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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
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COMPETION CONTROLS PRICES
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You probably do not fully realize the extant to which
the buying public la benefitted by the extremely low prices
we make on all line of merchandise.
The Fact That We Sell Strictly
Reliable Goods
at a lower price than "regular store" can afford to meet,
make It necessary for all stores to sell at a mora reason
able price than would ba necessary if there were no strict
ly cash store In the city.
Why not trade at a store that has been Instrumental
In making Salem the most economical trading point In the
Willamette Valley?
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
We never buy t
price Is right and
purchaser.
in srticfe until we are satisfied that the
that It will prove satisfactory to the
We Undersell "Credit Stores" on
DRY GOODS, CLOTHING
SHOES
EVERYTHING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.
BARNES' CASH STORE
E. T. BARNES, Prop.
Salem, - - - Oregon
Get in the Habit
of Trading Here
We make a specialty of fancygrocerles goods with a reputation
for quality that pleases the most exacting teste, and we take
special pride In rec'ommendin our grocery department to tho peo
ple of Independence and vicinity. But our efforts to keep our
GROCERY DEPARTMENT In the front ranks have been no great
er than have been our efforts to make every department of the
tore Just right- If you are not In the habit of making this estab
lishment your shopping headquarters, get In the habit
Drexler & Alexander
INDEPENDENCE,
F HBraM.asJiiiiHE
OREGON.
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good Dick
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with your horses
comes largely through
the constant use of
GOOD HARNESS
We furnish them "made fo order."
C. D. THARP
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INDEPENDENCE, ORE.
Phone 721,
FARMERS IN NEED OF AID.
President of Agricultural College
Makes Tour of State.
Corvallis That Oregon ready for
the installation of a statewide system
of agricultural education and rural
inspiration is the belief of President
W. J. Kerr, who has just returned
from an extended inspection trip in
Eastern Oregon. The people every
where seem to be convinced that the
rich agricultural heritage of Oregon
cannot be realised until intelligent
and scientific methods are applied in
all phases of the agricultural Indus
tries, according to Dr. Kerr. But,
more than this, they seem to ba con
vinced that this can be brought about
only by organized effort which should
reach into every community in the
state.
He reports that as a result of his
invest;gation of the work which has
been done during the paBt year at the
branch experiment stations and the
demonstration farms, and in co-opera
tion with these by the farmers of
Central and Eastern Oregon, he is
convinced more than ever that this
great work of organization and ex
tension of agricultural education will
be done in large measure through the
use of demonstration farms, branch
experiment stations and the general
extension agencies of the college
working in co-operation with the
farmers in the various localities of
the state.
"The two things most needed for
successfully carrying forward the ag
ricultural extension work", said Dr.
Kerr, "are demonstration farms and
traveling agricultural advisors."
In support of his theory, President
Kerr cited the success of the work
now being done at the demonstration
farms atMetolius and Redmond, and,
particularly, in connection with the
branch experiment station and demon
stration farm in Harney county, and
the work undertaken in connection
with the county high school at Klam
ath Falls. He feels that the value of
this line of work has already been
demonstrated in these sections.
CANBY BRIDGE LOCATED.
flectric Railway Viaduct to Be 900
Feet Long,
Canby Engineer R. H. Hollenbeck
has definitely located the bridge by
which the electric lines of the Port
land, Eugene & Eastern railway will
cross the Willamette at Rocky Reef, a
point about two miles northwest of
Canby. The bridge is to be construct
ed of steel and will be 75 feet above
low water mark as required by the
government regulations concerning
river traffic, where draws are not
maintained. This height will allow
any boat operating on the upper river
to pass under the bridge at any water
stage.
The steel portion of the new electric
railway bridge will be about 900 feet
in length, the approaches on either
side of the river being of wood and
each being approximately 1200 feet
in length.
LINN FAiR IS SUCCESSFUL.
"Spend Money on Shows, Not Re
form Schools," Says Ben Sellirg
Scio The sixth annual Linn County
fair came to a successful end this
week, even though the rain prevented
some of the races and was also the
cause of many people staying away.
Both the Linn county school child
ren's industrial exhibit and the Linn
county general exhibit were good.
This was the first school children's
fair, and its results were gratifying
both in extent and quality. Many
children only 9 years old exhibited
first-class poultry, vegetables, sewing,
cooking, drawing and mechanical ar
ticles. .
