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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 16, 1911)
mint &. liiiesHcrnla Zc (Ureal Unrticu Cotnilru Cuuirs an nrcn of (1,428,800 ariea of land, 4,II3l,li61 hubs yet vacant eulect to entry under tliu itibllc land lawn of the Unltl StHlH. ' 1 11 -j 11 1 ThejOfllclnl I'liiwr of llnriiny Cnuiily 1)19 the UrKv'lt ell rillut loti nutl IhiiiiimjI lit) lAnulvortUliik' tni'iliiiiiiH in HkhIomi Oregon VOL. XXV BURNS, IIAKNEY COUNTY, OKKCON, DKCKMUKU JO, jWI NOG. i, ''rifjfe jeiHHH i.ll (T (3 wJiJI m - ii t 'rljBHjL. . - - '- mimmM- - . -flH-taKHV (IRK -Allil AH', BEGUN tracto0fire Assembling Material and Outfits in Malheur Canyon vf- HARNEY COUNTY NEXT YEAR 1 CongtrHctUmonipany ih Said to Have ConlractH for 176 MiJmW Roadbed on IOa.st and West liar- rlnmn LineiBuHdiiifr to Tlifo Place 10(10 Laborers. ,?v ji-ib. following dispatch do and published in -- ycj" ' ai. it conilrms the state- own. uvpn if mil. muv i.nt ;.. .1; latest railroadjiwva or in- quickly reached and opened by atthoHmeMB written 'the traiiiH from Vale, on llmOnu datol gon Short Line. the! Hums will at last come inlo iia nut i appearing Iti'tJKk hiHt issue reet connection with the railroad. 3 TlmeHenftjInd hIiuwb "Hill" Ilanley will be able to see onstrucllon of thoenst and from the hills of hi.s wide ranch, inoromValaitpBuriiH in the fur-off smoke of the locomo ly under way. From the tive tliat hauls the long train!) of 'f this dispatch It Is evident cattle cars, bound either for the no work will bo crushed to I'ortland stockyards, or for dis ointand wo may' expect to' tant Chicago or Kahsa.s City, rains running into Harney More than this, the pioneers of next year, xno Journal Silver Luke the advance guard of honi'-'stead settlement that founded homes and dug wells and wiped the false name of the Ore gon desert from the early maps these two will be justified in a late reward for their courage and persistence. The new road must pass within hailing distance of CENTRAL OREGON RICH SETTLEMENT IS GREATEST NEED ! Methods of Cultivation Also Shown to He Important Factor in Development of Vast Area Which Now Awaits Homeseeker and Soon to Have Railroads ddent E. 0. Wattis of the Construction company ar in Vale yesterday from Og ccompanied sbya number contractors, who will bid lions of the 17C miles of ogon & Eastern railroad, i u lias been let to the Utah their settlement. uction company.; The party, The oft told tales of minerals wn in the afternoon for the, of salt and borax, nitrate of ur canyon, where they will i soda, bestrewing the wastes ver the right of wny. whence the salt waters of a dried s probable that the men , ,,Hca subsided in the dim past :o as far as tho Harney I ta,.S(. ,,.., wm 1)L, verified or y, as the first contract olse heard no more. For with the in that much tf the line, railroad will com.. Ih.. mirvuvni- ant Engineer, OAS. Osborn, ly engineer for the Me.si vemment, arrived yestcr id went out tq'confer with lirco surveying engineers )g in tho canyon. Hngi isborn will have charge of jnstruction of; tho new Oregon line. Another as - engineer in town is ti. II. rlandof Salt Lake City, is charge of final details construction lines, ral change arci proposed, aderstood that "a cutolf is iplated from tho Oregon Lino near Nysaa to leach uth of tho Malheur canyon h this city. Two carloads d supplies for the Utah uction company arrived this morning and several of constructional! tfit.s are cd yithln a dny or two, tying already been ordered ire from headquarters at , and' others arc being got gother at Richfield and no, Idaho, and other points the contractors have been 'ft. b-contractor has given out formation that '1000 men scattered along the lino a few weeks? The Ore Eastern extension from ill connect with the Dos lino at Oiloll) say engi rt charge ofconstruction M'YONOF THBAUI.IIIUIK thirty yearsit has been mod that the best highway, I in, for the groat basin of I Oregon is'throiigh the of the Malheur. At last vs spoken and decreed that 1 that natural gateway shall run.'Vgays the Ore irnal. v ' Wing waatward the valley Malhaurtfriver, through :reek gap',' Mhb wide llar lley, that great stretch of 'only surpassed in