Willamette farmer., July 28, 1882, Image 1

VOL,. XIV.
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SOMETHING FOR FARMERS TO 'CONSIDER.
Editor Willamette Farmer:
Daring the strawberry season just passed,
when berries sold for five and six cents per
pound, a certaiu man sold his at ten, and
during the week that the market was glutted
and were a drug, peddled all over town at two
and three cents, that same man sold his at
six and eight cents, not a few pounds merely,
dui nve ana six nunarea pounus uany,
JJC How did he do it? By being particular to
raise a good variety, leaving the small ones in
the field and paying particular attention to
quality, making a difference to his pocket of
three or four dollars on every hundred pounds
sold, and the still further difference in his
favor of selling his load every day iu twenty
minutes alter his arrival, while other were
spending the entire day with a horso aud
wagon to sell the same similar amount. This
man says it pays, and pajs bit;, to strive for
quality. The same thing is enacted on our
streets daily with cherries; somo parties
bringing tnem unripe aud overripe, large and
small, good, bad and indifferent, just as they
came from the tree, dumped into boxes iu
every shape, while a few careful painstaking
men bring them invariably in perfect order,
very neatly packed in nico t'Oxes, taking the
cream of the market and always the prefer
ence by four to fire cents per pound, nuking
a difference of that many dollars on every
hundred pounds sold. The former parties
complain of hard times and low prices, want
to sell out, want to change to something else;
the latter are industriously pursuing their
business and quietly pocketing the profits
contented with the situation: they say it
pays.
Another case: Every week I receive letters
inquiring, "When is the best time to send
chickens to market?" poultiy of all kinds.
To reply in a word I would say, send when
ever they are in condition, This waiting and
holding to get the extreme top of the market
is a very uncertain affair. At Thanksgiving
festivals and Christmas times the average citi
zen is supposed to consume an extraordinary
amount of poultry, but if everybody holds
back for those particular times the conse
quence is the market is completely glutted
and prices go way down to nothing.
Now, the truth is, the average citizen has
to eat 365 days in the year, and several times
a day, and don't object to chicken occasional
ly every week. It is also true that in the ag
gregate the supply of poultry in this market
is not excessive f it was properly distributed
through the season, hence if it was sent to
market from time to time as it matures in
good condiiion, an average of better prices
would be realized.
There is perhaps no product from the farm
that Days so well in proportion to the amount
of capital invested, aud labor required, as
that from the poultry yard, yet some farmers
give it no attention, make no preparation for
its care, leaving it to seek its own food and
shelter, and if by chance it multiplies
and increases in spite of neglect, they
are ready to send it to market and
pocket the proceeds, regardless of all economy
in the matter; do not take one intelligent step
to secure its transit to market and arrival
there in marketable condition. They will
make a coop wide and long enough to hold
threoor four dozen, but so low a chicken can
not stand upright, and crowd them in so long
as there is any room. The coop is so large
and heavy no drayman can handle it alone or
with care, and they receive rough treatment
at every change, and the consequence is they
arrive sick, smothered, dead and dying. We
frequently find several dead ones in a coop,
and plenty that are tick and feverish. In one
instance we removed eight dead ones from
one coop immediately on its arrival on our
sidewalk, and the balance in the coop looked
as though they wi re about to yield to the in
evitable. Contrast such a coop with one as it
should be made, high enough for the tallest
chicken to stand and crow. It is made of light
lumber, open slats on both sides for perfect
ventilation, and large enough to hold a dozen
without severe crowding. The draymen han
dle it as easily aa a package of eggs, and as
carefully. It arrive in perfect condition;
their comb are bright, indicating perfect
health, they are crowing and chatting to
themselves over the novelties and experiences
of the journey. I it any wonder that we
have hard work to get 12 SO for the first coop,
while the latter U taken readily at $5 or
$5 50 ? And again, is it any wonder that the
owner of the first thinks be is swindled be
cause he did not get the highest quotations of
the u.arket? I was taught when a boy, and
hold to it et, that what is worth doin at all
is worth doing well. If I had chickens to sell
J would make coop of uniform tiie to hold
just a dozen, semi none but what were fat and
plump, those not in good condition leave at
home and put them up and feed them a few
days before sending, and scud along at differ
ent times as fast as they come in prime con
dition, instead of keeping them four or five
months longer to send at Christmas when
they ate likely to sell for a less price than
now. Observe a few simple rules about mar
keting poultry and you need not go astray :
First, send none but what are fat and plump.
