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WHAT-'OREGON" MEANS
Something of Her Resources
and Sublime Scenery.
THE WOOL AND WHEAT CROPS.
This Season Will be the Busiest and
Brighter the Farmers Have
Ever Kuowu.
Special correspondence of the Astorlan.
Astoria, July 10, 1894. A standing re
buke against the vast majority of that
portion of the American public whose
privilege it la to occasionally go pleas
ure seeking, Is that they are apt to turn
ihelr steps to foreign countries when at
their own doors are sights and wonders
far eclipsing In size, beauty, and Inter
est, anything they can gaze on abroad.
That this rebuke Is In a great measure
merited there can be no doubt whatever.
Out of the ten thousand people In this
city I do not believe that fifty have
ever seen The Dulles, or the Cascade
locks, or the great Multnomah falls. I
do not believe that ten have stood at
the foothills of Mount Hood or gazed
cn the beautiful little river that carries
Its melted snows down Into the mighty
Columbia. And yet how many of us
were crazy to go to the Midwinter Fair, height. The force of the wind was so
at San Francisco, and to revel in a ser- great at times that heavy men were
IfS of artistic looking hothouses, car- blown off their feet, and several people
peted with peanuts and enlivened by got badly shaken up by being suddenly
the cry of Cheap John fakirs, ("conces- brought in contact with the side of a
Fionaires," I believe Mr. De Young calls bouse or thrown down onto the side-
them) yelling the superior attributes of walks.
t.he bearded woman or the Hon with Professor Smith, of the United States
Eeven legs. On the one hand a dreary fisheries commission, who has lately
ccean trip, a week of revelling (among Deel ln Astoria, has been winning gold
the peanuts) and you return home with cn opinions from all the cannery men on
a nasty taste in the mouth. On the' tne "PPer rvier. His unassuming be
other, a voyage along a river, whose Savior and his evident knowledge of the
shores, crowded with waterfalls, ran-
yons, and fertile valleys, speak peace'
and delight at every mile; after that a
trip to some of nature's grandesf snec-
tacles Jefferson, Hood, and thundering
cataracts, and your holiday closes with
a remembrance that will stay by you
cs long as memory lasts. How many of locality. Mr. Smith has inquired clon
us really know what that word "Ore-;lv lnto the dam nuisance, and has been
gon" stands for? To most It signifies' ,crv greatly impressed with the neces
Portland, Astoria, and the stretch of sitv of keeping the upper streams and
river that Joins the two cities. Its hun-j spawning grounds absolutely free from
dreds of miles of smiling farms, its cat- molestation.
lie ranches, its beauties, and Its won- Proprietors and foremen of fish wheels
dors, ppread over a vista whose bound- have nad great difficulty this year hi
arles cover an area larger and more' baullng their catch to the various can
beautlful than tha whole of France, are' neries. Several of the tracks through
nil unthought of. Look at the map,! which they usually transport their loads
study out her size; gaze round you and navo been converted into huge mud
see her fertility, her millions of acres of lloles through the flood, and now they
virgin soil, her giant trees whose tops have to make from four to five portages
throw shadows at your very doors, her cn every trip.
waterways and her cloud-piercing peaks! When the flood was at its height the
this and much more is Oregon. I once Columbia Just abreast of The Dalles was
heard of an old settler away out near! very greatly disturbed, and in the center
Huntington, In Baker county, I think,!0' the river was a solid wall of water
who was asked by two tourists whether.
they had crossed the line into the next
i tate yet. The old man in a very melo-
dramatic manner stood In front of thenv
and throwing up his arms, replied: "No, ln memory a great many people of Sher
yer alnt. An' when you younir cents' man Wasco counties were-able to
gets back home to yer mammies In New I
Yark, or Phllydelphy, or Row-chester,
on' they asks yer to tell 'em all about
that ere little web-footed hole In the People ail over the eastern part of the
ground called Oregon, you Jest ups an'istale tnat there ls as mucn snw 'n the
says, 'mam, that hole In the ground ls mountains every year as there was this
a mighty big hole.' Don't either of 8eason. that under weather condi
jer ever forget that you oncet got to a tlon9 the 8ame 03 thla year8'' or an'
placo where an old feller told yer youj tnlng aPProoehlng this years', other dls
was four hundred miles east of the! a8;,rous nod8 would be bound t0 make
E.eU Pacific ocean-and still In Oregon." i tnelr aPPearance. These people would
That old man mightn't have had a col- not be prised if within the next few
lege education, but he knew better than
most of us of the Immensity and splen
dour covered by the name of our state.
