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Polk county ERYER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, MARCH 25, 1910. NO. G ,a ' ' ' r irnT v vtt ' - rrrrrrr NEW SUITS For Men and Boys We are showing an elegant line of Boys' Knee Pant Suits. It will pay you to see them before fit ting out your boys in Spring Suits. Our Broadway Model Suits for Men at $15 are winners. New patterns and all wool suits S15 is the price for any of them. Look them over. Ladies' Dress Skirts just arrived this week, also a sample lot of Ladies' Petticoats in Silk, Hether bloom and bateen. We will save you monev on vour Petticoat purchases. J J A new lot of Ladies' and Children's Shoes. See those Patent Leather, Cloth Tops, either in button or lace. ' Special for two days-Saturday and Monday, March 26 and 28, new lot of Mens' dress shirts, all sizes, price for the two days, 50c! All new patterns, cuffs attached, plain or pleated fronts. Campbell's Store Successor to CAMPBELL a HOLLISTER NEWS OF POLK COUNTY ITEMS CONTRIBUTED BY RUST LING LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS. DALLAS, OREGON ELECTRICITY i FOR LIGHTING Is only expensive to people who ore wasteful and careless. To you who are naturally earefull, It does not como high. It Is economical because It can be quickly turned off when not needed. With bus or kerosene there Is the temptation to let light burn when not needed to save bother of lighting and adjusting. In some homes the electric light bills amount to only one or two dollars per month. You can probably get some kind of artificial light for less money than elec tric light, but does It save you anything when It limits opportunities for work and recreation ruins your eyesight smokes your walls mars decorations and increases household work. You could probably save a dollar tomorrow by going without your meals but it wouldn't be eceon omy. It is not so much what you save, but how you save that counts. WILLAMETTE VALLEY CO. RATES Residenco on meters, per Kilowatt 15c; Residence, flat per month, lGcp BOc. RATES FOR BUSI NESS HOUSES 2Ec per drop and 6c per Kilowatt up to 10 drops; over 17 lie per drop and Be per Kilowatt. A drop figures 16cp or less. For power rates apply at the office. We are always ready to explain the "ins and outs" of the lighting proposition to you, call on us or phone to us, wc are never to busy to talk business. Willamette Valley Company II E. W. KIOARNS, Manager for Dallas. j Office on Mill street, Just north of the Court House, fl Mutual 1297. Phones Bell 421, THE WIZARD Light Running LAWN MOWER and GARDEN TOOLS at Craven Brothers Lafayette Nursery Company I BIG DISCOUNT To clean up and make ready for next year's planting we are making Special Prices on Everything Stock is moving fast Your trade Solicited. Address, Lafayette, Oregon. DALLAS' POPULAR GROCERY s I Wo carry the famous DIAMOND "W brand of S Extracts, Spice, Coffee, Tea and Canned pood. i I. sl, l.read dailr. The verv best of fruits and ve- I I etaldes tan always be found at our store. Happenings of Interest In Various Neighborhoods Told In Interest ing Manner. FALLS CITY. C. E. Wellwood was a Salem visitor Thursday. Dena Dennis visited relatives in Sa lem, Thursday. R. R. Bettls is slowly recovering from an attack of grip. H. E. Fouch attended St. Patrick's Hard Time ball In Dallas. Mrs. J. R. Moyer Is slowly Improv ing from her recent illness. A. D. James returned from a short business trip to Eugene, Saturday. i. w. urentner returned from a business trip to Portland, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Flower are re covering from a severe attack of pneumonia. M. C. Munson has purchased the N. Hamilton place in the south part of town. W. V. Fuller, the Dallas druggist, was In Falls City on business the last of the week. E. C. Richmond, a prominent stock man of Dallas, was In town Friday and Saturday. L. L. Frlnk, of Amity, has exchang ed his farm for the C. D. Tice resi dence property. Mrs. F. A. Lucas, of Portland, Is vis iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Calkins, in this city. The city council have purchased an engine of G. D. Treat and expect to start the rock crusher this week. Rev. Abbott, State Sunday School Superintendent, preached to a large audience in the M. E. Church Sunday night. The new building being erected by Treat & Gilbert, is nearly complete and will be ready for occupation about April 1. The secretary of the Commercial