H U B NOT FORCEO
S T E E L S H O R T A G E IS F E A R E D
Private Consumers of Metal May lie
Itequircd to Hubmit Inventoriée.
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t
Washington, I). C.— Government de
mand for atuel haa reached aucb pro
portion*. It waa learned Wednesday,
becauae of the growth of the war pro
ram me, that the War Induatrlea
Whole Line Held Intact Against te hoard
fears present sources of aupply
aoon will prove Inadequate.
Germany's Third Drive.
At the meeting of the board manu
facturer* were warned that those who
have obtained ateel on priority orders
for war work and later were found to
be reselling It to non-war manufactur
era would have their supply cut off.
| This practice ha* been In vogue, the
— ■
j board learned.
All private conaumera of ateel and
Hlight Retirement Coats llun* Appall* «teel products may be required to sub
mit sworn Inventories of their stocka
ingly Merlin ( ialina Capture o f
on hand
It waa found that many
manufacturers had obtained largo
18.Ü00 in Present Offenaive.
quantities of steel before the govern
ment took control of the entire output
My moans of the Inventories, J.
Leonard Replogle, director of steel
Although the Germaua are still at- supply of the W ar Industries board,
tacking the allied lines viciously on will be able to keep a close check on
both aides of the Khelma salient, what *>• stu«> In the country.
galu* they are making continue to be , <’h“ lrrn*n Hurley ° f the Shipping
"
J board, conferred with officials of the
small ones, on Isolated sectors, and j vVar Industries board regarding the
seemlugly are confined to the region requirements for the shipbuilding pro-
along the Marne and Immediately gramme. Production of ships Is show-
southwest of Khelms.
; J"« ,uch. a
Improvement that
FRENCH GIVE A LITTLE
SURPLUS
STATE N E W S*!
IN BRIEF.
J
Hugh L. McCainmon, a former Hherl-
dan boy, son of Major W. W. Mc<'am-
tuon, haa Joined the United States ma
rines, according to advices from Halem,
and will aee service aoon.
The milk condensing plant at 8cio,
the chief manufacturing Industry In
that section resumed operation Mon
day. This plant ha* been Idle alnce
about February 1 of this year, when
the company operating It became In
volved In financial difficulty.
( '( his county’s second July quota of
81 men left Marshfield Monday morn
ing for Vancouver. A gala farewell
waa given as the Coo* May Limited
left. Home of the men are In other
parts of the state, working In ship
yards, but all have been notified of
their selection.
The harvesting around Warren Is
well under way and 'he winter grains
are proving a splendid crop, but spring-
sown grains are nil. Winter wheat
and oats are the most prolific in many
years.
Potatoes are only about 20
per cent average and the acreage
about 40 per cent of normal.
Word bas been received In Marsh
field from the Powers logging camps
that the 10-bour day Is not popular
Eastward from the Cathedral city , hlp'*“ a yeai'Trom ".-acb way to some j w , t h t h e
* n‘l ther*
a move-
through Champagne the French report yards, four ships In other yards, and
.,on *2
fe1
tur!L,to the
they are holding the enemy and keep
Ing their line Intact.
BAGS
AT
PRISON
•R O A D ♦
BUILDING
Walla Walla Convicts Make 120,009
More Than Estimated Needs.
Walla Walla.— Warden Henry Drum
of the state prison announced Thurs
day that a surplus of grain bags has
been made at the penitentiary. There
are between 120,000 and 130,000 more
bags than were allotted to counties
several months ago.
These will be sold immediately to
first-comers. As prison bags are sell
ing at 26 cents, which la about 2 Vi
cents below the market price here for
Calcutta bags, it is expected that they
will be snapped up immediately.
Cash must accompany every order,
Warden Drum stated. Convicts have
been working steadily in the mills for
several months and as a result were
able to make more than it was figured
they would.
M AINTENANCE IS A BIG ITEM
New Hampshire Uses Patrolmen, Who
Repair Every Little Hole as Soon
as It Appear*.
<By E. B. HOlTgR, Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colo.)
Wool Returns A re Heavy.
Yakima. — Returns from the first
government appraisal of wool from
the Yakima valley received Thursday
by telegram by Coffin Brothers in
dicate growers will net 48 to 55 cent*
a pound for their 1918 clip. The rail
road figures for the season’s shipment
place the total at a little better than
2.200.000 pounds, which will mean re
turns to growers of at least f l , 100,000
on the wool clip of this season.
