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REPUBLIOAH NOMINATIONS
Tho Chicngo convention on the third
ballot gnve J. O. niainc, of Maine, 114
votes, which noiiiiiiii'eil liini for tho
Presidency. On tho first ballot, by nc
clamntion, tho convention nominated
John Logan, of Illinois, for Vice Presi
dent. During the four days the convention
was in session, nny mention of Blaine's
nRmo culled out tho wildest ontlnisiasni.
The waving of banners and tho shout
ing of ton thousand voices was sus
tained for twenty-five minutes at ono
time. President Arthur received a very
largo vote, but tho greatest enthusiasm
was for Blaine, who seems to command,
in the highest (U-greo, tho popular favor
of his party.
Blaino was born in Pennsylvania, and
after marriage removed to Maine. He
inherited an interest in wild lands in
Pennsylvania that proved to be coal
Limit, and the rent of them makes him
wealthy. Ho has recently devoted him
self to writing a history of tho country
during his own political career, that
commands great praise from even those
who personally oppose him. For twen
ty years or mora ho bus been in Con
gress; win premier of Gurftold's cabi
net, and of late has hnd no office. While
tho iiidoiwtulout Hepublicans would pre
fer Edmunds or Sherman or Harrison,
no doubt tho great majority of hiti party
p'efor Blaino. Mis firm opposition to
importation of Chinese, against the
prejudices ot most men from New Eng
land, gives him a strong hold on tho Pu
oilio StaUM. Blaine has great qualities,
is u bold, orator, a atrong man in many
respects, and has a following not equaled
by any other public man in America.
He was Speaker of tho Houo for six
years.
General lognu i not a rich nun, but
is a man w ho commands gre.it popular
ity. Ho w.ih in Congress lfore the
war, and now ropiesout Illinois in tho
Senate. He was u Miocessful general,
and has a triui; hold on the soldier ele
ment of the tuition. As a man he lucks
ftomclhiug of the dignity ikvsmwciI by
many eminent men. but is all tho more
popular 1ht;iu- fnily approached, and
more tho friend of the people than of
tho wealthy lu-n. Ijogau is eloquent
and strong in dtb.ite. Having Usui al
ways in public life, he has net made
money, us many do, from practice of his
profession. No man doubts his homely
and purity as a public mail.
The platform of resolution .idoptrd
by tho Nutioual ISepublican.(Jnvention
is very long-wimleil, and attructn much
nriticUm. After lamenting the death of
(iarfield and commending the adminis
tration of Arthur as wio, conservative,
and patriotic, -it takes up the Uriir, fa
vors the hlnt'p interest, and would iv
Htoro tho duty on foreign wool ; it prom
ises to correct the irregularities of tho
tariff and rvthieo the surplus revenue
without injury to productive industry;
in shoit, it favoi modemut protoctiou
to home industries and wool growing.
Its foreign policy is to avoid entang
ling alliances and prevent meddling
with American affairs; the navy to bo
rvsitoivd to old titneelHoieney ; to remove
alt burdens from American shipping,
mid have our commerce explore every
se.t; olllcer for territories should lo
taken from roMcitU thereof; favors
both gold and silver standard of val
ue; to wiry out the constitutional pow
era of Congnv to legul.Ue iuter-sUte
eoiumercei public i eguUtton ot wihiud
corporation is approved of as wise and
ilutary to prevent unjust discrimina
tion ; favors a national labor bureau and
the eight hour law to Ihj enforced; to
protect citiieiis by aoptivn wnte
WlLbAMJiTTE
thor nativo liorn; will sustain present
law icttricting Chinese iinniigr.ition; for
fin t her extension of tho reform of the
civil service system; and to restrict the
power of oificinl p.ttronngo ; demands
the forfeiture of all unearned land grants
where good faith has not been used by
corporation"; appreciates tho senices
and sacrifices of soldiers and sailors who
fought to tavo the Union; denounces po
lygamy; urges its suppression and the
divorce of tho political and ecclesiasti
cal powers of tho so-called Mormon
Church ; asserts our Union to bo a nation,
not a confederacy, but recognises re
sencd rights of the States; free ballots
and correct returns' necessary; urges
legislation to insure possession and cx
crciso of civil and political rights.
