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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1906)
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST HOP CROP INJURED. Drouth and Poor Cultivation Will Put Yield Below 120,000 Bales. The long continued drouth and the poor cultivation in mar y sections are beginning to tell on the Oregon hop crop. Last year the state produced about 112,000 baleB.. It is beginning to look now as if this figure would not he exceeded this year, notwithstanding an increase in acreage of about 10 per cent. Esti mates made by reliable dealers of the coming crop range all the way from 100,000 to 120,000 bales. At one time in the spring it was thought about 140,000 bales would be produced, but two months with practically no rainfall anywhere in the hop belt has had a telling effect on the vines. Scan ty cultivation in many of the yards has caused even more damage than the dry spell. Prices were so low last year that some of the growers lost heart and neg lected to cultivate their properties. They will be rewarded this year with less than half the production of their neighbors who attended to this import ant matter. An immense quantity of hops was sold on contract in the spring at the bare cost of production, and these sellers, almost without exception, failed to cultivate their yards. It is estimated that up to the present time about 80,000 bales of the coming crop are tied up by contracts. Al though the crop will fall short of early expectations, it will still furnish em ployment for all the pickers that can be secured. It will be what the grow ers call a "top crop," and will be easy to pick. . ' Much Hay in Tillamook. Tillamook Tillamook had another bumper bay crop this year, and with fine weather the past month it has been harvested in good shape. Most every barn in the county is filled to its full capacity, and there will be an abund ance of feed next winter for the dairy herds, with the probability that it will not be all used before the next crop is harvested. The dairy business in Till amook is increasing every year, and the dairymen are very prosperous, as they do not have to buy mill feed for their cows, but grow enough on their farms, and this with the green pasture keeps the cowb in good condition. To Meet at Hood River. Pendleton Judge 8. A. Lowell, pres ident of the Oregon Irrigation associa tion, has set October 11 and 12 as the date for the holding of this year's con t veutiun of the association. Hood ; Eiver is to be the place of meeting. '. By holding the convention on the above '' dates the meeting will take place dur : lng the biennial fruit fair, which is to , be held at Hood River during October. 1 Arrangements for the . holding of the convention are now being made by the people of Hood River, and it is expect ed that a large delegation will be pres- eat from Eastern Oregon. lU . Dynamite Makes Hay Grow. Pendleton J. B. McDill. superin tendent of the county poor farm, has , harvested the second crop of alfalfa, ' and the yield will amount to about 180 tons. A portion of the land on this place was underlaid with a limestone crust about a foot beneath the surface, which detracted from the strength of the soil. Breaking up with dynamite was tried as an experiment upon some of the land, and has proved successful. The limestone cruBt beneath the surface prevents the crops from taking deep root, or the soil from retaining moist ure. State Aids Pendleton Fair. Pendltiton President Leon Cohen, of the District Fair association, has re ceived word from Salem that the formal application for $1,500 appropriation had been favorably acted upon and the money was available. The fair is to be held here in September and $1,500 was appropriated by the legislature for cash prizes for educational, agricul tural, horticultural and stock exhibits. In addition $250 worth of printed matt ter for advertising purposes will be turned out by the state printing office. Coke for Takilma Smelter. Grants Pass The first load of coke for the Takilma smelter has left here. Captain J. M. Mclntire, who has the contract for hauling , states that he has been offered more teams than he can use, as the teamsters would rather haul coke and matte than lumber. From now on until the rains put a stop to hauling the big freight teams will be kept busy taking coke to the smelter and returning with matte. It takes five days to make a round trip. ' Wants Cement Factory Site. Oregon City The Oregon City board of trade is in correspondence with a ce ment manufacturer of Kansas City, Mo., who is looking for a location on the Coast with a view to establishing a plant. He represents