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i-.uca etery Week I15 tlie Wll.l.tm.iTK ft KM Ml I'l 1.1.1-tlllNs. CO. TBRMS OK HUlJlUWI'TIO. One , enr, (P-nUko paid). In advance 'f 61 x noiths, (I'ost-iee aiil, In advance-. Less than U months 111 le, per month AllVKIWISISa ItATEH : AivertiscmenUnIll bo Inserted, profiling tn are reins ;tMe, t the follow Ing Uble of rates : One Inch ol space per month f S Chrse Inches ol space per month J-VJj Jo ..halt column per month '"-J" Jo column per month suuu FtLSaniptc copies sent tree on application. Publication Office: No. 6 Washington Street. Up lairs, rooms No. 5 and fit i-i m,iin:ir a wii.xk .' - 'niclolloln(f are authorized to receipt for subscrip tions to this pap r t Vt lure e have no at-cnts re mltunccs Jl fcbT bo made, (expenses lultl), to us liy Itiislitertd Letter, or .Xlone Orders, or Express. ALU PAPKItS IIISCONTINt hi) AT TIIK KXI'IKA HON OK TIIK TIMi: PAID Hill. i.t... It r. SlmmonlLehanon ." HinlUl Aurora ..Oco Miller I Uw is illc. 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If it is ileslreil b film rllars to u urn all Issues they must arniiKiit0M.il I In their rinewals In ample time to ri-acli tills "11 11 beliiro esplratlnn SrAllsiilrib rsi.mtell by the prlnlcil kiROii'U iiMlieir piper e ut) when tlielr tlnii' will eplre.'ft Another l.iiporuni lnt ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND I.r.TTKUH SllllUI.D UK A1IHKE1SKD10 TIIK wii.i.mi;tti: i.iitMMt," Drawer U, l'urtiund, Oregon. RKMhMllhll till) WlI.HMKTTK KaKWMI IB truo fricinl 1 1 naricultural iiiterustn, anil we propo ii' m; timtly liints on all subjects. Bee our enrpa of nlilu contributoia. Mr. II. V. Matthews, who visited Silein some months t?o, is on Ills way back tlieio. Ho has puicliuscil valuable juopcity ailjoin S.ilein. lie is an cxiericnceil agriculturist anil will lie an accjiiiaitioii to our Stato. Il a uriviitu note from Mr. (1. V. Hunt, of Wliitcaker, Mai ion county, wo learn that liis Sliropihircs nro wintering well, anil it is witli plea'ti'ii wo statu that his lino cwo, Daisy Kuliutli lias ilninpeil n lamb. Tliis is probably tlm first Hluopshiro lamb ilroppcil ill tbo State of OioRim. Mlt. )'. II. Havmiinu has long holil tlio position of I'listmastiT at Albany, Oregon, anil filltiil tlm position ably anil elliciently, anil wo Ben Im is to resiilo in S tloin for the fiituru. II hiiil; UnoHii Mr. Kuyinoi'il since cliillhnoil n em spoakonly of him as having been an iinhntri u, lianl-wnrkiiig man from boyhooil S est iitteinl l'eny in whatever position h n.iv assume. Sm.ii Win r em bu piirehaseil, as will P) soet by in t cles published otvuwliere, at a light ailv.iiicii oxer iiiotatiom. Sex'eral linns anil parties 1I1 serve great praise, for thu energy ilisplaeil to .isiist thu farmers of this x-alley t get full eiops fur the ensuing j ear. Wu niferto C'nl .1. V. Niisiinth, of Deiry, ami Hxlein Khiiiiiiu MillCompmy, of Sib in, anil Sibsuii, Chm 'h A. Co., of liirtluul. This is o-ie of tlm lust .iiiti moniipoly hernions wo txjuhl xvisli Iloxv many iiiits.miinopuJy far ui rs woulil ih) the uamu if thuy had the chance ? rOIlxTJ ABOUT WHEAT. M. lleudrii, "f Wlieatliml, who wu In this city lust week, speaks of u llehl of white elaxvsoii wheat oil thu faim of Mr. Maitiu, of Yttiuhill enii'ity, that came out of the freeze up 11s Irish an I gieeu as a meadow, when all other w I eat plinU xvere killed down. Wo don't read tint the rliwaoii is eonsidered the very best wheat grown Mist, but if it stands winters in such shape, and is merchantable, ur people ought to undmtund nlwut its ro liable ipialit ie. The experience of this win tor, if well told, will bo valuable. We tell all the points we hear ot, but ahull bo glad to publish all statements our friends on furnish to add to thu gentril fund of information. Wo hear it lepeatedly asserted that the old favorite w Into winter wheat has i-toixl the iviutor bettif thin most varieties. Mauy have been planting the chili club w heat, and in ordiuar) Orofiou winters dull club does well, but this year it seems to be very thorom'hly cooked. Chill club is also a favor ite wheat to ow Kst of the Mountains, as far up as Walla Walla. This season the snow blanket may liaxo pioteeted it and saved it, hut it may bo considered unsafe to sow- it and tike the chances tlit'ie or here. Our w