The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1891-12-19

| plerable condition. In some places the
thoroughfares are almost impossible.
Notwithstanding the rain and soft wealth.
er experienced during the past few weeks,
there have been few land slides on the line
of the Union Pacific between this city and
Portland.
Engineer Wike, one of the most popular
members OF the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, makes a round trip every twelve
hours. Ho is a careful engineer, and
thoroughly understands locomotive.
The trouble experienced with the old
mains since the water from the new reser-
voir has been turned on. demonstrates what
the TIMEs-MoUNTAINEER told our citizens q
year ago that at $50. 900 the old plant was
very dear.
Mr.. Q. f. Hobart, master mechanic at
Starbuck, Wash, well known to our citi.
zens, and son Of our fellow citizen, @. G.
Hobart, we are sorry to learn, has been sick
for some weeks past. At last accounts he
was improving.
Fol- long time the TINES Es-MoUNTAINEKR
has labored arduously tor the Inauguration
OF a securing mill for wool in this city, and
we are pleased with the information that
capitalists will inaugurate this enterprise as
soon as the spring season opens.
Work at the Cascade locks still continues;
hut the engineer in charge has begun the
work OF removed of the derrlcks in the
canal. These have to be moved every year,
before the high water, and this tact empha-
sizes the Importance of liberal appropria.
tions for this enterprise.
Seven carloads of cattle were put off at
the stockyards in this city from Idaho.
They will be fed and eventually shippid to
market. Our stockyards have a wide-
spread reputation along the line of the
Union PscIfic and Oregon Short Line, and
all cattlemen desire to feed at The Dalles.
Notwithstanding the almost continuous
ram for the past few weeks buildings still
continue to be erected In the burned dis
trict, and, although only three months haye
elapsed since the most disastrous confgra-
tion ever experienced in Oregon happened
to this city, the limits Of the DEVASTATED
district can hardly be defined.
About 10 o'clock this morning two trains
collided near Willows, east Of Arlington.
One was the Heppner mixed train, bound
west, and the other freight, bound east.
Fortunately no one was injured, but the To-
comotives were badly damaged.
Mr.. G. W. Phelps, formerly Of Rufus,
but now in the employ Of Frank Bros,
Portland, returned from the former place
Sunday. He reports business very lively in
the little town, and, although the ware
houses are crowded with wheat, large guam
titles will be brought to the station during
the winter season.
B. +. Watson, editor of the Portland
Mercury, indicted on two counts of sending
obscene matter through the mail, Withdrew
his plea of not guilty and was fined $500 in
the United States circuit court Monday. 1t
was offered in mitigation Of his offense that
he was out of the city when the articles
were published, and that another person
was in charge of his paper.
Jacksonville Times: San Francisco par
ties are again in Southern Oregon for the
purpose of purchasing choice apples. As
high as 81 box for future delivery has
been paid. Big red apples always sell the
best, and our horticulturists should give
this variety the preference when planting
trees. There is a never failing demand for
choice apples, by which we mean perfect
apples of good size and free from disease Of
any kind.
1t might be well'for some Of our enter
prising business men or capitalists to look
up the probable production of fruit next
year. Thousands of trees have been planted
within a radius of five miles during the
last four or five years, and the fruit grow
ers are liable to be hunting q market next
season. If the proper inducements are not
offered by this city other towns in the
county stand waiting to take this trade off
our hands. If a cannery is necessary for
next season now is the time to be looking
the matter up. The first in the business
will have all control for few profit making
years.
Iron has been discovered in Yamhill
county, gold in Linn. coal In Benton and
gas IN Marion, all in the Willamette valley.
Truly, Oregon Is a state to be proud of.
With her forests of fine timber, her rich
mines of gold. silver and coal and her sure
crops, she Is unsurpassed by any state in
the union. None can boast of q better
climate than she nor of more bountIful
crops. The farmer of Oregon is or should
be the happiest person on earth. BE has an
excellent crop and has received good price
for it, and now with money in his pocket he
can sit in the glow of the freight and enjoy
himself during the winter months with no
lear of cyclone or a blizzard that will de-
stroy his property or freeze his stock and
perhaps take his own life.-Stayton Times.
Dur cotemporary should not forget that
there is a rich region Of country east of the
Cascade mountains that produces excellent
,rops of grain, unsurpassed fruits, and
whose mines Of minerals are the richest on
he continent. There is great deal more
Of Oregon than the Willamette valley.
The gospel car" religious caboose. was
witched on the penitentiary switch Satur-
lay, and services were held morning and
'vening. The following is o description
rom the Salem Journal: "The car is
.quipped with Westinghouse automatic air
brakes, Miller platforms and Baker heating
tove, warming the car by hot water, and
,atent paper wheels with steel tires. Large
,oxes for storing provisions are built under
,eath. The 'Evangep was presented last
pring to the American Baptist Publication
ociety for missionary work in the west by
Aessrs. Charles Colby, Colgate Hoyt. John
Rockefeller, John B. Trevor and K. j.
Barney. The car was built by the Barney
Smith company of Dayton, Ohio. at a cost
If $4,000. The gentlemen who form the
Chapel car syndicate are large investors on
his coast, and especially interested in the
development of our Baptist interests here.
Everything connected with the construc-
lion of this railway chapel is strictly first
,lass."