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SCIO, LINN COUNTY, OREGON.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy KMoers.
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D A A «4 A
BAPPEMKfiS OF TVO CONTINENTS
A Resuma of the La«« Important but
Not
La»«
Interesting
Events
of th« Past Weak.
A decisive st i ugg Is is on for control
of Zion city.
The number <»f railroad a«vldenta tn
Great Britain ia in- reealng.
Throe ;>er«on« were killed by the col-
lap««< of a building in Cincinnati.
Secretary Ktraus la formulating a
plan for an I ml us trial Jwau-e commia-
aioa.
Two of the largest copper mirros in
Minnesota have devldrd to decrease
their output &0 per cent.
Many Japanese who have {«imports
for Mexitx) land in the JJnited Etale«
but tail to go on to their destination.
H. H. Rogers ia in such poor phyal­
ca) health that he is unatde to ap|H«r
tn court tn a ea«e against the Htaotiard
Oil company.
Jameu J. Hill, now that he lias turn
e«l all businem »flair« over to his «on,
will *)>end the rest of his life in recrea­
tion and rest.
A grand jury at Jack«--n. Mis»., has
returned indictments against tlie Illi­
nois Central and Yaso<> A Mississippi
Valley railr-nds for giving paase«.
The government ia trying to prevent
another c«ial famine in the Weet.
Secretary Metcalf urges the need of
government drydocks on tlie Pacific.
The Weatern Union claims there haa
been a break in Die operator«' strike at
Clevelad, Ohio.
A newspaper office at Joplin, Mo.,
has been dynamited because it fought
the lawli-sb element.
Count Okuma says the San Francisco
riots were lun'k«*! by the olty, while
Vancouver fought tlie rioter«.
An effort to have Htensland, the de­
faulting president of the Milwauki-e
avenue bank, Chicago, pardoMd, Ims
failed.
Thete iaa n unconfirmed report that
the battleship tlix t will leave for the
Pacific November 17 irwtead of I>ec«m-
her 17.
Roosevelt has approved the orders to
Admiral Evans to use his own judg
m«nl In visiting Portland with the
fleet of battleships.
The next encampment of tho Grand
Army of the Republic will tie held at
Toledo. Ohio.
Judge Charles Burton,
of Nevada, Mo., wm elected commati-l-
rr-ln-chlef at the Naratoga meeting just
enuded.
Hun-lro-ls of Jews sre being tortnri-d
ami burned in Rusela.
The jury In the Tirey I.. Ford ca«e,
Ban Francisco, hu been secured.
Japan deploroa th« outbreak against
her subject« at Vancouver, B. C.
Adrnl«aion of Oriental aiulls to the
Chicago «obcols 1« meeting with strong
opposition.
French and Spanish troo|<« have at­
tacked an-l routed ths Moors and burn­
ed their camp.
Striking telegraph operator* tn Chi­
cago liars roceived strike pay and wliat-
•ver diseeulion existed haa disappeared.
Ihe trans-Atlantic llnsr l.usltsma
has establish»«! a now record for speed
across Dm orman, making the trip in
lees Dian five 'lays.
Ths Anglo-American polar expedi­
tion under Mikkelson and l-efingwsll
reports finding ■ d««*p sea north of
Alaska but no continent.
A Groat Northern passenger train
was held up near Rexford, Mont., by
two masked men.
They sernred a
largo amoant of registered mail but
found the esproea safe, which they dy­
namited, empty.
Jamestown has offers! a prix« of
11,6’JO for tlie mast suncessful airship.
Caaa-la will apologixe to Japan and
ia negotiating to restrict Immigration.
Telegraph operator* on the Northern
Pacific are eald to be considering a
•trike.
Tlie question of the battleship fieet
visiting Portland haa lieen left to Ad-
mlral Evans.
The sitnatloo In the telegrapher»’
strike st Portland remains unchanged.
Few muewagH« sre being sent or re­
eel red.
The trial of Tirey L. Ford chief conn-
sol of tire United Railnwda of Han
Francisco, charge«! with bribery, has
osmmen-'o!.
Tho French government has decide!
that Morococ must ;ay <lamages to for­
eigner.
YEARN FOR STATEHOOD.
Governor of N»w Mexico Urged to
Call Convention.
