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About The daily reporter. (McMinnville, Or.) 1886-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1886)
M c M innville , VOL. 1. oregon , T uesday , N ovember GOOD T1CEES TO RAISE. The Kntered in the Postoffloe at McMinnville for Transmission Through the Mails as Sec ond Class Matter. _____________________ Some Very Valuable Tree* that are Gen erally Neglected by Farmer«. During the past few years an enor mous number of trees have been planted in the prairie region of the west. Some of them have been good, some bad, and some of comparative little value. They Sixteenth Year of Publication. have been planted for all sorts of pur M c .HINN VILLE - - OREGON poses, as for furnishing shade, supply --------------0------------- ing fuel, providing protection against o. C. IRELAND. E. L. E. WHITE. winds, adding shade, and producing D. C. IRELAND A Co., ornaments for the farm. A few have PUBLISHERS. planted hickory, black walnut, butter- --------------0-------------- ■ nut, and pecan trees for the purpose of Weekly Subscription Rates. raising nuts, and many have planted One copy per year in adyanoe - - - $2.tK) catalpa and other sorts of trees with a If not paid in advanoe - - - - 2.50 To olubfl of three or five, when accompanied view of raising trees that could be work with the oash, $1.50 per year each. Two ed up into fence-posts and railroad ties. names for six months each to oount as one Occasionally an enthusiast has set out yearly subscription. Slactations of trees designed for pro- The Daily Reporter. ucing saw-logs and dimension timoar. Tn D aily R kpobtkb is issued every day As a rule, however, people hav« set out in the week except Sundays, and is delivered forest trees for no special reason. They in the oity at 10 oents per week. By mail, 4< • had been accustomed to them in the oenta per month in advanoe. Rates for ad vertising same as for T d W bkkly K kpobtkb . Siarts of the country where thty had ormeriy lived and thought that their Advertising Hates. farms looked bare without them. Gen ‘ SPACB. I lw. I lm. I 3m. | 6m. 1 12ms erally they planted the kinds of trees One inch................ SI 00 2 00 4 00 7 00 10 00 Five inches............ 1 75 2 50 7 50 15 00 30 00 that “came most handy,” that could be Eleven in.................. 2 75 5 50 16 50 33 00 66 00 raised from seed easily obtained or Twenty-two inches 5 50 11 00 33 00 «6 00 132 00 propagated by cuttings. Many took the 1ST Above rates slightly advanoed for pre trees that the nearest nurseryman toned positions: “Top of Column,” “Next was best supplied with and which he to Reading Matter,” “Seoond Page,” or was willing to sell at very low prices. “Third Page.” Observation shows that cottonwood, f^T Local notioes in reading oolumn on Third page: One insertion, per line lOoents white maple, and catalpa trees have been most generally planted, chiefly for Two insertions per line 15 “ Three insertions per line 20 “ the reasons that have been stated. By the month per line 25 “ Scarcely any farmer has planted oaks, ibituary notioes, resolutions of oon-1 dolement, etc., to insure publication in the though there are many things in their Reporter, must be aooompanied with instruo favor. Acorns are easily and cheaply tions; and the name of the psoper person or obtained, can be kept without difficulty, Kroons to whom chargee for the same are to while they germinate rapidly. An oak tree is highly ornamental, aflorda good made. shade, is hearty and long-llidd. The wood makes good fuel. The common J b B post oak is highly ornamental in all We beg leave to announoe to the public that we have just added a large stock of new stages of its growth. The white oak novelties to our business, and make a special furnishes most excellent timber as well ty of Letter Heads. Bill Heads, Note Heads. as fuel. In England and Austria large Statements, Business Cards, Ladies' Calling tracts of land are annually being plant Card«, Ball Invitations (new designs) Pro ed to oaks, the acorns being obtained grammes. Posters, and all descriptions of from this country. Large quantities of work. Terms favorable. Call and be oon- acorns are collected in Missouri everv vinoed. D. C. IRELAND A CO. year and sent to Great Britain. In all the states east of Lake Michigan the beech tree is very plentiful, yet no at E. E. GOUCHER, M. D tempt has been made to introduce it as a timber or fuel producing tree in the far western states aod territories. It PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. MoMnmvnudi ... O bbqom has much to commend it It is special ly adapted to thin soils and to rocky and hilly land. The seed is easily and Offioe and reeidenoe, oorner of Third and cheaply obtained, and it germinates al D streets, next to the postoffioe. most as readily as corn. Beech wood ranks next to hickory and rock maple i*8. m ’ cain . h . hubley . as fuel, while it is more easy to cut and split. McCain & Hurley, One tree of very great value to farm ers has wholly escaped the attention of ATTORNEYS. AT>L AW nurserymen and planters. It is the AND NOTARIES PUBLIC hornbeam, iron-wood, lever-wood or Lafayette, Oregon, American lignum vitae. The wood is Especial attention paid to abstracts of titl. very useful for making beetles, mallets, and settlement of estates in probate. mauls, and mortars, and for levers, Offioe Jail buiding, up stairs. stakes, piles. It is the strongest wood found in American forests. The variety MISS MAT TK80B> ordinarily found in the woods of the northeastern states and ( anada is call ed the hop-hornbeam because the seeds Shadden & Vessey, are in catkins that resemble a bunch of hops, though they are --------- smaller. These ev a..