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CENTRAL POINT HERALD, THURSDAY. JU N E 11, 1914
present. This would mean, if
we should preserve the same
ratio between the use of land and
B y G leason & B a c o n .
the population of the country
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n«w
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to
that
now exists that the limit of
of Central Point and tha Ko*ue ■
Liver Valley.
the
supporting
capacity of all the
P u bl ia jie d E ve ry T h u m d a y .
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cr.ption pnc#. ti .60 p«r year, »n advane*. arable land in the United States
itered a- Seeond-cla*» m atter. May 4 1906, would be about 375,000.000. Fig­
P * , - 1 office at Central Point, Oregon, under
ure a little and we will have the
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,i t o f Congres« of March 8. 1879.
calculation
that this limit will be
in kept on file at the D a k e A d -
paper vkktising A g en c y . I n c ., 427 reached in 186 years, assuming
Main Street, Los Angdeu, and 779 M arket,
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until very recent years a mere pounds. Its content of iron is
waste product of the cotton crop, decidedly lower than that of the ♦
it was pointed out, is now valued Canadian fiber, and for that ♦
in the United States alone at reason it is better for insulating ♦
$50,000,000 a year. Curtis Guild, purposes The Survey report on 1 ♦
ex-Ambassodor to Russia,
noted
asbestos
contains a map and seo- ♦
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that we are now exporting sisal tion ot the Arizona deposit. ! ♦
strings to Europe to be turned Copies may be obtained fre e ; ♦
into tooth brushes; that we are about June 15, on application to; ♦
using the worn-out printer's the Director of the Geological ♦
brush, soaked with white lead, Survey, Washington, D. C.
♦ In te g rity
Fairness in ail dealings.
'* Kran s. .. where contract« for «ulver- t h a t p o p u l a t i o n W i l l i n c r e a s e ¿ 0 , -
by cleansing and using the worn
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i x can \>e made for it.
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----------------------------------- - ... i- 000,000 every decade. Upon the bristles to provide inexpensive
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The best of service.
and
durable
scrubbing
brushes,
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basis
of
this
computation
it
would
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SOME UNO NGIKES
seem that we are driving rapidly white exporting American cotton
Leslie’s Weekly presents in a ,Qn the |ee ghore of Malthusian stockings to Europe, where they
Our goods are of highest standard.
, nt issue some interesting over. population.
are unraveled and used as a
! mr. s on the Nation s land in-
But there ig no need to grow cheap packing in the manufac­
The lowest consistent with high quality
( ing that under cultivation, j
careworn because of this pros­ ture of graphophones and elec­
goods.
t . cL which is wild but available; pect. Under existing conditions trical machinery,
while the
>r cultivation and that which is there are approximately three patched and darned European
Our years of practical experi­
< sod as irreclaimable.
The
acres of land in cultivation for stockings, not having any other
ence is your guarantee that in
i¡res are gathered from the re-
every man and woman and child use, are exnorted from Europe
our store your drug wants are cared for in the
I "j ts of the Department of Agri-
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j in the country.
California has to this country for their only
most proficient manner.
t ullure. Land under cultivation jt8 co,ony of . . y ttle Landers” possible use as paper. The ex­
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cen tof that make an acre support a fam- ports and imports of waste ma­
",e available land for crops. ,
The entire country cannot terial are not yet thoroughly re­
11 estimated at approxim ately;^
^ the ..Little Landers" ported, by the department, and
:l MKKMMiO acres which, if lying
but between three acres even the commencement of their
CENTRAL POINT. OREGON.
M AR Y A . M EE . Proprietress
one (arm would cover an area I for ^
individua, and one acre appearance in the official publica­
'VV*,.ua (" th:‘ S! au>S
K„a.n'lfo r a family there is a wide gap. tions of the United States Gov­
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Nebraska, Oklahoma. M.s-; an(|
ilJB an(, intensive farm- ernment dates back but a few
i A rkansas and Lou.s.ana ' ¡np wi„ fi„ much of i t
years. For the calendar year
hmd that .s tillable, hut net
, t jg clear> however, as one of 1913 we exported cotton rags to
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' ' ,h!' Jp,0w' n,,r mcluded m the great economic facts to be the value of over $500,0(H), paper
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stock
other
than
cotton
rags
to
,nms ‘ '!,niin,'< s ".’" considered that we cannot go on
' M,l’° a m 's and »f included ml f0pever hiving and cave-dwelling the value of over $800,000, wool­
vast farm would cover all tne, jn the cjties and PXpect to main. en rags to the value of $1,000,-
,.es . ast ol the M.ssonr. and j tein ||vinjr eonditions that will he 000, scrap iron to the value of
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K'vera. Those(tolerable b thp av en w . oitiZen. $1,200,000 old and reclaimed rub­
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Domielo Da Gama, Ambassador to
I uels not available for crops, but W(> must 1|ge thp ,and moro and ber to the value of $1,600,000 and the United States from Brazil, one of ♦
'' n,“y l’" ufed for ranii',1and' more, and at the same time more scrap brass to the value of over the Mediators endeavoring to settle ♦
iurage make up a total o fiand more intelligently or the dis- $2,000,000. The figures of the the Mexican troubles.
