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1EV RECLAIM NO. 39. BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY,OREGON, Al GUST 20, 1904. OL. XVII. I LAND it considers deserving. If the Har CHEAP WATER IEY VALLEY IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. tai Should be Encouraged lag Harney County II The la aterpriie is Deserving. ney Valley Improvement Company can accomplish what it anticipates it should receive the support of the people who are interested in advanc ing this section. Narrows Notes. The ball given at this place on the 13tb innt, was a grand suc cess and well attended by people from various parts of the valley. The lerge crowd was orderly and all report a good time, Among those attending from Harney were Roy Bunyard and wife, James Bun yard and wife, Cortis Elliott, Miss Ethel Goodlow and Miss Effie Hill. PROJECT ENTAILS the Harney Valley Improvement CAPITAL Company and the present riparian owners in Harney Valley. FOR COST OF Pacific Live Stock Company Protean Ajaloet Taking Water From Foley Slou{h •-Maintenance 50 Cents. THE STATE FAIR. The Times-Herald acknowledges receipt of a complimentary season ticket to the state fair which will be held in Salem September 12 to 17. This year is going to be a record breaker, in more ways than or.e. The Races are going to be very rap id for there are in training now more horses than have ever been on the fack at this time of the year and in the Greater Salem Stake for 2:15 pacers $2000 purse. There are 31 entries in the $2000 2:17 trot. The Lewis & Clark Stake there are 17 entries. In the Rural Spirit Stake 2:11 pace for $1000 there are 18 entries. In the Inland Empire Stake for 3 year ol<l pacers for $500 there are 11 entries and there are besides 11 other pacing and trot ting races to eay nothing of the run ning races of which there will be at least two each day. The Camping Ground has been fixed up and streets laid out and named, camps numbered and in charge of a Camp Grand Marshall, who will look after the matters there day and night. Water has been piped into the grounds and oiher improvements made making it one of the best camping grounds in the state. Take your family and a tent and enjoy a week of sol id comfort to say nothing of the educational advantages that you and the children will get at the Fair that they never could get any place else in the same time. All trains of the S. I*. R. R Co. stop at the grounds during the week. The street railway system into Salem, lias been thoroughly oyer hauled, new cars purchased, the track widened to standard guage, and the roadbed improved allowing the company to make a 6 minute service and possibly shorter. The pavillion and grounds will be light ed by Incandescent Electric lights thus giving a much improved light service. N. U. CARPENTER, < asume , A. (’. WELCOME, A sst . C ashikr . First National Bank SITUATION HERE. OF BURNS, OREGON. Accounts of Corporations, Firms and Individuals Solicited Irrijetioo In Harney Valley Awaiting Capital --Railroad« Awaiting Produce-Let The People know. Editor The Times-Herald: 1 The following special from Salem want to congratulate you upon the appeared in a recent issue of the enterprise you manifest in encour Oregonian: aging and lauding the agricultural The Harney Valley irrigation pro development of your valley. Your ject, which has been approved by columns seem to be alive with it. the Department of the Interior, is and you are going to help Harney the cheapest of those that have been valley to higher development and undertaken in this state by private finally to the open door of trade There were five horses entered in corporations under the Carey act. which only a first-class railway the Baddie horse race on Sunday In the contract entered into with the market affords. The object in view afternoon: Monday, by Babe state, the Harney Valley Improve is immensely important, hence the MillerjLittleTom, by Ed Anderson; ment Company proposes to irrigate movement is necessarily compre Joe Fox, by Walter Anderson; Sni the 58,344 acres, at a total cost of hensive, and will require time der. by Ira Mahon. Little Tom $441,S24, or about $7.50 per acre. But you will ultimately win, for first, Snider second. Purse $30 to This is the amount of the lien the you are commencing right. You irrigation company will hold and first horse, $10 to second. are commencing at the beginning. Your great valley is an open book A match race was run by Mon which the settler must pay in order awaiting to be carefully read. And day and Snider later. Buster Caw to secure the land. Tho annual maintenance charge is 50 cents per you are leading the people to study field showed he was a true sport by acre. In most of the irrigation your wonderful resources as they placing all his money on Monday projects under the Carey act the would study the gospel of modern and finally put up his coat and cost of construction is placed at $10 development; for yours is the re failed to ride fast enough to win. per acre, while the annual rnainte gion of magnificent distances re When last seen Buster was on his plete with extraordinary possibili way home wiih nothing left bul nance charge is $1 per acre. The question of water supply, ties. And the magnitude of these his best girl.