PAOB TWO.
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
jWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17,
COLT SHOW A
HE
T
PRIZE WINNERS ANNOUNCED
' ." AT IMBLER
Edwip. Morrison Exhibit Fine Stralii
of Holsteln Dalry Stock.
Irobler, Feb. 17,
of winter unto Ha clone, I see a slab founded reasonable ao we all kicked in
hut with air spaces bo large, and win- with what we could and he went to
dowe ao email that the. only way to Melbourne to get it. There were not
get heat was -to sit in the chimney, mahy of as knew what a "f ym" wan,
and to get light was to go outside, and that's why he got so much money.
Instead of a glass-enclosed walk of Lu Jones' father said he paid his
many hundred feet in length, in which money because he thought it " was
to take ones constitutional. I see an something like tennis and he'd kinder
always-dwindling wood pile which an- got to like the game. Most of the
fwered the same purpose,, less kindly, men though thought it was an am
but quite as efficaciously. And when ma! and spelt the word "Jim."
carious looking instruments like tel
escopes on wheels and started going
all over what Ben .used to call "hi
swamp."
' Draining la Commenced.
Ben asked them" what they . were
doing, and they told him they. were
takinsr levels, so that the swamp
could be cut up into small farms and
sold on time to other farmers.; Ben
enjoyed the joke immensely and
Ttw.
I think, as I snuggle into the capact-; Indies were satisfied it was a picture 8!d "J J' 3Lne7o,.t LmS
vnii,H "i
ma seui 01 wim icmnw-upnoisierea yi uuun ui no wuuiu nuvr put a tnr Mr, .nd narv a soul
,haiy nt .I.. i.. ...JL..i i . I in ih Rnnrfau arhnal. HnwAv.r n,.eaUng lor years, ana nary a goU,
sene case which never even had the all knew what it was before very lohu.'..- ' vL tk.v iw n hut
j (decency to balance itself on the un. When he had it all fixed,-up, and hojtnat but that wti before. hi.
even noor, wei my dck pegine k t ubij n, Bavu drgjjjjjj jt, The swamp was to be
(ache, and I feel that I - must 9 and.n invitation to all the men and boys drained first. Now Ben had drained
(bpectaij i h,Vi . u-tj. i Bna m rheumatism. ! the parish to come to the opening, a few acres himself at his home and
Imbler is muoh- pleased with the r.
suit of her colt show last Saturday
and that the event will be annual
hereafter is probable.
The class, horse, owner and prize
of each exhibit follows:
i !' - Purebred Clydea
Stallion' under one year, Highland
Coberg, owned by S. L. Brooks, first
and second.
Mare over one under two, Rose, i Chinese wrestler, and LJMieve that
iiwmo oy orooiui, ursi.
sciatica, lumbago, ar tery other i Australian Farmers View Gym. he knew that the tles cost money
ache to which the back of man is heir.'. 1 l"ln
throe.
Baker
Stallion over two. under
Woodrow Wilson, owned by
Bros, first.
Mare over three, Hat Corona and
Lassie, owned by Brooks, first, second
ana tnir
: ' . Purebred Shires.
Mare under one year, Mayflower,
owned by W. R. Ledbetter, first.
Mare over three, ' Osco . Flower,
owned by Ledbetter,. first: Osco
Glory, owned by L. A. Stringham,
second. ,
Grade colts under ' one year,
fifteen entries, J. 1), Woodell, 1st;
Ed Tuttle, 2nd; W. R. Ledbetter, 3rd.
Grade colts, over one and under
two years, L. B. Larsen, 1st; W. R.
Ledbetter, 2nd; Richard Rettig, 8rd.
Grade colts, over two and under
three years, W. R. Ledbetter, 1st rind
zna; j. A. liaskill, 3rd.
Mare over three years, W. R. Led
better, 1st; C. S.-Woodell, 2nd.
Special for best colt sired by Gores
Fashion owned by W. R. Ledbetter
was won by J. D. Woodell.
Special for best colt sired by Mol
ten Youth owned by Chas. Playle
won by E. A. Wills.
Special for best colt sired by High
land Chief owned by John Wells won
by L, B. Larsen, '
Special for best pure bred under
one year (Silver Cup) won by W. R.
