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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14

Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Beymer and
Miss Mary Farnsworth were visiting
with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Farnsworth
at Riverside, for several days during
the past week. Mrs. Beymer and Miss
Farnsworth are sisters Of Frank
Farnsworth. The party made the trip
from their home at Heppner, Oregon,
in MIR. Beymer's Buick, and while in
the upper country spent some time in
Oroville and made a trip to Pentic-
ton. Mr.. Baymer says that the roads
in Okanogan county are far better
than many Of the roads he travelled
over in eastern Washington. II that is
the case there must be some awful
rotten roads scattered over the eastern
part Of the state.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
&c. II. Severance. Dean.)

Sunday school is held every Sunday
at 12. Why not send your child to oul
school.
Church services are held every sec.
ond and fourth Sundays at II a. III
Next service will be on Sunday morn.
ing, September %.
All are most cordially invited.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14

WE. Morris of Nelson, was in town
Sunday.
Geo. J. Hurley was visitor in town
Monday. :.
James H. Murray was in town from
uolson Friday last.
r W. Scott, of Nelson, was regis
nsed in town Friday last.
Norris A. Fountain, of Wauconda
ms in Oroville Saturday.
hr. and Mrs. w. c. Gresham, of Okla
pgan, spent Sunday in town
VIII. Drew of Tonasket was among
. he visitors in town Saturday.
Floyd Wickersham of Tonasket was
ihsitor In Oroville over Sunday.
Mrs. G. H. Hurlbert, of Tonasket, is
visiting this week with Mrs. Mitchell
Allen.
Jas. E. Forde is here from his home
b Spokane looking after business in
teFests.
The change of temperature is keenly
appreciated after the long hot spell of
he summer.
4 P. Murray, president of the First
National bank, spent two or three days
It Spokane last week.
Mrs. John Thomas and Mrs. John
NGling were Oroville visitors We'd '
/ llaay -Molson Leader.
A'number Of mine investors have I
teen In Oroville this week looking Over
mining properties in this vicinity.
Dr. D. H. Lewis made a flying visit |
% spokane last week, and while out |
visited his old home at Springdale.
Mrs. Geo H. Major was operated on
W Dr. Lewis at the Oroville Genera!
hospital Wednesday for appendicitis.
Geo. H. Ellis arrived from Spokane
sunday by automobile, and will spend
nlne days here looking over his prop
sry interests.
fred J. May Of Conconully, head and
'front.' OF the proposed new bank at To-
lasKet, stopped over in Oroville Mon
Gay night on his way to Tonasket.
cnarles and Eta Steiner, from near
ooVllle. are visiting their cousins, the
sess steiner family. for a few days.
Aslott items in Okanogan Independent.
;. son OF Stanley Baker, living near
.ulson' was brought down to the Oro-
'he General hospital Monday even
'us IN serious condition. The young
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14

Frank l.. Hess, who is connected
with the United States geological de-
partment, left Oroville Monday for
Seattle. Mr.. Hess specially is looking
after rare minerals and his mission in
to Okanogan county was for the pur-
pose of looking over and reporting up
on the tungsten deposit located west of
Loomis, near Cathedral Peak. or
course Mr.. Hess works solely for the
government, and is not presumed to
take the public into his confidence, so
we are not in position to report just
what he thinks of the Loomis tungsten
deposits.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14

N. c. Faulkner, who has lived on a
farm a short distance east of Oroville
fer several years, has rented his place
and is to make his future home at
Monroe, Wash. Mrs. Faulkner and
baby left for their new home last
week, and Mr.. Faulkner followed the
latter part of this week, having been
detained few days to settle up some
business affairs. Mr.. Faulkner is an
excellent citizen and a very pleasant
gentleman, and we regret exceedingly
to be called upon to announce his de-
parture for new fields. May he find the
home he has selected a pleasant one
and good fortune come to him in any
line of endeavor he may elect to fol-
low
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14

