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Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

Printing, with the residence of the
great Antwerp citizen just as he used
to inhabit it, and several picture gal
leries crammed with treasures. BUT
Antwerp is the city of pictures. and
you must watch your time. You
should walk along the splendid docks
there are raised stone terraces for
promenading-and In the midst of the
hustle of mighty commerce there Is
the old Steen Castle to be explored,
the former fortress of the port and
palace of the Marquesses of Antwerp
Here is a collection of all manner OF
medieval marvels, musical instru-
ments. beds. torture-machines, and a
variety of horrible dungeons in the
depths below the basement,
From Antwerp go to l4iege, about an
hour and half's Journeys but the
views from the train will repay you.
The old city of the bishops and
the birthplace OF Charlemagne is sim
gularly free from smoke and noXous
vapors and other outward signs of its
commercial activity thanks to It's sit
uation 1t Is built in a sort of basin
between the hills around 1t; on the
slopes of the hills are the factories,
and all the unpleasantness blows over
the city,
The Palace of the Bishops, the uni
versity and the citadel can be done
by you, with lunch between, and in
the later afternoon you can catch
train for Spa and arrive at the cele-
brated city of springs in time to make
yourself presentable for dinner.
At Spa you are again In the midst
of the best continental society, with
| the usual sprinkling of American mil
lionaires and English "milords;" and
it is Wednesday evening In your
weeks holiday. You will find Spa
| full of amusement, for 1t Is the sports
! center of Belgium. You can now take
the railway to Coo, where there is a
waterfall of wondrous beauty, and you
find yourself amid the wild scenery
of the Ambleve river, and ON the bor-
ders of Belgium's miniature Swltzer-
land, the mountainous paradise of the
| Ardennes. From Coo you can take q
drive to Remouchamps, little town
ship facing the Ambleve rapids and
lying in the midst OF scenery of extra
ordinary beauty.
However your week is coming to a
close, and so you had best take a
train from Remouchamps to Jemelle,
on the main line again of the state
railways, and manage to reach Namur,
travelling the while through one of the
most picturesque districts, not only In
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

ed women and men, mostly in evening
dress. Through the open French win
dows a great crowd is passing along
the Digue, the magnificent roadway
which stretches along the sea to the
right and left of Ostend, to France on
one side, to Holland on the other.
You hear every language, and you
soon notice every type of nationality,
but always the best of that national
.ty. Ostend is the congress ground of
the aristocrat from everywhere. Every
body, laughing and happy, everybody
living for the moment, forgetful of the
before, and careless of the afterwards.
Only Ostend, Refine des PLACES, can
produce such a scene; nowhere in all
the world is it equalled. Then, off to
the station, for you are going to see
as much of Belgium as you can In
your weeks holiday.
In half an hour you are in Bruges,
the old, old City of Flanders, THE
Venice of the North" as she once
proudly called herself, when she could
boast of 100000 inhabitants, of a SOW
ereign's brilliant court, and of mas
sive walls and powerful army able
to defy an emperor's wrath. Now
Bruges has nothing but her thrilling
romantic past and the inestimable
treasures of art which even her con-
Querors refrained from taking.
In Client you must see the cathedral
with its world-famous altar-piece THE
Alteration of the Lamb" by the broth
ers Van Eyck, and the tombs OF for
| mer bishops, wonders In carved mar
Bile. Nor must you fail to pause few
minutes before the town hall, where
you will view the stone pulpit from
which Jacques Van Artevelde. dear
gossip and ally" OF Edward III. ad-
dressed his turbulent fellow-b urghsrs.
After dinner you had better catch
your train for Brussels, for you will
arrive at the capital long before mid
night and you will have ample time
to see something of night life in Lit
tie Paris" before you go TO bed.
Brussels is more or less familiar
ground to everybody who has been on
the continent, even II the rest Of Bel
GUM il not SO we'll known. Having
breakfasted, you will start early on
your sightseeing. and II you have not
been to the Belgian capital before,
you will begin. with the town hall
This remarkable Gothic building dates
from the fourteenth century. and wit
messed the execution OF Counts Egg
mont and De Horaa by Alva. You
must do the cathedral and picture
galleries.
Antwerp is only half an hours trair
from Brussels. and you should give Il
q full day, at any rate; SO arrive a.
early as you can from Brussels. and
begin with the cathedral, IL only Il
see the Rubens masterpieces. Their,
are one or two more churches almos
Of equal interest one OF which con
tains the family mausoleum OF Rubens
Then there is the Plantin Museum q
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

