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About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1927)
WATER, BEARER, J .A L L A N AUTHOR, y ' aman DUNN to KI5 M A T E ' T H E D IV IN E R S Y N O P S IS — Id ly flo h ln g H a r- m am »« c r e e k . In C a l if o r n ia , C a le b W a r n e r , c iv il e n g i n e e r a n d a N e w E n g l a n d e r , la w ltiv -a g o f th e e n d o f a c o y o tte p u lle d d o w n by tw o w o lf h o u n d s , u r g e d o n b y a g i r l r id e r A d m ir in g th e b o u n d s , h e I n tr o d u c e « h im s e lf , a n d le a r n s h e r n a m e Is C lin to n . W ith w e s t e r n h o s p i t a l i t y s h e I n v it e s h im to th e r a n c h to m e e t h e r f a t h e r . A t th e C lin on h o m e W a r n e r l e a r n s hla n e w f r i e n d ’s n a m e Is B e tty . H e Is w e lc o m e d b y h e r f a th e r . S o u th e r n C iv il w a r v e t e r a n a n d o w n e r o f l i e r r n a n o s v a lle y . He te lls th e m s o m e t h in g o f h is a m b itio n s a n d h is f e e l i n g t h a t h e Is d e s ti n e d to be a “ W a t e r - B e a r e r . ” In th e to w n o f G o ld e n W a r n e r t h a r e a a i a p a r t m e n t w ith h is old C o lu m b ia c o lle g e c h u m , T e d B a i te r . c a r e f r e e a n d s o m e w h a t d i s s i p a te d y o u th , o n ly c h ild o f h is w id o w e d m o th e r , w h o c o n tr o ls th e f a m ily f o r tu n e . A t a c lu b lu n c h e o n B a x t e r I n tr o d u c e s C a le b t o W i l b u r C o * , l e n d i n g b u s in e s s m a n a n d p r e s id e n t o f th e w a t e r com pany w h ic h s u p p lie s th e D eed s o f G o ld e n . H a g iv e s Cox a n in k l i n g o f h is a m b itio n s , a n d C ox, I m p r e s s e d , I n v it e s h im to d in n e r t h a t n ig h t. D u r in g d in n e r C ox a s k s C a le b to c a l l a t h is office n e x t d a y . 11« d o e s bo a n d C<>x a r r a n g e s a m e e tin g b e tw e e n C a le b a id H in c k le y , t h e w a te r c o m p a n y ’s c h ie f e n g in e e r B a x t e r te lls C a le b he Io In d iff ic u ltie s w ith a g ir l , M a ry M o rg a n , C o x ’s s te n o g ra p h e r, w ho I n s is ts he m u s t m s r r y h e r. W ith H in c k le y , C a le b lo o k s o v e r th e w a t e r c o m p a n y 's s o u rc e o f s u p p ly , th e C r y s t a l s p r in g s , In lie rrn a n o s v a lle y . was a man. To create something, to be a w ater bearer, to the th irsty earth or to thirsty people." Baxter, coming In, broke through his reverie. "you look like a latter-day prophet seeing visions," said Buxter. “ W hat’s the Idg Idea?" "Ju st a hunch, so far, Ted. I'm go ing across the bay tomorrow, pros pecting.” The other looked at him oddly. "Expect to uncover a gold mine at El Nlilo? Beware of the sirens who lie behind the rocks! As I remember her, th at day at the dog show, the Clinton girl was a looker. B ew are!" ■'I'm not looking for that kind of a mine, Ted. And I hadn’t thought of going to El Nhlo this trip. You seem fairly happy yourself.” “I am. I've heard from my parties In the land deal. They'll be out In a few weeks. Probably some tim e next month. Thereby greatly relieving the general situation. Now It's up to me to attend to the little form ality of finding the land to please them. I wonder If there's anything across the TT CHAPTER V— Continued "Surely. Had to. Still have to. If you ever build u dam unywhere along the line of the (¡rent Fault, don't forge: that. Every major qu«u> runs along the name line, out of the sen at a tangent, nor'weat to sou’east down the original crack. The big temblor In 1812 th at wrecked tin- Mis sions, and the quake In 1906 that wrecked Holden and Santa Rosa, moved over an Identlral trail. And th at trail went clean through my big dum down there." The long lake had once been a peifoe- ■ ful v a lle v , Hinckley tidd Caleb, a stngc road winding through It on the way lo tin sea. farms, farm houses and a hamlet with a famous roadhouse at the Crystal Springs for which the val ley was named. All these had been razed to prepare the bottom of tin- great reservoir, fence* taken up, treea eliminated, the plant devastated aa the tilg dam rose In the great notch that formed tin- main outlet to the valley. Caleb turned the talk to the qucatlon of Golden a Impending shortage. "Mr. Cox,” ho *ald, "stated th at there w a a un more w aterahed avail able on the peninsula.” 