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About The Times-herald. (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1913)
I H r imc$-2irnili r CITY OF BURNS The Biggest City In The Biggest COUNTY OF HARNEY The Biggest County In The Sute County In The State Of Oregon I Of Oregon, Best In The West )L. XXVII BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 13, 1913 NO. 5 -- EXPECT BRISKER BUSNESS NEXT YEAR cConnell Belives Local Activity 'oward Development of Permanent Character Will Prove Best Induce- tent to Hastening Railroad. Get rater and Farm Lands in Shape IcConnell. the irrigation Ived home from Port- (Sunday evening after of several weeks. He timistic as the future in the development of fcrritory and when asked tgs in general, said: his conditions continue same as they have the past year. While realize our needs and are as anxious to build in here as we are to have them do so. The strong est argument that can be used to induce early action is prospective business. This will come only by development in such a manner that our farm lands can be quick This will require no outlay of money and involves only the sanction and co-operation of the land owners in the proper ad justment of existing water rights. The matter is now squarely be fore the State Water Board. Let each individual enter into this adjudication in a spirit of liberali ty and with a common sense view, keeping in mind the great results to be obtained. If this is done the apparent water diffi culties will adjust themselves and with this matter settled and water contracts sign d up on the available lands money is assured for the immediate construction of the system. With such as surance you could not keep the railroads out of the country." ECONOMIC ADVANTAGE i UTEST mmm mm mm OF AVOIDING GRADES Longest Way Round Sometimes Most Economical Way Home in Road Building. Office of Roads of The Department of Agriculture Works On This Doctrine to Reduce Cost PARCEL POST LIMIT IS AGAIN ADVANCED Market Report. Receipts for the week have been Cattle-1404; Calves-18; ly settled and put to their highest Hogs-4498; Sheep-3173 and best uses. The biff problem in the development of the Harney loney to carry on the iblished business there it a reasonable rate lor new enterprises at There is a general It this period of read- is drawing to a ciose legitimate investments Ich brisker the coming Cattle liquidation has been ex tremely light during the last six days, due to the coming Pacific International Livestock Show. Demand for prime heavy steers is very strong; prices are general ly 30 to 50 cents higher than they already been stated. e settlement of finan- slative matters there new railroad Duiiaing ns except for the pur- tecting trackage or y in operation, un it is most reasonable that the O-W.R. & N. t stop, even tempor- me inaccessible point eur Canyon. In order usiness to assist in de rating expenses on m Vale the road will e extended into tne Jley. Here is a large ucing territory the which cannot be de- d secured until the s the farming section. s been no published nt as to the allow- Dy tne narriman ke care of the west- lies tne coining year. of this section can however, that the icials of this company well planned reclamation system depends our prosperity. To this the coming of the railroad is bui an incident ' 'The effect of this development will not be local as the entire valley will be benefited. The constant menaee of the spring floods will be removed; the swamp and marsh lands in the lower valley will be reclaimed; and this entire tract of fine land will be put in fit condition for alfalfa, grains and high value food crops. This will not only justify but demand the building of the railroad along the survey near the lakes and a feeder for the northern portion of the val ley. "Some proposals have been made in the past offering the railroad company assistance by securing righta-of-way, etc. This is not necessary and will not be required. The settlers and pro perty owners, individually and collectively, can accomplish the greatest results by joining in and helping to work out a comprehen sive reclamation scheme which will bring about this change. THE BURNS HOTEL DELL DIBBLE, Prop. Valley is the settlement and ad justment of the water question. It is necessary that the flood waters be controlled and con served and distributed in the proper manner and at the proper were a week ago. Best grade season. On the installation or a nieers are selling irom 97.W to $8.00 and medium grades at $7.00 to $7.50. The butcher cattle division shared in the advance of beef prices to a limited extent Supply was limited and quality not of the best. A few cows at $6.50, heifers at $6.75, bulls at $5.50 and stags at $6.50 are a few top sales in this division. The hog market is probably 5 to 10 cents stronger, prime light stuff selling at $8.00 in bulk, and a few choice loads at $8.05 and $8.10. Liquidation was about 25 to 30 per cent less than for the previous six days. Outlet for good hogs is broad. Sheep house condition show very uttie cnange. mere ib a good sale prevalent for fat mut ton and lambs, but buyers seem to be shading bids on the poor grades. Fancy yearlings at $6.00 and lambs at $6,60 were extreme I sales. Choice selling ewes are not offering. Most of the sales average from $3.60 to $3.65. Entries are pouring in for the Fat Stock Show the coming week. Stock from all sections of the Pacific Coast is entered. Special stock entered for premiums