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J The Globe Leads . Covers Entire Field of Gilliam Countu . All Bia Newsu Paaes CONDON GRAIN MARKETS TODAY: WHEAT; CLUB 73, FORTY-FOLD 73, BLUESTEM 85: BARLEY $20.00 1. Six Hundred Subscribers in Gilliam County. The Leading: Newspaper I of Gilliam County. . t VOL 23 CONDON, OREGON, Fill DAY, MAR. 21, 1913. NO.S2 I Railroad Extension from Condon to Fossil Depends on the Placing of 900,000,000 Feet of Timber on the Market .'. O-W. R. & N. Official Secures Data for Report to Pres. Farrell As far as can be learned at the present time the building of the extension of the Condon branch to Fossil entirely depends upon the placing on the murket of 900,000,000 feet of timber, tri butary to the Wheeler county Heat. This would make an im mense business for a railroad and assure the extension as a paying investment from the start. It is understood that a railroad official of the O W. R. & N. has been looking over every inch of the Foss.il country and that he will report favorably in the exten sion providing the owners of the timber can be induced to place that product on the market. MAYVILLE LADS ELOPEWITHFAIR MISSOURI MAIDS Montgomery, Mo. Mar. 15 Claude Gruhum and Tonie Li. lie, both of Mayville, Or., young farmers, secured licenses to mar ry Maggie und Mamie L Cam bridge here yesterday, and with thJ girls eloped to St. Louis", where, it is believed, they were married last night. Mrs, Alex ander Graham, a friend of the girls, accompanied the tlopinn quartet to St. Louis. The girls are the daughters of a well to-do landowner here and have kept company with the two young farmers from the Pacific Coast for some weeks while the latter visited relatives here. The par ents and friends of the two girls knew nothing of the intended elopement. 4 Missouri is the "show me" state and the young men of Montgomery were shown by the two young men, well known here how to turn the trick. LONEROCK NEWS THE PAST WEEK Lonerock, Mar. 20, (Special) Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Hawk went to Condon Monday. Mrs. Hawk's mother, Mrs, Sarah Bennett will come home with them. Misses Hazel Coleman and Nel lie Robinson made a visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. II. Car penter in Porcupine Gulch last Saturday. C. C. Andrews returned home Friday from Heppner where he has had hia wife for medical treatment. Mrs. L. A. Miller was a city visitor Tuesday. Mrs. S. J. Wick moved to her city residence Saturday. Mrs. M. W. Crawford is visit ing her mother, Mrs. C. D. Rob inson. M. N. Mulligan received the sad news that his brother was accidentally killed in a railroad wreck while on his way home from Alaska. Walter Duncan is driving the Heppner-Lonerock stage. A. Neel.Miss Lela Neel, Misses Oma and Leola Bennett, and Al va Bennett were called to the bedside of Mrs. I. C. Bennett on Monday. Mrs. Bennett is no better at this writing. ; E. M. Leathers moved his fam ily to the Frank Golden place near Condon Sunday. (Continued on page 6) The timber would mean 32,150 cars of 100,000-capacity for the new road. It is further learned that the railroader found Fossil's tributary country to contain 14 townships with a population of 15(10 people, 20,510 acres in cul tivation in that area, 85,070 acres of tillable land and 230,000 acres of grazing land. He also found that there were 2,200 horse.3,800 cattle,3,200 hogs and 45,000 sheep producing 500, 000 pounds of wool. The grain and hay grown are consumed and fed in that terri tory. A coal field, said to ex tend over 2000 acres, is located about ten miles south of Fossil. Yet, all these resources outside Plowing on the Olex. March 16,(SDecial)-That Gilliam county ranches are at present scenes of greatest activ ity is demonstrated on the 7000 acre Kilbourne Ranch on Shut tier Flat where plowing and seed ing of spring grain is being done on an extensive scale. Eighteen hundred acres are already in fall wheat and 1500 more acres are now being sown to spring 520 CARS OF WHEAT SHIPPED FROM CONDON Five hundred and twenty cars of wheat, carrying 720, 6G6 bush els, have been shipped from Con don since September last accord ing to statistics obtained at the local depot. OLE RESIDENTS ENJOY PARTY Olex, Mar. 20, (Special Corres pondence to the Condon Globe)- The party given in Wade's hall on Saturday evening was well attended and all seemed to have a good time. M. E.Weatherford of Arlington was a visitor on Thursday of last week. W. S. Wade and wife returned from Shipherd's Springs on Wed nesday last. J. F. Hurt went to Pendldeton Saturday for a few days