aUt f Slic (Srcnt Unnicjj attitirn Cowrn an nrcn of 0,428,800 urn ol land, 4,0.11,1)51 ncrcs yet vacant. inllii-cl to entry under tlio public land laws ol tho United Ptnlca. Tho Ofllctal TAper of IUrnoy County Iim the Urgoit clrcuUtlon and It ono ot ho belt aJvcrtlilng modicum In Kailern Orctton. VOL. XXIV BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, APRIL 15, 1911 NO 22. imtfrtti OGRESSIVEOLD TIMER eplies to Former Communication Regarding Local Conditions lRNEY COUNTY NEEDS ROADS an.la Thn (lnd Hnnri in tlin Pvrwill Whn.TTftVC Come If to Help Develop Great Resources Welcomes The If r"l,niicrnr1 f!nnfHfinrm That Railroads will Bnntr. would Hko to say n few words eply to tho "Old Timer" who le his nnnearancc in me ies-Herald two or three weeks le said something to thp effect ;if the "Old Timers would 'advertising Harney Valley 'belly-aching about wanting iilroad they would be better fell, that knocked tho socks f me because I am an 'old 6r;" have been hero for over lty years and I want n rail- but I never had a genuine Mly ache" until this spring. file suffering with la griggo I dose of medicine in the and got into the wrong bot- don't see how he ever found it, but I'll swear to the fact I took less interest in rail- matters during that next lty-four hours than I had iously done in four years. admit we have prospered and in a way, but oft times its a darned poor way. I never hungry unless my horse ied me too far from head rters between meals I say Iquarters because I have er had a home in Harney Val- ?nnd but few of us have. We of this valley have built ib for our wives and babies, ided them with the nccessa- ! life and visited with them lever we couia leave me the ranches, the sheep or ffreight teams. it children seem more civi- than we; they clamor for an ition and we send them to study; I hope the time soon come when our children .have all educational advan- j3 at home. iey do not seem as enthusias- sver the life on the plains as have been; they turn their flea loose and go off to some (cultural college leaving us rheumatic sports to look after cattle and write out checks lich are never cashed in Har- Valley. ) Well, I'm glad they there's lots of booze around round-ups, and our boys 't the constitution required ght" the stuff that we had. ly menu tninKs that we uo need many new peoplo in icy Valley." This idea of t situation reminds me of two i girls who were riding the horse when one said fret- "I think that if one of us get off I could ride much er." Uf course, I admit that of us would get out and rest of us stay out I could cattle much easier; but if I 't run cattle in Harney Valley ic else can, and if any ono make a living without so can I. am glad of the change which ey is making and I ex- tho "glad hand" to those have recently come in to us develop tho resources of country and share with us ire or success. I read of a itist who devoted his time to liscovery of a drug which injected in the blood would itcract disease and old age; Btwhcn he was certain of ess ho brought home a vial of -saving fluid and said to irife, "let us vaccinate our- now that wo may live nl " "What!" his wife ex- led, "do you think I want fo always and always live you?" Not many of us I want to live always if we that we would always have vo in Harney Valley just as it . Twenty years is certain- ig enough for a man to stay in addle; 1 noticed tho last time lorse threw mo that I didn't ip as quickly as I use to, A i of tho boys wero there and began to laugh as soon as they saw that I was still breath ing thoy said I wont off so com ical. I felt too bad to laugh, was ashmed to cry and didn't have breath enough to fight Ono of tho fellows brought mo a hat full of muddy water and I washed the blood from my face and went on. Allow mo to quote in a con densed form a few words from tho U. S. Geological Survey: "On account of its great areas of plateau it may be that as has been found true in tho Middle West when the limited areas of arablo land havo been brought under cultivation and are pro ducing crops of alfalfa, grain and other feed; many more head of stock will bo marketed than when tho entire region was un restricted range; the rapid influx of settlers promises to make farming much more important than it is at present "While the remoteness of tho region from railroads limits tho market for farm produce to the amount required for local con sumption, and until a ready out lot to wider markets is obtained tho development of tho country can not bo expected to proceed very rapidly." I was proud of our county court when thoy took a step to wards the establishment of an experiment station hero and I will do what I can in my own little way to help develop this valley and convert its wild plains into homes and homes thoy will 'be when we irrigate this parch ing waste with tho