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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

Many of readers will doubt be
buying Cookers, Heaters Steamers, and
the RIPLEY Hardware Co., Grafton, Ill,
advertised in our paper are without a
question the best the market. They
made very substantial will last for
years. They are highly endorsed by the
leading State Experiment Stations, Farm
ers and Breeders, throughout the u.
and Canada. Their steamers can be used
for many purposes such as cooking and
steaming feed, heating water in stock tanks
during the winter months; heating sheep
dipping watts, boiling spraying mixtures,
ming separators, heating poultry and hog
houses, Dairy buildings and workshops They
burn wood, coal and coke. Can be at
tached to any chimney and are safe as
heating stove They simple that chill
dren operate them for their parents
To supply the demand for these Cookers
on the Pacific Coast the above firm has
established Lilly, Bogardus & Co., Seattle
WASH, as Pacific Coast Agents. Write
them at once for description and prices of
these Cookers
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A Life Subscription $500.

Editor The Ranch-Enclosed please
find five dollars to apply on subscrip-
ton. Some time ago you offered a
life subscription for this amount. If
this offer is still open, enter us for a
life subscription. = John L. Smith,
Hazelwood Farm.
This offer of life subscription is al
ways open. For this amount we will
send the paper to any address in the
United States or Canada, as long as
the subscriber lives. This is first
class business proposition, and should
appeal to all of those of our readers
with good digestions and who figure
they are going to live ten years longer.
1t saves the bother of remitting every
year and we don have to make any
further entries on our books, besides
saving the energy and expense OF
sending statements, etc. 1t is mu-
tually good proposition, and we are
getting quite lot of life members.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01
Beware of Location" SwindIers.


The Montana Stockman calls atten-
ton to the fact that ever since the in
ception of government work looking
toward the reclamation of arid lands
by means of irrigation, numerous
bands of swindlers have been busily
engaged in victimizing homeseekers
who are interested in the various rec
lamation projects undertaken by the
government.
The recent activity of these "locat-
ors" in Oregon and the fact that they
are meeting in a certain degree with
success, is a source of great surprise,
in view of the numerous warnings is
sued by federal officials. 1t should be
clearly understood that only rela-
lively small portion of the area ulti-
mately to be irrigated under proposed
government canals is unpatented, and
that it is not possible that any of the
land under the project can be watered
inside of one or two years from the
time work commences, so that any
homesteader filing on land now will
find it very difficult to comply with the
homestead law. Any such entry on
which the terms of the law are not
fully complied with will be almost
certain to be successfully contested by
other settlers when the proper time
arrives to take up the land.
1t has been called to the attention
of the department that for a consider
alton of from $50 to $100 these "locat-
ors" guarantee to place settlers upon
the best irrigable land under the ir-
rigation works, while the fact is that
the government engineers themselves
do not have the final approval of the
location of the canal lines, and the
stakes marking the lines run for esti-
mates will be no indication of the line
upon which construction will finally
occur.
Settlers who make filings based on
the information received from these
swindlers will not only lose the money
paid out, but are liable later to find
the lands are not included in the gov
ernment's proposed system. When the
proper time comes for throwing open
to entry the lands under any of the
great irrigation projects, the secretary
of the interior will give due notice
through the public press. Until such
announcement it will not be safe for
settlers to locate upon these lands.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01
The Ranch Pays Advertisers.
San Francisco, Oct. %,

San Francisco, Oct. ~, 1904.
Editor The Ranch: We wish to say
that we have already received several
inquiries for prices on our fences
through the add inserted in your paper
American Steel & Wire Co., @. H.
Robinson, Woven Wire Fence Dept.
The above shows how The Ranch
gets results for advertisers. Their ad-
vertisement had appeared only once
when this letter was written
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

