1 ( ) ‘ Read This. The Nursery Stock, Rose Stock, shrubbery, all kinds of trees. | Apples trees $12.00 per hundred From the best nursery in the state. Guaranteed true to name. A t the Forest Grove Greenhouse 4th Street and 5th Avenue South. Phone 0116. PAGE G FOREST GROVE PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914 Americans In À Panama i THE 1914 OVERLAND I is now on exhibition at the Story of the Panama Canal From Start to Finish. * PACIFIC GARAGE I liar the water with the soil in a fluid 1 cnertper tnan tn rne ( nlted states, free state to a »elected dump which has quarters, free medical service on full been boarded, the water being drained I pay. nine holidays on pay, reduced (Continued from last week.) off when the nmd has deposited. The railroad rates, wages and salaries from W a n t e d — The P ress desires AtlAntic entrance required an excava­ 3iJ to 80 ¿>er cent higher than In the tion of 47.523.000 cubic yards and the United States, an annual vacation of to secure a live correspondent in Pacific entrance 58,2*7.000 yurds. forty-two days on full pay for gold em­ every community in Washington It Is planned to take the great dredge ployees and the necessaries of life fot Corozal through the channel and locks county. Send in your application | sale at lower prices lu tbe government You are invited to call up Into the Culebra cut for the work 1 commissary than in the United States. at once. of handling slides and silt after the and look at the No one realizes how generous the water Is turned Into the cut. government has been to Its employees new model Terminal works at Balboa requiring j at Panama more than tbe employee more than 8.000,000 yards excavation Improved in many ways ? who leuves the service to return to and finishing details of the canal chan­ work In the United States. Over and nel proper will bring tbe total excava, over again such employees bavs re­ tlon by March, 1914, when the canul Successors to turned to the canal zone to take work Is expected to be In regular commer­ at wages or salaries less than they C. G. D A N I E L S O N cial use, to 221,000,000 cubic yards. were receiving wbeu they quit One In the late spring of 1912 the press foreman drawing $250 a month In Pan­ PHONE 306 PACIFIC AVE. I I in the United States exploited the dis­ ama decided be could do as well at t«f covery of volcanic formatlons In the home. In a year be returned to the bottom of the Culebra cut. The engi­ canal zoue and gladly took a position neers have not been alarmed by these at 65 cents an hour, or about $132 a vaporous emissions, which were caus­ month. The cost of living and stand­ ed. according to the commission geol­ ard of pay lu the United States made ogist. by the warm atmospheric effect him repent bis action. upon pyrite material. Any employee on a monthly salary basis may take elgbty-one days off at CHAPTER XIII. full paj In every year. He has a va Labor. cation of forty-two days on pay. a sick F ir » t Ranga L ig h t at Pacifie Entranca AN FRANCISCO'S exposition In leave of thirty days on pay and nine to tha Canal. 1915. celebrating tbe formal holidays on pay. a total o f eighty-one Almost at the wlndtip of operations opening of the Panama canal, days that the government voluntarily the canal diggers made the highest rec- | will be the most truly interna­ deprives Itself of the employee's serv- j ords for excavation On April 11. 1912. tional exposition ever held lu this Ices. The sick leave, too. Is pretty forty-four steam shovels took out «8.- generally used up by the employees, country or any other. 505 yards In the cut. which iN the rec­ Cor. 5th Ave. who have little trouble In persuading n Not only Is the object of the exposl- ord for one day In that division ! and 2nd St., district physician they need a rest at ! tlon International In Interest, hut there Steam shovel No. 257 working at (!n Tuboga sanitarium or Ancon hospital ■ tun took out 5.554 yards In one day. Is not a nation under tbe sun, possibly, Forest Grove, Ore. It Is apparent that the government has | the highest record In the canal zone which has not contributed some of its Invested some o f Its millions In a way for one shovel, the date being May 2. citizens to the construction force of no private contractor could follow, ex­ 1912. and in August. 1912. the same the canal. In the census of the canal cept Into bankruptcy. If an employee shove! made a record by removing 80.- zone taken In February, 1912. forty does not take his vacation one yenr he You Will Need nationalities are listed. 844 yards In twenty-six working days. At the beginning of the American can accumulate It for the next year That part of the central division and so get eighty four days at full pay. which Is little mentioned extends front occupation. In 1904, there were 74« and his trip to the United States will [ men employed on the canal. Accord the Gatuu locks to the entrance of the A. A. K I R K W O O D cost him only $20 or $30 a one way Culebra cut. about twenty-three utiles. Ing to the quartermaster’s department, passage. To Keep OutJtheJCold and Rain. Only about 12,400,000 yards had to be the highest force o f record since then CIVIL EN6INEER AND SURVEYOR | Pay days until Oct. 1. 