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The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
GOOD FOR GRAFTERS.
Not the Political Kind, but the Men
Who Cultivate Fruit Orchards.

Not the Political Kind, but the Men
Who Cultivate Fruit Orchards.
Never use straight edged grating
knife like those for sale in stores.
Have one made of best steel with
curved edge and keep the edge ground
sharp. The knife part should be about
three inches long and the edge so
curved that each end should make
clean cut in bark and wood about
three-quarters of an inch ahead Of the
center of the knife. Many limbs are
cross grained. A straight edged knife
simply follows the grain. tearing the
bark. or. rather. the bark will be split
or torn straight down. while the wood
is split off sideways, making a cleft in
which no scion can go and have the
two green banks together-so the graft
will not live. A sharp curved edge
cuts both sides of stub. bark and wood
clear down, and the center of edge fol-
lows down, making a clean split cleft.
Always cut scion thicker on one side
than the other, with a good live bud at
the top of the cut on thickest edge.
Set this thick edge always toward out
side of stub. Force the cleft wide
enough with the wedge on your graft
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
Road Made of Leather.

After nearly year a road made Of
leather waste treated with tar at
Handsworth, Birmingham. England,
shows practically no signs of wear.
Heavy wheels make no impression on
1t, and 1t is comfortable material for
horses to tread on Waste leather
which was shredded until it virtually
became pulp was treated with BIZ
tumen and tar. 1t is stated that hith-
erto no real use has been found for
leather Waste.-London Daily Mail
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
CRUSHED Stone
AND OIL ROADS
Found to Give Good Results In
California.
MIXTURE IS WATERPROOF.

Better and Sounder Roads, Known as
"Protected" Macadam, Result From
This New Method of Construction.
Dirt and Oil Roads Are Rapidly Be-
ing Abandoned.
For many years oil and liquid as
phalt have been used for road con-
struction in various localities through
out the United States, the most promi-
nent, perhaps, being the state of CALI
fornia. There many hundreds of miles
of roads have been treated with as
phaltic oils of various GRANTEES. vary
ing according to the product Of the diff
terent oil fields and applied according
to ideas presented by various engineers
and road builders, says P. E. Clark.
former engineer Of Los Angeles coun-
ty.
The most prominent method has
been to deposit the oil upon the sur
face Of a dirt road which had been
previously graded and narrowed. let
ting it stand from three to four days
until some Of the lighter portion had
soaked into the soil as well as evapo-
rated. The road was then gone over
with a harrow SO as to break up the
oil cake and allow it to mix with the
earth. In six or seven days after the
first oiling the road was given sec
ond application of oil. This in turn
was allowed to stand as before, then
narrowed The road was then sprin-
killed. with water, and after that had
soaked in and the surface dried to
depth of about one inch it was thor
oughly rolled with a light roller.
Where the climate is such that rains
come only in certain season of the
year, and then only in meager quaint
ties, it is needless to say that this has
been an excellent method for keeping
down the dust. But conditions. like
everything else, are changing; traffic
is increasing. and where it was at first
believed that the oiled dirt road was
to be one that would last for many
years the anticipated results have not
been realized.
In California. with all of it's miles
Of oiled dirt roads. the method of mix
ing dirt and oil is rapidly being aban-
doned and in its place is appearing
new road having far better and sound
er methods of construction This class
Of road is not only appearing in the
state of California from one end to the
other. but in many Of the states east
of the Rocky mountains they are find
ing that asphaltic oil and various other
products of the refneries have excel
lent cementing and waterprooting quail
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Happenings OF the
Week From Towns in Cur
State.

Spokane May Bar Patent Pavement
Spokane.-All patented pavements'
including granitold, bitumass, bltulltn-
10. Hassam, oilerold, petrolithic and
others. will be barred from the streets
of Spokane in future if policy declar-
ed by Commissioner of Public WORKS
D. c. Coates is approved by the city
council.
Commissioner Coates says that the
city, through its asphalt plant ana
with the aid of its experts, is now IN
q position to make pavements OF
better grade at less cost, similar TO
any patented pavement, and that there
Is NO use, then, Of continuing a policy
which requires property owners to
pay royalties on q patent when they
have q street paved.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
Union Meat Co. Buys $4,000 Lambs

Union Meat Co. Buys $4,000 Lambs.
White Salmon.-Jake Prahl, agent
for the Union Meat company, OF Port
land, has made one Of the largest con-
tracts for lambs ever made in the
county. Fifty thousand lambs were
bought from the sheep men, and 5000
moro are wanted. Heretofore the
herders have had to drive their flocks
to the railway, but the Union Meat
company has met them with it's check
book at Glenwood, the outfitting point
for herders grazing their flocks In the
Columbia forest reserve. The lambs
will be shipped to Portland, dressed
and sent in refrigerator cars to Chi
Oago.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
CRY Is FOR HARVEST HELP
Workers Are Badly Needed to Save
Fields of Washington.

