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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1907)
EIGHT PAGES. tAlL EAST OREGON1A.V, PENDLETON, OltEGON. WEDNESDAY, At'ftl'ST 21, FRU1 T ORCHARDS It In probable, gays the Yakima Re public, that a great many Yakima hop farmers will go eut of business this fall. Condition surrounding hop culture are unsatisfactory. Prices have ruled low for two or three years past, while all other crops were bring ing handsome returns, and the prob lem of harvesting has grown more se rious each year. At the present time there is llttie or no demand for the crop that is coming on, and there is a further prospect thot labor will be scarce and high when picking time comes. 'This, the growers soy, now eems certain unless the conclusion should no reached by a good many of . the farmers not to pick. A number of hopmen are now debating this question In their own minds. Of course there is always a chance that such conditions as prevail now may Improve, and there are some who are strong in the belief that hops will be worth picking this fall, and may perhaps afford a profit to the grow ers. But with lands devoted to other crops yielding from $100 to 11200 an acre all over the valley, hopgrowers will not be satisfied 'with even fairly good profits. One of the most experienced hop men In the Yakima country Is A. B. Weed. He has ono of the finest 40 acre yards in the state. He is grlng to convert his hop farm into an or chard. Harry Coonse, whose yard Is near Weed's, will do llkewlst. So will the Harvey and Hindu Ir. On the school section, one of the richest hop districts in the world. 120 acres of hops will be taken out and the ground planted to orchards. The owners say their lands are Just us good for or chard purposes as they are for hops as good as any In the valley and they are tired of wrestling with the prob lems that they have worried over for the last few years. ' Several other well known hop grow ers will probably join the procession. Mr. Weed said this morning: "It is true that I am going out of the hop business, and true that many other hop farmers in our district are go ing to do the .same. We have all reached this conclusion and have or dered trees for what we think In a few years will be the finest commer cial orchards In the valley, "I am 'not going to plow up my yard this year, but I will plant the trees this fall, taking out about 105 hills of hops to the acre. Next year I shall cultivate the hops that are left, and probably the year after. Then the vines will all be' plowed out. "This system Is recommended by experienced fruit growers. The hops will furnish some shade for the trees Just about as much as young trees need. I think the trees will do even better than on land that has no other crop. "I am tired of the hop business. My farm has, throughout the term of years I have worked it, paid me good returns on what I considered it worth. I have had good luck and good crops. Sometimes I have sold for low prices, but there have been several years thut were good, Indeed. The averago profits have not been bad at all, though they have not been equal to those njnde.by some of the best orchardlsts. "The labor problem and the har vest problem are getting to be too much for me, however. I will let somebody else solve them If It can be done. In the meantime, I shall be growing an orchard, which, even If I do not want to wait until It comes Into bearing, will be saleable at a good price at any time. There Is no better fruit land anywhere In the valley than mine, and now that ex perience has sh,own the people what are the best varieties of fruit to put out, I think an Investment in an or chard will be one of the best that I or any other man In this country can make." niLTOH DID HOT IHIEST THE SfEiMBfMT William E. Curtis In the Chicago Record-Herald expounds the Genesis of the steamboat as follows: Robert Fulton was not the Invent or of the steamboat, although he Is generally credited with that honor. Nor was James Watt the inventor of the steam engine', although both were successful In making these ne cessities a commercial success and securing their peimanent employ ment. The Invention of the steam engine and the steamboat cannot be attributed to any one man, for they are the results of the Inventive pow ers and experiments of several men of genius, who discovered and de veloped the principles of physics they Involve. A German named Papln actually constructed and operated a steam boat on the River Fulda at Cassel In 1707, 100 years before Fulton, and It might have been successful had it not been destroyed by the superstitious boatmen of the neighborhood, who thought It the work of the evil. one. In 1736 Johnnthan Hulls, of whom PROTECTING DRAINAGE AROUND 60ISE The following from the Boise Statesman contains not merely inter esting Information, but valuable pointers to boards of health else where, and others In any degree re sponsible