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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

,,,rr o-,-,,r Topeka, Kan, March 1.
HIDE QloTATIONS-Green salt cured.
No. 10c, No. &c; green salt cured, side
oranqs, 90 lbs, up. No. Sc; green salt
cured side brands. 40 lbs down No >
&c; green salt cured, bulls and stays. No.
1 sc. NO 2 &c; tallow, No. / Sc No 2 &C.
bees wax No. CSC. No. i5c. horse ,fd &c
No: l 81. 50q3.25. No. 2. $1.E092 Is; ponies
and No. 8. 75cU$1.5 so. %S0
DRY HIDEs-Dry flint, butchers.
heavy, 1916; dry flint, culls, iOc: drv salf
heavy, as lbs and up), 14c; dry salt iiebf
Cunder Is lbs), loo; dry sheep peIts, i0lfisc
FORS-Raccoon. large prime. Sl50a2 90:
small and Nc. 2 5Oc@sl,25; skunk, BLACK biSe1e:
tprlme), $z50g350; skunk, short strine
tpr1mel, $160Q2.60; skunk, narrow SfrtrRee'
SpEime). 55cgs1 e; skunk. broad (unprimpe9.
$4,000; mink, large. dark, No 1 Il 5slSs
%; mink, medium. No. /. $35O0D475: MINI
s snlal, no: l, SzZ043o5; mink (unprfme1
6ocQ$l5O; opossum, large cased No. i. 5oeSs
S5c; opossum, medium, 35@50c; oposs,,SeS
small, 10W3Oc; Muskrat, winter 1ss5 ss1n.
c1vlt 25g65c; house cats, 5G15c; fox. Ersv'
oocg$l-o0; fox. red. prime, s3.5094 SO: Tsoif
75c91.75: wild cat. l25G75c PRAIRIE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

*Ex-Div. ~ per cent
&#Ex-Div. 215 per cent.
%@*Ex-Div. S12 per cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

Kansas City Grain Market.
Furnished by J. E. Call Commissions
Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office no West Sixth St Phone 4S6-l
Kansas City, March l.
Open High Low Close Yes.
May :. 1889 1Os1z 1OSs4 7s1Ossz zs10sas "
July ..I03lz IS 1881 -as10212 1021z-7s1O3-1s
Sept. .1OO16 1OO14 80 1915 100
NAV :. s4H 6Ak-5s 64-S 64-h 64A
Jul ". 65 65A9s 647s-65 647s-65 65-A
Market Gossip.
Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stocks.
office Ito West Sixth ST. Phone 1851
Liverpool cables: Opening-Wheat SO
I'D higher: corn unchanged.
Second cable: Wheat sold higher; corn
&C chicago Ups and Downs. Good next
week:
May WHEAT-Downs, Sill; Ups 81. 191z
May Corn-Downs. 6414c; Ups, 6S19c.
May Oats-Downs, 46c; Ups, 4S1zc-
July Wheat-Downs, $1H. Ups. S1.12sz. =
JULY Corn-Downs, &C; Ups, 695sc.
July Oats-Downs, 43c; Ups, 419c-
Kansas City Produce Market
Kansas City, Mo. March 1--WHEAT-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

Cash: Market hQIc lower. No. hard.
81. 09@1 II; No. 8, $lO6@1.11; No. 2 red, $1.20@
1.25; No. 8, $1.17@1- %.
CORN-Market unchanged. No. 2 mix
ed, Sic; No. 3, $4,000; No white, sc; No.
3, SIC.
OATS-Market unchanged. No. white,
46@4Sc; No. 2 mixed, 43@45c.
RYE172075c.
HAY-Market unchanged Choice tim
othy, $14.O0@14. so; choice prairie, 81. $50
115O.
BUTTER Market 1c higher Creamery
extras, soc; firsts, 2Sc; seconds, 26c; pack
ing stock, 2015c.
EGGS-Market 4Oc lower; current re-
ceipts, $3.50 case
CLOSE: WHEAT~May, s1.osz 91os7s
bid; July, $1.021zG1 OPS sellers; September,
GoRN-May. s4ae4Ac bid; July. s4M@
CSC sellers; September, 635s@63%c sellers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01
Kansas Citr Live Stock Marker.

