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THE RPltlNOHELD NEWS
THURHIIAY. MARCH 20, 11*24-
Aurhority T e lls H ow Clear Lake
W as Formed by N a tu re ’s Action
thousand dollars per anmum. Thia
Installation may be made at lower
unit coat than la poawlble for any proj­
ect of equal capacity In thia »action,
and that with Ita water-way con­
structed entirely, or practically en
tlrely In tunnel, on which maintain-
ence coats would b e practically nil.
Now la the opportunity for W illam­
ette vail y to gra«p the eubatance and
becoqia one of the h-althleat. wealthi­
est and moat to-be-dealred habitations
within the burden» of the United
Htales.— Albany Democrat,
H a ll’s C a t a r r
Medicine
Te Vielt Hara Soon— Mr. and Mrs.
R E Yoder and baby Martha are
expected to arrive la Springfield Bat-
,T J. Littlejohn,
merchant of
urday • to visit Mrs. Yoder's parent». r id your system of Catarrh ot
Meadowvlew. was In Saturday for a
Mr. and Mrs W. M. Green.
caused by Catarrh.
truckload of flour.
F. J. C H E N E Y ^ T C O .. Toledo, O h M
Jack Pullen, truck driver for Frank
O M Spague, Mutual Life Insur­
E Blair, Ixiwetl merchant, was In
ance Co.. Eugene, Ore.f Phone 877 tf
town Saturday for supplies.
Springfield Nbwa »1.25 par year.
Iloa, from many aurroundlng town».
A bam] furnished music
in« walfnre and hualth of th» popula­
Illy ('»plain Ue«irg«« H Kdniundstouei tion of the W illamette river valley.
Neatllug at the foot of Mount W»»h A» baa been alaled, the w»terabed of
HiliiMi. at an altltuda of lhr«« thou lb« left bunk of the MrKenxIe river
The Anderson Manufacturing com-
anuil feet abo»« »«a level M»a Clear ■« almost wholly covered with »halter
I any shipped a carload of lumber to
Lake, tho focua of tho rutmff from «d lava How, auatalnlna but stunted
California Friday.
on» hundred »qu»re mil«» of «parody- timber, wholly unlit for iho needs of
The Sprlogfleld Mill and Grain
timbered. badly »buttered lava tor- commercial lumber, forming a per
company »hipped a carload of flour
rain 1» Hi "t a»<iKl"«
nil w l,lll,‘ ¥,OUK protected water »torage. which
and feed to Coquille Saturday.
lh« 1» M Fiireat Re»«»rv« In b lu b :.......(
o , ch«d upon
by by
com com
need .........lllir
noi lie encroached
upon
Jo« Clark came home from Port­
The best meat at a price that will bring you back and make
Country
morclaltaad Interaei», and which,
land to spend the week-end. He 1» an
Tho Ink« la on« and on« quarter iioithliaaa, the (odorai and alate gov­
Instructor In the HUI Military atuul-
you a regular customer.
mil«« lu length. by an »versge of a ernments may be Induced to pre­ • •
emy.
FREE DELIVERY 9:30 a. m. DAILY
quarter of a lull« in width and »« serve from pollution for the h- alth
one hun
bun iii(J
,,f inhabitants of the
tain« It» maximum depth of q on«
M O . Hodge of Newport was a
CAIgb AND SEE Dr. N. W. Emery
•trad nlnety-aU fret al practically Ha >grl,.u| lur(l| (action. Thia lava ter-
on prices on plate and other work, tf
mid length
Except »for two amai» n()n #n(J gcatlerlng Umber extend« Sprlogfleld visitor Thursday.
T. b. Harkins, of oaarldge, was
nn<i unimportant creek» or rivolete. |ron) (he )>h(< , 0 tha jUnrl|On of the
In Springfield on Thursday.
the source of water supply la solely
uuJ M (K lllll, river»,
William M. Hunter, miller of the
eub n cran eaii. saving during a limit-
n »Kar<jln< l'l>ar bake a» the source
»4 period of the <»rly summer, when and with no dependence upon the run­ feed plant of the Sprlngfleld Mill and
name “Webster”
th» melting enow« discharge twelve off of the aln-am Jrom the lake out­ Grain company, quit work for a few
synonymous
w ith
days
this
week
taking
cape
of
hi»
hundred second feet of water through let to Smith river, It la perfectly f««»
-Is largely a m atte r of
Ila outlet, then, and then only 1» Ible to d> velop a minimum dally «up- sick wife.
hetionary” be'
Mr». P. A Hodges was here from
right buying. You buy
there a surface discharge Into the ply of water In »he nelghborh«H>d of
cause o f the ability of
right, here.
lake through a shattered water way two hundred million galtona. amply Marróla Thursday.
