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The location of the Intake la three Ilea below the secona station, where a 20-foot dam will be constructed for the purpose of diverting the water to a bench or table land where it can be easily conducted through a canal or Some, four miles to the station, and discharged through a hydraulic development of four units of 4.000 horsepower each. Thla plant will be located to mllea from the city of Portland. It tg estimated that the cost of the Initial Installation will be 1171.0(0. That Includes the costs of the remainder of rights of way, Intake and headgates, res ervoirs and canals, powerhouses and similar coats. The new company propose to be a competitor to the Portland General Elec tric company In Its bid for the patronage of Portland. The Portland General has its source of electric power at the falls of the Willamette river at Oregon City. It Is to be supplemented, however, by a steam plant rr.ngliur from 14.000 horse power now under 'construction. It la estimated that within the next U months It 000 additional electric horse power will be ready for service In the city of Portland. Th new plant Itself will be the most simple that human Ingenuity can devise. It will consist of a U-tnch steel shaft 10 feat long with a water wheel on one end and a dynamo on the other. As the ' ' ' T t ' ' eX'JesssasaysalsS W ; " . ' , ' : r ' f ; 'fil ' - jPBBBBBHBBBSBBBBBlBBBBBBaBBBBBBBBBBS ; , , ., : ft ----tprfW' 1 ft irX ' ' ' '.'i' . . . i ' ' . bbbsA ' . . ssaaaaaaaaal IMbBBBW. .SaWaBBBBBBBBBBBBal BBBaBBSBSasSBBSaM SBBBBBB Sal Sandy River Valley. WITH a capital stock of tl.OOO.OOO tha Mount Hood Klectrlc company proposes to harness the Bandy river and utilise the power of that turbulent stream that has been wasted for centuries. It Is one of the numerous plana that have recently been laid for establishing a network of lnterurban electric roads through the state of Oregon. The purpose of the company, as ex plained In Its articles of Incorporation that were recently (lied, la to "develop light, heat and power trom the waters of Sandy river In Clackamas and Multno mah counties in th state of Oregon." Actual construction work has already begun and the company has authorised an Issue of M0 10-year t-per-cent bonds of H.000 each. Th sum will be applied toward the Installation of th Initial plant. The Sandy river has its source at the western baa of Mount Hood. It la perpetually fed by miles of melting glaciers during the summer month. The water shed tributary to the Bandy above th point of Intake la 400 aqua re mllea and the amount of precipitation over the dis trict aa shown by government statistics la M Inches per year, more than double that of the city of Portland. The minimum flow of wator In the ream at tha upper Intake la more than mo feet per second. The main plant of the company " will be located at that 1 Jags in Many Lands From th New Tork Bun. . . f HIST can t push It Into me I that wood alcohol kills J, everybody that goes up against it," said a man who has soldiered both in th army and the navy. "It Isn't the kind of boose that I'd pick out If I had my choice, but there's plenty of corked up stuff that's worse than wood alcohol. "That vino that you get down In the Philippines, for one thing. I'd rather drink straight-out wood aleohol. any day. than the vino we used to lap up, for need of something batter, down around Mindanao. "Wood alcohol doesn't make a man mean and mussy. It Just atretchea him out. quick and businesslike, snd be done with It. But take four drinks of thst I.uson vino and you'll dig your way through nln mllea of jungle to bite your little sister And a vino tiead. compared to the come-to of a wood alcohol souse, makes the wood alcohol nxt morning seem like a pleasant ride In a merry-go-round with your steady. I've had both, and I know. "When It comes to that. I'd rather lick up enough decent wood aleohol to get that busy and prosperous feeling than to toy along with Mexican mescal. Queer stuff to fool with, mescal. 