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I-.M'OO.IKK) acres . w h i c h equals;
between what will be imports of waste materials from
Brief News of the Week
, i i rea the states of Texas New availal)le for the proper 8upport foreign countries are even more
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I xiro. < olorado and Utah. Ir-1 of the people and what they nped
striking. In the year 1913 we
Kansas nerds HI,950 men, and moro
r ‘claimable land, which takes ; win become «trouble making imported scrap iron to to value than 6000 extra trams and 2260 extra
i ¡to consideration only that which I burden
of $500,000, old copper to the cooks to harvest Its big grain crops
<• miiot he used for agriculture i RecoKnizing this necessity it value of $1,000,000, silk waste to this season.
Kansas City captured the heat rec
" ther now • ,n the futJure f,,ots will further devolve upon us to the value of $3,000,000, old rub­ ord for the year, the thermometer
u ,;¡99.000,000 acres and .s equ.v-! make the jdle ,and of thp conntry
ber to the value of more than registering 07. A number of prostra­
•dent m area to all the Pacific; available in fact as well as in $3,000,000, cotton rags to the tions were reported.
theory. We must loosen the grip value of $3,000,000, and other
Damage amounting to $10,000,000
W . A.
HENRY
neraliaationa like these are 0 f |and speculation, and let op- paper stock which was neither was caused in I.os Angeles county
COW LEY
RILEY
n< t to he accepted as absolutely jKirtunity follow willingness to cotton rags nor wood pulp to the Cal., by the recent floods, says a re.
port of the engineers.
¡«■curate, nevertheless they are uae the |and We must guard value of nearly $5,000,000.
California horticulturists will pre­
' laminating, as they are suffi- j the interests of the soil tiller and
pare resolutions asking the postoffice
« iently near the facts to bring to the home maker. We must open ASBL8I0S. IIIE INIOEJE MINERAL department to prohibit the sending of
our minds in a definite way the the way for the one-acre fellow
Asbestos is one of the great vegetables Infected with pests through
the malls.
tremendous productive possibili­ or the ten-acre fellow, or the
surprises in the mineral kingdom.
More than $20,000 damage resulted
té ; of the country in which we man who can cultivate any great­
On account of its finely fibrous, from a thunder and rain storm at
live. Should the time ever come er number of acres to get out in
flexible, incombustible character Evansville, lnd. The First Avenue
When you buy an Electric Flat Iron get one that will
x. 1 11 ri all available land in the the open and secure the land he
it is spun into yarn and woven Presbyterian ohurch was wrecked, at
Lnited States is under cultiva­ needs, though muscle and brain
last a lifetime—it’s the most economical.
into cloth for the clothing of fire­ a loss of $10,000.
tion, we will have a cultivated comprises pretty much all his
The poll tax law of Utah waB de
Now $ 2 .0 0
men and foundry men who are
dared null and void because of the
area three and three-quarters capital. All things considred,
T he G uaranteed I ron made by the G en era l E lec tric C ompany
exposed to heat that would burn fact that it conflicted with the state
will not only last a life time, but it is correctly designed to hold an even
limes as great as that tilled at this is one of the most far-reach­
ordinary clothing. It is exten­ constitution which guarantees equal
heat when doing any kind of ironing.
ing problems we have to face. sively used for theater curtains rights to men and women.
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It Has No Drawbacks
It will not settle itself, we may and has saved many audiences
First stake has been driven in the J
y m
You can turn your old iron in for 50 cents as part payment on one
survey of proposed railroad routes in ♦ of these irons.
from the horrors of conflagration.
;; UNIRAI POINT MFAi rest assured of that.
