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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1912)
POULTRY AND GAME Can set you finer prices for Wild Dncka and other same in season. Writ us (or eaah slier on all kinda of poultry, pork. ate. Pearson-Page Co., Portland BLVta TILLING Tf5L JUST the other day It was chron icled that furs valued at $725, 000 were brought to Edmonton, Alberta, from the north coun try and trans-shipped to Lon don, Paris, St Petersburg, New York and Boston to supply half the world eventually. Three great companies sent in furs valued at $625,000, while Independent traders brought in the balance. The catch of fox furs was especially large. There are several silver fox skins appraised from $1,250 to $1,500. Experienced trappers have this year made from $1,500 to $2,000 on the average. Scattered the length and breath of the great lone land of northern Can ada and along the lonely coast of Lab rador at Cartwright. Rigolet, and even to Davis inlet, and still again about the shores of Hudson bay, re fined and intelligent Scotch, English and Canadian families live, taking charge of the lone trading posts of the oldest trust In the world. Round about them stretches the wilderness. North of Cartwright, in fact, and almost at that place itself, there Is not even a tree of trunk thicker than a sapling's to comfort the eye, for it is beyond the tree line. Outside, about the post, in the winter nights, the wolves come and howl and the call of the wild is answered by the yelp of the Eskimo dog, who is not a dog at all but a species of wolf, i .Ship Long Awaited by Exiles. Off to one side is the humble men's fhouse. There some Indians, or Eski mo, or half breed trappers for the company, who have come in with the load of fur, make merry. In the little whitewashed home, before the twig fire, the factor and his wife gather and read and write letters, each one long, long letter, a volume almost, to which they add as fancy dictates, for it cannot go until the passage opens in the spring. And then, In the fac tor's home, and in the men's house, wtoth, they look for the coming of the company ship from England. , What wealth of good things, what novelties, what dire necessities will 1 not relatives send, or else more pro saic traders ship them! What sur prises will there be in store! And what has the world done In all the Uong months since they lost ear of itT Bo, like the return of the Mayflower, the exiles speculate, night upon night When the ship drops Into the har bor, however, it is to unload as rap Idly as possible the supplies for fac tor and employes, the things to trade with the Eskimo and objects Indians and half breeds covet. And mean while they take aboard the furs. It la a perpetual call of "Hurry!" and of "Hasten!" for the summer is short and they must make the round of the posts before the passage closes with the Ice, or they will be frozen in. It Is Icy and drear and lonely here and one is glad to get ashore. First, of course, visitors must peep into the warehouse for furs, killed in the early spring, and awaiting shipment to Lon don. It seems just a long shed with an aisle down its length, and with barrels to right and to left, four high, Borne of the barrels are bound with Iron hoops, others with hoops of birch. Brooms stand gathered in a corner, for trading to the trappers, a bundle of withes lies at hand for working into future hoops. Salt is cattered about the floor in lieu of sawdust Beyond this hut, to right and left of the path, what seem wigwams, but what really are tree trunks, thin as -poles stacked together, rise, the fire wood for the winter. Between them the walk leads back to the pier, where ather storehouses reveal themselves: iV" a W : -? two story frames each and all. Tow ering over these is the master's house, the seat of government for the post. Everywhere outside great Eskimo dogs loiter and there Is a. litter it pups under a queer sawmill, with sails resting on the earth as to a salt mill of lower Austria. Newcomers, however, are eager al ways, first of all, to see more of the furs. To this end they visit a store of the company on the second floor of still another frame structure. Here the trading for pelts Is dona All about the wall of the trading post there extend open shelves. On ono side a section of these is given over to washbowls of a white porcelain, with blue pattern. The shelf Just be low holdB more bowls and some socks: that beneath Is for worsteds and heavy underwear. Men's suits finish the compartment Adjacent to It one finds a section with suits of oilskin, of shirts striped in blue and white, cans of pineapples and tomatoes. Un dershirts, too, figure in the availables for trading. Down from the celling iron buckets suspend; in a corner there are boxes. . Cans of peaches, bundles of brooms, these, too, are