But this Is moralizing. I want to tell
your readers something about Oregon's
fertility as evidenced In the vicinity of
The Dalles and the whole of Northeast
ern Oregon. The disastrous Columbia
river flood has wrought great destruc
tion in mrviriai mirtiiiiica wii'iuil uurj
boundaries, but nature has recompensed
us in many other ways and her bounty
in fish, wheat and woql has been un
stinted. Never before In the history of
the state has our wool crop been so
lnrf?f fla It In thin vonr Our whMt nprtn'
will Da several hundred thousands or
bushels bigger than ever before, and
salmon are swarming all the upper riv
ers -In countless millions, defying the
cannerymen to handle half of what they
can catch. The excellent weather con
ditions, principally brought about by an
exceptionally cool month of June, will
be the means of a splendid wheat aver
age throughout the farming dlatricto,
and the acreage planted this year ls
larger than It ever has been. The crop
everywhere is makln? the most favor
able progress, and by October thousands
of fields of rustling- gold will be spread
over the whole wheat-growing portion
of the state. The only trouble will be in
obtaining transportation for the srain
after it is gathered, and this difficulty,
will in all probability be a serious one.
I expect to- see the farmers begging the
railroad companies for cars inside of
three months, and It seems to be very
doubtful whether they will get all they
want
The Dalles is Just now one vast store
house for wool, and in every available
space Is packed pile upon pile of this
material awaiting shipment. The Wasco.
Warehouse Company's warehouse is
stacked to the roof, and Moody & Co.'s
lsrge building is loaded. In fact, the
wool came In from the surrounding
country so rapidly that it was found
necessary to open up the big pavilion
of the exhibition building, which was
also quickly filled to its utmost capacity.
And the woo has still kept coming In
steadily for the past three weeks, se
verely taxing the ingenuity of the resi
dents of The Dalles to find storage for
it It Is of course absolutely impossible
trj sillS any" d? it III thi prVijk'Ilt (i.iiitlitloii
of the Union Pacific at that .point, and
nobody knows yet when the blockade
will be broken. The wool is of fine
quality, in fact superior to any that has
ever yet been baled in the state, and
the amount of it that has been clipped
this year Is a surprise to the oldest
hands lnihe business.
I talkea to several farmers while in
Wasco county and they all had the
same thing to say of Astoria and her
prospects. One of them is very em
phatlc. He is James Seufert, a relative
of the canneryman whose name ap
peared in one of my former letters. He
said: "Astoria must have a railroad in
the very near future, and neither Port
land's Jealousy nor the greed of Portland
merchants can keep, her out of it. This
grain of ours that will be ready fur
shipment In a few months, should never
leave its cars until It reaches your city
where iti ought to be taken aboard the
ships. The moment the first sack of
wheat Is hauled overland from here to
Astoria the question of prosperity will
be settled among you for all time. You
will find yourselves a thriving metropo
lis before you are aware of it."
It is safe to say that the Union Pacific
will not be able to resume Its traffic east
of Bonneville to The Dalles for another
50 days.
The "oldest inhabitant" at The Dalles
does not remember to have ever en
countered such fearful windstorms as
blew over the little city down through
the canyons when the flood was at its
business that has brought him to the
coast. ha-ve been the means of his being
received pleasantly everywhere, and It
19 the opinion of many of the canners
ll,at ne takes awav wlth lllm mre val
unWe information than any other gov-
ernment agent who hag ever visited the
ieei nign, aDsoiuieiy precluding a
view of the opposite shore. The waves
were smashing over one another with a
continuous roar, and for the first time
!lsten to a verv Sood Imitation of ocean
breakers.