Hanta Fe, N. M., Sept. 16.—Iktle-
gate Andrews, national committeman,
I.imar II. O. Bursurn, chairman ol the
Republican central co mm ill re, ex-Unit-
ed Htatte Attorney Child««, Judge A
I.. Moiriaon, General John P. Victoria,
a Ifeiuocrat, Postmaster Walter* and
other cilisen« today called upon Gov­
ernor Cutry to urge him to call a con­
stitutional convention
within two
montlui so that a conrtituti- n may be
drafted, submitted and a«lopt««t by the
people before ixingrras meets after Die
holiday«, with a pica for admission to
statehood. It is propose«! to call to­
gether tlie 'ielegatM el« ted to draaft
the constitution under tho joint state­
hood plan a year ag<'. nitet of whom
liave exprasted willlngnere to serve
without cumpensation.
Governor Curry declare«! himself In
hearty srvord with ibis plan and prom
Ire.I to take action after hie return
from a c-mau list ion with Pr«*«dent
Ro leevelt.
Within Die pe«t few day« nrariy
every newspaper in New Mexico ha.-
«jonie out In favor of holding a conatitu-
tlonaI cc-nv«Mitl<>u this fall an-l senti­
ment fur statehood is ptactu-ally unani­
mous.
OOUBEE-THACIi HOAD
Harriman to Spend $75,000,000
on Immediate Improvement.
ELECTRIC POWER IN MOUNTAINS
Plan* Approved
(or Low-Grade and
Double-Track Line From Chi­
cago to Pacific Coast.
Chicago, Sept. 14.—A« a result of
hl« trip throughout the Weet ati-1 ow­
ing to hi« unbounded faith In Die con-
tinue-l prosperity of the country, E. II.
Harriman I as approved plana for the
spending of betw--<-n 476,000,000 and
41'“','7«'.
- I it he la»-
lieves will lw th» t>e»t double-trwk
tranewntinental railway «yatem in the
country.
Illa plan contemplates the constiuc-
i » ; * »-r«<i« I -i '-Je tta -k rs
wsy from Chicago to the i'acific cc«v>t
at Han FranciM-v», I'nrtland ami Seattle,
■n<l Its operation over the mountain
ssetions by eleekrioity, generated by
water jxiwer from the Rockite and thr
CITY BURNED LIKE TINDER.
Hierra«. The completion of this enter­
prise practically will have the eflwt of
Particular* of Hakodate Fire Show a-hilng three eingle-track r-«-l«. so far
as capacity to liandle tonnage is con-
Destruction Was Great.
i-erne-d, to the transcontinental system.
Victoria, B. C., HepL
16.—The
Mr. Hstrimxn contemplates the im­
sitemet Hhswmutt, which artived last provement of the ttionntain section of
night fr»m Manila via Japan and China the Hentliern l*acillc by building an en­
with a cargo of hemp, tee, silk an-l tirely new line for a distance of 32
mile« b«tween Rocklin and Colfax,
general freight and tU saloon isuwon-
Cai. Thia will have a gra<l---f 1 f«rt
ger», including many naval, military to the mile and will lie mwd as an up-
and civic officer» from the Philipptn«'», hill tarvk. The present line, with ita
brought further news of tire great fire grade of 116 feet to the mile, will be
ua»d
the downhill track.
at Hnko>late.
The company has just completed the
It urenu the big confiagration origin­
ated in a soap factory near the Higa- lengthening of all aiding» on the Hierra
ahigawa mdiool and rprewd with great mountains so that each will hold 42
rapidity, sweeping sway hundred« of care and thro»» locomotives, such a* ate
hamboo hoiiaes. During the fire a pow- used in tab ing a «ingle freight train over
Boring» are
•i»-r nisgaxmc nt Kialioinaciiie rxp)od«>d, the mountain divi-b.n.
involving much loss ot life. In ail i being made «nd «hafts sunk forth« new
300 live« were l-ist during the confia­ 1 »uminit tunnel, which 1« to be five and
gration and 13,000 homes burtwd, a . onv-.piarter mil,« long and which i* to
strong wind fanning the fire, which lower the grade by a total of 730 feet.r
It 1« expected that 460 mile« of the
spread with groat rspidity.
All the foreign consulate«, adunni«- double tracking of the Union Pacific
trative offices, banks, company uffi<we, will te complete'! by the close of th.-
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schools, theater«, etc., were burned year.
with the exception of the American
AFRAID OF LANDIS.
consulate, courthouse, railwsy station
• nd the customs bouse.
One stsamer, tire Narurye Mara, * m Judge Who Fined Standard May Not
burned and sank in the harlior.
