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Oregon Historical Hociet l ily nail v .... 4hiu limit VOL. 2',). NO. 27. HEITNER, OliEGdN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR. (7 -77.T&f7t m hi e ft 0 Our New o 0 Are in and opened up for inspection. Come and take a look Something Swell 0 in Suit orai T Y FA H AT GONDOM Attend The Booster Meet in? To-Morrow Night and Get in Line. ings Our stock is ever. larger than 0 TOodPinnisoini OSom o c ooc DO 0 3C30 "IT X iL . Hi vMT orr. Mil mil A PERFECT BLEND OF BLACK TEAS LIS BROS SAN FRANCISCO. CAL There will be a meeting of the Booster Club at the council cham bers tomorrow evening. The main opject of this meeting is to get the business interests of the county lined up and arrange for a good attendance of our citizens at the Tri-County Fair which be gins at Condon on the 15th. We must be represented there, and in large numbers. Ourcoun to is to have a good exhibit and it is up to us to show the neigh bors to our left that we appreciate what they are doing in their ef forts to give publicity to the re sources of our section. Be on hand and encourage your next door neighbor to attend this meeting. The Boost Club can do effective work when they try. As evidence of this, it is only necessary to refer to the action taken at last meeting with refer ence to better train service on the branch. We now have the promise of the railroad company that there is to be no more delay in getting trains up the branch; there will be no more long stops for throwing off way freight, and when you leave the Junction for points up the line you can ex pect to come through on schedule time, and other improvements in the service are promised. These are things that we have wanted for a long time. A spec ial passenger service will yet be put on, and there can be other improvements brought about. Attend the meetings and be a party to helping along these things. ranv will nav mncVi ottonfinn tr I the establishment of canneries, fruit evaporators and other plants to utilize farm products. The Vale Enterprise has a good idea of what a commercial club is and has the following to say: "A great many of our citizens are in clined to overlook tue good that is accomplished by the commercial club. The people of Vale are not alone in this, as it is the same, practically, all over the country. The commercial club shoulders all the trouble and expense of adver tising our community, and trusts to the people to repay them. They spend many nights in fig uring on something to help the town, and the people, who are to reap the beneht, sleep peacefully. They give a part of their time 11 i ana oiren spena some expense money, and the people do not compensate them in any way. The officers never stand back from the work simply because there is no payroll in connection with their office. The small grow ing town is the one that needs a commercial club and a town never amounts to shucks unless it has one." Class Entertained. bins O. Hendncson entertained the members of the High school class on luesday evening at the residence of his uarpnts where hp enjoyable eve ring was sDent, all partaking of a real ol i-tashined chioken dinner. Follow ing this the evening was spent in the plaving of frames and merry makirg. Before depaiting his class presented Ellis with a pair of solid void cuff buttons in honor of his )8tq birthday. OREGON CROPS ARE ABUNDANT We recommend "Hil villa" to all lovers of a strictly first class Black Tea as being the equal of, if not the superior, of any Black Tea on the market. Sold exclusively by PHELPS GROCERY CO. Portland, Or., Oct. 1 (Spec cial) Farmers of the Pacific Northwest are to be envied this year for prices are high and crops abundant. In almost every sec tion the producers are rolling in new wealth. Thomas Morgan, of Enterprise, harvested $10,000 worth of grain from one ranch in Union county and he will grow enough on other ranches near Enterprise to bring his total crop up to 35,000 bushels. A man in the Table Rock dis trict of Jackson county raised 6,000 sacks of potatoes on 30 acres. 1 hese potatoes are now worth, at the Medford depot, $1.25 per sack, or $7,500 for the crop from 30 acres. A farmer in the Molalla dis trict, Clackamas county, has sold $800 worth of clover seed from eight acres and has 27 tons of clover hay, worth $270, from the same land. . A hop farmer in the Mission Bottom country, near Salem, has grown $40,000 worth of hops on 100 acres. The crop is already sold at that figure. Every neighborhood through out the state can show similar instances of farmers getting rich. There are unlimited opportunities for others. The farmers of Wash ington, it is said, will receive $25, 000,000 more for their crops this year than last, and it is probable the increased value in this state will not be much below that figure. L. R. Alderman, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, has a project under way that ought to prove helpful. He proposes to make the school houses the social centers of the various communi ties of the state by giving exten ded lecture courses during the Winter months. These talks will be by well informed speakers, who will discuss subjects of com men interest. Back From Kansas. J. L. Yeager returned on Saturday evening after ao absence six weeks at the home of his Barents