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♦ unti n *41 quart. Inder I il ; Ium one of] ght hip » of thj rr, bar i L. XVII. BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY.OREGON, APRIL .000 FOR RAILWAY product to be treated and refined in IRRIGATION WORK IN OREGON plies as well as most of the irriga NO. 19. EXCLUDE LAND EROM THE RESERVE. another plant. ble land, have passed into private Other eminent mineralologists I JOHN D. DALY, P res control. The laws governing the Chief'Forester "Gifford Pinchot Gives N. U. CARPENTER, Cxanira, Í TO SECURE BOND ISSUE and metallurgists were called in CHIEF HYDROGRAPHER NEWELL SAYS FRANK R. COFFIN, V ic « Pmce ¡ appropriation and use of waters A. O. WELCOME, A bht . C ajuubb . Out «^Decision. consultation, and it was finally de ) IN TWO COUNTIES. IT IS DUE THIS STATE. are by no means perfect, and there termined to adopt the stamp mill are many difficult and involved i j Chief forester Hon. Gifford Pin- i and cyanide process on a tremen legal questions concerning rights to chot has decided that the following dous scale They Have Been Handicapped by a Limited property which must be solved. of One of the Most Import- 2e. lands, included within the with When this decision was reached Accounts of Corporations, Firms and Individuals Solicited. IBlrprises Ever Inaugurated Knowledge of Flow of Streams-- Many of these matters can only drawals for the pro|M>aed Blue 'f' |a Eastern Oregon. Private Rights Encountered. the cost of transportation of such be satisfactorily adjusted by per Mountain forest reserve, shall be WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. immense quantities of heavy ma for Oj The Oregonian’s Washington cor sistent effort, and some must ulti- excluded from such reserve in fix Hfjkest mortgage ever filed chinery from the O. R. it N. at S tockiioi . dkhs :—John D. Duly, Frank It. Colfio, N U. Carpenter, R. J. mately be taken into court after ing the final boundaries of the t Burn, Williams, .1. W. Goarv, C. Cummins. H. M. Horton, C. A. Haines, iFm. •TVountv was presented to Baker City to the mines was taken respondent says that F. H. Newell, every resource has been exhausted. same: Junes, Thomas Davie. Chief of the Reclamation Service, is ountjr Roc order Robert Henry at, into calculation. • ‘ All of this work must be carri All of section 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, Stat» anti County Warrant! bought at tAo marhtproof. Major Bonta was not the sort of anxious that something shall be ed on quietly as in the case of any ssenge,* CowvHouse for engrossment 28 33,84, 35 and 36 in township 10 man to l>e daunted by lack of cheap done by the general Government great enterprise in.order not to at This bank is insured and will be reimbursed for any loss by burglary 1 the offic ial records. The mort- south, 35.J east; also all of township transportation. He employed civil looking to the irrigation of arid land tract the attention of the speculat or hold up day or night. 11 south,range^35^east; also sections ige is given by the Baker City- engineers to make reconnoisance in Eastern Oregon. He believes ive element who seek opportuni la,'on«jregon Wonder Electric Railway 13, 14, 24, 15.and 36, township 11 surveys for a railway running from Oregon is entitled to early recogni ties of ‘holding up’ the Government. south, range 34 east; also sections 1, tion under the irrigation ’ act, not on id Improvement Company, by its Baker City direct to the mines,over Publicity always brings forward resident, James W. Bonta, and its the Upper Burnt Rivhr divide, ly because of the large amount it a vast number of inquiries and at 2 and 12, township 12^south, range 35 east. Willamette Meridian. MKr.,fccrotarj^ W. G Drowley, to the throngh a country which stands in has contributed toward the reclama tempts by people to settle upon the Mr. I’inchot further states in his jey> Or®rtb Aitnerican Trust Company, constant need of a railway. From tion fund, but because of the grow land before it is definitely known M. A lexander , P bksidknt . communication, which is addressed E. II. T ust , Cashier " ing necessity for reclaiming some of nt, ®MHHYork, for fiv6 million the surveyor’s filed notes' estimates W m . J ones , V ice -P resident . C. E. K enyon , Asst. Cashier whether the particular tracts can to Senator Mitchel), that the re its desert lands east of the Cascade ms, ••ys.the Baker City Herald- were made of the probable cost of be irrigated. maining lands in township 11 south Tbe document secures the pay- such a line, and so feasible was the Mountains. “The engineers, if they were com range 35J east, are practically all Two difficulties have been en million dollars worth proposition found to be that prelim pelled to answer