Second, make coops light and uniform, tight
bottoms and tops, with narrow slats- on the
side, and larsre enough to hold a dozen; the
freight costs no more, they are returned free,
and if well made will last for years. Third,
coop them just before Beoding, so that the
time of their confinement may be as short as
possible. Fourth, put old ones in coops by
themselves, young ones also, and have them
of uniform size; don't put in a few of email
size like robbins into a coop of well groin
ones, thinking to palm them off for full gronn.
It won't go down; it condemns the larger
ones to the price of the. smaller and is against
your pocket. Fifth, Saturday is the worst
day of the week for their arrival heic; it is
the best day for the retail trade in poultry,
but dealers have stock laid in beforehand so
plan to hava their arrival hero any day iu pre
ference to Saturday. Eggs should be Bent
fresh every week. Regular egg packers is the
best and safest way of packing them.
J. B. Knapp.
Portland, July 20.
A Reply to R. F.V. on Bots in Horses.
Editor Willamette Farmer:
I cannot endorse H. F. W.'s article on
Bots, which I noticed in your last issuo. He
is undoubtedly mistaken in bis opinion that
the red -oxide of mercury, when given inter
nally, will expel or kill bots after they attain
their growth. Red oxide of mercury is a very
dangerous remedy, certainly more calculated
to produce an abnormal condition ot a
stomach than to correct it. A permanent im
pairment of the digestive organs often results
from the administration of such remedies,
hence frequent attacks of colic ensue, which
the cross roads "hoss doctor" would invaria
bly pronounce bots to be the cause of the
trouble. Nature has provided a home for the
bot in the horse's stomach. The left half of
a horse's stomach is covered with a thick, in
sensi hie cuticle, upon which the bot makes
his home. The hooks that they are provided
with around their heads enables them to at
tach themselves to the cuticle, and when once
fastened, they remain there until the follow
ing spring, when they let loose their hold, and
become expelled with the fuces. In due time
they are transformed into the gad-fly, which
are ready to deposit their eggs on the horse's
legs, breast, or underneath his jaws. Wheu
the horso bites or licks his legs, the warmth
and moisture of bis tongue extracts the em
bryo from the egg, the miniature bot adheres
to the horse's tongue and is carried into the
mouth and swallowed. Those under the jaws
frequently fall into the feed and are consumed
with it All the bots do not invariably fas
ten themselves to the insensible cuticle of the
stomach, occasionally they are found in the
horse's throat, on the right half of the
stomach, which is very sensitive, and on the
duodenum Their presence ou these sensitive
membranes are attended with danger only
when they happen to.be too numerous, they
then interfere with digestion. Regarding the
propriety of administering medicine with the
view of expelling bote, it is simply impossi
ble for any medicine to do it without doing a
positive injury to the horse, and more apt to
destroy the horse than to discomnv de the
bots in the least. The hot's hea 1 is so firmly
compressed sgainst the membranes to which
ho is attached, that it is impossible for the
medicine to get to his mouth, and after the
bot acquirei his horny coat it is" then almost
imp issible for him to become affected by the
medicine through absorption. The horse's
sensitive stomach quickly takes up the poison
ous remedies that are administered in a vain
attempt to destroy an imaginary evil, which
usually results in killing the poor horse, and
only giving the bot little fun in trying bis
compressing powers.
jAMaVJ WlTHYCUMBE, V, S.
The Medical Lakes of Washington Terrltorr.
