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VOLUME 3.
BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1923
NUMBER 23
MCKAY CREEK
WATERS TO BE
POT TO WORK
According to reports from the seat
of action work is now under way on
the McKay creek dam and the first
of the camp buildings has been com
pleted and others are under way.
Regarding the work, the East Ore
gonian last night had the following
to say:
The big government job is under
the direction of two men. Construct
ion Is being handled by It. M. Con
ner, and the engineeri". - work is
in the hands of Ralph LOiVl'y, both
experienced men. The task of build
ing the camp will be rushed just as
fast as lumber shipments arrive
some time this week.
Applications from more men than
it is possible to handle have been
made to date, but the size of the
force will be increased, according to
Mr. Conner, as soon as work can be
started in earnest.
To Make McKay Work.
By the construction of the dam,
McKay creek will be put to work,
and its banks below the big structure
will no more recognize it as the
mountain stream that carries tor
rents in the spring of the year and
dries up completely in the last part
of summer. The dam will be the
guardeian of its water supply, which
will be put to work to tickle the
roots of alfalfa, sneak up the trunks
of fruit trees and make for produc
tion on lands in the west end of the
county, at present either arid or
lacking a sufficient supply of water
to make it realize its greatest possi
bilities in producing foodstuffs. I
The dam will be a big job. Its
length will be 2,600 feet, just a little
less than one-half mile. Its height
from bottom to top will be 160 feet.:
At the base it will be 620 feet wide
tappering to the top where its width
will be 20 feet.
To Require Much Material.
In building the big concrete struc
ture a total of 2,300,000 cubic yards
of gravel will be used. This gravel
will be mixed with 25,000 cubic yards
of cement.
The gravel will be taken out of
beds about one mile above the dam
in the bottom land. A narrow
guage railroad will be built and the
gravel will be loaded by means of
power shovels into the cars, trans
ported to the dam and dumped.
The first construction work on the
dam proper, after the camp build
ings are finished will be the build
ing of the cutoff trenches and the
tunnel through the rock on the north
side of the valley.
Tunnel Divert Water.
This tunnel will be 735 feet long
and will convey the water from the
reservoir under the ground and the
end of the dam to below the struc
ture where it will flow back into
McKay, thence down to the Uma-;
tilla. The diameter of the tunnel
will be ten feet, and the flow of wa
ter will be regulated with needle
valves.
A spillway on top of the dam will
provide a gateway for water when '
the reservoir is full.
The reservoir will extend back
three miles when full. The storage!
capacity created by the dam will be
73,000 acre-feet of water, which
means water1 one foot deep lit It
were spread over that many acres.
of Drink.
There are appromimately 325,000
gallons of water in one acre-foot, so
that the McKay reservoir, after it is
filled will contain about 32,725,000
000 gallons of water. Or divided up
into drinks of one-half pint for each
person, it would quench the thirst of
379,600,000,000, persons.
Later it is possible that the wa
ters of Birch creek may be diverted
into the reservoir near its head, as a
supplementary source of supply. If
this diversion is made the water
will flow throuh an open canal.
Completion of the construction may
be realized In three years, depending
on the supply of money from the re
clamation service. The cost of the
work will be approximately $2,500,-000.
TO KNOW SPRAYING DATES
SAVES ORCHARDISTS MONEY
While it has long been reorganized
that climatic factors influence the
severity of the ravages of the codling
j moth in fruit orchards, it was not
until recent years that the close re
lationship between the temperature
of the air and the developmnt and
activity of the moths has been
studied and charted. Cooperation bet
ween meteorologists and entomolo
gists oi the United States Depart-
ment oi Agriculture and State hor
ticulturists in Washington has con
tributed to the more efficient con-
trol of the moth, which is partieu
' larly destructive to apples and pears,
i Experiments conducted at tire
Weather Bureau station at Walla
Walla, Wash., have shown that cod
ling u.olhs do not deposit eggs when
the temperature is below 60 deg. F.
Observations have shown also that
of the eggs are laid between 3
p. m. and 9 p. m. The practical ap
plication of these facts is that when
there is a temperature or 60 deg. F.,
or higher at 8 p. m. lor two or three
nights in succession the use of a
spray is indicated, as enough eggs
will have been produced to cause
considerable later damage.
