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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1904)
r The Heppner Gazette l.tHblitihii March HO, 18S1. ISSUED THURSDAY MORNING. Warnock Sc Ilarlnn. Kntered at the rostofliee at Heppner Oregon, as second-class matter. Thursday August 25, 1901 To the people in Morrow county who are not satisfied with the country and environments, just a few words in relation to actual con ditions might be interesting, jt j8 human nature to complain and per fection has never yet been found by man. We measure almost everything by comparison and let vlb look at other places. Even in the far famed Willamette Valley, the present season has been so dry that crops are very short. Kan sas has had great floods. In Min nesota this week a terrible tornado caused the death of almost 20 people and a property loss of $2, 500.000. Up in the great wheat belt of the Manitoba country the black rust is ruining the crops. A short study of the actual condi tions ought to relieve somewhat the man with pessimistic views. Here in Morrow county we are en jojing prosperity and the anticipa tion of a bright future. Morrow county this season has produced more and will have more to sell than ever before in her history. This in a great country and our greatest need is more people to de velop our resources. land or s.ki:s. .11 il lions of Kopliles S arm Streets, of Klainalh Fulls. The Morrow County Develop ment League is now in a fair way for organization. Judge Ayers has been active this week in secur ing signers and has made good progress. A good working organ ization can do much good for Heppner and Morrow county, Just now there is plenty to do. The League should immediately take hold of the matter of gather ing up Morrow county products for an exhibition at the Lewis ant Clark fair next year. There will be alwav something to do. Let us get out of the old rut. LEXINGTON NEWS. N. A. Leach, of Walla Walla, was in town on business Friday. Tack Lane, of UaTdman, vieited Tom Bnrnett last Friday. Mrs. If. E. Bluebell visited friends in Heppner Sunday. Solomon Glick is quite ill with the mumps. School will begin Monday, Sept. J5th. Rev. O. I. Crockett went to Spo kane Monday to attend the annu al conference of tlie M. 10. Church iSoutU: Rev. H. S. Spangle preached at the M. E. Church South last Sun day. Johnson and Fry have purchas ed a new separator. It will be here this week. Mrs. W. O. Miller, of FJeppner, is visiting friends here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Silas Beach and W. G. Scott and family went to the mountains last Tuesday. Mrs. E. K. Beach's mother and sister, of Chicago, are visiting here. ThejT arrived Monday even ing. Prof. II. 13. Wilcox and Mi. Ethel Eskelson wf-rc married at the home of the bride's parents AVeunesday, Aug. 17, Rev. J. L. Jones ofliciating. Prof. Wilcox is the ffiicient and popular principal of our school. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and "Mrs. Joseph L'skelson, of this plac They went to the mountains Wednesday afternoon for a few days' outing. We join their many friends in wishing them a long and happy wedded life. Klamath count), Oregon, bor deis on California to the south and lies midway between the east ern and western boundary of the state. A range of mountains skirts the western border of the county, among them Mt. Pitt, 10,000 feet; Mt. Thielson, y,258 feat, Mt.Scott, 5,000 feet; and numerous elevations of lesser magnitude. It is also a country of fresh water lakes, among them Upper and Lower Klamath, the latter crossing the line into California. The distance between these two bodies of water is about three miles, and they are joined together by the Link river, a small and somewhat turbulent stream, dashing over many rocks on much of its journey from lake to lake. The town of Klamath Falls is located on this river, at the foot of Upper Klamath lake, and has a population of perhaps 1000 and a million snakes. Snakes are there by the thous and thousand, nice gentle fellows of a grayish hue, harmless as doves or a parrot in his cage. For some reason the reptiles migrate from one lake to the other, following the river in their journey, and at these times on sunny days the streets of the town are fairly alive with a crawling, squirming mass of life, apparentlv not at all offensive to citizens of the community, who depreciate injury to one of the harmless creatures. A snake in Klamath Falls is no more a terror to her people than is a chirruping sparrow an alarm to the good citi zens of Portland, and the man