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WILLAMETTE FA11MER: POJRTLAND, OREGON, AUGUST 11, 1882.
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TION OV THE TUMI I'AIU run.
Amitv II I, Slmr
II I. Simpson
Uhanon ...OW Smith
Lcwlsillle HCMcTlnimonuVi
LookinirdlaH. M Coehran
Aurora ..(Ico Miller
lirownsvillo. .Wit Kirk
llutlcville.. John IliUhi Her,
Lincoln I, Abranu
McMlnnvlllc J .Mcl'hlllips
MrCo S RoUblns
Mt riiwnnt r H Thaier
IlutUi Creek K hkervln
llrookn W II Harris
Uellcvue . Jeff Dai Is
Crawfurdsi lllo Relit 01 iss
Cottairo Or..J II hliortriJife
Corvatlis Mcvcr Harris
Marl.. It II Huthcrford
Mohau k .J H Churchill
Monmouth W Watcrhouse
Chamnoeir A Jette
NoYamhlll. GWSannlnirton
OamaHCUs. K Torlnja
'owell Vallcv
T It v llliams
Dayton I; 0 llailatvaj
Drains .Hon J 0 Drain
Dallas . ,.J D Smith
llutur -A .1 Dufur, Jr
Kola .Thomas I'earco
KUcton .. .A II Haines
Kilronn Hon J II MtClunir
Pilot Itock .KfJIlllam
Pendleton.. IiOt Mierniorc
Pcrrydale .J W McOrow
I'luualitlllU OWIIandsaker
Rhcralilc. . .0 V Knottics
Hnscburir...S K Havmond
Sweet Home 7. II Mow
Ellenhliurir Hon SI lllh-y Salem
H W Clmrch
.A II Gardner
Forest Grove.. ..8 lliulics Stayton
Fox Valli...A II tlardnerSulilllnltj
flniilim J IIs.mltiakcr.Hcio.
Juo llownlnjr
J S Morris
Canton .AC lUilnoncI Hliedd
. ,.W M Powers
Oervals ..MMItchelll
Tanjrent .John Lupec
Turner . F H Matteaon
Wilbur . . Hon Thos Smltli
Willamette F. ..M WllkWis
Welles . . . A A Vt Ullamson
Weston ..I, 8 Wood
Waltsl'iirir WN Slnllh
Ooldendvlo.n V SajlorA Col
Harrlsburi?...Hoil II hmlth
Halsey,. .Ilhck, Pearl A Co
Irving AU Jcmiiiiirs
Inilcnetnlenre. W L Ilodirin
Jackannvlllo .Max Mullcr
Junetlon
Jeffi rson
W II Ruber Walla Walla,
,..l J aeons
8 H Glmblo
J W Ro'anil Zena
A Rrnwiiinrii wishes to know the address
of the seller of the Acmo Drier. We refer tlio
party to the advertisement ot the company in
another column.
Thk latkst tiiimi in connection with city
locomotion is called n " H-rdic," n sort of
toach or omnibus, that rides easy and com
fortably, and can bo run wherever tlio public
demand requires. Portland is to luvo Her
dies running soon on First and Second streets,
at a charge of ten cents foi a singlo ride tho
length of the town, or 10 for $1 00. This
will lie much nicer than the street railway
and will accommodatothe public much better.
From Mr. M. Wilkins, of Willamctto
Forks, wo learn many points regarding the
harvest in Line county. He showed us a sam
ple of spring wheat, known ai Big Club
which was of excellent quality which will
yield well. Mo says that they will average
over .Ti bushels, to tho acre. Cutting and
threshing nio well under way, and much of
the spring grain will yield hotter than was
anticipated. Fall gram is good and quality
fully up to standard.
Thk Atiiiii'Ul.TiiiiAi. Coli nik, at Corvallis,
will rcsumo aludies on September 4th. lho
well lol Iu9 bei'ii well attcudod in tho past, and
is assuming a prominent pnnitiou in the educa
tional field of our State, President Arnold
las done much to build up tlio school, and is
ably assisted by a corps of competent teach
ers. ICvery Seiutur in the seeral counties of
the Stitu lina power to appoint a certain num
ber of scholars, mid thoso anticipating attend
ing would do well to maku application at an
early dute.