Grant Alton Immunity.
Washington, Hept. 14.—Judge Ki-ne-
tew W landia, famoua lor having Im­
posed thr record fine on th« Htandard
Na* Factory in Montana May Become Oil company, is causing considerable
um-MiiicMi in the de|artment of justice
Boon to Northwest.
iMs-auar of his apparent determination
Helena, Mont., Hept. 16.—Work lias to prosecute the Alton railroad.
The
liegun on the construction of a |600,000 determination of the jrnlge wnnl<l n->t
cement plant at Throe Forks, a town give concern, but for the fact that thia
east of Helena, at the junction of the r<»ad was promiac'd immunity, by the
government if it would give up infor­
Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivera. mation which would enable the govern­
on both the Northern Pacific and Ht. ment to convict the Htandard oil com-
Paul railways. A« a reati It of cheap : |amy. Thr Alton r-a-l fulflll'--l| 1« part
isuiic materials, the ootapany pro;»*«» of the contract; It« evidence ancom-
marketing Dre pnkluct at |1 a barrai, pllahed ail that the government sought,
a« against It al preeeot.
an-1 now the Alton is asking the govern­
The plant will have an ultimate ca- ment to live up to its agrtwmirnt and
|>a< ity of l.iMk) barrels a -lay, and will ovrrl.aik the sins of theVnilrted, which
ire the largest of ite kind in this sec­
are oouteniled to I* <d ranch less im­
tion of ths Northwest.
The company portance than the sins of the convicted
ha* a fully iu I w - i ibed capita) ol 42,-
Htandard Oil cotn|«ny.
toy.lXkl, and is »aid to liavs five tnll>a Thr curious thing »Imut the situation
of lim«»itone and silica lands.
is tiiat Judge landia is not nn-eflearily
James and Hyrum Pingree, of the bound by any immunity premia* given
Pingree National lank, of Og-len, Utah, by the department of justice.
He
are al the hea»l of the enterprise, while know« that ex-Att -rnry General Moody
C. Boettcher, of the Billing» sugar fac­ authorixed thr giving of such a pledge,
tory, F.T. McBride, a Butte lawyer, and he knows that, if Mr. Moody or the
an-l Jiweph Heowcroft, of Utah, are ihe pre«ent attorney general hail full say,
main factors.
the Alton r<«<! would be protected,
«imply an-l solely because of thr prom­
Strike Hampers Traffic.
ise of the government. But under our
Ht. Paul, Hept. IS.—A general etrike «ystetn of government the department
of boilermaker» on the Chicago A Great cf justice can not dictate to Judge Ian-
Western,
Great Northern, Omaha, dis, nor can the preaidaat by any legal
Northern Pacific and Soo railr<>a>la waa right direct thia judge as to what course
Ho fat as criminal
called Hat ur-lay. The boilermaker« are he «hall follow.
aided in their fight by their helper« pronecutirMi« are concerned, Judge Lan­
and in llie case of the Great Weatern dis 1« super me in hi« own jurisdiction,
the machinist« in the big «hope at Oel­ and if hr «««* fit to disregard the prom­
wein went out In «ympathy.
The ise of immunity, there is no power in
«trike of boilermaker« follow««! ■ re­ tlie government that «-an check him!
fusal of the railroad« to accede to a
demand for 46 cents an hour rant of
Try to Avert Car Famine.
the Missouri river and 47% rente west
Atlantic City, N. J., Hept. 14 —Ef­
»f tiiat river.
forts to avert a repetition of the rar
famine of last winter weie put Into ef­
Boycott Dishonest Roads.
fect by the rar service committee at an
Repre­
New York, Hept. 16.—By the use o* important conference here.
a rigid Imycott on unscrupulous line» sentative« of nearly all important trunk
and by th« elimination <>f insidious lines are in attendance. Conferees ad­
preferences to favored shippers, the mit Dial an alarming shortage of rol­
latter declared to I* woree then »pen ling et-rk confronts the railroad, but
relates, the railway magnates of the refuse to »tat« whether any line of ac­
Fast prop<*e to make a strenuous effort tion to avert condith na aa Istd, if not
to reduce the impending fall car short­ worse, tlian prevailed last winter, had
age, which admittedly is threatening lieen agreed upon at the conference just
the industries of the entire country.
held.
CEMENT. SI A BARREL
£WS*
NEPTEMBEU
20,
NO.