'T h a t Is true. We own a certain number of artesian wella around the l-.wer end of the liny lint they are only a drop in the bucket. The outlook la not very encouraging.” "How about across the liny?" Caleb put the query with a degree of nervous ness lie feared th at llluekley was about to uncover hla own precious theory and demolish It. The engineer a eye* twinkled. "They «av th at w ater, like gold. Is where you And It. And findings keep ings I T here Is w ater over there th at ethically belongs to Oakville. Our company naturally considers Golden more Im portant. Hut It la difficult of development. Means large expendi ture. We should have a hnrd Job to get w ater rates raised sufficiently lo w arrant It. F iltration Is the Idg tro u ble. The work would be elaborate and expensive. We can't see our way d e a r.'' i aleh kept hla face d e a r of every thing but earnest attention, llut he was breathing more easily. Ills theory was still virgin. Hinckley proceeded to go Into the present nitration system and the lay o u t o f the conduits that supplied the hydrate« of Golden. Caleb's Interest It- Crystal lakes bad been satlsfled but be foil -wed the technical talk with Intelligent comment and left Hie engi neer at Inst on term s th at were more than merely friendly. He reached Golden after the stores were closed for the -lav hut. early the next morn ing he -htalned geodetic section map« of the lUadranglea covering Caliente v alle' ind the Gahllan range. He put In m««t . f the day studying these and making little draw ings to scale In ver tical plane. It was all In support of a mere theory but It w a s his habit to be pains taking even In prelim inaries, and he surveyed his sketches with a good deal of sntlsfaetbai. If the theory panned -ill It meant, not merely money and fame If he handled his dis ,-nvery pr-q-erly, hut It would make lilm. Caleb W arner, an actual factor til pioneering. In elty building, lie quote,! to him self what Betty Clinton had suit! a t El Nhlo. "T hat Is what I should prefer. If I The Long Lake Had Once Peaceful Valley. Been a buy? I must look up my notes. Want me to come along with you. Cal? 1 wonder If the El Nldo valley Is for sale?" He glanced mockingly at Caleb and laughed. “Old Chief Wooden Face, aren't you? D on't worry. I won’t butt In to pouch on your preserves. Give my regards to Miss Clinton. She may vaguely rem em ber me. I was Ini no d in ed to her at the Show. But, re member my warning. Stoics like you, when they fall, fall h ard!" CHAPTER VI T h e D iviner Caleb caught an early ferry for the slx-nille w ater trip across th e bay from G.dden to Oakville. At Oakville he took a local train th at paralleled the shore of the lower bay for a time before striking east through Coyote canyon, the n atural gateway through the hills for the overland trains. As he had done on H erm anns creek, Caleb noted flood signs. Then he gave him self up to study ing his sketches, cov ering the region he was going to pros pect, going over them while the train tngged up the canyon until he knew them by heart. lie left the train at the same sta tion he had used on his previous trip, buying some fruit to serve ns lunch eon before he crossed the bridge and started up Hermanns. He had brought along roil and creel, more n s a mask to hl* real Intention* than from any hlen of fishing. The scanty flow ran In a deop chan nel gouged out hy floods. He ex amined the aides and found them all of gravel. A wagon road th at had fol lowed the creek up front the railroad '"L’l! .*2.’!! .*—” ! turned off to wind behind a low ridge. It was deep-rutted and Caleb traced It. He found that it ended at a gravel pit, dug Into the able of the ridge, used probably for roudmuklng purposes. The pit had been bitten out In the shape of a horseshoe and, standing where one of the calks would come, he saw a dilapidated shed from FOWLS PAY WELL the roof of which smoke was rising FOR RIGHT CARE through a rusty stove pipe A man leaning against the open door, su r veyed him curiously. With profits Increasing from poultry Caleb nodded to him as he wulked It will puy to tuke good care of the over to the shack, crunching through producing hens this summer. the gravel. The man was lank and “I t Is poor economy to neglect the tall, stooped