In the northeastern .part of Washington
Territory there are three small lakes, known
aa the Medical Lakes, from their supposed
medicinal properties. Efforts have been made,
and not without considerable success, to make
them a place' of summer resort; hotels and
bath house have been built, and numbers of
people each summer Lave gone there to enjoy
the delightful bathing in the waters, jhe
principal ingredient of the waUr is the car
bonate of soda, and it is to this that it owes
its cleansing and pleatiug properties. Aa the
carbonate of soda is o'teo prescribed by phy.
sicians for skin disease, eruptions, etc., these
waters will undoubtedly be found beneficial
PORTLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1882.
to persons suffering from affections of tho
s'cin. It is claimed, also, that they are good
iu rheumatism and kindred complaints, but
aside from their medicinal properties, it would
seem that they might be made the source
from which a large part of tho carbonate ot
soda now used could be procured by the sim
ple process of evaporating tho waters.
This carbonate of soda was formerly ob
tained from plants, principally barilla and
kelp. It is now almost entirely made from
commoa salt, by the process of Ltblanc,
which consists in converting the chloride of
sodium (common salt) in sulphate of sodium
(Glauber salts) by the action of sulphuric
acid, and then conveiting the sulphate into
carbonate by beating with carbonate of lime
and coal. Very large quantities of this salt
are produced annually, its principal uses
being in the preparation of the bi-carbonate of
soda (hydrate of sodium), in the manufacture
of soap, for which puipose it is better adapted
than potash, on account of not being deli
quescent like the former alkali; and also very
largely iu tho preparation of paper pulp from
various materials the paper maker uses it iu
connection with quicklime, which reduces it
to caustic soda. It is also used in the laundry
and for cleansing purposes generally.
These lakes are situated in a country which
is vcry'dry during a portion of the year, dur
ing which time July, August and September
evaporation could be successfully carried on
by simply exposing the water to the air in
shallow pans, as is now done at the Buffalo
salt works in Nevada, where au immense
quantity of salt is produced. The lakes are
only about eight or nine miles from the line of
the Northern Pacifio Railroad, and all the
necessary plants, machinery, lumber, fuel,
etc., could be easily and cheaply procured,
and the resulting product shipped to the
markets of the world.
Tho lakes have no outlet, aud are appar
ently fed by springs, as their drainage areas
are too small to account for the accumulation
and o ntinuancc of the waters. Other clear
water lakes are in the immediate vitinity, all
of which, it seems, goes to show that the
waters obtain their supply of soda by perco
lating thruugh a deposit in the earth, which
deposit may be reached at tome time, and the
production increased and simplified.
The uses of soda and the other salts of so
dium are fhyriad, and it would seem as if this
source of supply was well worth the attention
of manufacturers of the article.
Lieut. Thomas V. Symons.
VALUE OF LAND GRANTS.
There is a proverb that "figures won't lie,"
but unless figures are properly used they can
be made to outlie any other plan. We have
read with interest statements made concern
ing the value of land grants to railroads, and
while there is no doubt that valuable lands
are included in such grants, it is evident that
many roads have been constructed when not
one-fourth of the lands have any present val
ue. Take, for instance, the lands of the Ore
gon and California Railroad, which so far, we
are informed, havo never afforded revenue to
pay the expense attending them. We heard
Air. Lamborn, Commissioner for the Lands of
the Northern Pacific Railroad grant, say that
the company will do well if it receives 75
cents an acre for the whole of its grant. That
statement may surprise some, but when we
consider that the road pisses through moun
tains and bad lands, as well as through fertile
prairies, it will not appear so unreasonable.
We have always thought, and haveaid in
these columns, that there has been misman
agement on part of the Government iu the
manner of making these grants. It has been
by tho inducement these lauds have afforded
to capital that it has been possible to get the
Northern Pacifio Railroad built, and this re
gion is too much interested in its construction
to be disposed to condemn the grant, that se
cures that end. When the grant was made,
Congress should have restricted the sales to
actual settlers in similar quantity that can be
taken of Government and at some uniform
price. Such a plan would secure better re
sults, but now that the grant is made and the
roads nearly built, it is too late to suggest
better methods.
