- THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEPPNER. ORE.. THURSDAY. AUG. 12, 1913
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WHEAT IS GOOD AS f
GOLD OWADAYS
WITH THE PRESENT HIGH WAR PRICES
AN AVERAGE CROP MEANS A
SNUG FORTUNE
We are offering some bargains in wheat land
which will prove most alluring to the buyer
who is looking for the best moderate priced
land in the Northwest.
1280 Acres, All Under
Fence
200 acres in timothy. Cuts 2 to 3 tons per
acre. One of the best dairy farms in the
Plenty of running water and tun-
eountv
ber. This can be had at a bargain,
is ri'ht ; Terms are right.
Price
840 Acres Wheat Land
Plenty of water. Can be divided into two
good farms. 2S0 acres in crop goes with
this. One of the best buys in County.
960 Acres Wheat Land
400 acres in crop. Has Summerfallow.
Machinery goes with place. Price right
and terms are right. Come and let us tell
you about it.
1440 Acres Wheat Land
800 in crop; 600 summerfallow. Plenty of
water. Price and terms are right.
THIS IS A BARGAIN.
SMEAD & CRAWFORD f
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Rough and Dressed Lumber,
Wood and Posts
At the Mill or delivered
obtained Us name from the long nar
row neck of water connecting Mai-1
hear lake with Harney lake. It is
bridged across and is the natural
pass for the public highway leading
to the south. The railroad now be
ing built from Riverside will pass
that way. We spent our second night
at Narrows, arriving there late at
night. We might have exceeded the
speed limit the last few miles, but
that can all be charged up to the mo
squitoes, as our only salvation was
to outrun them.
From Narrows to Beckley in Cat
low valley is 58 miles. The road lead
ing south from Narrows follows the
elevated land along the Blitzen Val
ley, finally coming down in the val
ley and following the levy on the edge
of a canal for miles and miles, which
was dug by the Ilanley Land Com
pany from one end of the valley to
the other, a distance of 40 miles. The
valley is about three miles wide and
was originally a swamp but is now
pretty well drained. Thousands of
acres are covered with bullrushes and
cattails from six to eight feet high.
The whole valley is fenced in by this
company with a four- and five-wire
fence with stays about four feet
apart. It contains thousands of head
of the fattest cattle I ever saw. The
Blitzen river, flowing down from
Steins mountains, upon entering the
valley formerly spread out the full
width of It but now follows the can
al. It is thought by some that the
railroad, after reaching Narrows, will
come up along the canal and pass ov
er into Catlow Valley, and it is fur
ther stated that the Hill line is one
of the companies which gives support
to the belief that Catlow Valley will
have a railroad in the near future.
At the head of the canal near where
the Blitzen comes down from the
mountains, I told Fred to shut off the
gasoline and we would try our luck
at fishing. After driving the ducks
away so we could cast our lines, and
Fred had succeeded in running down
a grasshopper, following a prolonged
chase through the grass, we cast our
hook out into the deep, sparkling
water. It was no sooner done than
it was grabbed by a big trout which
was landed to the water's edge and
there snapped off the hook. Then
there began a scramble by Fred to
get possesion of his prize, and also
a great scramble by the big trout
which was fully sixteen inches long,
to regain the water. The fish finally
proved to be the better of the two
and regained its watery abode. Fred
was unable to hunt another hopper
so that job feel to me. After the
hook was rebaited with a fat, juicy
hopper and Fred had regained his
composure, he cast out the line again
only to break his line and pole all to
smithereens. Fred, unable to stand
the strain any longer, told me to cut
a willow and try my luck, which I
did, and after landing several large
ones, one of them measuring at least
16 inches, we proceeded up the long
grade and over the divide, and there
obtained the first gaze over the large
and level valley of the Catlow; the
valley which we had started out to
see and which I have racked your
nerves in an endeavor to lead you up
to a description of the same. The
valley, which is about fifty miles long
and twenty-five miles wide. Is cover
ed with large sagebrush and dotted
all over with new homestead cabins
and tents. The eastern edge of the
valley on the foothills is lined witl
scattering junipers, while far to the
south and west tower the Steins
mountains. These are the things we
saw while going over the divide and
down into the valley. We glided ov
er the smooth roads about ten miles
down the valley to the Beckley post
office and store. The little building
also contains a living room and kit
chen for the Beckley family. The
little Ford was run up in front of the
door and stopped. Mr. Beckley came
out to greet us. I thought by his ac
tions that he knew us but I found
out later that it is characteristic of
most of the Inhabitants of the valley
to be thus friendly and affable to
strangers. They know everybody as
soon as they come in sight. I asked
him if this was Beckley and he said it
was, and if this was Mr. Beckley and
lie said it was. Then commenced the
string of questions which he had an
swered hundreds of times before, but
which he seemed pleased to have the
opportunity of repeating. The only
difficulty he had was to keep track
of Fred's questions which too often
he would ask before Mr. Beckley had
thoroughly answered mine. We were
invited in to supper but kindly re
fused as we had just stopped a few
miles up the road and with a little of
the big sagebrush that covers the val
ley had fried our fish and other wild
game.
