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
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—
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
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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.
 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
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