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It VOL. XV.
orrcfjuonilenci.
Letter from Spokane County.
Corro:.-wooi, W. T., Oct 24. 1893.
Mitnr Willamette Farmer :
Hoping a repoit of cri.ps from this
pait of Spokane county limy Ik; accepta
ble, I herewith give it. Wheat gave n
fair yield, taking into an account the
veiy -evere diouth that was geneial all
over the Pacific const, the lat rain of
the Spring falling to the mcasuie of an
inch on the fifteenth clay of lat May,
not another -howcr until about the liftli
of OctoW. Some fields made a yield of
23 bushel; per acre.one as high as thirty.
The growth of wheat stools wa ic
markahle, one plant made 137 well de
veloped head with plump grain:-, it
being the Little White Club.
Oats gave a yield of 30 to 40 bushels.
A veiy Tine variety of white oats is the
best for table u-e. being just ready to
grind in a common band mill, making
meal for porridge or pudding, equal to
the best manufactured oat meal, 'iio
more healthful dish can be set before
growing boys and gills, or "childteu of a
larger giowth" for that matter. A va
riety of hulless barley is also an addi
tion to soups and makes a good mush.
It yields 40 to 73 bushels per acre.
I planted a little over a pint of Gage
corn on the highest land, which yielded
3J bushels of very well-filled ears.
Sweet corn about the same. Brown
corn and amber sugar cane was a buccess
as an experiment. "Watermelons nevei
better, but not so large as I have been ;
muskmelous, cantalopes, and nutmeg
melons were very fine ; pie melons, and
smiashes. one vine have two weighing
475 and 40 pounds, just planted without
ever being cultivated, (very shiftless, of
course); cucumbeis, ten vines made live
gallons of pickle-: ; potatoes without any
cultivation, yield 230 bushels per acre,
being the eaily robe variety; peas an
enormous yield: white Yankee or
navy beans, a quart of seed yielded 4
bushels j turnips, beets, carrots, pai snips,
mangle wurtzel, cabbage, artichokes,
white and red clover,' blue grass, havo all
been tried with perfect success.
Fruit trees set this spring made a
growth of two and three feet; small
fruits have done as well. I wish right
here to 6,iy that wild currants of the
different kinds might be raised on our
farms to advantage, also chokecherries
which make a pleasant uddition to our
table fiuits ; barberries, sarvice berries,
and wild raspberries would take to the
wild land and bear immediately; cran
berries and huckleberries cm be readily
propagated and might be impioved.
One of our neighbors, Mrs Baird, near
Cheney, had berries to a great extent,
she canned ten gallons of blackcap rasis
berries, and has apple trees beginning to
bear, which were set thiee years agty
crab apples of the quince kinds, and
many other Irihts) tenau wenot, Know
ing tliPse. tilings, keep up courage and
battle with a strong-arm against , the
pioneeis' troubles, knowing 'that, the
ime will come when weJ-as a people,
will take our places before the, world a
a great and prosperous State.
Many people hero are enjoying the
luxury of salmon, there being an abun
dance to be easily caught in the Spokane
and its tributaries.
I am constrained to finish this letter
on an entirely ditl'erent subject. At ten
o'clock or near last night, a very large
and brilliant meteor sp-d across the
qItv. Kuhtinir everv obioct with a Irnav-
enlv flame, and in a few minutes a lot!
explosion unlike any noise only an
earthquake, the earth moving with a
wavy nvtionj the sound, reverberating
for at least a minute and ceasing in a
distant roar. Such exhibitions of the
artillerv of heaven are rare and start
ling, but are no more beautiful than the
natural phenomena of the stars, moon,
and sun. Man quakes at the wonder
ful exhibition of God's power, but every
day he may witness the same if he but
heed them. Mrs. A. Bowex.
Some Pertinent Questions on toe Morwiee
Tix Law.
New EiuTOr., Xux. 12. l&-
E liter Willamette Ftfm-n
I would like to a-k a few qui stions
pnncernine the mortgage tax law, and
particularly would I like the Linn Conn-
ty Budness Council P. of A., after mak-
ing this statement, "Kesolveu, mat mis
Council is in favor of all property that
has or claims protection under the laws
of the State, paying ite fair proportion to
, maintain such protection.