Kansas City, Mo, March 1.-CATTLE-
Receipts 5000, including 300 southerns.
Market steady. Native steers, $5.50G7. 70 /;
southern steers, $50Odq. Is; southern cows,
$3.50@5. %; native cows and heifers. s.. 500
$50; stockers and feeders, $4.00Q6. 20: bulls,
$4.O6a5 so; calves, $4.50Q9.00: western
steers, S. 5@T %; western cows, $3.5OG6O0
HOGS-Receipts 1900. Market SC to 1Oc
higher Bulk of sales, So. 30Q965: heavy.
s.. 6O0I9 10; packers and butchers, So $50
965; light, $9O00e.50; pigs, $s.2G9.00.
SHEEP-Receipts 5000. Market steady.
Muttons, s6O0G7.50; lambs, S. 500 Is; fed
western wethers and yearlings, S650QS.75.
fed western ewes, $6.0047.15-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01
Cfaicago live Stock Market.

Chicago, March 1.-CATTLE-Receip
estimated at $500 Market steady. Beeves,
ern steers, $4,000 5; stockers and feeders.
So. 5OQ5s5; cows and heifers, $2.6OQ6-25;
calves, 81. 25G9.75.
HOGS+Receipts estimated at 1900.
Market steady Light, So 45G9.s0; mixed,
S. 5Od9 921k; heavy, So. 55Q1O.O0; rough, $3.50
9.70; good to choice heavy. $970410.o0;
pigs, $S50G9.50; bulk of sales. sS.BQ9:8:
SHEEP-Receipts estimated at 10000.
IS 80 So; yearlings, $7.75GS.70; lambs, ma
tive 775G9. %; western, $775G9.25.
DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE.
WHEAT-Receipts. 80, 800 bushels; ship
ments 90, 600 bushels.
CORN-Receipts, $4,000 bushels; ship
ments 344, 400 bushels.
Car lot receipts: Wheat So cars, with 16
of contract grade; corn 621 cars, with
of contract grade; oats 80 cars
Total receipts of wheat at Chicago. Min
neapolis and Duluth today were ass cars,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01
Chicago Grain Market.

Furnished by ]. E Gall, Commissions,
Grains. Provisions, Cotton and Stocks.
Office ITO West Sixth st. Phone 4S6.l
Chicago, March 1.
Open High Low Close Yes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01
Topeka Aaarket.

Topeka. Kan, March 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

Grain Market.
tt FURNISHED by j. B. Billiard, corner Exa.-
sas ave. and Curtis ST @o'
WHEAT--No- ?. $l.Va "AAren
CORN-60c
OATS-4zd4sc. go. = 4. -.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01
Market Gossip.
FURNISHED by J. E. Gall, Commission
Grains, Provisions. Cotton and Stool
Office ITO West Sixth ST. Phone 1851

Kansas City Produce Market.
Kansas City. Mo. March WHEAT
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
Most Delightful Grove

Commercially little need be said of
it, for the great numbering industries
that have sprung up and called for the
investment of millions of dollars are
evidence enough of its utilitarian value.
In his discourse on the trees of Cali
fornia Professor Jepson declares that
the most delightful grove met with by
him in all his travels is situate be-
tween Usal and Cottonaby creek on the
Mendocino hills that overlook the
ocean. In almost perfect preserva ton
they stand on little knolls and in small
swales arranged so openly that all their
grandeur and their beauty is for him
who would behold. And from an outing
standpoint the redwood groves of Marin
and Sonoma have become most popular,
thousands of persons going there for
their brief respite from work to pitch
tents beneath the branches and live out
in the open in the shadow of the ages
that the old trees testify to with their
vast reaching trunks and spreading,
plumy tops.
The pines of California form an in
teresting group of trees and valu-
able one as well, contributing much to
the states wealth. perhaps the rarest
of them all being the silver pine, which
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13

ranging from the Tehachapi to the
canyon OF the Sacramento river, al
ways occurring as a scattered growth.
Another pine Of somewhat similar type
Is the Torrey pine, which Is a low,
sprawling tree confined almost exclu-
siyely to the neighborhood of San
Diego, although occurring on Santa
Rosa island off the coast.
The one leaf pinon, commonly called
nut pine, frequents rocky slopes or arid
ranges and. with the Digger pine, fur
nishes the best nuts of any of its spe-
cies and is much sought by the In
dams as an article of food. Aside from
these pines mentioned there are the
white bark pine. the timber pine, the
foxtail pine, the hickory pine. the
Jeffrey pine, the beach pine, the tamarac
pine. the big cone. the Parry pinon. the
Bishop pine, Monterey pine and knob
cone pine which are more or less wide
ly spread over all of California and will
eventually become of Importance eco
nomically as the desirable varieties
are cut off.
Closely allied with the pines are the
frs and the spr Ices, the Douglas fir be-
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
stEKRA CUNiPER CJuNsPeRu
CCIDEGTS>LIS3 TEEE on
SOOTA GCLLO EoELE,
(&OGTH COAST -EAS]GE