'When you get good and brined up on that, all you've go to do, three or four days later, when you think you're sober. Is to Joggle your head right lively from aide to side, and there you are. with a Jag all over again. I.Ikes to linger around your system nd give you your money's worth, mescal. "Bom of that rum made out of molasses that you get In the West Indes would make a Jack rabbit spit In the face of a Jaguar. And. what's worae. It buma outalde as well as In. Tou can believe It or not, but there was a corporal of marines with our outfit at Ouantsnamo who got hold of s pot of that blackjack rum one night, and the next morning his muatache was burned to within a quarter of an Inch of hla face, and ita color had turned from brown to a sort of aandy. at that. H swor that th rum. aome of which trickled over his muatache, had done It and nobody who'd been up agslnat "at tread rum doubted him. "There's sake sold for half a yen a quart In Japanese ports that'll make a man rob his own ditty-box and then Warn It on his hammoch-mate. Tricky stuff, too. that harbor sake of the wipes breed. Tastea something like Bhln wine. and go dwn mr the r"nhr,' tea your aunt used to give you when ma were a kid. But Just when you're beginning to believe that the world's pretty ""ft after all. for a man that understands how to live In It alp! you're gone, and then you slink off by your self and study up schemes to get your most Intlmste shipmates Into some deep trouble. There Isn't any mora vindictive tonsil oil on earth than that rice Juice f tha Jape, once you get pickled right In It. "But what I started to say waa that wood alcohol haa different effecte upon different people. Tv bean awaddlea snd shipmates on land and sea, with fellows who were lmmunea from what they're ealllng wood alcohol poisoning around here now. They could drink wood alcohol like a Houston atreet pan handler heaklng Into barrel house dippers that sell for t cants a ladle, and when they'd com out of It thyd Just give thlr trousers a hitch and thsa try ta wheedle tha cook into hand-, lng them alum or soous out of mess hours. "There waa Chug Moonoy, an oiler on u ship that. I made a cruise on when First I shipped with the sea soldiers. Chug stood In with the ship's painter, so that he had a good alcohol bun on moat of tha time not wood alcohol aa a general thing, but It came to that once for a long stretch. "The ship's painter, you see, carries the keys to the alcohol tank on a man-o'-war. and he serves the atuff out for shellac daubing, paint blister ing, and all that. Men-o'-war carry the beat grain alcohol In their tanks for thla work, and If the ahlp's painter likes the cut of your Jib and the act of your Jury rig, it's pretty soft for you on that crulae, that's sll I've got to say. "Most ship's painters, without the Jimmy Legs or any of the rubber-jacks knowing anything about It, keep a cov ered over bucket of It In their lockers all the time for the comfort and enter tainment of their friends, and If you're there right with the ship's pslnter you can get a little ladle of It juat about any old time you feel gummy. To fix It right, you take your little four fingers of It to the galley, and pour It Into a tin cup, and the cook stakes you to some ooffee out of the pot that's always standing handy. "Tou can have all the highballs you want but if there'a anything gobbler or more actlony than a lump of dead right alcohol that you know la right, tossed into about half a beaker of hot coffee and mixed around, they don't aell It on any beach that I ever happened to get the feel of with my feet, and I've' been treading around for a long time. I've had aluga of It that made me feel like hiking down to the berth deck alley and plpc-c laying all the rest of the aea soldiers' belts almost I didn't do it, but I came near feeling like It. "The atuff warms and cheers you right out to the ends of your ears, and the only thing you've got to watch out for la that you don't chuckle youraelf to death thinking of what a snap you've got In standing In with the ship's painter. "Wall. Chug Mooney. the red-headed oiler, waa aces up on kings and still one to draw with the ship's pslnter. who was a Turk himself, and for 11 months of the cruise Chug Just rolled around the engine rooms, on watch and off, ' with tha closest Imitation of a continuous performance suds thing ever known In the American navy. Chug maced the shlp'a painter for about a quart of the tank alcohol a day during all that time, and he only had to stake the cook to a little of thla per diem In order to snag out all the coffee-on-the-slde that he needed. "But finally we landed for a long oak. picking up barnaclea In the har bor of La Libertad, Salvador, where the ship was sent to watch that Eseta revo lution, which was like the bum after piece of an Eighth avenue variety show. We rolled and tossed around there for monthe. "The ship's equipment and engineer tores ran losr, and there was a lot of delay In gettng fresh stores down from the Mar island yard. On day- th alcohol tank was drained dry, and then It looked aa If Chug Mooney might be up against it I'll leave It to anybody If It Isn't a sad thing for a man to have to let go, git of a sudden, or even be threatened with such a thing, after he's had an It months' aleohol edge, without