As these eggs will hatch in from
one to three weeks, depending on
the temperature, the spray must be
applied accordingly. If the weather
turns cold after the eggs are laid,
that is, with maximum temperatures
of 70 deg. F., or below, the spray
would not have to be on the trees
for 10 days or two weeks while if
it remains at 7 5 deg. F., or higher
the spray should be on in a week.
As the cost of spraying adds mat
erially to the expenses of an orchard
it is very essential that the work be
done when most effective. Ther
mometer shelters have been install
ed by the weather bureau in three
different parts of the Walla Walla
fruit district, to aid in the work of
determining the proper spraying
dates for the codling moth.
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STATE MARKET AGENT DEPARTMENT
C. E. Spence, Market Agent
I The potato growers of Oregojti
I should have a strong1 cooperative
. marketing association, organized
along the California contract plan,
to put this industry on a proiitabL
and dependable basis.
j Many sections of the state are nat
urally adapted to potato growing,
and it is said that but one state,
Colorado, can equal Oregon in the
quality of this crop, yet for years
with few exceptions the Oregon far
mer has not received the cost of
growing the crop. Last fall thous
ands of bushels were left In the
ground because the market price
would not pay for the harvesting
and marketing.
The potato crop of the state should
be pooled through a solid coopera
tive selling agency, This is simply a
thoroughly businesslike way. Thru
it trained men can do for the
growers what they cannot do for
themselves individually; markets be
found; ample credits can be secured;
grades can be established, and it
would seem that thru these channels
the potato industry could be made
stable and profitable.
The Pacific Co operative Wool
Growers is an Illustration of what
may be done by producers pooling
and sticking. Farm market special
ists who have investigated the var
ious wool pools in the United States,
state that this association is the
most efficient wool-marketing or
ganisation in the country. It now
ha3 a membership of about 2500 in
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and
northern California. It sells the out
put sorted, graded and scoured. This
puts the fiber into strictly merchant
able classes, and sheep men state
they get from three to ten cents
more per pound than outside prices
for ungraded stocks.
The potato crop of Oregon can
be handled In almost th,? same man
ner as wool. A strong membership
is necessary in organization, then
capi Me management, And the suc-cos.-
or failure of nearly all of mar
keting associations depends on man
agei ent- success, in putting at the
or;; Izatlon's head men who thoro
ly ..derstand the job and who are
cap. Me of handling it Without
tab efficient management, member
skip everything else goes for naught.
( . "ii . rain growers should not
be iclted or scared over the news-1
par stories of record-breaking
croi's of the country generally.!
Tht i e will be a large production In!
thi ; wth rst. but this condition
do-' not prevail throughout the mid
dle n-M, so state those from that di
rection. Weather conditions have!
and dry,
mlddlewest
be i unfavorable, hot
t hi ugh most of the
whi m bet.
pood Hlver has seen the folly oi l
el! ' apples around 70 cents peri
bo. that cost about one dollar to
giv Now the growers propose to I
or .. lize a strong marketing and dis-i
trit ting agency and stabilize the t
lad ry, All over the country the
pr rs are forced to a realisation
th at individual marketing is no lon-
pet rofitable and that only through j
or ..-ii pooling and marketing can i
tfefM succeed. .
The state market master will give
as much assistance to consumers'
organizations as to producers, when
this class become enough interested
to take the initiative. So far the
consumers have shown but little in
terest in any movement to co-operate
with producers and shorten the
line and reduce the costs between
the grower and the consumer. The
state market master is ready to as
sist any cooperative proposition
that is founded on a solid basis.
Shothole borers attack only the
trees that have been set back by
some injury enough to form a "sour
sap" condition. On boring into such
a tree the insects prepare to feed
their young grubs by planting in the
tunnel a fungus that will grow only
in sour sap conditions. The beetles
are attracted fo trees in this condi
tion, and attack them. So the first
step in control is to find the cause
of poor vitality in the tree, and to
remove it as much as possible. Ser
iously infected trees should be cut
out and burned.
