SUNDAY, MARCH 28. 1909.
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INTERESTING TESTIMONY AS
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WITHOUT ROCK.
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AND RIVER
.st thing in a marine
. yesterday, was the
the river at 4:45 o'clock
vening, of the new and
passenger liner H. B.
, just built by the Willamette
Vorks for Fuget Sound people,
. en route to Seattle. An account
the vessel appeared in these columns
early last week. She is a line craft,
with capacity for 1000 passengers on
this;
Marine Engineer F. H. Coodell, of
this city, who has been busy lately
setting op the engines of the new Cat
lender tag boat Myrtle, has accepted
a call to the service of Captain
Kerns, of the ouarry-jetty towboat
Samson, and will report for duty
there on Monday. He does not know
yet in just what capacity, whether
chief or assistant, but he has been
directed to bring a couple of oilers
and a brace of firemen with him. if
Ha mn. and is to be used
summer as a regular boat between! he can get them, hence the snpposi-
Bremerton and the Sound metropolis.
She is valued at $200,000 and looks
to be worth it The Kennedy js a
20-mile boat, and while she did notj
make it on her mn to this port, she
came down in six hours, and is ex
pected to do the limit, daily and hour
ly, once she begins her service over
there. She went direct to the
Standard Oil dock here for more fuel
evidently having emptied her star
board fuel tanks on the way down,
as she had a sharp list to port when
the reached this city. Captain Blaine
and a few friends who are making the
trip with him, made a call or two in
the city while the steamer was tak
ing on oil, and then he boarded her
and went below, with the purpose of
crossing out on the evening flood,
and in the hope of making the run
to Flattery by daylight She is ele
gantly furnished with fixed furniture
handsomely mounted in dark green
leather, easy chairs, lounges, settees;
with superb carpets and rugs,
and plate glass at all points.
- She his a butifnl music room and
an elegant ladies' cabin quite exclu
sive from invasion by the coarser
herd; and a smoking room, done up
in polished oak and red plush, that
is a marvel of comfort and beauty.
She is surely a "cracker-jack" for
speed, comfort and elegance, and with
the right kind of officers, should be
come very popular,- The Kennedy did
not get out last night but returned
and docked at the Callender until
this morning.
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Last evening Operator "Fuzzy"
Ferland, of the United Wireless sta
tion on Smith's Point picked up the
new revenue cutter Snohomish at a
point 100 miles south of Tatoosh
Island. This is one of the new ves
sels in that service ordered for duty
on Puget Sound, and she is bound for
Port Townser.d- She left Norfolk,
Vireina, on the 10th of December
last, which makes her 108 days out on
her vovaee around the Horn. All
were well on board and she was mak
ing excellent time, in a fair sea.
tion is reasonable that the Kern fleet
will be at work "pretty pronto," on
the jetty service.
The steamer Alliance will leave the
Callender dock at 6 o'clock this
morning, for Coos Bay points, and
will go with plenty of business, as
usuaL
The steamer Lurline came down in
good season yesterday and was busy
all the way down. She took away
with her last evening, the following
named people: W. S. Hughes, Dr.
F- Morrison and N. Harris.
There are a goodly number who
contend that the natural dirt roads
in Clatsop county may be made very
servieable, and the expense of rock
ing roads is not always ncessary.
Some say that the natural roads have
never even been given a real trial in
this county; that is, dirt roads of the
kind that should be built, with high
rounding crowns and a perfect drain
age. Judge Bowlby is a firm believer
in the dirt roads if built properly, and
yesterday he brought a clipping into
this o.hce from a newspaper in Wash
ington county, as follows:
"The soil of this part of Oregon
is a decomposed balsaltic rock, which
when wet and mixed by travel and
smoothed and mixed, again smooth
ed and dried forms a cement and
when rounded up so the water can
not stand on it and so treated will
make a roadbed nearly as hard as a
solid rock.
Unfortunately we have rock in this
end of the county and the feeble and
spasmodic efforts to make rock roads i
have been the ruin of our roads. In
the first place their basaltic rock is
very little of it hard enough for road
making. In a very short time it
grinds up into mud and the road is a
succession of chuck holes and ruts.
Next place the county isn't able to
macadamize all of her roads and then
keep them in repair. Multnomah with
an abundance of money and 6X1 or 70
prisoners to help and rock and gravel
may do it but not Washing
ton with its large area and scant
supply of poor rock.
"It isn't fair to compare Oregon
roads with those of England, Scot
land or Germany; for when Oregon
has been settled as long and becomes
as densely populated as those coun
tries she will very likely have just as
good roads. Meanwhile let us make
the best of the material at hand. Grub
out the roots, throw up a good even
grade, not so wide than it cannot
be kept rounding, put in culverts
where the water must cross the roads
water,
then keep the roadbed smooth and
The steamer Daisy Mitchell was
among the arrivals down stream yes-
. . . , . f . wikis nit waicr iuu?i truss uu
terdav morning, lumber laden for the . ., . , . ,.
