fHE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, ORE.. THURSDAY. FEB., 1, 1917
PAGE THREE
Licensed Embalmer Lady Assistant
J. L. YEAGEU
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Phone Residence Heppner, Oregon
Heppner Residence Property
FOR SALE
Four and a half lots; good 7-roora house; barn; throe
lots under cultivation
INQUIRE
MRS. BLANCHE WATKINb
WE SELL PURE WHITE FLOUR NONE BETTER
HEPPNER EARfolEHS' VNim
WAREHOUSE CO.
WE HANDLE WHEAT AND WOOL. HIGHEST
PRICES PAI DFOR HIDES AND PELTS.
Wood and Coal
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HEPPNER WOOD YARD 8
N. A. CLARK, Proprietor,
SUCCESSOR TO E. E. BEAMAN
FINDROCK SRINGSNUT,.COAL
$11.00 Per Ton
Phoae 396
Heppner, Oregon
! ROY V. WHITEIS
REAL ESTATE, FIRE, LIFE, STOCK AND
t AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE.
List Your Property With Me For Quick Returns.
ALL KINDS OF FARM AND TOWN PROPERTY AND 1
RENTALS HANDLED.
Office 2nd door north of Minor & Co., formerly occupied
by Dr. Culhertsoa.
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Weather Forecasts Tor Stockmen.
Forest Supervisor Cryder announ
ces that beginning about February 1
the District Forecaster U. S. Weath
er Bureau, Portland, Oregon, will
begin sending the special weather
forecasts for the benefit of stockmen.
This is the resumption of the service
maintained last winter and spring,
which proved, so valuable to the
stockmen. The forecasts will be
telegraphed to the Forest -Supervisor
and by him telegraphed or tele
phoned to the various distributing
centers for immediate distribution.
Distributing centers are established
at Pendleton, Pilot Rock, Heppner,
Arlington and Condon, so that all
sections of the-tributary stock rais
ing country will be served. The
names of the gentleman who have
kindly consented to distribute these
forecasts follow: L. C. Scharpf,
First Bank of Pilot Rock, Pilot Rock
Ore; J. 0. Hager, Secretary Ore
gon Wool Growers Association Hepp
ner, Oregon; George Smith, Arling
ton, Oregon; 0. B. Robertson, Cash
ier First National Bank, Condon
Oregon. The forecasts will be plac
ed without cost in the hands of the
above gentleman but those stockmen
desiring to receive the forecasts
must arrange to meet the expense of
delivery should there be any.
The Price Will Come Down.
When eggs are a dollar a dozen,
And meat is a quarter a bite,
And even the price of such fodder
as rice
Is soaring away out of sight,
You'll find if you do without 'em, .
There will soon be an oversupply,
And there's never a doubt, if you'll
only hold out,
That the price will come down by
and by,
You can cut out the milk and the
coffee,
The cake and the bread and the
pie;
The pickles and jam and the ham and
the lamb
You swear that you simply won't
buy.
And the men who are boosting the
prices
Will not have anything they can
sell
And inside of a year there'll be noth
ing to fear
From the terrible H. C. of L.
' New York American.
Two spans of geldings for sale, S
years old, well broke. F. E. Mason,
Lexington. St.
6 lots 40x90; 1 lot 50x110; 1 8
room dwelling, woodshed and other
outbuildings; 1 5-room dwelling,
woodshed and other outbuildings; 1
barn, used for livery stable, 64x64.
This property is in a small eastern
Oregon town and is tor sale at $1500
cash or will trade for Heppner prop
erty, Morrow county wheat land, or
would trade for an auto. Owner's
business calls him away and he is
desirous of closing, a deal on this
property before leaving. Further
particulars will be given by calling
on us.
Smead & Crawford.
I wish to buy 40 head, 200 pound
hogs. Arthur Dykstra. 2t.
The old books of the Heppner Li
brary will be allowed out two weeks.
Ford-One-Ton attachment E. H.