habitually destroying them would earn for himself a social ostracism he would not enjoy. The county jail of Klamath county is a favorite rendezvous of these snakes. There are holes be neath i' foundation into which they crawl during the night, emer ging therefrom at sunrise, when many manage to get up to the window sills and theie bask in the sunshine for hours at a time. If one should wiggle its way into a residence the housewife chases it out with a broom and goes on with herwoik as if nothing had hap pened. A speculative genius arrived iu Klamath Falls some months since intending to make a fortune out of snake il. He conceived the idea of catching the reptiles by scores, tieiug their tails together and hanging them over a line until the hot sun of that region fiied the grease out of them and they dried to mere skeletone. But the popu- J lace interrupted the success of the enterprise by inviting the gentle man to leave, which he speedih did. What is to become of the snakes of Klamath county has never yet, so far as learned, concerned any body. They are most numerous when the springtime sun shines brightest. At times they may be seen in great balls as if plaited to gether by human hands, and in the branches of trees; or hanging head downward like monkeys by their tails. But with the older settlers they attract no more attention than would so many butterflies. Portland Telegram. SB 31 Ml is IBS a mm a1 MINOR & CO'S 'Everything, in Summer Goods reduced one-fourth to one-half New Goods arriving every day. Keep posted, as the nicest and best things are picked up about as fast as they arrive. Read our ads. MINOR & CO. MINOR & CO. MINOR & CO. IIIG WHEAT CROP. Fields Alone; the Columbia River Will yield Well. leu and liir llciuccn. Thomas Jefferson is dead. Dry- m knows thi", and going bark The Oregonian's staff correspondent in writing a letter from lone, gives some interesting figures in relation to the wheat crop of the counties along the Columbia. The figures are very con servative, in fact at the present time there is every indication that the figures given for Morrow county are too low by at Iea6t 200,000 bushels. The corres pondent's estimate for Morrow county places the number of bushels at 1,110, 000. Some time Bgo, the Gazette made an estimate of the wheat yield of this county, placing the yield at 1,300,000 bushels. This estimate was based on the very best information obtainable. At the present moment the harvest is now at its height and the Gazette be lieves that the yield will come up fully to the former estimate of 1,300,000 bushels. The greater portion of this immense crop will go in as first class. The Oregonian correspondent says : "The river counties of Oregon are this year turning off the largest crop of wheat that they have ever produced. When it is remembered that there have been many "fat" years in the past in which some of these counties individ uelly showed remarkable yields, this statement may seefti broad. It is a facr, nevertheless, that never before has the aggregate yield of Was no, Sherman, Gilliam and Morrow counties reached the handsome totals that will be shown by the final returns this year. Not the least interesting feature of this pleasing situation is the fact that much of the increase in the yield is from new acreage. This is par ticularly noticeable in Gilliam arid Mor row counties, where some surprising re 'urn3 have been made on land now turning off its first crop. Twenty to 30 bushels per acre on sod lend are re ported from a number of farms in Gil liam and Morrow counties, while on the older cultivated lands in Wasco and Sherman counties, 40 to 45 bushels per iicre is not uncommon. The yield of Wasco county is well r n the safe side of 1.0CO.OOO bushels, and asii!e from fairly good climatic condi tions, was largely due to a heavy acre age made possible bv a wet spring, which admitted of the plowing and seeding of considerable land which otherwise would have gone over into summer fallow. There was a slight increase in the acreage from new land that this year turned ofT its fi-st crop, but the increase from this source was less pronounced than in the counties lying further east. Wasco county farmers, on account of j their rivnr outlet, are now being offered I fny remunerative figuies. A number ; ( t them in the Duf.ir district have ! formed a pool embracing about 200,000 I hiiejiplq, which they are now hau'ing to ' the l-o;kt landing at The Dalles. Shf-ri: .m countv is a little late with i I 1 i enn rft u..ut . I i. At iea hi uuUjUUU uubucih uivrv ueai iuau last