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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (July 29, 1911)
ll Wive lm'aHria Tliu Olllclnl l'npcr of llnrnny County linn tho largost circulation andlionool lio beat nilvortlsltin modluins In Kaitorn Oregon. &fl 05rent Stamen Country Cover an nroa ol 0,428,000 sure oi Inml, 4,031,1(51 acrei yet vacant aubcct to entry under the public land lawn ol tlio United BUtes. VOL. XXIV I3UUNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OlUCGON, JULY 2!), 1911 NO 37. imftefatii yl RRY UP GOOD ROADS tie People Want Governor West to Call a Special Session FINE LEGISLATION TO THIS I of Petitioners is to Have State Legislature Au thorize Counties to Incur Indebtedness for Roads fter Approval at the Polls Clubs Getting Busy. ions to the Governor askv Advice reaching the oflice of l to convene n sneeial ses- secretary C. C. Chapman of the enact "irootl roads" laws LeaRUO njr prepared by many coin- indicate there attend ance. Commercial bodies so lar linnwl ftMm iiWjmrl trt onnfl tiler .lorKaiuzsiuoiisoiuicaiaie, ,llocrn:m,n fIU,n fnnf H,..f tlin ill -be passed by many of limultaneously at meetings. ie Oregonian. port also will be made to the Oregon Development at its next month pass resolutions with the hope aging sullieient pressure to on Governor West to have all the special session at f Several commercial bodies southern part of the state, ng that at Alculord, al- lave passed a resolution ling the governor to tins The Portland Commer- lb will have the question consideration at its next Cairn ot the petitioners is the Legislature act on question- only, and the )f petition most generally thus far specifies that station be confined to the ed amendment to Article ion 10, of the Constitution ?on, authorizing counties jr indebtedness lor public ifter approval by a major- those voting on the nues- Southern Oregon petitions, (are virtually the same as bout to be presented by imercial clubs of other if the state, declaring that aple of their respective. s are in favor, not only of sent good roads, but of ite legislation provid- for a manner of sub- the question to them for ste. It is understood that ftion will not enforce upon iinty the necessity of creat- indebtedness, orof build- ly roads; it will, however, in opportunity to those ks where good permanent Ere demanded. sxpense of such a session. timated, will be justified Ibenefils if the needed re- jranted. Early action by irerner is requested. The it there is yet time to ac- Ih much during the pre- ir is pointed out. 1st 1G has been designed od Roads" day at the Development League which will be held in lion with the Astoria Cen- Louis W. Hill, presi- the Great Northern Rail- Ind Samuel Hill, "Father 3ood Roads Movement," the principal speakers. Astoria Centennial celebration J will be in progress at the same (time will undoubtedly add to the attendance. Believing the women of the state have a direct interest in better roads, the Mothers' Con gress, which is a branch of the national organization, has identi fied itself with the movement and Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, of Dallas, head of the good Road and Rural Schools commit tee, has taken steps to have the school children aid in the work. Boys are expected to report road conditions to the proper authorities and if the rising gen eration can be interested in highway improvements, it is thought the future will provide better roads. After an extended trip through out Central Oregon, covering it for the first time, C. C. Chapman secretary of tho Oregon Devel opment League, returned to Portland much impressed with its future. "It is better than Colorado or New Mexico, and just as good as the best parts of Utah and Montana," he said. "What is needed is for Port land to know more about the in terior and to co-operate with the people of that section of Oregon for building up its agricultural opportunities." Secretary of the Interior Fisher will visit Oregon next month in specting the reclamation project under way here. He will learn of conditions prevailing in respect to forest reserves, vacant govern ment lands and the other mat ters under his control. He will 'also visit other Pacific Coast sec tions and Alaska. Oregon may soon have a silk industry. A colony of Italians will settle in Wasco County next month and the immigrants ex pect to raise mulberry trees for silks worms. The newcomers are said to be experienced in this industry in their own country and they find on investigation that Oregon is suited to the in dustrious worm and the manufac ture of its gossamer fibre. makes slow traveling for auto mobiles and ns our county court isdoing a big business in survey ing out now roads and buying rock crushers wo nro coming to tho point whore wo think somo of tho established roads ought to bo put in good condition. There is about thrco or four miles of sand road and it would