FESTO
KING THE NANucS.
San Francisco Police Ars Accused o*
Shooting at Strikebreaker*.
Serious Problem a* V-ewsd by tits!«
Veterinarian ol Washington.
ban Francisco, Sept. 13.—Another
scene of rud waa enacted at the Twenty-
fourth and Utah streets carbarn last
night, following the street of William
A. Bruce, a nonunion carman, on com­
plaint of two young women that he lead
annoyed them by a remark aa they
past s I. Brass resisted aneMandWM
severely clubbed.
The police allege
tiiat they were th,<reu|»n »Hacked by
numbers of nonunion men. A riot
squad id 26 [Mktrulmen under Lieuten­
ant Tobin isinr up and In a fight a
score of hea,!« were broken by clubs
of the police and a number of arrests
wire made. Eventually the nonunion
men were driven hack into the car-
tarn*. Th« nolle« ray that the carman
who started the row la an ex-convict.
Mayor Taylor has Increased the
Mission patrcl by 22 men, In accord­
ance wiih hie promise of yesterday.
The picket«' tent at Twenty-fourth and
Potrero streets, a block from the com-
|«ny'« barn, Is to lie removed. It has
¡M-en a headquarters for trouble fur
weeks fast.
l'l ■ i hr-
I» commenting tkpon the
furl-ms ri-liug in the Mlml'-n district.'
when five n-munion cat operative« in
the employ of the United Rallrvanfe
were shut by union pickets and police­
men, charge« flatly that the polie* am-
bushed the nonunion men and fought
against them aide by side with their
union tormentor».
The Chronicle
points out that the |mtrolmen—Wade,
Bigelow an-i Miller—who shot down
the carmen, were appointed to the |>o-
1 m *« force from the teamaters' and car-
■MR'• iini‘-i>« •-■ <-n u■
enesy
ment of the streetcar strike, w lien a
Union laliur police commission and a
crooked chief of police were in control.
During th«i ¡«st few weeks l*r. H B.
N»-l»on, state veterinarian >>( Washing­
ton Ims sp«-nt con»id«>r«ble time in
Walla Waila. Columbia, Garfield an-l
Asotin counties,
rxamining
many
luui-ls of sheep Dial are kept in there
counites, as to their general health,
with particular referent» to ”nb.”
Recently, in di**uaalng things of in-
fereat he had obarrvei in g- ing from
one «h'-ep camp to another, Dr. N<'l-«>li
csiue to the problem of *'re»t<«'l«ing
the rang»»,” which Is now a>> al*<>th­
ing to »t'ckmeu.
’’One <>f the serious problems now
contr-mtirg the «tockiiien of this state
Is the question of rest - king the ranges
with tiie origins« buticii gras«," hs
said. "Gid settlers tell us that when
they camo here forty years ago, the
hum h gnuM wm from two to thr<<e f«H<t
tall, «ml very heavy. Th» t>rotniacu-
ous grasing >>f tho stock ov< r the range«
has put them in thtir pfo»e-it tare, - r
semi bate, ci-ndltlon
The re«l»lming
of the«c «»st tracts of grating land Is »
problem bi which the agiicuitursI de­
partments of various institutions have
given a great ilea! ■>! attention.
“Homs seven or eight ytura ago I
ro«l» over these earn» range« an-l (ootid
the bum li gta-B pr« tlcally all gone in
many pl»-es.
This C'ondition could
be ol-aerie I ( t miles and miles as Hie
rang«« were ri-i-l«-n over. Recently i
wraa very much ■stonlahcl Is (mtsing
thiough th- 'e sanui regions to find that
tho.i««n !» J ».-r--« h i !- I---n t. i
I.
while - I’ o-ly l«'C" tr let» were Hot
fenced, but were held a« summer range
by sheepmen who practicallycontr-dl«Mi
them. I obsrrved tlmt tlivac ranges,
liair several year* ag->, weie, at the
tiur« of my visit, covered with a liixur-
ianl growth of b inch gruss, standing
from eighteen to thirty inches high. In
place* the grass »«.« so heavy that It
could not be mowed for hay. 1 wss
also much surprised to see that In
plac«-« Hist had bst-n proh-vted for a
loss numlx-r of years, the heavy bunches
of gra«« were scattered, and betwtsn
the lug butichee, bum h»« from two to
three years old were well started. It
wa» very easy to pick out a bunch of
two-year-oi l gra«» from »motig a num­
ber of th» older bunches.