a day's Interruption. "Anyhow, the berth deck alleyways and such like had to he shellac daubed for weekly Inspection, and the shlp'a place. At the point of Intake for the I second nlant six miles Anmn She stream the water available Is 1.000 feet per sec ond. The river has a fall of from 60 to 75 feet per mile, running for the most part over a boulder bed between high sandstones and basalt cliffs. The proposed development consists of three separate plants situated from aix to eight mllea apart along the stream, one vslng the water after it has been dis charged from the wheels of the plant above. The first plant takes the water from Sandy river below the mouth of Salmon river, where It measures 800 feet at mini mum flow and through a canal or flume to be constructed on the north side of the river about six mllea In length Is dis charged Into the wheels under a mean effective head of 400 feet. The plant will ta situated about 34 mllea from the city of Portland. Neither that point nor the second plant requires a dam of any kind at the Intake. At the second . pla n t 1,000 second feet of water Is taken from the Bandy river at a point a short distance below where It Is discharged from the wheels of the first plant. It Is conducted through a canal or flume by a weat and north course- for six miles, where It Is dis charged Into an artificial lake or reser voir. The lake will be 40 acres in extent. sBsma. A. L iau rasxi iili?'"" -- law iljSaft ' WpfW " pgaasssagaaai J Nr 'twtt W' 1 BlssasssBaasxel Hnsa M HPPr - M SP Iff B ' '-k-.vJsv j a'JN sas '"asa. safcB BBseas Hsfls : " --k . Tw'' 'i"" ""ai View of Island in the Sandy River Below the Headwaters. 5S WO Mm; ions a ear Fills Teetk From the Chicago Tribune. OF the wealth of thla country there la a certain part that has never entered Into the re - ports of the cenaus or fiscal departments of the government. There Is, If the estimates of the men who should know are to be taken as authori tative, over tlO.000.000 personal wealth. In the shspe of gold, of which the gov ernment la entirely Ignorant, or. If not Ignorant, has decided not to mention in Ita financial reports. Each year there Is over 12,000.000 worth of gold thst disappears, that Is lost to the moneys of the world, and yet la not lost. More than 12. 000.000 worth of gold la used annually In caring for the mouths of cltiaens of the United States who have been neglectful In the matter of their teeth. This 11.000,000 Is prac tically wealth that 1 loat. After the gold Is once securely fixed In th mouth of a dentist's patient It ceases to exist as a precious metal of Importance in the world of finance. The figures seem vast when the smsll amount uaed In making a filling Is con sidered, but they are undoubtedly cor rect. The man In charge of the gold department of the largest dental sup ply house In the country arrived at these figures after extenalve researches snd calculations, and his estimate la verified by other men in a position to know. Two million dollars taken out of Its stock of gold Is the price that tha coun try pays annually for having ita teeth cared for In an up-to-date manner. With the Increase of fillings par capita throughout the country which modern dental methods have brought about, thin loss to the gold wealth of the country Is apt to assume proportions of Importance within the next few years Then years ago tt Is estimated that only IB per cent of the people of this country ever went to a dentlat except to have a tooth pulled. Five years ago the percentage was It 1-1. Now. It Is declared. 10 per cent of the population pay visits to the dentlat's chair for aome other reason than of having an aching tooth extracted. Thla Increase In the number of dental patients In the country haa resulted In a consequent In crease In the amount of gold used for this purpose. Practically all of the (0 per cent who are numbered as the dentlat's patrona have some gold In their teeth. Thus, 10 years ago then waa only about 11.000.000 worth of gold put In th moutha of the cltlsena as sgalnst the 12.000.000 Of today. Using the rete of Increase each year for the last 10 yeara aa a basis, the sverage yearly conaumptlon of the precious metal In this manner has been about 11.600.000 a year. Thla would make about 116,000,000 worth of sold which haa been put Into teeth since 1814. For this amount could be built three of the beat battleships In th world; the president's salary could be I paid for 10 yeara; every voter who goes to tne polls this year could le paid a dollar for hla trouble and still leave a million for good measure. Deaths of course have cut the number of people who have had gold fillings put In their