Oregon WillamatWValloy in size tillty, will bo easily and the geologist, and the analyst, whose duty it will be to develop the long stored wealth if there it is found - when its discovery means carloads on carloads of trallic for the road. Willi the railroad will come trading points and towns, for the climate is indeed genial and healthy when contrasted with the Canadian prairies now being de luged with a Hood of settlement. No railroad building in Oregon for many years has so rich a pros pect as that which will run eas and west through the heart of the state. All this will be realized if their be performance of the promises made bv .bulge Lovelt. -Lake-view Herald. INDUSTRIAL N0N:S. (i'ortland Correspondent) Eyes of Eastern people have been fixed on Oregon during the past two weeks. Tho (lovernors' Special, carrying an exhibit of state products have been visiting the principal cities of the coun try and has attracted great at tention everywhere. Oregon has been favored with more interest than any other state, judging from the great number of inqui ries asked of those on boaid. At the Chicago Laud Show, too, this statu has played a prominent part. Oregon Day, December 7, was marked by a very large at tendance of interested people who were eager to learn more of Oregon. AtSt. Paul's Land Show which opens week this for 1 1 days, Oregon will also be represented by delegates and an exhibit. These big features will do much to point laud hungry people to this state, where agricultural op portunity awaits them. A Northwest dairy stock ex hibit has been suggested in con nection with tho annual state dairy convention. It is planned to bring prize animals hero for display and tho management of tho Portland Union Stock Yards has olTered the use of the barns, show ring and pens for exhibi tion purposes. His thought sucli a show could be made of interest to tho dairymen of Washington, ' Idaho and Northern California. I cheat advances in road build- President Carl Gray Declares Future ing throughout this stale are -, n cim 1 r shown by figures of county, GrUllUry Of b title IS III III teiOV judges, in 100.r Oregon had !M5,-I 000 miles of roads and spent I $800,000 in repairs and construc tion. In 1010, with I0,000 miles of roads, $2,000,000 was spent. A lino country place on the bank of Crooked Rivor, Crook County, costing $f0,000, is prom ised by Henry MeCall, the son-in-law of Thomas V. Lawson, of Boston. Mr. McCall has bought '100 acres and will make a beau tiful homo of it. This is one re sult of the visit of Mr. Lawson to Oregon last summer. Trains will probably be run ning to Lakeview by late Win ter or early Spring, as rail con nection has been completed with that city from AI turns, Modoc County, California. A wonder fully rich country will be opened up right away. Thai Oregon Creamerymen need not take second place in the manufacture of dairy products was stated on undoubted author ity at the recent convention of butter and cheese makers in Portland. Prof. John Sollie, of Albert Lea, Minn., chief judge of the exhibits, said he was sur prised at the high quality of cheese add butter he found here. He said the butter shown would rank with any he has judged in New York and Eastern states. Predictions that Central Ore gon is destined to become the granary of Oregon were made by Carl It. Cray, president of the North Bank, Oregon Trunk, and other Hill roads, in bis recent ad dress before the State Thresher men's Association at Salem. Mr. within this category within the next few years. "I am assured by agricultural experts that all ol tins land is susceptible of cultivation, tho re turns being unquestionable where intelligent and correct methods are followed. When one applies these figures and appro- Cray presented some interesting 1 dates their potential force it is futures illuslratinir the present staggering, but it is nol going to state of development- or lack of I"'1' l1 ', nor without effort, development- in interior Oregon j "Down South a negro was con ...wi t.,1,1 .,.1.., ii .....I ...;n i, ivicted of murder and sentenced ...... lUtU IIJ Ik V.. Ill .Hill lll II - WHMWf .? .? i-.T t? .? f .N,.'S CANDY KhGHEN'-. Ny UMcd Next Dmir North of lliu I'mirh Hotel