"to show
howorwhere a neighbor of "ours." paysMiIler Bros., Portland, Or., seedmen.
his share of the necessary expenses. Ho
owns a place which he values at $4,000.
it is mortgaged for $1,200. and it is as
sessed at ijl,200. Tho man pays 04 cents
tax. In anticipation of a reply that the
money lender will not venture money to
more than one third the value of proper
ty mortgaged. I wish to nsk, provided a
man was to come with tho money and
buy up the present moitgages and en
ture as much more cash upon the prop-
city, and take mortgages upon all the
property otlered at two-thirds of its esti
mated value. Inside of fivo years what
per cent of tho farms of Linn county
could he hae in his possession? My
opinion is he could begin farming on a
large scale. Tho man who lends money
(.emands nothing moie than the fulfill
ment of the written bargain or agree
ment; then why make him pay his own
taxes and the other man's too. If the
Linn County Council or anybody else
can give the figures that will conoctly
elucidate their statement above, your
correspondent will be happy to stand
coirected, but until then he will retain
the idea that theie if something about
the she;t- that balances very much to
one hide. Yours fraternally,
Thomas Buckm vs.
An Arctic Discovery.
Capt. Healey, of the levenue steamer
Cor win has submitted a leport to the
chief of the revenue marine, in which
he gives the particulars of the discovery
of a largo river in the Arctic regions,
hitherto unknown save to natives. En
sign Storey, with two men and a small
boat, was tent out from Hotham Inlet.
Here they struck the mouth of another
river of considerable size, which the na
tives said was one. of tho outlets of a
larger river. Descending this branch
in a southeasterly direction for two days,
they struck the main stream, which
pioved to be a river fully three-quarters of
a inilp in width,having nowhore les than
2 fathoms of water, deepi ning at times
to seven fathoms Thny ascended the
river a distance of 3(1 miles frojn its
mouth. The banks generally were
steep and thickly timbered with birch,
alder and spruce, some of the trits
attaining a height of 40 feet, with 12
inches diameter at tho b.1-0. II n'k fiom
the blinks the undoigrowtu '"i mil an
impassable jungle, particularly wlieie
the banks were low. ,Tlie current was
strong at the bends, 1 baching1 the rate
of two knots an hour. The natives re
ported that the river holds its depth of
not less than two fathoms and its width
of haif a mile for nof less than 300 miles
beyond where Mr. Storey turned back.
It "was further stated by the natives
that, by making a .-mall portage near the
head of this river, they could reach an
other stream flowing northwaid into the
polar sea,
".
Death of Mr. DuRelle
V.
Wo notice in an exchange the death of
B. M. DnKelle. For many years Mr.
DuKelle was consideied one of the most
enterprising men in Marion county. Ill
hick often followed him, but he scerned
to have a wondeiful faculty of getting
on his feet again after it. The great
ilood of '02 finally took away his mills
in the city of Salem, and he became dis
heartened, but soon turned up again in
Salt Lake City a rich banker. Domes
tic troubles now came in with renewed
prosperity, and after yeir- of a life
checkered bv many more failures and
successes, he ha finally gone over to the
gieat majority.
A Deron Bull tor Yaqulna.
j,'t weK we met a man driving a
fineNoung Devon bull. He had a pack
on hin back and everything indicated
that he was going some di-tance.
Upon inquiry wo learnnl irom him that
he had bought the animal of fieo. W.
Dimick, of Hubbard, Marion county,
Oregon, and that lie was taking it over
to Yaquina Lay to breed up his stock.
He said he propped driving it all the
way, and as he wan in the middle of the
road and on toot, we rather think he was
in earne-t, "We wish him succ-u and
al-o tru-t li will inset with no ill luck
with his new p-ircha.
Cioln Ixporte Bulbs
.Mer-. Miliar Bros., of Portland, hate ,
L q,
y
rn:e;v4a V(H im.rtation 01 cnwce
erv sue .we! color unaKiiu-
haw imirp'd them dirwt
from Germai.v and Holmnd and we can
vouch for it a's we hae seen tae origi -
nal bills of lndn, and bill, etc Iliey
will L'ladlv aii-wer inquiries or snow
them to any one sho may
nlm tuav address or
I call upon tnem. Di.n'l furget the place,
"" j . .
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
THE LANDS ALONG THE ROUTE OF THE
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD
A Splendid Exhibition of their Agricultural
and Mineral Products.
