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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
VALUE OF THE EGG CROP.
Year I'm, Year Ont, It Beats Produc'
tion OF Precious Metals.

Year I'm, Year Out, It Beats Produc-
tion OF Precious Metals.
Russia is the largest seller of aggs
In the world She sells to foreign coun-
tries 15O, ,O0O, 900 dozen eggs nearly ev-
cry year. In 1895 she sent abroad l.
f75, ,OOO, 900 eggs; in 1897, 1,737, 10000
and in 1898 1881, 100000. Her sales
are all the time increasing.
China is supposed to be the largest
producer Of eggs in the world. There
Is no such thing as statistics Of poultry
products in China, but there are over
4OO, ,OOO, 900 persons in that empire who
are very fond Of eggs; it takes q good
many eggs to supply them. The hum
blest farm hut has hens In plenty,
and they do their best to supply the
demand. There Is little doubt that
China takes the cake as an egg pro-
ducer. Her entire supply is usually
consumed at home, though she some
times manages to spare few for Jap
anese consumers.
Great Britain is the largest buyer OF
foreign eggs in the world. OF course,
no English breakfast table Is complete
W2kAO0t Ck&S dS q SOAAPAOhASAS W ASIS
toast and marmalade. Great Britain
buys every year an average Of 1,bOO,-
600, 600 eggs from about twenty coun-
tries, and this is only 40 per cent of
the consumption. British hens man
age to produce three-ffths of the eggs
that the home market demands. In
1901 Russia sold to England 9,053,
600 eggs, and the next largest sellers
were Belgium, Denmark, Germany,
France, Egypt and Morocco. Great
Britain spent $26, ,745, 1914 in the pur-
chase of eggs in 1901.
Our entire export Of eggs in 1902
was only 2,717,990 dozen, valued at
$52S, $40, which cuts a small figure In
comparison with Russia's total. But
our hens are very industrious, and it
Is only the enormous home demand
that keeps eur exports at such a low
figure.
In 1899 there were 233, sos, ,OO5 chick
ems in this country, and they produced
1928, ,S1S,144 dozen eggs; and the fact
that we consumed 80 per cent of them
shows that we are nation of egg eat
ers. It is enough to make any hen
dizzy to think that train Of ordinary
refrigerator cars containing our entire
egg crop of that year would have ex-
tended from Chicago to Washington,
with several miles of cars to stretch
along the track toward Baltimore.
In 1901 the receipts and consumption
Of eggs In New York City were 2,S72,-
900 crates Of thirty dozen each. Chi
cago has even larger per capita con-
sumption, or an average of 1851, 1,b45
crates year. Truly the egg industry
Is a great business; and when we con
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
WITH NATURE IN THE WOODS.
This Time We Go There, However,
Wifhouf Eawlirex Rieca

This Time We Go There, However,
Without a Fow1ing Piece.
l think the day will come, and it is
not, perhaps, so distant as it seems,
when the idea of killing anything for
pleasure will seem so strange as to be
scarcely. credible. The Anglo-Saxon's
proverbial pastime of going out and
killing something will seem hardly less
amazing that the gladiator shows.
All, yes! to know all the birds of the
wood-without a gun! With a gun
how can one know them, what fasci-
mating knowledge man misses! A
dead bird! A haadful of blood-stained
feathers! Little more than that! Car
rion for the sexton beetle or for the
feasting fly! But the living bird
what a vivid, mysterious creature it is,
with it's lovely bright eyes, and those
sad vowels in it's throat! 1t seems
strange to think of what that little
head knows, secrets of nature eternal
ly hidden from us. Is not the bird it.
self one Of natures secrets? The wood
land, which to us is a wilderness, Is
to him a city, of which he knows all
the streets and all the inha bitants. All
the invisible highways of the air are
to him like well-trodden paths, and
when he darts off in that apparently
casual way he very well knows whith-
er he is going and what business takes
him. When he sits and whistles by
the hour on some swaying pinnacle of
the greenwood there is some meaning
in all beyond the music. That mean.
ing will ever be hidden from us. If
we could know it, as Tennyson said of
the "fiower in the crannied WALL" we
should know what God and man are"
If, instead of shooting the bird,
scotching the snake, smashing the bee
tie and pinching the tiny life out of
one of these creatures on summer
day, the day would pass like an hour,
so packed with exciting experience 1t
would seem. Through what mysteri-
Gus coverts of the woodland, into what
a haunted underworld of tunneled
banks and hidden bitches and secret
passages the snake would show us the
way; and we should have strange
hearts If, as we thus watched it
through it's mysterious day, we did not
find our dislike Of the clever little
creature dying away, and even chang
ing into a deep tenderness toward the
small, self-reliant life. so lonely speck
of existence in so vast world.-Julius
Norregard in Success.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

