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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
Abysses of Ocean.

More than half the surface of the
globe is hidden under water two miles
deep. Seven million square miles lie
at depth of $4,000 feet or more.
Many places have been found five
miles and more in depth. The great-
est depth yet sounded is 81, 200 fest,
near the island OF Guam.
Ii Mount Everest, the worlds high
EFT mountain, we're plueked from it's
seat and dropped into this spot, the
waves would still roll 1000 feet above
its crest.
Into this terrific abyss the waters
press down with a force more than
10000 pounds to the square inch, The
stanchest ship ever built would be
crumbled under this awful pressure
like an eggshell under team roller.
A pine beam fifteen feet long which
held open the mouth OF trawl used
in making cast at depth of more
than $4,000 feet was crushed flat as if
it had been passed between rollers.
The body of the man who should
attempt to venture to such depths
would be compressed until the flesh
was forced into the interstices of the
bone and his trunk was no larger than
rolling pin. Still the body would
reach the bottom, fol anything that
will sink in tub of water Will sink
to the uttermCst depths of the ocean.
Exchange,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
Work Resumed on Hartman Lines.

A special from Chicago says:
Construction work on the Hartman
system, which was discontinued a few
weeks ago, will to resumed all along
the line on December 2.
According to officials of the road,
10000 men will be put back to work.
When the weather becomes too severe
in Kansas and Nebraska the workmen
will be moved to the Pacific coast,
and the rebuilding of the line between
Los Angeles and San Francisco will
begin.
The entire Pacific coast will also be
benefited, as work which was aband-
oned on the Southern Pacilific and o.
K. IL N. extensions will be resumed at
the same time.
Work will be rushed ON the joint
line from Eureka to San Francisco,
which is being built by Hartman and
the Santa Fe. This road is supposed
to be a continuation of the coast line
to Portland via Coos Bay and other
coast points, and 1t is understood
that all work on the north coast will
be resumed also.
Railroad authorities here declare
that this announcement can only be
the result of better times throughout
the county generally, and New York
in particular. 1t Is argued by these
people that the work could not be re-
sumed had not Hartman been able to
obtain money in New York which in
dicates great improvement ip con
ditions there.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
EXPECT A CALL
FOR REPORTS

New York, Dec. IA call on the
National banks for their condition on
a recent date is expected here to come
from the controller of the currency
this week. -Four of the five calls re-
CURED each year by law have already
been made, the last having shown the
condition of the National banks on
August %.
1t is possible that the call now an
ticipated will have an important in
fuence on the financial situation. 1t
is said that it will reveal large re-
serves of cash in the country banks,
and this will tend to restore conf.
dence among depostiors to a degree
which will make it easy to resume
currency payments throughout the
country.
The banks, even in normal times,
usually prepare for call by strength
ening their cash for making a show
ing. not only to the controller, but to
their clients. Their statemenst are
required by law to be published inpa
local paper and they are also forward
ed to Washington, where they are
compiled by cities and states.
The effect of call for report of
condition on fixed date which is
usually few days before the call by
the controller, is to enable the bank
to release cash after the call, with the
knowledge that another call is not
likely in the natural order of things
for about. two months. In the present
situation, 1t Is declared by New York
bankers, the call will show that
boarding is not being done by New
York bankers, as, indeed, their defic-
iencies in required reserves already
indicate, hut that mary of the inter
ior banks have reserves running up to
such proportions as 40 or so per cent
of deposits.
The facts will reach the public for
individual banks through publication
locally and will then come to the
public generally thr ough the compila-
tions made by the controller.
If the large reserves in lawful mon
ey In their own vaults are repealed
generally it will at once inspire conf
dence in the strength of the banks
and create demand which they will
no longer be disposed to resist after
sending their reports, for the immed-
late resumption of currency pay
ments.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

