BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 23. 1901. Times-yier^id. ramean;:: A STATE THAT IS IN PAWN this cattleman should confine bis MENACE TO THE SMALL MEN application to 640 acres, however, __________ for the law allowed him to act as UUBSCRII’TION KATES NEVADA CONTROLLED BY BIO LATRLE- agent for others; so all he had to do IT WOULD SOON PUT SMALL STOCK 1 v JIHy 1 was to use the names of bis family MAN OUT OF BUSINESS. e«r ................................. MEN AND POLITICIANS. oaths.......... .................... or friends, as tbe case might be, ................... ■- and file applications for as many OFFICIAL DIRKCT o KY An Act of Congress Tweuty Years Ago Ruined 640s as he cared to pay for 1 j 8TATB—URBGON The Tbe Views of a Correspondent in the Sunday < J. H Mitehell Oregonian on Proposed Range Leas­ uators Prospects of State-Act Has Now state law provides that the land | Jiweph SimuD ing Law-Writer a Storkman. Expired by Limitation. ' «Tbo«. Tongue. shall be sold for $1.25 an acre. . A . Moody ■lr|; B«TD«U ...6. R. N- Blackburn ><■ Twentv-five cents an acre deposit ..... T. T. Geer Portland, Or.(Tn the Editor.)— The question is often asked, or E’*..... F I Dunbar is required at the time of purchase; ry ol State ■r*. c S Moore While on various trips through ter......................... • E" J H Aekerutuu “What is the matter with Nevada?” ’ablic Instruction ’’’J’ W H Loed« With an area of 71 million acres, the ballance is held upon twenty-1 Eastern Oregon and other grazing Mater .............. v R 8. Be«u. years’ time, with 6 per cent inter-1 ( ( . w„’.verton 95 per cent of this 37-vear-old state sections of tbe West, I have heard .. ae Judge« est, with the privilege of paying up; Y2” » F. A. Moore the question frequently propounded is still owned by the federal gov­ * at anytime the applicant may NINETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. as to whether or not there was anv With much fertile soil, * M.D. CLIFFORD ernment. tJudg« see fit. The state land board took W ti , Mill« likelihood of the passage, by the . 1 s Geer less than 3 per cent of the area is ■■ .. no interest in these locations, other1, j W Morrow Government, of a ‘range lease law.” under fence and only about one- - *•*».............1 than to file applications for the land Being myself a stockowner, 1 at CWCSTT- taut st : half of 1 per cent is tinder cultiva­ with the United States government ¡f . J«.nen V «r«rrow : yJudge ......... once became much interested in H. Rirbanlwn tion. The climate is unsurpassed, KA Miller The Best Supplied charging the acreage to the 2 mil­ the proposed measure. B ■' JR Joton«on tbe soil produces all desired and * ’ ™ ................... Geo shelley lion acre grant which had been ■ « ¡“ ........................ K From personal observation and J* ' J Buch a tta u profitable crops, there are farming «er J (J Bartlett made by congress. 1 superintendent careful research of this question E .1 Noble lands, stock ranches, mines, rail­ Iiuipector A. Venator This two million acres is now ex- | while traveling through these range I u«sioneea R J William« roads and eight large streams with I hnasted and the people of Nevada 1 ornci : HARMKY U. 8. Last’ sections, I have certainly concluded g ..Geo. W Ha ♦•« their branches furnishing water. have ntt opportunity to review tbe 1 ‘»ter ................. ... i haa Newell Notwithstanding these advantages that the smaller stock owners have H IT« ............ workings of this peculiar act. They n I * ' _______________ — population and wealth have steadi­ find that through its instrumenta­ much to fear from the enactment; :: I 9OCIBTIE< of such a law by the national gov- ly decreased, and during the past lity probably one-third of all the Wr- '•▼LVA REBEKAH I-egree No.«8 twelve months but nineteen home land in the state now under private ern meet. In this great grazing 1 tiit etaerery lat and ¿d Wedtiesiluv. ’ Tillie .lonittu N'. <«. | ( Frankie Brenton Rec Sec’y. stead filings were accredited to ownership has passed into tbe hands country most of the springs,streams A. O. U. W. Bnru« : . ' I Nevada, out of the 68,000 or more and valleys which lie contiguous of a few cattlemen, most of them to the mountain range(in isolated xta«v«ry Friday ulgbt. recorded in the general land office H A hiCurd. M. W non residents. Less than a dozen I*“1»..' I. H Ib-.t. io-r.l at Washington from the public land men own over 1 million acres of places, where one would least sus­ ----- WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF pect it.) I find in almost every case states. ’ll HARNEY LOIKIE. NO. 77, I. O O F. land, and this is a state where Mta st Odd Fellow« H»ll.'vt.