There has boon but little attempt
to farm so far, as the homesteaders
are all poor and it will take some
time for them to do much developing
Spring plowing and sowing does not
seem to be good. There were a few
fields which were plowed and sown
In the fall which we would call a fair
ly good crop. They have not attempt
ed to summerfallow yet. I am thor
oughly convinced that by plowing
early in the spring and cultivating
the summerfallow that one can ob
tain large yields of grain there. We
saw a great many fine gardens grow
ing without irrigation. Hay sells
from $15 to $20 per ton in the stack.
There has been a threshing machine
or two purchased lately, and all the
TWENTY-FIYE YEARS
AGO IN HEPPNER ?
The Heppner Gazette. Aug. 14, 1S90.
E. S. Saling was in tow n Saturday
and reports good crops for Sand Hol
low. This is very encouraging.
Jake Johnson, one of the dignitar
ies of Gooseberry city, was in Mon
day. Crops are good with him and
Jacob smileth very audibly.
The price of hay in Grant county
stands at $10 per ton, although we
hear of Harney where that article is
a drug on the market at $2 per ton.
So much for a good crop.
So far as our county is concerned
we have received as careful and ac
curate an enumeration as could be
taken under the circumstances, the
county showing a population of 4200.
In other districts there appeared to
be many inaccuracies.
E. G. Slocum has purchased the
Heppner furniture store from C. M.
Mallory and will continue business
at the same stand, corner May and
Chase streets. Mr. Slocum is a very
(iilligent and otherwise worthy young
man and deserves encouragement.
Some drunken Indians cornered up
Vegetable Brown with a Bowie knife
at his place on Black Horse Tuesday
eve and it was only after much per
suasion that they refrained from but
chering him on the spot. Frank Gen
try got over in time to intercede in
his behalf, and the calamity hereto
fore mentioned was averted.
Ben Swaggart brought in some
corn last Friday which measured over
9 V4 feet in height. It was raised on
bunchgrass without a particle of irri
gation. The tassel is just out and the
ears beginning to form. Truly bunch
grass is not behind other sections.
Grasshoppers are very pletniful
about Anson Wright's place on Hay
Canyon, but they are not hurting any
thing. Although bunchgrass is a
very dry feed for grasshoppers, they
seem to pass over green gardens to
get it.
W. R. Casey was down from the
mountains Tuesday and reports a big
crowd huckleberrying near his ranch
on Penland prairie, but no berries.
Lanus Penland and George Sperry
killed a large fat elk the other day
to keep him from running over them.
They were looking for elk but not at
that time. The dog had routed this
one out of the brusli somewhere, and
came tearing down on them, uncon
scious of anything but the dog. He
furnished fun for the hunters and
food for the camp for several days.
Wedding Bells. On last Monday
eve, at 8, occurred the marriage of
two well known young people of
Heppner, Mr. Chas. Nelson and Miss
Belle Hooker, at the residence of
Wm. Ruark, Recorded A. A. Boberts
performing the nuptial rites in the
presence of a number of friends of
the contracting parties. It was a
merry, happy wedding, and the Ga
zette wishes the life journey of the
young people to continue as it begun
bright and sunny with few dark
clouds.
Church Dedication Dr. J. C. Mor
ris, of Louisville, Ky., will dedicate
the M. E. Church, South, in Heppner,
on the evening of August 17th, 1890.
