VOL. 2.
DALLAS, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1871.
NO 35
She jOxtgan )rp u Bliran
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Demorest's Monthly stands unrivalled as a
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AGRICULTURAL AM) AMI&KICAX
lMHM'KRiiXCIi
it A population accustomed to labor
is the most important necessity lor the
substantial development of our great
country," said a leading statesman not
long since in the course of an address
on the subject of immigration. There
has been an unhealthful growth of late
years among the people ol our Atlantic
States at least it is more marked here
than elsewhere in the Union a growth
of sentiment adverse to physical labor,
particularly that labor whi.h renders
the earth tributary to man's nourish
ment. Agriculture appears to have
fallen into disrepute among educated
Americans, and preference is shown lor
the varied enterprises of commerce, or
for the quieter walks of professional
Jife. There i an undue aggregation of
Young America in the larger cities.
Trivial and subordinate clerkships, or
" places" in stores and couutingrooms
being eagerly seized by young men
whose education and physical vigor, if
applied to agriculture, horticulture, or
eome industiii) occupation adapted to
their capacity, would in a few years
place them in comparative indepen
dence. A New York merchant advertises for
a, clerk in some inferior department in
lfis warehouse, and at once an eager
throne; of bearded men and beardless
. jouth invade its precincts, each prepar
ed to urge his suitability for the posi
tion. This, exemplified almost daily,
exhibits the great excess of the clerical
supply over the needs of metropolitan
trade, and the resultant effect, a low
rate of wages to the average clerk, is
easily accounted for. Young men by the
hundred lounge listlessly about streets
month after month, and perhaps year
after year, a burden upon industrious
and frugal yet foolishly fond papents,
waiting for some " opening." Time and
talents are thus wasted, which in some
trade or honest manual vocation would
yrield them a comfortable support, be
sides relieving those at home.
On the other hand, the intelligent
foreigner who comes to our shores with
a proper sense of the use of labor, scru
ples not to take up those laborious voca
tions which the American in his foolish
disdain rejects. A few square rods of
Jand in the suburb of the city becomes
his working capital, and soon his wagon,
loaded with tempting vegetables or lus
ciouH fruit is seen slowly rolling towards
the market-place. A beginning once
made, he is quite sure to advance toward
fortune. Who are the gardeners and
horticulturists on whose industry and
skill our markets chiefly depend for
their steady supplies ? Are they not
foreigners ?
Now tho indifference shown toward
agricultural pursuits by the modern
American is due to a false opinion. He
thinks that in becoming a farmer he
loses valuable intellectual, social and
'esthetic priviles, and so is sure to retro
grade in culture and refinement. He
practically forgets the important place
whiclyigi 'culture holds and must ever
maintain in the economy of the nation,
ana tie iuil3 to realize that among the
public men of the past and of tho pre-
sent there have been and are farmers of
robust ability and brilliant talents, lie
sides, he does not appreciate the fact
that the sphere of letters owes much
to authors aud poets who have found
the transition fiotn the plow to the
study easy aud productive of a healthy
mentality, uot only for themselves, but
for a world that eagerly feeds upon the
creations of their pen.
The steady pursuit of agriculture at a
distance from a large city we grant will
prevent that intimate and close personal
association with the better types of in
telligence and culture which is only to
be found in old centers of commerce andl
general enterprize ; but the press pre
vents anything approaching isolation,
for it teems with all that is witty, wise,
sprightly, instructive and refining in the
best classes of American society, and
brings to one's door wherever he may
be in all the broad sweep of his glorious
land, those elevating influences which,
under the most favorable circumstances,
where he dependent upon his own
efforts, he would fail to secure. There
is so much that is vain aud superficial
in city life, that it may bo doubted by
the earnest and serious student of let
ters and science whether its experience
may profit him. Indeed, such a one
pursues his studies apart from the mul
titude in retirement, where the current
of his reflections may uot be embarrass
ed or interrupted.
The judicious pursuit of husbandry
is to-day ripe with advantages, and the
eyes of our youth should be opened to
them. Science and art have been tribu
tary to the farmer, and provided for his
use wonderful instruments which at once
ease his labor and hasten its perform
ance, lie finds in his diversified voca
tion opportunities for the application of
the highest intellectual attainments, and
he can point to ric h results which wore
the fruit only of the mo-t extended sci
entific research. To him no learning
will come amiss. His employments in
the field, in the mill, in the granary may
be made conservators of mental vigor,
may freshen and stimulate a healihy
appetite for intellectual food, and impart
that steady reflective condition so cs
sential to the thorough .assimilation of
the ideas and pereeptious drawn in
from the world without.