Arthur s. Bushing, formerly resi-
dent Of this place, and still owning
property in this vicinity, returned to
his home in Brooklyn, N. Y, this week
after having spent fortnight in town.
He has ten acre tract under the ditch
that he has arranged 10 have planted
to alfalfa. Mr.. Bushing Is looking we'll
and still has warm place in his heart
for the Okanogan country. We would
not be surprised If the young man re-
turned to the valley at some future
time to make his home. If lie does the
valley will secure valuable citizen.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14
The main travelled Nelson hill road

The main travelled Nelson hill road
is in shocking condition in places,
especially shocking to those who at
tempt to travel over it in cars. From
Nelson to Circle the road is in fair
condition. but from that point to the
There is no sense or reason in such a
condition. There are gravel deposits at
different points along the road and a
few wagon loads of gravel would elm
mate most Of the rough places. Why
not repair roads occasionally and at
least make them passable at this seas
on Of the year.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1917-09-14

The higher peaks to the westward
were peppered with fresh snow Weu-
nesdav morning, a premonition OF the
coming of winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-26
THE AauEDucr FROM NORTH. OR up-RIvER. SIDE.

vile. Damascus. Claggettsville. Ridge
willie and New Market they cross the
Monocacy at the jug bridge. two miles
east of Frederick and two miles north
Monocacy The battlefield of the
Monocacy is not the only red ground
of the civil war through which the
Monocacy river flows. Part of its
waters pass through the fields of
Gettysburg
Though it is called the Monocacy only
from the Pennsylvania boundary line
south to the Potomac. the river is
formed by the junction of Rock creek
and Marsh creek. two Pennsylvania
streams that drain the Gettysburg
region. Some travellers by rail from
Washington to the west in crossing
the Monocacy somewhat less than
mile west of the village of Dickerson
glimpse the canal aQueduct about half
a mile further down stream and at
somewhat less elevation than the rail-
road bridge. This long distance glimpse
which one gets of the aqueduct through
the window of a fast moving train may
be interesting. but it is apt not to be
impressive: while to stand or loiter
upon the old aqueduct or row beneath
the arches and watcn the canal boats
and their mule teams cross the river
high above il, or to stand on the stone
towpath and contemplate the view
north up the valley of the Monocacy.
with towering Sugarloaf mountain two
or three miles to the northeast and the
blue or purple ridge of the Catoctins
six miles to the west, is surely i'm
pressive-
To lean against the iron picket rail-
ing which guards canal mules and their
drivers from a fall into the Monocacy
and to look south to the point where.
with many swirls and eddies. the gem
orally yellow brown flood of the Mono
cacy joins the Potomac. is to enjoy
picture worth the walk. and near
by picture which comparatively few
Washin gtonians have seen.
X <
If one is interested in such things
there will probably come to mind pic
lures and stories of classic aqueducts
like the Aqua Marcia and the Aqua
Claudia at Rome. the aqueduct of
Nemausus or Mines. the Roman aque-
duct at Segovia and good many
others if ones memory is in good work
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tablish the foundation of his embank-
ment in the river itself"
The report contains a highly. technical
account of the design and partial con-
struction of the aqueduct. but in plain
language the engineers say that the
aqueduct is 43S feet long from the face
of one abutment TO the face of the other.
and that the masonry of the abutments
and wjng-walls extends ninety-six feet
farther. The Masonry of the two abut-
ments and six piers rests upon the solid
rock which forms the bed of the river
and which had been previously cleared
and prepared for the purpose"
The arches are fifty-four feet in the
span. with rise of nine feet. and the
two arches which rest against the
abutments are conducted within the
ahutments ''by what is called blind
arch. down to the rock foundation
The work of the piers and abutmentS
is a system of headers and stretch
ers" except the interior. or backing"
which is composed of ruhblestone. The
stretchers are four feet long and none
was admitted twh less width of bed
than two feet.
The headers have front two feet
long and extend not less than five feet
into the masonry. These big blocks
of stone were laid in hydraulic mortar
stone was carefully 'grouted" with the
same material The noun ''grout
means a thin. coarse mortar used TO
run into crevices between stones or
bricks of structure. and the verb Ito
grout'' means to fill up the joints or
spaces between stones by pouring in
"grout"
The canal passage over the aqueduct
is eighteen feet six inches wide at the
bottom and nineteen. feet six inches
wide at the water surface. with a depth
of six feet. The only mention of the
engineer of this great work contained
in the report is that he was Judge
Wright the report containing this;
Mr.. Cruge-. the resident engineer.
showed us also the specifications of
this work (Which form part of the
contract with the buifder) describing
the manner in which it was to be eX-
ecuted and dimensions of the various
parts. We observed at the foot of the
specifications the name of the cele-
brated civil engineer. Judge Wright.
who was formerly in the employ of the
company"
This was Benjamin Wright. On 32d
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cious organizer and executor of relief
work
When the war broke out she helped
the BeIgians: then, when Italy entered
tn conflict and Mrs. Thomas Nelson
Page. wife of the United States am
bassador at Rome. :opened her splendid
ouvroir for the Italian wounded, Mrs.
Green became its director. Her man.
