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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.
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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.
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