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O regón t LAST BURNS, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1889. -No. 8. IE HERALD HARNEY VALLEY. IED EVERY THURSDAY BY I. L. GRACE, (HER and P roprietor . Some of Its.Natural Advantages- Wa ter, Soil. Climate, and frodile- lions Thousand* of Acre® Open for Settlement. »CRIPT10N RATES: * hs In advance) H erald 13.00 1.50- EW3PAPER LA#B. ter 1« required to »five notice by i the paver does not answer the bscrilx r doe« not take hi« paper and the reason for it« not being lect to do so makes the post- Ibleto the publisher for payment person order« his paper discon- B«t pav all arrearage«, or the Pub- intinue to send it until payment i« illect the whole amount whether it the oflice or not*. There cun he intinuance the payment 1« made irson who takes a paper from the (ether directed to his name or an ther he has subscribed or not. 1« Dr the pay Iscriber order« hi« paper ste pped tone, and the Publisher continue« Ebseriber i« bound to pay for it if F<.f the postotflee. This proceeds J that a man must pay for what he Tliousands of Fanifi:«« enn Secure Val ualile tloines in thls Great Val- iey at a Mere Nominai Cosi, lleal Estate will In create Ten-fohl in 5 Years. A Railroad. Couniy-Seat, and I. a ad onice. Visit the Herald Office to Sec Samples of Products. .Tim two large editions of T he II f . kald con taining the liar: \ ' alley advertisement being exhausted, to meet the demand we republish in our regular edition, and hope ¿W*each reader will mark the article and mail his copy to a friend in the East.] eral gardeners here, who will an swer in detail all inquiries on that subject; the white, or Irish potato is grown with little cultivation, and is superior to that grown in Ohio, Ill inois, Missouri, Tennessee, or Kan sas, we personally know as regards size, “mealiness,” and flavor. SMALL FRUITS, such as strawberries, currants, blackberries, gooseberries, grapes, etc , will, from what evidence we have been able to gather tilt* past year, be a success, as the native plants are hardy and good bearers. FRUIT TREES and ornamental shrubs were plant ed freely by farmers in the Bpring; the settings last fall survived the severest winter (1888), that Har ney valley, in fact, that East Ore gon has ever known. As an AGRICULTU RAI. region it will be readily seen that the Valley offers inducements rare Harney Valiev in Grant county, ly excelled. The farmers who have Oregon, embraces an area of 2,400 sowed grain this year will be able square miles, or 1,536,000 square to dispose of it at home, as a good irts have decided that refusing to acres of land, bounded on every side MILL khh and periodicals from the unst ring them uncalled for, without by mountain ranges, and lofty ele has been erected at considerable e aaine, i« priina facia evidence of vations, and is an almost entirely expense in the Valley, near Burns, *aud level plain, plentifully watered by by N. Brown. A new merchant and tRALD CI.UB LIST: the grist mill is a guarantee that the he Century, one year |5-75 S1I.VIES AND BLITZEN RIVERS L Nicholas, “ 4.75 industrious farmer will be able to enioretit Magazine, one year 3.75 and their tributaries. The former dispoae of surplus grain. And as a Ktei«or. Magazine “ 3.75 bdey*« Lady « Book “ 8.75 has its source in the spurs of the STOCK-RAISING west Shore “ . 4.00 Mlie’s Illustrated Newspaper 5.75 Blue mountains, south of the John country it cannot be surpassed, Mile’s Populai Monthly 4.75 Day river, flows a general southerly since its water, grass, and salubri Epslie's Sundin Magazine 3.75 plford’► Magazine 3.75 course, passing down the cen er of ous climate takes horses, cattle, Feeicly Call 3.00 Lily call $ w Harney valley, and empties into sheep and hogs throughout the year lee sly Kxamiuer . - . . 