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VOL. 27
(THE HOME PAPER)
. DALLAS, POLK COUNTY. OREGON. TUESDAY OCTOBER 5, 1915.
(TWICE-A-WEEK)
NO. 62
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FOLK CHILDREN IN LEAD
WIN FIRST IN SEVEN OUT OF
' TWENTY CLUB PROJECTS.
But in Addition These Industrial
Workers Carry Away Many In
dividual Prizes Offerejl.
Declarations that the exhibits in
the school industrial contests at the
state fair this year were better than
any previous display are veiy pleas
ing to 'the large number of Polk
county school children who took an
active and prize winning part in mak
ing these declarations truthful. These
statements are especially true con
cerning vegetables and corn which
show a decided improvement over for
mer years. JNot. a lew or tnose wno
carried away prizes from the state
fair are beginners at the school club
work, this being, in many cases, the
iirst exhibit they nave made.
Among the Polk county children
who received prizes with their dis
plays are Glenn rladley, Airlie, huh,
field corn; Carl Tetherow, Monmouth,
first, watermelons, class B; Raymond
Hall, Buena Vista, fourth and Man
ley Arant, Monmouth, fifth, Hubbard
squash; William Mackie, Rickreall,
second, class B, on pie pumpkin;
Hugh Young, Falls City, third, cab
bage; Morris Guyer, Airlie, third,
class A, potatoes ; Anna Hardt, Falls
City, second, class B, and Waunda
Elliott, Perrydale, fouth, class B, po
tatoes; Glenn Harmon, Monmouth,
first, class A, and Harley Nelson,
fourth, class A, bird houses; Carl
Tetherow, Monmouth, fourth, class B,
bird houses; 'La Verne Myers, Falls
City, class A, first, and Monroe Cool
ey, McCoy, second, class A, bread;
Lota Bradley, FalU City, first, class
B, and Mae McDonald, Dallas, see-.
ond, class B, bread; Bessie Morri
son, Perrydale, first, class A, and
Francella Hawley, McCoy, fifth, class
A, canned fruits and vegetables
Waunda Elliott, Perrydale, first, class
B, and Mae McDonald, Dallas, sec
ond, class B, canned fruits and veg
etables; Bernice Newbill, Dallas, first,
and Francelle Hawley, filth, jelly;
Bernice Newbill, Dallas, second, and
Lorena Treat, Falls City, fourth, ma
chine and hand-made dresses; Waun-
-da Elliott, Perrydale, -second) Margar4
et Dorman, falls City, third, and
Frankie Crider, Dallas, fifth, hand
made aprons; May McDonald, Dallas,
first, class B, darning; Marie Lee,
Falls City, second, class A, and Annis
Gilliam, Dallas, third, class A, Indian
runner ducks; Mable Lee, Falls City,
first, class B, Ardis Gilliam, Dallas,
second, class B, and William Mackie,
Rickreall, third, class B, Indian run
ner ducks; Raleigh Middleton, Dallas,
first, class B, Pekin ducks; Henry
Alsip, Dallas, first, class B, Barred
Plymouth Rocks; Harold Reynolds,
Independence, first, class B, White
Plymouth Rocks; Emil Ridgeway, Bu-
ell. first, class A. Khode Island Keels;
William Mackie, Rickreall, fourth,
class B, White Leghorns; Mane Lee,
Calls City, second, class A. miscella
neous; Teddy Ridgeway, Buell, sec
ond, class B, and Mabel Lee, Falls
City, fourth, class B, miscellaneous.
even dozen, with the confinement of
two pie-season hunters. Five of the
charges are held for the grand jury
and the remaining seven are serving
time for various misdemeanors. After
the session of the grand jury this af
ternoon the jail will again be depopu
lated for a short time. But little
things like a lack of patronage do
not worry the sheriff. To the con
trary, too much patronage has almost
turned his auburn hair to grey. As
soon as there is room to accommodate
the waiting list that he has prepared
the sheriff will arrest a number of
miscreants who have escaped atten
tion because of the crowded condi
tion of the bastile.
MEMORIAL TO WOMEN
MRS. GERLINGER UNDERTAKES
TO RAISE FUND OF $100,000.
MEDICAL SOCIETY MEETS.
Con-
Doctors from Threo Counties
vene Here Today.
