU Stand. 18:36:ly K W. C. Crawford, J E WE L E R . BEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND A LARGE assortment of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, etc. All kinds of repairing done on short noticd, and all ork warranted. I8:33-yl GOOD NEWS. He that hath teeth let him hear by the Dentaphone which enables all deaf persons to hear by the teeth. Sample at Allen & Woodward's Drug store. CHAS. THOMPSON, Ag't. 19:2S-m3 Corvallis, Oregon. B LEGAL LANK FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE s C. H. WHITNEY & CO.4 Having recently located in Corvallis, we take pleasure in announcing to the trading public that we have just opened our Spring stock of Dry Goods, Furnishing' Goods, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps. ALSO A FULL LINE OF Fancy Dress Goods, Silks, Satins, Fringes, Laces, Buttons, Corsets. Our stock has been selected with the greatest care, and for quality and cheapness is second to none. Having a resident buyer in the leading markets we are enabled to purchase latest style goods at lowest prices. Call and ex amine our stock before purchasing, and save from lO to SO ON PURCHASES BY DEALING AT OUR ONE PRICE STORE C H. WHITNEY & CO 19:14yl E. R. MERRIMAN, AGENT FOR THE WORLD-LENO W N ED MRS. 0. R. ADDITON Will be pleased t receive Pupils for PIANO or ORGAN At her residence corner of 4th and Jefferson Street., Crrvallis, or will visit them at their homes for the purpose of instructing them. Terms reason-! ie. ... The study of Harmony a Specialty. 18:2Syl. HUTTON & HILLIARD, BLACK SMITH IN G AND Carriage and Buggy Ironing, Done Neatly. HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY. Corvalli. Oregon. DECKER BROTHERS PIANOS, Acknowledged now to be the best by all musicians, and nsed by the celebrated qneen of players Julie Ki ve-King- In preference to all others. J. & C. FISCHER'S PIANO, . The leading and best second-class Piano on the market. ALSO THE Old and Established Standard Mason & Hamlin Organ. Will be In Corvallis and v trinity from tim e to t imp to sell these leading instrument of the world, unfair and unprincipled opposition to the contrary notwithstandf ngj l0-27m PROSPECTS OF GOLD. An Exchange says: A company lias lately been formed in Yamhill and Polk counties for raining pur poses, who sre confident that they have "struck" something pretty good. Quartz containing consider able gold has been found in large quantities on the Coast Range near the source of the Yamhill Poor specimens of it assayed $10 to the ton, but it is thought to be worth more than that. Besides this any amount of quartz with large, quanti ties of silver or German silver is found. Mr. C. H. Mattoon showed us a specimen brought here lately by Solomon Crowley, of Polk county, which would indicate the presence of German silver in ahundance. It was examined by one of our jewelere and said to be German silver aud not pure silver as it was at first thought to be; but even the former could be made to pay well. We certainly hope the company will posh the matter until they become satit-fi ;d of the real composition of the Coast range. It is as reasonable to suppose that gold can be found in larger quantities in this Stale as in California. Cloud Burst. On last Saturday morning the phenomenon of a genuine water spout was plainly visible to the Prinevilleitep. The morning was calm and sultry, with not a breath of air in motion. On the western horizon, and also in the north, rain clouds were seen, while far in the east, standing boldly out against the dark sky, slowly moving north ward, was an immense cone shaped cloud whose base reached far above the mountains, blending with the surrounding vapors, and the vertex hiding behind the neighboring hills. The cloud was almost black, and must have been very dense. Those better acquainted with the surround ing country say it was forty miles from here, out iu the d sen, where perhaps no one had the pleasure of a close acquaintance, but where, no dbubt, traces of its devastation may be found. These water-spouts, or cloudbursts, as they are sometimes called, are not untrequent visitors to this part of the state, as traces of them are often met with on the desert, where largeditohes have been washed out, and huge rocks havejbeen swept from the hillside. These cloudbursts are generally accompanied by very little wind, and usually exhaust themselves in a very few minutes, though the one mentioned was visible for over a quarter of an hour. Prine ville News. GOLD AND SILVER MINING. Colorado is rapidly developing in to the great