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CITY OF BURNS
COUNTY OF HARNEY
The Biggest County In The State
Of Oregon, Best In The West
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BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 3, 1914
VOL XXVII
NO. 8
EXTENSION WORK CON
NECTED WITH STATION
Supt. Breithaupt of the Experiment Sta
tion Assumes Additional Duties at
Request of the College Authorities.
Results of Tests on Winter Grains
Not Heretofore Published, Given
LATEST DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE NOTES
looking nice until the hard freez
es began. The Utah Winter
barley is probably the beet, a itl
appears from the results, but it
is hardley advisable for any one
to plant winter barley cxcepr in
an experimental way until it has
proven to be able to winter over.
that it
planted
By L. K. BTiiri'T.
The irregularity with which
these articles appear is largely
due to the work which has been
in progress the past three months
among the settlers in the out
laying districts of the county;
tkaf nf vinitinir these who are
attempting to farm the dry lands i There is a possibility
. k .. of talking over would be of value when
i- j:j....u;. .,c,.,.,v, v.ic rvn very early in the spring, in reb-
inc umituiura ui tum . mo v..u - - -
land and to arrange for co-opera-1 ary or early March, when it
tive work that will demonstrate . would miss the severe freezing
dry land crops and systems of ' weather and also come on late
farming in each neighborhood enough to miss the late spring
during the coming summer. This frosts.
work as well as the existing neiusoi winter midiw.-
sub-stations, is being done from Black Winter 2483 bu. per A. 24.70
the funds recently made avail- Black Winter 2337 bu. per A. 18.76
able by the State and County, it The winter emmer suffered
being thought best by the Col- from winter killing the same as
lege authorities in charge that the barley. It was also very late
the Experiment Station work and in maturing. Certainly not a
the extensive work in Harney good crop here.
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rountv be co-ordinated and mat l "eiuoi vv inter rjreuu. iKrn. o.uo
both would be strengthened there-
(l'rom Our Porllmiil OWWtpondwrtJ
The problem of furnishing
work for idle men in Eastern
Oregon, which is an important
question at the present time, is
to be solved within a very short
time by the commencement of
actual construction work on the
first 10.000 acre unit of tho West
Umatilla extension irrigation
project. Orders have been re
ceived by the local engineers to
begin work, supplies are being
purchased, camps established and
everything put in readiness for a
start immediately after January
1. With the federal appropria
tion of $700,000 now available,
the work will be pushed straight
through to completion and it is
expected that the project will be
finished within a year. Under
present plans the Oovernment
will expend about $90,000 per
month.
The entire West Umatilla pro
ject calls for the irrigation of
30,000 acres in Umatilla and Mor
row counties. The Government
will hire men with teams to do
the work under its own direction.
Later, a large part of the work
will be divided for small con
tractors and the contracts offered
to settlers as a means of furnish
ing them employment during the
time there is nothing to be done
on their claims.
SECRETARY SAYS WEST
; profitable iiHe, both to themselves
'and the country, by being allowed
. stmms. t . 'to cumulate their eafOings in the
A.SK.S KKA A I .A W early years and he Oiuh enabled
New Policy of Department of the Inter
ior Regarding National Resources
Meet Approval, pays Franklin Lane.
Cordial Cooperation Between Gov
ernment and States in The West
In his annual report to the ways the appositeneaa of this
president, Secretary of the In- policy, but it is for yourself and
terior Franklin K. Lane give congress to further extend this
prominence to the fuller and through into our legislation.
freer use of national resources "Surely this is not a task that
and outlines a constructive pro- may be adventured upon with
gram that will with the least recklessness or without reaped
burden place, in his opinion, the for the suggestions which shall
government resources at the ser-, De made "V me 8re made in
vice of the people. tn h0P tnat they will form a
Referring to the feeling in the " which the constructive
west that its affairs and needs m,nd may w,ork and bnng forth
have not been given that con-! a morc prfe?.t- tt more efflc,ent
indention at the hands of the, worKlnlHr plan: , . . ,
of the National government I , 0n tho fl,ubject of t,mber landa
which thev merit. Secretary SetJ Lane says:
Lane says: "This feeling is not j "I " not satisfied with the
operation of the homestead law
to make investments in slock
and machinery which will make
for larger profits later."