Tacoma.-Harves hands and berry
pickers are in big demand. The Puy-
allup valley berry fields are in urgent
need of labor at once and 40 cents
crate is being paid those who go into
the field and stay throughout the sea-
son as against 80 cents last year. The
growers are facing severe loss un-
less they can get more pickers. The
state grain inspectors office here has
also received urgent calls for harvest
hands for eastern Washington points.
The greatest demand at present is
in Franklin and Adams counties and
the inspector has given out notice that
all desiring work who apply to him
at once will be told where to go.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
Vancouver Banker Is Victor.

Vancouver.-In the mandamus pro-
ceedings, brought by T. H. Adams, of
the Vancouver National bank, against
Charles S. Irwin, as mayor of Van
couver, to compel him to sign a war
rant for $4,000, in payment for pro-
posed cemetery site, bought by the
council, Judge Mckinney, of Kalama,
gave a decision in favor of the plant
iff. Mayor Irwin will be compelled to
sign the warrant, unless he appeals
the case
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
ASK CONGRESS TO HELP
Cascade Highway Association Appeals
For an Appropriation.


Everett.-The Cascade Scenic High
way association formed here has ask
ed congress to assist in building a
scenic highway from Spokane to coast
cities. The proposed road will be run
through Wenatchee and will be indie
pendent of the SnoQualmie pass high
way.
1t is the proposal of the association
to acquire by purchase, gift or con-
demnation property lying contiguous
to the proposed highway, so posterity
may enjoy glimpses of Washington's
splendid forests.
This summer State Highway Com
missioner Roberts, accompanied by
several county engineers, will make a
special trip to look over the scenic
highway and make reports to Cover
nor Hay.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
Logging Road to be Built,

Centralia.-The Baker May lumber
company of .Meskill is planning the
construction of a logging road from
Meskill to the Columbia river. The
road will be known as the MeskiIl &
Columbia River Railway company.
The company is Incorporated for $780,
600.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
Gnats PLAQUE Wenatchee.

Wenatchee.-Gnats have infested
parts Of the Wenatchee valley, attack
ing horses and other animals and lit
orally covering all vegetation. Mil
lions OF the insects are now lodged in
Canyon No. 1, five miles west of here
The occurrence is without precedent
In this section. Farmers report at
tacks on animals.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18

file their adverse claims with the Kegisteea OF
the United States Land Office at Coeu[ Ai S,,r
In the county of Kootenai state O. nuhiication
hnSSeof or the, viii be barred by virtue OF t1e
proyisiors Of. the statute in such cases maue
and provided nv p.rr1Ne
Register Occur d'Alene Land once. Co sa
d'Alene, Idaho
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-07-18
Half Million For Canning Factory

Halt Million For Canning Factory.
Kennewick.-Fruit growers and
merchants Of this city are planning
the establishment of a half million
dollar canning factory in this city to
utilize the unmarketable products of
the farms and orchards Of this vicin.
by.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
Eggs

THOROUGHBRED Buff Orpington eggs.
81 per fifteen. l26 Windsor street.
Main 1888 APT pa
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
AdU1ce
From
HE
Pon/try
Doctor

