Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-01-01
SALEM IMPROVEMENTS
Very Goop SHOWING FOR THE CAP
TAL CITY.
80 STATE INSTITUTION BUILT
BuT A GREAT MANY REPAIRS AND
PRIVATE RESIDENCES.

several failures, q Dau Hre, Duu VI
the whole the Capital City has wealth
cred year of depression In pretty
good shape and can boasta substan
tlal list OF Improvements.
AT THE STATE PRISON.
there has been no building done, but
considerable in the way Of needed re-
pairs has been accomplished. A new
nume 400 feet long was constructed
Of wood. The posts on the walls and
the watch towers have been painted
The prison inside has been calsomined
and painted. About 20O) feet of open
bitches inside the prison walls have
been replaced by galvanized iron
pipes and the bitches closed up. All
the walks inside have been repaired
or rebuilt with brick and cement.
ON the farm % acres Of land have
been grubbed, reclaimed and put un'
der cultivation. A half mile ditch,
"a feet wide and 3 feet deep, TO drain
the bottom lands OF the prison farm
lands, has been built and even that
Is not enough TO take of the over flow
from Mill creek Nothing could be
done at building roads. A million OF
brick are burned or the new sewer.
an THE DEAF MUTE SCHOOL.
terraces were built on the grounds,
new floors were put IN and new ce-
ment walks put down. A cement
concrete reservoir holding 100000
gallons was built TO supply both the
deaf mutes and reform school. All
this work was done by trusty convicts,
as high as ninety men being worked
all summer. Thirty men are now at
work at the mute school. The trus-
ties are worked without any act Of
the Legislature and can be worked on
the sewer that may be built next year.
THE STATE REFORM SCHOOL.
The close of the year 1895 finds the
Oregon State Reform school still bet
ter equipped for doing the import
ant work assigned to IL. There have
been many improvements In the
twelyemonth. During the late sum-
mer and fall there was built mostly
from the reform school funds for the
joint use Of that institution and the
state school for deaf mutes reser-
yolr for storing water, holding l0O,-
900 gallons. This receptacle is made
of concrete, crushed rock forming an
important Ingredient OF the mixture.
The springs pour out OF the solid rock
In the woods just east OF the main
building OF the new school for deaf
mutes. The water Is pure and spark
ling. No better can be found any
whore. IL Is conveyed from the reser-
yoir 10 the school for deaf mutes In n
three-inch pipe, that being the only
source OF water supply for that lnsti-
tuition. A tw0-lnch pipe furnishes
the reform school, 400 feet away, and
galvanized iron tank stores the sur
plus there This water Is used nc the
reform school only for drinking and
cooking purposes. That for all other
uses comes from Mill creek, being
pumped by the power thereof up the
hill l5O feet high, and into u $1,000
gallon tank in the top story OF the in-
dustrial building, eighty-seyen feet
from the ground. This furnishes a
good fire pressure, and IL was In the
past few months connected for the
purpose with all parts of the main
building, with hydants around the
outside.
During the year the farm equip
ment has been largely added 20, until
the reform school now has one OF the
best outfits for general farming and
gardening In the state, including
teams, machinery, barns, hen and hog
houses, etc. An addition was made TO
the barn the past season, so as 20 the
better accommodate the cows, twenty
To twenty-five being milked there, and
all the butter for the Institution, To
say nothing OF milk, being supplied
thereby. The dairy Is new feature
added during the year. A new smoke
house has been erected, and Il Is now
full OF choice bacon from hogs raised
on the farm. Some forty-tiye are yet
iattenlng for the same purpose. A
shoeshop was equipped at the begin.
ing OF the year
The boys OF that institution now do
the cooking and dish washing, the
house work, make and mend an their
own clothing, caps and shoes, cut the
wood, about 1000 cords a year, do all
The farming, gardening aud hauling
II every kind, milk the cows, feed the
l0gs, attend the chickens supplying
he Institution with eggs, care for the
itock, run the boilers aud engines, do
he hair cutting aud shaving, drive
he hack To and from Salem, do the
arpentering, plumbing and cement
sork'-in fact they perform all the
aried labor in and about the institu.
ion and on the 600 acre farm. supply.
ng entirely their own vegetables and
avlng a great abundance OF these the
ear through. or course they do All