The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, April 29, 1906, Image 14

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Newspaper Page Text. ; r. . '.7;. ;V - r7 - . :-. -.:-" '; - 1 y n :i -.--JL r Vj J. , ! ' 't -tTHE OREG0w'SyfflAY JOURNAL,- PORIAND, UNPAY. -.MORNING, APRIL. '3,,.'ltC3.- ' - imilKO in ilLIGjfJED FILL HOT SO 18 DAD Grand Avenue Marsh Is Not Causing Troubls Generally;. ' Supposed. -i LATE DROPS-WERE NOT ESPECIALLY ALARMING , Fill la Up to Street Level and About ; , Twenty ..' Feet ; Wide Still . Sinks ' Slowly but Not Enough to Hamper Workmen or Disturb Traffic t . - tut SUd ' Bepectaaea. ',.. ' i While the condition of the Grand avenue fill la far from aatlafactorv. elthwr to tha contractor- or thai city, tlierd la not that immediate causa for popular apprehension that has been xtlrrlng up the east aide tha laat week. Following tha plea of tha contractor for an extension of -time, the report became current that the 0.000 cubic yards of dirt dumped Into, the . slough had for the. moat part disappeared, that the work of weeks had gone for al most naught and that the date for1 the completion of tha contract and the op eration of cara over the fill waa lo- definitely postponed. .- Investigation shows none of these things to be true. , For weeks a double ahlft of men -and strains has been pouring Into the marsh at Grand avenue almost a steady stream of dirt and gravel. . While the roarah still swallows a email portion of tha fill each day. the sinking ia not a tenth as alarming aa It- waa early ,tn the season when the weight of the ' earth waa but a small fraction what .It la today.. ., ; - . " '.' Workmen who have stuoled the eon ditlons on Grand avenue and who have . been employed on tha contract since Its Inception aald yesterday that despite the sudden drop laat week the progreaa nf the work waa not disappointing and that every day thelU gained steadily -on the marsh. The fill is, up to street grade and has reached a width of SO feet The casual nkiurver- unless he were . told, would not be awarei a alrik'!h4d recently "oc curred and there la no more Wrecking of . treaties, Dreaking or aewera ana spreading asunder of tracks. It Is' be lieved that tha additional earth required to bring the work to street width will not make any great difference with the swamp. For IS feet on each aide of .the fill the bottom of tha marsh haa been forced up through 15 feet of water and haa puahed the lake back so as to-form a shore of several feet above the water level and fc'O feet above tha old level of the marsh bottom. . Since the ' fill has exerted this tremendous pressure for many square yards to the c-aet and west of It. Jhe workmen con aider that future dumpings will cause but little additional ' trouble.' the' bot tom of the marsh being reachedjby the heaviest - part of tha f 1U i and a solid foundation given the entire "project. That tha fill will for perhaps a year or . two keep alnklng slowly Is admit ted, but that alarmlnar or 1 danserous -'S BENEFIT, A SUCCESS. WaAlfla Vnlverslte' A1m fllHfc 1M. wmS. ; . men la jKelptaf Unfortunate One. The benefit concert given at' the . McllBomah woodmen of the World hall iuot .Friday evening by the choral union ana gice.ciuo or tne jracinc uni versity proved a success, end while the numerous benefit entertainments somewhat reduced the attendance It is believed enough was raised to aid ma terially the member In California, for whom twe entertainment waa given. This member : wss formerly an east side business man. Through ill health and i bad luck iie dropped down the ladder until k V. a A ha .A - tt r.0 finals a' lew wjaeks ago he was desti tute Li i California town, with a wife and family .. dependent on him, while he was too ' ill to leave his room the grvater part of tha day.