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and if the construction of a good wagon road with easy grades is followed by an improvement in the development of the country, it is not improbable that the Ham mond road will be pushed on through the mountains to the destination for which it originally headed. With Central Oregon in as close touch with Portland as Albany, Eugene and Roseburg, there would be some great possi bilities for trade development, and the extension of such a road would not interfere with the prospects of the Columbia Southern. An east-and-west road through Ore gon would tap much territory that could not be reached by a north- and-south line.—Oregonian. the whole state make an organized are ; proud of new league newspaper, in securing immigration attack upon tbs congressmen by and building up the industrial in terests of each community when correspondence In abort, there is strength in numbers, and this prin SATURDAY. AUGUST 13, 1904. THE RESULT OF MEETING GRATIFY the efforts of the league are rightly ciple is to be applied in the work applied. Correspondence with ING TO LEADERS. friends and relatives in distant of the Oregon Development league SUBSC'RfPTION RATES: states, newspaper interviews with Of course., its degree of succes will One Year ............................................. depend upon the generous spirit Six Mouths Thole Host Concerned Feel Certain That visitors in a community and the Three Months......................................... Hovement Hai Aroused Entire Stale sending of the interviews to lists of shown by each community toward --Definite Work Begun. ill known home seekers and inves all the others, harmony of action, Manager tors, are the basis of the work. The avoidance of quibbling, a sanely The r9sult of the first Oregon Portland Commercial club has diiection and united effort, and The store to do vour trading Development league convention are many of these lists, and every club keeping everlastingly at it. All A Missouri editor announced The store where vou can buy right highly satisfactory to leaders and i in the sta e is welcome to their use. these things are easy and will be that just for one issue he would The store the ladies like to go to. promoters of the movement in Each club can in time acquire its accomplished. tell the truth. Here are a few The store where you will find a conij Portland and all parts of the state, own list, and add many names to items from that issue. says the Journal. The depth of in the state league’s lists. iine of up*to-date goods. “John Bonin, the laziest mer- The Meade Dramatic Company, “Every local club should have a terest felt in the organization is chant in town made a trip to Bel- shown by the fact that not onlv correspondence committee, that will arrived in Silver Lake today from The store where evervone is treated a view yesterday. John Doyle, our leading producers throughout the give special attention to organize Prineville. They will give a five groceryman, is doing a poor busi state, but the heavy financial inter follow-up correspondence, detailing act comedy drama in Marshall s ness. His store is dirty, dusty, ests and jobbing concerns of Port the advantages and opportunities Opera House here tonight, also and notoriously odoriferous. How land were represented at the con of each communities. When a fac Fridry and Saturday evening. can lie expect to do much? Rev. vention and are a unit in the de tory or anything of special interest Singing, dancing and monologue WARNER LAKE YIELDS SALT. termination that Oregon shall be is secured in a town, the state specialties between acts. The Styz preached Sunday night on Meade Company comes recommend “Charity,” The sermon was A special correspondent to the pushed forward along all lines—in league notifies every club in the ed as being the best show that ever punk. If the reverend gentleman Telegram from Lakeview, says: Tt dustrial, agricultural, commercial state. When a thing is needed by struck the interior.—Silver Lake would live up a little closer to is not generally known that Lake and educational. The election of any particular district and help of Oregonian. wiiat he preaches he would have County has large salt deposits in Hood River’s eminent horticultinal- congress is necessary the clubs of I bigger congregations. Dave Son- the northern part of Warner Valley. ist for president of the league gives —--------- — — general satisfaction, and the sim key died at his home in this place After high water each season large plicity and working form of the or REVISED TABLE OF INFORMATION. Saturday. The doctor gave it quantities of it are deposited as the ganization commends itself to all. water recedes. Many years ago out as heart failure. The fact is There is a growing belief that The following table has been compiled after careful and thorough investiga this land was purchased from the that he was drunk and whiskey is results will be attained, ¡'resident tion of a.l records and statistics obtainable and gives actual resource« of Harney state by David Jones, now deceas county, every item of which can be proven : what killed him. His home was ed, the first settler of Warner E. L. Smith said today: Number, Car , Wts. lbs. 80 2,400,000 a rented shack in Roudy street. Valley. At the point where the “I think this organization means Wool clip annually, Harney county.... 