f SERIAL
STORY J
FLYING
MERCURY
By
Eleanor M. Ingram
Author- of
"The Oame and the Candle"
Uluatrattona By-
RJY WALTERS
(Ooayrlskt, V BabO-MarrlU 00.)
8YN0P8I8.
Th ator
orr
opena on Long laland, near
Kw York
city, when Mini Kmllv
Ffl
f rrencn. a reiauva or Ethan t rrencn
kianufacturer of tha celebrated "Mor
lury" automobile, loaea her way. The
ear haa atopped and har coualn, Dluk
Ffrench, la too muddled with drink to
llrect It a-rlght. They meet another car
Khlch la run by a professional racer
named Ieatrana;e. The latter flxea up
:h Ffrench car and nlrecta Mlaa f f rench
how to -proceed homeward. Ethan
Ffrench haa disinherited hla aon, who
baa dlaappeared. He Informs Emily
plainly that he would like to have her
marry Ilck, who la a good-natured but
Irresponsible fellow. It appears that a
partner of Ethan Kfrench wanting an ex
pert to race with the "Mon-ury" at auto
Ivents, haa engeaed Testrange, and at
lha Ffrench factory Emily encounters the
roung man. They refer pleasantly to
fhelr meeting when Dick conies along and
recognises the young rac'er. Dick likes
the way Iestrange Ignores their first
tieetlng when he appeared to a dlsad
rantage. Lestrange tells Kmlly that he
stU try to educate her Indifferent cousin
u an automobile expert.
CHAPTER V.
There was a change In the Ffrench
affair, a lightening of the atmos
phere, a vague quickening and Btlr of
healthful cheer In the days that fol
lowed. The somber master of the
bouie met It In Bailey' undisguised
latlon and pride when they discussed
the successful business now taxing the
factory's resources, met It yet again
In Emily's pretty gaiety and content.
But most strikingly was he confronted
with an alteration In Dick.
It was only a week after his first
morning ride with Lestrange, that
Dick electrified the company at din
ner, by turning down the glass at his
piste.
"I've cut out claret, and that sort of
thing," he announced. "It's bad for
the nerves."
His three companions looked up In
complete astonishment. It was Satur
day night and by ancient custom Bai
ley was dining at the bouse.
"What has happened to you? Have
you been attending a revival meet
ing?" the young man's uncle Inquired
with sarcasm.
"It's bad for the nerves," repeated
Dick. "There Isn't any reason why 1
shouldn't like to do anything other
fellows do. Leg that Is, none of the
men who drive cars ever touch that
tuff, and look at their nerve."
Mr. Ffrench contemplated him with
the Irritation usually produced by the
display of ostentatious virtue, but
found no comment. Kmlly gazed at
Ibe table, her red mouth curving In
spite of all effort at seriousness.
"Vou'r right, Mr. Dick." said Bai
ley dryly. "Stick to it."
And Dick Btuck, without as much
as a single lapse. Ffrenchwood saw
comparatively little of him, as time
weut on, the village and factory
much. He lost some weight, and ac
quired a coat of reddish tan.
Emily watched and admired In si
lence. She had not Been Lestrange
again, but It seemed to her that his
Influence overlay all the life of both
house and factory. Sometimes this
showed so plainly that she believed
Mr. Ffrench must see, must feel the
silent force at work. But either he
did not see or chose to Ignore. And
Dick was incautious.
"I'm going to buy one of our road
sters myself," he stated one day. "Can
I have It at cost?"
Mr. Ffrench felt for his plnce nes.
"You? Why do you not use the
limousine?"
"Because I don't want to go around
In a box driven by a chauffeur. I want
a classy car to run myself. I've been
driving some of the stripped ears,
lately, and I like it."
"I will give you a car, If you want
one," answered his uncle, quite kind
ly. "Go select any you prefer."
"Thank you." Dick sat up. beaming.
"But I'll have to wait my turn, we've
orders ahead now. Lestrange says
I've no right to come lu and make
some other fellow wait."
Mr. Ffrench slowly stiffened.
"We do not require lessons In ethics
from this l.etitrange." was the cold re
buke. "I shall telephone Bailey to
send up jour car st once."