Belgium, but in all Europe. Namur
IL - ancient fortress which has fg7
Z ed IN the wars Of history for more
tran Six centuries.
Esnnur. indeed, Is encompassed with
tile fairest charms that nature can re-
veal Tho lovely valleys and hills OF
the Mouse. the Lessee and the Ourths
rivers. The grottoes of Han and Roche,
fort. and many other romantic attrac-
tions,sin the way of feudal ruins. pic,
tusesoue cascades. fairy glens. and
nossls forests can be made menu Of
daily sightseeing. to be prolonged or
curtailed as your holiday permits. The
fortress of Namur, with the ramuarts
and earthworks, which were so formzd-
able In the days when Williams Of
Orange besieged It, are now portion
Of the public pleasure ground. 7
During your week OF rapid sight-see-
ing you win have discovered thatsH
GUM Is not only Athes co1nt{y th15
seems to have bea6 DE center p466
Of the worlds hiafr e1ssSf - X
tory began. but thu -
territory IL romano 115f1
Its natural beauties ~ ~ NJ IA -
sfbility from end 4 md q &
| Lara a 20 nurope s
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

tive summary submitted to the director
by DR.. lie Grand Powers, chief statis-
tlcian of the division of agriculture in
the bureau of the census. This summary
shows, for both the census of 1910 and
that of 1900, the reported total value
of farm land, buildings, and implements
and machinery; total acreage, improved
acreage, average acres per farm, aver
age value per acre of farm land and
buildings, average value per acre OF
farm land alone, and the aggregate ex-
penditure for labor and fertilizers. 1t
also distributes the total number of
farms according to color of farmer,
specified character of tenure, whether
held free or mortgaged by owners, and
by certain acreage groups.
Attention is called to the fact that
the figures are subject to revision later,
as number of farms, whose returns
are incomplete, will be included in the
hnal tables. These additions will not,
IN all probability, materially modify
any of the amounts or rates contained
III INC present statement.
The census of agriculture was taken
primarily for the purpose of obtaining
an accurate inventory of all classes OF
farm property existing on April Is,
1910; complete exhibit of farm opera
lions during the year ended December
81, 1909; and a statement of the num-
Der and value of domestic animals in
cities and villages on April IS, 1910.
Statements relative to acreage and
yield of crops and the domestic animals
of Washington will be issued by Direc-
TOR Durand as soon as the tabulation OF
tins data has been completed.
The Rates of Increase and Decrease.
1t is pointed out in the statement to-
Gay that the principal rates of increase
IN Washington in 1910, as against 1900,
among the items for which percentages
are given in the first section of the sum-
mary, are: In the total value of farm
land alone, 419 per cent; in the total
value of farm land and buildings, 1898
per cent; in the average value per acre
OF farm land alone, 27S per cent; in the
average value per acre of farm land and
buildings, 259 per cent; in the total
value of farm buildings, 233 per cent;
IN the total expenditures for labor, 1Ss
per cent; in the total expenditures for
ieftlllzers, 172 per cent; in the total
value of all far mimplements and ma,
ehinery, 166 per cent; in the improved
acreage, SO per cent; in the whole mum,
Der OF farms, IS per cent; and in the
Total acreage, 81 per cent.
The only decrease during the decade,
among the items for which percentages
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05
RIsDoN IRON WORKS ARE SOLD
United States Steel Corporation Ac-
uuires California Plant.

