FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 191 1.
HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON.
PAGE THREK
I DOfHMOT DCODI C nrl
I HUmillLIU I lui ll Ul
MORROW COUNTY ;
FaGts Forced From Familiar Faces
The ancients worshipped them as their dustry would have died out in Ameri-! men
j God and the story of Jason and his ! ca in a few generaclons had it not , count
By E. G. H.
Well has it been said that civiliza
tion had its rise in the domestication
of animals. One of the first animals
to be domesticated -.vas the sheep.
Those things which man needs are
found pretty well distributed and such
is the case of sheep. Sheep have been
known to man from time immemorial.
quest for the Golden Fleece is known
to every child in the land. In Egypt
a breed known as the Ovis Laticauda
is raised mainly for the fat which is
obtained from its tail, it weighing
from seventy to eighty pounds. They
are found wild in all parts of Asia
and resemble our breed, the Rocky
Mountain sheep, or Bighorn. In the
time of Christ wealth was computed
in sheep. To be the owner of a flock
of sheep was to be considered wealthy
and the sure road to position was to
own sheep. In England the Cheviot,
Southdown and Cotswold have been
domesticated and improved so that
they take the leading rank as meat
and wool animals.
It has been said that the cotton in-
who have grown up with the
generaUons had it not , county. iur. wngnt saia that what i
been for the invention of the cotton ! groceries they bought they traveled to
gin. What gave such an impetus to ; The Dalles after and flour was bought
sheep raising in England were the in- in Umatilla. They didn't get much j
ventions inthe methods of manufacture j mail in those days. A newspaper was !
which she did not allow to be carried almost a curiosity. At his father's
to other countries. , home was the postoffice. They called !
The first sheep in this country were j the place Midway and people for
brought here. Most of them came i miles around came there for their
he First National Bank
OF HEPPNER
Oldest Bank in Morrow County
Capital, Surplus and Profits
$ 1 40,000 oo
Your Banking Business Will be Appreciated
Earnest Leisure
SHINGLING CONTRACTOR
Shingling and Lathing
RATES REASONABLE
Address Heppner, Oregon. See me at the Star Hotel
from England. When the settlers
came to Oregon they drove their
bands of sheep with them. It was
risky business driving sheep two
thousand miles and thousands perish
ed on the way. The other day I had
a talk with Mr. Silas Wright who
knows about all that is worth know
ing about sheep, and a few other
things which I might well include.
Mr. Wright was born in Nebraska
while his parents Albert and Julia
Wright were on their way from Ind
iana to Oregon. His parents were
fairly well-to-do but the boy, along
with five other children was early
taught the lessons of frugality, sav
ing and temperance in all good things.
The Wright family stopped near Ore
gon, City, this was in the year lHVt.
The ox team was set to work breaking
the soil, for the Wrights were farm
ers. Land was cheap and at a dis
tance from the settlement it could be
had for nothing. By and by they
bought a little stock which multiplied
and grew into money under the fath
er's care. Nineteen years later they
moved to Morrow County. They ship
ped their stock to The Dalles and came
overland to Rhea Creek and located
about ten miles southwest of Heppner
on the land adjoining the Rugg place
and which is now the property of Silas
Wright. It was a piece of School land
and his father purchased it for $400.
The bottom land was planted to hay
and they ran stock. A little grain
was raised in the valley but it was
thought impossible to raise anything
on the hills. The first grain in that
part of the country was raised in the
tiightmile district and when people
saw that it was possible to raise
wheat profitably, the hills were taken
over by the wheat men. Land was
cheap and held in large tracts. Four
or five hundred dollars would buy an
immense amount of land. In many
places you merely had to settle on it
to make it your property.
A few of the men who were neigh
bors of Mr. Wright are still living
here. Oren Farnsworth, Crocket
Kirk and Clay Myers were pioneers
with Mr. Wright anor were among the
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mail. Later on the mail came to
Heppner and then to Rhea Creek as 1
it does today. I
The main amusement in those days ;
was dancing. Most my kind of music j
was had, mostly French harps and ac
?ordians. The first school house in
that part of the country was built of
lops on their place and is still there
today. It was the .neeting place of
the community. Everyone alone the
Creek came up at odd times for the
spelling bees. Sunday School was
held regularly in the ctioolhouse. Oc
casionally a preacher rode into the
district and then they would have a
sermon in the school. A man by the
name of Shipwerk, Mr. Wright re
membered as one man who gave them
a good sermon. The mountains were
full of deer and elk in those davs
and these furnished good hunting. In
l7i the Indians were on the warpath
and the family went to The Dalles
double quirk.
In ISSi Mr. Wright and Miss
Martha Cant well, of Eightmile, were
married. Although Mr. and Mrs.
Wright might have had some black
sheep in their flocki., they never had
any in the family. The four boys,
Oren, Alonza, Moses and Dolbert are
all prosperous and well known young
men, the two daughters, Mearl and
Delia, are accomplished and highly
respected ladies. Mr. Wright is a
Republican in politics and is satisfied
with Republican prosperity. He was
born on a farm, raised on a farm and
has never graduated from his course
of study of farm facts. It is no idle
statement, therefore, when he savs
that the sheep farmer would be dol
lars ahead if he would put a woven
wire fence around his land. The ad
joining land owners should help bear
the expense and in this way the large
expense in the sheep business, herd
ing expense, would be largely done
away with.