The Tri-Countv Medical society is
to meet in Dallas today, the event
being its regular monthly meeting,
and the doctors from Polk, Marion
and Yamhill counties are to enjoy a
program of professional papers, tech
nical discussions and speeches. This
evening the meeting will conclude
with a fine banquet, at the Gail ho
tel, for which a tempting menu ftas
been prepared. At the meeting are
gathered the foremost medical men
from the three counties represented
in the association, and a numbe of
these have prepared papers on inter
esting cases -that have been under
their observation since the time of
the last meeting. Last month no ses
sion was held because of the convei-
tion of the Oregon State Medical as
sociation at Portland. Dr. 0. D. But
ler of Independence,' president of the
society, is presiding at the meeting
and Dr. M. J. Clements of Salem
occupies the secretary's chair.
NEW TRAINS ORDERED
REVISION OF SCHEDULE ORDER
ED BY STATE COMMISSION.
Erection of Building on State Uni
versity Campus Under Direction
of Dallas Member.
Residents of Airlie District Can Visit
County Seat and Return Home
Same Day.
HUNTERS ARE CONFINED.
Justice Holman Hears Case of Poach
ersJury Finds Two Guilty.
Flat contradiction by the defend
ers of the evidence of the complain
ing witnesses resulted in the confine
ment of H. A. Wright and Sam Shaef
fer in the county jail on Friday af
ternoon. A jury in the justice court
found these two men guilty of killing
pheasants out of season, aluo t inn,
Lee McKee and Roy Allen being com
plaining witnesses, rive men were
in the party, of which two members
killed a bird on Finn's ranch near
McCoy, and, according to the com
plaining witnesses, they were caught
with the goods. The defendants dis
claimed the possession of a gun while
near the field and so much of their
testimony was evidently fabrication
that the jury imposed a fine of $25 or
corresponding time in jail. One of
the poachers started a fist fight with
Allen, an uninterested party, when
Finn ordered them off his place. This
caused the trio to file a complaint
against the hunters. . They were ar
rested by Deputy Game Warden Hen
ry W. Domes on September 27. The
testimony of nine witnesses was tak-j
en in the trial that lasted nearly three
hours. Judge N. L. Butler of Inde
pendence appeared for the defense
and District Attorney Sibley prow
euted the esse. Wright is an Inde
pendence resident and Shaeffer comes
from Portland. The remaining mem
ber of the party live at Indepen
dence,
John Hinto Elected.
John W. Minto, brother of Harry
Minto, slain last week by the des
perado. Hooker, was elected by the
stat board of control Wednesday, to
succeed his younger brother as war
den of the state penitentiary.
Many Jail Birds.
The official list of guests in Sher
iff Orr's Terr popular hostelry i
increased on Friday afternoon to an
Approved two weeks ago by the
Dallas Commercial club, the tentative
schedule prepared by the state public
service commission lor the trains run
ning between Dallas, Monmouth and
Airlie, was given to the railroad com
pany on Saturday with orders that
schedules over these lines be revised
witliin twenty days.
The complaint against the road was
made by E. E. Hiltbrand, who ap
peared before the commission in per
son. It was shown that cue present;
service does not permit patrons who
reside between Airlie and Monmouth
to visit Monmouth or Dallas and
transact business requiring any ordin
ary amount of time and return to
their homes on the same day. since
Dallas is the county seat it is held
that the lack of afternoon trains is
a hardship on the community tribu
tary to Airlie. The commission finds
that the situation can be relieved with
a minimum of inconvenience to the
Southern Pacific by a re-arrangement
of the schedules as follows: That
the company discontinue the opera
tion of trains Sol and Soi between
Airlie and Dallas, and in place of
these trains operate a gasoline motor
car leaving Dallas at approximately 3
o'clock p. m., to arrive at Airlie at
approximately 3 :50 p. m., and return
ing to Dallas to arrive at about 4:50
p. m. Both the gasoline motor car
and the morning accommodation
trains, Nos. 211 and 212, should carry
express matter, the order states.
Since the service thus prescribed byl
the commission involves the running
of the motor car backward from Air
lie to Monmouth extreme care will be
required in the operation. Preferably,
savs the commission s order, the rail
road company should arrange for a
wye at Airlie or Simpson and thus
avoid the necessity ot operating the
motor ear backward.
Mrs. George Gerlinger of Dallas,
member of the board of regents of
the University of Oregon, will direct
a vigorous campaign that is about to
be launched for funds Ito finance the
erection of a proposed Woman's Me
morial building to be built on the
university campus at hugene. the
tentative plans for the buildingj have
already been completed by tills i.