Club has received the community booklets giving detailed information regarding Falls City and Polk Coun ty. R. W. Wolfenbarger, R. R. Wolfen barger, Oscar Smith and Wm. Shep herd left Saturday for Eastern Ore gon. They expect to take up home steads near Silver Lake. Glen L. Davis, a former resident of Falls City, was In town visiting rela tives and friends. Mr. Davis is now traveling salesman for the Gillan As bestos works of San Francisco. Thursday night of last week, the city council granted the contract to Jack Truax for grading all streets pre paratory to putting on the crushed rock. Mr. Truax began the work of grading Monday and will complete it as soon as the weather will permit. city their home, as they have recently disposed of their farm property at Zena. ' BUELL Will Fletcher is going to work at March's mill In Gopher Valley. Lyle Jones has purchased a large work horse and will soon begin log ging. Mr. and Mrs. Steve Braley and fam ily have moved back to Perrydale. All were sorry to see them go. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barger and family visited at the home of her daughter, Mrs.v Howard Ames, Sun day. Professor and Mrs. Kellogg have moved to Sarah Blair's house, and some people from the East are mov ing into the house they lived In. Mrs. Harold was brought home this week from McMinnvllle, where she has been in the hospital six weeks with appendicitis. All are glad to see her back again. She Is not able to sit up yet. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Olmstead, ac companied by Professor Dawklns, principal of the Sheridan school, at tended the dance given at Marion Miller's home Saturday night. All re port a good time. f While working at the .South Branch camp, a young man's leg was so bad ly crushed by a log rolling over It that It Is feared he will have to have it amputated. His name has not been learned, but he is a resident of Sheridan. Monday from Bridgeport, where she has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. W. Plankinton. ' Mr. and Mrs. Lee Conner went to McMinnville, Sunday. Mrs. Conner will remain there and will submit to a surgical operation Wednesday. A surprise party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. McKee, Tuesday night, it being Miss Gladys' 17th birthday. All who went report a good time. POLK. ; The early gardens are coming up nicely. A. G. Rempel lost a valuable colt last Sunday. G. H. Robbins recently sold a 3- year-old filly for $175. Miss Katie Dyck visited Miss Eliz abeth Frlesen, Sunday. The high land is much easier to plow since the recent showers. A good many people from here have been attending the revival meetings In Dallas. Mrs. A. Becker, of Alberta, Canada, is visiting at the home of her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. J. Quiring, Sr. Mr. Quiring is on the sick list. SALT CREEK G. Wood sold two cows lately. Mr. Rosenau's sister is visiting him. Bert Miller is working for G. Wood. Ben Rosenau was a Sheridan visitor last week. W. H. Conley is building a barn on his place. ' Mr. Rosenau has been sowing grass seed lately. Mr. Kurtz is sfarmlng part of the Conner place. ' A. Buhler is building a new fence around his yard. L. M. Bowles was a Dallas visitor one day last week. Miss Ruth Cook, of Dallas, is work ing for Mrs. H. Gilliam. Otto, Ben and Fritz Rosenau were visitors in Dallas, Monday. Enterprise district will build a new schoolhouse next summer. Born, Sunday, March 20, to Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, a son. Henry Gilliam's brother Is moving from Hillsboro to the Leslie Keanrs place. Her horse became frightened at an au tomobile. She was not seriously hurt, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Bbrk will soon leave for Southern Oregon, where they will make their home.iThey have the wishes of many friends for their success. STILL COMING WEST Crank Who Threatens Governor Ben- son Has Reached Greeley, Colo, LUCKIAMUTE. Pleasant showers and everything growing. Mrs. M. A. Tetherow returned to her home In Independence, Saturday, af ter spending a week In this vicinity visiting friends. E. W. Strong & Company started their mill on the Lucklamute, Tues day. They will have about forty days' run to saw up the hardwood logs they now have in the boom. A. E. Tetherow had the misfortune to lose his fine Shire horse, Stuntney j Lordship, of congestion of the atom ach This horse was first bought by ; Joe Rose and was later sold to Mr. Tetherow, who valued him at $2000. 