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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1911)
se wt -? 4 1 t r Schenk Brothers Merchant Tailors and Outfitters Burns, Oregon, Odd Follows Bldg. NEW SPRING GOODS Now on Disp! iy, Including Suits, Hats, Shoes, Underwear, Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, Ties Newest Styles in Straw Hats Panamas, Crush Dicers, etc CLEANING AND PRESSINit PRICES ARE RIGHT-TUB PLACE TO BUY We carry the B. V. D. Under wear in Union and Two Piece Suits. IRRIGATION OF IIARNBV BASIN ADJUDICATION OP ALL WATER RIGHTS NECESSARY TO THIS END. fflto imc-Rcfnfd. DATURUAY. AI'llll. ,ll. HtlUSOIUITION KATK8: Una Year Six Montht Three Month! JULIAN 111 HI) ton - V4r The Vale Enterprise ngain made an ass of itself last week by pub lishing a long editorial comment on the proposed Burns-Bend road in which it displayed as much ignorance of the central Oregon country as does the Orcgonian at times. It was foolishness to assert that the proposed road was impassable for freight teams big country where you and your little surronnding territories could bo lost in one great big Valley and never be missed. The building of the Burns-Bend road is a business proposition pure and simple and your editor ial comment merely shows you are not "onto your job" when it comes to knowing anything of the physical or geographical situ ation of the interior. The Times Herald is in hearty accord with the article contribut ed in another column respecting the adjudication of the water rights of Silvies river and would urge the users to get together in some manner for this purposo This is n matter of particular im portance and must be done before with long stretches of sand with the Silvies irrigation project can no water. Does the Enterprise bo brought about, think the people of this territory , would advocate such n road if it were not a feasible route and the most practical, economical and direct way of shipping? The building of the Burns-Bend road is not the work of "land boomer's schemes," but a matter in which level headed business men have gone with the assur ance of securing shipments of goods cheaper and more direct ly from jobbing centers. It is TOOK IICR OWN LiriL A 'phone message from the Mnhon ranch this morning brings the shocking news that Mrs. Don Baker had shot herself through the heart yesterday evening at Wild Horse. She and her hus band had been employed on the P. L. S. Co. ranch there for sev eral years. She had been in ill not done merely because Valci"ca in "wsomu unowiio u no and other Malheur county points doubt th, cauf ,f tho rash ,n5 tfimiiirh whhh tmuiMtiva not. Mr Baker left tho supper table tiers have to pass are "knocking", I last evening and entered an ad fortms is done at every point1 J0'"1"? bedroom, immediately leave the railroad snowing came tll rePrt ol a lire arm and those in tho dining where people to come into the great Harney country. It is so of Baker, Prairie City and only last week a well known business man of this place came in from the west and stated that Madras had its "hammer out" for us and the knockers of that town discour aged every one who let it be known they are enroute to Har ney county. No Bro. Enterprise you're all room rushed in and found her. Deceased was a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Riggs of this city and leaves .brothers and sisters here. We have no 'definfnc in formation as to funeral arrangements. WARRANT CALL. Notice is hereby given that there are sufficient funds in the alike m that respect. Wo have-iC0Unty treasury to redeem all n't a square deal at any railroad ' Harney county warrants register point leading into Harney county, I C( pri0r to January 1, 1911. In but we'ro growing some and the Merest ceases on all such warrants little places now knocking will I on this date, soon be put out of business by Simon Lewis, tho railroads passing on into this I Treasurer of Harney Count We Have Opened Offices in the New Masonic Building in Bumx, and are Prepared TA Furnish Accurate, Reliable " and Complete Abstracts of Title to all Lands in Harney Co. OpA Buy and Sell Real Estate in " Large and Small Tracts. Write Fire Insurance in the Strongest Old Line Comp'ies OpA'Loan Money on Improved " Real Estate, and to Execute Conveyances of all kinds. All Business Intrusted To Us Will Receive Prompt and Careful Attention. MOTHERSHEAD & DONEGAN Rooms 4 and 5 Mtwonic Building:. Speedy nnd L'qulMble Mnner ol l)rlntln ThU About Sttiieitcd'-Lel All Inlcrcitcd Co-Opcrle In Tttli Mailer, (Contributed.) Lot us discuss fncK Wo can no longer nfTord to ' guess" and deal in futures. Tho crisis has been reached in tho affnirs of tho HarnoY basin nnd miiBt bo mot. Wo nro no longor a stock country in tho sonso of tho frco