of shoulder und constrict hens dutlug the rush of summer ed of chest. A hooked nose stuck out work.” says A. O. Oliver, poultry ex boldly from the peaked und sunken tension specialist for the North Caro face between eyes th at glittered lina State college. "W hen the hens strangely. Long hwlr fell below his are neglected profits are reduced. sh irt collar. Less grain Is needed under range con As he rested against the door Jamb fit of coughing attacked him and he ditions but plenty of musty should be shisik with It like a reed In the wind. supplied In the hoppers. U nder aver He was so helpless In the grip of the age farm conditions w here the hens attack th at Caleb hurried to support have free range and production Is de creasing. less pf the scratch grain and him, thinking him about to fall. But the violent efforts ceased and more of the mush should be fed. This the man rallied, sndllng wanly, with will force the birds to e a t more mash a grimy handkerchief set to his lips. and thereby stim ulate egg production. Caleb caught sight of telltale flecks Mash consumption m ust be encour of bright-red blood quickly folded Into aged to get high egg production. The the rag. The cough was from the mash Is composed of whole grains finely ground and Is more easily di lungs, the man tubercular. “ '8 all right, stranger,” said the gested.” M r. Oliver suggests th a t the hens man. "I've bln a sight worse. Fm gettln’ It baked out of me here. Lungs be given equal parts of cracked corn, teched hut they’re heulln’. Flshln', wheat and oats by weight as a scratch are ye? B etter work up to the canyon grain. If w heat is not available, one- yonder. No use w astin' yore time third corn and tw o-thlrds oats should down here. Folly the road below the be fed. F or the average farm flock pit an' then trull the crick. It's tough a mash made of equul part* of w heat goln’. Slle's chokin’, what little they bran, w heat middlings, corn meal, Is of It." ground oats and fish meal Is good and ".Mostly gravel undernenth, to Judge this should be kept befora the hena. by the pit," Caleb answered. “T hanks In a dry pluce, a t all times. for the tip. Have a cigar?" Feeding Is one of the most Im The man took It wolflshly and bit portant factors In securing eggs from off the end. the farm (lock during summer. The Caleb gave him a match. hens may be kept laying and molting "I thought th at perhaps you owned delayed by either Increasing the the gravel pit.” amount of mush fed or by Increasing "Me. I don’t own nothin’. 'Cept the protein w ithout Increasing the this cough, and I’m willin’ to get shet amount of mash. If a flock of birds of that. Mine's a charity Job. It's cun be selected which does not stop good gravel an’ the hill makes It handy laying until October or November, the to git nt. I can’t work at my trad e chicks from these eggs will have a no longer. It takes It out of me, you murked effect on the egg production of see." next season’s flock, states Mr. Oliver. Caleb didn’t see. The g litter In the Early molters, on the other hand, will man's eyes was not so much th at of produce early molting chicks which fever ns of the spirit, he decided. H e work short hours and eat as much as fancied him a little demented, by way the heavy producers. of being a crank or a fanatic. “I'm glad the land's worth some thing,” he said. “It doesn't look like It." The man shot over a quick, burn ing look. "T h at’s to them ns looks only on the surface," he said. “W hat do you mean?" The man led the way Into the shack. From the two-by-fours thnt supported th e corrugated Iron roof hung some switches of freshly cut willow and hazel. Some were old and dried. And all were forked. "Know w hat those are?" asked the man. "Them 's divinin' rod* I’m a diviner. A W ater-Finder. T h at’s my trade. I t’s the power within me that goes out an ’ leaves me weak. Too weak to work at It. Each Job means another nail In the lid of my coffin. Mebbe you’re one of them that laugh at It?" he dem anded fiercely. "But th ere’s many In the upper valley ns has blessed me when I showed ’em w here to bore.” The thing seemed uncanny. Yet. somehow, It fitted In. The hunch stirred In his brain. To Caleb, under the spell of his vision. It seemed pre destined th at he, the W ater-Bearer, should meal this W ater-Finder to con firm his hope, a living signpost