Oragou IHiitoiluui nvcittiy City IIwll VOL. 28. NO. 9. HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER YEAR. Is the Center of Morrow County. It is the home of the Jersey cow and the Hen From Janunry first to May eighth our merchants have shipped 1.1,210 dozen eggs, worth $2,131.04. Our creamery in the same time haw put on the market 11,527 pounds of butter, which brought $3,510.14. This from 100 cows owned by 40 customers. n,. uK-f, ivnw.i'si Av lmvo rnmn for one hundred more) sold from the crop of 1910, 100,000 sacks of wlieat and 5000 sacks of barley, worth approximately $150,000. We have thousands of acres of idle land left and we invite you to come and share it with us. LEXINGTON has a good school, two churches, a public read in r room and library, 3 general stores, drug store, flouring mill, 2 grain warehouses (combined capacity 00,000 sacks), hotel, livery stable, barber shop, pastime, blacksmith shop and plumbing establishment, lumber and wood yard, banking facilities, and CREAMERY, but no depot or express agent. O.-W. R. & X. Railroad Co. please sit up and take notice. (1 LEACH BROTHERS General Merchandise, and Farm Implement. ,. Will Hell you anything from a needle to a tlinshin;rniiicliiiie. W. F.BARNETT&CO. Carry a line stock of Gen eral Merchandise, and are ,'ihvnyn ready to atteniid to your wants. OUR DRUG STOKi: is owned liy our genial postmaster, AV. '. McMillan. Hilly will always do the square thinjj: by you. JOS. DURGOYNE for Fancy Groceries and Gents Furnishing Goods. It will pay vou to call on Joe when In town. Mrs. E. A. Beymer at the Lexington 'Hotel will give you rs good a meal for the money as you -will get in tlieCounty. LEVERY STABLE If you want to get somewhere, Call cm Pete Beymer at the Lexington Stables. An automobile is not in it with Pete's teams. Traveling Men Take Notice. Barber Shop .1. K. Gentry will attend to your wants in this line. You will find Gene an up-to-date fellow. TUM A LUM LUM BER COMPANY C. O. BURROWS, Manager. Keeps a fine stock of Lumber. Wood and Coal always on hand: Call on or write for prices. BEACH & ALLYN Will attend to your Llacksmith ing and I'lnmbing. Keep on hand Windmills, and Gasoline Engines, Pipe and Fittings, Sinks, Bath Tubs and Fixtures. Give them a call. "creamery. 11. RASML'SSKX, Prop. Our creamery will buyyoumvam and sell you but tor and ice cream. Will furnish Churches and Lodges with the best of ice cream at wholesale rates. Try it. PASTIME. If yon want to pass a pleasant hour, call cn It. II. Lane at the Olfice Pastime. Howard will show you a good time. FLOURING MILL. Joe Eurgoyne has Flour and Feed always on hand. KERR, GIFFORD & CO. WAREHOUSE. Capacity, .60,000 sacks of grain. LEXINGTON WAREHOUSE. JOS. BURGOYXE, Proprietor Capacity, 39,000 sacks of grain. K3EE hi !rfev lli'ii 'Mil- u w if Ail mmthi i vi. in The .Style The Finish The Price of our hand-made-to- measure suits ior men will please you. 1 We offer you tailoring that is high-class and nobby, yet dignified and refined. Your friends will think well of your good judgment if you wear Universal ALL WOOL Tailoring Be sure to come in and give us a trial. We do not ask to make ALL your clothes unless we please you with the very first suit we make. Remember, we show over 400 beautiful Spring and Summer selections, and every inch of our yardage is ALL, WOOL. Call in and see us the next time you9are passing. w Louis Pearson RIeKe?,ao?e2on FIRST NATIONAL BANK HEPPNER, OREGON Established in 1887 A general banking business conducted. Exchange on all important points of the world. OFFICERS M. S. Corrigall, President J. B. Natter, Vice President T. J. Maho5ey, Cashier Clyde Brock, Asst. Cash. Four per cent, paid on time deposits. DIRECTORS M. S. COKRIGALL J. B. Natter T. J. Ma honey Fbank Gilliam A. L. Ayers MR. FARMER TllE THIEF Robs the Soil of Its Fertil ity , But Does Nothing To Restore It. By J. Gakfiki.i) Crawfokd. At one time the farmers of Eastern Washington and Eastern Oreuon thought it nececKary to burn the pttibble offtheir fields before plowing. Some thought that in no doing they were cleaning the soil of all foul weeds, otherB did it be cause it made plowing easy. TJicse farmers were tliicves. They were ' not only robbing the poil of its fertility, ; but were taking from their posterity a God given heritagt "the power to take their living from the soil." The farmers all over the West culti vate, rather crop, but half of this land each year, which Bhonld not be. In the thickly settled sections of the East and South every foot of land is furmed every year. It may not be put to the same crop each season, but there is a crop rnised on the land. There are sections of the South and East which are run down and it is almost impossible to extract a living fiom it, but these farms have been plowed the same way each year, the same crops have been planted each year and the mode of top cultivation has been exactly