1 Claud Lewis purchased of J. J. Thurston for the Dallas Meat Com- 1 pany last Saturday the best bunch of , stall-fed cattle that has been driven out of this locality for several years. The price 6 cents on foot was the ; highest price ever paid in the writer's ' time. Dallas people will eat some high 1 priced meat HARMONY. Several farmers have sheared their goats. Harold Dickey Is out of school on account of sickness. W. A. McLean sprayed his orchard the first of the week. Lynn Jones Is busy In his hop yard these nice Spring days. The farmers are busy getting their work done while the good weather lasts. Thomas Hayes, of Rickreall, is vis iting at the home of his uncle, J. B. Hayes. The Sheridan Lumber Company has hired men to pick up the lumber along the flume at Harmony. Mr. nd Mrs. Andrew Wood, of Will amina. visited relatives and friends on Mill Creek last week. There-was singing at Mr. Canaday's home Sunday evening. A large crowd and a good time Is reported. BUENA VISTA Mike Krebs visited here Saturday. John Loy Is doing some road work. J.' W. Baldwin, of Scapoose, Is visit ing his family. Henry Smith has bought the Albert Davidson property. Miss Minnie Knighton has returned home from Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Rob Emmons are vis iting in Portland and Astoria. J. D. Winn has put In a stock of phonographs and records at Donald son's. J. K. Neal Is able to be about his place of business again, after a spell of sickness. Mr. and Mrs. George Grey, of Port land, are visiting at the home of Mr, and Mrs. A. J. Richardson. POLK STATION Our farmers are all busy plowing and seeding. T. R. Crook recently sold four horses for $1000. One of them brought $300. The Dunn brothers are putting their young orchard In the best possible shape. Dr. Mark Hayter has had his large orchard pruned in fine shape, also some grafting done. E. C. Kirkpatrick, of Dallas, planting a goodly portion of his splen did farm east of the station to Italian prunes. Our roads this past winter have been better than ever, thanks to the Intelligent work done by the supervis ors in the last two or three years. The Ewlng brothers. In addition to what they already have, are planting a large acreage to fruit this season. They pursue the most approved meth ods in all of their work. If the owners of the larger tracts of land in this neighborhood would place on the market portions of their holdings, at reasonable prices. Polk would soon become one of the greatest fruit and berry producing sections of the county. Simonton & Scott Dallas, Oregon ZENA AND SPRING VALLEY George Felts returned Friday to his home in Portland. G. H. Cramford was a business visit or In Dallas, Wednesday. Miss Joyce Crawford and Miss Etta White spent Sunday In Salem. Min Llna Phillips and Mrs. Bart lett, of Salem, were visitors at Zena. Monday afternoon. John Phillips has rented his farm ing land to Will Crawford, who will make his home at Zen. Mrs. A. H. Coyle. who recently sold htr property hre. has purchased the adjoining farm belonging to J. T. Hunt Rrfrar and James Best shear ed rosts In this neighborhood thl j March It w(k with their new gasoline ma chine. POPCORN McDowell Brothers have bought a fine horse. Miss Smith, of Amity is visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Sykes. Henry Hoffman has returned from a trip to the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson visited friends n Salem, Saturday and Saturday night George Gibson, of Pomeroy, Wash ington, visited over Sunday at the home of L. D. Gibson. PERRYDALE. Elmer Enes was a Dallas visitor Saturday. H. O. Keyt was a Portland visitor Tuesday. Ben Werner was a Perrydale visit or Sunday. Lew Marken was a visitor In Cor vallis, Saturday. Miss IVMie Knea was a visitor In McMinnvile, Saturday. Fred Hebdlng was a business visitor in Portland this week. Miss Jemle Musgrave was a visitor at the home of Charles Bratcher, Sun day. Oitier Canton, who is working In Portland, waa a Perrydale visitor Hun day. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Brown, of this place, have a fine baby boy, born RICKREALL Mrs. W. E. Goodell Is reported much better. Peter Cook was a Salem visitor Monday. Jack Goodell was a Dallas visitor Tuesday. Forest Craven was a Salem visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Cooper went to Salem, Sunday. Mrs. John Vaughn was an Albany visitor Friday. Miss Pauline Nesmith was a Salem visitor Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Hill were visitors in Dallas, Saturday. Mrs. Levi Ankeny and son, Robert, visited relatives In Salem, Sunday. H. C. Eakin, of Dallas, Is busy re placing dead trees in his walnut or chard. It is reported that a mask ball Is to be given in the hall on April Fool's night. Robert Ankeny Is remodeling his house and is going to have it modern in every way. Mr. Sherwood, of Canby, has moved his family to the property he bought of Mrs. Stoner. Several of the young people from Rickreall attended the revival meet ings In Dallas, Sunday night Mr. Dunsmore has moved his family to the D. T. Hodges place, where he will help Mr. Hodges this summer. Mr& McArthur, who has been visit ing her brother, James Nesmith, re turned to her home in Salem, Monday. While flower picking Sunday, Miss Hazel Vaughn lost her watch. It was quite a loss to Miss Vaughn, as the watch was gold, set with a small dia mond. A dispatch from Greeley, Colorado, printed In Tuesday's Salem Journal says the officers there are searching for William H. Williams, supposedly a demented man, who Is walking to Oregon to kill Governor Frank Ben son, according to letters received by the governor from Williams. Governor Benson received another missive from Williams yesterday and he Immediately notified the officers in Greeley to apprehend the man there. A search was made for Williams but he escaped. It Is presumed that he '?ia continued westward. Williams started on his walk to Oregon from some point In the East. At various towns enroute he mailed letters to Benson, acquainting him with his purpose, and progress to ward his destination. Williams was an Inmate of the Ore gon Insane asylum and was discharged as cured about a year ago when he went to the east. About three months ago Governor Benson received a letter from him which had been mailed In one of the eastern states, and which clearly showed that he was again mentally unbalanced. Since then let ters have come one after the other and in them all Williams labors under the delusion that the asylum here Is throwing across the continent elec tric waves which have a baneful ef feet upon him and that It is being done under the direction of Governor Bensen. The last letter received from him was mailed In Kansas and he asked that the governor meet him In Den ver so that an agreement might be entered Into between them whereby the governor might be dispatched from the world, as he believed that this was the only way that he could be freed from this influence. That was about two weeks ago and nothing more was heard from the man until yesterday when Gov ernor Benson received a telegram from him at Greeley, Colorado. The telegram read: "Greeley, Colorado, November 21, 1910. Governor F. W. Benson, executive de partment, Salem, Oregon. "Still censured by your Institute; would like to know regards to case. WM. H. WILLIAMS." The governor turned the matter over to the asylum authorities and a telegram was sent by them to the officers at Greeley to arrest the man, but up until a late hour this afternoon they had not been advised as to whether they had been successful In doing so. , W. E0LA Ray Ferguson Is working for G, Chapman. Ed. Mitty plowed Judge Maxwell's orchard last week. Ethel Brunk and Eva Norcross vis ited J. F. Schaffer and family last Sun day. J. F. Schaffer took a veal to Snlem last Tuesday and sold It for 11 cents a pound. Rev. George Cromlcy returned to Sprlngwater, Oregon, last Saturday after a short visit at home. William Schuett, who sold his place about three months ago, bought the place back again and has moved out from town. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Hiimer visited friends In Salem last Sunday and at tended the revival meeting at the tab ernacle Sunday evening. Ed Keyt has leajv'd his farm east of town for three years to a man from Road work has surfed In this dis-.