davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12

received their odd name from the
fact that each peak resembles the
other to such an extent that even a
trained scout or trapper is In great
danger of becoming lost when he en-
ters their confines.
1--WE have a large variety Of yege-
tables, and during the summer the
"a hours of sunshine add materially
to the rapidly of their growth. The
government supplies seeds TO any one
desiring to experiment. and also keeps
a record of the result. We grow very
fine potatoes, beets, turnips, radishes
and lettuce, and our caDDage cannot
be equaled. It is an odd thing, but
IL you Dig down into the ground -four
feet you must always strike ice.
Farming is gradually becoming a
possibility. Barley and oats are
grown, the former seeming TO thrive
better than any other grain. l saw
a field Of timothy hay last summer
SO inches high. There is plenty of
wood in the neighborhood Of Circle
and we use 1t for fuel altogether"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12

for seasoning, which is done with
most advantage during spring and
early summer. II peeled and arrang-
ed for drying In a single layer, they
will be ready for treatment In June.
A fairly good treatment with either
creosote or carbollneum can be given
by applying the oils warm with a
brush Two coats Of carboiineum can
be applied for q distance OF 6 feet,
beginning two feet from the butt, for
As cents per pole. A similar treat
ment with creosote can be given for
~ cents
Since the average life OF an un-
treated arbovltae pole is IL years and
its cost set in the line 50, the carbo-
lineum brush treatment would have
to add only one year and the creo-
sote brush treatment only four
months to the life of pole In order
to pay for the additional expense.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
FORGOT HIS TRAP GUN.
Sets PitfaIl for Coyote and Gets Tan
gled in His Own Trap With Sc
rions Effect.

Joe E. Lay, who resides on the
old Musty ranch, Prairie creek, has
been pestered, during the winter, with
coyotes and finally decided that it
would be dead easy TO shoot them
with a trap gun. says the Joseph
Herald.
He drew the carcass of a horse in
to field, put out some poison, then
placed a cooked and loaded shotgun
with a string running from the trlg-
ger of the gun to a stake near the
carcass and had the trap fixed in
such a manner that anything touching
the string would receive a good sized
load of shot.
Monday morning bright and early,
Joe went out to look at the carcass
and found that some animal had been
there. He moved around trying TO
locate the direction the animal had
taken, when he touched the string
and bang went the shot gun, part OF
the charge hitting him i'm the calf
of the leg. He was brought to town
and placed under the care of a ply
sician, who extracted most of the
shot. If complications do not set in
Mr.. Lay will be around in a few
weeks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
MONEY IS EASIER.
HENRY CLEWS SAYS CON-
DITIONS ARE BETTER
Stock Market Has Largely Recovered
from the FURRY, But Business En-
teIprises Recover More Slowly
Many Big Concerns Arc Resumlng
Work All Over the Country.

The public is anxious for inside in
formation as to the financial situation
and the statements of Henry Clews
on the situation are regarded as au-
thentic and conservative. In his last
letter on the financial situation, Mr..
Clews says:
The stock market shows surprising
resistance to unfaWorable news. I'm
usual trade reaction, declining rail-
road earnings and diminishing profits
would ordinarily exercise a more or
les depressing effect upon values; but
in spite of these conditions, prices
owing to continued ease in money,
have been well maintained, partly
owing to continued ease In money,
partly because unfavorabie develop
ments have been we'll discounted, and
partly because the market has hao
the support of powerful interests.
The most encouraging element III
the financial situation is the contln-
ued demand for bonds, showing that
there are funds awaiting investment
and that safety is just now a more
important factor than price. Among
large holders there is the hope that
present business depression will not
last long in its present stage of acute
ness. ssIA
Already many concerns which had
previously shut down are restarting
and with the approach of spring fur
ther improvement in this direction.
should follow. It was this expectation
which led the United States Steel cor
poration not to reduce prices. Before
long construction work will be re-
sumed, and the improved ability of
the railroads to finance Issues which
were held up during the last three
months of 1907 encourages the ex-
pectation of recovery in demand for
iron and steel from railroad and
other corporations.
General business is now goinA
through a similar process of read
justment to that which has occurred
on the stock exchange. There is this
difference, however. In the stock
market the readjustment is practi-
cally finished and stocks have recov-
cred to a normal basis. In general
business the readjustment is not yet
complete, and naturally progresses
more slowly.
Nevertheless, there mas peen a
marked curtailment in the product
of many articles of merchandise and
commodity prices generally are low.
er. Whether the decline has reached
its limit or no, events only can de-
termine. This return, however, of the
commodity markets to more normal
conditions is a wholesome symptom
and will doubtless hasten a return OF
natural industrial activities.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
CITIES CLING TO WOODEN BUILDINGS