all the questions held by the federal government and first mortgage debenture bonds, inary surveys were followed by per countered by engineers who have and demands of the public, would are covered with merchantable tim ONTARIO, OREGON. S HP‘° September 1, 1903, manent location staked, and a right- been making prelitninery examina hardly be able to proceed at all. ber and well suited for the purpose tions in Oregon — they have been I ntopost Paid on Time Deposits. I fifteen years, bearing in- of-way was secured from the Gov- Every effort, therefore, is being of a forest reserve. jM*e rate of six per cent per ernmet through the public domain. handicapped by a limited knowl We Solieit Yoer (Banking Business. $ made to push the work forward to a Mr. Pinchot makes a further >t im|ipum,lh |e first interest payment The Citizens League of Baker City edge of the flow of streams in local point where results can be announc statement as follows: “ I is |'A practical, wish to uv vi ven , STOCKHOLDERS:—M. Alexander, Wm. Jones, E. H. Test, | the dpgOQ th e first day of March, volunteered to materially assist in ities where irrigation .0 C. E. Kenyon, H. Alexander, Estate of Abner Robbins, William - ed and definito conclusions reached. emphasize very strongly the fact and they have been equally embar l"»”- bonds are issued in a the securing of a right-of-way Miiler, Frank R. Coffin, Thos. Turnbull. ? that in case this reserve is created, L<)00 each, and have been through the private lands between rassed by encountering private right the merchantable timber will be 1 to the waters of various streams in MUST PAY WARRANTS. JR** ,ten 1 by the above naui-d Baker City and the timber line. sold upon application, and that the •any. Maps of the proposed road were localities where they deem it de- 11 policy of the government will be to ' sirable for the Goverment to under don WMb irtgage .. Malheur county will have to dig covers the vast -b‘ed with the Secretary of the encourage in every way the gener take the construction of irrigation lid for ■Tmwtf’netate up and pay a block of scrip amount __ j owned by Major J. state of Oregon and the Depart al development of the region.” < nl-Nj^^K and his Pennsylvania- ment of the Interior at Washington, works. ing to $14,000 according to decision >>'« for Although he gives no authority The lands withdrawn from the tendered by Judge Clifford at Vale HOWARD SEBREE, WHITE, Vm.-Ps«.«., in Grant and Baker and in due time the Baker City- fur lhe statement, nor does Mr. last Saturday. The scrip in ques reservation lies along the proposed W. R. SEBREE, C ashier 3Untr,Md is given to secure the Oregor. Wonder Electric Railway TY Cf Ne veil show any inclination to fa tion is the property of Mrs Marga line of railway from Sumpter to iment if money for the construc- ‘HILADE u S^^M -------- and Improvement Company, with Burns. m sj^^he Baker City-Oregon MBhe Baker City-Oregon Major Bonta at its head, was grant vor any particular locality in his ret Woods and Mrs Jennie Muldrick quoted discussion of tbe work, the of this city, and was called in by WÏleetric Railway from Bak- ed a charter by the State of Oregon, Oregonian correspondent assorts the county treasurer of Malheur Westcrberg-Haguewood Marriage. • IPHpio City a distance of ap- to carry out its projects. that tbe department is favorably county last fall, and the notice call When the railway project became p-p oximtly 84 miles- At the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Ed XX Tht Ajrtgag.- also covers lhe known to the people of the Inland impressed with two projects, one of ing in the scrip also contained a !-p ilway,»h ich is to begin at a point and Isolated Empire south and them being the Malheur and the notice that it would be cancelled if . J. Haguewoud, of this city, last Sun the corporate limits of southeast of the Blue Mountains, in other the Umatilla project. One or not presented within sixty days. day morning at seven o’clock oc A General Banking Business Transacted TX aker City, and which traverses a Harney and Grant Counties, dele- the other of these works can easily The holders of the scrip were not curred the marriage of their daugh be constructed out of lhe moneys aware of the call, and when the ter, Edna, and F. E. W< sterberg, CORRESPONDENCE INVITED the upper Burnt River I Baiuns of citizens from the _ j more of Monument, Oregon, the nuptial that Oregon has already contributed sixty days expired, the county court RE, the valley of the John important towns , in that region of that county ordered it cancelled. rites being performed by Rev. G. 11 olliegy rlVMT.L All branches and spurs i*«ited oc Major Bonta, with ro to the reclamation fund. The correspondent further states During January term of county