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PURE TIN YIELDEIT
BY GOLD HILL MINE
Oregon’ s “ Mystery White
Metal” Is Identified.
INDIANS GAINING
J MAKING CURTAINS
IN SELF-RELIANCE
TO FIT WINDOWS
Redmen Now Grapple With Use Yardstick for Accurate
Measurements.
Own Problems.
Spokane, \Va*h.—The Puelfle north
west Imjlun, treated once us un enemy
of the white man und since his subju
gation us a ward, is assuming a self
reliant role us u consequence of a
movement Inaugurated by the red uiun
himself.
I’uul G. Wuputo, full-blood Ameri
can Indian, Is the moving spirit In the
trabsformatlou.
The crusade bud its Inception In
the seizure of control of the north
west lndiun congress by the new gen
eration of Indians following a plea
by Wuputo for uullied thought and ac
tion uuiuiig tils race. The coup swept
him into the presidency, formerly held
by a wlilte mull, and curried through
a set of declarations voicing the de
mands of the younger generation.
Since tbut time Wuputo, who Is
frankly luiputlent of the story book,
moving picture, Wild West Idea of the
Indian, has been inducing the tribes
of tlie Pacific northwest to form us
sociulions on their various reserva
tlons for the discussion of problems
und reaching of agreement us to sug
gested remedies.
There Inis been too much complain
ing against the wrongs the Indians
have suffered at the hands of white
men, he believes, und not enough effort
ou the part of the Indians to Improve
their condition.
It Is his hope that by the time the
next Indian congress convenes in
September the various tribes will have
agreed on definite und concrete pro
posuls for settlement of their prob
lems Instead of sitting by while rep
resentatives of the Indian bureau und
others discuss them from the white
man's point of view.
Wuputo, left ou ills own resources
at tlie uge of thirteen by the deutli of
his father, worked his way through
tlie Wenatchee high school und Willa
mette university, where he studied
law. Ills brother. Paschal Sherman,
who holds a number o f college de
grees, is an employee of tlie war-risk
department ut Washington.
Portland, Ore.—Pure tin is being
extracted from the rock9 near Gold
Hill, in the Hogue River vulley. That
the white metal is tin has been at
tested by assay era in San Francisco,
Denver and other places.
“ We have demonstrated that we
have tin.
We have the mine from
which the tin came. We have put all
our resources into the development
to date. Now we want to know
whether Portland wants to develop
a new Industry or whether we must
look elsewhere.”
Such Is the statement made by E.
F. Logan and E. S. Erskine, ex-resi
dents of Bend, who are In the city
to submit their discovery to the Port
land Chamber of Commerce.
Have No Doubts.
Much has been written about the
“ mystery white metal” around Grants
Pass Some maintain it Is tin and
others express doubts. There is no
doubt in the minds of Messrs. Logan
and Erskine, for they have the con
crete exldence and the scientific re
ports. These visitors represent the
group of men owning the Golden Cross
mine, which Is three miles out In
Sam’s valley, north of Gold Hill, and
more specifically located on Payne’s
gulch through which runs Payne’s
creek, emptying into Hogue river.
M. D. Jackson, prospector, now sev
enty-six, discovered the mine, having
been grubstaked by Logan, then em
ployed building a logging railroad for
one o f the big sawmill companies of
Bend.
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“ For seven years we worked it as a
gold mine,” said Mr. Logan. “ We fig
ured we had a large body of ore. The
vein is 35 feet wide 3,000 feet long,
and we don’t know how deep. Two
years ago Glen Spurlin. who had
worked In Australia and was familiar
with tin, came to us. lie told us that
our rock contained tin, and we thought
he w’as kidding. He rigged up a fur
nace and proved it by recovering but
tons which were tested and found to
be tin.
All Showed Tin.
“ In two years these tin buttons
have been carried away by many peo
ple and whenever they have been
tested they showed tin. We have built
n laboratory and complete equipment.
W e do not cook rock In kitchen stoves
or blacksmith forges, but in a reg
ular assayer’s furnace. It is done in
the approved scientific method.
We
have produced between fifty and sixty
pounds of tin.
Some of the bars,
which we have refined, show analysis
of 98 per cent pure tin. Not one, but
several assayers have given certificates
to that effect. The ore will average
G per cent tin.
