JHE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHF1ELD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1907.
GOVERNMENT
IS
$160,000,000 May be Added
as Result of Tests at
Washington, Aug. 14. Tho fuel
testing plant of the United States
geological survsy, which was moved
from St. L011I3, Mo., several months
ago to Norfolk, Va., will begin on
Aug. 15 a scries of experiments on
eastern and southern coals that may
be of far-reaching importance to the
government and to the peoplo In gen
eral. For two years the plant was in
operation at St. Louis, and so aston
ishing were the results toward pre
venting the waste of the fuel re
sources of the country that congress
ordered the work continued nt Nor
folk. Already tno government ex
perts connected with the plant have
indicated the possibility of saving 10
per cent of the country's coal bill
each year the sum of $1GO,000,000
'through increased efficiency in
burning coal. Now tho fuols of the
east and south are to be tested under
the steam boiler, In the gas producer
and gas engines and by briquetting,
in the hope that this saving may be
'further demonstrated.
The plant is located not far from
the main entrance gate of the James
town exposition, and already has at
tracted thousands of visitors, jnany
of whom were manufacturers Inter
ested in the economy of fuel.
The law under which the fuel-testing
plant is to be operated contemp
lates two classes of work increas
ing efficiency and preventing waste in
the utilization of the fuel resources
of the country, and testing coals that
are used by the government.
I'oirer Tests.
Perhaps tho most important test?
-v 111 be thoio comparing the amount
of pi'ui'i' "obtained from a ccrtal l
ainonrit oi coal under the steam
belli r pnd In the gas producer. The
ga3 ensv'ne has demonstrated in
forum ("?- i'.a ability to do from
two to nearly three times as much
work wi'h a pound of coal as the
steam engino. Pro. Hobert II. Fer
nald of St. Louis. Mo., engineer in
charge of the gas producer tests will
continue the experiments of tho larg
235 horse power gas engino which
has been installed in the plant. This
engine will be supplied with gas
made in two largo producers from
the same fuels that will be used un
der boilers. In this way the com
parative utility of slack coals, culm,
lignite, and even peat will be deter
mined, for the tests made will show
Just what all of these poorer fuels
can do,
Profesor L. P. Dreckenrldge, en
gineer in charge of the steam engin
eering division of the survey, will en
deavor to increase tho efficiency of
the steam boiler. His division has
now practically succeeded in isolat
ing tho performance of the boiler and
furnace. Further tests will be made
with the object of still further deter
mining tho eificiencies of the furnace
alone
Important Kvpcrinu'iits.
A Ei rles of important experiments
with fuel under boilers recently com
pleted indicate that stationary boilers
ought to do ten to twenty tlmea as
much work per linlt of heating sur
face as they do now. These tests are
Mr President, members of tin
Chamber of Commerce, ladies and
gentlemen: It affords" we great
Pleasure to speak to you this evening
on a subject which is very interesting
to mo and which is, from my point
or view the most importunt which
you people on Coos Bay can con
sider I am aware that you have
very great timber resources hero and
you have great coat fields. I am also
satisfied that you have great fruit
possibilities and are raising a quality
ot apples and strawberries which can
not be beaten. I havo heard much
idiout tho Gravenstein applo and you
have no doubt a special adaptability
of climate, soil and conditions to the
Profitable culture of that most lusci-,
ous apple It certainly is a fine out
look which you peoplo have for the
juture I am not referring to your
town lots. They tiro no concern of
"line. But you know that town lots
are no good unless you develop your
country as a basis for tholr values,
ou can not expect the average man
to do much in tlmner. That indus
try has como into the hands of large
capital and beyond the average man's
reach, I don't know what he can
uo with coal lands, but I suspect tho
same is true of coal us qf timber.
ou can make a great fruit country
' yours. I remember, not so very
'ng ago when Hood river was only
I little station on tho railroad and
ad no such apparent prospects as
ou have. Now Hood Iliver apples
and strawberries are famous all over
ne rntttcl States.
Bui it K not of fruit I have come
t0 tu. to ou. I know and so do
'ou ui. ii it w,il take a long time to
8r. , ,1.11(1-. and considerable cap
ital Not bo with the dairy farm.
lun f in j.ft cows anj go into a
prtiiu.,!,;, business at once. You
,la' .' nod a dairy country as the
' w"iM funtains and I do not think it
uM b too much tp say that you
Jja' in Home respects the best.
"-" ar. three ' things which you
ffiUut (oiislder in determining the
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DAIRYING M COOS COUNTY
Able Address by Dairy Commissioner J. V. Bailey
ir ''""'""i oi wnetner tne uairy uuni-h-
neb, will l)e profitable.
