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land, 4,03 1,951 acrcB yet vacant snbivcl
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UURNS, HAIINEY COUNTY, OKEGON, OCTOBER 28, 1011
NO 50.
XXIV
1ST" '
Jrlf Ira irt
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PINO POINT WEST
ites'Rail Lines and Auto Truck
tayjChange Things Some
SURNS-BEND ROAD IDEAL
pre8ion of C. C. Chapman in Recent Issue
fOreffoiiian Auto Trucks to be put on Route
-Information From Our Agricultural College.
V
his trip Ito Hunw,
ian, manager of the
-nnierctal Club, Haiti
OreRenian:
road from Bend to
ally adapted for ec--o-truck
service. It
rairie road uIouk a
te. There arc no
.o crow during Hie
erf of 146 miles. The
n on both sides from
ilea. The road is a
way, requiring little
t to make it excel lent
f weather, and this
contrast to the old
inevivo and Paulina
lck Mountain.
roatT has served a
poe in it day. It
inueto&ervon great
inging these ranches
t of the tributary
close touch with
ind Portland with
tnd auto truck, but
jrreat Harney cou li
ned, .and the future
Central Oregon, the
nd logical outlet is
road from Burns to
road can bo traveled
iatfi at any, season of
he run canjeasily bo
jrten hours."
i Pat Gfl Soon.
Coe, who returned
ht from Portland,
saw C. S. Harrison
ird Auto Truck Co.
Id by him that the
s for tho Bend-Bums
o will be brought
ek and will be ready
ie first freight that
Bend consigned to
f tho Harney county
Harrison said he
m as many cars as
justified and would
to other towns in
-Bend Bulletin.
For Wool Production'
s shfiep for wool pro
should remember in
o that, tho long wool
r coarser fiber than
rt wool," says Mr.
George H. Samson of the animal
husbandry department of the
Oregon Agricultural College.
"This coarseness should not be
allowed to become extreme. The
llecco should be thick and clean;
the fibers should be strong.bnght
and free from dark or diseased
spots. In tho medium wools a
thicker llecco is desirable -thickness
sufficient to turn rain. Tho
fibers, as in the long wools,
should be relatively long, clean,
lusterous and contain no abun
dance of grease.
"To examine a fleece, the por
tion just over the heart ia noted
to discover the finest wool, and
that on the leg for the coarsest.
There should bo as little differ
ence in the fleece on these parts
as possible. To open the fleece,
place both hands, palm down,
on the fleece and, shoving down
slightly, pull the hands apart.
This breaks the fleece without
tearing, t If the fleece is heavy
it breaks on a smoother line
than if light, whenthe fibers are
quite likely to be intertangled."
INDUSTRIAL NOTKS.
(Portland Correspondent)
A step of permanent construc
tive benefit was that taken last
Saturday night at the Portland
Commercial Club, when business
men-gathered at a dinner to dis
cuss tho benefits of recent ex
cursions to Klamath Falls, Cen
tral Oregon and Aberdeen, Wash.
The big dining room was filled
by men of affairs and tho exper
iences given and tho policy out
lined for future excursions were
of great value.
The meeting developed into a
symposium on the attitude of
Portland husiness'men to outside
territory in tho" two states and
was a survey'of conditions exist
ing from Aberdeen to Klamath
and in Central Oregon. The re
sult will be a closer tic between
Portland and the outlying coun
try and this promises to be of
great aid in future development,
Redmond will hold a potato
show on November 2. This is
tho dato.tho O.-W. H. & N. dem
onstration train arrives at Red
mond iwuV. the two events will
undoubtedly bring a very large
number of farmers from the sur
rounding country to Redmond.
At the same time a meeting of
dairymen will bo held to organ
ize an association.
The iointline of tho Oregon
Trunk and the Deschutes Rail
road will be onon to passenger
and freight traffic to Bend from
tho Columbia River on Novem
ber 1. The new lines are now
operating to Opal City.