for sanitary conditions gen erally: The county board of health has been very active of late in taking steps to prevent conditions favorable to disease. Not long ago an order was made requiring butchers at slaughter housees to cremate all offal resulting from butchering animals and other restraining orders are be ing considered. Yesterday the board, consisting of the county commission ers and Dr. J. B. Lewis, county phy sician, passed the following: "Whereas, There obtains a custom among the inhabitants of Ada county, and particularly the Inhabitants of Boise City, of hauling carcasses of dead animals, offal, refuse and trash to grounds Just without the limits of Boise City to the north and east of said city, and there depositing the same, and "Whereas. The said grounds to the north and oast of said Boise City have a higher elevation than said city, and water passing over, upon and across the same drains towards and Into the said city limits, and "Whereas, All of such drainage Is, by reason of the depositing and bury ing of said carcasses, offal, refuse and trash In and upon said grounds, con taminated thereby, and is and becomes a source of danger to the health of the Inhabitants of said county and city; and the said carcasses, of fill, ref use and trash at, In and upon said grounds mentioned, constitute an un healthy nuisance; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the . burying, de positing or In any manner placing carcasses, otfal, refuse, trash, or pu trid, decayed or spoiled matters, or the depositing at or upon such ground of matters likely to decay, decompose or spoil Is hereby condemned as an unhealthy nuisance, and Is prohibited; and it Is hereby ordered that all per sons hereafter having the disposal of carcasses, offal, refuse and trash be required either to cremate the same or to haul the same south of said Boise City beyond the New York canal; that all carcasses or other ani mal matter be either cremated or burled beyond the said canal, not less than three feet deep; be It further "Resolved, That notice of this res olution be given by publication there of In the Idaho Dally Statesman for a period of 10 days from date, and that after such publication of such notice all persons failing to comply with the requirements of this resolution be prosecuted, as by law provided." Xoticei Any connections to be made, or re pairs to connections, with the water, sewer or gas systems on East Court street, must be attended to before this street is macadamized. R. W. FLETCHER, Street Commissioner. For Rene. Cottage with bath, hot and cold water. Inquire 100 E. Bluff street nothing else seems to be known, pub lished a pamphlet doscrlblnb a steam boat very much like that of Fulton's, and obtained a patent for It In Eng land, but, ho' far as the world knows, it was never built. An Italian named Bernoulli!, In 1762, anticipated John Erlcson's Idea of the screw propeller. William Henry, a gunsmith of Lan caster, Pennsylvania, was experiment ing with a steamboat on tbo Canas tota river five years before Robert Fulton was born. It met with an ac cident and- was sunk near Lancaster. John Fitch, who often claimed to be the Inventor of the steamboat, was a neighbor of Mr. Henry, a fre quent visitor at his l)ouse, and later In life developed Mr. Henry's Idea so successfully that he carried passen gers seven miles an hour on a steam boat called "Perseverance" between Philadelphia and Thenton and Wil mington and Chester, during the years 1790-91. This boat probably ran between 2000 and 3000 miles, but was a mechanical and commercial failure. Fitch also built a boat with a screw propeller, but could never make It go. It Is a remarkable co Incidence that Henry. Fitch and Ful ton all came from the same town of Lancaster. James Rumsey built a steamboat on the Potomac at Shepherdstown, Va., In 1784 and succeeded In running it at the rale of four miles an hour against the current in the presence of George Washington, who gave him a written certificate. The state of Kentucky voted Ramsey a gold medal "for giving to the world the benefit of the steamboat." but Ramsey's method was not practical. Nicholas Roosevelt built a boat on the Passaic river In 1798, put into It an engine with a cylinder 20 inches In dlnmetcr, and carried a party of In vited guests at the rate of eight miles an hour, but his machinery broke down and the steamboat was aban doned. There were other attempts and oth er failures both In Europe and the United States and Robert Fulton had the benefit of them. He was a man of practical genius and had the pene tration to detect the errors and the advantages in the models of other men, so that he was able to build the first steamboat that would work, and within a few years after Its suc cessful trial had 15 steam vessels in operation In the 'water around the city of New York. "Everybody Should Know," says C. O. 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