The foregoing are in addition to d.
plomas and ribbons.
The exposition will open June l.,
1905, and close October Is, 1905. In
due season, the regulations governing
the livestock show will be announced.
HENRY E. REED,
Secretary Lewis & Clark Centennial
Exposition.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

poultry, as SIOCk anu
poultry that are not pro-
tected from the cold re-
quire less feed and in
crease in flesh much fas-
ter than animals and
poultry that are not.
Hens that have warm
feed and quarters will
lay more eggs during cold
weather.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

Ranch that this advertisement is not
an endorsement of the views contained
therein. Mr.. Goodwin has bought
the space, and paid the price for it,
Just as does any other adve1 tiser.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01
Commissioner Mcdonald Returns.

commissioner MCDONALD returns.
Dairy and Food Commissioner e. A.
Mcdonald returned last week from an
extended tour of the east. He attend
ed the National Pure Food Congress
at st. Louis, gathering of the dairy
and food commissioners of the United
States. There was a good attend
ance, and the sessions were full Of
great interest.
A concensus of opinion of the dele
gates favored a national pure food
law, and Mr. Mcdonald is convinced
that such law will be enacted within
the near future, probably at the next
session of congress. Moreover, he
believes that it will not be long until
an international agreement will be
reached between the principal govern
ments of both America and Europe,
fixing the standards of all CONNER
cial food products.
'T consider the exhibit from this
state very creditable,' said he "the
building itself has a rather cheap ap-
pearance as compared with some of
the older states, but it is unique in
architecture and attracted therefore,
much attention It was rightfully
designed for exhibition purposes, rath-
er than for entertaining, which is the
case with the older states, where they
do not seek so much to advertise their
resources with the idea of attracting
immigration.
"It is a wonderful exhibition. |
nexer expect to see it's equal in this
country during my life time. 1t is
good educator, and one comes away
with his ideas enlarged, and feeling
of great pride for his nation
From notices of the Food congress
in ST. Louis papers, it was evident
that Mr.. Mcdonald took a prominent
part in the proceedings, and he was
made member of the executive COM
mittee of the organization.
Editor RANCH was not aware that
my subscription had run out. 1 hast
en- to put up, as I want my Ranch, as
want my bread and my pipe.-N. j.
Cutter, Port Discovery, Wash
Please send me copy of the Year
book. I looked at the little red tag
as you recommended and it reads
Feb. O5, so guess we won't quarrel I'M
til after election anyway, and l guess
not then, for The Ranch is God
send to the rancher.-Subscribe
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01
PREPARE FOR WINTER.

The winter is fast approaching and we
advise our readers to have all their pullo
inps in shape to protect their stock and
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

Address all communications to THE
RANCH, Downs Building. Seattle. Wash.
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Gaze intently on the little red tag
and see how your subscription stands.
Anyone else want a Year book?
Only few left. Write us today.
To sell second hand machinery, put
an ad. in The Ranch special colum.
In Minnesota it is punishable by fine
or Imprisonment to keep the separator
in the barn or cow stable.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

for Blanchard's Poultry Book this
fall than ever before, showing the in
creasing interest being taken in poul-
try throughout the Northwest and the
desire for reliable information on the
subject. Blanchard's Poultry Book
is particularly valuable on this &C
count-because it gives the actual ex-
periences of Mr.. H. l.. Blanchard In
the founding and conducting OF his
farm flock and tells just how he makes
his hens pay him profit OF nearly
three dollars apiece annually. 1t isn't
very large, but it is chOck full OF valu-
able pointers and is well worth the
price put upon ITO cents, mailed
to any address.
Homeseekers should read the arti-
Gle in this issue, descriptive OF Pros
ser and vicinity To those who wish
to engage in irrigation farming that
section presents ideal advantages. A
large body of very rich land is being
brought under irrigation by the ex-
tension of the Sunnyside canal, ana
while the price is relatively some
what higher than raw land can pc
purchased for in non-irriga' ed sections,
vet because of extraordinary produc-
tiveness and never-failing crops 1t is
really a much better investment. An
illustrated booklet descriptive or Pros
ser, and containing NUMBER OF let
tiers from farmers in that sectlon
which tell of remarkable successes,
can he had free, postpaid, by writing
the Prosser Falls Land & Irrigation
Co., Prosser.
A movement is we'll along to or
ganize a company to build condens-
arv at Chehalis. to take the place
of the one recently DESTROYED by fire.
The capital stock will be 10000, which
can he increased to 100000. 1t IS
nroposed to give the farmers an OPP
nortunity to take stock. This is along
the lines outlined by The Ranch some
time ago, that the milk condens1ng
business will eventually come more
under the control of the farmers there
bv resulting in a large share or the
profits going to the milk producer.
If a cooperative plan could be sue
cessfully carried on at Chehalls, IL
would be the ideal way to conduct the
condensed milk business.
J. w. Goodwin, formerly the Wen
known Seattle commission merchant
is now heavily interested in politics
being the manager of the Democratic
State Central Committee and knowing
the value of The Ranch as an adver-
Using medium from the results ne
used TO get from it while in business
he contracted with us for page IN
this issue. 1t should be distinctly
understood by every reader Of The
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