bullion producing state. The whole Eastern slope of the Kocky Mountains seems to be a stratified ore bed, some larger and some smaller, some high up, and some low down, but the miner and capitalist can hardly go astray in locating and proceeding to handle the ore he digs out. Gold, silver, copper, lead and others in lesser amounts, but all helping to swell the output when once a systematic effort shall be at work. Probably in no other part of the world is thare the same active industrial development. In no direction is there so much en ergy displayed nor so much capital invested in all that pertains to min ing crushing, tunneling, bridging, water-carrying and road making. This investment is more and more coming to be found safe and profit able. As an exchange remarks the silver mins of our greatest mountain chain are admitted to be superior to all others in the world. They have created out of vast tracts of wilder uess and desert, populous, rich and thriving Territories, and States and all, or nearly all this within the last quarter of a century. In the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain ranges silver mining has arrived at the stage of a regular and systematic industry; an industry of which the United States Commissioner of Mining Sta tistics says is among the safest and most profitable of all industries. This is confirmed by the fact that it has never been shaken by panics which has so often disastrously affect ed other industries. There w only one class of persons connected with mining interests who, in the aggre gate do not, as a rule, make large profits. They are the discoverers of the mines, who usually lack the means to utilize their discoveries. For example, Comstock, the discov erer of the famous Comstock silver lode in the Sierra Nevada, out of which enormous fortunes have been realized, is said to have sold out his claim for a mere song. The history of mining of the precious metals is filled with many instances where the pioneer miners pointed the way to great riches for others, but realized scarcely anything for themselves. The great mining regions of the United States have produced of the ureciotis metal since the gold dis coveries in California, thirty odd years ago, the enormous sum of be tween two and three thousand million dollars, of which the greater portion has been silver. The mines of Col orado produce chiefly silver. The vast wealth of the great deposits iu that State are just beginning to be appreciated. Iu 1S76 her mines pro duced about $5,000,000. In 1880 they produced $28,000,000 about $4,000,000 .nore than any other State or Territory. Scientists, experts and practical millers, assert with empha sis that Colorado is to be the great bullion center of the World. Cer tain it is that her wonderful mineral resources are drawing immense capi tal and rapidly covering her valleys, and mountains with a net-work of ra'lroads. Chicago Journal of Com- merce. THE PROGRESS Or AGRICULTURE IN THE UIMTi STATES. It appears from a census bulletin just issued that the number of farms in the United States has increased from 2,660,000 in 1870, to 4,000,000 in 1880, being an increase of 51 per cent. Thus the progress of agricul ture in this country has more than kept pace tilth the increase of popu lation. This affords ground for belief in the continuance of an abundant supply of all the great staple articles, equal to the necessities of any pos sible increase of population or nation al contingency for ages to come. The produsts of the great West give a tone to the market of Great Britian and the continent. Chicago has be come one of the first grain markets of the world, and as the boundless re gion still further west is being de veloped, every channel of communi cation with the Atlantic coast will teem with products of the soil. The great daily interest in our country during the past decade has increased the production of sheese and butter, and American cheese is now as well known in the English markets as the best English dairy cheese. While it is admitted that very much remains to be accom plished by the agricultural interest of the co.mtry, it cannot be doubted that the past ten years has shown to the world that the United Stales has within its territory the resources which will enable us lo compete with the older nations of the world in every department of domestic in dustry. The increasing annual products of agriculture in our highly-favored country, and the hay and grain crops in particular, furnish striking illus trations of the close independence and connection of all