the parched lands. The result is that
y large area of land in that section of
the desert has an actual and market
value Of from 500 to $500 per acre.
The seasons crop Of cantaloupe's,
watermeions and sweet potatoes have
netted the owners of the lands from
$50 to $3.50 per acre, proving that the
values placed upon the lands are not
fictitious.
Less than three years ago the I'M
perial Canal was begun. The Colora-
do River was tapped below Yuma and
the big ditch, seventy feet wide and
nine feet deep, has been built 100
miles out into the desert, and from
this has branched more than 300 miles
Of lateral canals. This has placed
upon SOC, 900 acres of heretofore value
less lands a present market value of
from $40 to 5000 per acre and an actu-
al value much greater, for the crops
this year from most Of the lands put
under cultivation have netted the
farmers from $40 to 500 or more an
acre.
Some eighteen or twenty years ago
side were barren and unproductive.
Lying almost upon the desert the lands
were arid and little better than the
actual desert lands. Water was
brought to the lands, and the price
soon advanced to $50 per acre and
orange and lemon groves were planted.
Some Of the optimistic ones prophesied
that the time would come when the
lands would be worth as much as 5000
per acre, but they were laughed at for
their rosy views. Now lands wholly
unimproved, in that section, are worth
$3.50 and $500 per acre, and such as
are set to oranges and lemons bring
from $1,000 to $1,000 per acre. Water
has created those values.
There are several methods Of irriga-
ton employed and several systems in
vogue. The first systems employed in
California were in the hands of COM
panies or corporations which inaugu-
rated them for profit and their rates
for water were, in many cases, almost
prohibitive. This let to the mutual
water company system, commonly
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
sootIant,,s Great Canal.

Plans for the construction of ship
canal between the Firth Of Forth, on
the east side Of Scotland, across to
the River Clyde, on the west, have
been definitely arranged, says the New
York Times. The canal will cost $780,
OO0, 900, but powerful support is ex-
pected from the British government.
One of the great engineering features
Of the scheme will be the carrying Of
the canal through the high ground
near the Loeb Lomond end. Frequent
passing places will be made.
An indication Of the saving in dis
tance that would be effected BY the
canal win be gained from the follow
ing figures: From the Clyde to ports
on the east coast Of Scotland. north
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06


loss between $20,oOO,O00 $5oOOoOoO The
forest fires which New England early
part Of this will the loss this year large
perhaps bring it up to the maximum.
This loss Of timber by forest actual loss
wealth goes up in smoke and is vanished forever
trees grow to take the place Of the old burned
the value of those destroyed bloed the na
tlons wealth Taking the annual loss in the
twenty years to be $3OO0OOO that country
has been the loser Of 5000 that Though
this loss has been going after year
settlement Of the countryin fact going
setementno systematic attempt prevent has been
made except in the States of York. and
Minnesota.
The danger arising from the decreasing of the great
watersheds by the the woodman received con-
siderable share of popular attention. and the checking
is Of the tasks set before the Bureau Forestry
vestgation and study have been actively
direction but the matter of preventing fires has
rey neglected heretofore By the general governmn
to take the matter up beginning
and study thoroughly 1t is true that in the
forest reserves there has been for time
tem charged other duties with reporting
ing fires but general principles have laid
and no valuable data gathered from which work-New
York Press
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

