JAN V. 1926
RURAL E N T B R P W S l
PAOB 4
RURAL ENTERPRISE
An Indépendant—Not neutral—
paper, published eveiy Weduetday,
« g W ia. H. r t l I E K L Ï K
| Standish not Only
Caught but Tied
The Great Outdoors
Last week we • announced
| that John Standish had at last
been caught. We are now able
$1 a year ¡a advance
W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and V igoroua Humanity are Produced
A rrearages. 1 2 X C a montq to state that in addition,
he
Advertising, 2Uc an inch ; no discoun has been tied.
tor tim e or'space : no charge for com
Saturday night at midnight
'borougbbrad strains are peculiarly valley, due to the obstruction a) off is shown at Norwood island, in
position or cjauges.
Geologic
Review
the
knot
was
tied
at
the
apart­
favored
by gaieral weather condi- Oregon City, this stream and the Halsey quadrangle.
sa “P e ld -fo t P aragrap hs,’* (< a lias.
ments of R. T. Benker, Broad­
inoaller ones meander across the
I1ODS
» • ad vertis in g disguised as news.
Agricultoral Possibilities
of This Paradise
us, by Rev. Max Webster of
About one-third of the valley
[ the Broadus Congregational
SCATTERGUN SHOTS
laLds— over a million acres— is
church, to Miss Helen Collins, Evolution oi Willamette
practically useless bcoause of too
and hero she is.
D irt Jgrmiug
dirty polities.
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Valley Scientifically
Portrayed
is cleaner- tbao
Drunkenness does not prove
that prohibition is a failure,
but that more of it is needed
The current number of the
Commonwealth Review, published
by the University of Oregon, it
devoted to a review by Prof. W .
DePue Smith of the birth, progress
to date and prospect» of this valley
of verdure and ¡¿oom.
The editor of tbs Review says,
introductorily; ‘ 'T h e region must
ba bandied ini units larger than
ihe individual ranch. As tbs
We have always considered thaï
Dr. ■ Cook’« evidence of having
viaited the north pole was ae good
aa wai Peary’». Roald Amundaen.
who reached the aouth pole, is of
the iara< opinion.
Attorney General Sargent
has voiced the fact that buy­
ers of bootleg drinks are as
bad as the sellers and ought
to be as severely and certainly
punished when caught.
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study brings out, the valley as a
whole furuishls the basis for the
study of its driinage problem. * *
* That the Willamette valley may
continue to b|e the adequate home
at ,
The right way to end the
paroling of criminals to go out
and commit new crimes is to
abolish the parole bourd, and
af last the district attorneys
of Oregon, jn convention, have
recommended it.
>An »xchanga deplores ths praba
bility that the proportion of farm­
ers in „the population and their
intiaenee iu politics will oontinu»
to decrease. It their production
per wan and per acre increase
they need uot worry oyer thote
decreases.
,‘ Stanfield's fotest grazing
steal hili seems likely to be­
. come
- a law.
law.'' This m
may
a y _....
be his
last victory, The republican
party hag a majority in Ore
.'¿On which it is not likely tc
risk losing by renominating
Mr. Stanfield. '
Mrs John K. St«ndieh
‘The gang” planned, in cel­
ebration of the event, a form-
il ball, with an orchestra Iron
■liles City, at which the peo
ile would "dance all nighb
ill broad daylight” last Sun
Jay morning.
More Farms
and Smaller Onei
Washington, D. C.— W h ile the total
number of farms In the state of Wash
Ington increased by nearly 7000 in the
last five years and the number operat-
«1 by owners Increased 7500, the farm
ncreage dropped $36,488 acres, a re
ported made public by the department
These fellows who are so of commerce showed. The 1925 fig
smart that the law cannot ures are prelim inary and subject to
keep booze away from them, change. It was stated.
and who go out, drunk, anct Total farms In the state last year
kill somebody with an auto­ were 73,267, of which 10,389 were oper
mobile, would get lynched u sted by owners and 11,943 by tenants
they were black and acted that Managers operated 935. The percent
age operated by tenants was 16.3, as
way in the souih.
compared w ith 18.7 In 1920.
The total farm acreage was 12.608.
Prof. Russell of Princeton
university predicts that thi 234 last year, as against 13.244,720 five
end of all things will be “dark years ago, and the average acreage per
neds and cold — death so com farm had shrunk from 199.8 to 172.1.
fa r m values of the state decreased
plete that; no decay lollows. from
J920.392.341 In 1920 to »726,890,
But he says it will be a billion 147 last
year
The land value drop­
or so years hence. Wise pro­ ped
from »797,661.120 to »584.388,164,
phet! Whbn the set time has while that of buildings Increased from
passed nobody will taunt him »122,741,321 to »142,503,983.
with the failure of his predic- Sharp decreases were shown In
tibns.
acreage and production ' of principal
crops from 1919 to 1924 The only ex
Mr. Mellon has failed to get oeptlon was w hite potatoes, which
revenge
against
Senator showed an Increased production of
Wheeler, fop all the charges nearly 1,000,000 bushels, although the
against Wheeler have been acreage was smaller.
