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grande: orego.v. THrnsDAT, apiul so, ito PAGE TWO. EIEMNG onSKRVER. IA 1 UMATILLA tck ore AMI i THE COLUMBIA OIL AND GAS DEVELOPING COMPANY IXCOHPOIlATEl CXDEIl THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF WASHING. TON. ' CAPITAL STOCK 1,000,000 SHARES OFFICE: SPOKANE, WASHINGTON. 401 Niriiols Illock. Comer Riverside and Washington 6tro't. OIL FIELDS IN SLVLHEIR COCNTV, OKEGO.V. PURPOSE OF THE COMPANY THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMPANY IS TO PLACE ON THE MAR KET ENOUGH TREASURY STOCK TO PURCHASE A STANDARD DRILLING RIG, PLACE IT ON THE COMPANY'S CLAIMS, AND CON TINUE WORKING THIS RIG UNTIL A THOROUGH TEST HAS BEEN MADE FOR OIL OR GAS. ' PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY THIS COMPANY HAS AND OWNS FORTY-EIGHT CLAIMS SITU ATED IN THE HEART , OF THE MALHEUR OIL DISTRICT. . THE COMPANY ALSO HAS A SMALL DRILLING RIG, COMPLETE, AT VALE, MALHEUR COUNTY. OREGON. OUTLOOK THE SURFACE OF THE MALHEUR OIL FIELDS ARE ROLLING, : WITH DEEP RAVINES, SHARP POINTS AND HILLS. IT IS COVERED WITH SAND AND GRAVEL AND IS DEVOID OF VEGETATION WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SAGEBRUSH. . THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS FIELD SHOW IT TO BE OF THE NATURE OF A DRY, BARREN PLAIN OR BASIN. THE SUB-DIVISIONS REFERRED TO CONSISTING OF 8ILIC1FIED AND . CLAY SHALES. SANDSTONE, CLOSE AND COARSE GRAINED. THE UNDERLYING FORMATIONS ARE CLAY, SANDSTONE AND CALCAREOUS CONCRETIONS, WHITE CALCAREOUS SHELLS, FOS8IL IFEROUS CONCRETIONS, CARBONIFEROUS LIME AND LIME SHALE. THE FORMATION GENERALLY IS SUCH AS TO GIVE THE LANDS IN QUESTION A HIGH CHARACTER AS LANDS PECULIAR TO OIL FOR MATIONS ON THE PACIFIC COAST. THE SANDSTONE STRATA IS IMPREGNATED AND STAINED WITH DEPOSITS WHICH WOULD RESULT FROM SUCH SOURCE. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY IN A RECENT REPORT FROM A GOVERNMENT EXPERT A STATEMENT WAS MADE TO THE EFFECT THAT THE MALHEUR CO UNTY OIL FIELDS OF OREGON STOOD IN THE HIGHEST CLASS, LIKE THOSE OF BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, AND OTHER PROMI NENT PACIFIC COAST FIELDS. A NUMBER OF OTHER EXPERTS, PROMINENT AND THOROUGH LY RELIABLE, STATE THAT THE FORMATIONS OF THIS OIL CENTER POINT TO AN UNLIMITED WEALTH IN OILS ANd'gASES. SUPERINTENDENT BEARDSLEY'S REPORT IN A LETTER FROM SUPERINTENDENT J. T. BEARDSLEY, OF VALE, OREGON. DATED IN JANUARY, 1908, HE STATED THAT AT A DEPTH OF SEVENTY FEET. ON THE COLUMBIA GROUP. OIL SAND AND COLORS OF THE BEST QUALITY WERE ENCOUNTERED, A SAMPLE OF .WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN THE COMPANY'S 0FFICE3 AT SPOKANE, WASHINGTON. TO THOSE INTERESTED STOCK 15 CENTS PER SHARE THERE WILL BUT A FEW SHARES SOLD AT THIS LOW PRICE OF FIFTEEN CENTS. ANT INFORMATION WANTED ON THIS OFFER WILL BE GLADLY GIVEN BY THE COMPANY'S SOLE AGENT AT LA GRANDE, RAY W. LOGAN, AT HIS OFFICE IN TILE LA GRANDE NA TIONAL BANK BUILDING. IN A VERT FEW DAYS BLUE-PRINTS SHOWING THE COM PANY'S GROUND, AND ALSO THAT OF OTHERS WHO ARE SPENDINU LARGE AMOUNTS TO DEVELOP THE OIL FIELDS IN MALHEUR COUN TY, OREGON, WILL BE AT THE AGENT'S OFFICE. THOSE WHO A VERY FEW MONTHS AGO BOUGHT STOCK IN THE MALHEUR OIL A GAS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, THE UNION, ORE GON, COMPANY, AT 13 H CENTS PER SHARE, COULD NOW SELL WITH A HANDSOME PROFIT, BUT HAVE TAKEN ALL THEIR STOCK OFF THE MARKET, KNOWING THE VALUE OF IT IN A VERY SHORT TIME, FROM THE WORK NOW DONE BY THAT COM PAX Y. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET IN OX THIS STOCK ISSUE AT Tins VERY SMALL riUCE, BEFORE THE RAISE, WHICH IS BOUND TO COME LATER, AND INVEST YOUR MONEY IX A HOME COMPAN Y THAT YOU KNOW IS GOOD. . OFFICERS WM. TARKER, President. J. B. WATERS, Vlic-Presldent. K. F. LOVNSUERRY, Soc-Trras. J. T. BEARDSLEY, Siiprrintcndriic DIRECTORS J. B. WATERS, L. L. AUMOCK, J. T. BEARDSLEY, IX. F. IX)UNSDERIY. '. " ADVISORY BOARD WM. PARKER, 3. V. MARLOW, A. E.KNAPTON, CHAS. BESC.ROVE, ami W. A. INGRAM. R. W. LOGAN, SOLE AGENT LA GRANDE, OREGON The La Grande National Bank Building LOCAL OPTIOK Pendleton, Ore.. April 28. With over 800 signatures thertto, a peti tion asking that