' Estacada Progress (I ncorporated ) R. M. Standish, Estacada, Cement Sidewalks Basements S ubscription R ates Six months I There is no chance for a dispute over having paid a bill, if you Oregon Editor and Manager Entered at the poatofflee in Estacada, Oregon, as second-class mail. One year Your check is your receipt L. H. Burd Published every Thursday at Estacada, Oregon . . - , Plastering All W ork . Pay by Check Septic Cesspools There is no need o f your carrying a large amount o f cash in your pocket, Fire Places if you Pay by Check Guaranteed $1.00 • • It gives a business tone to your financial transactions, if you .50 stock on the hoof and this dis- hog raising is going be one of the j trict should begin now to accom leading industries of this county, Thursday, July 8, 1915 the sooner the grower adapts odate itself to that system. There are many localities in 'himself to the conditions, the Are you giving that prize win ning exhibit for the 1915 East | Oregon that are today working sooner the whole county will Clackamas County Fair all due | to obtain shipping yards with prosper. j regular buying o f livestock and care n o w ? ______ Estacada’s auto parade o f last | this section is especially fortun Monday brought out a large The Progress would like to ate in having such facilities al enough number o f machines to chronicle a resume of the road ready. building in this part of the coun While the backers o f the local warrant Eastern Clackamas in ty in the past five years, i f some yards and the buyers are well believing that it is entitled to “ a local statistician will figure out pleased with the present steady smell” o f that $1600. of road oil the number o f miles o f newly growth o f the business, they hope ing m o n e y ._______ graded, graveled or rocked roads that the growth will continue. Ladies Make Money and their costs that have been A t an early date, it would be a The total receipts o f the C. I. built in this enterprising part of wise move for the residents of C. from their cafeteria in the the county. _______ the various tributary districts to park on the 5th were $54. of There are reports current of a get together, that is cooperate which about $27. is net. Added slight antagonism being shown as far as possible in each locality to this will be the rental obtained from their piano in the pavilion. against the Estacada stock yards in fattening their stock at the The ladies o f the Christian same time, thereby assuring a and the selling of livestock on Church through their serving of sufficient quantity at one time the hoof. dinners took in over $65., the It is to be hoped that this feel for shipping. At present, a num majority o f which is profit, as ing will not grow, for tha future ber o f farmers have been forced the large part o f their supplies of this part of Clackamas county, to butcher owing to the buyer’s were donated. In the adding to the treasuries like other parts of the state is de delay in obtaining a full carload of these organizations no one for shipment. pendent upon the building up of Full allowance is made at this needs to feel that they contribut the Estacada yards, with the ed in any way in the form o f a time for the high price of grain charity, for the dinners served handling of all livestock on the hoof, instead o f home butchering for fattening and the consequent by the local women were easily tendency to sell immature hogs, worth double the amount asked and selling. and for home cooking at that. The Progress will not attempt but as livestock and especially to argue the question of relative returns to the grower from sell ing pork dressed or on the hoof, as that matter has been demon- stated in favor o f the latter meth od a number of times, but for the farmer who does not take into consideration his labor in the kill ing and dressing and the cost o f selling, possibly there is a larger profit in selling the dressed meat. One important matter must be considered and that is the pres ent and future growth of the live stock and the hog raising indust ry locally. It will be but a very short time before the city o f Port land, which now represents the Proven, practical value appeals to the buyer dressed meat market, will be of a motor car. More than 700,000 satisfied come over supplied, as has been Ford owners prove the practical qualities the case in the marketing of oth of Ford cars. In town or county, in the er products, such as strawberries professions or on the farms, for business or and similar produce that cannot pleasure, the Forh s r v e s everybody. An stand distant shipping. average allowance of two cents a mile keeps Portland is not equipped today with first class refrigerating fa it going. It’s cheaper than walking. cilities, that is, on a sufficient Buyers will share in profits i f we sell at retail scale to handle more than the 300,000 new Ford cars between August 1914 immediate supply of meat and and August 1915. it is not likely such facilities will Touring Car $565; Runabout $515. be added. Within a year the grower o f On display and sale by swine will have to adopt the up- Estacada, Oregon. J . W . K fc. E . D to-date methods current in the middle west and other livestock raising sections, o f selling all J Pay by Check The majority o f the people o f Estacada and surrounding country are now Paying by Check on the Estacada State Bank UROY D. WALKER. IIIOW AS Y O tlM . President Vite President IRWIN D. WRIGHT, C ashie r Interest paid on time deposits I Pay Highest Cash on Delivery Prices For Hogs - Sheep - Cattle I shall aim to ship a carload of livestock from the Estacada Stock Yards at least every other Monday noon. Stock must be delivered at yards by 11 A . M. on shipping date. I shall spend certain days in each month buying stock throughout East ern Clackamas County, and if you have any to sell, pnone to R. M. Stan dish at Estacada and he will quote prices and g ive date of next shipment. C. E. LUCKE Livestock Buyer. Don’t Throw Away An expensive granite dish Because it leaks A t a cost of a few cents it can be Repaired and Guaranteed Bring in all o f your Leaky Tin or Gran ite Ware and let me Mend Them. C . C . M ILLE R ' Electric Wiring Estacada, Plum bing - Saw Filing Oregon.