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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1906)
'5 f Jw. D! TTWP ' '' ...Mil.... ..wjii. "' I -- a Mac AL Published c VTHE P10NKK every Thursday by 10NEEK PUHL1SHIN0 CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES i fnflMic year $1.60 "Jocinoiiths liri-i! months. ... CO .IVKllTISINO IIATKS OK APPLICATION jvUnfJcl hs second class inatier August ' j.fi2tf,UW)l. nt the Tostolflw nt aintirns. ure., CfVFiiiid&r tlio Actof Congress of March 8,18il. THUKSDAY August 16, 1906 FOREST FIRES RAGING. Forest lires have been raging in the Cascade reserve during the pasttAo weeks, and towards the end of the past week the smoke became so dense in this locality as to almost obscure the sun, the. eflect being much like that of a cloudy day. On Sunday the smoke was especi ally dense here. These forest iires result in most instances from the care lessnes!? of campeis, smoulder ing embers being left where they can catch the adjacent dead grass and underbrush; and the small ilame being soon fan ned iiito a lire that cannot be Controlled. Thousands of dol lars worth of fine timber is des troj'ed each 3-ear in this man ner. The government main tains an army of foiest rangers jn the reserve, their chief duty being to guard against lliese lires. The number of these j angers has been greatly aug mented during the present year hnd every precaution is being taken by the government 10 prevent the destructive forest Jires. The Fertility of the Soil An Interesting Address Printed as a Farmer's Bulletin by the United States Department of Agriculture at Washington. Fer Renu Three hundred nint sixty acre, Incited 7 miles east of MndrAM lj$ cre Under cultivation, isonctes tlll tble. Will low for n term ol years, or by the year, o harcs. floofl coitif-iriable houc, m rooms, and stable, penary. etc. llo-xt well For particulars Infinite fit t" ollke. Jlf STUART-YOUKG WEDDIKG On last Weduesday evetting at the Green Hotel in -Madias, bregMii, Mr. Joseph H. Stuart jtiid Miss Lulu E. Y.umg weie liuited in maniage, Key. J. K., Craig pronouncing the marriage Ceremony in the presence of relatives and friends of the con tracting parties. After the cer emony an informal reception ivas held by the bridtj and groom while they received ilie good withes and congratula tions of the weddingguests. Tiie uride ia the second daughter of Mr. and tirs. W. 31. Young, wtio were among the liist senilis to make their Louies in this new wheat tec Uon and who have resided at 'Young's Flat" since lirst set tling here. The groom is a well-known rancher living near Jleislet. wheie he has Kent a laehel r ranch and raised drivitiii hoiss for a number of years past. Joe, whose bache lor habits are pretty closely associated with the old horse ranch, has decided to give up stookraising upon becoming a "benedict, and with this in view he has rented a tract of land near Madras, where h expects to devcte his time to the pleasant pursuit 01 happi ness and fortune in dry laud J arming. i Miss Jijarie. Galloway returned home Joday from Wasco, where she has been employed in the.O. T. Co. stere. - Mr. and.Mrs., Max Lueddemann, Miss Mae Jackspn and Don P. Rea made up a party which went to the Warmspring reservation yesterday for a brief campi.ig trip-. , - Threshing Has cornmenccl on Agency Plains and wheat on the Frank Elkins ranch yielded 15 bushels to the acre. It isjsaid to be an excellent grade ol grain. , Mrs. J. P. Hahn and little daughter, , Letha, are visiting relatives at Wasco this week. Mr. Hahn accompanied them to Slmniko and arrived home this morning , wjth a load of freight. , hrnnk Loveland and family have Kiiiovtd from Culver to Madras to re side and are occupying the John Isham jioube. Mr. Isham and family will live i,n the. new Waymire cottage on' the eastern limits of the' townsite. . E. F. Cooper and M. M. Montieth were in tqwn front Lamonta today. Mr. Montieth, recently filed a- contest against an entry, made on land near Lamonta, but. the entryman has since relinquished t,o him, and Mr. Montieth wIl at once. file on the tract and become a settler, i Tlio bureau lias d uie a great deal of work iu this line of soil pbyBlcs, es pecially on the reason for cultlvotlmi and the effect of cultivation. Aohle fpun the qnt'Stlou of aeration which I touched on a while ayo, tlio v fleet of culilvHllon Is, In the first place to Im prove tho condition of the soil partic