Ledbetter,.
Special for best pure bred mare any
age (Silver Cup) won by S. L.
Brooks.
. Special for best Grade colt under
one year (Silver Cup) won by J. D.
Woodell. .
Special 2nd Grade colt under one'
year $1.00 box Johnson's candy Ed.
Tuttle. ' V- . ,
Special for best team draft mares,
-1st S. L. Brooks; 2nd W. R. Ledbet
ter; 3rd L. A. Stringham. 'v..
Standard bred, H. McGoldrkk two
first prizes and L. E. Greinor, one
first prize. .. - ' . .
' . . A feature of interest to stockmen
in ciynection with the cold show was
that the day previous one of the fin
est exhibitions of Holstein stock in
the state was presented at an in
formal daily exhibit at Imbler. Ed
win Morrison, a progressive dairy
man of the Imbler section, brought in
for exhibition and dairy demonstra
tion, some of the foremost cows jn
his herd. Anyone familiar with Hol
stein strains will recognize the morit
of the following exhibited by Mr.
Morrison: Sir Mutuul FobeWohanna,
a calf sired by the grand champion of
the state of Washington in 1914;
Model Johanna U lk je, Daybreak
Hangervcld Wayne and Daybreak
. Hangerveld Wayne II.
some of the farmers thought 'and it was an expensive undertaking
n r j !, tuhn i tt ' was something to eat. because even though it paid in the long run.
i 41. ...,.... ' ...in, - ti.. k.af there was an awful crowd, men that He said as much to the men, but they
ii, friiv ,,l,uut a will, - vrmii . , , , . , . . . , . -
coming up tt-l the floor and downed not been to church for ywrs turn- told J '
from the ce ng, and out from the " W- " ne were ail wtoi -"T" p'r rIlV
so, my body is as wet and slippery a "P ndtold us it was a duty every j.gion? . He wanted t0 knoWt So tbe
Chinese wrestler, and Lblieve that m"n ?w.v to himself to be able to nij im ti,. i7 and number, and
t am huk acuii. (n m Swnmn .. defend himself the hour of need. .h . it th. i.rf m
summer time. ; ,' , , i S,.boy" Uktf h? P1-8"?1 bars. an.l be uge4 up j dming and that not
Oh those were certainly the grand jwas ali tSSTrnM !S?VC u "
old davs when as winter annroiched 1. roolisn.ness' and that they ,They admitted th - but explained
and T.!rlki winHPhu ! 0?ld noe Kven a Penny i'.thcy that some would be used instead of
fi" . if .1 Z V J ? ' had known. ,. . ,U being wasted. Ben thought it was
through the parts of the hut wftere, So the parson made us another 'WW to cost a lot of money, and he
the slabs were not, and the smoke', .J MdnUBm work "n 'the w told it would cost about U1.00
from the fire blews'l around the room i.u. t,., i.hi... j !"J. I o.,. hut that th watr wonM na
and tried to get out under the door, fcim hard, but did not make him lis- jfor its own right of way before long
or any other fool place except the cor- som, hut on the contrary very stiff. it would be used for irrigation pur-
rugated iron shielded hole I had left and that to' be able to defend ones poses further on where it was want-
for it, I wished it were summer, once self it was necessary to be lissom ed- Ben wanted to know how much
more. And when summer did ronif . as well as hard, and stronar. And the government figured on getting
with a heat thajt makes Doctor Tape's he said that if one of the men pres-i0'' the land, and he was told that
HLo , ent would out on the irlovea with tthat depended on the analytical chem-
chest, and the meat made the hens "him he would prove it. Now Lucy .jst, who would decide the composi
lu .n,i K.v,i,t u . Jones father was getting crosser tion of the soil and its agricultural
in a Dint Dot and the mosauitoes W'l and crosses all the time. He felt that fitness. This was a little deep- for
Twftd was deT J1?" money out
No the conditions were not nuite ! whianorpH tn iia thnt Iho wn,,lH lib on the report of that Collece-bred
ine same. uut. Mr. Editor, I will ask to put em on with the parson and rarmer he had helped to get speci:
you to observe that for that very . take it out of his, hide, but ha was mens of the soil he became so ob
renson, I think it is all the more dif-afraid mayba he would kill him. Then i jectional that they liad to tell him: to
ficult to understand why that pest in- one of the other farmers who thought go and iive in a place wherevthe
habited region has left this valley on d -been cheated too, but was not (water did not freeae. ; .:
fur behind in the murch of nipciess Iluite as brave as Lucy Jones' father) But Ben was by no means finished
Pei'linna I hurl liottm- tll vnn -o . " . hi own vuui, uuiica wuum in nts iisni w gei nia swamp Dacx.
