fHE OltEGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON
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SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 23, 1922
ST.PiJLWB.1
Company Officials 'Certain
Paying Deposits of Oil
Will be Found
The Willamette Valley Gas &
Oil company -well at St. Paul la at
rest for the present, until full ar
rangements pre made to "bring
in" the well with the big oil flow
that the drillers are supremely
' confident la there waiting for
fheni to tap.
The eight-inch casing Is now
. .dowa.80 feet, and Li. held there
pending the securing of more pipe.
Below this depth the" drill en
countered a strong flow of salt
water, and other Plain water. So
strong Is this water pressure
that the water rises to within
about 30 feet of the top of the
bore, strong enough that it would
tax any pump capacity to lower
the level materially. They plan
to add more casing on top of
that already In the hole, and low
er it all down to a permanent bot-
1 torn, the depth the open hole has
f now reached, 1006 feet., With
' liquid cement poured In around
r the outside of the casing they will
j seal off the water and leave the
y present eight-Inch.' hole free, of
all possible water Intrusion. Then
a six-inch, pipe c&k pV'ftelT Jngide
"tho present casing' go on down
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CHRISTMAS IN
have gotten Into the real oil de
posits. Only a "gusher" with a pres
sure greater than the weight of
the whole 1000-foot column of
water, would produce oil until
the casing is lowered and the wa
ter sealed off. So the company
shut down the work, with the
first showing of oil last week,
and is now getting ready to han
dle the next discovery in a business-like
way".
It Is understood that the com
pany, while convinced that - the
hfo tVllnf. la 4nof nYlnn A nf AtYl
Is still in want of money tocom-!lnree attractive menus for a Christmas Dinner and how to
THE KITCHEN
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to the oil. They do; not . expect
to find other water,' now that they
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that is .
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plete the casing and other neces
sary safety work before drilling
farther, and is to rell a small
quantity of stock at the old par
value.
. Following the Insistence of
some'of their men who have bad
wide experience in oil circles In
other states, the company is pre
paring for storage pools for the
oil that is expected. A gusher, la
freely predicted by the more san
guine operators, which would re-'
quire instant storage or else
heavy loss. So firmly do these'
men believe that the conditions
warrant the belief of a flowing
Well that they will not again start
the drill until they have: provid
ed adequate storage for at least
a small flowing welL . Some of
these wells shoot the ponderous
tools out- of the 1 000-foot -or even
2000-fott holes, and discharge oil
faster than the Whole Salem
waterworks could , pump .water. :
"If this showing -wete in Texas,-miles
and miles away from
any present proven oil field, there
would be a stampede like a drove
of wild buffaloes,", said W. H.
Prepare Them
It, is a fortunate thing that
Christmas, the brightest of all
the festivals, comes at the dark
est period of the year. Kven
when the days are at their short
est and the weather at Its drear
iest, we have Cnristmas to think
of and prepare for.
tin and a. j little fine- cut citron.
Then take half a pound of . suet
cut up and stir to a cream. Add
this to the (other mixture. Then
add spices, cinnamon and cloves.
a tablespoohful of each. A hall
teacupful of cider follows and
last of all the whites of four
Though Christmas Is a festival egs beaten stiff. A small sized
shared in by1 all the Christian
cations of the world, yet each
nation has developed its own spe
cial celebration Christmas as
we now'itJ may almost be said
to . hare developed since Dickens
wrote the. beautiful "Christmas
enameled ware dishpan will be
found most useful for mixing thi
pudding. It should be carefully
tied in a cloth and boiled for
six hours in a preserving kettle.
This pudding is very good when
cold and cut into slices and fried.
Cover with a plain pastry crust
and bake. With this chicken-
pie serve cranberry sauce pre
pared as with the- sucking pig.
A very nice vegetable to go with
the chicken-pie is cauliflower.
IT that is not available canned
corn is also good.
For dessert try a Norwegian
prune pudding. Pick over and
wash one-half pound of prunes.
Soak them in cold water for an
hour. Then cook in a saucepan
until soft. Separate the prunes
from the stones. Crack the
stones and take out the meat;
add theee meats to the prunes.