- ,f - The benefit program consisted of three parts. The first, given byT the women's chorus, waa a . rendition of The Lady of Shaiott" Tha second part of -the program consisted of Neth eriand folk songs by a mixed chorus and C. E. Bradley and It H. Markelr .... irk. ih Mrt or mi Dtv uivia , w -. . . . v - .1 mm waa a list of arousing college a glees, male and femala ; quarteta, choruses' and solos. There was the highest praise for the work- of the soloists and t collegians who enter tained the camp and Us guesta,. ST. JOHNS HAS BAND. ' Stetson Knslolaws and Xs-Anay Prepare to Wake Bokoes, . I With IS musicians and a former army bandmaster, the St. Johns band has started to toot "Its way to fame and to ahed melody on the adjacent territory. The band Is for the most part composed of men who know which end of the Jiorn not ttf blow, and the leader haa an nounced a program that Includes neither bottled beer nor clgarettea In the re hearsals, from which the town gathers that the band means business. - . The business men of St. Johns have recently.- gathered together a Commer-j clal club, and it la expected to enrpy everv cltlsen In the place in tha organ- lot inn before tha , year ends, or at. leaat secure his subscription. . The lively Commercial lub and tha band are to work together. Aa a starter today a balloon ascension will be given In the place by a traveling Vartlat." who will at the close of the leap.for life from the vaulted blue"; circulate the hat for a free will offering. Another saloon license haa been granted in St Johns and there Is no Sunday closing law, v .. '.'' : WILL AID HELPLESS. "V friends Coma to Belief of Blind Mas, .-. KeBrvla. - Several friends of Mrs, May McErvIn have banded together in an effort to se cure enough subscriptions to enable her to open a small rooming-bouse and onoe more become Independent. Mrs. McEr vIn Is the blind widow who lost all her possessions ami nearly lost her life In the east side fire several months ago. She has' sufficiently recovered to feel able to make her own way. When the Ban Francisco disaster occurred, her friends, most of them but little better off financially than neraeir. naa ar ranged to solicit subscriptions In the hope Of getting enough money to secure a lease and furnish a rew rooms. But little more than 1 100 Is needed to place Mrs. McBrvln where aha will feel and be Independent and any donations or loans to such a fund will be received by The Journal and forwarded to tier. EMMANUEL CHURCH TO CELEBRATE MAY, DAY A'Mey day entertainment will ' be given at the Emmanuel Baptist church. Second and 'Head streets, next -Tuesday evening at o'clock, The following pro a-ram haa been arranged:" - ' J The Bells of St. Mary's" ' (Rodney). Mr.' Sidney Raamuasen; recitation, se lected. Miss Maurlne Mber; duet, "O, That We Were Maying? (Smith). Miss Nancy Beats- and Mr. .8. Rasmussen; "Mlgnon" (Hsrdelot), Miss Nancy Beals; recitation, selected. Miss Maud LJllie; "A Red. Red Usee" - (Hastings). Miss Marie Glnyrtekt- vocal solo, selected. Mr. T. nrdiman: "The Max Queen" (Tenny- eon). Misses Nettle Trkvllllan. Hasel Ordaman. May Pope and eight little girls. ,-. .J - , REDUCED BEACH RATES. ' ' eaaom Opens Star' la, .', Round trip season excursion' tickets to Clataop and North Beaehr points via (he Astoria Columbia River' railroad will be placed on sale May. 1, and- dally thereafter until September, SO at the city office, M ..Alder street and at .the Union depot, at the popular , rate, of t for the round trip.! Children of half fare age, one half the. adult rate. Tickets good going one day from date of sale, and for return until October 15; These tickets are Interchangeable . and will be honored for paasage la either direction between Portland and Aatoria on the boats of the O. R. N. or V. T. Co. Close , rail -connection made -at Astoria with the boat to and ,rom North Beach points. - - ' - i., - For .all Information regarding, the "beaches and the best way to get there. telephone C. A. Stewart, .agent, ; Mam to. - - ' " SOME TRUE FROM SI Trout Creek Valley Farmers Make Ferty Dollars an Aaet Raising Hay. - EVERYONE WHO SINKS WELL FINDS WATER One Man Found Wind That Made French Horn Play The Old Oaken Bucket" Another Pired Blast and J Took Out Six Small Xiva, Fros-4 It' s a M I" Id istaken 'All rcarly-to-wcar clotKes are not alike. Youll find tliat tte Alfred Benjamin line is made and fashioned equal to custom made, and tney will fit nine out of every ten men. A few minutes spent with our clothing man will prove to ; your entire satisfac tion that you are not the ! tenth man. P : JM MORRISON ST.. Off. Posloffkt As to value none do or can give better, j f! ' M. HrakalL Trail Crosslna. AorU . Going rfouth from Bhanlko, in a aprtng wagon, to ward Trout creek canyon, there Is a road that will shake the ribs loose ia a poorly built mil. Shaniko,. terminus - of the rniumhli ftouthern railroad. Is a place of a few stores, big warehouaea. two hotels, two score of residences ana sooui i people; Some of the stores are 4rade headquarters for ranches 100 miles In the Interior, and Shaniko, It Is said, 1s the largest wool market In the state."