-isi sou i imvvo no question,
irom my present observation and my
observation on the occasion of two
former visits, that you havo that,
our bottom lands and thoso along
ne Coqullle are not exco..ed any
"nero and your uplands, oven to tho
TESTS VITAL
to Country's Profits Annually
Jamestown Exposition
to be continued on three modern
boilers which have just been installed
at the plant. Two of these boilers
are of tho water-tube type, of 210
!,'?ASe, "ower ach. and the third is
!50 horse power and of tho marine
type. Forced, Induced and natural
draft will bo used on these boilers
and the furnaces will be of three dis
tinct types. One hand fired, with
Special fire-brick combustion nlinm.
ber and automatic air admission, the
second a mechanical stoker of the
over-feed type, so that each fuel mny
be tested In every mode of combus
tion, In order to get the highest effi
ciency possible out of them.
There will also be a series of ex
periments tending to show just what
is necessary to burn these coals with
out smoke. The results will be im
portant not only to the government,
btu to every city in the1 country tlmt
is fighting tho exasperating smoke
evil.
A CLiisiderable portion of Mie fiml
ten.ng plant is to be given over to
tcrtlng fuels for the navy, and the
entire briquetting plant will be at its
service. Three briquetting machines
are almost ready for work. One re
cently from Germany is for briquet
ting lignites of Texas and tho north
west. This machineIs of great pow
er and is the only one of its kind In
tho United States. A second machine
is of English make and has been used
for some time at the plant in St.
Louis. The third is an American
made machine, of which much is ex
pected. Briquettes Are Smokeless.
The experts hope to show that the
briquettes have more efficiency than
lump coal from the same mine and
that they are practically smokeless,
the latter condition being as big a
factor to the navy as tho iirst. The
results already obtained from bri
quettes prove that on boilers requir
ing forced draft, like locomotive boil
ers, tho briquette so increases the
efficiency as to more than equal the
Increased cost of making. These bri
quettes are made by taking the waste
ot slack coal, culm, lignite or peat
and mixing it with sufficient tar or
other binding material to hold the
coal together, ths whole being
pressed Into blocks by macninery.
Five small 15 horse power gaso
line engines have been erected at the
plant, and on these engines important
tests will be made for the relative
efficiency of gasoline for producing
power and light, as compared with
koro3eno and other liquid fuols. It
is thought that the commercial value
of these fuels as producers of power
mav be enhanced by these tests. But
little is known at the present time of
the efficiency of these fuels under
proper conditions.
In addition to all these experiments
tests will be made to discover the
exact cause of the spontaneous com
bustion of the stored coal, in order
that loss from this source may be pre
vented. Tho tests are under the general di
rection of Joseph A. Holmes, chief
of the technologic branch of the geo
logical survey, and tho plant is un
der the immediate supervision of H.
M. Wilson, chief engineer.
summits of the high hills, are object
lesfcons in the deveiopmont of nutri
tion in your climate. When those
forests aro cleared away from the
hills, as they will be soon, the slopes
aro all very valuable for dairy pur
poses. Why! 1 was born and raised
In the lumber state of Maine, and I
recall very vividly the claim made
when I war, a youth that the vast
forests of Maine, Minnesota, Wiscon
sin and Michigan would last almost
lorever. Now they are practically all
,rn,m .-itirl t.ho forests of the Pacific
Coast aro tho only ones left. The
country is up against these forests
just the same it was up against the
states I named twenty-live years
ago. And vou must remember that
these forests will not stand long.
They are in demand. You can't sit
down and wait for another crop of
trees to grow. It takes, in some in
stances, five hundred years. So you
must have something else. And that
will bo the dairy farm with tho fruits
and vegetables.
The second thing you must havo is
climate. You have without question
the best climate in the world. It is
pitiful to see men try to make a
living on tho sterile ground and in
tho rigorous climate of such a Btato
ns Maine. There a man may bo sat
in.i f Un trots nhead at the rate
of $100 per year, but that would not
satisfy a man nore. n i u-
,.. in tvitu oiimntfi. In Maine
and in most of the states of the Mid
dle West the winters lane ran me
year and the farmers must feed their
cattle, that half. But here you do
not need to do anything like that.
You can let your cattle feed all the
... ,., l in tlm onen field.- but if
y.ou choose, you can fence off the
rich bottom tana tur a " "
each year and gather enough feeo
from that land to supply all needs.
In Holland the lands are similar to
those which you call bottom landB.
i .., tiiU uuruimi lands along the Co-
quille, which are jut like those of
Holland except mat iuej u. u
drained. The same lands in Hol
,...i ... .fi, nna thousand dollars
per acre. I don't say that tho lands
here are worth as much as those of
TTniinnri. because we know the popu
lation of Holland is dense.
