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The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1890-01-31
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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15

8pp16ll 6ll'lOlsCTIllIIl1teIIlt IltO T3C1I anu JUL
though the former get decided prefer
ence, and is used principally for the
reason that the speaker is talking meta
physics. We have heard the term ap-
piled time and again tothe business men
of The Dalles, and yet if the term has
the meaning those using it, give it, of a
non progressive person, or one who does
nothing to benefit his town, it is sadly
misapplied. There is an old saying that
'Fyou cannot eat your cake and have it,
and it is certainly true that with given
amount of money you cannot put it i'll
two places at once. The business men
of The Dalles have not invested their
money in factories, for the simple reason
that they have used it all, are still using
it all in developing the agricultural
resources, and live stock industries.
The Dalles does an immense credit bust
ness, and has hundreds of thousands Of
dollars trusted out, loaned as it were, to
the farmers who are bringing the wild
land under cultivation, and the stockmen
whose cattle, horses and sheep are turn
ing the wild grasses of the mountain
sides into twenty dollar pieces. With
out this aid from The Dalles business
men, the development of the agricultural
and stock industries could not go on,
could scarcely have begun. Without
these, the country would be a desert
waste, and The Dalles whistling station !;
and yet these men, whose coin is aiding
the farmer and stockman in their good
work are hippantly called ''mossbacks."
The settlers in new country are gener-
ally persons of small, or moderate means,
and require assistance until the result of
their toll finds market, and without
the assistance of capital, they could not,
nor would they in most cases, undertake
to make themselves homes on the prair-
les of Wasco county. If developing the
country is the essence OF 'mossbackism"
then The Dalles is full of ''mossbacks, )"
and there is room and demand for more.
We need them in our business. "Moss-
backs with wealth, and with a disposi-
ton to lend it to the new corners to aid
in developing our resources, can find a
glad welcome and an open field. We
can't have too many of him; and he
can't come too fast.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15
WE ARE PLE1SED TO GREET
YOU

The first number of the THE CHRONICLE
is before YOU and speaks for itself. 1t is
far from perfect and there being room
for improvement, we shall make 1t, until
it is what itsproprictors intend it to be,
as good newspaper as can be made out
side the larger cities. The object of the
paper is to assist to the utmost OF its
power in advancing the interests OF The
Dalles and country tributary to 1t. 10
advertise our resources, to build up our
industries. to extend our trade, these we
shall work for energetically, and per-
sistently. We desire the prosperity OF
every individual and firm in The Dalles,
recognizing the fact that every individual
member of community, as long as that
member is not criminal or p&uper, Is
of benefit to it; and working for the
good of each. we hope to be OF benefit to
all. THE CHRONICLE will be non-par-
tisan, and will devote its best energies
to matters of local Importance. Its
columns will be open at all times for the
discussion of local matters. requiring
only of contributors that their language
be at all times respectful and gentle
manly. We have no promises to make
except to reiterate that whatever bene-
fits The Dalles it shall be our pleasure to
advocate at every opportunity, and to
the best of our ability. We shall be
Just, fair and impartial, and ask that
your criticisms of the paper be measured
with that rule.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15
FINISH THE WORK BY CONTRACT.

The engineers in charge estimate that
it will take another appropriation as
large as the present one, ($435, ,0OO) to
complete the work at the Cascade
locks. A long-suffering and patient
public might take heart of grace, could
the statement be believed, and the hope
cherished that that amount would do
the work. The aforesaid public, how
ever, are not willing to accept the state
ment as true, ,and have not the least idea
that another, or yet another appropria-
ton, no matter how large, will see the
locks completed under the present man
agement. Already 81 10000 have been
expended and there is nothing compar-
lively to show for it. What the people
of Eastern Oregon want is that its rep
resentatives i'll Congress besiege Con-
gress and the departments until the
work is let by contract. When this is
done we will believe the locks will be
completed, and until it is done we will
continue to believe that an appropria-
ton for the locks is a dead waste of the
peoples money. 1t is not alone East
ern Oregon that is interested in this
matter, but Portland's future de-
pends largely upon the immediate
opening of the Columbia. Channels OF
trade once established are hard to change,
and these channels are being rapidly
formed between eastern Oregon and
Puget Sound, and Portland is losing a
large portion of a trade which in few
years will be lost to her entirely, and
forever. If Portland will add her infiu'
ence, the work may be taken out of its
present hands, and completed next yeal
by contract. If she will not, the work
will not be finished this century, and
Portland will have voluntarily surren-
dered a trade, which alone, if properly
fostered, would support city OF double
her present size.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15
A BUSINESS CITY.

