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BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, ORECiON, MAY 20, 1011
NO 27.
UG CHANGE IS NOTED
W. Hill Tells Oregonian of His
Trip to Central Oregon
IFFERNCE IN SETTLEMEMENT
Districts Developing and Homesteaders at Work
drying Need of Interior is More People ana mil
stem Will Help Commercial Bodies Exploit State.
jorful changes ns compar-
the condition of Central
a year ago wero noted
(is W. Hill, president oi
iit Northern Railway, on
of the interior portion of
;e, from wlncn no reuirn-
erday morning, says the
ian.
a-e transportation even
mnrkable is predicted by
ti 11. as well as by Carl R.
president of tho North
ead: Georjre B. Harris,
Bin of the board of directors
Burlington system, and
who accompanied him on
:ent trip. Mr. Hill visited
Prineville, Burns, "Bill"
's ranch, and other mter-
ints on tho anniversary of
journey through the same
:t
kvns not so much surprised
chances we saw m the
and new settlements that
sprung up as the result of
;ng the railroad." he saiu
day, "but I was almost
id to see the great differ-
n tho rural districts.
it year the only place where
thousands of acres of wheat and
alfalfa that whero barren last
voar.
Ono dnv of tho tour was spent
in the big timber country near
the Sisters. Timber such as the
party saw tliero would bo worth
from $3 to $5 a thousand in
Washington he asserted. Mr.
Harris said that all this timber
would be bought in tho Missis
sippi Vnllcv
Construction of independent
loiririnir roads from this timbered
areas to connect with the Oregon
Trunk will bo undertaken in tho
noxt few years. Tho Hill inter
est, however, do not contemplate
further development in mid-state
very soon. They are looking
toward Prineville us a possiblo
terminus for a branch, but have
not promised that line for any
definite time.
"Tho dcodIo of Prineville have
been patient with us for a long
time." declared Mr. Hill. "We
won't promiso them a road until
we are actually ready to build it
Then we shall build as soon as
we promise.
"There is considerabe territory
law homesteaders at work
at Fort Rock. This year wo
them everywhere. We
led that many others have
but not yet started to build
homes.
bie start was made this
fin settling the remote por-
of Central Oregon. Now
nil have to keep it up. Ore-
vill have to continue its pub-
rcamnaitrn to attract settlers,
lis work the Portland Com-
fcial Club has been well in tho
ont Wherever we went
leund eager inquiries for C.
tiaoman. manager of the
city work of the Portland
They appreciate the work
ILC PViorvmnn nrwl tllf Pnrt.
ItXIAt. .iii.jii.ii... ....v. ..w - - -commercial
interests have
in Central Oregon now that jus
tify tho construction of new
railroad, but it is another thing
to get the money to build it with.
Mr. Gray has fully recovered
from his. recent illness, and will
bo regular in his office in the
future.
"My trip to Central Oregon,"
he said last night, "taught me
that it is no place for a trifier or
adventurer. That country needs
a lot of hard workers and inteli-
gent methods. Success awaits
them."
son of tho largo quantity of
D-mzinir lnnd on either side. To
offsotthia nmazelng variation n
railroad trndlc wound its way
through tho valley at tho base of
Stcons mountain across Wild-
Horso valley, thenco to Wtnnc-
tnuccn. Novnua. soma oi mo
moat beautiful country in tho
west was soon on this rulo.
Morn caro hnB beon taken of tho
region supplied by tho streams
fed by tho melting snow irom
thn mountains. This was a
natural garden spot and n favor-
nblo climate tho consequence oi
thrlvinir orchnrds.
Pmirnnfc with a neon over into
Width Horso valley and having
niwfllved all that once desolate
spot now blooming with alfalfa,
I turned my attention to tho
urii.l Il.,..n wl Pnll(ur villlivH.
tho Inst two of tho quickly devel
oped portions deserving mention.
Orchard nftor orcliarti was
passed and in no long interven
inir nnnces of time artesian wells
as if glad to bo free and useful
to mankind.
On my wny round many
other lovely littlo valoys wero
noticed, but most wero furnished
with a natural supply of water
as the Malheur forks and their
tributaries.
This rnnid development was duo
tn the nersistant tenacity and pa
tience of our fathers, aim mucn
nrnHhulQ must here be offered to
tho sturdy pioneer and flictougli
frontierman, who in tho tectn
of dispair, through years of
privation and harhships, held on
stubbornly to tho slim hope of
sometime in the future making
their vast country deserve as
one of the foremost of tho C3t.
Those of you here who have the
good fortune of being ono of tho
"old timers" or those who have
tho fottune to have ancestors
among these pathfinders may
well feel proud of the fact.
