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VOLUME 5
HEPPNER, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918
NUMBER 14
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INSPECT COAL MINE
AND WATER SUPPLY
Through the courtesy of II. V.
Gates and A. L. Ayres the Herald
man enjoyed a trip to he Heppner
coai mines last Sunday and spent
sev ' .1 hours looking over the old
wo. ..ings at the camp and sizing up
the general contour of the country.
O. V. Gates, of Hillsboro, was also a
member of the party.
As the readers of the Herald well
know H. V. Gates secured a lease on
the coal property about a year ago
and since that time has had a large
amount of prospecting and develop
ment work done at the camp the re
sult being that a large body of fine
coal is within reach if sufficient
amount of development work is done
to penetrate the main deposit. He
has demonstrated, however, that to
properly prosecute the work, a con
siderable amount of money must be
expended and as his lease has only
three year life he now feels that he
cannot afford to incur Hie expence
necessary to develop the mine and
place it on a producing basis with
out first securing an extension of his
lease to at least eight years.
The Herald understands that Mr.
Gates has asked for an extension ot
the lease but it is not yet determined
whether the owners of the property
will grant the extension.
The road from Heppuer to the coal
mine Is now in 'good condition and
the expenditure of a comparatively
small amount of money would elimi
nate the two or three steep pitches
now existing and give practically a
water grade from the mine to this
city. With tho mine developed and
In operation and the road put in
proper condition lleppner's present
alarming fuel situation would be
solved, It being estimated that one
big truck, with trailers, could bring i Lr ad Pacific. And for a royal en
down at least ten tons of coal every i lor. niner, Louis J. Simpson does not
trip. hr. o to take second place to any
Willi license to be the very best t Ui.en of the state.
town of its size on the Pacific Coast i
Hennner has for years been held : ' n- C'"'k. who with Ills famtjy
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dock uy many nanmeaps noi me
least of which Is the fuel situation -
that expensive haul of coal and wood
200 miles, all up hill at more or less
exhorbltant freight rates.
The proper development of the
coal mine and a good trucking road
to the mino and the timber would
solve this problem and l'tep many j
thousands of dollars if Morroivj
county money In this rounty that i
now sent out every year to enilcli
Portland slabwood dealers, Wyoming
coal magnates and the O.. W. U. .t ,
N. Co.
An Interesting development of the
trip Sunday was the very lively In
terest. Mr. Gates, who by the way is
president and principal owner of the
Heppner Light & Water Co., evi
denced in the How of water In th
upper reaches of Willow creek, some
distance above the Slocuni mill. Sj
lively was this Interest that, at a
point on the creek where narrowing
banks made dam construction easy,
At . Gates called a halt, fished a
battery of shovels and some plunks
from the car and put the entire
party to work building a dum with
:i weir to give him an opportunity
;o measure the flow of water In tho
trcum.. The crew of iiliovelcrs
oon completed, tiie reading taken
. ml the trip resumed and whilu Mr. i
dates did not Klve out any indication
' f his I it tf ti t Ion h It did leak out that
'..e lias been titking kui ii reading at
. hat point for the lut two or line
; earn. The Herald doesn't know
.ut what it all mean but If I'.
ihounl develop that the heppner
Light & Water t'oiiipany is fiKuriiiit
n brliigltiis In a Kravity water hvh
in from the cold, uparkllni; witter
f upper Willow rrei-k. it would be
mighty fine thing fur Heppner
en inure mi than the development
f a coal mine. Such a m i i
hether built by Mr. (latei.- r'ltnpM.iy,
by any other firm or individual.
in liy tlio city of Heppner tienelf.
ouhl put II- ppner on the map rlKht
Ir. Wliinard report bavin dl-i
,ereil evral i tit Mualipi x In
Klui.t Ml! neighborhood reieiitly
. ill I. a plai eil the Batty and Young i
n;e under quarantine. Th ill"-1
nn In ald to l ave been carried j
nil Tli I'alb" 'i till" Bat'y ti'iine,
,d ral 'a developed there
' for" H reported. Bay Venn
aluii urTerln from th" dle.i
t all ra arc no being properly
(.-red for. i
O. M. P. Hosts to IrwkM Tuesday.
Members of the Oregon Mili
tary Police detail under Sergeant
Chas. Lillie, who have their quarters
in the school building, entertained
at a mess dinner Tuesday evening the
three speakers who addressed the
meeting of drafted men the same
evening. The menu was plain and
substantial but strictly up to present
military standards and quite differ
ent from the fare served Spanish
American war troops twenty years
ago as described by Col. Hibbard
later in the evening.
