The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1914-04-16
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON

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cally commission form Of govern
ment with budget for expenses.
A fall of 100 feet, one Of the highest
in the world, to be used for CONNER.
cial purposes, will be utilized by David
A. McKeon, of Prairie City, for placer
mining and development of electricity.
One hundred and nine bottles of
beer and ~ bottles of whisky went in
to the Willamette river, via the AL.
bany sewer. Police officers poured It
out.
Two months more will be required
on preliminary plans and specifica-
tlons before bids can be called on the
500, 900 classroom and administration
building of the university of Oregon.
The fishermens union at Astoria
has asked net s cents pound as the
price this year for cannery salmon,
and ~ cents for the cold storage
variety The prices are the same as
prevailed last season.
The board of regents of the Oregon
agricultural college approved a plan
submitted by the student body which
will result In the establishment of a
students cooperative bookstore, with
a capital of S25OO.
Forty-one schools out Of 20 in Polk
county have completed the Ia require
ments and are standardized. Com.
! petition was the outcome of the plan,
and each school has received pen.
nant for its work
The report of State Treasurer Kay
for the quarter ending March 81 shows
that there was less money in the treas.
ury at that time than during any pre-.
ceding quarter for number of years.
The aggregate In all funds was s613..
1924.
President Wilson wrote to Senator
Chamberlain OF Oregon indorsing the
proposition to lend a United States
army engineer TO China to supervise
reclamation and conservation work
and flood prevention. He praised the |
Red Cross for concelving the idea and |
expressed the hope that congress will |
approve II.
Senator Chamberlain reports that |
the agricultural committee has agreed |
TO the appropriation OF $4,000 for the !
importation of Corriedale sheep for !
breeding purposes, $4,000 for continue.
tion OF the biological survey In Ore
gon. $4,000 for further farm expert.
mental work In Alaska, and 100000
for forest protection from fire In co.
operation with the states.
Although the federal forestry bu.
reau made announcement few weeks
ago that 10000 acres OF land In varl.
Gus parts OF central Oregon were
about to be withdrawn from the forest
reserves, II develops upon close analy.
sis that only 10000 acres OF this entire
area will be available for actual settle
ment for other than dry farming pur-
poses.
The Oregon bureau OF mines and
geology will publish before the end
OF this year dozen principal reports
besides numerous small ones as the
result of Investigations made In 1913
and 1914, They will deal with the dis.
cussion of building stones, coal re-
sources, clay and clay products, the
metal mining industry, cement ma.
terials and road materials
Farmers in Lane county, who re-
Gently agreed TO plant more than 1000
acres to clover, in hopes OF renourish.
ing land which has been exhausted
by the continual growing OF grain for
the past 80 years, are preparing TO
experiment with the use OF lime TO
aid in the clover growing. The ex.
periments are being made under the
direction OF the Lane county farm ex-
pert, Samples of soil from all parts
OF Lane county are being analyzed
TO determine parts OF lime needed
State Game Warden c. II. Evans
states that the 32 elk. brought from
Jackson Hole, Wyo,, 10 the Billy Mea.
dows pasture in Wallowa county, are
to be turned loose to shift for them
selves Sportsmen OF Joseph petition
ed the state fish and game commits
sion to have the elk transferred TO the
head of Wallowa lake, where they
could be seen by tourists, but the
board decided that expenditure of
about $4,000 for the purpose would
not be justified,
State Bank Superintendent Sargent
has notified 20 corporations that they
would either have TO quit business or
before June 4 with the law
TO trust companies, which
Was passed at the last session OF the
legislature, He suggested to the com.
panies having the word trust" in
heir names and not doing trust