w m urns lini; of ciikistmas coniiTciions JnuVoxI's lx4Kl Nut, Dates, Candies Nome Made onrhound, Candy Hoxes half to three pounds our Christmas Patronage Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed JrfWWKSrMMW 1 t NO MOM: MUD AM) MUSI. The most important problem facing the road building' today is that of alleviating the dust and mud nuicances. For this reason special attention will be given to experiments with as phalts, tars, oils and salts, at the special short course in highway construction at the Oregon Agri cultural College January "-February .'1. These methods will be discussed and compared both as to cost and efficiency. The use of the split log drag, the road grader, and other equip ments necessary for bo, h earth and hard surface roads will be explained, the system of organi zation and administration in other states will bo discussed and com pared, and a special, careful study will be made of those best adap ted to conditions in Oregon. cr load (ii: sii:i:ks ran 0. a. c. The value of shorts and mid dlings as a supplement to ground wheat in feeding pigs for fat tning is the subject of an experi ment now being conducted by Prof. E. L. Potter of the animal husbandry department of the Oregon Agricultural College. Eastern Oregon is becoming greatly interested in hog raising, and as shorts and middlings are the most available supplement ary feed for the wheat growers, the experiment will be of special value to that part of tho state. Other tests made by the college prove that wheat alone is not the best feed for fattening purposes, and thus if some good supple ment easily secured by eastern Oregon farmers is found it will do much to further the swine in dustry of that part of the stale. The comparative value of scrubs and well bred pigs for fattening purposes is to be de termined in another test on the experiment larm for which a herd of ,'!() pigs have been set aside. Since February daily iccords of all the feed given the swine come one of the wealthiest areas in the entire country. He said: "It is altogether probable that the intimate relation of the rail road I have the honor to repre sent with the hitherto practically unknown great central area of this state is the reason 1 have been asked to address you and particularly the reason for the subject which has been assigned to me. "There is nothing new or p perimental in the country lying wesl of the Cascades. Tho three great valleys have been success fully cultivated for generations and there should be no question in the mind of any one as to the greatness and extent of their fu ture txissibilitios. "I find very few people; how ever, who know much about the district which is now familiarly called Central Oregon. To be exact it is the vast territory ly ing east of tho Cascade Range, and extending from the Colum bia River to California, contain ing five counties - Sherman, Wasco, Crook, Lake and Harnej with a population of 38,(!10. "These five counties have about four times tho area of Maryland, with one-thirtieth its population. They aveiitge one and one-third person to the square mile; they have more than one-half the area of Iowa and less than one-sixtieth its nonula- ;,,,. (1,,,,. 1, ...... tor. .,.....,.,.. .... 'its iiun, nit-j nuti; ',u. llli:jlv;i IVI - son -Iowa has 10. In Crook, Harney and like counties the average population isseven-tentlr of a person per square mile; in Crook county one and one-fifth persons. "Nevertheless, material ad to death. The judge said to him: 'The sentence of this court is that you bo confined in the county jail until the twenty-second day of August, and on that date you be taken to the place of execu tion and there hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul.' The thing seemed to sink rather slowly into the negro's full con sciousness; ho shifted around first on one foot then on the other and fin illy addressing the court in a pleading manner, said: " 'Say jedge, you don't mean this hero comin' August does you?' "Neither do 1 mean 'this coin ing August' or this coming year. Central Oregon presents man's sized problems. It is practically without agricultural history or precedent. The vast acres are there: varying climatic conditions