thnt he was on the track. He knew thnt w ithin the year the French Academy of Sciences had ac cepted the dem onstration of a nuin her of selentlfiealljA controlled cases where the "w ater-divining rod” had proved beyond a doubt that certain persons were gifted with the power to discover subterranean springs and reservoirs. Scientists did not attem pt to explain the mystery, hut accepted ,h e phenomenon and were making it the subject of expert research to dis- cover the n atnral causes. "I have known many cases hack In the E ast, w here I come from,’’ Caleb said, “where w ater has been found hy the use of the rod.” The man was Instantly mollified. “Ah,” he said. "It’s all true. I ain 't quite human, mebbe. I t’s a gift, the power. Like a medium's. Super natural. The spirits talk to me about It sometimes. I'd like to show ye. bnt I’m too weak. But you can take my word for It—me, D avid Evans, the Welsh W ater Finder, w h st’s discovered n score of wells north of Coyote crick ; th at there's w ater nil under here— under this gravel. Apparently tbi« David Evans I* to play an Im portant part in the story. W hat does he do? iNTINl’KP ) .* « • • S • • •« a « h A W *■ A« • »■ » w • S e * •» • » » a M an Ever W a g in g F igh t on D isea se Happy legends to the contrary, there seems no reason to believe th at the world ever has known a golden age of health. Geologists find diseased hones which are thought to show th at even great prehistoric Ilsanls. and after them the early mammals, suf fered fro :. tum ors which, according lo the advertiser*, will claim the teeth of four out of five of ua. Man | probably falls heir to troubles which other flesh suffered before him. By herding In crowds, by giving up his dower rights of sunlight and space, he even ha* added to tunny of those trouble*, has created wholly new i ways of w racking body and mind For ' a tim e the balance of life and death [prom ised doom to cities: they sur- vlved only because life was produced , abundantly and cheaply w ithout their walls, and the best and most adven turous were fed luto them. The slow process of observation and control i which has made It safer now to live In a big city than In a village (and often safer to live In a city than tn the open country Itself), Is the science of public h e a lth —Survey Graphic. Of alt European countries, Ireland , accom modates the fewest Jew * OZJ M ed ica l School F irst medlcul school In A m erica was established at l ’erkasle. Pa., on May 3, 176£. In 1779 the rights and prop erty of the school w ere tran sferred to the U niversity of Pennsylvania by the sta te legislature. FAT NEEDED FOR QUALITY BUTTER Two things ham pering profits to cream eries and cream patrons are the low grade of b u tterfa t sent to the cream eries and small am ount per patron. ‘•These two things prevent the cream eries from paying about five cents per pound more than they do pay for b u tterfa t,” says \V. L. Cleven ger. specialist In dairy m anufacturing at the N orth Carolina S tate college. ¡•There a re a large num ber of patrons who sell less than 200 pounds of but terfat annually. It costs Just as much to collect, weigh, test and otherw ise handle a sm all quantity of cream as it does to handle a lurger am o u n t It Is a general rule th a t the sm aller the am ount of cream produced on a farm each day, the poorer the quality, be cause of the longer period between de liveries and the less cure and atte n tion given the cream while it Is on the farm .” Those cream eries which are now making the best grade of butter, m an ufacturing it at the lowest cost per pound and selling the product for the highest m arket price, are the ones which get nil average of 1,000 pounds of fat per farm , states Mr. Clevenger. This means thnt the product from five cows, each producing ns much ns 2<X) pounds of fat per year, is being sold. U nder such conditions, the cream- erles can operate most profitably and the patrons also get u profit from their dairying. The average return is about five to ten dollurs per cow per month. Mr. Clevenger sta te s th n t the cream eries of North C arolina are pro ducing an excellent product, but It could be made still better. T here are some fa n n e rs who are m aking money by shipping cream , but more are needed. T here a re too many farm ers supplying cream who keep only one or tw