agement of this quiet. transformations
but far-pea ching work. supervising the
volunteer American helpers. dispensing
sewing to the soldiers wives. oversee
ing shipmntS, has been notable rec
ord OF efficiency.
But one day Mss Green visited the
Hospital Regina Margherita, where the
boys who have lost limbs on the bat
tleneldS are treated before being moved
TO the Villa Mira iori to become trained
in some useful occupation. She saw
three handsome young fellows. one
with both feet amputated. the other
two with their right legs gone. From
one of them she heard of Ignazio's
simply in answer to her questions as
to their hopes for the future.
Mrs. Green looked at the fine young
fellow. hopeless derelict whose
faith was urging his prayers to the
Madonna Then and there she decided
that the Madonna would answer his
prayer,
But the wistful look of Giovanni and
Lorenza, his companions, haunted her.
The. next day, at the American EN-
bassy euvroir. she told of the boys
whose simple faith was bringing an
answer to his prayer.
'-The trouble is. though" said Mrs
Green ~ have only enough money for
one of my three soldiers and there are
those other two longing for American
legs and | have not the heart to dis
appoint them | wonder, if | should pray
to the Madonna.
That night an envelope was slipped
under the door of Mrs. Green's room
in her hotel on it was written. From
the Madonna Inside was a fifty-lire
note There was no card, but Mrs.
Green knew that an American girl
studying abroad had oficiated in the
name of the Madonna The next morn
ing came another letter with the same
words written upon a slip OF paper.
This time there was hundred lire note.
The next day an American woman at
the embassy came up to her.
You don't know how that story of
the prayer to the Madonna touched me-
she said. please take this hundred-lire
note to help get a leg for one of your
boys" The same day another note was
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ing order or ones reference books
handy.
favor. or even with fear. the long walk
by way of the towpath. there is an
easier way to reach the famous aque
duct. One can leave the train at Dick
erson and walk along the railroad
track to a point where an ancient road
crosses il by means of a high wooden
bridge. The railroad. like nearly all
other railroads. is straight on the map.
and otherwise in fact. but in walking
there is no danger that man Will
round the curves too fast for safety.
The railroad passes through a long
and sinuous cut. blasted through that
red-brown stone which is known as
Seneca sandstone. and of which some of
the buildings and walls of Washington
and its environs have been constructed.
The formation extends south of the
Potomac river and in Prince William
county, Va, this stone. or something
very closely resembling it in color and
texture has long been auarried under
the name of Manassas sandstone.
Bull run. where it cuts across the
Observation-Disclosures at the Stone bridge
Manassas. in proximity to Black burns
ford and Mitchell's ford. of civil war
memories. exposes this sandstone to
considerable depth. You can climb out
of the railroad cut and strike south on
the old road which leads by the base of
the Sugarloaf mountain to the Monoc
acy-Potomac junction. Close by the
wagon bridge over the railroad is
house. where a faded little American
flag floats at the top of crooked pole.
chopped from the woods close at hand.
= s.
There is a neat paling fence inclos-
ing flower beds and a grape arbor. and
beyond the fence is garden where
cabbage, beans and tomatoes flourish.
and an orchard. where the boughs of
the trees bend under their delicious
weight of apples and peaches. Before
the house is rural letter box. on
which is penciled the name, Albert
Dixon" This is the only house you
you stop in the shade of big trees that
grow around the stone house of George
Walters.
This house for many years before the
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have reduced the number of kinds to
forty-one Mine operators had their
brands as rIIlers have their brands of
-four and built up. business. largely by
means of valuable trade names.
Hereafter bitu1ninoUs coal reaching
the seaboard, as at lake ports. Will he
pooled Vessels will load from the pile
The use of 1873, geo freight ears. it is be-
Iieved. VIII be saved by this arrange
ment.
prom now on" the railroads war
board says, Coal will be coal when, it
gets to tidewater, and there viii no
longer be any holding of coal in freight
cars until one shipper accumulateS a
full cargo of a particular grade.
Although the main effort OF the war
board is to keep the manufacturing in
dustries supplied with fuel and ma
terials. the consumers. of food and
ture and of all the daily articles of
living are not being overlooked. What
is called general business is receiving
painstaking attention.
Luxuries however, are being cut from
the scheme of transportation. If they
can be hauled, al, right If they cam
not be hauled. no one worries. At the
suggestion of the war board, hundreds
of unnecessary passenger trains have
ceased to run The engines are now
pulling freights and taking soldiers to
their camps and to Atlantic ports.
where they embark for France.
There are to be thirty-two canton
ments in the United States. The large
ones will each have accommodations
for 10000 troops. The transportation
of that many men Will require 3.114
cars, made up into 1873 trains - ,o56
passenger cars. 1872 baggage cars, 52S
box cars, $50 stock cars and SSS fiat
cars.
Some of the laws of the nation and
some of the laws of the states Ito get
a maximum of service as Howard Ell
lott phrases the matter. have been
violated: but the railroads are showing
what can be done when strict regula-
ton" again to quote Mr.. Elliott, does
not cripple their efficiency"
copyright, 1917. by James B. Morrdw.l
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What the Railroads. Are Doing to Conquer the Hum