Referring to the inadequacy
of private capital to undertake
reclamation wo ''.s and the ability
of the government to do so the
question is asked. "Where are
the funds to come from to carry
on such work?"
"My answer jb," says Sec
retary Lane, "from the public
lands in these states. We sell
these lands now and the proceeds
go into the reclamation fund.
Two years ago the government
went further and set aside $20,
000,000 to be used in the com
pletion of the irrigation schemes
now under way. This is an ad
vance by the government for
which it takes what mi
A NEW DEFERRED RESI
DENCE HOMESTEAD BILL
Congressman Sinnott Introduces a Bill
Intended to Help the Homesteader.
Salient Features Given aed He asks
Suggestions From Actual Settlers
Who Have Undergone Experience
The Times-Herald is in receipt! cles which now trouble him most.
of a copy of the "deferred resi-j Congressman Sinnolt ;i I li's
donee homestead bill" recently , constituents to write him ;md
introduced by Representative Sin-! offer any suggestions or changes
nott. It is too long to publish in which might improve the bill,
this issue but the salient features The personal experience and
ght be : of tne b'"' according t0 his ,et" hardships of homes'eaders on
ter, are;
confined to speculators or ex-
the sentiment of i8
by. Most of the county has been
covered in a preliminary way this
fall, but there is yet consider
able area to cover.
The minimun thermometer at
the Station has been caught at
zero and below, several nights,
of late, six beloW being the cold
est to date. The maximum very
seldom goes far above the free
ing point. The snow fall from
Dec. 22 to Dec. 30 has amounted
to .66 of an inch ot water.
Followingjare a few results
taken from testa on other winter
grains than wheat. As previously
reported, the best yield of winter
wheat from the dry land was
with Turkey Red. yielding 3.'!. 5
bu. per acre.
Yields of winter barleys :
Winter 647 bu. per A. 12.5
Tennessee Winter bu. per A. 12.9
Utah Winter bu. per A. 16.25
O. A. C. Winter bu. per A. 13.15
Gatami Winter bu. per A. 5.85
Hannchen Winter bu. per A. 5.05
From this it will be noted that
no good yields were obtained
from any of the winter barleys.
This is due to the fact that the
stand was nearly all lost by
winter killing. The plants made
a fine start in the fall and were
The greatest moral in this is
the fact that this rye had every
chance to distinguish itself as
did the wheat which outyielded
it. more than four times over.
The poor yield was partly due Jto
the fact that a certain frost on
the night of June 19th caught a
considerable per cent of the
young heads at the stage where
they are easily killed. Another
i cause is the poor kind of a crop
! that rye is to began with, for it
never yields heavily of hay or
grain as compared with other
crops when given a chance. Of
course it is good enougn ior
rabbit pasture and for the man
who thinks that a few inches of
moist soil is sufficient to bring a
crop. Farmers who summer fal
low, plant real crops and fence
the rabbits out of their fields and
hay stacks are the ones who will
eventually populate the dry lands
of Harney county.