Rupert brought the sixty horse-power
roadster to the door, three hours
later. And Emily appreciated that I.
strange was dim reel an well as com
pt'lllng. when she found the Mack
eyed young mechanician was detailed
to accompany Dick's maiden trips;
which duty was fulfilled. Incidentally,
with the fine tact of a Kichelieu.
In May there was a still greater ac
cession of work at the factory. In ad
dition, the (list of June was to open
with a twenty four hour race at Beach
traik. end Lvstrange was entered for
It. Excitement was In the air; Dick
came in the house only lo eat and
sleep.
1 lie day before the race, Mr
Ffrench walked Into the room where
his niece was reading.
"I want to see Bailey." he laid
briefly. Do you wish to drive me
down to the factory, or shall I have
Anderson bring around the limou
sine?"
"Please let us drive," she exclaimed,
rising with alacrity. "I have not been
to the factory for months."
"Very good. You are looking well,
Emily, of late."
Surprised, a soft color swept the
face she turned to him.
"I am well. Dear, I think we are all
better this spring."
"Perhaps," said Ethan Ffrench. His
bitter gray eyes passed deliberately
over the large room with all Its traces
of a family life extending back to pre-
Colonlal times, but he said no more
It was an exquisite morning, too vir
ginal for June, too richly warm for
May. When the two exchanged the
sunny road for the fctory office, a
north room none too light. It was a
moment before their dazzled eyes per
ceived no one was present. This was
Bailey's private office, and its owner
had passed into the room beyond.
"I will wait," conceded Mr. Ffrench,
dismissing the boy who had ushered
them In. "Sit down, Emily; Bailey
will return directly, no doubt."
But Emily had already sat down, for
she knew the voice speaking beyond
the half-open door, and that the long
prevented jneetlng was now Immi
nent. 'It will not do," Lestrange was stat
ing definitely. "It should be rein
forced." 'It's always been strong enough,"
Bailey's slower tones objected. "For
years. It's not a thing likely to
break."
Not likely to break? Look at last
year's record, Mr. Bailey, and tell me
that. A broken steering-knuckle killed
Brook in Indiana, another sent Little
to the hospital In Massachusetts, the
same thing wrecked the leader at the
last Beach race and dashed him
through the fence. Do you know what
It means to the driver of a machine
hurling Itself along the narrow verge
of destruction, when the steering-
wheel suddenly turns useless In his
grasp? Can you feel the sick helpless
ness, the confronting of death, the
compressed second before the crash?
Is It worth while to risk it for a bit
of costless steel?"
The clear realism of the picture
forced a pause, filled by the dull roar
and throb through the machinery
crowded building.
They were not our cars that broke.
any of them," Bailey insisted.
Not our cars, no. But the steering-
knuckle of my own machine broke un
der my hands last March, on the road,
and If I had been on a curve Instead
of a straight stretch there would
have been a wreck. As It was, I
brought her to a stop In the ditch.
There Is no other thing that may not
leave a fighting chance after it breaks
but this leaves absolutely none. I
know, you both know, that the steer
ing-wheel Is the only weapon In the
driver's grasp. If it falls him, he
goes out and his mechanician with
him."
Emily paled, shrinking. She re
membered the road under the maples
and Lestrange's laughing face as he
leaned breathless across his useless
wheel. That was what It had meant
then, the lightly treated episode!
"You'd better fix it like he wants
it," advised Dick's disturbed tones
"Remember, he's got to drive the car
Friday and Saturday, Bailey, not us."
"It's not alone for my racer I'm
speaking, but for every car that leaves
the shop," Lontrange caught him up
"I'm not flinching; I've driven the car
before and I will again. It may hold
for ever, that part, but I've tested it
and It's a weak point take the warn
ing for what it's worth."
There was a movement as If he
rose with the last word. Emily laid
Met It Yet Again In Emily's Pretty
Gaiety and Content.
l or hand on the arm of the chair,
turning her excited dark eyes on her
uncle. Surely If ever Mr. Ffrench was
to meet his manager, this was the mo
ment ; when l.etrange's ringing argu
ment was still in their ears, his splen
did force of earnestness still vibrant
In the atmosphere. And suddenly she
wanted them to meet, passionately
anted Ethan Ffrench' liking for this
man.
"V'nclc." she began. "Uncle "
Hut it was not Lestrange's light
step that halted on the threshold.