visit. C. W. Martin was an Arlington visitor Saturday. J. E. Reynolds of Arlington was in town on Thursday of last week. Bill Eddon of Condon spent Saturday here. T. C. Mobley went to Arling ton Monday. Glen Keeney went Jo Condon Monday. Geo. Baumgaartner returned Sunday from Arlingoon. Miss Cavy Weatherford was an Arlington visitor on Monday. (Continued on page 3) of the timber, according , to the railroad official, are not sufficient to warrant the building of a rail extension to Fossil. The timber which means so much to the present building of the Condon branch into Fossil would demand the construction of a logging road up Butte Creek from Fossil, it being 6 miles to the timber line and 15 miles to the heavy timber. With nume rous spurs the entire timber area could be easily reached and the logs brought into Fossil wbere one of the largest saw mills in the west would be erected to cut up the 900,000,000 feet of timber. Opposing strongly the bring Large Kilbourne Ranch for grain, both wheat and barley. In the plowing and seeding operations on the Kilbourne ranch two Caterpillar engines and six mu'e teams are being used, the Caterpillars each pul ling twelve fourteen-inch plows and turning under thirty acres per day. A night crew is main tained and altogether eighteen or twenty men are employed. A Grow More Wheat, Oats, and Barley, Says T. B. Wilcox Oregon agriculture, distribu tion of natural products, trans portation conditions, and the whole range of agricultural eco nomy were subjects discussed and studied on last Saturday in the Portland Commercial Clubby leaders in all lines of effort, in a conference with President Kerr of the O. A. C. on the methods to be pursued in organizing the extension work authorized by the recent Legislature. "Get away from fruit and grow wheat, oats and barley, for which we have a greater demand than supply." said T. B. Wilcox. president of the Oregon Develop ment League. "Organize for better distribu tion, so that the farmer can make a profit on the enormous crop he is now growing merely to waste," said A. P. Davis, ot the Farmers Union, and operat ing a farm in the Grande Ronde Valley. ADOPTING ORDINANCES FOR PAYING A special meeting of the coun cil was called on Friday night by Mayor Burns and all councilmen were present. The object of the meeting was to pass on the new ordinance which provides for street improvements. The ordi nance was read three times and passed unanimously each time. It contains the Bancroft Act and in other ways provides for the comtemplated improvements of the streets and especially the paving of Main. ing of the timber over the Con don and Fossil extension is the most feasible outlet for this tim ber down to the John Day Valley by means of logging roads down Alder und Kohler creeks to the Spray country because of rumored plans of the not far distant building of a main line from the Deschutes road at Gateway running east to and up the John Day Valley on through the Burnt river divide into the northern part of Malheur county to the present line at Brogan which connects at Vale with the (ew Oregon Eastern railroad, a art of the shortest transconti nental line in the country. This 4 ' - blacksmith shop is located on the : ranch, the owners employing their own blacksmith. This large ranch is modern, the house and barn being lighted by electricity, and at this time several new buildings in the way of machine sheds, a bunkhouse for the men, etc., are being erected. The owners do not entirely 4 "Teach the farmer how to get his product upon the market at less cost, how to utilize certain by-produts now unused, and how to Ret greater tonnage from less acreage, said C b.. bpence, master of the State Grange, who is a practical farmer of Clacka mas county. President Wilcox of the Devel opment League, threw a bomb shell into the meeting by declar ing that the state had gone fruit mad, and while tons and tons of berries, apples and other fruits j rotted where they gre v the pre ceding year, he was scraping the state from one end to the other to get wheat, barley and oats. "There will be no diminution to speak of in the price of flour for the next 10 years," said Mr. Wilcox. "Wheat is the most profitable crop that the Oregon farmer can turn to just now. (Continued on page 6. ) At another special meeting called Monday night an ordi nance prepared by the city en gineer, specifying the manner in which the curbs shall be put in and providing for a walk 12 feet wide on Main street, was adopted. The curb is to be 28 feet from the center of the street. This will make the paved street 56 feet wide