ularly to render it more open and porous bo that it ecu atmnrti tiioro of the rainfall and permit the roots to grow with the least posclbln resistance. When you cultlvnte you increase the apparent volume of the fcollj that Is to tay, If you tlijr n hole In the soil, as tn preparing for a fence post, It In a very difficult matter to put lmek the soil that you take out When you lboseti the soil by plowing or harrowing you leave it iu a much more lulky form anil It absorbs much more Of the ruin fa II, because of the grain of soil being pushed apart there is actually more surface to bold ou to the water. The effect of subsequent cultivation Is to dry out the surface so as to expose It to the air. We used to say that this was to break the capillary connection. You cannot thus break the Capillary connection in the soli, tor when you put the soil hack you have re estab lished capillary connection; but this Is what you do accomplish you accoiu pilch just the thing thai I advised you to try iu putting some moist soil in the bottom of your tumbler aud cover ing it w 1 h dry soil. The moist soil m long as it is not actually wet, holds ou to iliM moisture so tenaciously that it will not move up to auy appreciable extent into tlie dry soil. You remem ber what I told you about the exceed ingly slow rate of movement of water even in a moderately moist soil. It we have the surface soil dry, so that water will not come to the surface bf the laud, then the evaporation of water wilt be confined within the soil, a ml tbe vapor so formed will have to llll'ii!-e out through the dry layer, with h is a slow process. The water will not be delivered at the surface of the toil, where evaporation is most rapid. Tlie loss of water by evapora tion witbic the soil ut a deuth of three or four inches ih exceedingly slow. $ine years ago Ls&w. sopie Interest ing soils in California, Iu points, .of the valleys they have sblbj that will produce a crop without auy rainfall iluiing the period of growth. At a point near Los Angeles which I visited out, September, they had a tobacco field which had been plim led iu April or May aud had produced a crop which hud been harvested. A sucker crop had been allowed to grow; aud iu September they were cutliug this Miukei crop, wbich had made a fair growth and was then iu a very flour ishing condition. T'je tobacco had had no rain since it u as planted, but had been cultivated throughout the eMSon as we do our crops II. the east. With my bauds I could scrape off the rurface auii get down to moist soil. The wells of that district showed the water tabe A'ua forty feet below tlie surface. Such an occurrence appears a very remarkable fact to us here in tlie east, where we suffer if a rain does not come within two or ttiree iveeks. In try lug to find out u reason for those peculiar conditions Iv some of the western solid (be fact presented itself that In tbotc localities they have a very dry air, a very hot climate, aud usually very strong wiuds that dry out the surface rapidly. They have about eighteen or twenty inches of ruin during the winter. After the rains stop iu April, if they immedi ately cultivate their surface soil and gel it completely dried out, they there by conserve the moisture, because any subsequent 16ss through evaporation will have to come from evaporation within the sofi, aud that is very slow, although flow evaporation does take place witbiu a Soil. Whau we dry out the surface and maintain a dry earth mulch we force the placu of evaporation down into the soil itself and the water then has to evaporate within the soil and push its way up through I bene narrow spaces Htich diffusion Is exceedingly slow. To test thN idea of the cans of the peculiar conditions In die western soils I had a laboratory exporltuH.l tried on a small s.nle. Taking t' cylinders fix feet long we tilled them with soil and platied tlie lower cinl ea- h In water. Over the surface orone tube we blew a current of air at the ordinary temperature and over tlie other we blew the,ssne amUnl of air at a higher temperature, thus slkhlly beating the surface soil, creating con ditions that favored evaporation This forced the evaporation of the second soil, and f. rashbrt tliu It hist, more than the otherj hut after the suilace had dried out the evaporation from the tube Was checked, louring the twelve months the experiment wax running the loss from the heated sur face soil over which the