BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST io, 1901.
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CONCERNING OUR RANGES where there had been one bead THE -DESERT” OE OREGON very cheap, and the well-to <io
J. \\ . UIGUH, P k ESIDENT AND ACTING VASIUFR.
[they drove in twenty head of cattle,
raucher of Eastern Oregon thought
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U C. I.KVSNS, V kb -I' kesids .' i T.
I The consequence was that in a few
he could buy them cheaper than he
•ÜBSCKIPTION RATES:
A CORRESPONDENT TO VALE DEMO years they themselves and all A GOOD DESCRIPTION OF OUR ARID [could raise them.
He was busy
Oao Tear
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WO
CRAT PROPOSES PLAN.
EASTERN ORECON SECTION.
others who had stock running on
himself with the affairs of his stock
ata Month.
. t oo
Thrno Montn.
. .76
the range lost about 75 per cent of
| and ranch, and hired help came |
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(INCOUPOHATI-.l >.)
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
[ it during a hard winter. I believe
I high in that sparsely settled ,
•TATE— OREGON ‘
T« Solve ike Perplexlnj Problem of Lsod
Where the Soil Will Produce Excellent Crops
[ that with the exception of those
section, any way. It looked too
J. n. Mitchell.
U.S. Senatori
Laaatag— Wbat he Cooelderi a Proc-
.-Water la all That la Needed to
Joseph Simon
1
tramp
«htepmen
who
with
their
small, in fact, to the prosperous
tkabie Remedy for Coadltloaa,
Make If Best Farming Land.
jTho». Tongue.
CAPITAL STOCK $25,000.00
immense bands of sheep roam from
t M A. Moody
rancher and stockman of that sec
t'ou<ra«amen
D. R. H. Blackburn
Atturnay «aiterai
A
fleneral
Bnnkinir 1 htsincss Transacted.
............... T. T. Geer
(place to place reducing our best
tion to work in a garden. The man
Gavaraor
[Charles Becker in Vale Democrat.]
(Paul DelAuey in Portland Telegram.]
............. FI Dunbar
secretary at Sta'e
Directors: W. Y. King,
1. N Geer
Geo. Fry
C P Moore
Treasurer
Editor Democrat—In tbe last ; ranges to a du«tv desert, all stock-
There is a large «cope of eountry who handled only dollars could !
J H Ackerman
aupt. Fabllc ln,trnctiou
W. E Trlscb,
J C Welcome.
W H l.aeda 1 number of the Weekly Democrat men are in favor of a law to protect in Eastern aud Southern Oregon not stoop to raising vegetables that
ótala relatar
........
j R 8. Bean.
But ir. spite of
...> C. Wolverton I noticed that Mr. John Gilcrest in ; our ranges from certain quick de called "desert country.” This land only cost cent«.
C’orrespondcneo Invited.
Suprema lad,..
» F. A. Moore
an interview most emphaticly struction and preserve them for the lies principally in Klamath, Lake, i the prejudice the love of some for
,
district
.
NIJVETH JUDICIAL
M. D. C lifford , declared in favor of a wise lease benefit of coming generations. But Harney. Malheur and Crook coun 1 gardens ntid orchards of their own
District Judge
W iu Millet
District Attorney
|
...................IS Geer law that will protect the interest« it must be a law that will give all ties. This country for year« ha« induce them to experiment on a
J<int-a»ce.- -mauve
.......... J W Morrow
JwluHitnatur
[of the sheepmen and small stock- the people an even chance to graze been regarded as worthless, except small scale, and in nearly every in
HABNET Î
COUNTY
men alike with the big corporations, thepublic domain, and tbe sooner as a stock-raising country. To the cident it proved successful. Fine
. Jame» A Sparrow
Cnouty Judge
H.
Richardton
one of the very largest he is mana- such a law i« passed the better it stranger it does indeed appear to be “spuds,” cabbage, corn,grain, fruits .
Clerk. ... v...................
R A Miller ' I
Tisaaurur
will be for the country, And here a barren waste, only put there to of many kinds and berries grow
J RJohnson 1 ger of.
«iirvert
Geo Shelley
sheriff.
FRANK SMITH Propt., ONTARIO, OR.