One of tho most interesting featuies
of the fair of the Now England Manu
factuiers' and Mechanics' Institute, in
Boston, in the magnificent display of ag
ricnltuial and mineral products from
tho section of the Great Northwest which
is traversed by thoroute of the Noith
orn Pacific Kailroad.
The arrangement of the exhibit is ex
ceedingly tasteful and artistic. In the
bnckgiound is a veiy high screen on
which appear in large capital letters. th
names of North Dakota, Minnesota,
Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Ore
gon. Underneath aie grouped small
sheaves of different kindb of grains and
long grasses. We noticed one sheaf of
rye, labeled "rye cut for hay," seven feet
high, grown in Gallatin county, Mon
tana, by C. & II. Edwards.
liio samples or wheat are 111 great va
riety, conspicuous among them being
numerous specimens of tho famous
"Scotch Fife." This is the hard, spring
wheat which is produced so largely in
iNorth Dakota and Northern -Minnesota,
tho soil and climate of which combine
to bring it to the greatest perfection.
The best giadeof this wheat is quoted as
"iSo. l Hard, and Prmgs ten per cent
higner price than any other wheat
grown, in consequence of containing a
larger percentage of gluten, while in
other wheat standi predominate". This
wheat make- the best hour in the world,
producing a larger number of pounds of
bread from a given quantity than any
other.
The annual consumption of this wheat
in the extensive flouring mills of Min
neapolis is upward of 23,000,000 bushels.
Theie are on exhibit sample barrels of
"I'illfebury's Bost" flour made fioin this
whea. The capacity of the largest of
the PilHiury mills is 4.300 ban els per
day, and of the entire group 14,000 bar
lels per dav. The capacity of the Wash
burn mills is 7,000 barrels daily, and
vaiiotis other mills have a combined ca
pacity of 10,000 batrels per day, making
the total production of the mills at Min
neappolis upward of 30,000 barrels per
day.
The yield of haid spring wheat in
North Dakota and Minnesota ramre
fiom twonty-two to forty bushels per
acre, weighing from sixty-one to si'v
four pounds to the bushel, while ord.
narv wheat weighs only fifty-six pounds'
Thero are also fine samples ot when
from Montana and Washington Ternton
tories and Oregon, among which way be
noticed tho White Au-tralian Club,
White Australian Spring, Purple Club,
Little Club, Red Russia, White Winter,
Viola Volunteer, Ode a, Black African,
and other varieties Piominent among
them may be mentioned the "seven
rbwed wheat," seven lows of grain
growing out from the same- stem ; al-o
the "winter bearded wheat," likewise a
great producer.
Oat-, barley and rye grow finely
throughout the section of the country
above named. Thpru are oats exhibited
hero which -tand seven feet high and
would yield not less than one hundred
bushels to the acre. The average weight
of the grain is remarkably high, oats
ranging from forty to forty-six pounds
per bushel, and barley and rye are pro
portionally heavy. The barley raided
in this legion is harder than that pro
duced further south. Exhaustive ef
forts have been made in California, Ne
braska and South'-rn Dakota to pioduce
the hard wheat of North Dakota, but al
though the soil appeared excellent the
variation in climate, or ome other rea
son not fully understood, made it im
possible to raise this wheat in perfec
tion, a its quality invariably deterior
ated, althouun the best grade of hard
spring wheat was sown.
Among the samples of rye exhibited
are some specimens of white rje winch
arc fairly amazing, each gram being of a
pure cream white color and fully as
large as any thre grains of ordinary
rve. Tho (onsi-tency of the grain is
rfinty, like the wheat of the northern
region.
The grasses exhibited are in great va
riety and of 1111-t luxuriant growth.
The "bunch glass" of the western part
... v0rth Dakota. Montana.
ot rvorth JMkoui, Jiomana. uavinug
t5n amj Oregon is conceded tot the
linen and mo-t nutritious grass that
g -own, The hunch grass and the buffalo
lgrasrf grow; prulincaliy throughout thi
bection, wmen contains toe iargei graz-
! ing range in uie unira ovaie u8
, naturally well watered, this is becoming
1 , r, . . ...!.. :: Ti
1 one 01 me greater caiim iiuK buu
-sheep growng regions in tue cotinirj.
This industry is inci cubing at a rapid
pace and is among tho most profitable
of pursuits-.
rTlin nvliiliif inplnilna finn snmnlns nf
clover and timothy, some heads of tho
latter measuring over eleven inches in
length, the grass itself being six feet
high. There nie specimens of alfalfa
from Oregon five .feet high, and clover
nf iminrlin!Mit frnm Xnrtli lYiUntn.