own offices on Saturdays ito keep in
touch" Howard Elliott explains, with
the details of the properties that en-
ploy u.s.
Subordinate to this board are twenty
three committees. which are composed
of highly paid railway officers of long
experience, among whom are such dis
tinguished transportationists as Presi-
dent Smith of the New York Central.
President Loree of the Delaware and
Hudson, President Pearson of the New
Haven. President Calvin of the Union
Pacific, President Markham of the Hi
nois Central. President Sprou1e of the
Southern Pacific. President Ripley of
the Santa Fe, President Kenly of the
Atlantic Coast Line, President Harahan
of the Seaboard Air Line. President
Mcdonald of the Maine Central and
Judge Robert S. Lovett.
One hundred and twelve general
agents. each of whom is conspicuous
railroad man. were appointed to serve
at the military headquarters in Boston,
New York. Chicago, New Orleans and
San Francisco and at the different
mobilizisg centers and to work with
Army officers in the movement of
troops. war materials and supplies.
Helping the war board in Washing
ton are eleven railroad experts, rank
ing on their own lines as vice presi-
dents and general managers; siXty-nine
clerks and stenographers and eighteen
inspectors. who travel about the coun-
try and get information as to what
should and should not be done. If a
shipper is undertaking his cars the
war board is told of the case.
No pay is given any of these men by the
government. Their services are costing
the railroads 100000 a year. Were the
salaries of the members of the war board
and of such stars as Judge Lovett. Mr.
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WENTY-SIN miles northwest of
the District boundary at Chevy
III Chase the Monocacy river enters
S tho pofop,ac That distance *

