Tillamook headlight., March 16, 1899, Image 5

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, MARCH 16, 1899.
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e will have in very soon one of the largest and finest Stocks of Spring and Summer Clothing
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thn city.
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C Our stock now is not very large on account of our large Clothing
a es o at, mt i we can suit and lit you we certainly can save you big money on everything ; in the clothing line.
We have by far the Largest Stock to select from,
We have the best goods that can be made.
Every pair sold by us is guaranteed. Our prices are lower for honest goods than you will find elsewhere.
We are strictly headquarters for anything in this line. See
’ our large stock in this line and be convinced.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
HATS AND CAPS
It is a well known fact that we only handle high _ grade Groceries and sell them as low, , and in many cases lower, than others
ask for inferior goods.
Remember produce is all good as cash to us, and we always pay the highest market prices.
COHN & CO., Leading Merchants of Tillamook.
THE COMMERCIAL SIDE
OF DAIRYING.
How and When to Market
Butter and What Kind.
Mr. Thomas G. Farrell, of the firm of
Everding & Farrell, read the following
suggestive paper on ‘The Commercial
Side of Dairying" before the State Dairy
men’s Association :
cle that tastes very well while fresh,
but which does not keep well, and our
markets would be flooded. It is hardly
probable tliatthe dairy industry of this
state will ever reach such a point as to
prevent the importation of this pure,
cheap, new grass butter, coming as it
does at a time when we have little or no
grass. Store as many cars of June Ore
gon goods as wemay.it will not keep
out this fresh grass product, for at that
same time of the year butter is down to
its cheapest point in our sister state, and
every dairy and creamery is pouring out
goods.
There are in this city several cold stor
age plants, and I know from experience
that the best class of Oregon butter keeps
nearly if not fully as well as does the
world-famed Elgin article, or the West­
ern extras of Iowa. Butter and eggs
are alike in one respect, and that is, the
sooner after production they are stored
in the icehouse the longer and better
will they keep.
for butter fat, and the owner of few cows,
learning that he cannot hope to get as
much per pound for his product as does
the creamery, sells his cream to those
who utilize it as it should be.
I am so firmly convinced that butter is
sold strictly on its merits in these days
that I will hazard the statement that if
anyone was to produce butter in suffi­
cient quantities, from cream gathered by
the gravity process, and with the proper
regularity, he would get for it just as
much as were he to use a separator; in
other words, that butter grading as
fancy creamev, can lx? made from gravity
process cream, all other conditions being
equal.
Every once in a while there is a great
hue and cry as to oleomargerine, butter­
inc and other spurious goods of a like
nature. I want to say that in my long
connection with this business, I never
saw but one pound of such goods, and it
was but a sample cake of butterine, said
to be part pure butter and part fancy
animal fat. In my judgment the manu­
facturer of fancy creamery butter has
little to fear from the imitation, for
fancy imitation cannot be made cheaply,
and the best of it is not in the same class
with good butter.
stamp, for by so doing he might, tem­ I should be done eventually, if Oregon’s
porarily at least, ruin a good reputation. ' delegation at Washington do not provide
I recall two very marked instances of other means for developing the resources
this sort. One was caused I think, by a I of that vast section.
defective separator, coupled with the .
work of a man who did not thoroughly I
WIDE TIRE WAGONS.
know the business. Many white flecks
were to be found throughout this butter, A Premium on Wide Ones and a
and it had a strange, malt-like flavor.
Tax on Narrow Tires.
In the other case the butter was bitter,
and so miserable as to be almost value- i That from and after the 1st January
less.
The manufacturer claimed that next the county court or county board of
water a om a galvanized roof, or that! each county within this state, >s hereby
browse-eating cows was the cause, but authorized to make a rebate each year
the fact remains that w hile the butter for four years on the road tax of each
was produced in large quanities, and person within its county who shall own
had the neat appearance of a fancy art­ and have in habitual use on the high­
icle, it ruined the reputation for that ways of this state, wagons or other vehi.
cles for the transportation of freight and
brand in this citv at least.