slider it in connection with the broilers,
spring chickens, tough and tender, and
roosters we consume, the poultry in
terests assume prodigious proportions.
The total value of the poultry and
eggs we produced in the last census
year was $281, ,17S,247 The industry
was worth more than all the cattle
and hogs we slaughtered. 1t was
worth more than the wheat crop Of
twenty eight States and territories;
and the value of our eggs alone was
higher than that of the combined gold
and silver product of the United States
in any year since 1850, except in 1890.
when the precious metals exceeded the
eggs by $9,41S,125.
ssThe Weaker Sex"
The women who are attempting to
run a big hotel for women in New
York are solving some interesting prob
lens. The hotel is called the Martha
Washington, and the intention of the
management. was to run it entirely
with women, as well as for women.
Little by little the male sex has been
encroaching, not because men were
especially anxious to work there, but
because the women could not do with
out them.
First of all, the girl "bell boys had
to go, because the women could not
make them mind" Boys were in
stalled. They obey orders. but do not
stay long, because, they say, 1.-The wom-
en- are nutty."
The head woman waiter could not en-
force discipline among the women
walters. And so a man had to under
take the job. 1t was also found that
carrying the soiled dishes from dining
room to kitchen was too heavy for
women. Men we're put in to do this.
Finally the rest of the girls struck and
their places were filed with men.
How is it that women won't "mind"
women? Would regiment of amazons
have to be of11cered by men? st Louis
Post Dispatch
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
The Sailors, Psalm.

How many people-landSmen, at all
events-are aware that one of the
psalms is often called the sailors
psalm? Those who were at the open
ing Of the east London Jacks Palace
by the Prince of Wales will know it,
for the name was used there. 1t is, of
course, Psalm 107, wherein occur the
beautiful and familiar words, .They
that go down. to the sea in ships, that
do business in great waters-these see
the works of the Lord and his wonders
in the Deep" The psalm is usually
read as part of the simple services
which take place on Sunday on ships
at sea. For that reason it Is known as
the sailors psalm.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

WITHOUT rehect1ng the dutnOfs CURRENT
truthfully said s the great win
Of literary cha That which survives the
ton in which s usually worthy Of being read
by succeeding generations and not infreQueny better
worth universal than the bulk Of the books from
which the worthless and purely epheeral have not yet
been eliminated Plutarch grows old with students
of biography; and Shakespeare delightful
after three hundred when their immortal works
first published and generation has furnished
authors worthy Of being read by all generations
Each author unique Take past writer's of
American literature examples Irving, Cooper and Haw
thorne have in their special fields
Scott, Thackeray, Dickens George Eliot and Charles
among English of the past century
have excelled duplicated in the present
The children who derived pleasure and nstruc
don from these writer's while living will find equal profit
and delight in their perusal that they are dead
"Kngs Treasures is what Ruskn has fty named collec
tons of books that have survived Times wnnowng
and these books cannot be made too cheap plentiful
accessible Philadelphia Bulletin.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

and simple, and he addressed hundreds
Of meetings in support Of the anti
Semitic program, denouncing the Jews
as the origin of. all evil in the world.
The principles which he represents are
strong In Austria to-day and have been
responsible for many political broils in
the Reichsrath. To an American it
seems singular that in the goth cen
tury Jew-baiting should exist in a
country such as Austria. That 1t does
exist Is evidence that Austrian civili-
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
A Common Weakness.

DR.. Joseph LIE Conte was an author
ity, recognized by the world at large,
on the science of vision. One day, says
the New York Tribune, he was show.
ing a class how to detect the blind
spot in the human eye He took two
coins and held them, one in each hand,
before him on the table
"Look at both of these steadily" said
he, land gradually move them in op-
posite directions. Presently they will
pass beyond the range of vision. That
is due to the blind spot. Continue the
movement, and the coins will again
emerge to view"
Then the philosopher and naturalist
had his little joke. You can expert.
ment for yourself at home" said he.
But if you are unsuccessful, try some
other object instead of coin. Some
people have no blind spot for money"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
Oil Consulnntion.