100,000 480 5,600,000 Married—Miss Sylvia Rhoden salt was deposited he built a large much to Oregon, and will become Sheep shippe . annually........................................ 25,000 1000 25,000,000 Cattle shipped annually...................................... and James Canahan, last Saturday building, with a strong floor, per a great factor in her development. Horsesand mules shipped annually............. 4,000 160 3,360,000 100 2,500,000 evening, at the Baptist parsonage. forated with auger-boles. Over I did not wish the presidency of it, Merchandise »dipped into merchants........... 100 2,500,000 Send in your mail orders- Merchandise shipped direct to ranchers t hey will receive our The bride is a very ordinary town this floor the waters would rise in and declined repeatedly in the com 200,000 10 Stock salt and sulphur ................................. 120,000 attention. 6 giil, who doesn’t know any more the Spring, and after going down mittee meeting but they were in Stage freight at 3 cents per pound..................... about cooking than a rabbit, and there would be many tons of pure sietent and elected me anyhow. I LOCAL HAUL. never helped her mother three salt, which had only to be shoveled have a good deal of work already Lumber sold annually, feet........................................... 2,100,000 3,000 days in her life. She is not a up and sacked to be ready for on my hands, being president of Fuel wood sold annuall, cords........................................ 5,000 ..................... market. the Hood River Fruit Growers and Fence posts sold annually,....... beauty, by any means, and has a For the last five years up to last chairman of the state board of hor PASSENGERS AND MAIL. gait like a fat duck. The groom Winter there was no salt, owing in ticulture. My correspondence is Passengers by stage annually, 600 at $10.................... I 6,000 is well known here as an up to part to the light Winters, in part larger outside of the state than in it, Passengers by private conveyances, 1,800......... 18,000 10,000 date loafer. He has been living to the conversion of Warner Lake, and this is good evidence that the Mail contracts.................................................................... LIVE STOCK. off the folks all his life, and doesn’t which is 15 miles above the salt state is attracting the attention of ..300,000 amount to shucks. They will beds, into a reservoir for irrigation the outside world.” Number of sheep owned in Harney county... . ... . 550,000 Number of sheep summered in Harney county...................... have a hard life while they li ve purposes, and in part to dry seasons Mr. Smith leaves this evening for Number of cattle owned in Harnev county 200,000 ......... .. 150,000 together, and the News has no The floods of last Winter broke the his home at Hood River, where he Tons ot hay grown annually in Harney, over........................ . 50,000 Tons of hay grown annually, in a radius of 30 mile of Burns ----------------------- ----- congratulations to offer, for we dam and the waters of the lake is just now engaged in erecting a AREA or LAND IN HARNEY COUNTY. flowed 30 miles, filling up the dry business building that is to be oc don’t believe any good can come txxxtttixxxixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxixxxxxxxxxt«* ?. . **xx Area ot land, acres.......................................................................... of such a union.” The issue in beds of several old lakes and de cupied by the Hood River National Surveyed ........................................................................................... which he told the truth was the positing another body of salt, which bank and other firms. He has Unsurvayed..................................................................................... the present owners are sacking. been a resident of the Pacific north Of above amount 556,324 acres are in forest reserve and Carey selections. last one for that editor. Now, in Appropriated..................................................... 1,108,261 They estimate they have about 400 west 42 years, and most of the time Tillable, assessed............................................................. LEVENS & M4CE, Propts. 71,101 the morn, when the dew diamonds tons, which is worth $15 per ton on has followed horticultural work Nontillable, assessed............................................................................................... 