1907. were excavated to complete this channel, as was In April. 1913. when the payrolls semimonthly. Since then monthly pay W E SELL THEM. it follows the Cbagres river valley showed 44,61il employees. days have been the custom The dis­ The percentage of Americans In the from ubout sea level to Rohlo; then Municipal Engineering bursement office at Empire Is a great i lie level rises until It reuches forty- totul working force usually has been bank, handling nearly $3.000.000 a Surveying and Subdividing eight feet above sea level at the cut. one-sixth or one-seventh. Their work month. Payments for wages have In­ From (¡atun to Obispo the Chngres Is of a supervisory character, or Phone 482 creased from $000.000 monthly In crossed the line of the canal twenty- skilled Inbor. such as mechanics, car 1905 to nearly $2.000.000 a month as a three tildes. In the same dlstnn e the ■pouters, plumbers, masons, electricians maximum In 1910-11-12. Chngres river has twenty-six tributa­ etc. They also are the stentn shovel, Abbot Building Silver employees or common laborers F O R E S T G R O V . E , OIR E G [ O N . ” ries, the more Important ones being ttje locomotive and marine engineers, rail earn 5. 7. 10, 13. 10. 20 and 25 cents an (intuit and Trinidad rivers. All con road conductors, time Inspectors, fire hour, with a few exceptions at 32 nnd tribute to ttie great (intun lake. FOREST GROVE. OREGON men. policemen, all branches of civil 44 cents an hour, and a maximum Tbe slides, which have been nccu- administration, office forces, sanitary monthly silver rate of $75 ratel.v nil«! Inaccurately exploited In Mll(1 hospital officers, foremen, civil en Oold employees, which Includes all the press, represented the steep sides [ ¡r|Ileers, „ t|,e mie the Americans, are paid from a mini ol the Culebra cut breaking off and ^ Laborers did not come to the canal H. LIDYARD mum of $75 monthly n maximum of 8. A. WALKER falling down Into the excavated part. J ¡¡one in sufficient numbers during the ........ — ..... ....... to .............- .......... ~. Kvett where the cut has been sunk m,rly years, necessitating recruiting $600 monthly, not Including In tills through solid rock these slides occur- offices In Europe. the West Indies nnd ' classification heads of departments red. a s the rock fo rm a tio n s o f 4 h e , , he Unlte<, s ta tu a . A to ta , o f 43.00,, Colonel Goethals. us chairman and ........... . are brittle and dissolve to dust niHIJ were iIuported under contract chief engineer and president of tbe after exposure to the atmosphere. An j n it(j ,|)e commission from l'.HI4 to Panama railroad company, receives SHOEMAKERS attempt was made to prevent slides hy $21.000 annually; tile other members Dealer in Flour, Feed and all kinds of * --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -— ----------------- * plastering the sides of the rut cut with Spain furnished the largest number of the commission. $14.000 annually; Garden Seeds in season........................... concrete, but the experiments clerks, from $75 to $250 monthly: 1st Ave. N., near Main St. w e r e j of European laborers to the canal un futile. There were between fifteen j ¡¡j t|,e ¡.„vernment of that country In draftsmen. $100 to $250; engineers, as and twenty Important slides on both j 1908 forbid further emigration to Can sistunt. special and designing. $225 to We are prepared to do 1 sides of the nine mile cut. the largest amn. Out of a total of 11,797 Euro» $600; foremen. $75 to $275; Inspectors. the very best of all J. R ASM USSEN, Proprietor I being on the west side o f the canal pean laborers Imported to 1910. 8.222 $75 to $250; marine masters. $140 to kind of shoe work. : near the town of Culebra and etnbrnc- were .Spaniards, and the others came $225; master mechanic. $225 to $275; , lug sixty three acres. Around the | principally from Italy. France and Ar physicians. $150 to $300: district quar 1 towns of Culebra and Empire were rnenla. terinasters. $150 to $225; hotel steward. Pacific Ave. Forest Grove, Oregon many smaller slides that gave much Special attention given The colored la Ivor predominates In $60 to $175; storekeepers. $00 to $225; trouble to the engineers. Steam shov- the enhal zone and was obtained In the to crippled feet. (Continued next week) i els. locomotives nnd flat cars have been j islands of the West Indies. Barbados caught In these slides, but. singularly, I furnished the largest number. 