dry air wa blowing was very much less than from the other soil. The trouble with our sblls In the east seetus to he that We have rain on an average every three rtays iu the jear About one-third of otlr days are rainy days, according to weather bu reau reports. Of colirse we do not hove rain every third day, but the average is that. The tetilperattiro is moderately warm, but the atmos phere is also quite humid as compnted with the western climate. The evap oration from the surface of the soil Is relatively slow; in fast as moisture is evanorated from the surface, water comes up by capillary action from h Dim-it hand, Flnnl 1'ioof SOTldB KOll PUBLICATION United States Lund uhV The Dalles, Oieg.-lit July 18, ll'OO. Notice Is hereby given Unit tlti frloil Kampfur, of Slinntkoi oruiibn. I11U llh"' notice of Inltiiitl-iii to maka I'roof mi bis .leerbland olidin No. 411), fr die n Iml nwrtnnrb'r.seo lO.tplis, rlib. w til, In 1. ,to tlie lteghtur and ' coulver ut The Dalles. Oregon, on tlio llltt day of Atlgit, lOOt). lie names tlio following witnesses to pmvo tit's cotui'li'tu- itilgatlim and recla mation 01 snld land: Perry T. Monroe, 0. M. MoPlmrSoit and A. Kninpfen all of Mihnlko, Oregon, nml 0. Stressor, of Madras, Oiugon. MibiiAlit. T. Not.A.v. l30-a33 ' Hoglster. NOTlCfl FOR PUBtICATlON. Department of the Intel lor. liaml Oftice at Tlie Dalles, Oregon, July !I0, JIKM. Notice Is hereby given Hint Daniel Swift of Culver, Oregon, lm hl notice- f his intention to innM final llve-ycnr proot in Mipport or lilsclnllii- vtx: Homestead entr) A'oflH&.imido Juno 8, 90, for tho so quarter sec 18, tp 12 s, r 18 e, w 111, And that said proof will be inmle before D. P. Ken. U. S. Commissioner, nl Ids oflico iu Madras, Oregon, on Suptemhei 5. UKW. He names the followli g wltnees t prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, thu land, viz M KHAKI, r (Jus Loveland and Henry Conroy have returned to Madras. They have been logging on the Columbia. O. A. Rhodes returned on Tuesday from a trip across the mountains. He drove over to Hood River, where he joined a party of friends for a camping trip up on Mt. Hood, and where a large portion of the heated term was spent. For Sao( Two Jersey heifers. For particulars apply to J. II, Homey, Madmsj Or. a230 For Sulo. One grain dull, one sulky plow, one pair bob-sleds, one 3 wide life wagon with hayrack, two two-year-old mate colts (on range), one Durham cflw, one Jersey cow. For particulars address or call on F, J. Brooks, Madras, my ugtaU I. A, Mcisioger. Town Lots for Sale. Lots 7 an. I 8 in lilk. UI, Madras Townsite. Inquire Nelsou Urewell, Youhg'a post oflice. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. (Isolated Truct) Public Laud tialn. U. H. Land Oiliee, Tho Dalles, Or., August n, MOO. Notice is hereby given that directed by the Commissioner of the General Lund Office, under provisions of tlie act of Con gress approved June 27, lHW, Public ATo. Wi, wu will olfor at public sale, to the highest bidder, at n o'clock a. in.', ou the 2tst day of September next, at this oflice, tlie following tragi of Ixud, to-wit: The SB quarter quarter of sec 8, tp rfJ s, r J8 ', w m. Any persons claiming adversely the nbove-descrlbcd lands are advised to tile thfclr claims, or objections, on or betore tho day above designated for sain, Micuxsl T. Noua.v, XlXXA. U. Lan, Register. Receiver, aifl-s20 N'Ot.AN, Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of ki Interior. Laud Office at The 1) .lie, Oiegoii. July lh. r.KH5. Notice lft hereby glvon tli.it IVane V. Dean, of llaycreok Ore., lus Hied notice of her Intention to ui.tke Ihuil live-year proof in support of her claim, viz: Home.tead entry No. MJH made Dec ember !M, UKW, for the se quarter nw ipinr ter, e half sv quarter, sec 'ii, tp 10 s, r 11 c and 1. it il, sec 2, ti 11 .-, r It e, w m, And tlmtald proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at The Dalles. Oregon, on AugiiKt 27, ;M0. Sue names the following wltises to prove her coutlmiotis residence upon aial cultivation of the hind, viz: Harry Douihlt, of shanlko, Oregon, Ed. Kutcliur. John Truliiuger, and James .McCoy, alt of llaycieek, Oregon. Michael T. .Yolan, J2C-a23 Register. .!. 