586,751 Improved, not patented....................................................................................... 102,845 sparkle and the sweet throated the ground as soon as sacked. During the last 15 years he has Susceptible to irrigation under U. S. Geological survey of Silvies Valley birds make melody, the subscrib reservoir east of Silvies River north of Malheur Lake............................ 281,600 Mandamus proceedings are talk devoted his time exclusively to Amount susceptible to irrigation west of Silvies River, estimated ......... 100,000 ers to that paper while it was pub ed of to compel the permanent re fruit growing, and is regarded as an Susceptible to irrigation under U. S. Geological survey of Silver Creek reservoir.................................................................................................. 336,000 lished, drive out into the country moval of the datn and allow a authority on horticulture through Carey selections, approved ................................................................................. 9,000 a short way and gaze meditative salt deposit to be made by the out the couutry. Road Companies Land................................................................................. 44,000 Officers of the Portland Commer Appropriated............................................................................................................ 95.000 ly upon a piece of tanned skin floods each year. Settlers at the Susceptible to irrigation......................................................................................... 876,000 CORNED-BEEF, foot of the lake also claim the dam cial club, which originated the De Tillable bench land above irrigation line, over ............................................. 150,000 hanging on a barbed wire fence. now covered by Malheur Lake which would be drained and re BOLOGNA SAUSAGE. It is all that remains of the once over flows their land during the velopment league movement, are Amount claim by holding up water of Silvies River in reservoir........................ 35,000 Spring and in a very wet season well pleased with the results of the Water Facilities — Silvies River, Silver creek, McCoy creek, Blitzen River, and manly form of the editor who told Home Sigur-Cured injures their hay crop. The peo convention and the prospects for ten smaller streams. the truth for one week. Altitude—1,100 feet—same as Salt Lake Valley. ple who maintain the dam attempt good work. Tom Richardson, Mean Temperature—42. Annual precipitation—12 inches. ed in February last to swamp a lot speaking of the methods to be pur Minerals—2,200 pounds of borax mined and hauled by team from Denio, Ore T. C. Taylor last spring dis of land claimed by settlers, though sued, said : gon, to Winnemucca, Nevada, daily, being all that is developed to apeak of. Crops—Wheat, oats, rye, barley, alfalfa, sugar beets, hops, potatoes and all Home Made Lard posed of about 1800 pounds of people who know the locality say “The scope and purposes of the kinds of hardy fruits and vegetables. dry land alfalfa seed, all of which the only way to reclaim it would be league are wide and varied, but its and Bacon. was bought with the intention of to break the dam and let the lake methods are simple and practical Beef sold by the quarter and fully demonstrating its peculiar recede to its natural level, and that First every community in the state cut up to suit the customer. 8 merits or otherwise, on upland then it would not produce a crop of must form its individual Commer cial club, and become a member of and semi-arid soils. It was sold hav in a dry season. Warner Lake is 12 miles long by the Oregon Development league out in lots of five, io and 20 three miles in width, and is raised This costs only $5. and besides, S' pounds; in fact, all the way from by these dams to about three feet each club gets something at once i i 5 to 150 pounds was sold in a lot. Order your Building Material from over its natural level. The State for its money, in the shape of 1,000 Buy a This seed was sown all the way Land Board refused to receive letter heads printed in Bueh a man- ! I from Heppner to Walla Walla. swamp applications for this laud, ner that they represent both state ■ No particular returns have been but passed it up to the Government and local leagues. These are to be made, but generally it is known to determine its character. used in all the correspondence of to have done well in almost every the state and local bodies, and instance, and a portion of it made State Apportionment to Public Schools. this is the key to the whole system. They are Right and so is the Price The most effective work can be such a vigorous and close growth The largest school fund appor- done with them and