It would be interesting to analyze the char
acter of the lands through which the Northern
Pacifio road will pass, and form an estimate
of the actually good land included in the
grant. The reply of Mr. Villard, lately, to a
Congressional Committee, does nut show that
the lands have realized such sums aa common
report alleges.
"Bt asking too much we may lose the little
that we had before." Kilney-Wort asks
nothing but a fair trial. This given, it fears
no loss of faith in its virtues. A lady writes
from Oregon: "For thirty years I have been
filleted with kidney complaints. Turn mrli.
ages of Kidney-Wort have done me more good
than all the medicin and doctors I have bad
before. I believe it is a sure cure." J
.STATE NEWS
Grass on the range in Lake county is better
than ever.
The hop crop iu and about Siverton, says
the Appeal, k be fully up to the usual yield.
The Capital Lumbering Company has fur
nished 450,000 laths for the new insane
asylum.
A party from the East is prospecting in
Jackson county for a suitable place to erect a
distillery.
Water runs out of the Grave creek tunnel
cut like a small river, aud what it will be
witeu they get 1000 feet into the mountain
can bo imagined.
Says the Jacksonville Timet : The stages
are loaded heavily with mail almost every day
and passenger travel is also greater than can
be accommodated. One or two extra stages
have been run through to relieve the pressure,
but nevertheless it is almost impossible to
make the regular schedule time. Business is
increasing right along.
Last week, says tho Salem Statesman, the
extension of the east side narrow gauge road
from Brownsville south to Coburg, was
opened to traffic. The grade was nearly
finished by the old Scotch company, and tho
road put in running order bv tho O. ft. & N.
Co. A convenient and handsome depot has
been built at Coburg and side tracks have
been put in where necessary between that
place and Brownsville.
Lane couuty is out of debt and has about
$1U,UUU in the treasury.
There lias been shipped from Alkali station
this year over 2. 000,000 pounds of wool.
There are 23.480 cases of salmon on the
upper O. It. & N. dock, says the Astorian.
The railroad over the Blue mountains when
finished will cost on an average of $30,000 per
mue.
Mr, Walter Sutton has puichascd tho Port
Urford I'ost of Mr. J. U. Upton. Mr. Upton
still remains in charge. .
The Dalles Time says that a lad 13 years
old named T. Tranor, was thrown from a
horse upon which he was riding, at llood
river, ou the 17th, and hid his arm broken.
Arracgemeats are being made, says the
Aft, by Messrs. J, K. Woodmansee, G
Webster and W. A. Cox to engage in the
fishing I usiness the coming season on the Si
uslaw in Lane county,
A row in one of the saloons on Main street,
on Monday, over a ga-ne of cards, resulted in
the complete mutilation of a ten dollar green
back. It was torn up into bit pieces. This
is the most expensive row we have had in our
town in a long time, naya the Tribune.
From Mr. Charles Sherlock, who was iu
town this week from Summer lako valley, the
Lakcview Examiner learns that a terrific hail
and wind storm swept that valley on the 4 th
inst. The storm was heaviest in tho upper
end of the valley and not less than fifty acres
of timber was blown down on the west side of
the valley. Grain fields suffered to consid
erable extent, that of Mr. Hamilton being
literally torn from the ground. The force of
the wind was tremendous and it is a wonder
that the damage was not much greater.
The East Orenonian savs that anion? the
Indians there have been inaugurated a set of
officials who carry out their laws to the lotter.
Cash Cash, an Indim from the best family on
the reservation, is judge. Patawa is prosecut
ing attorney, Tenneowits is chief of police, as
sisted by eleven other policemen under him.
They arrest all Iudians or half breods caught
undi r the influence of liquor, take the prisoner
before the judge, a $15 fine is imposed and
divided between the judge prosecuting attor
ney and the policemen who makes the ar
rest. TEKltlTORIAl,.
Seattle papers complain about the tele
graph wire continually coming down.