the people of Uma tilla county vote upon the question of prohibition at the June election, will be filed with the county cli-rk this af ternoon. For weeks, past the petition has been circulated to somo extent nbout the county and at present it Is in the hands of Fred Taylor, who says that It Is now ready for filing. The peti tion contains the names of nearly 900 voters, but owing to the fact that some of them were found to have failed to register they were cut out, thereby reducing the number to 802. As a result of the petition now ready for filing the people of the county will become dry until voted otherwise by the people. Should the county as a whole not go dry the status of the individual precir.r!" ""I A-nvnA nnon the voting in the same. A precinct casting a ma Jorlty of votes for prohibition be comes dry, while a precinct showing a majority sentiment against prohl bltion becomes wet When the coun ty votes upon the proposition as a whole, there Is no necessity tor pre cinct petitions being filed. At the clerk's office this morning a petition was received from Uklah, but owing to the fact that the precinct boundaries were not properly de scribed It has been sent back by Clerk Baling. But as the Ukiah people will have a chance to vote upon the prop osition anyway. It will not matter if their petition is not returned before the first. May 1, or SO days before the elec tion, Is the limit for the filing of local option petitions. We arc now prepared to furnish first-class Ice Cream in any quantity, at the following prices: 25c per pint 50c per quart $1.25 per gallon Nodelive-ies made for less quantities than one gallon. BLUE MOUNTAIN CREAMERY GO. -1 p " ' . . ' -if Mill 43 PHONE Main 43 t SN0DGRASS GROCERY Death Was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris of Skippers, Va.. had a colse call in the spring of 190. He says: "An atatck of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fear ful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dp. King's New Discovery. It helped me Immediately, and after tak ing two and a half bottles I was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery Is the best remedy for coughs and lung disease In all the world." Sold under guarantee at the Newlln drug store. 60c and II. Trial bottle free. A Thousand Dollars' Worth r OsrA A. H. Thurnes, a well known coal operator of Buffalo, O., writes: "I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, oasslne gravel and stones with excrucalting pain. I got no relief from medloina until I began taking Foley's Kldnev Cure, then the result was surprising. A few doses started the brick dust lik fine stones and now I have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like a new man. It has done be $1000 worth of good." A. T. Hill. Evening Observer 65c per month. We are headpuarters for Armour's Star Ham and Melrose Bacon. A Trial Order will Convince You that we have the best. Two delivery wagons at your service JAS. 0. SNODGRASS Main 43 PHONE Main 43 - FOR THE HORSE AS WELL I AS FOR THE P0CKETB00K I Wood" Coal ! Why Pay More? : Best Yellow Pine, i now. hut tfreen r.ut. ' ---- - J 16ich per cora Dry ! GRAND R0NDE CASH CO. I Main 6, either phone LEWIS BROS., Managers. LAl'.GRAMDF nRFftniu MmwHmmmi- Rock Spring Coal per ton $5.50 ! $7.50 TRUCK and TRANSFER Phone' your orders to Main 10. Quick service miarnntAorl ; Storage In fire proof and damp proof buildine. tc e. towler! 2 .... n Our steam rolled barley pleases the horse be cause it is just what lie likes, and pleases the owner because his dollar buys more of it It will pay you to see us before you buy Hay, , Grain or Feed of any kind or coal or .wood. Do your self the justice to investigate. Seed Grain and Seed Potatoes. BRICK IS CHEAPER Brick buildini? ' at th cheaper as well as better. It has been demonstrated t t tnat my brick is superior to any ade in Oregon. I luiiiiou wjiuiiiuu duck in any quantity. No order too large or too small to receive prompt attention. ; Correspondence with contractors and builders solwiAsA ' Estimates cheerfully furnished. iPrices made known t on application. (GEO. KRIEGEr! Phon,Re.idMce,IBlack:701.Y.rd.IR.dB21. , . UIGrand., Or.Bon t . ),,tott,f,tf tf - 9