-"'" fakota. trkt It is badly need-d. as the roads Mr. and Mr. Osborne, of South Da are in a roueh condition, owing to kr,u, are hire visiting their relative, the heavy haulina and frosty weather Mr. and Mrs. Carson, of the paM wtnter. I Ben Jon had an operation vr- Mr. and Mrs, F. W. Peaslee and formed laat Thursday for the removal I work, family went to Portland on the boat of a growth on one of his arms. Mlsa Nan Wilson, while on her way Mod Jay. They Inttnd to make that! Mrs. Nanry Wise returned borne ' to town, was thrown out of the buggy. McCOY James Buttrick is working for Wal do Finn. Ed Keyt made a business trip to Salem, Friday. Riley Burton made a trip to Port land last week. All farmers are busy, preparing their ground for Spring sowing. Mrs. J. Finn, who has been visiting her son, Waldo, has returned to her home In Newport Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hawley, of Mon mouth, visited at the home of their son, Curtis, last week. Mrs. Josie Fletcher and daughter. Nellie, of Corvallls, have been spend- ng a few days here with relatives and friends. An Easter ball will be given In the I. O. O. F. Hall on Saturday night March 28, for the benefit of our base ball Tana. The best of music will be furnished and a supper will be given by the Kehekaha. One and all are moat cordially Invited to come and have a good time. The M-Coy boys have organised thi-lr baseball team for this season, with Waldo Finn acting na manager. Frank Hir-hardson and Carl Kahle have put the playing grounds, just north of town. In excellent shape. The boys c .pect to give all visiting teams the best of accommodations and a fast game. Their first game will te played Sunday with the Amity team. WELCH SALE IN SIGHT Groesbek Confirms Report Concern ing Northwest Corporation. C. E. Groesbek, vice-president of the H. M. Byllesby & Co., of Chicag today confirmed the recent reports of the securing of the option on thu hold ings of the Northwest Corporation which owns many light, power and street railway plants In the' Pacific Northwest. Groesbek also took occa sion to pronounce untrue the report that the Electric Bond & Share Co., of New York, has divided the Pacific Northwest territory with Byllesby & Co., or has taken an Interest In their option. Groesbek said In addition to the properties of the Northwest Corpora tion,. Byllesby & Co. have purchased gas plants at Everett, Olympla and Puyallup, Washington, and one at Marshfleld, Oregon, and the company Is in the market for other properties. COAL AND PRETROLEUM ENTERTAINING AND INSTRUCT IVE ARTICLE BY OIL EXPERT. Says Western Oregon Has General Appearance of Oil Country; Similar to Pennsylvania. BEGIN THIRD TERM Girl's Literary Society Electa Officers and Plans lYogram. The officers elected for the last term of the Utopian Literary Society of Dal las College are: President, Miss Gladys Canter; vice-president. Miss Inex Ridgeway; secretary, Miss Sadie Boughey; treasurer. Miss Nada Scott conductress, Miss Helen Gurney; cen sors, Miss Eula Phillips and Miss Pau line VanOrsdel; critic. Miss Eula Phillips. Although this is the last term of school, and the girls all have heavy work for commencement, the Utopians have carefully planned a aeries of pro grams which will make the society stronger than It has ever been before. The annual third term program will be given Saturday, April I, at S o'clock p. m. Everyone Is Invited. MOUNTAIN HEW Ruanetl Fields, who has been quite sick la Improving. Mr. Ilammons and family w ill move out to Mr. Whites place. On account of the Spring woajher. aereral of the children have quit school NOTICE A Word to Land Boilers. I wish that ail farmers In Polk County who have land to sell would come in and list their property with my partner, John Bird, at Dallas. Do not wait to see me, for I am busy In Portland and Salem getting your buy ers. Price your property to sellnot for speculation. I know what farms are worth, so If you don't price there right you will not have any Inquiries C. HUGHES. Our ofllcf s: C. Hughes Land Co, (It Lewis Building. Portland: Hughes Parker, 4(7 State Street, Salem; Hughes Bird, Main Street. Dallas. Al II. MHikt Married. The marriage of Al H. fitelner to Mrs. Elnora M. Jacobs took place Sat urday In Portland. Both have many friends in Salem, where Mr. Steiner has been for several years a prominent business man. Statesman. We have some of the finest and cheapest city property In Dallas, gee Hughes A Bird Land Company. (JameS Inman In Roseburg News.) Since there Is an activity toward the development of coal and petroleum (crude oil) in this, and a few other portions of western Oregon, It is well to say that so far as coal has been prospected, It has been found In re munerative quantities. Over In Coos county, near the coast, coal has been mined as a commercial proposition for many years. Petroleum In paying quantity Is yet to be discovered. Yet it is my opinion that if the drill is started In