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AnVKltTIS?NO IIATKS ON A I'l'MCATION
i Kntnrcd as M'roiitl olass mnlipr Anetist
lflul, nt Hit' Poxtnlflco at Madias. Ore,
under the Act of Uotiicss of March 3, 1S7H.
THURSDAY
April 1 1, 1907
THE OREGON TRUNrt LINE
1 Til ere will be general satis
faction among the residento of
this district over the settlement
of the right of way cUfileultiea of
the Oregon Trunk Line up the
Deschutes canyon. At the
time the building of this line
was obstructed by thfc reclama
tion service this action was vig
orously condemned on all sides,
;ind numerous protests were
torwarded to Washington
against the great injustice be
jng done to Central Oregon.
The irrigation project for which
tlie railroad was held up has
since been abandoned and it
lias not taken long to get the
approval of Commissioner Bal
linger of the General Land
Office to tlie railroad right of
way up the canyon.
. "Of all the railroad lines pro
jected into this section, none
would be more welcome than
the Oregon Trunk Line. The
line up the Deschutes to Cen-i
tral Oregon is unquestionably
the most practical route into
this territory, not onljr because
of the easy grade upon which it
can be built, but because it will
anora tne snortest route ana a
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water level grade to tlie market 4
for all the product of this section
of Central Oregon and that is
an important item when the
product to be transported is
"grain.
These advantages have been
.sufficient to make the Oregon
Trunk Line a popular project
in this locality, but back of that
popularity lies another reason
the redemption of some of its
promises of construction. For
'Jive or six 3Feats the Ilaniman
interests have issued their an
nual allotment of railroad
promises for Central Oregon,
and just as regular ly these
promises have failed of redemp
tion. Last year the Oregon
Trunk Line, an independent
project, surveyed its lineup the
Deschutes, to Madras, and the
announcement was made that
construction would begin in the
near future. And, within a few
weeks of that time, a force of
'men and teams were at work on
"the grade for this line. This
work was stopped by the action
of the reclamation service, but
not before an effort had been
made by the Oiegon Trunk
Line to redeem its promuses.
And but for that interi uption,
' it is only fair to believe thai
construction Mould have been
.well under way, possibly near-
.mg completion by thin time.
, The embargo on the Oregon
Tiunk Line
iii1 nttlimi
has been raised,'
gh Mr. Nelson I
lias not announced hit
;plausv it may be assumed that
the construction work begun
last year will be resumed, and
will proceed to completion.
And, the day when tlie last
spike in the Deschutes line to
Madras is driven will soon ar
rive, if the good will of a com
munity yan help the onleiprise
along.
BY RULEOF CONTRARY
The consistency of the Prine
ville Review is something to be
in hi veiled at, In its issue of
two weeks ago that paper was
pointing to the- troubles of the
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flmimnnv mh the resil t of the I
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itiii u iii iliii IlniMU Act- Himi'i
iiu in (
which that company is opera
ting, and at the aame time de
claiming upon the far-seeing
statesmanship of Mr. William
son and his fellow delegates to
the iriigation congress Font
years ago, who were able thus
far in advance of actual tiial, to
discern the dangers in that law.
Those statements fell down of
their own Weakness, and so last
week the Review changed front
and appeared ii the role of
champion of die Columbia
Southern Irrigating Company,
which company, it says, is he
ing greatly maligned. The
Review now takes the position
that the troubles of the Colum
bia Southern Irrigating Com
pany were due to the water
famine of the past year, which
upset all previous calculations.
Those calculations, based upon
actual niesisutein'ents, had been
made ny both the statu engi
neer and the company's engi
neers, who reported that tin
Tumalo would furnish sufficient
water .o ungate the 27,000
acres. The dry year followed
however, and the Tutnali
would sunuly only enough
water to irrigate less than - hal
1 . 1 rt 1 1 r v
01 mat amount 01 lanu. nein e
the present troubles
And so, after all, it wasn't tlu
uare' Act wnicn was responsi
ble, and the'-far-seeing wisdom
of Prineville's statesmen was
case of mistaken ideiuitjr. As
to the Review's defense of the
Columbia Southern Irrigation
Company, that can only b
accounted for by the "rule of
contrary', the Review assuming
this new attitude when it dis
coveied that the Vestside
papers, generally, censured the
Columbia Southern company
fnr nprmiiritur ir ..to.;. t .rut
in such bad shape.
REV. C. ArWAASA VISITS
The Revv.G. A. Waasa of
Portland ' held? quarterly meet
ing at the (xernian M. E. Church
last Siin'day,f substituting foi
the presiding elder, the Rev. C.