The forestry department has just
prepared the following statement and
circular letter on building operations
and the use of building materials in
the United States
Cement and steel and brick and
stone are not yet used in sufficient
quantities to encourage lumber users
to predict the time when the forests
will not be called upon to furnish the
principal materials used in building
operations.
Notwithstanding he remarkable
increase in the use of cement and
other fireproof materials, the last re-
ports of the building operations in
40 of the leading cities of the United
States for the year, collected by the
geological survey, show that SO per
cent were OF wooden construction.
Even II the remaining Al per cent
of the buildings were built of brick,
stone and concrete, vast quantities Of
wood are consumed both In the con-
anu Ill NhN NhON6h ~
the latter form, metal Is taking the
place of wood to very large extent.
The amount Of lumber given above
does not take into consideration this
item at all.
While this percentage is represen-
tative of the building industry in the
United States, dealers point out that
1t does not include the large quanti-
ties of lumber used for the construc-
ton Of dwellings, stores and other
buildings in the thousands Of small
cities and towns scattered over the
country and not included in the 49
cities on which a reckoning was
made. In towns and small cities wood
is usually the predominating build
ing material and 1t is safe to say that
If the statistics had included figures.
for all places of whatever size, the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
MUST SAVE TIMBER.
Immense Demand Is Diminishing
Supply Very Raplny.


The forest service has sent out the
following circular on the immense de-
mand for telegraph and telephone
poles:
The immense demand for telegraph
and telephone poles is one of the
heavy drains upon the forests. The
cost of maintaining lines is high, and
1t is getting to be more and more a
practice to give the poles some sort
of a preservative treatment in order
to check decay and get the fullest
service out of them. Arborvi,ae, or
northern white cedar, is well suited
for the production of poles. 1t
grows naturally i'm suitable form and
is strong light in weight, and dur
able. In fact, It combines the quail
ties most demanded. Moreover. II
takes preservatives very wen.
Unfortunately arbovitae is not very
plentiful, and 1t grows so slowly that
IT takes couple of centuries for It
to reach serviceable size In the last
dozen years its price has risen $50
per cent. There are the best of rea-
sons, therefore, for using the pres
ent supply as carefully ms. possible.
our great-great- -grandchildren will
have come and gone before the seeds
now sprouting will be trees ready to
cut.
Arbovitae poles are most easily cut
and hauled in late fall and winter.
When spring comes they are ready
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
MIDDLE WEST SUFFERS.
Short Corn Crop and Low Hog Prices
May Cause Many 10 Come West.

Hon. Dan Il. Lesh is a close, bus
inesslike and thoughtful observer. on
his recent trip into the states of the
middle west he saw evidences of a sit
uation that will in some measure af-
feet unfavorably the immigration to
the northwest this year. 1t may be
clearly seen that 1907 was not an es-
pecially propitious season for the
farmers in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas,
Missouri and other states, while II
was only a degree better in Illinois
Farmers enjoyed good corn crop In
the latter state and, in view of the
general shortage in that crop they
were fortunate, says the Yakima Re-
public.
"The small farmers throughout the
states / have mentioned depend
largely on corn and hogs" said Mr.
Lesh with a favorable yield and a
good market for these products they
do fairly wel but, when the corn
crop is short and the price of hogs
high, the reversal of the situation
strikes them severely.
THE renters of farms back there
were particularly unfortunate. Some
of them-a good many of them, in
fact-were unable to pay their SO to
SIS an acre rental on the place they
cultivated. These farm lands are
probably held at 500 to $3.50 an
acre. 1t may seem, therefore, that
these renters will not be in the best
condition to favor their removal to
the northwest, where many of them
would like to be. The failure they
have suffered will emphasize their
desire to come, but lessons their abil-
ity to incur the cost.
1--WE will have our share OF the
westward march of homeseekers'
however. The immigration to the
northwest will be very considerable
but not as great as 1t would have
been had the crops been better in the
middle west.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
U. OF o. LOAN FUND.
II. A. Booth Deposits $500 As Nucle-
US for Permanent r-unG.