As many of our readers depend upon
tho Faiimer for all important news, we
havo made a synopsis of the acts of the
National Republican Convention, as we
shall that of the Democratic National
Convention, which soon meots in the
samo city.
So far as can be judged in advance,
tho Democratic Convention will put the
old ticket in tho field the ono put in
nomination eight years ago Tilden and
Hendricks, and, if so, wo may expect a
hard contest and a close result Who
ever can carry New York and the Pacific
States will be elected.
VALUE OF FRUIT GROWING.
The importance of tho fruit crop to
our soctiou cannot be easily appreciated
without reference to tho valuo of tho
fruit crop of other Stales. Wo have
constant proof that fruit growing is the
most profitable branch of production in
California and will take that State as an
example of what can bo done in fruit
growing. Thoro they grow peaches and
oranges, apricots, figs, and grapes, all of
which arc not to bo produced in most of
Oregon, though grapes, peaches and ap
ricots can bo successfully grown in
Southern Oregon. We expect to seo the
time, and that within a few years, when
much of iupqua and Rogue River
valleys will be planted to those fruits
and believe they will prove more valu
able for that purpose than for nny other,
though they cannot be grown there suc
cessfully in all localities. Where they
can bo grown they certainly should bo
and will bo planted.
It in estimated that the product of Cal
ifornia orchards and vineyards counts up
to many millions, alt tho way from f 3,
000,000 to $10,000,000. It is true that
semi -tropical fruits figure largely in this
cstimato but they also produce very
largely oi the fruits natural to our soil
and climate. Wo can grow, all through
Oregon and tho Pacific Northwe,
apples, pears, and plums and all along
tho valleys of Snake and tho Columbia
rhers, as far north as Colvillennd as far
south as Lowiston, poaches apricots
aud gropes are successfully grown. We
do not doubt that tho fiat lands along
the Columbia, below the Umatilla river,
will sometime be planted to fruits, and
c)eeiully to peaches and grape. The
extent of surface adapted to these fruits
is not at all understood. Take Umpqua
and Koguc lliver valleys and their f.iv
ou!o hill sides, adapted to grape cul
ture aud the peaches, and the bottom
I mds Hast of tho Cascades, cloho to tho
rivers and in their canyons, and our
section can produce ononnoiw crop of
those fruits.
Through this valley and all through
Western Washington the apple, pear,
cherry and plum grow to the very best
advuntnga Kaeh locality pojeee.- its
own. advantages and hhould improve
them as domonntratod by oxperieucu.
The man who produces fruit must al
bo prepared to take care of the crop in
eiwt the market docs not demand fresh
fruit in large qusatity. The railroad
opens for us a market through tho Kat,
and especially through the mining re
gions of Idaho mid Montana, that we
can always count on. Certain varieties
ot apples and pears that are good kee
era can be grown with fair certainty, as,
in case not required in a green state,
they can be dried by tome process easy
to rccuro. Fruit drying and canning
can be carried on now, readily, by any
fruit grower, with email expeuto and or
dinary pains. Fruit growing can be
made a jurt of all farming. The drier
can I jKit to work in rainy weather,
and fruit can bo cured to the It-st ad
vunt.it.tt a to time.
The beat way will be to loam what ap
ples do best iu your vicinity, and plant
out the mast reliable varieties. For
either drying or canning the Waxen
cannot be excelled The IlnMwmbNo.
1 for all the uses apples can x put to.