other heavy articles, th» tires of which
In the early fall, on some of the low-
are not leas than three inches in w idth,
lands near the Columbia river, there
of one dollar for each wheel of such
grows some weed which imparts a queer
vehicle ; and provided, further, that the
half-metallic, half-fishy taste to butter,
ow’ner of each vehicle having tires of not
and if it cannot be avoided, butter pro. i
fess than four inches in width, upon
duced at this time should be marketed ,
which there is a difference of at least
unstamped and in plain boxes. It should
eight inches in the length of the front
be remembered that quality, quantity and
and reur axle, so constructed that the
appearance make reputation in the dairy
front and rear wheels will not come in
business, and that in that business repu­
contact with the same road surface while
tation is everything. This is the reason
the vehicle is moving in a straight line,
that the dealer is unable to get enough
shall receive, in addition to the sforesaid
of certain brands of butter w ith w hich
rebate, a further rebate for four years in
to supply his trade at high prices, while I
his or her road tax as aforesaid, of two
at the same time he has plenty of good
dollars for each vehicle of this class for
butter, but which, for various reasons,
each and every year during said period
has not the reputation.
that said vehicle is habitually used upon
The party who turns out a few cases ' the highways of this state; and provided
of butter in the spring and early summer, further, that when the regular tax nssess-
and little or none in the W’inter, cannot ment is made during the year nineteen
hope to get as much for it, excellent al­ hundred, and each and even year there­
though the quality may be, as does the after, it shall be the duty of each county
creamery whose goods are in the market assassor to inquire for and assess any and
in large quantities every week in the all wagons, carts or vehicles carrying
year. Retailers always have had more wares, merchandise, produce, freight or
or less trouble as to the matter of butter, ex press goods, used upon the highways
and w hen they take up a certain brand of this state, said vehicle shall be subject
they dislike very much to change. This to a special lax of one dollar for each
is especially true if the butter is at all wheel of less width of tire than three
regular in the matter of arrival, and |
inches, said special road tax to be assess
if their trade becomes attached to it and ed and collected as other taxes, and shall
continually asks for it.
be paid into the road fund of its proper
county.
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I have been asked to say a few words to
the members of this convention as to the
commercial side of dairying. When
Mr. Pauleson made this request of me, I
answered that I could say nothing but
that which had already been said many
times, and which nearly every luanufac
turer of butter knew, or shoub*
1 I *
5 know.
He came back at me with the statement,
that while that was true, the matter was
something which would bear repetition,
in fact that it could not be too often told.
And doubtless he is correct in this.
In the first place, the commercial side
Some time since I had the pleasure of a
of dairying must needs be the all import­ conversation withthe managerofa large
ant side of that industry. I dare say Elgin creamery company, and he said
that of those gathered together in this that experience had taught him that in
hall and who are engaged in dairying, ordinary temperature butter continued
there are none who would long continue to improve in quality and flavor for
in business were it not for the commer­ about five days after production, and
What is known as “process” butter
cial side of the industry. If the speak­ that by storing it in a room, the tem­ has of late made its appearance in the
er knows anything as to the dairy indus­ perature of which was much below the markets of the West. It is pure butter,
try, it must needs be the commercial side, freezing point, development would lie so manufactured from old misshappen rolls,
for while he has handled and passed judg­ retarded that in five months the stored mixed country store butter and other
ment on many carloads of the product, article would be little different from that odds and ends, which are renovated,
he lias never engaged in its manufacture; left in an ordinary temperature for five rechurned, recolored, frozen, flavored
nor has he closely investigated the same. days. How much of this is solid fact I , and otherwise treated before being pack­
While speaking of butter which has do not know, for 1 have not had time to ed into tubs or made into bricks. The
come directly under my observation, I make the test, but doubtless there is a best of this is within a few cents per
will state that no considerable amount of good deal of truth to it.
pound of fancy creamery, and while it
it was seen at the late meeting of the
A good deal of the butter produced in ' smells well, it is brittle and does not
state fair at Salem, where I was invited this district is unfit for storing, for it taste good as it smells.
to judge that article, for lo! when I ar­ must lie first-class when stored to pro­
I will outline a few facts as to the com­
rived at the dairy ¡»avilion, image my duce the best result. I have known some mercial side of this business, and close.
surprise to find but two samples for in­ butter to develop mouldy spots when - Squares, of course, are prefered in the
spection, one alleged to be creamery and placed in cold storage, and had thearticle Portland market, and no one making
the other dairy. It seems to me a Bhauie been first-class this would not have hap­ large quarnities of butter would think
that more of a dairy exhibit was not pened.
of using the old style round mould.
made at that fair, for Oregon is forging
When I first became identified with the Appearance goes a long ways, and much
to the front as a dairy state, and I am handling of butter, generally speaking, better results maybe obtained by the use
satisfied that the dairy superintendent the article was quite different from that of the cutting frame than with the or­
NEHAIEM’S RESOURCES.