changes that have taken place beneath
the vast spread of their plume like
crowns The wood, pink when freshly
sawn, turns dark red. and is light and
reasonably strong. For durability, how
ever. it IS equaled by hardly any other
wood, as logs buried naturally show
scarcely any decay after hundreds Of
years.
The redwood proper, Sequoia semper-
virens. is found along the coast rather
than inland. and. while far from being
as massive tree as it's brother big
trees it reaches farther up into the
heavens, attaining to an altitude of
about $50 feet, while the big trees
tower no farther than $50. The trunk
of the redwood is from 2 to 16 feet
in diameter, which is hardly worth con-
sidering when compared to the diameter
of the Sequoia gigantea, which is from
to 25 feet through at some distance
above the ground.
In geographical distribution the red
wood reaches from southern oregon
down to the San Lucia mountains, COW
ering a strip 450 miles long and from
one TO 40 miles wide, the main body oc-
curing in a well defined belt which be-
gins in Del Norte county and extends
to southern Sonoma county. Below So
noma county the redwood is existent,
however, in detached bodies only, be-
ing found around Mount Tamalpais. in
the Oakland hills, in the Santa Cruz
mountains and in deep canyons in the
Santa Lucia mountains Back Of the
coast range the redwood occurs more
or less locally around Ukiah, Willis.
CIoverda1e and on the east side of
Howell mountain in the Napa range.
which is it's farthest invasion toward
the Sierras. On the south fork of the
Eel river, the main stream of the Eel
river, Van Duzen river, Mad river, Red
wood creek, lower Klamath and Smith
rivers there are magnificent groves as
yet untouched by the AK and existing
as they have stood for more than a
thousand years. giving the man who
cares to wander from the beaten track
a chance to see the forest primeval as
it was growing only a few hundred
wears after the birth OF Christ
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
The Unique MadrOna

Representing the arbutus family as
1T does, the madrona IS one OF ths
most unique OF California's trees. it's
gnarled and twisted body, that seems
to writhe along the ground. suggest
ing almost irresistibly a cripple
MANNED by some tremendous accident
Rarely symmetrical the older the ma
drona grows the more defQrmed IL
seems to become. No other California
tree has figured quite so much in lit
erature as the pnadrona and many a
master painters brush has traced the
sinuous outlines OF the crawling trees.
Bret Harte with all his wealth of
Imagery has sung the madrona in
verse. With its crown of flowers and
it's mass Of crimson berries, its bur-
nished foliage and its terra Gotta bark
it casts it's charm on all Scarcely a
man who has gone forth into the
woods returns without being impressed
and bettered by his outing in the
places where it grows, and irregular in
outline as it is. it adds a piquant touch
to the unfolding landscape. gives new
beauties at every turn and vista Of the
woods.
So ideal Is the California climate
that to touch upon each tree that
hourishes beneath its wooing sun would
scare be possible. Long spreads OF
lemon and orange groves. stretches OF
olive and almond. vistas Of English
walnut trees are everywhere. The val
leys with their old gnarled oaks. the
mountains with their forests OF sky
touching trees, the foothills in between
each has it's lure. each spreads before
the one who loves the open its beau
ties for him to make his own, and any
one who casts his chains aside and
goes forth to find rest and respite can
do no better than TO make little in
innate study of the trees OF California
and wander on beneath the avenues
they make into Oblivion OF toll.
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
fIzEFaEsNsQ11 q
&9Is. laysS
REDwoOD CAARACTEE EtC-
Tic GRONE IN -SoN0fhN