US lpf IcfHidiicHt < unC.
University of Oregon. Feb. IA
Hon. r. A. Booth of Eugene, has just
given to the student loan fund of the
University of Oregon a check for
$500 to be used as an irreducible ed
ucational loan fund for students. The
fund will be known as the Booth
Loan Fund" and will be kept sep
arate from the general loan fund
which at present is distributed in
loans ranging in amount from SIS
to $50 among 10 students OF the uni
versity.
Since the establishment OF the gen.
eral fund five years ago, more than
so students have been enabled to
complete their course, who could not
otherwise have done so.
The university hopes to establish
during the present year a loan fund
of at least $4,000, to be loaned under
the direction of President Campbell
or some one resignated by him to
boys and girls all over oregon who
wish to complete their education, but
who cannot do so without assistance.
1t is believed that a loan of approx
'maSely 500 year at a low rate of
interest to be repaid in two years af-
ter graduation, is much more prefer
able than an outright gift in the
form of a scholarship. The fund will
be guaranteed by 10 men against loss
Two signatures will be required on
each note and a smalP amount of life
insurance will be taken out to insure
against loss by death.
The present loan fund amounts to
approximately $1,000,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12

percentage of wooden construction
would have been much greater.
These figures, as rule are only
for the corporate limits, and the
suburbs of these cities have each
very large amounts to be added. The
cost, also, 5 relatively higher in these
cities than in towns nearer the base
of the supply.
In wooden buildings, New York
city is at the bottom OF the list,
though it leads with $1S,075 as the
average cost of buildings. Except at
San Francisco, where abnormal con-
ditons have prevailed since the fire,
Boston shows the greatest increase
of any Of the cities in the total cost
of building operations. The average
cost of buildings is constantly in
creasing, having risen over $500 dur
ing the last three. years. The average
value of building is given in the
report as $2035.
Lumber is by far the greatest drain
on the forests and the wonderful de-
velopment of the country during the
past decade has called for the use of
nearly forty billion board feet year.
The largest quantity ever reported
for a single year was for 1906, when
thirty~seven and one-half billion feet,
with mill value of $621,151,SSS was
used. Including the value of the lath
and shingles used with this amount,
the total value of the wood used for
buildings is brought up to 1855, 1885,
513.
The increasing price of lumber and
the rapidly increasing use of per-
fected fresproof systems of construc-
ton should have much to do in hold
ing down the amount which the for
ests are called upon to yield each
year. but so far these more substan-
,tial materials have not decreased the
lumber cut Of the nation.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
To DEVELOP POWER.
BIG PLANT TO BE PLACED
ON THE DESCIIUTEs
Prineville Light and Power Company
Contemplating Gigantic Plant at
Lava Falls Where 1000 Horse
Power May BE Generated-Llne
for Transmission to be so Miles In
Length.

