TARIFFS ARE SUSPENDED
FOR TILLAMOOK POINTS
A statement issued last Thurs
day by William P. .Ellis, secretary
of the Pubic Service commission of
Oregon, has the following to say
regarding certain proposed tariffs
in Tillamook county: :
“ This Commission has suspend
ed the operation of proposed tariffs
naming increased rates which were
filed with this Commission by the
Garibaldi Beach Water Company,
and the Tillamook Bay Company.
"The tariff of the Rockaway
Beach Company, providing for wa
ter service at Rockaway Beach and
Seaview Beach, was propossl to be
made effective January 10th, and
I
by the Commission’s order has been
suspended until July 10th, pending I
the Commission's investigation and
determination of their reasonable-
net«.
“The Garibaldi Beach Water
Company, which supplies water
service at Ocean Lake, Rose City
Beach, Twin Rocks, Midway, Salt
air and Elinore Park, filed a tar
iff to become effective January 1st,
which tariff has been suspended to
July 1st, 1922, pending investiga
tion.
“The tariff of the Tillamook Boy
Company applies to service render
ed at Ocean Lake Beaoh, -and was
to become effective January 20th,
while under the order of the Com- I
mission it Is suspended to- July
i
20th.
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“It is probable that a joint hear-
ing will be held on, these several
matters at a reasonable early date.”
BIG DAIRY PROBLEM UP
DISTANCES ARE GIVEN
Oregon’s biggest dairymen will
consider one of the biggest prob
lems facing the dairymen at the
29th annual meeting of the state
association, December 29 at college
Farmers’ week—the problem of co-
opratlve marketing. C. L. Hawley,
state dairy and food commissioner
and president of the association,
Walter K. Taylor, former president
and leading dairyman of Corvallis,
J. D. Mickle, farmer dairy and
food commissioner, P. M. Brandt,
head of dairying at the college, and
Dr. Hector Macpherson, head of
the federal bureau of markets at O.
A- C„ will take part in the discus
sion. William Schulmerick of Hills
boro, Ed. Carey of Carlton, Ivy Con-
dron of Marshfield, are other noted
dairy specialists on the program.
The improvement of the Tillamook
and McMinnville highway this year
has resulted in cutting down dis
tances within points between Tilla
mook and Portland as follows, and
the following table of distances ie
official and may be relied upon.
From Tillamook eastward: Pleas
ant Valley, 8.7; Hemlock, 12.2; Bea
ver, 15.9; Hebo 20.5; Dolph. 31.4,
Salmon river junction 40.2, Grand
Ronde 22.8, Willamina 52.5, Sheri- |
dan 57.3, Bellevue 61.6, West Side
Junction 69.5, McMinnville 71, Port 1
land 109.2.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
MEETS IN JANUARY
Portland, Ore., Dec. 23.—(Spec
ial.)—January 3rd lias been set as
the date of the annual meeting of
the Oregota State Chamber of Com
merce. according to an announce
ment today following a meeting of
the Board of Directors held at Sa
lem. A meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Orgon Irrigation
Congress will be called on the
same date in conjunction with the
State Chamber, according to the
announcement.
Notification of the anlnual meet
ing is being sent today to all Com
mercial Clubs of the State, and ev
ery organization, is urged to have a
delegate in attendance. Directors
Canyon City—Surveys "of Job” of the State Chamber for the com
ing year will be elected, and vari
Dxy cut-off road being made. ,
ous questions of state-wide interest
will be up for discussion, including
FARM REMINDERS
new methods of dealing with land
settlement problems with respect
to the irrigated lands of the State,
Thorough Spraying Pay».
As trees come lntp beariq«
according to the announcement.
increase in size the
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should not fall to add to Lis spray Oregon Weekly Indurtrial Review
Nuipment an nfeeded ao as to in
sore complete protection with the
Bend—325,000 Pipe llne t0 tap
loll spray schedule applied on time.
Much loss occurs from hamy work Paulina Lake.
•ad delayed application where in
Linn county mileage tax to be
adequate Bpray machinery 1 b used.
f~0. A. c. Experiment-Station.
three mills beiow 1331.
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Portland to start work on 31,000.-
[ Baker business men to finance
000 Elk’s temple at once.
■ilk condenser at Haines.
North Bend sawmill silent for a
Boring cdntractor to build 111,*
year to open at once.
0 concrete business block.