few thinl nliJ it it t Z have 8 trv" Then "Lucy's Tfather His agents in Melbourne were warned
tiTJT,K -ii . wand t0 back out but the others! that there would be no more busi-
there and then you will understand would not let him. Well the parson 'ness from Ben if that fool trick went
lettcr What 1 mean, Ulld dl'nw your, brnuirht nvnr a rinir nf thlnklv nnIHorl tV,n,,.. oH -uroHo inotv. f
own conclusions. . 1 cloves and Dut them on I.licv'ti fathar nvnrv nhotnnlo in fha ujot, nf ito nn
StiritnHu Anu'riun linn , . nA nA UnlA 41.. ....4.U 1!J a ... V
. ..un. ...... .u. . 4 fcw.vi ii.v w iiuii, nutvu aiiu Lruiiipiisiiiiieiius. : v
If you look at the mup of Austra- when three minutes was up to call The nation was warned of the reck
lia you will see in the south a stata time, and they would Btop for two I ess extravaeance of the Dresent
culled Victoria, and If you look at minutes to get their wind, and then party, and that the whole country
the centre of its coast line you will start again. He said ho thought four was going to the dogs, and taxes
see its capital, Melbourne. Now let rounda would be enough, but the oth-j would be greater than ever' It was
your eye follow the railroad line due V V, ' . ' sou to no purpose. ,. rne swamp was
cast from Melbourne, and at a dis- . : .
tance of about 119 miles you will no- 1 arson Trims Farmer.
tice the following towns marked, all' Wel1 hre wasn't much to it, the
, i tn,..4V.. i-.- parson proved his Doint alricht. and
"fiswre'i aim inula ur leHS 111 V i , - , . . ' nnaW-av
m , n . . i I.UPV .TnnAR' fflf.hftf IfAnt. inrinnfo -frtf Quarter
Si. , ' iralu'Kr. wn Bum,- . f" found his lot securely fenced with
and TraTl., T W"rr"K."'' I steak on his ear and oni on his eye.Jter, if I may use such an expres-
.nJiZ '"":. LT "mIT"":1 ?0V8 811 h8d.B Z00 time though
drained. The method -was simplicity
itself, every mile a big main drain
was dug, and a smaller one every
quarter. . As the . land was sold - in
sections each purchaser
,,, . . - - ; , lie uuvo an nail a Kwu Wine klluuKll
speaking-ten year8i ago- Moe was and he Was the best parson we ever
u postoffice and a shipping point for -hod there.
stock, Buln Buln had a co-operative j Warragul had a post office and a
".'""'l U 0 WHS 8 shiPP'nK saloon as well as the "gym" and that
pomt for s ock. is about a it did hav'
It had a tennis lawn. True it was !.hTh!,n0her three t9Wns Were "0t n "weeten the land, but when it did
in the missionary's garden but all hU-i
piinsnoners used it just the same. l'i
The land was sold at ten pounds
per acre or ?40, and though Ben
made a great joke of that he never-
the less bought 160 acres.' For the
first year the scheme was not a suc
cess. It took time for the sun to
the crops were ao big - that the
country was . staggered. The men
who had bought from the govern
ment ion - terms extending cWer 20
years, paid up their indebtedness in
three years.
soon men' learned that forty acres
SWAMP LANDS RICH.
(Continued Tfom Pago 1.)
ly inhabited as the Great Sahara des
ert, my thoughts go back to another
swamp just; about 13,000 miles from
here where similar conditions ex
isted ten years ago. " -
Did I say simila rebnitions existed?
1 recall that. The swamp was about
Ihe same size, the water was just is
thick upon its face, it had the same
ring of lovely snow-capped hills sur
rounding it; but there the similarity
ends. . - - .