In looking
into thels question 1 discovered how It
was that there ranges hn-l been re-
stocked.
"The sheep are kept on th«»!« winter
range«
ranges fr-in
ln-m th«
tho time
lime they
tlie come mil ol
the mountain« in the (ail, during H -p-
tamber and early October, until after
lambing, an I a nh--rt time the follow­
ing spring
Early In the spring tin
sheep cut the young, tender bunch
grass, but the sh«ep are well scatter«-!
(a g«od herder nearly always keep« his
shsep «mitered) the bunch gran» »« it
gets older la-come» tougher, and the
sheep do not like It *o well. By tlie
latter part of April and early In May,
the sheep prefer the many weeds, espe­
cially sunflowers, never touching bunch
grass at all. Many, many Ilin,-« dur­
ing my tri|«ss through thv-ae count!««, I
saw tend* of from fifteen to twenty
five hundred «hep grating In bunch
grass from one foot to eighteen Im he»
high and never touching It. They were
picking out the little wtolr In between
the tmnohrs of gruss, and wherever
there were areas <>t sunflowers, they
would cat the Bower« perfectly clean
wherever they went.
•‘From the first to th» fifteenth of
Jnne the sln-ep are taken Into D m '
mountains and krpt until the latter
part of Heptember.
Now when th»
sheep are brought back In September,
the bunch grass has seeded, the seed
being scattered over the ground. Th,
fall rains «erm to «often the bunch
grass, making It tender ao that tln<
«beep eat It grti-llly. In this way, by
rating the mrly shoot« tefore the grass
gone io seed, and then rating thia ma­
ture, «eml-currd grass after It has gone
to seed, the ««ad Is saved on the ground
and re«own, and the stand of bunch
gras« is continually Increased.
”1 his haa -lumoristrated to me very
strongly, that if mon owning large
arras of graxing land export to keep
their ranges up to the present stand­
ard, or even lncres«r the stand of
bunch gras», that they must of neces­
sity protect the bunch grass at least
•very other year, during Its seeding
lime; that is, from the time these««!
begins to form until tlie mature serels
are «hatter«»! on the ground.
I am
convinced tiiat the problem of restock­
ing the ranges may to a very large ex­
tent be solved by fencing the grasing
lands, and, at Intervals, resting them.”
LAND HINDUS AT VICTORIA.
Monteagle Turns Back, Fearing
lence at Vancouver.
Vul« V. *»>.».*-
1907.
NEW RIOT AMONO CARMEN.
Vio­
Ottawa, Ont., Hept. 13.—Advices
fmm Vancouver etale that the mayor of
Vancouver haa warned the captaiu of
the steamer Monteagle, which rias on
board lit Ja|Hr>e«e, 14V Chines« and
vtl Hindu«, d«etined for this port, that
lie would be unable to guarantee a safe
landing here, bscauas the unionists
hav« expressed their determination to
resist the Immigration <>f any mure
Asiatic laborers. The »teamsliip au­
thorities feared to ammine the risk and
Die vessel baa betin turn«! back to
Victoria, where the Aliatici will io
landed.
Vancouver Is reported a» Iwin» com-
paralivelr quiet, but an outrage by two
Chinamen yteier-lay ha« again inflamed
the people.
Thu Mongolians, while
I«va»lng along one of the main street»,
saw a white laby silting on the door­
step. They snatched II up and Uirew
It into the middle of tho street, which
was busy with traffic.
It fell among
the hot a»«' fi-et and narrowly raceped
death. Beyond living ¿bruised It »»»
not much the worse. An angry crowd
starlet* In pursuit. The Chimwe had a
good start and »«caped. The tact tlurt
no arrests have been made haa not
tended to allav Die tem|>er of Die |>eo-
pie.
CHARGES AGAINST RUICK.
Said to Have Forced Grand Jury to
Indict Borah.
Boise, Idaho, Hept. 13.—Judge Diet-
rich m the Federal court yeeter-lay ie-
• ued an order for a special grand jury
to apfiear on Thuteday, Heptember IV.
The ordei was issued at the inatance of
Judge M. C. Burch, «(w-cial a««iatant
attorney general of the United Htat«*,
who Is here for the pur|x>ee of Inquir­
ing into matters in connection with the
Idaho land frau-ls.