and open range. Never in tho uxporionco of tho "Old Timor" has there been a less number of head of stock to turn out than there was this spring. Certainly there nover has been less hay and feed in the country sinco tno om Fronch trapper Antoino Sylvaillo dug up tho Silvies river in 1820. This chango 1ms not boon brought about by tho "Now Co mer." All tho acres this class has fenced nnd cleared would not mnko a difference of ono per cent, in the number of stock which our ranges can accommo date. Exccssivo dry seasons nnd overstocking has depleted tho range. In its natural condition this is not an ideal, safo agricultural country. Wo nro in tho scmi arid section. Our moisturo is precipitated in tho months of November to April, inclusive. There is, therefore, an element of uncertainty to bo met onch season. Wo are all land owners or land holders. Thoso who have taken this land for speculation, natu rally, desiro to secure an advance in value to enable them to sell at a profit Thoso who have se cured the land with the intention of becoming bona fide settlers and farmers must be assured produc tion sufficient to pay a reason able interest on the investment and to remunenUo them for the labor of tilling the soil. f Large yields have been pro duced here during certain sea sons in the past How ami why? In those successful years tho weather conditions hold tho spring waters back later than usual. These sub-irrigated the lands first reached as this Into water entered tho valloy at an opporluno season. Slight rains occurred in May nnd June. Tho result immense crops. What is tho solution of our problem? You have all recog nized and answered this question nnd will readily admit that it is tho development and conserva tion ' of our natural water re sources. Moid back the Hood waters; distribute it four inches in depth over this land in June nnd July and the crop is assured. Prof. Shaw, traveling through this country as a dry farming ex pert naturally studied tho condi tions favoring that method. He saw the possibilities of irrigation also, but placed tho development of the irrigation projocts second ary to that of so called "dry farming. " From a careful study of tho situation, wo believe tho reverse to bo tho true position. Irrigation, properly installed, is tho surest nnd safest method cm ployed to produce crops. Dry farming on the arid lands in this immediate locality is at present an experiment nnd moro or less uncertain. Develop tho water resources and cultivato tho val leys nrst. This will buna up a community of pleasant homes and prosperous farmers, who, in the course of a few years, will bo able to undertake tho cultiva tion of tho higher tablo lands and willing to produce a crop on one half tho tilled land while tho other half is being summer fal lowed to store up and conserve its moisturo for tho succeeding season. Wo arc all, moro or less, fa miliar with tho history of irriga tion in this country. Difficulties have been constantly mot and overcome. Tho cost of wntcnng the land has invnrinbly exceeded tho first eatimato mado. But there nover has been nn irriga tion Bystem, properly installed and operated, where oyery man, woman and child living under tho project hns not been materi ally benefitted. Let us profit by tho experience of other localities nnd cut out nil needless wnsto and useless de lays nnd costs. Tho Silvies pro ject will not stand these. -. This project was investigated nnd partially surveyed out by tho Government Reclamation Servico in 1904. In was not put in under government supervision for vari ous reasons, a few of which havo been mado public. Lack of tranoportation with no immedi ate relief in flight at that date; limited knowledfto of nynilnblo water supply, together with un settled and conflicting wator rights, woro deciding reasons. Ono of tho determining factors given tho writer by ono In au thority in tho Federal Reclama tion Servico at that timo was tho fact of tho largo acrcago under tho project hold by privnto own ership. Tho policy of tho national servico being to reclaim and de velop unappropriated govern ment lands. This featuro of privato ownership is fnvorablo to a privato irrigation corporation ns contracts on fco land appeal to tho eastern investor, Filings wero mado on certain reservoir sites togothor with np plications to store tho flood waters of Silvies River in Mny 1910, nnd nn cntiro year hns been dovolcd to making surveys and estimates nnd collecting tho nec essary data in shaping up tho project to ascertain nnd show just what can bo done liv- water ing Hnrnoy Basin land. Certain favorable features havo been found nnd thoso will bo taken advantage of to tho fullest cxtont in securing tho capital to put in the system. Theso will lend to overcomo our natural handicaps. Tho