ADDED annually to
ne ALREADY vast army of utility poul-
Try Keepers, and IL is for such mat
t,ese notes are written. IN the first
pLdCe' careful stock should be taken Of
the pullets from which eggs are exnect
ca II That part of the business has not
ALREADY been seen to- The man who
can raise big bunch of birds all of
equal promise is yet to he born for
however well bred the stock may be
culllng more or less will have 10 be per
formed, Respecting the inherent egg
producing capabilities Of the Young
STEERS, that essential factor to success
VIII not seriously call for congidera lion
during the time the birds are being
sorted out If one knows that they
nave manated from pedigree pred egg
producers
The object Of the poultry keeper
should be TO place in the laying quar-
ters an even lot Of birds-eveU in
CROWN. health and activity. Such
olrds VIII have steered clear Of sick
ness, viii have feathered up kindly. and
developed muscular bodies and good
frames, and viii be all alertncss. To
place In the laying quarters birds Of
different ages, sizes and qualities Is to
prepare Tor winter egg production in a
haphazard manner
The man who has kept an observap+
eye on his youngsters during the rear
Ing season Will not be so Handicapped
In choosing the good from the bad
when making n final selection OF the
most promising pullets. as those birds
which have shown physical or other de-
fects will have been spotted and cleared
out in double quick time II is the I'M
observant novice that will have the
most culling to do and the best time
for him TO do this work will be after
the birds have retired to roost The
birds should be handled carefully. when
1t will be found that those which ma
ture has endowed with high reproduc-
tory qualities will feel compact. close
feathered, muscular, and especially so
about the thighs, and viii be fun and
brilliant in eye The likely drones will
handle tiabbtly and these should be rel
egated to the oven or other safe place
for II may be taken for granted that
pullets devoid Of muscular development
so near the laying season win prove
Improbable subjects throughout the
winter months. The chicken which ma
ture has fashioned for the production
of eggs in plenty can. under healthy
conditions, no more escape the desire
to scratch and get musCularly hard than
the live wire in the poultry business
can esc@ pc the desire 10 hustle and get
rich
Having selected nice even bunch Of
birds, see that they are relegated to
clean, airy and roomy quarters, re-
memhering that autumn and winter in
clemenCies viii uecessitate much CON
1nement to the shelters, and If the lat
ter are cribbed and stuffy, their ten
ants viii sicSeu and prove prOfitless.
I am not a great believer in the COM
bined house and scratching shed for the
sheltering of laying stock during the
autumn and winter months, as, after
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
Houses For Rent.
FOR RENT.
Is ALICE ST

ON the right going out Alice street, be-
tween Pryor and Central we have a
lower floor, fVe-room fiat, with cabinet
mantels. gas, bath and sink in the kitch-
en-. convenient to schools. churches and
car lines ana within close walking dis
lance Of the business portion of the city
Price so so
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
Real Estate For Sale,
s w. A Foster & Raymond Robson
Real Estate Renting and Loans
Bell Phones 1O31-1032 II Edgewood Atlanta Phone 1881
FOR SALE

FOR SALE
A T. 40 GREENWOOD AVENUE We have
She incest home proposition on the north
slGe, al the price we have on il for quick
sale. Has eight rooms. nicely finished
nee mantels and fixtures, the lot is
t5Nlbo % an alley Can handle this on
terms, Of $500 cash and $50 per month.
See Mr. White
ACRES near East Lake Junction a bar
gain price and terms See Mr. Hook
oN EAST FIFTH ST. We have lovely
mousse OF eight rooms. has an improve
ments and furnace heat The house is
artistically finished inside: large closets.
Price $4,000; easy terms See Or Dews
ON WEST. TENTH ST. between Spring
ana Wihams,. We have beautiful
shaded lot for $4,000 This is fine loca-
ton for home. See Mr. Dcws
2S6 OAK ST, corner of Bunker. five
rooms ana eight foot hall Lot 5tyi50
70 az alley Price. So 800 Terms. See
Mr. White
If YOU HAVE MONEY TO l.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
P l. Reds.

THOROUGHRRED r., l. Red cockerels,
seven months old; 81 each, twenty-five
selected according to standard markings;
So each Pine hin Poultry Farm Jack
sonVille. Ga. 50-9-9
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
Miscellaneous Poultry.

"COBARCO.' FOR SOREHEAp.
ONE application does the work, Euaran-
teed to cure, two ounce bottle for -
cents Write today O.. n. Medicine co.
Ca. 1922
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-10
Poultry, Pet and Live Stock
The getting into

The getting into
form of the pullets
from which next
winters eggs are
expected should
be taken in hand
IN earnest now.
Indeed, the man
who knows his
business pays at
tention to such
work right on
from the day the
young sters leave
the shell. There
are. h o W ever.
many n oVic e 6
added annually to
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22
FARMINGToN ITEMS.

