The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-08-18
Mitchell Items.

AS l sit at my window this morning
there Is a brisk health-giving breeze that
lends vigor and life to those OF our little
town, who have been melted into
somnolent apathy by the intense heat
of the past two weeks. But with all
there has been an unusual stir. Har-
vesting is still keeping many busy.
Wool teams are passing down and
freight teams passing up every day of
the week. But excessive heat is gone
for the season, 1 think, and our days
and night are pleasant, with the excep-
ton of midday, when it is still warm
enough. Wednesday, think of last
week the thermometer stood at SO, and
some say at 104 in the shade, and 142 IN
the sun from about 10 in the morning
until about 4 in the evening. I think
there were several equally as warm,
judging from my own sensibility.
Pleasure and recruiting parties are
still seeking the health-giving mountain
air of Sunset Prairie. Sunday Mrs.
Thompson and her son, Willie Bird,
Alice Saltzman, Maggie Roberts, Miss
Conally and several others, the names
of whom I did not learn, passed
through here, Mrs. Thompson said, to
to have good time in general.
E. E. Allen has disposed of his town
property in part payment for the old
S. F. Allen ranch. Johnny has done
well, as am well able to testify. There
is room for improvement, but few
changes will make them nice home.
There is no place for miles around that
has as fine location for stock raising
purposes as has that. No place of its
size that can raise more hay, or in re-
ality anything they should want to
grow. The general lay is to the north,
and the view from the door is pleasant,
and in some places grand. Being
hemmed in on the south by high
mountain range. there is no chance of
being crowded by other stockmen.
Isolated and independent; but that is
what stockman wants.
Much has been said lately concerning
the practical side of esta blishing scour-
ing mill for our Eastern Oregon wool at
some central point to wool. 1t is a well
authenticated fact that the wool OF this
side of the mountain loses half of its
weight in washing. True we would not
have as much by half in weight minus
the dirt, but just as much wool, for
which we would command prices two or
three times grerter. Beside that, a
great advantage would accrue to trans
portation. The ideas of one of our most
thoughtful and practical wool growers
talking with some of my neighbors in
the wool growing business of the practi-
cability of wool securing establishment
being located at this town, or some place
equally as good. I think small invest
ment of that kind would do very well.
Since wages, under this prosperous
democratic administration, are gradu-
ally growing lower and the prices of
wool much reduced, there is growing
inclination, desire to have less dirt in
the wool. With our water power adj
Vantages, as good as any in the county,
also situated In the center of a WOOL
growing district, argues much in our
favor. An estimate of the wool that is
grown within a radius of forty miles
east and west and fifteen miles north
and south from Mitchell, would be
about one million pounds. The East
ern Oregon wool shrinkage is about 65
per cent. This calculation gives sixty-
five pounds of Bridge creek dirt in every
one hundred pounds of wool to be