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VOLUME X
HEPPNER, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1923
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LID6E.
OPPOSE EXTRA SESSION
NO PRACTICAL PLAX OFFERED,
SAYS PRESIDENT
Stanfield is To Offer Bill to Give
the Farmers Bonus on
Wheat
In a letter to Senator Gooding,
farm bloc member from Idaho, Pres
ident Coolidge declares that congres
sioLal action to aid the farmer does
not seem expedient at this time and
that no special session will be called
unless a real emergency should arise
and some practical measure for re
lief be presented.
The president's letter to Senator
Gooding, dart,ed August 14, follows:
"Your telegram relative to the
agricultural and coal situations has
been received. The congress has al
ready had before it the coal problem
and has authorized the investigation
and report of the commission, which
has been and now is, actively en
gaged in this work and in mediation
between the disagreeing elements in
the anthracite fields.
"As you know, the congress has
been engaged during the past two
years, often times in accordance
with your own suggestions, in the
passage of legislation for the relief
of agriculture. It was one of the
first acts of President Harding and
one of his last thoughts. I share
with you a great solicitude for this
important interest and a great sym
pathy for any part of it which may
be, temporarily I trust, in any dis
tress. It is my earnest desire to
afford every possible relief and lis
ten to every possible suggestion.
The most experienced legislators
vita whom I have consulted have
not yet been able to offer any plan
for legislative action which seems
to be practicable."
Senator Stanfield, of Oregon, is
also quoted in the Oregonian Wash
ington Bureau dispatches as being
opposed to a special session. In a
statement issued by the senator af
ter receiving a letter from George C.
Jewett asking him to join other sen
ators from wheat producing states
irt asking the president to call a
special session he is quotted as say
ing that he cannot see where the
wheat growers would receive any
material benefit from such a ses
sion. Continuing the senator gives the
following reasons for his position:
Effor(e congress could act tha
wheat will have mostly passed out
of tie hands of the farmer and only
the speculators would benefit.
Says there is a surplus of wheat
being grown in tle U nited States
and urges that part of the wheat
land be put in other crops of which
there is a shortage, but does not
specify just what crops are meant.
Quotes Senator Reed Smoot, who
has ;ust returned frci mEurope, with
has just returned from Europe, with
year producing enough wheat for its
own use without any imports from
the outside world.
Agrees with Secretary of Agricul
ture Wallace that the farmer is not
receivfng prices for his products
Charlie Latourell returned from
Portland Monday where he attended
tiie big Ford Power shew last week.
He says the show was a great suc
cess, the biggest thing of the kind
ever attempted in the Nortwect. One
innovation that took Mr. Latourell's
eye was a one ton Ford truck equip
ped with a special low gear to give
greater pulling power with a trailer
behind making the rig capable of
carrying 2 to 3 tons at a load. He
expects to equip such a rig here and
have it tried out hauling wheat.
Mrs. M. L. Owney reports having
a hollyhock in her yard which she
believes may yet prove a winner.
The plant is the first year from the
S(d and has grown without culti
vation or irrigation to a heighth of
inches. It is still growing and
blooming and if the season lasts
long enough may yet grow into the
winning class.
Miss Annie Doherty, stenographer
in the county clerk's office, is spend
ing her vacation at Seattle. During
h-r absence the office will be closed
with the exceptions of Mondays and
Saturdays when Mr. Morse will ar
!';!.?; to be in the office.
commensurate with the prices he has
to pay for everything he buys, but
quotes figures to show that the
prices of all farm products have ad
vanced 25 per cent over 1921 and
concludes tnat the farmer's condi
tion is certainly improvinng.
Believes it would be a future me
nace to the farming industry if the
government were to fix prices or
buy surplus wheat now.
The senator then says that he will
offer a bill when congress convenes
next winter authorizing the govern
ment to return to the wheat growers
as a bonus the profits accrued by
the United States grain corporation
during the war. This profit amounts
to $51,044,332.10 which would
amount to some $7.29 cents per
bushel on an estimated present crop
of 700,000,00.
Agrees that it does seem that the
farmer should receive more than 28
per cent of the consumers dollar for
his product and suggests economy,
efficiency and co-operative market
ing as the way out.
WELL MAY BE GOLD MINE
Will the new well being drilled
on the Cutsforth ranch near Morgan
prove to be a gold mine or a gas
well Is the question that has arous
ed some little Interest within the
last day or two.
A. M. Edwards, well driller of
Lexington, has been engaged for
some time drilling for water on the
Cutsforth ranoh and haB reached the
depth of 288 feet without finding
water. Down to a depth of 280 feet
the formation penetrated by the
drill showed nothing out of the ordi
nary when a formation of some kind
was encountered that plated the
drill bit with a metallic substance
of the color of old' brass or gold.
