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Warn, i4 ? fE tfivtaX Unrueu (Cauitlru Coom mi iirm of 0,428,800 acre ol land, l,(i:tl,051 ncrcB yet cant nl)fcl to entry under tlio public land Uwi o( tlio United Stn'eii. Tliu Ulllrlnl I'll per ol Hnrtiny County lian tliolnrxoat circulation nml Inomrof liu bunt mlvorttdliiK incilliinin In Knslmn Ori'icon, -): VOL XXV BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY 3. 1912 NO 12. OPHEAVY SAYS "BILL" stead of Being Consumers Oregon j People Should be Producers I ST OREGONIANS BACK OREGON mrts IdcaH as to Reclamation of Our Arid Lands Projects MiiHt be Developed a Railroads, Namely (ItiHue Ponds at Low Kate and Long-Time Payment. )ti'Kon in topheavy, ovcrbal tl a Htnto of consumers "One of the bijr principles which in nircctintr Oregon," ho Baid, "iH a tendency to hold the price of Innd too liMi. We spend too much in advertising to draw the people to points where land iH held at extravagant figures, when there should he more effort to develop the large acreages and meat and n wo ought lobe producerH," Williiim Hanley, the Harney dy cattle and land baron, with Mr. Hanley !h at the lantl hotel for n few days, the Journal, st back from the east, whero ''out with the governors' spe- first course producta and remained to look after bread. Ite affairs. Mr. Hanley tV "Another big principle, hand led more than over with the in-hand with the one mentioned, that the greatest and most is the financing of irrigation irlant task before Oregon, plans. Speculators in irrigation before the nation, is lo get a projects must drop the idea of tor jMjrcentngo of the popu- making money from irrigation, n away from tlio cities and and must be satisfied with a fair the land, whero they will price for the land, me producers instead of mere' "Irrigation must be put on a umers. basis of actual cost. Irrigation Jiny mind that is the most project must be developed as us problem before the conn- railroads; that is issue a well .oday," he said. "If every secured bond nt a low rate, with 'able agency is put to work long-time payment and good se eing about the change it will curity. The irrigator's home is n generation to accomplish like a bank, where it is impossi As the railroads penetrate bio to deposit money and lake it fn touched portions of Oregon out faster than it is placed. The onsof acres of good land will promoter demands that the ut within the reach of set- poor settler pay back money the J1 and tlio more I come in first year from raw land. Money i with the work of bringing ' should only be paid up when the le to these lands the more home is built, and the bonded in- ested I become in it. debtcdness is nothing as compar- Cliobeat politics for Oregon od to the value of the property. vvork-for Oregon. We don't' "I found in the East that the t the little end of the horn in ' people there have a tendency to- jriiuro reclamation deals, n the law was passed appro ving $20,000,000 for reclama purposes it was understood each sUite would receive from ward being jealous of the WesL They have yet to learn, however, that wo are the biggest customer that the east can have or that the East bus. They are manufac- und in projiortion to ils con-lturers and are rich. itiou to reclamation. Instead jon has given $o000,000 than it has received. So g work for Oregon and get th's coming to us." r. Hanley has been meander dong on his way home from mst for several weeks. Mrs. icy came to Portland three our weeks ago, expecting (o flier husband, but "I go just ie the notion takes me," says Hanley, and the result was h too early in coming to kind. "Oregon now has the greatest opportunity in its history. Wo are getting transportation facili ties never hoped for nor of which we dreamed. The people of the state must get behind the staie with actual results. "We must develop the rivers, harbors, public roads and not talk too much about taxing producers and constructors." Mr. Hanley declares that the trip of the Governors' special fMrs. Hanley was several waa II wonderful success, ant. mill II- vv m it vf;iiii tiuw uivi West much good. He says the ion she learned this fact hIic1"I to tho Elxsl is. only .tho s.K,rt Medford and visited r a movement wlien the cities and towns on tho Atlantic sea board and the Middle west will send similar special trains to the West. "In tho East, like in the West, I . . the small towns and tho largo re tho Oregon forests back'"1'0100 much localised. People regonians, let Oregonians (I ,,ot ovel ,"low ,ne,r ''I1 out for Oregon; get Oregon "t-igl.bors. When they do tho to her natural resources palest era of development will Oregonians behind the slate come ka"l,d' lis natural products, says a ' " " special to tho Orctroninn. "ODD MASONS TOR M()l KOAIiS. so nro somo of tho things IWilliam Hanley, tho land Ho .friends until three or four ago, when she returned to 'ortland and was rewarded he arrival of her husband iirday. Of