8o with other varieties that can bo
uamed. The Astraehtin is the bet
larly variety for drying well, .md it is
preferable to haw a few varieties aud
stiny of a kind, and than to wend them
FARMER: SALEM, OREGON, JUNE 13, 1SS4
to market properly named. As to pears,
thorcis the Iiaitlctt, n good bearer and
a healthy tree, and also tho choicest
fruit known in tho world. Other varie
ties can be grown to give succession of
fruit through the fall and winter. The
four choicest varieties will bo all a man
need to set out. Plums nnd prunes can
be made to cover all tho timo from Au
gust 1st to the middle of October, Ity
which lime applos and pears are plenti
ful. Ono need nol set out moro than
four or five sorts of plums to cover all
tho timo plums and pi lines me in bear
ing. As vet thore are not the facilities hero
for handling fruits that they havo in
California, but there soon will bo, as this
must become a gie.it branch of trade.
We intend to construct a first clct s Acnio
Drier, as we have it already in operation,
but not of sufficient capacity. When
this has finished our own crop of fruit,
we propose to try tho virtue of buying
apples and pears for drying, and make
n cuMul experiment of the profit of dry
ing fruit. Wo can dry thousands of
bushels of apples during tho fall and
winter, after prunes are gone, and shall
endeavor to thoroughly test the matter,
if wo can seoure tho fruit. Before long
canning fruit will bo extensively carried
on here, and wo may prepare ourselves
ti both can and dry fruits, whichovor
shall promiso tho best results. It is
necessary thnt fruit culture shall become
a prominent and well established indus
try, and we feel like cautiously ventur
ing into tho business of drying and can'
ning fruit in this vicinity.
In competing for tho world's trade,
we shall have to compete in price and
must be satisfied with moderate profits.
Hitherto we havo entertained exlrava
gant views, and wo must surrender these
and compete in all else as wo do in wheat
culture. Dried prunes of a common
variety are imported at Now York from
Germany at fi cts, and after paying
freight and duty are brought to Port
land and sold by the great cak, weigh
ing 1,400 lbs. each, at eight cents, and
aro sent all over the valley and retailed
at 10 cents a pouud.
Over a hundred thousand pounds of
these prunes wero wholesaled in Port
land this season, and perhaps moro, so
we wero iuformed by tho great commis
sion and grocery houses. One way will
be to produce a superior quality of fruit
and so command a higher price. These
same commission houses tell us that
they believe they can wholesale such
prunes as we have been making the past
three years; at 12 cents, but we must
calculate to sell our prunes and plums
on an average at 8 to 10 cts., and make
a choico artielo at that. Even at eight
cents, a bushel of green prunes will
yield 20 pounds of dried fruit, which
will leave ovor a dollar a bushel net for
the fruit on tho tree. Wo actually can
produce prunes as cheaply as they can
be produced anywhero iu the world.
Choico dried apples can be sold for
10 cents a pound, which will yield about
(10 cents a ImOicl for the green fruit.
Even at that prieo the man who pays
20 cents a bushel for apples at his dryer
will have to vork closo to make much
on them. A small profit on a large
quantity of fruit will have to tify
the manufacturer. It is necessary to
command a premium for quality to suc
ceed in any binine-s. A good name,
earned by doing god work, is sometimes
a fortune. Our Oagon fruit growers
must be careful, if they dry their fruit,
to manufacture a quality thnt will be
above all criticism.
As to driers we can personally asure
our reader that the two advertised in
our columns are lioth iu good as the
best. It is needle to go further, and
in each case the makers only ask a
moderate profit over oast. Any one
who tries the Oregon or the Acme drier
will only have thuuwlves to blame if
they do not make the ery bet quality
of dried fruit.
W pay ejtecial attention to this,
quostiou of fruit, Itecmifo we recognise
that it is destined to Income one of the
lcst MiirctM of income to the farmers
of this country Through this valley
and all thnuigli Western Washington
the apple, pear, cherry and plum grew
to the ory U-t advantage.