The new city council just installed
three days ago, upon petition of the
citizens have called an election for
the 27.h of the present month to al
low the people to vote upon the prop
osition of saloon or no saloon in
Pennington. The town has been dry
several years.
The Ward barley movement to build
beet sugar factory in Durango is
meeting with general favor down this
way.
Work in repairing the Farmers
Mutual ditch which was badly dam
aged by high water in the San Juan
river last fall is under full head
way, and Mr.. O'Neal, the manager
thinks thet water will be turned in
in ample time for farmers under the
same.
Never In the history Of the Farm
ington country has the outlook for O
full all around fruit crop been bet
ter than now, as owing to the late
spring buds are just now commenc-
ing to swell, some on apple, peach ano
pear trees, while only few apri-
cots are in bloom.
The annual entertainment given By
the Pennington public schools came
off the other night, and promises Of
splendid program were fulfilled.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22
NEW SCHOOL DIS.
TRICTS ARE ORGANIZED

AT the school meeting held on Wed
nesday, April II, at Breen new
school district was formed, the school
house being located near the ranch
of j. l.. Preston.
A temporary board was elected to
serve only till the regular election in
May. They were: C. w. Larson, sec
retary; j. L, Preston, president; and
Lilly B. Stratton, treasurer.
The new district, which includes
most Of township "a, range IL, is
numbered 81. Since there were 260
children of school age in former dis
trict IS, the division was necessary
on account of the fact that so large
number is too many for school
board in third-class district, to take
care of.
The attendance was very large, both
from Red mesa and Kline. Messrs.
Barr and Talbot were present from
the middle part of the district; Messrs.
Harris and Sladc from the western
section, and Messrs. Taylor and Rob
erts from Red mesa, as well AS num-
Der of others.
On Thursday April 10, Mrs. Pulford
held the second school meeting to or
ganize district 32. This follows the
La Plata river and lies for the most
part west of it. The committee ap-
pointed to form the line between the
new district and Hay gulch were:
Messrs. Lloyd from the new district;
Nicholson from Hay gulch, and Hunt
from Hesperus. The line of the Hes
perus district is not changed by the
ftiivisiom. The boandario< as- proposed
apparently gave perfect satisfaction
to the representatives from different
parts of the territory affected.
Notices for the first regular cleo
ton in May in the new district have
been posted, and the school house has
already been built. The residents OF
district 80 purchased the old school
building at Pine Ridge from district
No. 0, Durango, and utilized the ma
terial.
Some of the people included in the
new district are Messrs. Lloyd, Car
rier, Gedney, and great many 9TH
ers, whose names we do not recall.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22
EXPLAINS HIS POSITION.

| observed paragraph in the Du-
range Democrat to the effect that ]
had qualified as delegate on tha
league ticket, and that am now en-
deavoring to play double, which is
not true and although | could not ex-
pect anything different from a per-
sonal enemy who owns and uses the
weapon of a coward, it calls for a
reply.
In the first place | will not be in
La Plata county while the charter
is being framed. My name will no,
appear on any ticket and Mr.. Day
knows that l openly opposed the call.
ing of political party conventions 10
place tickets in the field.
Those that are opposed to the ticket
now in the field should call mass
meeting and in that way place an
other in the field instead of dragging
the political parties down into what y
now personal fight, as you will OBJ
serve in each issue of the Durango
Democrat.
The people should work together ir
this matter as citizens, and not as
Democrats or Republicans.
GEORGE WEAVER.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22

STARVING
Steamer Stimson Takes
Supplies to Flood Suf-
fers Along the
Mississippi
Western Press

western Press
MEMPHIS, April 2O.--The steamer
Stimson with eight hundred thousand
pounds Of supplies for the sufferers
OF the flood arrived today. These
supplies are to be hastened to points
where immediate help is necessary
and where they will be of most as
sistance. The hundreds starving are
mostly negroes. 1t is impossible to
reach many of them because any
man takes his life in his hands who
ventures out in the swift current,
sweeping across the country. More
than seventy-five towns are now SUBJ
merged.
1t is claimed today that half mil
lion people are homeless and the loss
to plantation property is beyond es-
timation. Thousands of bales of cot
ton, being held in the warehouses
for higher prices, are ruined and many
floated away when the breaks in the
levees came. Hundreds Of men are
bankrupt. All traffic between Mem
phis and other points to the centor
ofthe flooded districts have been shut
off.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22
FOUR HUNDRED MILES
FOR A WAFFLE HON

