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ALL FOR PORTLAND. Mining Congress Considering Other City in I9O5. No Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 10. The American Mining Congress held no sessions today, this being a day set apart to afford the visitors an oppor tunity to make excursions to different places of interst in the vicinity and to inspect the many important mines and mine plants. Practically all the members and delegates to the Con gress left town early, not returning until evening. The chief event of the day of sight seeing was the stoppage of opera tions and throwing open for inspec tion this afternoon of various mines and plants of the Homestake Mining Company at Lead. This has not been done before in 25 years, and a great number of both visitors and residents took advantage of the courtesy, many going into the lower levels of the principal shafts, which have attained a depth of 1100 feet The Congress will resume delibera tions in the City of Lead tomorrow at 9:30 a. m., the first and principal business being the discussion and vote upon the constitution and bylaws to be adopted by the Mining Congress, which, on Wednesday, were made the special order for the beginning of Friday's session. Several important papers are also on their programme for reading at tomorrow's sessions. In regard to the officers of the Congress for the ensuing year, the election of whom is to occur Satur day, it is not expected there will be any change in offices of president or secretary, as it seems to be the gen eral opinion among members that both President Richards and Secre tary Mahon will succeed themselves. Since the arrival of the Oregon delegation, who immediately opened commodious working headquarters and began working for Portland as the place for holding the next annual session, no other town has been heard of, and today it seems very probable that Portland will be named. Forest Reserves a Mistake Washington ordering the withdrawal from homestead settlement of a large area of land in connection with the Gov ernment's irrigation projects on the Colorado River. The withdrawal comprises an area ap proximately of 760,000 acres. The land lies in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, along the Colorado River, be ginning just north of the Needles and ex tending southward to the line of San Diego County. The Secretary evidently believes in packing the pie around. There has been land enough withdrawn in the west for forest reserve . purposes, to create two Jstates and three terri tories, and still they come. Douglas' Prunes. Gathering the prune crop, of Douglas County, was commenced last week. 1 he prune crop of the county is equal to any previous crop and will be close to 5,500 pounds. Both of the packing houses at Roseburg are ready to receive the prunes. The S. P. spur is about com pleted from the main track onto the Kinney's Addition, and the prune crop will begin moving very soon. It is said that the salmonjpack on the Pacific coast this year is 1,000, 000 cases short of last year. An ad vance in the price of canned salmon is predicted. Coos Bay New News : "Sawduster" promises to be one of the familiar terms of the coming election. It means the man who makes great po litical pretensions, and then cannot "deliver the goods." If there is anything that an Ore gon tanner produces tnat is not bringing a good price we have failed to hear of it. Oregon farmers are prosperous. The fact that an occa sional farmer fails to prosper is noth ing against the country. Lebanon Criterion. The association of fanners and their representatives met last week in Chicago which contemplates the forming of a monster exchange by which the producers of the country Your Watch! When was it cleaned and oiled Is it running like it ouaht to? If i is not, it would be well to have it ex amined, I will look it over carefully and tell you just where the trouble is and what it will cost to repair it. I guarantee all my work and live up to the guarantee. R.F.WINSLOW Jeand - tiotician P ft i MRS. H. E ASTON ia prepared to wait upon old and new customers and friends with a full and complete stock of -GROCERIES' All fresh and of the very best j quality. Teas aad coffees are ? specialties. Your patronage f solicited. f aos Jackson St., Ro5cburjt BEST MEAL IN THE CITY FOR 25 CENTS. THE NEW 111 Cor. Washington and Main Streets Mrs. Belle Collins There is little doubt but what a few years will bring a different policy into action in the forestry depart ment of the United States. It is al ready evident to well posted coast lumber men. that to set aside the vast areas of timber land, forest reserves is a mistake. sisted in, it