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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1904)
PAGE THREE. - vi i nn a V AllfSIIRT 57. 1904. e sa! re. I rtnE8. . DAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGOu" 'AAZU T CLOSINGOUT It We are going to retire from the grocery business in Pendleton at the earliest possible date. We have leased our present store room to R. Alexander, who will take possession as soon as we are able to dispose of our stock and vacate. . Our stock of groceries is large, select and complete and is composed of the best goods to be had. Our stock of chinaware and glassware must, go with the groceries. In order to get rid of the stock we have cut, the prices and offer inducements such as were never offered here before. Come in and bwy heavily. You can afford to buy your supplies for a year ahead at the prices we make. The time to invest your money in groceries is now. Don t delay. Come at once. HAWL EY BROS m a a j a a a a iiiAiiiillllillAAiAA A A A A A. A llAAAAilAAAAAlAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"""""""l iTTTmTTTTTTTTTTTVTVTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTl The Breakers Where to Stop at North Beach The Breakers Hotel Is conducted to attract the best patronage ..j i. - t.-., i. I i.naiirnflRHRil on tllO PttClflC COBSt uu ia a Huuuuur uuiui mut io --- north of the famous California beach resorts. The building has an ocean front of 100 feet, Is 7G feet wide ana four stories high, or 73 feet from the ground floor to the top of the observatory. ' It 1ms handsomely furnished rooms, single or on suite, for 250 piests, each room bolng carpeted. The house is lighted by electricity with electric lights and elec tric call bolls In every room, and these lights mako it one or the most brilliant beacons on the entire coast. The entire lower floor Is thrown open to the public, and, being beautifully carpoted, the spacious recoption room and large, airy halls always form favorite gathering places for guests. The billiard wd pool room is also quite popular for merry gatherings. An Aeolian and Pianola In th.e commodious parlor furnishos Rightful music at all times, and musicals are pleasant features during the entire season. The Breakers has a regular orchestra which furnishes music for Informal dances and balls, and the large dining room, with its mootb, hard floor, makes an Ideal hall for regular dancing parties. An abundance o ffresh and salt wator fish, clams, oysters, crabs and other sea food Is always on our menu; our entire supply or milk, butter and cream comes from our own herd of Jersey cows. d poultry and eggs are supplied from the hotel farm adjoining tie grounds. There are hot and cold, fresh and salt water baths In the house, "tth private baths and toilets. The waves of the ocean at high tide roll within 200 feet of the hotel, and the beach in front is superb for surf bathing. On the grounds are bowling alloys, golf links, tennis courts and croquet sets; on the lake, Just back of the hotel, Is a fleet of sail and row boats, and on Shoalwator bay, Just east of the lakes, Is a luollae launch for parties of fishermen, picnickers or others wo Prefer the warm, still-water bathing to the tumbling of the surf. All trains stop at the railroad station In the noioi grouaus, auu no crowding Into hotel omnibuses or walking In sand Is necessary, nce the hotel ground Is a perfect velvety lawn, where the guests re practically lauded at the hotol door. The Breakers Hotel is located at Breakers Station, a regular "Qket office, whore all trains stop. It is one and a halt miles north ot Long Beach Station. In purchasing tickets see that they read to Breakers, Wash., and have baggago checked through to that point. Telegraph and telophone connections in the hotel. Address all correspondence as follows; ITT HOTEL BREAiuno, Long Beach, Wash. rT: .... ", i. tice Lara bundle ot i.owippor Irrigation Has Redeemed Egypt The Egyptian exhibits at the World's fulr are of special Interest and value to America. Egypt Is tho land of Irrigation not merely the la borious hand Irrigation that has de scended to the native cultivators from remot.o antiquity, but the most stu pendous scheme or scientmc irriga tion in the story of modern engineer ing. All the world has read about the great dam at Assunn, compiuiou u year ago, which win nave tn.e um mntn nffert of adding one-third to the entire cultivable area of Lower Ecvtit. The United States, with sev eral big irrigation schemes in opera tion, has stFll bigger ones In project. Among the latter Is a barrier across the Colorado river at Yuma, which will not merely rival the Egyptian dam in point of magnitude, but may have even more wide-reaching results. For it will create a delta wun rauiat inir r-nnnls In place of a river that rolls its waters uselessly into tho sea, and reclaim a desert where there is at present neither cultivation nor population. America thus turns to r.,gypi xor important lessons, and through me public splrk and friendliness. f the khedlve many of these bavo been brought to us here at the Louisiana Purchase exposition. Shown by Maps. In the nalace of liberal arts, both in thn sneclal Egyptian section and In tho British Bection close by, tho vast Irritation system or the Nile is exien 8lvely Illustrated by means of maps, a relief model oi me country, iuuucib of dams, sluices, iockb, etc., pians and diagrams, large sized photo EraDhs displayed on screens, record in thn d fferent stages or construc tion and also supplementary albums of photograpns mat. suouia hoi u misled by those in quest of still more detailed lniormaiion. Thn task of conserving tho waters of tho Nile and Improving tho meth ods of distribution was resolutely ta ken in hand by the British admlnls tration in Egypt only In 1890, when security of tenure and continuity of nollcv seemed assured. Since then the work has been unremittingly pur suod. Not merely has the great As suan dam in Upper Egypt been built, lint tho already existing barrages at Assiout and at Cairo have been re constructed, and tho whole net-work of canalization has been put Into thor ough working order after centuries of neglect. Success of Operations. Tho object of th.oso operations has been four-fold: First, to extend the cultivable area; second, to drain wa tor-logged tracts; third, to distribute tho water more widely, moro regular ly. and moro Justly; and, fourth, to securo existing cultivation against loss by drought. The success achlev cd has been complete. ground been brought under cultiva tion, but all the old hind is now se cure against loss -of crop even when the Nilo flood falls far below tho av eruge. Tho addition to the wealth of the country will only be Hilly under stood when it is remembered that the Egyptian cultivator, with nssured Ir rigation, secures thre crops every year, first cotton in the summer, sec ond cereals in the winter, and third maize (our American corn) In the flood season. This Intense cultivation does not exhaust tho soil, nnd no man ures are required for tho yearly flood brings down its fertilizing mud nnd spreads it over tho face of the land. So, although Egypt, Is a poor country because its cultivators have been sys tematically despoiled for centuries by their rulers, it is In reality one of the richest farming countries in the world. Farmers Growing Rtch. Under British administration oxtor ion and forced labor have been swept into the limbo of forgotten tilings. Tho native agriculturist pays to the government a yearly rent of from $20 to $35 per acre, and now, with con tinuous and certain water supply, he has no difficulty In realizing from his threo crops $300 to $500 per acre. He is rapidly growing rich, und with the now found sense of security in his possessions, Is beginning to Im prove his methods and even to adopt modern agricultural machinery. Gov ernment banks are being established In every village of Importance, and these not merely receive deposits but make advances for land Improvements at the minimum rate of Interest. All this is having the furtlfer effect of raising the Egyptian cultivator from the cowering state of serfdom to that of a self-respecting and confi dent man. OREGON STATE FAIR 44th Annual Exhibit Salem, Oregon September 12 to 17, 1904 GOOD ATTRACTIONS, SPLENDID RACING, BE8T OF BAND MUSIC, $10,000 IN PREMIUMS, MAGNIFICENT STOCK SHOW, A FINE CAMP GROUND WITH ROOM FOR ALL, FRE8H WATER PIPED INTO THE GROUND, PLENTY OF SHADE, GOOD STREET CAR SERVICE AND LOT8 OF EN TERTAINMENT AND EDUCATION FOR EVERYBODY. NO EFFORT8 HAVE BEEN 8PARED TO MAKE THI8 YEAR'S FAIR SURPA88 ALL PREVIOUS EXHIBITS, TAKE A WEEK OFF AND ENJOY THE EVENT OF THE t YEAR. Machine Exploded. A mysterious conflagration occur red over in Washoe- at the ranch of i Jacob Stroup last Friday. Emll Krost bad Just moved his machine to Mr. Stroup's plac.e and begun threshing wheat. The machine had run per-' haps 20 minutes, having threshed 18 I bushels, when the separator explod-1 ed. There was a puff of something similar to the explosion of coal gas In 1 a stov.e, only stronger. The top was thrown off the machine and Imme diately tho whole separator was In j flames. 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