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About Forest Grove press. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1909-1914 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1910)
Missionaries Get T erse Story Wanderings in Arctic, burned areas reseeded . Forest Service Men Plant Larch and Pine Near Bear Creek. Wallowa— Local officers o f the For- set service have begun to plant 45 acres of an old burned area on the headwaters o f Bear ereek to European larch and Scotch pine. They are using the seed-spot method. In all over 300 acres have been planted in the Wal lowa national forest this year, but all but the Bear Creek burn are in areas burned over this year. The Bear Creek burn, which is seve ral years old, is on the watershed of W allowa’s water supply and as it has not reforested from natural sources, the forest service has resorted to arti ficial means to better protect the store house for the c ity ’s summer supply of water. The method used consists of digging seed spots six feet apart each way and planting the tree seeds. While the loss of seed in this manner is a very large percentage, it is considered one o f the most economical ways of refor esting burned over areas. The work is under the direction of Supervisor H. W . Harris, and six men are employed. W A Y T O IM PR O V E ROADS. What is Known as “ Splitlog Being Introduced. Drag" Portland— The Pacific Highway asso ciation is sending out information in regard to the operation and construc tion of the “ K in g D rag” or “ Split Log D rag” for the immediate improve ment o f road conditions on the Pacific Coast. This information has been sent to every county commissioner in the counties o f the state o f California, Oregon and Washington, through which the proposed Pacific highway will pass, in order to put this inexpensive meth od o f road improvement into wider fields, not alone for the Pacific High way but for general thoroughfares. Great encouragemnet is being con stantly afforded the Pacific Highway association in this endeavor to better the road conditions, especially by the Seattle Automobile club, which at its last meeting voted to affiliate and financially assist the P. H. A. Railroad Reaches Butte Falls. Cottage Grove— The Pacific & East ern railroad has reached Butte Falls. The last bridge was crossed Sunday and work will be rapid from this time on until the line is ready for use to the timber city. The road is planning to inaugurate a regular train service to Butte Falls as early as possible. In all probabil ity an excursion w ill be run in the near future, givin g all an opportunity of inspecting the new line. The Pacific & Eastern belongs to the Hill people and consists o f 30 miles of standard track between Medford and Butte Falls. The line is surveyed and ready for grading from Butte Falls to a point on the main line of the Oregon Trunk coming down’ the Deschutes country. of Chicago— Dr. Frederick A. Cook is TAXABLE LAND $9,500,000. further discredited in a special cable _ ‘ dispat:h to the Chicago Daily News Benton County Richer by $2,000,000 f rom its correspondent in Copenhag- Than Year Ago. en- Denmark. Corvallis__The t » » *„11 . D . The story ' 8 the first publication of countv / Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. is made up and will as sent by him to his w ife in Copen- soon be turned over to the proper offi- j hagen, and now given out by her. cals. The figures show the total taxa- [ t^ontained in the story are purported ble property in the countv is $9 500 - statements of Cook’s two Eskimo corn- 000. ’ ’ j Panlons in the Polar quest, Itukusuk T’, , . “ nd Apilak, in which they confirm , * niA a'amount for 1909 was $7,- Commander Robert E. Peary’s charge onn '7 ’ “ n.lncrease of over $2,000,- that Cook traveled in a circle and ooo. ihis increase comes from an in- never even approached the Pole, crease in the assessment of railroad Rasmussen, in the story, is quoted timber and speculative holdings, as saying he did not himself interview 1 hese properties heretofore have been the man, but that their statements assessed a very low figure and in some ! were taken by the Rev. Gustav Olsen places were never assessed. The sev- and Kateket Sechmann Rosebach, mis eral items as shown are as follows! sionaries. Tillable land. $2,249,900; non-tilla- The dispatch to the Daily News ble land, $4,002,976; farm improve says: ments, $356,375; town lots, $1,191,- “ Already in 1909 when I was on an 545; improvements on town lots, $466,- expedition to Greenland,” writes Ras 075; machinery, etc., $67,060; mer mussen, “ there existed grave doubts chandise, etc., $184,355; shares of as to whether Dr. Cook really had