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About The Plaindealer. (Roseburg, Or.) 1870-190? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1903)
.Shipping Lumber to the East. Considerable encouragement is offered the lumber manufacturers cf this sec tion by the reduction in rates to East era points. The concessions are not all the mills think they are entitled to, but the modified rates place them more nearly on an equality with Coast ship pers, and extend the market farther east and south than ever before. As a result of these reductions, many mills in the white pine districts will be aible to reap notable benefits and in crease their output as opportunity is of- f irwl to build ud trade in the treeless .states of the plains. The states west of the Mississippi, from the Dakotas to Louisiana, ought to become permanent customers of West -era lumber, and their purchases will no doubt increase every year, provided a living transportation rate is given by the raiiroaas. inese etate , . nouuiation of abroad for their building material, i ... , ' . ' lions. The Yawkey Lumber Co., a prominent lumber concern of Hazelhurt, Wiscon sin, has recently purchased about 16,- Four pouches of important mail mat ter belonging to residents of Havana, Cuba, and Progresso, Mexico, have just been forwarded by Postmaster General Payne. This mail was seized during the Spanish-American War, five years ago, by an American patrol, off the coast of Mexico, bound to its destination. These pouches have since been in the possession of the judicial authorities of the United States. It was only recently that the mail was forwarded to the of ficials of the post office. The United States sends abroad more merchandise than any other nation, and yet it has, exclusive of coastwise vessels, a deep-sea fleet of onlv S73.000 tons against 1,600,000 tons for Norway, 2, 960,000 tons for Germany and H.SOO.OOO tons for Great Britain. Ihe New York Board of Trade and Transportation bas undertaken to find out why this is so, and why the deep-sea tonnage is not as and, with the depletion of the for--ests at the head of the Mississippi, they will have to turn toward the far ther West. Under ordinary circum--stances they' would come to the timber section of the great Northwest, and this -they may now do under the new lum ber rates which have been established by tbe transcontinental lines. The re salt should be greater activity among the mills of the sectioa, and a prosperi ty among lumbermen such as they have never enjoyed heretofore. Two Billion Corn Crop. 000 acres of timber land on Wood river, in the northern part of Klamath county. This land was all bought from individual claimants who have been located on the claims from two to live years. The price paid is said to be from fS to $10 an acre. Mr. Wm. Schlecht, one of the members of the company, is their representative here. He states that they have other holdingb in other parts of the state also. The two prize Rambouilet rams re ceiwd recently by Hon. J. S. Herrin, says the Ashland Tidings, were sheared last week, and tne 12 months' crop of wool on the two weighed S6 pounds the fleece of one of them weighed 40 and the other 46 pounds. Mr. Herrin has been 30 years in the business of growing fine sheep and says this yield of wool has never been equaled in this country and he is highly elated with it. How ever, he will not be happy until he pro duces a 50 pound fleece. The increase in total output and value of Oregon's dairy products for the year 1901 was 40 per cent over the amount of the production and value for the pre- I ceeding year, and is shown by the fol-! lowing figures: Butter, S.400,0-0 lbs, I two-thirds of which was creamery and ' one-third dairy, valued at 22Jj cents a j pound for the former and 15 cents for the latter, or ll.6SO.000. Cheese I'.OOO- point " We drove out to it and made an 000 pounds valued at 11 cents a pound, . -examination. The farmer said it would i or $220,000. Total $1,900,000. jrun seventy-Jive bushels to the acre. The Texas wheat crop is estimated be .Pattenihoachttfae estimate would be tween twenty and twenty-five million -bant sixty-five bushels, and most of us bushels. Of this amount Texas mills thought the man would be fortunate if I will consume about ten million bushels ,he secured seventy five bushele. and the balance will be exported Over ""Along the Burlington road in Iowa j one hundred and fifty cars are arriving "and in Eastern Nebraska tbe corn crop at Galveston daily with export grain Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, ac companied by Darius Miller, James A. Patten and Corwin H. Spencer, all of -Swala of the Burlington railroad, have just completed a trip over the corn growing area of the Middle West. In an interview in a Chicago paper, Mr. Cor--mnsaid: "With three weeks of good corn weather I believe we will have a 2000,000,000 bushel corn crop. The greater part of the crop will be out of tbe way f frost by September 22 with the right kind of weather. The crop is green tmd the entire country looks fine, and one can not help being impressed by the prosperity all through the West, from what I saw it made me feel rather weak: on com. We went as far West as Oxford, Neb. At .Hastings, Neb., we leitTour car and inquired about corn. -p&lb were told that a farmer had some - -goofi, corn abont five miles from that Your Watch! When was it cleaned and oiled?i Is it running like it ought 