Lawrence of Portland, who is head of
the architectural school at the univer
sity. Any person giving $500 or more
toward the building fund will be priv
ileged to have his or her name or the
name of a relative or mend inscribed
on the memorial tablets over the ar
cade of the building, which will over
look the athletic field. The estimat
ed cost' of -the structure is $100,000.
It will be located on a new tract of
land adjoining the old campus that
was purcuased recently by the univer
sity officials. The entire tract is to
be given over ultimately to athletic
grounds, clubhouses, dormitories and
gymnasiums.
The proposed woman's memorial
building will contain a gymnasium
with stage and dressing rooms that
can be utilized for concerts, a kitchen
and supplementary quarters to be
used in serving suppers to the faculty
and students, rooms for corrective
athletes, a suite of rooms for the ma
tron and rest and gamerooms. A
swimming pool 70x30 feet in area,
with locker-rooms, will be located in
the basement and a running track will
be installed on the balcony floor of
the building. After making a study
of college buildings in the east Mrs.4
Gerlinger concluded that the men ev
erywhere had the better facilities and
she determined that the women should
have a suitable building of their own
in Oregon. The present gymnasium
quarters at the university are entirely
inadequate, and a large number of the
undergraduates, graduates and friends
of the university, realizing the urgent
need or improved quarters, have
premised Mrs. Gerlinger that they
will give her every possible help in
the coming campaign.
ESCAPE FROM PRISON
TWO CHARGED WITH THEFT
MAKE DELIVERY SUNDAY.
Gaining Admittance to Lower Floor
of Jail, McGinnis and Carson Slip
Away From Sheriff Orr.
ABANDONS HIS PARTY.
to
Ex-Mayor Van Orsdel Refuses
Again Vote Democratic Ticket.
Calling Mr. Nunn, who was passing
his place of business, into his
office the other day, ex-Mayor John
G. Van Orsdel, in the presence of
that dyed-in-the-wood democrat, took
a solemn oath that never again would
be he sruiltv of easting his ballot for
a democratic president of the United
States. Mr. Van Orsdel was an ar
dent supporter of President Wilson,
and also voted for Bryan on divers
and sundry occasions, but he has seen
democratic mismanagement aplenty
during the present administration of
governmental affairs and purposes at
the next election, no matter who the
republican nominee may be, to aid by
his vote in returning to power the
party with an unimpeachable record.
Another Polk county democrat who
would desert his party were Taft
nominated, is Mr. Cass Riggs, who is
a great admirer of the ex-president,
but if this is tbe only condition there
is slight hope of winning him into tbe
republican fold, for it is considered
inadvisable, for party somas, to urge
Mr. Taft to again become a candi
date. I
HUNNICUTT GOES TO PEN.
Old Offender Goes to Pen for Inde
terminate Period.
The first criminal case heard by
Circuit Judge Belt at the fall term of
court on Monday morning was that
of Harry Hunnicutit of Independence,
who was sentenced to serve an inde
terminate period of from one to ten
years in the state penitentiary. Hun-
mcuct was arrested on July b for
stealing and butchering a young steer
on the ranch of George McLaughlin,
between Independence and Buena Vis
ta. Hunnicutt is an old offender, and
just before his last arrest was tried
and acquitted on a charge of larceny.
Other members of his family are of
the same trend of character and are
constantly in trouble of one kind or
another. The father is the only one
of the family immune from criminal
inclinations. Harry Hunnicutt pleaded
guilty before Judge Belt and the in
determinate sentence will be his pun
ishment. He is partly blamed for the
escape from the county pail of two
other prisoners on Sunday night. Had
it not been tor the deliberate lies he
told, the sheriff would have learned of
the freedom of his charges in time
to have made an effective search for
them.
Jersey Cattle Club Elects.
The Oregon Jersey Cattle club met
at the State fair Friday and on mo
tion of C. N. McArthur, representa
tive in congress, who is a member, de
cided to open a campaign for increas
ed membership. It developed at the
meeting that with more than 200 Jer
seys on exhibition there, this is the
largest show of Jerseys ever held in
the United States. Oregon now has
more "registered for merit" Jerseys
than any other state except New
York, it was asserted. Officers elect
ed were R. L. Burkhart, Albany,
president; Warren Gray, Corvallis,
first vice-president; Frank Doerfler,
bilverton, second vice-president ;
frank Lough ary, Monmouth, secretary-treasurer,
and W. H. Smith, Ore
gon City, director.
