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CITY OF BURNS
The Biggest City In The Biggest
COUNTY OF HARNEY
The Biggest County In The Stete
County In The State Of Oregon I
Of Oregon, Best In The West I
VOL. XXVI
BIIKNS. HARNEY COUNTY, ORKCON. MARCH IB, 1118
NO. 18
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INE MAY BE CONNECT
ING LINK OF HILL R'Y
Ember Road on West Coast of The
Cascades May Be Part of System
East and West Through The State.
Hill System Busy With Many New
Details For Immediate Construction
Phe news items from outside It is announced that the road will
week would indicate that , bean extention of the Salem-West
Ire is a move on the part oi, May ton line. ngnt ot way lor
Hill railroad interests to ; which is already acquired. This
lid across the state. One art- road has been promoted by .). F,
in a Portland paper says a Mounce, who has been in Salem
'f railroads will be built for the past eight months and
it from Albany, Ore., into the who is known to be a Hill repre-
Iber following the sale of a sentative. The proposed Oregon
tract of timber land by the railway will connect with the
Bgon & Western Colonization Hill and Harriman roads in the
and the other is in respect Deschutes valley and will strike
orporation papers being filed through the Cascades in oastirn
Salem tor a line trom there to i-inn county.
u. in addition to these news
rts The Times-Herald learns
a private source that a big
er project is being developed
the Deschutes country of
rmous horse power, it is
t the Hill interests are back
this and that it means electa-
ioals not only across the
caies to the west tut also
nches covering the great Cen-
1 Oregon area. The news
in part follew:
Articles of incorporation were
it Salem for the Oregon
Iway Company, to operate be-
n Salem and Bend. The in-
Drators are J. F. Mounce, A.
McLeod and G. A. Kilwand
the capital stock is fixed at
000. This incorporation has
ed much interest at Salem
it is said that it means that
city will have another Hill
operating in a short time.
Announcement to the effect
that a railroad will be built from
Albany into the timber on the
west slope of the Cascade moun
tains is construed to mean con
struct ion of the first link of an
easi ami west line across mi
st ite by the Hill system.
While the announcement does
not state who will build the line.
L. W. Hill's close identification
with the negotiations that have
jus1 ben consummated lead to
the conclusion that the railnd
will be financed by the Hill inter
ests. Porter Bros., prominent rail
road contractors of Portland,
timber owners and heavy stock
holders in the Oregon & Wash
i n g t o n Colonization company,
have taken over from the Ore
gon & Western Colonization com
pany title to 102,000 acres of
(Continued on page two)
One Way To Reduce High
Coat Of Living
A local wool grower has railed
the attention of The Times-Her
ald to an expression of Ixniis F.
Swift respecting the high price
of meats. He says: "The con
sumer keeps on demanding the
choice cuts of beef when lamb
and mutton, fully as nutritious,
are being offered at a cheaper
price."
Upon investigation we li n d
that even in Burns mutton is
cheaper by considerable than the
beef and since we have large
flocks of sheep we might cheap
en the high cost of living by us
ing 1 variety of meats. Mutton
has been considered more or less
a luxury in this place for a long
time, as it has been only occa
sionally it could be secured at
the market. Now it seems to be
kept in stock all the time.
Another matter that will help
in this direction is the benefits
derived from Mrs. Calvin's re
cent visit in which she showed
the housewives that the cheaper
cuts of meal were really good if
properly cooked and cared for.
We are all learning and ossibly
President Wilson will be able to
give us some pointers when he
gets at i ii e t. n lit revision
"stunt."
POOR SEED CAUSES BIG
LOSS TO THE FARMER
Investigation And Experience Proves
That The Biggest Loss The Farmer
Has Failed To Remedy Is The Se
lection of Proper Seed. Poor Seed
The' Greatest Drawback Existing
Low Fares To The Northwest L. W. HILL PREDICTS
PROGRESS THIS YEAR
Coloniit Rates Will Be In Effect
March 15-Ap.il 15, 1913
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County Court Adjourns
County court adjourned Mon
day evening after betas '" ses
sion since Wednesday of last
week. Moth commissioners Main
and Sylvester ami Judge Thomp
son being present.
The Times Herald secured part
of the proceedings last week but
they were crowded out at the
last moment by other matter.
The purchase of the old public
school bttflding for the high
school was mentioned last issue.
Other matters of importance
taken DP were:
Order refunding the I mill
building tax assessed last year.
Many of these claims were paid
during the term just closed.