The highly satisfactory cleanup on
wool is being matched by the prices
received for lambs and yearlings now
being shipped to the Chicago m arket
The first shipments went out this
week. I-ambs sold recently in Chicago
at $18.76 per hundred, and coast mar
kets are paying $13.50 to $14. The
Yakima Sheep company recently sold
10.000 lambs for fall delivery at $10
per head. A trainload of 43 cars of
Yakima lambs and wethers w ill be
shipped from the valley Thursday.
„ m H .e e , complain that with the 10 hour day
If efforts to bolster up the efficiency | they have „„
........ ...
vr'
no time tnr
for _ recreation.
No
of the w nakcr new yards are success-
complaints
have
been
heard
of
from
Everywhere the battles are being fu|t jt u evident to officials that the
stubbornly contested, and where the
Gf steel plate mills must be In- other camps.
French and Italians •>»»* been com- creased or the shipping programme
The Deutsches Hans, former gather-
pellod to give ground It has been only wuj he delayed by lack of material. , Ing place of German-Americans at
after the inrilctlon of extremely heavy
a shortage of steel already Is being Eugene, which ha* been closed since
casualties on me invaders. I^he
I he Amer
In gome
some shipyards. Others have
Amer- -1 folt
f„it in
have! the beginning of the war, ' was sold
* * * " • nowhere nave been forced to mnrn steel than they need, which. Tuesday at S h e riff* sale, to cover in-
withdraw. At rossoy, near the bend officials believe, is the result of “ cost debtedness. The building and
and grounds
New Pension Bill Passes.
of the Marne between ( bateau Thierry plus"
m of contracts, _______
under _______
which are
Kincaid
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,v located in ______
_ _ Park,
ark, a suburb
Washington, D. C.— A senate bill
ami Dormans, they have made further tin, builders felt free to expend large ; of Kugene.
The Oregon German-
improvements In their positions. Like aun)a 0n materials not needed f o r : American association met there sev- granting pensions o f $12 a month to
widows of soldiers and sailors o f the
their French comrade*, the Americans many weeks
eral years ago.
also have been engaged In violent
Spanish war or Philippine insurrec
Harvesting o f the cherry crop for tion, where the income of the widow
fighting
1818 is nearly completed. The Sheri does not exceed $250 a year, was
It becomes Increasingly apparent
dan district ha* yielded the largest passed Tuesday by the house and sent
that the German command Is attempt ' 1
I Tl rl I
U M LR
... _ _ ...
. crop of Bings, Royal Anns and other to conference.
Ing the blotting out of the Rheitns
salient and the straightening of the
Sheridan is running to capacity. The
line eastward through Champagne to
.
.
.
. employes are nearly alt women.
It
ward Verdun. The hardest fighting
I-ondon.— Finland intends to remain .
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of Tuesday wa* southwest o f Rhelm s,! ‘ " “ «J»«* —
ha* canned more than five carloads
Where he enemy Is endeavoring to tho Mu?man COUntry. where entente * » * " £ • loganberries and other
brnak through the hill and forest re allied forces have assumed control,
Portland.— W heat— Government ba
glon reach the railroad running from M y* a Helsingfors dispatch by way
County Agriculturist H. R. Giaiyser,
Rhelms to Kpernay and force to® 1 0( Copenhagen to the Exchange T e le - ! of Klamath county, and J. E. Pittman, sis. $2.20 per bushel.
evacuation of Rhelms
Flour — Straights, $10.75; whole
graph company.
of the department of irrigation and
In the endeavors, the German war
The Nord Deutsche Allgemelne Zeit- drainage, who have been conducting wheat, $10.30; graham, $9.90; barley
office
drlv- ung of Berlin declares that Germany ■ \p. rim-nts in that c-unty. report that flour, $10.50; rye flour, $11.50; conj-
. . asserts
..
... the Germans have
..
eni back the allied troops on the moun
ba8 • urrtcl«vnt forces in Finland to the application of 100 pounds of sul- meal, $10.60011.40 per barrel; corn
toln of Rhelms between Mantenal and deal
(he entente troops and the pher per acre on alfalfa lands has flour, $11.70.
north of I ourcy, the last named place
ap(j ( j uar(j a
increased the yield about one ton per
Millfeed— N et millfeed prices, car-
being about five miles distant from \ hill providing for the establish-
acre. A number o f experiments were lots: Bran, $31 per ton, shorts, $33;
middlings, $33; rolled barley, $70;
the Rhelms-Epernay railroad.
The mMlt 0f a monarchy In Finland has made and the results were uniform.
