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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
SUNDAY, NJ LAY 10, 1891.
THE HYGIBNIC ICE COl1PANY

The above gives in outline the proportions
of the buildings of the Hygienic Ice Company
as they are seen from Fifteenth and streets
northeast. The group of buildings has an un-
usual appearance, but when once within their
walls the novelty of their exterior is found to
be exceled by the novelties within, where
surprises are found at every turn. At the ex
treme northeast is boiler-house with fur
naces and fires; at the other end of the group
are ice-houses, where are stored hundreds Of
blocks of the clearest ice, all of uniform size.
are two large buildings. In one are two large
and costly machines, running continually.
The other building is large open store house,
over the floor of which the visitor is shown.
The process by which the ice is produced is
here explained to be very simple:
HOW HYGIENE ICE Is FROZEN.
Underneath this great floor, which is as large
as theatre, are large iron tanks, these being
divided into uniform spaces. Into these spaces
are placed cans of galvanized iron, four feet
deep by nearly twenty inches on top. Into
these cans is poured the distilled water
to be frozen. About these cans, doing the
same service as broken ice well salted does in
an ice-cream freezer, there is kept in constant
and rapid circulation stream of water heavily
charged with salt, and technically called
ture below the freezing point. Were milk in
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these cans instead of water, the result would be
ce-cream instead of clear, pure ice. And this ice
will have come no nearer this salted water or
''brine," nor undergor any other ''chemicap
influence, (whichis the explanation of ignorant
as well as of prejudiced persons than has the
ice-cream taken from the freezer. The task
Of cooling this ''brine' to the freezing tenn
perature of the salted ice in the freezer is per-
formed by the two large machines with the
system of pipes overrun by the cool water
from the springs, and is very simple The
enormous output of cool spring water is a
great aid in this work of cooling the ''brine,"
and to the economical production of pure ice,
enabling the Hygienic Ice Company to accom-
plish larger results with a given amount of
effort on the part of these machines than can
be accomplished by plants of like size having
for this purpose only river or other water the
temperature of which fuctuates with the
weather
PURE WATER FOR MAKING ICE.
For the production of pure Ice, a supply OF
pure water is essential, and in order to secure
an abundance of this necessary article this
company located its works near the largest
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purities necessarily incident to the harvesting
of natural ice-assuming that the ice so har-
vested was without impurity-the most un-
observing will quickly see that Ice in which 1t
is impossible for such impurities to enter is to
be preferred, at least for drinking and all
other home uses. Scientists have proved that
very many bacteria or disease germs success
fully resist freezing, while others resist great
heat None, however, can stand both, and
source In ice made out of water which has un-
dergone the various operations of distillation,
filtration, and freezing necessary to the pro-
duction of artificial ice. This important
fact, the supreme importance of which
is readily seen; a consideration of the
continually growing difficulties of har-
vesting natural Ice; the impossibility
of knowing anything about the localities from
which 1t has been taken, whether contaminated
by drainage from adjacent towns or manu-
featuring establishments or not; and the high
degree of perfection to which ice-making
machinery and appliances have been brought
the establishment in many cities, in this and
other countries, of companies for the pro-
duction of pure artificial ice for table and
othsr home uses. In many of the Southern
cities-in New Orleans, Memphis, Atlanta,
etc.-as we'll as in South America and other
warm latitudes only ice SO made is used. In
all these places its healthfulness and superior
ity to all other ice are claimed and freely ad-
mtted.
DURABILITY OF ICE.
The durability of artificial ice, as well as of
other ice, depends on the length of time taken
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tain extent partially neglect their business, as
it would be necessary for them to go per
sonally into each Office and urge the proprie-
tor to join them in their efforts. The end is
worth the time.'
MIR. e. N. WATERS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT 1T.
Mr.. E. N. Waters of the firm of Waters IL
Thompson, indorsed the idea most enthusias-
tically SIT is just what we need,' he said,
''and 1 hope that an exchange can be estab-
lished. It's benefits would be innumerable,
while it could harm no one. The chief effect
of such an association, in addition to securing
a standard of rates, would be the centraliza-
tion of transfers at one point. This would
mean the saving of deal of time and trouble.
Then, too, the idea of having the auction sales
held at the exchange at stated hour would
be great convenience and do away with the
necessity of running about from place to place
in order to be present at the sales, as one is
compelled to do now An exchange would
bring the brokers and dealers into closer rela-
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springs within the limits of the District of
Columbia. Various names have been given
them-Federal Springs, sherwood Springs,
etc.-and the privilege of using the output
therefrom has been subject of conveyance
by deed for nearly century. 1t is said that
because of the refusal Of the then owner to
comply with President Washington's request
to permit, without any money consideration,
the water to be piped to the southern parts Of
the city where were to be located the navy
yard and arsenal, the subdivision of the city
covering certain privileges was extended no
further than the bounds of this incorrigble
owners land.
The water from these springs is of remark
able purity and GOODNESS. The output is esti-
mated to be between three hundred and five
hundred gallons minute. Their location and
their freedom from any Indications of surface
drainage are explained by scientists and ex-
perts, who have closely examined them, as due
to the fact that the water must come through
deep assures of earth and from very great
distance, possibly from the Allegheny Noun
tains-the regularity of the supply and its
remarkable purity being due to the purity of
its source and its filtration in its long journey
through strata of sand and gravel. The build
ings of the company were so located and
erected as to permit the springs and all their
approaches to be carefully walled up and
arched over with solid masonry in cement,
this solid stonework being in turn covered by
clean clay to depth of more than ten feet,
so that absolutely nothing from the surface
could, by any possibility, ever reach them.
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EVERY REQUIREMENT AS TO HEALTHFULNEss
FULFILLED.