branches of the national industry. The dependence of agriculture upon the results of mechanical skill, as well as the as tonishing progress of the latter with in the last halt century, is strongly exemplified in the application of labor saving appliances which be come daily more valuable in all ope rations of the farm. Our progress in this respect is believed to have been more rapid than that of any other agricultural people, and to be in advance of our application of the fruits of purely scientific research in the improvement of agriculture. In nearly every department of rural in dustry mechanical power has wrought revolution. The inventive genius of the country has not only contrived lo make it prepare the crop for market, but to sew or knit tbe family apparel of the farmer, as well as to rend from the embrace of earth lb century-roofed oak which our j fathers were forced to leave by the slow eradication of time. Whether the superior agricultural advantages and the demand for improved im plements and machinery in the Uni ted States have stimulated the facile ingenuity of our mechanics, or have only been seconded by its ready con tribution to industry, We need not inquire. The greatest triumphs of mechanical skill are witnessed in the instruments adapted to the tillage, harvesting, and ""subsequent handling of the immense grain crops of the country, and particularly upon the western prairies. Without the im Diovemet in plows and other imple ments of tillage which have been multiplied to a considerable extent, the vast wheat and corn crops of these fertile plains could not be probably raised. But were it pos sible to produce wheat upon the scale that it is now raised, much of the profit and not a little of the product would be lost where tha farmer would be compelled to wait upon the slow procsss of the sickle, the cradle, and the hand rake-for securing when ripe. The reaping machine, the harvester, and machines for thrashing, winnow jng, and cleaning his wheat for mar ket have become indispensable to tbe grain-grower. The commercial im portance of our agricultural products and their various relations to markets, the means of transportation, storage, etc., makes it highly import ant that the producer shall have the means of putting his crop in the market at the earliest 'and most favorable time and with the greatest precision. The growth of the farming inter est in the country appears from the census bulletin to have been the largest in the Territories, the rate of increase ranging from 80 to 800 per cent. In Minnesota there has been an increase of 99 per cent, in Oregon 114, in Nebraska 415, in California 51, in Georgia, 93, in Mississippi 50, in Alabama 102, iu Florida 129, in Texas 185, in North Carolina 68, in South Carolina 80, in Virginia 60, and in Iowa 89. U. S. Economist. RAILROAD BUILDING THE OLD AND NEW WAY. The Cincinnati Gazette devotes considerable time to the futility of building a new road through a count ry already well supplied. "The old way ot taking a given amount of stock and paying one hundred cents on the dollar for it, and then bond ing the property for about one-half of its cash value is played out. The new way pans out better, although it may be a little bit off color when compared with the old way. It is done in this way: Suppose that the lowest estimate tor constructing and equipping a given number of miles is $10,000,000; the ring will issue $12, 500,000 in bonds and $12,500,000 iu stock, making the bond and stock debt $25,000,000. Then it is agreed that every purchaser of a bond shall have a like amount of stock free, as a bonus, as it were. Then it is agreed that they will sell the bonds at eighty cents on the dollar. Subsequently it is agreed that 'we' have the right to 'subscribe' first and the public after ward. When the subscription books are cast up it is found that 'we' have taken all the bonds with the stock bonus. 