.Arthur
Bushman
returned
Friday
th a t early compiler. Just
leading from Fish l.ske
.ufli.-l.nt
for
the
needs
of
a
popule
.
Arthur
l.usnman
r
.«
«
..«
«
,
,
sufficient for tho needs of a populu
Th» «rente»! visible
Inflow 1» lion of a million and th r e .sjn .r te r . of night from a tw oday trip to Coquille
so, “Red Crown” means
through the "Glani Spring." a lava inhiibiunts, served with water whose and Powers on
“gasoline” because it is
I b. Hixon of W endling
wa» In
basin sixty f»«l In diameter amt six­ purity can not be eicelled at
Sprlngfleld Thursday.
:ne recognized standard
teen feet In depth, floored _4jllh daXXl- ¡plac« In the entire world.
PHONE 66
It E. Hill, road supervisor from the
tng whlla volcanic sand and dlacharg
Of courso It would be uneconomic
of
quality. “Red Crown’s”
tng In minimum, elghiy-elx second to consider such development at the Mohawk valley, was In on bualnexs
quality
is a definite
feet, whlrh Is equivalent to In excee» present lime, and conducting water Saturday
Walter
Platt
of
Thurston
was
In
o f fifty fl»-- million gallons of water sufltclent for the needs of one hun­
matter of greater
•luring each twenty-four hour«, sup­ dred forty thousand people Is all that town on business Saturday.
"True
Service
Is
The
Con­
C'harlee Grant waa here
from
plem ented by the "Pigmy," which I should I»« underlak«>ti at thl» time,
stant Desire And Effort
nows eleven million gallons during a but. with adequate supply of pure, Thurston Saturday.
Charles
Taylor
of
Thurston
was
a
like period
To Render Every Man
(wholesome water, It Is hut reasonable
In ages tong gone, before Clear Ito assume a material growth la popu­ Saturday
His Due"— Justinian. »
Jess Gates of Camp Creok was here
Cake was; the head water» of the lation. and by setting thia water »up
M«K «title river flowed throuhh mod­ ply aside for the use of the people of Saturday.
Nick Mier» w-a» In from Camp
You like to trade at a store
erately Bleep mountain vail»»»; on» future gen- ration» a far-«lghU-d pol
where you are so well treated
branch, the mwlh westernmost, hav­ Icy will be Inaugural««! which will Creek Saturday
O. A. Roberts of Marcola was a
that you'll want to repeat your
ing Its origin In "Iron Muunlalif," the »»sure the walfare of our children
t-'prlugfleld visitor Saturday
visits.
next toward the north. In Cr> »cent i who will follow after us
William Huck» waa In from Walter-
Mountain, the third, lu the PvrauiMa
In addition. It ha» been definitely
At our stop - an effort 1» always
and the last, the moat eesterly. had demon»!rated that Clear bake la sus­ ville Saturday a» W».» also M J.
made to render this sort of
tt«> origin In the glacier» of Three- ceptible of producing en rgy to the W earln of that city
Morrlaon and Ctlngan unloaded a
Angered Jack All of these streams amount of two hundred ten million
service. ’
flowed uninterruptedly to a union at kilowatt hours delivered anually lo carload of cem- nt from Gold Hill
a point about tbr » quarters of a mile low tension buss-bare of a »ub-statlon and a carload of corn from Nebraska
In fact we believe that a drug
north of the present Clear bake.
store'» right to exist depends
, to be located In tho immediate vlclb on Saturday
T he ban e O u iily Auto com pany
The second lava flow apparently i lly of
upon how well it performs its
ot the
m e city of
ot Eugen«?,
r.ugeno, which
w h i c h If
«« all
so
- -
. „• m .r
rsl.ed the w ater, of the lake to an
* pr(Hlu,.„(1 wer.. B„,d
one cent (had an automobile parade a t h
function of promoting public
aitltu.la of 2.925 but extended the
M,owW( hour wtmM producp a cars through Sprlngfleld on S.turday.
health and safety.
base of the harrl r well up stream. r„¥#nu, of , wo ra|||, OI1 on. hundred I Nineteen cars were Included
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but the third and l»«t eruption was
. . . .