An apple tree near Albany has
been sold for $G00. It is over
bearing, maturing fruit at all
RoiiHons of the growing period,
with budH, blossoms and apples
on tho treo at tho same time. A
nurserv comnanv has bought the
treo and will try to establish a
everbearing variety.
The program has just been
made up for the first annual con
vention of the Oregon Stale
Hotel Men's Association, which
will be held in the convention
hall of the Portland Commercial
Club on December 5 and (J. The
hotel men will discuss matters
of mutual interest and seek ways
to increase tourist travel to this
state from California and the
East.
Lakeview will add agriculture
to its high school course as soon
as its new building is finished.
This is a new and important fea
ture of the course of study and
one that progressive communities
are adopting.
SUNSLT MiWS N()Ti:S.
Walter and John Hoddcr have
started work on the ranch up the
river, which they leased a short
time ago of James Fellows.
I. S. Tyler made final proof on
his homestead last week. Even
though Mr. Tyler now has title
to his land, he will continue to
be a Sunset farmer and shows
his good faith in the country by
planting 90 acre of fall grain.
M. J. Nash, has completed his
notatoo harvest. We did not
learn how much they made to
the acre, but arc told that the
yield was satisfactory and the
quality very fine.
Little Donald Porter received
a painful accident one day last
week, while playing around a
grain drill. His fingers were
caught in some cogs, one finger
was badly crushed and nearly
severed from his hand. Donald
won't play marbles any more
this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Eggleston
and family returned from the
John Day country Sunday, where
they have been on business and
for fruit.
Sunset is to have a Grange. A
meeting will bo hold at the school
house on Saturday afternoon
Nov. -1, at 2 o'clock, for the pur
pose of organizing. There seems
to be considerable enthusiasm
concerning it and it promises to
be a success in Sunset.
PIANO WE GIVE AWAY 1
niii'',- zty:w(ftim '' wv- ;-$ -
US IS THE
-ON-JULY
4th
1912
VALUE
$400.1
SEBMPD-T0 US TO 1113 A QUESTION IS NOW A URATH'YINU SUCCliSS
PAYS TO BE LIBERAL WITH OUR TRADE.
Sinee we Urst announced that we should give away (his beautiful Upton
Parler Grand Piano to some one of our customers on July Hit, PJ12,
oar bwrfwwH has shown a big increase In every department
R SURE AND ASK FOR YOUR PIANO VOTES WITH EVERY PURCHASE
ttn. ri T?TCl?n RPOS Prnnts.
y mug &tore, Btlrns, j
STUDY STATE BUILDING
Portland Business Men Are Getting
Better Acquainted Here
RECENT TRIP OPENS THEIR EYES
Needs of Central Oregon Brought Home to Them by
Central Oregon Development League, as Well as
Great Future of This Empire Yet to be Developed.
An illustrated writeup in last
Sunday's Oregonian gives some
impressions of the writer while
in Burns during the development
meeting. The views are from
photos taken in this city and vi
cinity. The writer says:
Portland business men are go-
ing to a new school these days
and they are proving apt pupils
at their new studies. The school
is their great big broad state.
The studies are its resources, its
activities, its problems, its
needs. And there are no teachers
except the people of the state
themselves, the farmers who are
the backbone of the state, the
merchants, the bankers, the
lawyers, the lumbermen, the
men whom the Portland business
men meet on their trips through
out the state at large, tho "get
acquainted" trips, which origi
nated with the Portland Com
mercial Club and which promises
to do much toward cementing
tho friendly relations of the city
and its friends and neighbors in
the state.
At the Burns banquet, which
closed the meeting of the Central
Oregon Develnpment League, V.
L. Snelling was delivering one
of the wittiest speeches that the
Portland business men had ever
heard. They had all heard Colo
nel Wood and Colonel Wheel
wright too.
"As I sat here tonight," said
Mr. Snelling, "I heard some very
agreeable as well as surprising
news. I have lived in Lake
county for 150 or 40 years. I had
always imagined that Lake coun
ty was bounded on the south by
California and Nevada, on the
east by Idaho, and on the north
and west by Oregon. Much to
my gratification I learned here
tonight that Lake County is real
ly a part of Oregon, an integral
part of a great big. rich, power
ful and influential state."