Politically considered, if our national
prosperity continues to be so much de
pendent upon agricultural and industrial
interests, the men who driva the plow
and wield the sledge must exert a most
powerful influence upon American civil
affairs: in fact if the past serve as
guide by which we may affirm anything
of the future, these men of the plow
and anvil will control the balance of
power and sway our destiny. There is
that iu the pursuit of agriculture which
imparts an element of manliness. The
free, open country contributes to free
dom and independence of thought,
and this quality of mind, strengthened
and developed by education, is peculiar
to the true American farmer. A thou
sand and this is a moderate estimate
of such men in each State of the
Union would inspire it with an irresist
able energy for progress and prosperity.
Let our young men be admonished
not to crowd and strain for places in the
close and hungry city, and not to accept
niggardly wages for hard and pro
tracted toil, but let them go into the
meadows and hillsides of the East, or on
the rich prairies of the West, and there
aspire to success through the intelligent
cultivation of the soil. Let them not
abandon altogether this generous . gift
of Providence to the frugal son of toil
who comes from a foreign clime.
Phrenological Journal.
- - e
Speaking of the best time to sell
wheat, an exchange says : This is one
of the most difficult questions that a
farmer is called upon to settle for him
self, and he is about as likely to decide
wrong as right. As most of our know
ledge worth anything practically is
gained by experience, we have taken
the trouble to look over our files for
the last twelve years and see tho aver
age price of wheat during the several
months of the year during all these
years. The conclusion that we arrived
at, after comparing the ruling prices
during a term of years is, that unless a
farmer is in circumstances to hold his
wheat oyer till 3Iay or June, the sooner
he. sells it after harvest the better. For
the last twelve years the highest prices
have ruled during the months of May,
J unc and J uly, and the next best during
September and the first half of October,
while the lowest prices have been ob
tained during the months of November,
December, January and February.
The smallest working steam engine
in the world was entered at the Buffalo
Industrial Fair a few days since. It
covers a space net larger than a three
cent, piece.
TII12 8 A L KM V AT E R WORKS.
Salem has recently taken another
step forward in her progress as a city.
A little more than a year ago there was
not a good hotel within her limits no
gas or water works. Now there are two
first-class brick hotels, one of them the
largest and best north of San Fran
cisco, aud as good as any on the coast.
Last autumn Messrs. Burrows & Tuthill
supplied a great want by introducing
gas, and a few weeks ago we were fur
nished with the other great desidera
tum. Ou the 29th ult., tho Salem
Water Company turned the wholesome
and sparkling waters of our beautiful
ulamctte into their mains, and sent
it coursing through our streets. As
this important enterprize is now an
established success, it will interest our
readers to, know something of its his
tory.
An abundant supply of good water is
indispensable to all cities. As the cap
ital of Oregon, and a town of 4,000
people, Saleiu was under particular
obligations to furnish this requisite.
The water in the wells is cool and clear,
but it is doubtful whether any of it is
healthful, while it is certain that that
portion in the business part of the town
is not fit to drink. The well water re
quires too much soap in washing, and
the supply is not convenient for bathing,
sprinkling, extinguishing fires, etc
These facts had directed attention for
some time to the necessity for tho con
struction of waterworks. But as the
streets of Salem are very wide, and the
population not compact, and but email,
capital would not invest in water works
without a pledge ot adequate com pen
sation from the city for the water fur-tii.-hcd
it for fire and other public uses.
Last December two parties applied to
the Common Council for a franchise to
furnish water- one Mr. O. H. Burrows
of the gas works, aud the uther Messrs
t in n
.Martin x mien, grocers in r-.neui.
Both a-ked S-,000 a year in consider
tion for the water to be furnished to the
eity. The proposition of Martin k
Allen was accepted, alter some amend
ments, one of which reduced the
amounts to be paid by the city to
SI, K00 a year, and another required
the construction of n reservoir with its
base 0 feet above the grade at the
intersection of Commercial with State
street. The franchise is to continue
seventeen years, and the owners of the
franchise are required to lay down and
supply one mile of pipe the first year,
and another mile tho next year.
On the 22d day of February last, the
water franchise was transferred to the
Salem Water Company, consisting of
J. M. Mrrtin, David Allen, W. F
Boothhy and II. Stapleton. Boothby
ws elected President and Supermten
dent, Alleni Secretary, aud Martin
Treasurer.
