1EV RECLAIM
NO. 39.
BURNS. HARNEY COUNTY,OREGON, Al GUST 20, 1904.
OL. XVII.
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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
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