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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1893)
TILLAMOOK’S RESOl KUES. Bescilptlon uf the Cmmty.—Ite Many Advantegra. About fifty miles south of the month of the Columbia river is the entrance to Tillamook bay, ! and here is the center of a county rich in resour- AN AFTERNOON WITH THE COWS. A Few Notes About the Greatest Dairy Test That Ever Was. If anything can be determined posi tively as to which is the best dairy cow, it onght to be this summer at the World's fair grounds. Such a thoroughgoing and extended trial was never before made in the records of cheese and butter history. Three breeds of cows—Jersey, Guernsey and Shorthorn—are each claimed by their advocates to be thobest dairy breed. The associations of breed ers of those respective varieties selected 25 of the best specimens of their cows from all over the country and entered them for this six months' test. Dr. S. M. Babcock of Babcock milk test fame ia one of the commissioners to watch the cows night and day and see that all is done fairly. The commissioners witness the weighing ont of rations for 73 cows three times a day. beginning at 5 o’clock in the morning. They must also witness the weighing of every pound of milk, the making of every pound of cheese and butter. The cows entered were those calving at nearly the same time on the exposi tion grounds. The contention will be as to which breed of cows yields the most butter and cheese at the least expense of feed. My afternoon with the World's fair cows was one of the most interesting of my visits at the exposition. They were beauties, those cows. First I visited the Guernseys. The enthusiastic superin tendent. Professor Caldwell of the Pennsylvania Agricultural college, kind ly escorted me through the Guernsey stables. Here 1 saw some < f Vice Presi dent Morton's cows from the famous Ellerslie herd that I visited last fall. The Guernsey people make this distinctive claim for the animal they believe to be the coming cow—that she will make the most butter at the least expense of food. She is also larger than the Jersey, there fore of valne for beef, they say. They talk so eloquently you are al most disposed to vow that you will get a Guernsey cow. But meanwhile you pass to the Jersey stables, under the superintendence of that shrewd Yan kee-Canadian. Mr. Valancey E. Fuller. Ee is liest known in connection with the great St. Lambert cow family. Mr Fuller whips ont his paper and pencil and proves to you tn three sec onds that the greatest amount of net butter profit to a given amount of feed doesn't mean at all the greatest average per cent of bntter profit that you can get out of a cow Then you aro all muddled in your uiind and wonder which of these honest, good looking gentlemen—the Guernsey man or the Jersey man—is fooling you. Amongtlie Jersey cows nndergoing t'.ie test is a black and white one that yon would stake your head is Holstein-Friesian. She is large and of the general form of the Holsteins. But she is the pure bred, registered Jersey Ida's Marigold and one of the best cows in the test. Mr. Fuller does not believe in much cornmeal for Jerseys, especially fresh cows. He says a fresh cow is generally tn a more or less feverish condition for the first week or so aud that cornmeal aggravates this condition. His favorite food in the Jersey ration is what i« called hominy feed—that is to sav. th- refnse left over after making liomir.y tt the factory The best corn for both iiommy and the cows is the southern liomiuy corn Among the l.ig Shorthorns are one or two that have given the enormous amount of CO pounds of milk a day. I learned incidentally when visiting the World's fair cows that i:i weighing and measuring milk it is estimated that ubont two jstundsof milk make a quart. Some of the Shorthorns weigh 1,400 jHinmls They seem tremendous after looking at the slim little Jerseys. The animals are socarefr.llv tended that they are not allowed to be disturbed, ven to the extent of making them rise when they are lying down Some of the Short horns. howsvir. had pncious little of that kind of cure before they were brought to the fair One or two looked like real rackalsir.es. with their ribs standing out hungrily. They were not shedding well, but looked nigged and w<M>lly and faded The reason of it all was that they had tieen wintered liadly —not comfortably housed or fed enough through the cold weather They had i»-en crowded with food since their ar rival. bnt it took along time to bring