French official communication admits paa>wj |ta aeCond reading in the Fin-
i>roal.eets for another week's shut rolled oats, $69.
that the Germans hold the line west
. . n. ri i . mi>nf hv the narrow manrln
rospecis ror another w eeks snut-
Hay— Buying prices f. o. b. Port
of Nanteull La Fosse, about a mile and "i\ h 1 “
1 by th narrow margln down of the plants in Eugene s manu- land: Eastern Oregon timothy, $31 per
a half south of Pourcy and relatively
u-ouhneana have started an ener- ,acturinK district as a result of the ton; valley timothy, $29; alfalfa, $25
five miles west of the railroad.
M e d ita tio n a ga ln it^ h e bin and it destruction of the Spillway dam on the @25.50; valley grain hay, $24@26;
The Oertnan war office is now
f®tlc agitation against the b i l l “ d « ! mil I race by plotters last Sunday, ap- clover, $24; straw, $9@10. *
in e Herman war m ice is now J(| not Improbable, the dispatch adds, ;
th J ..,,,, ... _r(nniin_
Butter — Cubes, extra, 45c; prime
claiming the capture of 18,000 prison- ,hat , hf> pjnnlsh government w ill have fPhI
A V ^ e J MM ena.Led to
er* since the present offensive began. t
In f a v o r o f the hu8®n® Woolen Mill, engaged in firsts, 44c; prints, Extras, cases, 49c;
---- • - that - --------
'* n- a*
majority in ravor or , hp prO(,uct|0n of war materials, de half cases, 49%c; less than half cases,
It Is reported
French -----------
reserves to
thfl rp"
b|1,
,nilufflctent
veloped Tuesday when tjie second 50c; cartons, extra; butterfat. No. 1,
have entered the fighting line along
General Horvath, recently proclaim
the Marne and that to the north of ed ruler of Siberia, says a- Pekin dls- temporary dam constructed during the 51c per pound delivered Portland.
I * ( hapello-Monthodon th®y have re patch t0 thft Tlm es/has expressed will week washed out.
E g *» — Oregon ranch, current re
captured lost territory.
he Germans, i,1KI)i,aa ^ facilitate the movement of
The farm home of Scott Campbell ceipts, 39%c; candled, 42@42%c; se
as was expected, have brought up r ie c h o .alovak
troops
toward
the located on the Palls City-Dallas road lects, 44c per dozen.
fresh forces In *n endeavor to push Tranabalkal reRlon over the Chinese southwest of Dallas, was totally de
Poultry— Hens, 26c; broilers, 30@
forward their project in this region.
E x te rn railway.
stroyed by fire Sunday night. The 32c; ducks, young, 32@33c; geese and
turkeys, nominal.
Nowhere, however, has the German Tbfl cxechs purpose to reach Irkutsk j origin
of the blaze is believed to be a
Veal— Fancy, 16@17c per pound.
command seen fit a* yet to start an
and r<.aume communication with their defective flue. The
family was at
Pork— Fancy, 23*4c per pound.
Jniantry ^engagement. If one Is con-. compatriots in western Siberia and supper at the time and the flames
Fruits— Cherries, 8@10c per pound;
* tnmplated.
“ “*
will formally ask the Chinese govern- had gained such headway at the time
In Albania the French and Italian meut for permission to traverse Man- of discovery that it was Impossible cantaloupes, $1.7504.50 per crate;
troops continue to make progress cbur|a
per pound;
to extinguish the blaze and all efforts watermelons, 3@3% c
against the Austrians and In the Itab
There are Indications, the dispatch were turned toward saving adjacent peaches, 75c@$1.25; new apples, $2.75
per box; loganberries, $2.50 per crate;
tan sector, up In the mountains re- a(,
that aome Austrian prisoners huildings and contents.
posted Austrian a tacks have been Rro anxlou8 to Joln the Czech9
plums. $2.0002.25 per box; apricots,
Fire which burned 30 acres of clear $1.4001.65 per box; pears, $3.75 per
repulsed by the Italians.
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ed timber land at the North Bend box; blackcaps, $2.25 per crate; cur
Mill & Lumber company camp on Da
$2 per crate.
Q U E N T IN R O O S E V E L T D IE S
^
PS 2 L h«P vis slough Monday did a small amount rants,
Vegetables— Tomatoes, $1.7503 per
IN A IR P L A N E E N G A G E M E N T Kawachl o f 21.420 tons displacement, of damage, which will cause a delay crate; cabbage, 3@3>£c per pound;
_________
i blew up and sank In Tokoyama bay, of a week or 10 days for repairing. lettuce, $2.50 per crate; cucumbers,
150 miles northeast of Nagasaki, on One hundred and fifty feet of trestle $102 per dozen; peppers, 20c per
Roosevelt Dead, Says Enemy.