Instead of a palatial building, stenni
heatedfi and kept at a regular and
even temperture from the beginning
nim tnir in the VlClnitV because everv fortv .wan nil thuv pnulH fnmfnrahlv man.
off. And he acre - in Rnnnnvfino' n fnmilv nnw lam - anJ than Kamm , ...U
. . -I-1 rt , ... p,., .,. v.rc ft ' " vw ao.l, ca.i.
Jones father and at that time no one lived on Mop niw fhraa.fniirtha f Vno hnbllno- Ttio
and acci- Swamp. They couldn't. Thev irulintr nrice was 40 sounds, or about
$200 per acre after the third year,
Three years ago none of this land
Growth is Remarkable. . .
T .. . ii r i , ' ...... ,
4., . , . . . , , louay vrarx-irui -nua iuu.uuu peupie
n u ,,r m u . ,enve T Moe has 6,000 and the other towns
parish (100 miles by 80). because he v-o,i 0u.f tr.nn ...i, i i.4
objected to the farmers', daughters 'them about two years ago. But there
pluytng on tho court in high lieele i ;are for more than 112,000 people liv-
.-,uucb. intj Hieu. me snoweu
where he was urcttinir
complained because Luc
wanted to learn the gamo
dentally lost the balls. And he had would halve been Idrowhed. The
no hoots on at-ull. He said that he swamp belonged to the. government.
had bought the balls with his own Ic was Pen to settlement under, the was to be had at any price. I knew
money. The idea. I'd like to know homesteading laws but, no one wanted , of one instance where a tnan wanted
who gave him the money. Well we letiany t tne government 100 acre3 for his - prize Shropshire
him go, but we didn't gain much be-'rentetl a'.' to a man called Ben 'sheep, and - it was imperative that
cause the next man said he couldn't 1 C??k,J nl i?.t.i.me and SP"", per- he should have a piece of ground
play tennis. We were all very much -"""ed 1 would like to have told you there if possible. He offlered 125
" ... . . . y "v inta ahniir. Kpn. ha wqq n tyrant nA,mH ..n. ... 4-1..
aisnppointed. and L.ucv Jones' father i X77", r." . r1
vrrote to tha l,ishon",.hn,,. it cnarador, out as my space is already fer was promptly-turned down.
k ... . r : ; . used up you must taxc my word lor
didn i t believe he was a real minister it, which is also illogical, and another
nt nil. He said all curates had to learn I chance for the critic to earn his daily
tennis, same as the Bible, and wait, hnml Hon o n, ,..-.
. , ,, " ,, " . v, ,c m4uaw aim uiv man wnu ic
ing on ladies at afternoon tea. But a year and wrote to the Minister of fused the money was Ben Cook, who
tho bishop said that he was all right, iLands every time he paid his rent laughed when he heard tjiat the gov
so we had to keep him. Well just af-, saying the rent was too high and 'ernment expected to get $40 per acre
ter he had been with us a few weeks; that he was going broke. But as 'for it. -
and got to know us all by name he mator of fact Ben fattened thous- .But the increased price f land
told us he was going to have a "gym ' 'm'? '- ?"ttle there every year from menns very little, the real proof of
in tho Sundnv school, hut that m. h sPg till fall. Ben was like a lot thc-fuccess of the venture is the fact
was new in the parish wo would all!or Flcr farmers ' .know. and his , that there is a family living con
have to help to pav for it. That T1 Lu"aomS; , ..
3wmia i roauce nesuiis,
The man who offered the price was
the Hon R. G. Wilson the best known
breeder of Shropshire sheep south of
the equator and the man who re
ELECTRIC LIGHTS WERE INVENTED TO SUPPLY
A NECESSITY. ALL OTHER METHODS OF CREAT
ING ARTIFICIAL light were unsatisfactory. Candies
wef dim and unreliable; gas, dirty and dangerous; kero
sent, dull, smoky, odorous and also dangeious to health
nd property. When elctric lights were Introduced there
was hut oae drawback. They cost considerably more than
other lights. This objectien has been overcome and elec
tric lights are aow the most economical as well as ttte
most satisfactory light.
Eastern Oregon Light ft Power Co.