oember will make the record ship
ments OF all history. There are twen-
ty-thle ee vessels in Portland harbor at
this time. including steamers and
sailing craft, and their principal car
GO will be grain and flour. The equip.
ment in Puget Sound ports Is similar
to that there. few months must of
necessity make the financial situation
in this part OF the United States bet
ter than it eyet has been before, and
in the face OF figures such as these it
is impossible for anyone to present
substantial reason for a continuance
OF the present inconvenience as tc
actual Casa.
The output of lumber from the ssw
mills and shingle mills, as we'll as the
products Of box and furniture facto.
lies, and all industries using native
woods has been greater during the
present year thau over before, and the
cash for this is constantly coming in.
The live stock industry has had a
good year, the wool clip has teen
enormous, while fruit in 1907 has add
ed to the wealth of Oregon and Wash
ington at least 30 per cent more than
during prosperous 1906. No figures
are available on the dairy products of
Washington, but Oregon has jumped
from nothing ten years ago to So, 000,-
O0O i've years ago, ana SI7, 200, 600
during 1907. The progress in irriga-
tion has never been so marked asdur
ing the ten months just passed, both
in government and private projects.
More home builders have come into
tie Pacific northwest than ever be-
fore, one system of railroads report
ing tor Oregon points alone 230 col
onists for every day between Sept. ]
and Oct. 81. Many of these new set
tiers have come to the state with from
$1,000 to $50, 900 and have invested it
the result will be great increase in
the productiveness of both states.
Building operations throughout o.
egon and Washington have been with
out precedent, and while there are
numerous sky scrapers, office build
ings and apartment houses, the build
ing Of homes has led. More money
has been placed in industrial plants
and transportation facilities than
through any other avenue. Wholesale
and retail trade has been unparalleled
surprising even the large sales of 1906,
and this during the weeks when our
banks, like those all over the United
States, are paying in clearing house
certificates.
The ioducts of the farm and or.
chald are bringing the highest posi-
BILE price, and thpt conditions will be
normal and that substantial prosper
ity will reign here within the next 80
days is absolutely assured, IL people
can only get into the habit of looking
thu ough optimistio glasses and there
is not single sound reason why any
one should be pessimistic. How they
can be other than confident it is i'm
possible to conceive.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
An Extensive Plant.

The foundation piIing for the new
plant of the Wind RIVER Lumber Co. ,
at Cascade Locks, have been driven
and construction work is progressing
in satisfat tory way. The boiler
house is to be a strictly fire proof
building. being constructed with con-
crete walls aud corrugated iron roof
supported by steel srusses. This
building will contain seven boilers
with dutch o7ens and steel settings.
The machine shop and bunkhouse are
already finished. The planning mill
and dry kilns will be located some
distance from the main mill. The
former vii be steel structure with
concrete floor. A shingIe mill will be
added to the plant. Manager 9. W.
Thompson says he will keep small
force OF men at work on the new mill
all winter. -Skamania County Pio-
neef.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

The substantial condition of the Pa.
cific northwest ia illustrated in most
convincing way by the wheat and
-four shipments of Columbia river aud
Puget SQUAD ports. For the ten
months beginning January and end.
lug October 81, there were exported
from Portland and Puget Sound ports
(includiDg Seattle, Tacoma and other
points,, total of 8,S93, 4s0 bushels OF
wheat, aud a total of 1861. 726 barrels
of flour.
The heavy movement of grain for
The tremendous crop of the present
year has been emporarily delayed by
the financial situation, but is nuw on,
and the months of November and De-
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 2I-In an
effort to prove that the thornless cac-
tus, as an article of diet, contains
properties sufficient to enable man
to continue working Is hours a day,
DR.. Leon Ebert Londone, we'll known
as a scientific lecturer, has been since
Friday last subsisting exclusively up
on cactus, supplemented by few
nuts and small quantity Of celery.
The leaves OF the plant are eaten fried
and the fruit raw or cooked. A stem.
ographer and secretary, with DIR. Lon
done, constitute a Cactus squad, "
which will continue on this novel diet
for period of two weeks. Because
of the scarcity OF thornIess cactus, the
common species of the plant will be
largely employed in the test.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
Bargains in
Real Estate

