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mm iMiliiujili dP SThe Wlmcs-Htrflia Tliu Ofllclnl l'npor of llnrnoj Comity lina tlio liirgosl circulation and la ono of lio best nilvcrtlatiiR mediums In Kiloru Oregon. gwtw, Jj rent larnu fltouttlrrj Covers an nrca of 0,428,800 ncrci ol lanil, 4,(131,1)61' Heron yet vacant lubject to entry under the publlo land lawa ol the United rllatot. fOL. XXIV BUHNS, HAHNEY COUNTY) OKEGON, JULY 1, mil NO 33. SPte P1101 "RE STARTING RIGHT Scientist Today's Great Central Oregon Need, Says Writer OPINION OF RAILROAD MAN stnblishmcnt of Experiment Stations in Harney junty in Line With Views Expressed Some of ic Products That do Well in This Bier Country. iter to the Sunday Journal ral Oregon, that great east of the Cascade moun ras a revelation to the Nothern Pacific rai'road ?ho made a journey of Jes through a small part ist week. Like a groat of Oregonians who fct taken time to familar- iselves with the expanse Diirces of their own state, Is of several departments great transcontinental system were free to con cise at the vastness of itry traversed as well as development which has arm at distances of even bs from railroad transpor- As a matter of fact, the sffort put forth in taming in carrying water from wis to the parching des- eas, was the object ot terest than other feature country. And well it e. ips nowhere else in the 3tates can conditions be Ifhich will compare favor th those in central Ore- olated in some cases for ter ot a century, in a of such wide expanse If a dozen small states ae lost on its trackless ion have gone into cen- Igon with hope and oner- bunded and after settling i as worthless as the sand Sahara desert, began the il, waiting for the rail- Many a good man has ', the isolation and the long packed up his few be- consisting principally of children, and begun the :k to "God's Country." abody could blame him. lat was the central Ore- iresterday. That was the in which the late lamen- rriman claimed to have an ;and to which he promis- ; ago to build a highway el. Death claimed him the work was even begun lany are the men who Be up today after having decade while "holding ae claim," watching lor bf a Harriman locomotive, central Oregon of today iged. The old time mir- disappeared and in its sprung up homes and Ind orchards and towns. th energy and faith have ed the desert and have P better than they knew, fed further in real dcvel- ; than even the most cri tic builder oi urcgon And they have done rk alone and unaided. ing a home in central rhas been a man's job. heart had no business on plains where tho crops owly as the sagebrush rorked out of the soil, everything the husband- was an experiment like- suit in failure. It took i as well as hard toil to jut success, while the poll by and the railroad appear. ral Oregon is not tamed loughmen have planted ?ed crops in recent years decado ago it was !." Un twiHiinx- l.nf .nn. sagebrush could find gnt. But, where men by ro attacneu themselves to id, now hundreds and aousands are gathering lies and communities for )oso of wresting tho land coyote and the stock- building for themselves ind developing farms in tho ranches of formor lebt the railroads have long owed central Oregon is be ing paid. Two lines are being extended into a part of the great stretch of country, the part which promises tho quickest re turns in tonnage. But oven after the tracks are completed to the California line if such be the plans, great stretches will still be isolated as parts of Alas ka. The railroad development has scarcely begun. The debt the state at large owes the plains country is not to be easily paid. A vast domain of rich arid soil, awaiting the husbandman with plow and seed er, must make Oregon one of the richest agricultural sections in Union. Fortunes have already been taken off the range in wool and in beef, and other fortunes will do made irom the same sources. But the country to be come really great, must be de veloped in agriculture, and that quickly. And hero is where the state can pay off its debt The sug gestion comes from the party of railroad men, skilled in the things which go to make up prosperity and tonnage, that the state with out loss of time cause surveys' of the land in central Oregon to be made showing the areas fitted for grain growing, for horticulture, for gardening and for alfalfa culture. Soil an alysis could be carried in every section of that wide area for the purpose of saying for the farmer who would cultivate the soil at least several years of wasted labor and loss of time, while he would be experimenting with crops not fitted for his section of the country. "Oregon owes a debt to tho semiarid country in which men have long struggled to found homes and towns," says a mem ber of the railroad party. "The state is endowing a great agri culture college whose duty it should be to send men to the new sections nd make