IHOUSTIL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE C EM ENT PLA N T SEEN GRADE OF A P P LE S HIGH. Lands o f Douglas County Believed Hood Source o f Materials. Roseburg—A fte r years o f expert ments in which thousands o f dollars have been spent, Douglas county destined to become one o f the fore most cement-producing counties in the United States. Up to a short time ago the State o f Oregon was declared to be one of the few states in the Un ion in which raw materials suitabl for the manufacture o f Portland cein ent were scarce. It was considered in Oregon an im possibility to find raw materials limestone and shale—in the same lo cality; otherwise no company could have possibly been formed which would have to face such difficulties in the way o f hauling raw materials to the Portland Cement company. The location o f these newly discov ered deposits is the Riedle property near Roseburg. The raw materials, an abundance o f limestone o f the highest grade, almost pure marble and shale o f uniform composition, are on the north and south side o f the property at an altitude o f several hun dred feet in such a position that they would be about 100 feet above th crushers o f a cement plant built on one o f the hillsides and that the lime stone would be within 500 feet and the shale within 1,000 feet of the crushers. Dr. W. Michael is, o f Chicago, who thoroughly examined these properties and burned Portland cement from the limestone and shale on the Riedel property, declared these deposits to contain the most uniform and valuable cement materials west o f Devil Slide, Utah. In all, Mr. Riedle controls practical ly 280 acres o f land, adjoining the properties owned by the Portland, Os wego, Dallas & Roseburg railroad The land lies at the head o f Roberts Creek and is accessible to transports tion. Mr. Riedle says he will develop the property within the next year, having already arranged for the net* essary capital. River Hat 70 Per Cent of Crop Extra Fancy. Hood River— Showing the crop to be 70 per cent extra fancy, statistics have just been compiled on the returns so far received from the 1911 apple output o f the Hood River valley, for the fruit sold up to February 1 o f this year. A statement o f the prices f. o. b. Hood River, giving the averages of the two averages o f the Hood River Apple Growers’ union and the David­ son Fruit company, has been made public as follows by the Commercial club in a folder just issued: “ Kxtra Fancy,” 70 percent; “ Fan­ cy,” 25 per cent, and “ C Grade” 5 per cent. Yellow Newtown Pippin, extra fan­ cy, $1.99 per box. Arkansas Black, extra fancy, $2.12; fancy, $1 75; C grade, $1.35. Black Twigs, one grade, $1.42. Red Cheek Pippins, $1.02. Winter Bananas, extra fancy, $2.40, Baldwin, one grade, $1.30. Spitzenberg, extra fancy, $2.14. Wagner, one grade, $1.60. Ortley, extra fancy, $2.05. Strawberries, 60,000 crates, or 100 cars, at an average o f $2.25 a crate. Pears, 25 cars; Bartletts, $1.25 per box, and D'Anjou, $1.92 per box. The average o f the Yellow New- towns will be materially increased when the full returns are received in the late spring. The greater part of the Newtown crop is as yet unsold. The principal markets o f the Hood River apple are shown to be London, Liyerpool, Hamburg, New York City, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Rockford and other cities contiguous to the above. An increasing demand during the past two years has been showing itself in the Middle West and Southern states. Several carloads of Hood River apples have been disposed o f in Tennessee and Arkansas within the past few months. Texas also con­ sumes a great quantity o f the fruit and is demanding more. ARM Y ANO NAVY STORES. Cheaper Military Supplies Co-operative Plan. Aim A KmOQAÏÏQVŒ dDC H>Q ) I MtnroQciDtpmQïïAW aura T midd DEGREE of New York— As the result o f an earnest discussion among army und naval otlicers some years past as to the possibility o f duplicating in this country a system o f co-operative mil­ itary stores in England by which those in service may buy any article o f mer­ chandise at a slight advance over cost price,Ithe Army and Navy Co-opera­ tive company was incorporated at A l­ bany, with the approval of the secre­ tary of state. Within a few months the company will have stores open in this city and ready for business. The chief pur­ pose o f the corporation is to "reduce the cost of living by selling the best articles o f "domestic consumption and general use at the lowest remunera­ tive rates.” The advantages o f the organization are to be extended, not only to the army and navy and all civilian em­ ployes of both branches of the service, but to the state m ilitia as well, be­ cause o f the recent close relations be­ tween regular and volunteer army and navy men. Rear Admiral Manx is one o f the incorporators and will he elected pres­ ident. Captain Henry H. Scott, Coast Artillery corps, another o f the incor­ porators, who is a son-in-law of Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, was one of the 40 officers chosen by the War department to go to San Francisco at the time o f the great fire to direct re­ lie f work. REBELS ENCOURAGED. Proclamation o f Gomez Indicates Revolution is Gaining. Mexico City — £]milio Vasquez Go­ mez' frank public declaration that he will accept the provisional presidency in case the rebels succeed in forcing F. I. Madero from the national palace, has gone far toward convincing unoffi­ cial residents of the capital that a general rebellion is in progress. Mexican officials, however, continue to characterize as local disorders ev­ ery insurrection in the country. Although rebels are now operating in 18 states, the department o f the in­ terior continues to give out news de­ nying trouble in a great part of these. There was a fight at San Pedro, 30 miles from Torreon, in which 27 men were killed, the majority said to have been rebels, commanded by Jose Ar- gumedo. Such information as is obtainable from Torreon indicates that for a con­ siderable distance to the East and as far South and West as Durango, the capital o f the same name, the region is being raided almost at will by the rebels. The government has denied officially that Guerrero, in Chihuahua, has fallen into the hands o f rebels. With the exception o f the six South­ ern states where Emiliano Zapata and Jesus H. Salgado are stubbornly re­ sisting the army now waging a war o f extermination, and with some head­ way, the region most seriously men­ aced is that in the stat *s of Coahuila and Durango. Other states in which rebels are operating are Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Jadisco and Michoacan. Far South in Tabasco and in the state o f Vera Cruz there are bands which appear to be closely connected with the Zapatista movement. 5 CHABLE K LEIN Y y A RTH L'RH O RN BLO W Y ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY 'WALTERS corpamr COSTHCXI. Î W » . B Y l.W . DllLINC nAM \ SYNOTSiS. ■’« *nn. un*I**r rt Uji.lerwood. Ir- >•!* u lir e o f l.t.iKht* r o f a ,n. imi la «IH- 1-8 I n Ktf t kAj VV' I K •• l'hum mukes Il >*\ard w lilth w a r .l Is hroke. Itati lieti» re- A nnle. In h i« heen entfllffCHl pinot her. 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