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FISHER : SAN FRANCISCO
Will quota favorable rate 21 Merchant Kicliange.
thoy can woll afford, tlicy can rcnp a
fair harvpst in freight incomes, wbilo
the former thrives on his products. An
orchard takes half a generation to be
como mature, and for many years noeds
work and manuring to sustain it without
giving any returns of cousequonco.
Then tho fruit-grower tntmt havo some
solid background for his efforts, and not
work on uncertainties. If freights aro
too high, wo must neglect our troes, or
at least will bo apt to do so. Lot tho
corporations then rcconcllo thomsolvos
to arooeonablo course, such as they seem
tothavo willingly entered upon.
no greater fault will bo found. While
wo bolievo our Stato roads havo served
tho public fairly, no doubt there
have been unfair discriminations and
unjust practices and wo hopo to see all
theso matters settled on a just and reas
onable basis.
Sinco thoabovo was written, the Com
mission has agreed upon a Olcrk. J. It.
N. Bell, a prominent Democrat from
Douglas county, is tho fortunate, man.
DAMAGE TO FRUIT TREES.
r DAMAGE TO FBI
THIS PAPERS
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SPBIHO WORK.
Soraotimcs our spring commences in
February and again in March, but this
year 1887 will bo known as one in which
no continued pleasant woathor como
until tho mlddlo of April if oven thon.
Wo aro having'un average of two rainy
days a week, without any damaging
frosts, howovor, and tho ground drios oflf
quickly bo that plowing can bodono and
seeding comes botwoon showers. Wo
had a snek of grass scod that was for
gotten until last week, when wo scat
tered it over an musod pasturo hardly
hoping to havo weather to bring it up
woll, but it so happens that tho season
could not havo boon more favorablo,
though ground Heeded well to grass last
fall failed to stand tho winter. Fall
wheat ovorywhoro looks in tho best pos
sible condition and thoro is ovcry pros
pect that wo shall havo a superior yield.
Tho prcsonco of heavy bodies of enow in
tho low mountains indicates n Into
Spring, whioh is being realized. It will
no doubt continuo as tho rains wo aro
having aro not warm enough to moot it
and must incrcaso rathor than lesson
tho quantity. Wo may expect moro or
less of showers through April and Mny
and with such a Bpring tho harvest will
bo a littlo Into and tho crop thoroughly
matured. Tho rains an) also folt in tho
country East of tho Cascades atid thri
outlook ovorywhoro Is remarkably good
for all grain crops as woll as fruit.
Our orchard, in tho hills, and all others
wo know of, aro backward, not boing yot
in full bloom and this fuct warrants tho
expectation of a good yiold of all va
rieties. This is important as our fruit
interosts aro assuring importanco and
adding much to thu income of producers,
(lardun work should lo dono next wook,
if not already dono. As a usual fact it
is well to put in gardens during tho firm
ten dnys of April, but cold rains somn
times rot tho seed in tho ground so there
is no advantago in planting until wo J
havo hcttlcd weather. Tho gnrdeiiMs of
groat valuo to tho farnjer and a
many luxuries to blos his table. Sinn
fruiU havu sull'ercd considerably from
tho haul winter and if not killed entirely
in many indnnccs havo died down.
Moro should bo replanted next fall, if
killed, and whoro tho tops aro doad tho
vines should bo dug around, manured
and tho doad wood all out oil'. Theso
fruits aro too luscious and lino to bo
neglected and ovory farm houso should
havo orchards, gardens and small fruits
in abundauue.
8HlPPINa WOOL AND OTHER PRODUCTS.
Tho rates claimod to hav been adopt
ed under the iuter-stato commerce act
for freighting our products to thu Hast,
nro so enormous as to preclude any
shipment of wool or products of any
other sort. Wool at $5.40 per 100 lbs.,
ngaiuHl f0 cU. in 1880, is a tux no wool
grower can stand, when ho can ship by
tho ocean route at ouo-third that rout.