analysis of "the different soils, take obser vations of climatic conditio. is and report on the crops which will do best under certain culture methods. Every quarter section of agricultural land should be thus tested. Every effort should be made by the state to prevent loss of time by the settler who will hayp a hard struggle at boat. "Already many years of valu able time has been lost while men waited impatiently for tho coming or the railroad, ine state can now do a service which will save perhaps five years' time and an immense amount of dis couragement and hardships. Every year the land lays idle tho loss to tho state is tremendous. Unaided the settler will be a number of years in establishing himself as a fixtuue with income enough to warrant him In build ing a home and sui rounding him self with the comforts of life. The state can help him tremtn douoly at very small cost to it self. "Tho idea fs not mine, neither is it new. Tho Btato of Missouri has tried out the plan and it has worked out admirably. Other states, I am told, have similar plans working. It could not fail in Oregon. "People will say that tho rail roads should help to develop tho country. That is very true, and the western roads are doing their full share to build up tho country permanently, There is no doubt but that tho great sys tems in Oregon would aid in tho plan of testing the soil and giv ing settlers the benefit of scien tific information. But tho state must do its share. Tho agricul tural college could do tho work needed if monoy enough were given to pay men to go out and take observations and test tho soil, a practical work carried on in most of tho states with splen did results. "A case might bo mentioned. In tho country nbout Madras tho onion and potato grow luxuriant ly with no extraordinary caro or attention. There seem to bo el ements in tho soil which promote tho growth of root crops and give flavor and iizo and general excellence. Porhaps no whero in Oregon will tho soil produce root crops equal to tho produc tion of choico boaverdam land in the Willamette valley. Yet tho land near Madras is cheap and thoro is plenty of it. Ore gon might bo mndc the Onion state if proper attention wero given by scientific men to con ditions in Crook county. Here tofore tho farmer could not sell his onions and potatoes because he could not get them out of tho country, but with tho coming of the railroad this difficulty has been over come. "Yes, indeed, central Oregon offers problems which wise men should solve, and solve quickly. Few people comprehend the im portance of action which may mean success in agriculture on millians of acres of land." INDUSTRIAL NOTI-S. CONTROVERSY SETTLED Lands Are Disallowed LONG DISTANCE RAILROAD NEWS July 1, Ikginning of Fiscal Year in Railroad Circles, Will Reveal More Railroad News Says, Vale Paper Agricultural College Asks if Hens are Profitble. Tho famous Cunningham-1 Prof. Dryden, "but ho doesn't Alaska coal land claims, through K ol,t of 'lis way very much to which it has been alleged that. Kvo tho public tho be tho Morgan-Guggenheim syndi cAto hnd planned to extend their vast interests in Alaska and con trol ono of the most valuable coal fields in tho world, were formally disallowed by tho department of tho interior. Secretary of tho Interior Fisher having approved tho department's decision as handed down by Commissioner Dennett, of tho general land ollico, tho last door is believed to have been closed to tho Cunning nefit of his ideas, and there in tho public is tho loser. Tho regrctablo thing is that very fow farmers use a pencil and notebook in keeping chickens, so that thoy must guess a good deal in nnswering such a question. By long as sociation with fowls, however, throwing grain to them nnd ga thering tho egg, he is able to form a fairly acurato estimate of tho profit. "If tho farmers (Portland Correspondence. ) Central Oregon will form its projected development league late this week at Prineville. A representative delegation from Portland will go and officials of the state league will attend, giving all the help possible in getting the now organization started along right lines. Secretary C. C. Chapman of the Oregon Development League will attend and before returning to Portland will traverse a part of Eastern Oregon ho has not yet visited, reaching Burns, Prairie City and other cities of that territory. He wants togeta close view of that section so as to learn for himself the needs of tho iooplc and the best means for development. Children of School District No. 112, near Hcrmiston, will be given practical instruction in Ag riculture, taxpayers of that dis trict having voted a special tax to buy a tract of land lying near the school grounds that will he used as a farm. Competent in structors in agriculture will be secured and all the work of plow ing, planting, irrigating, cultiva ting and harvesting will be