The Underwood and Little White
Salmon Valley choic fruit and grass
land ; 80 acres good improvements; II
acres in cultivation; 400 fruit trees-l00
in full bearing; all kinds Of fruit-large
and small; running water; good soil.
21a miles out. $40 per acre.
Twenty acres, in cultivation; house
and barn; 100 fruit trees in bearing
small Fruit 81 miles out. $2,l00.
Forty acres-20 in cultivation; 200
fruit trees in full bearing; one house,
two wells fine view overlooks bluff; 5
miles out $50 per acre.
Isha.e now arranged to open up 500
acres OF the Little White Salmon land
for settlement, cutting it into small
tracts. This is the ideal land for fruit
and grass; abundance of water and
good soil; within 81 miles of Cook 8
station and boat landing. Now is the
time to get good cheap home. Every
thing on terms.
Come and investigate.
The above is only just reminder Of
q -few.,of the bargains we have. Can
sell you from, l0,acre tracts up to 2l0.
Come and see what is destined to be
one Of the best fruit countries in the
Northwest and where three crops OF
alfalfa can be grown without irrigation.
F. w. DeHart
Underwood, Wash.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
will stay in HO0d River

The remedy that makes you eat, sleep
and grow strong, called Palmo Tablets,
will be sold regularly by Williams
Pharmacy, Hood River. These great
nerve and constitution builders cost only
Soc per box, six boxes, $3.50. tt
DIR. Mary Lane, with the Mary Lane
Medical and Surgical Institute of Port
land, treats diseases of women and
childr rch Exclusively. Maternity cases
givaiispeciai attention.. Children adj
opted into good families. An up-to-date
,anitarium rnn in connection. Suffer-
ing women will do we'll to confer with
her. Consultation free-correspondence
absolutely confidential. Address Mary
Lane, Institute, rooms 5 to IA Grand
fTkeafer Building, Portland, Ore. MA
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

Micheal Goetz has made a purchase
# 600 English walnut trees aud will
set out his twenty-acre farm up the
river next spring to walnuts. The
land is all rich bottom soil and will
doubtless make splendid orchard
when the trees get growth. MI. Goet2
will probably set out small fruits be-
tween the walnut trees, and thus
make the land pay its way while the
orchards is coming to maturity. 1t
will take ten or twelve years before
the returns from waInuts will amount
to a great deal but there is little ques-
tion but what at the end of that time
the orchard will be very valuable. -
Medford Mail.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
Walnut Crop Short.

Southern California has completed
its annual harvest Of English walnuts.
The total crop is approximately II,
100000 pounds, 1000, 900 less than last
year.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

Perhaps the most unique Thanks
giving service held in Oregon was held
yesterday afternoon at The Tutuilla
Indian mission on the Umatilla reser-
walton. A large party of the members
of the Indian Presbyterian church
gave dinner at the church in the af-
ternoon and q short program of short
after dinner addresses in the Nez
Peroe language was rendered. Rev. j.
M Cornelison, missionary at the Tu-
tuilla church, had charge of the exer-
cises and addresses were made by
Robinson and Luke Minthorn and
other prominent Indian members Of
the church.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

L. j. Boyd is the new editor of the
paper that will lie started at Cliffs. 1t
will make its iir.t Appearance the srst
Friday in / vmbeI. ana will be
called the AIIth Bank Bulletin. -
Goldendale Sentinel.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
GENERAL news OF
LOCAL INTEREST
ITEMS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNS
A Resume Of the Weeks DOings Com
piled from Our En-
changes.

Edward Dalkey. farm hand work
ing for j. W. Beymer at his ranch
neal Hardman, fell from his horse
while intoxicated last Thursday morn
ing and broke his neck. -Heppner
Times.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

The most remarkable beet crop in
the history of the sugar beet industry
10 Union county will be harvested in
less than two weeks, when %, 600 tons
of beets will have been harvested and
hauled to the factory Grande
Observer.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

The natural inference that fruit
growing would be more profitable in
those places where it is unnecessary
to spray Is set aside by the fact that
the fiuit growers are most pI osperous
in these sections where the most
spraying is done. There is no county
in Oregon in which fruit growing has
been developed on a commercial scale
where the spray pump is not needed,
to prevOnt the injurious effect of some
insect pest or fungous disease. -Agri-
culturist.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