The Portland men enjoyed
Snelling's sarcasm. They real
ized it had point, that perhaps
their own ideas of geography
had been vague and hazy and
they were glad indeed that they
had started out on their "see
America first" tour by "seeing
Oregon first". And they found
plenty to see in Central Oregon
and many lessons to learn and
many problems to consider. They
say tho thriving towns of Red
mond, Prineville, Bend and Burns
all built up before tho arrival of
the railroad. They journied to
Burns and at the sessions of tho
Central Oregon Development
League listened and pondered on
tho problems connected with the
development of that vast interior
empire, embracing within its
boundaries an area equal to the
combined acreage of tho states
of Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode
Island and Ohio, which is await
ing settlement.
Within the past year this vast
realm has been made acccssablo
to the homesteader by tho com
pletion of two lines of railroads,
piercing to, its very heart from
tho great highway of tho Colum
bia River. This great expanse
of agricultural land is tho last
real Western frontier, and today
the eyes of the entire world are
turned to it.
Central Oregon cannot be pro
perly developed without outside
aid. At the meeting of the Cen
tral Oregon Development Lea
gue at Burns, early in October
o( this year, this fact was recog
nl .ed officially, and those most
vl ally interested in the growth
of this section of the state laid
down a series of principles to
which all reallv benificient as
sistance must conform. The
traveler through ttie regions of
practical wilderness cannot but
help to see at a glance the wis
dom of these principles.
In Crook county there are over
1,707,520 acres of prime agricul
tural land, capable of providing
homesteads for thousands of
families, leaving at the same
time ample space for as great a
gain district as the famous Big
Bend country of Washington,
and additional room for the graz
ing of 30,000 cattle, 100,000
sheen and 10,000 horses. Tre
mendous as these resources are
Crook county has in addition mil
lions of feet of timber and it
comprises but one-fifth of Cen
tral Oregon.
Lake County contains over $1,
282,500 acres of 'tillable land and
Klamath has 978, 5G0. Aside
from this there is a great timber
belt stretching across both coun
ties, 200 miles in length and with
an average width of 50 miles.
About half of this timber is em
braced in Government reserves.
Experts have estimated that with
scientific lumbering this timber
Will yield 500 cars of lumber a
day for 50 years.
Harney County the greatest of
all Central Oregon divisions, has
an nrea of 10,000 square miles.
Three projected trunk railway
lines w ill cross it in as many di
rections, opening up 1,695,000
acres of agricultural land to set
tlement. This land, when pro
perly irrigated or dry farmed,
will form a neucleus of intensifi
ed farming area. At present
nearly all of this million acres is
devoted to stock grazing, Mal
heur county has 1,560,000 acres
of agricultural land.
This is the field now presented
to homesteaders for development.
This is the field which outside
capital must assist in turning in
to a mnrvclously productive area.
Tho chances for legitimate profit,
both to the investing capitalist
and to the settler, are such that
there can be no valid excuse for
speculation. The purchase of
huge tracts, to be held idle for
future valuation, must in fact be
a hindrance to the growth of the
state.
It is to prevent such detrimen
tal practices that the Central
Oregon Development League has
outlined what to it seem the best
methods of bringing aid to this
waiting torritory. The interest
of Portland in the work of de
velopment is sought both because
Portland is the metropolis of
Oregon through which most of
tho trade traffic of this region
must travel to reach tho rest of
the world, and because it is
known that Portland is more
than wealthy enough to give
practically all the assistance re
quired. In order to inter st Portland
people, as well as others in the
resources of Central Oregon, it
is felt that a broad campaign of
publicity must be conducted. j
Nothing but the truth regarding
central Oregon is needed, it
is felt, to bring to it the financ-,
ial assistance necessary for,
its development. So that this
publicity may be sent out in such
form as to mrrv conviction, it is
hoped that the state itself will
take an active part in it. Those
interested in Central Oregon be
lieve that some state official
should bo placed at the head of a
bureau of information, and that
no exploitation of Central Ore
gon should be permitted that has
not the indorsement of this state
department.