and the walk will cover the space from the curb to the buildings. would not only mean a direct main line to eastern markets for the vast timber tr butary to the John Day but would give a water grade route and cut-off of over 100 miles over the present O. W. R. & N. over the high Blue Mountains. Another feasible and possible route for taking out the vast amount of timber on the north side of the mountains of the Fot sil country is by building logging roads down Thirtymile and run ning the timber down to Thirty mile canyon on th Condon-Fossil extension wht-re a large saw mill could be built. In looking over the territory on this trip it is understood that the 1913 Crop devote their time to the grow ing of grain for hogs are raised for borne consumption, cure their own meat and raise all the necessary garden truck. The prospects in the neighbor hood of Olex are excellent for a good crop, there being about eighteen inches of moisture in the sod. Subscribe for the Globe. REP. W. A. CAMPBELL SLOWLY IMPROVING Representative Campbell has moved from the Nisbeth Sanito- rium in Portland ami the Camp bells now have apartments at the Barker in that city. "Sandy" is slightly better than he has been for several weeks. DR. N.G. BLALOCK DEAD Dr. Nelson Gales Blalock. will known over the entire northwest died at his Walla Walla home Friday afternoon. He was one of the first to see a great future for the Inland Empire in the up building of which he has been a great power. He has been associated with many enterprises in this section and at one time owned the island in the Columbia below Arlington. Mrs. Farr of this city is a niece of his and he had many other relatives in this county. The Oregon Hotel will serve a turkey dinner on Easter Sunday March 23 from 12 till 2 p. . m. 50 cents a plate. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Robertson went to Portland yesterday. Mrs. J. W. Donnelly went to Portland yesterday to visit her son, Edgar. N. F. L. Van Slype went to Tne Dalles today to visit his daughter. . J. E. Reynolds shipped a car of cattle Monday from the local yards to the Portland market. F. T. Hurlburt went t Arling' ton today. the railroad official found the old survey of the once proposed electric line a heavy and most expensive route to build and that the extension through May ville would not only be one of heavy grades and out of the way on account or extended loops around hills, but that a more feasible route could be run frtm Condon over the old survey down Thirtymile canyon and then up Wehrli creek on to the north fork of Butte creek and up Butte Creek proper into Fossil. While this would leave Mayville four miles to the east, the large amount of grain could easily be hauled to the railroad because of the downhill haul from either the Mayville side or the west tributary country. MRS.G.W.MARVEL OF ROCK CREEK DIES SUDDENLY Sad are the circumstances sur rounding the death of Mrs. G. W. Marvel at her home on Rock Creek Tuesday afternoon. She started, with her husband, to drive to Mikkalo and became ill while on the road. They turned around and drove home and in a short time Mrs. Marvel became unconscious, failing to recognize the members of her own family, and lingered but a few hours. She had not shown any symp toms of illness and the cause of her death is known but is sup posed to have been heart trouble. Burial was given yesterday in the Olex cemetery. Mrs. Marvel was one of the pioneers of Gilliam county, hav ing come here with her husband in the days of early settlers. She lived on the same ranch on the creek for twenty years and raised a large family. Her los3 will be deeply felt rot only by her family but by all in the neighborhood in which she lived. . EASTER SUNDAY ATTHECHURCHES Congregational Church Services will be held in the Congregational church next Sun day morning and evening. Come. Sunday School at 10 a m, preaching at 11 a m and 7. 30 pm. Special music ip evening. Junior Endeavor at 3 p. m. Let (Continued on page 6.) J. J. Wasson went to Portland Wednesday. Mrs. Henry Wilkins was up from Clem Tuesday. Geo. Blake of Portland wa3 here a few days this week. Lester W7ade went to Arlington Saturday to ship a bunch of cattle from there to Portland. Wilbur Bennett returned from Portland this week. ST. PATRICK'S DAY SHOW AND SUPPER RECEIPTS ARE , $133 The supper served by the Catholic ladies on St. Patrick's evening in the old church was well patronized and the enter tainment in the Alhtetic Club opera house the same evening was attended by a large crowd. The total receipts of the supper and the show were $133.