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ploiters. It is
many who are without selfish
motive and regard the matt r
wholly from the standpoint of
national growth. They point to
the conditions which obtain
Alaska as unparalleled among
A co-operative enterprise is
now under way in one farming
community in Wesconsin which
might profitably be copied in ' people of our aggressive
many parts of Oregon in which, ! nation-building stock. So. too,
for various reasons, difficulty in tin", are unablw to understand
marketing farm products has . why ways have not been found
been experienced in the past by which the great bodies of
In that particular community I coal and oil lands, or phosphate
they are building a packing plant, and potash lands, may be de
fer the purpose of disH)smg aflvelopod, and the waters of the
their surplus livestock in the mountains made available for
same way the big packers in the g neration of power and the
Chicago handle stock. Careful, redemption of the desert.
investigation ol marketing con- "There is one very simple
ditions has been undertaken and i,l-m:,i.n f,,r ,. ,.vU..nn..
this fading. W
to the timber lands of
i In- I'ar western lands. As the
law now is, a man may enter
upon Kit) acres of these lands
and by living a total of 21 months
m on the land during three years
ami cultivating at a maximum
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the promoters are assured of an
outlet for al! products and a much
higher return to stockmen than
can be secured under present
conditions. This fact of co-operation
in Wisconsin is remarkable
only as regards the character of
the business undertaken. In Ore
gon there is abundant opportunity
for the establishment of co-operative
creameries, canneries and
even for a number of starch
factories. The ruw products for
maintaining such industries can
readily be produced in enormous
quantity, and apparently all that
is lacking is the initiative and
the community spirit which
should be as highly developed in
Oregon as in any other state. We
have some co-operation in mark
eting, the results of which have
been fairly satisfactory, but
there is profit for the farmer and
benefit to the community in the
extension of the policy to a point
where it will unite the interests
of producers over a considerable
territory and which will, to a
great extent, do away with the
unsatisfactory marketing con
ditions which now exist.
Market Report.
Receipts for the week have
been Cattle-1117; Calves-6; Hogs
3477; Sheep-4028.
Christmas week with its round
of gaiety played havoc with the
general run of stock so that
while the run was very short,
the quality of stud" was to some
extent good, the feature of the
cattle market being u lot of good
steers which sold at $8.10, the
highest price for some lime, range
being from $0.25 10 $H.l(l; bulk
around $7.50.
A short run of hogs and an off
market were the main factors in
the week's business. Beginning
with Monday, the tops were $7. 75,
closing at $7.05, quality not good.
The market may be expected to
take a better turn beginning with
the new year's activity.
Lambs selling at $0.50 begin
ning of the week and still in good
strong demand at this quotation.
For good strong stuff ewes and
wethers ire quoted proportionally
for the same quality.
Chronic Constipation Curat).
"Five years ago 1 had the
worst case of chronic constipa
tion 1 ever knew of, and Cham
berlain's Tablets cured me,"
writes S. F. Fish, Brooklyn,
Mich. For sale by all dealers.
ex-
ofl
aM( ' zU acres of the land, it becomes
ins. in- promptly proceeus, u
he is wise, to sell it to some
lutnlier company for from $10,000
to $20,000. The land is allowed
In lie for an indefinite period as
a part of the company's forest
reserve or is logged ott, leaving
the stumps in the land, and
eventually sold for agricultural
purDOMS, if so adapted.
"Experience justifies the state
ment that a few men take up
have adventur- thco heavily timbered lands
ftd DPOn a new policy of admin Wider bona lide attempt to
istenng our airaira and have notlIneet the Purpose of the law,
developed adequate machinery, which, as its name implies, is to
We have called a halt on methods convert the public land into
of spoliation which existed, to homes. Ify the investment of a
the great benefit of many. but'w '"onth'a time and a few
we have failed to substitute hundred dollars the homesteader
methods, sane, healthful, and!Kains a property worth many
progressive, by which the nor-j thousands of dollars. Yet all the
mal enterprise of an ambitious conditions of the law are com
psopfa can make full use of their P,iwl with a"I patent must issue,
own resources. We abruptly j Th0 government loses the timber
closed opportunities to the mon-iand the land and does not gain a
onolist. but did not onen them to I real home maker. Such home-
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the developer.
'The old philosophy that land
is land was evidently unfitted to
a country where land is some
times timber and sometimes coal;
indeed, where land may mean
water- water for tens of thou
sands of needy neighboring acres.