TO BOND THE DISTRICT
Bums to Have Modem $30,000 Public
School Building at Once
-
CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK
&
Local School Electors Vote for Bonds by Biff Majority
And Board Will Start New Building Soon as Possible-Site
to be Settled at Annual June Election.
BEND AND BURNS.
IURNCV COUNTY 20 YEARS PROW NOW.
he most crying need of the
lor, however, is people.
town and city is planning
ing in additional settlers.
Everal nlaces we met with
Dmmercial clubs and discuss-
th them the plan they hayo
eparation to have tho land
i up. All these organizations
(Concluded from last issue.)
ducts. It had a Tate start with
other towns but its future
prospects were great Nearby
was Warm Spring Sanitorium and
old lake bottom of Malheur Lake
wm .1 short wav eff: but strange
to say what was once tho bottom
of a lake was now cultivated anu
some of the bestagricultural land
was this old swamp. Here an ex
traordinary but effectual method
nF im'milinn WIU omilloVcd. As
of the work done by the I the water was obtained in a few
ind Commercial Club and 'feet of the surface electric pumps
amber of Commerce. ' ' , impelcd by water power, Buppi.uu
is in Central Oregon look the soil with moisture. It was a
id, reported Mr. Hill. I grand sigm 10 ecu u.u -
eason is two weekB later areas oi pumpa ivivii.k
r than in 1910. Last year much under grouncd water to
r,c ,.,oa f, ,! in nd- the surface to preserve tho
of the normal. This year growing vegetation.
normal
the five days that tho party
kway from Portland the
ers traveled more than 500
bv automobile. This gave
till an opportunity of study-
road situation. He is a
enthusiast and carries his
Now I onioved a refreshing
auto ride across tho foothills of
Steens mountains to Barren val
ley. How sadly tho name mis
represented it! Itfl rugged out
line wavering in and out of the
coulees, breaking its border,
caused it to have a very pictures,
achine with him. Central , que appearance, l couiu not at
t. .ii..,i i,n.i twit, first understand where mo
II, III I.V-W .., .
than those parts of tho
source of the water supply was
u..i iimn,in Tr, fW.!- Ridinfml. but on closer observa-
Mng two machines, they tion I discovered that artesian
tlv one nuncturc.
hage of agricultural prod-
rrom the interior will bo
greater this year than a
go, he predicts. Ho Haw
wells had been bored and gener
mia flmvq wore the result This
valley was tho headquarters for
many pheep holders, horso own
ers and cattleman, for tho rea-
Fow actions of this community
could mean moro for its future
than docs tho mast successful
business men's trip to Bums,
just completed. Aside from tho
economic importance of tho en
terprise, outlined elsewhere in
this paper, the fact that from a
inwn of this sizo more man
v representative citizens
could bo mustered, upon compar
atively short notice, and taken
upon a three days 1C0 mile auto
mobile excursion over a new
rnnd to a town hitherto practi-
ctlly unknown locally, is a strik
ing and most gratifying proof ot
tho snirit "irot up and get" with
out which no town can prosper.
and with which Bend is certainly
ondowed.
Perhaps tho very best part of
thn trin. however, is tho splen
didly cordial reception accorded
the Bend visitars by the people
of the Harney county sent.
Burns did herself proud by her
reception of tho Bend represen
tatives. Nothing could nave
a greater spirit of hospitality
than did tho wholo-heartcd way
in which tho Burns boosters
made their visitors welcome,
showing them BurnB very vital
intPiwjt in tho Bend-Bums road,
nnd its enthusiasm for it. and in
every way exhibiting a spirit
that nuirurs wondorfull well lor
tho mutual pleasantness of the
future relations, business ant.
social, existing between tho two
towns.
Tho people of Bend who made
tho trip possible, tho Bend Com
mercial Club under whoes man
agement tho ontorpriso was suc
cessfully carried through, and
especially tho peoplo of Burns,
aro to bo congratulated. -Bend
Bulletin.
Although it was not a largo
number of tho votors of this
school district that expressed
themselves at tho bond election
last Saturday tho vote Hhowcd a
decided majority in favor of
bonding the district for a new
school building.
Tho Times-Herald has favored
this move since it was first agi
tated and believes it tho duty of
every patron to give tho board
all tho assistance possible t0 ''I"1'1
tho new building lo completion.
Mr.. I. mi., itmiilxil ii liuvrnr llllll
IMV iitivu iitvvi r
moro modern nubile school build
ing for a number of years anu
wo should give those in charge
the moral support that so en
courages and helps an undertak
ing of this kind. Burns should
not fall behind in educational
matters and tho vote of last Sat
urday would Indicate our people
all awako to the situation and
are to give tho children of this
district every educational advan
tage possible.
