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POR EXTRA SESSION.
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
MOLD ON TO YOUR PRUNBS.
- Advice Often to O m m t by
■toner Reynolds.
Ral em— “Prunegrowem who have
not already sold their fruit should hold
it. Cor a price that will give them a fair
profit,*' says Lloyd *9r Reynolds, for
merly horticultural commissioner for
the second district.
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“Dealers are around offering to pay
a basis price of 1% cents. Probably a
— majority of the prune crop this year,
w ill average in the 50-60 to-the-pound
also, and at this basis growers would
get only 3 cents a pound for their fruit.
Since the cost of labor and fuel has
advanced, 3 cents a pound Is about the
actual cost of production. Growers are
cutting their own throats when they
t -sell at such figures.
"T he condition, of the fruit market
does not warrant such low prices.
_1 France had a very short crop and ia
"buying prunes heavily in this country.
T h e dispatches from N ew York tell us
that the packing houses in this country
have had difficulty in filling the orders
as fast as they are received.
The
apple crop of the United States is 1,000
000 barrels short and prices for that
fruit will be high. Canned goods have
advanced very materially. In every
view of the situation I can see no rea-
on why prunegrowers should not re
ceive a fair price, If they will ask for
it.
"It seems to me to be certain that
all the prunes will be wanted and the
proper course for the growers is to
wait until a living price la ‘offered. I
do not advise holding for speculative
prices, but for a living price. Oregon
prunes this year are of first-class quali
ty and they give satisfaction wherever
sold.
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LIEU LAND REJECTIONS LARQB
Land Agent West Puts Records In Order
and (lathers Figures.
Salem— State Land Agent Oswald
W e s t has Just completed the classifi
cation and filing of the correspond
ence and papers relating to state lieu
land selections in Oregon. Hereto
fore the records have been in confus
ion and one seeking Information re
garding any
particular
selection,
would have difficulty In finding it.
N ow the records are arranged so that
any desired Information may be had
at a moment's notice. The list shows
that the lieu land selections upon min
eral base, which have been passed
upon by the Federal Land
Depart
ment within the past year or two ag
gregate 74,000 acres, of which about
4.000 acres have been clear listed and
about 70,000 has either been rejected,
or is still pending with the outlook
poor for its approval.
Pendleton Owns Its First Park.
I
Legislature to Remedy
»tate of Affairs.
niLL IN SOTTHBRN OR BOON.
Butte, M ont, Nov. 6.— A Helena dis
patch to the Miner says that petitions
from all sections of the state are
pouring into the governor’? office ask
ing that an extra session of the legis
lature be called to remedy the state of
A f f ^ s existing lb Montana as a re-
the suspension of the Am alga
mated mines and smelters. Governor
Toole as yet has made no announce
ment as to his determination in the
matter.
A move Is on foot to have a memor
ial presented to the legislature, in the
event it is convened in extra session
¿king that body to submit to the voters
of Montana an amendment to the con-
sitution providing that eight hours
constitute a workday for miners and
smelting men.
Notwithstanding Mayor Mullin’s or
der, every gambling house in the city
was open all night. The four big es
tablishments were notifled to close at
midnight, but they paid no attention
to the order. Long after 13 o'clock
and until an early hour this morning
the houses did a rushing business.
President William ScaUon, of the
Anaconda mining company, and F.
Augustus Heinz, both deny that any
negotiations are on for the purchase
of the Heinze properties in
Butte.
This denial followed a report emanat
ing from Boston to the effect that Mr.
Heinze had been offered $15,000,000
for his Butte miney.
Pennsylvania Capitalists Preparing for a
Heavy Cut of Vlmber.
PANAMA RBVOLT.
W ILL MANUFACTURE STAVES.
Moulton Win Hava a Plant That W » Em
ploy 100 Men.
S t Helens— It Is now a settled fact
that the Western Cooperage Company,
composed of Kentucky capitalists, will
build a large stave
factory at
Houltou, on the Northern Pacific rail
road, just on the outer edge of the cor
porate limits of S t Helens,. A dozen
men are already
at
work getting
camps ready in the woods, where the
bolts for the staves will be cut,up
and split into the usual size.
