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CONSTRUCTION OF CEMENT PLANT TO BEGIN
$ 5 00,000 INDUSTRY TO BE LOCATED NEAR GOLD HILL LIMITS
THRU THE V
BY OWN AID
] Last Details of Big Project Ar­
ranged; Construction Work to
Follow Engineer’s Survey
Honor Graduate of Oregon
University Worked Way to
Higher Education
University ul Oregon, F.ngen», May 7
—Hurting for college afoot, without nioti-
*V. buiarekingan education, David Pick-
«•tt, at Prineville, cam» to the university
«oar year« ago. Thia June lie will In
gniAaatol with honor. He won the ora- ■
itorical championship nt the state hurt
year. Hia education lias been earned by !
daily toil—Stopping w o o d , sweeping
hull», and lacking up odd Join whenever
he could. He did it all with a frail body,
on the verge nt aickneaa much of the tine.
TMckrtt first worked hia way through
high school in Prineville by aerving an
-janiteff at the school, Tlien hia anildtion
turned toward a higher education and he
King
Nicholas,
Montenegro,
started on foot for Eugene, 1«) mlkw1 whoao army captured Scutari In de­
aeroaa mountain anti desert. A friend, fiance of Austria, which may result In
however, happened to drive to Eugene a European war.
with a team anti the long walk watt
avoided.
Pickett's freshman year waa hard, for
alekneaa, which aeut Idin to the hospital
a few day« ago in Salt Lake where lie hail
gone witli a etilk'ague to will for Oregon ■
the forensic championship of the north* I According to a district court dect­
west, kept him out of college much of tlie •' alon at Milwaukee, WIs., a wife Is jus­
time. He struggled through lii* freeii tified In beating another woman who
invitee the attentions of her husband.
Ilian year without glory.
Rqiial suffrage Was given a setback
Hie «nphtnore year was another year of
working by day and nf cramming late n t In Florldu when the house defeated
a "voles for women" amendment by a
night upon hia studies.
Thia last year hia work has not la-. ii vote of 26 Io 38.
Oovernor Sulzer's statewide primary
that of chopping w im m I or titling chorea,
lint of tutoring hia fellow studnnte. Pick­ bill, defeated In the New York senate,
ett charges 50 cents or a dollar an hour, was also beaten In the assembly, after
a long debate, 47 ayes to 93 noes.
according Pi the nature of the subject.
“ Working one'a way th ro u g h college j Tlie Cdlorudo Fuel and Iron com­
sounds romantic, ” admits Pickett with a pany has surrendered to the govern­
ment 3400 acres of coal laud in south­
smile.
“ If a fellow haa no other way to get to ■ ern Colorado, valued at $1.060,000.
college, working one’a way may la* ail Thia waa done in consideration of the
dismissal of a suit Involving S800 acres
right—college ia worth it.”
Many atudenta work their way through owned elsewhere by the company.
The supervisors of Polk county,
tlie University of Oregon, lint to do it
without giaal health la an achievement of Iowa, In which Dee Mnines ia located,
have announced that they w ill sue the
which to la- proud.
News of the Week
Briefly Discussed
Sncramento.— The California anti-
alien land holding act, which pa.sed
both houses of the legtalature within
24 hours after bringing about one of
the most unusual attuationa in the his­
tory of the nation, w ill lie on Oovernor
J oh neon'a desk without hia signature
until Secretary of State Bryan can con­
fer with President Wilson In Washing­
ton.
Defeated finally In his diplomatic
effort to dissuade the California leg­
islature from enacting an alien land
bill affecting the Japanese. Secretary
of State Bryan declared that he looked
to the people of the atate to express
a final Judgment through the referen­
dum, before the act shall go into ef­
fect.
Secretary Bryan In his final address
votcid the president's opinion that the
words "eligible to cltlsenshlp," consti­
tuted In the California attorney gener­
al's redraft of the alien land measure
for the words "ineligible to citizen­
ship.” are equally as discriminatory
and, therefore, equally objectionable to
Japan.
Until the final amendment was add­
ed permitting aliens Ineligible to citi­
zenship to lease agricultural lands for
three years, the measure was the moat
drastic of any that had beefi proposed.
Now, however, It is asserted by many
that it w ill accomplish little, Inasmuch
as It does not stipulate that the leases
may not be renewed again and again.
BAD LITTLE
M O TH H ER E
OCCUPY EIGHTEEN ACRE SITE
PLUCK T H E FIRST REQUISITE
Anti-Alien Bill is
Californian Law
to extend encouragement and attempt
the procuring of capital to finance the
erection of a cement plant near this city,
in his estimation a deni ra bit location from
every point of view. Allboogh the erec
tion ol a cement plant somewhere on th>
coast iiad been decided upon, tlie baiarui Professor O’Gara Says Pest
of favor hung with western Washington,
Must be Dealt With by
where tlie associates of Mr. Burch had
Immediate Spraying
already made exhaustive and satisfactory
investigations. The southern Oregon lo-
CODDLING MOTH MUST GO
ction was, however, brought to the notice
of A. D. Nicholson, one of the largest
"Within the next two or three day»
manufacturers of cement in the United
spraying apples for coddling moth should
States, wtio upon the representation made begin," says Professor P. J. O’Gara,
agreed to contribute $280,000 to the pro­ southern Oregon’s chief authority on
ject, providing a like amount of Oregoi fruit peat». “ This “pray should be arsen­
ate of lead at the rate ol four pounds of
capital was voluntereed.
arsenate of lead to 100 gallons oi water.
Medford Men Take Stock
High pressure and coarse spray should be
In an effort to secure sufficient Uto-k oaed. Every effort should be made to fill
Within ten days Engineer Dan Servie, representing the ¡subscriptions locally, Mr. Burch spent the calyx cups ol tlie young fruits, as the
largest percentage of worms enter the
Beaver Portland Cement Company, will arrive in this city to run ' several months in Medford last summer, young
apples through the calyx enps.
hut met with disappointment. The pro­
the final line» and lay out the sites whereon, within the remain*
"This first calyx spray should be fol­
ject was ahandonad in favor of the Wash­
by another within 10 to 12 days so
ing months of 1913, will be erected the largest single industrial ington location, and he departed for Port­ lowed
as to catch all blossoms which were not
enterprise in southern O re g o n -th e $500,000 cement plant pro­ land to complete arrangements to that far enough advanced when the first spray
was being applied. There will be some
jected by this company and under process of promotion fo r the effect. During his unsuccessful negotia­ difference
in the time of applying these
tions local promoters became well ac­
past year. The completed plant will have a capacity of 1,000 quainted with him, and it is to their sprays, depending upon the locality of the
orchard. One should judge for himself
barrels per day and will give constant employment to an operat­ stk-ktoitiveneas in keeping in touch wkb as
to when the calyces are beginning to
ing force of seventy men. The buildings are to be completed, the forlorn hope, that he was persuaded dose in.
“ An examination of several hundred
equipment installed, and all in readiness for operation by Janu­ to reconsider the proposal. This time eocoons,
kept in cages, shows that no
fortune smiled more clemently, tlie at­
ary 1st, 1914.
codling moth larvte liave yet pupated.
tention of Portland financiers was direct­ Last year pupation began as early as
Although The News has been in possession of these definite ed to the locational advantages oftiold March 38, and by April 3 to 15 large
facts for some time, publication has been delayed at the request Hill, and Fk-tcher Lynn, of Portland, numbers of pupa* were found. From this
appears that the first brood of codling
of the company, and is now directly authorized by J. C. Burch, presented the proposition so successfully it moth
will he somewhat later than last
tnat a portion of the necessary stock was
year. The first moths appeared last year
president of the Beaver Portland Cement Company.
subscribed. Medford bankers were shown on May 10, and the first eggs were
The huge plant will be erected upon an eighteen acre flat the henefits to accrue to tlie valley upon found
hatching on May 23. This year
directly west of Gold Hill, adjoining the city limits, where a vast tlie establishment of the industry, and we do not expect any larvte until nearly
the latter part of May. If the spraying
and unfailing ledge of high grade lime rock stretches backward agreed to provide $¡15,000 of the lacking is well done, the first brood larvte, which
quarter million.
over the hills, combining the merits of complete accessibility Months of unremitting negotiation with will begin entering the fruit during the
latter part of May aud first week in June,
with a location but a few score yards distant from the Southern tlie railroad company secured a sliding should be destroyed, and a spray applied
Pacific tracks—where the completed product will leave the yards scale rate that would enable a southern a month later should suffice for the sea­
Ore ton plant to compete in the Portland son so far as apples are concerned.
for the markets of the world.