1> o i reases were shown also In num­
thrown out of court. Senator bers
of fruit trees and production. Ex
Couzens is still fighting Mel­ ceptions
to this were the number of
lon's attempts at revenge on apple
trees not of bearing age. which
him, and the charges against showed an Increase from 756.818 to
Mellons aluminum trust may 1,049,849; pear trees of all ages, which
or may not be painted out with increased from 1,049.980 to 1,487,947
whitewash.
and plum and prune trees of all ages
which Increased from 1.184.593 to 1
The editor was told the 512,152.
other day that some people
were “mad” at him for some
remarks that he had publish­
ed. That indicated that he
must have hit the mark. Some
others approved of those same
words — and were subscrib­
ers, too, which was more to
the point.
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Mil
J. W. Moore had the pleas
ure of a California trip, from
which he got home to Harris
burg the day last week's En
terprise was printed. From
the Bulletin we glean that a
harness maker giving his name
as P. G. Wagler stayed in Har
risburg long enough last year
to get in debt all over town
and disappeared. He reap
peared at San Bernardino as
J. G. Shaffer and piled up
more bills. In doing so he gavi
a check on the Harrisburg Na
tional bank and started to
leave town, but the bank was
queried by telegraph and
’ Shaffer" was caught before
he had traveled far and Mr.
•Moore responded to a call to
testifv-against him,.
iVb
a
for a prosperous and growing
people, some of its natural condi­
tions must ba reconstructed. The
water table should be controlled eo
that the eoil af every acre shall
have right aeration and maintain
ils best productivity. The available
energy of its streams must be
harnessed that the people, relieved
from much present drudgery, may
conserve theirs for highest life
values.’’
There glimmers the vision of
Waldo Anderson. Following we
4ive some of Prof, sm ith’s own
«entences and synopses of some.
Ihe entire issue of over 100 pages
s worth studying by Oregonians,
rural or urban :
The Willamette valley on the
west is bounded by th» Coast range,
iu the east by the Cascade lava
plateau, on the south by the Gala-
A S S IS T A N T
Brownsville, Oregon
W R IG H T & C O .
Funeral Directors
W’. L. Wright, Harrisburg
Mrs. J. C. Bramwell, Halsey
Modern
Barber Shop
Laundry sent Taeedays
Agency Hub Cleaning Works
ABES PLACE
J. R. Springer, writing from
Urrwfordsvilie, opposes the county
agricultural agent plan as a waste
of public money. W illiam G.
Comber comes back at him in tha
Democrat with the claim that
when we had a county agent he
was worth more than hia salary in
one of hit items of activity? alone,
that of cow testiug and improving
herds, to say nothing of many
Before the C oiat Range Rose
Hall's C atarrh
Medicine
Kmhalmer
flat floor of the valley, dividing in
a maze of channels and sandbars,
with numerous oxbow lakes and
sloughs along the sides of the
main channel
An oxbow in process of being cut
pool a mountains and on the north
t>y the Columbia river. It is 120
tu 130 miles long and about 50
miles wide.
In that distant time known as
the eocene, “ the dawn of the
recent,” the shore line was near
the present location of Eugene To
the westward was ocean. A period
of slow movement of the surface
caused the elevation of the Coast
range, on the eastern side of which
the beds are tilted to the east,
J. S. Diller in the Geological
Guide Book of the United States
■»ays; ** Probably early in the
pleistocene epoch a fracture was
formed in the basaltic rocks near
the site of Oregon City. The rocks
»ere lifted as a tilted block, the
hinge of the movement being
•toniwbere uear the site of New
Sra. The tendency was to dam
the Willamette above New Era
“ While the river was entting
through this hard lava block it
wound from side to side shove the
obstruction and eroded from the
softer rocks the wide valley.”
A trough was formed, in which
the detritus from the mountains
rid your system o f Catarrh or Deafnex continued to accumulate, in this
caused by Catarrh. ,
rediment-filled trough the streams
*T ■'««I'M. f „
M ym
flowing off the Cascades in a
F. J. CHSNEY &. C O .. Toledo, Ohio westward direction
joined the
Willamette. The Umpqua and
the Rogue maintained their course
DELBERT STARR
across the rising obstructions to
Funeral Director and Licensed the sea.