Everybody cordially invited to at
tend.
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grain threshed for the next few years
can be Bold to the new coiners at good
prices. The nearest railroad at pres
ent is 110 miles, but the road build
ing from Riverside via Narrows will
come within 55 miles. We learned that
Hill has surveyed through the valley,
coming in from the northwest from
Bend, and the Harriman system has
surveyed from the north. So the oc
cupants of the valley feel confident
that it is only a matter of a short
time until the transportation prob
lem will be solved. The elevation or
the valley is 4400 feet, but late frosts
have not been very dangerous yet.
The soil is of two kinds; a small por
tion is black doby that seems to have
ashed down from the distant hills,
but the most of it is what is called a
sagebrush loam. It does not blow,
and its ability to conserve moisture
uneciualled. The wells average
about fifty feet in depth with the
same kind of soil all the way down.
There is no alkali and the water is
the best I ever tasted. One woman
told me that she would rather have
it for washing purposes than ram
water. So far there are three school
linnsea in the valley and they are
something to be proud of, as they are
very substantial buildings and paint
ed. One newly organized district has
put up two buildtngH, one of them
to be used for domestic scienco man
ual training, etc., and they are to
hold an election this week to vote on
putting up a building for a high
school. Mr. Tulloch, the land com
missioner, valley doctor and general
legal advisor, is the head man of this
little enthusiastic community. He
would like to eet someone to come
and put up a store at this place. There
Is one other store in the valley be
sides the one at Beckley postodice.
At this place the store has selected a
little plot of ground and will en
deavor to give the settlers some in
formation in regard to the best mode
of farming that particular Boil. Mr.
Tulloch is the jack of all trades, and
peculiar in that he never wears a hat.
He went with us one day over a great
portion of the valley. We found him
with many other homesteaders,
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WE BELIEVE THERE IS MUCH ROOM FOR DE
VELOPMENT OF THE SAVINGS HABIT AMONG THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE IN GENERAL, AND AMONG OUR
LOCAL PEOPLE IN PARTICULAR.
WHEN WE FIRST PUT IN OUR SAVINGS DEPART
MENT RESULTS WERE NOT ENCOURAGING, BUT WE
FIND THAT THE DEPOSITS HAVE GRADUALLY IN
CREASED. A LARGER NUMBER ARE MAKING USE
OF THIS METHOD OF TAKING CARE OF THEIR IDLE
FUNDS.
WE ARE PREPARED TO CARE FOR BOTH LARGE
AND SMALL AMOUNTS AND PAY FOUR PER CENT.
INTEREST.
WE FEEL THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE IN THIS
COMMUNITY WHO SHOULD BE AVAILING THEM
SELVES OF OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED WE WILL BE PLEASED
TO HAVE YOU CALL AND GET PARTICULARS.
camped over in the eastern edge of
the valley putting up wild hay on the
shares for the Hanley company. I
will say right here that a good many
thousand acres In the eastern part of
the valley owned by the Hanley com
pany, is sub-irrigated. Mr. Tulloch's
wife was running a mowing machine,
and a party told me that she does
more work than any man In camp.
We took dinner there, of course, and
the most interesting part of it was
that I sat at the table beside Mr. Car
roll, the man you have all read about
falling into a well 85 feet deep,
breaking both legs and staying there
with his partner six days and nights
before assistance arrived. This man's
partner managed to climb the dirt
wall to within twenty feet of the top
and by his cries attracted the atten
tion of a passer-by.
There are many homesteads yet to
be taken, and, of course there Is al
ways relinquishments to be bought
in a new country. There Is but very
little deeded land, and that is held
for $10 to $25 per acre. Of course
you will find drawbacks in any new
country. One of them there is the
fuel proposition. They nearly all
burn sagebrush, which is from three
to six feet high. There is plenty of
juniper on the foothills for posts, but
some are using this scrub juniper for
fire wood. The precipitation has only
been kept for the last year and Is
about twelve inches. The settlers
believe that by drilling a few hun
dred feet artesian water can be ob
tained. In the Wild Horse Valley to
the east and another valley to the
south artesian water has been ob
tained. With artesian water in Cat
low it is destined to be the garden
spot of Oregon, and without it, scien
tific dry-land farming will make It a
great wheat producing country.