the right topographical location, and the drill ing is deep enough, that a new field of petroleum will be opened up. Speaking from twenty-two years oft and on of experience In operations in petroleum In all Its phases In the oil fields of Pennsylvania, except refining, I can see a natural topography and rock?, etc., that are similar to those found In the hilly portions of western Penn sylvania, where (with the exception of southeastern Texas) the largest wells In the world were struck, and the low er or southern portion of the coast range of mountains and their foot hills of southern California, where wells of remunerative petroleum are found. And as In Pennsylvania and some parts of California, If there Is much gas accompanying the oil, some wells will be gushers. Whether wells are large or small depends upon the thickness of the oil rock or sand, and the porosity. Hence coarse, pebbly rock, or coarse sand rock, or creviced shale, or coarse shale, Invariably produce large gushers, while medium grained or fine grained rock, etc., produce In accordance small wells and pumpers. But the pumpers are longer lived. A gusher starting off at 600 barrels in 24 hours may fall off to 300 barrels at the end of 30 days, and at the end of a year may be but a 10 barrel pumper. I know one well In Pennsylvania that pumped at the start 20 barrels, lived 20 years, and at the end of that time was pumped "by heads" (three times a day) and pro duced 1 barrel each 24 hours. From three to ten years is the life of a gush er. The different oil stratas of the crust of the earth so far as known belong to the tertiary or third form ation, and to the quarternary. The pe troleum deposits In California range from the lower cretaceous to the quar ternary. These are found In the Puente Hills of Orange and Los Angeles coun ties, and In the foot hills of the coast range of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Where Oil Is Found. Petroleum is found from the sur face where the rock crops out to the depth of 3,000 feet. Further than this the oil cannot be reached profitably with the drill. The different kinds of substances In which petroleum Is found are sand rock, or sand strata, limestone, shale, conglomerate rock, pebbled clay, and crystalized rocks. These rocks, Bhales, etc., are of all colors. Some rocks and shales are white naturally, and some are bleach ed white by the escapement of sulphu rlous fumes. To give a description of the geological formation of some wells that I have helped to drill in Venango, Butler and Beaver couutles In Penn sylvania, Is as follows: Clay sand and gravel to 30 feet; green clay and thin stratum of brown shale to 100 feet; coarse gravel and sand with a little gaa to 126 feet; streak of clay mixed with sand rock, 164 feet; shale to feet; dark brown sand rock tc rf feet, marl filled with sea shells, 340 feet; white shale to $52 feet; i.iud streak to 395 feet; soft brown shale to 420 feet; sand rock and salt water tc 480 feet; gray sand and a little gas to 520 feet; dark slate rock filled with sea shells to 642 feet; hard white shale to 667 feet; mud streak to 678 feet; brown shale full of oil to (30 feet. Oil rocks, sands and shale range from 10 feet to 200 feet and more in thickness. Often good wells start from the surface In alluvium, clay, sand rock, limestone, shale or conglomerate, but hardly ever In granites or quartz, though oil has been found in quartzlte rock In tome parts of California. I have drilled wells In Pennsylvania where the composition of earth was from brown sand rock at the start, then shale, then slate, then clay, then quick aand, then shale, then lime stone, then shell, then at 1800 feet the oil rock was struck, which was a coarse sand. The ahell mentioned of ten occurs as we drill down and at different depths, and Is from one to three feet In thickness, and Is a hard rock to penetrate. But the hardest substance to penetrate Is asphaltum tar and sometimes the tools got fas tened In It to stay forever. Quick sand can be cased off. Salt water and sulphur water and petroleum bloom are sometimes struck near the surface, and are a good sign. But the sulphur water, like the petro leum bloom, can fool us, inasmuch as Its source can be a quarter of a mile or more away and is forced from any direction through crevices, or po rous rock and other earth. Usually Found on Hillside. The crude oil Is mostly found be neath the hill top or the hill side, or beneath the