EVERY REQUIREMENT AS TO HEALTHFULNEss
FULFILLED.
In order to secure clearness and transpar-
ency, as we'll as to meet the requirements of
the increasing number of physicians and spe-
cialists who appreciate and fear the dangers
due to the presence of low forms OF animal
life in food or drink, the water to be frozen
into ice is converted into steam, or boiled, and
then filtered, thus absolutely annihilating all
germs or causes of disease
ALL INVITED TO VISIT AND SEE THE WORKS.
All persons interested in the matter are cor
daily and heartily invited to visit the works
and for themselves inspect every detail as
the simplicity and cleanliness of every opera
tion win excite the surprise and admiration of
every intelligent person, being on a par with
other great modern improvements-the tele-
phone, the electric light, the cable cars, ETC.,
ETC., and as surely to be adopted as they, when
once known and appreciated.
PURE FOOD AND PURE DRINK.
More and more attention is being given to
the need of purity of food Why should not
equal thought be given to the matter Of
drink
Let the care be ever so great to avoid i'm
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CONTINUED on Eighteenth Page.l
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-03-06
Editorial Notes

The utter unreliability of the cable
news printed in the capitalistic press re-
lating to labor matters has again been
shown in connection with the Scotch
railway strike. A short time since it was
announced that the strikers had been
completely beaten and had returned to
work ON the monopolist's terms. Later
intelligence is to the effect that this state
ment is altogether false The companies
have been badly beaten and the princi-
pal points of the demand made by the
men have been conceded. The North
British Railway Co., in an official notice,
publicly declared that they accepted the
conditions proposed by their strike en-
ployes, including a reduction of hours,
the withdrawal of all legal proceedings
commenced against their employees, and
the payment of costs incurred. The re-
suit, which was proclaimed far and wide
as triumph of consolidated capitalism,
is really grand victory for organized
labor.-JOur1aal Of the Knights Of Labor.
One local Gillian county matter that
was urgently demanded-the reduction
of the sheep inspectors salary-died
a-bornin', and Gilliam's legislators may
have hard time to explain away the
why's and wherefores of not passing the
only county measure that was demand
ed.-FOssI Journal.
We can explain on the behalf of Sena-
tor Hilton. He was too busy trying to
defeat or amend The Dalles Charter and
Water bill.
Ninety-one thousand dollars for a
dome on the state capitol building,
hatchery, horticultural and other COM
missions are all right for the Webfoot
crowd, but when it comes to assisting
the people of outlying counties in the
construction of wagon roads it is all
| wrong; at least that is the way it looks.
BOXER City democrat.
| The sheep in this county are SO nearly
free from disease that the practice of fall
| shearing will soon be not necessary, and
will doubtless be entirely abandoned
The stock inspection law has been ot
vast benefit to the sheep raisers of the
county, for without it they never would
| have got the better hand of the sheer
pest.-Grant County NeaCs.
DEATH ON CATs.-It is reported that {
large number of cats have died lately il
this city from lead poisoning. The cat,
dying are mostly of the Thomas per
suasion there being eight of that kinC
found in the woodshed of one citizen
The lead is supposed to have been ,ad
ministered by using % calibre riff,
and the motive power percussion. B,
that as it may, if there is nine lives TO
every cat, eight of them were expended
prior to last Friday night.-Oregol
Blade.
The leading grocer at Lebanon, Pa, i
named ShuOar
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LEGLSL4TTTE CONSTSTENCY.