lute w Inter xx heat has been tested here for almost half a century. When our friends have reported experiments in growing wlieits for tiial of the yield and other ip.iali. ties, we notice that xxlnto winter falls very little, if any, liehiud any other, and averages with the best. When the Hudson Hay Com iaiiy 1,'anted to haxe wheat grown hire this awed was imported for that purpose and it evidently came from s me cold northern country. It answered admirably and after almost or quite half a century stands well as ss well as when it was brought here. There aro better wheit grown. We should like n know the actual history of this what and know its true name amonif wheits. The his tory we eive is interesting but is Incomplete snd we invite particulars from whoever can give them. We farmed a little from 1853 to 1859 and it was a maxim in th"se early days among wheat growers that it was safe to sow white winter wheat up to the tenth of March. We sowrtl it always in March and never failed of a fair yield. A good farmer tells us that those who'can sow white winter wheit for a week to come will be apt to get a good iM. Another point on wheat just now 13 tbi : Wheat that was drilled in well stands much better now than wheat that was sown broad cast. Our readers will credit us with having claimed for a year or so back that experience of wheat growing has shown that wheat drilled in two inches deep will stand 6rm in the ground after frosts thaw out wheat sown broadcast. It is generally asserted to bo true of this winter. Capt Ankeny has a farm of 4,000 acrts on the Santiam bottom, near tho mouth, mostly in black loam, but lying portly under tho hlulT hills. All his wheat on black loam is in fair order, but the red hill points are badly injured. The common testimony is that land in the red hills was spewed up fearfully and the wheat is often entirely dead. Ex-cry. where on black land it comes off better. Now, we are ready for all to relate their experienco and swell the popular knowledge of wheat culture and the staying qualities of different kinds of wheat. A gentleman who farms near Woodburn in forms us that his wheat and that of his neigh bors is sprouting finely and tho expect a good crop. Much of tho wheat in this valley will make a crop and many think that the thin ning out it has had will do little harm. The samo gentleman says that Mr. M. C. Dimick, in the foothills of tho Cascades, quite into tho mountain, has faithfully attempted to raise an orchard and has failed. It seems that fruit will not do well that far in the range'. I). W. liurniide, of the Imperial Mills, Oregon City, bought 20,000 bushels of spring xvheat grown by Messrs, Kyte and Frizzcl, good farmers of Yamhill. Thoy sowed chill club in the fall bnd know it is all spring wheat and fit for seed. The Imperial mills need tho wheat to criod flour to load a vessel and if they cannot replace it cannot sell it for seed but must grind it. PRESENT PROSPECTS COMPARED WITH PAST EXPERIENCE. A very rcmarkablo change has como over tho prospects of this Northwest region within a brief period. It Is only lately that stock buyers havo come from the K st to purchase oittlo and sheep, and even horses, to drive Kast. lieforo that cattle were abundant and chosp on tho wide interior ranges, and even in this valley thcio was not sufuciont profit in raising meat to justify the enterprisj of many who attempted it. Wool was, of course, profitable, but tho fleeco was generally worth more than the carcass of a fat wethir. Tho staples of the country wero wheat and wool. Cattle wero profitable, well h milled, as they actually cost nothing on the ranges, but there was not inducement for stock men to provide sufficient feed, and occasional xvinters swept off tho herds and left bleaching hones to tell of what had been, In thoio days larse flocks of sheep sold for a dollar a head in the fail, and bands of cattle went fur ten dollars a hoad. Stock 1111 11 drove off a hundred thous and head of cattle in a single, season, five years ago. Trices advanced rapidly as soon as our people got wind of tho markets, and now are high enough to justify the best of oare for all stock. Thu old story of xvheat after wheat, year after year, is gone by forever. There are more resources to A farmer's life than very lately was tho case. Wheat does for a stand