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 cuarantee all mv work and live up to the guarantee. R. F. WINSLOW Jfrf REDUCED All Colored Summer Goods Reduced to COST We must maRe room for New Goods WOLLENBERG BROS., Phone 801. MRS. H. E ASTON is i-renared to wait upon old and new customers and fri full and with a stock of -GROCERIES friends complete f All fresh and of the very best quality. Teas aad coffees are ipeclalties. Your patronage 305 Jackson St., Roseburg BEST MEAL IN THE CITY FOR 25 CENTS. THE NEW igt and Main Streets Mrs. Belle Collins Oregon and union Pacific Of your life if you bu y a buggy, hack 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 & W00LLEY Title Guarantee & Loan Lo. KO3EBDR0. is not .good. It is only lair and very weedy. At one point in Iowa they told as the corn was better back in the coun-try-a-way from the railroad. There is a 1 &ta yield of alfalfa, two or three crops ... .1 V and the indications are that this will be the banner year in grain exporting business. A. T. Hamilton, President OREGON D C. UiXILTO. Secy, and Treat once In the Court House. Have the only com ptete et ol abstract books In Douelas County vb tract and Certificate ol Title tarnished to ttougla county land and mining claims. Hare io a cociDlete ct of Traclnzs o' all townthlc Rises, a business man of Dallas, 1 p't 1b the Rovjbnnt, Oreeon, U. s. Lan d Dl r 1 : . 1 1 1 .T VW1 ' m u. uiui. fiiui vvy.. vt Wj iv.H urc, uaa jucb ucuicu f iupwu uu a ucw snip bing harvested. In riding through j -m qzsc&i& Segrada, or chittem bark, as j Nebraska, one is etruc k with the belief that they have a bumper wheat crop, bat they told me at the different points at which we stopped that the yield was disappointing. The wet weather has damaged the quality, and I think we have a poor crop all around.'' Reports from California show that the wine industry is receiving a great boost this year. The grape crop of our neigh boring state is 60 per cent larger than In 1902, and it is estimated that 1,300, 000 gallons of wine will be made this -year in the counties ranging from Ven tinrai San Diego. The percentage of "sugar is eaid to be larger than ueual, which means a heavy brandy produc tion. The wine product of California is composed mostly of sweet wines, so rcalled port, angelica, sherry and musca itel. In addition about 30,000 gallons of dry wines will be manufactured. As high prices prevail for grapes the out look is very -satisfactory to the vineyard is t. California wines are beginning to gain abroad the reputation to which they are entitled. It is still the case, . however, that California wine is shipped abroad in bulk and reshipped to this country in bottles under high-sounding foreign titles. Some day California wine will go abroad under its own labels and be as favored as tbe best French ibrands. -After more than three years of pre paration and effort, and the expenditure of more than six thousand dollars, tbe plan for the excavation of Ur of the Chaldees and other places in Babylonia by American explorers has been aban doned because the Turkish Government will not grant permission to American citizens to do this work. The Krupps of Germany have sent ex perts to the United States to compete with the American Steel Trust on bridge "building contracts. it is more commonly called. Some time ago Mr. Riggs purchased 65 to 70 tons at 3f to 4 cents per pound, and a few days since he sold it at 17 cents per pound, leaving him a net profit of about $16,000. Oregon possesses 70,000 of the 300,000 Angoras in the United States, and. pro duces over 265,000 pounds ol mobair an nually. If there were no profit in mo hair, tbe increase of tbe herd would more than pay for themselves as a land clearer alone. Parts of Lane county voted to goat breeding have been de fer the last 30 N. A. FOSTER & CO., GOVERNMENT LANDS Of everv descrivtion. Farms and Min eral Lands. Oregon, Washington and V.intlpoota. (i23) OAKLAND. OEGOS isHHaHMnBDsHsHBisBMHO ! A. C. MARSTER5 & CO. DRUGGISTS Abstract of Title to Deeded Land. Papers prepared for filing on Govern ment Land. Blue Prints of Township Maps showing all vacant Lands. II 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. , , , . . , , years. During the last lour years tnepRfNK"p HI I P Y industry has spread to all parts of the A lill UV L-.vL-i-lw 1 Architect, Abstracter. industry has spread to all part6 country. There are thousands of acres ' in Western Oregon adapted to goat rais ing. The steamer Korea, Just arrived at San Francisco from the rOrient, had in her cargo of less than three thousand tons, thirteen hundred bales of raw silk valued at over one million dollars, and 18,903 chests of tea. j Fred Stumpltbresbed from eight acres of ground, 200 bushels of vetch, for which he finds ready sale at fl.50 per bushel, or $37.50 per acre, and still some say there is no money in farming. Independence Enterprise. Our agriculture, which amounted to f 100.000,000 100 years ago, is now rapidly apprWhing $3,000,000,000 a year, and the value of the farms of the country is almost 115,000,000,000. Russia takes nearly half the agricul tural machinery which this country ex ports. Incidentally, too, she is taking away the agricultural trade of the Unit ed States in Manchuria. Plans and Estlrriatefi for all Build ings. Special designs for Office foAtufes Office in new Bank Building. 'Phone? 415 ROSEBURG. OREGON Cattle tor Sale. 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