Viik Hank ok Ohhion was staitcd the 1st
of January last, with Kobert Hell, formerly of
the S otch Mortjagfl Savings Hank, as Presi
dent, and Mr. Donliolm, Cashier, intended to
receive dupubits and rlluct loans on leal cs
atato, Mr. Hell has been in the Kast, and in
Scotland, loi some months past, perfecting
arrangements to seem o all tlio capital required
to carry on business to the best advantage.
Vu aio pleased to loaru that he is expected
home on the nvxt steamer. Mr. Hell has
mode ninnj fiiends during Ins residence in
this city. With superior business quililica
tiniis he combines urbanity and cousideratu
uesa ill his dealings with the world that in
sures the friendship of those who come within
its influence. The Hank of Oregon, wo be
llow, is destined to he an important factor in
Oiegou finances hereafter.
THE STAR ROUTE FRAUDS.
Iteecnt testimony in tho Star ltoute cases,
which Judge Wylio dually thought fit to in
tiodueo, puts (ion. Hraily and his fellow con
tpiratois in n poor light before the world. A
Washington hanker testifies that he bccanio
owner of a post route, which he took to save
a debt; that tho time was expedited and pay
Increased, and tint Hrady, Assistant Post
master (ii'iuual, who had all this dour, de
manded of him twenty per cent, on the in
ouunl pay as reward for the extra compi n
atiou. Thou was other proof that llrady
was equatl eoriupt, and It looks now very
mush us if the Star Houtu thiee on be
luought to justice, if there is any confidence
to lie placid in a Wailiuu'tou jury.
One singular and unpleasant feature- of tluvto
vasts is that the Uraud Jury of the Dutuct
of Columhit was especially summoned to hear j
this samu evidence', with iew to indicting .
Hiody and etlnTi, including Win, Pitt Kel
logg, Senator from Iouiiona, who sceun to
be implicuttM in similar proceed iiiiM. That
liraml J my refuted to indict, on picteuio that
they did not txlicto the eidenc. It is
plain enough that j .itiev, in the District of .
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teoumlrtlt who occupied high positions under
government
mil iMiiiuuUftl such practices,
may be cuuvi I'd aud punished,
The went - .'.no concerning the failure of
the Grand Jury 1 1 indict it that the law- of
limitation comet ii fur tha relief of tho par
tut, aud they now go fret ou that occouut.
It U e i l.-r.t tht tVy used tbe mcuey, of
J-rll
which the government was defrauded, to cor
rupt this Grand Jary and prevent indictment
beforo the statute of limitation put them
beyond the power of the courts.
If a fair trial is nctually had and tlio con
spirators who robbed the people of their mil
lions are convicted and punis1ied.it will soften
the prejudice that in many independent minds
is growing up towards President Arthur, Tlio
nation will be glad of a chance to respect and
honor its Chief Magistrate, and at least to bo
lieve that his personnl integrity is superior to
private considerations.
ORABSES AND PASTURES.
M7MOIK II.
I-astweik wo intioduccd this subject, and
wo have now to build on that foundation to
show the aluo of good pastures, and prove
that they can be obtained. Ltt us take this
valley and the Umpqua, whero tho native
grasses may be said to have disappeared as the
effect of constant grazing. In place of those
original grasses that were so excellent, and
whoso only fault was that they could not
stand constant tramping and feeding, wo have
an inferior grata that stems to have taken the
country; a sort of cheat grass that comes up
early and dries up, and is worthless before
spring is over.
The criticism is made that for want of good
pastures sheep are deteriorating, both in this
valley and in the Umpqua. Tho last named
valley had famous pastures once on its oak
crowned hills, but now this miserable June
grass, or cheat grass, claims sway, and when
summer comes the stock have hut aslim show.
This being the condition of things, the next
question is: How can it be remedied?
When riding 1 y the farm of Mr. K. W.
Hartley, of the Waldo Hills, some years ago,
we noticed green giaes in August, and after
wards learned from him that he had sown
Mesquito graBS on the sod and had realized a
good growth. It seems tnat this gross will
take in easily and make fair pasture. Also,
We have a piece of hill land near Salem, that
was never cleared, or even grubbed, on which
timothy and orchard grass compete for posses
sion. Now, if Mesquito, timothy and orchard
grass, can be cot to grow on land never bro
ken, what excuse is there for poor pastures all
over Western Oregon ?