Aged Woman Travels.
"Grandma" Howard, aged 92, of
Independence, left that eity on Thurs
day for Seattle, where she is to make
her borne with her daughter. Mrs
Howard is making the journey alone
and stopped at Salem to visit the
state fair.
By sneaking out of the open door
of the jail two prisoners made good
their escape trom the county bastile
on Sunday evening, and so carefully
was an agreement with other prison
ers worked that their absence was un
noticed until early yesterday morn
ing, when the sheriff took breakfast
to the ten men supposed to be locked
up there. Those who escaped are
William Mclxmnis and h. W. Carson.
The former was incarcerated for
stealing hop sacks from a building
near West Salem, and the latter was
taken into custody at Independence
tor stealing a tent-fly.
Sunday night about ten o clock
Sheriff Orr went into the jail to see
that tilings were right for the night.
He did not see McGinnis and Carson,
who were supposed to be in cells, but
Harry Hunnicutt, another prisoner,
said they were asleep. Unsuspecting
ly, the sheriff threw the bolts on the
cells, believing the two men to be on
the beds therein, and went on about
other business, after locking and
bolting all other doors. Yesterday
morning the sheriff visited the jail to
get Hunnicutt, McGinnis, Carson and
otlher prisoners whose cases were to
be heard by Circuit Judge Belt. Mc
Ginnis and Carson were gone, and up
on questioning the other prisoners the
sheriff determined that they had made
their escape the previous evening.
The only possible theory of the jau
break is this: Sometime on Sunday
the prisoners released a heavy board
that held a wooden door, opening
from the .stairs to the second floor
into the lower section of the jail,
which is usually used for city prison
ers. Uaining the treedom or the nrst
floor the men replaced the board
against the door, and secreted them
selves between the wall of the build
ing and the wall of a cell. When
Sheriff Orr visited the jail that even
ing he left the heavy iron front door
cpen, aiid.. went upstairs, ,.Fh ere. All ,
prisoners were supposed to be.
He knew that no one could pass
him and get down stairs, but he did
not know that two had already made
their way to the lower floor. While
he was on the second floor the two
prisoners calmly walked out and were
on their way m a nurry. ine lies
told by those on the second floor put
the sheriff off his guard, and he did
not discover the escape until he went
to get the men for trial yesterday.
The deplorable condition of the
county jail is responsible lor the es
cape of McGinnis and Carson, and the
only wonder is that a great many
more prisoners have not disappeared.
The upper floor is built to accommo
date a maximum of not more than
five, and over the week-end there were
ten men locked up. Until late last
week there had been twelve men in
jail. The door that keeps the pris
oners from the lower floor is a mere
wooden affair and is insecure. It is
held closed by a heavy timber, but by
means of a loosened caseing the pris
oners who escaped worked this timber
away and gained admittance to tflie
lower floor.
The sheriff has been greatly handi
capped by these conditions in at
tempting to hold so many culprits.
He has been forced to exercise an
honor system with the prisoners. The
second floor is crowded with cots and
beds made on the floor so that to get
around one must climb over these.
There are only three cells, and two
of these were occupied by McGinnis
and Carson. Justice will lay a heavy
hand upon the escaped charges if
they are apprehended.
these have been provided. Game war
dens carry the tags, and for the con
venience of Dallas hunters Phil Begin
has laid in a supply. The cost of the
shipping tags is five cents each,
whether they are purchased from a
warden or from Mr. Begin. At his
shop on Mill street Mr. Begin will
gladly accommodate anyone desiring
pheasant stripping tags.
COURT IN SESSION.
Three Widow's Pension Cases Being
Considered This Week.
The circuit court is in session today
at the court house with Judge H. H.
Belt presiding. Yesterday the court
met to consider applications for final
certificates of naturalizaton, and to
day is engaged in disposing of the reg
lar court docket. The grand jury will
convene at one o'clock this afternoon
and will set criminal and other cases
for trial. In the meantime the cir
suit court is hearing three cases that
were appealed from the decision of
the justice court. These are Udom vs.