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THE GUARANTEED IRON
A report by J. S. Diller, of the
United States Geological Survey,
At the first annnal banquet of on the production of asbestos in
the National Association of Waste 1913, now in press, shows that
I rush .iiitl Cured Meat Material Dealers, held in New while
the United States produces
York City this week, it was little raw asbestos, it is the
and Sausages of
brought out that by collecting largest producer of objects man­
and utilizing waste products ufactured from asbestos. Can­
Kinds.
the members of the association ada is the heaviest producer of
• J R t K E T T L E R E N D E R E D I A R 0
transact an annual business of raw asbestos, and more than
$700,000,000. The utilization of half the world's supply is brought
P h o n o , M ain O l
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cotton seed oil and of cotton seed into the United States from Can­
vx .-c jc rz M M l
ada and manufactured into vari­
ous commercial products.
In 1913 the United States pro­
duced 1,100 short tons. There
were two producers in Georgia,
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both furnishing asbestos of the
amphibole type, and one in Ari­
zona is just beginning to pro­
duce chrysotile. The difference
between the two types is merely
in chemical composition.
A notable event of the year in
the asbestos industry of the
United States has ln?en the open­
ing of this new locality in Ari­
zona, about 30 miles northeast
of Globe, for the high-grade
chrysotile such as occurs in the
depths of the grand Canyon. In
occurrence, origin, quality, and
quantity this deposit is essential­
ly the same as that of the Grand
■SEE-
Canyon district, but it is much
more accessible, being in a can­
yon a Unit 800 feet deep and with­
in 30 miles by trail and wagon
road from the railway. It is as-
sociattMl with limestone and in
, this respect
is strongly
contrast-
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ed with the asbestos of Canada.
i which is found in serpentine
rock, derived from peridotite.
The remarkable fiber from
Arizona when twisted to a yarn
0.63 of an inch in thickness will
support an average weight of 15
COMPANY
MILLIONS 01 WAS IE SAVED
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All
Garden Tools
Of Every Description
W. C. LEEVEiR
The Hardware Man
Alaska. The route undertaken Is that
between Chitina and the Matanuska
coal fields.
A severe wind, lightning and hail
storm swept the northern part of Ohio
Missourn and Kansas report a heat
wave and in Kansas the public schools
were dismissed on account of the heat
An anti-American demonstration at
Tampico, started by some drunken
peons, was put down by Mexican reb­
els, according to Information sent to
Washington hy Rear Admiral Badger
from Vera Cruz.
Imports have been increased and
exports reduced, according to figures
given out hy the department of for­
eign commerce of the United States.
Many beef cattle are coming In.
People in the News
The record of the Harry Thaw case
has been filed with the supreme court
of the United States.
President Wilson will attend the re
union of the Princeton class of '79,
of whtch he is a member, at the col­
lege June t3.
Secretary of State Rrvan will de­
liver a series of Chautauqua lectures
this year, his first public appearance
being at North Carolina. July 4.
Kermlt Roosevelt, son of ex-Presi
dsnt Theodore Roosevelt, was married
Mt M*drW« Jun'* 10 Thp religious
ceremony was performed June 11.
The corner stone of New Haven's
new marble postoffice was laid by ex-
ITcsident Taft The building will coat
about $1.600,000
Kx Vice President Adlal Stevenson,
who suffered a nervous breakdown
following the death of his wife alx
months ago. ts said to he In a serious
condition In the hospital at Chicago.
Prices of food »nicies are soaring
ln ' pra < ni1 *n<*
General
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ket and appoint Mexicans and Amert-
CM1 , r m ) - m „ n t o investigate the tro-
bie.
Ry spelling 1400 words without
missing. William Boselarger. aged II.
of Fast St. I .outs, won the spelling
bee. Thirty-five boys and girls of the
s|xth grade look part and the contest
lasted m , hour».
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B etter place your order now. as we have only one hundred more of
these irons at this price.
: Califomia-Oregon Power Company
Phone 168.
216 West Main St.,
Medford, Oregon.
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Everything in the line of toothsome sweets
High grade boxed candies our specialty
A wide variety of tobaccos, cigars, pipes
and smokers’ sundries constantly on hand
G. S. MOORE
A t the old stand
JUST RECEIVED
Another Car of American Fence
American is the best. The b e s t is none too good. We can
supply your wants in farm implements for the spring trade
Spring will soon be here.
See Our Line of Garden Plows
\\ hile we have been telling you about Spray Pumps, Spray
Rigs, Gas Engines, Wind Mills, Wagons, Buggies and Hacks
our harness man has been busy. If you will drop in he will
talk harness and show you how they are made.
( all and see our stock and get prices.
back of our goods.
Yours for business.
Our guarantee
Freeman & Wiley Company
Central Point,
Oregon
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