Is found mainly In the Sierra Nevada
mountains at attitudes which range
from $500 to 5000 feet in the north to
IL 900 feet in the southern stretches Of
the mountains. Reaching height OF
125 feet sometimes with a diameter OF
four feet at the base, 1t Is striking
tree with slender branches and some~
what dropping foliage and thin, very
smooth bark, sometimes checked into
small squares. From commercial
standpoint, however, the sugar pine Is
the most important Of it's family, being
a splendid forest tree which reaches to
a height of $50 feet, clear from
branches for almost the entire length of
it's trunk and surmounted by a fat
topped crown. In the main timber besa
of the Sierra it is a striking featurS
of the landscape with Its brown or red.
dish colored bark. and while 1t is
found in the coast range it is very
scarce there, it's range in altitude being
between $500 and $500 feet
Very similar to the sugar pine and
almost indistinguishab from it in
certain individual trees is the yellow
pine, which is normally more resinous.
Growing, as it does, at a lower altitude
than the sugar pine 1T is found asso-
ciated with black oak. incense cedar
and white fir. The apple" pine, so
called, which has very fragrant smell
when numbered, is nothing but a high
grade yellow pine and can hardly be
distinguished from the best grades of
sugar pine Perhaps the most abun-
dant tree in California, the yellow pine
Is particularly characteristic of the
Sierra Nevada, attaining its finest de-
velopment along the ridges, where II
carpets the ground with its needles.
making soft and pleasant path for
one who cares to wander amid noun
tain scenery. So many pines there are
in California, IL distinct species In ALL
that it is no wonder that the average
individual can hardly distinguish one
from the other. The most peculiar Of
all the pines is undoubtedly the Digger
pine. 1t grows in the dry, hot foot
hills and sometimes in gravelly valleys
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
Is Varieties of Oak

The oak family is, of course, of such
Importance that there is hardly any
need to mention its many uses aside
from that to which the Indians put it
as a producer of food. There are in
California Is different varieties of oak.
the best known being the coast and
interior live oaks. which are called in
discriminatory live oak These are
splendid trees and form a noble ad-
junct to any landscape. looking at
distance like great balls spread upon
the plains or hills. In addition to the
live oaks there are the valley oak, the
mesa oak. the Oregon oak. the blue
oak, the island oak. the maui oak, the
scrub oak the leather oak, the deer
oak, the huckleberry oak, the Palmer
oak, the California black oak and the
tan oak. The most remarkable among
the California oaks Is the maui oak,
which supplies a wood of undoubted
commercial value that Is used for
mauls, whence 1t gets It's name, wagon
parts. tool handles. ships knees. fur
niture and floors. The wood is remark
ably close grained and is extremely
tough and strong. Purely from an ar
tistic standpoint, however, the valley
oak, sometimes called the weeping oak.
is most noteworthy of all. growing as
II does IN the deep alluvial soil of the
valleys and being practically the only
break IN the monotony OF the far
stretching flats. The valley oak attains
its finest development in the deep.
moist 1oam Of the valleys and grows
to be of a diameter of s to 10 feet.
forming a splendid shade tree that is
distinctive, standing rs 1t generally
does alone. The tan oak, so called be-
cause It's bark is valuable and much
used by the leather tanneries OF Call
fornia, which consume about $4,000
cords annually. In the use Of the bark.
-
$4,000 trees OF different sizes being left
10 rot each year. save for very small
number that are used for frewood-
The cypress family. including the
cedars the cypress and the jumpers,
makes up an interesting group OF trees
more or less valuable commercially. the
incense cedar being one of the most
abundant trees in the main timber belt
of the Sierra, growing to a height OF
125 feet and being of great value for
telephone poles, as 1t is extremely dur
able. The canoe cedar also is remark
ably durable, being used in the manu-
facture OF shingles and was highly re-
garded by the Indians who made their
huge war canoes from single log;
they utilized the hbrous bark in weav-
ing their clothing and the wood in max
ing household implements. OF the cy-
press trees the Monterey cypress Is
noteworthy from the local nature of it's
habitat, being round only along the
coast, where the rough ocean winds
form 1t into peculiar shapes. These
trees, while forming the basis for a
widespread belief that they are the
same as the biblical cedars of Lebanon
because of their resemblance, are in no
way related. being a cypress proper,
while the cedars of Lebanon are gen.
uine cedars. But Notwithstanding this
fact the guides at Monterey are per-
sistent in spreading the popular story
which is received with so much interest
by the tourists. The California juniper.
the desert juniper and the Sierra juni-
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
Parks and Monuments