A swan measuring 96 inches was
killed recently. The beautiful bird
had apparently become weary, and
alighting to rest had dropped down
within range of the gun of human
sleuth. T'was heroic deed. -Sher-
man County Observer.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

Herb Smith has a rife of the old
time style that reminds one of the
days of 40. 1t was carried through
the Rogue River Indian war by his
father 1t carries about an ounce ball
and was very fine shooting iron
when in its prime. lie Is naturally
very proud of the old Iihe. Forest
Grove Times.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

The postoliice at Vinson, in the
southwestern pait of the county is
soon to be abandoned for the reason
that many families have moved away
from that vicinity. The nearest post.
Office will be Nye, 10 miles distant,
which will be patronized by few for
mer patrons of Vinson. The country
surrounding Vinson is ranAe district
and is very sparsely settled. - East
Oregonian.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05
VOL. XIX
SOCIETIES.

HOOD RIVER COMMERCIAL CLUB-Meets
every second Monday in each month at p.
M, In the club rooms over Jackson's store.
H.F. DAVIDSON, Pres
N Aor EacrataTv
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-12-05

HOOD RIVER LODGE NO. los, A. +. and A.
M.-Meets Saturday evening on or before
esch full moon. A u. MOE. W. NJ
ID. MCDONALD, Secretary.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
THE FARMER FURNISHES 1T.

We find the following floating
through the papers. We give the an
swer above:
Il want more" cries labor, already
in enjoyment of the highest wages in
a generation.
Il want more" cries capital, in en-
joyment of the highest level of in
terest upon money invested in many
years.
Il want more" cries the merchant,
as he pockets the highest prices for
commodities.
Il want more" cries the housewife
to her husband, as she compares her
allowance with the advancing costs of
living
More" more" everywhere the de-
mand is for more" Railroads want
more money for extension and equip
ment. Investors want more dividends,
wage earners more wages, society
more to spend in luxuries that are fast
becoming necessities, colleges more
endOWments, and the government
more appropriations.
Where is more" coming from?
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
ROOSEVELT AND THE TARIFF.
milwaukee Journal.)

1t is extremely unfortunate for the
country, and it should be said to the
Republican party as WE'LL that the
president is so unconcerned about the
tariff. 1t is a public evil which over
shadows all the others-with all re-
spect to the opinion Of the president.
1t is the great question of the day and
it will almost certainly be the predom-
mating issue in the approaching presi-
Dental campaign, in spite of the ef-
forts of the standpatters and the tariff
fed trusts to keep it in the back
ground. 1t is clear that to the great
mass of the people the moral, the ethi-
cal side of the tariff as well as the
financial side, does appeal, and there
can be no question as to the response
they will make when the opportunity
to express their conviction comes to
them.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
PROSPERITY'S CONTINUANCE.
Philadelphia Bulletin. }

Prophets and the sons of prophets,
prOgnosticators, star gazers, financial
experts and other persons who are
manifestly not in that class, are still
disputing as to the continuance Of
prosperity during 1907 The alleged
lugubrious prediction of Rockefeller
and the gloomy views of Stuyvesant
Fish are quoted on the one hand. On
the other, the cheerful predictions of
a British Rothschild and numerous
American men of affairs are printed
to show that there is nothing what
ever the matter with the United
States.
The every day citizen may wisely
conclude that the opinion of one man
respecting the future is just about as
likely to be correct as that Of another,
and that his own best course will be
to apply himself with diligence to
whatever trade or occupation he is en-
gagged in, not forgetting the fact that
it is always advisable to keep GER
tain amount of funds available for
squally weather. Worrying over the
possibility of reactions" in advance
of definite signs Of their coming is not
usually remuneratiVe habit.
Sticking at honest work is apt to be
much more conducive to useful re-
suits.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
STILL A CHANGE FOR THE POOR
BOY,
(Kansas City World.)