—(No doubt he lost which was the reason for the Gov possibilities cannot be computed in his heart before arriving at his des ernment abandoning the project, their fulness; for as yet they arc tination—Ed.) was also before the State Land largely unexplored, consequently The accident which occured at Board, and the Pacific Livestock unknown. However it is known the Dunn ranch on th? 14th in urged its claims here, as it did at that any man under fifty years of which Elmer, the youngest son of Washington. The State Land age who has seen your valley can Mr. and Mrs. Dunn, lost his life by Board took the same view as the truthfully pronounce Harney the drowning, is sadly deplored by the Department of the Interior—that largest unimproved fertile valley ja. he has ever beheld. proposed reclamation under people of this vicinity where the the rights of the two companies Your present situation might be rey law has ne t met with ap- aged parents are respected by all. should be settled by the courts, summarized thus: up to this time, the principle The young man was bathing in the and that if the company undertak Railroads ar. awaiting produce. being that the people pre- Blitr.en river with his brother Wil ing the work felt satisfied with the liam and attempted to swim across quantity of water, the Beard would Produce is awatiiigjrrigation. Ir the Government taking up rigation is awaiting capital, Cap the stream, but when about half permit them to go ahead with the Iter, The latter project was ital is awaiting paying investment. way across was seized with cramps work. »red beet on account of its Harney Valley offers a paying in The surveys for this enterprise vestment. Harney Valley, how ,ude, , the unlimited capital and sank. William did all in hie power to assist his brother, but were made by J. W. Convert and ever, is somewhat remote. lienee 4t, 1 and a feeling that the capital is listening fora louder call iment was able to reclaim without avail. He was lost before W. P. Edwards, and according to from the people. Therefore, let the application on file here, it is ally every acre of arid land help could reach him. the people speak with one voice. R ubber N eck the plan of the company to get itu ney Valley by storing the Let them be heard. water supply from Silvies River floods in the Silvies Valley So if the people meet en masse OREGON LANDS RESTORED. and Foley Slough, which drain an tir. Another reason: many as you suggest, and organize a coun area of 1500 square miles. The ,t have confidence in the abil- tv board of trade made up of active The interior department has sud land applied for is to be irrigated the Harney Valley Improve- influential citizens who will collect denly decided to restore to entry Wool men who often complain data from local farmers, from stock- Company to accomplish its about 345,000 acres of land in East by meanB of two main canals. On le. This lack of confidence ern Oregon, now included within April 1, 1901, the flow of water in about the low price of Oregon wool, men and business men, from the ion due to a great extent to forest reserve withdrawals. About the Silvies River proper, that is, might be interested in knowing Oregon Experiment Station, from imoterS themselves, who have 325,000 acres lie around the exteri the river above Foley Slough, was that about 30 tons of sand washed railway agricultural experts, and »n the people their confidence or boundaries of the Blue mountain 5000 oubic feet per second. On out of wool used by the Pendleton from other reliable sources, they I to inspire such by their per- withdrawal; the remaining 20,000 the same date the flow of water in Wool Mills is now being dumped will obtain a favorable bearing ction8. While this has been along the borders of the Wallowa Foley Slough was 2600 cubic feet into the river bed at the Lee street from capital. Capital will then per second. The two canals will bridge, says the East Oregonian. bring irrigation. And when the r to the detriment of the pro- withdrawal. have a capacity of 1119 cubic feet This sand was paid for at regular waters pour out upon the dry land, iblicity might have seriously This decided change in the policy •ed had their plans been gen- of the department is largely ascrib per second. This would be one wool prices, and is washed out of and two million acres begin to cubic foot per secund for each 52 the wool in the scouring process, bloom as a garden, and thousands known. ed to a very pointed letter from Times-Herald is not per Governor Chamberlain. In this acres, on April 1. Regarding the and as the vats are now being of settlers flock thither, and visions at this time to give informa- letter Oregon’s executive takes issue flow of water later in the season, cleaned up, this high-priced sand of factories appear, you will witness is dumped into the river, the wool a three cornered railroad race for at would possibly enlighten with the department for its indecis the application says: Upon the ultimate benefits of ion, or its aversion to act on forest “There is at least a quantity of en mills having no use for it. The Harney vallev that will seem like eject, but the writer has re- ry matters, and insists that one or water in excess of 100,000 inches proportion of dirt in the unwashed a race of the planets; and railway infoimation confidentially two things tie done, either that under a six-inch pressure available wool may be judged from the dif companies then shut out of the con . least a part of the capital forest reserves be immediately for the irrigation of this land during ference in price of washed and un test will wonder why your good fthe Harney Valley Improve- created, and the surplus lands res the months of March and April, washed wool. The unwashed arti people did not come with louder lompany comes from such a tored to entry, or that the lands so and after which time there is not cle sells for about 15 cents, while trumpets and thunder it into their that it can mean nothing far found unfit for forestry purpos quite so much, but in ordinary the washed wool is worth from 55 ears with greater