liv, but is not thu only resource the farmer has, Tho prudent mm, with a little cash in hand, can locate almost anywhere in tho Up per Country, and by taking c.iro of a little good stock and farming in a judicious man ner can xvork his way up to independence. Wherever a man can locatu these advantages wait lur Illlll. tuuiuuab ikiuuiu ii-cum.) llnaA an almost certainty of soon being drawn into tho vortex of busy lifo by the construction of railroads. These develop the regions they ap proach in a wonderful maimer. Towns spring up and trade demands all the farmer can pioduco. Clo where he may, stock can bo raised and independence come as a conse quence. Thu wonderfully prolific soil re sponds xvith harvests whenever good cultiva tion invites them. There is out range that helps the tiew coiner iu keeping stock. The tons of thousands who have found homes in the regions east of the Cascades proclaim it as tho best poor man's country 011 the con tinent. It is not a paradise where eternal summer smiles, but a .season where winter's cold and summer's heats prevail, though not 0 severe nor for so long a time as iu the same latitude farther Kast. Yet, with all the draw backs that can be charged against it, the country east of the Cascades really is a good poor man's country -the best know 11, That region is emerging from the present wiuter with a prospect for the greatest har vest that was ever gathered there. For weeks, during actually severe wiuter weather, tho earth was w rapped iu a mantle of snow that protected the wheat, and now it gives promise of uuexampled yield, One good bar vest there will rill the land with plenty and create millions of wealth. This promise to be the crowniug year of pleuty for the wheat growers of Kaateru Oregou and Washington. Until very lately wheat sold, all through the regions east ot the Cascades, for leis than SO cents a bushel, even as low as X cents and 40 cuU was a fair pric, The advent of Vil lard's enterprises raised the price to 50 ceuta, WILLAMETTE FARMER: PORTLAND, OREGON, MARCH and tne fanners of Walla Walla thought they had fortune at their doors. Wheat is now worth nearly or quite a dollar, owing to the great home demand, and when the immense promise of the present seasoa shall be realiz-d there is no reason why farmirs should not get 75 cents a bushel. The chatge in the country can be imagined when stock of all kinds com mands double its former valie, and when the products of the soil find ready market at such an enhanced price. The reader can also imagine the prosperity that awaits a country where people cjuld live and thrix-e at farming under former conditions. They always claimed that with foity bnskels of wheit to the acre they could make as much at 50 cen's a bushel as the farmers of the Willamette could at a dollar. It is certair. that all reason able expectations should be realized there the coining harvest. SEED WHEAT I The action of the Board of Trade we publish elsewhere, and as yet the committee have not acted, but Messrs. Sibson, Church k Co. in form us they have acted on their own account to ascertain what 'an can be done, and will give farmers the benefit of whatever can be 1 ne without charge or comm.ssion. T ey telegraphed EvcrdingiV Co., at San Francisco, and received an answer that California only raised spring wheat, and good seed grain was abundant at 82. 7 i per cental. This was rather higher than Sibson, Church k Co. expected, and they have sent to another house. The best quality of seed wheat in Sin Francisco may be calculated at $1.25 pT bushel, and the expenses, including insurance and waste in handling, will be 8c, so good seed wheat from California can be laid down here at 51.33 per bushel at the outside. If it can be done any cheaper, farmers can depend they will get the benefit of the difference. Sibson, Church & Co. inform us the best way will be for farmers who need grain for seed to make up cluhs,and order through their local merchants. The cheap freight rates are for carload lots, and not for ictail business, Wo have taken pains to get at the matter as plainly ?s possible, so as to send out word without delay, and this information is furnished just as we go to press. The correspondence by telegraph has just taken place. Farmers had best get together without delay, make up tho amount of seed wheat