THE NAKKOW GAUGE ROADS
We learn from Mr. Wm. Keid who we
met when he started some days ago to
make a lotirot the Narrow Caugu raii
roads thst he U acting for tho stock
holders and directors of the Orrgonian
ItaiSvray Company to examine the con
dition of their roads and make report to
them at once It seems Uiat the O. K.
N. Company has thrown up theleate it
made of the& lin and now claims to
operate thrc roads only for the account
of tho ttockhol.ler. They claim that
the lease was illegal, a the iHate gave
the company no risht to lease their roads
nnd so they throw up an expensive
contract that cost them 1140,000 a year
and yielded no returns. They also set
forth that Villard had no legal right to
involve their company in that way
simply to relievo his friends the German
owners of tho O & C roads of a com
petitor. The matter will go through
tho courts and will probably go again-t
the Scotch Company on the question of
legality.
The nariow gauge roads certainly aro
heavily lo-ers by the way their roads
have been managed. The bridgosacross
the north and Miuth Santiam have been
nntripil nn-nv :iml nol rebuilt and tho
J traffic has therefore declined. The bi
tterest on their debt is unpaid to the
j amount of ifGO.OOO and their tracks are
J sadly out of repair. Threo years ago
they had the road gnuled down tho West
Side within 8 or 9 miles of Portland and
had commenced operations to bridge the
Willamette at Ray's Landing to connect
the East and West Sido branches in a
main lino that should come to Portland,
all of which would havo been done
within 00 days time. Having made this
lenso they forfeited the right to tho
public levee at Portland, which of itt-elf
was of great value.
At the time of the lease Mr.Reid sold
nearly all his stock at 140, a share, and
now, owing to circumstancos, tho stock
is only worth $2.50. To repair tho tracks
and rebuild the bridges, build across tho
Willamette which will cost 1130,000-
and take the road into Portland and
properly equip it, will requiie $000,000.
The road has a debt of one million
dollars already and the stockholders
will naturally oppose being assessed fur
the money needed. If tho sfGOO.OOO can
be borrowed and tbo road finished to
Portland, and also to the summit, in
Benton county, to connect with the
Yaquina rood, its total length will bo
about 200 miles and the debt of $1,600,000
only be $8,000 a mile. It is very likely
Mr. Reid will again have the manage
ment of it and if so ho hopes to carry out
all wo have said afore, put tho tracks in
good repair, build all the bridges referred
to, construct the main line to Portland
and also connect with tho Oregon Facifio
at Summit, when, if Col. Hogg will lay
down another rail trains can run direct
from Portland and all parts of this Valley
to Yaquina Bay. This will give the
farmers of our region all the advantages
thoy can hope for and make Yaquina
Bay of more importance than otherwise.
Mr. Keid thinks a swift passage
steamer that can make the trip from Ya
quina to San Francisco in 30 hours, can
be put on to connect with the trains of
tho narrow gaugo from Portland and
the journey between San Francisco to
Portland be made in 'M hours, involving
only ono night at sen. It will take soma
timo to put all things in order aud con
struct the tracks to Portland, but it
looks as though in self-prosenation the.
Scotch stockholders could do nothing less
than what we have indicated. Thoy
have to protect themselves and ain only
do so by energetic actions. All the timo
lot will bo money out of their pockets.
If tho Oregon Pacific Company really
has tho money to carry out its plans nnd
complete its road, this connection with
the narrow gauge system will lie of great
importance to tho Yaquina scheme It
is generally believed among financial
circles that parties interested in crip
pling the Northern Pacific road have
helpled Col. Hogg to build to Yaquina,
the same being intended us a bluff to tho
other company, and it is feared, or
thought, that as their ends are accom
plished without difficulty by the existing
state of things, they may not feel like
completing the rood to Yaquina. Of
course wo know that Col. Hogg claims
to bo working on his own capital, and
wo hopo bo is, but the commonly re
ceived opinion of business men is as we
havo said. Wc shall soon see if he is able
to put bis plans through and certainly
hope that he can do so. With steamers
to San Francisco and connection with
Portland -via the narrow gauge, anil
connection by the same with all this
Valley, the Yaquina enterprise will
stand very favorably.