Among other agricultural products are
nno specimens or peas, Deans, nops,
flaxseed, and flax in the stalk.
The display of vegetables from North
I'.lKIUtli? S!ill'J IHllllJXMl till Ul Ullllll
of their rrn.ukably largo si?e, although
rue poiiuot'b snnwn nan not yei rcacutxi
their full grow k. The yield of potato"
i from two hundred to four hundred
buseels to the acre. Onions of very
huge sie are !-o shown; they yield as
high n eight hundred bu-hels to the
acre.
Theiuineii'l specimens from Montana
aie the finest oer collected in that
Territory. They excite gie.u interest
from the fact of coming from a section
of the mining legions 111. which the first
search for the piocious metal- made,
and which has up to this time produet-d
oer iH2,O00,O0O in gold and -liver, the
product for 1S82 reaching upward of
f 10,000,000.
The spicimens of copper from Lake
Superior leirion nie exceedinsrlv line.
That section is well known as one of
the laraest copper producing countries
in the world. There are also specimens
of gold, silver, iron and lead .oies and
coal from various points in the region
tiaversed by the Northern Pacific, show
ing how diversified and extensive are its
mineral resources. Hie natural capabil
ities of this region have probably never
neen equaieu 111 any new country tuai
u'w itiw nnfliwwl nntl fbn nmnbpr of
peopkyvho are turning their attention
tmvnfltW vast iinrlftvftlouod land of
piomise may be numbeied by tens of
thousancs. this exmomon 01 tno ma
terial advantages offered by tho Great
VnilnuLt ill rlr.tilitTp-. lmvn n stimu.
lating influence upon the tide of emigra
tion which is already setting so strongly
in iiiauiireciion.
Tl ovliiliif iw in rbnrirp nf ATr. A. ,T.
Quin, New England agent of tho North-
.1.., Pw.ifi.. linJlin.nl Ilia nflipn is In-
cated at 20(1 Washington street, Boston.
AT,- P It flivi.it i,t St P.111I. Minn.. !he
General Emigration Agent of the road,
is ti'inp)rariiy pio-ent at tne oxmuiuon,
and to him at St. Paul should bo ad-dre-Hl
any inquiries fiom parties who
may wish any information. Ho can
K'lid them printed matter on all sec
tions of this vat territory.
The landed inteiests of the Northern
Pacific Iailro-d Company aie very
large , they h.no a grant of land extend
ing oneitiier side of tho load for a dis
tance of fifty mile-, and reaching from
Lake Superier to th Pacific, Ocean and
Puget .-ound; .m imperial domain of
over 10,000,000 acre- or fanning, graz
ing, timber and miii"ral land''.
In addition to the grant of lands to
the Northern Pacific Kailroad which
they have in market, theie is an equal
amount of government land located
in alternate -ections with that of the
lailroad lands, which is open for set
tlemenuinder the Homestead, Pre-emption
an'd Tree Culture Law- of the
I'nited States. The-- beneficent laws
open the way to free homes to all citizens
who de-ire to avail themselves of their
rights.
The fine belt of tiiuW in Minnesota
covers an aiea of oer 20,000 square
miles while the timber belt in Wa-h-ington
Territory, lying between the
Columbia river, IJriti-h Columbia, the
Cascade Mountain-, and tho Pacific and
Pugtt .'ound, is 'aid to be the Jarge-t
and finest in the world. It is as large
as the State of Iowa and is estimated to
contain 100,000,000,000 feet of timber,
which up to the present time is largely
uninvaded bv man, there having been
onlv hlout 2,500.009,000 ftet cut, leaving
ovs'r 157,000,000.000 ftet.yet to con
tribute v 1 the indu-tri-H which it is des
tintd to deVelope. N. Y. Commercial.
We would call the attention of our
readrrw to tho advertisement of John A.
Child & Co., druggist', in this issue.
Thi- is an old reliable firm that pride
thuutelus on dealing only in purednigs
and chonicals. The he,t only of for
eign and domestic fancy goods.perfume-rie-
and toilet goods. Orders by mail
will be esMul'v and promptly attended
te Tneir place 01 business i corner of
Morrison and Second streets.