needed, and signify the kind they wish seit. As to that point Chili club will be most reliable, as much of it is grown. Of course they do not wish mixed wheat. Kverding & Co. telegreph that there will bo no trouble in procuring good seed at the price n imcd. By the time farmers get their estimates made they cm ascertain through their local merchants all tho points they wish to understand. A telegram sout to San Fran cisco as an order, can be filled immediately, and steamer unload in three days after load ing, so the wheat can be here, or at a man's farm, in a week or ten days' time. No ime should be lost in improviug this pleasant weather. Be lively, and your spring sown grain may yet redeem your fortunes. SOMETHING THAT CONCERNS BENTON COONTT. We lately visited Salem to procure statis tics for the year J882ty compiling the returns made by County Assessors to the Secretary of State. With the exception of Benton county the returns were properly made and a sum mary furnished that stated the facts in a clear manner. Tho County Clerk of Benton has forwarded a largn volume of soveral hundred pages containing each man's property state ment and nothing more. The pages are not properly footed and no ccueral estimate is made. There aro three different sums stated as tho total tax of the county for 1882; one by the Assessor, oni by tho lioird of Equali zation and one by the County Clerk. It sur prised us that the Secretary of State per mitted such an incomplete return to be made. Benton county pays well for doing this work and it ought to bo done well. The County Court should refuso to pay for it until it is properly done. As the present Clcik has held tho position almost twenty years, of course he knows his daties and this negligeuce is culpa ble. Wo had not a xveek's time to spare do ing tho work of this official, so we use tho re turns for 1881 iu the table wo publish to-day, wheio we give the returns for Beuton comity ' Death of O. W. Lawson. A - For a great many years we have known anil boon friendly witli O. W. Ltwson, who died lu this city last Friday, of pueuinonia, and was buried Saturday, at his old home, Salem. He was a promiuent man, and possessed abil ity, lie had more ability than practicability. He was devoted to Isms; was a spiritualist; took x'ague vlotvs of life and of the hereafter; w as good hearted and kindly in fueling and never wronged any mau, but someway his life was less a success than it ought to have lieen. We rerret to know that he will be here uo more, and regret that his life's work, for want of a proper balance, was not a suc cess. He was not happy, for many unkindly thiugs happened to him. Hit life illustrates to us the great failure that is certain to come upou any of us when we try to bring the uukuowable down to the pjor comprehension of human intellect, as lie did. May poace, greater than he knew on earth, rest with him on the further ahorse. May he find there calm for a soul that was often bruised, and a calm that greater knowledge briny. Split Hoofs In Hon. Hekman, Minn., Jan. 20, 1SS3. Editor Willamette Farmer, 1 would like to ask the question in your columns what to do for split hoofs in horse. I have a span of heavy Norman mares; they have their forwanl hoofs split in the center or toe, that in driving them on frozen ground with a load they aomttimrs get quite lame. An answer to the above would greatly oblige. Wm, W, NlMACKL. Cluster Hops Wantxt. PlTTsliCRU, Columbia Co., Feb. llth. IMease inform me through the columns of vour uarwr where sets from "The Cluster Hop" truly, can be obtained, and oblige you it J oils Pkinolk, THE WHEAT FIELDS. Duiing the pat week we have had beauti ful weather and some days have been balmy as spring. Fehiuiry gave us one week that xvas absolutely delightful, but even those balmy days had frosty mornings to chill and keep back any tendeney of the sorely tr.ed wheat phut to sprout, if there was a germ left to show life. A few days of warm rain would call out any lifo remaining and in the absence of it farmers are waiting impatiently to know the condition of their fields. We have minglul some with Marion county farmers during the week and have never seen any thing like the state of mind prevailing. The opinion is gaining ground and becoming almost universal that the wheat fields of all Western Orccon are dead, very