- It la situated on a high, rocky plateau, which the railroad .had a hard time ascending from the . north, and will never. It Is predicted. . descend toward tha south. The wagon road for three miles south Is a succession of Hint rocks, that ara believed to be harder than those commonly referred to near Jordan. A ' long hill into Trout creek canyon, then the valley widens out to half a mile In some pieces, and there Is a succession of rich irrigated ranches that the owners refuse to put a price on. The metropolis af the valley is Antelope, for many years a headquarters for sheep men and sy ranchers, "and the principal trading point of the Interior Crook county region until Shaniko became a railroad town. , , May Fays la Trout Oreek. In .Trout creek vslley the farmers net (40 per acre for their hay, year after year, from local stock men. Crossing Trout creek Z0 miles south of Bhaniko, we made the first contact with the Des Chutes company's automobile - road, which winds across the plains SO miles southward.. Sections of the road- have been anoroDrlated to wason travel.- al- -I though most of It Is over private right of way. The famous lz-passenger auto mobile built by QUI in Portland for op eration on this road has been sent to southern California, where It Is fn tour ist passenger service.' The, Des Chutes auto line haa been practically abandoned since the company haa received aasur- anca that a railroad will be built Into the upper Des Chutes oountry within the next year or two. Tnere are tnree par ties of surveyors now in the field for as many ' railroad companies projecting lines toward Madras, a new town on Willow oreek, about H miles south of Shaniko. Ml who Journey south r north through Crook county have heard of Helsler's. From 'Shaniko it la "It miles to Helsler's. " From Madras, coming back. It- is "20 miles ta Hetaler's." When you get to Helsler's you find a sub stantial little farm house, a small hay ranch, and a wlndmilL. TheTnotaMe thing about the place Is a larva sign on the watering trough, "Do not monkey with thla tank." : 'When we arrived some monkey had dammed the streaea that flows througa the ranch, and the water had backed up until It created a small -lake extending through the orchard and down tha high way to , the front gate. We drove through to, the tank and appropriated water, for- our ,team and party without the least compunction. ' - " Making Wheat Fields, i . Prom thla point tha road winds aouth- westward through a wide, rolling prairie reeion for nearly 25 miles, to Madras. Sage brush and ahort bunch grass that formerly covered tha slopes is -being plowed under and converted Into wheat fields, surrounded by wire fences; Tha country"' gradually rises to a summit about half way between Helsler's - and Madras, and then slopes down again to the latter town, lying In Willow creek basin. Throughout this region, the depth to underground water varies from 76 to 126 feet. Half a doien wells have been dug by shovel and dynamite method, but the more modern process of drilling and csslng will be sdopted as soon aa the farmers get fairly es tablished In their new homes. -L Kverv one that haa Bunk a well has found water and some have found ; thtna-a even mora intereating. Frank i Loveland. blasting at a depth -of 120 feet, broke through a strata o bed rock ' t . . a,ha.rwl m . Pll.hlllV V,lnft ana nwra tr " . -- -- He leaned over tha well and felt a blast of hot air that blew his hst oft. They covered the hole with boards, to protect eveVyone from possible Injury. One of i the well diggers wore whiskers. I A amsll boy with a French harp, In 1 veatlgatlng the phenomena, accidentally ' dropped his French hsrp, and It fitted ; into the crack and stuck