For the lands of the west differ
as men do. in character and con
dition and degree of usefulness.
We had not recognized this fact
when we said "land is land."
steaders add nothing to the wealth
of the nation. The law should
punish them, in fact, as frauds.
Whether with the connivance of
the lumber companies or not,
they are the agencies by which
the law is defeated and the lands
conveyed where it is not intend
ed that they should go.
"There is a remedy for this
condition of things, and it lies in
the selling of the land and the
timber separately, lam begin-
Lands fitted for dry farming and ning to doubt the wisdom of ap-
lands that must forever li( un- plying the homestead law to any
tMed without irrigation; lands land which has not first been de-
that are worthless save for their clared fitted for agricultural. It
timber; lands that are rich in is now a blanket law which is
grasses and lands that are poor used to cover a multitude of
in grasses; lands underlain with frauds. Such legislation would
the non precious minerals essential also cure the abuses resulting
to industry or agriculture; lands from the use of certain classes
that are invaluable for reservoir of scrip."
or dam sites these varieties may Taking up the question of arid
be multiplied, and each new lands Secretary Lane says: "The
variety emphasizes the fact that successful Carey Act projects
each kind of land has its own are a distinguished few. Great
future and affords its own op- wrongs to trustful or none too
portunity for contributing to the wise farmers were done in its
nation's wealth. name and the suffering which it
"So there has slowly evolvtd caused has made it difficult to
in the public mind tho conception make it serviceable even under
of u new policy that land should the more careful scrutiny of later
be used for that purpose to which and more cautious officers."
it is best fitted, and it should be Much of tho feeling against
disposed of by the government the service can be mended, Bays
with respect to its use. To this Mr. Lane, by a greater frank
policy I believe the west is now new and fuller appreciation of
reconciled. The west no longer the work.
termed a mortgage on the moneys
which the projects will yield
from the sale of water rights.
Why not extend this policy? Tho
west can use profitably and wise
ly $100,000,000 to the advantage
of the whole country. The
government will recover all of
the money it advances, not to
speak of the homes and values
created by its enterprise. If the
government will place upon a
leasing basis these western re
sources with which we have been
dealing it can have an increased
fund for the continuance of this!
work and an increased assurance
of the return of its advances.
Just as I would aim to make
Alaska pay in the end out of her
own resources for a liberal ad
vance made to her for the open
ing and improvement of her ter
ritory, so should we aim to make
these lands of the west bring in
to being the latent values of the
west."
Inasmuch as the title to oil and
other lands would remain in the
government and be excluded
from state taxation, the s.rrvlinv
recommends a fair portion of the;p,ace for hln-'lf and family to
royalties received should go to 1,ve ln before he '8 obliged to
the state within which the re- j ,ak; un actual residence thereon,
venues are raised. i It gives him the opportunity to
In the matter of co-operation earn the mony to improve his
of the internment with the state ! l:ula al e same time that he IS
he lo,,ks fiirwnrcl to m more in. making it habitable.
timate relationship between the
states and the. federal govern
ment in developing the west.
"So cordial." says he, 'is the
spirit of the west toward this
work that within a few months
the state government of Oregon
and the federal government,
through the reclamation service,
have become partners in several
projected irrigation plans, one
involving no less than the pump
ing of water from the Columbia
river by electric power generaU d
by the river itself. A similar
co-operative enterprise has been
entered upon with the state of
Washington. The plan is that
we shall do the work, supplying
one-half the funds and the Mat
the other half. This is a tend
ency which it is well to foster."
account of the present require-
First: Three years after filing ment that they take up residence
in which to establish residence in six wonths after filing, even
Present homestead law requires going further in sending photos'
establishment in six months. showing the difficulties of taking
Secend: Cultivation by second, up a homestead, would assist
year of l-32nd of area: 2-32ndshim in presenting the matter
by third year; 3-32nds fourth more effectively to the public
year; 4-32nds fifth year. The! lands committee,
present law requires cultivation '
oi i-ioin oi ianu second year,
l-8th by third year.