dead. We see the samu report made from Jackson county and even California wheat fields suf fered from frost at tho same time with ours People are coming to the conclution that they must resow. Some are nlowine again, but under most conditions that will prove to be a mistake. The quickest and safest way is to simply harrow or drill in wheat on the same ground, as stirring deeper will bring up only foul stuff to do injury. Mr. Davis Shannon, of Howell Prairie, says his wheat is killed and he has bought seed to resow it. Mr. Bonney, of Woodburn, said last week that wheat there was growing, but Mr. Settlemier said this week all the wheat about him is killed. One of the singularities of the times is the difference in opinion as to the fact of wheat being dead or alive. Some ussert they can see fine roots starting down aid a blade thrown up from the old geim. Some recollect that about five years ago they plowed up wheat for winter killed that proved to be an injury, as their neighbor's fields grew ind made a better crop from the old planting than theirs did from the new. We cannot learn that so great difference prevailed be tween the kinds of wheat and methods of sowing it as some claim. Occasionally there is a wheat field that shows life; we hear of such in diffeicnt places and have in miud the field at Aurora, between the railroad and the mill pond, which shows green already. It is a lamentable state of things, to see the wheat fields that a few weeks ago were more vigorous and promising than ever before known, now ded and sere to the last decree. It is a severe blow to farmers in this valley snd west of the Cas cades, who need a good year to help them out. There must be 250,000 acres to be-seeded, at a rough guess, and at the best price possible for wheat, the seed and labor will ost $3 an acre, while the difference in harvesting will be one-third, or at least one-fourth, unless we have an unusually fax-orable and growing npnng. To place a reasonanie craniate on tno loss to our farmers, they will be out of picket a million and a half to two million dollars on winter killed wheat. Hoever, "there is no use crying for spilled milk," as the proverb sjs; they must try again and keep up courage. This severe lesson empha sises the oft-repeated lessou taught in the Willamette Fabmeb, that grass pays more profit, is surer and less worry and annoyance than wheat alone. The price of seed wheatis a matterregulated by local demand a neighbor's needs. Wo sin cerely hope that those laimera who teach the principles of anti-monopoly will not forget to practice them at this time when many hopes are blight 'd. Thoso who have seed wheat to sell of course have a legal right to make all they can out of the situation, and the situa tion is the necessity of other farmers. Mr. Davis Shannon bought spring wheat of Fletcher, on Salem prairie, for one dollar ten cents a bushel. Fletcher could as cosily have got a much larger price. Ex-Senator Nesmith had considerable spring wheat in hand, and refuses all speculators, selling only to neigh bors who want to sow it, and sells at a dollar a bushel. The milling companies at Salem exchange spring wheat even for good winter wheat, charging only a fee for storage; at Oregon City the mills even with those who agree to give them the prefertnee in selling uext fall. It is pleasant to state instances of of unselfishness in such an emergency. The Portland Board of Trade met Wednesday afternoon to respond to a memorial that we publish elsewhere, from merchants and others at Albany, urging the necessity of importing eed wheat to supply seed to Linn county county farmers. Tho proceedings that we publish show that the matter will be promptly attended to. The O. R. & N. Co. will make a nominal charge of one dollar per ton freight from San Francisco to Portland, and the 0. k C. II. will transport it for 75 cents and fifty Ueuts respectively from Portland to anyBtation south, or from one station to another on the line free. The small charge made on wheat from Portland will only cover transfer charges here That all shows a desire on part of Portland merchants and transporta tion companies to make the calamity aa light as possible on the uffenng producer. Considerable spring wheat will be found through Oregon, and it can be brought from Colilornia at very short notice. At