STRANGERS arriving in The Dalles are
at first apt to think it quiet, or as some
of them express it. dead town. Even
a cursory examination into the amount
of business done here will dispel this
idea. The amount of wool, grain and
live stock shipped from this point is
simply immense; and the amount of
supplies purchased here would astonish
even our own business men, by its grand
total. 1t has back of it the best and
largest pastures in the northwest, and
the country capable of producing grain,
which is naturally tributary to this
point is as large as any of the New
England States. The larger portion of
this agricultural land is still uncultivated,
simply because the cost of transporting
the grain to market is yet too great. In
the near future this difficulty will be re-
moved, and thousands OF acres OF virgin
soil will be covered with waving fields of
golden grain. The fruit industry is in
its infancy, but promises to take promi-
nent place. When the business created
by the rapidly developing country tribu-
tary to it, is added to that it already has,
The Dalles will be second only to Port
land in the volume of its trade, and with
the opening of the Columbia this trade
will be again more than doubled. The
BALES is doing bigger and better bust
ness to-day than any city of its size i'll
the state, but that business is done
through well established channels, and
sweeps along as quietly as the mighty
Columbia, which makes not as much
noise as some babbling brook, vet sur
passes all such, ten thousand fold.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15
Comparative statements prepared by

Comparative statements prepared by
clerks of the house and senate commit
tees, show the total estimated needs of
the government for the next fiscal year
to be $4S1 ,032, ,169; increased SO, ,43O, ,529
over last year, and not including any
thing for rivers and harbors, The total
estimated revenues for the current year
are SAG, ,955 ,031, making an excess of es-
timated appropriations, exclusive of de-
ficiencies and miscellaneous, over the
estimated revenues, of $34 ,077 ,131. The
excess of estimated revenues over esti-
mated appropriations, exclusive of $40, :
224, ,92S for the sinking fund and exclusirH
of deficiencies and miscellaneous, is .=.
III ,790, leaving this amount as the s:i.i;,
plus if the sinking fund Requirement *
not included in the estimates. TIL !.
are 81 ,000, 900 for sugar bounties, and s
000,000 or So, ,000, 900 for drawbacks unCs..
the last tariff law.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15
4 CHANGE REQUIRED.

THE Dalles has entered upon new
era, an era of prosperity of progress of
development, and we all want to adapt
ourselves to the new order of things.
We want to in measure at least forget
self, and understand that the good of the
community results in good to its indi-
vidual members. We want to remember
that there are many ways of accomplish
ing result, and while working to have
that result reached in our way, when the
majority are against us and adopt some
other plan, stand in and work for it..
Adopt the plan of the political conven-
stion and when in the minority give it
Iup peacefully and make it unanimous.
Personal likes, or dislikes should have no
place i'll our municipal work, but all of
us should put our shoulders to the wheel
wherever the interests of The Dalles
are concerned, and working for the good
of all, add to the prosperity of each of
our citizens. The new order of things
requires it, self interest demands it.
loyalty to The Dalles compels it.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15

The telegraphic news in this paper
clipped from the columns of the Oregonia
which is a legitimate subject for abus
and plunder by the balance of the pres.
Of the State. 1t is impossible for any
newspaper here with our present popula-
ton to take the dispatches, but the
Chronicle has arranged for g special
service which viii necessarily be brief.
We make this statement as we do not
wish to sail under false colors.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15