Then add one cup of sugar, one
tablespoonful of cinnamoa, two
cups of boiling water and cook
all together for ten minutes.
Then take one-third of a cup of
cornstarch, add cold water to
this until it is a thin batter,
add to the prune mixture- and
cook five minutes. Pour all in
to mould and out away in a
cold place for several hours
This is good made the day be
fore. Serve with cream.
Now here is a simple but ex-
ellent meal, and, ended off wUh
black coffee, no one need ask
for a better to give them at truly-
Merry Christmas.
Carol." Up to that time Christ- so-thexe is no haste about eat
maa was more of a church fes-,ing it alljon Christmas day. Ulaok
tival. Dickens taught us that it coffee and fruit will finish a
might, and should, be a time ivery substantial dinner.
of "good will to ,. men," of fam
ily -gatherings and for taking
thought of those who are lonely
or in need.
Tradition Prescfiibea Goose
Cbristma
for
Sayre.- one of the- company ex- l
.kh . nil tn ntrfn. n.ti. quite sufficiently elaborate
Of course, .one of the most
important parts -of the celebra
tion is the ' Christmas dinner.
Here is an- orthodox menu tor a
ties when we are able to go on
down and get It." .
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1 We "are ready to supply' your Christmas table with
the best the .markets afford. In fruit, candies, nuts, we
carry only the very best and we all know that the best
is the most economical to buy. " . ...
Rafsins, Nuts, Etc.
Oranges
Our oranges are bright in
color and exceptionally
fine flavor. Special low
price on large sizes in
cases and half case lots.
100 large to case $4.25
case . :...!. $2.25
By the dozen ;
30c, 40c, 50c and 60c doz.
Japanese oranges,
doz. 30c and. 40c; v,
$1.25 box. ' -
;'"y Grape Fruit
Large Florida .-....15c,
Large Arizona 110c
Red Bananas, lb. 15c
Yellow Bananas, lb.--.15c
Malaga Grapes, lb. ..15c
Apples
Rome Beauty, packed
box ..u .......... $1.50
Not packed, box ..$1.00
Spitzenbergs, box ..$1.50
VEGETABLES
Celery, Celery Hearts,
Head Lettuce, Green
Peppers, Cauliflower,
Carrots, Turnips, Beets,
Sweet. Potatoes, Cran
berries. .
Guster Raisins, pkg. 25c
Extra Fancy 50c
5 Ibaf extra fancy,
box . $2.25
Imported, extra fancy,
lb. ;.......0c
Cat. layer FJgs, lb. 30c
Imported pulled Figs
lb. .... , 50c
1 lb. basket figs, lb.I.75c
3 lb. box. Cal. pulled '
Figs, :..$uo
Mixed Nuts, (no pea
nuts, lb. 25c
..Large Brazils, 2 lbs 35c
Best Almonds ....... -35c
Walnuts, good 25c
Fancy grade. .30c
Large Franquettes 40c ,
Candy, hard mixed..15c
Broken Mixed -20c
French Creams 25c
Candy Canes -10e
Candy Fancy Packages,
50c, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50
Allan's Oactus Crystals
50c and $1.00 box
Lyon's Glace Fruits,
box ..$1.00
Dromedary Dates,
pkg .,..25c
Camel Dates 15c
Fard Dates, pound, 40c
i . - Turkeys and Hens
? . , A. fine lt of Turkeys and heavy hens.' Be sure to
. order your turkey at once so as to get the best selection.
C H WasoiVs Coffee
A beautiful lithographed canister given with each
three pound purchase of Wason's Coffee; 1 pound 45c;
3 pounds $L30.
,'-, Gem Blend Coffee
Our most popular seller. A coffee with fine flavor
and high quality where you do not pay for a tin can.