II. v. Gates of Hillsboro and man
ager Of the PrInevllle Light G. Wa
ter company, who was In the city
last week, gave 1t out Sunday that
his company has made arrangements
with Deschutes Irrigation and Pow
er company to install a 1000 horse
power electric generating station at
Lava falls, siz miles south of Bend,
says the Prinevile Review. Con
struction work is to begin within the
next two months and the plant is to
be completed and ready for business
in year.
Mr.. Gates says he has been nego-
tiatlng with +. S. Stanley Of the
Deschutes company FOR some time
past for the possession Of a power
site at Lava falls. He has a filing on
the Matoles, but that site is somewhat
isolated, and the territory to be serv-
ed is yet too sparsely settled.
His plan was, however, TO install
the plant there and serve Madras,
O'Neil and Prlneyllle with a 24-hour
current. Work was to have COM
menced this spring, and the two di-
recent dynamos to be used as excit-
ers for the alternating generators
have been in Prlneville since Sep
tember last, doing service on the local
circuit.
Running across Mr.. Stanley In
Portland a while back. Mr.. Gates OPP
ened negotiations for the purchase of
a site at Lava falls, at which point
the irrigation company has filings
covering seven-tenths of the water in
the Deschutes river.
AS Mr.. Stanley Is not in the cleo
trio lighting business and Mr.. Gates
never worries himself about irriga-
tion problems, the two gentlemen
soon reached an agreement, and
parted shortly afterward with the un-
derstanding that the p. l.. & w. could
acquire without interference a power
site at Lava falls provided 1t would
furnish a 24-hour current, to the
settlers along the ditch lines and to
Bend, Laidlaw and Redmond.
The line will be approximately so
miles long and cost for copper, poles
and fixtures about $4,000 per. mile.
The generating station will contain
1000 horse power alternatlng-curr
generators. and the building will cost
complete with equipment, 100000.
One hundred and fifty thousand
n arc fo l.lI. -
pend on a lighting plant, but by serv-
Ing all the western part of the coun-
ty Mr. Gates figures that the Invest
ment will pay per cent and maybe
AZ from the start
The project will be a great aid to
settlers along the canals, for as well
as lights the farmers will be supplied
with motor power for grinding, cleo
trio flatlrons, etc
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
DON'T THIN KMUoH OF APPLE.
Yakima HortlcuIturists Speak Sheer
ingIy OF the "Coppei."


Members of the Washington State
horticultural association who attend
ed the recent convention at Walla
walla from this valley do not appear
to have been Impressed with the pro-
duct of an apple seed planted 40
years ago in the Walla Walla coun-
try, says the Yakima Republic. 1t
was a peculiar fruit Of the apple
kind, unlike any other apple, in some
respects.
Considering that its distinguishing
features entitle II to a name at least,
the convention appointed a commit
tee TO institute inquiry concerning its
parentage and to give II name. The
tree, which is in the orchard of II. l..
Frazier of DIXIE, and Is believed to
be the only one in the west-for
which fact, perhaps, the west should
congratulate itself, yields abundant
ly.
Inasmuch as the fruit Is unlike any
other apple tree product, but pos
sessed no special feature that should
distinguish It as fruit, the commit
tee gave 1t the name "Coppei," after
the name of a stream in the district
where It appears first to have found
being That. itself. would suggest
that the committee found in It moth
ing that should distinguish 1t in quail
ity of any kind as a superior fruit.
Local members OF the association
who examined this fruit DO not agree
with a Walla Walla paper that pre-
dicted for 1t a sensational introduce
tion and an esteemed place in the
apple world. On the other hand, they
regard 1t as scarcely worth the trou.
BILE Of naming It.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12

An incident which is surrounded by
mystery occurred az the home of Mrs.
II. A. Hughes, South Third street, last
night when two giant Chinese bombs
were exploded. on the porch OF the
home by unknown parties says the
Walla Walla Union. The inmates of
the house, three young children of
Mrs Hughes, who at the time the ex-
plosion occurred, was at College
Place, were Frustrated with fright.
The police were called, but no clue
as to the identity of the cowardly ter
rorizer could be found. The exploded
bombs were found near the back door
where the explosion occurred.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
A Valuable Lesson.

"Six years ago learned a valua-
BILE lesson" writes John Pleasant of
Magnolia, Ind. "I then began taking
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, and the
longer I take them the better I find
them. They please everybody. Guar
anteed at Tallman & Co.'S, druggists,
25 cents.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12
WONDERS OF THE NORTH.
Hunting and Farming Are Great Re-
sources of Alaska.