For many months the oil consump.
ton of the world has exceeded the
production, for which reason financiers
and merchants have feared possible
exhaustion of the oil fields. Reports
published in the Manual Of Statistics,
however, show an, extensive decrease
In the stock of crude petroleum in the
greatest Of all American fields, Penn.
sylvania, within the last two years and
figures of equal authority indicate that
for months the consumption of oil from
Pennsylvania and West Virginia wells
has been very largely in excess OF
production. The stock of crude Penn.
sylvania petroleum above ground In
December, 1900, was 13,174,717 barrels,
while in December, 1902, the amount
thus stored was only 5000, ,127 barrels.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

society would from casual observation
poor really wiser and frmer than the
Poor people perforce discipline their children
keep them we'll hand The children of the poor must
taught help themselves work about the house.
practice Fortunately the majority of poor parents
this country appreciate the value Of education and they
send their young the neghboring public private
school though doing cost them much pnching
labor Between being disciplined home and knocked
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

It is not an extravagant prophesy to
predict that the land values of the
States west Of the Rockies will, in the
next quarter of a century, double in
value and that the chief factor in
bringing about the increased valuation
will be water.
There are, in that great region In the
West, known as the arid belt, 5O.OOO,-
600 acres of vacant lands. exclusive OF
more than 120, 100000 acres in the Gov
ernment and Indian reservations. This
is about one-third the area OF the
United States, exclusive of Alaska, and
LIS a little more than one-half the area
of Arizona, California, Colorado, Ida
no, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Neva-
da, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
South Dakota, Utah, Washington. and
Wyoming.
Most of this land, under present con-
ditions, is worthless. Some OF 1t Will
never have an agricultural value, put
the greater part needs only water TO
make it valuable to the agriculturist
and horticultur1st.
The territory now vacant is capable
of supporting a population as great as
that of the United States at the pres
ent time, provided ways are devised
whereby the land may be furnished
with water. 1t is the solution of this
problem which brings together annual
ly the body of men known as the "1r-
rigation Congress-" 1t is this question
which In several sections of the West,
notably in California, is being solved
in a practical way by both private and
governmental enterprise.
There are about 100000 acres of
Western lands which are termed des
ert. It is in this desert region that
most of the irrigation work Is now
being done. The deserts contain some
of the richest soil in the United States.
There are limited sections of the des-
ert. like the Salton Sink, and ''The Vol
canoes' in the Colorado desert, which
may never be reclaimed, but the great
er portion have rich soil adapted to ag-
riculture If water can be brought to
the lands and distributed over them.
Desert lands without water have abso-
lutely no value, except such as may
nave QepOSlIS OF minerals, therefore,
water gives them the only real value
they have or may hope to have.
As a rule, such of the arid lands, ly-
Ing outside the deserts in valleys, on
the plains and upon the foothills, have
a small value to grazers, for they fur
nish sparce herbage upon which the
cattle may browse. These lands are
considered, by cattlemen, to be worth
about SO cents per acre without water.
To such lands water adds the total
value of the reclaimed lands, minus
the 30 cents per acre. 1t is by bring
Ing water to these lands that wealth
Is being rapidly created in the West.
A little more than two years ago
the drill was -sunken deep into the
earth upon the barren Colorado desert
at point now known as Coachella.
Land there was actually valueless,
though the government placed upon it
the usual price of $1.25 per acre.
The drill found a bountiful supply
of artesian water. Other wells were
drilled till more than $50 flowing wells
are now pouring their streams upon
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
NEW ORLEANS NAVAL STATION.
When Completed It Will Be One of
the Finest in America.