thru, into condition. The contrast be tween these forlorn Gusts and the sleek pretty creatures around th"tn was an object lesson not to be forgotten. The ■:iau who will winter a cow ia that way ought to lie half starved and made to wear his spring overcoat for a couple of winters in blizzard weather. Then Ire wonhl find ont bow it goes himself. The I'beeH iuakiug : ■: t was just finish ing when I visited the cows. The mod era thwirycf several gentlemen at tire agncnltnnrl experiment stations and , sew here is that milk which is richest lu bntter fat is also richest ia all the other solids: hence the milk that makes the liwist butter will also yield the m<«t ctreere. if the theory Ire true. Tire result of the ebeeeetuaking test j romised to sustain thia doctrine. In an inckroed caw* with a window tn it to look thnmgb were the ch,ew» that had been made daily frvui the separate eieh.s of urilk of the thr»e l.reerta—the largest cheeses from the Jerarv yield, the next largest frour the Guernsey milk, the suraUert front the Shorthorn, although cow» of tire lattrr loved give great quantities of milk To make <®e poir.d of < bv>»e re quires of Jrrsey mirk a.TB pound», trf l.mrneey milk #.gI |oun,U. of «Lori h rtr tnifk 10 Ki prmrr-i» 7 he final resuit of all. hr w, ver. will ta known when it o nre» to I e n mmed and averargvd tow ninth bsai t e thne Irrvr,’* con»nnre tn j r-¡«wta-n to 1 e yield of Irulter and <■ n-e~- That, of o’>ur»e. cannot le caxr.lated f< r o r t tin till towani tire etrd <-f the < xpoor It n. ElJZr AK-naBD COOQXB i WANTED A LICENSE. And Thunaht He W m Entitled to It Any way. Mr. Jacob Sassafras of Hooppole dis trict had answered all the preceding question» to the satisfaction of the clerk If vital statistics, and then that gentle- Lian said: "Now, what is the lady's name?” "Can't you leave that blank?" asked the candidate for matrimony. “Certainly not." "Have to put the girl's narue right in there, do you?” "Of course." Mr. Sassafras rubbed his chin thought fully and then observed: “Yon kin make me out two licenses— one for Miss Jerusha Higgins an the oth er for Miss Amanda Abbott.” "You are not going to marry them both, are you?" asked the clerk. "Of course not, but you see Jerusha mightn't have me. That's the reason I wanted the girl’s name left blank.” "Haven't you asked her yet?” "No. Is that the regular way?” "That is the invariable rule. I never knew of a man coming here for a mar riage license until the lady in the case had been consulted ” "Waal, that isn't my way. Ye see I hadn't popped to Jerusha yet, but I thought it would be a good way to git the license an show it to her an say, ‘Jerusha, don’t you think your name would look w<^l on this document?' Don't you think that would be a good way to propose?” "Possibly, but I can't issue a license under these conditions.” “Not for Jerusha?” "No." "Nor for Amanda!” "No.” "Nor with the name left blank?” "No." “Well, I swow! Ef I’ve got to go back to Hooppole district and ask one o' them girls to marry me without a license to help me, I'm afeard I'll never get mar ried.” And Mr. Sassafras left the office with a big sigh.—Brooklyn Life. An Amendment. Some years ago in a very rural district farmer had a cow for sale. Now, as there was no weekly paper to advertise in, it was the custom of the vicar to give such notices out to his congregation on Sundays. So the farmer thought he would go to the vicar and get him to ad vertise the cow in church. "Yes,” says the vicar, "but you don't come to my church." And they struck the bargain that the vicar should advertise the cow and the man in return should go to church. Now. unfortunately, the man was very deaf, and on the Sunday following, wheu the vicar gave out the banns cf marriage l>etween Joseph So-and-so an-1 Sarub S<> and-so—a rather unusual iucideut, fur they seldom had a wedding—the farmer took it for granted that the vicar was giving out particulars of bis cow and shouted out: "You may as well say, while you are about it. that she is a most gentle crea ture, entirely free from vice and a great eater.”—Loudon Tit Bits. • It «» All Bight. Editor—So Nr. Skyzo cf To lunk has stopped his paper? Assistant—Yes. He s:ys i.'s fall of trash, and he doesn't want it. Editor—Has he ¡»aid for l.? Assistant—Yes, one year ia advance. Editor—All right, graut the gentle mans request. It is the aim of The Weekly Regulator tasu.t everybody.— Arkansaw Traveler. A Good V7ay. Mrs. Roeksey—My Danny wnz a-goin to make a hothouse, and he went and asked Stubby, the carpenter, the easiest way to do it. Mrs. Dineen—Phwat did he say? Mrs. Roeksey—He told hitn to give the baby a box of matches to play with.