Xorth Bend sawmill silent tor a
®. Helens voters to P*s® on 31®,*
year
to open at once.
•0 community hall.
Mout Angel parties planning to
City caqfcary pays 10 I*'
erect
a new cannery.
*t dividends.
Albany taxes S3
1-2 «Ulla for
Buxton sawmill idle for years to
cut 100.000 ft. per day.
DEE AND TILLAMOOK MEN
SAW HISTORIC HAPPENINGS
Writing from Dee, Ore., Albert To
zier, veteran newspaperman, delves
into the musty past and recalls that
John R. E. Edgar, now m apple and
strawberry grower at Dee, saw a fa
mous message before it was handed
to tire operator: Manila, March 18,
1889. The Oregon and the Iris ar-
rived today. The Oregon is in fit con
ditioti for any duty.—Dewey.
Then Rollie Watson, of Tillamook
former owner of the Herald, now en
gaged in the insurance business, and
here last week to attend the taxpay
ers’ protestation meeting, heard the
Marion county to sell 3200,000 memorable words: “Whe’l you are
road bonds.
ready Gridley, you may fire.”
Edgar was in Manila when Cap
North Bend approves $6,000 need tain A. S. Rowan, who delivered the
or tire department.
message to Garcia in Cuba, deliver
ed a message to Dewey in June 1899
A burned factory employs no —McMinnville NewsReporrer.
men and pays no income, Help pre-
vent fires and waste caused there-
Radio Fog Signal-
by.
Coastwise mariners will he In
Portland has cut tax levies about terested in a new "radio fog sig
nal" which recently has been in
3 1-2 mills, nearly $500.000.
stalled at the entrance of New
It 1s described "as
St. Johns— New $240,000 James York harbor.
the greatest advance made In a
John high school strated.
long time for the protection of
y. .
vessels."
A report made lately
Gresham — Standard Oil plant
by the head of the light house ser-
shows remarkable growth.
vic stated that mNny light houses
Baker—Eccles Lumber Co. to ra- should be replaced, several being
more than fifty year old.
sume logging operations.
BOARDER HENS DON’T PAY
FOR FOOD THEY CONSUME
TWENTY PER CENT REDUC
TION Di LVESTOCK RATES
Compost Is Bert.
Manure tor spring ap| ml&ation on
the vegetable shoud be thorAughly
composted now, that is, turned over
and shaken up and made to rot. as
thoroughly as possible. It should
not be exposed to the winter rains.
nor should it be hauled out to the
garden now because of the necessi
ty of keeping off land that Is at all
heavy. Soil which has manure cov
ering it all winter is likely to dry
out slowly in the spring because of
the mulch formed. Such- land Is us
ually late in becoming ready for
planting.—O. A. C. Experiment
station.
Astoria—Clatsop mill opening is
planned for January 1st.
FREIGHT RATES ON ALL
FARM PRODUCTS REDUCED
The following announcement was
made Saturday by J. H. Mulchay,
General Freight Agent of the
Southern Pacific Company.
The
ten percent reduction in freight
rates on farm products other than
grain products and hay recently an
nounced by the S. P. Cp, Will be
come effective January 1st, 1922,
on both Mare amd interstate traffic
without exceptions as to territory.
Butter cheese, eggs, Poultry, wbdl
end mohair cotton and cotton Ihif
era. cotton seed, tobacco,, unmanu
factured fruits, fresh or^ireen, and
not including canned of preArved
fruit, dried or evaporated fruit dth-
er than candled, crysfaWfzed,* itlnz-
ed or stuffed fruit, fFesh and' Wreen
vegetables but not fncldditig*'can
ned or preserved vegetables. Tiiese
rates are granted fol in1 e'xpeH-
mental period of six mojafhs expir
ing June 30, 1922, wltlÇtlW' hope
thmat in the meantime 1 ’ope.riflng
expenses as represented' ffy labor
costs will be rediiced ' io ’Filat the
rates can be continued.’ •
The reductions wlfl Xol apply on
any rates that have' been reduced
by th/* carriers 10 perent br more
since the rates were advanced -Au
gust 23th, 1920, owing tb the com
plications that bave'*<Flaen I'n lFon-
nectidn with the question of rates
on grain and grain prcMuets if will
be impossible to make the reduc
tions on these commoWtleO effec
tive on Jan. 1, but by exerting ev
ery effort the Southern PaeiftrCom-
pany will put the reduc«d grain
and grain products rate in effect
not later than January seventh.