the same each year. Is there any wonder then that the soil Bhonld play out? In the South the farmers have gath ered up the cotton and corn stalks and burned them. They have for an hun dred yfars been robbing the soil and not giving back anything. The tarmers of the West have started on a campaign of soil debauchery, buttmany of them have profited by the mistakes of their Eastern and Southern brothers, and are turning from their evil ways. They have quit burning the stubble and are giving back the nitrogen, potash and phosphorous by plowing this stubble back into the land. There is one solution diversified far ming. We have failed to raise cover crops, crops of leguminous plants that would enrich the soil with humus and also draw nitrogen from the atmosphere and replace to some extent, the terrible annual drain npon the life giving sub stances of the earth. The West has grown population mad. Not only have the people from other sections of the Uniud States been urged to come WeBt and take advantage ol the the utmost efforts have secure peopla cheap hnds, bu been b-ivqUt ti bear to of other nations. Israel Zanuwill wrote a play depicting the poor Russian .Tew in New York City and gave it the title of '"The Melting Pot " Ha terms New York City as the melting pot of all nations and that out of this great pjt there is to come a great people and they are to be known as the American. They are to know no .class or sect, but are to be one people with but one God and in the end the greatest nation of free born men on earth. The Pacific Coast states are to America what New Yoric is to the world. Oregon is the melting pot of the states of the Union and it is to be the home of an en ergetic, wealthy, non-iluss home-loving Americans. But it cannot attain this position unless its resources are con served. In tin country comparatively little attention has been paid to conserving the futility of the earth ; straw stacks and other forage that should have been used to bed the stables, pens and lots where stock is fed. that they might act as absoibents, paving ail tlie liquid, as well as the solid manure to go back into the soil and add to its mineral fertility and humus, have been wantonly burned and forever destroyed. In fact, it has not been many years ago that I hap pened to be traveling through the grain belt of Umatilla county, (near Athena, which is one of the best wheat sections of the state) and the smoke from the burning of the straw stacks almost ob scured the sun forming a mighty cloud a monument to the waste and prodigal ity of the people. All over the eastern part of the state millions of dollars in intrinsic value, that should have been returned to the soil, have been wanton ly destroyed. Dead animals of all kinds, from squir rels to horses, that should have been put into the compost heap and gradually incorporated into fertilizers of the great est intrinsic value, have been allowed to decay, polluting the atmosphere, and return;ng almost nothing to the soil. The seweage of the towns and cities and a large part of the garbage, dead ani mals, etc., must be converted into fer tilizers, the waste matter must be dis tilled and all valuable mineral sub stances separated and returned to the soil instead ot allowed to pollute the streams and poison the atmosphere. The population of the United States has grown in the last fifty or sixty rears bv leaps and bounds and in that growth Oregon baa participated. In 1S60, we had 30.000,000 people, almost all of them east of ths Mississippi rirer, The fast1 country known a the iNorthwest was known as a catile range with tree grass from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Montana to the Kio Grande. It looked as though there were not people er.ough in the uuiverse to occupy the vast areas of open land in this country. The population today is over 93.000,000, and ttie great Northwest is almost as thickly settled as Indiana and Ohio were before the war. Every country on the face of the earth is a breeding ground for tti is country. It has been said that the English morning drum-beat can be heard around the world. Certain it is that the free dom of our institutions, the prosperity of our country, the 'aot that ia almost all of the past there has been a home for the asking, a home that a poor man could call his own and from which he could not be evicted, lias caused teem ing millio ns from all the civil zed coiin tr ies on the face of the earth to hope for a time when trom their meager savings they would haye steerage passage and enough money to pass tbe custom house and come to be a part and parcel of this great "land of the free and home of the brave " But the day of free land is past, or practically so, and it is now up to the people of the present generation tj start a campaign of conservation. Government statistics show that with our mcreasing knowledge of the laws of health and hygiene, the adults