Wo expected to havo ten or twenty tons
of ovaporated primes to send Kant it tho
crop is of average extent, but last year it
was high enough at 11.60 per 100 lb, to
Chicago, and this year it will incroiiso
several times that figure.
Oregon products mutt havo tho ad
vantage of reasonable freight rates to
give us a show in tho great markets.
If they could carry wool at 60 cts. they
should tako dried and canned fruits to
Chicago at 75 cU. yer 100 lbs. Tho pro
ducer of Oregon need encouragement
and wo must have cheap freights to on-
Wo havo alluded to tho fact that the
Bovcro arctio spell following tho warm
days in early January had tho effect to
kill and damago many fruit trees. D.
Simpson of South Snlom, had applo
trees split and tho bark camo oft" so thoy
aro killed. Wo had Bomo beautiful
cherries five years old which split tho
bark and nro badly injured, but wo bound
thorn up and hopo to savo them from
total loss. Tho samo hannoncd last year
and placing split boards on tho south
west eiuo utu not savo thorn, but no
doubt lessened tho damage Mr. C. P.
Ilurkhart, of Albany prairio, last fall
planted Bomo 500 choico poach trees
and all aro dead to tho enow lino. On
our hill peaches now bloom but not full.
Fcachcs on Snlom prairio had their buds
klllod. Mr. Fullcs, of Fox valloy foot
hills, says his trcos sustained no damago.
With us, in tho hills ono and one-half
miles from Salem, no fruit trees aro
seriously injured and all hold back and
will not bloom for yet anothor week, or
a fow days.
Tho Hillsboro Independent says : It
is learned thatscrioiiB damago was done
small fruits nnd vines in Washington
county by tho cold weather of February.
Wo havo refrained from making this
statement till authenticated reports
could bo received from different parts of
tho country. Mr. Hoove?, of Cornelius,
Bays many of his young chorry trcos
nro killed and all his choico blackberry
vinos aro dead. Mr. Zina Wood, of
Hillsboro, reports his small fruits in like
condition. Wo havo talked with mon
from all parts of tho county, nnd with
out oxecption tho reports of injury nro
tho samo. Itosos aro killed, and tho
only hopo of our dudes is in a big crop
of sunflowers. 1'onr and npplo trees
havo sustained but littlo injury.
Fast of tho Mountains orchards havo
sufTonxl sovoro loss, as tho cold was
moro iutonso than here, and fruit trees
moro exposed. Iu regard to planting
orchards very much dopends on location
nnd tho difforonco in that rospect will
mako somo rich while othors witli
equally good uppoarnnccs, but roally
not so reliable, will spend thousands
thoy can noVor retrieve.
So far April has been n good month
for planting fruit trees nnd mowing
grass seod ; which Inst wo aro tosting,
having forgotten to sow in February or
March as iutondod.
VEROIX.K. PRINOLK.
Over thirty years ago wo wore living
on a donation land claim, flvo miles
south of Salem, in tho red hills, and our
jjearcst neighbors woro V. K. Fringlo
ii uu ma sons uuu uauguiers. Jiu uumu
to Dragon in early days and moved
from Salom, whero ho had business, to
tho hills, and wo know them all for
many years. Ho camo to livo in South
Salem somo years ago, and ho and his
beloved wifo had a charming homo for
their old ago, whero at over fourscore
years thoy both enjoyed life to tho full.
Mr. Fringlo had tho Asthma, from
which ho died a woek or so ago, and was
gathorod to his fathers. Mrs. Fringlo
survives him and is tho object of solid
tudo to many children and grand chil
dren and has twclvo great grand chil.
drcn. Thoir days havo truly been long
in tho land. Vergil K. Fringlo was an
honest man nnd good citizen and kind
neighbor. Now that ho is gathorod to
his fathers no ono lives to say his lifo
was ill spent, and many cheerfully re
call tho timo when ho was nctlvo and
disinterested in his labors for tho world
around him.