teeth In these yeara consider ably. Five million dollars' worth of gold. It Is estimated, haa been buried In the graveyards of this country In tfTe period covered by these figures. If a total could be derived at. reckoning from the time when gold first waa uaed In fillings. It la certain that the amount of gold lying unused and dead In graves would be near to 126.000,000. Subtracting the 16.000,000 taken off the earth from the total of 116,000.000 used In the last decade. It will be seen that there must be at least 110.000,000 worth of gold preambulatlng sbout the country In the mouths of the cltlsena. water turns the wheel the electric motive force flows out on Its mission. Engi neers declare that electrical machinery of that kind Is practically lndeatructable. They claim that constant use for 60 yeara will And the plant la as good condition as It will be on the day It ta completed. The Mount Hood Electric company, whose object Is to harness the waters of the Sandy and appropriate a power that haa been wasted throughout the cen turies, was organised for the purpose of developing to the fullest extent the power of the stream. It then proposes to trans mit It to the ctty of Portland, and else where, (or use In providing light, heat snd power for the industrial development of this section. In that way the busy stream that haa dashed recklessly over boulders and played idly among the locks for countless years will assist in the reclamation of the northwest and the building of a great city. The waters of the atream have been carefully surveyed and appropriated, the lines of canal have been run and work on their construction Is progressing as rapidly as possible. he available water at the command of company la more than 60,000 horse power at the point of consumption, al lowing for all loss In transmission and otherwise The power li to be developed aa demand requires. . w The natural condition for the estab lishment -of a plant at the point aelected for .ihe iiuiidins of what Is termed plant No. 1 are said to be Ideal. The company Intends to Install plant No. 2 first and the others as soon a It has been com pleted. The Initial Installation will consist of three hydraulic and electrical units of 5.000 horsepower esch. That amount la one half .the available power at that point. The canal, reservoir, forebay, powerhouse and tallrace will be of suf ficient capacity for the remaining three units. After they are constructed all that will be required to place the whole plant In commission Is to plsce the alternators and waterwheels on the pre pared foundations, connect the pressure pipes and turn on the water. Tha ex pense of the additional units will be) 150.000 each when ready for service. The largest consumers are of -course tha street railway companies. It la said that such concerns have contracts as low sa tM 00 per horsepower per year. Eastern capital Is said to be heavily Interested In -the new concern. Attorney C. W. Miller Is the local representative and It la also said that a large sum of Portland capital haa become Interested In the proposition. The Mount Hood company Is said to be the beginning of a gigantic system of electric plants and electric railways that will be In operation throughout the Will amette vaury wunin a isw years. 33 Blues a Real Ailment painter whs sent aahore to get hold of any kind of alcohol that he could pick up at the shack of a ship chandler of La Libertad, who only kept open on hour or ad every other Thursday and v Met it tne reat or me time. "The best the ship's painter could do was 40 gallons of wood alcohol that melt like the aftermath of a Dutch picnic In a beer garden. The w.kx! alcohol was all right for the work, but the ship's painter felt sorry for Chug, and told Chug so, when he got back to the ahlp. " 'It's that pulp stuff. Chug.' said the ship's painter, sympathetically, nd after two slugs o that the sallmaker'a mate'll be after sewing you In your esr pounding bag and tying the shot to your feet for the toss over the side. Bet ter wait till the stores get down from the yard, and I'll start you going again.' "But Chug couldn't aee It that way. He hadn't had a drink of alcohol for four whole hours then and the nerve cells of him were yelling murder for more of what they'd been used to for half the length of a full cruise. "'Has the Juice got the Jolt that's all I'm after wanting to knowT Chug Inquired of hla painter shipmate. " 'Aa for that.' replied the painter. 'It has more than enough to Jolt you Into the bottom of Davey Jones' locker before you could blow out a smoking lamp.' " Out with a pall of It. then.' said Chug. 