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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1904)
8 3ESs"3 ow About The Gazette office was never better equipped for Artistic Job Printing than it is to day, having just received a large supply of NEW AND UP-TO-DATE TYPE which added to our already complete office, makes it one of the best shops in Eastern Oregon. Do you need LETTER HEADS BILL HEADS or ENVELOPES. If you do now is the time and the Gazette is the place to have it done. Can supply you with anything in the CATALOGUE OR POSTER LINE In fact we are prepared to turn out any job from a small card to a full sheet poster, and you can have col ored work if you prefer it. If you do not believe it, try us. Make a specialty of PRINTING BRIEFS Perhaps you are in need of some legal or land blanks, which we always carry in stock. Send for catalogue. We have a complete line of both LEGAL AND LAND BLANKS Come in and examine our line of cards and wedding stationery. THE GAZETTE HEPPNER, OREGON ZS2SS3SSSISS Gazette, $1 pi i,o'.r i.mkki:ts. Sloppncr not a I ions oil Staples (ioii;,'i Hiitl SolU Jlcrt'. kd'aii, gkockky pkicks. COFFI5K Mocha and Jaya. bent 45c per pound ; next rade, 35o per pound; package coffe , Lion and Arbuckle, G package: f ir $1. KICK iJesr bead rice 10c per pound; ii' Xt trade (I'o cents per pound. SU(t Alt Ci-iie ir ami at."d, beht if 6 Ho per Hack ; do l.'J pounds if, SALT Coa'ce 05 per 100; 49o 50 pounds FLO U It $4 VUi " per bund. I'.ACON 15,f M p- pound. HAMS 1(5 IS (.. pound. COAL Oil- $1 2Zm 75 fur 5 gal lons ; $3 50 per cMse V KG ETA ULKS. POTATOES le ik r pound. CABBAGE 3c per pound. ONIONS 3c per pound. FltriTH. APPLES Gn-en lc ppr pound. BANANAS 40c per dozen. LEMONS 30c per dozen. ORANGES 40c60c per dozen. LIVESTOCK ANI l'OULTKY. Prices paid bv dealer to tbe producer. CHICKENS $3 50 per dozen. BUTTER- ranci), 40 and 50;: per roll. EGGS 30c per doz. BEF.F CATTLE, ETC. COWS $1 75$2 00 pjr hundred. SI EE ItS $2 502 75 per hundred. VEAL Dressed. 5c per pound. SHEEP -$1 50$2 50. HOGS Live, 4c(35o; dressel, 6Mc 7a per pound. icikouu oi.a;i: t'oic jriivr. Itircrtor tJlvi'N SUitisticM for tlie 1 fur J usi i: ii (led. State of Ohio, Count of Toledo ( Lucas County, ( ss Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney k Co., doing business in the city f Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said Arm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Chknky, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 6th day of December, A. D 186 sral A. W. Glbason. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, fend for testimonials free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O Sold by all druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Washington. Dec. 2 Th? Director of the Mint, in his an run I report, shows that, the output of the coinaa mints at Philadelphia, San Fanrifco and New Orleans, which wee in operation throughout the fiscal year, was the largest on lecoid. It is estimated the j gold stock of the w-ld in use a' money on December 31. 1003, was approxi mately 85,000,000.000, of which about orm ha'f is visible in banks and public treasuries. The estimate of tbe stock of United Staten for that tiniH is $1,300, 000. 000, f which $$50,000,000 was in Treasiuv and Naf onal banks. During the ear tbe mints and assay otH.ii'H s . Id S22.924.710 worth of gold brf and 2,000,300 fine ounces of silver for use in the arts and manufactures, whilf private refineries sold 83,248.843 woith of gold ami 17.100 1G6 fine ounces of silver for tbe same purpose Es timating for the amount of coin melted and deducting old material used, tbe net consumption of gold in the year is e-timted to have been: Gold, $24, 377,902; silver, 20,749,743 ounces. The total domestic coinage of tbe Philadelphia, San Franciscd and New Orleans mints amounted in value to $228 202.151. while the number of pieces executed, including tbe coinage for the Philippines, Venezuela and C sta Itica was 219,353.442 The Director recommends that the present provision requiring nickel and bronze coin to be made at the Phila delphia mint be repealed, in order that the other mints my supply their ad jacent territory. The director calls attention to tbe fact that under tbe provisions of the monetary act of 1900 not more than $50,000,000 of tbe $150,000,000 gol 1 re serve cn be in bullion, and recom mends that this be changed to permit of a larger supply of bars. He says any important demand upon the treasury for gold is always for export and that for this purpose bars are preferred to coin. The deposits of gold amounted to' $177,753,384. Domestic gold coin, abraded or mutilated, amounting to $159,818, was recoined on which there was a 1 iss of $17,000. The deposits of olil material, jewelry, plate, etc., amounted to $4,082,030. Tbe total purchases and deposits of silver were as f I own, in standard ounces: Silver contained in gold de-po-its, $630,313; for Philippine coinage, 10,348,132; Ilawaiisn coin redeemed, 105,319; uncurrent domestic coin, 2, 135,100; for return in fine bars, 6,691. 430; for foreign coins, 459.030 a total of 20,129.333 On the recoinage of domestic sub sidiary coins, there was a loss of $172, 271, and on the redemption of Hawaiian coin a profit of 0373, due to the fact that these pieces of denominations be low the dollar are heavier than the co' responding United States coins. The fce value of all Hawaiian coins re deemed to date is $818,312 and their coining value is $83,924. The total coinage of Hawaii was $1,000,000, all is sued In 1883. Tbe seignorage on silver dollars coin ed during the yeir was $2,032 495: on subsidiary silver coina, $1,950,080. and on minor coins, $1 149 740. The total expenditures of the service for the year were $1,896,834. fleet At 36 Cents A Pound. Chicago, Dec. 2. This was "slaugh tering day" at the Livestock Exposition at the stockyards. Unprecedented prices were obtained today for the sni malsputon sale. Beef "on the hoof" sold for 36 cents a pound. This figure was tbe price paid for Clear Lake Jute, grand champion steer of the show, and is 12 cents a pound higher than that ob tained from laBt year's grand champion. The champion carload of feedera also brought fancy figures, being disposed of at $10 50 per bundred. Last year's pi ices for this grade of cattle was $8 35. I! 1 1 . ri I "i CJ 1 Year I H I Morrow County, Oregon. Morrow Connty is b dow country , and like all otber new countries, is awaiting development. Located in tbe Columbia river valley, and skirted on tbe Bontb with a spur of tbe Blue moun tains, vrith in tbe boundaries of Morrow county is a territory 75 miles in length by 85 mile in width, and contair.it g 1,313,280 Bores of land. Formerly stockraising was tbe pnnoipal industry, but lat ter ly the fertility of the laid is bringing agrioilture to the front. Immense wheat cropa ars grown with ii t'e cnltivation, the soil bung mixed with a volcanic ash wbioh is very rich in wheat-produeing qualities. The 19C4 crop will aggregate l,400,nCO bushels, much of it from virgin soil. Morrow county bus thousands of head of sheep, horses and cattle. The wool prodootien for 1904 was 2,500,000 ponuds. Afa fa &nd fruit growing are profitable industries, rapidly growing in importance. The county has also a great coal field, soon to be developed. The Heppner Gazette Is the best exponent of the industrial life of the town and county. Keeps its readers thoroughly posted as to their progress and development. A good medium to send to eastern friends, thoroughly reliable, wide-awake and progressive, $1.00 per Year in Advance Take advantage of some of our clubbing offers. yyyyy wr.TUU "HOWS