Klamath county tins a much larrgo
area of ground reeded to grain this year
than last,
A largor area than ur'ual is bciug
planted in potatoes in Southern Or
egon. On tho Washington territory side of
tho Columbia, tho winter wits unusually
severe, but tho losses of sheep havo not
been so great as on tho Oregon sido.
The Morrison St. bringe, Portland, it
now open for travel.
Tho buildings used for tho Indian
School at Forest Omvo nro turned over
to Pacific University as they woro built
on its ground to belong to that school
as long as Used for thnt purpose.
A fine display of stallions was niado at
Hillsboro Saturday by thn West sido
stallion society.
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TUB CHOLERA C0MIHQ NORTH.
STATS RAILROAD COMMISSION.
fox-
iovornor Pounoyer has namod
Sonnlor Slater, of 1-a Grande, union
county,-and Hon. (loo. Waggoner, of
near Uorvallis, Denton county, as tho
Stato Railroad Commission, and theso
gontlomen aro now in eossiou nnd or
ganized for work. Thoir duties aro to
bo dovoloped by timo and circumstances
and our Stato Commission will no
doubt try to work iu uuisiou with tho
National Commission appointed last
week also, under the Interstate Coin-
net that passed Congress this winter.
Tho Stato Commission will havo to lis
ten to all complaintumado by our citi
zens, manufacturers, nnd producers, and
arbitrato iu all cases that como under
thoir notico. Tho histoiy of Massa
chusetts, proves th it such a Stato Com
mission is unfailing in providing reme
dies for all proved errors, Tho rail
roads ot that Stato uover failed to res
pond to tho good sense of tho sugges
tions made by thii board and did not
dare to refuse- thoir assent, because they
realized that when a legislature should
meet it would enact statutes to compel
tho corporations to do what tho com
mission had provod to bo right. Thoy
did not dare to neglect tho suggestions
made but by liberal and ready com
pliuueo showed a desire to do right and
a willingne&i to change any wrong sys
tem. No doubt this will havo the same re
sult in Oregon and all reasonable com
Tho San Francisco papers givo tho
following account of tho counso of tho
cholera towards us :
''Tho cholera originally appenred in
Ihionos Ayros, where it still prevails.
From Ihionos Ayros it worked westward.
Throughout Fobruary tho daily mortal
ity in tho city of Rosario was from CO to
100, nnd 70 per cont. of tho cases wero
fatal. At Tuouman, in tho northern
part of tho Argon tino Itopublic, thoro
wero somo days as many as 500 cases,
but Mcndoza, on thooastorn slopo of tho
Andos, sufTorcd moro sovoroly. From
Mcndoza tho discaso crossed tho Andes
to Chili, tho first caso appearing on tho
20th of .December . laBt. Tho mortality
has boon vory groat in tho city of Santi
ago, wnoro ou per cent, ot tno cases
proved fatal, and several cases woro ro-
portod at Valparaiso, on tho coast.
Thoro is a largo grain trndo botween
Chili and England, and wherover theso
voshcIs touch thoy aro likely to carry
discaso, ovon if Peru nnd llolivia escaped
In some wny, nt nil ovonts, tho discaso
has roachod Panama, and from thenco it
is likoly to reach Mexico."
It is very posslblo that vcssols coast
ing on tho Atlantic and Pacific will
lis plauguo to tho seaboards of
our nation, and it will bo necessary to
usestrict mothods and excrciso all that
eporiouco lias taught tno world as to
amtnry motlious. II tlieso nro main
tained, wo do not fear that this plague
(through which tho writor onco passed
in its worst phase) will provo disastrous
to Oregon.
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tlT llur ew CalalOKUrt r 1887. nulled frconn
ippllcauon, conUIni Up crlpilott eii.i iirk ol rce
Ubla. rlnwer, ur.ua, Ulor.r. Tree and Fli-M 8edej
AuitreiUu lYco end Shrub Hutu; lutive cillfr la
Tree and Flower 8cd, ruli Trece. and many ne
noteltlei Introduced In Kurope and the UrUtid stair.