“ The ore In our mine Is different
form other rock from which buttons of
metal said to be tin have been ex
tracted.
“ There Is no question whatever ns
to the Identity o f our metal. It Is tin.
W e have proved that and are willing
to prove it to any one. We would ap
preciate if the Chamber of Commerce
o f Portland or the State Chamber of
Commerce would come or send repre
sentatives to our property and at first
hand inform themselves ns to the pos
sibilities o f developing it.”
Berkeley, Calif.—A theory
that
blue clouds that defy analysis float
about the planet Mars was announced
recently by W. II. Wright astronomer
at Lick observatory.
Wright has been experimenting with
color photography as an aid to the
usual method o f studying planets.
lie snld that although observers
had noted the varying color of clouds
on Mars previously, they had never
attributed It to a difference in struc-
tme.
ills latest observations with
color screens convinced him, however,
that there are two types of clouds In
the Martian atmosphere, one prob
ably white, hut appearing yellow be
cause of tlie absorbing effect o f tlie
planet's atmosphere, and tlie blue
clouds, which float at a higher altitude
Tlie yellow, or white, clouds Wright
styled water vapor clouds. lie has
been unable to determine tlie exact
nature o f tlie blue clouds, hut he ex
pressed belief that much of tlie prom
inence of tlie planet's polar caps was
due to a blue cloud floating over
them.
Convict Costs England
Thirty Pounds Yearly
Grinds Plate Glass
to Make Telescope
London.— Prisoners In British pris
ons are mostly under sentence either
o f hard labor or penal servitude. They
work, on an average, seven hours a
day.
They make mats, mailbags,
brushes, mops, shoes. They are car
penters,
stonemasons,
bricklayers,
painters, plumbers and so on.
Vet the value of their yearly work
Is low, varying in different prisons
from £14 yearly a person up to a
maximum o f about £24. The average
Is somewhere about £17, n sum which
does not even cover the cost of a
prisoner's food. So the unfortunate
taxpayer has to shell out rather more
than £30 n year for each o f the thou
sands of Inmates of English local and
convict prisons.
Sixty years ago many of the pris
ons w’ere self-supporting.
The big
prison at Wakefield used to make a
handsome profit out of Its mats. The
average number of prisoners was oon
and the profits ran to between ffi.ooo
and £7.000 n year.
In those days the cloth for prison
uniforms was woven In prisons, stock
ings were knitted, furniture was
made, and nil sorts o f trades carried
on.
Nowadays the prisons make
nothing that cannot he used by the
post office, admiralty, or other gov-
ernmonf departments.
Goose Quill Thrives
Among Paris Writers
Paris.—The typewriter today is
generally accepted by American au
thors as the quickest and most satis
factory
method of setting their
thoughts on paper. But in France,
where art is still spelled with n capi
tal letter, much of the literary output
Is from quill pens. The go«*o quill
is n standard nrtMe at stationery
stores.
The Im portan t of quills came to
light recently when a newsjiaper eon-
ducted a campaign among writers to
discover whether they were music
lovers. Many of the literary people
asserted that to their ears the sweet
est music was the squeaiklng of their
quill pens
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m e n t o f A s r lc u lt u r e .)
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Ilefure you buy your material it is
a wise precaution to draw to scale
the window to he curtained. Use a
yardstick or folding ruler, us u tup«-
llne may stretch, resulting lu inac
curate measurements. Note the exact
dimensions of the window on your
drawing, and also the width of tlie
trim and apron. Then sketch in light
ly the kind of curtains yuu wish to
have and decide whether or not they
ure suited to that type of window.
If the window is very broad, you may
not need a valance, since Unit empha
sizes tlie horizontal lines; if (lie
window Is narrow and high, a valance
and side draperies set fur over ut the
edge of tlie trim will help to correct
its proportions.
Let us assume that you are going
to make glass curtains of scrim, mar
quisette or net, with side draperies
and a fathered valance of cretonne,
unlined. Following directions given
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, you will probably begin
with tlie glass curtains. They lire to
Finds Mystery Cloud
Floats About Mars j
Fremont, Neb.— With a section of
stovepipe and a piece of plate glass,
Gilbert Luenlnghoener, student nt
Midland college, has made a power
ful telescope.