July 12. F ive hundred members of on the logging railroad was scorched pound; peas, 8@12Hc per pound;
Paris.— German aviators have drop the crew lost their lives.
so that portions must be replaced. beans, 10@12c per pound; celery, $1.25
Seventy men fought the fire for 15 per dozen.
ped a note Into American aviation
v
The battleship Kawachl was buITt hours and saved much camp parapher
Sack Vegetables — Carrots, $2 per
camps confirming the death of Lieu
nalia.
This
camp
cuts
spruce
almost
In 1912 and carried a complement of
sack; turnips. $2 0 2.25; beets, $2.25
tenant Quentin Roosevelt.
960 officers and men. She was 600 entirely and is in the thickest of the @2.50.
feet long, of 84 feet beam and drew Boutin tract. Two donkey engines were
Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks. $1.500
Paris. — Lieutenant Quentin Roose 28 feet of water. Her armament con damaged.
1.85 per hundred; new, 3i4@3Vic per
velt. youngest son of ex-Presldent _____
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___
_____
____
_
______
____
sisted of 12 12-Inch guns. 10 six-inch
Farmers in the Redmond vicinity pound.
Roosevelt, has been killed In an air jjHns, eight four-inch guns and 12 12- are having difficulty in obtaining help
Onions— Yellow, $2.50 per sack; red,
flght, the semi-official Havas Nows pounders. She also was equipped with in their hayfields. Practically every $202.25 per sack.
agency announces. His machine fell f |ve ig .i„ ch torpedo tubas.
boy over 11 years of age is out on the
Hops— 1917 crop, 13014c per pound;
Into the enemy lines, but apparently
ranches doing the work men usually contracts, 16017c.
was not in flames when It fell.
An Atlantic Port.— The sinking at do. The merchants are aiding by send
W ool — Eastern Oregon, 35056c;
Philip Roosevelt, Quentin’s cousin, sea July 11 of the American steamship ing a part of their force to the country valley, 54@61c per pound. Mohair—
witnessed the air battle In the vicinity Oostordtjk after a collision with tho each day. and County Agriculturist R. Oregon, new clip, 55c per pound.
of Chateau Thierry, In which Quentin American steamship San Jacinto was A. Ward Is busily engaged In seeking
Cascara Bark— New and'old, 10c per
was engaged and saw the machine fall, j reported by a Swedish steamship ar- and locating all available laborers.
pound.
but did not know until later that the riving here Wednesday,
Alton Butters, the four and one-half
July 23. 1918.
airplane was that of his cousin, Le
>pbp oosterdljk” * crew was taken
Cattle— -
Journal says Thursday.
aboard the San Jacinto, which, al- year old son of Mr. and Mrs. AA'alter Prime steers............... Sll.75@12.25
Lleutenant Roosevelt was last seen though badly damaged, managed to Butters, of Allegheny, near Marshfield, Good to choice steers...
10.75@11.75
fell Into a boiler of scalding water
In combat Sunday morning with two reach an Atlantic port,
9.50@10.75
Medium
to
good
steers.
......... airplanes
.....
.......... vessels,
........ . ........
... ^ and officered
^ ^ Monday and died from his burns at 5
enemy
about 10 miles Inside
Both
manned
8.50@ 9.50
Fair to medium steers .
the German lines In the Chateau by naval crews, carried army supplies. |
evening.^ l he father had been
5.50@ 8.50
Common to fair steers .
the ' family
washing,
owing
to
Thierry sector. He started out with a The collision occurred In North Atlan- doing *u
.........
1
8.00@ 8.50
Illness of Mrs. Butters, and while out Choice cows and heifers
patrol of 13 American machines. They tic waters.
encountered seven Germans and were
The OosterdIJk, 8252 gross tons, was of the room the child climbed Into a Med. to good cows and hf 6.00@ 7.50
3.00@ 5.00
chasing them back when two of them one of the Dutch ships requisitioned chair, which upset and propelled him Cannera......................
Into the boiler which was resting on Bulls...........................
5.50@ 7.50
turned on Lieutenant Roosevelt.
while in an American port.
the floor.
8.50@11.50
Calves.........................
There are two elements that should
be figured in the cost o f road con
struction. First, the cost o f construc
tion. Second, the cost of maintenance.
