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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1902)
piRST Rational ank OF HEPPNER. O. A. RHEA. T. A. RHEA. President I G. W. CON8ER Cashier .VioPresident E. L. FREELAND. . Assistant Cashier Transact a General Banking Business. EXCHANGE ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD BOUGHT AND SOLD Collections made on all pointson reasonable terms. Surplus and undivided profits $35,000. The First National Grocery CaD be found on Main street and is the place to buy T : : : : : Groceries, Provisions, Glassware,Tin- ware and Furnishing Goods These Goods are well adapted to either City or Country Trade : : : Staple Fancy Groceries Fine feas (6 Co fees Good Goods.... Fair Prices.L- T. R. IT O WARD , Heppner it DR. JORDAN'S orcat I.1USEUU OF ANATOMY 1051 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO. OAL. fl.tWMB slltk Ul MNMJ Th lrrt A-n atomic! Vumhm a taa World. mmtMMf ttnaMM fct tKt OKI A iiMiii-ftil tinht tor nijitor. i VrMkB, Or HOJ 0BtTfMV tarn Oiaani Bpwwiaiua u n I Com KaUbUahdMyar, OIL JORDAN-PRIVATE DIStAKt M.d wtai ara aufferlns from tha atfecte ! youthful India. 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Portland, at 7 a. m. and 11 p. m. : : : : : : : PORTLAND BOAT leaven The Dulles at 7 a. m. nod 3 p. m., daily (exoept Sunday). ::::::: STEAMERS Regulator, Dalles City, Reliance, Iralda, G. W. Shaver. W. C. ALLAWAY, Agent, The Dalles A Kemarknble Offer. The (Jazette has made special ar rangements with the Young People's The Heppner Gazette LAND NOT AltlD. So Says Inspector tireen of De. chute Valley. Washington, Nov. 21. Inspector Green reports to the Secretary of the Interior that the lands selected by the State ot Oregon under the Carey act, and known as list six that is, the lands intended to be reclaimed by the Pilot Butte Development Company are not arid. He reports well developed juni per trees scattered over the area ; there fore, he concludes, the lands are not subject to entry under the Carey act. This report will undoubtedly lead to a prolonged wrangle and may be the means of preventing for some time re clamation in the Deschutes valley, ei ther by the Government or bv private enterprise. Before the Pilot Butte Company dop ed its contract with the state, as the records show, it took the precaution to seer. re the opinion of the department as to whether or not the growth of juniper trees would be held as an indication that the lands selected by the state were or were not arid. The State Land Agent simultaneously asked the opinion of the department as to the character of these lands. He stated in his letter that the land "is entirely destitute of water and is practically a desert, but on certain portions there is a scattering growth of jnnipers. The juniper, and especially the scrubby variety growing on this desert, is not suitable for lnrx ber, can be used onlv for wond and fence posts, and there is no more of such wood on any quarter section than will be nec essary for the use of the settler on the quarter section. It cannot be made into lumber and be shipped away, and can be used only in the immediate vicinity of its growth." In transmitting this letter to the Sec retary, Commissioner Hermann ex pressed the ODinion that the rule of the department, which holds that "lands containing sufficient moisture to produce a natural growth of trees are not to be classed as desert land" should be liber ally construed, "for the reason that the land is doubtless unfit for cultivation , without irrigation, or else it would have been entered long ago." In reply to Commissioner Hermann's letter, Secretary Hitchcock issued in structions in which be said: "A growth of ordinary forest trees on land in the arid region may, as a gen eral rule, be accepted as evideoce of the non-desert character of the lard. It is, however, a mere prf sumption that lands containing sufficient moisture to produce trees will produce agricultural crops, but, like all presumptions of fact, it may be rebutted by proof showing that the land i i actii.illy de-ert in Hurarter and will not produce agricultural crops without irrigation. A sparse and stunt, ed growth of trees which may exist with little moisture, and is frequently found upon arid lands actually unfit for ordi nary agricultural purposes, is not within the spirit and intent of the rule." These instructions were reported to the State Land Agent and to the Pilot Butte Company, all of which is cited to show the precautionary steps taken bv this company to ascertain, before mak ing a contract, whether the lands it had in view would be held subject to the Carey act. No action is likely to be taken on Green's report for two or three weeks. The case is awaiting its regular turn. There is on record, along with this re port, a great maBS of affidavits filed by the Pilot Butte Company showing the land to be arid and not capable of pio ducing crops without irrigation. These affidavits were riled under the Secreta ry's instructions above quoted, and are from CongrtjHBtuan-elect Williamson, the Oregon State Engineer, ex-Surveyor General Pengra, President Lytle, and Chief Engineer Hammond, of the Co lumbia Southern Railway; Hydraulic Engineer Clark, of Portland; J. M. Moore, of Portland, and many others of known reliability who have personally gone over the ground. There is also filed an exhaustive analysis of the soil and statement of precipitaiion, by months, on the Upper Deschutes. This mass of testimony is all diametrically opposed to Greeu'a report, and shows the land to be arid. WOOL IH EN MEET. j Iteortfaiiize I'nder New Constitu tion and lfyL.aw. A meeting of the Umatilla County Woolgrowers' Association was held at the parlors of the Pendleton Commer cial Ctub, Thursday afternoon, Presi dent Douglas Belts presiding. There was a splendid attendance of sheepmen from outside points, as well as from the immediate vicinity of this city. President Belts announced that the object of the meeting was to reor ganize the county association to conform to the new constitution of the State Wool growers' Association, recently adopted in this city. The members present represented the larger part of the shfepof Umati.la county and all were enthusiastic in re newing the organization which has already been so beneficial to the indus try and which promises greater returns in the futore. Many new members from the Pilot Kock and other outside points were taken in, and the associa tion is in a flourishing condition. Ranges are reported to be in first-class condition. Sheep are better prepared to begin the winter than for several ye.rs and taken throughout the county, the sheep and wool questions are most satisfactory. Forest reserve, range allotments, irrigation and salt, as being associated with the sheep rais'ng industry, were ably discussed by those present. East Oregonian. I Weekly, published in Chicago, to fur nish this interesting and valuable paper with the Gazette, both papers for f 1.00. The Young People's Weekly is one of the lending story papers of America with 10 pages, nicely illustrated every week. It is always interesting to the youDg people.