H. II Hanson was a returning pas-
senger to Alamosa this morning with
the result of his trip, handsome
waffle iron, which he was carefully
tending lest it get away. Mr.. Hanson
mas been married but few months
an fact, since last August, a,d be-
ing especially fond of waffles. the
head of the house insisting that IN or.
der to have them of the best a par
t;cular waffle iron was necessary. he
made the trip to Durango to purchase
the necessary article.
lie found one without any trouble
early yesterday morning, and wa. SO
delighted that he carried it around
with him all day yesterday, and prob
fbly put it under the pillow last night.
Inc Hansons will have waffles for
breakfast tomorrow morning.
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22
MUSICIANS
kN[[[|NG
Mrs. Clark Of England
Says They Died
Like Brave
Men
Western Press

Western Press
NEW YORK, April 20.-While the
band on the Titanic was playing
Nearer, My God, To Thee" just be
fore the mammoth liner plunged to
the bottom the musicians were kneel-
ing and all other men on board also.
This information was given by Mrs.
Clarke, survivor, who will depart
shortly for her home in Southamp-
ton, England. Her husband, Charles
V. Clark, with whom she was on her
way to California to make her home
in San Francisco, was lost on the
vessel when she sank. Mrs. Clarke
was one of the persons rescued from
the last boat.
81 was in one of the three boats
lashed together" said Mrs. Clarke,
when one of the officers unlashed one
of them and taking all but one of
the seamen, rowed off to rescue an
other boat in the distance which was
crowded to the sinking point. BE
brave, women, the officer said, as they
rowed away, and they were brave.
"The women and the two men man
ned oars until we were rescued Ia
ter. How long ] don't know but IL
seemed many hours. We shouldn't
have gone unless they had made us,
My husband stood at the rail of the
second deck and | saw him go down
with the ship.
"He made me leave him." she said
brokenly. ~ shouldn't have gone so
otherwise. Oh, they were brave and
splendid, all the men, They died like
brave men. At last all men kneeling,
floated across the water, strains of
Nearer, My God. To Thee | could
hear it and saw the bandmen kneeling,
too"
Semi-weekly herald., 1912-04-22

ers for thinning and topping the beets
is about SIS per acre so that it can
be readily seen that the beet crop,
which is wholly cash crop, is a
good one for the farmers when op-
Grated under the graduated scale for
the price of the beets.
at has been thoroughly demon
strated that the fact of sugar factories
being erected in the valley has been
the means of raising the price of
land to double what it was before
the beet raising was undertaken.
Compared with the wheat crop,
which the government statistics show
for the last five years to have been
twenty five bushels per acre as the
general average and the price per
bushel was SO cents, making about
S17.35 per acre gross. The seed and
cash expense for raising wheat is
about SO per acre SO that it will be
seen by this that the net revenue
per acre to the farmers 10 about dou'
Die ITom the peets ~hnt ~ - Ahoi'
wheat.
Taking the average price OF So
per ton for hay when in the stack
which is considered to be very high
average, and the government sta
tistics show that the average cut per
acre is two and one-half tons of al
falfa hay in Colorado, we have a
gross receipt Of 500 per acre. When
this is compared with the cash returns
from the average acre of sugar beets
we find that even alfalfa hay does
not produce the revenue to the farm
ers that sugar beets do. While it is
less expense and less work to han
die an alfalfa hay crop than it is to
handle sugar beets, yet the farmer
can hire the work done on the sugar
beets and have more net money per
acre from sugar beets than he car
from either wheat or alfalfa hay.
"The alfalfa crop, however, is indis-
pensable in connection with the rails
ing of beets for It is only by the rota-
ton of crops that the farmers are able
to produce the best results in tho
growing of beets, but taking the two
together, the growing of alfalfa anc
then alternating this with wheat
these three commodities are what has
made the price of land what 1t is IL
the valley and gives us evidence oi
continuing to producing the revenue
from the farms and will make the
valley one of the most productive II
the country.
"By the raising of alfalfa hay We
secure the feed that has made the
valley so prosperous in the feeding ol
sheep and the raising Of beets ha'
made the price Of land double wha
it was before"