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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1915)
MAUPIN A iLk Jjk Devoted to the Interests of Southern Wasco County VOL !, NO. 30 MAUPIN, SOUTHERN WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 7, 1915 THE YEAR $1.50 AFTER YEARS Mr. P. A. Coale who has been living here for several months recently received letters from a niece, Mrs. Una H. James of 840 Glen Ave, North Almeda Park, Portland, whose husband has charge of the dried and cured meat department of the Union Meat Co., Portland, and Mrs. J:.mes' brother, James I. Hunt er of South St. Joseph, Mo., sec retary of the Missouri Live Stock Commission Co. These are Mr. Cole's only living relatives and he had not known or heard from them for over twenty years. Mr. Coale is a man of wide ex perience and well versed in min ing and stock exchange and has traversed considerable territory, ' having spent twenty years in the gold fields of Alaska, during which time he possessed thous ands of dollars one day to per haps lose it the next. He has made and lost in the mines prob ably $200,000. At one time in' Wyoming he was an extensive livestock 'holder, and in a few days lost 2000 head of cattle. With impared health Mr. Coale arrived in Maupin and owing to the envigorating climate, has re cuperated. Mrs. James is expected to be in Maupin in a short time for a visit with her uncle and Mr. Hunter will probably make a trip west this summer and will also visit Mr. Coale. Miss lea Derthick who has charge of the Derthick school was iu town Sunday. Miss Derthick it teaching the ninth grad and with s many other grades in the school she is kept very busily employed. Tygh Valley Items Harvey McClain and his wife motored to The Dalles Saturday, taking with them Mrs. John Muir, Miss Bissell, Miss Ercell Stakely and Mrs. Kellogg. All reported a fine time. Dr, Elwood was in town Mon day, Soma of the Maupin baseball team seemed to have a great time even if Dufur did walk away with the game last Sunday. Dr. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Reed from The Dalles were out fishing on Tygh creek Sunday. They reported a die lot of trout. Charlie Wing who has been con fined in bed for a number of days with pneumonia sems to be im proving fast, Zene Watkius, Mr. Beckwith, Ed Fitzpaterick and Van Wood ruff went fishing down at Shersr's bridge on the Deschutes river last Sunday. It seems they had hard luck; not a fish did they bring home. Will Harper from Washington, is visiting his brother J. T. Harp er for a few days. Mr. Burtuer, Mr. Harper, and A. M, Young went to The Dalles Wednesday. K. L. Houser also weut to the Celilo canal celebration. Miss Grace Muir seems to be taking lessons from Prof , Kellogg on automobile driving; The roads around town are marked up with some pretty crooked tracks now-a- d&ys. ., . ,.,. , w Rome Morrow drove to Kent the first of the week where he in tends to find work for some time, Oil A Certainty The following letter of April 28 relative to the Beavii-May oil well was received by J. F. Emer son from W. O.Hastings, the oil expert, who has been doing work for the goverment. This well is located three or four miles from Dufur and from reports by all the oil men who have visited the property this will undoubtedly develop into a large flowing well in the very very near future. Mr. J. F. Emerson, Dear Sir: I herewith report con ditions at the B. M. O. Co's plant, as I found them in two days spent there at your request. inches in 8 hours. The tools were withdrawn at 4:50 p. m. eaeh day and the sand pump lowered twice and the contents thereof showed on surface con tinuous flash in advance of light ed match test, And on separa tion test showed about 40 per cent oil, color in peacock green and base is paraftine. From geological survey and geography of surrounding country, I think they may expect and should pre pare for a heavy flow of oil. I advised that they suspend drilling and prepare a nature1 mi l ? t -1 .i " iney nave an equipment aDOve , basin below wellfor reception oi the average and it would appear oil , Thig can be done with smaL tometherehasbeenanexpendi-iexpenBei preventing the com- ture to the amount of $40,000 or:mon and U8Ua, mistake of being more. They are down more than ! unprepared 2000 feet with six inch hole fully l T ' i "a , , . . .. , I In my opinion, if you conclude cased and are 50 feet in oil sand i . . . - , ..... . ... ... , ., , .... to invest, you can do so with the at this writing, and the drilling , ,. ., . ., . , , . .,,,"! . . i . feeling that it is as safely mdi- is hard, denoting that they are in the lower crust or rim of oil sands and that as soon as they go through, they will have reach ed oil supply. The drill makes about ten cated in this oil showing, as un der like conditions in any oil field of my experience. Yours truly, (Signed) W. O. Hastings. To Hospital T. J. Corbett who has been working for A. vV. Fargher and who has lately been tending the Fargher sheep was found out in one of the canyons about 15 miles from here Tuesday, un conscious from an cttack-of ap pendicitis. Dr. Francis . was called that night arid E. J. Fisch er drove him to the place in a car. Wapinitia Items Jackson Rice is now employed at Keep's Mill. Clyde Fliun, Btirkie and Archil Tapp spent Saturday and Sunday at the Warm Springs, MfaHcWi(, Bi V.. Tapp who are camped at the springs euuie over Sunday returning Monday, Mr. Tapp says he believes the They found the man very low ' rheumatism will entirely leave him but after administering some re-; with a week