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AGE FOUR
LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 191G.
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or lightest lumber can be had
here any time In any quantity.
We always have on hand an
ample supply of lumber of all
kinds. All sound and thor
oughly seasoned, bo your builder
cap figure exactly what will be
needed and make lower figures
as no allowance for waste is
necessary where our lumber is
used.
GEO. PALMER LUMBER COMPANY
Retail Dept. Phone Main 8
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GREET HUGHES
WARM WELCOME O.N SLATE FO!(
I'AKTY
PKESIDEN
NTIAL CANDIDATE WHO WILL SUNDAY IN SI'OKANE.
Charles E. Hughes and Mrs. Hughes
are here shown on the lawn of their
summer home on the eve of the de
parture of the Republican presiden
tial candidate on a speaking tour that
probably will equal, if not pass, in the
amount of territory covered, any
stumping trip ever made by a presi
dential candidate.
Trade With me
Today!
I don't care with whom you traded yes
terday or-last year trade with me today.
Your business should go to the store which
deserves it. If you'll investigate, you'll find
that we deserve your patronage on every
score attractive, well-kept, and neatly dis
played goods, moderate prices, liberal credit,
prompt deliveries.
NUTTER'S STORE
The Only Exclusive
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See us about our single courses on the monthly, or
term plan; also our combined course on the monthly
payment plan. Write, Phone, or Call at the Office.
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BAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE
Phone 131 BAKER, ORE. W. P. KINION, PROP.
Mr. and Mrs. Hughes Will Spend
Quiet Sunday in Washington
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 12. Extra
ordinary interest is being taken
throughout the Inland Empire in the
coming of Charles E. Hughes, Repub
lican: candidate for president, to Spo
kane, Sunday and Monday, August 1!S
and 14. Chairman Charles Hebberd
of the Spokane County Republican
' Central committee expects that J0,
, 000 people will hear Mr. Hughes in
i Spokane.
The original plan oi noiumg me
meeting in a theater had to be given
up, as it was seen that no hall in Spo
kane could accommodate one-fourth of
the people who will want to hear'
Governor IIughe3.
The nominee and his party of 27,
including the representatives of the
National Press association and the
laige eastern dailies, will arrive in
Spokane over the Northern Pacific,
Sunday morning. He will be met by a
reception committee and taken to the
Davenport hotel. Sunday will be a
day of rest. It is expected that Mr.
and Mrs. Hughes will attend service
at a Baptist church, as they are mem
bers of the denomination.
Monday morning at 9 o'clock, Mr.
Hughes will be taken for an auto
drive through the business district.
Immediately after this drive the Ida
ho committee will take the candidate
and his party to Coeur d'Aleen city,
where a forenoon meeting will tie
held.
After luncheon, Mr. Hughes will
return to SDokane and address a
women's meeting at the Auditorium
theater at 3:30. The party will then
rest until the evening meeting at the
stadium at 7:30. The stadium has a
seuting capacity for 6,500 and stand
ing room for 10,000 more within
hearing distance of the spaker. , The
Spokane committee has asked the
chairman, of the county committees
and the state committeemen of east
ern Washington counties each to nom
inate five members of the general
reception committee. These are
asked to call at, Republican head
quarters in Spokane at G12 Sprague
avenue and receive badges.
It is predicted that at least 50,000
people will see Mr. Hughes in .Spo
kane, either during the occasion of
j the Auto drive or at tne great puonc
meetings at the Auditorium and the
stadium.
At Spokane Governor Hughes and
! his party will be met by S. A. Perk
ins of Tacoma, national committee
i man; Chairman Millard T. Hartson
and Secretary James Wood of the Re-
publican state central committee, and
. escorted across the state. The next
I stop will be in Tacoma.
I MEAT OUTPUT IN WEST j
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mnrket and agricultural conditions
make this indispensable to really suc
cessful farming. The change will be
gradual, it is said, and only a few
head of stock will be added to a farm,
but ultimately and in the aggregate
the increase will be greater than
that which is likely to be accomplish
ed in any other way. The Droblem
for the States and the National Gov
ernment, it is said, is to aid in the
change by working out a system
which will make such agriculture pro
fitable. In addition to this increase in the
numbers of farm stock, there is lit
tle doubt that the carrying capacity
of the existing ranges can be great
ly enlarged. This has been demon
strated in the national forests, where
improved methods and regulation
have increased the capacity of many
ranges from 15 to 30 per cent. This
process should continue for at least
10 years more and should result in
building up the carrying" capacity of
the national forests as a whole by
perhaps 15 per cent.
If similar control could be exercised
over the public domain outside of
the forests it is estimated that the
capacity of these ranges could be in-
rrpnsarl n'hnnf ni A I .
naif of this would result from the
improvement in the range itself af
ter overstocking and prematulre
grazing were prevented and natural
reseeding facilitated. The remain
der would follow water development,
the construction of fences and the
introduction of methods of handling
stock which are out of the question
as long as the improvement of con
ditions on the range merely provides
an incentive for new men to crowd
in and undo by overstocking whatever
good has been accomplished. The
carrying capacity of these ranges has
greatly diminished in the past, ind
under the present system there is no
reason for supposing that it will in
crease in the future.
Other factors, though of less im
portance, that should tend to in
crease the future production of live
stock are greater economy in the use
of forage on the range and on the
farm, the use-of more and higher
grade bulls, and better management
of the breeding, animals through the
vcarl The last two, it is said, offer
the possibility of increasing the calf
crop 5 or 10 per cent and the avei
age weight of a 2-year-old steer per
haps 30 pounds.