It took him ten months. lie fash
ioned tlie glnss Into n parabolic
mirror, tlie most important part of the
Instrument, by more than 100 hours
o f grinding, polishing and figuring,
in tlie flnal polishing he effaced, by
hand. Irregularities of less than one-
hundred thousandth of an Inch. lie
took a piece of ten-inch stovepipe and
painted It black and wlilte to make
tlie barrel o f tlie telescope. Except
for a right-angle prism and an eye
piece, tlie whole Instrument Is hand
made.
Tlie device has a magnifying power
o f liO diameters—strong enough to en
nlde Its maker to study four sntel
lltes o f Jupiter, tlie crescent of Venus,
the rings o f Saturn, tlie Orion nebula
and the topography o f tlie Moon
the curtains, an irregular line is seen
Inside the hem. A tuck should be
taken Just below tlie casing to allow
for shrinkage when tlie curtain is
laundered. Hems look better when
put In by hand rather than by ma
chine stitching, and will not draw. If
there are many curtains to be made,
however, muclilne stitching is advis
able.
Skimpy side draperies are not at
tractive.
Cretonne is usually 30
inches wide, and you will need a
length tlie full width o f material for
euch side. Fifty-inch mnterlul may
sometimes he split lengthwise and
finished with an extension hem. In
estimating tlie length o f tlie side dra
peries, measure from the top or mid
dle o f tlie upper trim to the bottom
of the apron and add 9 inches for
hern, casing and shrinkage. If there
is a decided pattern in tlie material,
you must see that tlie pattern balances
on each side before the material is
cut. A little extra yardage may have
to be allowed for matching patterns.
Measure and cut tlie side draperies
with the same cure as in making tlie
glass curtains. Slip the selvedges nt
Intervals o f 3 or 4 Inches or trim them
off. Turn a hem 1 ’» inches on tlie
lengthwise edges and n 2 or 3-Inch
hern nt the bottom. Make a cnslng
at tlie top for the rod to run through,
since there is to be a valance.
Tlie valance when finished is usual
ly one sixth o f tlie lengtli o f the fin
ished side draperies. Ilem, bending
and casing allowances are milled to
tills depth In calculating the material
required. Tlie length o f the valance
across the window is one nnd a half
times the width o f the window and
side trim If tlie valance is gathered,
twice that much If It Is plaited. Make
the valance in tlie same way as the
curtains.
Throe rods will be needed for hang
ing these curtains, since the valance
nnd side draperies should not be hung
on the same rod. Tlie glnss curtain
must he set closer to tlie window than
the other hangings. The neatness
nnd genera! attractiveness of the fin
ished curtains will depend on the way
they nre hung. Solid round rods
which fit Into sockets nre desirable
for glnss curtains. Flat or round rods
may he used for the overdrnperles.
All curtains should he pressed when
finished.
Avoid making crosswise
folds in them, or any unnecessary
lengthwise creases.
Organdy Appears Again
as Material for Frocks
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Measure
With Care When
Curtains.
Making
be shirred on a rod without a heading,
ns tlie valance hides the top of them.
The measurement for their width Is
taken on the plan drawn to scale, on
the part of tlie trim nearest the glass.
Allow twice the width of the window
In
soft
materials — almost
two
breadttis, usually. They should lie
Just long enough to escape the sill.
Glnss curtains may have lieius from
to 3 Inches wide nt the front and
lower edges, nnd ‘¿-Inch hem on the
outside. A common rule Is to add 9
Inches to the length of any finished
curtain for hems, heading, and shrink
age, hut since tlie glass curtains are
to bo run on rods through a cnslng nt
tlie top, without a heading, 2 Inches
less may be allowed.
Knch curtain length should he meas
ured nnd checked before any material
Is cut off. Before cutting, draw
threuds If possible to provide an ac
curate guide. Trim ofT all selvedges
nnd put In the side hems, then the top
and bottom hems. They should nil be
turned under the depth of the hem.
Otherwise when light shines through
Chicago.—A 20 per cent in
crease in the yield o f farm lands
lias been obtained through the
use o f atmospheric electricity
ns n stimulant to crops, says a
report made by a committee of
the American Electronic He
search association.
Observations nre being made
on the farm o f Henry Surlier
of Wnrrenton, Mo., one of the
first to claim an Incrense In
crops from applying electric
stimulant. The method also Is
being used to cure cancerous
vegetable growths.