will live longer and the bnbies will be saved : therefore the population will insreaee in the next fifty to one hundred years at a grpater ratio than it han for the last fifty. God forbid that the people of to day should bo neglect theiro; portumties to conserve the forces of the earth that with these teeming millions there should ever come to this great Nation a wailing crv for bread. Tbe increase multituJea ae headed toward the great West, and nothing under the sun but a pestilence can stop them. The line of match to Oregon is 2000 miles long. We hear the echo of their footsteps: we see them, on horse back, in covered wagons, in immigrant cars, in parlor cars with bank rolls coming to occupy this great country. The farms of today must be built up and maintained nt a high state ot fertil ity. The substance ot the soil must be given back to it by fertilizing and scien tific culture methods and by so doing it will yield great crops and return healthy, vigorous animal life to whateve feeds upon it. isut if tins is not done there is one result, gradual starvation and pos itive loss of vitality to yie soil and a de generate citizenship. The Columbia wonlil soon empty its flood of waterB tnto tiie Pacific and be a mighty canyon, it its tributaries Bhoulci cease to flow. War and pestilence may devastate the country and the cost in blood and treasure may be far beyond calculation, but peace will come and new generations will thriye and prosper traveling the even tenor cf their way, almost forgetful of the past. Great floods may come and for a time cover disastrously large areas of the country, but these waters will recede, and the lands will produce again. Great cities will be burned to ashes, and forests des troyed by consuming flames, but houses will be builded aeain with agreatvanty of better material, and the trees will grow and cover the land and shade the generations soon to come. Protracted drouth will bring temporary disaster to large sections of the country and high prices and suffering will enptie. but the genial rays of toe sun win evaporate the waters ot the sea, the fleecy clouds will fill again and the shifting winds will carry the life giving showers to the thirsty earth. But when by prodigality and wa"-te, the earth has been roh'iod of its source of lifegtving power and it has bffui enched of its fertility to an extent that its productiveness has been destroyed, the end will have come. The time is past when ignorance cn succeed in any vocation, and especially is this true of the great profession of farming. Intelligent fanning means profitable farming. When this end ia attained then tl.e cry "back to the farm" will haye been answered, for when the farmers are really and truly prosperous they will Daturally surround themselves with all the comforts of the presentage; country home life will then be the hap piest, most attractive and independent on the face of the earth. Bi Shipment of Sheep. E. F. Bicknall received between 30,000 and 40,000 head of sheep at the Heppner yards on Saturday and Sunday, and thpy were loaded for shipment to Idaho and Mon tana points. The moat of th-M were yearlings, and it required 80 double-deck cars to carry them out. Extra engines came up and the cars were taken out in two trains, having been loaded on Sunday. This shipment of sheep left behind some $70,000, and there is doubt less a good many more that ought to be sold yet. Io former years from 80,000 to 100,000 head of yearlings have been shipped from the Heppner yards and at better pi ices than prevailed this year, hut the sheep industry is being gradu ally curtailed, flocks ire becoming smaller and further reductions in shipments may be expected for tha future. Our flockmasters this year are not becoming rich oil the prof its from their business. Eaise Ciiickexs Minor & Co. have made arrangements to Jijposa of all the poultry you can raise, at Portland prices less cost of hand ling. , TO wiio.n IT MAI coxcebx: I have about 100 tons of gcreerad lump' Wyoming col, somewhat slacked, that I will sell in ton and a half lots for the nest 30 days at the following prices: $6.50 per tan at bin and ' 87.00 delivered. This is to make room for my win ter's snpply. Elmeb Beaman. According to word received by Doric Lodge No. 20, K. of P., of Heppner, from the K. of P. lodge at Bandon, Oregon, G. W. Rea is reported to be very ill with heart trouble and not expected to sur vive long. Bandon has been Mr. Rea's home for several years, and since going there he has at differ ent times reported to his friends here thai he was enjoying the very best of health, and this report comes as a surprise. IJMf 1111 plf IIS AbssZafsty Purs MAKES HOIir.E BAKING EASY LlgM Biscuit Dslicicus Cake Dainty Pastries Fine Puddings Flaky Crusts and the food Is finer, more tasty, cleanly and wholesome than She ready made found at the shop or grocery. msm; ft OVAL BAKINO POW0E CO., MEW VOAK. 1