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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1905)
The H eppner Gazette. Issued Every Thursday Morning OUH CM IIIIINt; LIST. Ileppner Gazette and Weekly Ore- gouian, one year 2 00 Ileppner Gazette and Weekly Ex aminer, one year, including ticket to Examiner's great drawing , , , 2 10 Heppner.Gazette and Ilural Spirit, one year 2 00 AddreBS all orders to Gazette, Hepp ner, Oregon. Acer's Impure blood always shows somewhere. If the skin, then boils, pimples, rashes. If the nerves, then neuralgia, nerv ousness, depression. If the Sarsaparilla stomach, then dyspepsia, biliousness, loss of appetite. Your doctor knows the remedy, used for 60 years. " Returning from the Cuban war, 1 was a perfect wreck. Jlv lilooil win liari, mnl my health w:is gone, lint n few hotth-s of Ayer's Sarsaparilla completely curpil inn." 11. (.:. DoKULici:, Suranton, I'a. (5(1,00 a bottlo. All (lrm.'tfiHU. T. C. AY Bit CO., Lowell. Mfisw. for cod Kin y tii j&hxj i Aid tho fiirsrjpariiia by keeping the boweli rogalor with Ayer'3 Pills. WAST I' OF HATER. F.xpcrts Say Eastern Oregon Is Easily Irrigated. " Prof. Samuel Fortier, who has charge of the irrigation and draiuag investiga tions in the Pacific States, acting under the directions of tbe Department of Ag riculture at Washington, was in Port land Thursday, says the Ort gonian, on his way t0 Rerkeley, Cal . where he rvakes his headq'iaiters. Prof. Fortier has for the past week been inveMigat itig the conditions in Eastern Oregon as regards in iintion. Dr. Elwood Mead, of Washington, chief ot the irrigation invest:gati mis of !h:: Depaitment of Ag ticiiltuve, i? expected in Portl.md Mon day. It is understood that he will bImj make o tiip thnngh Eastern Oregon. The investigations of Prof. Fortier of the cl'rmtic find soi! conditions of East ern Oregon regarding irrigation are the first Hcienti'ic researches of this nuttm that have ever been attempted by the Government in this state. It is the re suit of a request made by Governor Chamberlain to Secretary Wihon, of the Department of Agriculture, that the irrigation conditions of Oregon be in vestigated by the Government. The purpose of Prof. Fortier's trip t this state is to prepare and outline the wo'k to be done by Prof. A. P. Stover, of the University of California, who has been assigned to Oretron for this coming summer. Mr. Stover is professor of ir rigation at the UniveJsity. He will spend the entite summer making trips through the arid sections of this state and studying' the different conditions. He will also conduct experiments. In the fall he will go to Washington where he will compile a report of his observa tions and experiments. If the report of Trof. Stover is favor able it is verv probable that the Govern ment will daride to locate a permanent station of investigation in Oregon as it has done in other states. If such is the cae the Legidature will be ifked to appropriate seveial thousand dollars to aid in the work. The Government agrees to furnish an amount equal to that appropriated by the Legislature. This arrangement has been made by the Department of Agricultural with several of the Western States. "I am surprised that Eastern Oiegon is not more developed," said F.of. Fortier at the Hotel Portland Thursday afternoon. "It is almoBt astonishing," he continued, "that a greater progress in irrigation has not been made in this state. I think the possibilities offered are wonderful. I had no idea until I made this trip, of their extent. You have plenty of water, the very richest of s il and the climatic conditions could hardly be improved upon. "I have been in the West for nearly 20 years and am thoroughly familiar with irrigation as it has been conducted in other states. Nevertheless I was greatly surprised when I came to Ore gon. I find practically two-thirds of the Mate is arid or semi arid land, and very little of it is utilized. If we had the water that is wasted in Crook county in Southern California it would be worth thousands of dollars to us because e would utilize every portion of it. "It is different in this etate, though. You have the lar.d and also the water, but you have paid so much attention to the western part of the state that East ern Oregon has been overlooked. If you could baye been along with me when I was in Crook county and have seen the fertile land lying idle while through its midtt flowed a large stream of water which could be diverted for ir rigation purposes you would think so too. . "I visited several different sections of Oregon. I was at Umatilla, Pendleton, Echo and through Butter Creek Valley. It was the same as in Crook county. I w.ll tell you what they have been doing in certain portions of Butter Creek Val lev. The streams trom which the farmers or. tain their water goes dry early .'in the spring. However, they flow the lands in February. The soil is si deep and rich that it retains the moisture all summer They raise as good crops and ss vigorous fruit trees by winter irrigation as we do in Cal ifornia. "While on this trip I instituted a mall experimental station at Bend, Oregon. The Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company gave me the use of six acres of land. Elias Nelson, a grad uate of the Wyoming University, who has considerab'e experience with irri gation has chatge of the experiments at the present time. We have s'x acres of land planted in oats. " 5Ve are trying three methods cf ii ligation to see which will prove the most uccessful in the climatic condi iions of that vicinity. Part of the land will be laid off in checks or compart ments. Each check will contain about half an aero of IhmI ad be surrounded by n biuafi levee which will retain the water. This form of jr. igation is used in the San Jcaq-iin Va'ley. Another of t'ie tracts will he flooded from field lateiais in a marine, sirxi'ar to the method usod rn-ist commonly in the irri gated portions of the mountain states. The third test n il. b to allow wa'er to r un dowu fu rows spaced from 30 to 40 inches apart. Tina would prevent the ground from being baked alter the w.ter has receded. "I hav o-dered shipped from Port land a large galvanized Iron tnk, about two feet in diameter, which will oe used at Bend to determine the rate and amount of evaporation. There will also be seven or eight additional tanks in which will be grown eugar beets. Dirt will be placed io tbe tanks and beets planted. During the summer the plants will be waterpd in different proportions. Some of tbe plants will receive hardly any water and others w II be flooded nearly all the time. In this way we can find out the amount of water that should be used io that par ticular vicinity. When the beets have reached their full growth they will be analyzed to ascertain the amount of nutriment they contain and as to their purity. The largest vegerab'es are not aiwavs the best." Tilt OX WATERS. Project to Irrigate t'ntatllla Land. Washington, March 31. The pros pect for Government irrigation in the Umatilla country has materially brightened id the last few days, fines the receipt of a report from Edward I. Davis, assistant engineer in charge of tbe Umatilla project. After making exhaustive topographic surveys, Mr. Davis reports that, he has devised a nclieme by which he blives it will be possible to irrigate anywhere from 100, 000 to 250,000 acres of extremely ferti'e land lying just south of the Columbia Kiyer in Umati la, Morrow, Sherman and Gilliam counties. It was originally intended to utilize the floodwatera of tne Umatilla River for irrigating these lands, but an ex haustive search failed to find any feas ible damsite on that stream. Engi neers found that tbe bed of the stream was of such loose structure that no reservoir could be built which would hold water. But Mr. Davis has dis covered what he believes to be a feasi ble plan whereby tbe Government can Btore the flood waters of the John Day River and by a long canal divert it onto the land originally intended to be irri gated from Umatilla River. While his plan is probably more expensive than would the original Umatilla project, had it been feasible, it seems to present tbe only solution of this great irrigation problem. As soon as convenient, Mr. Davis' plan will be submitted to the Bard of Reclamation Engineers, who will go over the ground and determine upon its feasibility Reports seem to indi cate that there is plenty of wafer in the John Day River to irrigate at least 200, 000 acres of very rich land. The recla mation service is very anxious to con struct an irrigation system in the Uma tilla country and is hopeful that Mr. Davis' plan will prove practicable. The additional lands withdrawn yes terday under this project are desired either for irrigation or for for rights-of-way. The new plans call for an exten sive system of canals, and the Govern ment, as far as possible, endeavors to )omestic Peace in the family is not to be ex pectecl where a poor cook stove is used. That is only natural. Secure DOMESTIC HARMONY by furnishing your home with one of those magnificent Superioi or Majestic STOVES OR RANGES Economical in Fuel, Satis factory in Results, and as cheap and good as a good grade of Stoves can be sold. FOR SALE ONLY BY Gilliam & Mm, Heppner, Ore. LEADING DEALERS IN Stoves and Kitchen Outfits PLUMBING A SPECIALTY GIILLIAM & BIsBEE protect rights-of-way ( t this character, to prevent cor, flirt with private owner.. Iliggcit flowing: Outfit In Oregon. IVnd.eion, Or., March 30. -The larg est plowing outfit in Oregon has just been unloaded in Ibis city and will be used on a Umatilla County farm. It consists of a 30 horse-power engine and eight 14-inch flrws, capable of cutting 30 aores per day on level land. The engine will pull the outfit at the rate of two find three-quarter miles per hour, and the plow cuts 112 inches, or nine and one-third feet at each furrow. The engine is a double-cylinder com pound, the drive wheels a-e six feet high and are 39 inches in width, with flangss four inches deep, with which t cling to the ground. The entire outfit weighs about 36,000 pounds and is valued at $5000. These plows are extensively used in Ca.ifornia, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Kansas and also in South Africa, Australia, Argentine and Canada, but this is the first of this kind to be brought into Eastern Oregon. This ou:fit wiil plow as many acres in a day of tea hours as 14 three-horse teams, using one 14 inch share each. One Ileal Estate Rargnius. 240 acres good timber land, 30 acres in cultivation, 5 nores in timothy; plenty f running water; good 5-rnomed bouse; good barn and other outbuildings; 1J miles from g"od school ; one mile from good saw mill. 320 aotee good timber laud io the edge of tbe mountains. The very best of summer pasture; plenty water; good lo cation for snall saw iliII or wood mill; good buildings. In Morrow county. C. L. ASHBAUGH, Feb9-Maj9- . Hardman, Ore. Tbe newt of both hemisphere m The Weekly Oregonlan. 1 man is require! to operate this piow a"d it burns about ha'f a ton of coa! per day. Every vineyard at and near Juliuetta, Idaho, his beeii quaran tined by the state horticultural inspector because of infrstion by phylloxera. Many of t'nm must be uprooted aud ioj.s and. branches burned. More Riots. Disturbances of strikers are not near ly as grave as an individual disorder of the system. 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