— Raymond's Monthly. t'nvurpaavcl. Billings (who has been to the fair, to Jennings, who is going)—The biggest thing I ever saw; biggest buildings, big gest beauty, biggest assortment, and stopped at a hotel so big that I rang the bell on Friday night, and it took unti) Tuesday morning for the boy to reach my room.—Lafe. The Wife (sorrowfully >—Well, getting gtssi beef at a liutcher'x has liecome a perfect lottery. The Husband—Yea. Gambling for high steaks. —Truth. hi * um Uat r**t. “Ted told night that I was the only girl he had ever loved." "Bah. he proposed tome three month» ■■¡fmr I know wh»t he meant wh-u be raid there were r iea r.nple;.«: t inci den:» iu bi« jteet."—Chicago Inter < > ean. I ces, aud magnificient in its possibilities. Tilla mook county extends for about ninety miles north and south along the coast, and inland to : the Coast Range, an average distance of twenty I miles. The county has an area of aooo square miles, market fur all their produce right at home. Some good sized towns are sure to spring up on Tilla* mock bay aud on Nehalem river as soon as the lumbering business gets well started. The luml>eriiig interests are by far the moat important resource of the county, and this re source cannot possibly be exhausted within the next hundred yeaia. The improvement of the harbors and the opening of the Nicaragua canal will bring all the lumber produced ou this coast within reach of the Atlantic coast market, and there will also at that time be a greater demand for lumber on this coast as a general degree of prosperity will begin ou this coast as soon as there is a canal acrosa the isthmus aud the high trans- ouliuental rates broken. , 1 1 j "Œhc ■ • DAIRYING. and is larger than some of the smallest states, Next iu importance to Tillamook’s lumberiug I and capable of supporting as great a population [ resources, are the dairy interests. Gruss is good , here the year rouud. Feed is plentiful ami as some of them Tillamook is in al>out the same latitude as easily produced, thecliuiateis so temperate that St. Paul, Minnesota, though the climate heie is cattle thrive, and all the conditions here con much warmer and moreeveu. The Jajtau current tribute towaids making dairying »uecessful. warms the shores of this region in such u way j The grasses and uatural feed are of a kind that winter is hardly noticed here. There is ■ that produces the best milk and butter. The little or no suow generally, and wheu it does fall climate is so even and cool, a ink the water so The ’f«t„r'.~f Pure ,hat ,he bu,l<,r htr* «he «ural it soon melts away. 1 _ '¿riariMl r____ whiter is thelongcontinued rains, always warm flavor if any care is taxen in making it. This and this season of the year is remarkably health business is found very profitable here aud ful. The summers are unsurpassed No finer nearly two hundred tons of butter have been ■ climatic couditious exist than those of a Tilla shipped from here during the past year. Gene- | mook summer. This is the dry season, generally ral stock raising goes with dairyiug here gene- I speaking, but there are refreshing showers oc rally, and is very profitable. Forest (qFoVe and ^aburg. C- 1 | ' 1 1 I ' ! , other large milling b dustrles. gome of them much larger than any mentioned, will he »tarted MM« a !<<giu< railway teas been surveyed into •ne <4 the fi »e»t bodies of timber in the count y ight of way ««cured «nd ample ground« for yar*to pustwres and mill die« hare b» en pf" cured It will not tie lo.ig until active opera tious on a large scale will l«rgin and the Im p 'i.eut «*f the buy and bar of Tillamook «ad \< a e.n todh of which are bring provided for t'*e government will give a great impetus to the 1 -1 inhering business of (hi« r*mnty A low .stintstv puts the amount of lumber in our fo eris at »«oaMts feet, and the work of utting this into Inmler. with ail the jrelimi nary work uf fo-zging will give a large p»p«i!a non *-m ,loymesit for many yvsrs to com* A , g.eat deal o* money will be diet-lbwted here. I I a ad the farming community can find a ready j ktc . rrc. Salmon fishing is carried on during the fishing season on Tillamook bay, on Nehalem bay, and sometimes on Nestucca bay. The output of canned salmon amounts in vslue to $yo,ooo to |2 jo , ooo every year, and give« employment to a great many fishermen. There are canneries at each of the atwve named place« and the item of canned salmon amount« each