"Why. I didn't know" exclaimed
Bailey. "Excuse me. Mr. Ffrench.
they didn't tell me you were down."
lie glanced over his shoulder; as
he nilled shut the door Emily fancied
the aeaid an echo, as if the to young
men left the next room. Bitterly dls
appointed, she sank back.
"That was your manager with youT"
Mr. Ffrench frigidly Inquired.
"Yes; be went upstairs to see bow
the new drill is acting." Bailey pulled
out a handkerchief and rubbed his
brow. "Excuse me. It's warm. Yes,
be wants me to strengthen a knuckle
he'a spoken considerable about It. I
guess he's right; better too much than
too little "
"I do not see that follows. I should
imagine that you understood building
chassis better than this racing driver.
You had best consult outside experts
in construction before making
change."
"Uncle!" Emily cried.
' i nere s a iwenty-rour nour race
starts tomorrow night," Bailey ug-
gested uneasily. "It s easy fixed, and
we might be wrong."
"Wo have always made them this
way?"
"Yes. but "
"Consult experts, then. I do not like
your manager's tone; he is too as
suming. Now let me see those pa
pers." Emily's parasol slipped to the floor
with a sharp crash as she stood up,
quite pale and shaken.
"Uncle, Mr. Lestrange knows," she
appealed. "You heard him say what
would happen please, please let It be
filed."
Amazed, Mr. Ffrench looked at her.
his face setting.
"You forget your dignity," he re
torted In displeasure. "This is mere
"I I Would Rather Be Outdoors."
childishness, Emily. Men will be con
sulted more competent to decide than
this Lestrange. That will do."
From one to the other she gazed,
then turned away.
I will wait out In the cart," she
said. "I I would rather be outdoors."
Dick Ffrench was up-stalrs, stand
ing with Lestrange In one of the nar
row aisles between lines of grimly ef
ficient machines that bit or cut their
way through the steel and aluminum
red to them, when Rupert came to
him with a folded visiting card.
"Miss Ffrench sent it," was the ex
planation. "She's sitting out In her
horse-motor car, and she called me off
the track to ask me to demean myself
by acting like a messenger boy. All
right?"
ah right, said Dick, running an
astonished eyo over the card.
"No answer?"
"No answer."
men ill hurry back to my em
broidery. I'm several laps behind In
my work already."
See here, lestrange," Dick began,
as the mechanician departed, sitting
down on a railing beside a machine
steadily engaged in notching steel
disks into gear-wheels.
"Don't do that!" Lestrange exclaim
ed sharply. "Get up, Ffrench."
"It's safe enough."
"It s nothing of the kind. The least
slip"
"Oh, well, he reluctantly rose, "If
you're going to get fussy. Read what
Emily sent up."
Lestrange accepted the card with
faint flicker of expression.
"Dick, uncle Is making the steering-
knuckle wait for expert opinion," the
legend ran, In pencil. "Have Mr. Bai
ley strengthen Mr. Lestranget car.
anyhow. Do not let him race so."
Near them two men were engaged
in babbitting bearings, passing ladle
fuls of molten metal carelessly back
and forth, and splashing hissing drop
over the floor; at them Lestranga
gazed in silence, after reading, the
card still In his hand.
(TO PE CONTINUED.)
Golf and a Prince.
Mrs. R. 11. Barlow, the golf cham
pion, said at a recent luncheon at the
Bellevue-Stratford In Philadelphia:
'Golf has Its humors, and this
struck me particularly In a conversa
tion at a golf club that I once had
with a Persian prince.
"The prince, as he sat on the club
piazza watching the various cham
pions drive off, drawled:
1 don't see very much In golf. No
object Is to be gained by the deposit
ing of a w hite ball in a subterranean
cavity; and if any object were to be
gained, the shortest and surest meth
od would surely be to carry the ball
in the hand from cavity to cavity.
"I laughed.
" 'But, rrlnee.' I said, 'th difficulty
of getting the ball into the cavities, a
you call them. Is what constitute the
attraction of the game.'
The difficulty constitutes the at
traction, ek?" The prince frowned.
Well.' he went on. 'It would be more
difficult to shave with a coal &ovl
than a razor, but I dont think maay
men are tempted on that account t
remove their beard each morml&f la
that way."
GREEKS JOIN IN PEACE MOVE
Held
Out to Keep Turkey From
Gaining: By Respite.
London Greece has officially an
nounced that she would participate in
the peace negotiations.
