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
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OREGON poses, as for furnishing shade, supply
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ing fuel, providing protection against
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E. L. E. WHITE.
winds, adding shade, and producing
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ornaments for the farm. A few have
PUBLISHERS.
planted hickory, black walnut, butter-
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■ nut, and pecan trees for the purpose of
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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
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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-
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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
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farms looked bare without them. Gen
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SPACB.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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nurserymen and planters. It is the
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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
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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
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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«
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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