It is well known that the small white clover
take-s hold of the highways, and even through
openings in tho woods, aud makes a good pas
til reTof tho road sides, or wherever it gets a
hold. Wc have no pcisortal knowlcelgeon this
topic, extensive enough to dq justice to this
important subject; but we have no doubt
there are other haidy grasses that can be east
ly induced to take hold on solid laud and
make good pastille. There are in this valley
hundreds of thousands of acres of cleared land
that can bo made good use of for pjsturage,
and can ho thus restored to fertility and made
in a few years to produce great crops of
wheat, and there is no more prudent thing to
do than to convert mujh of this stubble to
grass, and realize, by systematic stock raising,
the certain profits that lie in that course of
farm husbandry.
Hut wo will adhcro to our text, and con
tinue to show that it is wasto of rcsouiccs to
permit the wild pasture lands around us to
produco only noxious weeds and inferior
grass. It costs but little to piocuro grass seed
and scatter it. Wo seo that well known
grasses, that wo have named, grow readily on
sod, aud it needs nn argument to show that
such expenditure will repay a big interest.
Take tho present pasture land on your farm,
and figure up what it earns an acre, then esti
mate tho cost of grass seeet anil cowing it, cal
culate tho difference it will soon work in tho
value of tho pasture, the amount of sheep aud
wool it will produce, and then strike tho bal
ance to learn tho difference in value of pro
ducts, and vou will bo surprised.
There is much young timber that can bo
slashed, tho dry brush burned, and gross seed
sowed on the ashes will produce as good a
pasture as can bo made There is any amount
of wasteland all around us that earns nothing
ami yet cannot be bought without paying a
good price for it. Our Bheep aio ill fed, and
bring poorer wool and inferior lambs, as a con
sequence. This is becoming true of the whole
country. We have few really good pastures,
but wo havo tho greatest use for them. Thcro
is money in such farming, moro than in graiu
growing eternally. To make tho wasto lands
produco is the most important thing to do.
For somo years past our formers are becom
ing more heavily purchasers of clover seed and
other grasses, and wo hold that as a favorable
token of improved farming and coming pros
perity. Clover is equal to o gold mine, when
well mode uso of, and our Willamette farmers
ore beginning to find it out. Will not some
good farmer give us his experience with grass
seed! What we need, to ouforce tho lesson we
try to inculcate, is to havo practical expo.
rience given. If we o in show that some ono
has done what we claim can be done, that
w ill go a great w ay towards convincing all,
and setting many to follow tho experience
that has bexMi successful.
1-ewiston TtUtn Mr. Fairish, fiom the
Assotin, posted that place the other day with
a raft of W.OOO feet of lumber for Major
rruai,to bo dedivere I at his londii.g on Suako
river. Much of it it inteiule'd for o new graiu
chuto hu it constructing atthat point. About
fourteen men, as liborera, went down on tho
raft, and o quantity of shingles were also on
tho raft.
PAcmoU.MVfiviiTV. The next school year
of Pacillc University and Tualatin Actdemy
will li'gin on Wednesday, September tlth.s
I Tlio academy w ill I hi under the ctiarco o?
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M. J. MaoMahon, M, A. lhero u a libiary
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j tutiou. To portont detirou of acquiring a
tnorougu rsmeauoii, "lit tcnooi ouers superior
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advantages,
1'eillTI.VMi 1.SVI.NT01W. A patent hat Uvn
granted Capt. John (lot., of this city, for a
dirovt-actiug steam pump. Mr, 11. Cart
wright, olio of this city, haa Iweu granted a
patent for a sanitary tteamiug stove.
The Burns' Fruit Drier.