'The painter demurred, but Chug pressed him. Chug followed the painter around like a dog hunting for hla ter for two hours, and then the painter drew off a quart of the wood alcohol and told Chug to take It and th reat be on hla own heed. 'Ten minutes later Chug was down at hi cleaning station, using th Puts's pomade on hla bright work and whistling Th Raks o' Mallow' Ilk a man poaaeaaed of all the music In the world. He dreaned up that quart of the pulp atuff. and then the ship's painter re assured, fixed him out with another quart to keep him happy through th evening and night. "At th call of all hands next morn ing Chug hopped out of his hammock whistling Oo to the Devil and Shake Yourself aa If he had been a white rlbboner all hla life, and when mess call sounded he went for the cracker mash as If he'd been marooned for a dosen years on a guano patch In the middle of the sea. "During the next month, the stores not arriving from the MarV Island yard. Chug Mooney paaaed a good 10 gal lons of that wood alcohol through the crack In his face, and there waan't a minute of the time that his eye waan't aa bright aa a moss agate out of a small boy's pocket, and It was whistling he was all the time like a lout on his way to the fslr "And worse than that I saw later on another packet of the line There was an old shellback of a gunners mate named Bouquet Which you'd never think It of him. th terrier, although he called It Buckey who went about the ship pickled like a Chinese shark's fla tor 10 days before anybody for ard ever found out where he got the makings of the aoxx, for he hadn't been ashore, and the cos'un. who usually brought the wet dogs off from the beach, was laying off on that for a while, fearing detec tion. "It waa the sea-soldier corporal on guard at the gangway who nailed the old gunner's mate at hla source of supply in the middle of one night, sl though the corporal never reported dt aft. Buckey was getting it out of the recoil chamber of one of th rapid-fire guns. The recoil chamber of on of those guns Is filled with half oil and half wood alcohol, the pulp stuff being used because It answers the purpose ss well aa the grain Juice, and Is three or four times cheaper. "Old Buck had found a way to tap It. and waa drawing It aa needed, to keep hla edge from dulling by contact with the gray foga or the north Pa cific, where we were then stationed. He had a way of settling the oil st the bottom of his pan snd then draining the pulp alcohol off rnto his bottle. "The alcohol tasted somjk oily, of course, besides carrying Ita own amell and tang in the mouth, but Buck told me after It waa all over, one night at the gangway aa we smoked, thst he had never enjoyed a 10-day bun so much In hla life as he had the one he got out of the recoil chamber of that gun. "I'm not advising anybody to go In for the pulp atuff aa a beverage to go with meals, or even for a ateady thing. I'm only holding out for it that there's worse paint than wood alcohol" From the New Tork Bun. THERE sre persons who deny ever having the blues, but as a. rule they confuse' th term with hysteria and womanish fits of sulks. They do not call their own fits of depression the blues, but fit them with some more high sounding name. But the blues nevertheless are a dis tinct mental affliction to which hu manity generally .a aubject. The blues have no special reason for being unless the old-time Ides Is right that they come from a disordered state of the liver. That the liver ta eloeely connected with the mental attitude re sulting from an attack of the blues is indicated by the fact that dyapeptlca are aa a genersl thing morose and given to brooding. But this does not hold good In sll esses, for there sre some notably cheerful dyspeptics, who Joke over their enforced dieting snd their lsck of flesh. The sctlve grief that follows a be reavement or fit of Illness or business trouble Is In no way the same thing as the depression that cornea up when there la a clear sky and envelope every thing In Its fog. The one has a reason for being, the other Is not so much a rebellion against conditions ss a gen ersl tiredness of life. Ita dutle. Joys and sorrows. It Is condition. Joys and and sorrow. It is the condition which In msny cases produces suicides other wise unexplalnable. So aaya a clever woman doctor, who polnta out that, oddly enough. In hos pitals the blues are not common among the patienta and convalescents There is too much of real suffering to admit of the brooding, self-analysing condition that attacks people without resson In the world outalde. "The weather," she aaya, "Is one of the principal Invlters of blues. A week of bad weather Increases suicides and fills people with