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The Heppner Gazette
LIVESTOCK IN OKEdSON.
The Stock Industry is in a Prosper
ous Condition.
In a recent interview with a Portland
paper, C. J. Millie, livestock agent of
the 0. K. & N., who makes a study of
the stock industry, gave out the follow
ing: "Speaking of the shpep industry,"
said Mr. Millis, "this has beeo one of
the most prosperous years on record in
Oregon. The crop of lambs, despite
the blustering squalls and cold rains
that visited our ranges about the be
ginning of our lambing season, was
over 95 per cent this year. Other lo
calities had as high an increase, but it
was 'not saved. By an increase we
mpan the number of Iambs that lived,
to become available for future demands,
and not the number dropped. On ac
count of drought and short crops in the
great feed producing central states, the
shipments of sheep have been some
what below the usual amount. As a re
sult the ranges and markets tt home
are in a somewhat congested state. One
of the unfortunate results of this con
dition is th conflict of stockmen on the
ranges. If the Eastern movement of
sheep had been as great as it generally
is, and as great as the ranges of Ore
gon are prepared to furnish, very much,
if not all ot this unpleasantness on the
ranges would have been avoided.
"A large movement of sheep has
taken place in Oregon this year, that is
an entirely new feature in the business.
This is a, movement of Northeastern
Oregon sheep into the San Francisco
markets. I have in mind one firm that
has shipped 100 carloads of sheep to
this market from the extreme eastern
portion of the state. This has added a
new impetus to the business in that
..Monterestelli Bros..
Granite and Marble Monu
ments a Specialty : : : :
STONE AND
MARBLE CUTTERS
Finishing Stone Work for Build
ings. Best Marble and Granite kept
in Stock.
SHOP ON MAIN STREET,
Heppner,
Oregon
section, as it was an unexpected open
ing. Southern Oregon, Nevada and
California have heretofore supplied this
market.
"Altogether Oregon has shipped out
this year, in round numbers, 500,000
sheep. This is only one half of what
would have gone, had crop conditions
in the Central states, where all of the
feeding is done, (not restricted the de
mand. Oregon lambs have topped the
market in Chicago this fall, for this
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class of sheep. The total amount of
sheep in the state is 4,250,000, on a con
servative estimate.
"The wool market has been very
spirited and the wool has moved rap
idly. The practice of making sealed
bids for the wool clip, by the various
buyers, have added a new feature to
our wool markets. Purchasers keep the
prices up, in their rivalry for the out
put. "Just now the horse is taking a rest.
The lull in the business occasioned by
trie close of the Spanish and Boer wars
has affected the movement of horses.
There have been shipped out of Oregon
this vear 250 carloads, the ptincipal
movement being to the Omaha and
Kansas City markets.
Oregon cattle have been sent into
Montana, Dakota and Colorado during
the early portion of the season. Later
the beef shipments have been to Port
land and Sound cities The absence of
parking houses and other permanent
industries connected with the beef bus
iness, tend to cause Oregon cattle to be
shipped out of the state. So far the
shipments from the state, over the va
rious lines, amount to 30,000 head, for
this season, with the heavy feed yard
shipments yet to go.
It has Tome to the Front.
The rapidity with which the Disc Gra
phophone has come to the front is due to
the fact that the quality of the records
has been constantly improved, from the
time this . type of machine began to be
made by the Columbia Phonograph
Company, the pioneers and leaders in
the talking machine art. The advant
ages of flat, thin and indestructible ie'
cords were always recognized but the
manufacturers who attempted to make
them failed eo lamentably in producing
anything to compare with the cylind
rical records used on the graphone that
the demand for them was uni portant.
All that is changed ; the Columbia Disc
Records are a delight. If vou have not
heaid them you can form no idea of the
advance that has been made in them.
The disagreeable Bcratch and the
mullled effect has been replaced by a
smoothness, naturalness and brilliancy
which gives to their reprodution a most
charming effect.
The Disc Graphophone is made in three
types, selling at $15, $20 and $30. Seven
inch reiwds 5oc each, $5 per dozen; 10
inch records $1 each, $10 per dozen.
The Graphophone and Columbia records
were awarded the Gand Prize at the
Paris Exposition of 1900.
The Columbia Phonograph Company,
125 Geary Street, San Francisco, head
quaters for Graphophones and talking
machine supplies of every kind, will send
you catalogues on application.
CHRONIC CASES
are particularly desirous.
You cannot only cure Piles
by removing the cause.
You cannot get at the cause
with anything but an internal
remedy.
Chronic capes make the most
enthusiastic advertisers of this
remedy. Because it cures.
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Gen. Agent. Ticket Agt
21A Alder St.. Portland. Or.?.
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A. L. CRAIG,
General Passenger Agent, Portland
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