It is expected both from Sofia and
Athens that Greece held out from the
armistice in agreement with the allies
to prevent Turkey from profiting from
the armistice to improve her military
positions.
An unconfirmed report from Athens
says the Greeks are continuing their
operations against Janina, but else
where orders have been received
cease hostilities.
Reports are current that arrange
ments had been made for revictualing
the besieged garrisons appear to have
been incorrect.
Provisioning will not begin until the
peace conference has been inaugurated
The Bulgarian organ, Mir, in an edi
torial dilates on the advantages
to
Turkey of a good understanding with
Bulgaria. It declares that Turkey
salvation lies not in continuing the
war, but in seeking a rapprochement
with Bulgaria.
LARGE RIVER WORK URGED
Poindexter Points Out Need of Aid
to Transportation Facilities.
Washington, D. C. Senator Poin
dexter, of Washington, in an address
here before the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, said the time had
come for the development of every re
source in this country, and emphasize!
waterway development as one of the
country's most important needs.
Senator Poindexter said the railways
need waterway transportation aid, not
to have competition, but because the
rail lines could not handle the traffic.
He spoke also of the importance of
carrying through to completion river
improvement work on which largi
sums already had been spent, so the
returns on the investment would not
be delayed.
Harold E. McCormick, vice-president
of the International Harvester com
pany, expresses the opinion that, as
with the Panama canal, a large bond
issue should be created for the purpose
of improving on a large scale the wa
terways of the country.
HUGE OVEN MAY SERVE
NEW YORK BREAD LINE
Spokane The oven that baked
2,250 pies per hour during the recent
fifth national apple show may be taken
to New York to cook food for the
bread lines." Lew S. Hurtig of
Spokane, originator of the 75 foot
oven, is not only negotiating with
New York people- for its installation
there, where he claims it can do in
one hour work which now requires six
but he has organized a company and
will cook bread "by the mile" at San
Francisco in 1915. The oven has been
patented. It is built of bricks, is 75
feet long and three feet square. Heat
is supplied by high pressure gaa pipes,
the pies or other articles being carried
from end to end on an endless chain
The journey requires one and a half
minutes,
Tobacco Trust Accused.
New York Rudolph Epstein, one of
the several Brooklyn tobacco jobbers
who say they were forced out of busi
ness by the American Tobacco com
pany, testified to the tactics employed
by the trust to crush competition. He
is a witness in the suit for $300,000
brought by John A. Locker against
the American company under the Sher
man law.
He declared that A. T. Benheim,
representing the trust, called a meet
ing of jobbers in 1904 and told them
the American Tobacco company in
tended to form a combine of all job
bers on New York, each member to
receive 1000 shares of preferred stock
in a company to be known as the
Metropolitan Tobacco company.
Epstein said when he refused to join
Benheim warned him that he would be
driven out of business.' He said that
the American company refused to sell
goods to him and after a time he was
forced to close up.
Youths Steal 20 Autos.
Chicago r our young men ranging
in age from 16 to 21 years confessed
to the police of Melrose Park, a su
burb, that they have committed at
least 50 robberies during the past 12
months and carried away loot, the ag
gregate value of which is placed at
$23,000. Among the property stolen
by the quartet are 20 automobiles and
many diamonds. The youths gave
their names as James Brong, Leonard
Tartorello, Charles Garnett and John
Ragone. During the past few weeks
robberies have occurred nightly.
Merit System Is Upheld.
Milwaukee, Wis. "Fill all the gov
ernment offices on the merit system
through careful original selections and
careful promotion, and no civil servant
will have any patrons to serve. Re
quire all civil servants to abstain from
partisan political activity and there
will be no office-holders' management
of nominations or election," said Pres
ident Eliot, of the National Civil Serv
ice Reform league, in his address at
the annua meeting in Milwaukee.
Trees Evidence of Wreck.
Manitowoc, Wis. Mute evidence
tending to show that the schooner
Roee Simmons lies at the bottom of
Lake Michigan off Two Rivers Point,
22 miles north of this citv. was
brought here bv fishermen who found
entangled in their nets several Christ
mas tree tops, presumably part of the
schooner cargo.
1 OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST"
General News of the Industrial and Educational Development
and Progress of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc,
PLAN IS TO BLOCK HILL LINE
Harriman Interests Rush Survey
Up McKenzie Valley.