The Gate City Of the Inland Empire situated at
the head Of navigation the Middle Columbia, a2d
is a thriving, prosperous city. n,
ITS TERRITORY
Tt is the supply city for extensive rich agri
far south as Summer Lake, distance of over two 4
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET
The rich grazing country along the eastern SLOPE
Of the the Cascades furnishes pasture for thousands
of sheep, the wool from which finds market hef4
The Dalles is the largest original wool shipping
point in America, about 100000 pounds eing
shipped this year.
THE VINEYARD OF OREGON
The country The Dalles produces splendid
crops Of cereals and its fruits be excelled 1t
fornia's best, and its other fruits, apples pears
prunes cherries etc., unsurpassed.
ITS PRODUCTS
The salmon fisheries finest on the ColumbiaS
yielding this year revenue of 100000 which can
and will be than doubled in the near future
The products Of the beautiful Klckital valley find
market here and the country south east has this
year filled the warehouses, and all available storage
places to overfowing with their products
ITS WEALTH
is the richest city of it's size the
farming country than tributary to any other
city in Eastern Oregon
It's situation is unsurpassed It's climate delight
full possibilities incalculab1e resources un-
limited! And these stones she stands.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1890-12-15

We are informed by Mr.. Samuel l..
Brooks that the Portland board of trade.
chamber of commerce and some other
business societies have determined to
make an energetic effort to have the
locks at the Cascades completed. They
purpose going at it In a business-lille
waS, and are compiling statistics show
Eng the area of wheat lands, and the
loGnt end value of products, that
sld 1ind market by the way Of the
uhlbia. There is abundant cause Tor
lsratulation IN this, and the silver
ges OF hope shine out from behind the
s .ck clouds OF despair tl,at have SO loug
hytd tkjs undertaking. The pres
~ sfQclade has been prolific OF
the waking Of PoH5lGnd to
tlic a2 s-,.4i2 al-e-,lzs u Al
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-26

of exuberant ones, and occasionally the
glitter of pan as it Is whirled high in
the air after trip TO the box. But
what sets one TO thinking most is the
bobbing heads with the white linen COW
erings. These are the Polish or German
women, working hard to pay the debt on
the church, to add few more acres to
the small but well-cultivated farm, to
clOthe and educate the children, or TO
augment the "roll" already hid away in
an old stocking or trunk. Many Of these
foreign-born picKers are well-to-do, and
having no faith in banks, hoard their
money In hiding places at their homes.
They are a good class OF citizens to cul-
tivate the waste places, and they have
taken up great deal of land in this
part of the State.
As the day draws to close, the tired
ones drop out and the older ones prepare
TO go back TO the shanties. The days
work is talked over, supper is eaten, the
crowd begins TO scatter, and the evening
fun begins. Various kinds of hawkers
appear. The kodak man sells his views
and the "sutler" disposes of his goods
Liquors, wheels of fortune, and other
harmful attractions are forbidden, but
music fills the vacancy, and at. the first
rasping notes of. the violin the boys and
girls are ready for the dance. IL is a
free-for-all, in rude pavilion, at cents
a dance. This dancing will compare
with anything North or South in its local
character. The old folks look on for
awhile and then go to bed, while the
youngsters keep the ball rolling until
nearly midnight. Such joking, swing
ing, flirting, love-making, and merry
making were never experienced under
tallow and kerosene, unless at the old
cuttings and corn-huskings of early
days. A few days later the crowd breaks
up, to know each other no more until
another harvest.
AS the Thanksgiving diners lift a
dainty morsel Of jelly that is destined to
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-26