year. Gilliam county, which just at present is enjoying: the latest thrill of excite ment caused by promises of railroad connection, will break all former rec ords both as to yield and acreage. Es- ti mates of ber crop this year run ail the way from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 bushels, and exact figures will be unobtainable for a long time. Some of the crop, not ably in the Condon and Mayville dis tricts, where the heaviest yields are re ported, may be held until the railroad is built, and will not come out to be counted this year. "Morrow count', like its near neigh bor, Gilliam, is to the front this year with a wheat crop that is easily the largest ever produced in the county E arly estimates of 1,000,000 bushels are n ow believed to be much too low, and from the returns now coming in, there will be fuhy 1,000,000 bushels for ship ment. There ere some pbenom enally large yields on the new lands in the county, and as some of this land was sold as low as 810 per acre, the returns for the money invested are larger proportionately than in the high er priced lauds in the other counties. Dozens of new land farmers in Morrow county have this season sold their first crop for a sum in the aggregate much greater than the cost of the land. The heavy increase in Morrow county's crop is not due so much to phenomenal yields as to a heavy incre se in the acreage. Thousands ot acres which have f r years been used on'y for theep range, are this year yielding their rst crop of wheat, and the 20 to 30 bushels which are being turned offia a high testimon ial to the judgment of the men who have made the change. '"Another contributory factor to the big crop is ti e improved methods of farming. It has at lat dawned on even the lazy farmers that one acre properly cultivated will yieM twice as much rf. ono that is scotched over. Even in the dryest years Mor-ow county h:is eve experienced, the farmers who plowed deep and worked the ground with carer reaped fairly good crops. They have since had imitators, and Morrow county by such methods, is steadily drifting away from the danger of crop failures. "On account of its scant population a very large proportion of the crop of Morrow county is available for ship ment, and lone, the wheat metropolis of the Heppner branch, will handle fully 500,000 bushels, with possibly 200,- 000 bushels at Jordan's Siding, a short distance above town. The success of the farmers in producing good crops on land which for so long has been prac tically wasted for sheep range, will re sult in a general rush for these long neglected lands, and in anything like a favorable season the wheat yield of Morrow county will be susceptible of enormous increase. The national and state central committees are sending out to the- country editors mail sacks full of prepared brains in the way of cut and dried editorials for the fool ed itors who do not know what to say to publish and pretend like they wrote it. It is something like the Eagle brand of condensed milk, compared to leal cream, said to be better for babies than the real stuff. There are no directions i to how to dilute it or how often t give it. How would it do to send each country editor a dollar hikI tell him to pitch in his beet licks as long as he felt the influ ence of that dollar? White Sal mon Enterprise. keep cool s-pSS bot. doz. Celebrated Budweiser 3T8 $3 50 flop Gold 2jc 2 50 AM; oy tiii: ICK Call at the Gazette office end learn of our clubbing otter with the Weekly Oregonian. over the list of Democrats be is the first one they come to whose Lor spring-sown grain, and for that rea public record will help them. 1 POn arcuate et-timntes are not so easy Polk, Pierce and Buchanan were ' at thn time. Enough is ehowh by the pro-slavery presidents; v.nd a ' threshing returns and by the acreage in I fljLJ h 1 JifeN H J J n. - This Polished Oak g Center Table regular price $3.00 one week only j? ;' foil n Democratic supreme court decided that a negro had no rights which a white man was bound to respect. The part' jumps from Jefferson to Bryan for its next liberal man. White Salmon Knterprise. Fall grain to indicate a yield approxi mately of 2.250.000 bushels. There is some new acreage in the districts tribu tary to (Jrass Valley, acd highly satis factory yields are reported. While Sherman county will have at v Cotton warp matting 15c and up Strictly all wool carpet 50g Wall paper at your own price House linim 4;c Arc attractions which arc fast making busi ness at this store S.J. WING Dealer in Xew and Second Hand Furniture.