INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
CHEESE
P R O F I T S B IG .
3 ,6 0 0 ,0 0 0 Pounds M ade Last Year
A re S o ld fo r S 6 & 0 .0 0 0 .
Tillamook — Tillamook dairy and
creamery interests have just closed
one o f the most successful years in the
history o f the industry in this section.
With more than 3,500,000 pounds of
cheese manufactured and sold for
?550,000, the record is one which is
deemed extremely satisfactory.
The output o f the 30 cheese factor­
ies in this county was approximately
the same as last year, and the prices
received have been especially good.
The opening up o f the country through
the completion o f the railroad is re­
garded as o f great importance in aid­
ing the growth o f the dairy industry.
Profits o f the dairymen o f this sec­
tion may be seen in the fact that the
average price paid last year for milk
was $1.30 a 100 pounds, and from 35
to 39 cents a pound for butter fat.
Many o f the dairy herds made $100 a
cow for their owners in one season.
As most o f the dairymen raise their
own feed, they are saved a great ex­
pense.
O f the 30 cheese factories in this
county the greatest number are in the
center o f the county.
In the fertile
Nestucca
valley is
manufactured
about one-third o f the county’s total
output. Nehalem is gradually push­
ing ahead in the dairy industry and it
will not be many years, it is said, un­
til the number of cheese factories in
the northern part o f the county will be
doubled.
Since the organization o f the Tilla­
mook County Creamery association in
1908 the quality of the cheese manu­
factured in the county has been stead­
ily improved. There are 12 factories
in the association. Last year the as­
sociation made 2,430,625 pounds of
cheese. The product o f the cream­
eries in the association is inspected by
F. W. Christensen, an expert employ­
ed for the purpose.
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Portland—Although it is somewhat
early to draw estimates on the proba­
ble movement o f colonists to Portland
during the 46-day low-fare period that
opened March 1, advance information
gleaned by railroad representatives in
this city shows that already a large
number o f opportunity seekers are
headed this way.
A. D. Charlton, assistant general
passenger agent o f the Northern Pa­
cific, reported that his advices from
St. Paul are to the effect that the
movement through that city is en­
couraging.
It is certain that the
travel this spring will not be as heavy
as it was a year ago, but that it will
consist o f a greater percentage o f men
with money to invest and men who
want to locate on small farms.
William McMurray, general passen­
ger agent of the Northern Pacific, has
received advices from Omaha that the
movement through that city already is
starting.
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Salem— Governor West hit upon a
unique scheme for the appointment of
the next State Textbook commission,
which he believes will allow the mem­
bers to work under cover, for several
months at least, without the interven­
tion o f a small army o f book agents.
The membership o f the present com­
mission expires the first of next year.
Governor West has made up his
mind as to the personnel o f the new
commission to succeed the present
one and will immediately notify the
respective members that they will be
appointed the first o f the year.
None o f the members will know
who the other members are and the
names o f none o f the members will be
made public until official appointment
is made January 1.
This will allow the individual mem­
bers to make investigations as to text­
books quietly and undisturbed.
S c h o o l G ir ls W ill T r a m p .
Klamath Falls— High school girls of
the senior and junior classes have
formed a walking club, not only for
the benefit o f the exercise and to
study nature, but to learn the envir­
ons o f Klamath Falls. Miss Bessie
Applegate was made overseer o f the
party. A council o f three members.
Miss Marjorie McClure, Miss Inez El­
liott and Hazel Manning, was appoint­
ed to arrange plans for the walks and
a schedule will be adopted outlining the
itinerary o f the organization.
The
journeys will be made afternoons.
O il P r o s p e c t s at B a n d o n G o o d .
Bandon — The prospects for oil at
the well o f the Miocene Oil & Gas
company, near this city, are brighter
now than ever before and it is the
confident expectation o f Mr. Smith,
the driller, that he will strike a good
flow o f oil in the near future. The
well is now down 2,350 feet and will
be put down to the depth of 3,000 feet
if oil is not struck sooner, but it is
the belief o f all concerned that the oil
will be found in big quantities before
another 100 feet is drilled.