The San Francisco Call reports that
the sale of the Risdon Iron Works in
Frisco to the United States Steel cor
poration has been virtually completed.
At the same time, the report states,
the corporation has acquired more than
IA blocks of land adjoining the Risdon
works and half mile of waterfront at
the southern cid of the city. These pur-
chases are said to have cost the corpora
ton a total of $2,250,000.
Important extensions are planned,
says the Call, and in connection with
the new works iron ore deposits in the
hills of California are to be developed.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05
SAN LUIS REY MISSION.

the men who founded and conducted it
and the neophytes who attended it.
This procession will be on the last
day of four-day celebration being held
to signalize ground breaking for and
dedication of the first building for the
Panama California exposition, to be
held in San Diego in 1915. San Diego
will hold open house from July 10 to
20, and funds have been provided to
make the pageants and spectacles the
finest ever staged in the United States.
The period of history covered is about
300 years, from the discovery of Cali
fornia by Cabrillo to the first half of
the nineteenth century, San Diego plans
to hold a similar festival every year for
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

The main feature of one of the most
gorgeous pageants ever held in North
America will be the procession of TIE
mission at San Diego July %. There
will be twenty-one floats, each one rep
resentng a mission in the chain that
extends from Mexico to San Francisco
de Solano.
These floats will be built in such
manner that they will be an exact re-
pIica in miniature of the mission it rep
resents, perfect as to form, exact as to
detail and accurate as to historical
facts, Each will be accompanied by
persons suitably costumed to represent
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

four years, the last one to occur during
the exposition, i'll 1915.
They Want a New Rose.
The Panama California exposition, to
be held in San Diego throughout the
year 1915, has offered a prize of 81 600
for rose to be called the ''San Diego.
The Floral association of San Diego
has suggested that this rose should be
of a deep golden yellow, with the hardi-
hood of the strongest varieties now
grown, but this is only a suggestion.
The contest is open to all persons in
the United States, any floral society or
club, in fact, any person or association,
The rose must be shown at the eXposi-
ton in 1915, so that there are four years
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

er and near to the landing stage, the
outlines of column and gable, tower
and minaret, balcony and arch, and
the sound Of distant music come to
you; and then, as the buttresses of
the pier absorb your view, you are
greeted with babel of French and
Flemish, and all the hustle of for
eign port, You begin to realize the
delights of having arrived at the most
beautiful summer city in the world
Ostend.
For the moment you may be be-
wildered with all that you see. Your
dinner is being served to you In a vast
chamber filed with eXquisitely gown.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05
Pacific Northwest Wheat.

Tacoma, Wash.-Bluestem, 90Ms2c;
fortyfold, sSc; club, s6@s7e; red Rus
sian, SAC.
Portland.-Track prices; Club, $50
Soc; bluestem, 90@91c; red Russian,
Sac; valley, S5c; fortyfold, s5Ms6c.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

San Diego will hold four days of
pageantry and celebrating, beginning
July 10, to celebrate COMMUNICATING
for the Panama California exposition,
to be held in that city in 1915. The
pageants will surpass in spectacular eff
feet anything ever held ON the Pacific
coast.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05
WASHINGTON FARMS
UFCENT CENSUS GIVES NEWS
0F ALL AGRICULTURAL
LANDS In STATE.
rirs+ Preliminary Comparative State
ment of Agricultural Statistics and
General Farm Data Issued by the
ronsus Bureau-Total Value of Land
and Buildings Is Over $57o,O00,0o0.

Washington, d. c., May 2, 1911
ronsus Director Durand issued today
.ba first official statement from the cen
ems bureau relative to the agricultural
statistics of the state of Washington
collected at the Thirteenth Decennial
United States Census, April Is, 1910.
It is based on preliminary compare
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