there, right side up, and began playing a tuna. They left , the harp in the crack, and It played all . night Next morning the current of air ! upward changed to a suction downwsrd. I They turned the V"0" harp over, and It played "The Old Oaken ' Bucket.'" They Immediately rigged a water bucket to the windlass, ami brought up flrst- class drinking water, that has ever since : been supplying an abundance to the en I tire neighborhood. r - Blowing wells are peculiar to this 'section of Cenaral Oregon. It, Is be lieved they are caused by preesure from the rising and falling of the Des Chutes river, which Is known to transmit tts wsters, at certain stages, through As sures . that connect with subterranean I paasagea. -.- v.- Although the volume of water drain ing Into the Des Chutes canyon varies 1 tremeudoualy t different seasons of tha , year, the stage of the stream never changes more thanOS' Inches. -Equally ' atrange are the geological formations I revealed by the layers exposed in the great canyons of -the Des Chutes and Crooked rivers, which ara cut straight down lno the level plain at places to a ' depth of 1,000 feet Fred Fisher, who r homestended -KO acres, now the town I site of Fls-hervllle, fired a blast In a dry well at a depth of a0 feet. When he ' took out the debris he found six small, ! llvs frogs, that had not been In the well when he placed the blast They had I been blown out of the solid rock, or had coma In from a dry underground pasa sge after the explosion. Ha haa the ! frogs, alive and well, as evidence of the ! truth of the story, mere- is no ena w. j the . interesting, inings jouna ,oy traveler. I We are now coming ta theternef as pect of the countrty, embrsclng con stderatione of soil, climate, areas under cultivation, actual yields of grsln and. immediate prospects for development and transportation. ' ' i J MAINLY PERSONAL V Martin E..Elklns of Newber. who Is ' In Portland on a business trip, saya sev erat r-fue" from San Frsnclsco are I etopplr. with frionds and relatives in (A OFETi -JUTiE 1 TO SEPIEiLIlSi TTDcrnTToTl i una m 1 f , NOW is the Time to Plan for Your Summer's Vacation Government Offidal Entfaice fa vmUvingston. and Gardirier Gateway mm IS THE ONLY DIRECT LINE TO THE PARK SEE EUROPEJlFvYOU WILLbut SEE AMERICA FIRST. Start Right - STONE PARK,' Nature's Greatest Wonderland. V ' The Route of the See YELLOW- Rto 'T ' rtii--..Goast MniSef THE ONLY ELECTRIC LlGHTEDODERN-TRAINrFROM PORTLAND to the EAST- A. D. CHARLTON, Assistant General Passenger Agent PORTLAND, OREGON O I ior lor XaVXal o o () o or ior ior ! O m Jm 1 Sidney R. McAllister, wife and daugh ter of Pendleton axe In Portland on a shopping trip. They ara stopping at the Perkins. '," It A. CUrke of tha Dalles la regis tered at the Imperial. "'". ' ' .Thomas T. Bennett and his sister. children of -J. W. Bennett,' tha attorney of Marahfleld, ara In the city. They eacaped from San Francisco safely. Mr. Bennett waa a student at Stanford uni versity and Miss Bennett waa In theay City for the grand opera season. Miss . It, Bernard, manager of - the "salons of dress" at Olds Wort man King store, returned Thursday from New York, her second trip thla season In the Interests of her firm and depart ment .', - ' ' ' . - Mrs. H. C Wortman haa returned from Seaside, where she haa been spending a few days with bar children , la shore recreation. - .-. '.'" ," ' ' "'- -- .,-.----A. I jLevy af Valdex. wlt-h his wife and three children, ara at tha residence of Mrs. Frank M. Cohn. - .., - , v Fall grain looking well up the valley. TMs M j jj 1 .'. ' ROCKERExactly as pictured; made , from genu- fne quartered oak or imitation mahogany; cobler , set built for hard service; artistic design; reg ' ? 'ular anywhere $S.0O. ! ' (Q iC T ' Covell's price . THERE HAVE BEEN MANY ROCKER SPECIALS, , BUT NONE EQUALS, THIS, j AND THE SAME HOLDS GOOD OF THIS TABLE. YOU CANT BEAT THIS VALUE. CENTER TABLE Exactly as pictured; made from , genuine quartered oak or imitation mahogany; FrenJh legs; shaped shelf sixe of top 24x24; ab- , , sotntely solid; regular anywhere , ; t9 7C $6.75. Covell's price ;. covell mm CKWff ' Ii34wl86 FIRST STRBBT Yoa Fornish Ihe Girl .t Fcser.Cf Nest that town. . ' ' 'V ' j I !