means that untold mil lions of feet of timber will die and grow less valuable; it means a total loss of one crop of timber. There is good reason for establishing these forest reserves in sections of the United States where the forests have been cut off, but not in creating re servations in districts already covered with timber, much of which should be cut now. One practical agent of the forestry department recently went with a lumberman through a forest reservation and remarked "This.timber should have been cut one hundred years ago." Recently the government sent out circular let ters asking proposals for removing dead timber from the reservations. The snecifications required so much to be done that one who knew any- thiner about timber on this coast u would only laugh at them. The gov ernment should sell the timber on the reservations, giving the buyer ample time to remove it. Let it all be cut off; then the ref orestry work should begin, and prepare another crop of timber for the next ceneration. It is folly to employ a gang of men to sit around and watch a few thousand acres of timber die of old age, or burn up. "W. C. and P. S. Lumb erman expect to control the markets, build elevators, establish packing houses, organize banks, maintain schools and improve the highways. It is to be capitalized at $100,000,000. In 1870 the exports of the United States were valued at $377,000,000 and those of the United Kingdom at $971,000,000. In 1902 the exports of this country exceeded those of the United Kinzdom S13.000.000. The nu create 'saying that a stern chase is a long 11 Per" . chase is usuallv true, but in this case protection was the propelling power, and that explains why we have passed Great Britain easilv in commerce as we have in production. San Francis co Chronicie. The big six-acre map of the United States that the Bureau of Plant In dustry will show at the World's Fair at St. Louis in growing crops, is tak ing on more positive form every day. Supt. Brodie has all the great map AND OREGON giiOJrLlNE Union Pacific REDUCED All Colored Summer Goods Reduced to COST We must maKe room for New Goods WOLLENBlRG BROS., Phone 80!. Of your life if you bu y a buggy, back or road wagon before 3ou inspect our stock of John Deere vehicles. We Are After You Haven't missed a sale since car arrived, spring goods ever brought to the county. Finest line CHURCHILL & WOOLLEY Title Guarantee ccLoan Co. I. 0. E03EBDKQ, OKEGON D Hs.inx.TOS, President Secy, and Trei r Office In the Court House. Hare the only com pleteut of aixttract books In Doaclu County Abstract and Certificates o! Title InraliheJ to LXrazla count? land and mining; claim". Have also i complete et o! Tractnn of all township plats la the Butebune. Oregon, C. S. Lan d Ills trtct. Will make bine print copies ol any town ship N. A. FOSTER & CO., GOVERNMENT LANDS Of every tlescriytion. Farms and Min Oregon, Washington anu OAKLAND. OEEGOX A. C. MR5TERS & CO. eral Land Minnesota. (j23) Abstract of Title to Deeded Land. Papers prepared for filing on Govern ment Land. Blue Prints of Township Maps showing all vacant Lands. outlined with a broad belt of blue . . r--.r grass. The paths that mark the T K AAi C. ALLC Y boundaries between tne states are nearly all cut and many of the plants that make up the map ara installed. Much of this planting can not be done until the frost is out of the ground next spring, but the work has progressed sufficiently to insure the success of the unique undertaking. 1 We Want Your Patronage and as an inducement we offer U. S. P. Standard Drugs, Fresh Patent Medicines, High Grade Perfumes, Soaps, Toilet Arti cles, and Specialties Architect, Abstracter. Plans and Estimates for all Build ings. Special designs for Office Fixtures Office in new Bank Building. 'Phone 415 ROSEBURG. OREGON Nearly 800,000 Acres of California Land Withdrawn From Entry. Los Asgeles, Cal., Sept., 10. The lo cal agent of the TJDited States Land Of fice today received a telegram from the United States Commissioner of Lands at Reduced Rates to Oregon State Fair. i "The Oregon State Fair will be held at the Fair Grounds September 14th to 19th. The Southern Pacific Company will sell tickets to Fair Grounds and return, at one and one-third fare from all points on its Oregon Lines. Special exhibits of fine cattle and horses and agricultural products have been prepared, and every effort will be put forth to make this the greatest Fair in the history of Oregon. If you are interested in the develop ment of the State (and of course you are) you cannot afford to miss the Fair this year." 69 sl8. Get your abstracts ot title from J. D Hamilton. 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