Steps were immediately taken to be
gin operations. Considerable time was
spent in determining from what source
to obtain water, It was finally decided
best to take ', the water from the river,
as that was as! good as could be had,
and could be relied upon for an abun
dant and permanent supply. The next
thiug to be determined was the place
for the location of the works. Toe
present site was selected on account of
its being the best point near the city
for tapping the main current of th
river. Contracts were immediately
made for the construction of tho reser
voir. Mr. Boothby was sent to San
rrancisco witn instructions to secure
the best machinery and pines. He
purchased aj fine large steam pump
Blake's patent, eighty horse power, ca
pable of raising 150,000 gallons per
hour, lie contracted with the Miners'
foundry for nearly two miles of cast iron
pipe, such as is in general use in other
cities. IliH material was to be deliver
ed by the 30th of June last, and it was
expected to have the work in operation
soon after that time. But unexpected
delays kept back some of the material
for about three months.
l1r Unfit Mi t- 1,1
struction ot the works. Tho reservoir
was built under contract by Johnson k
Prentice of this city. It rests upon a
trame work eighty icet in height above
a stone foundation three feet high The
frame is a complete net work of timbers
firmly knit together with braces and
iron bolts. It is fifty by sixty feet
Thn rrcmrvmr ms)!n. t.:,.
work is seven feet in depth, and wil
contain 170,000 gallons of water.
The punjjp is located a few feet west
ot the reservoir at the bottom of a cir
cular shaft; fifteeu feet in diameter and
twenty-three feet m depth, A suction
eight inches in diameter runs JJ50 feet
west from the pump to the river, and
projects seventy-five in the stream
reaching out iuto tho maiu curren
1 where the water, at its lowest stage, is
eighteen feet in depth The pipe is
weighted down with rocks, and is pro
tected by a screen so as to prevent trash
from getting into the pipe. 1 he mams
are connected directly with the pump,
and extend nearly two miles through
the most populous portions of the city.
The main passes directly under the res
ervoir, which is supplied by a perpen
dicular pipe of the main, and works on
the principal of the staud pipe, ror
the purpose of extinguishing fires, the
water11 may be shut off from the res
ervoir, and forced directly into the
mains, in a manner similar to the Holly
plan. By this arrangement the water
may be pumped into the reservoir alone,
into the mains alone, or both at once.
Tho mains are supplied directly from
the pump, and in case of tore the water
may be forced to any desirable height,
eveu as much as two huudred feet. The
reservoir serves simply to give pressure
wheu the pump is not working and al-
so reserve in case ei acciucut.
The city has located two hydrants on
the diagonal corners of each block, as
far as the mam extends.
The Company is still laying pipe,
aud next year they intend to put down
several milts of pipe.
The franchise has been amended
so as to require the company to furnish
water for a fountain on .Marion square,
and two fountains on Wilson Avenue;
and al-o water for all hydrants that may
hereafter be heated throughout the city,
without extra compensation. Farmer.
The Effect otrfulnd Hit; Advertisement.
A publisher can do nothing better
calculated to injure or destroy the
character, value and influence of his
paper, than, by the insertion of adver
tisements which tend to defraud his
yubsenbers. So many people have
already been swindled by this class of
advertisements, that a large number of
readers have almost ceased to pay auy
uttention to any class of advertising,
being so disgusted with their costly ex
perience as to have learned to class all
alike, and to believe that advertising
is no more nor less than an at
tempt to defraud.
To fo.-ter this state of things is not
only doing injustice to the large cla,s
of upright advertisers, but it the feel
ing should grow to any large extent, as
it must certainly do if publishers do
not remedy the evil, it must seriously
iujure all departments of advertising,
and throw away a million dollars worth
of honest business. A single swindling
advertisement is enough to greatly itiN
jure the reputation of a paper among
business advertisers, and (he ultimate
result with the public will be so large a
withdrawal of confidence that it would
not pay respectable dealers to continue
to advertise.