- Fashionable Dressmakers catkins ripen during Auguit August when llected and dried they shou d be collected The Taylor System of Cutting and Fit in the shade till the seed can be rubbed or thrashed out Persons having friends ting employed. living where the hornbeam grows can Third street, Next to Bishop A Kay’s store, arrange with them fur obtaining trees for planting. With little doubt this traa MeMinnwille. Or. would be the best of any that has bee« A. M c D owam ). Misa K. Tsoum used for supports for barbed fence-wire. It has almost as great strength a« iron, while it ia liable to be injured by animala Th« tree seldom grows Hora than thirty fee; big tnihU are rarely found wh ar« more than a foot U Mrs. H. P. Stuart’s Millmsry Store. in diamot*» Tf la woo would be attrae- OPPOSITE GRANGE HALL, tivo in the wo*< on account of its novel- . Omwa iv. Ao it v 'I »tAhd. • 1ATB* amount of WEEKLY REPORTER lt«k 4k PrimtUg. Fashionable Dressmaking. nbnse, i: c..n i>e pianioU ou uuu wnere an ina - daily tramp over the ground. The common black alder, whose di minutive size hardly entities it to rank with the trees, is after all worthy of at tention. It succeeds best on land too low and moist to be cultivated or even to produce new good grass, and on the borders of lakes, streams, and bava It can be propagated by send, cutting«, or entire planta Once introduced on a moist piece of ground it will continue to grow without further care. As soon as the small trunks are cut off the roots will throw up sprouts to take their {daces. Aider wood makes very exeel ent fuel for a stove, and furnishes the beet quality of charcoal. Large alders make good bean-poles. Those of me dium sise are useful as tishing-roda while the branches are valuable for pea- sticka A bunch of alders in a field or Sasture is highly ornamental. Ths uropean alder, which is not as much inclined to grow in bush form as th« American variety, and which attains a larger sise, is now extensively planted is parks and private grounds.' Five Minute« of Goeaip About Dia mond«. PRICE TWO CENTS. YAMHILL CO., Third St., Oppoait* YAMHILL CO. BANK. w- ______ _ D on ’ t F orget the P lace , — Where yon will— ALWAYS EIND CLOTHING “Yes. there is a difference between • - in | th » gem and a diamond,” said a State street jeweler; “a gem is a perfect dia mond, or a perfect precious stone of any kind. When a diamond merchant speaks of a gem he means something in Furniahiug Goods of nil kind, nndjabove which there ¡8 no fault or Haw, no im nil THE LOWEST PRICE«. ileo «gesta perfection of color, shape or cut. The for the difference between n gem and a dia mond may be as wide as that between BrowRMviUr Utolrn .Will, a ‘plug’ horse and a thoroughbred n full line of nil goods made by racer. One stone may be worth $30, Carrying these oeiebrnted mille. and another of exactly the same sim may be worth $100. or even more. Not one person in a thousand can tell a gem from a fairly good stone. The weight, also, is small index to the size of a dia mond as it appears in a setting. A karat stone may ap|>ear as small as this—o— FRED. F. KELLER, Prop., or it may be nearly twice as great in Kaooeaaor to W F. Itangaaaer, circumference, like this—O. A gem must be cut so correctly that a hair's- breadth is far too wide to measure the Hangaaeer'a building, Cor II and Third Mta. plane of the different facets by. Every Here is where you ean get your mousyM facet must be of precisely the same him worth in as every other facet of like position. Its Beef, Pork, Mutton. Saueage. Tripe, angle, too. must be geometrically cor everything in the line of meat«, of th« rect. The glory of a diamond is its re end t>e«t quality the country affords. Also ths fractive power. Without light the dia mond is as useless as a pretty picture, Best of Bolognas. though it is a very common beliei Give rue n call and be aatinfied. among people who have never handled diamonds that the stones have light in themselves, making them brilliant even W. T. DAXTEK. F. J. MARTIN. in complete darkness. Another com mon error is that the diamond cannot be broken or injured, and 1 have known of tine stones being ruined by foolish At the New Nlore of persons who hit them with hammers in an effort to illustrate the hardness of their gems. The diamond is very brit tle and is easi ily injured by a «light | will burn, too, | blow or fall. Diamond* 1 Nuooessoni to AL HUBKEY, -- ---------------------------- - — under a heat tmfficienl to melt K- bar I iron. Third street, MoMinnville, Oregon They are uotbiug but pure carbon, and ta fimi tarn they may be reduced to graphite and finally to carbonic acid gas. The purest stones are highly transparent and col orless, but mqre generally there is some tint, like white or gray. Brown, blue, A new, nest and clean •lock Every artieti A N<>. I. Fruit Jars, Butter < 'rock*, (oiorad green, yellow and red are very rare, Glassware, t'utlery, Cased Gods, To- while black is met with once in a life bsox> Pipes ai,4 < >gar* time. lu all nay experience 1 have seen I*r«ah rmit sad ▼•getablea la Mr serif _ but two black diamond« John Rica, of the Tremont House, owns one of them. Give u»e a cfll Inspect nr stock, aad 1 The other is in New York.”-- Chicago will guarantee price* to suit you. Herald. —---- —------- — Family Qrocery Stert, The Pink and White Terracea. whiob were ruined by the recent volcanic Third Mt reel, MeMiaavtll«, Orage«. eruption, were regarded as the greatest natural curiosiUes in New Ze al an A Froude and Sala have described tbair beauties m recent publications Tha (Buissano« to L ROOT.) terrace« were of pink and white crystal, I »salar us over which the water flowed, forming a A& rnft tot. treeerite, flm. Mi ««rias of cascades. LATEST STYLES. CITY MARKET. New Firm, New Goods, New Prices B&ztor 4 Martin J. Harv. 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