A factory site has been purchased
from W . H. Dolman, at Houltou, which
has ample space for switches and side
tracks. Options have been secured on
several tracts of timber land, and «a
contract has been entered into with
the Oregon W ood Company to float
down 800,000 cords of stave bolts an
nually. Construction work will begin
on the factory at once, and the man
agement state that fully one hundred
men will be employed in the mill and
timber.
This company owns factories in
Kentucky, Arkansas, Georgia and at
Seattle and Aberdeen, Wash.
Itoseburg ■— The Kelleher-Skelley
Lumber Company has just been in
corporated here, by W . J. Kelleher,
John K. Skelley and W . H. Sykes with
a paid up capital of 360,000. The com
pany has already acquired about 6000
acres of fine timber lan d. on Billy
Creek, a few miles west of Yoncallg,
in this county.
A sawmill building has already been
erected and part of the machinery is
now in place. The plant will have a
daily capaclty o f 50,000 feet of lum
ber to begin With, and will be ready
for operation within 30 days. A flume
will be put in from the mill to carry
the product direct to the Southern Pa
cific railroad track at Drain, where a
lumber yard will also be established.
Looking tor Rosorvotr Rites.
Ashland— H. E. Green and J. E.
Reese, of the hydrographic branch of
the United States Geological Survey,
arrived In Ashland last night from
San Francisco. They are in the re
clamation service and will cross the
mountains eastward froifl here on an
extended exploration and in1
ing trip to locate possible sites for res
ervoirs for the storage of waters for
irrigation purposes. They go to Pel
ican Bay. Fort Klamath, The Agency,
Sprague River Valley, Bly and Bonan
za, and their itinerary will take in all
the Modoc lava beds and the Honey
Lake district
October Asylum Report.
Salem— The report of Superintend
ent J. F. Calbreath. of the State Ip*
Bane Asylum, for the month of Octo
ber shown that the general health1 of
the patients is good. The total cost
of articles consumed was $7163.99,
and the expenditures for salaries
$5999.10, or a total of $13,163.09. The
average daily enrollment was 1330,
making the cost per capita per month
$9.89, and per capita per day 32 cents.
Agriculture will not have attained
tbe highest place nutli farm* of tbs
country have been made to produce
annually the full measure of their ca
pacity.
This means rotation, fertili
zation and a host of other things that
must come with progr essive farming.
Independence of tbs Isthmus Has Been
Proclaimed.
Panama, Nov. 5.—-The Independence
of the Isthmus was proclaimed at 6
p. m. today. A large and enthusiastic
crowd of all political parties assem
bled and marched tb the headquarters
of the government troops, where Gen
eral Tovar and General Amaya, who
arrived thls morning, were imprisoned
in the name of the Republic of Panama.
The enthusiasm was immense, and at
least 3000 of the men in the gathering
were armed.
The battalion of Colombian troops at
Panama favors the movement which
is also thought to meet with the ap
proval of at least two of the govern
ment transports now here.
The seeming inhclvity on the part of
the government in not preparing some
defense when rumors of the uprising
became rife are looked upon as show
ing confidence in the reports made by
General Obaldia, the governor o f the
department of Panama, who issued a
manifesto thanking all political parties
for the adhesien promised to the gov
ernment when it was reported a heavy
force was marching in the vicinity of
Penomeme.
The streets of Colon today present
ed somewhat the same appearance as
during the days of the revolution.
Several hundred troops, who arrived
today from Savanilla on the Colombian
gunboat Cartagena, with their wives,
are squatted on the street corners.
The battalion consists of 450 soldiers,
all well supplied with ammunition, un
der the command of General Lovar,
who left for Panama today, but the
troops still remain here.
Pendleton— Pendleton is now
the
owner of a city park. For years such
a move has been agitated, but nothing
was done until a week or so ago, when
the council bargained for the property
in the east part of the city, where the
water Bupply is secured. The money
has been paid over and the deeds
filed. The land was purchased from
5UBMBRQED WRECK,
Jessie 8. Vert, consisting of one en
tire block, and for which she received
Fonnd in Twenty-Five Fathoms of Water
Malheur County Clean-Up.
31500, and four lots from V. Btroble.
In Barclay Sounu.
Baker
City—
General
Manager
O.
C.
