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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1901)
c t fialtc CrouuUt OSxamtnrr Publl.Mcd Ev.ry Thursday BE ACM & M'GARREY Masonic Building One Year, $2.00 TERMS: SU Months. 1 .00 (Three Months, 50 THE WOOL MARKET. The American Wool and Cotton lit Krter, in ita an mini report of the wool situation, gives the Mocks if wool in the country, oxclucive" of manufactured holdings, ac IWi.JMT.SSi ixmndu its com pared with 157.;RS,S79 pounds a year ago. The dock in the three principal mar kets of the United f-tatee IWton, New York a. ill Philadelphia amount to 1S5, X),3Si pouiuls, as compareil w it li 113, 29o,57l Hutuls lust year. The stin k of wool in ltntiton are 130.019.0S-I txmiuK aa compareil with ,1 13,743 HHitiil.i 1ut year. This large increase in stinks on hanil is accounted for hy the compara tively limited demand for wool this year, increased importations of foreign wools anil the fact that only a very small percentage of this year's clip has as yet been disposed of to manufacturers. Wools have been held hack to an un usually large extent this year in the country. This is especially true of the fleece wool sections east of the Missis sippi river. The wool production of the country is given as 281,4-"2,4.'$7 jounds. Iiujurts nf wool into IVst'iri have leen 5'j,5231t.'i2 pound.-!, ns compared with 34,372,4!tl pounds last year. The sales of wool in the Uoeton market since Janu ary 1 amount to 1 4,175, ll.0 ixmnds, as compared with ;i47,lSo,77tj jnmihiIs last. year. Iu other words, the volume of business has leen considerably less than half of that of last year. The year 1000 will pass into history as one of the quietest and most unsatis factory periods ever experienced iu the wool tra le. Depression bus character ized the situation both abroad and at home. A feature of the business of the year has been the increased substitution of cotton for wool and a preference for the medium or lower grades of wool dis tinguished from the fine grades. The business during holiday week has lio especial features worth mention. The sales amounted to about 2,"00,0u0 pounds and r'-present a large number of transactioi,H. Trices, while favoring the buyer, are not sufficiently changed to warrant any general lowering of quota tions. A hopeful feeling pervades the trade that now, at the beginning of the aew year, an improved demand for woo) will set in, which will base the effect of lifting the market from its present con dition of lethargy. The leeling is naturally strengthened somewhat by the continued favorable advices received fr"in abroad. The sales of the week in l'l.-ston amounted to 2,l'i8,7M pMUuds. domestic and IJtto.tHjO pounds, f iieie'n, making a total of 2,W)3, 700, against a total of '.',,iV),Wt pounds for the previous week, and a total of 2,350,000 pounds for the corresponding week last year. The total sales since January I amount to 1 l',!75,100 pounds, against 347,1X3,- 77o pounds for the corresponding time I hint year. Here is how the Salem Independent puts it: "With tin; cmveniiig of the next legislature will come an innumer able crowd of male and female aspirants for clerkships.. Some w ill have 'papa' pulls, others will have 'constituent' pulls; other will have no pulls at all, but being attractive females, will de pend uiiou their good looks to catch some 'cow county' representative or senator's eye and thus get to be a com-inittr-e clerk." cs say that natural . i-e 1 near that town The On hi i.i gas ban 1 1' ee I in unall 'i i i ' - i ' ,'tli if "lie hundred feet. That is nothing to boast of. "Natural gas" is found in Lake view, in large quantities, without holing lor it at all. There in a promise of much ni tivity in railroad building in the state of Oiegon thin year. Three new transcontinental railroads are coming toward the Oregon coast, and others are certain to hill into line, as the Pa.-itie (.'oast is now the Mecca of the railroad managers, and the capture of the Oriental trade is the de sire of hoard of directors of transmu tation companies throughout the United States. The !'acin Coast tin.lier is also a great attraction for these railroad, as the timber of the Kast is alxnit extinct. The three roads coming to the Coast are of the U'st iu the West, says the Port land Telegram, and their coming is certain to be followed by an era of de velopment and prosTity never equall ed in Oregon. These roads are the Burlington, the Northwestern and the Kock Island. All these are now within sighting distance of the 1'acitle Coast. Kach one of these roads in coming West would tap a large area of territory not now touched by any line, which would give it the advantage of local trade in addition to the through business. It is reasonable to suppose that the West, with superior commercial advantages, will, in time, have as many railroads as the Kastern States or those iu the Middle West, before this taken place many more lines than the three men tioned will hav to be built. There are vast distances in the West not within reach of any railroad. It is thought thattheOrieut.il trade will prove the most powerful factor in the West with a licit of railway systeim. Westward from the