The method used 1« merely
discharging electricity through
die ground at tlie roots o f the
plants, using wires nnd a device
which catches the electric cur
rents from the air It ts widely
used in France with success, the
report stated.
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Organdy is a fabric that has almost
heea forgotten. Its revival tills year :
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Is In part due to Interest in fluffy, full- |
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skirted dresses in delicate shades nnd
both in Estacada and Portland that will save time and money
flowered patterns for young girls’
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party frocks, afternoon dresses, and
summer evening wear generally. It
Is made In such colors ns pink, peach,
orchid, nlle, blue, nnd maize, both
plain nnd in floral designs.
The textile division o f the bureau of
Municipal Terminal, Sixth and Salmon Sts.— Phone Main 7733.
home economics, United States De
LINN’S INN, Estacada, Oregon.— DAILY
partment o f Agriculture, calls atten
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tion to the pleasing qualities o f or
A U. P.M. P.M.
•A.M. M. P.M. P.M. P.M.
gandy as a fabric for summer nfter-
Lv. Portland
1:00 6:20 Lv. Estacad» 8:00
4 30
8:80
noons and evenings. It is sheer and
Clackamas
3:30 6:50
Eagle Creek 8:15
4 45 8:45
cool, yet has a crispness that remains
Carver
3:40 7:00
Barton
8:35
5
5
4
8:65
after laundering. It can be washed
Barton
8 : OS 7:25
Carver
8 : 45
6 15 8:15
at home successfully.
Full-skirted
Eagle Creek
3:15 7:35
Clackamas 8:51
5 25
8:35
Estacada
3:30 7:50 Ay. Portland
fashions nre recommended for devel
8:30
6 00 10:00
opment In organdy, with trimmings of
•Dolly except Bunday
(A) Saturday Only.
inserted bands rather than ruffles.
SUNDAY— Leave Portlaad 10
Leave Estacada 4:30 p. m.
Shaded effects can be produced by
combining two or more colors in var
n filB I IIIIIIE IIIIIlIZ IIB II IE IIIII lIia S IB IlIfilC B IllE ir
ious ways. Slips of baronet satin or
other rayon fabrics are good under
organdy because o f their sheen nnd
the fact they are also washable. Or
gandy trimmings for other cotton ma
terials nre effective, as, for example,
bands o f organdy with tissue gingham,
■
or collar nnd cuff sets o f organdy, or
matching lints. Organdy Is also rec
ommended for dainty bedroom cur
talus and lamp-shades.
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Stuffed Pepper, Celery, String Beans and Fried Eggplant Make a Good Com-
bination.
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m en t o f A g r ic u lt u r e .)
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When vegetables constitute a large
portion of a meal or when one is serv
ing the type o f dinner sometimes
I called a "vegetable plate,” attention
must lie given to variety and contrast
both In flavor nnd texture.
There
should be nt least one hearty kind,
j that Is, one that contains a rather
high proportion of protein and starch,
either In the vegetable Itself or In the
j other foods combined with It. Milk,
cheese and eggs are often used In
| sauces on vegetables nnd add to the
proportion o f protein. There should
be also something crisp, something
soft, something mlld-ttavored, some
thing acid, nnd nt least one pro
nounced flavor to give zest to the en
tire romhination.
There should he
enough richness In the seasoning of
(he vegetables or the way they are
cooked to make them substantial
OOOOOOOOOODOOÍKKXKKHKHKKÍO enough for the main course at dinner.
This can he obtained by the use of
butter or cream or by frying one vege
table. Much-needed minerals and vita-
mines nre supplied by most o f the veg
etables. Give some thought, too, to
the colors that will predominate on
the plate. An attractive appearance
stimulates appetite.
The vegetable plate In the illustra
tion, which was taken by the United
States Department o f Agriculture, ful
fills the foregoing requirements. Green
pepper, stuffed with a rice and meat
mixture, Is substantial. Celery Is crisp
In texture and has a pronounced fla
vor. Fried eggplant adds richness as
well ns another distinctive flavor, and
Its browned crumbs add to the color
as well as to the “cruBchlness” of the
vegetables. String beans will be liked
as a contrast to the other flavors, and
there Is a hit o f pickle to furnish the
necessary acid which rounds off the
dinner.
LET US TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT.
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