The senator for Wasco and Gillian
fought the water bill, formed and endor-
sed by the city council, supported by
the board of trade, and backed by more
than three fourths of all the taxpayers
of The Dalles, because, among other
things, it limited the right to vote for
water commissioners to taxpayers only.
The good senator could not vote for such
provision. He believed it was uncon-
stitutional. 1t would be very naughty,
therefore, for him to violate the consti-
tuition he had sworn to support.
few hours after the bill passed the
senate, amended so as to suit the con-
science and taste of Senator Hilton,
the charter bill of the little town of Sell
wood was called up. 1t had exactly the
same provision as the original Dalles
water bill Its water commissioners
were to be elected by the votes of the
taxpayers only. The case was different
now. The Sellwood bill was all right,
and the senator voted for it without a
wink Senator Watkins whispered to
him, 'eHilton that bill is inconstitu-
tional," but the tall trees on the outside
bent their branches to the winter storm
and the winds held carnival around the
ewes and crannies of the capitol, as the
rains battered on it's fiattened roof, and
the senator didn't hear.
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SUNSHINE 4HE4D.

We sincerely believe that this section
is on the eve of prosperous times. The
winter has been more than usually mild.
The cost of feeding stock has been trihing
and the losses, if the snow that now
covers the ground leaves within the next
week or two, will be light. These two
items, materially affect the profits of stock
raising, and this winter, they are, we
trust, reduced to minimum. Abund-
ance of moisture for blowing and for the
starting of the young grain is assured,
and with the frequent June rains or the
ordinary absence of hot winds at the
critical period of filling, an abundant
grain crop is assured. The partial fail
ure of crops, two years ago, for the first
time in the history of the Inland Empire,
bore peculiarly hard on young agricul-
tural settlement, but the people
weathered the storm bravely and not
withstanding that last years crop, by no
means full one, had to do the work OF
two crops, through the forbearance OF
our merchants very few were driven to
the wall. The spring will open with the
farming community full of hope. Con-
gress has adjourned, and the present
stringency in the money market, occa-
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stoned more than any thing else, as we
believe. by the uncertainty and want OF
confidence in the money centers, in pend
ing measures of financial legislation will,
we hope, soon have given place to conf
dence and will have passed away. The
hardships of the past two years, have to
a greater or less degree, disciplined the
agricultural classes in the science and
art of economy, and no greater debts are
liable to be contracted than there is a
fairly good prospect of being able to dis
charge. The promise of an open river to
the sea which we are warranted in con-
sidering an assured fact, will place this
county and much adjacent territory, on
a near equality to Portland prices, on all
products of the farm and range, thereby
materially increasing the profits OF the
producer. When the farmer is prosper
Gus all are prosperous, and the prospects
were never brighter for prosperity all
around.
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PROCEED snakes and Owls.

