ESTACADA PROGRESS
Devoted to the Interests of Eastern Cjaek^ii^y U t^ ty
V olume 9,
N umber 4
TO CONSIDER CO-OPERATIVE
SHIPPING
Growers To Be Guests Of
Railway Company
Last Monday afternoon in Port­
land, final ar angements were
perfected between the Portland
Railway Light & Power Com­
pany’s officials, Pres. W. H.
Daughtreyof the Portland Union
Stock Yards ar.d the editor oT the
Estacada Progress for the calling
o f a meeting of all local growers
to perfect a plan for the co-oper­
ative shipping of livestock from
the Estacada Stock Yards.
Negotiations along this line
have been under wa' for several
weeks, as all parties concerned
have realized the need of this
form of direct marketing.
The railway company in pursu­
ance of their policy of working
for the upbuilding of their traffic
and the development of this trib­
utary country, has planned a
novel ga.strynomically programed
meeting, which will take place at
the Hotel Estacada, Saturday
noon, at 12 o ’clock sharp with all
growers of livestock as their
guests at luncheon.
The invitation is hereby ex­
tended to all farmers who are in­
terested in the bettering of live­
stock marketing conditions to be
present at this luncheon, one
week from next Saturday!
In order that Mgr. Lauryy, of
the Estacada Hotel, may know
the number of guests to arrange
for, all parties contemplating ac­
cepting this invitation are re­
quested to notify R. M. Standish
or the Estacada Progress at once.
This meeting is to be an in­
formal one, and after all stom­
achs are well filled and amjd the
fumes of good cigars, a general
discussion of the question at hand
will be taken up, with Special
Agent C. N. McAlister of the
Portland Union Stock Yards as
speaker.
Pres. Daughtrey of
the Portland Union Stock Yards
is vitally interested in this mar­
keting problem and has instruct­
ed Mr. McAlister to remain in
this territory Yor the balance of
the winter if necessary to perfect
proper marketing plans.
As the seating and eating ca­
pacity of the Estacada Hotel is
limited, you should make your
reservation at once. While this
meeting is supposedly for the
men, any members of the fairer
sex, who are interested in the
subject and who can stand for a
heavy lunch and an hour or twos
inhalation of cigar smoke, are
welcome.
E stacada , O regon ,
Eastern Clackamas Tr iumphs
T hurs
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Arm Amputa ed
Ernest Hoff m 'isrer of Eagle
The Estacada High school foot- 1
Creek, who was shoi. in the left
ball team is not taking upon it­
arm about two weeks ago and
self any great amount of credit "
has since been at the Good Sa­
for winning its game against the
nta, ican Hospital in IVr lard,
Cahby High school last Saturday
underwent an operation last Fri­
afternoon, as their antagonists
day resulting in the amputation
were a lighter team, with slight
of the injured member.
football knowledge or experience.
The doctors had hoped to save
The final score was 102 to 0 in
the arm, but after careful X-ray
favor of Estacada. The Can by
examinations, it was ascertained
boys last year essayed to play the
that 105 pellets of No. 6 shot
game, but without the services
were embedded in the flesh and
of a coach were able to master
that owing to severed arteries
only the rudiments of the game
all circulation was stopped.
and even under the training of a
While Ernest is still at the hos­
coach this year, they apparently
pital, he will probably return to
have made little progress.
his home in a few days.
The contest offered good prac­
tice for Estacada, especially in
New Bank at County Seat
the working of trick and fake-
plays but the easy winning should
The announcement has been
made of the proposed founding
not lead the locals to expect e-
of a new state bank at Oregon
qual success when they tackle
City. The promotion of this in­
the strong St Johns team at Es­
stitution and the management of
tacada next Saturday.
the bank, is in charge of Leroy
From Saturday’s scores it looks
D. Walker of Portland.
as though Estacada should easily
Mr. Walker is well known lo­
cally, being the president of the
win the county championship this
Estacada State Bank, as well as
year, for Oregon City was beaten
being identified with the banks
by Jefferson High’s second team
at Canby and Mollalla.
of Portland, and Gresham was
defeated by Camas.