LADY
The “ Braided” Willamette
The main hvdrographio feature
is the Willamette river, one of the
best examples of the type known
as a “ braided *’ stream. Owing
to the local base leveling of the
others.
The state Christian Endeav­
or convention this year "will be
at Albany April 15 to 18..
Cross-section of W illam ette Valley Formation
W ANTED
To Buy
A ttractive prices are given on half"ton &
$ lots or more of
$
IN T H B C IR C U IT C O U R l of ths State
of Oregon, in and for tbe
County o f L in a
¡¡“ K E R R S OR F IS H E R ’ S E G G P R O D U C E R *
zi\
Molasses in barrel lots.
$
i <>. \V . I K V M
J
A m e ric a n E a g le
Fire Insurance Co.
Hay is worth just as much in storage aa
you m ight got for it in case of tiro. T hi
■American Ka-le Fire Insurance nim panri
1"il pay vmi
<4 th e cash value in cm
o f loss by fire.
C. P. STAFFORD, Agent
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W«I'
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SHEEP
S. Grippen, Halaey
Inquire at Bnterprise office
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Climatic Advantage»
Someone has said that there art
two seasons in wsstern Oregon, fail
and August. In winter the winds
come from the southwest, bearing
rain. Iu summer they are from
the north and east and are dry
and bracing
Dry siimmsre, gen.
erally with less' than i inch of
rain in nearly three mouths, are
an important part of the chmallc
cycle. The average annual fall is
shout 50 inches, an agricultural
optimum.
Climatie advantages for industry
are possibility of year-ronnd oper-
alien, the relative absence of frost
for the latitude which favors fru it,
nuts, etc., and for flax growing.
Dairying and the development of
much water.
Again, at certain
seasons thsre is not suougb water.
These lands need both drainage
and irrigation.
The high acidity of the wet soils
makes a supply of lime highly
desirable. Lack of limestone in
the valley, or even near by, it a
serious drawback.
Wheat was one of the first crops
grown in this region. The yield
per acre was at first considerable.
It now averages less than I5
bushels— often only 0 or 10. This
old wasteful use of the land is
passing, and it is being given over
to horticulture, diversified farming
and dairyiug.
Next to wheat, bay is the chief
agricultural product, and because
of this fact the valley is fast
beooming one of the principal
dairy regions of the world. Linn
county leads in hay and forags and
in sheep.
Poultry raising is a flourishing
industry, as the climate seems to
be well suited to it. Poultry does
tbs best on wtll-drained land, such
as sandy and gravelly benchea on
on the marginal upland areas.
There is a sort of sliver fox beem
on, but we are unable to say
whether most of the profit oomes
from the sale of tkius or live foxes.
The topographic, climatie and
soil conditions make this for all
time the c h itf agricultural section
of the state.
The soils of this valley are
humid soils. Humid soils are not
as fertile as arid soils because of
the leaching out of plant food.
Analysis indicates a deficiency in
potash and phosphorus. '1 his can
be modified by using the right
kind of fertilizer. The writer
knows from personal inquiry that
many farmers haven’t the slightest
knowledge of what their soils laca.
I l it any wonder that many of
them are uot making their busi­
ness pay f
In the matter of the applica­
tion of
I
Seth S. Haves, Daniel J. Hayes.
F rank Hayes and G e rtru d *
Pentland to register the title
to the following described land,
to w it.
The east half of the south­
east quarter of section twelve
(12) in township fourteen (14)
r,B ' e ,our D ) west of
the w i.lamette meridian, con­
taining 80 acres, more or lea»,
situated in Linn county, state
of Oregon,
Against Otis F. Neal and all
whom it may concern,
Defendants.
Notice
To Otis F. Neel eud all whom it may
concern, defendants:
Take uotice that on the 4th dev of
December !923 an application wet filed
by laid Seth S. H e ra t. Daaiel J. Hayet,
rre n k Haves and Gertruda raatland la
the circa it court of the state of Oregon fa
and for Lion ceuaty. for in itia l ragistra-
tiou of tbe title to tha land above de­
scribed. Now, unless you appear ea
ov before the 5th day of February 1934
a£ d, . ,hO."L c tn M ’ Thjr « c k » F p lic a ti«
•hall not be granted, the same w ill ba
taken aa confessed and a decree w ill ba
entered according to tha prayer of the
application ta d you w ill ha forever
barred from diapntiag the tame.
W itness mv h in d snd tbe teal of
said circuit court this 2nd day of J ,a u -
uary, 1924.
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R. M
"Dd
C lerb of tha Circuit Coart of
the State of Oregon for Lina
County
H ill, Marks A McMahan,
P. O tddraaa Albany. Oregon
Attorneys for Applicant