Save, or rather do not injure, harmless
snakes, toads, frogs, Lizards, small owls
and large hawks, for they are the farm
er's and fruit growers best friends. He
who kills one of the small ground or
burrowing owls, or the screech and
barn owls has destroyed life of the
greatest value to country life. 1t should
be made criminal offense to kill any of
them. The same is true of nearly every
one of the larger hawks properly buzz
zards), or either of our so-caIled buz-
zards(properly vultures) as none of them
do any injury whatever to man or his
property. Their food habits are di-
rectly to his benefit. 1t is true that
some small hawks, those just below the
medium size, do at times kill poultry.
The larger hawks seldom if ever do
their natural prey being such pestifer-
GUS rodents as the gray ground squirrel
and the pocket gopher. Killing off the
large hawks and harmless snakes has
been the cause of the enormous increase
of these pests.
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Experiments carried on at the Caifor-
mia state university last spring, one of
the very worst seasons ever known for
peach leaf curl, show conclusively that
this disease of the peach can be con.
trolled. Berkeley is the worst climate
on the coast for peach leaf curl. First
spray the trees just us the buds begin to
swells with very strong solution of sui
phate of iron (copperas) at least a pound
to a gallon of water; wet the tree in
every part and the ground under it.
When a part of the flowers show red,
and none are open, spray with very fine
spray. Dissolve two pounds of sulphate
of copper in two gallons of water; in
another vessel slake two pounds of lime
in two gallons of hot water; when this
last is cold stir it up thoroughly from the
bottom and pour it slowly into the cop
per solution. Let it stand day or two
then add twenty gallons of water, stir
ring all together thoroughly. Strain
through a fine sieve and spray with a
fine nozzle, simply moistening all growth
points, twigs and flowers. If the
weather continues cold and damp repeat
the spray in a week or ten days.
A simple and effective copper so
luton for the second spraying that has
given perfect results, is prepared as fol
lows: Dissolve in one quart of hquic
ammonia four ounces of carbonate OF
copper, keep in glass bottle, using one
ounce of the solution to gallon OF
water. This is also sure cure for the
shot hole fungus of the apricot and
plum, Grape mildew and many other
scales, rusts and mildews may be sue
cessfully treated by this remedy. Il
must be kept IN mind that these copper
solutions are simply preventives, and
that after the fungus has entered the
tissues of the plant they cannot reach il
to kill it, they simply prevent the spore:
from terminating; but where there are
successive generations from spores, Il
thoroughly applied, they prevent spread
and further injury. D. B. WIER.
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FIRST ANNUAL MEETING.
Notice to the Subscribers of
The DaIles, Portland and
Astoria Navigation Co.

THE FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
l. subscribers to The Dalles, Portland and
Astoria Navigation Company will be held at the
rooms of the Board of Trade at Dalles City, Ore
gon, on Saturday, April 4th, 1884, at O'Clock p.
ensuing year, and the transaction of such other
business as may legitimately come before the
meeting.
BY Order of the Ineorporators of said Com
pany.
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WISE SUGGESTION
,e Times-Mountaineer saws !:

The Times-Mountdineer says:
After careful consideration we have
concluded not to enter into a Billings
gate contest of big-mouthed believing
with the belligerent bully from Belfast.
All right, ''Barkis is willin'.' We have
not sought fight and we don't want one.
If the Times -Mountaineer quits SO will
we, and right now.
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Another Remedy for Apple soab.

Professor Scribner recommends the
following spray for apple scab and
worm: One pound of sulphate of iron
dissolved in gallon of water. This is
a very cheap drug, and on some soils is
a good stimulant to the pear. 1t is also
good for the apple.
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ABOUT PEACHES
Recipes for the Cure of Curl of the Leaf In
the Peach Tree. stisf3 -