will approximate 3000 head. Pre parations have been made to handle the largest crowd in the history of the Pacific Inter national Livestock Show. Special days have been provided for various Portland commercial bodies, Inland Empire Day and various other features. tt rally Located, Good Clean sals, Comfortable Kooms, lean and Sanitary Beds Class Bar In Connection. Oive Me A Call The average life of horses and automobiles may be increased and the cost of hauling reduced, according to the Office of Roads of the Department of Agricul ture, by relocating many old roads and the more scientific laying out of new ones. The natural tendency in road build ing is to build a s'raight road, whether it goB over steep grades or hills, or not, and pulling over these grades naturally adds to the wear and tear on horses and vehicles. The doctrine of the Office of Roads is that the longest way around may often be the shortest and most economical way home, and that frqeuently by building a highway around a hill or grade but little appreciable distance is added and this is more than off- Bet by the reduced strain of hauling. The chief drawback from the farm owner's point of view is that the laying out of roads on this principle of avoiding grades necessitates, in some cases, run ning the road through good furm land or orchards or pastures, in stead of going around the farm line and building the road through old, worn-out fields and over rocky knolls. This, of course, must raise a question in the mind of the individual landowner as to whether the cutting up of his property by a road yields him numuuai mi vantages and so benefits his community as to off set the use of such land for a road, or to overcome the incon venience of having his land divided. In this connection the Office of Roads points out that the running of a road and the resulting traffic through a good farm, where there are good sheep, cattle, horses, grain, fruit, or vegetables, has a certain advertis ing value and in many instances makes the land more valuable. In other cases the importance of such a level road to the com munity is so great that it might well repay those using the road to give the farmer the equivalent in land equally good in place of what he has sacrificed to the common welfare. At any rate, the Office of Roads is now taking special pains to make clear the economic advant age of avoiding steep grades in their roads, even at some sacrifice of better land. Investigation shows that the laying of such roads over hills has resulted more from attention to the preserva tion of farm lines than from scientific attention to the pro blem of road building. According to the testimony of farmers consulted, where a horse might be able to pulU, 000 pounds on a level road it would have difficulty in pulling 3.000 pounds up a steep hill. The size of the load, therefore, tends to be measured by the grade of the largest hill on the road to market In a number of cases actual ex periment shows that the relocat ing of roads around hills has been accomplished either with no ad dition in road length in some in stances and with the adding of only a few feet to the highway in others. The office knows of no case where a properly relocat ed road which has cut out grades has led to any question as to its material reduction of hauling costs. ll'riin Our I'ortlunil OsmSpOBdiat) What Oregon needs in the way of advertising and how to get it, ' was outlined clearly by a number , of prominent speakers at a mon- rrriirV, E Weiht in " Z Increased to 20 1,000 persons, representing pra ctically every line of commercial activity in the Northwest, at-; tended the meeting, and thev pledged unanimous co-operation to support a statewide exhibit at Ashland during the period cover ed by the Panama-Pacific Ex- poaition at San Francisco. "Ash-i land is the natural gateway of j the Northwest," said Tom Rieh-! Po8tna8te--Generel Burleson's ardson, the originator of the J!0,,.cy to increase the weight movement, "and it is the first ' "1mita of "l-post packages in impression that counts. " ithe fir8t and second zones from An official of the Southern I to M Pounds, to admit books Pacific, who is also closely con-1 to the parcel Vt and to reduce nected with the Exposition, an- rEtf8 ,n the third- fourth, fifth nounced that stop-over privileges . Bixtn zone8' was Proved would be included in all tieker i "y V the Interstate Corn- over his line, that the railroad company is anxious to further Pounds and 50 Pounds be Carried In Two Zones. Interstate Com mission Gives Approval. Books to Be Included After March 16 Next any movement which will result merce Commission, says a Wash ington dispatch. The maximum weight of Dar in an increase of population in ' ceisio an zones oeyond the second the Northwest and is willing to ' was increased from 11 to 20 bear a fair share of the cost of I Pounds. The Commission's 'consent" to the proposed change was trans- Court Makes Tax Levy THE WHITE FRONT BY, FEED AND SALE STABLE n 1 I ! it I.. 4 k. fe have oonnneu our iiuhiuvmh emireij mc fhite Front where we are prepared to care fcr our customers oeiier man ever ueiww ES FED FOR 20c. PER HEAD AND UP lied Hay and Grain for Sale at Market Ices. Good Hay in Stack $4.50 Per Ton. Uivered in Burns, $6.50 Per Ion Burns-Yale Stage Line 36-Hour Schedule from Railroad Close Connections Made With Trains East Cofortable Conveyances for I'rssengers. Fare, $10. Careful Attention and Prompt Delivery of Express and Freigha Entrust- I d