in Hum bolt, Kansas. Mr. Yeager was called East by the sorions illness of his father, O. C. Yeager, who passed away during his visit there at the age or so yeais. Mr. Yeager states uiai me teopiu or tnat section are fairly prosperous this year having good crops but he is satisfied with ' Oreeon could not be content to the Rockies. mighty well country, and live east of The Albany Commercial Club has adopted a resolution favoring the setting aside by the Governor of the second Saturday of Octo ber as Fire Day, when accumula ted rubbish will be burned and thereby danger of accidental fires greatly lessened. BENEFITS LOCAL PEOPLE. "Lexington people have discover ed that A SINGLE DOSE of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., as compounded in Adler-i-ka, the Ger man appendicitis remedy, relieves gas on the stomach and constipation AT ONCE. W. P. McMillan, Drug gist, Lexington, Ore. SCHOOL NOTES. The Portland, Eugene & East ern, the Southern Pacific's system of electric lines, has definite plans for bringing settlers to the Wil lamette V7 alley. When the inter urban roads are put into opera tion, special efforts will be made to bring thousands of Eastern people to settle on the land, hop ing in this way to divide up the large farms and encourage more intensive agriculture. The corn- By Supt. NoUon. A few days ago I visited the Black- horse school, which is under the direction of Miss Ida M. Seiler. The pupils were making a good be Rining on the work of the term. This school is quite well equipped for the work. There are a globe, dict ionary, an encyclopedia, a set of maps, some charts, a good blackboard, a fine flaee, a new stove, a thermometer, good window shades, new window boards, an organ, and a nice lot of library books. The water-closets are well built aud are kept in first-class condition. There is a good barn for the horses of those who ride or drive. There is an excellent wood-house and a supply of good wood. A well which furnishes splendid water is located inisde the school-yard, and is equipped with a gond pump. The pupils have individual drinaing cups. I noted some new pictures and mottoes upon the walls. The next school I visited is in Dis trict No. 38. Here I found Miss Vesta Cutsforth and nine pupil making good use of the time. I noted that some new maps and a new organ had been purchased since my former visit. The school is provided with water-filter. There are window-boards for the windows, sood thermometer, and shads and sash-curtains. This school has an excellent library, and the books are koet in a good book-case. The walls are tastily decorated with the Amer ican flag a framed picture of Wash ington and a number of small pictures. The out-buildings are well kept. The Clark's Canyon school was next in my line of march. Miss Ooal Briggs is in charge of this school. This school is quite small, but a number of pupils will be added to the roll as soon as the harvest work is over. A filter is provided for the water supply, and the pupils have inlividual cups. The windows are provided with excellent window boards. There Is a fine flag, and the walls are decorated with numerous pictures. The out-buiidings are kept in good condition. Will Take Up Ranching. D M. Ward has joined the "back to the soil" movement and the past week resigned his position with Miror & Co. where he has been working for some time, and has gone onto the Tei McKimmey ranch on Heponer Flat. Delljwill henceforth be a tiller of the soil and expects to become one of the big wheat producers of Morrow county, and the G. T. hopes he man fully realize bis expectations. Ray Rogers has been advanced to Dell's place in the gent's furnishing, depart ment in the store and Edgar Ayerg has taaen a place in the grocery de partment with Minor & Co. Gets Hand Hurt Dave Brown of Blackhorse, is in town this weet receiving treatment for a badly injured hand. While working about the thresher on Sat urday he got bis hand caught between a belt and a pully and came verv near having that member removed entirely. Ony his . presence of mind saved the loss of the hand, and when it caught he threw his body against the belt with sufficient force to throw it off andjextract his hand. The mem ber was badly lacerated and skinned ud and his thumb was broken and Dave has retired from hard labor for a few days until his injuries mend. Thresher Burns. Dan Barlow had the misfortune of having his separator burned on last Sunday while at work on the Ball place in the Gooseberry section. The fire was caused from an explosion of smut but was confined largely to the machine and caused no material loss of grain, there being but seven or eight sacks that were at all damaged. The machine was an old one aud has paid for itself many times over so Dan does not feel that he has been seriously injured by its loss. An other machine was gotten as soon as possible and the crew is busy as usual. Troubles never seem to come singly. and Dan was lined double his share the past week losing besides the thresher, a valuable stallion worth $2000. BIG TIMBER SALES. Chief Forester Giaves is on his way to Sen Francisco to make final ar rangements under which a California lumber company will purchase 830 million' feet of timber on the Sierra National Forest. The timber has al ready been awarded, after publio ad