Soil Acidity Ascertained
A big bunch of rooters should
County Fruit Inspector, P. F.
be present at next Saturday’s
Standish of Garfield for the past
game to boost for the home team
two weeks has been working
against the St Johns aggregation.
with an instrument and series of
tests, which determine the a-
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cidity of any soil.
Last week there occurred an­
In conjunction with Prin. Guth­
other example of the unreason­
rie of the Estacada School, they
ableness of some growers. A
have already tested some of the
farmer came to Estacada with a
soil in the school gardens and
load of apples, managed to sell a
found that a medium acidity is
few boxes to the local merchants
present.
at 60c each, then paid his sub­
All farmers realize the detri­
scription with two boxes, dis­
mental effects of this acidity and
posed of several boxes more di­
its presence has not been hard to
rect to the consumer, who ordi­
determine, but with this newest
narily buys from the merchants
testing outfit, the proportion of
and rather than to carry the bal­
acidity is found, and from charts
ance home, gave them away.
used, the exact quantity of lime
Growers must make allowance
to be mixed with the soil to offset
for the fact that Estacada has a
it, is shown.
limited population, consuming on­
It will no longer be necessary
for a farmer to guess as to the
ly a small part of the produce
amount of lime needed, after the
grown nearby and the merchants
soil has been tested with this in­
in refusing to buy more than e-
strument.
nough for early disposal are mere­
M r. Standish contemplates
ly acting as wise business men.
making extensive private tests
These same merchants would
through the state this fall and
winter.
gladly buy every article offered,
if they could see where they
Seating Capacity Increased
could dispose of same and many
of them would buy the stock if
Mgr. A. E. Sparks of the Es­
tacada Family Theatre has this
they could break even, in order
week purchased and installed
to help the grower. But it is
one hundred additional folding
hardly fair to sell the merchant
chairs for use in the theatre.
at one price, then sell direct to
Mr. Sparks is also arranging
his customers at a lower figure
for a betterment in his film ser­
and finally kill the demand by
vice and hopes to be able to soon
present the Cines-Kline pictures.
giving away the produce.
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17,390 Lb ». C f Ho, s
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Buyer Lucke loaded and shi] -
ped a carload of hogs from the
Estacada Stock Yards last Mo, -
day. The car contained 105 head,
weighii g 17,390 lbs, for which
the growers were paid $1153.36.
Arrangements have been made
to ship another carload from the
local yards, Wednesday, October
20th.
Herewith, growers are notified
that R. M. Standish is no longer
acting as agent for Buyer Lucke,
but W. Givens of Tracy & Givens
has agreed to make memorandum
of all stock for sale.
The Progress feels that the
present marketing arrangements
are not adequate to satisfy the
demands of the local growers, as
Buyer Lucke cannot afford to in­
spect and buy all livestock offered
in this territory, owing to the dis­
tances to be covered and the vari­
ety of stock from “ tops” to poor
grades. But some outlet must be
furnished for the marketing of
these inferior animals and co-op­
erative shipping appears to be
the only solution.
The Progress for some time
past has been working to arrange
for such co-operative marketing
and elsewhere on this page will
be found an announcement of
the plans.
The clubbing together and ship­
ping of livestock by the growers
direct, is in no way interfering
with Buyer Lucke’s work, rather
facilitating and helping him, and
if perfected, will be of great ben­
efit to the individual growers.
Flax Mill To Be Built
The promoters of the flax rais­
ing industry in the northern part
of Clackamas County and nearby
Willamette Valley country, have
announced plans to erect a $50,000
plant near Oregon City, for the
handling of this product, provid­
ing the necessary*acreage can be
obtained for the planting.
Fish Liberation
Supt. Perry Kitzmiller of the
Eagle Creek T r o u t Feeding
Ponds, with the cooperation of
Supt. Benson of the River Mill
Hatchery has this week been
keeping all Estacada autos and
farmers’ vehicles busy, escorting
the cans of trout fry from the
ponds and hatchery to the near­
by streams. The machines of
Messrs. Underwood and Reed
have already volunteered their
share of labor and Estacada men
generally have helped with the
work.