It Is the general Impression
among
uays tne Willamette at .Portland were
to experience a rise of three feet.
On some future occasion I may turn
my attention to the remarks of Dr.
Wheelar, the heolth officer of Portland,
tnougn ror a common man to take a
tilt et such a medical windmill as he is,
might be considered (by him) the most
arrant presumption. To give him his
due, I believe he knows as much about
sanitation a she does about Bmall-pox.
THE WEAKEST SIOT
- in your whole
system, perhaps,
is the liver. If
that doesn't do
its work of puri
fying the blood,
more troubles
come from it
than you can re-
1 member.
I)r. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery acts
upon this weak spot as nothing else can. It
rouses it up to huaitby, natural action. By
thoroughly purifying tho blood, it ruacbui,
builds up, and invigorates every port of the
system.
For all diseases that depend on the liver
or the blood Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Bilious
ness ; every form of tJcrof uln, even Con
sumption (or Lung-scrofula) in its earlier
starts ; and tha most stubborn Skin and
Scalp PiK-ases, the "Discovery" is the only
remedy no unfailing and clfoctivo tbat it can
be riniirnnteed.
It it dotvint benefit or euro, you bavo your
money back.
On those term3, It's an insult to your intelligence-
to havo something eh offered a
" just as good."
TUB music of the trees and wild
river waves and all the summer
time singers comes sweetest to the
housewife when she knows the 6 o'clock
meal can be got ready on her double
burner oil stove Instead of the red-hot
ccoktng range. There'll not be an even
ing from this on till October 1st but
she ll be glad she bought one. Have you
noen those in our window? H50. That
Ola genuemwi w nu win mcy "
haa r-hanced his mind and
has purchased his wife ani married
daughters each one.
NOE & SCULLY.
FREEMAN & BREMNER,
Blacksmiths.
Special ritention paid to staamboat re
pairing, first-class horseshoeing, etc.
LOGGING CRSP IDORK H SPECIALTY.
137 Olney street between Third and
and Fourth. Astoria, Or. .
m M1LV AHTOillANi
'ii'faYBViViBti
Blue Devils
The business man who says that ad
vertising does not pay does nof adver
tise. He ls the one that always doubts
the prosperous trade reportB he hears of
his competitor, who does advertise. He
sits in the back of his store, smokes his
pipe and wonders why he isn't making
any money. He has the blues when ne
Bhould have trade. He not only lets his
neighbor get that neighbor's share of
the business, but a good part of his also.
He sees people whom he thought old
friends of his go into his competitor's
store and come out with bundles of
goods, when he has the, same articles on
his shelves, and perhaps at lower prices
t
than they paid his competitor for them.
Why ls this so? It is because his com
petitor lets the public know In an ln
telllgent way through the local papers
what he has to sell and when he has it
The successful advertiser looks after
his advertising space as he does his
clerks. He changes his ads. in such a
way the people are attracted by them.
He feels that to make money he must
be willing to spend some; that there Is
strong competition in all lines of busi
ness, and to get his share of the trade
he must advertise, and to do it in the
most skillful and intelligent way. If he
cannot write advertising matter himself,
he seeks the aid of some one who has
made the writing of advertisements a
study some specialist, who will see that
it is properly written in a catchy and
displayed way some one whose duty it
ls to take off the shoulders of a busy
man all the worry of making up on ad.
No business man attempts to cure his
own sickness, pull his own teeth, make
his own clothes or attend to his own
law cases. He employs specialists for
each of these various services, and
saves money by doing it. It is through
its language and arrangement that an
advertisement gets its business-bringing
qualities. There must be something to
attract public attention and hold it;
something of interest, something out of
the ordinary, something that is different
from others of the same line of- busi
ness. To give it these peculiar features
requires experience, and the owner of
The Astorlan has engaged the services
of such a specialist for the benefit of
its advertising customers who may wish
to take advantage of his services.