poking about among the vines TO see that
no ground Is being neglected. Some
times disputes arise over the rights OF q
particular swath and fight ensues,
when all business suddenly comes TO a
standstill until the war-cloud passes
away. Pretty girls are also the fire.
quent causes OF cranberry fracas, the
cases beingnumerous where two "bloods"
insist upon protecting the same maiden
from the Poygan or the Black Wolf
country, who enjoys the reputation Of
being the best dancer on the marsh and
at the same time is we'll able to take
care. OF herself. A rough-and-tum
fight is diversion, and the people like
TO- But the picking goes on just the
same. Portable tramways are laid, and
the boxes, as fast as filled, are run on
small cars To the warehouse, where they
are piled up I'm long tiers TO dry, cure,
and ripen thoroughly. When the berry
reaches the market il Is generally red,
but when IL is picked IL Is nearly white,
with faint rosy tint just beginning to
show.
As each picker hands over his box OF
berries he receives a ticket which he can
"cash in" for the current price, usually
from TO shillings. They earn from
81. so to SO day.
The present method OF handling the
crowd is much better than IL used TO be
when every one kept his pickings in bags
until measuring-up time at night. Then
the whole crowd would assemble about
the boss on the marsh and wait their
turn. The soft spongy ground under
the pressure of the crowd, increased by
the weight of the bags of berries, would
sink and leave everybody up TO their
shoe-tops in water. Now the harvesters
rarely get wet. The large number of
marshes prevents the massng of so many
people as formerly. IL a man secures
500 or 1000 pickers he considers it a
great crowd, while ten years ago IL was
not unusual to see $500 or 5000 at one
time.
1t is beautiful sight. Stretching
away for miles lie the cranberry fields,
perhaps at some past age the basin of a
placid lake, now covered with verdure,
rejecting rich coTors in the sunshine and
teeming with life. From the camp,
nearly mile away, you catch the shouts
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1890-11-26