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J W Buchanan
Now, as I have been a close I would propose a remedy that help hold the world together, as the tlrero and produce abundantly
Am—nr
J •’ Bartlett
¿ehoui Superintendent
Thus
the
rancher
of
the
all
round
would
be
entirely
practicable
and
............
E
J
Noble
saying goes. There are long
[ neighbor for a numbet of years to
atu.'k loaiect. r
A. Venator
i
Commiaalorc
R J William» the concern which he represent«, would give individual stockmen stretches of alkali plains, where the producing kind is steadily getting
Í
The Largest Hotel building in Malheur County.
Ills« c s. LAND OFFICE :
¡and in all intercourse incidental to and companies an even chance ground is so white with this enemy a foothold and increasing in num
..Geo, W Have»
a«(l«ter
Best equipped, best managed and most popular hos
.. ..Cha». Newell the running of cattle on a common alike as heretofore, and keep the of vegetation that in the distance it ber«, and this section is changing
«•e«iver
telry in Eastern Oregon.
range I have ever found John Gil arid land states open for further looks as if it were covered with from the two main industries of
societies .
crest a fair-minded and honorable settlement.
snow, miles and miles of rocks and stoekrising and hayrnieitig to a di
«TLVA REBEKAH Decree No. .S
HEADQUARTERS EOR HARNEY COUNTY PEOPLE.
Let the genaral government take sand, where nothing but sagebrush versified country of stockraising
MMl«ar«ry l«laudM Wedue«day.
gentleman, who, during, the lime
Tillie Jordan N. O.
Frankie Brenton Rec Sec’v.
of superintending theimense inter control of the ranges. Lay it off and greasewood can live without mid farming. But farming is still
First-Class Bar in Connection..
ests of his company, has never into districts of suitable size« Ap water, and these are interspersed in its infancy. At the best it is
A.O.U. W.Burm Lodge, No. «7
only
beginning,
mid
in
many
places
Mootaenry Friday night.
point
a
range
warden
for
each
arid
shown any irclination to oppress,
with mountnins and hills covered
H A Dillard, M. W
E H Hoyt. Kec. hinder, or in any way interfere with every district whose duty it should with rocks and boulders, at many a stm t has not even been made [
the rights of his neighbors—the in be to see that his district is not points guarded by rim rock«, that Along the running streams mid I
HARNEY LODGE. NO. 77. I. O O F.
Meat, at Odd Fellow« Hall, every Saturday dividual small stockmen of this overstocked, which would be con stand up like a wall at the approach where the streams have been diver
7 Mnm
j M I'al'n't N.O.
’
'
w Y Klna.secv.
Tlxe Zeod. Front
ted through ditches the lands are
county—but has ever been ready ducted about on the same principle of the summit.
yet.
mostly
devoted
to
hayraising.
and willing to accomodate and ex as ia now applied to our forest re For more than 30 years this section
PHOFESSION AL CARDS.
tend courtesies to one and all of u« serve«. And by- all means give the has been a stock and wool producer Wherever there is farming it is u V
I c A SWEEK
as far as compatible with the best resident owners of livestock the of great magnitude. The resources success both in manner of produc
ATTORNEY AT-LAW,
J interests of his company, but when preference thereon. When a dis from these industries have brought tion and in ready inmkel for pro
1 Mr. Gilcrest says that the leasing trict i« staked off for all it can sup in millions of dollars annually to ducts. Tin re are no railroads here
Huy and drain
Fino Turnout«.
GEO. 8. SIZEMORE,
> of the public domain is the only port, allow no more stock to be the state, and the total since the to cause competition from the out
Always Kept
Courteous
attorney ,
, remedy against the destruction of driven thereon. Should the occu discovery of the country would side world, mid when wheat is sell
Oil Hands
'iivatnieui
B urns ,|................................ O regon . the open ranges, I beg to differ with pant« of the district by natural in sound fabulous. In early days the mg at 40 and 50 cents per bushel
I
<’«lleciiot>- Land bavinesu, and Real
him, although I aggree with him crease overstock it, let the warden range in this section was the stock- in the wheat belt it brings $1 per
Estate matter promt tlv attended to.