3 00 It is (from January 1 to December 31), aily Examiner 6 00 Lakes Harney and Malheur. ieeKly New York World 3.25 a rapidly flowing stream, about 80 without grain or any other than etroit Free Press 3.00 ¡den’s Manifold Cyclopedia, 2.90 miles long, and contains every kind wild grass feeding, and when the onal volume after Vol. 1, 55 cents; of fish, including the salmon trout, wint< r is milderthan common, stock ra per volume, postage. and other varieties of game fish. looks better in early spring than in of all the above work« ran be ex The Dunder-and-Blitzen river, or Eastern localities where they, are ure in the Reading Room. “Blitzen,” as it is shortened by com grain-fed during the winter; and the mon usage, is about 50 miles in texture and flavor of the meats lishers of periodicals are s.ilicitcd length, flows in a northerly direc compare favorably with the best in Ing rules, a copy of their work for lug Room—5Ve file, and bind the tion and also empties into the lakes. the market. There is no room for of every half-volume, and pay for Those rivet's and their numerous large stock-raisers, as the territory ertisement. tributaries have their water sheds! is fully taken up by three or four AD rERT SIN< RATES: within the county, and the lakes firms that hold all available ranges, mo I G mo K 1 wk |2uk 1 m». having no outlet, serve to furnish but the stock such as is commonly co I ch 11.50 1 4- >o 15.00 subterranean irrigation to the whole raised by farmert, will do well. The » 4 txt ti. >U Ö.0U »• valley. H. JO IL 50 J 5.00 I INCREASE IN POPULATION it 10.00 6 01) 4JW J.AKES HARNEY AND MALHEUR during the past two years has been >1. 6 00 9 00 15 00 12.00 Iti DO 28.00 cover an area of more than 150 rapid, and is of that most desirable 20 00 ;,o oo 40.00 GO.00 I squa e miles, and are connected by class in an agricultural region, viz: reduction to all yearly advei- a channel about 20 yards wide and •»Ubers 1 ..................... the small farmer whose industry Call at Office, or write to Publisher. 200 yards long. They receive the produces the best of grain, stock, .^Cut® charged extra, according to «pace; waters of both Silvies and Blitzen and living. The houses and barns *-’wse admitted. stereotype all our advertisement« rivers, but have no outlet and never are generally frame; corrals and ter ist four publication«, |1 tut h. ising in local columns, 10c a line. overflow. Being situated on a level other enclosures, are rail and wire e, birth, and death announce- plain, and having low shores, these fencing; abundant water supplies •h iteuis solicited a« news. lakes have not such picturesque from wells of living water, which is 1 ratcWQil'ered to religious, social, scenery as Crater Lake, to recom reached at a uniform depth of six ual bodies. mend them to tourists, but their to fifteen feet. K t <> FOREIGN ADVERTISERS. value to farmers is inestimable. MAIL AND RAILROAD FACILITIES. Mfully soliciting your patronage Right here, however, permit us to Harney valley has a tri-weekly keep our readers p< sled uh to the reliable firms io deal with, cor mention, a natural attraction pos mail-service from the four points of [will be saved by referring to t he eincutR based upou our circula- sessed by lands adjacent to these the compass, there being a general d adjoining counties: lakes that will draw hundreds of distributing office at Burns. Ship metlieiuul nd«, at no price. uneniB at less than 10 cents per excursionists from the Fast in the ping is done at present at Baker e, yearly, or 20 cents, transient, 1 near future: Standing in the door- City, Huntington, and Ontario. All position $2 extra charge per in- ■ ways of farm houses about sunrise, the family supplies, necessaries, and ad of position a standing reader distant objects, towns, farms, moun luxuries, common to Eastern towns, on to nd. each week is run in with tain peaks, and bands of cattle and are abundantly furnished by the Iter free. horses grazing on the ranges, are general merchandise stores at rea- I JOB WORK -rpictured &a the atmosphere and sonable rates. iription executed with neatness rise up from the ground like magic; at reasonable rate«. BURNS AND HARNEY Pamphlets Posters, and these white representations are arc the two principal towns of Har l etter Heads, Bill Heads, Cards, TieKel a. j so truly drawn that a member of a ney valley, where, as will he seen Note Heads, Dodge: a, Etc. - family living several miles away I invitation«, by our advertising columns, about in kept regularly on file for re from home, can distinguish the per all lines of business are near equal Geo. 1’. Re well Newspaper Ad- sons of the family as they walk u, 10 Spruce st., New York. to the present demand—teachers, about the yard: as brother from fa lawyers, doctors, printers, druggists, ther, or mother frwm sister. fS^^^VcTAL directory merchants, carpenters, surveyors, TIIE SOIL AND CLIMATE blacksmiths, butchers, saddlers, NATIONAL Grover Cleveland ! of