Burns and Eastern Ore- If any citizen of this communi ty cannot think of a good reason i learned on his Eastern trip for supporting a movement for tho Governors and on his good roads ho will find it in tho supplemental trip of several subjoined list, says an exchange. . The slate of Ohio during 1911 ildy had ho returned to the enacted a law revolutionizing thnn ho cuino to Salem methods of road construction and Mo go over the irrigation repair in that state. In furtber ijjon with State Engineer auco of tho good roads work tho e and imblbo and imparl Ohio Good Roads Federation has ideas as to tho reclamation started a campaign to secure a d lands In Oregon. constitutional amendment per- Comoblla Studebakef SeVen-Passepger Caps I llll SIIOKII'sr WAV he Burns-Bend Auto Line - -OI'KIIVIltD JIY IE COLLINS ?AUTO COMPANY . i... .....i... .. . kill 11 . II1..U i Ml HWMil.r. rtmi rmw.n vo lliitnul K, in aiMl atrlti nt lleml Hi 6 1 m Ult tmlii ih-kI morning HUSO prrlvwit I'urlUiii kt Mb , m., In llmi lor Miior Uro Irom Htiiul lo I'utlUnd, , Murium llvml liy auto, ii)U, lMluilIra rlilo uy unto Mtt-Clnm Servlco (luaranteoil HeiuliuarterH Preach Hotel ! UOIIU, Agent - - - 11UKNS, Oregon milting the issuing of bonds for state aid to road construction. Ah a part of its campaign the Federation issued a bulletin giv ing the following reasons for sup porting the preject: If you are a farmer, because your farm will increase in value, vou can raise more profitable crops, your cost of hauling will bo lower, you can market your products when prices are best, your children can get to school, your family can attend church, your physician will be in close touch with you, your boys and girls will stay on the farm, you will have better mail service, more social life, and happier con ditid'ns'all around. If you are a merchant, because good roads enlarge your trading radius, and make it possible for purchasers to reach you every day in the year, and thereby in crease your sales. If you represent a chamber of commerce or a board of trade, because the public roads are com mercial feeders to tho cities, and every improvement of these roads means a greater prosperity to the citirs through increased agri cultural production and greater stimulus to all industries. If vou area highway official, because you are striving for bet ter methods of road construction and maintenance, and more efl'. cient road administration. If you are a railroad man, be cause improved roads mean greater piotection, consequently more traffic, prevent freight con gestion, brings more industries, more roads, more tourists. If you are an automobile user, because you can get the benefit of your machinery every day in the year, your repair bills will be lower and better tout's will be possible at all seasons of the year. If you are a dealer in farm productsand implements, because vou can receive the products and deliver the implements at all times. If you area publisher or editor, because improved roads make wider circulation possible, in crease advertising by stimulating commercial enterprises and be cause road improvement is the most important economic ques tion of the age. If you are the proprietor of a hotel, because improved roads means more tourists and more commercial travel. New Eng land, with its system of good roads, gets ?(0,000,000 a year from tourists alone. If you area banker, because good roads will increase agricul ture, commerce, manufacture, depositors, deposits, and divid ends. If you area progressive citizen because you cannot progress so long as your state and nation re main in the mud. WILL NOT RUSH COURT MOUSE. Architect Elliott, accompanied by his wife, arrived from On tario last Saturday for the pur poso of submitting some plans he had drawn for the new court house. The members of the court met to examine the plans and discuss the matter in detail. Mr. Eb ' liott was given to understand! that the court was going to pro ceed in accordance with the law and no contract will be let until every detail is in readiness then published notice for bids will be' given. There is no necessity for hasto and the matter will be taken up at the March term. Tho court is right. Tho im portance th.it the new building bo properly constructed and tho best possible for tho money should bo given careful consider ation. A structure that fills tho requirements is what is desired and the way to get it is lo give all reputable architects and con tractors a chance. Rentes for wile, all sizes and cngths, price 20 cents per fool. Any one desiring Iteatos address W. A. Ford of .1. O. Alberson, Mberson, Oregon. COLONIZATION BUREAU ASSIST DEVELOPMENT James J. Hill Urges Centralization of Northwest Exploitation NORTHWEST "ZONE OF PLENTY" Northwest Development League Should Become The ton-0reBOn anJ the territory of "Clearing House" and do Work to Better Advan--Alaska"thanthe7oneof Plenty.' lage Than Each Separate tate-AH Pull Together, j'f w,c. tak(! f? of states. 