when he «ays that if something is order a certain per cent of the man's ideal. Along the water bushel here readilv; when potatoes i
McCULLE/& DOWNING, PROPS
*J.W BItiGs,
HALTON BIG. iG8
not done soon to check the crowd stock cut down as per ratio. This, courses the grass grew as high as are selling for 40 and 60 cents per
Biggs & Biggs
ing in on our ranges of immense in tbe opinion of most of the small the average horse’s back,nr.d among 100 pounds in Western Oregon, the
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
migratory bands of sheep whose er utockmen whom I have heard t'ue sagebrush and rocks of the Eastern Oregon “spuds” brings its
B HNS,
---- ---- ---- ---- OREGON. owners have no interests in the express Ihemselve« on ibis most1 plains and mountains a smaller tl tier 100 pounds, with ready sale
Practice in all the courts of Ore. growth and development of our important subject, would remedy j grass grew that was unequaled as for all that is produced. ’ It costs
! county, own no teal estate and pay the evils now so much complained i a stock food. Year by year the this amount to get the products
Collections promptly made.
: no taxes, our open ranges will soon [ ■yf and stop all further “range wars’’ i ! settlur lias taken up tho lands along from the outside after paying trans
G- 4- KBMBCLD
W* FABBI b H
portation by means of railroads mid I
: be reduced to a dusty desert that the corporations love to write «u the water courses, until they are
Well, y ou will need one of those
freight
teams, mid the quality in
PARRISH & REM30LD,
«ill support neither cattle nor 1 much about and save our public all under fence. The vast herds
Atto.rneys-at-.Law,
Eastern
Oregon
is
just
as
good.
It
Outing
Hammocks that take up
ranges
for
all
time
to
come.
Such
[ sheep; a condition which will have
were driven to the p’ains and
■Dorns (sn'l Canyon City,) Oregon.
will
be
years,
however,
before
a
a
plan
would
prevent
our
public
!
mountains for sustenance. For n
so little room and are so servica
Will prertlcc In the i-onrl« of Hurney and a most disastrous effect upon the
Grant eouniie» «..■! in the «iiprems court oi the
businees interests of our whole state, domain from tailing into the hands number of years these have not sufficient amount of the necessities ble. And camp chairs too.
•tate. and also in U. 8* land office.
for wh t would Eastern Oregon be, and under the control of laree cor- | been «uHicient to sustain the stock of life outside of beef and mutton
When you return drop in and
pjuts. II. Leonard,
for instance, if you took away from porations, most of them non-resi- of the country, and where stock men will be rat«ed in Eastern Oregon to
A ttorney - at - law ,
supply
the
home
demand,
and
the
see our matting, linoleum, carpets,
it tbe livestock industry? Of course i dents of the state in which their had not taken advantage of the
Careful attention given to Collec
Mr Gilcrest, being a representative ' holdings are located, such nc are lands along the water course« and prices must necessarily remain etc., also those line couches we
lions and Real Estate matters.
of a wealthy livestock company, 1 now monopolizing the livestock in secured them themselves they have high. A b long as hay is raised with are now displaying. You might
Notary Public
naturally will look upon tbe situa duetry of Texas and Australia. been compelled to buy hay during! no other labor than harvesting and replace your old window shades.
The very thing forth'« Weather.
H absey ,
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O regon
tion from tbe standpoint of his But such a law the big corporations the midwinter month« from tbe has a ready sale at $5 per ton, the
do not want. Nothing will suit settlers, and during haid winters tedious work of diversified farming i NOW KEEP COOL--A REFR1GEATOR YOU WANT
TaoaMTon W illiam «
M. F it /<;. b « alu company.
A«or«y..>.w
The leasing of our public ranges them but the whole earth with a have had to pay very high prices. will be neglected and kept back,
Xaieif fjathrnl in Tinnii Rafter QtuynL
^JuiiUiny ¡Pti/ar,
wire fence around it.
But with the good piices paid for I though the prices of the products
WILLIAMS & FITZGECALD is unjust, unfair aud contrary to
wool and stock the stockmen have | are good.
the principles of our institutions,
Ofliea in old Maaonlc Building.
STEEL STRIKE GOES ON.