T h e city purchased this property to
Victoria, B. C., N®v.‘ 6.— A report has
prevent buildings from being erected Johnson brought in the clean-up of a
60-day run from the Rich Creek placer been made to Captain Gaudln, Agent
there.
mine of the Eldorado Mine ft Ditch
of Marine, that a submerged wreck,
Company, of Malheur county, today.
Put Up Much Fruit.
The clean-up amounted to about 800 seemingly of an iron vessel, has been
Ashland— The Ashland Preserving ounces valued at about $16,000. R. found lying in 25 fathoms of water off
Company, which has been operating E. Corburn, o f Carroll, la., is the Amphritite Point, Barclay
Sound.
an extensive cannery In tills city the principal owner of the diggings.
Fishermen have come in contact with
the wreck when trolling and the fact
present season, will close operations
that their "lines, when cleared, showed
for the ydar this week. The season
f .
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rust and iron stains, indicates the pos
has been longer than usual and there
sibility of it being an iron vessel. The
have been more people employd than
Wheat— W alla W alla, 75c; blue-
vessel is five miles from shore.
ever before, the average number of stem, 79c; valley, 78c.
Captain Gaudln has communicated
operatives being between 40 and 50.
Barley— Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, with Admiral Bickford, commanding
Manager Charles Pierce reports that $22; rolled, $21.
the station, intimating a possibility of
during the four months’ run the plant
Flour— Valley, $8.75(83.85 per bar the wreck being that of the British
has canned 15 tons of Bartlett pears,
warship Condor, which foundered in
21 tons of peaches, 10 tons of Btring rel; hard wheat straights, $3.75®4.10;
December two years ago. W reckage
hard
wheat
patents,
$4.20(84.60;
gra
beans and seven tons of blackberries.
ham, $3.35(93.75; whole wheat, $3.5i from the Condor was found by search
ing vessels in that vicinity, but there
(94; rye wheat, $4.50.
Wood f7 a Cord.
Oats— No. 1 white, $1.07J{; gray, Is nothing to Indicate that it is that
lost warship, for many wrecks have
Pendleton— There is a scarcity of $1.05 per cental.
occurred near by within the past year.
wood in Pendleton. This is flue to the
Millstuffs— Bran, $20 per ton; mid
lack of cars to bring it from the Blue dlings, $24; shorts, $20; chep, $18;
Qfts Up Indian Hunt.
Mountains, from where Pendleton gets linseed dairy food, $19.
her supply. There seems to be plenty
Douglas, Wyo., Nov. 5.— John Mbrton,
Hay— Timothy, $16 per ton; clover,
o f wood at the b e lt Prices are excep $13; grain, $11; cheat, $11.
a member of the Douglaa^ posse, says
tionally high. F ir is selling at 37 per
Butter— Fancy creamery, 2 7 ){® 3 0 c the Indians who shot Sheriff Miller
cord and pine at 36.50. This price is
per pound; dairy, 16 K ® 20c; Btore, and a deputy in a, bloody battle Sat
nearly 31 higher than last year. Coal
16c.
1« selling at $8 per ton.
urday have separated, and each par
Cheese — Full cream, twins, 15c;
ty is taking a different trail. The
Young America,
15(916c;
factory
posse was unable to follow the lead,
Sale of Orest Timber Tract
prices, l ® l j < c less.
and the pursuit was temporarily aban
Astoria— A deed has been filed for
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 10® 10 He doned. It is the opinion of many of
record whereby the Oregon ft Mon per pound; s p rin g ,llj^ e ; hens, 11912c;
the officers "that the redskins cannot
tana Lum ber Company, of Helena, broilers, $2.60 per dosen; turkeys, live, be caught until they return to the res
Mont., sells to Samuel
MeClure, of 14® 15c per pound; dressed, 16®18c; ervation, and as fast as they come Into
Stillwater, Wash.. 1566.29 acres of ducks, $8@7 per dozen; geese, $7910. the Pine Ridge agency they will be
timber land in the Lewis and Clark
Eggs— Oregon ranch, 30c; Eastern, taken into custody.
district. The consideration named is fresh, 24®26 ‘■¿c.
31000 , but it is supposed a much high
Potatoes— Oregon, 50®65c per sack;
Russia Sees Peace at Hand.