done by the piiplils under the direc tion of tho instructor. Oregon's Agricultural College, at Corvallis, will have the best facilities in the United States for horticultural research work when the new horticultural building, to cost $3G,000, is completed. Work has been started on the foundations. In future, tho col lege will lay special emphasis on advance work in tho study of orchard problems, looking to the extermination of insect nnd fun gus pests nnd seeking to adapt different varieties of fruit to tho various soils and climates to bo found in this state. This work is, ot course, undertaken at pre sent, but with additional facili ties it is expected much more will be accomplished. Pioneers are interested in tho purchase of ten acres adjoining tho site of tho pioneer monument at Champoeg to add to tho threo acres already held there, making a state park. A fund will bo raised for the purpose by sub scription and tho Legislature will bo asked at tho next session to repay tho monoy advanced. An interesting contest closed in Portland during tho past week when tho Y. M. C. A. distribut ed prizes to schoolboys who grew vegetables on back lots. An ox hibit of tho prize vegetables was mado and tho competition created a great deal of interest. About 250 school children enter ed and tho showing was a credi table one. ham claimants. Their attorneys ! money on the hens, have threatened an appeal to the United Stales supreme court but such an appeal can bo based only on some point of law involved and itoton the findings of fact as announced by the department. I ho Cunningham claims have. been in the public eyo for more than two years. They brought about the Ballinger-Pinchot in vestigation by congress and tho dismissal from tho public service of Chief Forester Clifford Pinchot, Louis U. Glavis, chief of the field division in the land office, and several minor officials. are losing it means a tho aggre- States. If WAIT 'TILL JULY 1. tremendous loss on gate in the United the loss should amount to a5 per cent on tho business, Hint would mean a losa of about $100,000,000 to the farmers of the Uniucd States. Ono should give the farmer more credit for their business ability than to believo that they are going on year after year doing a business of over half a billion dollors a year, if it were a losing proposition. But listen to what they say. "Answers to tho above ques tion were sent us by 333 farmers. iof whom 288 answered 'Yes', 20 'No', and the rest were noncom i initial. Physicians of tho Btato meet in annual convention in Portland July 10-12 and tho gethcring will ho held in the Commercial Club Convention Hall. A feature of tho meeting will bo tho atten dance of a largo number of East ern practitioners who will stop in Portland on their way homo from tho American Medical Associa tion convention hold in Los Aug-) uiuu una wutr, ing the Wrights Point hill lately and the county ought to put a special tunnel through the , mountain for these horso scaring critters Cunningham Claims to Alaska Coal. u. D. stn,i hnB harvested his rye for hay. Mrs. Barron has a nice garden and will expect to take some of tho prizes at the fair this fall. Several from iiere expect to lake in the celebration atLawen. Mr. and Mra. Grow went to Burns last Thursday. Tho gardens are all doing well in Sunset and there will not bo much domnnd fqr John Day vo Rotables this fall. John Savcdge was in Sunset Wednesday on business. John McMullcn has been help ing. Mr. Tomlin grub sago brush. N. Henny has tho best fall wheat in this partof the country. The field is not largo but it is enough to show that fall wheat will grow here when the land is put in shape and Turkey Red or Red Russian is sown in place of some of this fancy namedtuffed we have been trying. W. L. Nccdham of the Weaver Springs country was in Snuset Tuesday on business. Walter Hodder will soon be homo from Missouri whero he has gone after a bride. Walter has become tired of being in the bachelor class. Charles Newell has the largest and best field of rye in the Dog Mountain country. F. P. Blackmer and Mr. Lnr son nro grubbingsage brush near Dog mountain. The prospects for grain crops in Sunset Valley, Narrows and tho Weaver Springs country were never better since tho country was Bottled. The ground was well supplied with moisture this spring and we have been visited by several grand rain storms. Fall rye will be the principal crop although some of tho wheat of tho Red Russian and Turkey Red varieties is do ing well. It has taken two years to put the sage brush soil in shape to produco a crop of wheat owing to the wild nature of the soil. The first year fall rye should be sown and by that time all foreign vegitation will be de cayed then tho ground will bo in shape for some hardy winter wheat. There is not much use sowing Gold Coin and Red Cross or some other fancy named stuff that has been tried or is not hardy