Among the noteworthy visitors at
the fair was Ben Selling. Mr. Selling
says that money had better be spent
on the school children's fairs than on
reform schools.
HOP PICKING STARTED.
Full Crew of Workore Open Season
at McMinnville,
McMinnville The hop picking sea
son commenced here Tuesday, when a
full crew of pickers started to work
in the John Hackett yard west of this
city, Mr. Hackett' hops were barely
ripe, but owing to the fact that a
large portion were on the ground, due
to a heavy crop and the late rains,
picking was started a little early.
Within a week picking will be general
throughout the county. Two other
growers will start picking their hops
immediately.
The hops are in fine condition and
the yield will be better than last year.
If weather conditions remain favor
able the next week will witness seve
ral thousand pounds of hops dried and
baled. Many growers bale their hops
as soon as possible after they are prop
erly dried and are Tit to go into the
bale. The hop picking season for
this county will cover two week.
Pickers are plentiful, boing recruited
from local residents.
Threshing of grain and hulling of
clover is in full swing, every machine
in the county working full time.
There is plenty of lato spring grain
yet to bo threshed, and an abundance
of cover in the fields has not yet been
touched.
POLK COUNTY SETS NEW MARK
Both
fK.?ittgton Peters
Salem's Oldestand Best Piano House
Wo make a specialty of supplying tho trade with tho best make
lo! Instruments that can bo procured in the world. Our immousu
ino comprises tho following:
MASON A HAM UN,
PACKARD,
1I0BEUT M. CABLE,
MILTON,
HARRINGTON,
KUAKllllt,
ULRDMAN
AND MANY OTHERS.
In Player Piano Players
llunlmnn, Harrington, Fibber, Autotmip,
n comiilulo lino wf phonographs, records.
We have tho Emerson,
Milton. Wo olno havo
imiKH-al instruments, litct iniixto, uiul nil kinds of sowing machine
supplies including tho celolnatod
Singer Sewing Machine
WHITE FOR CATALOG AND PRICE LIST TO
U)e PANTORIUM
A. W. JOHNSON, Prop
Cleaning and Pressing a Specialty
C street
Independence, Oregon.
A. W. RUSSELL
General Btacksmithing. Horse Shoeing
a Specialty
SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO FORGING AND INTERFERING
HORSES. DISEASED FEET A SPECIALTY.
FIRST DOOR NORTH OF INDEPENDENCE FEED 8TORE.
INDEPENDENCE,
OREGON.
Oats 55 Bushels to Acre.
Gold Hill Oats on the Pankey
ranch in Sams valley yielded 64 bush
els to three-quarters of an acre.
They were sown on March 29. On a
four-acre place in the same neighbor
hood, sown April 19, 220 buhsels were
threshed, or an average of 65 bushels
an acre. Owing to the decreased
grain acreage resulting from the
planting of fruit trees two threshing
outfits now do all the threshing in
Rogue river .valley. A few years ago
it took half a dozen. Several flouring
mills have shut down.
Hop Crop This Year Best In
Quality and Quantity.
Dallas Hop picking has opened in
this county in the yard owned by C.
G. Coad and Charles Bilyeu, about a
mile to the west of this city, and bo-
fore the week is over, harvesting of
tho hop crop will be in lull swing all
over the county.
Never before have the hops of the
county Bhown so well as they do at the
present time. The quality is far
above the average, and the yield is al
so large, the damage caused by the
heavy rains of a week ago having
been nearly wholly repaired. Barring
the possibility of steady rains for the
ext two weeks, every indication
points to the best hop crop in the
istory of the county. If it rains,
picking will be delayed in many of the
ards.
Much of the crop of the county has
een contracted for, nearly all of the
smaller yards having disposed of their
leld during the winter. The contract
price averages 20 cents. An effort is
being made this year to hold the pick
era down to picking fairly clean.
BIG WATER RIGHT GIVEN.
Cberrington $ Peters,
Sakni, Oregon
Graphite Vein Found.'
Coquille E. C. Barker, of Marsh
field, has struck in 18-inch vein of
graphite on his ranch, six miles north
of Coquille, and is sending a quantity
of the material to the Oregon Agri
cultural college to be, tested. The
vein is only 16 feet from the surface
and where struck is near the banks of
the north fork of the Coquille river,
where the power necessary for mining
operations is easily accessible.