was II ,663 900 acres, as compared with
S,499,OOO in 1900, a gain of 3,l64,oo0
acres, or 81 per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 6,354,000 acres,
as against 3,466,0O0 in 1900, an increase
of 1855, 900 acres, or SO per cent.
The improved acreage formed 81 per
cent Of the total acreage in 1910, and Al
per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 was 2O9, as against 256 in 1900,
decrease of II acres, or IS per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$4s.SS, as against $3.50 in 1900, a rise
of $35.2s, or 259 per cent.
The average value per acre OF farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as
$44.24. while in 1900 it was $11.69, the
amount of gain being $32.55, or 27e per
cent.
Color of Farmers.
OF the whole number, 55,744, of farms
reported in 1910 there were 54,'oo, OF
90 per cent, operated by white farmers
and 1899, or 2 per cent, by negro and
other non-white farmers, as compared
with a total of $4,000 in 1900, OF when
32,112, or 81 per cent, were conducted
nv white farmers and 1000, or per
cent, by negro and other non'white' Inc
increase in the number of farms OF
white farmers during the decaoe
amounted to 1858, and the decrease IN
the number of farms of negro and other
non-white farmers to 81.
Farm Ownership.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners anu IL,
owners and tenants, comprising tne d.,
ownersn class, was Alto, as compared
with 2s,o2o in 1900, an increase Oh ~
900.
Tho total number of farms conducted
in 1910 by cash tenants, share tenants
and cash and share tenants, comprising
.ho t.a1l tenants class, was 1859, as
AGAINST ATT in 1900, an increase OF
2,912. o+od
The total number of farms operated
NV managers in 1910 was 945, as com,
rorod with 4o5 in 1900, an increase OF
$40 ,.od
The total number of farms operated
+ho uall owners class constituted
"a per cent of the whole number ao OF
sarms in 1910 and IS per cent in 1soo;
those operated by the "all tenants
o1ass "a per cent in both 1910 and 1soo;
and those conducted by managers, p0-
cent in 1910 and 1 per cent in 1soo,
of the total number, ~, ITO, Oh farms
onerated in 1910 by the ''alf owners
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05
Troops Start for Juarez.

Ell Paso, April ga Chihuahua bull
letin stating that 1000 troops left there
today for Juarez caused great excite
ment in revolutionary camps.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

'i"SS' there were 31,151, or &C per cent.
reported as owned free of debit and
l'''o9' or "a per cent, reported as mort
gagged. There were AS farms for which
no mortgage report was secured. and
these are included in the farms "owned
Tree of debt -
IN 1900 information was secured con
cernlng the "owned farm homes'' At
mat time 22,015, or 70 per cent, were
reported free of debt, - and 6,00f, or
II per cent, reported as .morteaged.
Ihere were 1872 farms in 1900 for which
no mortgage was report was secured,
ana these were reported in the farms
free of debt The census bureau has
no information respecting the number
OF mortgaged farms leased to tenants.
Distribution According to Acreage
Groups.
The statement relative to farms dis
trbuted according to certain acreage
groups shows that those of 10 acres and
under numbered 1876 in 1910 and 3.O25
Ill 1900, gain of 1921; of 20 to 40
acres l0,205 in 1910 and 1910 in 1900,
an increase of 1865; of so to 90 acres.
1919 in 1910 and 1887 in 1900, II gain
OF 1852; of 100 to ia acres, 13,767 in
1910 and ,249 in 1900, an increase of
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

are gwen, occurred in the AVERAGE oo.,a
per farm, IS per cent.
Inc statement shows in detail +bo+
the number of farms reported in TOTO
was 1874, as compared with "a 300 ~
l'oo' an increase of 2,542. or Gs nor
cent pei
Farm Values.
Inc total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as ss1o
l42,ooo, as against $115,6lo, 900 in 1ooo
an increase of $454, 532 900. or 3o3 nor
cent. Pei
Inc total value of all farm land alopo
was reported in 1910 as $515,91s. 900 as
compared with 1871 900 in 1900 a
gam OF $416,607,00O, or 419 per cent
Ihe total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as $54 224 ooo
as against $16,299,O0O in 1900 an in.
crease of $37 1000, or 233 Der cent
In 1910 the value of far inland alone
constituted 80 per cent of the total
value of land and buildings, as compared
with sc per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm imnle
ments and machinery was $16,6 0oC
IN 1910, as against $6,272 900 in 1900 2
gain of $10,3S1 900, or 166 per cent
Inc total acreage reported in 1916
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

LONG stretch of great white
buildings looming at you
through the haze is your first
introduction to Ostend. AS
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05
OTHER MARKETS.

Dispatches concerning market quota
lions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-05-05

Rye-No. 2, 92c.
Barley-Feed or mixing, 6555c; fair
to choice mailing, $1@1.14.
Flax seed-No. southwestern, $2.46;
No. L northwestern, $2.5
Timothy seed-$12,
Clnvar-&1h 30
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-22
Prize Snake Yarn.