despondency. In msny casea It Is inseparable from a despon dent state of mind. The east wind has alwaya been accused of producing low spirits. "But on the other hsnd people can in herit the brooding and gloomy tempera ment Just as they Inherit sharp wits or dull ones, kindly dispositions or the re verse. There are some who begin as children to complain and whine over their smsll troubles and If the habit Is allowed to grow they find that life la a bore to them before they reach ma turity. "Very busy people whose minds and whose bodies are actively employed are not apt to Buffer from the dread depres sion of the blues. Work. In fact. I one of the best panaceas and In many casea of nervous prostration, which with women la closely allied to the deapon dent mental condition, hard work In the home Is prescribed ss a temedy. "Another excellent remedy la cold wster baths and showers. These. If persevered In. ar among the best cures. "Then out-of-door exercise la good. The air and the ordinary scenes that com up In a mile walk will take the mind off the reigning topic which in these cases is always that of self. "As a rule" the people most subject to them are women whose home dutlee keep them shut Indoors. "Over sewing or household affairs they will allow their minds to follow up the same old rut of thought, and by .vanlnr thav ere In s mental state which approaches a mild form of insanity. "Doctors recognise the Stat 01 des pondency as symptom of various dis eases. It Is one of the Invariable eon sequences of serve ailments; but tt la slso a condition which, like hysteria, can be greatly aggravated by the pa tient's giving la to It 'When people learn that It Is quite possible to throw' off sn unwholesome mood there will not be so many people) complaining of the blues, which usually consist of a fear of something about to happen, rather than what has happened. "There is an Idea that only women have the blues, but men sre quite as often the sufferers, and when they suf fer the attacks sre very much more In tense than the feminine sort and harder to get rid of. Gamblers regard tha blues as a sure Indication that their luck Is going sgalnst them, end as a rule they cease to bet or make very small bets until the sun begins to shine for them again. 'When the blues ar of short dura tion, easily dispersed, they do not count for much, but when they seem to have come to stay and everything tends to make life seem less worth living, it Is a pretty sure indication that something is wrong with the physical condition. "So It la a wise Idea to find out If anything Is wrong with the body which produces the mentsl disquiet. The end of some fits of this sort Is an attack of typhoid fsver or malarial fever lead ing on to typhoid. Despondency Is one) of the surest symptoms of malaria In the system. Grip la also succeeded by sn Intense depression of spirits In many esses, even with children who lose Interest in their game and their companions aftsr they have bad an attack of thla dls- "Change of scene Is alwaya a good prescription for low spirits, but when a trip to Bermuda or Europe la not possible It la a good Idea to change as far as possible the routine of the day. Eat different foods, travel by other routes, aeek change In the manner of living Just aa far a circumstances al low. 'The theatre la slso considered a rather good remedy when the play la a musics! comedy of the light and frivol ous order. There le no doubt that such plays are aids In bringing people back to a normal mental state, although they may not relish thla form of amusement ordinarily." VAX.UE or coTTOgeramp From the Milwaukee Sentinel. 'The people In Texas ar now able to aave thousands of dollars on their rot ton crop each year on account of the recent discovery of the fact that th seeds are valuable.'' said C. H. Dona hower of Denton. Tex. "Tears ago tha farmers used to throw them awav. until It waa discovered thst they mad two valuable products, th oil. which is used In lard, and the hulls of the seed, which la th beat meal known. There Is not a particle loat. and ss the seeds are worth IK a ton th amount gained Is no small consideration. In these days the cotton, with the exception of the bottom cotton. Is picked ss clean aa the floor. When the cotton Is picked tha seeds sre taken to- the' refinery, where the oil la made, and then the re mainder la taken to th mill, where feed for cattle is ground. "The most striking value ef the fat tening qualities of the meal Is shewn by s herd of cattle that waa breasgbt off th plains In th southern port ken of the stale and fed nothing bat the meal during the winter. 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