Where winter feeding is practiced
It is believed that a yearling ster
'will cost approximately $30 and a
"long ' 2-year-old $45. In the range
sections of the Southwest, on the oth-
er hand, the costs may oe esximaieu
at from $15 to $19 for a yearling and
from $20 to $25 for a 2-year-old. With
sheep there is a similar variation. In
California the cost of producing a
lamb is placed at $1.55, m the South
west at $1.71, and in the Northwest
at $1.82. In considering these figures
it must be remembered that they all
may be materially altered by increas
ing or diminishing the percentages of
births in the herds and flocks. Bet
ter methods, it is pointed out, will
almost certainly increase the calf and
lamb crops, and in this way reduce
the cost of production per head.
In estimating these costs the in
vestigators charged against the
stock the market value (in the vicin
ity) of all the feed consumed. In
this way the necessity of considering
the money invested in land and equip
ment was eliminated, but, on the oth
er hand, allowing the stock owner a
profit on the feed increases somewhat
the estimated cost of producing ani
mals. As the owner might not get
his profit on the feed if he did not
raise stock to utilize it, the actual
profits in stock raising are probably
somewhat greater than the defer
ence between the maxket price of the
animals and the report's estimates of
the liost of prodduction.
Old Hats.
Do not throw them a way. We
make old hats look like new. By the
Wilson Bros. way. New Foley Bldg.
Phone Black 1761. Adv. 7-26-tf
Increase in Production Likely to Fol
Low Decline of Recent Years Is
Prediction of Investigators
Yellowstone The National Paradise
for Animal Life and Animal Lovers
FRANKLIN K. LANE
Secretary of the Interior
Closes a delightful booklet on Yellowstone Park thus:
"Yellowstone National Park is ideal for camping out
When people realize this it should quickly become the
most lived in of all our national parks. Remember that
the Yellowstone is yours!"
This booklet has been reprinted
for distribution by the
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
POPULAR ROUTE TO YELLOWSTONE
and may be obtained upon application to any
representative. Let us help you plan a tour
of the Park, cither direct, or in connection
with this season's Eastbound Low-Fare Tours.
J. H. KEENEY JmU
That hereafter there should be a
slow increase in the output of beef
I und mutton in the range states of the
jwest, but that this increase is likely
' to be accompanied by an increase
in the cost of production, are the
chief "conclusions of a report on
"Live Stock Production in the Eleven
; Far Western Range Statcs,'J which
, the government department has just
i published. This report is one ot the
five sections of the exhaustive re-
i port on the meat situation in the
United States, in the preparation of
which the department specialists have
i been engaged for some time. It
discusses the reasons for the long
decline in meat production in the
west and explains why there is rea
son to believe that this is now a
thing of the past. In addition, it
includes detailed studies of the pres
ent cost of producing steers and
lambs.
Oregon Decline Sharp
Between 1910 and 1914, the year in
which the investigations on which
the report is based were made, the
numbers of live stock m tne 11 suites
of Arizona. California, Colorado, Ida
ho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico,
Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wy
oming declined about 13 per cent.
For this decline the report holds the
settlement of public lands and the
consequent reduction of the range
primarily resjwnsible. A number of
other causes have contributed to the
downward movement, but, it is point
ed out, these have been more than off
set bv high prices and therefore more
profitable range animals, and the gen
era! agricultural development which
have favored production by leading
to a more widespread adoption of the
practice of winter feeding and winter
pasturing on alfalfa and cultivated
crops.
The prediction that this iiecrease
hereafter will give way to an in
crease is based upon the belief thnt
the amount of live stock on farms
nnd homesteads will be greater in
the future; thnt the stock ranges in
the national forests will continue to
improve: thnt the carrying capacity of
the stock ranges on the public do
main may be increased by legal reg
ulation; and, finally, thnt high prices
of range animals and better methods
will result in a more efficient utili
zation of the available forag or in
other words, a greater production per
unit of forage!
In 1914 it was estimnted thnt no
more than 30 per cent of the new set
tlers had more live stock than was
necessary to supply them with work
nnd milch animals. The situntion in
this respect, however, was changing
even then, and the movement for the
production of more live stock may
be expected to continue, because both
Gladstone Said
"Show me the manner in which a nation or a community
cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exact
ness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the
taw of the land, and their loyalty to high ideals." He and Mrs.
Gladstone rest side by side in the 'Statesman's Corner' of West
minster Abbey.
The Community Mausoleum is a modern, inexpensive plan
for securing to our own (by the union of a number of families)
the same royal protection given to those highly honored in na
tional life, but with scientific sanitation added.
Since the invention of the modern sanitary Community
Mausoleum which honors protective sentiment, and at moderate
expense, no logical reason supports cremation or the grave ex
cepting the economy plea of the poor and the greed of the ava
ricious well-to-do whose affections are with the purse instead of
the person. i
The Community Mausoleum is not for these. Poverty can
not afford it, and Greed will not; the latter rightly judging it
self unworthy of honorable rest.
To the great mass of thoughtful, kind-hearted people of
average means the ownership of space in the Community Mau
soleum brings peace in the knowledge of a solemn duty well per
formed. MAY WE SEND YOU AN ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET?
Portland Mausoleum Co.
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