they grow mostly spring w beats there, even where sown in the fall, it must be easy to secure good seed. This reminds us that any person who haa good seed wheat of auy kind, is tolerably safe to tow it during the first ten aiys in March. We hear that fact often stated by good far' men, and remember that msny years ago we always sowod white wiuter wheat tlie first half of March, always with success. But we dou't wish any one to do that on our recom mendation. We suggest it aa a method in practice, and any man can easily satisfy him self from the experience of others as to its re liability. Ask your druggist for l.edding'a Russia Salve. Keep it in tne nouse in case 01 acci dents. Price 25 cents. r.The most brilliant shade possible, on all fabrics are made by the Diamond uyta, I Unequalled forb-il'iancy and dur bility. 10c 2 1883. WEIGHT OF MEATS. Our qiotitions speikofbeef and mutton net weight an I on foot. The stock niier who sells beef and mutton off the range ought to know how to calculate the weight of an am mal.which is a matter we do not intend to touch upon, more than to say that some men earn handsome salaries and others make fortunes by having a sharp idea of the weight of ani mals, or, in other words, " guessing " off tne weight of a lot of cattle and sheep. The butcher's rule is by measurement of an ani mal. So much depth and breadth and length contain so much meat, but such arbitrary rules cannnot give accurate weights; they can generalize, and so approximate to the truth. The shrewd buyer who can take in the points and see exactly where an animal gains or loses in weight, will make a fortune for him-elf or employers. Probably Thomas Cross under stands tie points, and can get at weights as well as any man in Oregon. A well bred ani mal haa points that give weight; it is deeper through, broader, compact in t-udd, and has solidity that cannot be found in the wild Texas steer, or the Spanish stock we found in Oregon iu 1850. Conversini? with Mr. West, a buyer, of Salem, the other day, when on the train, we got some reliable points that may be useful. A well fed beef animal, either fattened on range or stall feed, killd twelve hours after feed ing, should weigh 60 pounds of meat for the block to every 100 pounds of live weight; add ing the hide and tallow, and the weight will increase to 75 pounds to the 100-pound live weight. Take a rough bony animal, not built compactly, and not in good condition, though making a fine quality of meat, and the meat for the block will not weigh over 50 pounds to the 100 pounds live weight, and the hide and tallow over. The ordinary count is 50 par cent, meat, but the butcher would gain greatly if that was the actual calculation for good beef cattle. Mr. West gave the quotations for meats as follows : Mutton, 4 to 5 cents, live weight; beef, 5 to 6 cents, live weight, The differ ence of one cent lies in tho charactei of the meat. If it is choice the higher price is readily paid. These may be considired the prevailing rates at this time through Western Oregon. Mr. West is constantly buying for Portland bntcherp and visits all parts of the country. He is another man thoroughly posted as to meat matters and weights of cattle. The advantage in improved stock is that you get more and better meat in the best parts of the animal and smaller bono. Mr. West says our stock is not improving of late for the reason we do not import fresh blood to in vigorate it. He says beef was better years ago than now. This is important to our farmers at this time when we are entering upon a prio 1 of meat raising instead of so much wheat growing. Mr. West says there is doubt that the market for meats will be fully sustained in the future, as we have asserted. The man who has good meat can depend on a good market and a fair price. We srJoke, last week, of a sale of stall fed beef at 6 cents per pound, on foot, or live weight, from Lane county, and that animals four to five years old sold for $90. Inquiry places U0 a head as average values of such stock last fall; thtre has been not to exceed seventy-five days and not necessarily, and sixty days of feeding; the ccst of feed should not be over $20, and may not be ever $15 a head for this lot, so that a reasonable cost per animal would be SCO, against which tho purchase price was $90. We will suppose