Polk county .and Bush vs. Polk coun
ty, widow's pension cases; and Clark
vs. Irvine. Tomorrow schedule has
been arranged and after those cases
are tried the court will attend to a
number of criminal cases on the dock
et. One of the most important cases
is the $30,000 damage suit filed by
August R. Risser for his charge, Joe
Fritz, against the Southern Pacific
company.
GIVES LARGE RETURNS
HOP INDUSTRY MAKES FOR
TUNES FOR MANY PEOPLE.
Bnt That Was Some Years Ago,
When Prices Hovered Around
a Dollar Per Pound. '
Fire Prevention Day.
Governor Withycombe has proclaim
ed October 9 as fire prevention day.
Citizens of Oregon communities are
urged to take an inventory of their
fire traps on this day and set about
removing them. A large number of
serious fires could easily be prevented
by a little care in removing debris.
PROJECT IS GOOD ONE
MARKET DAY PLAN FAVORED
BY ALBANY BOOSTER.
Committee Working Out Necessary
Details, While Mr. Davis Will
Hold First Big Sale.
FAIR RECEIPTS ARE LARGE.
Taken Suddenly m.
Judge John B. Teal was taken sud
denly ill at the Imperial hotel Friday
night, and Drs. McCallon and Star
buck were called to minister to him.
He bad recovered sufficiently on Sat
urday forenoon to go to his home in
Falls City, and u now bark at his
poet of duty in the court bouse.
Income at Salem is Expected to Ex
ceed Other Years.
With the exception of the fair two
yean ago. the Oregon state fair tbis
year led all in the amount of money
taken in at the gate, the total being
$21,232 for the six days. This sum
does not include money received from
the sale of campers' tickets, conces
sioners, exhibitors, helpers' tickets,
automobile tags, team tags, or tickets
sold prior to the opening date. When
the money from these sources is fi
nally included it is believed that the
fair's receipts will equal if not ex
ceed those of two years ago. Grand
stand receipts this year were $2814.
75. In 1913 the gate receipts totaled
two davs of the fair this year un
doubtedly prevented the attendance
from surpassing that of past fairs, ae
eording to W. Al Jones, secretary of
tbe fair board.
Shipping Tags For Gams.
Protected game cannot be shipped
aniens it carries the taes prescribed
by law. In the case of deer these
tags are a part of tbe license, but
pheasant, rather than deer, are in the
sportsman's mind at present. To ship
pheasant a tag is required, areordinr
to the game lsws of tbe state, and
The committee that has charge of
the plans for this" ffrsT'puhlic market"
day will meet tomorrow .evening ana
prepare a report on its plans and am
bitions to be read at the Commercial
club meeting later the same evening.
F. E. Davis, chairman of the commit
tee, has had correspondence with A.
L. Fisher of Albany, who is the prime
mover of the market day enterprise
in that city, and has received word
that Mr. Fisher will be glad to render
any possible assistance to the local
committee. Later on the members
will meet with Mr. Fisher to discuss
ways and means. In a letter to Mr.
Davis the Albany promoter says:
"It occurs to me that you are on
the right track and with the hearty
co-operation of your merchants and
farmers will be able ito make a suc
cess of your market days. We start
ed our sale days the last Saturday
of last February and have held them
every last Saturday in the month
since. Our merchants furnish the
free hitching racks, stalls, etc., as
well as the auctioneer. We make no
charges for the services except in
cases where farmers wish to dispose
of their entire holdings, and in that
case we charge two per cent. "Our
merchants usually advertise special
bargains on sale day, all of which is
greatly appreciated by the farmers.
Our actual sales run from $800 to
$2300 and usually there is consider
able property that changes hands that
is not sold from the block. You win
find after it is once understood that
you have a set date for your public
sales that farmers will arrange aneaa
and bring in their stuff."
With so many details to arrange
before a successful community market
dav can be held it is improbable that
the first sale day will be under the
auspices of the Commercial club's
committee of business men. Mr. Da
vis who perfected plans for a sale
day last month will earry his origi
nal ideas out in a market day on the
last Saturday of this month. It will
be his own enterprise and will be a
successful one, for Mr. Davis is an
active and enthusiastic worker. Last
month the market day was not held
because of the great amount of at
tention demanded by the baby show.
But this month, without any side is
sues, the sale day should be a great
success. Mr. Davis Has already se
cured entries from a number of farm
ers, and they will come in Urge num
bers before October 30, the date of
his sale day.
Moving to Benton Farm.