Four million dead lettrs were received
Jjft year at the ollioj in Washingion.
Eleven thousand of thisc lxiro no siuer
rcriition. Nearly two million dollare
were found in thetc dead letters. Every
J letter and package is sent as hearly aa
1 ossihlc to the right person.
16, 1883.
How Money is Made Upon the Farm.
Experiment" in growing animals, and
in fattening them for the market, have
quito often, seemed to show that no
profit was made upon the undertaking ;
at any late, no such profit as would sat
isfy a man with a speculative turn of
mind. The opinion is frequently ox
prcsstd that, taking the country over,
but comparatively fow fanncis make
any money upon their farms over and
above that made through tho steadily
growing alue of their acres. Thine
are, of course, many things produced
upon tho farm that are not counted and
charged up as a part of the ycarlj ex-pen-es,
and ei edited to tne farm, a
they should bo. Poultry and tho ojg
product cut quite a liguiu in the living
expense-, yet there are rarely any ac
count taken of these only when poul
try fonns quite an item in the business
cturied on on the farm. The same is
true of milk and butter, except where
the faun is a daily f.um ; in which latter
case articles u-ed from what is rated as
the leading products aro deducted.
On some farni-,the surplus of poultry
and eggn is quite sufficient to pay for
one or two leading articles in the gioco
ry line for tho entire year, if tho poultry
is propirly managed. Then if the farm
is not a dairy farm, the surplus product
of the farm cows, properly utilized, will
pay the grocer quite an added amount
towards bis yearly bill. Tho hens glean
their living from sources that are mainly
valueless tor any other purpose, and
the keep for a couple of cows is hardly
missed upon a farm of two or threo hun
dred acies. leaving the main sources of
income intact. In fact, if the farmer is
following the system of stock growing
he should pursue, his cattle being wolf
graded up, the increase will pay expense
of feeding such cows as aie kept for
family use; if ho does not raise cattle
somewhat impioved, ho is not worthy
to havo his milk and butter at any loss
cost than tho-e who do not live en the
farm.
The farmer who bought his land say
240 acies for 300, twenty-five years
ago, and can now sell at $50 per aero,
has, after deducting compound interest
upon the sum originally paid, and appa
rent profit on the investment of about
47 por acre. Hut it is answered to
this, that he has paid taxeu, and placed
fences and buildiiiirs upon tho property,
and it is largely upon these improve
ments that the gain from $1.25 to $50
per acre has come. But it must al-o In;
borno in mind, that he lijis hail the use
of the land during the ieriod named,
worth during the first two or thice years,
we will say, nothing; after that, from
one to three dollais per acre, according
to btate of advancement in tillage, in
seeding down,.and in improvements.
If, as is the rule, he ha- built fences,
and erected buildings out of earnings
from tho land, having had no means,
from any other source, to make im
provements with, has had his living dur
ing the years, and has now an accumu
lation of liui stock and other peisonal
piopertyon hand, without having in
curred the risk which so generally envi
ron mercantile and manufacturing pur
suits, thero is no reason why, having
had the use of fences and buildings up
to tho period of incipient decay, he
should not count the ineieasc in price
over lirt co-t as re-ting entirely in the
land piop'-r. If gain i- made out of the
products of the farm, it in by common
consent conceded that wbe.it glowing
don- not, tukiug the jeais togither, add
to this gain. Lrjieciiuly i- this true
alter the tirt two or tin eo year flopping,
and doubly true utter the land has be
come, owing to it- location, materially
enchanced in value.
During all the years that the average
farmer ha' kept himself weighted down
with inferior farm stock, on which he
has made no profit, ho has, nevertheless
secured a living I'nder tho mere
drift of evenls--cireunntances beiond
his control under which the man with
out brain anil Lusines tne shares to
quite a degn e equally with him who
lias a largo gift of toth, his land has
yeaily grown in value, so that l.u finds
a customer for his acres in the thriftv
neighbor who has accumulated .1 bank
balance, not by waiting for an increase
in the value of the land ho has no in
tention of solliriL', but through feeding
I his grain and gra, not simply that he
they niav he consumed on ine piwuiMs
that he may say liis produce is not U
ing hauled oft", but, 011 the contrary, to
well-bred animals, that pay a profit,
Wo would k, w list sou 1 co of profit
is there iijioii the farm, leaving out the
special linos, dairying, etc., exu'iit, in
following tho plan to regularly turn off
jHtying ivo stooKi la-nanny continu
ous wheat growing, with other grains
NO. 40.