Harney valley are an exact coun grocers, builders, jewelers, etc. Vancaney terpart of that of Umatilla county. Each of these two towns is the Thos. F. Bayard best wheat-growing center of the section of the valley (. has. 8. Fairchild Oregon, the :ry W l VU®s terior Wml C. Endicott county in the state. Very little has contiguous, and each has its local W. C. Whitney ' been done towards wheat-raising value, that will serve in the future Don M. Dickinson A. H. Garland here, as yet. but those have been to render ah ealthy degree of com successful that, tried it. Wheat petition between them. —OREGON: l J. N. Dolph, finds a ready home market at 5 The expectations of the ambi | J. H. Mitchell, Binger Hermann, cents a pound—$3 per bushel. Oats tious advocates of the natural ad Sylvester Pennoyer, and barley grow equally well, and vantages offered the people by Har Geo. W. McBride, <}. W. Webb, bring 3 to 4j cents per pound. Al ney valley will lx? realized in less J. B. McElroy. net ruction Frank Bakei falfa and red clover grow luxuri than twelve months by the estab j R S. >trshan. antly; timothy and red-top thrive lishment of a / Win. I’. Lord, ) W W. Thajer, finely. Pasturage is excellent; nat NEW LAND OFFICE DISTRICT: ural grass abundant, and is cut for in Harney valley, where there are J A F ee , J. L. R and , hay that sells at $12 and $18 per lands of the public domain as fine ton in the winter. All cereal crops as those already taken up by the G. w. G iliiam thrive first-comers, sufficient to furnish N K M axey WITHOUT IRRIGATION. thousands of families yvith homes. l’ioi. Menu an N. 11. B oley In winter the weather is cold but Also, a county-seat for I 1. IL M o H aley , IIARNEY UOl'NTY pleasant, the usual effects of alti ( H il. D ‘ avis , J. H. N iai . tude being checked by the gentle which will bring the administra W. H. G ray The snow tion of affairs pertaining to this C H T imms chinook, or west wind. . E. H Al ER fall is sufficient to preserve wheat great valley within easy access of ntendent T. H. CURL and supply moisture that is not every citizen of this section; and the IFW Ü. a. land office : OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD In summer A. F. S nei . i . tnw furnished by rains. W. M. T ownsend there is a pleasant breeze constant now in course of consWuction will ly blowing, which tends to keep pass directly through Harney val agreeable weather; no matter how- ley. and after that what more is hot the sun's rays, and the nights desirable? BURKS—VALE: Under these conditions it is not cool enough to make covering de >>. Thursday, Saturdays. 6 pm s. Wednesdays, Fridays. 4:30am sirable—in fact, one can sleep un necessary to say that the first to SR—< ANYON CITY : der cover comfortably the year procure homes will lx? the first to . Wednesdays. Fridays,Cam. reap the harvest of the forehanded, huradny« a Saturday«10:45 p in, round. for the fact is self-evident. The TIMBER.---- SAW-MII.I.S. as*— frinevillb : y « at t* a in. There is no timber in the valley invitation to come among us nnil y« at 6 a m. i except along the water course, settle is particularly extended to rnr —L akeview : where there is a light growth of the industrious of all claacea of lay« at 9 p m. >8 at n a di . birch and an unusually large, heavy farmers and stock-raisers. ' J. < . PARKER. Postmaster. growth of willows. But the adja GREAT NATURAL CURIOSITY. cent mountains are heavily tim SMM1ETIEH. axnxMixn by «. c. pcncas bered with fir. pine, juniper, moun tain-mahogany, etc. Saw-mills are Malheur Cave is located on a sage IDTX.E. NO. 77. 1. •». O. F. rellttuR Hall, «verv Satun’.av at located in the pineries, and the lum brush plain about 1 mile from the J. E. M< KINNON. N. G. ber. which is of the lx*st quality, head of the south fork of the Mai ■cet’y. sells much cheaper than in the heur river. East. There is a amali basin at ita GARDEN VEGETABLES mouth. The cave is 20 feet wide and 6 prrxlu'-ed in the Harney conptry [ODIST CHURCH are large, finely flavored, abundant feet high at its entrance, and has and easily raised. We will on ap an incline downward for the first lists in T.nms. sn-I n < ® uj coitr.e ui erection. plication give the addreaee« of sev- 2U0 feet, and then turns to the north $2.30 a Year. east and runs very nenrly straight ly 16; Grass, red-top, 31 in. bight,1 BURNS ADV E RTI SEMEN TS. to the water, a distance of. I