It in hoped thuro will bo no do
lay in placing tho bonds and that
tho contracts will bo let tit the
'nnrlinsL liossible moment. Wo
should take nrido in being the
educational center of this vast
torritorv and uso.ovcry ofTort to
obtain such facilities as may bo
necessary to this end.
Tho matter of a location will be
left to tho votes at tho regular
June school election but tlio
board will no doubt get the bonds
on the market n quickly as pos
sible and not wait the result of
this solcction of a site.
CRATM I.AKP. NATIONAL PARK.
lave Your Goods Shipped in Gare of
QNOWAY WAREHOUSE CO.
(INCOIU'OUATKII)
'.ELdLx-EL&f s Orogfon.
w...n .nwViniiunci nnn fnr frnicht and ono for wool,
I transit rates from all points'on tho Oregon Trunk rail
by lino to Madras warchouso. Charges for handling at
i customary rates.
I J, DiBTZBL, Jas. Rice, H. W. twiner,
President Vice-President secretary
Madras.lOre. Hoycrcck, Uro. mauraa, v.
Thn French Hotel serves a
fin Riindav dinner and Bpecial
attention is given to family
service.
Tim followintr description of
one of the natural wonuors oi
Oregon is sent out by tho U. b.
Geological Mirvey:
Many thousands of years ago
among tho majestic volcanos of
tho Cascade Range towered ono,
perhaps tho loftiest of them all,
which has now disappeared,
A flm- tho cataclysm which swal
lowed Ihis huge mountain there
remained, however, an enormous
frjitor. a. caldcra. which more than
compensates in interest for tho
loss of the mountain. There are
thousands of craters in the United
SUitcs, but thero is only ono
great caldera, and that contains
r.vntnr Lake. truly ono of the
wonders of America. If Crater
I.nko wero situated in tho bosom
of tho Applachians thousands of
peoplo would visit it annually; if
it wero an Alpine crnter many
American peoplo would ravo
over it as t'io choicest gem of
Ruronenn scenery. As it is, al
though tho Crater take region
has been a national park since
10n9 Mm nnonlo who havo visits
cd it numbor only ft few thousand.
But an awakening is at hand;
tho railroad is building a lino close
to tho park, the Government is
nlnnntmr ronds and trails, and in
ii nhnrt timo it will bo tho fault
only of tho peoplo themselves if
they fail to visit tins wonuenui
region and recoivo impressions
novor to bo effaced from memory.
Ah a nioneor in tho field, tho
Tin Wnil Hintes Gooloirical Survey
has mado a careful topographic
Burvoy of tlio Crater Lake Nation
al Park. Pearson Chapman, gov
ernment topographer, spent two
field seasons in tho park and sur
voyed every peak, slope, and val-
loy, and the resulting map, with
HO-foot contour linos, is being en
graved and will bo issued by the
Survey about June 1.
Prom tho tonoirnuihlc map one
gels an ideas of the remarkable
tragedy which must have occur
red in tho dim past, when a
mountain probably rivaling
Mount Shanta in height disap
peared into the bowels of the
earth. Tim surface of Crater
Lake is (5,177 fool abovo sea level;
the lako is nearly G miles in dia
meter and is surrounded by a rim
of ragged red: rising from 1,000
lo 2.000 feet above it. The lake
is in many places nearly 2,006
foot dcun and itssurfaco is brok-
on only by Wizard Island, the
result of the final gasp of tho
lying volcanic forcer.
Wizard Island, a cinder cone
which rises nearly 1,000 feet
above tho lake, is itself a young
and perfect, volcano, having a
little crater of its own. Several
other smaller conoa wero pushed
upward, but none appear above
the water's surface.
Atone timo it was a question
whether this ancient mountain,
which has been restored in fancy
and named Mount Mazam, did
not explode and blow away in
ashes and scoria liko Krakatoa
or I'elco, but this theory has
been overturned by geologists,
who find unmistakable evidence
that the mountain sank back into
the earth. Tlio surrounding
country, according to J. S. Diller,
a ireolodst of tho United States
Geological Survey, indicates un
questionably that at somo time
duriinr the Tertiary period, when
many of tho high peaks of the
Scott Peak, 8,051 foot In (.'leva-
tion. This was simply a minor
peak on the southwest side, of
Mount Mazania. From it tho
viow, according to Mr. Chapman
is incomparably fine. On the
opposite run of the lake, appar
pntlv huL a nistol shot distant.
so clear is the air, stand out Tho
Watchman and Glacier Peak, of
nparly equal hight with Scott
Poik. To tho south lies tho
groat Klamath Lake, and far to
south Mount Shasta loses its
snow-capped crown in tho skies.