Those present at the fted were:
Capt. Russell, U. S. A., Col. John
Hibbard, Oregon Home Guards, Hon.
John Kollock, State Council of De
fense, Sam E. VanVactor, chairman
County Council of Defense, C. L.
Sweek, adjutant-general Morrow
County Homeguards, Sergeant Lillie,
Corporal H. J. Cummings, and
Privates Lewis F. Brown, Wm.
Malcolm, Thos. B. Riggs, Luttie M.
Shadley, Oregon Military Police.
The visiting speakers compli
mented' the Heppuer detail with
having the neatest and best ap
pointed quarters they have visited
during a 2000 mile tour of the state.
Vawter Crawford, editor of The
Gazette-Times, left yesterday for
Portland. There he will join other
editors of the state for a trip to Coos
Hay, where the meeting of the State
Kdicorial Association will be held
ju Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
11. s proml: es to be one of the most
lni; nesting and profitable meetings
of the Association yet held, and the
pe pie cf the Coos Bay country are
arranging royal entertainment for
Oregon's pencil pushers. One Im
portant feature of tho entertainment
v. 1 1 be a reception tendered the
en! ire delegation at the palatial
h'jiiie of L. J. Sinmson ot Shore-
a' .rs on the bluffs overlooking the
lo,, l,o..,. i... .. .
" ZZrnTJ,,, "TT ul
. ) d er- - visiting relatives,
returned to Heppner Wwlnewlay
v ning. Mrs. Clark and Misses
iMrry and Marjorle stopped over in
I,; llal,1 to visit for a week or su
'"'lore returning home.
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Morrow County Fair
WILL BE HELD
September 17th, 18th and 19th, 1918
At Heppner
SERVICE COMMISSION
HEARING HELD HERE
II. II. Corey and F. L. Miller, mem
bers of the Public Service commis
sion of Oregon, held a hearing in
this city last Saturday on a recent
application of the Heppner Light &.
Water Co., for permission to increase
the rates for lght, power and water
service.
The company was represented at
the hearing by Sam E. VanVactor,
their attorney while, the interests of
the city and ho public was looked
after by J. J. Nys, city attorney, as
sisted by C. E. Woodson. H. V.
Gates, president of the company, and
his son, O. V. Gates, of Hillsboro,
who Is also interested, were present
as was their civil engineer, J. L.
Stannard, of Portland. Mr. Kephart,
civil engineer in the employ of the
commission, was also present.
Tho principal Issue In the entire
matter seems to be a question of
values of the plant, equipment,
franchise, etc., and exhaustive re-
ports were submitted as evidence by
both of the engineers. .
The city had also employed T. A.
Garrow, C. E., of Portland, to chock j
up the work of Messrs. Stannard and
Kephart but his report not boing
coniploted at the time of the hearing1
to give time for his report to be sub-
mitted the case was left open for ten
days to give time for his report to be
completed and filed.
A number of witnesses were put
on by the city for the purpose of :
sliowlng that the pressure was in
adequate at the time of both recent
ilisastrous fires and that unnecessary
delay occurred
in getting sulllcient
pressure.
On the other hand counsel for the
company Introduced testimony to
show there was plenty of water to
meet all needs, and that the lack of
pressure was due to lack of organiza
tion of a lira department and the
laying of three lines of (ire hose
from 2'.'. Inch water main.
The entire matter -was pretty
thoroughly threshed out and the
mm, (,cdslim of t commlliH,on w,
1'atlier O'Rourke went to Condon
Thursday for a short visit,
The Sixth Annua!
Snm Stephens Wounded.
Word has been received here that
Sam Stephens. Heppner boy who en
listed in the Marines just after the
United States entered the war, wai
wounded some time ago in one of'the
engagements in trance. Sam re
ceived at Boche bullet through the
hip and has been laid up In the hos
pital ever since. He is now getting
along fine but expects to bo confined
in the hospital for about eleven
weeks yet. He was one of the first
boys from Heppner to go across the
water, and no doubt saw a great
deal of lighting before being
wounded.