Btock, $51,540; farm implements, reached the Pole, so I determined to $48,675; household furniture, $78,- find out from his two Eskimo compan 905; horses and mules, $166,870; cat ions, I secured their statements tle, $60,130; sheep and goats, $13,188; through the missionaries.” swine, $3,845; dogs, $1,075; total, This is the story o f the Eskimos, as $8,960,514. Railroads and public util given in the dispatch: ities, $540. “ We traveled from Annatook with Grand total, $9,500,514. eight sledges in company with Dr. Cook, at the first sunshine, February. From there to Ellsmere we slept RAILROADS RUN A T LOSS. only once on the ice. .It took four days to cross Ellsmere land. Eighteen Pacific & Eastern Report Shows days out our companions left us. We Deficit o f $16,400. then had gone only about 12 English miles from land. Salem— Deficit in railroad operation “ The ice was fine and there was no is shown by the annual report of the reason to stop, for anyone who wanted Pacific Eastern which has just been to go on could do so. The 19th day filed with the state railroad commis Dr. Cook took observations with an sion. The income account and operat instrument he held in his hand and we ing revenue show a deficit, net, of then changed our course westward. $15,400.23. The total operating reve “ We left here a lot o f food for men nues are reported as $9,557.69. and dogs and one o f us went ahead to D. M. Rohibrough, of Aurora, has examine the ice. He reported it in complained to the commission that he good shape, ^which it was, but Dr. Cook shipped an emigrant car from Burley, looked at it and said it was bad. Idaho, to Newberg, Or., and he was “ On they way back we stopped at told the charge would be $128, but open water near the land. We stopped when the car arrived he was charged one day and went over to Ringnas is $198, he alleges. He asks the commis land before the snow had melted sion to determine if he can be rebated (A p ril). for an overcharge in this case. “ One day I (Apilak) came upon Dr. Thomas A. Jenson, of Portland, com Cook sitting down and drawing a map. plains that he shipped a piano from I looked at it and asked him: ‘ Whose Watertown, S. D., to Portland and route are you drawing?’ was charged $37.34 for the shipment. “ ‘ My own,’ replied Dr. Cook. This rate, he asserts, is an outrage. “ But that was a lie, because he drew the map a long way out at sea, where he had never been. PORTLAND MARKETS. “ We continued to shoot bears on the ice, until we had enough for the dogs. Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem. We do not know how many nights we 77® 78c; club, 75c; red Russian, 73c; slept on this part of the journey. The small rivers had only begun to break valley, 78c; 40-fold, 76c. when we reached H ell’s Gate. Barley— Feed, $20®20.50 per ton. “ Here as Dr. Cook directed, we left Millstuffs— Bran, $25 per ton; mid dlings, $33; shorts, $27; rolled barley, our dogs behind, although they were fat from the bear meat. We had $24® 25. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il crossed the great sound and had to lamette valley, $19(0.20 per ton; East push our boat along the ice. “ Dr Cook said: ‘ We will reach ern Oregon, $21(822; alfalfa, new, $15 human beings (Baffinsland) within two @16; grain hay, $14. Corn— Whole, $31; cracked, $32 ton. days. ’ " W e had slept twice when he looked Oats— White, $27(828 per ton. Poultry— Hens, 17c; springs, 15c; ahead and said he saw a tent, but it We kept hunting ducks, white, 16c; geese, 11 c; tur was only a stone. keys, live, 20c; dressed, 23@25c; for human beings a long time. Then we came to an island on which eider squabs, $2 per dozen. Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, 40c; birds were resting. We followed the current receipts, 38c; Eastern, 30®.32c land past Cape Sparbo and when our per dozen. provisions were nearly gone we re- Butter— City creamery, solid pack, turned toward Cape Zeddon, where we 36c per pound; prints, 3 7 @ 3 7 *c; out- arranged for wintering, side creamery, 35®.36c; butter fat, " I t was yet twilight the whole night 36c- country store butter, 24® 25c. »nd we built a house of peat and stone, just as we do at home. We caught Pork— Fancy, 12@12^c per pound. Veal— Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 12>i walrus, musk ox and bear for winter. It was a fine autumn and we had made @13c per pound. Apples— King, 40@75c per box; provisions for the winter. During the W olf River, 75c<ffi$l; Waxen, 85c® dark time we were inside most o f the $1.25; Baldwin, 76c@$1.26; Northern time making clothes ” 100,000 Acres Will Be Reclaimed Crescent— Actual work o f reclaiming several thousand acres o f land near Crescent will be