Gilliam Crops Are Big.
Condon Harvest is nearly over in
Gilliam county, with a good average
yield all over. In some cases the crop
was enormous. James Coutuse, of
Ferry Canyon, has the banner crop.
He threshed 3480 sacks of 40-fold
wheat off 140 acres. The wheat is
worth at present prices, $5000, about
double the price Mr. Coutuse paid for
this land a few years ago.
State Engineer Approves Permit for
36,000 Acres
Salem W. W. Caviness has secured
from the state engineer an approval of
a permit to irrigate 35,000 acres of
land from the Cottonwood creek tribu
tary of the Malheur river. This is the
first unit of a considerably larger pro
ject, involving the construction of one
reservoir for the storage of 50,000
acre-feet of water and another for the
storage of 1200 acre-feet.
This is the third irrigation project
of considerable magnitude initiated in
the vicinity of Vale during the pres
ent year. The other projects are the
Malheur Water , Users' association
project, which contemplates the irri
gation of 32,000 acres of land north
west of Vale, with the waters of the
Malheur river stored in the Warm
Springs reservoir, and the Vale, Ore
gon, Irrigation company's project of
24,000 acres to be irrigated from the
waters of Bully creek stored in the
Lamberson reservoir.
These activities are probably due to
the construction of the railroad from
Vale up the Malheur canyon towards
Burns.
Bonton County Has 20 Fairs.
Corvallis Thirty school districts
participated in the Benton County In
dustrial Fair here. The extent, var
iety and excellence of the products
shown far exceeded the expectation of
the fair managers. The young exhib
itors were intensely interested, and
heavy showers of rain failed to damp'
en their enthusiasm. They carefully
compared the prize-winning exhibits
with others in the same class, getting
pointers for their endeavors of next
season. The great success of this fair
makes it certain that the school expo
sition will be made an annual affair.
OFFICIALS
II. lllllSCIIBEIZO, Proxi.lont I. V. SKAKS. Vice-PTes.
R. It. Pu.VRMOXl), Cashier
THE INDEPENDENCE
NATIONAL BANK
Incorporated
Transact a General B.m!dng Business
Interest Paid on Time Deposits J
ii. initsciiiii:no.
B. F. SMITH,
DIRECTORS:
V. II. WALKER,
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I). W. SEARS
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JERSEY DAIRY
H. E. Williards
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Having acquired the milk route of F,
Charts, I Will endeavor to deliver puremllk
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G3 Phone Bell 803 Independence, Or.
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and cream
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Tlmt CSive Lasting Service and Constant Satisfaction nro sold
at THE WHITE HOUSE, ZED EOSENDOJtF, Proprietor.
Salmon Catch Nets S2I70.
Astoria The fishermen who have
been 'trolling for salmon outside the
mouth of the river are meeting with
good success, some getting as high, as
50 fish a day. Some days, however,
the catches are light, owing to a heavy
swell. As near as can be learned the
high boat among the gillnetters dur
ing the past fishing season was Nels
Ericson, who fishes for the Sanborn-
Cutting Packing company. His catch
is said to have been 31,000 pounds, or
16i tons, which at $140 a ton makes a
total of $2170 for the summer's work.
' Cattle Bring Fancy Price.
Champoeg Thomas Carsten, presi
dent of the Carsten Packing company,
of Seattle, has just shipped 120 head
of fine beef cattle from Broadacres to
their establishment. The cattle were
purchased from the Smith Brothers,
of this place, for $12,000. These are
said to be the finest lot of cattle ever
shipped out of Oregon. They were all
three-year-olds, and averaged f $100
per bead.
For many years wo have mado a specialty of showing to tho
people a lino of goods always acceptable and they liavo accom
plished tho rot leading up to the success wo wnntod to reach.
THE WHITEHOUSE
New Meat Market
Wo are pleased to announce to our patrons that we hav
recently opened a Meat Market on C street, near our for
mer location and will always supply tho trad with a choico
line of all kinds of moats. Call upon us if you have choice
beef, veal, and other meats for tho markets.
A. NELSON
f IU Independence limy Bant f
CROWLEY BK08., Proprietors.
Main 8t., North of Garage,
Best of Eervicsay or night. Gentle horsea and Eeeponsibls Driven.
Horses Boarded
By Pay, Week or Month. Best of Gar and Fwd. Prices aa low aa
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