19.448 few lives have been lost. The largest Immigration for one yenr Sometimes the pressure on the sides was in 1907. when 14.942 laborers were of the canal operated to make the earth Imported | bulge up lu the bottom o f the cut D1- The color line tins been drawn In the ’ vision Engineer Onlllnrd devised the canal zone by dividing the employees ! plan of terracing the sides of the cut Into "gold” and "silver" men In the to relieve this pressure, with the result Itrst category are the Americans and Embalming and that much extraneous material lias >u the second the common and unsklll been prevented from sliding Into the il laborers Wages are paid In silver Funeral Directing cut. Engineers who formerly stood FO R E S T GROVE, ‘ Oregon’» lo tile laborers, and salaries to the W A S H IN G TO N C O U N TY with • Mtnnchly for the son level type of en '.uierieniis are paid In gold. This ills FOREST GROVE UNDERTAKING CO. Home Town” is an ideal place in w h ich mil after seeing the slides o f the pres­ I Unction Is not a hard and fust oue its wonderful possibilities of developm ent in ent eighty-five foot level look type ! nil the Idea was adopted as tbe best to live— and it is just as g o o d as any in agricultural and industrial fields, situated as J. S. Buxton, Manager < were forced to admit that the attempt leans for the government to draw the j to sink n cut through the Isthmus for ) olur w h ich to invest you r m oney and your it is, close to the great market o f the city of line Second class rom-ht* are No. 64 2 Forest Grove, Or. a sen level channel would be attended efforts. Portland: itself enjoying a clim ate and soil by such prodigious earth movements. wovliled on the trains, spcclul win .own In the |H>stoffices. special clerks ' necessitating such mi liiestlmsble ad [ T o o w n property in Forest G r o v e is to that p rod u ces any o f the products of the >u the commissary ami separate eating dltional excavation, as to make It well ilaces for the sliver employees b e co m e filled with self confidence, for real temperate zon e and admitted by all to b e nigh lm|»iss!hle. For a sea level canal j the Culebra rut would- have to go | .M iiii . i labor saving devices have estate is bou nd to advan ce in the next few the banner county in the state, the proud eighty flve feet deeper than In the >een born of necessity lit the canal one The honor for Inventing the years a n d the holders will receive generous ow n er in W ash in gton C ou n ty has the safest present pinn. which would require both | s wider bottom and Indefinitely wider -■re«te»t of these tickings to W (1 profits. and most produ ctive of investments. iilerd. formerly general uisimger of the surface opening, and then the slides would be immeasurably greater than Pantile a railroad and the miiii who at present The best year's work In nost largely was res|Minslble for bring Feed Mill will run every ug that archaic system from ctiuos j the Culebra cut wus lii.5Ntl.891 yards day in the week. , Slide« first and last htiTe added more io order under Chief Engineer Ste i He originated s track shifter 4 0 Acres all in C u ltiv a tio n and will always be worth the than that amount tn the total estimate vens 9 1. A cres 4 b lo c k s o f Banks money and if any land in Wash­ o f excarntton for the division Yet the v III« li does the work of .Mm men tn ■ ne day and requires only nine men to 2 miles of Forest Grove, good ington county is worth more, Good 7-rtom, modern house Increase in efltetencv of the organize Wholesale and Retail 6-room house, good barn and it sure will be; if you don’ t and in good condition, good i ! tlon has ena iled the workers to handle •peratc tt. other out buildings; 1 team, want thia, tell some of your barn and chicken park, all Strikes have never lieen successful In ' 'i '' ' thd dxtra anonnt wlti.ln the time anil friends about it, I am su e wagon, hack and buggy, 6 kinds of fruit, large and small , Bran.Shorts. R oV d Qfkts, Grduhd rattmatid for taking out the ortg :beFans!Ktink. in t?x*4 President ItoiW they will. Price $10,00(1, ^ cows, and all farm tools, hay This place will keep 4 cows, velt gm e the commission the power to cash, balance to suit. Oats. Ground Wheat, Cracked tn«i yardage and groin: running water thru and one can easily clear $10o tie iTace ami a good well at Thrw inH , hod* of egrtnlmrtoH fcai<> ' c l l W ; iiliylxidl fret tn the/"canali zor per month. W ill sell for $8 MX) Cracked Corn. . (Whole waV.fiot Ben who. In'U f dkcreth |” ‘Wheat, ....... ... ............. ................ .......... the hpu se. This land is level, terms to suit, or will trade for tft iV ^ fg liig tly» RÒnÉii irk » s t i kukillBK the .« anal hd i w wérk ou cgn see all over it from the Wheat and Corn, Middlings and mil™ of'swi' 7.»v •I «Vbkhnel *i the Pacific .14* .Strain l \Nine an d b a c k s , , Bi»d * - . L . ... Hay to forty feet below sea level With great : dlltsa to holdout the water, and dredges Give us a call when in need. have done the remainder of the ezea rating. On the Pacific side. In addl tlon to dredges and ahorela. tbe by drantle method has been used Tht« _______________ _ _ a pnwerfn* _______ method consists of ______ playing Ind Phone 50x Forest Grove, 0 re , stream of water on the earth a!ul drain No !,u<* pVw' r T-" 1'1? ,n Am" r1 = -I). sfMe *xec„,|re. h„, the supreme = .-m irf hH(1 fh .if fh*» na w a- = that the r»»n«i canal tn tone wni not under the constitution sml was subject to the regulation of s military reservation Tbe canal employee« are the moat •ampere«! set of worker» In the worUl- | an eight hour day with a two hour In tenntoiloB at noon, finit class board Let u» know your wants. W e will be pleased to satisfy them. GOOD INVESTMENT CO. PHONE 501 FOREST GROVE PRESS BUILDING | = ^/jltlllllliilillllilllllllilllllllllillillliilllllllllllilllillllilllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllliilllliilllllllllllililllltllllllV ^