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HlMflUUMiJUTH Wt Yimea'Stcralb Tho Odtolftl I'ftpor o( Harney Comity has the largmt clrculnllon and li otto ot h e bait advertising tuodluma In Gnalorn Oregon. Site (fircnt 3-tnriicy Coiiulr.tj Govern nn i leu of (1, 128,800 iicice of Innil, 1,0:11,1151 icrcH jet vncnnt Biiblrct to entry tuiilui llio jmblic lnnd Inns ol tbo United Hniee. XXIII BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, OCTOBER 15, 191') NO. 48 MMtaMMHMBWtnamamMMI VT SlvTilAlX 1A T HARNEY VALLEY )e One of the Agricultural Gems f State of Oregon oneWay SHAW PREDICTS THINGS Destiny of Valley is Live Stock for Which it ; Pre-eminent Adaptation Successful Farming sr Proper Methods is Discussed and Advised. 03. Shaw, an authority will suffer less from drought than ,ure, and who is now in other localities. The ultimate destiny of this valley is the production of live stock, for which it has pre-eminent adaption, Until a railroad reaches the valley, it would seem to be unwise for tho farmers, generally, to enter upon any other line of production, for'the rp.isnn thnr. thorn wniilrl hn ilifli- ion and to discuss dry lllfv .. mnAtin m, ntim- ,. ods with local people. ,,..,. .,. ...,n.. .- terior Oregon in corn- President Davidson of & Western Coloniza- epent a day or two in during the week. He trom St. t'aul on the f of J. J. Hill to investi- rricultural possibilities liaw is an interesting and was quick to see lilities in this great val- ce recognizing condi- Bhowing by his conver- he was familiar with A representative of Is-Herald asked Prof. trite his impressions of ry and as he was at lent dictating a signed this character for the tess he gave us a copy herewith printed with an of general descrip- lphs with which local familiar. He writes: ley Valley will some le or tne agricultural Oregon. It is claimed 3t every acre of the lusceptible of being ir- rVin cnltnn nf umtoT rom the Silvies River, Pr.?reU T d waters of which it red and held for use ed. re tnan prooauie that distant future the ir- f the land will be a tion. When that time going to be a garden tiveness. Every acre ated should produce f alfalfa, and in quan- g"f rom five to ten tons er year, it will, also, uce grains in finest uld it be desired to Lands that are now aw values will tnen be worth from ?200 ds per acre, even ey should be held for purpose than the pro- nlfnlfn n now considerable i however. been grown in the val- dry farm plan, or, at lout the aid of irriga- As was to be ex- agnculture, based on in the past has been crude, but doubtless future there will be ', Irovement as soon as sthod of growing crops 3tem have come to be .understood by the far- valley. The outlook ig these crops is cer- te hopetui. me son, Bly intimated, is, gen- aking, most excellent, there is in some places fof alkali in the land. 11 is considerably more ie other parts of Ore- annual precipitation lor the six years enu- 1009 was 13.82 inches. est precipitation, how-, in the winter months1 Bewhere in Oregon. i January for seven ig with 1904, was iruary 2.0G, for and for April 1.90. tour months tne annual m has been 8.28. The annual precipitation HI, May and July, that the growing period, Inly 2.85. This makes apparent that the Har- can only bo success- led in tho absence of by resorting to dry iethods, and even this to be observed very is a fact nevertheless, fge proportion ot tne valley is underlaid erranean waters, and are found tho crops other form. This does not mean, however, that careful attention should not be given in the mean time to the growing of home supplies in every line for which ' the conditions of production are suitable. It does seem simply preposterous to carry potatoes from Vale to Burns, and the same applies to flour and other nec essities of life. These should be produced sufficiently to stop that anomalous and uncrcditable con dition of the trade. It is my belief that winter wheat will be the principal cereal grown in the not distant future. The condition would seem to suit such production much better than any lines of the same growing out of the sowing of spring cereals. If the land is properly winter wheat, I fail to see why it should not pro duce on an average of from twenty-five to thirty-five bushels per year. The proper preparing of the land would probably in volve plowing the same in the autumn, that the winter rains could be thus held in the soil to the greatest extent possible. The land should then be disked or harrowed, or both, in the early spring, and also harrowed subse quently after each considerable rain, or, in fact, whenever it be comes encrusted on the surface. The wheat could then be sown in late August or early September. Winter rye could be managed in the same way. This would mean the growing of but one crop in two years on land handled thus. It would seem quite possible, to grow some spring crops on autumn plowed land, even though the land had not been summer fallowed the pre vious summer. The crops that vill succeed best under those conditions will probably be Dur um wheat, speltz, white hulless barley and spring rye. Careful attention should be given to the harrowing of the crops. Doubtless the best time to begin is just when tho points of the sprouted grain begin to show. Winter wheat will doubt less profit by one or two harrow ings in tho spring, and tho spring crops will profit by from one to four hnrrowings, according to tho conditions. The second har rowing should not usually bo given until the grain has reached tho height of three or four inches, lest tho grain should bo covered by the operation. I fully beliovo that alfalfa can bo grown on nearly all tho lands of this valley, even without irri gating waters. When sowing this crop the land should bo plowed in the autumn, carefully pulverized in the early spring, and then tho alfalfa should bo put in with tho drill, sowing pro bably about twelve pounds of seed to the acre. When the crop is about three inches high, it may be harrowed with profit. The harrow will remove some of the plants, but there will, in most instances be enough loft. The alfalfa crops should furnish from one to two crons nor year, or from, say, one to three tons on average land. On sub-irrigated land the yield would be consider ably more. It will doubtless bo found that when the alfalfa fields are broken up the humus supply will prevent the lands from en crusting as they do now. , ' Dairying and growing pork will probably be the ultimate destiny of the agriculture of this region. I understand that butter sells, at the present time, for 50c per pound. That would mean that the dairyman who knows how to choose good cows, and how to grow alfalfa and course grains for them, would make 300 pounds of butter per year per cow, and this would give him a gross return of $150.00. I fully believe that pork can be grown at a cost of not more than three cents per pound live weight, pro viding it is grown largely on al falfa and finished on green peas, harvested by tho swine. There is thus abundant oppor tunity for making good money from farming in the valley oven now. The owner of the grist mill is now paying $1.50 per bushel for wheat, which is nearly twice the market price. He tells me that barley sells for two and one-half cents per pound, and oats for three cents. Worst of all, potatoes sell for three cents per pound. One farmer told me that he had grown potatoes for twenty years, and had only met with one failure during all that lime. The elevation of the valley is about 4,150 feet. This means that it is too cold for making a corn country, and yet it is proba ble that fodder corn will some time bo grown somewhat exten sively, not only for the sake of the corn, but for the further object of preparing the land for growing grain. All kinds of fruit, required for homo use, such as apples, pears, plums, cherries and berries of various kinds can be easily grown in suf ficient quantity to meet tho needs of the community. Job printing Tho Times-Herald ONE OF THE SPEAKERS AT THE POLITICAL MEETING IN BURNS NEXT THURSDAY EVENING. BBBBBSBsBl. BBttBBBmP, !SBK CIRCUIT COURT DOINGS Busy Term Adjourned Last Monday After Grinding for Week NOTES SHOW STATE PROSPEROUS Eugene Wert and Charles Hart arc Each Sentenced to Four Years in the Penitentiary for Horse Stealing Other Criminal Cases Dismissed One is Tried. U. S. Senator Geo. E. Chamherlain Tho regular October term of circuit court adjourned Monday and Judge Davis loft that after noon for his homo at Canyon City. Quito an amount of business was transacted during tho term. The following is a synopsis of the pro pre ceedings: CUIMINAI.. State vs Lee Carpenter Sta tutory charge. Dismissed on written motion of the district attorney. State vs. A. L. Vamlcrpool, Wm. Burgett and Clyde Love Larceny. Dismissed on written motion of district attorney. De fendants discharged and bail ex honorated. State vs C. C. Couch, Wnn Smith and John Reeves Larceny Dismissed as to defendant Leo nard who was indicted as Wm. Smith. State vs. E. E. Wert and C. E, Hart Larceny of domestic. ani mals. Plea of guilty and each sentenced to four years in tho penitentiary. LAW. A. J. Skeins vs. J. P. Dicken son Recovery of money. Dis missed on motion of plaintiff. II. B. Symc vs. II. M. Horton Recovery of money. Continu ed for the term. Portland Co. vs. Paul Locher Attachment Dismissed on stipulation. J. R. Jenkins vs. Pat Connelly - Damages. Judgment on stipu lation. Davidson Grocery Co. vs. David Brakeman Attachment. Settled and dismissed. A. F. Mackleberg Co. vs. J. E. Ramseville Recovery of mon ey, continued for term. Nannie Stallard vs. II. A. Martin et ux Attachment. Set tled and dismissed. Pauline Locher vs. Krotch & Burkhardt Recovery of money. Set for trial second (lay of April 1911 term. N. Brown & Sons vs. J. E. McCoy et al Recovery of money. Settled and dismissed. E. E. McCoy vs. T. A. Morri sonRecovery of money. Set tled and dismissed. John Silber vs. A. Schcnk Damages. Tried and jury failed to agree. Set for trial first day of April 1911 term. S. M. Brown vs. W. T. Lester and Roy McGce attachment. Settled and dismissed. II. C. Levcns vs. Burns Flour Milling Co. Damages. By agreement 30 days allowed to file amended complaint. 30 days thereafter to move or plead. Any demurrer or motion to bo argued at Canyon and 30 days thereafter to further pjead if necessary. Oregon Industrial Co. vs Scotty Glenn. Attachment. Continued for service. W. W. Drinkwater, same, R. II. Sleeves vs. J. II. Jordan - Damages. Sot for trial first day of April 1911 term. S. M. Hrown vs. J. II. Jordan Recovery of Money. Tried. Motion for direct verdict allowed. Verdict for defendant. James Faris Jr vs. J. W. Biggs Attachment. Passed pending settlement. Ella Schultz vh. C. M. Kellogg - Damages. Set for trial second day April 1911 term. C. A. Sweek vs. Scotly Glenn Attachment, continued for service. Charles V. Reed vs. Claud Smyth - Ejectment damages. Continued for term. Blitzen Valley Land Co. vs. Frank Clow Ejectment damages. Dismissed on motion of plaintiff. Blitzen Valloy Land Co. vs. If. B. Pugsloy Ejcctmont damages, Continued for tho term. & C. M. Refcrr- E. Hart KQUITY. Pacific Live Stock Co. vs. A. Miranda Injunction. Decree en tered by agreement. W. T. VanderVccr vs. S. C. Keyes-Accounting. Referred to official reporter. Sophia Burkhardt vs. C. B. Ausmus Injunction. Referred to official reporter. Chris Lackman vs. Christina Lackman Quiet title. Continu ed for service. W. 11. Doolittle vs. II. M. Horton et al -Quiet title. Con tinued pending settlement. R. L. Gillispie vs. C. II. Rob ertson ot al Specific perfor mance. To be submitted on briefs in 20 days. Myrtlo Carter vs. Chester Car. tor Di voice. Dismissed on courts own motion for want of prosecution. P. L. S. Co. vs. W. V W. R. Co. - Injunction, ed to official reporter. Maudo Hart vs. C. Divorce. Findings and decree for plaintiff. W. L. Best vs. Etta Best Divorce. Findings and decree for plaintiir. R. II Stcevcs vs. M. L. Lewis et ux Forclosure of mortgage. Judgement and decree for want of an answer. Pearl Fisk vs. Fred Fisk Divorce. Service was not com plete. R. R. Sitz vs. A. S. Swain. Judgement and decree on man date of supreme court for defen dant. INDUS! RIAL NOTES. (Portland Correspondence. ) An energetic campaign will be carried on throughout tho North west for more hog raisers. Fpl lowing a conference at Spokane during the past week, it was de cided to get the railroads, the agricultural colleges and the newspapers to work in co-opcra-lion to arouse interest among the farmers. An information bureau on the hog question will be main tained by the Portland Union Stockyards company and a sys tematic effort made to turn the atten fen tion of tho farm popula tion toward this profitable indus try. President Louis Hill of the Great Northern, accompanied by a party of prominent business men of Minnesota, have toured the Northwest during the past week and investigated business conditions. They were enter tained in Portland by tho commer cial club. At a dinner given them they expressed the opinion that no section of tho country can show tho prosperous condi tions found in tho Pacific North west stales. Sumpfer will hold a mining congress October 20 nnd 21 that will attract attention from min ing men from all districts of tho stato as well as many from near by states. Thero is considerable revival of mining in tho Sump ter district particularly and on this account there is a great deal of interest in tho coming gather ing. The increase in livestock pro duction throughout the North west following the establishment of a big market at Portland is shown in receipts at tho local packing plants. One day last week receipts at tho stockyards were over 4000 head. These ani mals wero shipped from various localities in Oregon, Washington, Idnho and Montana and such do- liveries show that tho money formerly going East for largo shipments of livestock is being kept hero at home. 1910 is estimated lo be 1000 car loads or approximately 1,000,000 boxes. The value of the crop is $2,000,000. Oregon has 93 per cent of a full crop. Oregon orchards yieled prunes this year estimated at 15,000,000 pounds. Quantity and quality are superior lo tho 1909 crop. Prunes will bring the state about $1,250,000 this season. Tho peach crop has been the largest in the history of the state. Grapes of the 't";ruo River Valloy, tho Willamette Valley, The Dalles and Eastern Oregon are excellent in qunlily and appearance, while tho vield is large. Tho largest fruit and vegctablo evaporator in the United States is located at Dayton, Yamhill Coy ply, Tho Willamette Valley produc ed 100,000 bales of first grade hops this season, as compared with a yield of 82,000 bales last season. Oregon's cranberry harvest has been heavy. Four hundred bushels an acre, with a clear profit of $2 a bushel, is not an unusual yield for Western Ore gon marshes. An industrial bureau has been established by the Portland Com mercial Club, with R. W. Ray mond at its head. Tho new ad junct of tho Club work will aid in the establishment of fnctories in the state at large and at Port land. During tho past five years, statistics show that Oregon has increased GO per cent in manu facturing. It is expected that 20,000 wool growers will visit Portland during January next, when the National Association of Wool Growers will hold its annual convention in this city. Oregon's public lands comprise 18,225,091 acres. Eastern Ore gon has 500,000 acres of school lands. Because of attractive colonist rates in effect this fall, the immigration to Oregon has been greater than ever before in a like period. Tho total value of agricultural products of tho state for the cur rent season is given at $115,000-, 000. Oregon harvested 17,000,000 bushels of wheat this season, 11-, 000,000 bushels of oats, G.000,000 bushels of potatoes. 2,000,000 pounds of wool and 100,000 bales of hops. Oregon banks have increased in number since 1909 from 204 to 232. Total deposits for Septem ber this year were $142,070,514. an increase over 1909 of $20,G98, GG3. Portland banks show an increase of $9,712,50(5 over the same period of last year. Lane County has 38 lumber mills with an annual cut of 200,000,000 feet. Biliousness is due to a disorder ed condition of tho stomach. Chamberlain's Tablets are essen tially a stomach medicine, intend ed especially to act on that organ; to dense it, strenghthen it, tone and invigorate it to regulate the liver and to banish biliousness positively and effectually. For sale by all good dealers. 1 he Lone Star RESTAURANT OIiIiia (ieurKf , Proprietor. Uor. Miiln iiml 11 Sliwts. JVIBFlliS AT AtiU HOUR Bukeny" in eonneaticm A Specially of Short Orders. Ti -li- luriiiHlicil with uvurything tho iiiurki-t iill'onlH Your piitrnn iiK t-nlioitml. The applo crop of Oregon for Flanfe-. iae Woman '" 'w .$ imRyj.riboliund lorn, but tv.-y worn n should teeo with caro tho good points ni.tiiru hna xv?n her. Mj woman r.ccd h.ivo aall.w sli'.;, dull eyo, bloUi) con.pU'xir; , who pays proper attention to her health. Whei c conutipt.lron.Hvcrderango Tintr. blood impuriti ' nnd other u-rejiuiaritioo c::iat, goo.! complex ion, bright cyco a .! '.prightly movements cannot exist. Internal drriu i nient vevcal tliertt Jvee ooncr or l.iti ron tho turfnec. Headache, dailc rinci aim nl thn cyco, tallow ikin, a con. atoitt tlrctl fachiiginrcn tint tho liver unil (Ii'bi-i tivu organs ixro needing help and correction. ClniberUin'i Stomach and Liver Tnblcts f i tl'.ii nrccnary help, llivy wnrk in nature's own way. Thy do nut mrly fliuti thn lwwr l Imt tone tip lh liver and tloniKch la fulfill tlirir proixr function. So mild nd iiehlU da llioy a, t that cna hardly rlls. that they have tttKon mvdicinp. ChambarUin't Tablet, can bo relied upon lo relievo biliouineie, Indigestion, ronitipation and diselnete. Sold ov crywkero. I'rUoSSccnti, FALL SHOWING of NEW GOODS ilSc WnM We are opening up our new Fall and Winter goods and we will be pleased to have you 'call. Our stock, as -usu'alr will be the lamest 'in Eastern Oregon. py fliipi - Brown's Satisfactory Sotre N. BROWN & SONS Burns, Oregon. !'x&, &6tfc5KTO $$$$Q9.!g i. L. rLtiVv 15 -waaacasw' FIRE INSURANCE. ... Represents the.... Home Insurance Co., of New York, Live pmil, London & Globe, Fire Assurance Co., Philadelphia. OFPICIi WITH IIKIOS & IIIOQS. llii ns, Oregon. t'o'iier.Soulli of I tinnbuig & Dnlton's. ,iwfltfaHBG'tf ssng The HOTEL BURNS N. A. DIBBLE, Propt. CENTRALLY LOCATED, GOOD, CLEAN MEALS. COMFORTABLE ROOMS Courteous treatment, rates reason" ableGive me a ca'l A First Class Bar in Connection C. M. KELLOGG STAGE CO. Four well equipped lines. Excellent facilities for transportation of mail, express, passengers Prairie City to Burns. Vale to Burns Burns to Diamond Burns to Venator E. B. WATERS, Agent. SOJStei -.f-A. -dfc The Harriman Mercantile Co. GENERAL MERCHANDISE BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES Complete line of Groceries and Dry 'Goods Gents Furnishings FULL AND COMPLETE LIKSE OF HAMILTON BROWN SHOES HARDWARE . FARM IMPLEMENTS, VJINONA WAGONS, BARBED WIRE Wo guarantee quality nmljprk'cs Let us provc.to you that we have the'froods at right pricesCall ami see us Harrim an, Oarogr- Til lTw Tswn m. Cr&n Crle 0-.y "