Drug Store Orders.
tried to induce competition. I trust that produced at this day. Creameries were dinarymoulds. When the butter is cut
next fall a great many will avail them- just being formed and there was quite a with the steel wire, the edges are true, Timber Inexhaustible for the Next
Here are some orders recently received
selves of the chance to exhibit and that curiosity to try the new creamery pro­ and manufactured article looks much
Fifty Years.
by
a druggist in a neighboring city:
there will be genuine competition.
duct, and to compare it with the oldz better for it. A neat stamp should be
Mr. W. I. Reed, president of the Oak­
• ‘This child is my little girl. I send you
I have not looked up statistics as to the process as they called it. The article on the top of the square. Printed parch­ land Lumber Company, arrived last
5 cents to buy two istless powders for a
probable amount of butter produced in provoked a great deal of discussion and ment wrappers add to the appearance, week in Astoria from Nehalem. Mr. Reed
groan up adult who is Kike.”
some
criticism,
many
claiming
that
it
and of course, no one would longer went round with the tug Maggie, which '
this state during a year, and doubtless
“Dear Doctor, pies gif be^re five sense
those present are just as well pleased. It was brittle, too granular, and that it think of using the old fashioned dairy he owns in connection with the Dewey. ' worse of Antie Toxyn for to gargle baby’s
would
not
keep
as
well
as
did
the
dairy
cloth as a wrapjier.
The parchment The Astorian reporter button-holed him |
is nodless to say that the amount is large
throat and oblige.”
and that it is increasing. Considerable butter. There are those who at this late paper is much better, cheaper and more and had this to say in that paper : Mr.
“You will pleas give the little boi five
butter is imported into this state in the date declare that butter made from easily applied. It is practically air and Reed is a practical and experienced lum­ cents worth of epecac for to throw up in
gravity
prosess
cream
will
keep
longer
w
’
aterproof,
and
has
altogether
supersed
­
course of a season, and it really seems a
berman and believes theie are wonderful a fire months’ old babe. N. B.—The
shame to think that our good money than that made from separator cream, ed the cotton article. Some, after print­ ¡Nissibilities ahead of the Nehalem region I babe has a sore stummick.”
ing the square, use paper which entire­ as a lumbering country. Its resources, |
should go to other states. At times quite and that it has a better flavor.
“1 have a cutjpain in my child’s dia­
Too many or the smaller producers of ly cover both ends, while others allow he says, arc practically inexhaustible for I
a little butter is exported from the Wil­
gram. Fleas give my son something to
lamette district to Washington and Cali butter believe that as soon as they get a the paper to come just to the top of the the next 50 years, and would keep a rail- J release it.”
f(«tnia. and when we consider that nearly separator they must immediately have square, leaving the stamp ojxn to view. road constantly employed in hauling its
“My little baby has eat up its father’s
all of the dairy product of the extensive a print made bearing the legend Some prefer one style, and some another, lumber to market. The Nehalem river parish plaster. Send an antedote quick
drains a watershed of over 200 miles, in­ as jiossible by the enclosed girl.”
Coos Bay district finds its market in San "such and such’’ a creamery, etc. Many and it is a matter of preference only.
Francisco, it is probable that Oregon is of these smaller prodneers have talked
In California, squares are generally cluding the north and south fork of the
“I haf a hot time in my insides and
really an exporter of more butter than with me as to a separator and as to sep­ made very light in weight, ranging from river, all of which has sufficient water to which I would like it to be extinguished.
arator butter.
23 to 28 ounces, but in our state we are float logs the whole year. Along this What is g'Mid for to extinguish it The
she imports.
“You get more for creamery butter more generous, for we generally turn out vast stretch of heavily timbered country, enclosed money is fur the price of the
II would lie a great commercial advan.
goods ranging from 29 to 32 ounces. 1 Mr. Reed says, not a tree has l>eeti felled extinguisher. Hurry pleas.”
tage to this state, were she a contential than you do for dairy ?’’ they ask.
will not discuss the matter of weights, for the market. No more inviting loca-
“ Yes."
exporter or butter, never having to im­
“ Well, we think of getting a separator and will say that such points adjust tion for a logger or niillman could be
port any. Whenever a state or a country
T he formation of a new ministry with
found anywhere than along the banks of
exports more dollars worth of goods and a square mould, and of making themselves.