inaugurated early in the spring. A ll the necessary survey ing has been completed. Some 100,000 acres o f land will be irrigated with water to be ttgjcen from Crescent and Fish lakes. The project, it is understood, ‘ is fathered by the Hunter Land company, o f Portland, who own about half o f the land affect ed. The rest w ill be watered in con junction with the government reclam ation service. About 100 miles of canal will be required. A ll the land Spy, 75 c® $1.25; Snow, $1.25® 1.50; lies west o f Crescent, and it now is i Spitzenberg, $1.25(82; W inter Ba covered for the most part, with black j nanas, $1.75(83.50. pine. The country is said to have Green Fruits—Pears, $1.25®2 per great promise as a dairying region. box; grapes, $1.15(81.25; 17,‘■ic per basket; cranberries, $8.50®9 per bar One Teasel-G row er Left. rel; quinces, $1(81.25 per box; huckle Oregon City— W ith the sale o f the berries, 6 ® 8 c per pound; persimmons, Samuel E. Gregory farm, at Carus, $1.85 per box. Vegetables — Beans, 1 0 @ llc per there remains only one teasel grower in Clackamas county. He is George pound; cabbage, J i@ lc ; cauliflower, 40c®$1 per dozen; celery, 50®80c; E. Gregory, at Molalla. ___. Gregory brothers came here 15 years pumpkins, 1(81 ‘ i c Per pound; sprouts, ago, and George Gregory bought the j fta gc; squash, 1 ® l X e ; tomatoes, 50@ teasel farm o f J. N. Sawtell, at Mo- 60c per box: carrots, $1(81.25 hun- lalla. S. E. Gregory has just dis- <jred; parsnips. $1@1.25; turnips, $1. posed of his ranch, 57 acres, with the Onions— Oregon, buying price, $1.10 buildings and 25 acres o f timber, to per hundred. Noah Christner, o f Eugene, for $150 j Hops — 1910 crop, 12@14c 1909, When the winds of bleak N ovem ber Dozen the chimney moan and sigh. Stirring into life each ember Till the flames roar fierce and high Then my thoughts revert to boyhood. When Thanksgiving Day drew nigh. In the flames I see the farmhouse. A n d the woodland brown and sere Where the sportsman’s rifle echoed A s that day of days drew near. Scenes which ever shall be cherished In the burning logs appear. J I can see the deep old cellar Where the apple bins, piled high. Overshadowed heaps of pumpkins Golden as the sunset sky, A n d the casks of new fall cider Stood along the wall close by. As the old-time scenes are fading While the fire slowly dies. Visions of a groaning table A r e presented to my eyes. A n d I almost scent the fragrance O f the mince and pumpkin pies. KEEPING THE FEAST TRUE MEANING OF LESSON THANKSGIVING. OF Should Be Time of Rejoicing for All, Those Who Have Abundance Sharing With Their Lees Fortunate Brethren. » Include those for whom the day would otherwise be lonelier than others days for privation of home companionships. The community was the host la that first Plymouth festival, yet tha community divided Into families. As they kept the feast In the large family groups Into which the necessity of house building and defense had up to this time divided them, did any of them think, we wonder, of the law of the paasover established for other exiles and pilgrims so many centuries beforo: "And If the household be too little for the lamb, let him and hla neighbor next unto his house take It according to the number of tha soul«” ? I As a community we are today much further from absolute want and peril of starvation than the Pllgrima wers when they began the custom of tho yearly feast of thanksgiving Tot there are many of our people who. If they keep the feast, must keep It In the mldat of poverty and peril of want In the wldst of greater want and peril the forefathers Invited strangers to the feast, providing what they could They were wholly free from that false pride, so common now adays. which thinks moat of appear ances and la ashamed to offer hos pitality unless It Is possible, also, to make a show of wealth. Out of what they had the fathers gave God thanks and entertained the strangers at their gates The other spirit of false pride and shame robs both guest and hoet of the beat joy of the Thanksgiving time— the joy of common faith In the Giver of all good, and of cordial wel come which has nothing to conceal The sober joyfulness of the first New England Thanksgiving did not exhaust Itself In a single day Gov ernor Bradford after the first scanty harvest made deliberate provision for three days’ feastlug and rejoicing, during which the tnlant colony enter talned raoro than Its own number of visiting Indians It Is true that these guests contributed venison for the feast, aa thev had earlier contributed com for the use nt fhe colonv. hut the heart of the feast was In the hospitality which made them wel come We call Thanksgiving day especial