No linuor is sold in British Columbia on
election day, and an assault made within one
mile of a polling place is constituted a felony
by law.
The people ot Vashon Island aro movinc in
the nutter of a tri-weekly or daily men to
New Tacoma and Seattle, and aro preparing a
petition setting forth their requirements.
Dr. Bostwick, of New Tacoma. was sum.
moned on Monday last to Napavine to attend
the case of a boy who had been verv danaer.
ouily and perhaps fatally wounded by a rifle
ball through the chest. This was the son of
B. F. Brown, of New Tacoma, says the Port-
iMtuiijencer, a boy iu ye.irs ot age, who, in
compauy with his brother two or three years
older, were out hunting deer. The two be
came separated, and the elder, finally observ
ing the bushes moving in a certain direction
beyond, leveled bis rifle at the spot and pulled
the trigger, supposing the motion in the
hushes was caused by a deer. Tho ball en.
tered the unfortunate buy's back about an
inch and a half to the right of the vertebra,
and, passing through the right lunir, came out
in front under the outer end of the clavicle
near the shoulder.
The Olympia Transcript says that on Sun
day last, the O. R. fc N. Co. 'a steamer Idaho
commenced running from Seattle to Olympia.
She leaves Seattle at 3 JO A. u,, connects
with the train at Tacoma, and arrives at
Olympia about 11 o'clock. At 11:30 A. M.,
the returns to Tacoma and leaves there at 4
p, u., after the train arrives, arriving at Se
attle about (I o'clock, -
The Sprague JliraUl says that the "young
ladies boarding house," of Sprague, was
robbed Thursday evening, while tho girls
were away at Stiner's restaurant, taking sup
per. The thief was evidently familiar with
the premises. A drawer was unlocked and
about three hundred and fifty dollars iu cash,
ono hundred and fifty dollars in jewelry and
four rerolving pistols taken. No clue to th
burglar.
JUDGE MATTHEW'S DECISION.
Full Text of the Decree In the Reed-Cobb Case.
The United States of America Western
District ot Michigan, ss :
Southern division, in equity.
At a session of t'-o Circuit Court of the Uni
ted States for the Sixth Circuit and Western
District of Michigan, begun and held at the
city of Grand Rapids, on the 30th day of
June, 18S2, and of tho independence of tho
United States of America tho lutlth.
Present, the Hon. Stanley Matthews, asso
ciate justice Supremo Court United States,
and Solomon L. Withey, district judge.
Among tho proceedings then aud there had
were the following, to-wit:
Dewitt C. Reed, Heber C. Heed, and Ada
line Hill, complainants, vs. Hiram Cobb, de
fendant. No. 575.
This case came on to be heard on the 20th
day of June, 1882, aud was fully argued by
counsel ou both sides, and thereupon upjn con
sideration of tho pleading, testimony aud ex
hibits, the arguments of counsel and the law
bear inn upon the subject matter in dispute.
the court doth hereby adjudge aud decree as
follows, to-wit:
1st Tnat David L. Garver was tho first
and original inventor of tho improvement in
harrows described and claimed in tho United
states letters patent No. 05,458, oi date Octo
bcr 5, 1870.
2d That re-issued letters patent of tho
United States No. 0,148, for improvements iu
harrows, issuetl to the said complainants ou
the 13th day of April, 18S0, as ostiimcer of
David L. Garver, the inventor, to whom the
original patent was issued, is for the same in
vention as was described and claimed in the
said original patent No. 05,458; and that tho
said re-ii sued letters patent, being ono of tho
Utters patent referred to in tho lull of com
plaint, is iu all respects good and valid in law,
and the said complainants are tho exclusive
owners of said ro-i sued letters patent, and
entitle 1 to bj protected in their exclusive
right to use the same, and all profits aud dam
ages arising out of or accruing trom infring
ments thereof.
3rd That tho invention of said Garver,
as described and claimed iu said original let
ters pateut, and also aa described and c'aimed
in said re-issued letters patent, relates
1st To tho gineral conformation of the
tooth, 'so as to securo a long spring that will
permit a sing u tooth when its point lias struck
an obstacle to rio up and pass over it with
out disturbing thn operation of the other
teeth.