®
er price was paid. -
sweet potatoes, 2(92 )fc.
Paris, Nov. 5.—lM. 8arinsky, secre
Hops— 1903 crop, 12® 22c per pound, tary of Count T.amsdorf, the Russian
Vacancies In Legislature.
inister of Foreign Affairs, In au in-
according to quality.
Salem— Not only will a special ses
rvlew this evening said Russia de
Wool— Valley, 17<9l8e; Eastern Ore
sion of the legislature be necessary to gon, 12® 15c; mohair, 35®37jf|c.
sires general peace In both the near
cure the defect in the taxation laW,
and far east, and is not anxious for
Beef— Dressed, 6 ® 6 j^c per pound.
but a special election will be neces
any pretext for a clash with the
Veal— Small, 7 * (9 8 c ; large, ffc g ft c
Mikado's forces, as some of the Jingo
sary to fill several vacancies in the
der pound.
istic press would try to show. A solu
legislature. The vacancies must be
Mutton — Dressed, 4 ® fe ; lambs, tion of problems that have been puz
filled before the session is held, ac
cording to the language of the consti dressed, 6c.
T zling the two countries, the secretary
Perk— Brewed, 6 ® 6 ]ge.
says, 1« near at hand.
tution.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
S
Cun • F u r m ar M a k e M o n ey ?
My answer is that very many farm
ers do make money. One must first
consider what the Investment is in an
ordinary firm . A general farm of
eighty acres, with usual improve
ments, would not inventory more than
$4,000 to $8,000. W ith the larger fig
ure the net Income at 10 per cent
should be $800; yet no farm that is
considered to be at all profitable pro
duces so little Income as this. The
dally living, which must bq charged to
income, would amount to " more than
this. I f the general farmer “comes
out even” at the end of the year, he
has, nevertheless, made a good rate
on his investment, and he baa in
creased the value of his home at the
same time. The difficulty with farm
ing, considered from the financial
point of view, is not that the rate o f
Income is low, but that the amount of
profitable investment is email. Con
sidered in Its bearing on the national
welfare, this fact is propitious, for it
means that the farm provides an in
dependent business of small resources.
Considered as a means of producing
great Individual fortunes, however, the
farm is inadequate, and it is to be
hoped that It alw ays w ill be so, for at
least one great profession or business
should be measured in other terms
than money-producing power for the
individual.
There is untold wealth In the soli.
There are practically no “exhausted”
Soils; they are mostly humus robbed
and poorly handled soils. No one has
ever yet Beached the limit, on. any con
siderable scale, of what the soil is
capable o f producing. Many men
make a comfortable living on ten to
fifty acres of land, and yet they al
ways expect *bo produce more next
year. Only here and there are we be
ginning to develop a really scientific
and businesslike agriculture.
The opportunities in farming are
great It is almost impossible for a
man to fail, if he knows the business
and has abilities that would load him
to success In other undertakings. It
I* a general belief that almost any
man can leave the city and oofike a
living on a farm. This is a grievous
error. Farming must be learned, as
most engineering or teaching. It can
not be learned from a book or a bulle
tin, but by farming. The older the
man when be make* a radical change
of business tbs less are his chances of
success. I f he has been In a subor
dinate position in his former business,
his chances of success in farming are
less, for be will probably be deficient
in executive handling and initiative.
Often a druggist or a preacher will
think that he can go to farming with
every assurance of success; yet be
would not think that a farmer could
go into the drag business or to preach
ing. Yet many a business man and
many a preacher makes a most suc
cessful farmer.—L. H. Bailey, In New
York Tribune.
S eta ta d tha Hey Product.
Every farmer strives to get his hay
beyond the washing influence of rain
as soon as possible. Rain water may
dissolve and remove more than 10 per
cent of the dry matter of hay, and
what Is thus removed may represent
quite 20 per cent of the feeding value.
H alf an inch of rain means some fifty
tons of water per acre, and If the crop
be equally spread over the (round. It
la of course, subjected to the whole
of the washing Influence of this quan
tity of water. But if the crop be put
Into cocks that occupy only one-tenth
of the area, it follows that the hay
win be affected by only one-tenth of
the rainfall, that is to say, by five in
stead o f fifty tons of water. Not only
does water actually wash out much of
the soluble and most valuable constit
uents of bay, but It also removes the
aroma, and leaves the crop much less
appetizing as food for stock. The
coloF, too, suffers, and with It tbe sell
ing value.— Massachusetts Ploughman.