must bo reckoned with; all the problems proper seed . soil anal ysis, utilization of moisture, cor rect rotation, are to be met with and solved. "The crying need of tho coun try is naturally for people, but the greater need is for people of the right sort and to see that they are started right. A sufficient sum of money has been raised by contributions, from the railroads, business interests of Portland and in Crook county, to establish and maintain for two years, or until the Legislature can assume proper responsibilities, two experiment stations in that county one to teach dry and the other irrigated farming. "While at least two experi mental farms will be maintained, wo expect the best results to flow advise the farmers. "It seems to me to bo entirely reasonable to say that Central FOR SALE BY OWNER. 1 section, GMO acres, level un sage improved brush , , ., IIIIJIUVUU BilKV U1U3II IUIIU II Oregon can be made the granary Va canbeaubirrigat. of the state, but to do this it must ,, ,nn m f.,f ,, bo pt-opled and they must be ed- hoURO (ccp wcl, .;nd otherwise morc- Ho sought for a quicker A Des Moines man had an at tack of muscular rheumatism in land in,n'3 snouiuer. a incnu auvtsea him to go to Hot Springs. That rrnl meant an expense 01 iou or improved. Prices made tosuit in- arm cneaper way tocurcitnna tending settlers. No speculators l,ounu u ln Chamberlain s Lini- ; ment. xnree uays alter the hrst application of this liniment he ror sale by all deal- need apply. Inquire at this office. Always ready for job printing. I was well, ers. ucaieu ami assisted, it is not a universal condition, but so fre quently is it the case as to attain unpleasant prominence, that lands are held at too high a price. This will nol be a con tinuing condition, however, and will largely rc-ulale itself; but i t does have its adverse effecl at the present and does tend to i postpone settlement. j "Tho question is one in' which ! all our interests are mutual. We ' unquestionably have the country, ' and we evidently have favorable) conditions of soil and climate. Itarely does a new country start with so inviting a prospect. It is ' fair to say that tho railroads j have done their share and are , now only awaiting an evidence ' of co-operation and progress to advance even further into the in terior than they are at present." MEN I HAVE SKETCHED rnvniTinvs HI . a rwm mi w t Moiorixtit. isii.iiumer i)atcinni jnciii-ii.i i no eotuo.st; is open to all readers oi l tie rimes-Herald I had been at the St. Louis l'lo" the age of twenty-one years excepting teachers of Convention in 180G for several Ulruwing and professional artists. days and when it was an absolute Cut out of the columns of The Times-Herald each week certainty that the Root forces .Mr. Davenport's cartoon and make a free hand copy of it would be thrown to Mckinley, , i .. , . , , ., , ., , .1,., ,.,;. t- . i on clean white letter or drawing paper either with pen or thus ensuing his nomination I .. . t i i i hurried of! to Canton, Ohio, with P",1C1- a very dignified elderly compan-j Then mail the clipping and your copy together with ion. Murat Halstead! As Mr. j your name, age and address to MANAGER, THE T1MES- Halstead was the famous editor j II ERALD'S HOMER DAVENPORT DRAWING CONTEST whose good stories and intimate. .;.., wet,k l COmmittee will pass upon the drawings personal reminiscences had a do- ,,,, ,,,,.. .. , , . .ff,i , , , ! and make the awards. hghtfully humorous turn I clung I . very close to him on the train, I ' t,Ie Poii submitting the best drawing will be giv- anxious not to miss anything ''" il handsome artist's proof of Mr. Davenport's sketch that he was telling. Of course, printed on Japan paper and personally autographed by there was one great theme of I thf. i-,.nt orrisf. YOUNG PEOPLE Join THE TIMES-HERALD'S HOMER DAVENPORT Drawing Contest now running weekly in The Times-Herald in connection with Mr. Davenport's great series HEN I HAVE SKETCHED This week the subject of the sketch is Reed gossip and that was as to tho future of tne candidate-soon-to be, whom we were enroute to see. On the morning of our arrival in Canton tho news of Mckin ley's nomination was country wide. Major Mckinley and Mu rat Halstead had been friends for many years so that on the announcement of our arrival in Thee autographed artists proofs are not for sale at any price and will be highly treasured by those who are fortunate as to receive them. The educational value of this contest as an encourage ment to the study of art and modern history cannot be overestimated. jyr .syt&fr.