THOS.A.COX&CO,
4H,4V,i, -415 Saiisomo Street.
SAN FHAVCI8CO, - - CAL.
Music of the Proper Kind
FOR HU1BAV SCBMttM
l a grout aid In ucccettu! i- rIce. Ecr echolar will
Join In t . ilniflnirof bright, eplrlted, yet appropriate
Ponr an I hymn', of a wonhlnuil natdre and Judlcl
outlv elect- d. There III be found In the f ollowlnr.
giod bookt:
For the Sunday School,
Songs of Promise. ViVitoB!S?d
Pnre, S3ct. j or W.M p. r doten A great rarlety
of cholue aotiiricnnUllmteil by many able wrltere.
llutloaud wonli inuetlynew, A eplendld book
for the UabUtb ichool. Try II.
SnrifT "nrnroViin " '' " Kmereoo and W.
OUIlg WOrSmp.K. jherwln. rrlceSScti.;
cr,t t.f 0 -1 il z. Thoee hodelrrd txcrllcat and
well arrni'nl wngefor the 8ui.dy School, will
tiki: llil book. It la the work if exrxrlenctd
vintio era.
TYfllh "PlrfOTftrci For Ihe Infant data By
J lOHIl .E J,UWerS. Kmma Pitt. lrlce2Scti
or l2.4o per dot. Thr title eiprawet tho nature
ot tht ..nit In thla delightful book. It la a charming
an.l dainty production which the little people
and their teachera III w'co'ne
Singing on i he Wa,y.JD)' '
'I j" 3ScU, or S3.00 per dt icn. O md pieces for
the children to Irani; many choice longs, hymni,
"occasional" plecea, etc.
1ST IM'cl for reUII price.
Oliver D It son- A Co., Boston.
Qrt C. 11. Dllaon A Co., 807 Droadwai, N. Y.
h. W. ALLEN,
(.ucccaaer to 11. HANSON.)
Ill Second St., I'ortlniHl, Or.
Wholesslt and IleUII Dealei In
FARM. GARDEN.
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FLOWER SEEDS.
ORNAMENTAL AND SHADE
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Mi S UTS OF PLANTS AND ttllKUlMKnY
and all varieties of New OKOWTII Oraaa Seed.
CHAS. H. DODD & CO.
Front, First and Vino Sts., Portland, Or.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
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courago (ruit-growera to oxtond their plaints will havo quick hearing and
simly redress. Thoro will bo n groat
benefit iu tho harmony of labor be
tween tho National and Stato Cominis-
opcrations aud to induce others to outer
into this class o( production.
Wo havo n region especially adapted
to growth of jtho choicest fruits known sions and tho best results liuiut follow,
iu tho teinperato tone, and with encour- - We nro inclined to bolievo that many
A subscriber at Colfax, W. T., has
sont us a 2.00 postal note, but ho
neglected to sond his name. Will tho
party who sont it pleaso forward their
names so wo can givo propor credit.
Frank W. Waters who has established
hhusolf in tho produce business on
Commercial street opposite tho post-
oflico can do bettor with farm produco
than any merchants and dry goods
dealers. Call and see what hn can do
for you. Cash paid for all kinds of
country produce.
Wk aro unable to presont our renders
with an installment of tho article on
glanders by Dr. Jeffreys. V. S owing
to his absonco from tho city attending
professional calls. Ho promises us
another articlo for next wcok.
STEEL
FARM-MACHINERY.
Bolo AtenU for Oregon, Washington and Northern Idaho for tho
4 BUCKEYE REAPER AND MOWER, t
Those Machines aro too well known to need comment. Thousands of Farmers havo used
them and speak of them with praise. Thoy aro tho only Harvesting Machines
that will glvo ontlro satisfaction to tho purchaser,
MILLER'S NEW MODEL VIBRATING THRESHER,
PHCENIX STRAW BURNER ENGINE,
Tho most Hiroctlvo and Successful Combination for Threshing and Cleaning
Grolu over Constructed.