2nd To its connection with the har
row frame in any manner that will cause the
lirger portion of the tooth to bo above the
lower surface of the harru frame as may be
intended to enter the ground when at work;
and
3rd To a spirng harrow tooth so con
structed and so attached to tho framo that its
point shall project well forward so as to tend
to bo drawn into tho ground as the harrow is
drawn forward.
4th The first claim is held to bo restricted
to spring metal teeth, and tho sixth and sev
enth claims to curved spring metal teeth, sub
stantially such as aro described in the specifi-
cations and thown in tho drawings,
5th that the defendant has infriut-ed all
of the claims of tho said reissued letters pa
tent No. 0,148, excepting the fourth claim
thereof, in nuking and vending harrows, as
charged in said bill of complaint.
uth mat Dewitt u. Uccd was the first and
original inventor of the improvement in har
rows described and claimed in United States
letters patent No. 201,010, issued to said De
witt C. Hied on the 2d day of April, 1878.
7th That said letters patent No. 201,010,
being one of the letters patent referred to iu
said bill of complaint, is in all respects good
and valid in law, and that the said complain
ants aro the exclusive owners of tho same, and
aro entitled to tho exclusive right to use the
same, and to sue for aud receive all profits and
damages arising out of, or accruing from in
fringements thereof.
8th That the defendant has infringed said
letters patent No. 201,010, iu the making anil
vending of harrows, as charged in said bill of
complaint
lull That said complainants aro entitled to
have a perpetual injunction to restrain said
defendant, his agents, servants, and all claim
inir. or holding, or omiATlNei through them.
or uuder them, from making, vending, imimi,
or in any manner disposing of any harrow or
hairows, or analogous implements embracing
either or any ot the uivcLtions described and
claimed iu said reissued letter patent No.
0,148, or in said letters patent No. 201.010, as
prayed form said bill of complaint, and which
are found by the couit to be infringed by the
defendant; and such perpetual injunction is
accordingly ordered to issue.
10th That said complainants are entitled
to an account for pjujnth and immacjkh
against the said defendant, as prayed for iu
said bill of complaint.
llth It is further ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the injunction herein allowed bo
suspended, provided said defendant, within
fifteen days from this date, file a bond or ob
ligation, with sufficient sureties, to be ap
proved by said court,- conditioned to pay all
damages and profits which may be adjudged
in this cause against the defendant; thereupon
the defendant praying an appeal iu open court
from said decree, the said appeal is hereby al.
lowed, and thejbond upon said appeal fixed at
the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.)
It is further ordered that an account, under
oath, of the business of said defendant bo filed
with the clerk of tins court once in threw
months during the pendency of the appeal.
12th -It is further adjudged and decreed
that this causa be referred to Hcnrv M. Hins-
dill, matter in chancery of this court, to ascer
tain and report the number oi harrows that
the defendant has made, and alto tho number
sold, which contained the improvements pa
tented in taid reissued letters nateut No.
0,148, or the improvements patented In said
lettrrs patent No. 201.010, and the amount of
profits said defendant received therefor, be-
NO. 24.
cans of said improvement!, aud also the
amount of damages that tho said complainants
liava suffered by said infringements.
It is also adjudged and docrcoj that the
complainants recover the costs iu this cause to
bo taxed.
By direction of the court, substantially the
same decree was entered agaiust Cnase, Tay
lor & Co., Lawrence & Chapin, and Lorenao
Eglestou.
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT BY THE BUREAU
OF IMMiaitATIOK.
Poiitlanh, Oregon, July 20, 1882.
To the Producers of Oregon, Washington and
Idaho:
This bureau desires to make a full collection
of agricultuial prodrcts from the harvest of
the Pacific Northwest for 1882.