Mr. Wright was greatly impressed
with the Minor Brothers display at
the Fair. "I believe that the only
salvation for the farmers here is to
raise more different crops. Every
'armer should supply not only his own
butter, eggs and meat, but he should
produce a surplus." He has seen the
time when every farmer on Rhea
Creek bought practically all of their
butter and eggs and meat from the
3tores, while today, nearly every
armer in the district produces not
only his own but according to the
merchants, brings tn more such pro
luces than any other part of the coun
ty. This has been a source of grati
fication to Mr. Wright but he wants
to see it carried still further.
"Something should be done to bet
ter roads," Mr. Wright said. He be
leives that some system as has been
trUn Missouri and Illinois, where
thu Governor appoints Good Road
'lavs and everyone gets out and works
m the roads, should be tried here.
Such practice not only makes better
oaw and at a cheaper cost but it
trets the people interested in roads and
what people are interested in, those
:hiius they will support. Money well
' pel t in good roads yields big returns
n safe and easy transportation, wear
mil tear on horsetlesh and violence I
io your vocabulary.
Mr. Wright has lived long and well.
He knows what it is to struggle, suf
fer and endure. In the course of the
onverHiition he said, "There arc many !
young fellows here who handle more
money than my father did and he had
a large family. Things come too easy
for them and they have little concep
tion of the value of money and time."
Mr. Wright does not want the lues- i
, cnt generation to battle with the
same difficulties as the men in his
time have fought, he is glad that, life
is easier, happier and fuller, but he j J
also believPH that only those who have
"Xperienred the gnawing of interest j
' harges am meeting of obligations
ever experience life at its fullest anil !
are able to sympathize with the world i
of workers. He has faith in the fut- I
ure of Eastern Oregon and since the
Hay he first entered the borders of the
state, he has never left its borders, j
"Any young man can t help but make
rood if he will attend diligently to I J
work. He ran make a success quirk- j
'r here thnn any place I know of. I
'lave been in every part of the state
ind Eastern Oregon offers more op-
nortunities than any other part. A
voung man is limited only by his ile j
sires and if he wants a thing bad
enough, he can usually find a way to J
;et it." I
Phelps Grocery Co. j
GOOD EATS
Headquarters
COME TO
Gilliam & Bisbee
For anything in the HARDWARE LINE
We have it, will get it, or it is not made
We try to keep a complete, up-to-date stock of everything car
ried in a first-class store, and we ask everybody for a
liberal share of their patronage. We do our best
to merit the same.
Come and see us
The New Fall Book of Styles
of the STAR TAILORING CO,, has just been received and we invite
your inspection of same.
Every man woman and child should read the "The European War
at a Glance," a brand new book, and what has plunged Europe into
this terrible catastrophe. Money cannot buy this book, it is not for
sale, but in order to give our customers this valuable information,
we will gladly supply a copy of same free of charge with every Suit
of Overcoat Order.
Sam Hughes Co.
WELL D
RILLING
Done on short notice. I have never failed to
get a good well. Others have give me the
opportunity and I will give you a satisfactory
well. See me at Heppner or at the Drill.
W. D. Newlon
Made-to-Order
FALL A! lie suns
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O. M. Yragrr, Architect and Builder. !
Chan. Jayne left tor the Roundup
yesterday. j
A few more of those g day Mara- !
thona at Haylor'a. 21. ,
V. M. Griffin, of the hairview dis
trict, wan in thin city, Tuesday.
Mrs. Iian Hire went to U-xington to
visit at the Krank Uurgoyne home,
Mrs. IJurgoyne lieu g her daughter. I
FOR SAI.K Shorthorn Hull, Ihre
yrara old. ( all at Herald Oflirr. ,
J. P. Freely, the well known SUind
rd Oil repreentative, wax in the rity
yesterday. He in substituting Criwo
for Zcrulina and aeems to make it
work.
$16.50 to $45
The buyer who wishes to bo fitted with a suit
of the latest style and high-gTade workman
ship is invited to inspect our large line of
all-wool samples. These samples are the
classiest ever shown in Heppner and are an
assortment of fabrics which cannot bo beat
en anywhere. Expert measurements taken
and fit absolutely guaranteed.
If you want to look up to date and be up
to date in your clothes, give your order to
J. B. SPARKS, Agent for Morrow County
Sit I be SkcMikuma at ll)lur'a. .
Tbev are daiftira.
W. ('. Ngl, one of the proprietor ?
of the Jn k Kabbit (jariige left for hi J
horn in Portland for an extended unit,
yesterday.
LOUIS
O. M. Yarr, Contractor, will Ho
your bulldinr. repairing, rtr., and lakv
your wool, hay or anything of value
in eachangc for (he work.
PEARSON,
Heppner
Tailor