At a still father distance lo tho
north towers Mount Hood.
In tho government survey tho
park was surrounded by 1150 iron
boundary nosts. and concrete
piers havo been erected at tho
four corners and tho two en
trances, one on tho soutn and
the oilier on tho west.
Tho map of Crater Lake Na
tional Park will he issued in two
editions, the regular map and
tho pocket edition, folded and
hound in covers. These maps
may ho obtained from tho Direc
tor of tho United States Geo
logical Survey at Washington
after June 1.
Tho personal atlonlion given
guests at tho French Hotel has
given it a good reputation L. B.
Culn, Prop.
J. II. Howoll, a pooular drug
gist of Groeinbury, Ky-t ny
"Wo uso Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in our own houwhold
nndknowitis excellent." For
salo by all good dcalors.
w. i aiiOi'i'
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Fair Dealing
Post Ofiice Building, Burns, Ore.
IKAVCLINd SCHOOLS TOK I'ARMEKS.
The need of itinerate schools
for farmers in the far corners of
tho stale was unrcd by Pres. W.
J. Kerr of Oregon Agricultural
College in an address before the
Grangers' convention this week.
He stated again his belief that
the college was not established
for the thousand or so students
on the campus, but for every
man, woman and child in Oregon.
"Even if the college enroll
ment, which this year is 1.77J,
should grow to threo or four
thousand, it would bo but a small
per cent of tho population of the
state, all of whom, it is my be
lief, should bo served by the col
lege," said Pres. Kerr.
Wo have this year in the col-
lego representatives of every
county in the state: l,589students
from Oregon; 1G5 more from 27
other slates; and 11) representa
tives of 8 foreign countries. All
this speaks well for tho educa
tional advantages olrored at tho
college, of course, but docs not
solve the problems of tho thou
sands who can not come to Cor-vallis.
"The college must servo them
through the various avenues of
extension work.such as institutes,
of which 75 wero held this year,
GEER k CUMINS
Burns, Oregon.
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IJiiriis, to Diamond Burns to Venator
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Harney County Abstract Company
i
(incorporated)
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jj An Abstract Copy of Bvery Instrument on Kccord in j
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Cascade Uange wero (laming ( witH M3 sessions attended by
beacons, great streams of molten j 28, 180 people. The four demon-
rocu iwsueu uuiu muuiib muwumM .stiniion irains which mauu
nccompanied by thunderous ex-1 73 stops added an attendance of
plosions and ejections of pumico 17,050 people, and another 270
which today covers tho land's J attended the two itinnerant
surface) for miles. j schools sent out at Mctllord anu
Tho later of these eruptions tho Milton-Frccwatcr district,
occured it is bolivoi, during tho 'making a total of 85,500 people
t'lacial period, tho great streams
of ice and lavo alternating tho
criming stupendous conflicts be
tween tho two elements, filling
iho air with steam clouds and
reached through the extension
work. Many thousands moro
aro aided with advice through
correspondence, over ;?8,000 such
letters being sent out in the year
The I
rlOTELBUKS
flooding the lower plains. Later" just past. Ono department alone
camo the final convullion which received more than 1,000 letters
demolished the upper mile of n month requesting information
Mount Miusnmn. different subjects.
When Crater Lake really comes 1 "1 snouiu ko to see u.o inner-
into its own, peoplo will row """"w """""""
across its beautiful blue, bronze, anu soni into an too mruiui ,i
and purple waters, glanco up at.nors of the state, wherever thoro
tho towering cliffs, and realize """"-""" .,;r i "r. .1
that they arc in the very interior w msiruui o.. mm ..,,, ..u.u
T v . .. . 11:1, in n,nn tltsrv linlil onoomna rtt
W. A. DIBBLE, Propt.
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of ono of tho greatest extinct
volcanoes in tho world. Tho
collapse of Mount Mnzamu is
ointod hv Mr. Diller to havo
boon tho crowning event In tho
history of tho Cascado region.
Situated in tho midst of an
otherwise waterless region, this
lako furnishes tho underground
water supplies for many streams
radiating from it in almost every
direction. Most of tlio approach
es to tho lako load through
splendid forests, vnlloy meadows
and natural pastures.
Tlio highest point in tho Cra
ter Lake National Park, as
shown on tho Survoy's map, is
liko to seo them hold sessions of
from threo days to two weeks at
a time, with programs full of
vitally practical work, in solution
of tho problems of tho particular
district. In this way only, it
seems to me, wo can meet tho
present pressing need of scienti
fic agricultural training in tho
rcmoto rural districts."
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