mountain top, or side, but mostly on the hill side, or the sides of a range of hills, and generally near the axis of the fold that causes most hills and mountains. Yet the oil is sometimes found beneath, the valleys, and out a little distance from the hills, or mountain, on the plains and out Into the ocean some few hundred feet from the beach. This is caused from the limb (side) of the fold dipping from its axis In a small degree In such cases the degree of the dip should be not more than from 8 to 15 de grees. Where the degree of dip Is from 50 to 60 and over, to find the oil rock without having to drill too deep, the derrick should be as near the axis of the fold as convenient. To those not posted in geological terms (names) we will liken the axes of a fold to the comb of a house, and the dip, or slide, to the pitch of roof. The dip is always at right angles with the strike, and the Btrlke of an oil belt Is always in the direction it runs from a certain point The best and largest oil belts are those that range from northeast to southwest. There are at places ranges of hills that are not far apart and run parallel. These are sometimes called fluted hills, or washboard hills. They are caused by folds, and the folds are caused by volcanic upheaval, or by the crumpling of the crust of the earth by contraction In its cooling. Some of these folds are upright, some inclined, and some turned over, and some fan shaped. I would not advise any one to "wild cat" a well, that Is, to drill a test well, In a valley away from the hills, or hill. however low the hill may be, unless he knows that the dip of the crust rock or shale is under 15 degrees from the apparent axis or ridge of the nearest elevation. Neither would I ad vise one to drill a well In a bottom or hollow alongside of a running stream, as many old timers and men unexper ienced in petroleum production have done and are doing to their sorrow, and condemning a splendid oil terri tory where if they had drilled 100 feet or more on either side of the hills en closing said hollow a 500 barrel or more gusher might be struck. The largest wells I have ever known came from the hillside or the hill tops. Another thing that deceives the inexperienced Is that the shallow est wells, that is, the oil rick nearest the Burface, lies on the top of the hill or near the top, while the deep down wells are found at the foot of the hill or out near the center of the valley. This Is because of the upheaval of the oil rock, sand, shale or other oil earth. and the erosion by natural elements from the mountain top, and dip of the strata toward the valley, and the washing from the hill or mountain side, and covering it over the valley. TAKEN FROM COUNTIES Power to Assess Railroads Given to State Tax Commission. The State Tax Commission will as sess all telephone telegraph and street car systems, whether operating within a single county or between two or more counties. This decision follows an opinion from the attorney general. This is contrary to the general im pression of the piun of assessment that would be embraced In the labors of the commission. One of the primary reasons for es tablishing the state board of tax com missioners was to provide a method whereby publio service corporations, such as railroads, telephone, telegraph and street car systems and. In short, all quasi-public corporations doing an inter-county or an inter-state business, would be assessed on a unit plan and take the work entirely out of the hands of the county assessora In the opinion of the attorney gen eral, those companies that shall be as sessed by the tax commission, whether In operation solely In one county or In several counties, are the following: Railroad companies, sleeping car com panies, union station and depot com panies, electric and street railway companies, express companies, tele graph companies, telephone compan ies, oil and tank line companies. Further, it Is the attorney general's opinion that the following companies shall be assessed by the tax commis sion when they are in operation In two or more counties or between states: Heat, light power, water, gas and elec tric companies. The Interpretation of the statute hinges on the words of such In para graph 15 of section 4, In the 1909 ses sion laws. Bargains In choice farm lands E. Jacobson. Absolu Baking Powder xTfn J p H tmprovoa the flavor 4T755? and adds to tho : balth fulness (AiAn A -glSgS: ' of tho food IY