the man with 100 acres of good era?s land .mys young Btoek and grows hay and roots, and raises and fattens what meat he can on that much well improved land, Is it not evident that his outlay will be small, his cares light, hit farming Bifo and his income reasonably certain ? He markets his growing crop when he feeds it, and the manure left on the place is a small bonanza. We should like to have s ome experienced stock raiser figure up the amount of business a man could do with 100 acres, a few acres to cultivate and the balance to good pasture, Mr. West says oat hay is the k-est of fatting feed, but should be left as long as possible, until within a week of ripening, then will do great good, whereas, if cut green stock whT eat it greedily, but get very little good. That we can bear witness to, that green oat hay disappears rapidly. This question of meat refers to sheep and twine as well, but we have confined it chiefly to beef this time. It would bo a great grati fication to be furnished witb practical infor mation from stock men on all these points. They cannot do a greater favor to the country than to show what it is capable of in the line of producing choice meats for our growing home market. Ml.XII.Vt. .M-TTS. Bad weather for mining. The head of the Sterling ditch is thawing oui, sou piping is auom u commence. The prospects do not teem favorable for an extended tun for many of the miners. Klippel k Keaton of Poormsn's creek are able to work eight hours out of twenty-four oy catcning ine water in tneir reservoir. J. T Layton of Applegate it hiring quite a force of men to clean out his long line of ditch, which work will take sometime. He has not done much to far, but expects to mane a good run yet. The melting mow hasentbledj many to work their claimt. There is an unusual quan tity of tnow in the mountaini and those whose ditches head there will have an ample tupply ui wau-r lur awuiie. Rots k Co. havepurchtied C. H. Barkdell't title to the quartz ledge in Bltckwell district which paia to well about two years ago, when $600 was pounded out with a mortar in a thort time. Prospecting will be commenced tt once, Mctt of the miners are busy at work since the pleasant weather began, but unlets rain begins to fall toon, there will be a dearth of water. Those who rely on guclies and thort creeat are not name to uo much thu season, without the spring it Ute and wet. HO IIMI OF TBIDE. Heller for Ibc Farmers Mb Have Suffer! trom Hie Freeze-l'p. A special meeting of the Board of Trad, was held yesterday afterncon to consider thi ' following communications: Albasy, Or., Feb. 26, 1833. To the Boird of Trade of Portland, 0.: Uentlemex Inasmuch as the farmeis ol Liun couuty are compelled to import seed wheat from abroad for spring now iiij on to count of ltaab-eiice iu the -alley, an 1 whereas they must pay the high market rates now ml. ing, therefore we, tho underaiyneil, respect, fully ask that theB iard of Trade of Portland, Oregon, use its influence with all carrying companies to secure reduced rates of trans, portation for the same, and that said compj. nies notify the public through the press at what points suitable seed wheat for spring sowing can be obtained. P Cohen Burkhart Bros Senders & Sternberg I C Dickey Graf & Fromm W H Goltra Fred Muller W L Vanco A B Mcllwain Allen k Martin W C Tweedale B W Cundiff J Gradwohl E W Lingdon S E Young F M Kedficld McFarland & Co John Conner C E Wolverton H H Hewitt l'.-ters it Blain F M French Hoffman k Joseph Monteith k Seitenbacb Foshay k Mason L E Blain L, Fiinn R S Straban O. R. & N. Co., Manager's Office, Portland, Or., Feb. 28, 1883. , Ilinnll 111 inlaall 1?.n Proalrlont nl 1. II iard of Trade. Portland. Or. -.Dear ft S L-VUdll. .'