Mr. Edwards was puzzled and cur
ious to learn something more about
the matter he asked Art'.u'.r Camp
bell, a graduate in chemistry from
the University of Oregon, to visit the
well and try to determine what sort
of metal the plating is.
Monday afternoon Mr. Campbell,
his father Judge Campbell, County
Agent Morse and a representative of
the Herald drove down to the well
and secured a sample of the sub
stance brought up by the sand pump
and last night Mr. Campbell made
what tests he could with the means
at hand. Ho found an exceedingly
heavy percentage of Iron but had no
way at hand to test for either cop
per or gold. He says, however, that
there is no known form of Iron that
would form a plating on an iron
drill stem but that either copper or
gold in the form of a soluble salt
might do so. If the substance were
copper, however, the plating would
show the red copper color instead of
the gold or brass color shown on the
drill bit. Mr. Campbell does not
make the statement that the plating
is gold, but says that with the in
formation available it is not unreas
onable to suppose that it may prove
to be a soluble gold salt of consid
erable value.
Another peculiar thing about the
well is that there is a rather strong
current of air coming from the open
ing with which is mixed sufficient
gas to burn slightly when a match
is applied. So far as could be de
termined the gas is ordorless.
No one was at the well yesterday
when the Heppner party visited it
and more definite information could
not be obtained.
Mr .Campbell, who leaves Sunday j
for the east to take a position as
assistant in chemistry at the Iowa j
State University, will take a sample;
of the drillings with him and will
have It thoroughly tested there.
A report from him will be await
ed In Morrow county with consider
able interest.
C. H. McDaniels, Alex Wilson and ;
Charlie Harrington, all well known !
residents of the Board man country, !
were visitors In Heppner last Fri-:
day and Saturday. Mr. McDaniels re- i
cently returned from a 60-day har-i
vesting job on the Indian rest-ration '
near Pendletoon where he helped
harvest 2400 acres of wheat that
made from 40 to 63 bushels per acre.
He says everything is flourishing on
the Eoardman project except that the
price of hay Is none too high.
BIG WHEAT SHORTAGE
MARKET AGENT SAYS
INFORMATION' FOR POTATO
GROWERS IS OUTLINED
Hay Growers' Association Reported
to Be Doing Good Work,
in This State
Many requests come to the market
agent for information regarding the
new potato grading and inspection
law, and there appears to be a gen
eral mistaken lmpressio,i ih:i. ail
pouUe8 in litts of mo- t..u: 50
pounds must be state iii-pectei.
The iiw which will go into vt
feet September 15, is primarily tor
large shipments. It provide; that
in carldt shipments, or in quanti
ties of 10 tins or more, the potatoes
shall be inspected by the stale in
spection department, according to
the United States standard grades
There are four established grades
but grade No. 1 will talte care of
most of the potatoes grown in Oie
grn. On smaller shipments, from 50
pounds to 10 tons, state Inspection
is not required, unless requested by
the buyer or seller, but the seller is
required to grade the potatoes when
sold and on the sack or container
put the name and address of the
grower and the grade. If this is not
compiled with, they shall be labeled
as "culls."
The state market agent will soon
have ready for distribution for those
who care for the information, a
pamphlet giving the grades, fees for
inspection and rules and regulations
by the market master.
This department recently made
comment that the co-operative hay
association was working along the
right line in that it had sold 47
of its hay direct to feeders and re
tailers, thus eliminating the broker.
Manager L. A. Hunt, of Hermiston,
advises that we have not told it all.
He states that the association has
sold 47 to retailers and Hfr to
consumers direct. This association
is now enlarging its scoe to take in
the state of Washington, under a
sales contract that must cover 7 5
of the alfalfa acreage before the con
tracts are .effectve. If such a strong
contract organization can be accom
plished, and Mr. Hunt says they are
meeting with splendid success, the
hay growers will be in a position to
force out the brokers and handle the
crop from thf farm to the retailer
or barn.
Some weeks ago the market agent
cautioned dealers not to place too
much credit on the newspaper re
ports that there was a large over
production of wheat in this country.