-f 3 ' r W - ' 'fA.I 7Il'. i- 7V i ""Ai' z :w: I fe t M'-A'- ' w: m A . - T VS.I-'X" Canton the venerable editor and myself were immediately sum-1 moned to appear at the Mckin-1 ey home. As we approached his quiet unpretentious town res-' Burns Flour Milling Co. Makers of the- 'Famous Burns Flour' -and- U CREnlO" BREAKFAST FOOD Always for the development of Central Oregon and Har ney County. from intimate instruction given , 1 l.,... .. 1 ,t,i thi) fnrmm linnli mc nuin mnn wuii.i-mt.-iii. ii.i.f ul'uii muni', uvea i ' - v' "'" ' "" "" :,i,, ii, m:. . -.. without transportation facilities, i We feel a natural and pardon-1 ? c.f ? f ing on which is evidenced by the single I all- pridoin havingacco.nplishedj1 h ' " ot .' old fact that Crook Co. in 1001 Iku! ' this much, still it is but a drop in f10"1 ro?k? . that i i.: . ...i.:.,i., 1 1. l,.i,.l;,t wli.m ..nmimnvi u.;,i, I were so prominent m the iurni- uui uuu liiii-aiiiiiK muni, uiiiuii!" -- ........... ...... handled .00.000 bushels of grain, the necessities of the whole situ-1 iS.-l", C. M. KELLOGG STAGE CO. -v -, while in 1900 there were fifteen :Uion. which threshed more than 2,000 000 bushels. "Oregon is essentially nn agri- times they are treasured as heir-' looms handed down from dean parents. ....Il I !..! 1 1 i i-uiuii.il i.iiu, ami wo nave ai i ,..,la l,,,,, ,,i..: i. r it is estimated that one-third Corvallis a remarkable agricultu- 0f tlie man thaUvas to run for ?I. ' lt!S0.W!,i:C;,,!UKlr00k R,,1Mlk'K? vTl 'h ,PPrtwl the Presidency but I couldn't. i.iNiiui.i,ui;,,iu;iinm ui .ij; 1 1-i aim i-uamuu iu t luiiu us opera- i,i ....it...... lu.:., r.-M i7o :.. r : i... ..i 1:. ...... ..: I1UP I-IIHIIIV, uviiih n.Mi'H- in UilM.W.1 IIUII.-) 1,Y MHHII UllliUIJ NIUUOI1S l,707.fi-'0 in Crook; one-fourth of throughout tho entire state, it Harney county, 1,005,(510 acres it can be counted on to do more for is estimated can bo cultivated. Figures are not immodiatob available for Sherman and Lake, but it can be reasonably assumed ' that these t counties contain i the commercial advancement of the slate than any other agency. "In Kuiopoan countriis agri cultural education has received far more attention than with us. In Denmark, which is about the Homestead Locations 5,000,000 acres of tillable land "There are at the present time, size of Harney and Crook count- and monthly records of their in- i the several segregations be- ios, there are more than fifty dividual weights have been kept, tvvoon 75,000 and 800,000 acres agricultural colleges and schools, aild this is a regular part of thojof land which can and will all be and the state provides almost in experiment farm work, for the irrigated, ami there are easily every neighborhood its experts purpose of gaining in time accu- 1.000.000 acres which will come to continually counsel with and rate knowledge of the total cost' - : oi production, uouanie results are not expected until data for some years can be compiled and co-ordinated. Mar tags with numbers are to be put on all of the pigs to make identification easier. The cost of fattening is already fairly well known, but tho cost of breeding and raising them to the weaning point is as yet a matter largely of specula tion. Tho now farm bought last Hummer makes it possimo to iraiso hwiiiu unuer actual tarin 'conditions. noticing the seeminglv studied finish and warmth of greeting that Mr. Mckinley showed towards theediloi. They greeted each other by their first names, which sounded exceed ingly agreeable to me as my ex perience up to that moment had been very limited with presiden tial candidates. We sometimes forgot that Presidents or men approaching the presidency have such simple things as first names. (Continued on page !.) 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, Affent. i . 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