transportation question is still an argument ngaiiiBt us. Wo bclicvo that a railroad or roads will Boon build through tho Har noy Basin. Tho development of tho country would certainly in suro their bpcedy construction. Railroads without development would fall fnr short of making this country. Thoy would, tem porarily, put a fictitious prjco on land held for speculation; thoy would bring a class of small mer chants, professional men, specu lators nnd non-producers who would settle in small towns along tho lines and who would necess arily havo to live on tho country. Thoy would not ndd ono single factor to tho insurnnco of profi table production from our land, which is nlready too high priced to mnko n profitable return in producing light croia of wild or ryo hay. Don't bo afraid of overproduC' lion. Irrigate and develop just twenty thousand acres of Harney land. Let the word go down to Judgo Lovctt nnd Jas. J. Hill that you have forty thousand tons of nlfnlfa hay nnd six hun dred thousand bushels of grain, with stock sufficient to feed this product to, and they will get in each others way in their endeavor to get their freight trains to your sidings. If wo nro right in our firm be lief that the irrigation of the Hnrnoy Basin is practical nnd that with its installation this will bo ono of the best and most pro ductive diversilled farming sec tions in the Northwest, tilts de velopment will and can bo ac complished. Tho next step in its realization is tho settlement and adjustment or existing water rights. Kipar- ian owners who havo diverted and put to a bcnflcial uso water lrom tho natural How of Silvies River are entitled to n continua tion of such beneficial use by reason of their prior appropria tion. It matters not to nn irriga tion com mm y who these indivi dual owners nre so long as such rights aro determined, definite nnd capable of mathematical and engineering estimation. These rights woro initiated prior to tho adoption of our Water Code. Therefore tho records aro in definite nnd incomplete. Theso water claimnnts havo had their differences in tho past In theso wo havo takenno part and havo no interest Thoro must bo no differences in the futuro if tho irrigation project is to go in. Litigation or threaten ed litigation over the water rights at this timo would absolutely de- teat irrigation and retard devel opment indefinitely. There aro two methods by which tho existing wator rights can bo adjusted. Ono by each claimant making nn nccentablo individual agreement with tho irrigation company determining his right and in which ho shall therefore bo protected. This method would not bo nffectivo unless contracts can bo secured with each and ovecy claimant Tho other method is by tho complete adjudication of nil ex isting rights on tho strenm by tho State Board of Control under tho rules and. regulations and in tho manner provided by tho Water Code. A number of thoso adjudications throughout tho Stato havo already been made. Thoy havo provon economical and in tho main most satisfactory, and tho decisions rendered by tho board havo been uphold nnd sustained by tho Stato courts in tho comparatively fow cases wherein an nppcnl was taken. Wo havo communicated with tho Stato Engineer to learn whon tho Board of Control would hn ablo to undortako tho adjudica tion of Silvies River in tho ovent tho water users expressed n de siro for that mothou of adjudica tion. IIo nd vises that tho Board had under consideration tho ad judication of this stream during tho presont season and would give it their nttcntion as soon as a representative numbor of claim ante so petitioned nnd to this end tho Stato Engineer sont n blank petition for general circulation nnd signatures. No maforitv or definito numbor of petitioners nro roquired put a lull expression on tho part pf tho water usors would bo moro patisfnetory. It hns been suggested that gonoral publicity bo given this matter nftor which tho potitlon nbovo rofcrrcd to will bo circulated or s n mass mooting of thoso interest ed bo called at which timo the matter could bo discussed nnd tho potitlon signed if that method of adiudcation mot with tho ap proval of tho Wator users. Tho matter Hhould bo taken up and decided not later than Mny 1st in order that tho work may bo done during tho presont season, i Contemplating trio adjudication ' tho Stato Engineer has already sont an engineer to look over tho field nnd roport to his offico tho oxtont nnd conditions of the con templated work. This report will reach the Stato Engineer's offico nbaut May 1st Tho cost of adjudication Is fix ed by tho Water Codo in tho Bchcdulo of fees as follews: Ono dollar for tho purposo of record ing tho water right certificate, when issued, in tho office of tho County Clerk: a fco of 15 cents for each aero of irrigated land up i to nnd including 100 ncrcs, G cents per ucru lur uutu iiciu in uxcuun of 100 ncrcs up to nnd including 1000 acres, and ono cent for each ncro in excess of 1000. T NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. 