This will remain the case until
continubd
to grow richer, and the
liesides
it
is
entirely
impracticable,
B urn «,
-
O regon
the grazing land« are taken up on a
settler
has
prospered
here,
as
in
no
for
it
would
put
a
stop
to
all
fur
I
New York, Aug 3.—The steel
more diversified scale and tbe j
thur settlement of the arid range I conference held here today failed other section of the state.
S. W. MILLER,
But a gradual change ha« been bands of stock reduced in number«, [
states, and put the entire livestock to arrive at an ugreement. What
Ï0TARY PUBLIC.
i industry into tbe hands and con the next move will be is problemat coming over the manner of conduct which will necessarily increase the .
Burns, -
- Oregon
trol of large non-resident corpora- ical. After the adjournment Presi ing the stock and farming indus number of men engaged in the 1
business. While it will increase
i tions.
ART
dent Shaffer declined to «[teak on tries from the beginning. The ulti
JT, 1». MABSDIM ,
JOHN W
matum is a« plain to the thought- tlie demand for hay it will also:
Different reasons are advanced the matter further than tn say:
MARSDEN & GEARY.
in support of a lease law. One is
* It is to serious a matter. I as day. At first the settler only- increase the demand for farm pro
Physicians and Surgeons.
that the government does not re must submit certain matter«—un cut the hay in summer from the ducts, as the population increMen
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BURNS, OREGON.
ceive any ravenue from the grazing derstand me, not proposition«—to range and «aved it for emergencies As the lands under water supply i
9/ow that th« tpriny toaton it on
my men before I can speak.”
Offict «1 retidenft.
StOT Phon,
ti'
ut ivf natural^ turn toward tooh-
of the public domain; another rea-. Later he said he and his com in hard winter«. Then he liegan to at present are about all taken the
iny aitfr our rnachinory and too
son they claim is an overstocking panions were going to confer pri- fence the bay-producing portions of prices of lands of a tillable nature
what it noodod for tho toa ton ' t
dr h volp
of the range«, and still another, I vately and might issue a «tatemerit his land and cut from it every year increased al a rapid rate, and it!
mart.
“lit, util* to announco at
will
not
lie
long
until
the
lands
will
.
to feed hi« own increasing herds
which all who are acquainted with , late thia afternoon.
Physieian and Surgeon,
thit tinto that wo hauo 9ffayono,
conditions now prevailing on our < After the labor men went into during tbe winter, and sell all that reach such a value that the small
f/ìuyyiot. 97/o wort, jffay ttakot,
yFFICB AT RUJDKNCE
session, however, it was stated by
Ztwino, JPindort, ate., and aro tofo
ranges must admit isa just and one of their number that the pro- he could «pare to the stockmen. At fanner will only lie able to buy a
a yon ft for 9)ain fZiucht.
2/ou
first the native bay cut from the small tract of land. He will nec- ■
propter
reason,
and
congress
ought
position
Would
not
be
accepted
and
H KLEBS, M. D.
thouidprofit by thtt windy woathor
essarily
engage
in
diversified
farm
natural
meadow«
was
tbe
only
kind
to lose no time in finding a remedy ' there would be no further confer
and buy a 9l/tndntitl front ut.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
k nuwn in the country. But tbe de ing on his «mall plat.
for this great evil that is now | ence.
Catt and oxanttno yoodt, yot pricot
Office in Vœgtly Building.
The Amalgamated representa mand became So great that a heav
The soil in thii section of coun
can ,an, yen
threatening tbe annihilation of tbe
and tor nt t.
tives will probably leave for Pitts
B urns .
O regon .
try is noted for its fertility. Water
ier
crop
wa«
needed,
and
the
pro
Sttr
cf Cv/cmici
live stock industry.
9
ntonoy.
burg tomorrow morning.