A. Priesing. 'Mr. Waasa is
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Known as one ot tlie most
highly educated German minis'
ters on the Coast, being a grad
uate of the famous University
ot Basel, in .Switzerland. One
01 his accomplishments is that
he speaks an unusually beauti
ful German, which is rarelv
found among lierman ministers
who receive their education in
this country. The seinion Mr.
Waasa preached Sunday' morn
i?ig made a deep impression on
the congregation and culmina
ted, at the afternoon service, in
an old-fashioned Methodist
revival. Monday Rev. Waasa
accompanied Rev. JT. Tj. Moeh
ring ana several inenas on a
trip to Opal Springs, the beauty
of which he greatly enjoyed.
DELAYED BY HICH WATER
The Westaide Rend stage was
held up for three hour3 by the
high water in Antelope cre-k,
last Sunday morning, and al
leady late because of the Shan-
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creeit was Dooming alter the
hard rain Saturday, - and when
the stage diiver caue to . the
first crossing below Durbiu's, it
loolu-d oo dangerous lo at
tempt a cjossing, and ho they
waited hree hours for daylight
when a safe ciossing was nmde.
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DIGGING DEEP WELL BY HAND
13. Dombrowo has resumed
woikou thy well which ho is
sinking by hand on his home
stead. Jle has reached a depth
of over 70 feel, and puis in as
much time on the well as he
can spare from his other work
on the lauch. The bi woll
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which no is smiting will cost
inure than a dn oil we . but he
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on 1 iiwiiiu wueu no once te
cures water.
1 Campbell Talks On Farming
Q.
fi Says the Right Method Has
H Forming; But That It Must
At this R.ituriltiy morning selon of
the Dry i'arinlnir Connrt'8 Proft H.-or
Oiiniptioll took tho shuul ami anawtTt'il
iinHtioii8 fur two hours. Homo of the
qtifSilniiH ami Jlr. Cainphull'a miHWorn
v-re as fullovvB:
The Secret of Tte NVioIe Thing
Jlr. Ailams of Arizona: "Mr. Chair
man, I am very greatly Intoivah'il In
ono thing. I do not know that it Huh
neeti drought out. Dry fanning, n I
understmnl if, means two things Hist
tho depoHlt of a water sy.-lom holow
you might call It a rus-orvolr of mots
Hire ami cultivation on top. What I
wmint like to know is how iloop thai
reservoir of moisture ought 10 he
placed helow the surface under thll'-r
eut comlilions or uumunts of rainfall
in different weitn'ins. .
Pi of. HS'-r Campbell: t would any -a
man had four feet of moWinre lie
could go through almost any condition
we have had in the past year. Now,
et me explain i little my Idea with
reference to the storage of water. That
is almost a secondary consideration.
"The preparation of the soil to
get it into sUch a condition that we
can utilize not only the element of
water, but the elements of water
and air together with heat and
light is necessary. The storage of
water below so that it can keep
that soil filled with a certain per
centage of water in order to carry
on the development of bacteria and
nitrates is the secret ol the whole
thing."
A number of written qucfltlo'ns were
handed in. Auintii; them were:
"On u piece of land well prepared in
the full, would you recommend sowing
oats and harle ?"
Professor Cum libel I: "My Idea Is to
put oais In es early as you can gel
them in. They will stand uome fro-t.
With barley you can't do that. It
won't stand frost. To fix the ex 111 1
time is impossible. You must be
goyertied by the spring time.
The next quest lot: is: 'Is the sub
surface pucker needed equally us much
on land plowed with the dice plow at
It i.- with the mould-board plow?' Yi-f
I would say more, as a rule. Now, let
me elaborate aualu upon this point of
the condition of the uround. If you go
intoyour ground with a disc plow
when It la somewhat dry and turn it
over, breaking it into lump, then w
on with the sub surface packer and
attempt to gel an ideal i-ouditiou, you
c.iiinui do it. Neither canyon do it
with the mould-board plow. The
giouiid must be moist, and us I Haiti
yeeterduy, ihe important tlili.'g is to
precede the plow with the disc harrow.
Jo other words, the minute your ciO
is oil-, if possible, follow your harvester
with the disc ii. order to loosen up that
grotiiiil and not penult tlie sun's rays
to jeaoh down there as soon as the
crop is removed and draw that mois
ture out.
I-quIpmcnt for a Farm
"Another question: 'Will you
please statu how many horses and
and what tools will tie requited to run
100 moios of land as required in your
system of fanning? At the 1'omeroy
farm at Hill City we opened up 220
acre. lor three yeais that was
farmed with six. hortes and two men.