with the local V£ that it has been cut once this, its All kinds of dry Lumber—Rough and Surfaced-alwa« V' tionnient in the history of the first season. hand. Rustic,‘Flooring, Moulding, Stair Railing, W in ! Mr. Taylor is frank about ex state was made Monday when Stool, etc. Also first class Saw d Shingles. pressing the opinion that “dry State Treasurer Moore distributed 000(1 Road- A K. RICHARDSON. FEMALE land alfalfa" is not peculiar in any among the several counties nearly ♦ 240, (MM). This is an increase of sense except that it is the product WEAKNESS Harney, Ortf nearly ♦10,000 over last year, when of seed from alfalfa which has M, 1-8 I'onffTMs St. the total apportionment was ♦230,- P obtlarp , kji.i, Ort. IT. 1*02. I eonaidcr Wine of Cardui superior been raised for a succession of to any doctor’s medicine I ever used 011 20 The apportionment is and I know whereof I speak I suf- years on lands which were semi- made upon a total school popula ferad for nine months with snpprced menstruation whioh completely pros arid, an as a result it has become tio of 148,720 The school popula- trated me. Paine wonl.l shoot throuirh my back and sides an.l I would have “acclimated" to hazardous and un [lion last year was 148,720 The blinding hexlnehen Mv limbs would •well up and I would feel so weak I favorable conditions of soil and school population last year was 143, oould not stand up. I naturally felt dlecoungeil for 1 seemed to be beyond moisture, and for that reason is 757, or .*>00 less than this year. the help of physicians, but Wine of Cardui came as a Ood-send to me I felt a change for the better within a pet haps mote hardy and will The apportionment this year is ♦! • week. After nineteen days treatment I menstruated without suffering the withstand diouth belter than the Gl per capita, or 1 per cent more All the latest styles and improved photography In agonies I usually did anil soon became regular and without pain Wine of than last year product of seed grown where Cardui is simply wonderful and I wish use to be had. Profile Panek, Artist’s Proof and that all suffering women knew of Its The money apportioned is die in there is an abundance of moisture. food qualities I oacelain process. Photos finished in up-to-date terest upon the irreducible common —E. O. EXTRAS ALWAYS ON HAN d T | >s\ aur- style upon application. All sizes from the smallest school fund, and is distributed Treeeurer. (Portland B-ronomic League locket picture up to an 8 x to finished in Aristo among the counties according to the I.inn County is considering the number of persons of school age in Platino or on any of the American papers. Periodical headache* tell of ft For a Big Machine and little Mney, see nialn \\ in»* of Cardui prop“-it ion of building a wagon I each county. Ten years ago the (AaMsrjr opp»(|le;Flrst Natloral Ba k. I urns. Orep* cum permanently nunn out of road through the mountains to I school population of the state was every twenty ca^-g of irrvtfu'.t in Burns. mensem, bearing down |»ains Ventral (begun. Officials of the I 128,780. ami al that time there was any female weaJtn»*!«« If you nr di9Courft|nsi and dor' re bax Corvallis & Eastern road, assisted available for distribution 4107,993 - failed. that is the • by John Minto, have discovered a 181, or 87 cents per capita. In the the world you thou! I tr Cardui now Hr ten pears the population has in short cut through the mountains headache« V”T'. 1 .me creased 25.CMM) or al>out 20 per cent Setavt a 11 <X> bottle which w ill enable mail to be hand-1 Carduitoday. but the amount disbursed has in led to and from Central Oregon creased over ♦132.000, or auout 123 points tn much less time than by per cent the present routes- In the opin JOHN F. STRATTON'S ion of a great many people, the Our stock of iron beds is now rittsj Bud iisjiiant} natural route from Portland and complete and at very reaonable 1 > ’’■W“’ DF ¿FIFES other Willamette Valley points to j prices. Call and see our folding Central Oregon is by way of the I beds, steel couches, etc—Burns Piccolosand Bane Supplies AT YOU EAT JOHN r. STRATTON. Corvallis & Eastern Railroad, j Furniture Co . an.sii rt uu ,wu a . Infant’s underwear and dresses. Children’s underwear and dress« Ladies’ underwear and dresses. Ladies’ underskirts and oversk in great variety. Ladies’, children’s and infant’ssh Men’s and boys’ clothing, bootssj shoes, hats and underwear. Â Full line of Staple and Fancy Grocti day r A 1 N. H ing c shall of a h quite broke rapid line and Geer Burns, Oregon CITY MEAT MARKET! Fresh and Salt Meat Aways HAMS yes acc TOSÂÏEsr II McCORMICK MOWER and The Harney Saw M R.AK.E- and Shingle Mill JOHN MeTULLEN THE UP-TO-DATE PHÖTOfiRAPHEB. FOLEY, THE TIMES-HERALD Gives all the local news. WINE^ GA RDI) I Job Printing AClffit I -• trill — O OWIV AT TH. which i IAHO«ATO«T O> , c. o# watt & company , chica G ä ®* rig