'We' then conclude that 'we' don't want the bond's, so 'we' float them at a price as much above cost as possible, leaving the voting power which controls the road, clear profit. In the meantime, an agent is sent out along the proposed route to so licit subscriptions from the counties, cities, towns and individuals. Should a town or city refuse to 'come down,' a surveying party is seoi out and a line run near enough to the place to convince the inhabitants that if a rival town should be started on the road within a mile or so of them their burg would be ruined. A word to the wise is generally sufficient, and the assessment is agreed to. These subsciiptions are clear gain to the 'company.' Not within tbe past ten years has anybody heard of the sub scription to a railway project going into the general fund of the com pany. That was the way a long time ago, but tbey know better now. Thus it wilt be seen that the profits to a syndicate: on a. ten million road are, first $12,5"06,o6d, or iff entire capital stock of the company, the subscription gathered on the line of the road and the difference between the ground floor cost of the bonds and the price at which the public is pleased to take them, which is gen erally at about par.'' BEER. An Exchange says: The fact that during the hot weather a prodigious amount of betr will undoubtedly be" consumed in this and other countries forcibly reminds one tiiat this bever age is constantly growing in popu larity. The original makers of beer the ancient Germans and Lorn- bards little thought that the time would come when that drink would become known the world over, much less manufactured thousands of miles away tron Germany. But such is the fact. Even now Great BrMain has outstripped Faderland in this in dustry, and its 20 214 breweries pro duce annually 1,500,000,000 gallon of the solace of Gambrinus, while Germany, with 23940 breweries, manufactures 900,000,000 gallons. The prohibitionists will probably shudder, to learn that even the Uni ted States has 2,269 breweries, which turn out 460,932,400 gallons a year. It may console them to know that hV is an unknown beverage in Italy, Spain and Portugal they drink nothing but wine there, like Quincy patriots France and Belgium pro duce respectively 150,000,000 and 1 80,000,000 gallons; Russia, 50,000, 000; Holland, 33,000,000; Denmark, 30,000,000; Sweden, 20,000,000; Switzerland, 13,000,000; and Nor way, 16,500,000. Here is an aggre gate production in one year of 2,903, 332,400 gallons of beer. Let us sup-' pose there are lwlve drinks in . gallon, bar measure, wilh Mr. Froth on deck. That would yield 34,389, 988,800 drinks. At five cents a glass the revenue would be $1,741,999,449. WHEAT SHIPMENT BY RAIL OR BY OCEA. Whether or not it will pay to ship wheat from the Pacific Coast tor Europe via overland railroad and Atlantic ports is still an unsettled, mooted question. It costs just about the same year after year to ship from Minneapolis to Europe as it doe from San Francisco, with whatever difference there may occasionally be in favor of the latter port. This be ing the case, nothing is certainly to be gained by the California farmer" sending his wheat over that route. What is true of the California is equally true of the Oregon and Washington farmer. It will cost an imperceptible trifle more to ship from Plight Sound than it does from San Francisco, or just about what it costs from Minneapolis. What thoo. is to be gained by an overland trans portation of fourteeu hundred miles, to an interior town iu the State1 ot Minnesota, or to any other point east ot the Rocky Mountains ? Time alone can be gained, and that is not enough to offset a long, useless trans portation like that referred to. S. F. Chronicle. LOSS OF GRAIN IN STORE. An agricultural exchange says wheat threshed apparently dry irt August and placed in a garret wilt lose six per cent, of its weight by still further drying in six months. 16 follows, therefore, that ninety-four cents a bushel in August is the equivalent to one dollar iu February to say nothing of cost of storage, loss from destruction by mice, rats worms, etc., and interest on the money. Taking these into consider- ation, ninety cents in August for wheat would be very nearly the equivalent of one dollar in February Corn gathered dry in November will lose about twenty per ceiit., (a little more or less, according to dryness uf the fall,) in si months. Thus forty cents a bushel in November would be the equivalent to fifty cents id May, omitting any account for inter--est, or damage, or loss from vermin Potatoes will shrink in bulk of weight about one-third. Article of Incorporation. The following Article of Incorpo ration was recently filed with the Secretary of State, incorporating the Salem Printing and Publishing Com- pany: Capital stock $3000, divided into shares of $10 each. Principal office, Salem, Oregon. Incorporators--T. I DaVidsoa, Daniel Clark. Frank Cooper, C. A. Reed, Roscctr Knox, E. H. Bellinger and Jame Tatom. TbebusirKs h which this Corporation proposes to engage is to publish at Salem, Oi'egon, a weekly newspaper, name hereafter to be se lected, and to do stteb other printing and publishing business as said Cor poration may find for Us interest