It ia understm»! here tlat the order
was n-ally the rwnrll of a plte In state­
ment filed by the attorney« for Frank
Martin, one of the men indictc'l with
Senator Borah and other«, which pie*
make« «erion« and seniwtional charge«
of mi*'--nduct on the part of United
State« Attorney Buick.
Thewe chargte are that Rulck ua«w|
force an-i coercion In imcuring tlie In­
dictments of Borah an-l bis fellow de-
fembints, and are enpported by the affi­
davits of three of the grand jurymen
Hoch's Fighting Blood Is Up.
Topeka, H«pl. 13.—Kansas prlitl-
cian» are strongly of the opinion that
Governor Hixth will call a special sta­
tion of the legislature if the railroads
persist in their determination to Ignore
Die 2'Crnt tare order.
The governor
ha* not b«<en notified of the art ion of
the road« except through the newf|»>-
p«'rs. He <le«'lsr«w tiiat Kan«aa will
have a 2-cent (are rat« or It will be
ranrell«d In the state« around her. A
conference »as held by Governor Hoch,
Attorney General Jackson and the at­
torney tor the railroad ootn miss ion.
Oppose All E«position«.
Bggy •« Appointed Chief.
No Hope for Arbitration.
Lincoln, Nrb., Hept. 16.—Senator
E. J. Burkett, who leave« this evening
for Washington, t«»iay declared Hurt
he would fight the Alaska-Yukon ex­
position appropriation in congress. He
declared tiiat the exp<*ition at Jam.*
town had been a lamentable failure and
be would oppose all such projects in
the future.
Hun Francisco, Hept. 14.—Thu board
of police com mi sa ion er* traiay elected
W. J. Blggy <hlef of police. Mr. Blggy
■erred a abort time aa chief of police
under Mayor Phelan several year» ago.
For the part nine mon tin he haa been
an elisor of the Huperior court, acting
m custodian of Abraliatn Ruef, an im­
portant fector Ln the local graft cases.
The Hague. Hept. 13.—The belief la
rapidly growing among the delegai*« to
the international pmew conferme« that
there is no hope for a permanent arbi­
tration oourt, owing to the German op­
position. Tlie delegate« are greatly
d acoonigr-l, although Ihe kaiser’« op­
position to the plan lias long been Inti­
mated.
WRITES OF OREGON.
Sidelights on Baavar Stats by Pro
fsssor of Cornell.
13.
lumbia river in Oregon,” writes Bru*
f<»-.-r Hunt - f Oleg -n, Washlugtoa
an-i Idaho
**i> » third < f the arte Is
covtevd l-y ton-«!« of imnieMe uommer-
. lal vslnr, while at lcj*»t one-fifth more
Is coveted by tree« of leas importance.
In W<-t(ru Orvguti and Washington
arv io tie found inilli 11« uf a. fee of tb«
-lenstet f'-reete, with conlteroog treee of
great be:ght, and laige diameter», of
wlmh tl>» Ik-uglas lit and th« rod cedar
u-e |<rba|« the n it ltn| riant. It
■ ' .
■ I m flee m res of land
to cut a million feel of lumber.
"Whi-it and hay <-:.«tltute about
one-third t! » value of all «rope. While
g> neral farming is »oinew liat m'-ne de-
v>'i.>|'« I than In tli<> Ro ky Mountain
»tate», the grating of livestock Is still
tie of the pt i --ip*l in-iiutrlee.
t^er-
tain arv-«» In O-rgou, Washington and
Cnllf inla futnlidi Idea) Conditions of
»-ill an-l cllmat» for the production of
h ¡>s. Th«-e thro «talM proiluoe two-
third« of the product of ths United
StatM.
”Tb« Ca-a l<' m-> intalns divide this
tegi'-n, climatically an-l agriculturally,
Into two parts. Between the Cascade
m -uutslns anil the Coast rang» ar» fer­
tile, well-watered valleis.
already
thickly j--pii).-«t«'<|
Upon the wsstern
oai-t, owinc t<> the Japan current, th«
temperature Is th» muet equable in
N 'tii Alncrlc«.
Ihe climate is more
liki E ngland than that <-f any other
|<art of the Unit«'d Mates.
The soil« srr mtetly of s voltento
--rigiii an-l ar- unusually fertile and en­
during
The pt air Ite vonsist of an «■•
pan«» of r-dltng hill*
Th» layout et
the farms «n l general a»p<vt of the
Improvements ar-- «imllar t." *hoee In
the newt-r ¡«irtlons of the North Cen­
tral states.