year to much more than the wheat of some of the grain producing counties. Goal 1« found in abundance on the Nehalem aud of good quality. These deposit« will be worked hxj U. < oal is also found in other locali ties, and other minerals are known to exist iu various parts of the county. There is no better field for the sportsmen than Tillamook. The hunter can find elk, deer, waterfowl, bear and cougars here: the fishermau can yank thousands of fine speckled trout from the mountain streams. Trolling for sal mon in the bay is an exhilarating sport. The salmon is a gamy fish, and sometimes it take» half an hour to bring iu one of these lively fishes, and some of them weigh a« much as fifty puntids. There is no finer fish than the Royal Chinook balmon For thow who like to lak the world easy there is a fine fish which can l»e caught more readily. We refer to the succulent clam, which grows in the sand bars and mud flats every where oil the bay or beacli. A com* ■non farming utensil, a hoe or a «hovel, i« all that i<* needed. or you can dig them out with your hand. They are delicious iu various ways, and there are several varieties of claius, oysters sixl mussels. Crabs are plentiful also. In the bay, flouuder. sturgeon, porgy, and other fish are found Deep sea fish are plentiful. Nehalem beach, Netarts beach and Nestucca I »each are favorite resorts for campers, and they are frequented by wagon loads of camper» every )ear who amuse themoelvea by digging <.lam«, gathering shell« and bsthiug. There will soon lie better roads to these places, and they arc sure to become popular resort». The same general description is practically go«*d (or every locality in the cimnty, and as lack of «pace will not permit a special review of each valley or particular neighborhood, we men lion a few of the special features only of each kjcality Nehalem is particularly noted for its vast resources of timixer and for its coal There ia, also, much flue tiotlom land on the Nehab-m. and at the mouth of the river will be an excel lent harbor wheu the proposed g<»vernment work 1« done The Nehalem river is a very fine stream and for wenir grandeur i« not surpassed even by the majestw. (’olumtAa The river is more than one-hundred miles long and thou sands of aertkms of mag »if cent M »er are tri butary to it and its branch«-« The greatest area of farming land la around Tillamook hay, aud on the varloiis streams tributary to Tillamook bay. These streams will be the mem«« of bring ing large bodies of timber to the anw mill« the »«ay NrUrt« m fa noma as a summer resori and aomr fine bodies of sprnce timber are ad jacent Nestucca to a farming and stock rawing country, the timber having been burnt away years ago The people in that section are proa pvring Mouth of Nestucca Is the hilets Indian ReservatKm covering osw-third of the county, and eontalning much fine agricultural land The Indians are dimpprsrtng fa»l and the In dians having land altorted In them in severalty. 0-0 . : For Ihi Cori of Liquor, Opium, FARMING. casionally, and the sea breete tempered by the Geueral farming pays well here, especially Japan current, is perleclly delightful. People camp out doors six to right months in the year wheu doue iu connection with stock raisiug. Markets are getting better every year, and as here with perfect comfort soon as the wagon roads are put in better shape, THE TIMBER. The immense forests of this couuty are its which is being done rapidly, the farmer will not have any trouble in tinding a good market for chief and greatest resource. It is impossible to ■ his produce all the year. Of course there is no convey an idea of the magnitude of this item by any description. It is necessary to travel through railroad yet, but the freight by the steamers is our dense forests iu order to even comprehend low, besides there is a home market at present 1 for a great deal o produce. Barley and oats the least idea of their extent aud immensity. A j grow here to perfection, making yields equal to great portion of the county is covered with a growth of trees, the like of which can not be the richest sections of California or Oregon. seen in any other |>ortion of the United .States. 