Recipes for tile Cure of Curl of the Leaf In
the Peach Tree.
This, though somewhat of local dis
ease, is widespread througout the whole
coast, and entirely prevents the fruiting
OF many fine peaches, northerly, near
the ocean, and is more or less injurious
to nearly every variety in some seasons,
thus rendering it useless to plant peach
trees in otherwise good fruit climates
and soils. Cool, wet springs, fogs, rich
damp valleys, even in the dry interior,
favor its development. Like apple scab,
somewhat similar fungus, it is very
much more injurious to some varieties
of peaches than others. AS rule the
very early, very late and clingstones are
the least injured. Curl of the leaf of
the peach is caused by very minute
parasitic fungus attacking the first
growth process Of the tree in the spring,
even as the buds EXP and. and continues
to develop on the flowers and leaves so
long as the weather remains damp and
cool. In locations that continue damp
and cool late it continues to prey for a
long time on fruit leaves and twigs I'M
til all are dead. Sometimes it kills the
tree outright. In warm, dry seasons it
is scarcely noticed anywhere, and, like
the apple scab, it may be considered
worse ON this coast than in the east. But
| here, when it gets through, it quits,
that is, our dry summers are not favor
able to it, while east long continued
cold and wet will develop it at any
time in the growing season, even late in
autumn. 1t first shows to the eye on the
leaf in small brick-Sed spots. These in
crease in numbers but not in size, and
soon involve the whole leaf, which grad
ually curls up and falls. If the leaves
are all involved and fall, the young fruit
| generally perishes, and the crop is lost.
In all cases where the leaves nearly all
| fall the tree receives a more or less in
| furious check. Usually new leaves start
out at once, and, the season becoming
dry, no more is seen of the curl. But
in the worst seasons of long continued
cold and damp the second crop of leaves
and twigs is attacked, and further Sc
rious injury is done. In cool seasons, il
the dry interior, when the fruit has es
capped, the fungus seems to live around
the stem and base of the fruit of some
varieties, eventually causing the seed to
cease growing and die. The shell OF
the seeds and the fruit cracks open al
the base, in which some undetermined
insect, probably the dried fruit moth
lays its egg and developes a small cater
pillar. 1t is not proven that these are
caused by the curl leaf fungus, but fact:
point strongly in that direction.
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The leading grocer at Lebanon, Pa, is
named Shugar.
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FINE FARM TO RENT.

THE FARM KNOWN AS THE "MooRK
Il Farm" situated on Three Mile creek about
two and one-half miles from The Dalles, will be
leased for one or more years at low rent TO any
responsible tenant. This farm haf upon 1t a
good dwelling house eud necessary out build
ings, about two acres of orchard, about three
hundred acres under Gu ltivation, large portion
crop in 81 with ordinarily favorable weather.
The farm is well watered; For terms and particu-
of Mays Huntington & Wilson, The Dalles, Or
SARAH A. MOORE, Executrfx.
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Avoid Southern Slopes

Do not plant fruit trees on a southern
slope, It is too hot and dry for them
North and northwest slopes and even
steep hillsides are the best. That is
where nature planted trees on this coast
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THE DALLES.


the head of navigation the Middle Columbia and,
is thriving, prosperous city
ITS TERRITORY.
the supply city an extensive and rich agri-
cultural grazing country, trade reaching as
far south as Summer Lake, distance of over two
hundred miles.
THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET
The rich grazing country along the eastern slope
of the the Cascades furnishes pasture thousands
Of sheep, the wool from which finds market here 4
The Dalles is the largest original wool shipping
point in America, about 5000, 900 pounds being
shipped this year. 4
THE VINEYARD OF OREGON
The country near The Dalles produces splendid
crops Of cereals and it's fruits exceled It
is the vineyard of Oregon, grapes equalling Cali
fornia's best and its other fruits, apples pears,
prunes, cherries etc., are unsurpassed
ITS PRODUCTS
The salmon fisheries the finest on the Columbia
yielding this year Of 81, 100000 which can
and will be than doubled in the near future
The products Of the beautiful Kliclital valley find
market here and the country south and has this
year filed the warehouses and all available storage
places to overfowing with their products.
ITS WEALTH
It is the richest city Of its size the coast
money scattered and is being develop
more farming country than is tributary any other
city in Eastern Oregon.
It's situation is unsurpassed! climate delight
full It's possibilities incalculabe! resources un-
limited! And on these stones she stands.