Th» i-eopte are mostly
rial I ve lair n Amirii-aua from the older
-»tth-.i state«.
Thete 1« a general air
of h- | elulnesi' and prveperity among
them.
” There aro still 30,000,000 acres at
utiappr- prlst«<d and unreserved pnbllo
Iand- ready for entry In this rvglou.
While s<>me <d this Is foirtt land and
some la arid, this region probably con­
tains th» 1« t large l-tly of public yet
open for aettlement in the United
Btatw."’
Oregon, Washington and Idaho are
credited with about 1*0,000 farm«. The
area In farms is about 2'>.000,000
acres, the lmprov--l »rea being about
u,000,000 acres fur th» lhr»e statw.
The avemge else of the farm« la a trifle
over 2-’-0 i«-ri a, ami the average site of
Improved farm« Is nearly 100 aerte.
The stale of Ori-g-n alone haa about
11,000,000 a res of land 111 farms and
rsnrhee, which Is'«timated to be worth
about 113 )>er acre.
EXPERIMENTS WITH HYBRIDS
Pullman Station Dsval«ps New Vari*
•He« of Wheat.
Th<- Wir-hlrigton Hute college sxper-
luiont station at Pullman has brought
« line of cxperiinrnt« with Little Club
and White Trs-k wheat to a point
where dofinlte statements concarning
results can lie given. Thes« bybridlsa-
tlon ex)*erlmerita were begun In 1HV9
by Prof' »«or E. E. Elliott. On» long-
headed variety which 1« now growing
In the eighth generation produce« more
straw than any other hybrid heretofore
grown on lh<* station fatin
Because of
this and that it will withstand cold
neatly ns well as Jon<w' Fife, the Sta­
tion staff Indlev)« Il will be well adapt-
>4 to the dry section lno*ttdsd In ths
greater |>ortlon of Die Big Bond country.
A l»ngtli of six >n-'he« snd 100 grains
to the load Is not unusual in this
variety.
Another hybrid la remarkable for th«
•tiffne»« <>f the straw. On the farm a
plot <>f K<«l Ru»slan and A read tan were
-mt to the ground by squirrels, while
ths hybrid variety waa left uninjured.
The stern grows too short to be suitable
for dry land, but it is the most stable
variety yet produced ami in several In­
stance« produced 60 bushels per acr*.
A long stem hybrid brut the peculi­
arity of growing with surprising uni­
formity of height, snd the staff my this
wheat should l>e well adapted to >hr»«h-
ing with a combined harvester.
Ths
evenness In length, and ths fact that
It sliattera but little, makes it one of
the most -li-lrable hybrids brought oat
on lire college farm.
EXCELLENT
COAL
PROSPECTS.
Much Intsrast Aroused In
Around Ashland.
Deposits
The recent work in developing th*
vnrk'iis ro«l pro«p<'< t» fi-nnd in th« vi­
cinity of Ashland, Oreson, has m«t
with »> much sncces« and has attracted
such wld«*»pread attention that It prom-
a* to Insure sutfirlent persevsranc« In
work along thia lln« to determine ths
real extent of the r<«l deposits which,
beyond doubt, exist In this section.
There Is no question about ths coal b*-
Irig found and ths quality of It, but
there are »kept lr* as to the extent at
the deposits. The sraraily and high
price of woo! tor fuel has prompted and
encourage I the coal prospecting to a
large eiter t and the opening up of
cool bed» of ample extent would b* a
welcome solution of the fuel problem,
which is a serious one and promises to
be m- ra serious before another winter
is over. The inability to secure wnod-
»fioppcre during the past year or two
has «really curtailed the wood output
and haa rvsu.ted in soaring prices.
In hi« r««ent tiook on ”How to
Choo«« a Farm, With a Dlscuaslon of
American fjtnds,” Professor Thoma« F.
Hunt, of Cornell university, devotee
sever«! complimentary paragraph« to
far mlng condition« nt the Pacific North­
west and to the reeoweres of Oregon In
particular. Professor Hunt accompa­
nies his descriptions with table« of sta­
tistics which throw several Interesting
•i'lslights on th« conditions existing In
the Beaver Htats.
"This region 1« characterixal by Its
Immense forest resource«. Its fishing
Industrie», and th« hi«h production of
wheat by dry farming In ths eastern
Ths British «nldl»r Is now to
part ol Washington and along the Co- Ihrss shirrs Instead of two.
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