1 Hay of various kinds does as well here as in auy There may be a few larger trees in the redwood part of the United States. Potatoes and garden I vegetables of all kinds are at their best here, forest of California, but the fir trees of this sec, tion will almost equal them in size and they and the yield is simply enormous. Hops grow stand so thick that they are much taller: and and mature well wherever tried. There i. a much more imposing in appearance. A man large area of prairie and bottom land in this can not enter into the gloomy shades of our I county, and it is capable of supplying a large dense woods without feeling a sense of awe, if : population. The hill lands are good for fruit not reverence, towards the giant monsters of the I and for grazing, and there is plenty of this kind forest. Trees ten and twelve feet in diameter of land, w ith occasional patches ot table land or are often found, and the average size of the fir I bottom land, that can be obtained under the I government land laws. Land much less pro trees is perhaps six feet in diameter. And many of these trees are 250 and 300 feet in height. The ductive than this in the eastern states is being trunks are very straight, and taper so slowly farmed. In fact there is very little of this county ' but what cau be made productive in some way. that it is hardly noticeable, and many of them have no vestige of a limb for the first hundred (The tide lands here are exceedingly rich, and I much more of it could easily be reclaimed from feet above the ground. Near Skookum lake, in | the tidal overflow and made to yield immense this couuty, is a tree that is twenty-eight feet in diameter near the ground, thus almost equaling I crops. A great deal of the tide land is covered in size the famous ' Big Trees of ( al ifornia.” with a thick growth of nutritive grasses, and it Once see the big trees in Tillamook county and is the most renuinerative land that the county you will lose all desire to see the California has. Cattle are often allowed to roam in the monsters. Here, it is possible to travel for miles hills, and even in the woodt, all winter without and miles through dense forests of big trees, any other feed than the natural grasses, and come and all of them being wonders iu size to people out in good condition in the spring. The hills who are accustomed to the tooth pick timber of that have been denuded of their timber by fire Minnesota or Michigan. The largest specimens make goo«l sheep ranges. Fruits of all kinds i of timber in the eastern or central states, are grow to perfection here, especially apples, pears, mere telegraph poles in comparison with the prunes and small fruits, such as blackberries, stately fir of Oregon. 111 places were settlers straw berries, raspberries, etc. are prolific bea have tried to clear out a garden spot on their rers. The woods are full of wild berries, there homes, it is a comm011 thing to see a large tree being almost a dozen distinct varieties of huckle- that has been felled, used for a fence on one side ! berries, besides salmonberries, thimbleberries, 1 of a lot. Near this city, on the public road is a J and many other kinds, which goes to show that ' this is a natural fruit country. Bee-keeping is log serving as a fence in this way that is twelve feet high as it lies, being higher han the top , carried on in some localities, and the honey pro buggies which pass by. I11 fact a man would duced here always comma nds the highest price have to be on top of a load of hay to look over being of exceptionably fine flavor. A living can , into this particular field. These stories regard ' be made hereon a very small farm, and farmers ¡can always do well here. They are the class ing the immense size of the timber here arc hard i for people to believe who have not seen it. and that is needed. Improved land here sell at $20 to those who have read the fullest descriptions of $40 per acre and unimproved land is worth from , >5 to j2o per acre. A farm of 160 acres can be the n are surprised to find them so large. There are several kinds of timber here. The fir obtained from the government by residing on it is most abundant and Is in the rough and moun five years, or by residing on it fourteen months tainous regions. The tide land spruce is plenti and paying thegoverument $1.35per acre. There ful along the coast and on the rivers and the is yet much vacant timber land which can txr spruce attains as large a size as the fir. Cedar i J had on the same terms as above, or may be is found in many localitiesalso, and larch grows ' bought outright from the government without on the summit of the coast range. These are all residing thereon for I2.50 per acre. This land is valuable timbers. The fir (properly Douglas selling to timlier speculators at prices varying spruce) is a very durable and strong wood, and from J8uo to |i6oo per