“ Pears need not be sprayed until the
market, the desirability of the location
The Beaver Portland Cement Company, incorporated for at Gold Hill was manifest, the rock test­ latter part of May, beginning about May
25. Of course, pears may be sprayed
$600,000, is composed to some extent of local capital, but the ed excellently in quality and quantity, earlier, but since worms will not appear
majority of the stock subscribed is represented by large eastern and the cement plant promotion, after until the latter part of May, and since
the pear calcyces do not close in,'there is
interests and Portland financiers. Officers of the new company a-ttiacks that would have deterred a less no need of spraying too early. If pears
obstinate presentation, ceased to he fancy
are sprayed as directed, a single spray
are J. C. Burch, of Portland. President; Wm. Schrump, of Med­ and became an assured fact.
will be found sufficient to control the cod­
Rock Island railroad company to re­
cover *16,000,000 In back taxes. They
assert that the company haa concealed
*160,000,000 in money and securities
during the past five years.
Three large railways centering at
St. Paul have ordered new equipment
of the latest type at a coat of *26,000,-
00(1, lo provide udequate facilities for
moving this year's crop. The order
includes approximately 20,000 units of
rolling stock. The ronds are the Orest
Northern, Northern Pacific and the
Chlcngo. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma­
ha.
California in general, and San Fran­
cisco In particular, are given the un­
enviable distinction of leading the
country in the number of suicides, and
Memphis In the number of murders,
by census statistics for 20 odd states.
According to a decision handed
down by Chancellor Lamb at Oxford,
Miss., legislation which would bar
Greek letter fraternity students from
state educational Institutions la viola­
tion of the fourteenth amendment to
the constitution of the United States.
The case w ill be appealed.
Banker Bixby la Indicted.
Los Angeles.— Charged with contri­
buting to the delinquency of two girls,
George H. BIxDy, millionaire financier
and land owner of Long Beach, Is un­
der arrest. He was named In two In­
dictments voted by the Los Angeles
county grand Jury.__________
Los Angeles Opens Municipal Markets
Loa Angeles.— Fifteen thousand per­
sons visited the opening of the three
municipal markets. They bought ev­
erything In sight and would have
bought five or ten times as much more
produce had it been offered.
Abbott Removed by Peace Society.
W hile the city of Hood River is
8t. Ixiule.— Dr. Lyman Abbott was
removed from the Hat of vloe-preel- ranked as a "dlY** town, Rev. J. B.
dents of the American Peace Society Parson, pastor of the United Brethren
because he signed the appeal to the church, in a sermon told his audience
Navy I .»ague for large naval appropri­ that it is a mistake and urges prose-
oution of the violators
ations.
Mammoth Plant to be Completed by Eirst
o f Year, Employing Army of Labor
in Work o f Rapid Construction
ford, Vice-President; C. S. Woody, of the Commercial Banking
& Trust Company, of Kansas City, Secretary and Treasurer.
Plant at Length Assured
ling m oth.”
Tlie entire $600,000 in stock has been
subscribed, the ponderous and expensive
Although tlie deeirability of thia l.ica- spared to place the plant in tlie very fore-
crushers and otlier machinery purchased,
tion lias always lieen recognixetl ami waa front of modern cement manufacture,
the factory site and limitless lime depos­
a strong factor in determining the even-
first Real Move to Develop
its secured, and a greater chapter in the
tnal location ol a plant at thia point, it
While the extent ol local lime depoaita
industrial development of Jackson county
waa upon Uie grade o( the rock itself, and lias l«en known in a general way for is unfolding.
The statutes regulating tlie manufacture
and sale of butter provide for the brand­
ita happy blending with tlie necessary many years, the proposal to add a atu-
Gold Hill will have the cement plant— ing of creamery butter, but not for the
percentage of aiiale required for tlie man- pendotis industry to the developed re-
but all of the southern country will bene­ branding of dairy butter except that each
ufacture of cement, that the merits of sources of southern Oregon ia com [wra­
fit in the certain awakening of investment roll or square must be plainly marked 16
th is locality received recognition over the lively recent, a n d had its inception
to tlie splendid opportunities afforded in ounces full weight or 32 ouneeB full
weight. We find some dairy butter that
claims of a half dozen other location*, scarcely a year ago. At that time local
similar fields throughout this district. No
is not so marked and we also find some
each clamorous for tlie coveted industry, promoters, keenly alive to the [xxmbilitieg
section of Oregon is more favored by nat­ that is short weight.