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Washington, D. C.— The Eastern
commission men who are backing the
Sulzer apple box bill, on which a hear­
ing will be held Thursday, are propos­
ing to compromise with the Western
members o f congress and the Western
apple-growers who have prepared to
attack the measure, and have suggest­
ed their willingness to strike from
the bill all reference to the apple box
bill if the Western men would then
withdraw their opposition.
The suggestion was not entirely
satisfactory to the Western men here,
for they said that if all reference to
the box were eliminated from the Sul­
zer bill it would be brought up again
next year as a separate measure, and
it was preferable to settle the issue at
this session and be done with it.
Oregon and other Western growers
are strongly opposed to that provision
o f the Sulzer bill which establishes
the grades o f apples. They hold that
this section is clearly discriminatory
against Oregon and Washington apples
and would not enable Western growers
to have their best apples marked as
grade A. At the hearing Thursday,
provisions o f the Sulzer bill will be
assailed by the Western men present
and an effort will be made to have the
bill amended to adopt the Oregon box
as the standard and to readjust the
grades so that the finest Oregon apples
may go into the market as grade A,
with other grades for inferior fruit.
I f these changes can be made, West­
ern apple growers will support the
bill.
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La Grande— Returns have been re­
ceived from the Grande Ronde apples
which were shipped to Germany. They
averaged $1.82 the box.
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remittance came a most [flattering re­
port that the apples were received in
the best o f condition and that the box
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unanimously passed a resolution call­
ing for an investigation o f the alleged
"shipping trust,” by the committee
on merchant marine and fisheries.
The resolution reported to the house
by the rules committee, was intro­
duced by Representative Hardy, of
Texas. It directs the committee to
make a thorough investigation o f the
practices o f all steamship lines.
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committee is also instructed to ascer­
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they are owned by railroads.
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New York— Word reached the navy
vallis— On April 6 the poultry demon­ yard here that all previous speed rec­
stration car equipped by the Oregon ords for battleships in the United
Agricultural College will leave Cor­ States navy had been broken by the
vallis for a long tour o f the Southern battleship Utah, with an average
Pacific lines in Oregon, in which it speed o f 22 knots in her four-hour full
will make some 45 stops, covering power run off Provincetown. The de­
practically all o f the territory adjacent signed speed o f the vessel, an oil and
Amer­
to the branches o f that road. Ashland coal burner, was 20.75 knots.
will be the first stop
The itinerary ican battleship speed laurels have
will be arranged by the railroad offi­ been held by the Delaware, which in
cials, and the average stop will be a her preliminary trial made 21.56 knots.
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D. C.— Carrying out
ceive only $12,500 from Andrew Car­
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negie, it is purposed to erect at $20,-
Brooks — The cold weather o f last that the general staff o f the army shall
000 library here this summer. Mrs.
S. E. Young, who donated the site for week is ended and a careful inspection i be kept supplied with new blood by
the library, has offered to give $2,500 o f the fruit buds discloses very little ! continually displacing the officers who
more provided an equal amonut were harm done. Pear buds, which were a ! have seen four years' service by men
raised and it is believed enough other little in advance o f the season, are ! called in from the field, nearly two
donations could be obtained to provide slightly blackened on the outside, but j dozen changes in that body have been
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Corvallis — Free bacteria for the
raising o f leguminous cops, such as
alfalfa, peas, beans, and clovers, will
be furnished to the farmers o f Oregon
upon request by the department of
bacteriology at the Oregon Agricul­
tural college.
The experiment sta­
tion experts have been busy preparing
this material for the inoculation o f
soil for some time, and will send full
directions for its use with each cul­
ture.
Those desiring the material
should send their requests at least
two weeks in advance o f the time
they wish to use it, stating what le­
guminous crops they desire to raise,
and how much land they intend to
plant.
Anyone who has examined the roots
o f a thrifty plant o f this sort o f crop
knows that there are found on the
roots small lumps, known as nodules.
Scientific study has shown these to
be caused by bacteria infecting the
roots, and that unless these are pres­
ent, a good stand will not be obtained,
showing that the bacteria are neces­
sary to the full growth o f the plant.