added, to tho exclusion of feeding, can
not bo practiced upon lauds in general,
in fact not upon any laud, without heavy
outlay for keeping up fertility. If tho
man who goes along slipshod from year
to year, feeding sciub steers until they
are four or five yoors old, will go into
market with a car-load, on the same train
with his neighbor who has a car-load
of two or three-year-olds of high breed
ing, he ought to be able, aflor tho sales
aie made, to compute tho advantagea
reached through uveiving tho proceed;
from two or thiee years' keep, at six
cents, over anything bo can figuio up ou
an experience of a four or fivo years'
keep, upon a thiee-and-a-half-cent "basis.
This !s one way for a man to settle tho
question whether he has over really
made any money, except through what
is foicedupon liim by the giadualriso in
the itlui of land in his locality Na
tional Live Stock .lourntd.
What a Farmer's Education Should Be.
Tho work of the farmer lies at tho ba
sis of tho world's prosperity. The bettor
man and the bettor farmer ha may be,
the more thrifty and prospeions iill bo
tho nation and the more ho will benefit
tho world in his individual capacity. It
is, therefore, of tho highest importance
that tho farmer should bo an intelligent
and well-educated man, that he may till
his place in society in tho best and most
usoiul manner. But thero is a popular
impression abroad that a good fanner or
11 good shoe-maker or mechanic may bo
spoiled by too much education. If a
good education prevents tho 0110 from
growing good crops, or tho other front
making durable shoos or building solid
houses or barns, there might bo some
truth in this idea. But why should tho
cultivation of tho mind have this doplor
able result? it is very plain that if such
a result should be produced, something
is wrong in tho education, and it has not
been of tho right kind. And it is just
hero wheio failure is made in thoso
cases whero the education of far
mers' children result in disappointment,
Wo cannot dony that in many casts
parents 1 'o been disappointed in thi
way. Childion havo beon sent to
country schools, and oveiy year their
minds and hopes have been turned
further away from rural jmisuits, fioiiL
farm lifo and work, anil 111 a diioctioti
towards city life, with all its ambtitiom
until, when they havo become freed
from parental restraint, they havo turned
their backHiipou the old homestead, ami
the old folks havo been left desolate and
alone in their old age, wh-n most they
needed the society and help of their
children.
A farmer cannot bo too well educated.
He may, and should be, possessed of all
the practical knowledge which relates to
his business. This should be taught in
rural schools as soon as the firtt rudi
ments "the three It's," iih they havo
licen humorously called have been
mastered. This will leqtiiie some pri
mary insight into mechanics, hydro
statics, botany iinil chemistry. To a
young mind that has been properly
trained and has not been misled, theso
will o)en a very fairy hind of wonders,
which tho boy or girl may explore with
the gieatest advantage and delight, and
in which every discovery will tempt to
further explorations, Such a study will
make farm life vastly more interesting
and delightful than the .111porf1ci.1l and
frivolous existence which is too often
pas-cd by young men in towns and
cities, where questionable, if not vicious
excitements 111 e sought to mitigite the
leal isolation which may lie moie often
found in 11 city than in the countiy.
Some of themo-t louci-omo men and wo
men are found in cities mid towns and
in the mid-t ofciowils. Where one can
not find enjoyment in his owi surround
ings theie he is poltitxl, as if lie were
alone in a d'-ert, and there is no place
where a ixT-on, old or young, can find
more pleasing anl latioutl enjoyment,
than on a farmer 111 a farm home.
Again In the Field.
John W fiilliert, who has bn in busi
ness in Sakm, for twenty ears and is well
known through the middle countiis of
the Willamt tie is again in jose-sion of a
well (quipped boot and shio stoie. Jlo
opens on Commercial stiet, in tho old
liiil block, ai.d, ot course, has the latest
and best styles of goods. He has every
advantage in purchasing '.b and ha
Used th"fXjeneiu-of a lifetime in out
lining this esUttli'hment. Our leaders
who trade at Salem, only nfed m know
ilnil Gil'ieitis jgaji in undo to know
whattodo. As usual ho purchases furs,
skins and hides and operates in wool
when there is anj, also keejw "leather
and iiri(lingn" for the supply of a widu
custom, as tie sell shoo makers stock all
over tli is valley.