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I The Minister of Lands got suspic-
l ious about Ben' so he asked the Min
ister of Railways, which you know
j belong to the government in Aus
i trails, to let him know how man v
head of fat cattle Ben shipped out
i every year, and when he heard he
tented and happy on each and every
forty acre lot on what is still known
as Moe. Swamp. : ' ' ..
Is there any reason Mr. Editor why
the same thing cannot be done in the
Grande. Ronde valley ? . The land is
not so , very wet that extra large
drains would be necessary. I venture
to say that the cost would not ex-
THE PEOPLE'S STOHE
The Temple of Economy
Come to Our
W ondesf lil
Sale
Our under-muslins this Spring possess an
additional value, the result of a strong mer
chandise policy adopted for the purpose of
giving even greater values in high grade under-muslins
than have been given. Jhe
charm, the exclusive styles characteristic of
the "Dove" under-muslins will please the
women of discriminating taste.
And Our Prices, the Wonder
fully Low Prices
29c, 49c, 59c, 89c, 98c,
$1.19 & $1.29
THE PEOPLE S STORE
The Store For" The People
FURNITURE FOR SALE
4-
PARTIES LEAVING TOWN FEB. 20TH -Will
sell collectively or separately. Also house
for rint. SOI Main, finrrmr SieonnA and mfafn
, . , " UUU ' 4UMU
T Oak side-board,'1 china closet, round, -4 leaf oak T"
uiuiug wtuio, t tuning cnairs, a rocKers ana z porcn i
chairs, velour couch, heating stove, electric chan- !T
a delier, 5 pair curtains, 2 iron beds. SDrintrs and X
4f mattresses, 3-drawer large mirror princess dresser, X.
8-drawer small mirror chiffonier (oak), baby
buggy, iron bed, high chair, cain rocker and stool X
4 chair, six-hole. Arcadian range and cooking uten-
fi sils, kitchen table, dishes, ice box, other things too -i
numerous to mention. - i.
Sent a hurried note to Ben and toldiceed ton to fifteen dollars per -acre.
jhim that as the swamp was so wet,
and times .so hard, and the cattle
! business not what it used to be anv
jway, he afrreod with Ben that the
-rent was too high, so would not rent
it to nun any more, as his department
did not want to rob any man.
Then one of those colleRo chaps
that all true farmers despise so
thoroughly - came up to look the
swamp over, and Ben went to talk
to him every day, and assured him
with tears in his eyes that it was no
Rood, and that it stank -in the snrintr.
i and was very unhealthy, and that he
;nad gone broke tryinn to improve it,
'and now when he miirht have made a
Jlittle out of it the Government came
alonir and took it awav from him.
ilt was a pitiful tale he always told
that school farmer, and . the school
I have asce.Lained that there are
about 97,000 acres of land in the val
ley. Of that number only about 83,
000 require draining. Iet us suppose
that it would cost $12.00 to drain
that, and we get an outlay of about
$400,000, or i.n assessment .of less
than live dollars per acre.
Now let us see what the owners
would get in return.
Local Application Made.
The price of land in this swamp
now runs from twenty dollars per
acre to one hundred and forty, and
htrikes an average of about $68 per
acre. When drained and brought into
shape this land ought to be worth
somewhere near as- much as the land
around Stanfield, IHermkston, Echo,
or the alfalfa flats on Rhea and Wil
low creeks in Morrow county. These
fnrmAi 4nl,l V, i , f . n f mn,.i.A : f nn i i u i I . '
I ...... iimjut: il i iHiiiis vunii(t: iittniis at prices ranging
niiu su were tre case ne wouio get it from ?14o per acre upwards. Let
ihack. and that made Bon fl o-nnH
.because he did not know what the
Vollege chap was talking about.
At last the school farmer wrnt
away, and he took with him about a
ton of earth that Ben had dug up
for him from various parts of the
swamp, all In little boxes and labeled
with numbers Ben did not under
stand. i Then one day to Ben's astonish
ment two or three men came up with
us suppose that this land reaches
only the lowest figure, and we have
an increased land valuation in the
county of $7,469,000; but as a matter
of fact it would be even greater. Then
yvj would have some money to build
goods roads, for the comfort and con
venience and economy of the resi
dents. I-a Grande would spring from
ito 6.000 to 106,000 in a very short
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