o cows. If the unprofitable cows were weeded out and the whole m at ter put on a business basis, cream production would soon become a source of real w ealth In th e state. Incubator Eggs Used as Feed for Young Chicks Replace Whole Milk in Infertile Incubator eggs may not be Manufactured Products a total loss when taken from the m a chine, according to tests of the Ohio agricultural experim ent station. In fact they muke a valuuble addition to the ration for young chicks, m arket broilers and laying hens, it Is found. Before feeding Infertile, dead-germ, and dead-ln-shell eggs from the hatch eries, the eggs should be boiled 30 to 45 minutes and passed through a food chopper or suusuge mill. The ground product Is theu mixed w ith about an equal weight of dry mash to absorb moisture. The m ixture Is fed dally to chicks a fter the first week In open troughs In am ounts th a t will be cleaned up In 30 minutes. F o t crate-feeding broilers for m ar ket, the poultry men mix 43 p er cent of the cooked egg product to the dry feed m ixture and add sufficient milk or w ater to make a feed h a tte r Just thin enough to be poured Into the feed trough. Poultry Notes Crowding or weak chicks. overheating causes Guinea chicks a re ravenous little creatures and fo r the first week they eat Incessantly. W hat have you In the w ay of meat on the farm thnt will bring 40 to 30 cents per pound? E arly broilers will do IL * • • B ecause of th eir Insectivorous n a ture, guineas require a large propor tion of anim al food, also green food, and they m ust have plenty of w ater to drink. * * • T rnpnestlng Is the only accurate method . f determ ining the exact egg production of th e hen. It Is economi cal only for poultrym en doing careful, accurate pedigree work. • • • Many an autom obile Is being bought on the farm nnd paid for with the profit* from th e farm flock. • • • j n feeding poultry the henvy grain feed should come nt the evening meal. The birds should have nil the grain they will clean up at this time. • • • Sometimes a flock Is slow about laying, even when everything seems right for eggs, i f yours Is lazylng around th a t way, try a wet mash once dally for a week or two. It often does the work. • • • A chicken Incubator never feels w orried when It hatches duck eggs and Its offspring go In swimming. • • * To hatch a desirable chick, hatch Ing eggs should weigh betw een 24 and 26 ounces per dozen, nnd should be uniform In shape, size and color. • • * Beware of June hatched chicks They never pay for th eir feed, and are more liable to gaps and cholera. Pen the se tte rs np In the shade with food w ater, and a vigorous young cockerel. Milk pow der and condensed milk are replacing whole milk and evaporated ndlk In the m anufacture of confection ery, Ice cream and bakery products, the bureau of agricultural economics of the U nited S tates D epartm ent of A griculture hns announced. T he rea son fo r th e sh ift Is th a t the concen trated products are easier to tra n s port and store. F igures collected by the bureau show th a t 06 m anufacturers of milk chocolate used 171,542,708 pounds of whole milk last year as against 228,- 821,543 pounds used by 61 m anufac tu rers in 1925. The quantity of evaporated milk used to m anufacture milk chocolate last year was 2,912,639 pounds against 3,037,669 pounds in 1925, and of skim milk 26,689 pounds against 6,168,287 pounds. Consumption of milk powders, on the other hand, shows an Increase. The 65 m anufacturers used 6,652,127 pounds of whole milk powder last year, as against 4,396,231 pounds used by 61 firms In 1925; of condensed milk there w as used 5,499.093 pounds against 4,369,769 pounds, and skim milk powder 3.270,577 pounds against 1,437,810 pounds. The consum ption of all products re duced to the common equivalent of whole milk used in the m anufacture of milk chocolate last year shows a decrease of about 10 per cent under 1925. Keep Calves Hungry It Is best to keep young calves Just a little hungry rath er than to over feed them. T his applies while they are under four m onths of nge. Legume hay such as red clover, alfalfa, or mixed hay with more than 50 per cent clover are all good. Quality Is im po rtan t In hay for calves. A calf one month old should get 10 to 12 pounds of skim milk. This amount should j gradually be increased until calves j