Eugene Intention of the Harriman
interests to forestall the Hill peopl
in the building of a railroad up the
McKenzie Valley is evidenced by the
copy of a resolution of the board
directors of the Oregon & California
Railroad company, filed with the sec
retary of state and with the Lane
county clerk.
This resolution authorizes the con
struction of a trifle over 24 miles of
railroad from a point on the Natron
Klamath cut-off, a few miles east of
Springfied, up the McKenzie Valley to
Martin's rapids, where the Oregon
Power company is doing the prelimi
nary work on a hydro-electric project,
The action of the Harriman inter
ests came rather as a surprise here, as
it was definitely known that Portland.
Eugene & Eastern surveyors had been
at work all summer checking up on
old surveys made when Al Welch first
planned the Portland, Eugene & East
em system, and it had been understood
that an electric line was to be built,
In fact, President Strahorn, of the
Portland, Eugene & Eastern, has made
announcement that his company was
considering the building of this line,
but at that time had no detinue news
to give out.
The Oregon Electric, since it has
acquired water power rights at Clear
Lake, capable of developing 33,000
horsepower, was also popularly sup
posed to be planning the construction
of a railroad up the McKenzie, and
thence to a junction with the Oregon
Trunk east of the Three Sisters.
FIRST EQUAL SUFFRAGE VOTE
Oregon Women Take Prominent
Part in City Elections.
Oregon City Mrs. Kate Newton
first woman candidate lor mayor in
the state, lost by 836 votes. Linn E,
Jones going in easily. there were
1182 votes cast. Powder puffs, mir
rors and umbrellas were left in booths
Albany Complete new city charter
adopted; E. A. Johnson elected to
council, although name did not. appear
on ballot. Women cast 194 votes or
28 per cent of number cast.
Newport "Drys" win 237 to 191
$10,000 bond issue for water system
carries. Women defy rain to vote.
Gladstone All election officials are
women; Mrs. Minda Church elected
city treasurer over male opponent by
25 votes.
Tillamook Wets win by eight votes.
Women cast half of votes, favoring
"dry" candidates for mayor. Mayor
Harter s election may be contested.
Oxygen Explosive Is Made.
Astoria "On Thanksgiving day,
1912, we began the commercial manu
tacture or oxygen explosives at our
Oregon plant."
such was the word contained in a
letter received by Frank Patton, cash
ier of the Astoria Savings bank, from
E. E. Hoffman, president of the Gov
ernment standard Powders company,
which is establishing a powder factory
at Woods Landing, near the eastern
line of Clatsop county.
While the manufacture of powder
has been Btarted, the construction
work is not yet completed and several
weeks will necessarily elapse before
the plant will be in full operation. As
the new mill will utilize by-products
that have heretofore been regarded as
worthless, its establishment is pre
dieted to provide a market for large
quantities of material now thrown
away.
Rich Oil Strike Is Expected.
Portland Oil within 30 days is the
expectation of the Central Oregon Oil
& Gas company, which is sinking its
first well in its properties in Harney
county about 18 miles south of Burns.
J. C. Turney, president of the com
pany, who was in Portland this week,
from Burns, made this prediction.
Should the expected success come
upon the enterprise, a pipeline from
the Harney County fields to Portland
to deliver the product will soon be
projected. This has been under con
sideration since the preliminary sur
veys of the fields were begun in 1909
and the engineers of the company de
clare it to be a perfectly feasible plan.
1 he project was begun following the
iscovery in the wells of the Pacific
Livestock company of unmistakable
igns of oil and gas, when the drill
had reached a depth of only 6690 feet.
Coos Bay Canning Finished.
Marshfield The salmon canning
season on Coos Bay and the Coquille
river has closed. On the latter water
way the co-operative cannery put up
about 7000 cases of salmon, and did
not have as good a season as usual.
In Marshfield, the Tallant cannery had
about the most successful season of
any of the plants of the county, and
turned out about 15,000 cases. The
salmon brought to the fishermen of the
county quite a large sum of money.
and many received employment both
as fishermen and in the canning plants.
Monster Radish Grown.
Eugene The monster radish of the
season has appeared at London, and J.
N. Hogue is the owner. It weighs
18i pounds and is 25 inches in cir-
cumference and 25) inches in length,
and thi is gospel truth, since Rev. J.