Government reports now give out
the figures that the production this
year is short 69,000,000 bushels
over last year and 42,000,000 bush
els short of the five-year record
production, yet the market price is
generally below the coat of produc
tion. Many local co-operative commodi
ty organizations are coming into for
mation all over the state and many
others are being agitated. The mark
eting department urges the most
careful consideration with these lo
cal organizations, as on their suc
cess depend perhaps state-iwide as
sociations later on, and on their
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WE CANT
GIVE MEAT AWAY;
THAT'S FOOLISHNESS
WE CAN AND DO SELL
3ut
BEST QUALITY MEAT
at
Bed-Rock Prices. That's Business
The Central Market
STEEL GASOLINE, OIL
BURN COAL TWICE AND SAVE
ALL ELEMENTS
Saving On Steel, To Bring Down
Price of Cars is Now
Claim
New York, Aug. 26. A method of
burning covj twice and thus mater
ially reducing cost of automobile
manufacturing has been perfected by
a firm of New York chemists, and
taken over by Henry Ford, according
to Emil Piron, who with his associ
ate, V. Z. Caracristi, conducted the
experiments.
"The method is practicable, and is
a success beyond all doubt," Piron
told the United Press today. "Mr.
Ford is now engaged in construc
ing buildings at Detroit, where the
new propess will be put into opera
tion." One of the principal by-products
will be gasoline which can be pro
duced nt an estimated cost of six
cents a gallon. Thus the jobs of mo
toring ae likely to be brought with
in easy reach of nearly everybody in
the country. If the new process
proves workable when it is actually
put into operation on a commercial
basis.
Each ton of coal burned by Ford
under this process will produce coke
with which he can make his own
steel instead of buying-it as at pres
ent motor gasoline, lubricating oil,
fertilizer, creosote, gas and grease,
Piron said.
The experiments which resulted In
today's announcement of success
were made in a laboratory In West
Virginia and were financed byx Mr.
Ford.
The next step is construction of
buiiulngs at the Ford plants In both
the United States and Canada, where
the cheapest grade of coal will be
used.
It is estimated the cost of making
cars will be so materially reduced
that it will be possible for Ford to
make further price reductions if he
so desires.
The-cont of motoring will be still
further slashed by the production of
cheap lubricating oils and grease.
In other words, as each "flivver"
gets through the factory, its gaso
line, oil and grease will be manufac
tured as a side line at hitherto un
heard of prices.
Ford is understood to be figuring
on using coal from his own mines in
West Virginia, transporting it to his
plants over his own railway lines.
One1 of the principal savings, If the
process works out in actual practice,
will bo in steel. Making bis own
cone, Ford expects to be able to
erect his own steel mills and thus
obUin steel at rockbottom prices.
Piron, in explaining the new meth
od, said that it was really in the na
tne ol an improvement over exist
ing systeuib. Coke has been produc
er! from roal for many years, and
there have peen repeated efforts to
obtain additional by-products, but
with indifferent success.
By thd Piron-Carachristi method,
the coal will will be distilled at
much lower temperatures than here
tofore. Under heat, coal gives off
varl'.us gaBes. These gases, when
cooled, may be condensed into liq
uids. This, In brief, is the nature
of the process. Ther have been
many disputes between scientists as
to whether best results could be ob
tained from distilation at high or
low temperatures. Piron believes
that a greater quantity of by-products
is available at low tempera
ture and, as this method is much
less costly than the high tempera
ture system and low grade coal can
i be used it is the one which has
been adopted.
The coal is passed through a
chamber heated to the requisite
temperature and the gashes rise from
it. They are passed in other tem
peratures and resolve themselves in
to different products.
Coke can be produced at $4.46 a
ton, Piron said, and from it briquets
can be made, to be burned in house
hold furnaces and grates, at half the
cost of anthracite. The cost of gas
will be reduced from sixty cents a
thousand cubic feet to 7 or 8 cents,
with other reductions in proportion,
Piron said.
BEAUTIES OVERDRAWN
C. W. McNamer, who recently re
turned from an extended trip to Yel
lowstone National park, admits that
he was rather disappointed in the
much heralded scenic beauty of that
region. Mrs. McNamer, Mrs. Bert
Mason, of lone, and Mrs. DeZell, of
Spokane, w(ere other members of the
party. They camped or stopped at
hotels as the fancy seized them.
The party was gone from Heppner
about 25 days going via Spokane and
Montana and returning through east
ern and southern Idaho, thus covering
a big territory on the trip.
"Of course there are Borne flue
scenic spots in the park," Mr. Mc
Namer said while discussing the trip
the other day, "but there is also a lot
of mighty uninteresting scrub' pine
country to drive through between the
spots that are interesting."
