Heppner gazette., October 21, 1909, Image 1

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VOL. 24.
HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY. OCT. 21.1909
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Heavy Shipments South.
It is reoorted that to data at
least 1.000,000 bushels of Northwest
era wheitt hag been purchased in the
interior for shipment to Texas
and other Southeastern markets, light
crops generally in that part of the
country this year making the importa
tions necessary. It is understood
that the bulk of this era in will so
directly from interidr points to the
destined markets, freisht rates mak
ing impossible for t lie Coast shipp
ers to participate in the business in
a laree way.
At the same time millers of the
interior are credited with bavins:
already sold under contract with
Eastern interests at least 70,000
barrels of fiour. and it is reported
that a srood deal of this Hour is to ro
to the New England States.
Tho recent active buying in the
interior for Eastern account and tho
improvement of the past few days in
the export situation are in the main
the factors that have imoarted strength
to the Coast wheat market. To what
extent the business with the East
will go cannot yet be determined.
It will depend altogether upon prices
here and in the East, and in the event
values here are such as to permit it
is believed that a good deal more
wheat and flour than has aready been
contracted for will go to the markets
beyond the Rocky Mountains.
Billy Boy Suicides.
Water pipe is cheaper than
was ever sold before at Gilliam
Bisbee'e.
San Bernardino. Oct. 16. Billy
Boy. the Piute murderer is dead. With
his onlv remaining cartridge he sent
a bullet through his heart and died in
the gr anite fortress where he made a
desperate stand against the sheriff'
postes last week. The Indian's body
was cremated on a hastily constructed
funeral pyie by the officers who ran
him to death on the Colorado desert,
tho sandy home of his Indian fore
fathers. Early yesterday the combined posses
under Sheriff Ralphs arrived within
striking distance of the murder's lair.
A line of scouts was thrown out and
the fortress encircled After several
shots were unanswered, a daring
Indian trailer crept forward to within
two hundred yards, and returned and
mada the Piute death sign. The posse
moved fonvard and saw Billy Bov's
foot exposed. A shot was fired at it
but it did not move. Then the fort
was entered. Billy had removed his
shoe, placed the muzzle of his rifle
against his heart arid fired. Apparent
ly he had been dead a week. Brush
and driel cactus was heaped over his
body and it was cremated.
OREGON WOOL
RATES EAST
Matter of Rate Reduction
Threshed Out.
Meeting of Board.
The board of equalization, cod-
;t siaiiDg or. tee clerk, suerm ana
assessor jb uow iu session & me
j court bouse.
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Charges of Eastern Oregon wool
growers that the O. R. & N. Co
and connecting; lines eastward main
tain exoessive rates on the transporta
tion of wool were threshed out be
fore Examiner Lyon, of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, yester
day. An array of interesting data
was presented bearing on railroad
rates and restrictions which the tO.
R.& N. Co. is alleged to have estab
lished upon th wool industry through
out the eastern Dortion of the state,
says the Oreeonian.
The case was that of the Oreeon
Railroad Commission aaainst the com
panies, and the testimony tending to
establish the unfairness of the rail
road companies was developed by Ore-
icon Commissioners West, Campbell
and Aitchison. Officers of the Ore
gon Woolgrowers' Association were
on hand to testify.
The principal grievance of the
wool men against the O. R. & N.
Co. was the fact that the company re
fuses to accept sack shipments.
Unless wo)l is baled, it wilf.not be
accepted at any of the company's
stations foi shipments east. Other
companies do not have that restric
tion, bnt the wool men complained
that excessive ratea prevail on the
O. R. & N.. Oregon Short Line and
connecting lines to the Atlantic sea
board. Emphasis was placed on the
fact that, while wool in. the grease
goes east from Portland for SI per
100 ponds, to ship from Huntington.
400 miles on the way, costs (2.13 per
100 pounds.
As to being compelled to ship in
Durkee. where the rate has attained
to $185. From Wallowa, Lostine.J
enterprise and Joseph the rate is
$2.20, but those points are on a branch
line and the branch is not a money
rxiaKer. it was explained by Mr.
Miller. Supplementary schedules
were also presented showing the rates
on scoured wool In square bales,
mnimum carload 24.000 pounds, and
on wool In the grease of a minimum
of 20,000 pounds and on sacked wool
minimum weight 24,000 pounds, this
last item applying to the Oregon Short
Line.