quarter seclion of 160 acres is manufactured Into rough limit er for all pur and will soon lie worth a great deal more. poses, and is made into flooring and rustic weather-boarding largely. A great deal of fir is used for ship masts. Timbers, 150 feet long have been sawed from it in inuny iiistancv«. Spruce is a softer woo«i, is white and is used mostly for finishing lumber and for laixes and barrels. Being odorless. it is goo 1 for packing buttei aud fruits. The largest area of spruce in the Northwest is found iu Tillamook county, and as it is growing scarce elsewhere, it will l>e of great va'ueina short time. Most of the lumber man ufactured here now is made from spruce. The , c**dar takes an elegant finish, aud is the very best material for doors, sash and shingle«. It commands a high price at present. Nearly ail of the timber in this county is ad jacent to streams that will float logs, and with a little labor ail of it can I m ? put in streams u here the winter freshets will bring it to the bay. The expense of logging here will always be «mall. The county 1« a net work of rivers that cheapen the cost of logging right at the stait. Many of these rivers an-good sized stream« on their lower courses, but the Coast Range prevents their I* ing very long, and dozens of creeks course down the innumerable canyons of the range, uniting into one large stream. Nolen than fl re rivers empty into Tillamook l»v The lower course« of these streams arc affected by the tide and »■• far as the tide water extends inland, steamboat j navigation is carried on. This make« the navig able extent ofT*!lam*«€k bay and its arms very great, and the facilities for rafting logs are much better than in most countries. There is at Hub •onville. on Tillamook bay, a mill that cuts 40.0C0 feet of spruce lutulwr per day for the San Francisco market. Two vessels are employed i.i carrying the lumta-r there and it is all made into boxes. mostly for raisins and fruit At Bay < Ity is a small mill that cuts about 2>,ox> feet of lumlier per day, the product of which is mostly consumed at home The < ooperage works at Bay City are capsule of working a great amount of spruce into barrel staves, and a large new mill is partially built. At Tillamook City there 1« a iiw mill that runs steadily, cultiug about ao.aoo feet of lumlier per day. mostly for local use This mill has a planing attachment. At Woods. on the Nestucca river, in the south end of the county is a saw and plan’ng mill that suppitc« the local demand and there is another local mill on the headwaters of the Big Nestuoa. On Ne halem there is a mil! that supplies the local wants, also a large mill and box factory, which is rapable of «yoking 40.000 leet of lumber per day into boars. Df Oregon .4 Morphine, Cocaine, Chloral and Tobacc: Habits. I^EDIEg TJ^Tl¥|EJlT Are just the same as at DWIGHT and are authorized by Df. le ^ lie e K eeley . Complete, Permanent Cures Assured. O ver 100,000 P ersons have been C ured and no such thing as F ailure is K nown . I BEWARE OF lakes and Imitators! Cirrispsndiici nd parsonil visits it lithtr Institute ir it the Portland consaltatian office. Third in Morrison Strnnts, invitad. F. L. T aylor . M edical D irector , F rank D avey , M anager FOREST GROVE. F P. L onergan , P hysicician in C harge . C. B. C ampbell , B usiness M anager . ROSEBURG. TRUCKEE LUMBER CO (OF 8AN yWÄNCIBOO.) Dca lei« tn GENERÄL * MERCHANDISE. •y keep keep on hand at their store They o I moi in H Holsstnville the largest stock of goods in this county consisting of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats, Caps and Notions. Groceries, Crockery, and Queens- ware. Doors, Windows Lime,Hair, and Cement. Hardware and Nails. gSeS)»» ixl attention given to filling orders for good,, in jobbing Iota. Agent« for the fast Mailing STEAMER TRUCKEE Tillamook, Knn Francloco, Portland mid way |w»rts. Mabes rnn>l*r trip* every two weeks, weather ¡oermitting. The fast sailing steamer Truckee has been specially fitted up fo carrying passengers. The rates are: Cabin 1'Hsrage ....................... 115.110 Steerage (one way/................. Freight, General Merchandise, Portland or San Francisco, Five Dollars per ton. J. E SIBLEY, M anager , H obsonville , O re . A. G. REYNOLDS, ^ Pljctoßraplirr, P ortraits I n A ll T he L eading S tyles ImrtantanwHM posea» for Imbiea whiclr mantra mm - ccm evtry time. E nlarging a S pecialty . Vww« of the most important plicra of interest in the county. I S tudio : C or 1 st S t . and 3 rd A ve . E., over H eadlight O ffic