Aside f~om the national parks and
forests, there are 50 called national
monuments set aside by congress for
the purpose Of perpetuating objects of
historical or scientific interest. the
main difference between the national
park and national monument being
that the park is born through some
specific act Of congress while the
monument is established by executive
action OF the president of the United
States and may be disestablished by
him in the same informal way. The
national monuments in California num-
Der fouT-the. Pinnacles in Monterey
county, 1850 acres; Lassen peak in
Shasta county, 1.2S0 acres; Cinder Cone
In Lassen county, 5,120 acres; Muir
woods in Marin county, 295 acres By
Tar the most important Of these monu-
ments is Muir woods, the gift of VIII
liam Kent to the nation. It includes
Redwood canyon on the south side Of
Mount Tamalpais and is Of enormous
value educatiOnally because Of its
proximity to thickly settled centers and
its ease Of access, to say nothing of
national grandeur, which is almost in
describabIe.
big trees is concerned until recently it
WAS neither a national park nor a monu-
ment, but in 1909 an act of congress
provided for the exchange Of lands Of
equal value for it and providing that it
shall be known as the CalaVeras ma
tiOpal forest This grove is famous all
over the world and too much credit
can not be accorded to those who have
kept the matter OF preserving it to
future generations in mind until sue
cess crowned their efforts. Since 1852.
when il was discovered, thousands of
people from every part Of the world
have visited it and no little part Of the
lure that California has for travellers is
TO be credited TO this wonderful group
Of gigantic trees. Aside from the
groves that have been parked by the
government and held secure from mo-
lestation in California there is one state
Darsz. the California redwood park,
which includes the Big basin of the
Santa Cruz mountains, with an area of
$500 acres, purchased in 1901. This
park is truly a splendid acquisition,
being a mixed woodland of redwood.
rnadrona, and, together with Muir
woods. il forms the only place where
the redwood IS preserved in its prime
val sanctity, TO be forever undisturbed.
In so far as the food value of our
native trees is concerned, their worth
is a Retrospective rather than a present
day one, few Of them being regarded
a Of any economic Importance in these
luxurious days, but in the times long
beDast when the native tribes owned all
gf California. before the white man,
-pelling right and might the same,
pushed them into oblivion, the main ex-
fstence of a whole tribe was not in
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13
The Giant Rearguards

BY far the most interesting of all
California trees is the redwood family,
the big tree (Sequoia gigantea) and
the redwood proper (Sequoia semper-
virens). The big tree has its habitat
along the western slope of the Sierra
Nevada from Placer county southwark
TO Tulare county, a distance of ESQ
miles. 1t occurs only in groves that
are more or less disconnected, seeming e
to be the rear guard Of a vanishing
race, as it undoubtedly is. North of
Kings river the groves are widely sep
arated. while to the south they might
be said to form a continuous belt, for
there are scattered individuals that
bind the different clumps together al
most into a chain. Commonly grow
ing on slopes, ridges or depressions
where there is ample moisture. it may
be found existing upon almost barren
rock as in the Giant forest on the
Kaweah river, where there are 500
trees spread over 500 acres that is al
most solid rock. Commonly associated
with 1t in the groves are the white fir,
incense cedar, yellow pine and sugar
pine, and its reproduction, while fairly
satisfactory in the southern groves, is
at a standstill north of Kings river.
The extreme age of the Seuuoia big
trees, so far as is certainly known is
about $500 years, century more or
less making little difference in the face
of ages upon ages that have passed
since first the seeds sent forth their
shoots.
This statement as to age is far from
being guesswork, inasmuch as il is
derived from trees logged for CONNER
cial purposes. Free from branches for
nearly 200 feet sometimes these trees
stand up like monuments to unnum-
bered ages that have gone. dating back
500 years before the Christian era and
givinSz food for much thought on the
The San Francisco call., 1910-02-13

ing a magnificent and valuable 1ore-t
tree which is perhaps most commonly
known under the name of Oregon pine.
1t is without a doubt the most widely
used structural timber in the west and
from a commercial point of view is
enormously important Its range is
wide reaching from sea level to an al
titude Of 1000 feet and throughout the
north coast ranges it is found with
the redwood and tan oak. Next In i'm
portance, perhaps, is the tideland
spruce, which makes an excellent saw
log as it's grain is straight and it's
wood is soft and easily worked Found
principally along the north coast 1t
extends north to British Columbia.
where it is an important part of the
national wealth, growing as 1t does to
a much greater size than in California.
The weeping spruce once seen is never
forgotten, and is the easiest Of all the
forest trees of California TO distinguish,
its cordlike branches hanging down
sometimes six feet and sweeping the
ground as they begin to grow almost
from where the trunk emergeS. The
big cone spruce, the coast hemlock, the
mountain hemlock, the lowland fir. the
white fir, the red fir, the noble fir and
the Santa Lucia fir are also relatives OF
the pine family of conifers. The last
named is the most remarkable OF all
the frs, being restricted In its habitat
to the Santa Lucia mountains, overhanS-
Ing the Monterey coast. and being a Pc
culiar looking tree, its narrow crown
tapering up like steeple. while the
cones which are borne in heavy clus-
ters at the very top of the trees are re-
markable for the long bristles which
protrude from between the scales.