mile L>0 spears to single root, or from| from its mouth. It will average 50 otic seed; 30 acres in. feet wide and 20 feet high and is F. \V. R itterbusch : near Saddle THE TOWN OE BURNS very uniform in its structure, the Buttes; July 20; Barley 41 inches GRANT CO. OREGON. walls running up about B feet on high; a small piece put in to test AS IT IS VOICE» BY THE HERALD, either side, and then '♦eminence to agricultural value of bottom of the arch over, and eertaiidy form the slough' on swamped land. BUSINESS MEN ABROAD BY LOOKING OVER ITS COLUMNS WILL SEE THAT finest arch in the whole family of J ohn A dams . Near Burns; Ju contains caves that were ever discovered. ly 24^Oats, 78 in. high, Wheat, 60 1 newspaper; 1 hotel: 1 brewery; 1 Burns 1 meat market: 2 lawyer«: 3 physiciAns It is grand almost U'yond de in., and Barley, 40 in. in bight. 1 surveyor; 1 land agent; 1 drugstore; undertaker: 1 jeweler; 1 blacksmith; 1 livery «table: 2 general mer scription, and rivals Qie great Mam S imon L ewis , Silver creek, July chandi«e «tores; 1 hardware «tore; 1 saw-mill: 1 carpenter; 1 saddled; harness «hop; 1 gro moth eave in its smoothness of 30, wheat 40 inches, with full heads cery «tore. Also, 1 Odd Fellow« lodge; 1 reading room; 1 school; 1 church. ¿E-Mail a copy of Tint H erald to Advertise your town, in the character and uniformity. The of fine large grains. first 250 yards the. bottom is as Barlev 58 inches high. smooth as a floor, then are found | M rs . S imon L ewis , July 30, 13 THE SECOND YEAR OF piles of rubbish or dfelg’S that have arge yellows beets, the largest one accumulated by .falling from .the being 9 inches in length and 14 ceiling above, UK) yanjs or ro apart, “inches in circumference; the flavor the last one living something over i excellent. 100 yards from water.' M rs . T. J. S hields , Silver creek, Thera is no difli^ultg in reaching July 30, cucvaubers of good size, the water, it run» b;» k o‘n either ■ crisp and tender. side in a trough from the main pool M aupin B ros ., one mile north of Began on Thursday, November 29, 1888. the distance of 100 feet, settling Burns, Aug. 2d, barley 44 inches, down on either side, leaving the with tine head of grain; 18 acres in. Now is the Time to Subscribe floor crowning. S. J. M otheushead .—Aug. 4, The water is remarkably dear; timothy 43 inches long, and appar-! AND TO RENEW EXPIRING SUBSCRIPTIONS. one can see the sand in the bottom ently not nearly grown. at the depth of 4 feet, and it ap C has . Z iegler .—Poison creek, i pears to have no outlet, as it is per Aug. 8, White Sheaf Australian] fectly still and quiet; it is good wheat, 53 inches high, with heads —< o drinking water. averaging 5 inches in length, full This wonderful curiosity has to of large grains; 6 acrees in; he is be^seen to be fully appreciated. It raising it for seed. is truly of basalt formation and is A. H ills , of Poison Creek, Aug. quartenary, the walls are. honey 11th, Chili Club wheat, 48 inches combed in many places; the wall on long, with large full heads; 14 acres Is the representative, at all times, of the Interests of the People, the south side sets on a horizontal in; not irrigated. At all times advocating measures that look to the "greatest goed to basement of eruptive rocks. Red clover, 42 inches high; very the greatest number/ in accordance with the principles of Democracy. This magnificent cave has evi fine. dently been used in time by the In -------------- s' o >--------------- dians as a fortification; the en trance has been walled up with AS A LOCAL NEWSPAPER, stone, and there are, also, two walls or breastworks on the inside, run T he H erald acknowledges no superior in Eastern Oregon. It points ning from each corner of the en with pride to its well-filled columns the past year, and to its evident trance diagonally near tlie center progressive influence upon the prosperity of the great Harney valley. some 50 feet long; this was for a As in the past so in the future it will strive to make prominent note second defenso in case they were of every enterprise calculated to benefit the people; to record every driven back from the mouth. advance made in showing up the resources of the Valley; to advocate Around and above the mouth of Law and Order under all circumstances; to frown upon all attempts tlie cave there are considerable fine to foment discord among the people in the interest of any individual, chippings where tlie aborigines have clique or faction; to give the news of the day impartially and as sharpened their stone implements fully as industrious effort and the aid of friends may enable us to which were made out of obsidian, obtain it; to give all the Local and Personal gossip of opr section, II AR P.) or volcanic glass. suitable for publication, with all else of interest in this department; I think that the water is in the Luke Sharp, I end of the cave, but can not tell IT WILL BP: AN EPITOMIZED HISTORY OF THE VALLEY. ert Barr, the “Luke without further exploring. ------------- < o >-------------- I was informed by two parties Sharp” of The Detroit Free Press, that fish have been caught in the is a humorous writer who has earn cave that were of blue color and ed a reputation second only to that of M. Quad, a sketch of whom we eyeless. Who know that in the rapid growth and wide proclamation of the will publish this week. PRODUCTS EXHIBITED THIS SEASON. Like M. Quad, “Luke Sharp” was advantages of Harney Valley lies their own best road to prosperity As no fair is held in tills valley “discovered” by The Free Press. for the public exhibition of the Tn 1875 he was teaching school in Should Subscribe for the Herald Themselves growth and excellence of its pro Canada. During vacation time, he, AND SEND EXTRA COPIES TO EASTERN FRIENDS. ductions, T he H erald opened a col in company with a friend, made a umn to all producers, farmers and voyage in a small skiff from Detroit ----------- < ” >----------- stockmen, in which to give a writ to Buffalo along the south shore of ten description of all that was Lake Erie. The trip occupied a The East Oregon Herald worthy of mention. Monstrosities couple of weeks, and Mr. Barr, un should be classed as such, and not der the noni de plume of “Luke as samples. This elicited the fol Sharp,” wrote several papers detail Has successfully maintained itself through an ordeal of local opposi- lowing response: ing the experiences of himself and 1 tion, vindictive and unscrupulous to a degree seldom equalled in M rs . I one W hiting .—Near Burns friend, and sent them to The Free country journalism; has advocated unflinchingly the rights of ALL the people of East Oregon generally and Harney Valley especially June 20: Barley, six acres, sown on Press. The articles were published, against the machinations of all organzed petty cliques that sought ground under cultivation the past running several weeks, and they by fraudulent misrepresentation to advance the private interests of a 13 years; stalks (exclusive of roots) immediately attracted wide atten few at the expense of the many. Believing that “The sober second 42 inches in length, heads will tion, being reprinted entire in many thought the people is always right and always effective,” and that filled, grain fine and large; planted other papers. Those who were so “Truth is of mighty and will prevail,” T he H erald has steadfastly fol fortunate as to read them, will easi lowed the right , and in April. the people have given it a moral and matenail Barley planted late, in April, on ly remember the exquisite, side support that renders its permanency beyond question. As it has splitting style in which the adven new ground, 12 inches high. worked indefatigably and unselfishly in the interest of the people, it M rs . A i . meda S tenger .—Burns, tures and mishaps of “Luke” and now asks for patronage that will yield something more than a bare his friend “ Mac ” were chronicled. June 22: Barley, sowed last year, “Luke Sharp” was at once offered existence. It has become valuable to all as a general newspaper, and on cultivated ground; 36 inches a position on The Free Press staff, high; stalk bulky, grain well filled. Is now a fixed Institution of the Valley. Alfalfa, cut above the ground; and he has since written exclusively for that paper, delighting thousands fine, strong, in blossom, 27 inches every week with his laugh-provok high. A. J. B rown .—Near Harney. June ing sketches. In 1881 Mr. Bar was sent to Eng 23: Alfalfa, in blossom, average1 land to cstal lish the European edi-> stand 38 inches high. tion of Th Free Press, and in July | D r . T. V. B. E mbree .