Butter should be of a gold straw color, the Nehalem. Millions of feet could be Senor Sil vela as premier, to succeed the
creamery
butter;
get
more
for
butter
than she imports, prosperity is abroad in
and if lacking in this respect, artificial logged from its banks with a very small Sagasta administration, should mark
the land. Oregon is better off in thia re­ from square moulds than for rolls, don t
color should lie used. As far as my ex­ outlay of labor or capital. A few logging the beginning of a regime that will mean
spect than she formerly was. The svs you
the regeneration of Spain. Senor Sil vela
Now right here is where they make perience extends, color does no injury to camps are in operation near the mouth of
tern is changing and dairymen are using
as leader of the dissident conservatives
butter,
and
no
one
wants
white
butter.
the
river,
which
supply
the
two
lccaj
their brains, for they find they must do their mistake. They seem to think that
in both the Sagasta and Canovas admin­
Care should be taken as to the matter mills. The great drawback to the coun­
the separator is the creamery; that as
so to make the industry pay.
istrations was in sympathy with neither.
soon as they start up the separating ma­ of shipping boxes. If they are to I* re- try, Mr. Reed says, is the difficulty in
As early as 1897 he saw theuttet futility
Winter dairying is being more exten­
chinery and put their butter up in the turned for further shipments, small nails marketing the lumber by water. The
of
continuing the Cuban struggle and
sively carried on than ever, and some
square form, they are on a par with the should be used, the boxes should be bar is not of sufficient depth to allow
without mincing matters declared Spain
creameries are producing almost as much
concerns which turn out large quantities plainly marked, and they should be care­ loaded lumber vessels to pass in or out
must either abandon the contest or en­
butter in December and January as they
of butter; who have by the excellence of fully scalded and lined with parchment with safety. A small appropriation by
ter u|K>n a war with the United States,
do in June and Jnly. It islikelv that the
the
government,
he
says,
for
building
a
their goods, the neatness of their pack­ paper erej>thcr butter is placed in them.
the inevitable result of which would be
time will never come when the state will
ages, and the regularity of their ship­ In warm weather, if the butter becomes jetty would provide plenty of water at
loss of the colonial empire and ruin to
produce as much butter during the win­
the
entrance
to
the
harbor,
and
would
be
soft,
the
wood
will,
if
no
parchment
is
ment, built up a reputation. They do not
the country. The infatuated conserva­
ter months as she does in the spring,
of
immense
benefit
to
the
settlers
of
both
seem to consider the fact that the sepa­ used, take up some butter, which soon
tives, who at that time believed, or
but capital and cold storage warehouses
rator is but a machine for removing the becomes rancid, injuring other shipments. Tillamook and Clatsop counties that
professed to believe, General Weyler’s
will take care of the early surplus, stor­
have
homes
in
this
region.
This
improve
­
For
the
same
reason,
do
not
try
to
get
cream from the milk, that they can make
stories of pacification, greeted the an­
ing it away to equalize the supply, and
just as miserable butter with that same too much use out of the boxes. When ment, Mr. Reed says, could l>e easily
to prevent the need of heavy importa­ cream as they could with that gathered they get old, burn them up, and get made and with very little expense lo the nouncement with scorn and derision,
tions.
government, as the most shallow portion and for a time Sil vela was held up to
by the old process, and that there are some new ones. It will pay.
the public indignation as a traitor to
Something has necessitated the impor­ points other than quality that hare to do
Butter should be marketed just as ofthe bar does not exceed 20ft. in length.
tation into this state during the paM with prices. Doubtless a separator is a early at possible after manufacture.
Harbors of less importance along the t he < ountry.
month or so of considerable E »stern but very good machine, but in butter-making
There are some sorts of feed, certain Oregon and Washington coast have re­
“Oh. yes’” said Eve In recounting to
ter, more this season than for several
as in war, the man behind the separator weeds, etc., that impart strange flavors ceived sulistantial federal appropriations, the neighbor the Garden of E-len fire.
seasons.
Drouth in California, high
to butter, and greatly damage the qual­ the benefits from which are not nearly of
is like unto the man behind the gun.