Third: Requirements of resi-
dence after establishing same and I To whom it may cencern:
privilege of absence are same as ! A11 parties who bought Gold
in the present law. J berg Butte Stock from If. L.
Feurth: In order to meet the ; Lewis and Tom Anderson are re
charge that the deferred resi-' quested to send their names and
dence might invite collusion be-1 number of their certificate to J.
tween entryman and speculator I A- Morris of Adel, Oregon, for
the bill denies the right to any-1 the purpose of entering your
one to file on an entrv who has names on the book, as Lewis and
Notice to Stockholders.
purchased the relinquishment or
secured the cancellation of the
entry in a collusive contest
Fifth: This bill only supple
ments but does not abolish any
of the present homestead laws.
The object sought by this bill
is to make it possible for the set
tler to make his homestead a fit
to furnish us
ind number of
Anderson faled
w ith your name-;
certificates.
E. H. LOFFIUS
Road Wanted From
Catlow to Plush
Austin Deboy, a well known
stockman of the Warner Valley,
was a business visitor in the
county seat last week, he having
come over to consult with County
Judge Oaly the matter of getting
a road established between Plush
and Catlow Valley.
The proposed highway would
lead from Plush by way of the
Old Stone Bridge, a total distance
of approximately 25 miles. A
portion of the road would be in
Harney County, while the major
portion would be in Lake. Mr.
Deboy estimates that the cost of
the road would be about $3000 to
this county and about one third
of that amount to Harney. With
this amount he states that an ex
cellent thoroughfare could be
urges a return to the hazords of "But there is one matter of ' constructed, and one that would
the land is land policy. But it great moment to these people
does ask action. It is reconciled which should be corrected by law
to the government making all as soon as possible," adds the
proper safeguards against mono- secretary. "We mistook the
poly and against the subversion ability of the farmer to pay for
of the spirit of all our land laws, his water rights. Ten years was
which is in essence that all suit- the time given. His optimism
able lands shall go into homes, and our own was too great. That
and all other lands shall be de- timo should be doubled. This
veloped for that purpose which should be done not alone because
shall make them of greatest of the inability of many to meet
service. But it asks that the their obligations to the govern-
machinery be promptly establish- ment, but because it will prove
ed in the law by which the lands wise policy to give a free period
may be used. And this demand within which the farmers may
is reasonable. Already the con- more fully use their farms. They
Kress has recognized in many can put their lands to a more
be suitable for auto us well as
wagon travel. While the road
would pass over the Warner
mountain, he says that with the
already stated distance, a pass
can be found that would not
mean over a 15 per cent grade at
any place.
Catlow Valley is settling up
quite rapidly, there being about
400 people there now. Mr. De
boy says the settlers are ex
periencing great difficulty at
present in hauling in their sup
plies and believes that a very
valuable trade would be diverted
to this county by constructing
the wagon road to Plush. -Lake-view
Examiner
Hi. Stomach Trouble Over. -
Mr. Dyspeptic, would you like
to feel that your stomach troubles
were over, that you could eat any
kind of food you desired without
injury? That may i ... :-.o un
likely to you that you do not even
hope for an ending of your trouble
but permit us to assure you that
that he is it is not altogether impossible.
it habitable. So many If others can be cured nerman-
eastern members of congress areently. and thousands have been,
opposed to abolishing the resi- why not you? John R, Parker,
dence requirement on homesteads of Battle Creek, Mich., is one of
because of their fear that lands them. He says. "1 was troubled
would fall into hands of specula- with heartburn, indigestion, and
tors instead of bona fide settlers liver complaint until 1 used
that it is practically impossible Chamberlain's Tablets, then my
to get such a measure through, trouble was over." Sold by all
This bill, while not abolishing dealers.
the residence requirement, helps
the settler to get over the obsta-1 We do job printing.
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