Kellogg is the Morrow county agent.
See the truck on the streets, doing
daily demonstartion work.
LOST A light brown fur neck piece
between South Methodist church and
postoffice. Finder please leave at this
office.
The Kellogg Motor-bus is equipped
to carry passengers to any part of the
country at any time. Call Main 1S3.
Ten good four year old mules for
sale. Guv Boyer.
SPECIAL
AFTER MVEMY SALE
fnffpp Some good broken lines and
VJUHC some to be discontinued. Prices
from 10 to 20 percent less than regular.
A PPT PTQ Fancy "Rome Beauty" Ap
IXL L pies, bought to sell for $1.75
- - ' nowi.zs.
PHELPS GROCERY CO.
SHIPPING OF WHEAT IN
ESS EXPENSIVE
(By Burton H. Peck.)
There is a constantly growing
movement toward the shipping of
grain In bulk, rather than sacks and
the move originated with the grow
ers. In attendance at the Northwest
Grain Conference, which convened at
Corvallis only this month, were re
presented the substantial grain pro
ducers of Oregon, Washington, and
part of Idaho, some buyers, some
millets, exporters and the railroads.
It was a unique body in that all
the different interests in the pro
ducing and marketing of grain met
in common council and each gave
and discussed the subject from his
viewpoint.
' The producers asserted that it was
an imposition to expecct them to levy
and donate a suit of clothes (sack)
with each two bushels of grain mar
keted. . Especially was this true
when it was found that the producer
was charged 35 cents per ton extra
for undressing this wheat, so that
it could be unloaded into elevators
at Eastern terminals. In other
words wheat for Eastern market is
actually worth some two cents per
bushel more when loose in the car
than where sacked, and at some
terminals they would not accept
sacked grain at all.. They are not
fixed to handle it and did not wish
to be bothered with it.
The buyers stated that they would
except grain either in bulk or sack.
They did want clean product. Where
elevators are used, grain is reclean
ed before being elevated and a better
price is paid for such. Under the
sack system, the man with the clean
est grain really helps to pay for the
trash in poor lots, for prices are
quoted covering a per cent of dock
age for inert matter.
The millers object to ' smut and
fear that in general bulking, it will
be hard for them to classify the
wheat. It was proven however that
wheat could be washed and dried
without damage, though smutty.
The process to be carried out at the
terminal elevators.
' The millers use the best that they
can buy for flour. They already hold
their supplies in elevators, using the
sacks that have been given with the
wheat, to handle grist and mill feeds
The remaining half being sold for
cash to producers.. One firm ac-
'kffibjwledged they sold $50,000 worth
'of; second hand sacks above their
own needs last year.
The exporters were afraid that the
wheat would heat it loaded in ships
in bulk although bulking had not
been tried from Portland for about
28 years. As wheat is now being
successfully shipped from Argentine
and New Zealand to Liverpool in
bulk, their fears seemed poorly
founded.
The railroads are willing and
pledge they will be ready to receive
grain anyway the producers wish to
ship it. They assert they are in
better shape to handle grain in bulk
than the western terminals are to re
ceive it. The Union Pacific System
has purchased 300,000 new grain
doors at a cost of $81,000. They
claim it takes an average of three
hours to prepare a car and bulk load
It with grain and seven hours to sack
load it. And while they can use a
greater class of cars for sack wheat,
bulking is speedier both at the re
ceiving station and terminal.
Speaking of terminals, four years
ago a delegation of growers asked
Portland to provide public elevators
for grain. They promised to think
about It. Seattle was asked at the
samfe time and responded with a
$500,000 elevator, which is being
enlarged and smutter washers and
driers provided.
Portland Is losing. Mr. Hegardt,
Engineer of the PortlandMCommis
sion of public docks says "Bulk
handling of grain is coming."
"Portland to retain her place as
a terminal must get ready for it."
"No time to lose," says Drake C. O'
Reilly, one of the most, active com
missioners of the Port of Portland.