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Klamath Fall»--Box factory to
open with 50 men and run all win
ter.
U. OF O. EXTENTION
OPEN TO BUSINESS MEN
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu-
mane, Dec. 23.— (Special)—Young
business men everywhere in the
stat's have been given an oportun-
ity to prepare for advancement by
the Extension Division of the Uni
versity of Oregon which is offering
a new correspondence course in
Banking Procedure and Practice.
This is a mnlverslty course, mak
ing it possible for the student liv
ing anywhere in Oregon to receive
instruction similar to that given in
the same subject on the campus at
Eugene. It was prepared by Pro
fesor Franklin E. Folta, instructor
in Business Finance in the Univer
sity. It earries six term hours of
University credit.
The course contains 32 I eaeon»,
as followd: Introduction, The Busi-
pem Man and his Bank; the Organ
ization and Management of the
Bank; The Business of Banking;
Bank Accounting; The Receiving
Teller's Department; Paying and
the Paying Teller; Clearing and
the Clearing House; Transits and
the Transit Department; Collec-
tions and the Collection Depart-
m«gxt; Foreign Exchange; Accumu
lating Exchange; Selling Exchange
Summary of Foreign Exchange;
Your Credit at the Bank; Loans
and Discounts; Trade Acceptances
and their Usos; The Bank's Invest
ments; The Fiduciary Function;
Tty* Bank as Representative of its
Customer; The Savings Function
and Safe Deposits; The 'Advisory
Function; Details of Bank Account-
ing;
Audits and Examination;
Banking under the Federal Re-
serve Act; Choosing your Bank
According to announcement by
J. H. Mulchay, eOneral Freight
Agent, The Southern Pacific Com
pany has filed with the Interstate
Commerce Commltwlon a tariff ef
Cow Feeds One Pig.
fective January 1st, 1922 which
How many pigs can one expect
continues in effect the 20 percent
to raise on th* skim milk from one
rduction on livestock that was in-
cow? If the cow Is an average
tendd to expire December 31st,
producer or better, one pig to each
1921.
cow is not a bad standard. Under
This 20 percent rductlon applies
ordinary conditions 300 to 350
only tto rates that are in excess of
pounds of skimmed milk or butter
50 cents per 100 pounds, but all
milk will replace 100 pounds of
livestock rates not effected by the
gralki in the ration. It should not
20 percent reduction will be reduc
be fed alone, however, because of
ed 10 percent anua.1st, 1922 if
its watery bulk, but at the rat* of
thy have not already been reduced
3 to 4 pounds of milk to one of
to that extent.
grain.—0. A. C. Experiment sta
This ten percent reduetion should
tion.
materially help the shippers from
nearby points as well as continue
Sherwood reports graateat build
while the concessions the longer
ing activities for many years.
haul shippers have had will be con
tinued as stated above.
The ten percent reduction also ap
ing permits show large gain over
November, 1920.
plies to farm produce and is for an
experimental period of six months
Ashland fruit hlpmenta total
and unions the carrier are able to
3120,000.
suCdtantlally reduce their expenses
of which the greater part is labor
8t. Helens lumber shipments by
Oregan City votee 2 1-2 mil) road
costs
In the meantime the rates
day
Grants Paa»—Night and
water
in November 3,330,00 ft.
Ui to be used in elty limila.
will
expire
un»
30th,
1322.
crews working on Caves highway.
Far too many farm hens do not
lay enough eggs to pay for the feed
,-rtid time spent on them, says A. G.
Lunn, tyad of the 0. A. C. station
poultry work, There ie no reason
to expect their daughters to do any
better th next year.
It will pay persons with email
flocks to place their best hens in a
separate pen before they begin to
save eggs for hatching. Buy a good
rooster for this pen
The good hen is a late moulter.
She never does get bright yellow
beak and shanks after she first lays
the yellow out as a pullet. 8he ha»
a short, blocky head, a full bright
eye, and a friendy disposition. She
must have a broad back and a deep
full rear if there are to be intes
tines to digest the food which
makes eggs. The egg producer is
spare of fat and soft of abdomaln,
not bloated with hard flesh like a
beef cow.
Do not use pullets or weak vital
ity males as breeders as this prac
tice will soon result iu poor hatch
es and weakling chicks.