1'he last three yeais we had eight
horsm ami now have twelve horses
there. At the Hurlington farm at
iioldredge, Nebraska, Just now 011 its
fourth year, wo have eight horses and
mo men. J his year w are putting
on lour more, making tweivo horse.
ud are going to put on llirtjo men.
We now have il'dti acres mnler oullivu-
llon"; We Inn! Just ubotit 'JJO actes un-
Jer cultivation when we were hand
ling it with eight hoises and two men.
Now, this would iudiuuio thai one
iiiuu with four horaeH and the proper
tools could handle a hundred acres.
He cannot do H quite us eusily as two
men with eight horses would handle
two Hundred acres, hucatise there are
times when you have it part of that
laud thut should be gone over qiilukly
uud with two teams you can get over
it very much more easily. Jt is my
opinion thut with the pioper tools
one man cun handle 11 liundiel ucies
and do it right.
Mr. Ailhur It. JJrJggs: "Iloforo you
get uwuy from the wubjuut of rowing.
I would like to usk ope more question.
The statement wus made lu-a night,
I think, thut good success, tin. 1 been
uehloveti by following the .: iw j tit -mediately
after the reaper I cutting
the grain.
J'rofefcsor Campbell: " I do not
think It lu 11 good ideu not tvlth us
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Bo Thoroughly Understood
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here. Hut t am spenkluu of eondl
lions with which I am familiar. If
yoh were lo follow Ihe haiVeslef u i I h
the plow, in the uiwjoilty of eases that
ground Wollld be Hoiuewhut dry.
It would not belli proper condition to
turnover. Mv Idea Is to follow the
harvester with Ihe disc, loosening
about three Indies of the surface to
stop the evaporation and allow' an an
cumulation of moisture, and If there Is
ai.y nioMure below It will come up.
Then wait a week or two until that
soil helow has become tnolat, ami then
do the plowing.
RHODES-JENKINS
Thf fallowing account of the in.irri.ie
of Ora Rhodes, formerly of this place, 15
fiom the H ouil Kivar Clucier:
On U ednrsil.iy cvnung, M-och 27, ft
veiy pretty wedding win soleiiinirad attlie
Valley Christian cluucli when Miss Lucy
II. Jen'dus, of Hood Kivr, Oregon, mid
Mr. Ora A Uliodci were muted in mar
riage, lev. AV. A lilkuis officiating.
The bnde was beautifully diesseti in
white ciepe tte Paris, cnnying a bouquet
of while carnations. She was attended by
her sister, Miss Mabel Jenkins, who was
daintily attired, carrying a tied bouquet of
the same.
The giooin was drescd in the ' usual
conventional black and attended by Mr.
R A. Francis, of Corvallii, formerly of
Athena.
Friends ol the bride and groom taste
fully decorated the church. The ilmr
tinge altar was backed by a pointed halt
circle of Oregon grape vine (Jenves) on
white, based with growing plants
The bride was conducted to the altar
by her father, J. W. Jenkins The bridal
procession cnteied the church ai 8 p in.
to a march played by Mrs W. A. Elkins.
After the ceremony and congratulations,
the young couple left for Ho id River,
where they took the early morning train
for Portland.
.Mrs. Rhodes is the eldest daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. 3. W. Jenkins, of this val
ley, and is well known in this vicinity,
having heie grown to womanhood.
Mr. Rhodes's former home was hi Ath '
ena, Ore , where he has a hot of friends,
having spent the greater part of his life at
that place and is known to he a young '
man of exemplary character.
That Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes arc csiim
able young people is shown by the way '
their many friends remembered them.
They received many vale ible jjifts from
irienrfs everywhere. It is the desire ol
theirfriends here that joy and happiness
may attend them.
Mr. and Mr3. Rhoailes will reside near
Hood River.
RANCH FOR SALE OH TRADE
Good stock farm in I.ane and Douglas
counties; 100 acres of rich bottom land;
unnil rtn.lii.M In. nn I. .... . I : I I
iui iiu nt.iu L.ime; sun iicu 1 9
and productive, rctUirin no irrigation; I
finest of water and climate ideal; health-
fulness of locality unsurpassed t no insect
pests in garden or otcliard; hh and game
plenlllul. A bargain at $4,000; closest
inspection invited. Will cither sell, or
trade for wheat land in this section. In-
quire of John McTaggart or Max Lued- !
demunn, Madras, Oregon.
COW FOR SALE
Fresli milch cow lor sale, For pai
ticulnrs inquire of Dave Teck at rancji on
Opal Prairie. .'14-25
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