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CONDON GRAIN MARKETS TODAY: WHEAT; CLUB 73, FORTY-FOLD 73, BLUESTEM 85: BARLEY $20.00 1.
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VOL 23
CONDON, OREGON, Fill DAY, MAR. 21, 1913.
NO.S2
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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
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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.
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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.