Is a publisher wise who, in order to
gain a few dollars from a dishonest man,
helps to destroy his own chief means oi'j
support? Already a certain class have
discovered that their notice cau hare no
influence unless inserted in newspapers
of hih character. They have found
that journals having the strongest in
fluence arc not necessarily tho.c which
are the largest, or which count the
highest circulation, hut those which
may he relied upon for their integrity
and fair dealing with .the public. They
consequently examine a newspaper to
see the character of its advertisement?,
believing that if their own is placed
beside that of a swindler, the public
will think that both are intended to
defraud. tJ
It 13 a fact worth considering, that
a publisher who sells his reputation loses
both ways his readers have no faith in
him, and his advertisers can obtain no
accurate return for their money. That
unreflecting publishers should suf
fer from their carlessness in this respect
is not of great importance, but it is well
for the trade to bear in mind that the
logical and inevitable results of the print
iug of a pernicious advertisement will
be almost an irreparable injury to the
whole system of newspaper printing.
Tea culture promises to become an
important branch of American industry.
The experiment of raisin? the plant was
was tried 25 years ago at South Carolina.
More recently it has been repeated in
North Carolina, Tennessee and Califor
nia, with etMJOuraing success. Califor
nia, especially with -its Chinese popula
tion, and its high, rolling land, poBsesses
tho qualifications for a valuable tea
producing country, and h already 80
to a small extent.
The new "Dictionary of Diographtcal
JJcferencc,"by Laurence I). Philins.just
out in London, is complained of -W tho
Athenaeum for commemoratingtoo many
Americans names. It contains brief
biographical sketches of 100,000 persons.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC.
j. ja. iMirmoiti?,
IORTLAM - - - OREGON.
General News Agent
For Oregon and Adjacent Terrritories.
Also SPECIAL -COLLECTOR of all kinds
of CLAIMS?
AGENT for the Dallas Republican.
JktVy & CoiinscIIer-atXaw.
Will practice in the Courts of Record and In
ferior Courts. Collections attended to promptly.
Office in Dr. J. E. Davidson's Building,
MAIN 8TREET, 1NUE1'EM)ENCE.
41-tf
J. C. GRUBBS, M. D.i
PHYSICIAN AND KUKGEON,
Offers bis Services to the Citizens of Dallas
and Vicinity.
OFFICE it NICHOLS Drug Store.
34-tf
u . d. j 1 itins, jvt. i).,
Physician and Surgeon,
Eula, Oregon.
Special attention given to Obstetrics and
Diseases of Wujcu. ltf
I C. SULLIVAJT,
Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law,
Dallas, Oregon,
Will practice in all the Courts of the State. . 1
J. I,. COLLIXS,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Dallas. Oregon.
Special attention given to Collections and to
iu'Ut pertaining to Ileal Estate. 1
RUSSEL, FERRY & WOODWARD.
Ileal 2latc Aleuts
and Real Estate Auctioneers,
No. KM). FRONT TKI2i:T,
PORTLAND ..... OKKfiON.
J. A. A PIIEfw ATE,
A try A: Counsellor at Law,
OFFICE IN COURT HOUSE,
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, 0SZG0IT.
2y-tf
Committee on Railroad
Have decided that an toon as the Oregon
Central Railro.td ( West ffide) is completed into
I'oik County, they will is.u orders to all con
tractors and wuikiniu on tbc line to purchase
all their
Groceries and Provision,
Clothing, Boots and Shoes,
Ladifs Dres Goods,
Hardware, Tinware,
Or Anything thcr tnny happen to want of M.
M. Elli. t Lnc'ed, formerly known as ClnfTs
Store. Meanwhile, all fanner, or anyone else.
will find it to their interet to call and i;iki
their .H-Wtious. Ail are aware that I am sll-
; inp R
!
eoOils rticiitter tmtn ti)njlnay m I oik t o.
more Produce than any two tree in the
untv. fo lirini; aloor- your nutter if it ia
sorr. and if it u ,s.Mi, all tht' better.
Yours truly, AI. M. ELLIS.
20-3m
mi door m
Y ' Y
i ii i ! BY
. iri
BLIND FACTORY,
STIIKI2T, DALLAS.!
MAIN
1 haro constantly on band and for Sale
nn (I Uuglazcc!.
DOOHS OF ALL S1ZKS.
WINImV AND DOOR FRAMES,
All of the Best Material and Manufacture,
ll-tf JAMES M. CAMPBELL.
OCULIST,
SALEJl, 1 - - ORI2CSOX.
All who require Surgical Operations on the
Eves, or treatment, are invited to give him a
trial.
Those who do not receive permanent benefit
will not bo required to p;iy for treatment.
Ho i.t atnpl; provided with all the modern
nnd improved Instruments, aud will make
thorough Examinations free ot charge.