Tho third thing needful for tho
o nt iiio rintrv farmer is mar-
kets. You have tho heat markets in
the world. The Holland farmer can
not mako as much on his thousand
dollar acre ns you can make on sim
ilar soil which Is regarded as less
valuable In price. Tho markets are
growing. The total value of Ore
gon's yearly output of dairy products
is over $15,000,000, which is more
than the annual output of gold from
Alaska. Is it not rtrange, then, that
so many rush to Alaska for wealth
when you have right hero a gold
mine in butter, cheeso, milk, beef
and veal. You receive a higher price
than the Holland dairy farmer. You
do not have to invest anywhere as
much capital. You do not have to
work so hard n this climate for the
same results. Yet you can sell every
thing you produce. If you have not
a home market you can not fail to
place the product in Portland, San
Francisco, Seattle and coast towns.
The Oregon product is shipped East
very largely. The fact is you do not
supply your home market, so great is
the demand for your product else
where. In Portland they have been
compelled to ship in butter and
cheese from other states. It Is a
shame that such a condition exists
when it is so easy to produce these
things in tho state. You have no ex
cuse in Coos county for not making
the most of your dairy interests. The
dairyman here has no question of
frfilght rates to trouble him. In the
matter of tonnage the dairy farmer
has the best of it. For instance, a
ton of lumber is of comparatively
small value. The freight rate there
fore cuts into the value. The same
is true of all bulks of staple pro
ducts except butter, cheese and arti
cles which tho of great value per ton.
Now a ton of butter is worth ?700
and the cost of shipping a ton worth
$700 is very sligr t compared with
the value. So tho dairy farmer does
not care. The wheat producer, or
any form of cereals, or potatoes, or
vegetables, or even fruits, finds the
freight rates are important and
someMmes a prohibitive item.
I say you have no excuse for fail
ure. Get land and cows. Get it even
if you haven't a cent. Your banker
will, I venture to say let you have
money on your cows or to get cows,
any day. The dairy farmer always
has credit. lie always ha3 an in
come. He lays money aside. He has
a bank account. I found a man here
who was paying $1000 a year rent
for his land, but he showed me that
he received $500 each month for his
milk sent to tho condensery and paid
the rent In the first two months, so
that his receipts for the rest of the
year belonged to himself. You can
do as well. I lui'Jw that some other
districts in Oregon have grown rich I
on dairying. Five years ago I visited,
one district which had no industries,
but cows were introduced and nowj
after so short a time the banks have
over $1,000,000 of the dairy farm
ers' money on deposit. You have
given some time to dairying and have
made money without half trying. If
people will como in here and do as
well as Mrs. Yoakam has done at
tend to business keep the barns and
cattle clean and work scientifically,
all can make a competency.
The Holland dairyman on his
WHY DO PEOPLE BUY'In
SENGSTACKEN A0DITIOJ
BEA
It is choice inside rpidenceXproperty, lots fcOxlOO
with alleys, is well sheltered yfth a good bay view and
prices of lots are reasonaJr
TITLE GUARANTEE
Henry Sengstacken, FIanager,
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FOR. SALE ON
Neat and modern. Situated in North Bern
Heights. Best view on the peninsula, also
vacant lots in the same tract. Prices rea
sonable and terms easy.
WARD & HURD
Successors to Ward & Wird.
thousand dollar acre sustains 3
cows. You can do tho samo and
when your land has reached tho
value of Holland land, you will still
make a very large percentage of
profit on your investment.
I tell you the eyes of tho whole
country are turned toward tho Pn
qlflc Coast. The people recognize
that the climate, soil and resources
are here. Oregon is among the best
of all these states and will cease to
be backward when the value of the
dairy interests and their rapid re
claiming power are appreciated by
tho people here. Professor Kay of
Ames College, Iowa, was sent to Eu
rope to study dairying conditions
there and visited all countries, but
on his return reported that tho
United States led all the rest. After
wards he came to Oregon and has
since declared that Oregon excelled
all parts of the United States. It
only remains for Coos county to fos
ter this form of industry and there
is no raeson why she should not lead
Oregon.
The commissioner Is an entertnln
ing talker and entered into details
as to local conditions, Illustrating his
statements and conclusions by hu
morous stories and keeping the at
tention of his audience throughout.
The Housekeeper.
A heavy broom should always be
selected in preference to a light one
for thorough sweeping, as the weight
aids in the process. In buying a
broom, test it by pressing the edge
against the floor. If tho straws
bristle out and bend, the groom is a
poor one, for they should remain in a
firm, solid mass.
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the many ways jfJssibl to jOetter
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clothlm: aiiUlits nveflynit neat and
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