that the plant wilt employ moro than 250 men, with a monthly payroll of about '$25,000. An effort will be made to seen re the factory for this city. PLAN TO IRRIGATE. Extensive System Planned for Grand Ronde and Indian Valleys. La Grande Two big irrigation sys terns, which will cover the entire Grand Ronde and Indian valleys and a portion of land in Wallowa county, are being projected by local companies. The organization to be known as the Grand Ronde Water company, 1b a cor poration which will promote a $2,000, 000 iirigation project and besides furn ishing water for irrigation on a large scale, the company expects to provide power for lighting where it is wanted. The water wilt be taken from the Big Miwam, which forms the boundary be tween Union and Wallowa counties. The preliminary surveys for the big canal were made last year, and at the present time the engineers are engaged in making the final surveys and doing the cross sectioning. The canal will take the water through a deep canyon. Its head is in section 85, township 3 south, range 42 east. After cutting thrpugh the high divide in township 1 north, range 41 east, it will be an easy matter to cover the In dian valley country and swing into the Grand Ronde. The main canal to the divide will be 34 miles long. The lateral distributing canals as planned will be GO miles in length. The promoters estimate that it will take four months' time for the large force of engineers now at work to com plete the final survey. Construction work will be commenced as soon as the survey is finished. Teachers Scarce in Lane. Eugene The regular quarterly exam ination for teachers' certificates , was held in this city last week by County Superintendent W. B. Dillard, assisted by Professor M. H. Arnold, Professor D. C. Eaughman and W. G. Martin. There were 61 applicants for county certificate and several for Btate papers. This is a smaller class than the aver age, and Superintendent Dillard thinks there will be a scarcity of teachers in the county this fall. Several outlying districts were unable to secure teachers for the spring term, and the outlook for the fall term seems even worse.'. Fortune in Five Years. " Baker City The largest -. land deal; made in Baker county in a quarter of a' century was closed a few days ago when Earl F.Cranston sold 720 acres in.; Powder valley within ten miles of 'B$k- er City, to Brown, Phillips & Geddes, owners of the Baker Packing company, for $35,000, reserving this year's crop estimated in value at $5,000. ' Five years ago this land was bought from the government at $2 an acre and , was a sage brush desert. PORTLAND MARKETS. . . Wheat Clab, 6S69c; bluesteim, 7071c; valley, 7172c; red, 6667c..' , Oats No. 1 white feed, $26; gray, $25 per ton ; new crop, $22 per ton; Barley Feed, $23 per ton; brew ing, $23.50; rolled, $2424.50. ; ' Rye $1.50 per cwt. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $li. 12.50 per ton; clover, $77.50; cheat,' $6 50; grain, bay, ,$7; alfaljfa, $10.: ,. Fruits Apples, common, 50(&75c per box; ," fancy, , .$1.252 aprjepfa, $1.2531 35 ; grapes, $1.75 2 per crate; peaches, 75c$l; pears, $2; plums, fancy, 5075c per box; common, 60 75b; blackberries, 56c per pound; crab apples, 75c per box. Melons Cantaloupes, $2 8 per crate; watermelons, llc per pound. Vegetables .Beans, 57c; cabbage, 1(820 per pound ; celery, 85c$l per dozen; corn, 1520c per dozen; cu cumbers, 4060c per box; egg plant, 10c per pound; lettuce, head; " 25c J per dozen; onions, 1012)ct per, .dozen; peas, 45c; bell peppers, 1215c; radishes, 1015c per dozen; rbubarb, 22c per pound; spinach, 23c per pound; tomatoes, 6090c per box; parsley, 25c; squash, $1.25 per crate; turnips, 90c$l per sack; carrots, $1 1.25 per aack; beets, if 1.25 1.50 per sack. Onions New, l(91Jc per pound. Potatoes Old Burbanks, nominal ; new potatoes, Oregon, 75090c. Butter Fancy creamery, 2022ic per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 2122c per dozen. . Poultry Average old hens, 1323kc per pound; mixed chickens, 1213c; springs, 14c; turkeys, live, 1622c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2022c; live, 810c; ducks, ll13c. Hops Oregon, 1905, nominal, 13c; olds, nominal, 10c; 1906 contracts, 16 17c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 16 20c per pound, according to shrink age1, valley, 202zc, according to fine ness; mohair, choice, 2830c per pound. Veal Dressed, a 8c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound; cows, 45c; country steers, 56c. Mutton Dressed fancy, 78c per pound; ordinary, 56c; lambs, fancy, 88&c. , , , . ,, t,,, j , Pork Dressed, 78c;per pound. INSURANCE MONEY HELPS. Rebuilding