R. Archer, of John Day. The new lling Rock and miscellaneous flUflSts tbat he extend his line furth- lo,, „„Htoipmesjis included in the ¡rnort- er South. The citizens of Burns that some of the most prominent court, Attorneys Hicks and Davis ly married couple took their de will volunteered to provide a free right- hydrographic engineers of the de appeared fo- Mrs, Woods and Mrs. parture at once on the Whitney stage for Portland where Mr. West- The ng properties belonging of-way, and to.liberally subscribe, partment are now in Eastern Ore Muldrick but that body refused to erberg will attend the meeting of Portias gon examining these two localities, reconsider their former order. The nta and- associates are if necessary, to a cash bonus to the grand lodge of the Maccabees, OF PHILADELPHIA and it is expected that one or the ca6e was taken into the circuit assist construction. Let it he ro INCORPORATED I847. as a delegate from the Monument other will be selected as a site for court, where a decision was render of this mortgage is the membered that all through these Issues all forms of sound life ineurar.co at tho Jowe-t rates. Our policies lodge. Following this they will I Goverment operations. When-the ed against Malheur county. guarantee after three payments are made on of one of the most Preliminary negotiations, Major I. Automatic extended insurance for the face of tho contract. v'sit San Francisco and other points eelecton has been made, and definite EVERYWi Unless the case is carried to the terprises for industrial Bonta never asked a single inhabi II. A paid up policy. in California III. Ijian or cash surrender value. t ever inaugurated in tant of the Inland Empire for a information is obtained as to the supreme court, there is nothing left T ■ On their return they will make ; amount of land that can be re for Malheur county but to pay the Unexcelled as h dividend payor. gon — the construction red cent, He paid all his bills in Poc • INVESTIGATE HEFOHE KO If INHURE. their home nt Monument, where Mr ; eleetric railway from spot cash, and during the two years claimed, the cost of getting the warrants. If the case is appealed, iparatd Am City [over into the fertile val- covered by these preliminary ne water on the land, the amount of Attorney Hicks, who appeared ] Westerberg is employed as book- ; Sherman A Harmon, It. II. Benedict, General Agents. District Managor. keeper for the Monument Mercan- j water available for irrigation pur for the claiments, says he is confi- ( I in flitlerer^ OÍ tbe iohi n Day. MarquamIBldg., IL A. Dillard, Agent. The railway gotiations he expended in the neigh pose, etc., the Secretary of the In dejt of winning in the end.—Blue tile company.— Blue 'it'. Eagle. j Portland, Or, Burns, Or. „ M originally - planned to afford an borhood of fifty thousand dollars. terior will direct that sufficient » Mt. Eagle. ter form. 'W the mi les in Grant Beyond the John Day River, in | BIO DOCUMENT PILED. money be set aside from the gener d or controlled by Maj- lhe thirVi’ million railroadless acres al reclamation fund for tbe con ope A Cure For Headache his Pennsylvania as- of issolated Empire, lies the most The Baker City and Oregon struction of this irrigation project. LDING jj as the project pro- fertile country in the West, adapted Wonder Electric Railway and In discussing the work of hie Any man, woman or child suffer rd consummation, the lo a11 tbe industries which have Development Co. has filed one of s were enlarged to in- made other PartB of Oregon famous bureau in Oregon, Mr. Newell said: ing from headache, biliousness or a the largest and most important ...AND... “The work of thej reclamation dull, drowsy feeling should take ¡mate extension of the —stock raising, sheep growing, ng documents ever entered upon the southeast of lhe Blue «-¡culture, horticulture, dairying service in Oregon ie being carried one or two cf DeWitt’s Little Early ¡county records. This extensive open up thirty-odd and market gardening. Al! of on rapidly, but quietly, and efforts Risers night and morning. These legal [taper occupies 9 pages of the are being made to bring about con i Affords tlie |H‘ople of East anil Central Oregon all the opportunity of a famous little yills are famous be of fertile lands which these industries have been develop- county record book typewritten first-elans modern Business College. It is 11 home institution covering t without means of ed onl-V to the stage which supplies struction of large works which cause they are a tonic as well as a copy. The sum of money involved every course involved in Business College work Its rates are the same the local demand, as a wider mar will reclaim extensive areas of arid pill. While they cleanse the sys is atom as charged