The Evening Star, of Washington, D.
C, has an adertUement writer con
nected with Its business department,
and its terms to advertisers are, "So
much blank space, so much money. The
same amount of spaca, with the assist
ance of the advertisement writer in get
ting up ad. attractively, so much addi
tional." . The Astorlan charges nothing extra,
the services of the expert being thrown
in.' "
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WMMAV MOlhNi&U; JULV II, 1894
b "lpaknotoutofweakurmlsos, N
; but from proor
IT. tl
EV3UGT
GO.
since COTTOLENE has come to '
take its place. The satisfaction
with which the people have hailed
the advent of the New Shortening
oftolene
evidenced by the rapidly Increas
ing enormous sales Is PROOF
KOiil 11 Vb not only of Its great
value as a new article of diet
but is also sufficient proof of the
general desire to be rid of indi
gestible, unwholesome, unappe
tizing lard, and of all the Ills that
lard promotes. 1 ry
at once and waste no time In A
discovering like thousands oJ VI
others that you have now
No use
FOR LARD. &
V DEFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES. I
oenaln nude only by jm
N. K. FAIRBANK & CO.. 4
sr. louis and 4
BOSTON, fi
n i wnui v rzl
Tliese tiny Capsules are superior
to Uulwim of Copaiba,
Cubcba n-id. Injections. ljjJDY
They euro iu 43 hours tho
same diseases without anylncon-
venlcnca SOLD CY ALL DRUGGISTS
THE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE
(WORCESTERSHIRE)
mum
Imparts the most delicious taste and feat to
EXTRACT of a
LETTER from
a MKDICAL
GENTLEMAN
at Madras, to
Ms brother at
WORCESTER,
Moy, 1851.
"Tell LEA ft
PERRINS' that
their sauce ls
hlirhly esteem
ed In India, and
is in my opinion
the most pal
atable, as well
a the most
wholesome
sauce that is
made."
BewaTO of Imitations:
immim imiirntii ."bthh.
see that you get Lea & Perms'
Signature en every bottle 0! the original and genulnn.
John Duncan's sons, new York.
Is something you want, if
not today, you will want Is
sometime. We keep carpen
ter's tools too, and If this
weather will only pull itself
together you will want plenty
00
of Hardware of which we
have a plenty only waiting your call.
J. U. WYATTi
HARDWARE DEALER
Uo You Wish
1.
ITo enrich vour table economically ?r:
lliere's a chance, at A. V. Allen'a.
lli-mrlluh nin ami lnta llf It! Itlclll'l
Flower decorations of various sorU,ii
i and at quickstep prices.
Moaestr-prlceu glassware, 100, orr
course. Tha Bhelvea are crowded;!
with them. Corner of Cass andi"
I'jSnuemogue Street Ti
QUICK TIME
-TO-
SRH FRANCISCO
AND
ALL POINTS 1H CALIFORNIA
Via the ML SImsU Rout of Hit
The Only Route Through Califor
nia to Points East and South.
THE SCENIC ROUTE OP
THE PACIFIC COAST.
PULLMN BUFFET SLEEPERS
AND
SEOND-CLASS SLEEPRE5
Attached to express trains, affording
uperior accommodations lor sewind
cluss passengers.
For rates, tickets, sleeping car reser
vations, etc., call on or addrens E. P.
ROOKRS. Assistant General Passen
ger and Freight Agent, I'ortland, Or.
loifolene
SAUCE
J SOUPS,
GRAVIES,
FISH,
. HOT & COLD
MEATS.
IVl CAME,
L&jsi-j RAREBITS,
(OO)
EVERY REQUISITE FOR '
: first Class Funerals :
AT
POtfJj'S Undertaking Parlora,
THIRD STREET.
Rates Reasonable. Embalming a Specialty.
Dalgity's Iron Works,
General Machinist
and Boiler Works.
All t'lnftc nf r"'',ner'. SMr 9-mlrtit
and Engine Work of any Description,
Castings of all kinds made to order.