four months old are getting 16 to 18 ' pounds dully. Im m ense M ason ry W o rk The greut wall of China euslly la the greutest musonry stru c tu re In the world. It Is said to contain more bricks und stone than there a re In all the buildings In Greut B ritain. T h at Y o u th fu l Touch O f course the m odern woman dresses to look young. T here Is no “old” and "young” In clothes today. The sam e silhouette Is used fo r grand m others and debutantes. Txfo genera tions ago, the woman of forty wus frankly middle-aged. She w ore blacks und browns, and upon the appearance of h er first gray h air she discarded hats fo r bonnets, which definitely classed her as an elderly lady. Today the woman of forty Is a very youthful person—and she looks It I—American Magazine. For an E m ergen cy T ake a piece of cardboard and copy on It the telephone num ber of the fire departm ent, fam ily physlclnn, your husband's office or o th er num bers thnt you might find necessary to use In an emergency. Bo often In an em er gency, such a.» sudden Illness, a neigh bor or some one else to whom the num bers a re not fam lllur muy do the tele phoning. H ang this atfbve your tele phone and see w hat u convenience It la. R om an A p p e lla tio n L eptls Magna Is the old Roman nam e of the m odern Lehdo, In Trt- polltanla, an Itultnn possession on the M editerranean coast of A frica. It w as so called to distinguish It from a sm aller Sem itic settlem ent n ear the C arthaginian fro n tier—L eptls P arva. Leptls M agna w as th e chief city of the ancient T rlpolltls, the other two being Ceea (th e present T ripoli) and S ab rata (the modern Zuagha). P rim itive Fountain Pen Egypt claims the first Inventor of a fountain pen. In n 4,000-yeor-old tomb there wus recently found a section of reed no thicker than an ordinary lead pencil and of about the length of a fountain pen und m ounted on u piece of copper. The nib of the pen is cut on the lines of a quill pen. The hollow In the reed Is supposed to have held the Ink. O ld London M onum ent A m onum ent n t. London w as erect- er to com m em orate the g reat fire of 1066. It was designed hy Sir C hris topher W ren, the fam ous architect, whose pinsterplece Is St. P aul's cathe dral and whose otlw r beautiful but sm aller churches a re to be found In tunny parts of older London. T he monument stands near the north end of London bridge. Secret G overning B oard Cabal means a secret cabinet or gov erning clique whose m easures are un popular. Such a clique existed in th e relqp of C harles II of England, com posed of a lfford, Ashley, Buckingham . Arlington and Luuderdale. The In itial letters of their names form the word Cabal. Population G row s Fa*t The population of the United S tates Increases at a rate of one person about every tw enty seconds. A twater K ent ignition for Fords TYPE LA Price $1Q 8O Includ in g Cable and Fining* O ats and w heat are commonly . rh e name assures its performance grown for succotash for feeding dairy twenty-«even y e a n - A t e s t e r K ent "ha« cowa. •tood for advanced electrical engineerin* • • • and absolute preciUon of m anufacture, Tk— qualities, which have won I c e d m h lp in R adio, Feeding hoarder cows Is worse than explain the«cn«atlonal perform ance of A tw ater throwing away money, for It Is also K e n t Ig n itio n fo r F o rd « . T h ie r e m s r k a b le •dentlfic ignition «yitem will literally m ake a throwing away labor. new car of your F ord ~ sm oother, snappier • • • Pow », easier «tarring. am azing hul climbing. Care must be exercised to prevent | Installed In a n hour. The low price o f »10.S0 farm cream from freezing prior to ! Inciudee cable end fitting». O ct facta from delivery to the creamery. your service station or w rite to • • • A T W AT E R K E N T M FO, C O M PA N Y “A pnre-hrefi sire makes milk checks A. Atwater Kent. Free. higher." llow about this for a pure 4S1S Wleeahickon Ave. Philadelphia. Pe. bred sire campaign slogan? • • • M a k e r * of Keeping feed record* nnd weighing and testing milk regularly make it possible to determine the production of your cows with a high decree of accuracy. • • • In raising the dairy catf, leave the calf with the c o w for one or two day* and then take It away and feed from eight to ten pounds of warm milk per day for about two weeks. A twater K ent radio