bountiful waters of the Silvies river and Malheur Lake. A Progressive Old Timer. TO PREVENT FOREST FIRES. Forest fires, one of the great est sources of destruction to tho most valuable resources of tho state, will soon be restricted and their terrors largely reduced if the peoplo will co-operate with the State Forester in tho admin istration of the now forestry law enacted by tho last legislature, which will bo ready for distribu tion in pamphlet form in the near future. One of the most important pro visions of the law is that making a closed season for burning from Juno 1 to October 1, during which period outdoor fires of all kinds are prohibited except under most stringent regulations and the probability of heavy penalties. In this connection the State Forester urges upon every one tho necessity of doing all possible burning before the closed season begins and thus savo tho troublo and risk of doing it by permis sion during that season of great est danger when fire spreads so easily and rapidly. The State Forester desires tho assistance and co-operation of every ono in tho protection of property from forest, grass or brush fires, and to this end in vites suggestions and informa tion calculated to assist in any manner in tho performance of his most important duties. Copies of tho law will bo promptly fur nished to all who desiro them. Requests and communications addressed to F. A. Elliott, State Forester, Capitol Building.Salein, will receivo prompt and appre ciative attention. "Our baby cries for Chamber lain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs. T. B. Kcndrick, Rasaca, Ga. "It is tho best cough remedy on tho market for coughs, colds and croup," For sale by all good dealers, Call at Schenk Bros, and ceo tho now Panama hats, LOCAL ODD FELLOWS TO CELEBRATE Subordinate Lodge, Rcbekahs nnd En campment Join In Dig Time. Invitations nro out for a big colobration on April 2C, that bo ing tho ninoty-second anniver sary of tho founding of Odd fellowship in tho United States. Harney Lodgo, No 77, Sylvia Rebokah Lodgo, No. 43 and Piuto Encampment No. 38 hnvo all joined in tho invitation to Odd Follows and their families to meet in tho Odd Follow build ing on that dato for n reunion nnd celebration of tho founding of the order. Tho local lodges havo deter mined upon this celebration be ing an annual affair and that the initial celebration bo ono that will bring tho members of the order closer togothqr in a frater nal way and will give added in terest to tho organizations and make them want to como again. Tho general committeo of ar rangements consists of Archie McGowan, Byron Terrill nnd Arthur Horton. This committeo is arranging an excellent program for the entertainment and in struction for thoso who attend. It will be of a nature that each guest will feel repaid for atten dance. Among tho features will bo a street parade headed by the band between 3 and 4'o'clock in the afternoon if tho weather is good. Tho literary nnd musical program in tho lodgo room in tho evening will bo followed by a dancing party and banquet The largo lodge room has been pro vided with a canvass covering for tho carpet on which those who desire may dance. Tho banquet will bo served in the spacious dining room across tho hall from tho lodgo room. Tho threo organizations having the affair in chnrgo havo n largo membership, and besides nil thoss in good Btanding in the order not affiliating with tho local lodges aro invited which means nn ad ditional attendance of n large number of now people who have recently arrived in this section. Tho eclcbrntion and entertain ment is restricted to only mem bers of tho organizations and their families and promises to bo a most enjoyable affair. NEVADA FIRM WINS. Tho following dispatch from San Francisco appeared in tho Sunday Oregenian: Property rights of over $25,000,000 which have involved Henry Miller, multi-millionaire land owner nnd stockman of tho wealthy firm of Miller & Lux, and the 121 heirs of tho late Charles Lux in litiga tion for several years, wore set tled in a judgment handed down in tho Superior Court today by Judgo Scawell. By tho decree Miller & Lux, incorporated under tho laws of Nevada and succcesors to Miller & Lux, a California corporation, is declared to be the owner of all of tho property of tho latter in California and Nevnda and en titled to tho possession, subject only to tho terms of a deed of trust to tho Mercantile Trust Company of San Francisco, mado by tho California corporation July 1, 1910, to sccuro tho pay ment of a certain bond issue. It Is further declared that nono of tho heirs of tho late Charles Lux or any other porson or per sons, except under tho trust deed, other than tho stockholders in tho Miller & Lux Novada corpor ation, has any right titlo or in terest in tho property now de creed to bo owned by tho Novada corporation. For moro than four years there has been a fight in tho courts to provent a transfer of tho Cali fornia interests of tho multi millionaire corporation of Miller & Lux to tho Nevada corporation. Whon n medicino must bo given to young children it Bhould bo pleasant to tako. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is mado from loaf sugar, and tho roots used in its preparation givo it a flavor sim ilar to maplo syrup, making it pleasant to tako. It has no supe rior for colds, croup and whoop ing cough. For salo by nil good dearlers. START RAILROAD JULY1 Chief Engineer Stradley of Harriman System Quoted as Authority CONSTRUCTION BEGINS AT VALE Work Expected From West as Soon ns Road Reaches Prineville and Road to Reach Burns Finally To Extend Into Valley FromEast without Cessation. 4- Pacific Stock and Poultry food at tho Lunnburg, Dal ton & Co. Department Store. "Wo'ro going ahead with rail road construction f rom Vale some timo before or on July 1st wheth er tho Oregon Western Coloniza tion Co. givos us a right-of-way or not" said Right-of-way Agent Carl Stradloy to a representative of- tho Enterprise, whilo in tho city lust Wednesday. With Mr. Stradloy was Attorney II. W. Strong of tho ofllco of Judgo Cotton, couubcI for tho Oregon Washington Rnilrond & Naviga tion Co., who was hero to start condemnation proceedings. After tho suit was filed in tho circuit court President W. P. Davidson met the railroad men in this city on WcdncBdny and after a long consultation no agreement over right-of-way was made. The statement of Stradley was made at tho station before leaving for Ontario where ho was to have a final mooting with Mr. Davidson. As tho result tho condemnation proceedings will bo rushed through this torm of circuit court which convenes this month. Tho above paragraph was clipped from tho Inst Issue of the Vale Enterprise nnd has tho stamp of boing straight goals. Later tho Ontario Argus says President Davidson of tho Ore gon & Westorn Colonization Co. granted tho railroad peoplo per mission to cross tho company lands west of Vale. Indications have been favora ble to tho extension for sometime nnd it is not a surpriso to thoso who have been watching tho preparations. It means a road nearer tho Harney country nnd possibly into tho vnlloy without stopping. By beginning July 1 it will bo almost impossible to reach this valley this year but it will put tho lino so near that next season it will reach us earlyand wo pre dict that active work from tho west on a line to meet tho con struction gang from tho cast will begin cither from Bend or n con tinuation of the proposed line to Prineville. If tho Inttcr it will bo a Hill road that will follow up the timber lino to a certain ex tent near the Road Grant lands nnd will como over tho divide in tho Emigrant creek country down Silvies River. Wo also predict that tho Great Northern will run regular trains over tho lino cast through Mal heur canyon. SOME DRY FARMINQ EXPERIENCE, Wo print below tho experience of Willinm Martens, a German former, of near Chadron, Ne braska, as related by himself in tho March number of Campbell's Sciohtific Farmer. Mr. Martens has for soven years "dry farmed" successfully, and last year tho most discouraging and unfavor able ono of them all made tho largest returns. If this is possi ble where tho climatic conditions nro moro unfavorable than any thing wo know about it Buroly will bo worth tho effort in re turns for moro of our farmers and homesteaders to practice the "drv farm system." Tho rain fall avorago at Chadron is fiftcon inches. Read what Mr. Martens Bays: You will liko' to know about tho local weather conditions. It was the worst dry and blowing sea son tho old Bottler can remem ber in twenty-five years, and everybody wishes it nover "will como back again. Now, to tho question of ..culti vation undor careless farming. The average farm in this vicinity is covered with Russian thistles. On account of its long root sys tem tho thistles draws lots, of moisturo and plant food, and the crops Buffer when thoy are ripe and tho wind starts to roll them I get my share of seed, even when I spend lots of money and timo to keep them out If it was not for this evil I would bo able to show n greater success the last Bovcn years. After I cut my grain the thistles get moro sun light nnd in four weeks I am un able to plow them under. On the surrounding fields they stop grow ing for the moisture is exhausted. I visited one of my neighbors in early part of last April. I took the spado and dug down about four rods from tho road in tho stubble field nnd to my surprise I only found fifteen inches of moisture. The next day I dug on a piece of fall plowing, on which I had raised Bixty bushels of seed oats, when the surround ing fields only yielded fifteen to twenty-eight