Infectious abortion of cattle, wide
spread in Oregon, has no diagnostic
symptoms, but can be diagnosed by
blood test. Infected animals often
give birth to live, vigorous calves,
and may be very active spreaderB of
the disease. Owners of abortion
free herds are advised by the O.A.C.
Experiment station never to intro
duce females that have ndt been
tested into their herds.
Henry Ford wasn't born in Ohio
and doesn't know how to play golf,
yet there are some people inclined
to believe that he can be elected to1
the presidency.
To know
how good a cigarette
really can be made
you must try a
"That's No Cinch," said the jock
ey as he and the horse left the
saddle. 1
C I Q ARETTE
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
UNDER' FORECLOSURES
OF MORTGAGES.
In the Circuit Court of the State
of Oregon, for Morrow County.
Arlington National Bank, Plaintiff,
vs.
Board man Garage, Boardman Lum
ber Company, J. C. Ballenger
Lumber Company, Sidney C. Mack,
Lucile Mack, Stella A. Dodd, E. ,
P. Dodd, Archie B. Cummins,
Florence M. Cummins, J. C. Bal
lenger, Ruth N, Ballenger, H. L.
Everett, Mrs. H. L. Everett, C. A.
Macomber, Grace Macomber, N. A.
Macomber, M. L. Morgan, Breta
A. Morgan, Claire 1'. Harter-Wes-ton,
M. R. C.allaber. J. E. Qalta
her, Homer L. Gallaher, M. R.
Gallaher, Trustee, J. E. Gallaher.
Trustee, and Homer L. Galahler,
Trustee, Defendants.
By virtue of an execution, Judg
ment order, decree and order of tale
issued out of the above entitled
Court in the above entitled case, to
me directed and dated the 5th day
of July, A.D., 1923, upon a judg
ment rendered and entered In said
Court on the 30th day of June, A.D.,1
1923, in favor of Arlington National,
Hank, plaintiff, and against Sidney
C. Mack. Lucile Mack, lArchie B.
Cummins, Florence M. Cummins,
Stella A. Dodd, Boardman Garage,
H. L. Everett, and C. A. Macomber,.
defendants, for the sum of $217.50,
with interest at the rate of seven I
per cent per annum from the 13th
day of March, A.D., 1922; and upon
a further judgment in favor of AT-I
lington National Bank, plaintiff, and
against Archie B. Cummins, F!or-,
ence M. Cummins, Boardman Lum
ber Company, J. C. Ballenger Lum
ber Company, J. C. Ballenger, Beard-'
man Garage, H. L. Everett, and C. A.
Macomber, defendants, for the sum
Of $600 00 with Interest thereon
from the 1st day of May, A. D., j
1922, at the rate of 8 per cent pert
annum; and the further sum of
$100.00 attorney fees, and the fur
ther sum of $41.25 costs and dis
bursements of said suit; command
ing me to make sale of the following
described real property, to wit: Lots
Number Seventeen (17) and Eigh
teen (18), In Block Number Seven
(7), of the Town of Boardmin,
Morrow County, Oregon; together
with all tenements, hereditaments
and appurtenances thereunto apper
taining: Now, therefore, by virtue of said
execution, judgment order, decree
and order of sale, and, In compliance
with the commands of said writ, I
will, on Tuesday, the 14th day of
August, A. D., 1923, at the hour of
eleven o'clock In the forenoon of
said day, at the front dor of the
building upon said premises, sell al
public auction, subject to redemp
tion as Is by law provided, to the
highest and best bidder for cash, all
the right, title and interest which
the above named defendants, and of
each and all of them In the above
entitled suit had. on the 13th dav of
March, A. D. 1919, or on the 21st
day of November, A. D., 1919, the
dates of the mortgages foreclosed In
this suit, or since either of said
dates, nave had In or to the above
d r i bed real property, or any part
thereof, to satisfy said execution,
judgment order and decree, prtnei
pal, Interest, attorney lees, costs and
accruing costs.
Dated this 13th day of Julv, A.
D., 1923.
GEORGE McDUFFBE,
Sheriff of Morrow County, Oregon.