when Completcd 1t Will Be One of
the Finest in America.
Whether it be the Panama or the
Nicaraguan canal-it does not matter
| much which-New Orleans, by very
reason of the establishment of it's ma
val station below Algiers, is destined
to become and is fast becoming one of
the most powerful ports of the nation
in naval construction as well as in it's
merchant marine, according to the
Times-Democrat of that city.
Since standard rates for docking
merchant ships have been established
by authority of the navy department
1t has been actually proved by figures
that up to the present time the reve-
nue. received from docking fees has
paid the expenses Of construction and
repair, together with fair rate of in
, terest on the investment
The local heads of the naval station
have figures to show every dollar of
revenue that has come to the govern
ment by reason of the docking of mer-
chant ships since the acceptance Of
the floating dry dock, May 26, 1902,
~~A~ SANS 6ShCAoi PuDiiC, lOO, las UScu
more or less interested in the big float
ing hulk, which might be said to be
half city block long and about four
stories high.
The docking, within exactly two
hours time, and which was forty min
utes less time than allowed by the con-
tract, of the big battleship Illinois on
IQn 1000 orlya ~,
naval, maritime and commercial his
tory of New Orleans. Something over
$4,000 has been derived in revenue
from merchant ships since then.
The congressional appropria tions,
amounting to $75O,OOO, became availa-
BILE after July 1. Then the work on
the tract below Algiers, which will
embrace total of more than ninety
acres, with water frontage of 1900
feet, began to go forward with all rea-
sonable haste.
1t is contended that by permitting
the merchant marine to use the dock
the coastwise trade is benefited. 1t is
also contended by the department that
it is non-use Of every structure which
brings about deterioration, and thus
the department is subscribing national
and commercial interests by using the
dock as much as possible.
The present head of all civil engi-
neering work for the bureau of yards
and docks, l.. F. Bellinger, has just
sent on to Washington plans and spec
ifications for three more buildings for
which appropriations have been pro-
vided. One of these will be the quar-
tiers Of the commandant, which build
ing will cost $4,000. Two others, for
officers quarters. will cost $1,000 each.
In the estimate of Engineer A. G.
Cunningham, who was Mr.. Bellinger's
predecessor at the New Orleans naval
station, detailed statement was CIV
en-, being forwarded to the chief of the
bureau of yards and docks, of the sums
that would be needed to carry on the
work for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1904. Mr.. Cunninghams estimate
was $2092,SOO, and included among
other items, the improvement of the
water, front at cost of $5O0,O00; naval
prison, $4,000; central heating plant,
$50, 900: locomotive crane, $4,000; ord
nance building and shops, $1OS;O00;
gate and guardhouse, $4,000, and
many others.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

or vienna, ana the
leader of the anti
Semitic party in
Austria. He Is a
self made man,
who rose from
humble beginnings
to be the leader of
one Of the most
important political
parties In the dual
empire Of Francis
Joseph DR.. Lueger
began political life
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06

east of England and northwest Of Eu-
rope, the distance saved would be from
529 miles to 23S miles. From the
Firth of Forth to ports on the west
coast of Scotland, northwest of Eng
land, Ireland, America and the Med
iterranean the distance saved would
be from 4S7 to 141 miles. From Tyne
ports to the st. Lawrence river the dis
tance saved would be $50 miles From
the west of Britain and northeast Of
Ireland to middle western ports Of the
continent the distance saved would be
from 377 to 90 miles.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
Groom Was Too Literal.


There is young clergyman near
Hagerstown, Nd, who might be ex-
cused for saying ''the guilelessness of
some rural gentry passeth all under
standing" He would probably deny
saying it should you ask him, but he
would not deny the following story,
told by relative:
A young couple with matrimonial in
tent, fresh from the green fields of
their rural homes, went recently to the
parsonage of the clergyman in ques-
tion. The nuptial knot was tied. In
the pause which followed the newly
made Benedict looked even more en-
barrassed than before. He fished
about in his trousers pockets as If
loking for something.
What's the price?r he finally bIurt-
ed out.
''The State allows me a dollar,' said
the clergyman, Out and paused.
Some pauses are more eloquent than
words. Evidently this was not
"Wen," finally remarked the groom
as he handed the astonished divine a
quarter, ''if the State allows you dol
lar, take this and the job will have
netted you dollar and quarter.
GOod-day"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
Teuton and Celt in America.

OF all the foreign-born population in
the United States 52.9 per cent are of
the English-Teutonic stock and 20.9
per cent are Celts. Thus practically
three-fourths of the foreign-born in the
United States are of English-Te
and Celtic stocks. Hence, bearing In
mind that the English people was Gre
ated by the amalgamation Of Teutonic
and Celtic blood 1t is inconceivable
that the American people will ever be
anything but essentially English
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-11-06
JEW-sAlTlNo IN AUSTRIA

DR., Karl Lueger, Who Stands at the
Head of the Anti Semitic Party.
One Of the strongest men in the pub
lie life Of the Austro-Hungarian en-