The Acme drier is no in opeiation in this
city on Madison street, between First and
Second streets, on the north fcido of tho block,
and is ding excellent work. J. B. Knapp,
whoso business place is close by, 2G7 First
street, who has charge of it, and represents
the company who own tho right for ihis
county, can easily be found, nnd will explain
the plan of the drier to all interested. The
Acme Drier Company arc prepared to furjish
machines at ahoit notice, and now have expe
rience to put them up and in successful oper
ation. We abo havo ono of tho same at work
in our plum and prune orchard near Salem,
and having learned how to operate it and
dried our peach plums thereOD, have only to
say that it equals the expectations we formed
and what we have said concerning it in the
FAUMF.lt. The careful hand will soon acquire
a natural tact in managing it well. Women
excel in such work, as we hove found. It is
not possible for any process to evaporate fruit
successfully without core, and in all pro
cesses yet invented it is necessary to continu
ally examine and sort the fruit as fast as it
becomes sufficiently cured. It also requires
good management to secure even distribution
of tho heat, hut the careful person can soon
accomplish all this with the Acme. The
peach plums we hae turned out so far have
been a beautiful amber color. The great ex
cellence of this dncr is in using the heat over
and curing what needs but little more heat
by means of the second heat, which can be
utilized to give it just the condition that it
desired.
Morgan Horses.
Air, O. W. Peck, of Aumsville, Marion
county, is considerably of a horseman, and in
forms us that he is soon going back to Ver
mont to buy a first-class Morgan horse to use
for breeding purposes, Mr. Peck's idea is to
raiso roadsters. Fancy breeds of trotters are
all well enough, but it is often truo that tho
nag that goes under 2:30 on the race track
w ith o skeleton vehicle behind him, cannot
make correspondingly good time on the road
to a common buggy. We havo heard it said
that S. G. Reed, who owned the trotter Par
rott, that used to contest at our State and
county fairs, took him East to run on the
Bloomingdalo road and the Central Park
drive, at New York, and created some sur
prise by showing tho New Yorkers an Oregon
horse that was decidedly pood as a roadster,
l'airott had size, strength and speed, and
could, to Mnon, leave behind him many fa
mous trotters who would make better time on
tho tr.ick. The world wants a horse that can
go over the road to a drie ing wagon far more
than it does the slim limbed and light bodied
nag only good to make time on tho well
ordered race ground.
The Morcan horse has no supcrioi as a
practical roadster, nnd furnishes many names
among the trotting lists also. If Mr. Peck
procures n good Vermont Morgan Stallion he
will deserve success 09 a reward for enter pi iso
in the right direction.
The Good Work Does On
On Monday morning the boarding train was
moved out to the front, and the track layers
resumed work laying three-fourths of a mile
Monday. Tho front is now near Burnett's, 11
miles from liosoburg by the wagon road, aud
about 19 miles by rail. Every day the iron
band that is to counect this region by rail
with the busy throngs ol the outer world is
extended near a mile, and Monday evening
Myrtle creek will ho reached. Tho front will
then be changed to that place. Tho graveling
train is running overy day, and about four
miles of the track from this placo is now
graveled. Tho gravel bed at this placo will be
used for graveling to a point near Mutle
creek, whero another one w ill be tapped. 'Hie
forces who have been employed to const met
tho depots ore at work on tho first depot,
about four miles from here, at Green's. Work
on the grodes and tunnels is being pushed for
ward with all possible speed, and this means a
good deal when we consider the forces the
company's agents have at work, and tho "till"
from whence this vast army draws its month
ly ducats is being bleel to an extent that is
truly wonderful. Many hands quit work on
tho ISth, pay doy, as harvest is coming ( n,
and tho portion of the laborers who are for
incrs have gone with their teams to gather in
tho grain; but new arrivals daily servo to keep
up tho forces employed, and horses aro con
stantly being bouclit ami put to work. Work
on tho tunnels and heavy grades will continue
all winter, aud Jackson county will ere long
be receiving and semlim; her freight and pat.
tcngers by way of the Oregon and California
Kailroait. riamattutr.
The
Ftrmlwrton. Cheney, Medical lake and
Big Bend Railroad.
Last Saturday afternoon o party of prom
inent meu met in Cheney and organized a
company, havirg for its object the building of
a railroad from Formington to Medical Lake
oud the Big Be'iul country, via Cheney. It
will be renicniberts.1 this is the line tho VWo
une has all along maiiitoineel would ot no dis
tant day to examined ami found feasible. We
believe now this road will bo built and in op
eration before any of tho other contemplated
lines. The company consists of Messrs. J. C.
Davenport, Esq,, hanker of this place, W. II.