.b..UT, ..4U- IV.1UUII. VI LIIS t i. the O. R. & IV Co. will mike a rate of oni x 1 , , -- - .. , (SI) dollar per ton, until further orders, on seed wheat from San Francisco to Portland, Yours truly, C. H. Prescott, Manager. Or. & Cal. R. R. Company, Gen'l Fr't and Pass'o'r Office, Portland. Or., Feb. 28, 1883. Donald Macleay, Esq,, President of the Portland Board of Trade -.Dear Sir I am instructed to say that this company will tram port seed wheat in car loads from Portland to stations south on the East side division at the nominal rate of Beverty-five cents per ton, on the West side division at fifty cents per ton from Portland to stations south, to cover transfer charges at Portland. From wj stations to points south on either d A isios will transport tree in car loads up in applica tion to our agents. This will continue in force till March 3lst. Yours respectfully, E. P. Rooers, G. F. & P. Aft, A committee consisting of Col. John lie Craken, W. J. Burns and Charles P. Church, were appointed, with full power to act in the matter. . A vote of thanks was tendered the O. R. i N. and the O. k C. railroad companies for the liberal offers in regard to transportation. After the meeting adjounred the committee immediately telegraphed to San Francisco and other points for seed wheat. LII1KHAL OFtEK. Farmers who have suffered the loss of their crops by the fieeze-up may be benefitted fe; the propositions contained in the following:! C. H. Prescott, Manager of the O. R. k N. Co., generously offcis to transport wheat fix seed from San Francisco to Portland for the nominal sum of one dollar per ton, and Mr, Koehlor likewise offers, on behalf of the O. t 0. R. R , to transmit from Portland to all points up the valley in cat load lots fvr the actual expense of transfer at Portland, viz,:: 70 cents per ton. All parties desiring to avail themselves ol the above facilities, and ordering in ten-ton lots, upon notifying the undersigned, will hire their orders attunde 1 to with dispatch it figures to cover actual cost. Sibson, Cudrcu & Co. BCR'-TINO OF AN EjIFRY WlIEEL. Y- terday afternoon about 3 o'clock, an Emery wheel in the Union Iron Works, on Front j street, corner of Main, burst, and seriously! injured Frank Reed who was workincat it, It appears that the speed of the wheel, which was very rapid at the time, was snddsnlyl considerably augmented by putting on thel blasts Mr. Reed, formerly engineer of Tiger Engine Company No. 5, Volunteer Fire Department, was a new hand apparently, with the Emery wheel, and when the revolu tions were increased another workmaa, a few feet distant, knowiug tha danger, threw hit wheel out of gear, and noticing that Mr, Reed continued working, started over to give him a pointer, but before he could get to him, the wheel burst, sending frsgmenta in all 6i- rections, one piece striking Reed on the right leg above the knee tearing the liesh oil atl shattering tlie bone, another piece ton through tho roof, Mr. Reed was taken tt his home at 69 Montgomery street, between. 3d and 4th, thence removed to Good Samar'-I ton Hospital. It is thought that the leg will have to be taken off. Romantic. -Om of the passengers on the Dakota siys the Intelligencer, was a youi lady from the east, whose object in coming tc this country was to marry a man she bid never seen. They had become acquainted through friends and by letters, and after a pro tracted pen. Ink and paper courtship had con eluded to chance matrimony. The man wu on the wharf to receive her, accompanied by the ladie'a friends. She duly came ashore, and, after a general and very hearty hand shaking, and a proper amount of "bussing,' she was introduced to her intended husband They stood off a moment, each taking a good look at the other, and then with a little gW cry the sprang into his outstretched arms, ui for a minute or two there wat tome of thf mott rapturous hugging and kissing yet dors' on this townsite. The couple were apparent ly oblivious of the crowd of strangers sm rounding them, and, teeming immenseli pleased with each other, went off up town. lliH An., .m-iailli. mL. .!..: !....., vhi formula from which Ammen't Cough Syrup 1 , prepared, he would not only recommend, tfjj presence it to nit patient! troubled wun cough or cold, or any disease of the throat mnna ! .4 T. t I? .In tl -6"- 1 1. it not no equal, ror -, benefit of those who wonld sty, "anotbfi uumuug, a trial 10-centsize it prepared. Aj yonr druggist to get it for you. Iu bottlet ttf 10 cts, ouctiand $1. Kicked by a Horse, Tuesday evenixf ! Vu-xt1T- iIiibsV . ... ! 1! 1 a. . .1ii from Eut Portland, and a half mile aoath c'3 tne owe line road, while attending to tuj horsei, wu kicked by one of them, breakirfl ------ . h tUU IUUIVIIPK lUbCIUtU ") fl ries. A doctor wat called to attend him, ti reports the case at a very teriout one. uaiepaon, who are mining below V'i Eagle flouring mill, have found new graEj v ma 'ruve rtxpuerTlvs. A !7 I