"Circle is north of Dawson and ITO
miles from the noted Tanana coun-
try, now the most famous of Alaska's
gold camps" says c. F. Griff in the
Seward Gateway. "There is an
abundance of game very close to our
camp, and in the shooting there Is
no limit with the exception of the
caribou. In the instance of this an
imal one of the principal meat sup-
plies we have, we do not shoot them
for sport nor allow anyone else to do
so, but each man kills as many as he
believes will be needed for his sus-
tenance during the winter.
"There' was band of 5000 caribou
in sight of our camp last summer
grazing upon the sides Of the Crazy
mountains. These hills, by the way,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-02-12

The doctors don't disapprove of ad-
vertising that costs them nothing No
doctor has yet protested when a news
paper mentions him as attending to a
nerson of note
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-02-26
FURTHER DELAY.

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-The trial
of Raymond Hitchcock, the come
dian. on an indictment which result
ed on charges preferred by a young
girl, which was to have been begun
in the supreme court today. was post
poned until next Monady. The post
ponement was granted upon applica-
ton of counsel for the defendant on
the ground that Hitchcock chief
counsel was engaged in another case
in court. In granting the motion for
delay. Justice Bowling said that no
similar motion in the future will be
entertained in this case. He warned
all parties TO be prepared for trial
next Monday.
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-02-26
DULL DAY ON
Hill
ELY EXCHANGE
Close Shows Some Gain.
New RaWhide Issue is
Coming on Today

A letter received last night from
H. G. Herrick brought an allotment
of Original Rawhide Mining company
stock for sale In this city and will
doubtless make for increased activ-
ity during the next several days In
local trading, which yesterday, as for
several days, was practically at a
standstill Mr. Herrick has placed
the stock in the hands OF his part
ner here, Mr.. KERN, and 1t Will be
disposed of through their house. In
private letter Mr.. Herrick states
that he has the highest confidence in
the stock. He has now been at Raw
hide for a month and should have ac-
quired a good line of information as
to the camp.
Total sales on the Ely exchange
yesterday amounted to only 2,535
shares. A little movement in the
east would bring change in this
sluggishness and make for brisk
local market. However, everybody
appears to be following the eastern
lead and waiting for developments.
Sales yesterday were as follows:
Butte Ely, 200 at 5S; Ely Jumbo,
500 at 7; Ely Bonanza Copper, 100
at 3d. Federal Ely, 100 at So; Nc
Donald Ely, 100 at 35; Giroux, 10 at
1915 Newhouse, 20 at $3.50; Ely
Witch, 100 at 37ls; Dexteretta. l.
500 at 2 n. Closing quotations were
The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-02-26
WESTERN NEVADA COPPER.

NJ NJ Johnson. CHIEF engineer and
expert on the Newhouse staff, who
has been and is directing the de-
velopment of the Western Nevada
Conner company's mines at Yering-
ron came in from camp Sunday
TIE renorts that, after having been
compelled 10 run along for nearly
two weeks without the use of power
drills. on account of an accident that
hapnened To the power eompanv's
nlart. everything was being rushed
again when he left Saturday.
"The lower tunnel" said Mr.
Johnson. sis now in 1014 feet. and
the contact of the lime with the
orenite has been reached. For loo
feet hack from the granite the lime
&c hiehiv mineralized and in places
shows fine ore. We are now drifting
along the contact. and also In the ore
bodies developed further back The
shaft from the upper tunnel level Is
hein@ sunk and a drift is being run
on the tunnel level below to get dir
ectlv under the bottom of this shaft
We are now working a force of
twentv-seven miners and. as ii is the
'rtention to begin sinking shaft
form the lower tunnel level to a
denth of 800 or 400 feet without de-
Law. we will soon have an additional
force EMPLOYED. We are devel-
oning lots of ore now.and 7 eypect to
coo the mine improve rapidlv from
this time on. 1t looks good TO me.
and I am now satisfied that we shall
make big proposition of it
Mr.. Johnson expects TO leave for
the east within q few DAYS on min
ING hnsiness. rho nature of which he
da"lines TO discuss.