Bay City. She'stopped at the Callen- ""
der for a short while and then went ,. r ... .. . . " ,
u.t u.j v .4,ronlln8 with the log drag. Eternal
out at a late hour. ifj?"" !? !l? ?'" of a f?d-
! i wan mi mere are mua noies
. ... , 'before starting the drag, but smooth
The steamer Northland was among ,vm t- it . .
the early getaways from this port ,Anv tnn ,. . , ... .
yesterday morning, leaving out at an dng be fi,led by ,he scraper
early hour. .L . directions ar (nlUvirA ami nn
'place left on the road for the water
The steamer South Bay is due to , s,an(i aml then ;.,,
arrive here today from San Fran-j wagons and yoa wilj find youf foad
CISCO. ofitUntr Hrtr cucrv vr mA
wouldn't trade it for any rock road
The steamer Eureka is among the ev" buiU in Q"g""
coasters due in here today, from the i
port of that name.
! Notice to Mariners.
i Notice is hereby given that Outside
The steamer Argo was due in from Bar Bell Buoy, Humboldt Bay En-
Tillamook last evening, but had not 'ranee was reported capsized this
shown up at 8 o'clock. She is likely morning. It will be replaced as soon
to enter this morning. , practicable. John McNulty, nauti-
,cal expert
The steamship Rose City got away :
shortly after daylight yesterday
morning, with plenty of business for
the Bay City.
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The steamer Wellesley was among
the outward bound fleet yesterday,
going to San Francisco with a big
Iload of lumber.
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NEW LINE TO THE PACIFIC
CHICAGO. HI., March 27.-The
latter part of the coming week, if
present arrangements are carried out,
the ceremony of driving a golden
spike will take place a few miles from
Missoula, Montana, to mark the com
pletion of the Tacific coast extension
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St- Paul
railroad. The new line is the latest
of the transcontinental roads to be
built and will afford another through
route between Chicago and Seattle.
One hundred millions of dollars is
the estimated cost of the road.
The total length of the extension
from the Missouri river to the coast
is 1400 miles, and by the time it is
opened the total mileage of the St.
Paul system will have reached 9000
miles. The construction of the ex
tension to the coast has occupied
only three years, which is something
of a record for quick work in railroad
building.
The completion of the $1,000,000
bridge across the Columbia River is
alone a great engineering undertak
ing. Altogether the construction of
the road required the building of
more than twenty miles of perman
ent bridges. '
The new road crosses the Missouri
River about 100 miles due west of
Aberdeen, S. D., and then parallels
the State line through the Standing
Rock Indian reservation and swings
into North Dakato, touching several
towns on the Little Missouri River, I
Thence it proceeds to Terry, Mont-, 1
on the Yellowstone River, following ;
this stream to Miles City, where large '
division terminals are being built.
At Lombard the new line crosses
the Northern Pacific and them climbs
the great continental divide between
Piedmont on the eastern side of the
Rockies and the city of Butte on the
west. At an elevation of 6350 feet
the road pierces the mountains at the
head of Pipestone pass. The sum
mit work includes two tunnels res
pectively 2268 and 1148 feet in length
and three steel trestles over ravines
from 100 to 160 feet deep and from
40Q to 600 feet wide
From Butte the road passes by way
of the broad and fertile Deer Lodge .
valley to Garrison and Missoula, !
Mont., and at llanagan will begin the
long climb over the Bitter Root
mountain ranae. At the summit it,
passes through the famous Taft tu
nel of 8751 feet, and after crossi
the St. Paul nass at an rlevatio
A , er r l . . . , i- if t- -JS
tiwj icei, passes inrougn inc 'aYgj
Cocur d'Alone district. They .
stretch of the road passes tjr 8
the virgin timber lands of ,''V
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attle and 1 acoma.
TRIP NOT PANGEROUS
Another Of The Variety 01 Opinions
About Africa.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27.
Theodore Roosevelt will have the
easiest and safest experience of his
life on his African hunting trip, says
John R. Farrell, chief engineer of the
Tanganyika Mining concession in
Africa, who has returned to his home
here on the steamer San Juan. Mr.
Farrell has been twice over the route
that the ex President and his party
are to travel In search of big gam
and he states that the course is ph
tically free from dangers and dilEul-'
tie that are commonly supposed to
beset the vay.
"Roosevelt will probably get some
very good burning" said Mr. Farrell,,
" but he will nov get much else in the
way of excitement"
Farrell added thtt the district was
practically free from malaria and
other tropical diseases. Th climate,
however, is trying to the nerves, he
said.
SEEK AMENDMENT
...WASHINGTON, March 27.-L.
Munoa Rivera, Eugenlo Benetei and
Gay Cm hi, members of the lower
houje of the Porto Rican Legislature,
who are in Washington to urge Con
gress to amend Foraker Act in which
the Insular government was created,
have arranged for s conference early
next week with President Taft, Speak
er Cannon and Vice-President Sherman.
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