to Our Care. Freight 2 l-2c. Per Found. J. McKinnon & Son BURNS, - OREGON HOWARD H. CUSTTS Veterinarian Graduate of University of rtuujrt vanla JOHN DAY, OBBOON Cattle aa4 all J DAVID N. CATTERSON. David N. Catterson, who died at the family home near Lawen on the morning of Dec. 3, was born in Lawrence county, Penn., March 15, 1843. At the age of 19 he enlisted as a private in the civil war and served with dis tinction throughout the struggle, having re-enlisted three times in the army. He was married March 17, 1864 and crossed the plains in 1882 to Oregon, settling first in Grande Ronde Valley where he remained but three years, coming then to Harney Valley where he resided until his death. Deceased was highly respected by a wide ac quaintance and during his many years of suttering was always cheerful and very companionable. Mr. Catterson is survived by his wife and eight children, four sons and one daughter residing in this county, two' boys in Nevada and n daughter in Weiser, Idaho. The funeral was held at Harney on Dec. 4, Rev. Dr. Babbidge conducting the service. The active pall bearers were; J. W. Buchanan, J. P. Withers, I. L. Poujade, Fred Otle.y. Chas. John? son and M. B. Hayes, all old pioneer neighbors of the deceased. Fit HU Pr Edj "When father was sick about six years a.go he read an adver tisement of Chamberlain's Tub lets in the paper that lit his case exactly," writes Minn Margaret Campbell of Ft. 8mith, Ark. "He purchased a box of them and he has not been sick since. My sister had stomach trouble and was also benefited by them." ( For sale by all Dealers. County court was in session last week for several days and made the levy for taxes for the coming year as soon as they could secure necessary informa tion from the State Tax Com mission. The levy is consider able higher this year than last owing to some extent to the large appropriations made by the last legislature. The levy for general county purposes and the high school are also higher. The levy for the various funds are: State, .0045; general school, .0020; high school, .0020; road, .0025, county. .0090. making a total of 20 mills as against 12J mills last year. While this is higher taxes than has been levied in former years in Harney county by comparison we find we are not so burdened as some other counties. This county has gone in debt quite an Petition of W. E. Marshall for a gateway was continued for the term. new uounuary lines were es tablished for the several voting precincts and one new one creat ed-Burns being divided into two precincts. It being brought to the at tention of the court that Bill Christain was in need of aid and is now at the home of Sylvester Smith and it being found the latter would care for him for $20 a month it was ordered that Smith be paid that amount Sample Potatoes Wanted; May Have New Disease. In order to ascertain whether the potato disease that recently appeared in this country has gotten into Oregon, the depart ment of Plant Pathology, Oregon amount during the past two years Agricultural College, would like and it is hoped lo reduce the amount of outstanding warrants by this levy. Other matters also had the at tention of the court during the term as follows; Sheriff ordered to pay over to the county the amount of $157.50, this amount being found due the county from mileage fees on civil cases. The petition of Valley View oitizens for a voting precinct in that section was denied. Clerk ordered to advertise for bids for a competent physician to care for the county charges. Road petitioned for by J. T. Baker and others for a county road beginning at the southwest cornor of section 4,. township 23, range 32, was ordered viewed. to receive specimenta of scabby tubers from every part of the Btate. The disease under in vestigation is known as powdery scab and in its early stages is hard to distinguish from common potato scab, although it la much more destructive when developed. Powdery scab 1b widely distri buted in Europe and is known to be in Eastern Canada, and in Massachusetts and Nebraska. It is likely that its distribution in the United States is more general. Anyone who has used seed potates from any of the qbove named districts or from any reoent importations would do well to have this examination made. It costs nothing and may result in checking the disease, should it have reached Oregon. nmtnmnmwiiumiiiiiiuniiiiuiiiiiiiinmiiimni: Raw Furs, Hides and Pelts Bought I pay hif hell ch pric.t for ell kind of Raw Fun, Hides and Pell. Notify me either by null or telephone if yea hev any quantity end I will com efler tnem. Am prepared te advene bounty on eelp, evina you the trouble of coming to the Clerk Address, L. L. NOONCHESTER Office in building south Burns hotel on street leading to court house old Masonic building Burns, Oregon iiiiiiiiiiiHHUtmnimtmmtmnnmntmwmnmnnmmnrmmniiiiiiiiiuai1 the work. From a financial standpoint Oregon is distinctly all right. A statement just issued by the State Superintendent of banks calls attention to the fact that the present cash reserve is 34.8 per cent, nearly 10 percent more than required by law. Deposits in the 170 Btate banks and 85 national banks have increased $7,084,558 during the past year while total resources have in creased $i), 59(5. 