' h BUCKEYE . STEEL . FRAME . TWINE- BINDERS, r-
Tho features that distinguish thlsTwIno-Illndcr Is tho Lightness ot Draft, combined with It
Extraordinary Strength and Durability. Tho Illndor Is of tho Appleby pattern, tho only
really successful ono yet known. We havo two styles, tho Klovator Hinder and tho
Platform Hinder both excellont both recommended by hundreds of patrons.
Bchuttler Farm WaKons.Doeroriows,
Deere Sulky Plows, Cook & Co,' Car
rlftgos, Phsotons and Top Dugglos, Four
Spring Mountain Wagons, Duokboards,
Superior Drills and Seeders, Corbln Dlso
Harrows, Hodges. Ilalnos Headers,
Halsh Darbod Wire.
SEND FOB CIECULAES.
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UNIVERSAL COMBINATION FENCE!
Tho Jivst. and Cheapest
Stock, Rabbif, Chicken, and Hog Fence Made.
Latost reports from tho John Day
country indicate that tho loss of sheep
there is about 14 per cent. Tho
mortality among cattlo is probably fi
por cent.
In Eastern Oregon and Washington
shearing will have to begin early this
year on account of tho condition of the
wool. Shoep got poor during the
storm, and thriving so fast now causes
the wool to shod.
C)XSt7ltrTIM tTBKB,
An olj uhytlclui, retired from precUoe, hiving had
pUtedlej his UaJsbyM Eut lodla mlwlnnarr the
fonuuU of t slrupls tegeUble remedy for th spaed;
sad parmuteot care ot Coniumstiou, UronchllU, O.I
rio, Atuiou, sou ui lorxui sua bunc juiecucns, imi
oelUt sad radical cure for Neirous DeUUtyend sll
Narroua OouaUloU. altar httlni tasted Its wojultrful
cur&Un power In Oiojasads of cue, ha felt it his
duty to bus It kno u to his suOeriu lUos, Actu
stedbythtanoUnesii'l sdealr to reller bumaa suf,
lerloc. I will Mad fro ol cksor. to ail who daelr It,
this recipe la Oanoau, KatUea or r'Ttnch, wUh toll
direction far prtpxiiu and ualng. Bent hy scail h;
addreaalof lta aumu and naulur this paper, W, A,
IVIBW r" I'KNCK v iiilill.v.i
Richmohd Champion Fence Machine Weaves a Very
Heavy Wire.
Fur Sale to Farmers or Others, price $0 per Mnchiic.
Circular and other aluablt Uloima
fTlUK KTHet;T AMI MUST ItlKABIC ' IEJIU&U
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ptsUr IrsetlUr thu Stanley! seed saitd iron th odds
tsos of vanoas crops; acta reuca irora wnaiiana
oaioos, hesilkea cabbaft. apno(Un( carrots, or rcf is
beets. (lammtutL.rtlkimnutJltMk.) li
yoa want Morthera seed, hoocsujr raised, bcate
(nnra (aot more than two other catalogs contain at
seed warrastM (at in arm), Taiuaw aortinca. soane
an to o lona u no ur, aena lor say Tegriui ana
lor 1H7, riuuc to su. itcoataiusoa vane
Peart, 41 ol Cabbage, u oi Melons. 44 of
sVnretvaeed caulorae (or lM, FaUUt to aO.
ol Heaas,4) ol Peart, 41 ol Cabbages, jj
etc.. etc. Dealdc a Ian and tbotc varietv of
agoiuent by tho corporations such as
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honest mou will bo disappointexl that
aeco.
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JaJIKSJ. H. OfcUHiOKT, KarkUhtad, Vaaa,
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