Bishop, Kq , J. S. Mount, Esq., all of Che
ney, and II. F. Stiottou, Esq., of Farmington,
and 11. F. Suksdorf, Eq., ot Portland. The
capital stock is fixed ot two million dollars,
with the principal placo of business in Che
ney. Work of surveying a preliminary line
from Chcne-y to Medical Lake will be com.
mrnced at once, Mr. Suksdorf hat gone to
Portland for tho purpose of reporting progress
to heavy capitalists, who ore anxious to be
come ot aociateel in this the grandest enterprise
for moneje.1 nien that exists tevday in tho
Notthwett. CAniry Tribune.
Rheumatic,
Ivpptic, atomc-auvmic, parotitic, poor
wretched person, the Oregon Wood Purifier
cure tuch cote and sicVneta. Indeed hichlv
recommended by a vigorous body.
WHATCOM COUNTY.
Its Unparalleled Resources The Soil, Climate,
Timber, Coal, People, Schools,
Society, Etc, Etc
Taking it all in all, Whatcom county is
pretty generally conceded to be tho best coun
ty, in va'ieel resources, of any in the Territo
ry, A representative of tho Chronicle visited
that section a few days ago with a v iew to as
certaining by personal observation, a few facts
ceuoerning the county, its resources, pcopl,
ltd and g,vo our many interested readers the
benefit of such information as could bo ob
tained. To give a full description of the
county, its resources, etc., would require
many full pages of this journal, hence we
must bo brief.
WHATCOM COUXTV
Is in the northern tier, bounded on the east
by the Cascade range, on the south by Sno
homish county, ou tho west by Pugrt Sound,
and on the north by British Columbia. It is
38 miles wide by CO in length. It is traversed
from east to west by numerous streams, of
which the Samish, Nooksack and Skagit are
the most prominent, the two latter of which
are navigable to steamboats for many miles
back into the interior of the county. The
eastern part ot the county abounds in fine
timber and mineials of superior quality and
almost inexhaustible in quantity. This sec
tion of tho county has not yet been surveyed,
but the fact has not prevented the daring
prospectors from pushing through the tangled,
trackless forests, and with pick and pan con
vinced themselves at least that riches unlim
ited aro awaiting development in that wild
mountainous region. We venture the opinion
that within five years licher leads of gold and
silver will be opened aud worked in Eis'ern
Whatcom than has ever yet been discovered
on this coast. The western and noithcrn por
tions of the county are, more fairly speaking,
an
AOBICOLTOBAL
District. The famous Skagit, Swinomish and
Sunish Flats ore in this county. Iheso flats
comprise several thousand acres of the richest
agricultural lauds in the world, not only ca
pable of, but in fact do produco many hundred
thousand bushels of grain annually, to say
nothing of tho thousands ot tons of hay. Here
successive crops have been raised for the past
20 years without a single failure, save in a few
cases from ovctflow, which, of its? If, is a suffi
ciei.t attest to tho oft-repeated declarati 'ns of
visiti rs concerning the richness of the soil.
This soil is a dark alluvium, varjing in depth
from ono to ten feet. Ascending the river for
20 or 30 miles it is less colored, but always
rich and very deep. This is especially tiue of
the Nooksack Valley and the tributaries put
ting into Belliugham Bay. The section of
country back from Bcllingham Bay is com
paratively level, and the soil appears to bo the
deposits, or drift, of ages, practically inex
haustible and very productive. This land is
COVERED WITH TIMBER,
Which must, of course, bo cleared for farm
ing purposes; but, comporatively speaking,
this will be an easy matter. One acre of this
land in cultivation will raise more oats, hay,
grain and fruit than 40 acres of the best land
in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa or Illinois that
is, taking tho average, ono year with another.
The land lying between the town of Whatcom
and Nooksack Crossing, a scopo of about 20
miles, is level, and the soil rich. In fact, this
rich scope of agricultural lands extends north
into tho Biitish possessions, as far as the
Frnr River, and at least 80 per cent, is yet
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vacant and subject to homestead entry. Its
resources, w- en developed, are capable of sus
toiuing 100,000 people. This same tlat.s of
land extends north along Belliugham Bay,
acro-s tho Lower Nooksack river, and up into
and including the Semiahmoo country. I he
choico land in through that section, how cv er,
has been tiken, and tho settlements extend
for nbout 25 miles up the Nooksack river.