here, open to barter. Fine Pelts In Trade. A genial young agent, induced to come here from Scotland under a two year contract, takes delight in showing visitors around. He reserves for the last the great chest in which are kept the furs, arrived since the ship took away the spring quota. It is a small outlay, but of inestimable value. Here, for one, is a marten skin the company paid $22 for. The man who caught it took it out in bar ter. Two or three silver loxes are brought in a year; some of these net the, poor trapper $300. One year the post secured seventeen. Then, again. It is a long matter of selection for barter toilet soap, and Jlsgers for squid. Jugs and knives in leather belts, all drawn on by the trarper. Down the front of the store, where the trade is consummated, there ex tends a heavy, old time counter, with ancient hanging scales at one end. Over these the agent's servant pre side. Out of a pile of .furs ready to ship some beauties are brought for Inspection. No Hudson bay sable are obtained at this place, but marten are in the yield now. All the skins are packed inside a glove like affair, lined with skin. This becomes a tight case, aft er proper folding, and the fur is aa in a pocket of gut All furs, the man tells us, will fade if kept exposed to the light, and so, in addition, these packets when filled are kept In the tight case in the dark. Meanwhile again he shows some weasel skins from hereabouts. The animals are white in the winter, dark in summer. The skins bring from 25 to 40 cents up here, according to size. Only a part of the skin can be used, Even a silver fox skin when brought in Is cut in . pieces, and these are set into strips from an inch to two inches broad. These, silvers then are set be tween other strips of cotton .in such a way that the garment is made much wider, while the result to the eye, is the same as if of fur throughout The front of the skin is used for trimming or Insertion under the arms. - Only a few years ago marten were worth but $5 or $6 up here; now they will bring up to $40. All furs, In fact, are very high now, since they have become so fashionable. Last winter, in Labrador, the black fox brought from $400 to $500. Marten, too, have been going up each year. Mink and ermine are traded here; so, too, are tna white bare and heave " Suggests the Mounting of WASHINGTON. Curtis Guild, Jr., American ambassador to-St Pe tersburg, desires to see mounted boy scouts. He believes the United States government should furnish ponies for the boys, give them instruction In horseback riding and train them in skill in riding and develop their hardi ness. He outlines his plan in a letter to the state department, which has been referred to James E. West chief scout executive of the Boy Scouts of Ameri ca. West is enthusiastic over the scheme. The scout leaders are taklne the matter up with Ambassador Guild and the officials In Washington. Ambassador Guild got his Inspire- Washington's Sewerage WASHINGTON'S sewerage system has been pronounced the finest in the world by a party, including some of the foremost sanitary en gineers. This party, which Included Dr. John Watson, chief sanitary en gineer of Birmingham, England, and formerly chief sanitary engineer of Toronto; Dr. George W. Fuller of New York, author of the standard work on sewerage systems; Dr. Soper, president of the Metropolitan Drainage commission of New York City, . and James C. Webster, chief sanitary engineer of Philadelphia, were escorted over the system by Su perintendent Asa E. Phillips Just at the close of the Congress of Hygiene and Demography. It was the unani mous opinion of this party that no city had a better system except the German municipalities, which were considered to be a model in this re gard. Washington is underlaid by 600 miles of subterranean rivers, an average of nearly nine miles of river to every square mile of land. These are really underground rivers, be cause they take off the fiowage from a half dozen or so streams which used Uncle Sam Makes It Much GENEROUS Uncle Sam who for over a century has been giving away homesteads In the west through his general land office here, has decided that in order to make - these . lands more attractive to the prospective set tlers he must make some concessions which will render them easier to ac quire. As a result of the constant granting of homestead tracts, ranging from 40 to 820 acres, since the enacts ment of the homestead act of 1868,' during which time the government has given away gratis more than 123,640,- 855 acres in final homestead entries, the land office has found it had on Its hands lands less suitable tor cultiva tion and farming purposes than in for Railroad Puts Engine in NB of the big railroads having ter-1 V mlnals here has equipped a loco motive with modern fire-fighting ap paratus and