1HOI.A1KI) TltAC'T l'l III.IC I.ANHHW,! UNITKD HTATK8 r.ANIOKF10l!,l lliirni, orrxiin, JUuli SN, 1911 Kotlca It lirralijr xlrrn tltl, illriu tcl liy Ilia CoramUilun.r ut tln Uourral I Ami Oftlce, under Ilia provlilom nl t tin Ant of Cntiicm n titOTtHt Juno 87, IWI JUI 8tatr,M7J tmmiatit to tha application A Klltalwtli ttliMlctoii. llarrlin n, Oregon, Hotlal Nn, 0IM7, wo will irr at public ial to thelilhi-t UiMor, nt 10 o'rlork.a in ,mitli ath ilajrul Mf 1911 next at thli odlco, the following tract of land W ). K0 T. It H , It, ii V nn.t Ut i, Hcc. i, T. r H., K M 15., W M Any nml all ticraoiia claiming tveraoty tlic alKiva-tlorrltwt lamti aruailvlnixl to fllotlnlr claim or olijoclloiin un nr liaforu the time iIciIk liatcil for (air, Wm I-ik hk. llOKMi'r.-: KnANr lutur, lU'cclvcr. 1'. O. Dillaiii) Kouuerlr A Ml. Kmluccr In U. H, Hvclamatlon Her vlco. A. O. I'auiknkh For mi r r Clilef rii. (Iucr of Holm .1 Witiorn llr Eastern Oregon Engineering Company CIVIL AND- IRRIGATION ENGINIiL'KS Burns, Oregon BEAUTIFUL STYLES OF HAND EMBROIDERED WAISTS LADIES' IMPORTED KID GLOVES KING TAILORED WAISTS New Line ol Spring Collars, New 'Barrettes, Rushings, Combs, Hand Bags. New Designs In Ladies9 Silk Undervests CARRIED ONLY BY QUALITY STORES JaiBHaomiwiBaMOBjjBmWfj ;JVinm Milium 1111 mill viiummaetmmammiBm&Mfaimma0ummeamaaamamaBMaaMmmamMiirt tmKX HARNEY COUNTY RESTAURANT (it-orga Poon, Proprietor. Nun Bcnllmi on nlde Htruol cut of tint Ilnriicy Count v Nntionnl Hank JVIBflliS AT AuU HOURS Bakery in connection A Specially of Short Orders. Tntilt) ftirniHlictl ultli ovorylhlng tho imirket nlTurtls Your patron w;u Kollcited r TWELFTH .NIGHT 41906 Trial Record at Three Years Old 2:12H Sire Of Knight of Strathmore 2:05K L Mark Night 2:I0 U SIRE '-ONWARD 2:0SX i aire Two Hundred Standard Performers Relinquishments Wanted in Townships near MALHEUR LAKE Address: W. C. PARRISH Engineer In Charge the Oregon Hydro Electric Engineering Company BAKER, OREGON -MISS RITA:::.-2:08X Dam of five in the list; she held the world record as a three vear old- KniRlit of Strathmore was tho fastest four year old pacer out in 1910; he also holds the worlds record for a colt of his aj;e over half milo track. Twelfth Niuht is said to bo ly jrood judges the best son or the mighty Onward; ho is a chestnut 15.5 hands high; weight 1200 irauwls. IIo will be m stud at Harriman for tho season of 1911. Terms: $30.00 with return priv ilege if mare proves not in foal. Mares pastured and cared for free of oharge. Further particulars write H. DENMAN Harriman, Oregon LUNABURG DALT0N&C DEPARTMENT STORE Everything Under the Sun and Seldom "JUST OUT" "PROGRESS" i he Standard Bred Stallion Trial. 2:20 Will Stand the Season of 1911 AT THE Elliott Barn, Burns, Oregon PROURHSS, No. 4H59 is a mahogany bay standing 10 hands high. Sired by Diablo, 1M0-1; sire of Sir Albert S 2:033; Sir John S 2:041; Clipper 2:00; Dinbolita 2:031. Nino others in less than 2,10. and cloven othors hotter than 2:25 Dam Remember Me, by Waldstein, 12507. Bertha, grandmothor of Progress, is tho mother of nineteen colts all in the list. Tho Limit her sixteenth colt was sold as a green pacer at $10,000. In his three-year-old form ho made a record of 2:10. Terms to Insure $20 GE0KGE D. HAGEY, Burns, Ore. Now's the Time to Get Ready to Put in Crol we have p,ows? HarrowSj Seeders, Wind Mill Pumps, Hose, Scrapers, Wagons, Hack Bug-gies and Carts. ALL KINDS OF HORSE HITCHES BUDDIST, NO. 2853 Imported German Coach Tho undersigned having purchased tho interest of J. P. Farm in tho well known Onuh Stallion, Ihuldist, No. 28511, wishes to an nounco that ho will stand this Boason at tho Variun log houso place. All contracts of last Reason aro to bo settled with him. Ruddist is tho siro of tho highest priced colts in Hnrnoy countv except standard bred specials and his got speaks for his qualities as a siro. Pasture and euro for mares on tho place. Terms to Insure $20 0. L. SHINGLEDECKER, Burns, 0. The Famous Rotary Hanoi to Attach to Sulky or Gang Plows GARDEN TOOLS Come In and See Us Before BuyiJ Young's Meat Market & Groce "Our baby cries for Chamber lain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs. T. B. Kcndrick, Rasaca, Ga. "It is tho best cough remody on tho market for coughs, colds and croup." For salo by nil good dealers. Always readylfor job work. In cases of rheumatism re! from pain makes sleep and r possible. Tins may bo obtaif' by applying Chamberlain's U ment. For salo by all good dd crs. llutterick Patterns at Litf burg, Dalton & Co. t s