or two morn of tieat storatives he was revived suffic- ,net. lenuy to allow hiB removal to. Hp was tnkpn to The I Jci. a. nariman maue a Business Jim Mace left for Bend Wednes day where he has 250O more sheep to shear. He stated that the 2500, ftfauD;n he had sheared here were in fine I Dalles Hospital for an opsration trip to Portland last week return- shape. and it is believed will recover. Pi oneer Mercantile Firm WW '1?? ..' fyr.j -TnT-r- 'A It ST. DOWN-LOW Criterion Chronicles ing Saturday. A. F. Kvick left here Thursday for Portland! He will take iu the Celilo celebration before returning home. Miss tvy Flihii is assisting Mis. Evick in the stoi-e during Mr. i Kvick s absence. ' Rev. Emciick of The Dalles will! be at this place Saturday to remain' over Sunday. He will conduct the i last quarterly conference of this' year 111 the church here Saturday, night and will have charge of the services Sunday. i-aui Frati, brother 'of Mrs. U. K. V odd, who has been VwUtiig1 here, left 'Monday for The Dalles, Miss Francis Kirsch just closed a very successful term of school at Ridge way, Friday, April 30. She will leave the last of the week for a visit to the home of her parents at Stayton, Ore. Miss Ilenling, of the Criterion school, with her pupils went to Deep Creek Friday last for a May Day picnic, All had a jolly time regardless of the cold weather. Cimes, bonfires and last but not least a big banquet was the order of the day. Grain and grass in this section never looked more promising than at present. Farmers are making good head way plowing .summer fallow, A goodly acreage of potatoes has been planted, Thanks to the O. W. R. & N. R. R. and under directions of Hon C. L. Smith, agriculturalist, sever al of our farmers are planting fields of tested seed corn while many more are planting their home grown seed. Inquiry conies for more hogs from this section. Several here have some of the best Poland Chinas to be had, Several of K. II . Taylor's neigh, bors surprised him Monday by helping him to enclose a 20 acre field for hog pasture. Not the least feature of the day took place it noon, when Mrs. Taylor, assist ed by Mrs. Confield, spread a bountiful dinner before the hungry ' 'bee" and all had a good old fash ioned time. The Misses DeCamp and Kiisch visited with Mrs. Caufield on Tuesday, I,. N, Castor, accompanied by his brother who is visiting . her from Washington, came home for a load of li.iy Saturday lo take back to his Bakeoven ranch, Judge Bennett and wife dintd nt the Moad Hotel yesterday. MEETING HELD A meeting of the stockholders of the Hunt's Ferry Warehouse Co. convened Monday afternoon at which twenty or ' more stock, holders were present. A dividend of 50 per cent, was voted on stock and Director S, Brown was elected to succeed himself. Mr., Stuart offered his resignation, but will continue to act as secretary until some one else qualifies. Following the stockholders' meeting the directors, L. D. Kelly, F. S. Flemming and J. S. Brown in the capacity of a meet ing elected Mr. Kelly president and Mr. Flemming vice president. The subject of employing a new manager was discussed but not settled. Otis Derlhick has filed on a 320 homestead and from appearances we don't think he intends to bach while living there. In the down train Saturday from Bend were six cars of cattle going to North Portland and one car of horses enroute to Kansas City. Arrangements have been made whereby the Maupin State Bunk will be one of the depositories for County funds. People in South ern Wasco can now pay their tax es nt this bank and thus save some expense for themselves besides do ing a good turn to an institution in our midst, O. W, R.&N. Traveling Freight and Pissetiger Agent A. C. Egait came in Tuesday and made an ob servation visit to Wapinitia and surrounding country. He return ed to Bend Wednesday much im pressed with crop conditions both on Juniper Fht and in Bakeoven country, chiming that the wdieat this yea frmn pivsent conditions has the margin over the bumper crop of HJI3. The Litchfield Down-Low built for us by iit Litchfield Manufacturing Company and is low enough for easy leading out high enough to avoid trouble. It has practically the same under-clearance as the Litchfield Standard Spreader Which has been sold for years. Come in and see for yourself that there is nothing experi mental or freakish about the Litchfield Down-Low Spreader. ANNOUNCEMENT We most fespectfully announce to the public the Opening 'Of our ; ice cream parlors and ask you to , join our Increasing number of satisfied customers in enjoying the delicacies of flavor and sweet-' ; riess in all the late dishes known . 1 to the confection trade. ! The best drinks and s'unda'e3 i that will delight any taste "ill I be served at all times in ttie f u iture from an up-to-date foun-j I tain, clean and sanitary. We beg! to invite you and wish to thank I the patrons of the past and thank j j& those of the future in advance ,!(( . for any favoVs shown. E. J. Styeb. Watch Our Window This Week For Display of World's Best Harvester Shoes Special at $3 and worth it Our New Line of Summer Straws NEXT WEEK attucK Bro w. .3 OT k A 1 Y I fX D. M, Goetieii and ftmily re moved the first of the week from the Rirerview Hotel to their resi dence property in the east central part of town. They have had charge of the hotel for some mouths 3rd ivi'l he niisit.l by tho-e who have stepped with t'lem in the f;st. FISHER'S GARAGE Auto Passenger Service Auto Delivery Truck Prepared for Long Trips or Outing Parties A Complete Line of Automobile Accessories MAUPIN,