Valuable aad CoavealcaU IIkoh.n's
Hao.scnuu Trociiks are a safe and sure rem.
tty for ltroncfcitia, Caurha, anij other trtml!i
of the Throat intl l.-jnja, StJ.I nuly ia torr.
Ptim 23 crutr.
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SEW T.1IS WEEK.
Established
1863.
THOS. MEHERIN.
SEEDSMAN AND FLORIST.
Importer ami Dealers In aJHIndsof
Seeds, Trees anil Plant,
Affent for R. D. Fox's Nursctfe'.
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Piles LM iwlleil Ires en rpplloitlon. Junel3m5
To Oregon Pioneers I
The snntial reunion of tho Oregon Tlonr er Association
111 bo held on tho State Fair Orounds, on
Tueml.tr A WwtiiMiUy June ljlh and 181b.
The Aunual AcldretM will be delivered by Mr. IL Y.
Thompson, and Ihc Occasional Address by F. O. He
Co an, Eq For lurther particulars seo posters.
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STATE INSURANCE COX
Salem, Oregon.
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only Farm Property, Priv
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Houses Churches.
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ATKS A8 LOW AS IS CONSISTENT WITH RE.
LIABLE INDEMNITY.
LOSSES HONORABLY ADJUSTED.
L.L.IIOWLAND, President.
E B. McRLROV, Vice President.
II. W. COTTLK, Secretary,
GEO. WILLIAMS. Treasurer.
aprillUmS
FANCY POULTRY.
Plymouth Rocks
EXCLUSIVELY.
lkn HAWKINS' PRIZE WINKING
STRAIN, admitted Ctatnpions of the Continent. No
lo u tor sale until fail. Begs, 2. per ucz.; two aozen,
&f ; threo dozen, $6. Cash must accompany orders.
Address : J. M. GARRISON, Forest Grate, Or
liprilly
Situation asGardener.
rpWENTY YEARS EXI'KHIENCE IN 5. Y. STATE
I and 20 jeara in Engkuul. Undei stands prop
ration cf All kindi of flowers, roses especially a,Md
dowering thrub; also the growing cf small fruits,
Krpoisfs, and vttetab.es. Weuld like to come to
urion Addres: CHAKLfcS LA1SO,
mj.iOII Box 510, Council liluff. Iowa,
Faim for Sale.
- on A(;llK FAK F0UR MILE8 SOUTH OK
M.ii" Salem. In food state of cultnaUon; good
largo barn; pud house; good orchard; well fenced all
around, and two crots fenced; &2 acre In wheat; 34
acres In pasture; SO acres plowid ready for rammer
fallow. It )ou waut to buj a pood farm come and sec
mine before purchasing elsewhere. I will sell crop
extra. The place is well watered. For further par- .
titulars address: A. R. PUN LA I', Salem, Or.
Innaltl
Analysis by Dr. A. Voolcker. F. IL S., Con
sulting Chemist Royal Agricultural Society,
Kngland. snows only a trace of nitrates In
Uiaclrwell's Bull Durham Tobacco. The soil
of the Golden Jieltot North Carolina, In wlilch
t his tobacco Is grown, don't supply nitrates to
the leaf. That Is the secret of Its delicious
mtldneea. Nothing so pure and luxurious ror
suioldng. Dont forget the brand. None gen
uine without thu trade-mark ot the Bull. All
dealers have It.
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would h p'rase.1 to call all persons Intertatrd In
Bcee, to the mauy (Md qua.lut ot the
MONARCH HIVE!
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Ujt tw.. Sutr rairs. W hare pUnty oa hard to ml
allonfcricndeiuana. rrrrMBi4e are Ixllrltral.
Addms or spply to A. V. M lLLEK. Kll.nod. Or., or
MILLER BROS.
Seed Store, JC Fecocd Stmt. Portland, Orecoa
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