vertisment, to the highest bidder, but undar the terms of the advertise ment the final signing of the contract will not take place until the company a i has been shown on the ground what timber the Government reserve from cutting in order to preserve good forest conditions and provide for reproduc tion. The company will be allowed its full 800 million feet, but naturally it will not be allowed to cut clean. As a rule the Forest Service reserves some thing like one-third of the forest stand in spolying forestry on Government holdings. A marking board made up of one man sent from Washington, one from the District office in Sun Francisco, and the local Forest Sup ervisor will carefully mark a sample area, to show how the restrictions on cutting will be applied. Representa tives of the oompauy will then go over this area, after which Chief Forester Graves and his assitants will, u is expected, make final arrange cisco, and the contract of salu will bat signed. "The Forest Service" said Mr.. Graves in speaking of this sale, "has. received a number of inquiries wether in selling so much timber to a single purchaser the Government may not. be opening the way to a monopolistic, control of local lumber mnrkets. Other correspondents are disturbed lest the sale prove a bad bargain for the Government through the rise it valno of tha timber in the twenty-two years during which the company will cut. ' "Such large and long-time sales- of National Forest timber as that to the California company are a new de velopment in the Forest Service. Great bodies of mature but inaccess ible timber can be put on the market only if sale contracts are let on terra which will justify a very heavy initial investment in transportation facilities. In entering into such contracts, how ever, special safeguards to protect the public against monopoly and to prevent an undue speculative profit to tha purchaser are employed. "The National Forests contain, in all, the equivalent of nearly 600 billion feet of timber now of merchantable size, besides voung growth for futuret harvest. Because of its remoteness from market and the wild, mountain ous country, with out transportation facilities, in which most of it lies only a small percentage can now b sold on any terms. Most of it wouldk cost more to get it out than it would bring. The sale of less than one fifth of one per cent of our total spply to one company leaves plenty of room, for competition by other companies- The timber which has been sold to the California company lies well back: in the Sierra Nevada Mountains ano pill require the construction of 70 miles of standard-gauge railroad to open up the area. Since this road will also open up other National forest.. timber and will be a common carrier it creates another safeguard against monopoly. The company is given a cutting period of twenty-two years, to remove the timber, besides au additional two years for the manofact facilities. The sale was publicly advertised for six months in ordei to give an opportunity for all who wished to compete for the contract to rcaka bids, as is dona in all large National Forest sales. "No business organi zation would undertake the heavy, investments necessary in such cases unless the handling of a large body of timber aad a sufficient period ia which to remove it under practicable logging conditions are assured. Tha great difficulty in making such long term sales is to establish a price which will be fair to both sides. No on can fore-see future conditions well enough to know what stumpage will be worth ten, fifteen, or twenty years hence. Gonsoquenlly the teres of sale provide fur the readjustment of stump age prices every five years. Ibe basis for fixing the prices will be ia each case, the pri ces of manufactured lumbar in the markets where the timber is sold the preceding two years. For several years the Forest Service has been sellirg in the neighborhood of a million dollars worth of National Forest stumpage -per year, but this combined with what is cut for freer use is onlv about one-eight of what might be cut without reducing tha permanent stock of the Forsets. The supply will be kept up through growth. By making long-term lease it will be possible greatly to increase the amount -available for present needs of tha timber consuming public, without en dangering future supplies through overcutting. It will always remain true, however, that vastly the greater part of our timber sales will be ta -small purchasers, who are the favored wheiever possible. Monopoly is im possibe as long as the door is kept ocen for sued purchasers. Out of over 5,000 sales made in the fiscal yrar 1911, about forty were for over 5 000 worth of timber to a single purchaser." The planting of a 250 acre wal nut farm will be begun in Yam hill County. The culture of wal nuts has proved one of the most profitable industries for the farmers of Yamhill and company proposes to go into it on a big scale. Eastern capital is seeking in vestment in Oregon timber It is stated on good authority that over $22,000,000 has been invest ed in Oregon timber bonds since January 1. These bonds are now said to in favor with Eastern in vqptors and the ability to realize on standing timber by the bond ing method has proved of benefit. ments with the company in San Fran-' to the Facific Northwest J