Operations In San Fran cisco Begin With Vigor. San Francisco, Aug. 14. The re building of San Francisco has begun in earnest. There is little talk, there 1b little boasting, but there is a vast amount of work. It may be observed on every hand. It has suddenly grown to large proportions, ; due to increase! payments by the insurance companies. These payments now total $50,000,000 enough to wan ant a ,decided step in advance in reconstruction. But still the $50,000,000 represents only 20 cents on the dollar of the amount due the policy holders of the city. The thirty days' grace allowed by law, after the three months allotted for the filing of proofs of loss, have elapsed and the insurance corporations must now pay or flatly refuse. The $50,000,000 has not been paid with the same cheerfulness with which the premiums were collected, in fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that a very large part of the amount has been "wrung" from the companies. It is still a question as to the sum which the policy holders will collect in the end. It is organization that has cai ried them to the point already attained, and it will be organization that will carry them further. There is very lit tle single banded fighting against the companies. Most of the individual suits filed are test cases to determine the validity of certain doubtful clauses and to decide how far the "earthquake clause" will prevail. The policy hold' ers have been merged into a gigantic organization, whicii has employed a corps of lawyers and will either foice the companies to do the "square thing" dr else announce their pcrSdity to the world. DOES NOT COVET TASK. Nicholas Declines Post of Command er of Russian Army. St. Petersburg, Aug. 14. Grand Duke Nicholas Nicbolaievitch, the Associated Press is informed by a mem ber of his entourage, has declined to accept the post of commander in chief of all the troops, of the empire, "where martial law exists," which was ten dered to him Augugt 4. Whether this was decided before or after the attempt on the. life of the grand duke at Krasnoye-Selo on August 10 is not known, but the ostensible reason is trat Grand Duke Nicholas be lieves that euih a post should ' not be given to a grand duke," but merely a military man. '' He-advocates the ap pointment of General Linieviteh, form erly commadnet in chief of the-. ,Man churian. army, but the emperor has not finally decided the matter. , . .. .' . The activity of the Terrorists in the provinces included, beside the usual harvest of assassinations in Warsaw, an attempt on the life of General Ka ratelieff, chief of the- gendarmerie - 6f Samara province, and' the. wounding. of Captain of Police Ivanoff.'of. Libau, by a youth whaAred .thrice at him on. the street.. - . ....'. V... t ; .-' ' .;-..' . ... ' WILL TALK IRRIGATION. Expert .Engineers Meet In Conference ,. "aj Boise September, 3. .Washington, Aug, 14. The fourth annual conference, p( the engineers of the United States Reclamation service will be held at Boise', Idaho, Septem ber 3 tov 8, the fourteenth irrigation congress also being In-session- at i Boise at that time. . s. , r. ,. , . This conference is in continuation of -the general policy of Adding annually a meeting of the principal engineers of the Reclamation service for the purpose of discussing matters or administration and economics of Workv The bringing together of these engineers and prom-' inent citizens of the West makes possi ble an interchange of views and a dis cussion of data ; leading to . results of very great vaiue in the furtherance of the purposes of . the reclamation act. Each of the engineers, experts and specialist in the various lines will sub mit a brief paper embracing some point of general interest, such as detailed methods of. cost, keeping, of designing, construction, maintenance, or opera tion. Owing to tne advanced condition of many of the irrigation, projects now under construction it is expected that this conference will be of more than usual interest and importance. Seven Mutineers Condemned. Helsingfors, Finland; Aug. 14. The trial by court martial of the Sveaborg mutineers commenced Saturday, and Lieutenants Kochanovskyand Emilian off , aged respectively 20 and 21 years, and five soldiers were at the first sit ting found guilty and condemned to death. - All were shot and buried in a common grave without ceremony. Kocnanovsky's father is a colonel of the guards at St. Petersburg. Emil ianoff's mother appealed by the tele graph to the emperor for a reprieve, but unsuccessfully. Are Granted Heariners. - Washington. A nor 14 . In order that. the food manufacturers of the country mav have