Commissioner West presented
statement showing that a car bear
ing au.uixr pounds of wool going east
from Arlington, will earn $423.40
from Heppner. $469.80. from Meach
am. Hilgarlor La Grande. 507.50.
from Elain, 8565.50. from ' Lostine,
Wallowa. Enterprise or Joseph 63S.
from Durkee, 5J56.50, from "Condon.
$464. from Bourbon. Kent. Wilcox
or Shauiko. $435, from Pilot Rock,
513.50.
As to the company's contention
that sacked wool h too bulky to han
dle wtih profit at the piesent "baled
" rates, a statement was presented
bv Mr. West showing that of .64J cars
shipped bv a big Idaho concern from
Caldwell in SeDtember the average per
car was 29. 150 pounds and the total
1.878.346 pounds.
Another important table was pre
sented, embodying the whole freight
traffic movement for the entire line.
1 This was intended to show the per
centage of the company's business
occupied by wool shipments. The
per cent was shown to be 4.6.
Hence the argument that wool, oc
cupying a fraction of less than one
per eent of the traffic, could not
permanently or seriously injure the
business by reason of a reduction.
Another interesting and important
documentw as a report from the De
partment of Commerce and Labor,
which embodied a statistical abstract
showing that Oregon produces 53.
per cent of all the wool grown in the
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bales, it was represented that this
soriously affects the industry. For
instance, if wool in the sack may be
shipped, the cost of baling is saved
Then wool brings a better price
when not baled, wore , competition
is created, inasmuch as many buyers
in the East refuse to accept wool in
the bale.
Two of the principal reductions
asked on the Short Line were from
Ontario and Tale. At Ontario the
rate is now $2.13. A rate of $1.85 is
asked. The Vale rate is $22.0. The
rvte asked is $1.90. On the O. R. &
N. the wish of the Eastern Oregon
sheep men is to get a sack rate such
as now applies on baled wool except
from Wallowa points, which should
take a rate not exceeding $2.
The witnesses in behalf of a re
duction rate were Commissioner West.
Rate Clerk Miller. C. L. Hartshorn,
of Wallowa County, member of the
executive committee of the Oreeon
Woolgrowers Association; J. N. Bur-
cess. Umatilla County, president of
the association, and George McKnight.
Malheur County, vice-president of the
association. R. B. Miller, general
reiRht agent of the O. R. & N. Co.
was the one witness for the railroads.
The Oregon Commission was repre
sented by Attorney C. L. McNarv,
of Sal'.m, and the rairloads by A. C.
Spencer.
The principal contention of the O.
R & N. Company was that the
relatively low rate from Portland is
made necessary by water competition.
As to the rule compelling baled wool,
it was co itended that it does not pay
to ; accept Back shipments on account
of extreme bnlk. A full schedule of
rates applying to wool in the grease
compressed to not less than l!) pounds
per cubio foot in square bales, the
carload minimum being 30,000 pounds.
These rates, to Ohicaeo. New York.
Baltimore and points taking similar
rates begin with S1.02J,' pe 100
pounds from Troutdale and increase
with a swift crescendo movement to
United States, while Oregon and
Idaho together producel0.9 per cent
of th total.
That the O. R. & N. has already
sustained a falling away in ts profit
of between $350,000 and 400.000 in
consequence of rate regulations made
by the Oregon Commissioners, was
the statement made bv Mr. Miller ,
during the course of his examination.
He was not required to go into de
tails and did not volunteed to do so.
The Largest Orchard.
Spokane, Wash., Oct. 16 What
is designed to be the largest commer
cial orchard in the world, devoted
exclusively to Winesap and Spitzen
berg apples, will be devoted near the
town of Entiat, Wash., in the Colum
bia river valley, north of Weuatchee,
by a syndicate headed bv H. J.
Shinn and Dr. N. Federica Essig. of
Spokane, and Joseph Platter of
Entiat. The company, just incor
porated nnder the laws of th j state
of Washington with a capital of S30.-
000 for development uumoses. has a :
tract of 480 acres of land on the i
Entiat river, where it will plant be-j
twecn 3D ,000 and $40,000 trees, includ- J
ing 8,000 already in the ground. Tho i
land is served by the company's1
irrigation plant, taking water from j
the Entiat river. Contracts have
been awarded for 31,000 Winesap j
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planted this fall and next spring, j
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vention in 1912 as the highest stand
ard commercial varieties, because of
their color, flavor, uniformity and
keeping quality.
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