FOR sALE-No. 10 Ohio Ensilage Cutter
with 35 foot elevator. Also two horse
Hepner horse power. Both SITS. d. Hamm'
South Park Wn.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01

FOR SALE-Pure- bred Poland-China boar,
1-2 years Old eligible to registration.
Bert ODell, North Bend. Wash.
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WANTED-Registered short horn bull one
to two years old, solid color, from good
milking dam. L. r. Thompson, PIT. Angeles
Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-11-01
Live Stock Prizes Lewis and Clark
Fair.

Editor The Ranch: 1 take pleasure
in informing you that the Centennial
Exposition has offered the following
cash premiums for livestock and poul-
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
INDIANA IS IN THE LEAD
IN TRENTON ROCK OIL FIELD
Nearly Twenty 1OO-BarreI Wells COM
pIeted in This State Last Week.
Delaware County First.
Wheat-sl.O5.
eeial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
TOLEDO, o., June 5.-For big producers
the past week in the Trenton rock field
northwestern Ohio and Indiana-Indiana
stands at the front, as nearly twenty wells
OF the hundred-barrel stripe were drilled.
These are the wells that bring quick re-
turns.
Delaware county has the best of the
deal with gushers. In Liberty township
the Federal Oil Company OIL the Sanders
farm, the Rsdium Oil Company, on the
Black farm, and Smith, Neeley & Co, on
the Lowe farm. have hundred-barreI pro-
ducers. The Radum Oil Company has a
24O-barrel producer on the Moore farm.
The Regal Oil and Gas Company. on the
Berry farm. and the Missouri Oil Company,
on the Cecil farm. have producers that
started at $50 barrels each.
In Delaware township. same county. the
Daniel Boone Oil and Gas Companys Nos.
5 and 6, on the Gutherie farm, had a pro-
duction of 225 and 125 barrels. respectively.
In Jackson township, Wells county, the
Ohio Oil Company's well on the Pickens
farm started at 11O barrels. and the Ohio
Oil company has one doing the same
amount on the Griffith farm. In Liberty
township w. c. Edwards has one better
than 100 barrels on the Harris farm. In
Blackford county. in Washington township.
the Ohio Oil Company has one on the Kel-
ley farm good for 80 barrels, and the
Phoenix oil Company one good for $50 bar
rels on the Hallam farm.
In Randolph county. in Monroe township,
the ST. Louis Oil Company has 1O0-barrel
we'll the Hill farm. In Jackson town
ship, Jay county, Kimball, Hovery & Co.,
have one that did 120 barrels on the Watson
farm, and the Ohio Oil Company one on the
Rupel farm good for 100 barrels. In Bear
Greek township Caldwell, Hampsher & Co. S
No. 3, Downing farm, did It's barrels.
In Huntington county, in Jefferson town
ship, the Troy Oil Company's Nos. 3 and
4, on the Knight farm, did 120 and 100 bar
rels, respectively. and in Wayne township
the Corbin Oil Company has one good for
| 100 barrels the Daubes farm, and the
Vaudeville Oil Company one good for 12C
barrels on the Lines farm. In Madison
| county, in Monroe township, the Summit
| City Oil and Gas Companys No. s, Jarrett
| farm, started at 1l0 barrels
/ Between Marion and Muncie there is a
| live fight between the Huntington Light
| and Fuel Company and the Indiana Nat
| ural Gas and Oil Company, and between
| them they have about forty wells drilling
The Indiana wells were divided among
| the different counties the past week as
/ follows.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
Freight Solicitors in Good Humor.