Missouri ICiver dividing line it is conseivatiely estimated that hun dreds of miles of new lines w ill lm built in the new year, even if only projioscil extensions already planned are carried out. The sale of timber lands in Oregon is greatly retarded by the absence of a printer provision iu the law enabling the ow ners of timber tracts to secure the establishment of logging roads through lands lying lie t ween them and navigable streams or other means of transporta tion. The statu of Washington has a law providing for the condemnation of such roadways and the consequence is that speculators are willing to buy Washington timlter lands much more rapidly than Oregon lands, says the Ore gon Statesman. It will be one of the duties of the next legislature to remedy this and to provide encouragement for the investment of capital for the de velopment of our timlter resources. There is great excitment in Iuidon iu regard to the failure of the London and (ilolte Finance Corjtoration, in which many big firms are involved. Twelve important failures have already been announced in the Stx:k Kxchange, and it is feared that many more are coming. The cororatiou was heavily involved iu West Australian and liritish Columbian markets. The report that an arrangement has la-en made to assist well, the concern is discredited. The Democrats are now holding their breath. They read between the lines in Mr. Ilryan's after-dinner speech that he still sighs for tlie Presidency and may ask lor the third nomination. Two ignominious defeats are usually enough for any man, but Mr. liryan he appears to be irrepressible. Shaniko, the new terminus of the Columbia Southern railroad wants to be incorporated. Well, we don't blame it. The first thing Shaniko ought to do when it incorporates is to change its name. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Portland boasts of one of the finest water systems on earth. The cost was $4,000,000. This is much more than the cost of the Lakeviow water works, and whether Portland can beat us on pure water is a question to bo de cided later on. Keports of the six state land odices show an unprecedented demand for Oregon lands. Oregon offers many at tractions to the Hood, hurricane, earth quake, cyclone drought-stricken people of the Kast. CLEARANCE I 1 I CLEARANCE SALE SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALEy Commencing to.day, January I Oth, and continu ing for thirty days, we will clo$e out all Odds and Ends, Remnants, Broken Lines, Etc. Ladies all Wool Scarlet Vests, $1.50, reduced to l.lo it t tt Gray Vests Union Suits Misses Ladies Wool Skirts tt tt tt l-clt Slippers t fur top Etc. 1 .5o, .15, 65, 65, 1.25. 85, 1.25, 1 .00, 1.75, Etc. it tt l.lo 25 5 5o Vo 60 1 .00 75 1.25 Etc. Etc. Etc. All the above are new and staple but must be closed out to make room for Spring Stock. Hi Ci ROTH E & CO 1 1 THE lEA0ING MERCHANTS OF LAKE COUNTY. h Fell Mit. "Your hiiOiand bna a heap to any about how the country ahull be run," laid I lie neighbor "I rnk"ii lie take hisself fur a purty amart mini." Ml reckon lie iloea," auid M ra. t'orn toshel. "Hut I don't 'low lie'a ever jfoiu' to a-t ttie world nil fire." i "No, not if lie tins to pit out hiniarlf ! an chop tlie wootj fur kinillui to atari Uie blaie." Wanhmirtoti Star. No Wnntler. No wnml.-r that ! KurKltng fro Who In th 1 rn 1 l--ih ilntf la hoarier il,..n i rimi'lng aaar Or almost nn ' hli.tc If you or I iliiv il out HI tilsht Anil Hot olir feet l Wet. Wa'il. too. t boara ajid hn aur thron'a And rln utnnlli. you bt! N. Y. Uorl.l. OMtt lHTOU TALU. KM Miatreaa Vour maater haa In-en niakiiiff coinplaiiita about you to-Iuy, fiuli. Housemaid Very likely, inn'iim! Hut I'm more considerate, and don't run to you alwaya and tt 11 you the complaint he makes to m about vou! l)er Floh. Tbo and Dow, "Eonar, iliar"' ahii um.il to call, VYIii'ii . ililei llfu wiim new; Ilut now nhi-'a vi ry Hpl to liawl Whfii In-'a who tail . oay, you!" Clilr.'iK" iJiilly N v ' Ilut 'Hi en lie t.hl II. "You've bi-i-ii flkhin upnin," aaid the at em pin i-ut. "Suppose you come with me now to the vvooilhlicd." "Fatht-r," prottKted the hriirht youth, "I hope you intend to make the jiiiiiihliin nt lit the crime." "That'll my intention." "Well, father, the crime amounted to two iii..olca. I didn't cutoh a thing."- I'h ilndflphhi Press. A l.over of Nilurn, "Joaiar aet-ins to love th irnnn and the tree," auid Mra. CorutoHHel. "Yea," uiiKwered her hiiHbnnd. "There la tiinca when I wic.h In; wua n't tpiite ho iiiTectionute. Ile'a that akt-eri-d o' liurlin' 'em that he runa every time he aet-a a acythe or an ax." Waahington Star. Wbtn Ivr la. lie (a diffident yo'untf tailor) I'n aure, Mia Ie Courcey, I would be only too jrlad to pr -kh my Knit, if Plinisf don t talk ahop, Mr. Snii-piiiK'"'- Croit Free Pri-wi. The lauul Kre(illon. Tom 1 alwaya believe h-bH than I mil told. Dick Not wh n a woman UHh you her Bjfu. Town Topics. TEN PER CENT, DISCOUNT ....FOR THIRTY DAYS On everything in tlie line of ..Furnishing Goods.. AND FIVE PER CENT. On everything in the ...Grocery Line... ...SUGAR AT COST... Ity the 5uck ..Dtinlap & Thruston.. I II' mm W S5 S. 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