Mr. Wilcox and family, recently of
Perrydale, Polk county, are moving to
a farm near Corvallis and will soon
be at home here. They will reside s
short dintance north of Corvallis.
Gazette-Times.
Children Meet Governor.
Sixty Oregon school children, mem
bers of boys' and girls' camps st the
state fsir, invaded Governor Withy
combe 's office at the capital last week
With hop prices around 10 eent3 a
pound, the Oregon crop this year will
bring more than $2,000,000. and half
of that will be paid in wages. Taking
one year with another, Oregon grows
more hops than any other state in
the union. One hundred thousand
bales is about the average yield, and
the crop this year is estimated at
from 80,000 to 120,000 bales. When
prices go to 15 or 20 cents the indus
try is invitingly profitable.
There was a time when it was a
bonanza for growers who got early
into the game. In the rich river val
leys of King and Pierce counties in
Washington the yield ran from 1000
to 3000 pounds to the acre, and some
years the price went to a dollar and
even better than a dollar.
When Henry Villard was complet
ing the Northern Pacific in the early
'80s hops were the chief and most
profitable crop in western Washing
ton and Seattle and Taooma owed
their first boom largely to the .fabu
lous profits that came to fortunate
growers. Fortunes were made in hops
in a single season and many growers
turned to real estate speculation in
the vaunting Puget Sound cities.
The industry got its first footing
in Oregon 50 years ago, in Marion
and Lane counties, and in the inter
vening half century has had many ups
and downs. When prices mounted to
a dollar everybody talked hops and
everybody tried to get into the indus
try. Overproduction followed, prices
fell to a few cents a pound and the
scramble to get out was even more in
tense than that to get in. Thousands
pulled up their hop vines and went
into other crops, but enough staved
with the business to keep it going and
the surviving industry stands now a
substantial resource in the Willamette
valley m Oregon and the Yakima val
ley in Washington.
We knew one farmer," says Gas
ton's, history , of PorUandr '-wlM did -not
sell his hops on account of low
prices for three years, and had on
hind three crops Ralph Geer of
Waldo hills in Marion county. C. H.
Lewis of Portland had advanced mon
ey to pick all these crops. In the third -year
hops went up to a dollar a
pound. Mr. Lewis sent a special mes- -senger
with a letter to Mr. Geer, tell
ing him to sell bis hops at once. Geer
thought the price would go to a dollar
and a quarter a pound and held on.
The next day the price dropped and
kept on dropping until it reached J.5
cents a pound. Geer had then to sell
under forced sales and was finan
cially ruined.
In spite of its violent ups and
downs hop growing has been an im
mensely valuable industry for the Pa
cific northwest. In the long course
of .50 years it has probably brought
into the country more millions than
were washed from the rich placer
mines of northern Idaho. Labor has
taken the lion's share, and the in
dustry has been a nne source of rev
enue for young men and women. First
and last, thousands of boys and girls
have found it a substantial aid to
their progress through school and col
lege.
Bonanza prices have gone, never, in
all probability to return, but the in
dustry has settled down to fairly sta
ble conditions. In most years there
is a wide spread between high and
low prices, but generally there comes
a time each season when the grower
is offered moderately profitable pric
es. The United States year book of
agriculture thus tabulates the Chica
go prices of Pacific hops, high and
low, over the decade from 1000 to
1009:
Low Year
6V, 1905.
12V, 1906.
12ia 1907.
19 1908.
28V2 1909.
Men come and go, but the industry
survives a source of large income to
the 1 aoiiic northwest and a broad
field of opportunity for thousands of
wage-earners. Probably no other pro
duct has gone through greater vicis
situdes. The industry could not have
survived at all in a region less favor
ed than the Pacific northwest in rich
ness of soil and excellence of climate.
At one time or another every sub
stantial industry in Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana has suffered
from overproduction and low prices.
Hops, salmon, prunes, wool, lumber.
shingles, hay, wheat, silver, lead, cop
per and even live stock and poultry
all have a similar story. But faith.
hope and courage may ever be drawn
from this firm fact that ultimately
and always the land that is capable
of overproduction is the land to tie
to. There large wealth and prosper
ity await its people. The hopeless
lands are those of meager natural re
sources, of thin, poor soil, of adverse
climate, of scant water supply.
Spokesman-Review.
Year
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
High
.. 18
.. 19
.. 31
.. 31
.. 37
High Low
34 10
22 9
18 8
11 5
29 9
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