-i - the land surveyed and homesteaded It is not difficult at this time to pm, J M I<« ■. N . V Ki• <•'’. say just what has hindered the de­ there are less than 4 million acres by the employes and hired men off which are not still owned by the I?.. ■ velopment of this Western state,for United States government So l-> g the wealthy cattle companies and * PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Nevada lias reached a turning as this state law prevailed and gov­ under their control and jurisdiction . .'gT inflwrw -- -- - point in her history. Thero have ernment land could be secured un­ and in cases where u sufficient ' been minor difficulties such ns com-! der the state grant it is evident number of men could not be secured ' 0 "" GEO. 8. SIZEMORE, n petion of California on the west and | that no citizen would care to avail by the large stock companies to ig ij/Jk ATT0HNEY, DRNS, ........................... O r EOON. Colorado, Utah and other states on 1 himself of the federal land laws, take up and hold the land contain­ | otleejeju-, Land buxine»«, anil Real the east, the earlier disinclination ing springs and streams for the • 1 B such as tbe homestead act or the I tale tuacter promt tlv attended to. of the Central Pacific railroad to desert, act, with their more onerous benefit of those stock concerr.s.scrip . W BMMt, PALI has been laid on the greater portion g develop intermediate territory, conditions to be fulfilled before i • of the balance of such land. aridity of soil and a decrease it, the title could be secured. g Biggs & Biggs ß a icon . Any person at all acquainted ! general prosperity of the silver ATTORNEYS•AT - LA W, That this is so is shown in the with range countries and stock in­ -‘.op BNS, — ---- — — OK EGON. I mining interests. Th« cause of records of the land office, for in dustries will reudilv perceive that 1 I Nevada's trouble. lioweu- r, lies Practice in all the courts of Ore. 1899 there were but three home-; stock cannot long live and prosper I deeper than this and may be said ollectiona promptly made. ! steads filed in the entire state of to have largely originated in the Nevada, only nine proved upon i unless access can be had to water. I»« 4 ---------------- A- KRMBOJ.Ö V. W. P akkisk policy a looted toward the state by­ I and not a single desert land claim, J | It is intended, as I understand it. [ i>. Mi that the proposed law is to be so I congress in the disposal of public PARRISH à REMBOLD, i-'lhfesJ l timber claim nr stone claim was fi« J framed that each rancher shall be lands. Attorney»-;! t-Law, | filed under tbe federal laws. The Earns (»nd Canyon < ’ity.) Oregon. allowed to lease Government range Every public land state, upon ■ — fl*« . -------- . state law made land ownership to Will practice In wuri«~ i llariic; and in proportion to the number of acres; t: u - irr several years, owing to this pe- I | culture even in the form of live Burna, - - - Oregon. culiar condition of the land owner­ ¡desirable or desert lands only I ■ • • stock raising was looked upon as - ship. The population of the state could be leased from the goyern- ' 1 very minor industry. w. L*. is now 43,335, a decrease of 3,426 ment by the small stockraiser. Un­ In 1880, when in careless nr in- MARSDEN & GEARY. in the past 10 years. There is a der these conditions the man of We are giving the i»eop]e of Harney and Malheur counties an opportunity to exchango their ditierent mood, congress enacted a Physicians and Surgeons. large proportion of voters in this limited means, with only land products for CASH AND MERCHANDISE. We pay the highest price in Cash and Merchandise law at the instigation of a few far BÜBKS. OtlEGO.V. imputation, there being about 11,- enough to raise sufficient bay to! sustain his flock during the winter Oglct at esii4e*v ¡ff" I’! os .V . < .--.