It is not our province to exaggerate con
cerning Whatcom county, but we give r as
our opinion that no country in the world of
like extent can excel it in varied charms of
pistoral scenery. It is a beautiful,
UEWILDKRI.NU 1'ICTURK
From end to end. There is no sign of montony
hero, as in thoMead flat plains or low lands of
the older States, but every w here the freshness
of infinite variety. There is no tameness, no
bleakness, no loneliness, in its ever-changing ,
landscapes. Even tho bald, rugged, pict-1
uresque Mount Baker, with its towering caps
of eternal snow, its deep, weird, shadowy
canyons, for grand and natural scenery con
not be excelled anywhere in the world. But
volumes could be written upon the noturol
sceuery of Whatcom county, and tlio subject
would not then be exhausted.
Tho people of Whatcom county aro thor
oughly cosmopolitan in their mtke up. They
come from all portions of the Eastern, Middle
ond Western States. They come here to bet'- j
ter their condition by -taking advantage of
the tich soil, splendid native pastures, cheap-j
er land aud superior climate. They are ear-
neat, ambitious, progresiive mou ond women, I
w ho aro eloiug their full share towards i the tie-1
camo here from choice, preferring to secure o
ve.op.mue u. enc eemue.,. VJ h"-V
home ol their own, rather man remain on tno
old worn-out, unceitaiu farm liack East.
THK SOCIAL LIKE
Of these people it thoroughly enjoyable. It is '
cosmopolitan enough to lie liberal and uncon
strained. The conventionolitiea of older so-
ciety aro lost in the scopo and freedom of their
pioneer life, hvery expression ol tocui uie
hero is hearty, natural and ratiouol. They
rewguize their mutual dependencies, live on a
common plane and make higher account of
brain, energy and character than they do of
gold. While it involves every sanction of law ,
1 u.Ad1 is ! naeits.l tsi its rvi-tealtilll t la
ond morals, it is yet giuud in its possibilities
oud exemptions from tho cheap and petty
ways oud rules of older kociety ot the East. It
it more natural and philosophical. 1 he tra
veler thiough the couuty cannot be foiled to
1m imnresteet with the ceuerous. open-hearted
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opiwara V be a characteristic, oud pervade'
ueorlv everv household in the county
In our next letter we shall refer to towns,
manufacturing interests, etc., ol Whatcom
county. Scatt't QSixiiic'c.
GENERAL NEWS.
Enterprhf : Farmers are beginning to har
vest their wheat, and will begin to deliver it
early in Aueusf. Harvest hands aro in de
mand at from $1 60 to S3 per day and their
board..
Walla Wolla Statesman s Walla Walla i
certainly an objective point fcr immigrants,
for their teams go through these streets at al
hours of the day. A large number of immi
grants' are camped on the Milton road, The
men folks encage as harvesters for our farmer
friends, while their longdiiven teams are
restincr and locations are sought for.
Ittmizer: Harvest has begun. The crop
in Polk county is moro than average. Tho fall
grain was never better, and by much the
larger portion is fall grain. The early spring
groin will olso turn out well. Only the late
sown grain is poor, which, fortunately, con
stitutcs,but a small portion of the crop. Thern
is a hope, almost an abiding faith, among
farmers that the ideal price of 81, will be re
alized this season.
Goldendale Gazette: Thanks to Chailes
Suksdorf from Camas Prairie for news items
from there. That is a greot doirying region.
Ho is milking thirty cows, the Suksdorf Bros.
thirty, Leonard Stump twenty, Mr. Stock
ten and various other families a half dozen or
moro. Almost all their butter finds n reaely
market at The DjIIcs at about thirty cents a
pound. J. O. Lyle at Klickitat Landing buja
much of it, having now on hand neorly 2,000
pounds. Almost all the creameries use six
quart milk pans, but Mr. Suksdorf has intro
duced what are colled submerged cons. They
hold about seven gallons each, and When filled
with milk are put entirely under water. He
say s it gi es more cream, that tho butter is
of a richer color and keeps better. The grain
is very good, the hay crop is better than
usual, and tho people generally are doing
well.
Mountain Sentinel: An immigration train
of twenty two wagons arrived at Lowiston
from Montana by tho Mullon road. This is
the first travel that wo have heard of by that
routo.
Mountain Sentinel: Colfax, W T., is re
building. A late report soys that lumber for
twenty-two new buildiogs was on the ground.
Ono party proposes to erect a $10,000 hotel.