be an ideal place to try somo of that crushed rock and tho rock is handy nt Wright's Point and of first class quality for road building. Wm. Hanloy passed through Sunset Saturday in his auto. Walter Harmcr camo up to his homo Sunday from the Narrows. V Ed. Kcuncmau and Fred Hereth have been in Sunset with their binder and cut grain for N. Henney, Clyde Embree, Robert Settlcmyre, F. Tomlin nnd F. P. Blackmer. Henry Black is hauling hay from Mrs. McGoo'n place for himself and Mr. Larson. Fred Barron was a business visitor to Burns, Monday. Clyde Embree has some nice trees on his place that have made n fine growth this year. The shade and fruit trees have made a two foot growth already this season and they have never been irrigated. The best way not to raise trees in Harney Valley is never to set them out, , There is somo nice rye in Sunset this year that promises to make a big yield. There is one bunch of rye here that has KB heads of well filled rye that come up vol unteer it is a now rye called 20th century rye and yielded at the rate of twenty bushels per acre on unirrigated land. MAY MAKI! HISTORY. THOS. LAWSON SOARS Oregon's Resources Beat Those of any Country in New or Old World HIS EXTRAVAGANT STATEMENTS "Frenzied Finance" Tame Compared to the Big Man's Description iof the Vast Oregon Country With its Wonderful Resources and Opportunities at Hand. .. , - SUNSET NOTES. INDUSTRIAL NOTES. o'rtland Corespondent )regon family of commer ces will have a big reun- ?ust 14, 15 and 1G at As- hen the annual conven- the Oregon Development will be held. Tho pro- Las arranged tentatively, a" large number of the Drominent publicity men i entire country. Notable Bes are scheduled that deal so various phases ol com- : building and a big impetus given to tho development lent now so strongly under rough the state. bs J. Hill, Judge Robert S. Louis W. Hill, Howard and other railroad men linence throughout the arc expected to attend t 3ions of the convention. I bs they represent are pay- ro attention than ever be- the Pacific Northwest kat they have to say will led to with interest by Me of this stato is cutting hay on placo in the com- T ho stage company has estab lished a station at the Raymond place. Prof. Raymond has proved up on his desert cluim and went over to his homestead Monday. George Hopkins is drilling wells and has considerable work to do in that line. Mr. Tomlin the Cawlfield pany field. Bert Simmons and wife were in Sunset Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Grow. Scott Haley was in Sunset Sun day on business and states that he lias commenced haying at tho lake. Van Embree returned from the Narrows Saturday whero ho was employed surveying out tho new town of Wellington. The townsite is finished. Walter Hodder nnd wife wero visiting withRobt. Settlemyre Wednesday evening. County Surveyor E. A. Shafer and party passed through Sunset Monday on their way to Harney City to do somo road surveying. There is a stretch of road bo tween Sunset and Narrows that is so deep with sand that it Statesmen all over the country are greatly interested in the forthcoming Public tands Con vention to be held in Denver the 28, 29. 30th of September. While the convention was called by Shafroth of Colorado by order of the State Legislature, this fact gives the affair no political significance from a party stand point but both parties are great ly interested in the fact that the prominent men of the West of nil political parties will get to gether at this meeting to discuss matters of interest to tho West and incidentally will bo develop ed the fact that if the men of the West stand together with out regard to political party they have the balance of power in Congress and can accomplish al most anything. "The future of the West lies in its great undeveloped terri tory now known as the public domain," said Governor Sha froth tho other day. "If there is any one thing regarding which all the Western states and terri tories are unanimous, it is the desire to see this territory de veloped and the vacant lands fill ed with citizens. The recent de velopment of a new policy by tho Washington bureau toward these public lands which is keeping people from the lands instead of settling them, is responsible for this effort to got together. If the Western people can agree upon any policy towards these lands and work together for it, we can win. Our Eastern friends will be with us when they understand what wo want, so it is very important that tho West first determino upon policy and then fight for it." Tho convention will be held in the big auditorium in Denver and it is predicted that there will bo fully 3,000 delegates in atten dance. Frank Jordan, a former resi dent of Harney County, has pur chased a 1G0 acre ranch on Clo vor Creek. Ho and his wife were in town Tuesday while on their way to Spokano on a short visit. Vale Enterprise Never leave homo on a journey