■lug Nevad » cattl' iuen bv w hich 660. This is due to the fact that I the school sections 16 and 36 wire the mines and ranches employ an months, will soon be compelled to g I taken back into the posession of DR H. VOLP, unu«ual proportion of single men. give up hie business. the Unit«d State«, in return for this Then,agaiu.there is another class The taxable property of the state Pbgsicia:i and Surgeon, ■ refund of land. Congress authorized of persons, who, for a livlihood, de- amounts to 30 milion dollar« and OPriCE AT B*SIPES< E the state of Nevada to «elect 2 mil pend upon raising hay to sell to the tax rate is low. Some of the I lion acres of federal land in any leading men In Nevada have spared sbeepowners, who possess flocks H. KLEBS, M. D. part of the state desired, and as. | no effort to induce immigration and no land; they, too, would soon PHYSICIAN AND -< i.i-EoN fa«t ns selections have been made At the Arcadia Stock Yards we will receive for half cash and half goods and to encourage the development be forced to give up their business Office in \ . title has been given. It in not too inf their state, but they feel almost Some stockmen are successful in B abas . O bmox . much to sav that from this piece of hopeless, for their work has result­ their business without owning Telephone No 171 ' '5 legislation have artson practically ed in practically nothing. The ranches, but who deja-nd upon buy­ •. : . H. Brown toa L E. U lutarti all th« ill* which have afflicted •tate itself recently advertised that ing hay and feed from those who Hibbard & Bivwfiion. this Wi stern commonwealth I It would give free title to all land make a boainess of raising such for ■■ Th“ live stock growers of the D en tisi .-:. which was reclaimed by anv one market This business in many O f tteffi B m C 4*nr - Pacific coast were quick to see the under the provision of the Carev cases is carried on by aged men Burr*» Or« - -n. advantages to l>e obtained under act, by which congress allowed each who are unable to endure the hard­ this law, and they secured the pass­ of the arid land states 1 million ships incident to the handling of I Haring lOUgTl’. HIC IW-rau- g age of a state law which made it acres if such land was irrigated stock anj who make a comfortable Stock must be Round and acceptable to Superintendent Metcalf, of Arcadia. of Simon S possible for one man to obtain con­ There has been no responce to this living bv remaining at home and rant busi«» M ------- trol! ef as much land a« he might raising bay and feed to be used by I reepectf |v invite a Lontiou- • « advertisement, and tbeie will be - • aUenof all old patron«, a* well :: need and in such localities as be none, for the land which could have tbe owners of flocks. Such as these Mas H E S mith . I might choose. Tbe Nevada legis­ l*en irrigated under the Carey act tbe law should be designed to pro­ lature enacted a land law which or under tbe desert land act in tect. rather than to compel them to gave each citizen the right to buy Nevada has been gathered in by give up their oc< upation. 1 au> informed that a congress­ 640 acres of state land. The priv­ the great non-resident live stock man recently traveled through the :: ilege was not confine! to re*idents companies of California and other JOHN McMULLEN range country of Eastern Oregon of tbe state, and the land was sold places. fhotegnphsr. accompanied by members of tbe only after t«ing selected by tboee ec*>norDÌc condition as Rueb an who were to buy. is here represented has resulted in large cattle companioe, riding in A catti.-man desiring to secure tbe notoriooely corrupt condition of the corn pan ¡«s' carriages and ex­ control of a range filed an applica­ politics, which has made tbe name pressing himself very favorably to tion with the state government for of Nevada a byword through tbe a ‘government lea«e law.” The for the purchase of 64<* acres of United States. Tbe population of small stockowner is fiarful that land, this iand probably being dis­ tbe state is so small, so large a pro­ bv this means the Congress­ tributed in 40 acre tracts along one portion of the vote is controlled by man may be (without fault of I..») or more of the numerous well a few men and money plays such unjuvlly influenced against their watered and fertile valleys f Nev-' an important part in the selection interests (ConcluJed on Fourth Psge ) (Concluded on Second ) I: was not nec«*aary that I THE OREGON FORWARDING COMPANY, Oregon GENERAL MERCHANDISE In Eastern Oregon. STORE « Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps DRY GOODS AND CENTS FURNISHINGS Our Grocery and Hardware stock is complete in every particular STUDEBAKER WAGONS and OLIVER CHILLED PLOWS 1 \77" arelioueee! or Calves, Yearling Steers I Steer and Two-year-old Stocrs- We have concluded to make Ontario and Arcadia points of exchange thus enabling every farmer to dispose of his products readily