The Preyaricators' Society of Baila.
rat and Woolloomoc!oo was proceeding
in peace and harmony till the snake
story man spoke. some people" he
said, Consider the snake hasn't got
any sense; but they're wrong For in.
stance, once when was in India,
saw a Hindu mother place her year
old baby outside the hut to sun him
self, and to keep his spirits up she
gave the little chap big feeding bot
tie Of milk. Well, as watched, ! saw
a snake irsinuate itself close up to
that child My heart was in my
mouth, | feared for the baby But,
bless you, the snake was only after
the milk! lie Just slipped the teat
out of the child's mouth and into his
own, and then the thoughtful and kind
ly reptile put the end of his tail into
the childs mouth by way of com.
forter,'
With a great sob the president Of
the society arose and handed the lau.
rel which encircled his brow to the
snakestory man.
And then they passed silently into
the night. --Tit-3i
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-22
COON HUNTING ON DECLINE
Conservation Is Proving Very IN.
popular to Those Who Delight
in This Sport.

Coon hunting is on the decline over
in southern Illinois, according to q
report from Owensville, because the
farmers and land owners have be-
come timber conservationists and re-
fuse to allow their trees to be cut.
It used to be that coon hunt was
not a success unless the coon was
freed in a monarch Of the forest, the
tree subsequently being cut down by
the ready axes of the hunters to effect
the capture Of the game. In days
when timber was plentiful the land
owners were not so particular. and
it was not uncommon for a hunting
party 10 chop down half dozen fine
trees in a single night. The hunting
party that would commit such a tres
pass nowadays probably would find it.
self in serious trouble with the courts.
For trees such as the coon hunters
used 10 cut now have a big market
value They are growing scarcsr all
the time and the wise land owner is
realizing the necessity Of husbapding
his resources in the timber line.
In the good old days an incalcul-
able amount OF good timber was de-
stroyed in this way 1t was not
missed at the time, for trees grew
almost everywhere, and lumber was
not so much of an item as 1t is at
present The forests had to go in
order to blaze the way for agricui-
tural development. There was no es-
pecial demand for timber, and vast
areas of 1t were cut down and burned
that the land owner might prepare
for growing corn or tobacco, Much
of this timber might have been saved
! IL the farmer had cleared his land
| on any systematic plan, and would
! have made him Independent In his
| later years. He did not realize the
| Importance Of conservation, SO he cut
and slashed Unfortunately and the
coon hunters helped him. along with
the hickory nut hunters, the chestnut
hunters, the grape gatherers the seek
ers after slippery elm bark and a
| great variety Of hunters engaged in
denudlng the wooded lands of their
| products.
1t is well that the farmers of south
ern Indiana and the farmers else
where are beginning to take notice OF
the conservation movement. II the
coon hunter must needs chase coons
let him catch them on the level OF
climb the tree for his booty.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-12-22

er so that small roses are formed
Coiffures are distinc close in eff
feet this season, but their simplicity
OF style makes them extremely diff
cult to accomplish One OF the favor
lite styles is to part the hair down
the middle from the forehead to the
neck. and bralding 1t at each side,
cover the ears with two fiat plaques
in imitation of the Dutch style. Bangs
are again much worn For formal
occasions the hair Is swathed closely
to the head In bands that are softly
waved.
Turkish Towing Trimming.
One of the newest notes of the sea-
son is the application of Turkish
toweling as trimming on cloth
gowns. This Is distinctly different
from the use Of the cheap materials
in hats and scarfs that were shown
last summer, and none Of the new de-
signs show short tunics, and the
sleeveless kimono Jackets that are so
fashionable, made Of the Turkish
towellng in the same color as the
cloth, Elaborate and costly embroid-
cry give 1t much the same effect as
uncut velvet.
All the new handbags are fiat and
thin Everything in the nature of a
dressy article has the ong cord han
die and much fringe trimming is APP
piled. The bag OF the middle ages is
again being revived, bur with the diff
ference that the new models are much
larger and the ring which slips over
the purse to close II Is sometimes
fitted with bracelet Ter convenience
in travelling.
Lace wells are seen ia every ytria.
ton Of cobweb and shadow d, fgns.
Wells in large patterns arc /much
worn in Paris at the present time.
They are usually in the shadow mesh
with a silken design In the form OF a
border In scroll effect or in scatter
ed allover effect.
The illustration shows one of the
evening coats just now so popular in
this city.