nnnnrt.nnlt.v in make untroaa. -, x-j "j ( no tions concerning regulations for the en- torcement oi tne new 'pure iooa law, hAarinon will ha hold at the denarfcmnnt. of Agriculture from September 17 to 28. MHHH. Leaving the natural barrier of Italy behind, when the traveler crosses the Austrian frontier, he Is all day long 111 the midst of beautiful soenerv. The Sij'Klnn Alps show cllfts from which torrents rush, gentle mountain pastures and dells, with health and vigor It every breath of the sweet Alnlne air. There are tunnels and lofty viaducts ana romantic castles, and as the ap proach to. Vienna Is made through the plain of the Danube River, Its history Is . suggested by Its surroundings. It was first a Celtic village, then a Ror man fort, wherein Marcus Aurellus died.-. Vienna Was desolated subse quently by the Huns, becoming later a flef of Charlemagne. In the twelfth century the Duke of Austria acquired It It was greatly enriched by the cm-adesl-and in the twelfth century it became a fortified town. Twenty-five years later the Hapsburgs took It; In the sixteenth and seventeenth centu ries the Turks besieged it In 1809 It became a French possession, and In lSW It fell into Austria's power. To day It Is the imperial city of Austria Hungary, the most turbulent realm that any modern European sovereign rules. At its center Is the old city of nar row streets and lofty houses. Around It along and outside the RIngstrasse, thut circular boulevard which was built on the line of the old fortifications, Is new Vienna, of handsome buildings, fine parks and broad Rtreets. The people are gay and light-hearted. To an American, used to three meals a day, the Viennese seems to be eating all the tlme. For his first breakfast he has only coffee and rolls, but he follows this up at 10 o'clock by eggs ; at noon comes his chief meal, both rich and substantial ; at 4 o'clock he has coffee, at S.hls early supper, and then this second supper we have spoken of at 10 o'clock, to top off his day, and send him to bed at peace with all the world. v"'J'he Viennese aristocracy are the proudest In Europe, the Viennese poor a' tie among the most humble. It is a efty of grent contrasts. In Juxtaposi tion to the busy, unpretentious commis sionaire, the public's Indispensable ser vant, stands the elegantly liveried porter- who paces In front of the telegraph ofhee wearing a cocked hat and a coat covered with gold lace and carrying a Ug staff with a big silver ball at its end, renilnlng .one of the pompous, po ttiynien In Parma. ,'J'his city has a predominant status In the realm of music. Her name Is as sociated with the names of great com posers,' and with great musical festi vals. Important periods of, Mozart's career, and Beethoven's also, were nassed In the capital of Austria-Hungary. Schubert was born here. It was at a concert in Vienna that the boy Elzt, Hungarian by birth, played so well that at the conclusion of his per formancei BWthoven' came upon" the strge and kissed the child, in token dl,hlaj&!lfltloh..of hts.genfas, trib ute which Liszt the man treasured in jnemojyjvhen J)je older, composer was dead, and he himself had become a resi dent of Paris. ; Dfi, flrahm and- Jofaann Strauss, too, lived here. The population of the city Is nearly the same as that of Chicago, anfl officers -'find soldiers' comprise one sbCth of the people. ' The soldiers are not, 1 however, the only people In Vienna. There are at RARE ORCHID AGAIN FOUND. Plant Lonjt Souwlit Hedincovered on J. Reernt Thibet Expedition. j An orchid which for fifty years has baffled all the attempts of collectors to 'find Its native haunts has been redls ,covered. This orchid is the cyprlpe ;dium Falrieanum, which is one of a random collection made In Assam In 3857, sent to London in the same year and bought by a Mr. Falrle of Liver pool, in whose possession It bloom ed, and was duly hailed and de scribed In orchid literature as one of. the most beautiful orchids hitherto known. Several, other plants of the same orchid came, with It, and the spe cies was at once named Falrieanum, after Mr. Falrle. From the day of its discovery, In spite of scores of expeditions and peril ous Journeys' by collectors, not a single plant was found until some member of the Thibet expedition, a few months ago, discovered a whole bunch of the plants. He sent them along to Calcutta, whence two were dispatched to Kew, and others are gradually coming through to England. "Probably another fifty years will elapse ere more . Fairteanums are found," said a British specialist, "for no private collecting expedition is likely to venture Into such a country. My own belief .Is that unless