“We only escaped with the clothes we
prices of beef in our midst, and a larger
so far reaching importance as a jetty
Regardless of the fact that many are ity. Whenever the manufacturer discov­
had
on.”
population, are. to the mind of the
slow to learn these truths, the butter of ers that his butter is “off” in flavor, or would be at the mouth of the Nehalem.
speaker, the probable causes. Califor­
“Couiious picture this, isn't it? Exter
I Mr. Reed expresses the opinion that it
hears
from
the
party
to
whom
he
ships
Oregon is, as a whole, much better than
nia has had a hard season from a dairy
i >r <»f railway car that is lo run 150
it formerly was. The large creameries that someth.ng is wrong, he should insti­ would pay capitalists to purchase this*
standpoint, much harder than has this
who bnv butter fat are largely to be tute a rigid inquiry, and as long as the vast timber licit and build a jetty at their miles an hour.”
stare. Under ordinary conditions Cali­
Exterior, eh? Well, I think that's the
thanked for this condition. Competition butter is not up to his standard, he own expense to market the lumber. He
fornia would be producing enormous
view of it that would suit me best: ’
prompts them to pay reasonable prices should not give it the imprint of his says he would not be suqinsed if this
quantities of new grass butter, an arti­
WHITTLED TO A
POINT.
“Women is a contradictory creature.”
“Well, I should assent. Just when
her eyes are flashing fire is when she as­
sumes her chilliest demeanor.”
Barber—They won’t be able to curl
your hair any more, will they?
Johnny—I’m glad of it. I’d rather 1)0
baldheaded than have curls.
“There goes young Doi ley, riding a
horse that can’t see, ’ remarked Guzzam,
“Il isen’t the first time that lie has
straddled the blind,"replied Maddox.
“You know the authorities employed
Psleutli, the detective, to shadow the
young women sus|»ected of being a pick­
pocket?”
“Yea, and he made a failure of it.
What was the reason?”
“A perfectly natural one He took a
shine to her,”
“Oh, you give me a pain!” cried Juno,
the ox eyed, with asperity.
“Then you must be rheumatic!” re­
joined Jupiter Pluvia, thus deftly turn­
ing the laugh upon his wife.
The administration deities made ex­
ceedingmerry, thereupon, and even the
opposition could not forbear to smile.
Hicks—They tell me that Hinson’s
wife consulted a claiivoyant the other
day, and she says the woman's powers of
seeing into the past and future mre truly
wonderful.
Wicks—Yes, she told llinaon’a wife
that she was 83, and everybody knows
that Mrs, Hinson will never aee 40 a-
gain.
He had been studying the new bank-
ruytcy law.
“It’s cheaper to fail than to pay bills,”
he said at last.
“Not always,” was the reply. “Not if
you get hold of a high-priced lawyer, for
instance,”
__ ______
“No,” said the statesman, “I don’t be­
lieve in legislating on t he drink question.
The lime is coining when we will all be
eir.her employers or employes, and the
man who drinks can’t keep his wits a-
bout him enough to be an employer, and
the nondrinking employers won’t give
him a job; so the whole thing will settle
itself.”
___________
“What makes Dickie’s cough so bad
this morning.”
“It is nearly time for him to start to
school.”
Caller—Is the exc hange editor in?
The Editor—I am he.
Caller Well. 1 want to exchange this
summer suit for a winter overcoat.
Every man has a pet phrase that he
uses a great deal. With some men it is:
“Thank you, I don’t care if Ido!’
“Have you an agreeable boarding
house?”
“Yes, we have; every morning we
have a cake walk.”
“Cake walk? What’s that?”
“Why, the first man at the table gets
the hot ones.”
“Yes,” said the» inventer, with great
enthusiasm, “my next work ingoing to
be a great success. I’ve had my ¡sirtrait
in a number of pa|M*rH, and column after
Column of biography.”
“But how alrout the invention?'”
“Oh, I haven't had time to invent that
yet. I’ll get around to it by and by.”
Business of Billville.
Here are some of the recent news
¡mragraphs from The Billville (Ga.)
News:
“We have seven crates of fresh poetry
on hand, which we will dispose of
cheap, for cash.
“We are not worrying about the wea­
ther. We know that spring will lie here
afejiit the middle of August.
“Time brings its revenger. The sheriff
sold us out, bought the | aper in himself,
ran it three weeks, lost all his money in
it, kissed his mother in-law goodby and
resigned by blowing his head off.
“We understand that we are to be
courtmartialed for selling the Billville
regiment mules for beef. Wo don’t see
why the government should kick if the
mules didn't.
■’The government lias demanded our
resignation ax army chsplain, and all be-
< auMi we insisted on singing all the
time, and taking up a collection after
each hymn.”