Once the true resources of
Central Oregon are known, and
this information given general
circulation, the absolute need of
the completion of irrigation pro
jects will be understood. For
various reasons irrigation pro
jects in Central Oregon have been
allowed to either lapse or to pro
ceed so slowly as to be virtually
worthless to settlers. Statisticts
show that although Oregon has
contributed in round figures $14,
043,000 to Federal irrigation work
the Government has spent but
$3,929,000 within the state's
borders.
The manifest unfairness of this
is deeply felt by the friends of
Central Oregon, who realize that
the potential values of the agri
cultural land in this section of
the state far exceed in every way
the values of similar land in
Washington, the fame of the
Yakima Valley, in Central Wash
ington, has depended entirely
upon the irrigation projects which
the government has so lavishly
furnished Oregon's northern
neighbor. Central Oregon be
lieves that it should have the
same treatment accorded it, and
the Central Oregon Development
League has demanded that Sec
retary Fisher, of the Interior De
partment, investigate their de
mands, and take such action as
will bring back to this state in
constructive outlay at least as
much money as Oregon has given
the Federal government from
the sale of its public lands.
While the present roads and
highways in Central Oregon are
in better average condition than
those to the west of the Cascades,
improvements must be made be
fore these lines of traffic will be
come adequate feeder systems to
the projected railroad lines.
With the extensions of the trans
portation systems, new roads
will have to be graded, so that
the homesteaders of the future
will be able to get their produce
to market. Ochoco and McKay
Creek valleys, in Crook County,
last year produced over 55,000
tons of hay. The transportation
of this crop to the railroads
would be a serious and costly
problem, and is but one example
of the need of betterment and
extension of both vehicular high
ways and railroads.
With this great farming coun
try now awaiting the advent of
homesteaders, it is evident that
the greatest scientific skill must
bo used to bring forth from the
soil the most abundant of crops.
To aid in this it is desired that
the state maintain agricultural
experiment stations.
Excellent work has been done
in arousing interest of school
children in agricultural by Miss
Jessie Viola Hartley, a teacher
in charge of the school at Paulina.
Voluntarily this young woman is
conducting an experiment gar
den, and is doing much to stimu
late in farming among tho young
people of her district.
The extension of the work
of the State Agricultural College,
the establishment of experiment
stations under state as well as
Federal control, will enable the
future farmers to get better re
sults from their efforts; and the
gaining of these extensions is
now being actively sougnt by the
Central Oregon Development
League. In addition to this it is
desired that agricultural studies
be taken up in the public schools,
so that the farmers' children
(Continued on page 2.)
W. L. BLOTT
C. C. LUNDY
BLOTT & LUNDY
Real Estate and Insurance
Fair Dealing
Post Office Building, Burns, Ore.
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Join THK TIMES-HERALD'S HOMER DAVENPORT
Drawing Contest
now running weekly in The Times-Herald in
connection with Mr. Davenport's great series
HEN ! HAVE SKETCHED
This week the subject of the sketch is Theodore Roosevelt.
CONDITIONS
The contest is open to all readers of The Times-Herald
below the age of twenty-one years excepting teachers of
drawing and professional artiBts.
Cut out of the columns of The Times-Herald each week
Mr. Davenport's cartoon and make a free hand copy of it
on clean white letter or drawing paper either with pen or
pencil.
Then mail the clipping and your copy together with
your name, age and address to MANAGER, THE TIMES
HERALD'S HOMER DAVENPORT DRAWING CONTEST
Each week a committee will pass upon the drawings
and make the awards.
To the person submitting the best drawing will be giv
en a handsome artist's proof of Mr. Davenport's sketch
printed on Japan paper and personally autographed by
the great artist.
These autographed artists proofs are not for sale at
any price and will be highly treasured by those who are
so fortunate as to receive them.
The educational value of this contest as an encourage
ment to tho study of art and modern history cannot be
overestimated.
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