Carriage, Wagon,- Sign,
AND
ORNAMENTAL PAINTING,
GRAINING! & GLAZING,
PAPER HANGING, &c,
Done in the most Workmanlike manner by
EX. r. SHRIVEK.
Fhop vpetaira over Hobart & Co'a HarncsB
Sliop.
DALLAS, POLK CO., OREGON.
27-tf
PROFESSIONAL CARDS, dC.
IIAXLAS IIOTKL,
COHNEK MAIN AND COURT STS.
Dallas, Polk County Oregon.
The undersigned, having RE-FITTED the
above HOTEL, now informs the Public that
he is prepared to Accommodate all who may
favor hitu with a call, in as good style as can
be found in any Hotel in the Ceantry. Give
me a coll, and you shall not leave disappointed.
12-tf W. F. KENNEDY, Proprietor.
Saddlery
Harness,
S. C. STELES,
Main st. (opposite the Cour House), Dallas,
MANUFACTURER ANT) DEALER IN
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Collars,
Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which ce is
prepared to sell at the lowest living rates.
JKiMtEPAIRING done on short notice.
$75
E VERY WEEK!
HADE EAST,
ur
LADY AGENTS. r
Ve want Smart and Energetic Agents 4
introduce our popular and juotlj celebrated
inventions, in everj Village, tc und City in
th e World.
Iiulixpennahle (o every HonteJteld;
They are hijrhly approved of, endorsed and
adopted by Lad it, 'A-iVim aud Diriue,
and are now a GREAT FAVORITE witk
them.
Every Family will Purchase One
or wore of them. Souaethtna; that their merit
are apparent at a GLANCE.
DRUGGISTS, MILLINEES, DBESSHAXE&S
and all who keep FANCY STORES, will fine
our exeeltet t articles SELL VER Y RAPID
L Y, gives perfect satisfaction and netting
SMALL FORTUNES
to all Dealers and Agents.
COUNTY It I C II T S PRER
to all who desire engaging in n HmrabU,
Hfptrtatfle i nd I'mjiuUe Kiwr, at the same
time doing good to their companions in life.
Sample $2 00, scot free ty mail on receipt ef
prioe. SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU
LAR. ADDRESS,
VICTORIA MANUFACTURING C02IPY.,
IT, PARK PLACE, New York.
iEW POTiB MUMS.
J. II. KINCAID has opened a,
New Photographic Gallery
In Dallas, where he will be pleased to wait om
Customers in bis line of Bueiness al all booxs
of the day.
Children's Pictures
Taken without grumbling, at the same price aj
Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. Price to
suit the times.
Rooms at Lafolletfs Old Stand, Main Street
Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, April 27th, 1871
; tlL
c. s. i r, v jb n,
No. ISO, First Street,
PORTLAND, .... OREGON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DRV GOODS, CLOTiHM,
LADIES DKKSS GOODS,
HOOTS AND SHOES, HATS fc CAPS,
GROCERIES 6 PROVISIONS,
Highest Cash Vrice paid for all kinds of
Counti'y Produce.
1C 4m
lias Carpet Wearing
1 LL PERSONS n.WINft MATERIAL
V fur Rag Carpets, and wishing them
Woven, can be accommodated by calling on
the undersigned. Orders left at the Store of
K. Howe Bros, will Le ptvmptly attended to.
18-3m
WM. SAI LSBERRY.
C. H. FARXENTKB.
!
r. J. BAjacOCJC
PARfilENTER & BABC0CK,
Manufacturers, and Wholesale and Re
tail Dealers In
urii i tiire
Commercial Street- S&lem, Oregon,
H
AVE ON
Stock of
IIAND THE LARGEST
Fur nil lire,
iscuriiiij
Window-Shades,
Hollands, nnd
lMPR-IIAGIIOS
To be found in Marion County.
All kinds of Picture Frames, CotSn &n4
Caskets tnado to order on short notice and at
reasonable rates.
PAUMENTEB A BABCOCK.
Salem, March 23, 1S7. 4. if
Mill
Bargains ! Bargains ! !
HAVING PURCHASED AN EtfTIRB
New Stock of Jood4, 1 would ll the
attention of the Public to my Old 6-taad atttha
Brick Store. I have a full stock of
Gxac cries, Dry Goodg, Ilooti and Shoes,
and everything found in a fitsUctata Variety
Store. My old customers will find itio their
advantage to renew their patronage, and new
ones will be cordially welcomed.
All kinds of Produce taken at the highest
market rates.
Dallas, Aug. 3, 1871. Y, C. BROWN.
223m.