35c pound; 3 pounds $1.00
v r r,; Fruit Cakes and Plum Pudding
. We make our Fruit Cakes in our own kitchen and
guarantee them to be made of the very best materials
;our large store affords. You can buy them in 1, 2, and
j4 cake3." 75c pound. r-. tr " " r
' i ' Richard & Bobbins English Style Plum, pudding, v
' - v .; l, 2, 3, and.,4 pound tins
Roth-Grocery
Pnone 1885-6-7 - Np charge forJeHjerjr-
Orders pKoned. as" early as possiUe in ,the Jriorning will-
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Christmas dinner. First raw
oysters. Then a clear soup. If
the housewife has an enameled
ware soup kettle which she keeps
duly going with all the odds and
ends and left-overs, she "has a
foundation for her clear soup.
To a quart of this soup Btock,
strained out, add one pound of
soup meat cut in small pieces.
Cook for two or three hours
Set off and when cold skim. Re
heat and settle with the white
of an egg, as one would coffee.
Set aside and heat when needed.
For the roast have the Christ
mas goose of English tradition
The goose is a noble bird, im
posing in appearance and most
excellent In flavor. Many house
wives, however, fear to try goose
as it is not easily roasted. It
needs much basting for one thing
and a rather slow oven. If, how
ever, the hostess owns an enam
eled ware roaster Bhe need have
no misgivings. These roasters
are self-basting and the arrange
ments for ventilating allow the
goose to cook as slowly or as
fast as is needed.
The goose must have apple
sauce as Its accompaniment. Ap
pie. sauce when properly made
can. be appetizing. The apples
should not be pared and sliced
until iU8t when they are to be
cooked. Put In an enameled
ware saucepan with just enough
water to keep from burning and
cook quickly; add sugar Just be
fore removing from the fire, also
a dasn. of lemon Juice if the ap
ples are not sour. Cooked in this
way the apple sauce win De
golden amber as the enameled
ware will not darken the irun
Onions and boiled rice go well
with the rich roast goose. A fruit
salad is a refreshing next course
Canned pineapple covered with
a layer of sliced bananas, wun
a spoonful of whipped cream on
top is a very ood saiaa ana
easily prepared.
For dessert, of course, comes
the plum pudding. No longer
can the pudding enter in aglory
of blazing brandy to the awe ana
amazement of youthful guests,
but It, can still wear its sprig
of holly and be as aencious a
ever. Here is an old English
rnla for the genuine article,
Take half a pound of staie
bread crumbs, one cup o hot
milk. Soal: the crumbs- in tne
milk and let It stand until cold
Then add one-quarter of a pound
of sugar, the beaten folks of our
eggs, half a pound of raisins
one-quarter, of a pound of cur
rants, the same of tigs .chopped
Three Attractive Menus for
Christmas Dinner
Dickens' Christmas Dinner
Oysters on the Hlf Shell
Clear Soup
Koast Goose with Apple 8ne
Onions Boiled Rice
Fruit Salad
Plum Padding
Coffee Frnit
American Christmas Dinner
Cams on the HU Shell
Clear Soap
Boast Shckini Pig wit Cranberry
Jelly
8weet Potatoes Onion
Mock Mines Pie .
Coffee
h Economical Christmas Dinner
1 Oyster Stew
Chicken Pie with Cranberry Suc
Korwegian Prune Padding.
As a. Surprise Servo Itoast
Sucking Pig
Another orthodox menu has for
its central point a roast sucking
pig. As this is a very rich
dish begin with raw clains, al
ways a good appetizer, then a
clear soup as before; small por
tions in cups will be ample;
Then, the pig. Don't try to cook
it unless you have an enameled
ware roaster, as it is no easy
task to cook a sucking pig.
With the roaster, however, there
is no .. trouble at all. The per
fectly basted pig will emerge
the beautiful golden brown it
should be, and may be borne
proudly to the table with a lemon
in its mouth!
The fat of the pig demands
an . acid and nothing nicer than
our pretty, wholesome, red cran
berries. Cooked in an enameled
ware saucepan which will not
darken their color, they may
be served with the pig either
as sauce or jelly. They tell us.
In the South that sucking pig
and sweet potatoes go together,
and they ought to know.. Onions
are also a good addition. After
Rurh a heartv meat course a
string beati salad comes in well
Housewives in the country will
find . the canned string beans
verv srood. Serve with a fruit
dressing.