study of the General in all his moods
and marking his characteristics. He
has studied with an artists eye, and
as a result has produced statue in
every line of which character is
strongly marked He has selected the
moment when Logan took command
after the fall of Mcpherson. The
General has just ridden to the front.
and an expression OF firmness, ready
for action, is upon his face. The ex-
preston of boldness and confidence is
modified and given gravity by deep
sense of responsibility. The horse
has been checked and is paving the
ground.
In the Generals left hand the reins
are held loosely. and in his right,
which hangs freely at his side. he holds
his hat Just as he has taken il from
his head, by the crown. He is paying
no attention to his horse, which he sits
firmly, as if unconscious of the stced,
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marshes. They are drawn by teams
hitched to lumber wagons, and generally
carry baggage and provisions enough to
last them through. On the high land
bordering the marshes are erected rows
of one and two story shanties, and into
these the pickers are slowed. Some
times tents are necessary to shelter this
overflow. In few days everybody
knows his neighbor, and labor COM
mune is established. Fun and hard work
are equally mixed. 1t is a welcome
change TO these people vino, for few
days, get out of the humdrum rut OF
their existence, see new faces, crack
jokes, dance and sing, and add small
sum Of money to their scanty savings for
the winter.
1t is an interesting sight to see the
pickers go TO work in the morning
Everybody is dressed for the job. On
the heads of the women are broad
brimmed straw hats tied down over the
ears, sunbonnets, shakers, or the clean
white linen clothes, after the style of the
German market women. An old jacket,
a calico skirt, and heavy pair Of shoes
and stockings complete the costume. The
men wear anything that "won't hurt, :"
but all, by previous experience, know
enough to keep dry wraps in camp in
case of a wet sinking marsh or a sudden
shower. Every one carries a large
shallow milk pan, and each picker is
provided with Slated rectangular box
holding exactly bushel. Arriving at
the ground 10 be picked the hands are
ranged in row, under the direction Of
boss to every forty pickers. The boxes
are thrown on the ground, the pickers
get ON their hands and knees and COM
mence TO fill the shallow pans. 1t is in
this work, as with all other kinds, some
grow wonderfully skiIlful, and with
deft fingers running through the
vines, like comb, ill their pans
quickly, while Others are clumsy and
slow. As they are paid by the box, the
earnings vary accordingly. AS the line
of pickers advance across "forty" IL
grows irregular, and keeps the bosses
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for those who prepare delicious sauce
relish for Thanksgiving dinner 1t is
over twenty-five years since the golden
discovery was made that there is money
to be made in cranberrics During these
years fortunes have been made and
other fortunes expended TO place what
appeared worthless marsh i'm a condition
TO bear frNit. The little city Of Berlin,
Green Lake County, Wis, writes cor
respondent OF the Chicago Tribune, is the
center of a cranberry-producing area
that turns out thousands OF barrels of
fruit annually. which fact has given the
place the name of CRANBERRY City," a
name which IL proudly wears in contra
distinction 10 its sister city, Ripon.
whose prosaic pursuit of late years has
been the growth of cucumbers, and is
therefore dubbed "Pickleville."
AT first the men who made money out
OF cranberry culture were those who
had great holdings of wild harsh sur
rounded with tamaracks and garnshed
with a wilderness of sage brush and
huckleberry bushes. The crop blossOmed
In wild neglect and the fortunate DOS
SCISSORS Of these tracts found themselves
taking off from $50, 900 to $50, 600 in clear
profits annually without spending a dol
lar except to the pickers. Then the
hunt began for marsh land that would
grow cranberries. Many were successful
in finding from three TO ten and fifteen
acres tracts, and i'm numerous instances
pools were formed so that larger areas
might be purchased and parceled out.
The small growers went to work plant
ing vines, and have now the satisfac-
ton of reaping ample returns. Fortune
has been more tickle with the big growers.
The science of the culture was pushed
too far, perhaps The great canals that
were dug for flooding purposes and the ex-
pensive pumping machinery that was put
In have not had the effect Of producing a
corresponding increase in the crop. Gram
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rarely seen, but when they come into
camp they hunt the festive berry fast
and furious daytime and beat the tom
tom at night. They are great gamblers,
and it is not unusual to see "buck" get
away with all the tickets at the close of
the harvest.
The mistaken idea may not be so
prevalent as IL was five years ago, but 1t
is well enough to repeat that cranberries
do not grow on bushes, like blueberries,
nor do they lie supinely on vine that
trails itself along with runners. 1t is
the fruit OF growth that reminds one Of
tough-iointed grass or grass stems whose
appendage consists of small elliptical
leaves. You may tear a vine into frag-
ments, scatter the pieces to the four
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ceeding year witnesses grand rally OF
mon, women and children from a radius
OF twenty miles TO the cranberry fields.
The pickers are generally enlisted from
the foreign element, although there may
be seen a liberal sprinkling OF the native
Americans and occasionally small band
of the Winnebage Indians.
Fifty years ago the Indians were the
only ones who appeared on the cranberry
exchange. dumping a few blanketfuls OF
the berries on the market, and, after
spending the proceeds in beads and "ben-
zine" went of whooping. Now they are
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berries are like Indians, they are pot
benefited by too much civilizing The
same marsh cannot be relied upon To
yield every year Aside from the mat
ural intentions" OF the berry IL is
threatened with destruction from vari-
Gus sources heavy floods, worms. blight,
scalding, drought and early frosts being
among the dangers; so that man who
burdens his mind with the probable fate
OF crop from the time IL blossoms
through the summer season is not likely
TO be at peace with him elf However,
there is rarely year when there is
general failure Of the crop. and each sue
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winds, and tread them into the soft
marsh, and they will return good for
evil by spring up and bearing fruit. In
the.spring these broad acres of swamp
land are literal mating of cranberry
vegetation, covered with a tiny white
blossom. II one out of ten of these
blossoms, or even one in hundred, runs
the gauntlet, good crop is assured. The
harvest begins the first week in Sep
TENDER and generally lasts from ten
days TO two weeks.
At the appointed time a motley tide of
humanity sets in toward the cranberry
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STATUE OF GENERAL LOGAN

Lot FIannery's Model Accepted by the
Army of the Cumberland.
In little frame building at the cor
ner of Delaware avenue and b street
northwest, Washington, there is to be
seen model of the equestrian statue
that the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland intends to erect, probably
in Iowa circle, in honor of General
John A. Logan. Mrs. Logan has ex-
pressed her satisfaction with the
model. General Logan was a friend
of the sculptor, Lot Flannery, for many
years and sat for him for the bust from
which the model is taken. Ever since
the war Mr.. Flannery has had this
work in view. and has been making q