Hereafter the salaries of the
various county officers will be
paid the first of each month in
stead of waiting for the regular
court terms.
Another matter that should be
remembered is the policy in the
future to have them acted upon
at that term. Another matter
that was given attention was a
change in the policy of contract
ing bills. In the future the pur
chase of anything must first be
sanctioned by the court before it
is purchased.
Thos. Howard employed as jan
itor for the coming year.
Scalps were counted and de
stroyed. Or. Tillson Harrison employed
as county physician for a year at
$75.00 a month.
James Mines accepted as an
indigent and K. L Heede was to
take charge of him.
Several road petitions were
acted ilium.
Petition of I'rice Cochran for a
saloon license in Harriman pre
cinct denied, there being a re
monstrance against it.
Chronic Stomach Trouble C'urrd.
There is nothing more discour
aging than a chronic disorder of
the stomach, and it is surprising
that many sutler for years with
such an ailment when a perma
nent cure is within their reach
and may be had for a trifle.
"About one year ago," says P.
H. Heck, or Wakelee, Mich., "I
bought a package of Chamber
lain's Tablets, and since using
them I have felt, perfectly well.
I had previously used any number
of different medicines, but none
of then) were Of any lasting bene
fit." sold by all dealers.
Try Nyals Family medicine a
The Welome Pharmacy. 10 tf
Poor seed is costing producing
interests hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually and still the
practice of accepting any old
thing for seed purposes is not
being diminished.
Poor seed not only means de
creased volume of production but
it likewise curtails the quality;
both of which are matters that
vitally affect the pocket book of
you, Mr. Farmer.
Ten years careful study of the
markets shows that fully seve.i-ty-five
per cent of the produc-1
lion in most lines is not first class.
A largo )er cent of this is traced
directly to the planting of xor
seed.
Spring seeding will soon be on '
In the country districts, therefore
this subject is most timely.
Poor seed is almost as bad as
none at all. It never pays to
plant it; no matter what first
Special inducements to Home
seekers in the way of rates will
In given from March 15th to
April 15th, 1913, when a very
low charge will be made over the
Oregon-Washington Railroad &
Navagation Company lines and
connecting lines to the East and
South.
Colonist travel now does not
mean crowding and discomforts.
For the journey sleepers are at
tached to all trains and a slight
The California potato men rea- increase over the regular fare
list that good seeds means better will provide every comfort en
potatoes, which in turn call for route. The colonist sleepers dif-
higher prices. While Oregon fers from the standard Pullman
growers are using the same seed only in upholstery fittings. The
they have utilized for years, mattresses and covers are of a
other sections are getting in new standard quality,
stock or blood and are beating One of the advantages of the
this section not only in the rates during the Colonist season
amount produced per acre but in is that fares mav be prepaid,
the quality. Anyone may arrange with the
What is true of the seed of O.-W. R. & N., agents for the
wheat and other grains, canta- coming of relatives and friends.
Impel and potatoes, is likewise When the money is deposited the
indicative of what is needed in agent attends to all the details
other lines of fruit and produce, 'of wiring for tickets, sleeping car
The quality is or should be the ' reservations, etc.
first consideration and it seldom j Regular stops are made for
happens that the market shows the benefit of the travelers who
too great a quantity of best 'do not carry provisions with
growth. Poor seed is reflected them on the trip,
in the price obtained for the pro-1 The Colonist rates offer an easy
duel just as good shows an op- Holution of the problem confront
posite effect. The small addi- inR the homeseckor as to how to
tional cost of good seed is scarce- n,ach the Northwest while the
Eastern Farmers Greatly Interested In
Central and Eastern Oregon, Many
Of Whom Will Arrive This Spring
To Look Over Land With The
View of Locating This Year
quality costs or how hard it is to ly a drop in the bucket compared prepaid feature has rendered it
obtain. with the benefits received from possible for many to come who
1 have psrsonal knowledge of t,H' "da Of the product at the would otherwise not make the
dozens of farmers in various lines
of production who pay far less
attention to the iiiality of the
seed they plant than they do to
the constant bickering of buyers
who refuse to pay good prices for
inferior quality. I have known
dozens of farmers who annually
sell the better portion of their
higher prices that are always ob- journey
tamable. 11. H. Cohen in the
Rural Spirit
More Stock Buyers Here
Two more stock buyers arrived
here this week and there ai c also
several local men buying cattle.
product, eat the next best quality ; there is a brisk market for cat
and retain for seed that which tie and the prices are quite satis
is neither fit for market or for factory.
bans consumption.
Farmers who will breed up
their live stock so as to get
the best possible quality, will ab
solutely neglect their seed qual
ity. Seed is seed they argue.
It is, in fact, but it's mighty oor
seed at that and those that ex
pect select quality from this class
of planting are naturally disap
pointed. Farming is a business
just like the running of a de
partment store or the operation
of a grocery store. Any old sort
of business methods would scon
bring disaster to the experimen
ter and farming is no exception.
Poor seed will call for poor pro
ducts and a failure in the busi
ness. Smut has resulted in the loss of
much money to grain growers of
the Pacific Northwest and still
farmers continue to plant their
smutty seed and expect to har
vest crops. The annual loss to
American farmers from smutty
seed alone is estimated at $2,500,
000 annually and most of this
money could be saved if care was
taken in the selection of seed and
in handling it before sowing.
Dozens of threshing machines
and combines arc burnt up each
year as a result of smut in the
wheat and entire wheat fields
have been destroyed thereby.
It is just as essential to chance
the seed as it is to secure good
duality in the first place. Good
seed will soon bocome poor seed
if it is allowed to deteriorate in
one section. This is the reason
why the river district of Califor
nia, the greatest potato growing
section of the country, does not
ase its own seed. It freely pur
chases its requirements in other
places but never uses the same
seed more than two years. Hy
that time they consider that it
has exausted its vitality and can
no longer produce best quality
tubers.
The Times-Herald finds that
yearling! are selling from $27 to
$JK); two-year-olds $40; threes at
M8 to $50; cows with calves. $50.
At these prices local men can
make a good margin on their
stuff and it will pay them not to
sell to close but continue to raise
more as the price is going to be
J high for many years according
' to those In touch with the mar
ket. J. L. I '.iirrows of Fossil is again
here after cattle and J. E. Jenk
ins of the same place is here for
Mi, tinriwmii of hovitur uruwn
Wo have not heard what sheep f If'"8 The Burns DePt
are selling for this spring. Store.
The fare from Chicago to Ore
gon and Washington railroad
pointa is $38.00; from St. Louis,
Omaha. Kansas City or St. Paul,
$30.00. This reduction should in
duce many to avail themselves
of a rate that is but little more
than one cent per mile. Stop
overs allowed on Colonist tickets
at all pointa on O.-W. R. & N.
This gives the homeseeker thirty
days from the date of purchase
of ticket to look over the coun
try, the only requirement being
that the ticket be used to desti
nation within time limit When
stopping at an intermediate point
the ticket must be deposited with
the agent of the company.
Rates from any point in the
United States promptly furnish
ed to any agent of the O-W. R.
&N.
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L. W. Hill, chairman of the
Great Northern board of direc
tors, is more interested in popu
lating the vacant agricultural
lauus 01 uregon man he is in
building railroads.
Mr. Hill was in Portland all
yesterday. Today he is going to
take a trip over the Oregon Elec
tric to Eugene and back and may
visit the legislation at Salem,
siys the Oregonian. Some of the
legislators have been urging Mr.
Hill to address them today.
Plans of bringing settlers to
Oregon received his serious con
sideration yeste day. He talked
the subject over with W. P. Da
vidson, president of the Oregon
& Western Colonization Company
with whom he is interested.
"Our inquiries sliow that the
Eastern farmers are greatly in
terested in Oregon," said Mr.
Hill. "I think inquiries here in
dicate, too, that there will be a
good, heavy movement to the un- Hiving the Gould system en
settled parts of the state this trance to Portland and the Hills
year." He conferred also with their lonff sought entrance to
J i'u-n?"' President of the lo. Francisco.
cal Hill lines.
Mr. Hill hopes this year to I An experienced dairyman want-
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men to Oregon and conduct them
on a tour of the state. He had
such an intention in mind last
year but the big political conven
tions interfered with his plans.
The object point will be Bill
Hanley'B ranch in Harney county.
Mr. Han ley was in town yester
day and renewed his invitation
extended to the newspaper men
of the East when he was a mem
ber of the Western governor's
party that visited the Eastern
cities over a year ago.
Mr. Hill was greatly pleased
yesterday when he learned that
Franklin K. Lane had been ap
pointed Secretary of the Interior
in President Wilson's cabinet
He denied knowledge of the re
puted intention of the Hill inter
ests to form an agreement with
the Western Pacific to build a
connecting link between the pro
perties ot the two roads in Ore
gon and California respectively,
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