The most orthodox dessert
after plum pudding for Christ
mas is mince pie, but the old'
fashioned mince pies are so for
midable. Bought mince meat
canned is good and baked 'With
a ti ire home-made crust is as
nice a pie as on need have
There is. however a rule tor
BO-called mock mince pie which
makes a pie not so rich and
therefore better after such a re
past. Take four good sized soda
crackers,, roll them out, add one
and one-half cups of sugar, one;
cup of molasses, the juice of half i
lemon, one cup of raisins ;
chopped,' one-halt cup of dates
chopped, one-half cup of butter,
two eggs well beaten and spice
to taste. Bake in enameled
ware pie plates in a fairly quick
oven.
Now we have had two quite
full and elaborate Christmas din
ners but there are families who
are not large enough ' to make
such menus very practical nor
are their purses long enough
to make that kind of dinner very
reasonable, so let us see wnai
we can find that is also entirely
correct for Christmas and yet
within the reach of modest
means.
A Christinas Dinner for Small
Family t,
First get a quart of small oys
ters.- Take a pint or mem "
make an ovster stew. With the
help of an enameled ware double
boiler there will he no trouble
with this, for there will no
danger of the milk curdling.
Buy an old fowl or hen. inese
are cheaper man mu "
fowls and quite as good in flavor.
Cut it nr as for a fricassee, rut
on the fire in an enameled ware
saucepan and cook slowly until
tender. Have ready a ramci
shallow enameled ware
riisTi. Put in the chicken ana
add the other pint of oysters.
COUGHS AXC- COI.DS IN
WINTKK
Indoor sedentary life in .winter
has a direct bearing on the preva
lence of coughs and colds. Keep
the bowels active and overcame
constipation with Foley's Cathar
tic Tablets. Colds, cough, erous,
throat, chest and bronchial trouble
quick relieved with Foley's Honey
and Tar. Contains no jsintcs--iagredients
printed on the wrap
per. Largest selling cough medi
cine in-the world. "Foley's Hon
ey and Tar is wonderful for at
tacks of coughs and colds," writes
W. H. Gray, Venice, California.
-Adv.
In the flax industry. I regret
that it failed. I am going to try
to introduce industry out there
and see if this will not help to cut
the present state tax bill of 9.-
500,000.
"Senator Patterson claimed that
a cut of a million dollars a year
could be made. 1 believe it can.
There are some things that we
can't reduce appreciably, like the
primary schools, the roads, and
even higher education. But we
might redistribute the load. Min
nesota, with two and one-half
times as great valuation, still
pays only one-sixth as much Btate
tax as Oregon; but they tax a
kind of natural Resources like
their iron ore, that we have kind
ly let go free while we stick the
burden on the land
Mr. Pierce told of now having
270 cattle fattening on grain. A
buyer recently offered him $3.75
per 100 pounds for the choice of
the herd. He said that every
-cattle man in Oregon will soon
see the receiver coming around
the corner unless there is a change
in cattle conditions.
Mr. Pierce spoke feelingly of
the practical communism ot land,
when the taxes wipe out the land
values and destroy the incentive
or the possibility of owning
homes.
"We are ail of Nordic descent,
and the hope and the need of
homes of our own are part of our
being.
BKSSSB
MORt INCREASE
Mill Consumption and Export
of Cotton Make Larg
est Month Gain
WASHINGTON', De. S2. Bus
iness conditions during November
showed further increases in both
production and distribution, ac
cording to a statement tonight by
the department ot commerce.
Mill consumption ot cotton tor
gether in communal units a doi
en living, eating, sleeping In a
single room, but we cant do it
that way. We must make our
farms possible to own and live
on with profit."
Seuator I. L. Patterson, also a
guest of tho realtors, spoke appre
ciatively of the work done by the
association in the stabilizing of
values. He pledged his personal
J support to the new governor in
the matter of helping to lower
or redistribute taxes and make
the Oregon farmer prosperous
i-noush to make the whole coun
try prosper.