1 h standing at friendly attention - .along twe thousand miles of our Canadian border, with four hun- 'The Times-Herald has just re- deriving and governing the lives dred miles of eastern frontage ceive n statement by James J. of men and commonwealths in Hill respecting the Northwest that intimate intercourse which Development League in which he is the distinguishing mark of advocates the strengthening of modern times. the organization, cooperation and The phase of growth the establishment of a central more particularly engages the colonization or immigratian bu- best minds of today is combina reau. He says in part: tion within power, just, reason- tne states ot tins league able limits. We lounU out long called the 'Zone of Plenty.' With spend enough separately on im- ago that individuals.communitics' the nresent and the fu'ure of more homogenous development of the whole nation that could take place otherwise. "The word 'Northwest' has ro longer a definite significance. Once it meant Pennsylvania. Later one understood by it Indi ana and Illinois. Minnesota and the Dakotas, Washington and Oregon in their turn have come within its hospitable definition. Perhaps we can find no term more aptly characteristic of the THE MOVEMENT IS WELL BACKED territory repn ".nnted here Minn esota, North Dakota, South Da kota, Montana, Idaho, Washing- Children's Attention is Drawn to Importance of Farming Agricultural Clubs to He Organized in All Public Schools in OregonGeneral Plan of Commencement Agreed Upon Slale Superintendent and Agricultural College Backs it. Two of the most important and over five hundred miles of ! agricultural develonments ever coast line on the Pacific, we have ' launched out of Portland are a territory so identical in inter- taking form, and will be put in ests of so splendid a past, of a effective working condition soon, future so abounding in promise. 'Oneisstnrtincrstatn wide instnin- which'of a neighborliness already so 'tion in agriculture, amoncr thn thoroughly established, of such j children, and the second is call ample capacity in the production ; ing the Irrigation Congress, of wealth that in may fitly be 'which is to nut Oretron in nmi- tion to apply the abounding waste waters of the state tosimi- ROAD TOO SOFT F0K TRUCKS. migration projects 10 onng in corporations anu every mstru- this mighty aggregate of natural arid lands, says the Telegram several times as many people each mentality having to do with the potencies this organization has The first movement, which was year as they gain; but a consid- common life of men can accom-j to deal. initiated by the Oregon Banker's uruuiu puruun oi ins uevoieu to piisn more results, doui as to - ( Association, under the committee enticing seiners irom one ot quality anu quantity, when work them to another. ing together free from hostile i most uesirauie result oi suspicion, uur own ana many c. C. Harrison, of the Auto tins confederation would be the other countries have been experi-( Truck Co. came in from Bend establishment of a common im- menting for a generation With Tuesday, returning to that point migration agency, with resources this law. Almost every business Thursday morning in response to sufficient for a comprehensive in the United States today uses n loWr-im pnllino- dim in Pmr. canvass of possible settlers, but the method of associated enter- absolutely impartial as to their lo- prise in handling interests hav- cation anywhere within this zone ing a common focus. Our larger between the Mississippi and the court has only recently laid down Pacific Substitute one central the equitable rule by which the colonization bureau for seven and coordination of business interests every dollar expended will do the without hurtful monopoly may work that five do now. "This association of seven slates and our great undeveloped territory comes into existance in an interesting way. The North- be directed and limited in the future. We are witnessing a rapid evolution of the commer- season. land on business. Mr. Harrison states that the roads have become too soft for the trucks to run and bring any loads. This is quite unusual at this season of the year, the roads generally stay frozen until the latter part of February. It is an indication of a milder winter ! minofromont rf Tmntnf f)tmrtl--knl is backed by State Superinten dent of Instruction Alderman, and the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. At the Corvallis confer ence held this week a general ' plan for commencement was agreed upon. This will consist i of getting agricultural clubs or-, ganized in all the schools, en couraging the members to culti vate grounds, and arranging for the club, county and state com petitions following. This work cial side of human partnership "As citizens and pioneers and west Development league is not upbuilders of the country we the creation of the promoter's should