Contract l e t fo r Erection
of tlie situation and tlie deposits, cast
ural advantage, more bounteously given of
We would he glad to hold the manufac­
Contract for tlie erection of the Beaver about for opportunity to present the
great natural resources. Nor does this turers responsible for misbranding and
Portland Cement Company'a plant near claims of this locality to capital interested development mean the impending neglect also for tlie short wçight, but in the ab­
sence of any name and address on tlie
thia city has been let to the Leigh Hunt in the manufacture of Portland cement.
of fruit farm and ranch. Instead, it is
butter so as to positively identify the
Engineering Company, ol Kansas City, a Possessing themselves of the necereary
the establishment of an abundant market manufacturer we cannot do so. The fol­
leading concern whose specialty is the data the proposition was presented to
at their very boundaries by the industrial lowing ruling is therefore made :
construction of cement plants, and whose various Eastern capitalists with discour-
All dairy butter offered or exposed for
development ol nature's secrets in the
servicea are in constant demand wherever aging results, while a canvass of the local great hills.
sale will be considered misbranded if it
does not liave plainly marked on each roll
similar projects are under way. This fleld revealed an unwillingness to engage
Where a fe w Laurels Belong
or square the words, “ Dairy Butter” ,
company is now constructing a $1,500,000 in a project of which so little was known
First and most tireless of the local “ 16 ounces lull weight” , or “ 32 ounces
plant near Medicine Hat, Canada.
and requiring tlie immediate expenditure
workers, to whose effort is directly dtte full weight” , and the name and address
Mr. Hunt lias already made several ol so much capital. At this point the
tlie establishment of the cement industry of the manufacturer. Any person offer­
trips to this city for the purpose of view- proposed cement plant might well have
at Gold Hill, to whose pertinacity in pre­ ing or exposing for sale dairy butter not
branded in compliance with this ruling
ing at first hand its claims to recognition . remained a promoter’s dream, had not
senting the argument for this loca­
will lie prosecuted under the statutes pro­
as the logical location for a cement indus­ opportunity intervened in the person of
tion is due the final success of those ar­ vided for the branding of fixai products.
try, and is quoted as saying that both J. C. Burch, of Dea Moines, Iowa. Mr.
guments, are two citizens of Gold Hill.
Signed,
—J. D. Mickle,
leposit and location are ideal in every Burch, a cement operator of long exper­
One of these is H. D, Reed, manager
Oregon Dairy A Food Commissioner.
reH[x>ct.
ience, was intercepted upon his return of the Oregon Water A Power Company;
Work to Comments at Once
from a California vacation, following the tlie other, F. W. Dodge, a civil enginetr
Irish Lassie Fought as Man
Active work upon the erection of the merger of three large cement plants in
Quincy, 111.— How an Irish lassi«,
whose faith in Gold Hill led him, in qom-
factory and accessories will commence tlie middle west, and induced to make a
pany with Mr. Reed, to tackle the knot- disguised as a man, enlisted in the
immediately following the visit of Engi­ cursory survey of the deposits near this tiest engineering problem of his career,
Union army, fought bravely under
Oeneral Grant, and later spent nearly
neer Servie, ami will lie speeded up to c'ty-
,
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a year in the state Soldiers' and Sail­
reach completion by January I, 1014.
Capital Interested in Project
T,le • x ,'w" witl
he . enabled to 1 present U l S I 1 U I I I C » 1 4^
♦ .«
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ors' Home at Quincy without her se^
During his brief stay in southern Ore- "" 1 l,s,™>xt
t,le I'lanH of
com- being detected. was revealed by Col­
In process ol construction employment
proper, onel J. O. Anderson, superintendent of
will be given to a force ol 400 artisans gnu, Mr Burch tx*camc sufficiently in ter-'¡,any ,W,,h r’1>K8r'
uy lnHr , together with much that is significant of
the home, when she w i committed
and laborers, and no expense will lie fried in the possitulties of tlie situation, the future development of this city
Dairy Butter Must
be Labelled Now
to the insane asylum at Jacksonville.