(KansaS City WOrld.)
Croakers are forever saying that the
average American boy with nothing
but his two hands, his brains and his
pluck no longer has a chance. Gone,
so the croakers lament, are the good
old days when merit, with Excelsior"
on it's banner, could press upward
to the heights. Somehow, the path to
success is supposed to be fenced up
at it's very starting point; and all that
the poor youth of today is expected
by the croakers to do is to sit down
outside the fence and beWail his sad
fate all his days.
Isn't it strange, then, that when
conspicuous man dies and the story
Of his life comes out, it is still so often
found that no silver spoon was in his
mouth at birth?
The beaten paths to success may be
fenced against the boy without cap
ital, but there are always ways across
lots and over the hills. He whose
ideals are stars swung high in the
heavens needs no beaten path to
guide him. He who has learned to
labor and whose heart thrills with as
piration and resolve has the best capt.
tai there is-and the best chance.
The silver spoon in the mouth at birth
is greatly overrated as factor either
for success or failure. There are lots
of rich young men whom wealth has
not deadened. And lots of poor ones
which it would not have helped
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
MISSOURPS ONE-TERMER.
Ozark Democrat.)

According to Washington dispatch
in the Globe-Democrat, Tyndall came
out $1,000 ahead as result of his sim
gle term congressional experience, in
Guiding his extras on the side and his
wife's salary Of $2,4OO as his secre-
tary, whether she was in Washington
or remaining at home attending to her
household duties and looking after the
statesman's rising generation. He
considers his election very happy &C
cident in his behalf, and he got to ride
in an elevator, too. 1t is stated he
will start bank and become it's presi-
dent.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
BOB TAYLOR'S GOURD.
washington Herald.)

1t is not surprising to learn that
Senator Robert Love Taylor, the ge-
nial successor to the brilliant Car
mack, has demanded that he be pro-
vided with a gourd for use in his COM
mittee room at the Capitol, in order
that he may quaff his aqua pura in
peace and some degree Of comfort.
Senator Taylor long ago learned the
wisdom and philosophy Of true happi-
ness, and resolved, no doubt, to find
content without too much ado about
the fashions and the manners of the
times in which We live.
He knows that water slipped from
gourd has a sweetness all its own
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04

matchless and incompatible! There
fore, he wisely decides to have one
ever handy in his committee room;
just as he was wont in boyhood days
down on the farm to keep one hang
ing on peg about the spring, the
we'll, and the back porch of the old
home in Happy Valley. There, in rare
and radiant, youthful, dreamy days he
learned the language of the flowers
and held communion with mocking
birds and kindred fowls.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
LOCAL OPTION AT THE SOUTH.
washington, D. c., Herald)


The temperance movement at the
south is characterized by such per-
sistence and intelligence that it can
not be placed in that category of spas
modic reforms which at times stir the
mercurial people of that section to
frenZied enthusiasm. Nearly every
state on the other side Of the Potomac
has been perceptibly influenced by
the movement, and it seems not un-
likely that before a great while the
entire south will be the stronghold of
the age-long fight against the evils of
intemperance. In Kentucky the only
counties that have not adopted local
option are those in which large cities
are situated, and in them the fight is
being kept up in most determined
fashion.
In Texas quite as large q proportion
of counties has swung into the local
option movement as in Kentucky.
About the same condition exists in
Alabama. South Cardinals dispen-
sary law has recently been modified,
but not on the side of the opponents OF
temperance. Tennessee Is just now
the theater Of determined activity
against the easy public drinking place.
and former Senator Carmack has been
offered, If he has not yet accepted, the
leadership of the fight for a more rigid
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
OUR DOLLARS NEEDED AT HOME.
(Springfield Republican.l

Washington's strong intimation that
the agricultural bank in the Philip
pines will have been financed by Eng
lish capital should stir patriotic pride
among American capitalists to it's bot
tomless depths, especially as it is re-
ported that no American capitalists
have yet been discovered who will put
a dollar into the scheme. Is it posi-
BILE that the American dollar refuses
to follow the flag?
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-04-04
HIS SENSE OF HONOR.
(Ft. Worth Telegram.l

1t is said that Senator Culberson re-
fused to give a letter Of introduction
to Texan who had mules for sale to
gentleman who was in the market
to buy mules for his government. Cul-
berson did right. The only way for
an official to do is to so live and act
that no act Of his can be misconstrued
or misunderstood.