Some of the officials are prone to take
pessimistic view of the situation, while
others are laughing at the panic feeling
and taking an optimistic view. Especially
is this true of freight solicitors. who are
working diligently for BUSINESS and are sat
isfied that even the present quiet condition
will not long exist, although the majority
of the roads are handling a normal amount
of freight. Crop conditions tend to heighten
the expectations of Western railroad men,
They say improvement is already in evi-
dence. but ii will increase so slowly that
il will take several weeks TO bring activity
of a pronounced type. The largest amount
of general tonnage is moving in the South
west and South. The latter, say the Off
cials who keep we'll informed. has not shown
any material falling off. Since the crop
conditions have improved the farmers and
mind. In the West proper >leading rail-
roads are handling slightly heavier ton
mage than early in May. Officials of North
western lines state that there is a moder-
ate betterment, and while there is nothing
TO grow enthusiastic over, they are much
relieved over the present outlook. Roads
leading east from Chicago and st. Louis
are handling an unparalleled volume of
traffic for late May and early sune, the
vesselmen's strike on the great lakes being
responsible for the condition. IL is estimat-
ed that the lake lines had about 90 200 tons
of freight under contract at the time the
orders were given.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
NOTICE.

NOTICE-Joseph Gardner. 80 Kentucky avenue.
repairs furnaces. tin and slate roofs and puts
galvanized iron tops fues Telephones s22
NOTICE-We want you 10 let US sell your
business. We have buyers for rooming houses.
groceries and business OF all kinds
MONTGOMERY MILLER CO,
sol Lemcke.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
THE OUTLOOK BRIGHTER
FREIGHT MEN THINK CONDITIONS
ARE IMPROVING DAILY.
The wabash WIZ Push It's Tidewater
Extensions-MOre Cars Needed for
the Postal Service.

The loaded car movement of the week
ended June fell somewhat short of that
of the preceding week, owing to the fact
that on Decoration day no local freights
were run by indianapolis lines. With this
exception the business was fully up TO the
standard OF the preceding week in which
there was q gratifying increase in loaded
car movement over several previous weeks.
Freight officials say they are daily hearing
of new lines of traffic of which there will
be an increased movement in the near fu-
ture and while they do not expect that the
volume of the corresponding period of the
last year will be reached they do expect
a very satisfactory business. Local busi-
ness with all Indianapolis lines is said to be
better than with a majority of roads in
other sections of the country. The manu-
facturers in this territory are fairly we'll
employed and are liberal shippers Soft
coal is beginning to move in increased
quantities, and the dealers in anthracite
are delivering large tonnage to private
families for next winters supply. The car
rage works are unusually busy and ship
ping their products in all directions. With
the iron industries less is doing than in the
corresponding period last year. Fortunate
ly, the manufacturers OF eerealine products
siderable to the local lines as they must
bring in large supplies of corn and in turn
ship the finished product TO Eastern mar
ketS and for exporting. The packing houses
are doing much better business than at
the corresponding period of 1902, and whole
sale merchants, especially gTocers, report
business fully as good last year in June.
The principal shortage in loaded car move
ment at the present time seems 10 be in
iron and steel products The roads are
making but little improvement, as COM
pared with five years past TO roadbeds and
equipment, and this means a large decrease
in loaded car movement in those lines of
freight. Were coal. iron and steel products
moving as freely as last year in June the
loaded car movement would be fully up TO
its normal proportions. Freight officials are
cheerful and look for an early change for
the better, but do not anticipate moving
as large a tonnage in the last six months
of 1904 moved in 1903. The following
table shows the number of cars received
forwarded at Indianapolis III the week
ended June and in the corresponding
weeks of 1903 and 1902:
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
Expeditins Construction.