Mountain "Sentinel : About twenty immi
grant wagons pass throunh town daily. They
all report largo numbers on the road bound
for tho two Wallas.
Prineville Neva: Up to the present time
cattle gatherine has been attended with satis
factory results. For the paBt six weeks the
boys have been on the range gathering and
branding tho calves and delivering the beef
cattle that have been sold. The cattle aro in
splendid condition, grass plenty,, calf crop over
avrage, and everything encouraging to the
stockmen. The summer redeo will end in
Desert district some time next week, and
other districts will soon finish up their sum
mer's riding.
Kast Oreijonian: Tho railroad will soon
enter Pendleton; the last bridge is now in
course of erection, which is about a mile from
town. The largest bridge, about twelve miles
from here, is very nearly completed. The iron
horse, which so many have wasted their
breath in speaking of, will soon arrive, with
all his tooting grandeur. There is no doubt
that Pendleton will bo the stopping place for
a ear to come.
Pomeroy Republic: William W. Dickson,
of Mayview, is in Dorun, Mo., where he is
visiting friends and relatives. He writes to
Gilbert Dickson that he will start back to
this country in tho spring in company with a
large number of his neighbors. They will
make the trip overland with teams.
Plaindealer: Harvest is in full blast. The
county, taken as a whole, will have about an
average yield.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Professor L. J,
Pow ell, w ho was tendered tho Presidency of
the Univeisity, and who came to look over
the grounds and see the prospects of building
up a school here, was so well pleased with the
outlook that he last evening fi rmally accepted
the proffered position, and he will take charge
of tho institution in September, and open
school on the 20th of that month. Professor
Powell is at present Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Oregon, oud his term will not
expire until tho 11th of September. As an
instructor the Professor stands very high. For
fourteen years he was Professor of Noturol
S:ience and Mathematics in. tbe Institute at
Salem, Oregon, and was very popular with
students ond parents. He will secure a corps
of competent teachers to assist him in this
Territory, with the intention of putting the
University on a higher basis than it has ever
before stooel.
Eugene Guard; We take the following
from an exel ange, which will be of interest to
of tno 0ij ,tockholders of the Cinnabar
mjm) . The Q cinnabar ond Silver Min-
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Ookltnd. Douclos county, in operation for
three or four weeks, and on Fridsy of lost
week cleaned up a portion of tbe condensers
and obtained a yield of 500 pounds of quick
silver. This U considered a good yield, as
the furnrco and retort were new, and would
uave to i cteX before any of the metal
wou,d jnt0 tlie cnmer,,.
Grant County AVtr s Fall sown grain in
the upper valley will yield about an overage
crop, w bile spring sown will only yield half
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an average; at least sucn are present pros.
tion. More acreage is being sown to fall
wheat each car. Farmers rca'ize that it is
letter to summer fallow the land and obtain o
yield of fotty bushels per acre ever second
year thou to plant each teason for o twenty.
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The summer following it more
profitable aud does not exhaust the toil like
the yearly crop.
Prineville jVrtrt ; At the present time the
groin crop hit to for r. row n that o tolerably
correct estimate, compared with other years,
can be made. In the Ochoco valley tho crop
is better than common, and thcro will prob
ably be six or seven thousand buhels mors
raised than there was last year. O.i McKay
none of the grain i averngc, and the yield
will fall several thounnd bushels fhort of that
of previous years. Crooked ner vaPoy will
harvest about the same amount as it did last
year. The wheat in that section h light, hut
tho oats, rye and barley pininbo n good
yield. On Willow creek thero will bo but
little grain harvested, the grasshoppers hav
ing taken nearly evcrjthini'. Tho harvest
throughout the country will be comparatively
late, as but little train w ill bo ripe boh re the
last of August.
Eugene Guard ; A. S. Patterson ond E. J.
McClanahan returned from lower Siuslowlost
week. Mr. Patterson states that the Hsyes
party have constructed a good mountain road
for eighteen miles, and they are still working
on the remaining seventeen miles, which
would bring the road to tide water. He says
that the accounts of the country hove not
been overdrawn, and ho was really surprised
to see such a beautiful stream of water and
harbor. If the $2,000 already appropriated by
Lano county will not construct tho road to
tide water, the County Couit should increoss
its appropriation to such an amount as will
complete the rood to that point, providing the
amount should not be over 2,000. The
county Ina over S9.000 in the treasury, and
could w ell afford $2,000 more to open up and
develop that section of the country.