put it In commission to assist the district firemen in extin guishing flames in the railroad yards, particularly near New Jersey and Virginia avenue. Because of the high speed of which the engine is capable and the fact that It has right of way all the time. Its service will be invaluable, as has already been shown by its efficiency In putting out small flames In the yards without the assistance of the municipal department The excellent wltoh-board service, operated from the towers, can give it right of way with scarcely any delay. The primary use of the engine will be In the yards, but It can be brought to the Union station or elsewhere along the road if necessary. The ter minal has been so constructed that water can be reached at any point is the yards. . . This la not an Innovation, aa the American Boy Scouts tlon from seeing 70 Cossack boys drill before the czar last spring. "At recent events." he writes, "in the presence of the emperor at Krasnoe Selo, there was one thing of particular importance as it opened a new vista of the possi bilities of the boy scout movement "Early in May some Cossack boys, ranging In age from eleven to four teen years, left their villages and as sembled at Lepslnsk, mounted on small and rough but. hardy ponies. They marched 500 miles across coun try to Kabul-Sal on the Tashkent rail road where they entrained for St Pe tersburg toward the end of July. "Arriving In St Petersburg, the 70 boys rode around the city seeing the sights for several days, and they were then given a place in the grand re view. The next day they gave a spe cial drill before the emperor. The drill consisted of a little troop work In close order, of the Cossack exer cises In the saddle with the pony at full speed, and ended with all the boys standing in their saddles, advanc ing in line and singing their native songs." System Pronounced Best. to drain through what is now the central portion of the city. In addi tion, they handle all the drainage from Washington houses and all the Immense amount of rain that falls an nually in the District The system was started in 1810, when an initial appropriation of $120 was granted for that purpose. The p-escnt sewerage system has so far cost $12,000,000 and the annual expenditure for sew erage runs about $350,000, and the annual increase In mileage is about 25 miles. To get rid of mosquito breeding, all of the catch basins, of which there are about - 6,000, are thoroughly flushed biweekly, and then dosed , with mosquito oil during the season. Easier to Secure a Farm mer years, and consequently fewer ap plications for homesteads. According to the latest report of the land office there still remain to be dis posed of in homestead, timber, coal, mineral and stone lands 695,401,259 acres, situated in what are commonly known as public land states. About one-quarter of these lands have been surveyed. In order, then, to Induce entries on the remaining lands, congress recently passed a law providing that certain restrictions on these entries in the way of cultivation, residence, etc., be moderated so that settlers would find It lees difficult to live up to the speci fications set forth in homestead laws. One of the most attractive features of the new law is the three-year resi dence clause. This provides that in order to entitle a person to a patent upon a homestead It must be shown that he has resided on the farm for three years. Honorably discharged soldiers and sailors are entitled to claim credit for the period of service, after they have resided upon. Im proved and cultivated the land tor a period of at least one year. the City Fire Service road has equipped a large number ot similar engines. In many places they have grown more efficient than the fire department and are called upon to do most of the work. No fewer than 150 fires have been extinguished by the locomotive fire engines In the various yards and stations of the company. The railroad has a special organ ization which becomes effective when ever a fire breaks out The assistant chief yardmaster acts as chief of the department; he gives general direc tions in case of a fire and conducts drill front time to time Second-Hand Machin ery bought, aold and bouers. sawmills, etc. The J. E. Martin Co.. 83 1st Bt, Portland. Bend for Stock List and prices. MAKE CHRISTMAS MONEY Boss and Girls wanted to manufacture and ell Perfection Furniture Polish. Agents pay 15c. Retails 25c Send 50c for formula and directions. Material costs 8c Artis Mfg. Co., Dept G, 811-12 Bemice Bldg., Tacoma, Wash. When In PORTLAND stop at NEW SCOTT HOTEL Large, light rooms: Warn heat; big lobby; clean and orderly; close to business section; best place for family in city. , ROOMS 50c UP. Seventh and Ankeny Streets Convenient from All Depots by Streetcar. 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