It Is the yearly average o f them* two
that should always be considered
when figuring the cost o f a road. True
It Is, that roads may be constructed
in such u manner as to need very lit
tle maintenance, hut these roads are
very expensive to build, and It is out
o f the question to contemplate them
for the West. The other type o f road
is the road that costs a moderate
sum to construct and then a yearly
charge fo r maintenance o f said road.
FINNS MAY BALK
A T W AR IN S IB E R IA
*n y«**" ,Th* ca"nery al
■ »
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Little Hen Big Factor.
Chicago. — The Importance of the
“ Little brown hen” In winning the
war waa urged by the National War
Emergency Poultry Federation, which
was organized Thursday, with the
slogan "Equip the hen to fight the
Kaiser.”
Legislation w ill be asked providing
for conservation o f poultry and poul
try products, and a nation-wide propa
ganda will be Inaugurated to urge the
use of eggs and poultry Instead of
meat.
Cripples to Be Cared For,
Washington, D. C.— The movement
among private citizens for finding Jobs
for crippled soldiers is emphatically
disapproved by the war department.
Surgeon-General Gorgas declared W ed
nesday that the rehabilitation o f the
crippled men will be done thoroughly
by the government. Recently Captain
Archibald Roosevelt asked his father,
Colonel Roosevelt, to find a Job for
one of his sergeants who returned
from France, after having lost a
hand.
Pear orchards in the north end of
Jackson county will net the growers
a 90 per cent crop of good quality
fruit, while the apple crop will aver
age 55 per cent. Is the report of the
shippers in this district The drought
w ill not affect these crops to any ex
tent, a* the principal orchards are un
der Irrigation. The Del Rio orchards,
two miles below Gold H ill on Rogue
river, with 12,000 boxes from etght-
year-old trees, will be the largest In
dividual shippers o f pears In this dis
trict.
6.00@ 8.00
Stockers and feeders...
Hogs—
Prime mixed............... $17.85@18.00
Medium mixed............ 17.65@17.85
Rough heavies............ 16.85@ 17.00
15.75@16.25
PiR9 ...............................
Bulk............................ 17.76@ 17.86
Sheep—
Lambs......................... $13.750114.25
13.50@14.C0
Valley lambs...............
9.50@10.25
Yearlings....................
8.500, 9.50
Wethers.......... L..........
6.00@ 8.00
Ew es..............................
Good Road in Colorado.
The maintenance usually runs up
to a considerable annual cost, and It
Is this maintenance that usually Is
neglected by county commissioners
and road supervisors.
As good an Illustration o f road
maintenance as I have been able to
find is that practiced by New Hamp
shire. New Hampshire’s roads are
mainly graveled roads.
Most o f
them are rightly constructed, the
gravel being wet and rolled as It Is
placed upon the road, but in many
places this is Impossible on account
o f the expense and in these places the
gravel Is simply spread upon the road
and left fo r the traffic to compact.
Many o f these roads have to bear
a fairly heavy traffic, especially dur
ing the summer months, most o f
which Is automobile traffic, and the
roads would soon be ruined were it
not fo r the maintenance feature o f
New Hampshire’s road system. This
road maintenance Is carried on by
several hundred patrolmen. They are
hired from the last o f March until
the first o f December, and their
work consists In patching every lit
tle rut and hole that appears, clean
ing the ditches and culverts and In
keeping the roads smooth.
Each patrolman has a section o f
road assigned him. He Is. required to
furnish a one-horse wagon, a shovel,
a rake and a light road drag.
The
road Is smoothed by this drag after
every rain, and If chuck holes start,
fresh material Is placed In them,
tamped down and left for the traffic
to compact.
These patrolmen are paid an aver
age of $3.25 a day and the total cost
o f maintenance runs about $240 per
mile per year. The total first cost
o f construction o f these roads runs
about $4,000 a mile.
DIRT ROADS ARE PREFERRED '
Much o f the Wear and Tear on Hard
Road Can Be Avoided by Making
Dirt Track on Each Side.
Dirt roads are the cheapest— and
for a large part o f the year the best—
highways tliat can be built. Because
we want to use our roads every day in
the yenr we are willing to go to th e 1
expense o f hard road building, but
that Is no reason fo r discarding the
dirt roads entirely.
More than half the wear on the hard
road can be avoided by making a good
dirt track on each side. People will
use the dirt road from preference
when it is passable. The life o f the
hard road w ill be greatly lengthened,
the cost o f repairs reduced, and the
needs o f the road users better served
by building this combination o f hard
and dirt roads.