We welcom-i your trade and
audden and violent as 1» evidenced by
this appreciation finds expres­
the condition of aome of the tree»
sion In a constant endeavor to
whlrh atlll are standing In th - lake,
make yon feel at home and to
with their side toward Belknap Crater
furnish you with the best pos­
hearing Are marks. This flow e f­
in popular priced
sible goods at the most reason-
fectively dammed the water and pre !
able prices.
served the limber ao flooded, »«> ef- ,
fectlvely that the wood fiber» are ;
So— w e aoliclt your business
practically unimpaired during the ,
on
the ha»i» of superior service
reniurlee of aubmeralon.
T he newest of the new in styles.
The largest volume of water came
from the glacier» of Three fingered |
The m arket's best in m aterials.
Jack and as the source of Ihe lava !
The latest In colors.
flow came from a point "down- f
air am" and «-onstantly met the wa­
Give us your im m ediate attention.
ters of the partially melting glacier.
The result was that the original
water course was utterly obliterated
as surface flow, and the present lake
which « «>»' rs an area of about forty
acres »•»« formed, with no apparent
outlet The approaches to the valley
were pr«'«-lp!tous, well wooded and dif­
ficult of access, save by the "fore»t-
folk" and so It remained hidden until
aurv yora Invaded It «luring their pre1
llmlnary rernnnolssance for the "Cor­
vallis A Eastern railroad" In ISS1.
In 1H8R the railroad was located, com­
municating roads were rut. bridges
were built and during Ihe year fol­
lowing, actual construction of grad­
ing waa Instituted, arc««« was made
easy and »<> Ihe valley was "found."
STEVENS HALL
Ilow ver, the actual work of con-
atructlon of the railroad was termin­
SPRINGFIELD
ated at It» present location on th«
north fork of the Santlam river, the
THURSDAY. MARCH 20
wind eroded tho roadbed, the bridges
HEART BREAKERS ORCHESTRA
rotted away, trees rotting fell across
and blotl d out the roadway; the for-
eat reclaimed Its own, Ihe handiwork
of man perished and again the vnllev
was "hlddetjf' and ao It remained
wbpn Ihe writer, tinder »kllfltl gtild-
nnce
penetrated
Ita
fastness«-»,
through devious, tortuous paths and
found the old construction csm in rot­
ting away, wllh only the gash far 'f|>
Procte.- and Gamble products.
the mountain barrier nnd had aban­
doned the onterprlae, a s' superfluous
for transportation needs.
Assortment, regular vale- 95c
I
Reconstructing Iho valley as origi­
has been requested to present facts regarding County
nally constituted, and aasumlng a uni­
Special Friday and Sat day
form hydraulic gradient, reveals that
affairs under adminstration of these tnen.
the valley was covered with lava to a
to
depth of 250 feet for the distance of
10.000 feet down stream from tho lake
go
outlet. And then to n depth of In ex-
geos of 100 foot, for a distance of 34,-
at
000 feet, a point well below tho third
lowest falls, whore Iho Increased
volume of water opposing tho on
rushing lava flow, produced violent
explosions hut did not wholly prevent
or rather check tho Ilow of the molten
mass which finally exlomled to moun­
tain slopes on the right hank of the
Sanitary Meat Market
Personals ..
Holverson Bros, Props.
THRIFT
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Eastman Grocery
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V
The Market's Leading Values
Trimmed Hats
STANDARD
of QUALITY
$3.50 to $10.50
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STANDARD OIL COMPANY1
The MODE
DANCE
Shall Sharp and
Roney be
Recalled?
Soap Special
District Attorney Johnston
stream.
Ho much for tho romance of the'
forthatlon of Clear bake and the beau-
llftil waterfalls In the valley below It.
|t was born In violent travail and has
left Imperishable record» of Its birth,
rlenr m d db-flnce r-i e-hen flirt irr.de
iv
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ft-e
• utcivsmlc rflfiillf .« in
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Hear him at Woodmen Hall
Thursday Evening - 8 o clock
RECALL COMMITTEE,
Chas. M. Emery, Secretary.