For this purposo, the request is made, that
specimens of cram in the slioaf an 1 in the ber
ry, native mid cultivated grasses, and of all
torts of fruits and vegetables, bo delivered at
my railroad or steamboat station throughout
nil this region, addressed to thu "Bureau of
Immigration, Port and, Oregon," and they
will bo promptly forwarded by tin agents of
the railroad companies.
Receipt of specimens wilt be duly acknowl
edged. Each art'do rh uld bo labelled with its
name, yield per acre, namo and postofllco ad
dress of the sender, to that duo credit can be
given.
Hoping for a general response, that will
make it possible to prepare an exhibit that
will do justice to the agricultural rcsouicei of
this grand region.
I am, very truly yours,
tf Paul jciuiLZK, Manager.
Over In Sluslaw.
Tho Siuelaw river, in Lane county, empties
into the Pacific, and is a newly developing re
gion in part, but on its headwaters lives our
friend John Simpson, of whom a recent vis
itor to Suislaw writes :
Wo found oni selves convoyed to the hos
pitable rusideiiuu of Biother John Simpson,
and royally entertained. Mr Simpson's farm
lies ulou a branch of Cnyoto cieek, aud pre
sents a fine view of hill and dalo and well cul
tivated fields. His crops look excellent, and
his stock as tine as can bo found anywhere.
Wo wero particularly well pleased with afiolj
of mesqtiito grass and tho finest field of oats
we hive seen this season, and a patch of peas
of a variety tint he has tried and thinks aro
hug proof a bonanza if Mich p uvea to be the
case. His Hook of sheen includes somo full
blooded Merino and Cotswold rams, which
wero fine specimens. This region of country
is well adapted to Btock raising, being ex-
romcly well watered. Un Air. Simpsons
place water is brought from a spring on the
hillside, a short disiunce above thu house, bv
pipes, into tho kitchen and barn lot. and on
other places wo noticed tho same arrange
ment. A New Prairie Discovered.
Strango as it may seem, the discoveries of
beautiful and fertile valleys is often mado in
unexpected places. Here is the account of a
new prairio found below tho entrance of tho
Straits of Fucai A party of huntors just in
from Shoalwatcr bay inform the Piorce Cuiin
ty News that they found a fino valley between
the same an 1 Capo Flattery. It is about five
miles w ide and sovoiiteen mill a long and is
without a settlemoat, or even the appearance
that a whito inau had ever been there There
aro 10,000 acres of fine farming buds open to
thoso huntii.g homes.
NEW EVBKY WEEK.
Oregon Kidney Tea.
From the multitude of certificates received
fioin well known citizens who have been ben
efitted by tho uso of this remedy, the proprie.
tors, Messrs. Hodge, Dae is & Co., have con
tracted to publish two new ones each week
for the year ending April 1, 1883, that all our
nailers may see too great ucucilts it has con
ferred ou the alllicteel.
PniiTLANii, Or., Jan. 12, 1680.
Having a scviru backache last summer, I
iriod the Oregon Kidney Tea. I used one
can, which effected a radical cure. I would
recommend it to all wh'i are alllicted as an
unfailing remedy. Julilm Am.
Poktla.nii, Or,, Feb. 3, 1880.
liming suffered for years with pains in my
back, I tried the Oregon Kidney Tea, and
found immediate relief and permanent cure.
1 heartily recommend it to all who are af
flicted Id like manner. Mies. L. Coils'
Umatilla, Or., Jan. 20, 1880.
Having received treat benefit from tb
Oregon Kidney Tea, I take great pleasure in
recommending it to those sufferiug from kid
ney troubles or backache aa a speedy and sure
cure. J. A Pkiikinm.
Tut census returns (I8b0) report 4,152,340
sheep iu California, 1,083,102 in Oregon,
'.'S2,8S3 iu Washington, 133,003 in Nevaela,
27,320 in Idaho, 710,443 in Colorado and
0,522 in Arizona, making a total of 0,572,380,
or yver 15 per cent, of all thu thtep in the
United States.
KKIim.Ml'H Ituisla Salve It au invaluable
diei.ins' for inflamed and tore joints. I'rico
23 cents.
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