THE 0 ZFTTE-TTMES. HEPPXER, OREGON, THURSDAY. .TITLV 11317
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VICTOR GROSHEN, Prop.
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K. M. Shutt Sells His Holdings Below
SOUTHEAST CORNER MAIN & MAY STREETS
lone For Consideration of $!,
OOO. One of the Best Alfalfa
Farms In Morrow County.
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! Montgomery Ward & Co.
Standard Oil Company
Armour & Company
Morris & Company
Indian Refining Company
Fleishmann Yeast Company
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ALBERT BOWKER, Agent, Heppnsr, Orego
By a deal which was consummated
in this city last Thursday, Ellis Minor
becomes the owner o the E. M. Shutt
ranch located four miles below lone
on Willow creek. The consideration
said to be between $18,000 and
$19,000,' and includes all the stock
aud hay crop. The Shutt ranch is
considered one of the best alfalfa
ranches in the county and it will fit in
fine with Mr. Minor's other holdings
on lower Willow creek, where he is
engaged in running cattle and sheep
Mr. and Mrs. Shutt have not com
pleted their plans as to the future,
but will spend the summer on Ditch
creek with their children, in hopes
that the mountain climate will prove
beneficial to the health of their
daughter, Miss Essie.
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Wrestler Failed to Appear.
The wrestling match scheduled and
advertised to take place in this city
last Saturday night between Harold
Christensen and Jim Londos, was not
staged for the reason that Mr. Londos
failed to put in an appearance. A
large number of people, some of them
coming from the country, were great
ly disappointed. The match may be
arranged for at a later date. Chris
tensen was here, accompanied by
Nourregaard, of Wallowa, who has
wrestled here on past occasions.
Miss Helen Summers of Condon is
a guest at the home of Mrs. John
Kilkenny at the Kilkenny home on
Hinton creek.
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District Forester George H. Cecil,
Portland, Oregon, announces that ap
proval has been given by the secre
tary of Agriculture to cooperative
road work in Oregon involving $1,
114,194, which is distributed to fif
teen projects. This am mnt is match
ed by the S'.ate, assisted in some in
stances by t' e counties. Cooperation
of this nature is warranted by the 'and
Shackleford Koad Bill, which became,' Ore;
The projects on which cooperation
is authorized by the Secretary are as
follows:
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McKenzie Pass Road, Mt. Hood
Loup Road, Eugene-Florence Road,
Pendlcton-La Grande Roard, Med-ford-Klamath
Falls Road, Ochoco
Creek Road, Canyonville-Galesville
Road, Reedsport-Coos Bay Road,
Little Nestucca Road, John Day Road,
Flora-Enterprise Road, La Pine-Lake-view
Road, Pilot Rock-Prairie City
Road, Crescent-Klamath Falls Road,
Zigzag Road.
The McKenzie Pass road Is along
Bogitining near Government Camp
and extending around the southeast
erly base of Mount Hood to the up
per Hood River Valley, where it will
connect with a county road leading
to the Columbia Highway. As the
name implies, it is a loop between the
old Barlow Road and the Columbia
Highway. Its length Is about 25
miles. It will give the residents of
upper Hood River Valley more direct
access across to the northern Wil
lamette Valley and will a;so vie with
the Columbia River Highway as a
road of scenic beauty.
Tl.u Kueene-Florence road will
the well known river of that name i Rive a suitaoie ouuei uum -""
r,ot0 iQctorn nnH ivpctnrn em liart Or tile nillttllici.1.0 a"W w
r,n Tt is about 44 m'iles in ! the coast. It will
an Act July 11, 1916, and whlchis
the direct outgrowth of an effort by
Chief Forester Graves and Secretary
Houston to make the National For
ests contribute to road building en
terprises pending the time when large
timber salt-;- from these Forests will
automatically help the county exchequers.
length. It is the first road across the
mountains south of the Barlow Road.
It, is a part of the main trans-State
highway leading from Eugene to
Bend, Mitchell, and thence up the
John Day River, and on through to
the Idaho line.
The Mount Hood Loud road will
consist of entirely new
erve farming, lo?:-
gin?, ar.d tourist interests, ana win
also be of considerable military ad
vantage. Its length is approximate
ly IS miles.
' Pemileton-La Grande road will con
nect two of the most populous and
important farming sections of east
opomh. The road will also be a
construction. I, part ofthe main highway traveled by
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J. O. RASMUS, Mgr.
Sales Room in Yeaper Blbj?., Main St.
interstate tourists who wish to go
through the northeastern part of Ore
gon rather than more directly across
by the John Day highway and Mc
Kenzie Pass. Its length is about 15
miles.
The Medford-Klamath Falls road
will make easy access between the
points mentioned by way of Crater
Lake. Its length is about 25 miles.
V satisfactory road already exists
within the National Park and it is the
desire of the State and County, as
sisted by the Forest Service, to make
suitable connections with this road.
Ochoco Creek road is a part of the
main trans-State highway, of which
the McKenzie Pass and John Day
"oads are sections. Its length I
about 13 miles.
Canyonville-Galesville road is' the
;n',y National Forest road in Oregon
lying directly on the Pacific Highway,
it is in Douglas County and is about
g miles in length. At present it is
one cf the worst sections in southern
Oregon.
Reedsport-CooS Hay road is a 6
mile section lying in Coos County on
the southerly extension of the Eugene-Florence
road. It is a part of
the Coast Highway.
Little Nestucca road, the location
of which has not been determined,
will serve as an outlet for the Wil
lamette Valley to the various coast
resorts in Tillamook county. The
length of this project is approximate
ly 5 miles.
The John Day project, as the name
implies, follows the John Day River
in eastern Oregon and Is a part of a
main trans-State highway. It is be
lieved that this road will be open for
travel practically the whole year. Its
length is about 20 miles.
The Flora-Enterprise road is about
12 miles in length and lies in Wal
lowa county. It will connect the
thriving districts of Enterprise and
Flora. Considerable tonnage now
passes over a steep and crooked
mountain road.
La Plne-Lakeview road lies on the
east side of the Cascade range and is
a part of the main north and south
highway of eastern Oregon. Its
length is about five miles.
The Pilot Rock-Prairie City road
will be an artery of travel connecting
the populous Pendleton region with
settlements along the John Day River
and intervening points. It will be a
direct route for travel to Bend and
points westerly, or to points in Idaho
without going over the high Blue
Mountain range. Length, approxi
mately 16 miles.
The Crescent-Klamath Falls road
Is a part of the main north-and-south
highway east of the Cascade range.
The length of this project is about
22 miles.
The Zigzag road is an 11-mile sec
tion of the Barlow road lying west
of Mount Hood, and Is a part of the
main highway to Mount Hood and
eastern Oregon.
The lengths above given do not
constitute the total lengths of the
respective projects, but only approxi
mately the mileage on which cooper
ation by the Government is being giv
en. Owing to the fact that but few
location surveys have been made, the
scarcity of labor, and the shortness of ,
the dry season, but little construction ;
wnrV can be done this year. How-.
ever, location surveys and the let-' I
ting of contracts and other prelim-;
inaries necessary will be made for a X
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PENDLETON, OREGON
FINE MONUMENT AND CEMETERY WORK
All parties interested in getting work in my line
should get my prices and estimates before
placing their orders
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