power But while t the rapid development of es be thrown open to entry, leaving years there is from 60,000 to 70,000 to 65 cents. The weight is reduced the call may be loud, it must be jtion and its settlement at as the actual creation of reserves to a inches in the middle of May, from about 65 to 70 per cent in the wash intelligent: and it should come from which lime there is a gradual de ing. the people. Then it ought to be Jate as possible. later day. His protest made it crease until June, and in ordinary heard; and it will be heard Se ate capital can accomplish1 plain that, in his opinion, the de A Perfect Painless Fill lect your strongest men, and let the in the way of developing this partment’s policy of delay is injur years after the middle of June there gNWt Inland Empire and bringing ing the state, interfering with set is no water available for this irriga is the one that will cleanse the movement be wide extended. Let its BMny resources to the attention tlement, and is, all in all, indefen tion. By water available for irri system, set the liver to action, re the local press unite with the state [»ective settlers and investors, sible. gation of this land we mean water move the bile, clear t be complexion, press in disseminating accurate ed to do so and given proper It is no exaggeration to say that not needed nor used by others and cure headache and leave a good knowledge of conditions existing: igement. This, too, much Governor Chamberlain’s letter creat to which no one is entitled as taste in the mouth. The famous and your petition will not be in vain. ipidly than the slow process ed more excitement than has been against this company.” little pills for doing such work Very truly, jrnment irrigation, and with witnessed in the department in In its protest, the Pacific Live pleasantly and effectually are De J. B H oh . nek crifice upon the part of those many months, and brought about stock company alleged that tiparian Witt’s Little Early Risers Bob Corvallis, Oregon tcupying lands in thin valley, such activity among clerks as is ¡owners on Silvies River and its Moore, of Lafayette, Ind. says: “All e capital will not ask the peo- without precedent. Since that let branches need all the water flowing other pills I have used gripe and Our stock of iron beds is now 1 take up its fights—further ter was received the department , in that streajn, and are entitled to sicken, while DeWitt’s Little Early complete and at very resonable the moral support any legiti- has been unable to act with enough ! it under the laws of this state; that Risers are simply perfect.” Sold prices. Call and see our folding beds, steel couches, etc.—Burns the flow of water is large only dur- by Burns Drug Stores. project is entitled to—or to expedition. Furniture Co I ing the Spring floods, when the! up what they now possess for enow is melting, after which it re urpose of assisting in the final Dewitt is the Name. cedes rapidly until in July and nation of a larger area, even When you go to buy Witch Hazel August, when the supply is only •st The Finest of All (h the result would be bene- to them when accomplished Salve look for the name DeWitt on sufficient to furnish water for stock. do not come to us with a every box. The pure, unadulter The protest asserts that if the Har il-boy proposition to sacrifice ated Which Hazel Salve is used in ney Valley Improvement Company present rights and buy them making DeWitt’s Witch Hazel should take the quantity of water b They do not expect such Salve, which is the best salve in specified, there would not l>e enough Far Sak Italy at inthrophv. It is a straight up the world for cuts, burns, brusee. to supply the needs of settlers al- ' boils, eczema and piles. The pop ready there, and their lands, now ness proposition. he Times Herald desires the de- ularity of DeWitt's Which Hazel rich and productive, would become pment of Harney county. It is Salve, due to its many cures, baa a desert. It is this question of water supply principle aim of this great re- caused numerous worthless coun ms weekly to accomplish this, terfeits to be placed on the market. which caused the department io Aqents, Burns, Ore. ict, at as rapid rate as possible, The genuine bears the name E. C. give up its consideration of a Gov fill therefore be found support- DeWitt A Co., Chicago Sold by) ernment irrigation system, and which remains to be settled betweeu fVTtotbiild Bros., Distributers, Portland, Oregon any move toward this end that Burns Drug Stores. _____ Mother column will be found UjMMlIine of the plan of th6 Har ney Valley Improvement Company tapfiMaim the big 60,000 acre tract of land under the Carey act. Mr. Hanley and his associates are very conservative and do not propose anything unreasonable. The only question is the sufficient amount of water without conserving it. They eay nothing about storing the water at any point for use later in the sea- ■oo, or for use on the eastern portion of the selection. From the Oregonian article it ap- ggtn there will be objections to the fEarney Valley Improvement Com- Hmy taking water from the Foley OlOQgh, and no doubt many compli- eations will arise, but if Mr. Hanley fe Sincere in his purpose to reclaim and develop the country, •*■•11 show the people he means is, he will find all who desire rancement of this county sup- | him. It is not supposed is company is going to take that rightfully belongs to gnd therefore interfere with ted rights of those who have lonev and years to perfect ¡ation system for their land JOHN D DAI.Y, Pin I BANK It.COFFI N, V ick P eer PROF. HORNER POINTS OUT PRESENT ONLY $7.50 PER ACRE. 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