—Near cf that year the paper was issued Harney; June 23: Lettuce, Oak at *525 Strand, London, where it is Has, from the initial number to the present, persistently and impres Leaf variety; root 4 inches around; still publish' d with ever increasing sively maintained that the Harney country was one of the finest leaves green and brown variegated; success. Mr. Barr spent nearly agricultural regions in the Union, needing only the presence of imi us stalks white, crisp and tender; throe years in traveling over the trions farmers to develop its wonderful resources. to prove the truth . measured 20 inches straight acrons greater part of Europe, writing ac of the strong language in its columns, the proprietor gave up a part the face of the head from tip to tip counts of his journeying» for The of his oflice room to the exhibition of the products of the Valley, of outside leaves (exclusive of Free Press. It is his purpose to and urgently asked for specimens cf actual growth and for everybody ground leaves.) spend several months during the to call and inspect them. Attached to each specimen was the name Second head, same variety, 10 coming year in visiting other points of the producer, often with the mode of cultivation. This wns a inches across. of interest in the old world, and tangible, practical presentation of the matter, which any one could T hos . H askell .—One mile of readers of The Free Press will verify. How successful this movement has been, hundreds can testify. Burns; June 26: Alfalfa, in blos doubtless be treated to a series of Al) T he H erald asks in return for its efforts to serve the people, is som, 42 inches high. interesting and humorous letters in an increase of public patronage—a imslest request when it is consid M rs . T hos . H askell .—June 26; his own inimitable style. “Luke ered that it returns to each patron more than his money’s worth. Gooseberries on a single branch; Sharp” is a genial Scotchman, a na If each resident of the Harney country will subscribe or renew for the large English variety; branch tive of Glasgow, anil still a young himself and take one or more copies to semi abroad, it will so extend 8 inches long; 5 hearing twigs to man on the sunny side of forty; in T he H erald ’ s sphere of usefulness as to enable all to claim that it the branch, containing 151 very the opinion of his many friends his large berries; weight of whole, one- liest work is vet to come. Is a true Advocate of the Harney Country. half pound. The E ast O regon H erald and Flowers: A boquet of cut flowers, The Detroit Free Press one year for from Sweet Williams grown from $"—loth papers for the price of one, AS A MEDIUM OF ADVERTISING, last year’s seedlings; 4 colors, ma paid in advance. roon, 2 shades, magenta, and pink T he H erald presents unusual advantages. It is centrally located in and white variegated. T he E ast O regon H erald is a a new and rapidly growing country, where manufactures of all kinds home family newspaper, which A Lox of growing plants; June are needed. We will soon have direct railroad communication with 22: 2 set“ of carnation, ready to makes every effort to give all tie- Portland and the East. Live business men of lx>th sections should bloom; 2 thrifty ice plant«; 6 petu general and l<x*al news. It will use T he H erald ' s columns to secure this great and growing trade. nias, 1 in bloom; a very handsomely keep you informed of the principal Its rates, proportioned to its circulation, are reasonable. niad>*-up box, grown from the seed. happenings of the old world, of the ----- --------- <o>--------------- Aug. 11, garden bean«, 7 inches projects of government, of the trend TKRMM, IN ADVANCE: of politics, and especially of what in length; crisp and tender. is going on among your neighlxirs. M rs . T. A. M< K innon .—Near You cannot keep posted on home »2.50 Burns, June 27: Boquet of Carna affairs without T he H erald . It is 4 50 tions, raised from last year's aeed- as necessary to your well being as 6.00 lings. Very large and very fine. 10.00 food and drink. T. A. M c K innon .—Burns; June Periodical or Magazine at clubbing rate*. We offer to supply you with these 29; Barley 52 inches high. two most excellent journals for the July 30, wheat 43 inches; and term of one year for th<* small sum timothy with head« measuring from of three dollars , ($3,) a price D. L. GRACE, 8 to 10 inches in length. easily within the reach of all. Try EDITOR AND PROI’KIÏTOR T iios . S tephe .M: n* ar Burns: Ju- it. Send in your «ubacription. THE EAST OREGON HERALD, All Rustlers