338. The 256 banks in the state show total deposits of $132,762,157. with total resources of $69,462,838. Statistics gathered at the poul try show held in Portland last week show that poultry and poultry products annually add more wealth to the state than does fruit, three times as much as wool, one and a half times as much as hope, nearly half as much as wheat and represents about 6 per cent of the total agricultural wealth of the state. It has heretofore been claimed that Oregon is not a poultry state, but with our agricultural college devoting time and money to the improvement of existing breeds, a great deal of interest in the in dustry is being aroused. The first spadeful of dirt on Jackson County's new highway over the Siskiyous was turned last week by Samuel Hill, noted good-roads expert. The work of grading the 134 miles of mountain road has been under taken by a Tacoma firm of con tractors at a contract price of $107,000 and will, as far as pos sible, be completed during this winter in order to have a settled road bed ready for surfacing early in the spring. For the past two months a party of deputy game wardens has been busy locating the boundaries of the new game re fuge, 36 miles square, lying in Lake and Crook counties, in the central part of the state. The primary object in establishing this refuge is the protection of the mule deer and antelope wrich are still found in considerable numbers in that vicinity. The refuge is also a sort of natural park, containing many hot springs, lava beds, medicinal lakes and other objects of in terest to the tourist and natural ist. How to Bankrupt th Doctor. A prominent New York physi cian says, "If it were not for the thin stockings and thin soled shoes worn by women the doc tors would probably be bank rupt," When you contract a cold do not wait for it to develop into pneumonia but treat it at once. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is Intended especially for coughs and colds, and has won a wide reputation by its cures of these diseases. It is most effective and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all Dealers. n:itted in three letters Chairman Clark to Postmaster deneral Burleson. The approved changes in rates and weights, to be in effect January 1, 1914, follew: To reduce the rates in the third zone from 7 cents for the first pound and 5 cents for each ad ditional pound to 6 cents for the first pound and 2 cents for each additional pound. To reduce the rates for the fourth zone from 8 cents for the first pound and 6 cents for each additional pound to 7 cents for the firat pound and 4 cents for each additional pound. To reduce the weights for the fifth zone from 9 cents for the first pound and 7 cents for each additional pound to 8 cents for the first pound and 6 cents for each additional pound. To reduce the rates for the sixth zone from 10 cents for the first pound and 9 cents for each I j aaaitionai pound to 9 cents for the first pound and 8 cents for each additional pound. It seems obvious," Bays the Commission, "that the service to the public will be promoted by these changes, provided the re venue from the service is not less than tie cost thereof. Your ex periences and statistics seem to show clearly that the revenue will not be less than the cost of the service. "We can conceive of no op position to the increased weights and reduced rates proposed ex cent from tho carriers that trans port the mails. We have had some objections from them on the ground that the increased weight should not be permitted until provision for additional compensation to the carriers has been made." It is provided by the Post-moater-General. with the con sent of the Commission, "that the rate of postage on narcels from I containing books weighing eight ounces or less shall be 1 cent for each two ounces or fractional part thereof, and on those weigh ing in excess of eight ounces the zone parcel rates shall apply." This is to be effective March 16, 1914. No Worry Coming We often here the question asked, what kind of a winter are we going to have?" Each one, from the "oldest inhabitant" to the ground hog man, has his particular sign to go by, and if all are correct things along the weather line will be pretty badly mixed, says the Alturas Plain dealer. For our part we feel with our old friend, John De Garmo of Warner Valley, who when told by a neighbor that he could not get Ayres Almanac, replied, "Well, that's my luck. will have to take the weather as it comes, now." And that is the way we feel about it. We have an abundance of hay for our stock ano plenty to eat our selves, and what more can a true blue Modocer ask? Anyone wanting good solid winter cabbage can get it from Frank King at 2 cents per pound delivered at Burns. THE FRENCH HOTEL DAVID NEWMAN, Prop. Strictly First Class. Splendid Service, Fine Accomodations, C immercial Headquarters Sample Room In Connection, Reasonable Rates Jack Winans, the new pro prietor of the Windsor Barber Shop adjoining the land office, is prepared to do first class work in his line and invites a share of the public trade. Satisfaction in every respect. 48tf . BLUE MT. STAGE CO. Daily Line, Burns and Prairie City SCHEDULE: LKAVK AKHIVI UuriiH f a m Canyan City . 6::;ll p in Canyon City 7am Prairie City 10 u m I'rairl. City 2:M p m Canyon Cily 7pm Burn 12 noon Pare, Burns-Prairie City, - $ (i.00 Round Trip, - - - U.OO Express Rates 2 1-2 Cents, Prairie to Hums PLEASANT, SCENIC ROUTE ALL THE WA Y L. WOLDENBERC. Prop. IT IS IMPORTANT That you vaccinate your calves for Black Leg early, as the loss of one calf will more than pay for vaccination of the whole herd. We have fresh vaccine on hand. Phone orders to THE WELCOME PHARMACY