President Bohrnstedt presented
the matter of securing farmer
representation on the national
J Federal Reserve banks, and asked
that the Realtors and the Cham
ber of Commerce of Salem write
to the Oregon delegation in con
gress to demand such representa
tion. The Realtors are to hold no
meeting next Thursday, December
2S, but they will convene January
NovembVr"totate4U t,6i' eales.
the largest for any month nce
Only 191 7, according to depart
ment records,', . ' V!- ' '
Export of -cotton also Increased
to 858,37 hales, or mpproxlmtte-
iy 8 per ent of the Htire-cropk
Increases were reported An the
production of; pig irorf; Ueetf in
got, tine and coke, and in Jeata
er. . t r . ;: , ,J .
Prices, both .wholesale and re
tail, rose slightly ln KoTemher
according to the department' re
view, which mentioned as a sig
nificant movement the Increased
price ot arm prod seta tofcsiher
with the improvement In relatiT
purchasing power. v v W j
There - appeared to b ttUld
change in European business eon
ditions. A. steady appreciation ot
the exchange value ot several
the countries, however, was r4
garded by the department " a aj
favorable factor.- Shipping" con
ditions were reported fairly actv
ire In the maritime countries
abroad. - !. j
4 in an vening session, with a
Mongolians may herd to- ladies night program. - - -
Two Locomotives Arrive
for' Overhaulincf Work
DALLAS, Or, Deu 22J.Tsp-
cial to The Statesmen.) Two ot
the big . locomotives that are ' to;
be repaired at. the plant ,ot, the,
Dallas Machine & Locomotive j
works, in. this city arrived s this
week and, work; has already, been i
started on overhauling the ma-',
chines. The Dallas plant recently;
received a contract for overhaul-1
ing 10 of the big. locomotives and
in order to get them out in record !
time Carl . Gerlinger, j manager of j
tbe works, expect to put-on. an j
cxtr shift ot.nien which wjil ne
cessitate the running of the plant
ia full 24-hour shift. ,.. f ,
GHHECT
AXES
TALKS ON T
Walter M, Pierce Tells Real
tors He hoies to Make
,.' Penitentiary Pay
Governor-elect Pierce, a guest
of the Marion County Realtors
whom he addressed as "fellow
farmers,' delivered a heart-to-heart
talk on state government at
the weekly luncheon at the Mar
ion Thursday noon.
j Do yoM know that Oregon pays
the heaviest tax rate ot all states
la. the -'Union?" he said. "It to
growing steadily until, taking the
state over, the taxes are one-half
the rental value of the farm land.
Twenty years ago taxes were
about 20 per cent of the rental
value. Twenty years ago it took
about 2 per cent of the crops
to pay the state taxes; now it
takes 4 5 per cent for the same
purpose, we nave an gone crazy
on taxes, every kind of unit
school, city, state.
"It is my problem to try and
help reduce state tax costs. As
1 looked at the army ot employes
coming out of the state house and
thought of the other armies em
ployed by the state in otber cities
or places, I began to realize what
a load of service we have built up
for the state to pay for. Can we
reform, or change to an easier
scale? I shall want your friend
ship, your advice, your coopera
tion in the work ahead. Tax re
form is a delicate surgical oper
ation, and not a job for the
heavy-handed butcher. He might
kill the patient.
"I have understood that the
state of Minnesota claims to have
made its penitentiary pay tor its
own way; so is this claimed for
Indiana,, and for Kansas. I am
pl4jCurjther that in Kansas at
least thin aDnarent saving is a
matter . ot clever bookkeeping.
Our own penitentiary costs us
S400, 000. Maybe we can'frun
it for less. But I am luterested
mm -y
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The Turkey is Essential
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Don't Overlook the Concluding Chapter
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Kidney Pills for pains in sides and
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Last Minute Suggestion
For Your Christmas Dinner
Grapes, oranges, bananas, grapefruit. Japanese oranges, apples,
nuts of all kinds, candies, dates, tigs, stuffed dates, layer raisins,
pickles, olives. Jellies, jam, real home-made mince-meat, fresh cider.
RIGHT PRICES
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