F a r m N ote*,
The greatest mistake that can be
made is to allow stock to deteriorate in
tbe winter time with tbe hope of re
gaining w bst has been lost when grass
cornea
The sheep will find quite an amount
of forage on the stubble field which
other swimcu will not touch at this
season, but because a sheep is witling
to eat what it can find In that manner
should not deprive it from receiving
regular rations at the barnyard.
Every farmer should have a few
grapevine*. They serve as arbors or
shade, and can be grown where they
will not take up much space. A ll poul
try yards will be improved if grape
vines are grown along the fence* and
tb* fowls w ill find shade under the
overhanging branches in summer.
■
Some farmers have a side line when
engaged' in farming. Some of them _
make more at tbe side issue than they
do at tbe main vocation. Neglect must
come when one is engaged! in a side
issue. This has been ascertained by
blttsr experience.
In constructing a poultry house I f la
best to have its face to the southwest,
■■ the sun w ill then send In Its warmth
as soon as It rises. Tbe sun wOl warm
the house until about 8 o'clock in the
afternoon in tbe winter. I f the house *
faces the south, as is usually the cus
tom, the sun’s rays w ill not enter bo-
fore 9 or 10 o’clock, although the morn
ing is the most Important time for re
ceiving the benefit.
Coop fo r P e t t o a in * C h ic k «««.
Where it is desired to take extra
pains in fattening chickens, it is nec
essary to confine them in close quar
ters for two o r ’three weeks before kill
ing. Tbe coop shown herewith is Ideal
for this purpose. It is set o n Jogs 2%
PATTKHmO COOP BOB POULTBT.
feet above the ground for convenience
In caring for the fowls. Tha coop is
about 2 feet wide, 5 feet long, and
2 feet 9 inches high, and will easily
hold six bird*.
...
The bottom should be constructed of
slats, somewhat closer together than
the sides and ends, so that tbe drop
ping* may fall through. The coops
should be placed under ro o fs‘to shed
rain and to protect the fowls from tbs
hot sun. In cold weather it would be
necessary to protect them still more
by placing the coops in buildings. Feed
troughs and water vessete are attached
at the outride in easy reach o f the
fowls.— J. D. Spooner, in Farm and
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Shelled Cora Belt Feeder,
M y style of a feed crib can be made
o f any slae, so as to suit any number
of cattle.
Mine, however, is 6 feet
wide, 15 long and 10 high. It has run
ners, e e, underneath, that it may be
readily moved to any place desired.
The roof is extended out so as to keep
grain dry as well as the hacks of
▲IT ID E A BOB COBIT FEEDERS.
steers. It is supported by 2x4 braces
as shown at c c c. Cuopla d ia well
opened for free ventilation. The floor
Is raised one foot in the center, so as to
make sufficient fall for (ged to drop
into feed trays, f. A slide, g, 1x6 inches
by 15 feet, may be used to regulate tbe
flow of grain into manger. It should
have two handles attached aa shown.
Tbe door to tbe scoop hole should bs
made with slides similar to a scoop
board, as at a, and about 2x2ft feet,
that there may be no waste of com
while filling the crib. The 2x4’a, b,
which form the bottom, should project
on each aide about 20 inches to build
the feed trough.— A. W . Hedde, in
Farm and Home.
we H o b H i n t « ,
Sows with very nervous tempera
ments should be avoided.
Tbe ]>igs should have a dry, clean
bed, free from dust and filth.
A sow should neter be confined to a
dry lot barren of all grasses and other
forage.
The cheapest pork Is that made by
the wise use of clover pasture.
Tbe hog should Arid a place in the
economical
management o f
every
farm.
No difference how plentiful the sup
ply of slops, the hogs should have
fresh water dally.
W hile dust In the bed la Injurious,
more may be said against dampness,
which is fatal to thrift
The bog to ‘thrive best must bs giv
en food that w ill build up the system
evenly. Tbe bona, muscle and fat
must maintain just proportions,