The roads are not what Mr. Mc
Namer expected to see, being very or
dinary macadam and in rather poor
repair. Campers in (lie park receive
but scant courtesy from the rangers,
or guards, who are on duty every
where and son:? of them will hardly
give a camping tourist a civil answer
when asked for information. One of
these, fellows of whom Mac asked
some information about the road told
him to buy a guide book. Only the
people who come in on the big pas
senger busses fro mthe railroads and
stay at the park hotels receive much
attentioon.
Mr. McNamer says conditions
through Montana and Idaho are much
the same as in Morrow county. Crops
are heavy everywhere but the men
who raise them are none too prosper
ous.
Missoula, Montana, was the best
appearing city they passed through
and business seemed to be booming
there. They just missed the big
round-up at Bozeman by two days,
Much to Mr. McNamer's regret, as
be might have picked up some new
ide.s for thij coming Heppner Kodeo
of which he is the head.
On the return trip they came
through I'ocatello, Twin Falls, Glenns
Ferry and Boise. The Twin Falls
section Is a wonderful country and
very productive but the first settlers
are having a hard time of it trying
to eke out a living and pay the
heavy water and other taxes. Many
of them will probably lose out final
ly and be replaced by a new crowd
who will profit by the first settlers'
losses as la usual in most new coun
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WHEAT CONTRACT TO BE
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ASSOCIATION PI.ANK TO HANDLE
MORTGAGED GRAIN
Field Manager of Oregon Wheat
Growers Here in Interest of
Orderly Marketing
Bert W. Emerson, warehouse man
ager and field representative ol the
Oregon Wheat Growers association,
was in the county several days last
week making arrangements with the
Morrow county banks by which tha
mortgaged grain belonging to mem
bers of the association can be put
through the regular channels of the
concern in such a way as will be sat
isfactory to all parties concerned.
Mr. Emerson fully realizes that
banks and Individuals holding mort
gages on grain must bo fully pro
tected and ho also realizes the posi
tion of some farmers who have ex
hausted their credit at the banks for
funds with which to pay hervest ex
penses. At the same time, Mr.
Emerson says, a contract is a con
tract and if the association is to con
tinue all members must bo treated
alike and all must expect to respect
their contract with tho association.
Some people seem to think, Mr.
Emerson said In effort, that the as
sociation is managed and controlled
by the officers who have been chosen
to do tho active worlc of marketing
the crop. Such, he says, ia not tho
case. The association is owned and
controlled by the members who
choose their delegates from each
unit, they In turn choosing the board
of directors, who hire tho managers
to handle tho business.
Complaint about violation of corn
tracts, Mr. Emerson says, come not
from the offlco of the association,
primarily but from the members
themselves who are living up t
their contracts and insist that their
neighbors be compelled to do
tho
same. Orders coming from the mem
bership to tho office, through
delegates and directors must
tho
bo
I obeyed, and tills being the ease thero
is no alternative but to enforco tho
contract in all eases.
Mr. Emerson has presented two
plans to tho people holding mort
gages on Morrow county wheat:
One Is that tin; farmers and the
holders or mort;;lges may agreo on
a specific date on or beforu which
the wheat may bo sold, tho proceeds
of the sale to be sent to the holder
of the mortgage less 2 Vi cents a.
bushel, which is tho association's
charges for handling the grain.
Tho other plan is that tho associa
tion may be instructed to sell tho
wheat upon arrival tho proceeds to
be turned over to tho mortgago
holder less the 2 cents per bushel.
Mr. Emerson says be has found
the general attitude In this county
as being favorable to tho proposal.
A strict enforcement of tho con
tracts, Mr. Emerson says, Is vital to
tho future success of the association.
"On this proposition the association
in list stand or fall," bo said.
Mr. Emerson Is a farmer himself,
owning a good sized wheat farm in
Wasco county. Ho was also engaged
In the wan-house business at Dufur
before being called to his present
position with the association and ho
feels that he understands tho wheat
game from both angles. Ho left
here for Condon Saturday evening.
Charles Kwlndig, manager of tho
Farmers Elevator Co., Is acting as
local representative for tho associa
tion In Heppner.
THE CONCORD GRAPE
Tho Concord grape, a prime fav
orite wherever it Is known, was pro
pagated and given to the world bv
Ephrlam Wales Dull, a r.-sldent of
Concord, New Hempshlre. In tho
early days of that, historic town.
The Bull home, known as Cram--
vlna Cottage, Is still standing, says
a writer who recently visited thn
and beside it stands the orlKlnal
Concord grapevine from which
sprung every Concord vino now
growing In tho world. "The vino Is
old and gnarled In appearance,"ay.t
this writer, "as becomes the parent
of so great a progeny, a brood widen
has enriched hundreds of nursery
m.-n but brought the scantiest pit
tance of sold and fame to its originator."