without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost certain to bo needed and cannot bo obtained when on board tho cars or steam ships. For Sttlo by all good Dealors. Don't over look tho big Clear ance Sale now on nt Schenk Bros, Thotf. W. Lawson, tho Boston financier who has been spending a few weeks in this state, thinks Oregon the grentost country on earth. Writing for a recent is sue of the Journal Mr. Iawson has many nice things to say about the state among them be ing the following paragraphs: Sixty days investigation of a country as vast and unsettled ns Oregon may not seem much to some, but as I have done it, on the go from early morning until late at night, living almost all the time in automobiles, and with my facilities to get at people and into the inside of things, and with my past exper iences pinned to my sleeve, I say I know your possibilities better than any of you who have bunk ed with them all your life; 1 have seen your people all classes in their homes, at their business, I and at their play; I have inspect ed your orchards, rode your ranches, tramped your woods, climed your mountains nnd wad ed your streams, looked on open mouthed at the reapning of your grain nnd your alfalfa; I traveled your railroad, sailed your superb rivers, breasted your grand ocean and basked on your exquisite beaches, and all the time I have keep a weasel eye and a ferret scent for flukes state. Would to the Lord I had found them earlier, but I thank him that I have found them in time to point them to my children and I pray that he will let me live long enough to see with my eyes tho fulfillment of thu vision that is as clear to me as yonder snow capped mountain. 111(1 CROPS FOR 0RC00N A dispatch from Corvallis to The Telegram says: "The far mers of Oregon are harvesting the largest hay crop in tho his tory of the stato," said Dr. James Withycombe, director of tho ex periment station nt tho Oregon Agricultural College, discuss ing the present harvest. "The total hay crop of Oregon last year was 900,000 tons but this year it will reach 1,100,000 tons. The western Oregon crop is 50 per cent better than it was last year, and the Eastern Oregon crop about 10 per cent heavier. The diirereanco is mostly duo to the fact that in Eastern Oregon the is grown on irrigated or while that in Western Oregon is grown under natural conditions and the sea son has been favorablo for liny and other furm crops. Tho result of some experi ments, conducted at one of our leading experiment stations, lo cated in a nonirrigatcd district show that tho drainage water carries away an average of 37:G pounds of nitrogen per aero a year from tho top twenty inches of soil. Although potash, phos phoric acid, and lime arc not dissolved from tho soil as rcadly as nitrogen, it lias been clearly shown that the amount of those elements in the drainage wnter is not small. If tho mineral plant foods are so easily detected in the drainage from lands water only by rain. tho loss on an irrigated farm, unless tho water is carefully ap plied, will bo considerable great er. If a large stream of water is allowed to run all night through short rowB of vegetables and berries and for days over grain and alfalfa fields these elements that are assimilated by tho grow ing plants will cither be carried below the range of plant roots and lost in the underground drainage, or will bo carried off in the waste ditch to enrich somo farm further down the canal. To reduce this leaching of the soil by tho irrigated water to a minimum, as far as possible ex cessive flooding, resulting in largo streams of waste water, should be avoided. C. W. Clovek, Assistant Chemist, University of Idaho Experiment Station. The personal attention given guests at tho French Hotel has given it a good reputation L. B. Culp, Prop. ,, It is worse than useless to tako any medicines internally for mus cular of chronic rheumatism. AH that is needed is a free applica tion of Chamberlain's Liniment For sale by all good dealers. W. L. BLOTT C. C. LUNDY BLOTT & LUNDY Real Estate and Insurance Fair Dealing Post Office Building, Burns, Ore. FIRE IILIOIIT STAMPED OUT. have crop jsubirrigalod land, The crop is so largo that and flaws, but, with my hand on. many of the fnrmers have inade my heart and my henrt a-saddlciquate facilities for storing, and my conscience I say, unmiailili-, unless care is exercised tho edly, I believe there is no placo in nil the world which holds forth within -10 percent the ad vantages to man, be ho young or old, be he rich or poor, tripplo refined or in tho raw, as Oregon, And more, my belief is as firm ly rooted that there does not ex ist in all the world, a country which holds for capital small capital or bloated capital 50 per cent the advantages of Oregon. I mean 50 per cent of the all round advantages. Yes, I realize the IremendousnesH of my state ment, but I make it not because I have to, or