bushels. On this field I found thirty inches of moisturo with moro present at the samo depth than I found in the stubblo ground. On account of so mnny bright windy days in February and March I expected a dry summer, and so I was aw ful careful With tho stubble ground, which I intended to plant to corn nnd so I employed a new method as soon ns the wind went down. I raked nnd burned the Russian thistles, nnd gave tho ground a single disking and or dered a boy to harrow it with a spike tooth, light harrow, mndo out of rake teeth, which run ono and one-half inches apart, to make a tight mulch to conscrvo tho moisture nnd mnko the thistle seed sprout About tho middle of May I disked it back again, tho thistles cumo nearly as thick as bluo grass, and then I followed it again with a harrow to make a tight mulch. I loft a rod on the south sido nnd when I used tho lister plow on the 28th of May in this strip. It was to hard and dry to got the lister plow in tho ground, and it was hard to keep tho thistles down all summer. About a rod and a half along the fenco where cattloand horses run up and down in tho winter time it was harder to work right in tho start nnd somowhnt drier, but tho wecdor followed tho plow to mnko ridges fino nnd tho slices fell down in tho furrow. My old Koystono corn planter which I cut narrow together to threo feet and threo inches followed tho weeder and tho weeder broke up thoso clods before thoy got hard and in fivo or six days tho corn started to show; after that I used tho harrow and cultivator so mucn as possible until tho cars started to form. It kept a dark green color from tho start to tho first of Soptembor, whon all tho mois turo was out When tho oil is out of tho lamp wick tho light will stop. When it started to dry upon tho south sido on a slope I cut it down to Have the vnluablo grcon freed and thrashed it with a machine. I was well paid for my labor. If I had been nblo to plant it two weeks earlier my re turn would havo been better. This field wns thirteen acres and seventeen bushels to the acre besides I had cut a good deal for feed. This field was kept free from weeds and is easy to put in small grain and my pay day will como ngain. Tho extra labor I figured at about $1.50 an acre. You can easily bco what my neighbors will raise with fifteen inches of moisturo under tho old method with tho Bamo compari son with other crops. Ono of my neighbors raised sixteen bushels of oats on fifteen acres. Another couldn't cut his oats at all. It was only six inches high. On this high table land ubout twenty-five miles south of mo they got ono and one-half foot of snow in April and wo had just a sprinkling of nun. I am told that not many fields were not worth cutting. From the above you will see the value of scientific soil culture when we do the right work at the right time. Now I turn to my fivo acres of corn Innd prepared for tho con test I gave this tho same treat ment ns I did the thirteen acres above mentioned, except I have kopt ten feet of moisture instead of thirty inches on tho other field. It was planted two days earlier. People in tho city and tho farmers asked mo when 1 was in tho city, saying, my neighbors were all alarmed be cause I have the best corn this year. Our town man George Huff who made several visits to the country every summer says my corn is tho best he has ever Been since ho left New York state twenty-two years ago. It was tho little white dent corn. Usually the stalks grew about six feet tall, but this very dry year they grew over eight feet when many furmers complained in tho middle of August that tho corn was dried up. I have prac ticed scientific toil tillage for Boven years with heart and soul, but I must say I learned much more Inst year than I over knew before. W00LA1ENS WAREHOUSE. M. B. Gwinn returned a few days ago from tho annual meet ing of tho Woolgrowcrs Ware house Association held in Chica go. Mr. Gwinn was elected a mem ber of tho board of directors, and stntcd that the reports of the busincs transacted tho past year showed that tho warehouse has been a great success. The stock holders were voted a substantial dividend nnd the men who con sign to tho wnrehouso received moro for their wool than they would otherwise, thus proving a great advantage to tho stock holders. Mr. Gwinn states that he be lieves every man raising wool should belong to the warehouse company, so that the total pro duction of wool can be handled from ono center and a better prico is suro to follow. Tho buyers of wool can go to tho warehouse and get the exact grade of wool thoy desire and their expenses nro thus saved and this can be placed in tho pockets of tho wool men On tario Argus, Constipation brings many nil monts in its train nnd is tho pri mary cause of much sickness. 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