Conducting Canning Demonstrations.
Miss Helen Cowgill, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, Mrs. Lena
Snell Sliurte, county school superin
tendent, and F. It. Brown, county
agent are spending tlu latter part of
tho week conducting canning demon
strations and holding club meetings
over the county.. Beginning today
(Thursday) they will hold demon
strations at Irrigon, Pine City and
Ilardnuin, and club meetings at
Boardnuui, Heppner, lone, Morgan
and Cecil.
Mrs. Arthur Smith a few days ago
receive! a letter from her sister, Mrs.
Susanah Hughes, a former resident
of Heppner and well known to nil
the older residents, who now resides
in Ireland, stating that she had just
reeelvel a telegram announcing that
her son, Matthew Hughes, had been
killed in action in France. The
young man enlisted In a New Zea-
land regiment some time ago and
after reaching England he was trans-
ferrel to the famous Riilo Brigade,
of England, which is composel of
four regiments all of whom are crack
shots with the rifle. The regiment
to which Mr. Hughes was attached
had been at the front but a few
days when his death occurred.
Dave McAteu returned from a bus
iness trip to Portland Wednesday
and announces tliut he will begin
the construction of his now building
at once. Hit son, Arthur McAteo
will also build on his adjoining lots
making a combined building tiOxtjit.
Sydney Smith, Morrow county's
expert road engineer, mado a bus
iness trip to Condon during the
week.
DRAFTEES MEETING
BIGGEST OF YEAR
The meeting for drafted men held
In tiie court house Tuesday was tho
greatest demonstration of the Ameri
can war spirit yet witnessed in
Heppner. The circuit court room
was crowded to the last inch of
standing room while every desk,
table and window sill was occupied
by earnest, interested men of nil
ages, those of draft age predomin
ating. Men were present from all
sections of the county and it seemed
that every harvest crew within reach
of Heppner was present enmasse.
More than 100 men were unable to
Set inside the court-room or even
within hearing distance in the cor
ridors and on the stairway.
Sam E. VanVactor, chairman of
the County Council of Defense,
presided at the meeting and in
troduced tlio speakers the first being
Hon. John Kollock, executive sec
retary of the State Council . De
fense, who addressed the men of t.io
draft from the standpoint of a
lawyer. Mr. Kollock gave a most
valuable and interesting talk ex
plaining the legal status of the
American soldier under existing laws
particularly tho new laws recently
parsed by congress safeguarding the
legal and property rights of nil men
In the military and naval service of
the country.
Col. John Hibbard, head of the
Ilo'iieguurd organizations of Oregon,
wa.i the next spoaker. He explained
the Importance of the home military
oi-r intentions particularly the Oregon
Military Police and the Homeguards.
Col. Hibbard Is a veteran of the
Spr.nlsh American war und tho
plc.uro ho drew of Uie deplorable
condition of the soldiers in that war
as regards sanitary and social hy
gei.lc conditions laid tho foundntio.i
for the lecture of Captain Richard
Km sell, of the medical department
of the U. S. army.
Captain Russell is sent out to
carry a most Important message to
the young men of tho country who
are soon to bo taken Into the nrniy,
on tho subject of coininunleablo dis
eas s, particularly of the venereal
typ.i. Ten years -ago, the speaker
staled, the per eentuge of diseases of
tli if: character among American sol
diers was the highest of uny army
in the world but at the present time
It Is the lowest. Captain Russell
used plain language In handling his
subject and the Information ho guvo
out Is of great value to overy young
young man In lie country whether lni
ever becomes a soldier or not.
Tim meeting whs strictly bus
iness from start to finish. There was
no singing, no spread eagle oratory,
no fuss nor feathers; Just plain Eng
lish delivered straight from I lei
tdioulder by earnest men with a
message to a crowd of equally
earnest young men who, by their
IliteliMt interest and close iitlentinn
showed that they were ready to re
ceive and profit by Hint iuos,ni.'i.
Tim vhltlng f peak its ileilmed the
HeppiiiT meeting In be Die largest
and most enthusiastic, population
considered, of any they have held In
the state.
Opia an atcuaot with
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF HEPPNER
Aiitta Ttr Oaa aaa a Qaartar
Uilliaa Dalian.