Foot of Lafayette St, Astoria, Or.
Kopp'a Beer Hall
Choice Wines, Liquors ana Cigars.
KENTUCKY WHISKEY
Only handed over the car, The largest glass
ol N. P. Brer. Half-and-half, jc.
Free Lunch.
Erickson &YVirkkaIa, Proprietors,
Cor. Concomly and Lafayette Sts,
FISHER BROS.,
SHIP - CHANDLERS,
HEAVY AND SHELF
HARDWARE.
Wagons & Vehlches in Stoclc
Farm Machinery, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Loggers'
Supplies, Falrbank's Scales, Doors
and Windows.
Provision, Flour, and Mill Feed
Astoria, Oregon.
florth Paeifie Brewy
JOHN KOPP.Prop.'
Bohemian- Lager Beer
And XX PORTER.
All orders promptly attended to
FRED SAIZ,
Manufacturer and Importer of
Saddles, Harness,
Collars, Whips, Blankets, Robes,
Leather, Etc,
GOODS SOLD AT PORTLAND PRICES.
P. O. Box a7Q. Olney St., Astoria, Or.
Mow Are You Fixed for Insurance?
Fire and Marine.
Wo are agents for the largest and best companies
represented in Astoria.
Royal Insurance Co., assets,
London. Assurance Corp'n
iEtna Insurance Co.
Western U. S. Branch,
New Zealand Insurance Co.,
Combined Assets,
On Top,
MARSHALL'S TWINE
Is conceded by all to bo the best.
It fishes better and wears better
than any other twine used on
' the Columbia river.
TRY IT AND
DE CONVINCE!")
THEflSTOrmSflVliGSBlifliv
Acts as trustee for corporations and
individuals. Deposits solicited.
Interest will be allowed on savings
deposits us follows:
On ordinary savings books, 4 per cent
ptr annum.
Ou term savings books, 8 pr cont per
nnnuni.
jn certificates of deposit:
For three months, 4 per cent per sn
l.um. For six months, 6 per cent per annum
For twelve months, 6 per cent per
annum.
J. Q. A. BOWLBT President
BBNJ. YOUNG Vice President
FRANK PATTON Cashier
W. K. DEMENT Secretary
DIRECTORS.
J. Q. A. Bowlby, C. H. Page. O. A.
Nelson, BenJ. Young, A. S. Reed, D. P.
Thompson, W. E. Dement.
ROSS HIGGINS & Ca
Grocers, : and : Butchers
Astoria si d Upper Astoria.
Fine Teas and Coffees, Ttble Delicacies, Domestic
and Tropical Fn Its, Vegetables, Sugar
Cured Html, Bacon, Etc. "
Choice Fresh and Salt Meats.
HUNTER & MERGENS,
Proprietors of ttia
Portland Butchering Co.'s Markets
Corner Second and Benton streets.
Corner Third and West Eighth street
J. A. FASTABEND,
GENERAL CONTRACTOR,
pile' driver, house, BRIDGE AJiD
WHARf DUILDUH.
Address, box 180, Postofflce. ASTORIA, OR
Portland and Astoria.
8TEAMEK TELEPHONE
Leaves Astoria every evening except
Sunday at 7 p. m.
Arrives at Astoria every day except
Sunday at 4 p. m.
Leaves Portland every day except
Sunday at 7 a. m.
C. W. STONE, Agt,Astor1a.
E. A. Seeley, general agent, Portland.
ASTORIA IRON WORK9
Concomly St., loot of Jackson, Astoria.
General Machinists and Boiler Makers
Land and Marine Engines, Holler work, Steam
boat and Cannery Work a Specialty,
Castings of All Descriptions Made to Order on
Short Notice.
John Fox. President and Superintendent
A. U Fox Vice Prenldent
O. U. Prael ' Secretary
21,562,370,00
8,030,425.00
10,915,829.00
1,017,195.00
2,677,219.00
$45,403,044.00
ELMORE, SANBORN & CO.