Joseph Ramsey. president Of the Wabash
ia Pittsburg on Friday and Saturday
and told a reporter that as soon as their
line was completed into Pittsburg the forces
will be taken to the line southwark from
that city, and that 1t is the hope to have
trains operating to tidewater within year.
Winslow S. Pierce, chairman of the board
of directors of the Western Maryland. in
denying the report that the Wabash had
stopped construction on the Cumberland
Cherry Run link between the Western
Maryland and the West Virginia Central &,
Pittsburg, is quoted as saying: There
never has been a time since the Western
Maryland construction was undertaken at
which the work has progressed as rapidly
as il is progressing at the present time
On the work between Cherry Run and
Cumberland the contractors forces are
larger than they have been at any previous
time, : I'd are in the neighborhood of $500
men. Work is being urged with all possible
haste, our consulting engineer now being
on the work himself for the purpose of ex-
pediting the construction. The tidewater
terminal work is nearing completion and is
practically in its last stages of construc-
ton.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06
Totals .......

The Trenton rock field, comprising the
territory of northwestern Ohio and Indiana,
for the past week shows 195 completed
wells, twenty-seven dry holes, and a pro-
duction of the wells at the start of 6532
barrels. which is a large average, owing TO
at ,east twenty-five producers that are
far above those OF the average weeks
Wood county, in Ohio has a new gusher,
drilled by the Dreutllne Company, on the
Meyers farm. in Montgomery township.
and near Rising Sun. II started at 200
barrels. Connolly & Winters got one good
for lbs barrels on the Hatfield farm, near
Cygnet, in Bloom township, same county,
and in the same vicinity the Ohio Oil Com
pany has a hundred-barrel producer on
the Brandeberry farm. In Liberty town
ship, Van Vert county, f. l.. Brown has
one on the Snyder farm equally as good
but the majority OF the wells were below
the forty-barrel mark.
The wells in Ohio the past week were
divided among the different counties as
follows:
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-06

Part OF this money set aside I'm the
s1F0. 90 redemption fund, some of il was
paid out in refunding and in the purchase
OF bonds. but after these disbursements,
and after the Panama and exposition pay
ments. the available cash balance was
$l63, 149, 200, so that the treasury Is by no
means in a condition of embarrassment.
The collection of this surplus revenue ne
cessitated, in addition 10 the expenditures
IN refunding and bond purchases. the in
crease OF United States deposits in banks
from S73,O0O.OO0 at the end of 1893 10 $685.,
OOG.O00 at the beginning of 1904 The Pan
anna and ST. Louis extraordinary disburse
nipnts were made out of United States
funds i'm banks, and these have now been
reduced 10 S113. .O0O. 600. but are $4,000. 900
more than at the end of 1893 On Jan. /,
1900 the cash balance in the treasury, less
SloOGac.0 .00O gold reserve. was $1S3.595, $50. For
comparison with the present cash balance
S50o00Oo0 should be deducted, since the gold
reserve Is now and has been since March H.
1900 $50. .OOO. .Oc0. The present cash balance
of Sl63, ,O00,COO thus appears SO,0C00OO larger
than that of Jan l. 1900, notwithstanding
ali the extraordinary disbursements during
the past four years and five months.
These figures afford a new illustration OF
the wonderful financial strength of the
United States government. If the necessity
should arise for Withdrawing all but cur
rent deposits from banks TO meet payments
on construction of the canal, for instance,
the banks would again be I'm the same con-
dition as in May. 1885, when United States
deposits were SO. .095. .935.