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VOL. XXV
BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OR13GON, MAY 18, 11)111
NO 27.
More Good Dry Farm Talks
Prof. Sciidder Visits the Drewsey and
Harney Sections and Addresses
The Farmers on Agriculture
C. R Molvinney and wife, Win.
Farre, Sam Motliersheail, Win.
Hanlcy, J. J. Donegal), C. II.
Leonard ami The Times-Herald,
man were the Burns dry farm
boosters who accompanied Prof.
Scudder to Drewsey Monday.
Mr. Hanley's car was disabled
from tire trouble on the road over
day evening was another good
one though not so largely attend
ed. The professor made a good
talk and the fanners present
plied him with questions which
he answered. It proved worth
while as he gave those present
much information.
At both Harney and Drewsey
making the time for the lecture, Mr. Hnnley made short talks tell-
later than had been scheduled
but there were a large number
of farmers there to hear Prof.
Scudder talk on his arrival. It
was a very beneficial meeting of
farmers and one that will result
in good.
The people of that favored
section are doing eonsideiable
farm work and the improved
methods suggested by Prof.
Scudder will bring better yields.
Those present took a deep inter
est in the talk, which was prac
ing tlio people wiiat the experi
ment farm and the assistance of
the agricultural college meant to
ward the development of this big
country. That all this informa
tion and the demonstrations on
the farm were for the farmei
and he should take advantage of
it.
Prof. Scudder left for Corval
lis Tuesday morning accompanied
by Supt. Hreithaupt of the ex
periment farm. The latter has
seeded such portion of the farm
three thousand M&County Fair Potent Factor
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Form the Pivot in Development of
Country Agriculturally, Says L.
W. Hill of Great Northern
line Tract Situated Near West Line of
Harney County bo Placed Under
System of Irrigation Soon
tical and along the line of con- na he intends to experiment with
serving the moisture for use at tins season ami is put lor a short
thn limn ir U mnst niwlod vlslt lro, w"lcl '10 wl11 return
the time it is mobt nu.iU.il. lh(J aUor t of thijJ montl)
Prof Scudder spoke of the vast i Prof Scudder expects to re
section of country that is capable turn here next month and hopes
of production and when properly then to meet more farmers and
tilled it will more than double consult with them.
1. ..,onf nrnlnnmcr nr.fl nf Mm' TllC DrOWSOy p0OI)lc WCTO ill
.,(,, if ;- ti, inwr,of Mn.intr.il vited to participate in the ex
state. It is the largest undevel- periinont work !uul SL.voral wi
oped agricultural territory m the (luvote sma tracts on their farms
world and we receive more than to such seeds and methods as are
nnnutrh nrocmitation to nroduce recommended. These plots will
,.-i,nf niimnM. nmi nii ,.,iii in,w bu worked under the direction of
-iri-ini '10 superintendentat the experi-
varraiu. meat station who will visit them
The real start toward the de- from time to time and give in
velopment of Central Oregon structions.
was begun on Prof. Scudder's The talks given during the past
trip this time, He remarked on two weeks are the real awaken
,, , r r inir of the farmer to what can be
the way home from Drewsey dcme jn mmi ; ..
that he believed lie had accom- culture. Prof. Scudder has put
plished more in the ten days he new life in that work and given
had spent in this territory than the farmers encouragement-in
he ever had in the same length 'net made them sec the great ad-
. j vantages of this section over
ot time ik tore. many others where farming is
The meeting at Harney Mon- successful.
The HOTEL BURNS
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Courteous treatment, rates reason- !
ableGive me a ca'l j
A First Class Bar in Connection j
W. T. Lester and It. 1). Cooper
have just returned from sutvey
ing and locating an irrigation
project just over the lino in
Crook county which has promis
ing features and will bring some
UOOO acres of lino land under
water at a verv reasonable cost.
A reservoir site has bo'.m locat
ed and the necessary lllings made
to impound the waters of Swamp
creek and Bulger creek which
will hold sullicieiit water to irri
gate the large tract of agricul
tural land lying immediately be
low. This particular project was
once a Carey act segregation but
the parties let it go and Mr. Les
ter, with others took the matter
up and Mr. Cooper, of the engi
neering firm of Cooper it Dodge,
was employed to work out the
engineering features. This hits
been completed and a very fea
sible project of reasonable cost
has been developed.
Some ditch work is now being
done and it is' expected to li'ive
the project completed in about
three years. Mr. Lester has not
stated the price per acre the
water will cost but we are given
to understand it will be reason
able. There are a largo number of
these smaller irrigation projects
throughout the Harney country
that will be taken up from time
to time as people realize the great
advantage of impounding the
Hood waters for use at the proper
time, especially as it seriotibly in
terferes at the earlier season in
Hooding otherwise good agricul
tural lands and prevents cultiva
tion and seeding at the proper
time.
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Announces that he will take down and completely
overhaul all Dorris Cars sold by him once each
y ar free of charge.
Mr. Dodson will be in Burns about April I
"Do not overlook the county
fairs. They form tho pivot in
tho development of the North
western slates agriculturally.
They are the great clearing;
houses for the big land products
and livestock shows as well as
all state fairs."
This is the keynote which
Louis W. Hill, president of the
Great Northern Railway has
sounded and which will bo taken
up with a vim when the North
west Development League meets
in Seattle in June. Among the
benefits to be derived from the
county fairs of the seven North
western states, Mr. Hill sums up
epigrammntically, as follews:
"(1) They start many per
sons exhibiting who would never
think of making exhibits at the
statu fair.
"(2) They bring tho fair suf
ficiently near so that all may nt
tend. "(:i) They educate the farm
ers in attendance along the lines
of their own greatest needs.
"() They stimulate efforts
in tlic direction ot highest ex
cellence. "(ft) They tend grently to
the building upof the State Fair,
both in regard to attendance and
exhibits. Because of these bene
fits the small fair is well worthy
of the state and of all actively
engaged in business in the com
munities in which they are held. "
Mr. Hill further says:
"One reason why many farm
ers do not exhibit at a state or
othur large fair is the apparent
hopelessness of ever winning a
prize, becauso of the extent of
the competition, coming as it
does from so wide nn nrea, but
when the area is limited as it
would bo in the case of a county
fair or even of a fair more local
than a county fair, the farmer
feels that he is competing against
one of his own class, and, there
fore, when ho is the iwssessor of
a product that he believes to be
superior, he is encouraged to ex
hibit the same. This he can do
with little or no expense in plnc
iug the article on exhibition,
hence if he does not win he does
not feel the pinch of financial
loss as he would had he exhibited
at tho State Fair. In this way
hundreds and thousands would be
led to exhibit who never would
have done so but for the oppor
tunity to exhibit at tfie small habit
fair.
"Tho location of tho smaller
fair makes it easily possible for
product on exhibition, he finds
to his astonishment, that half a
dozen others are ahead of him in
tho competition. He is naturally
anxious to know the reason why,
andin this way he comes to see
imperfections in his mothods
that .ho would never otherwise
have seen. In a hundred ways,
valuable information may be ob
tained. The farmer conies to
know about new and valuable
grainij, and he becomes acquaint
ed with the possibilities of at
tainment in growing all kinds of
produce in his locality. These
are away beyond his long cher
ished conception in regard to
these things mid he naturally
desires to know the methods by
which such excellence has been
attained. He sees livestock,
much better it may be, than ho
possesses, and ho desires to know
the measure by which such ex
cellence has been brought about.
He finds machinery on exhibi
tion, better than anything in that
line than he hns ever used and
he becomes acquainted with the
source from which he can obtain
it. He can get such information
with less of distraction than
would attend the securing of the
same at the large fair, because
of the many side attractions at
the latter.
"The farmer who becomes a
regular exhibitor at a small fair
is almost certnin to become an
exhibitor at a large fair. At the
small fair he has received the
stimulus to try and distance all
his competitors. This leads him
(o study methods by which high
er excellence may be attained.
When he succeeds in his effort
at the small fair, his ambition
lends him to desire to enter a
larger field and so he enters the
larger fair with his product. In
this way some farmers who have
produced the very finest of pro
ducts that have been put on ex
hibition have been educated in
the line of such production.
"In no way can support bo fur
nished so cheaply and so surely
for the State Fair as by en
couraging tho small fair. The
man who has attended the small
fair for years will not temain con
tent with that alone. He knows
that products will come from a
wider nrea to the State Fair and
he wants to see them. This leads
him to attend, and such atten-
(dance becomes as it were, a
Ho wants to go every
year. As previously intimated,
the small fair becomes a school
to tlio man who exhibits there.
SUITS INVOLVING WATER
RIO II IS ON SILVIiiS
William llnnloy Co. Starts Coiilcmpl
I'rocccdiiigs Against 1'. I,. S. Co.
Latter Sues Hour Mill Co.
many a farmer to attend, who' It tends to multiply exhibitu
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UKKI) IIKOH. Proprietor., Iliirnn
To take advantage of new in
ventions in farm machinery, I
wish to submit to the people nnd
especially to the farmers ti plan,
namely: To bring before the
county court of Harney county,
a bill- to purchase for use of tho
experiment station and farmers,
a forty horso power gasoline
plow. Most of us farmers don't
know enough and are not in a
position to acquire and manage
such an epoch making machine,
likely equals our automobile in
usofullness. Acreage has to he
increased to make up with other
places nearer the railroads. The
seasons for plowing are shorter
here than in the Columbia river
basin. To change the Valley
from a stock growing country to
a farm producing community,
this soi t of plow will be an ab
solute necessity. For machine
work, there is no country better
adapted than this, on account of
its solid underground and which
dries quickly on the surface after
a heavy rain.
Tho factory claims it will plow
10 acres a day at a cost of -10 to
HO cents an acre. On account of
higher cost of fuel here, let us
say about a dollar an acre. The
p'owing here, usually with horse
power, generally averages from
$3 to $ 1 an acre, loo high for set
tlers on new ground to mako it
pay. From three to five months
of actual plowing would pay for
the machine and the second year
the plow would bo free from cost
and the money repaid to the
county.
The financial condition of Har
ney County is favorable to the
cause. As to tho constitutional
ity of the plan, I nm not quite "a ho stays at homo lie becomes
sure, yet take it for trranled. wiser with referenco to short.
when Mm ciiiiniv dm mil $.( nnn t'omimrsin his work. When ho i
into drilling an artesian well for otH to t ' 'd l)lltH that than in that province."
water, wo can afford to buy ti
plow for K000 for use of both
farmer and county.
To summarize what this plow
would do for all, many points
could be considered. Many land
holders would have a chance- to
farm, instead of keening his land
for speculation. Deeper plowing '
can bo done, and what counts
far better, yields would bo in
creased, as the roots can peno-1
Irate deeper in more moist soil.
I beliovo many farmers would I
(Continued on pugo A.)
The William Hanley Co., has
filed contempt proceedings in the
U. S. district court against the
Pacific Live Stock Co. to compell
tho latter to show why they
should not be held in contempt
for enlarging the headgate at a
certain point in the east fork of
SilvioB river and using the water
for irrigation purposes. The land
covered by this formerly belong
ed to P. G. Smith, Peter Clemens
and others and the P. L. S. Co.
instituted suit against them in
11)10, asking that they be re
strained from the use of the
water for iirigation as it had
been agreed they were to have
water for stock purposes only.
Later the men sold the land to
the P. L. S. Co. tind now the
Hanlcy Company allege the wat
er is being unlawfully diverted.
Tho Pacific Live Stock Co.
started an injunction suit against
the Flour Mill Co. which involves
the power at the mill. The suit
is to remove its present dam up
ton point above the Foley slough
and bring it to the mill by means
of a ditch. The P. L. S. Co.
claims the dam backs the water
up and forces a large flow out
thru the slough that would other
wise flow down the channel of
the river. The null dam has
been in use for several years and
there has not been any complaint
made before.
Both these suits involve rights
to the water of Silves Uiver that
eirect a number of people. The
suits instituted will complicate
matters to some extent and also
brings to mind the importance
of adjudicating tho water rights
of the river as now undertaken
by the state. The users of the
water should know their rights
and the sooner it is settled the
better for the whole country.
IKIRNIi TO Till! T0MII.
Improvement Quite General
Trip Across Valley to Drewsey Show
Wonderful Advancement Along
Line of Farm Development
may not he able in the mean
time, to afford the expense in
curred in journeying to the State
Fair and of maintenance while
there. Such men are content in
tho absence of tho smaller fair,
to stay at home and therefore
they miss the benefits in educa
tional lines that fairs furnish so
effectively by way of ocular dem
onstration. He is encouraged to
go to the smaller fair becauso ho
knows many of his acquaintances
will bo there whom he can meet
and ho has friends in tho town
who are glud to caro for him, it
may be, during his stay at the
fair.
"Such fairs are highly educa
tional, as indeed nil fairs are.
The farmer may have concluded
that a certain product which ho
grows is about us good as can bo
produced with that lino. As long
greatly, because of the opportu
nity which it furnishes and this
means, in time, a corresponding
in exhibits and exibitors for the
large fair.
"The small fair then is worthy
of every encouragement. State
money given to sustain it is given
to sustain a good cause. Cham
bers of Commerce who give
moral mid material support to
such fairs are engaged in a good
work und the snmo is true of
local boards of trade. Even mer
chants, land men, business men
of all lines and professional men,
are casting bread upon the waters
that will come back to them,
when in a judicious way they
give encouragement to the local
fair. In no way can agriculture
In a neighborhood be lifted to so
high a plane at so little cost as by
maintaining a county or even a
more local fair in a thriving con
dition. The Ontario government
aids fairs in every township and
in no place on tho continent has
agriculture been more perfected
The last sad rites over all that
was mortal of the late Mrs.
Delia Goodmnn, wife of West
d'oodiiian, who died suddenly at
Portland Friday of last week
from an acute attack of heart
trouble, were held .t the Con
gregational church in this city
Tuesday, the Rev. .1. .1. Davy
olliciating. The funeral was one
of the most largely attended
ever held in the city, all business
houses closing during the ser
vices. Mrs. Goodman was aged !t!l
years, A months and 28 days and
was bom in Alturas, Cal. She
grew to womanhood in this city,
where she was married about
twelve years ago. The family
home was at the Lookout moun
tain ranch, where Mr. Goodman
was when the unexpected sum
mons came. Huntington News.
Mrs. Goodman was formerly
Di'lla Ginini who spent several
years of her girlhood in this city
where she had many friends.
The family moved to Huntington
from Hums several years ago.
Her husband, one son and her
mother survive her. She was a
member of the Uebeknh lodge
also of the W. of W.
Poor appetite is a sure sign of
impaired digestion. A few doses
of Chambei Iain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets will strengthen
your digestion and improve your
appetite. Thousands linyo been
benefited by taking these Tablets. '
Sold by all dealers. . ,
You should inspect the fine as-'
sortmont of Wall Paper at Lun.i-
burg, Dalton & Go's. I
One is impressed with the
wonderful advancement of the
country by a trip across the
northern portions of Harney Val
ley and over to Drewsey. Much
improvement has been done till
along the road and much of he
wild land has been subdued. A
vast amount of clearing and cul
tivation is seen from the road
and the crops are looking ex
ceptionally good.
The road needs some attention
on the mountain between Huch
anan'sand the top. "Nigger Flat"
is a fright and a portion of the
road between Cow Creek and
Buchanan is very rough. From
the top of the mountain to Drew
sey the road is in the very best
condition.
Some of the best farming lnntl
in Harney county is also found
along the Malheur Kivcr adjacent
to Drewsey. Climatic conditions
arc favorable nnd some of the
tender vegetables such as mellons
cucumbers and tomatoes do ex
ceptionally well. Fine grain, al
falfa and fruit farms are in that
locality.
Tho little city of Drewsey is
the center of a very prosperous
territory and does a great volume
of business. The citizens are
progressive and public spirited.
An irrigation project to cover
2100 acres of land adjoining that'
town is to be constructed at once
by I. M. Davis, S. S. Williams
and the P. L. S. Co. There will
be about 18 miles of canal and
contracts aro to lie let at once. It
is hoped to have the work com
pleted within a few months. We
understand this irrigation pro
ject covers only deeded lands of
the parties inteiested. but the
canal will pass thin the town.
W. D. Baker has recently pur
chased a job press and some type
and will issue u weekly news
paper. Tho publication will bo
known as the "DrowBey News"
and will be four columns, four
pages. Mr. Baker will turn the
paper over to his son, who is now
in high school in this city and
the young man will have charge
of it. The first issue will bo
printed about the 1st of June as
it was nccesssary to get more
material that has not arrived.
The delegation of Burns people
who nccompanied Prof. Scudder
over there last Monday was most
warmly received and royally
treated. The freedom of the
city was at their service and the
business men showed an appre
ciation of the interest taken by
Burns boosters to carry forward
the important work of better con
ditions thruout the county.
Drewsey has a live bunch of
people and this is not confined to
those of the town but also the
surrounding country.
The Columbia River fruit dis
tricts will score heavily this sea
son. Cherry orchards around
The Dalles will yield 1,400,000
pounds of fruit, which California
cannery men are anxious to get
at 1 cents per pound, meaning
$50,000 for the growers of that
section. Hood River expects an
apple crop well over 1,000,000
boxes that will be marketed
throughout the world wherever
prize fruit is in demand. Other
districts report equally fine crop
prospects.
See The Inland Empire Realty
Co. in regard to your Ileal Estate
or Government Land Business.
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