another mili tary expedition traverses the same ground there will never again be a chance of getting plants," The plant flowering at Kew has five tractive women In the streets, whowalkj proudly, and whose eyes flash a. fire that speaks eloquently of a haughty spirit behind them. There are Jews from the ghetto, Bohemians from the Czech quarter, and proud Hungarians, who talk their 'native tongue voclfer-l ously, contemptuous of the German' speech which the emperor would Ira-' poe upon them. Here Is a Slav ped-j dler who has bound his feet with strips of cloth in lieu of shoes. There are vegetable hucksters, resembling those whom we saw in the South, carrying their produce in baskets which they balance upon their beads. A sausage seller who has set up shop on a corner, is selling frankfurts to customers, who eat them on the spot ' j It takes three hours and half by ex press train to reach Llnz from Vienna, and three hours more to reach Salz burg. The train passes through gentle; woodland scenery and then dashes lntoi a region of chateaus and ruined castles. It lines the imposing monastery at; Melk, leaves the valley of the Danube temporarily, and passes the city ..of Enns, individualized by Its detached tower, which was built with the ransom which was paid by England for Rich ard the Lion Hearted to Duke Leopold VI.. who kept the English monarch a prisoner at Durrenstein for fifteen months. Salzburg Is noted as being the; birthplace of the great composer, Mo zart. The journey to Munich takes a little over three hours by fast train. Munich Is the birthplace of beer, and Is called the songbird of Germany. One' Bavarian king after another has lavish ed his wealth upon the city, which to day Is an art center of Importance. Aside from the magnificent art gal leries, the central point of visitation here is the famous Hofbrauhaus, In the Pratzl, where the Kaiser Wllhelm al ways comes when he visits Munich, and stands In line with common men wait ing his turn for a mug of beer. The American girl in Munich is one of the Joys of the place. She comes here to study music and art, and learn German. When she first arrives she is attracted by the gorgeous uniforms ahd clanking swords of the military offi cers. - . ; -if But when she meets one of these1 same Apollos on a narrow sidewalk1 and with one strong sweep of his arm he shoves her into the street so as pot1 to get his shiny boots dirty, her pride: goes down like mercury In December!, : It Is to the credit of Miss Columbia! that she never finds her' proper' plaWi as a mere woman when she Is in a Ger man community. She never becomes reconciled to seeing members of ;her' sex as human pack horses, especially if beside a peasant woman who ear-' ries an enormous load upon her back; there walks a husky husband, her legal master, who saunters along smoking, unincumbered.'i An American matron has ' no use for the German ' husband who lets his wife tote the baby wW lei beeswings his cand carelessly, atarlrig at every pretty woman that he meets. . When Lewte I." wished to build the! Slegesthor, or gate of victory,' in token of the valor of the Bavarian troops, he took the arch to Constantine at ..Rome for his model, adapting It to Munich's individual need by crowning it with an enormous figure of Bavaria that stands In a quadriga drawn by bronze lions. Th3. reliefs upon its sides show Victo rias of Bavaria. growths and two flowers. The second plant Is developing five blooms. The, flower has a slender, hairy scape about ten inches In height, a prominent and charming dorsal sepal, one and three quarters inches In length by one and one-quarter Inches in breadth, with a white ground beautifully veined with violet purple and with brownish green veins near the center and whitish hairs round the margins. The petals droop and have an upward curve at the tips ; they are one and one-half Inches in length, with a white ground streaked with purple and yellow. The upper, margin of the petals is much undulated' and covered with prominent purple! hairs. The pouch Is rather small,! greenish-brown in color, veined with brownish red and covered with short hairs. Something; Fierce. "It seems to me my wife is always buying medicines." "Well, mine doesn't go in much for that sort of thing, but she did buy me a cure for the tobacco habit to-day."; "Rather nervy of her to do that, wasn't it?" . ..'. ., "Oh, she meant well. It was Just a box of cigars she bought." Phlladel-i phla Ledger. ' . ,i. ',. Plenty of Room Then. . Author Sorry, old man, I can't dead head you to-night Every seat is sold, out. . - i,- '1 ' Friend Oh! Thafs all right I'll wait till after the first act Lt Hire.