follow the lead and adopt art. It is not a product of either the best discoveries of commer ambition nor jealousy. It is a I cial experience. It is only natu grouping of business entitles hav-ral that a number of states, ing work in common which can ' closely related by location, by be accomplished better united ( natural advantages, by similarity than divided. j of interests, should combine to "The conduct of business in 'promote the growth of all those the long run is not a mere scram- j interests. Tin's is the fact and ble for the best place at the J this is tho idea behind the organi trough. As science discloses the zation of the Northwest Devel broad genial principles by which iopment league, the world of nature works, so the "It furnishes the machinery by study of human association fori which these states of the north- fl.rt l.tIMnnnt v C ..nlil. n m lt. ' l!.. .. . . I . . i . n .. A Aun iiiu nitiuuauui weiiiui aim inu urn uei may urnier uuu iiiuici growth of commerce reveals sim- quickly achieve their rightful , Clevenger pays the highest ilar broad general principles im- destiny, as part of a better and market price for hides and furs. The trucks can ran out from Bend to the half-way station and the company is delivering several tons of freight consigned to Burns there and just as soon as the roads will permit it will be brought in. Mr. Harrison came in on one of the regular cars making the run between here and Bend and it took them 9 hours to come from the half-way station in. pest to thriving gardens. In later years it is the purpose of the workers, who have been inspired by the bankers' move ment, to extend this agricultural education every season, until ul timately the common schools em brace it as a part of theirregular course, and there are regular ag ricultural schools throughout the state, leading up to the Agricul tural College. It is in the pros pective development that the greatest results are foreseen. All joining in the work believe that they are participating in a serious change in educational affairs, which will bring instruction to the nearest possible approach to the practicable and useful things of life. In the Irrigation Congress is found another fruitful prospect for Oregon. In the last years the state made no intelligent, concerted efforts to protect itself, or get its irrigable lands before farmers of the Nation. When Secretary of the Interior Hitch t ock began his gross discrimina- in Portland is already being ; tion against the state in allotting studied out, and several thousand reclamation funds, and Senator Portland children are expect d Fulton appealed to Oregon for to be enlisted during the sum-' support in fighting the injustice, mer months transforming vacant there was practically no response. lots and unused ground from a " (Coinued on page 4) 'SSSSfiSilJEiSKSE i it a Mrs. I. H. Holland of Burns, arrived Monday from Portland where she has been for some time visiting. Argus. feS liy' iLPyV?jfefcillSK- I I "m J J il.'iPflL jTV 1iJBBBMBHB Fh lB,va'ia K iNit r Burns Flour Milling Co. Makers of the- 'Famous Burns Flour -and- "CREMO" BREAKFAST FOOD Always for the development of Central Oregon and Har ney County. ttMKMmnOMM.tlBraCTI; ' yrs&st's:&ss -y - Ti Oregon 'a Official Stole Booth Mokes Excellent Showing ot Land Show C. M. KELLOGG STAGE CO. Four well equipped lines. Excellent facilities . for transportation of mail, express, passengers Pralriu City to Burns. Vale to Burns Burns to Diamond Burns to Venator E. B. WATERS, Agent. Oregon's official state booth at- City and Duluth. Similar space traded much attention at the was also furnished free to all the Northwestern Land Products other states in the Northwest Show recently held in St. Paul. Development League. Of all the big shows in 19U this The official state booth of Ore was the most important as North', gon was designed and put up by western products alone were i tho Great Northern Railway for show n, without fear or favor. I the State of Oregon was designed The olllcinl stato booth of Ore- and put up by the Great North gop occupied an equal amount of ern Railway for the state of Ore space with the other state oxhl- gon. It was Imnsomely decorat bits, which was subscribed for ed and the apples and other fruits by tho business men of the Twin from Hood River, Willamette Valley, the Umpqua and R..gue River Valleys made a splendid shoving. In addition to fruit growing, the chances for diver sified farming, dairying, hog and cattle raising, which are of much interest to the mid-Western and Eastern farmer, were emphasized The interest manifested in Oregon was such that the Great Northern ollicials am well satisfied that the state will benefit much from this comprepensive exhibit. u ii;::::.i:::::::..;...;.:;;.::.::i::n-.n::u:it!::tr.ia::anjmnamnmn:tni:ttm:::mmi :i :: ARCHIE M'GOWAN, President and Manager in if ,11 '!! 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