First publication: July loth, 1923.
Last publication: August 10th, 1923.
RRIGON NEWS ITEMS
A. H. Allen's brother from Calif
ornia made a suprise vi.lt in Irrigou
Monday and Tuesday. His wile
and family wire on their way to
Spokane where they expect to make
their home in the future.
GoO. C. Howard of Portland end
a party of prospective settlers with
him spent several hours in Irrigon
looking over the district Saturday.
The apricot orchard appealed to
them very much and they may set
tle here and go into fruit railing,
The Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co., Is
making delivery of part of a car load
of cantaloupe crates and other box
materials to the Association Ibis
week.
Special school election was held
Tuesday and John Goehcl elected
director and Bay Lamoreoux clerk.
Quite a crowd turned out from parts
of the districts while others did not
tie up their work to vote.
Farmer Smith of the Union I'aclf
lf spent a couple of days in Irrigon
this week, the guest of the local
at'. -nt and In interests of the Com
pany. The apricotB are about all gone.
People, should not come after any
after this appears in the paper, with
out special arrangement
County Agent Morse was In Irri
gon Friday. He says he hopes to
have demonstration on fruit bal
ding at Irrigon in August. This is
What we are all Interested In.
Meetings on farms where crops or
live stock were being grovfn under
i he direction of the agricultural ex
tension agent lo demonstrate ap
proved methods, or other demon
strations In farm practices given by
extension agents, were attended by
over 82,500 farmers in 1922, accor
ding to reports to the United States
Department of Agriculture. More
than 470,000 farmers attended ex
tension schools or short courses to
learn new farming methods which
the agricultural colleges and exer
iment stations have found profit
able. The total number of far
mere attending the year Is estimat
ed to be over 14,000,00.
DR. SCHAFER DEPLORES
HARDING All) TO MYTH
EUGENE, July 6 . Regret that
President Harding had lent his en
dorsement, In his adress at the open
ing of the Old Oregon Trail, to the
discredited legend that Marcus Whit
man saved Oregon to the Union, by
personal Inters ession with Presi
dent Tyler, was expressed here this
morning by Dr. Joseph Schafcr, sup
erintendent of the Wisconsin State
Historical Society, who was tor
twenty years head of the history
department of the University of Ore
gon. 1
Dr. Schafer, who is the author of
Several books on Northwestern and
Pacific Coast history, and has con
ducted researches into the history
of the Oregon boundary dispute be
tween the United States and Great
Britain, said:
"The thoughtful citizen will not
be disposed to find fault with the
President for utilizing in his Mea
cham address the beautiful, dram
atic legend of how Whitman 'saved
(Uii, on.' To criticise him for doing
so as on historical grounds one
would criticise the ordinary lecturer,
would be to misapprehend the con
ditions under which such incidental
addresses necessarily are made by
the President, whose time on the
trip is engrossed with a multitude
Of duties that rigorously exclude
the preparation of speeches. Ad
dresses on questions of policy of
our.. . are prepared by Mm in ad
vance. For such others as seem to
be called for by local situations,
like the one at M sachem, he is com
pelled to depend upon others.
"In tin? present ease it is clear
that someone who was Interested In
exploiting as it it wore historical,
the long exploited myth about Whit
man saving Oregon, obtained the
President'! eat and probably placed
the typed manuscript of the address
in his hand. Bv doing this, and per
suading the President to read it,
that pe reCta assuredly scored the
season's greatest teat or advertising,
for, notwithstanding Hie Presi
dents' oral statement that some
doubted the truth of the story he
was about lo present, he did In fact
pies .nt it as history, and his speech,
printed beoauee it was his , will pass
with millions of people as a fully
authenticated historical narrative.
In al! probability a new brood of
booka on western history, carrying
the President'! Meacham speech by
way of restoring in new form the
long discredited Whitman myth, will
be one result. Inasmuch as It has
required half a century of controver
sy, and a vn9t expenditure of effort
by th,' defender! and opponents alike
to eradicate the legend from his
to ies, this if it should happen,
Would be an unfortunate circum
stance. For It goes without saying
thai historically minded men and
women will not except fiction for
tact, i hough all love the memory of
Doctor Whitman for his splendid
Christian character and for the a
rhiovemettts which can be rightly
credited to him.