I
Telephone No 1-41
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The remedy is not in the leasing j At the conference this morning cess of farming »as begun on a ia only needed to make it produce
L E It Ibbord of the public domain to big live- Messrs. Morgan and Schwab in «mall scale against much skeptic anything that can lie grown in thia
Hibbiii l Jc Brownton. stock companies. As to tbe gov sisted upon acceptance of the terms ism and adverse criticism. Tim latitude. The supply of water is
ernment not receiving any revenue oflered Saturday that the men re othy, redtop, blue joint and alfalfa being increased by artificial means
D entists *.
turn to work at last year’s scale
Offlea «tir door W ct Th« rllilrnl Bank
from the grazing of the public do and said that encompassed all that were introduced, and step by step in different way», and every means
Burns. Oregon.
the native meadows have baan giv will lie exhausted, so long as it
main, it does derive an immense the employers bad to offer.
ing way to tbeoe. until in many offers successful farming, and this
Tbe
Amalgated
delegates
insisted
revenue iu the way of taxes Lease ¡
CL K >»tandLop. M. D..
tbe range and the people of tbe upon further concessions. A gen localities the domesticated grasses will i>e as long a« there is an avail- ■
PHYSICIAN ANDSUROEON, range «taps will soon be too poor ' eral discussion followed and Mor have become pre-eminent.
able acre left in the fertile sections.
gan and bis «aaociate« withdrew in
(Al call« answered prciBptly )
In many placet tlie tattler began Artificial ditches are now the prin
to pay any taxes or buy goods.
order to give Shaffer and his asso
DUW>EY
ORK’ION
Now as to tl>a second reason, the ciates a chance to confer privately. experimenting with grain and fruits cipal means ot supplying the water
They decided they could not ac and vegetables also. But be met for Irrigation porpoaca, but »tor«g<-
overstocking of the ranges. Tbe
first thing a big stock company cept the proposals and so informed the same skepticism on this point by meat.« of mountain reservoir«
the steel officials when they r» turn as he did in the introduction of are being advocate! and built in
will do when taking pjsaeMioa of a
JOHN McMULLEN
ed
range is to overstock in order to
After further general unimpor new grasses In many place« today aoiue instances, as well as ■occesa-
ttarve out their neighbors, tbe small tant discussion the conference ad tbe settler who pkuta fruit tree«, ful prospecting for artestan water
tows grain or attempts to raise po in many instances Where there
stockmen. It has become a well journed
BI’KNH,
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—
CKMiON.
Preaident Schwab went directly tatoes or other vegetable« for the is such vegetable-producing soil
O t egos
established fact that there is no end
to the office nf J. P Morgan. He first time is laughed at by ht» and water going to waste suffieicienl
bra«» plan, make» Mlmalii, etc.
Building» pul up within the amount »J
to the gr«ed of a corporation, and would nit discuss tbe strike situa
"Cloulv day« preferred for
neighbors, and often neglects them to utilize it, it is safe to say that figure» giftr. in eelimatea.
HVSnli Jarfmn guaranteed.
they are tbe very ones who are tion.
■•king titling« Photo« fin-
and lets them go to waste. The the enterprising American will find
raising
the
cry
of
overstocking
the
D
6
Reid
of
tbe
Atoencan
Tin
lake.i in carbon acd platinum
j» *■* *7 V**
rang**«. We bad a fair deiuonstra- Plate company said after tbe Con industry Las bum kept bsck in a means of uniting the two eleuieule
■ WW XI* tu...
ference the strikers had until 4 many place« on this a'count. Then with profitable results.
tioei
of
that
fs--t
about
eislee'i
years
. In-tantaiiec'-» process used
o'clock to decide whether they
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a
f
•
It is a remarkable coincident of
when Miller A Lux tbe California would areept tbe only proposition there are other conditions that have
•gt«':«’velT Firtt-clsps work
'Xu «■■•»• * ••b* Xu* »wk *» * Cl X W W X X b P
J
o
millionaire catt'e kings, took pos- ever made them by tbe steel cor retarded tbe industry. Western nature that within reasonable dis-
ao *«titf» ' -■ ; ,»rs> t»»d
Br ck and hm« alwt}» on baud tl (he jard. H^I.eaid«nee flaoley boute
(Concluded on fourth page )
Oregon produces these neces-arie»
tor»f ion
The Times-yierald.
The Citizens Bank
BURNS, OREGON.
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....HOTEL ONTARIO
Livery, Feed and Sale Stati
3
Going to the Mountains?
Burns Furniture Co
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Harry C. Smith
Contractor and Builder