elsewhere an<i the methods are tlm same. Htu lents .admitted makes justify the exhaustive detail land. In planning structures which ket is impossible to reach on ac tem they strengthen and rebuild it at any time. Instruction nt the College or hv mail. During the summer 1, dyspe which produces such length. bowel count of the present lack of cheap will last for ages, great care is nec by their tonic effect upon the liver months the College will conduct a The document is a deed of trust and rapid means of transportation. essary and the details must be and bowels. Sold by all druggist*. ctlon of IteR*' conveying, in trust, to the North fives tone« Through the construction of the worked out with a thoroughness I ummer ormal chool far beyond that employed in tem- Studebaker Wagons, ¡Hacks, American Trust company the vast Bonta railways which will bring Por teachers and others who desire a reviewing or preptnatory course. vorked «toa, the farms and stock ranches of pory structures. The greatest econ Carriages, Buggies and Buckhonrds holdings of the Oregon Wonder strain jlwf For specimens of pen work, and full information on Business College sub Electric Railway company, situat omy, as well as stability, is secured d un are arriving now and selling as faBt Eestern Oregon in touch with the jects. sd dress ed in Grant county. This holding >ua iy»t»m« world, the Inlaud Empire will after the plans are well oqtlined as we can get them in. We have includes the Oregon Wonder group Z n Æ. S. zeigrTo-sr, Z’xlxx., blosom like a rose in the desert. and they can be considered piece two car loads of these goods here remedy 4« of mines and the right of way for by piece with reference to the ilckpeóyk and in trains. The beet stock of Its wealth will increase by leaps SxxxxxS, Oxegroxx. whole. All of this requires skill Wagons and Vehicles ever brought the Baker City-Oregor. Wonder giving to and bounds, and Baker City, being Electric Railway, and the sum >nt that II the Northern terminus of the Bonta and patience, but tbe time consum to Burns. Call and look at goods named in ths first mortgage bond railway, will be constituted the ed is more than repaid in tbe results even if you do not desire to buy at record is $5,tX)0,(XX) attained. Whether this trust conveyence the present time. Geer At Cummins. commercial center -and distri ut means that arrangements for float “ Every part of the large struc ing point for all the country lying ( ing the bonds of the building Sonth of tbe Washington Stale line ( tures must be devised with refer Our stock of iron beds is now company are now being completed, to the .future. For each dam east of the Cascades, West of the ence ( complete and at very reeonable or that part of the sum has lieen al TRISCH A DONEGAN, Proprietors. Snake River and North of the ■ the foundations must be known price*. Call and ace our folding ready floated, appi-areth not on the California and Nevada State lines. land the character of thé material face of the transaction; but that bed«, stegl couchea, etc.—Burna something of intreat is doing, seems ascertained. Tbe headgates must Furniture Co > YE AM ? entirely clear.—Grant County New* Good For Children. be not only designed as a whole, First National Bank OF BURNS, OREGON. ■ -- I FIRST NATIONAL BANK I »»»»»»»»»»»»a first Rational Bank 1 CALDWELL, IDAHO PENN MUTUAL UFE INSURANCE COMPANY, : Ä CITIZENS BUSINESS COLLEGE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL S N S THE CAPITAL SALOON, Burns, PERIENd tADf MAI* Dcs>«*. •▼RIGHTS ¡tricad he feasibility of mining I the Oregon Wonder ore * It was found that to b lew grade rock, op*ra- I necessarily have to be lie scale One engineer erection of a 1000-«lamp ivanide plant of equal Another engineer advis- ruction of a big redoc- aing concentrators, the i but every bolt and brace roust be Mhe pleasant to take and harm- drawn to accurate scale. Even ; less One Minute C ugh Cure give* •‘Uch points as the sliding surfaces immediate relief in all case ‘ of La- ¡of the gal*» must be worked out — with referencelo lhe pressure put upon them and tbe friction and tbe liability to corrode and slick. There | are flumes and pressure pipes to be planm-d to suit tbe ground, waste and distributing gates and an in- 1 finitude of detail which can be ap predated only when one actually ! goes upon lhe work. "Ir Oregon reclamation must' proceed under a difficult nandicap, as the easily available water sup- - • Oregon. Make Tlxis IZesxä.cixxÄXtex®, ** The Finest of All .< MARYLAND CLUB WHISKY Wines. Liquors and Cigars. Billiard and Pool Tabled. Club Rooms in Connection. Ftr Sale Only al Hotel Burns Bar THE TIMES-HERALD fluents, Burns, Ore. Gives all the local news <W“Bothcill Broa , Distributers. Portland. Oregon Job Printing.