Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
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Maple-sugar-making is getting to be
restricted industry, and may, indeed,
become lost art. The Bureau Of For
estry, which has recently made a study
Of the business, has brought some inter-
estfng facts to light Since 1850 the
area Of maple-sugar-farming has great
ly changed and shrunk. In early days
maple-sugar was made even in the
South, because cane-sugar was scarce
and expensive. In New England, New
York and few other States the in
dustry has held its own or been ex-
tended. The bureau finds that seven
eighths of what Is sold as maple-sugar
or maple-syrup is spurious; but in most
cases the adulteration is the work Of
| middlemen, not Of the producers. The
net income of a maple-sugar grove is
conservatively estimated at So an acre;
and since the work can be done at q
time when there is little other farm
employment. and the grove will also
deterioration, sugar-orchard is fair
ly profitable investment.
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Greater secrecy than ever before will
be exercised this year concerning the
scores made at target practice by the
various vessels Of the Atlantic fleet.
While some of the details of the re-
suits may be made public, it is not the
intention of the Navy Department to
give out the scores. This government
has never been able to gather informa-
ton concerning the target practices of
other navies and there seems to be no
reason why the scores of our navy
should be made public. Great Britain
carefully guards all of the scores made
by her warships. Some years ago an
officer of British vessel on the Asiatic
station told Of the results of the tar
get practice then just finished. The
information reached this country and
was published. A thorough investiga-
ton was made and the officer would
have been court-martialed if it had
been possible to produce positive proof
against him.
The expenditures of the government
exceeded its current income by more
than 100000 in April, and the treas
ury deficit for the first ten months of
the fiscal year is upward of $34, ,OOO,-
600. While the months of May and
June nearly always show a balance on
the right side of the governments ac-
count books, many fear that the de-
ficit at the end of the fiscal year, June
30, will reach $30,0O0,000. The problem
Of the deficit is serious one in the
opinion Of the treasury officials. The
cash balance in the treasury has de-
clined to $133, TIT, including the
amounts held by the national bank de-
, positories, and Secretary Shaw has
found it necessary to withdraw from
the banks $2O,OOO,0O0. The cash bal
ance actually on hand in the treasury
is said by some to have fallen below
> the point Of absolute safety.
y -
e Beware Of the high rate of inter-
i est" is the lesson of most of the SWIM
. dies against which the Post Office De
J. partment has recently issued fraud Or
|. ders. An offer Of exceptionally large
e returns for either labor or capital
: should at once awaken suspicion. If
t the enterprise is so promising, why
e does not the person who controls ii
e keep it for himself? The fact that
+ there are a few, very few, cases
where large risks have been taken and
n large profits have been realized is the
r argument most used by those who
d have patent rights, gold mines and 9th
e er such properties to sell at thou.
e sand times their value. The person OF
y moderate means cannot afford to take
such risks.
> In 1904 the number of arrivals al
= Ellis Island was 6O6, 900, the number
= in the entire country being 100000. OF
these 263, $40 settled down in New Yort
City, and the great majority of the re
= mainder went to other cities as labor
ers, etc, where they are not needed
- It is now estimated that one million
= immigrants will come to this eountr,
. during the year 1905. The task of alb
sorbing this great mass into the politi
cal system is one of the penalties whicl
- the United States pays for its unrivaI
70 ed economic opportunities, its relie
- from great standing armies, and it's at
20 mosphere of freedom
II -
II During the last year more than fiv,
t. thousand rural mail routes have bee1
,s established, and during the comm,
D. summer a thousand more will be open
IS ed Every route over which the car
v rier takes his little packet is threa,
Is which binds this great, spreading coun
r. Try into more solid unity. -
ut
s. Expansion seems still to be the ma
tional watchword- The general stat
Of the army has decided 30 lengthel
70 the United States bayonet by fou
~ inches. StiIl, It was dfctum of Olive
Wendell Holmes that as nation
IN lengthen their weapons they narro,