Vegetables that are best Irrigated
by running the water In furrows
along the side of the plants are to
matoes, sweet corn, rhubarb, cucum
bers, melons, beans, and squash, and
such general crops are grown wltli
rather a wide distance between the
The main considi ration in Hie
modern marriage cermony is the
mony.
Breathes there a man with soul
so dead,
Who never to himself has said,
When he bumped his shin against
the bed-
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IS COMMUNITY
SPIRIT IN FAIR
ENTIRELY DEAD?
Is our "community fair" spirit en
tirely dead? If it Is not let us see
what can be done to revive it. I
have written to the president of the
association asking what lrrigou
wLhes us to do to aid them. I have
asked Mr. Glasgow to select someone
at Irrigon to act as secretary and
suggested Mr. Seaman, who I trust
will accept the honor and responsibilities-
perhaps more of the latter
than the former.
Remember mat the Hate appro
priates $t!00 a year to the county to
assist in conducting a fair. It ap
peared last fall as though we could
have had the whole lump If we had
held our fair as planned.
The county agent Informs me that
Heppner is not going to put on a
lair this season, so that it would
set in that the chances were good fdr
considerable premium uioney fro. a
lhat source this rail, If we can qual
ify properly.
The county agent Is willing and
anxious to help us in every w..., pos
sible. Ii you want a fair and wi 1 h In to
put It over, let everybody know ttrU
the Mirror. Let the tu t assistant
postmaster of Boardman know your
desire and he will see that It is pub
lished. Unless y'Mi Intend to help
put on a fair wo i.on't care lo hear
from you.
Secretary Harry Crawford will re-
llgn, II he has not already done so,
as he says he does not care to, or
cannot fill the position.
All who want a fair and will help
please register thalr names with Mr.
Hoot. Rend It in by mail, phone or
deliver H in person, so that we will
know how mnny will help.
The management always rails up
on a small number, but remember
that those few cannot furnish the
exhibits, C. H. DILLABOUOII,
Federal penults for 1923 h;.ve
been issued to 770 persons who am
cooperating In birdbanding work
with the Hlologlcal Survey, United
Slates Department of Agriculture
In 1920, when this work became a
regular activity of the Biological
Survey, X9 persons volunteered to
assist and were supplied with the
necessary peniH.s. In 192 1 the
number increased to 1S9, and In
1922 to 552. Birdbanding coop r
alors serve without pay, their mot
ive being h desire to atslst In In
creasing our knowledge of birds
From the Fargo Forum we learn
that Of. liraves, who left Stand, Id
three weeks ago for the North Da
kota metropolis,, base betMffS) one
of the Incorporators In a five million
dollar building and loan association,
with headquarters In that town. The
aiiiiounremenl comes as a surprise
to Slanfleld friends, as II was un
derstood that the doctor would re
turn here later and resume the prac
tice of his profession.
The best thing which could hap
pen to some men lo put them on
their feel, is to have their cur stolen.
GOOD
CIGARETTES
GENUINE
"BULL"
DURHAM
TOBACCO
C. M. Hurlburt, ex-couuty engineer
at Hood Hlver, has completed sound
ings of the channel of the Columbia
river in preparation for construction
of the Interstate bridge that will con
nect Hood River and White Salmon,
Wash. The next steps In the bridge
work will be borings to test for bed
rock. The river Is comparatively
shallow where the bridge will cross
and preliminary tests show that bed
rock lies close to the bottom of tht
river The Bteel spans over the river
will total about 2200 feet.
Victory for the United States gov
ernment suits to obtain possession of
parcels of land necessary in the devel
opment of the McKay Creek unit of
the Umatilla Irrigation project was
registered wheii a federal court jury
at Portland returned awards totaling
ttfO.UOO as against claims of the de
fendants which amounted to 1101,647,
Decision of this case opens the wuy
to a development uu which the gov
ernment will expend $2,500,000 and
also establishes a scale of valuation
on which the guverumeut aud the
owners uf the laud still needed (or
fee project may proceed.