ly a home festival, and Its associations are most delightful In family reunions and home pleasures. Yet the prece dent of Plymouth hospitality has never been and never ought to be neglected It Is a time when those who are blessed with home joys take pleasure In sharing them with the homeless Families enlarge them selves to Include not only the scat tered next of kin. but those also who Germany's Budget Grows. are far from their own home rtrrle Berlin— The Nord Deutsche Allge- A touch of the blessed spirit of home miene Zeitung prints the details of joy and mutual helpfulness stretches the budget for 1912, showing expend beyond the limits of the family to itures of 2,924,945,136 marks, approx imately $12,975,545. The estimate includes for the army $203,941,844, an H ym n of Praise increase o f $20,214,155, o f which amount $1,976,124 is for additions to W n hold our fu n d * to T h **, O Ixjrd o f flout«? A n d prnls« T h e « for T hy blewsfnir« manifold. the peace footing. The navy estimate W e thank T h e* for the bounteous harvest yield. is $112,639,849, an increase o f $4,128,- The garnered opulenr#- of vln«* and field. 482. The budget requires a loan o f The work of man with full fruition crowned. $24,438,982 to balance the expendi W e thank Thee that we live with aouls attuned tures as against $47,962,290 borrowed T o all the beauty of th* pulsing world. to balance the present budget. W e thank Thee for the h«*ro*s of th « quiet way«. Poisoned Wine Kills. Vancouver, B. C.— Four Frenchmen per acre. The other 120 acres were nominal; olds, nominal. engaged in a drinking bout in a house Wool—Eastern Oregon, 13@17c per | in the Fairview section o f Vancouver. purchased by Herman Smith, o f Au rora, for $90 an acre. The new own pound: valley, 17@19c; mohair, choice, | Their port wine disagreed with them, j and when the police were called to the ers will not attempt teasel raising, but Cattle- Beef steers, good to choir«. houie after midnight they found one will confine their labors to general $ 5 . 25 * 46 5 ; fair to medium, $4. >0® man lying dead beside a table on which fanning. " ~ $4.50® ■>; ; WM B half-emptied bottle o f port that Mr. Gregory w ill go to the Palouse . 5 ; choice spayed ‘ heifer* country, in Washington, where he be- i ^ to choice beef cows, $4.25®«. >»• is thought to contain strychnine. Two lieves opportunities for successful m e d i u m to good beef cows, $3.o0«4, others were almost dead from the teasel growering are better than here. common beef cows, $2® 3.50; W K effects o f the liquor and were taken to $3.50@4; stags, good to choice, $4® a hospital, where they are critically 4 50 ; calves, light, $7@7.50; heavy, ill. The fourth man had disappeared C oos County Dry. and the police are seeking him. Marshfield— Complete returns show $3.75*5- H of»— Top, $9.25®9.60; fair to me that Coos county has gone dry by 23 ‘ Frazzle’ i* Remembered. »otes. It is held by the wet faction dium, $9(89.25. Sheep— Best valley wethers, $3.25® that the Marshfield charter is such that New York— The following telegram j.50; fs ir to good wethers, $3®3.25; the city can continue the saloons re was receievd at Tammany boll from a best yearling wethers, $4.25®4 75; gardless o f the county, but others Democrat in Oyster B sy: “ goose best valley ewes, $3®3.50; lambs, claim that this matter must be decided ys! t’s own district: Dix, 218; Stim- choice mountain, $5.26*5.60; choice in court This is the first time the 158. Beaten to a fraxsle.” valley, $4.75*6. «w n ty ever went dry. D (U A P M A r t I<§J < 0 W hen no man knoweth. hut who live thy prat»«. The silent heroes In the w ays forgot. W e praise Thee that no brother lives enslaved, Fre»- hearts, free hom es' aye, let thanks giving rls«, The end of strife the s Idler's duty d on «; The rich re w ard —the Joys o f freedom won. Thank G od! ye people, for the gift o f p ear«. thetlra) questions were before It, tbs Foresight. The dispute over the discovery of public turned Its attention to tha the pole having reached the acute south pole. stage, naturally It was taken Into the Hint of Etiquette. courts. "Bsy," whispers the parvenu s i "H ave no fear," said the lawyers for one aide. "Our case Is simple and our i the banquet given to commemorate the reconciliation of (be society c o jp > , proof la decisive." my bread Is wrapped In a ndpki„ . m "Have no fear," said the lawyers for tbs other side “ As soon as this not up on all those things, you know. trouble started we sent to Greenland Do I eat the napkin»" "Oh, no." aa; a his mentor "Nog and retained every expert Eskimo here. This feast ia to celet.rat* witness " Realizing that many years of hypo cessation of chewing the rag."