Roseburg Plaindealer : During tho post
few weeks the old mill of J. M. Eberlein hos
been undergoing the most extonsive system of
repoirs ond refurnishing. Its capacity has
been increased, so that now there are three
sets of fine burrs, two flouring and one for
chopping feed and grii-ding corn. Two new
reels of bolting cloth have been built, with
the most thorough system of conveyer's flour
cheft, of five tons capacity, middlings chest
and bran roo-n in proportion. A new No. 2J
Barnard's grain cleaner, capacity sixty bushels
per hour, has been added for receiving grain
from the wagons. The preent owner, Mr. J.
M. Lincoln has spared neither money nor
time, and has the mill so equipped that itwill
readily accommodate all the trade of tho sur
rounding neighborhood during the busy sea
son without any unnecessary delay in getting
mill stuffs promptly on delivery of the groin.
He has also greatly improved the facilities for
receiving grain from the wagons, s? that there
is no need of any exertion in unloading there
from. Flour equal to tho very best Portland
and Salem brands will be kept on hand at oil
times, and the brand of South Umpqua mills
will no doubt ston bo well known again.
Short', bran, feed, corn meal ond Graham in
ten pound socks can also always be hod.
Moscow Mirror : Situated about nine miles
southwest ot Moscow is the comparatively
new town of Pullman, in Whitman county,
formerly known as Three Forks, being at the
junction of three streams. The town ot pres
ent consists of two general merchandise
stores, one of which carries a line of drugs,
two blacksmith shops, one fnrniture store and
several dwelling-houses. Four buildings are
in course of erection, ono of which will be oc
cupied as a saloon. The town is surrounded
on all sides by rich farming lands, and bids
fair in the future to be a tra ling p lint of con
siderable importance.
Prineville News : Dr. Baldwin, who re
sides at Hay creek, in this county, at which
place his stock farm is located, has recently
brought from California a drove of over a hun
dred thorough-bred Spanish Merino sheep.
The flock consists of sixty head of ewes and
about fifty bucks. These sheep were pur.
chased and brought to this country by the
Doctor, not for speculative purposes, but to
be kept on the ranch, where he hos every
facility for the growing of fine and thorough
bred stock. Fine sheep, especially the
matter of growing fine wool, is the specialty
at this stock farm. Dr. Baldwin is giving
strict attention to the grading of sheep, and
has probably done more in this matter than
any ono ele in the county. Quality rather
than quantity is desirable, and will pay those
who tako tho leading step in this direction.
Cheney Sentinel: A colony of over 200
people from Nebraska arrived hero lost week.
They left Nebraska on the first of June, com
ing by rail to the terminus of the Utah
Northern, and from there by team over the
Mullan read through Missoula and down
Clarke's Fork. The trip by wagon consumed
thirty-two days, and was a tedious course
through a mountainous country. The special
rotes over the railroad line were very low,
and enabled the colony to come through at an
outlay Burprieingly small. Each passage cost
$25, each horse $17 SO and each wagon $17.
Dr. Hoyt started immediately for Nebraska
to start another prty f th'66 hundred.
Many of the members of the colony have gone
into the Big Bend country looking for loca
tions. They appear to be well pleased with
the country.
Pierce County Xeu-s Washington Terri
tory makes a better showing in the buiiness
world than any section of the Pacific Coast, as
during the six month) ending Jnne 30th there
were only six business failures within the bor
ders of the Territory. The aggreeote liabili
ties in the cases cited were $10,071, and the
assets $16,912. If any other secticn of the
United States con moke o better financial
showing, in proportion to the number of busi
ness men and amount of capital employed, we
would like to be apprised of the fact.
Dalles Times : Plans for a 500,000 bushel
wheat elevator to be erected at New Tacomo
by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company,
which plan ore being prepared in New York
by the order of Mr. Villord, and ore neorly
finished, and will soon be retdy to put in hand
for building.
If voo want the cheapest photographs in
Oregon, go to Thwoitea, on Yombill street,
between Fourth and Fifth (sign of the Little
Gallery Round the Corner), where you con get
cabinet for H " cards (or per dosen,
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