because it is to my personal advantage, but solely, waste will bo great. This would be unfortunate, as it should all be utilized for livestock feed. For example, it has been estima ted that a ton of first class vetch or alfalfa hay fed to a good dairy cow should yield a value of about ?20 "There will be a good market for tho meat-producing animals. This is inevitable from the fact that there is a shrinkage in the number of cattle in the United States of 8 per cent in four years; sheep 10 per cent in eight years; hogs 10 per cent in ten years. This despite our great increase in population, and without les- becauso I deem it my duty to! soiling the per capita consump tion of ment." Dean Cordley, of tho agricul tural school of the collego says: "I have never seen such a hay crop in tho Valley before. It is not only a very heavy crop, but of unusually fine quality." humanity, particularly the sweat ing, crushed, despairing hordes of the crowded east, to hang my pointer to tho fast multiplying sign boards which face toward an easily attainable Paradise, and more, I stand ready, with pen or voice, to prove that my belief is soundly foundntioned. You will note that in singing tho praises of your wonderful country, I make no qualifications, absolutely none. There is not that I havo been able to find a single out; tho grandeur of Swit zerland, tho luxuriousness of Italy, tho sturdy industrial possi bilities of Germany, tho horticul tural stato of France, tho romance of Ireland, tho musclo fiber breed ing advantages of Scottland, tho maritime, manufacture, and gen-eral-man-woman-and-child con ditions of England, and tho all round best on earth Yankee dol lar health and comfort probabili ty which is native to nil America all tlieso I havo found in tho "Remarkable results have been obtained in Hood River by the college experts, in eradicating fire blight," said Dean A. B. Cordley of the Oregon Agricul tural College tho other day, dis cussing the progress of this branch of the pest eradication work of the institution. "Fire blight was first reported to this experiment station from Hood River last fall, apd Prof. II. S. Jackson of our department of plant pathology spent some two weeks with Mr. Cassner, their county fruit inspector, and the corps of inspectors, in locat ing the disease and cutting it out as thoroughly as possible. "The results of this fall and spring work under the direction of Professor Jackson and Mr. Lawrence appears to be that fire blight has been completely eradicated from the Hood River region. "This, so far as I know, is a result which has never before been accomplished in any region that has once been infested with fire blight. They have not found a case of fire blight there in the past two months. HONOR FOR 0RE00N MAN. GEER & CUMMIN! Burns,Oregon. Hardware and Crockery Glassware Guns and Ammunition FARMING MABCINERY of all kinds Get our prices before buying: r-s-e V Lost of Plant Lite on Irrigated Farms A certain amount of plant food is removed from nnd restored to all cultivated soils. If ns much is returned to a productive soil as is taken away, such a soil will novcr becomo exhausted. Thereforo an especial considera tion should bo given to all phases of tho subject that deal with tho conservation of the plant food elements that are already in the soil. In Idaho's irrigation districts tho largest part of tho plant food taken from tho soil is re moved by tho growing crops, but tho amount of valuable plant forming elements that are lost most delightful nnd fascinating in waste and drainago water combination in your Ulopinn may not bo inappreciable. President W. J. Kerr of the Oregon Agricultural Collego has again received the honor appoint ment to tho Council of the great est body of educators in the world, the National Education Association. He has already ser ved one six-years term in the same capacity, and when his new term expires in 1917 ho will have been in oflice n round dozen of years. As the college is alsd repre sented in tho association by Prof. E. D. Ressler, director of the summer session, who wns elected last week t,o tho eighth vice presidency, the institution gives Oregon doublo representation in tho N. E. A. oxecutivo 'body for a second time. Prof. Ressler was formerly a member of the board of directors of tho western division of tho Association. L. t)fV'5!!',V!V:n!S!S' C. M. KELLOGG STAGE CO. Four well equipped lines. Excellent facilities for transportation of mail, express, passengers Prairie City to Burns. Vale to Burns Burns to Diamond Burns to Venator E. B. WATERS, Agent. tttnnmttnummuttu: :; tuumimtaatnam ARCHIE M'GOWAN, President and Manager Harney County Abstract Company (incorporated) Modern and Complete Set of Indexes An Abstract Copy of Every Instrument on Record Harney County. tim:::njm;m:mt::r:uausra:rouunnHU in The HOTEL BURNS N. A. DIBBLE, Propt. 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