H. Moore vouches for the measure-
menta. .
CROOK COUNTY WINS PRIZE
Eastern Oregon Has Best Forage
Exhibit at Minneapolis.
Washington, D. C. Crook county,
Oregon, secured the Northern Pacific
railway's silver cup offered for the
best display of forage plants exhibited
at the recent Northwestern Land Pro
ducts exposition at Minneapolis.
The display at the exposition was
made by the Prineville Commercial
club jointly with the Oregon and West
ern Colonization company.
The forage plants in this display
consisted of various bundles of alfalfa,
field peas, mammoth and medium clo
ver, wild peas, brome grass, red top,
wheat grass, vetch, sweet clover, fili
gree, timothy and wild rye. The al
falfa was of the first cutting and
measured seven feet in length. Sev
eral heads of the timothy were 14
inches long, while a bundle of the wild
rye measured 111 feet in height.
This forage was raised in the inter
ior of Oregon from ten to 30 miles
distant from Redmond, a station on
the new Oregon Trunk railway, an
affiliated line of the Northern Pacific
road.
OREGON IS RICH IN SHEEP
More Than 2,000,000 Animals
In
Eastern Part of State.
Salem There are 2,225,000 sheep
in Eastern Oregon. There are sheep
on 6318 farms in Oregon, or on 14 per
cent of all the farms in the state.
These are figures shown in the report
of the State Board of Sheep commis
sioners which has just been received
here.
Oregon, states the report, stands
sixth in the sheep producing states.
There are 10,000 people directly in
terested in handling Oregon sheep and
40,000 people, more or less dependent
on the industry. It is estimated that .
one man is required to handle 400
sheep, making a total of 45,562 people
intimately connected with the indus
try. A total of $2,265,000 is paid to la
bor for the cost of caring for the sheep
and the annual income from the sheep
is estimated at $8,000,000. Sheep
and equipment are valued at $23,
407,000. NEW ROAD MEASURE URGED
Lane County Grange Will Work
for Road Patrol.
Springfield At the last meeting of
the Pomona grange of Lane county a
resolution to be presented to the
county commissioners, asking them to
take under advisement the suggestion
of a county road patrol, was unani
mously adopted and a committee ap
pointed to present it to the court.
The resolution says "that experi
ence in several American states dem.
onstrates that a systematic road pa
trol, by sections, for road repair work
wherever needed at the time when it is
needed and when it can be done most
economically, is the only satisfactory
method of keeping roads in usable con
dition, and the county court would
seem, under the law, to have full
power to adopt and put in practice a
patrol system, sectioning the road
therefor and placing in charge of each
section some person, whether super
visor or other employe, whose duty it
shall be to inspect his section of road
at frequent intervals and make repairs
which may be called for at any time."
More Livestock Is Plea.
If the Northwest continues to in
crease its livestock production as it
has shown a tendency to do in the last
few years the price of meat is certain
to decline, believes J. Odgen Armour,
head of the big Chicago packing
houses bearing his name, who was on
a pleasure visit to Oregon.
r armers have neglected the live
stock department of their business,"
said Mr. Armour, "and that, with the
natural increase in population and the
constant increase in demand, has cre
ated a constant demand for meats with
which the supply has been hard
pressed to keep pace.
VV ith more attention to the live
stock end of farming there should be
greatly .increased production in the
next few years and a resultant down
ward tendency of the market."
School Children's Fair Organized.
Orenco B. W. Barnes, county su
perintendent-elect; S. S. Duncan, su
perintendent of Yamhill county; W.
Macey, president of Yamhill county
school fair association, and M. Mc
Donald, president of the Oregon Nur
sery coumpany, were the speakers at
an enthusiastic meeting here recently
to organize the Orenco School Chil
dren's Fair association. Fifty adults
have already joined and 80 of the
school children. All are enthusiastic
and a splendid fair next year will no
doubt be the result.
Work to Begin on Tunnel.
Gardiner A second bargeload of
railroad material for Porter Bros.,
railroad contractors, has been towed
into the Lmpqua river. The material
was loaded at Yaquina, and consists of
cars, donkey engines and oil. It is
expected that dirt will begin to fly
at the site of the big tunnel between
Gardiner and Coos Bay, on the Eugene-
Coos Bay railroad, very soon.