If the soil does not contain the bac­
teria, a good catch o f the crop may
not be expected. By using these cul­
tures the proper bacteria may be in­
troduced into the soil. Where a crop
has never been grown on a particular
piece o f land, as where alfalfa is be­
ing introduced, or when the stand ob­
tained has not been satisfactory and
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it is known that the lack was not that
o f sufficient lime, such cultures can be
used with good effect. They will not, S u b c o m m itt e e D r a f t s N e w and E a s y
H o m e s te a d P r o v is io n s .
however, correct lime deficiency, nor
will the bacteria thrive in acid soil.
Washington, D. C.— The sub-com­
For this reason, lime should be applied mittee o f the public lands committee
where needed before the culture is
having in charge the Borah-Jones
used.
three-year homestead bill has agreed
F A R M IS W O R L D P R O B L E M
tentatively to several amendments
which will be laid before full commit­
S a m u e l^ H ill S a y s C o u n t ry M u s t B e tee for adoption. Instead o f granting
six months’ leave o f absence, the bill
M a d e A ttra ctive.
will provide that the “ settler or his
Portland— That the problem o f in­ fam ily’ - shall reside upon the land at
ducing people to go back to the land least seven months in each year, and
can only be solved by providing good before final proof is made will require
roads, telephones, good schools, rural that a habitable house shall be erected
delivery, was the declaration o f Sam­ upon the land, as evidence o f intention
uel Hill, pioneer in the good roads to make it a home.
movement in the Pacific Northwest,
No provision has yet been adopted
in an address delivered in Westmin­ requiring any specific amount o f culti­
ster Presbyterian church, dealing with vation, this subject being still open,
the building o f highways.
but an amendment has been agreed
He pointed out that between the upon making the bill applicable to all
years 1870 and 1900 the proportion of pending unperfected homesteaders en­
the population engaged in agricultural tries, so that, if it is passed, home
pursuits had been reduced one-half. steaders now striving to comply with
This, he declared, was one explanation the law may secure title after three
o f the high cost o f living.
He said instead o f five year’s residence.
the problem o f putting people back on
The amendments adopted will not
the farm and keeping them there is meet the opposition raised by the In­
not only a national one, but is one terior department and further protest
with which the whole world is called from that quarter is expected.
to deal.
To keep people on the land,
he asserted, required that they should W O M E N A N D C H I L D R E N L E A V E
not only have improved facilities, but
that they should have markets for
their products.
Good roads over A m e r ic a n s L e ft in M a d e r a A r e A rm e d
a n d C a p a b le .
which to haul these products were
shown by the speaker to be indispen­
El Paso —* One hundred and fifty
sable in the solution o f this econnomic Americans, mostly women and child­
problem.
ren from the American lumbering
town o f Madera, were brought into El
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Paso, by the Mexico Northwestern
railway from Pearson, their first stop­
Madera.
Sta te A u d it o r s G a s p at A s s e s s o r 's ping place after leaving
Another train bringing refugees from
E x p e n s e A c c o u n t.
Chihuahua is expected over the Mexi­
Salem— Fifteen-cent meals and beds can Central.
for 50 cents a night, charged by A s­
With the exception o f a small hos­
sessor Strain, o f Umatilla, against his pital staff at Pearson, every American
expense on a state account caused the woman and child in the towns of
auditing department in Secretary 01- Madera and Pearson, Mexico, is on
cott’s office to gasp. Strain was here United States soil.
recently attending a state meeting of
These assert that for weeks they
the assessors o f the state. He report­ virtually have been isolated and liv­
ed no expense for carfare. For three ing in a state o f terror. With neither
days he charged 45 cents a day for wire nor train communication and
meals, or 15 cents a meal, and 50 mails demoralized, they have been cut
cents a night for lodging.
off completely from the outside world
His three days’ stay here at the and almost constantly have
been
assessors’ meeting will cost the state menaced by marauding bands.
Busi­
$2.85, which is considered a record- ness at Madera, they say, is non­
breaker.
existent. It was reported by refugees,
the mills o f the Madera Lumber com­
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men being thrown out o f employment.
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