enough to be a success here at the present time although these wheats aro tho best for market in Washington and Utah. Harney county ought to be able to say this year Hint it did not import flour for homo use if all the grain looks as well in the rest of the country as it does in this. Mrs. A. Venator, who resides in tho mountain vastness of the interior of Oregon, and 100 miles from tho nearest railroad point, spent Sunday with Payette friends on her return homo from Porterville Cal., where she has been visiting for a number of weeks. Mrs. Venator states that there aro many fine orchards in that remote section, and that a fruit failure has never been known. Payette correspondent to Sundnys' Boise News. Mr, and Mrs. Venator were in Vale last week and have roturned homo to Venator in tho Barren Valloy country, Mr. Venator having met lira wife here. Enterprise. Tho personal attention given guests at tho French Hotel has given it a good reputation L. B. Gulp, Prop, It is worse than useless to take any medicines internally for mus cular of chronic rheumatism. All that is needed is a free applica tion of Chamberlain's Liniment. For sale by all good dealers. W. L. BLOTT C. C. LUNDY BLOTT & LUNDY Real Estate and Insurance Fair Dealing Post Offico Building, Burns, Ore. -GEER & CUMMINS Burns, Oregon. Hardware and Crockery Glassware Guns and Ammunition FARMING MAHCINERY of all kinds Get our prices before buying E yTcy!v5 s July 1st, the first day of tho fiscal year in railroad circle is toi see vast now development work started in this section. Railroad SUNSP.T NOTES. George Cawl field tut it tutu ttiiilflut t it .. . . i - nil it iil, it iiiiiiiiiiil: iii surveyors from tho Port and,, , - , . , . .... ... 'bo used for a saloon. headquarters will bo selecting ( ine Narrows and the best route for the Oregon & Eastern to be extended from this city into the interior, and lis at that time appropriations are made for all now construction work, it is believed the appro priation asked for by Construc tion Engineer D. II, Ashton for the first 27 miles of road will then be made. Engineer Ashton put in his application last De cember, when all such applica tions aro sent to headquaters. Tho railroad situation is much easier now and there is every reason to believe other appropri ation will follow later. Tho rail road construction work is to bo started within a fow months and all announcements of such work mado recently by officials aro again confirmed. Tho surveyors of tho O. It. & N. will have charge of tho sur vey work us Oregon Short Lino engineers aro too busy with other construction near Nyssa and in southern Idaho. Actual construction on Oregon Eastern is now slated to start before fall, according to good information received yei,lcrday. Enterprise. ! road is surveyed to a the OO ranch. Sid Comegys made a trip to Burns Saturday automobile. is putting Narrow to Wagontire point near flying in his AKIl URNS 1'ROFITAHLi: ON I'ARMS? "Do you consider poultry keep ing profitablo on tho farm?" This is ono of tho twenty fivo questions submitted to tho farmers of Oregon by Prof. James Dryden of tho poultry de partment of tho Oregon Agricul tural College. Tho question was directed to farmers on general farms who sell eggs or poulty at market prices, not to fanciers or special poultry koepors who sell eggs and stock at fancy prices. "A farmer has ideas of his own about such things," says The new town of Wellington is a very lively place these days. E. A. Shafer has a crew of men surveying the tract of land be longing to Mr. Howell near Nar rows into town lots. There will bo 1000 acres in the town site and it is on both railroad sur veys. Miss Julia MeKinzio wns visit ing her sister at Weaver Springs last week. Mrs. Embrce, Clyde Embroe, Van Embreo and Harold Sellers were visitors to Harney Lake Sunday. Charlie and James Reed were visitors to Narrows Sunday. The people of Narrows aro preparing to receive a large crowd of visitors at their cele bration which will last two days. Mrs. Borland was in Sunset Valley Monday. Prof. I. C. Raymond has his gasoline engine started to pump ing for irrigation purposes. Walter Ilarmer and his grand father wero business visitors to Nnrrows Sunday, Alfred Marshall is hauling lum ber to tho Narrows. Robert Sottlemyro was a visi tor to Lawen and Harriman last week, Mr. Tomlin is preparing 80 acres to seed in grain this fall. Sovoral automobiles lmvo been having Borne difiiculity in Climb 's' F-i i 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. JW-t-c&ua -dfa .t:n:ni:imut:aua::suam:m::!munm:m: :t ARCHIE M'GOWAN, President and Manager aipvy County Abstract Company (incowokated) Modern and Complete Set of Indexes n Abstract Copy of Every Instrument on Record Copy of Every Instrument Harney County. tm:mnn:mn:rnnnnnm::mranjmn:: in The HOTEL BURNS N. A. DIBBLE, Propt. 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