"I agree with the others who have
said that Portland must act or be
witness to the humiliating spectacle
of Columbia Basin grain being ex
ported from Puget Sound, where al
ready facilities have been built."
Mr. Emery Olmstead, banker, says,
"Either the' people of Portland will
provide the facilities or the business
will go to Seattle or Tacoma." "It
will make a difference measurable
in the terms of millions of dollars
of business annually, wheather we or
Puget Sound export the grain."
Why then hold to a system aband
oned long since by 90 per cent of
the grain growing world. A system
that taxes the energies of ourselves
and our employes to the limit, when
gravity or gasoline can do the work
for better, quicker and more econo
mically. Then in the words of our poet, let
us come forth and build an elevator
at Hepner.
Now let the tillers of the soil,
Who will not be a traitor,
Just please come forward with the
dough,
And build an elevator.
BUIGK
this year
Seven passenger, six cylinder,
55 horsepower - - $1635.00
Five Passenger, six cylinder, 45
horsepower - - - $1170.00
Five passenger, four cylinder,
35 horsepower - - $785.00
These prices are F. O. B. Heppner
BUICK DESIGN
BUICK VALVE-IN-HEAD POWER
The lightness of the Buick Valve-in lead motor and
not the enthusiasm of its salesmen has made the Buick
conspicuous for leadership.
This new four has a Buick Valve-in-Head motor (with
electric starter) which develops thirty-five horse power
on brake test and is so reliable for ruggtd service that no
eulogy is necessary among "men who know Buick."
Its lines are beautiful.. Finish and color are exception
al Deep, tufted black genuine leather upholstery. Cov
ered floor and running board, with aluminum bindings,
give a trimness of appearance that is peculiarly Buick.
Body, hood, ferders and running gear are painted a
glossy, long-wr ,ring black; wheels are black with white
stripes. Tires 31x4 inches.
SEE THE BABY BUICK AT THE HEPPNER GARAGE
ALBERT BOWKER, Local Agent
All Buicks have the Delco lighting and starting system.
There is none better.
STALLIONS
AT ALTA STABLES, PEXDLETOX, OREGOJf
One extra good, big, black imported Percheron, 5 years old.
weight 2300.
One extra good imported son of the great $40,000 Carnot.
(C6666) 6666.
Other Percherons, Belgians, Shires and Clydsdales that are de
sirable, besides a number of young ones with correct pedigrees from
one to three years old and Percheron and Belgian mares. All will be
priced to sell.
That Yocannofuse J- R JUSTUS, Importer,
Longer I might Change PENDLETON, OREGON.
Your friends can buy
anything you can give
them
except your photograph
Bring the Kiddies early while
they are fresh and rested
The picture will be
prettier.
SIGSBEE STUDIO
OVER STAR THEATER
Heppner, Oregon.
The Smead-Crawford real estate a
gency is offering for sale a 900 acre
wheat farm which this year produc
ed $24 per acre. The owner wishes
to sell only because ot poor health
and he is offering a bargain to some
one. The entire ranch gtes for $15
per acrs or $20 per acre on terms.
The ranch is situated 4 miles from
railroad and about 200 yards from
a good school. Deep well of pure
water and windmill. See Smead ft
Crawford.
Homesteads
1 can now locate you on 640 ac
re homestead in Grant County, Ore
gon, near John Pay River. Write,
T. P. Hall, Mt. Vernon, Oregon.
STRAYED OK STOLEN'.
One bay mare, three years old in
spring; blotch brand on left shoulder
resembling E. A reward of $10 will
be paid for Information leading to
her recovery.
JOHN W. HTATT,
Box 15, Heppner, Ore.
1 mo.
We will lean money on goad In
proved farms In Morrow county anr
w are also prepared to make loam
om Improved stock ranches. If you
desire a loaa come and see us-If you
want a loan on Heppner residence
property we can arrange It for you.
SMEAD ft CRAWFORD.