E1 WENTY-SIN miles northwest of
the District boundary at Chevy
Chase the Monocacy river enters
* the Potomac. That distance is
measured in a line and no man can
reach the confluence of the Monocacy
and the Potomac by travelling twenty
six miles unless he makes the trip in
an airplane. To this junction of the
rivers il is thirty-eight miles from
Georgetown by the towpath of the
Chesapeake and Ohio canal, which
faithfully follows the course of the Po-
tomac.
The home river runs quite a steady
course to the northwest from George
town to Cabin John, makes loop
around the Great Falls neighborhood.
leads nearly a straight course from
Watts branch, three miles above Great
Falls. to Seneca creek. but from Seneca
TO the Monocacy the Potomac makes a
very wayward sweep, or perhaps it
might be called an -of-the-wayward
sweep, taking twenty miles to cover a
course which a crow could cover in
twelve miles If he considered it his
business to do it and believed that a
field of sprouting corn waited for him
at the end OF the trip,
1t was to see the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal aqueduct that lured the
Rambler to the mouth of the Monocacy
though it was made on one of those
sixxard days in early August when
even the dweller in the suburbs did not
have the nerve to tell his city friends
that he had a cool breeze on his back
porch all day and slept under blanket
at night.
The Monocacy is nearby river. which
nearly all Washingtonians have crossed.
In travelling by automobile between
Washington and Frederick and Brad
i
they follow the older road through
Rockville, Gaithersburg. Clarksburg,
Hyattstown and Urbana they cross the
Nonocacy close to Araby, where the
fOad runs through the battlefield of
the Monocacy. where a Union army.
under Gen. Lew Wallace. though driven
from the field, stayed the advance for
one day of Jubal Early's army in its
demonstration against. or attack on,
Washington in July, 1864
II they follow the road through Rock
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in April. began hauling larger loads.
The increase to the train was sixty-six
tons. or almost two and one-half tons
to the car. compared with April. 1916.
Pennsylvania. Maryland. the Virginias.
Ohio and eastern Kentucky increased
their coal shipments 55.4s0 cars. The
increase in Illinois, Indiana and west
ern Kentucky was 1874 cars.
In May, as against the same month in
1915. the 'eighty-two principal coal
carrying roads. increased their ship
ments 100000 tons. Coal was one of
the earliest subjects taken up by the
war board. The war, it was under
stood could not be fought without
coal-larger quantities than ever and
more expeditions handling of ship
ments from the mines to the mills and
factories.
Second in Importance came iron ore,
in the view of the war board. Coal for
steam. for driving machinery; iron ore
for cannon, ammunition. ships and so
on. The facts ascertained." Mr.. Ell
lott stated. have established the con-
clusion that the national situation and
the welfaN of the country make it i'm
perative that every energy of the rail-
roads must be continuously exerted to
move daily the maximum of coal and
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street. in Georgetown. where that
street crosses the canal. there is
marble monument. which once was
white. The north face of that monu-
Ohio Canai--commen&d at George
town July 4th. 1928. Chief Engineer
benjamin Wright" The west face. Is
inscribed: Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal-Completed to Cumberland octo-
Der 10 1850. Chief Engineer. Charles
+. Fisk.
The east face is inscribed: ''Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company. 1850
President. James NJ. Coale; directors.
William A. Bradley. Henry Danger
field William Cost Johnson. John
Pickell, George Schley. Samuel T.
Smith: clerk. Walter S. Ringgold:
treasurer, Lawrence ]. Brengle." On
the south face is this: Maryland state
agents-Samuel Spr:gg. Allen B. Davis,
William T, Goldsborough. Tench Thigh
man. John Van Lear.
The engineers in their report referred
to the "iong sickly season Of the To-
cality." In a short sketch of The Ches-
aoeake and Ohio canal. written by Ho-
ratio y Parker and Incorporated in
The Potomac River BASIN. one of the
water supply and irrigation papers OF
the Geological Survey, is this:
by May /. 1929. work had been done
on all five RESIDENCES. into which the
section had been divided. However.
labor proved scarce, and was found
necessary to import il from Europe.
Sickness broke out among the men.
who contracted fever in the valley.
and some of the contractors were COM
PEELED to suspend operations.
at was late in October before the
various gangs We're all in good con-
dition. but the winter proved an open
one. and it was possible TO continue the
work far into it. The men proved dis
orderly and the laws of those DAVIS
were not stringent enough to deal with
them promptly, so that ultimately the
importation of foreign labor by the
company was abandoned.
At the time of the construction OF
the Monocacy acueduct Charles Fenton
Mercer was president of the canal
company. When one contemplates that
the stone of this great aoueduct was
taken out of the quarry by hand drills
and put in place without a steam hoist
ing engine, the magnitude of the task
is evident