The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-09-08
Oregon Takes the Bun in Her
Forestry Exhibit.
BUILDING AT Los ANGELES, CAL.
Prosecution of Work ON the Santa
hsrgarita Extension on the
Southern Pacific.

OF 36,4S4.
The State Blind Institute at salel
opens September IL.
Building at Los Angeles is reporte
active, with an improving real-estai
market.
The miners on the Comstock refuse t
accept the proposed reduction OF % pc
cent In wages.
Alfred FL. Nelson, former manage
OF the Ogden Utah Building and Sav
ings Association, is short $4,000 in hi
accounts.
The Virginia and Truekee Railroad
Company has reduced the pay of all it
employees, except locomotive engineers
z5 per cent.
1t is claimed that extensive fraud
were perpetrated in connection with the
attempt to raise the San Pedro in Vie.
toris harbor.
The depositors Of the suspended say.
ings bank at Portland wsnt the stock
holders to guarantee that the bank will
pay all depositors in full.
Eastern Washington's grain harvest
this season promises to be the hest ever
known. The average yield from British
Columbia to the Oregon line will be
thirty bushels to the acre.
Scott Morris Of Evans Greek, jackson
county, Or, who has been collecting and
shipping East the bulbs and seeds Of the
wild flowers Of Southern Oregon, has
built up quite business in that line.
This summer, it is said, will see the
last Of the famous Harney Valley (Or. J
crickets. They are dying by millions
from some disease, and have not vet de-
posted their eggs. Those who have OBJ
served their habits say the disease which
has caused their destruction in other
places is the same to all appearances as
that which is killing them there. They
have been in the valley in numbers ever
since it was first visited BY the whites.
In the forestry building at the Worlds
Fair Oregon takes q back seat for no
State or nation, her forestry exhibit be-
ing revelation even to 0regonians who
have spent their lives in the forests. She
shows the largest block OF wood in the
building. This is q cross section from
the trunk OF a tide-land spruce, and is
ten feet in diameter. This section was
cut twenty feet above the butt, which
was sixteen feet in diameter. The tree
OF which it was part was quite a sprout
when Columbus started on his first vow
age, and before it was felled it's topmost
branches lowered more than 800 feet
above terra firma, or high enough to sf- |
ford ample shade for the monster Ferris
wheels cars on the upper level. Oregon
shows also beautiful house constructed
wholly OF Oregon woods. 1t is ten feet
square, nineteen feet high, and is sur
mounted by an open cupola. The build 4
ng throughout Is finished in hard wood.
ii highly polished, elegantly carved and
arranged in the most attractive fashion
possible to show the native woods of the
state. The roof is supported BY four
nicely carved D0ric columns OF maple.
vhile like number Of similar columns
1 oak support the roof Of the cupola.
Just now the newspapers Of Oregon
re having great deal to say about Or ;
gon fruit being shipped East, where it
] sold as q California product. There is /,
% much truth in the statement to make !,
be thing funny. But few days ago at
'hicagO some 0rgoniaIs, desirous Of
sarning whether or not there was any =
ale for Oregon fruits, took occasion to
i've the matter fair test, and at the !,
anne time "evened np' on California for !
aying 80 long sailed under false colors
= palming of as her own Oregon choicest
uits. just outside the Worlds Fair =
rounds some boys were selling Califor- D
ID genuine, not Oregon-grown) pears,
caches, apricots and cherries, and the 4
tile fellows were loudly crying their p
ares Fresh California iruitw "Cal- a
ornia peaches!" California pearsl,
be 0regonians approached the BOYS. il
zamined their fruits, and told the bows Il
lat it was not California fruit they were 81
Hing, and assured them it was grown
Oregon. The boys said it might be ci
Dm Oregon for all they knew-they b
i'd it was from California because that ii
ade it sell better. Then the wiae men
,m Oregon dug down in their Jeans Y,
d brought up some shining two-bit re
eees, which they gave to the boys with m
Q understanding that they were to
out " Oregon fruit, Oregon pears,N b,
:, during the remainder Of that day. :, =
le boys tried their lungs on the new :.
DpOsiti0n, and the results were aston
ling. People who had visited the fair q,
d seen Oregon'e peerless horticultural o.
,lay opened their eyes. "What, r said sli
sy, Oregon fruit Well, we must try N
ne Of it--it looked 80 beautiful at the
~ And they did try it. So many an
ID it that the boys soon sold out their OF
cks and bad to return to headquar- mi
$ again and again for more, and up to
! acc0unte these self-Hame boys were th
ing, Right this way for your Oregon ata
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