1). tunriiB. F.el V. Hull. Frank low to take its place and is in turn j p . Fl'ch, nil of Culver, Oiegont and Frank evaporated. Iu tho long run you win t. havelatul, ut Mallras, On go i, get a greater loss of water where the evaporation is slower than you will! where the evaporation is more rapid , Mr. "Walker During the period of our dry spells, tn the case of corn for example, would we get that result by continued cultivation or should we let the soil be? I mean under our condi tions here, where we go down forty five feet for well water. Professor Whitney. Conditions here are rather unfavorable for the control of moisture, because of ur frequent rains. Ktrange as It may seem, while we suffer if we do not get rains, we should actually be belter off, as the are In the arid reglobs of the west, il we did Uot have any rain during the urowing season and had a means of providing water when wo wanted it. There Is no question that the arid con ditions of agriculture with water for irrigation permit the most perfect system of cultivation. Such a system is much more efficient aud crops are under much better control if ihe con ditions are handled intelligently than they are iu tlie east. The trouble with us Is that we cannot maintain tills dry mulch. After u rain we plow or culti vate Just as soon ns we can and we get the surface moderately dry; then another tain comes ou nml if we think we can afford It we cultivate again; then still another rain comes and we try again to get tlie surface dry. 1 yoo cultivate your soil after u raiu just In the right time, you catch the moisture in the soil, then if you have a drouth cultivate by all means; keep cultivating and you will do much toward saving your crop. Tlie secretary of agriculiure has told of a very disasteroUH diought whllo he was professor of agriculture iu Iowa, when he saved Ins corn crop and got a nor mal yield by nnuBtant cultivation dur ing the dry season, while his neighbors had almost a complete failure. As I told you It depends upon tlie skill, the judgment, and the chance which Jead you to begin operations at the right titue. If you knew what was coming you could save your croi during any ordinary period of drought. Mr. Jefferson. Would you udvocat. deep plowing aud shallow cultivation? Professor Whitney. Deep plowing certainly, aud shallow cultivation. I am glad to see tlio tendency is to In crease materially the depth of plowing iu this neighborhood. A depth of six or seven indies Is un admirable prepa tion for a seed bed, but after that cul tivation should be shallow. Notice for Publication. Department of the Interior, Laud Oflice at The Dalles, Oiegon, Jui 30, UW, A'otice Is hereby given that Valt r D. Walker, of AshwouU, Oregon, lias Died iotlce of Ids intention to' make final five year proof In support of Ids claim, viz: Homestead entry A'o 8(175 made March 20. 11W0, for the LotJJ, se quarter nw q mr ter, sw quarter ne quarter ntnl nw quarter se quarter see 5, tpll s, r 17 e, w in, And tliutsiild proof will be uiiulu lioiore I). P. Rea, U. S. CommUsioner, r.t his nice hi Madras, Oregon, on September 4, l!H)t5. He names Hie following wituue$ to prove his continuous resilience upon, ami Hiltlvatlon of, Hie and, vl.: Kdwin Klkiiis, Chester S. McCorkle. Knox I). Huston, and Knhuil P. Uuiry iiiuii, all of Aihwood, OregMii. MICIIAHI. T. .YOI.AX, ItegiMer. n2-B0 NOTICfi FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Lmd Olllce at The Dallen, Or., July 30, 10U0. Notice Is hereby given that William S. Criswell, of Madras, Oregon, has filed notice of his intention to make final live year proof In suppott of hii cl ii I in , viz: HomeMead entry No 7787, made November 2S, 1800, for tlio so quarter sec 20, tp 10 s, r 14 e, w in, And that said proof will be made before I) P. Ron, L'. H. Commls-doner, at his oiliee iu Madras, Oregon, on September tt, 1000. lie iiaini'H the following witnesses to prove bis continuum residence upon, and cultivation of, the laud, viz: A 8. Phillips, V. H. Btonehocker. T. H. Tucker mihI J. K Campbell, all of Madras, Oregon. .Miohaui.T. NolaS, "2 30 Register. .NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the Interior. Land Olllce ut The Dalles. Or., x- i i , , , July a. looo. Notice Is hereby given that John P. Monner, of Madras, Oregon, has llled notice of his intention to nmko final commutation proof hi support of his claim, viz: Homestead Entry No. 13008 umdu December o, 1005, for the nw quarter see 35, tp 0 s, r 13 e, w m, And that said proor will be? made before Don P. Rea, P-K, CouiinLsioi.. er, at hlsoflloe In Madras, Oregon, ou September 0, 1000. 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