The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-09-26
from among the five or six million young
men of the limited States

from among the five or six million young
men of the United States.
Mr.. Will Johnston and family came
up from the Cascade Locks yesterday
where he has been at work.
There will be special meeting of
jackson Engine Co., No. L, held at the
council rooms on Monday, September
% at Z 80 p. m. Matters of great inn
portance win be brought before the COM
pany. By order of the president.
WILL S. GRAHAM, Secretary.
There was fair attendance yesterday
to witness the races. The principal in
terest gathered around the half mile and
repeat, running race. The first was won
by Hastings with Herald End, Bill Moore
3rd and Hamilton 4th. Time 524.
The second heat and the race was won
by Hastings with. Herald End, Bill
Moore Bird and Hamilton 4th. Time So.
V. G. Bogne, civil engineer of Port
land, who has been commissioned by
the Portland chamber of commerce to
examine the two proposed lines of rail-
way around The Dalles rapids, finished
second examination of the road on the
Oregon side yesterday afternoon and re-
turned to Portland on the evening pas
penger. Mr.. Bogne will report the re-
port the result of his examination to the
champer of commerce in the near future.
Up to September oath sixty-four cars
of wheat were shipped from Biggs sta
ton by Mcdonald & CHM since Aug %.
The average price paid was seventy
three cents per bushel. This being
about one-third of all the grain handled
in Sherman county. Average sacks per
car are 295 and at that rate there have
been shipped 81 $40 sacks. or about 49,
$50 bushels from that county, and put
in circulation $84, ,446.4O, ninety -one
cars in all have been shipped from Biggs
Kansas Mortgage Indebtedness.
Bradstreets.
The census Office has issued bulletin
which gives the mortgage Indebtedness
of the state of Kansas by counties. The
total assessed valuation of real and per-
sonal property in 1890, not including the
value of railroad property, which is
placed at $57 1866, ,233, was $290, ,593, I'll.
The estimated true value is between
$500 100000 and 5000, 0,000, 900. 1t is
found that Kansas has a mortgage debt
of $235, ,485 ,10S, which does not include
state and railroad land contract debt of
81 ,66l ,71S. This debt is 81 per, cent. of
the estimated true value of all taxed real
estate. The average amount of debt per
mortgaged acre is placed at $6.65. OF
total mortgage debt $167 ,145 ,039 is upon
acres and SOS, SAC, ,067 upon lots. Thirty
four per cent, of the total debt in force
against acres is on real estate in the
western half of the stase, where it is said
values are low, and where settlement
was made but few years ago. 1t is
proposed to prepare map showing the
exact localities in the state of the debt.
The counties carryin6 the heaviest mort
gage debt are: Sedgwick, $16, ,583, ,053 !;
Wyandotte, $12, ,629 ,932; Shawnee, $11,-
9S2, ,090; Cowlew, 81 ,727, ,427; Reno, ST.
429 ,5S9; Sumner, $5,556, ,042 and Nc
Pherson, $5 ,04O,94
Dun & Co.'s weekly review of the
trade for the week ending September Is,
in harmony with the prevailing impress
sion, gives a very hopeful prospect for
good times all over this broad land in
the very near future:
The hot weather at the west is worth
to the country many millions every day.
Each clear and cloudless day places mil
lions of bushels of corn beyond the pos
sibility of harm from frost, and great
part of the anticipated crop is already
safe. The large crops mean that the
farmers will be enabled to buy more
freely of the products of the other indus
tries and will pay this fall vast amount
OF indebtedness. In four months, end
ing September 1st, about 2616 per cent
of the mortgaged debts on farms in Kan
sas, or about $40 900 900 had been paid
Several hundred millions will thus be
returned to lenders, who will powerfully
affect all markets by their afforts to find
new use for their money. Meanwhile
gold is also coming. from Europe and
though foreign banking institutions are
doing what they can in self-defense to
restrai4. the movement they fail to pre-
vent active buying of American securi-
ties by foreign investors. With money
coming for foreign stocks and bonds, as
we'll as for wheat and cotton, and with
liquidation of farming Indebtedness the
prospects for business this fall are un-
usually bright.