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THE G.VZETTE-TtMKS, HEPPNER, ORE., THVRSDAV, IKC. 18, 1019
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COUNTY LANDS OFFER
Heppner, Ore., Pec. 10, 1919.
Editor Gaiette-Tinis,
Heppner, Ore.
Dear Sir,
Will you please publish this story
of my trip to Salem. When I enroll
ed in the Club work I did not think
I was going to win a trip to the State
fair.
1 left Heppner the 22nd day oi
September and arrived in Salem that
night about 10:30. My bed did not
get there until a day or two later,
but I slept with one of the other fel
lows. Two or three of the boys'
beds also failed to arrive on time.
The first day I spent looking about
the grounds. The next day I went
over to the forestry department and
saw all the tools and instruments
used to prevent forest fires. The
next day we all went up to the peni
tentiary and other state buildings.
Saturday I packed up my things
and started for home, thinking, that
after all, the Club work is a good
thing for the State.
Yours truly,
OR EN HILL.
Mill! TO TIE HOME SEEKER
By E. M. Shutt.
Editor Gazette-Times:
Responding to your request, I am
herewith submitting a few off-hand
observations of my own, concerning
Morrow County real estate values,
and the future prospects of enhanc
ing the same.
In the first place I will say that
the railroad gateway into this rich
and diversified belt of wheat, alfalfa,
pasture and timber land (consisting
of some 57 townships, or 2000 square
miles) has been one of the chief
means of retarding our development.
There is no remedy apparent for this,
but the fact remains. The home
seeker from the East, or from the
Willamette Valley, or from Canada
is not very likely to go wild over the
scenery and the agricultural possi
bilities at Heppner Junction.
Judging Morrow County by its
river frontage, it is the natural thing
for the stranger to pass on in dis
gust, never stopping long enough to
learn of the broad, rich fields of the
former bunchgrass prairies, the fer
tile and beautiful valleys, the well
watered stock ranches and the vast
timber belt lying immediately South
of this rough exterior. Morrow
County as yef has received but little
exploiting, and its intrinsic merits
are not known much beyond its own
confines.
To Illustrate: The writer person
ally knows of an outsider with plen
ty of money who recently came into
Morrow County looking for a safe
investment in wheat land. He was
shown several tracts of our best land
and was offered one fine tract at $33
per acre. This land had not' been
farmed intensively and the buildings
were not modern by several degrees.
The adjoining farms were very
much in the same fix, and not know
ing what he was actually passing up
because of exterior appearances, this
gentleman went over to Sherman
county and paid $125 per acre for a
large farm of which the soil was pre
cisely the same quality and the an
nual rainfall just the same as the
Morrow County farm which he pass
ed up at $30 per acre.
There you are. This man got a
farm that will not produce a bushel
to the acre more than will this tract
of Morrow County soil when farmed
in like manner, but the buildings
were good, the farm itself had been
kept up and the neighborhood look
ed inviting. Here is a hint for the
man who wants to make his farm
pay the maximum revenue while he
is operating it and who will get the
top price for his farm when he gets
ready to sell it and retire.
Morrow County wheat farms are
now selling at from $25 to $50 per
acre; pasture land and timber land
at from $10 to $12.50 per acre. Our
alfalfa land is usually embodied in a
larger tract of wheat or pasture land
so it is a hard matter to determine
the value of the alfalfa land, exclu
sively. Suffice it to say, however,
that the same rule applies as in the
case of Morrow County wheat and
pasture land It is being sold at from
oue-third to one-half what exactly
the same class of land is being sold
at in Umatilla, Sherman and Wasco
counties, and the Walla Walla and
Palouse countries.
This condition of course cannot
long exist. In spite of our isolation
homeseekers and safe investors have
learned and are gradually learning
of our diamond in the rough, and are
headed this way for cheap land. The
writer is willing to be quoted as pre-
dieting that within the next five or
six years present land values will be
doubled in Morrow County.
While the majority of the Morrow
County wheat farms have not been
made to produce what they are cap
able of producing, yet we pioneer
cltltens In traveling over the county
are gratified to see the large and
growing number of fine farms clean
eummer-fallowed fields, big white
houses and spacious red barns,, good
outbuildings, good fences, water pip
ed to the house and barn, and many
other evidences of a higher standard
of agricultural life. Add to these
the telephone, the auto, the truck
and the coming roads, and is not the
farm the best and most independent
place on earth to live ? From such
homes as these the boys and girls
have little desire or temptation to
leave and rush to the cities as in
times gone by.
And right here I want to say that
if the bright, husky, wide-awake
farm boy would only make up his
mind to stay with Dad a few years
longer and learn the farming game
perfectly, and then later on acquire
a farm of his own, and pay no atten
tion to those who would encourage
him to seek a professional life, he
would, in the great majority of cas
es, be ten times better off, and this
would soon be a land of universal
prosperous, contented rural homes
the foundation of the government it
self. I. W. W's, Bolshivists and an
archists generally receive mighty few,
if any recruits from men who have
acquired and who live upon a good
piece of Mother Earth. The pros
perous farmer has no patience with
the agitator, and is usually found
the most earnest and consistent de
fender of the flag of his country.
One more thought briefly: Ob
servation will prove to anyone that
farmers in this semi-arid belt can
operate too many acres and that oth
ers make an equally bad mistake by
farming too small a tract, for either
to succeed. The man who is making
the velvet has struck the "happy
middle." In spite of what high
collared and long-haired theorists
claim, this is not a small-farm coun
try, unless one happens to have an
irrigated tract on a creek bottom or
in one of the government projects.
For wheat raising and stock pur
poses a larger acreage is demanded.
The man who is trying to scratch
in all outdoors is not as a rule suc
ceeding. Neither is the man who
has buckledTlown to a quarter sec
tion or a half section of wheat land.
It is just enough to keep him poor.
He must have a large enough tract
to keep him and his horses and his
machinery and his hired man busy.
He ought to have at least 250 or 300
acres sowed in good, clean summer
fallow ground every year, and this
requires of course about one section
of land. Spring sowing and volun
teering should be completely aban
doned. They are a waste of effort.
Morrow County farm land is com
posed of the same ingredients as the
volcanic ash soil of Sicily land that
never wears out but actually im
proves with intensified cultivation
and conservation of moisture. Hun
dreds of farmers, the ones who are
succeeding, are complying with Na
ture's demands, and when their ex
ample becomes more universally em
ulated then will the Morrow County
soil command the same values to be
found in the other communities above
referred to.
Thanksgiving Program
A Thanksgiving program was giv
en Nov. 28th by the teachers and
pupils of the Gooseberry school. A
copy of the program prepared and
presented, was appreciated by all.
The pupils rendered their parts in a
very pleasing manner, which shows
there is some talent in Gooseberry.
After the program there was a
pie sale. The (proceeds from the
sale will be used to buy pictures for
the school.
DRY SLAB WOOD
A car ot Dry Slab. Wood is being
shipped out from the lone yard for
Heppner and also one for Lexington.
Those wanting good wood will do well
to put their orders In early. The
price will be regulated upon arrival
of the wood, vPhlch is now being
loaded out of lone.
TUM-A-LUM LUMBER COMPANY.
PROFESSIONAL COLUMN
DR. F. E. FARBIOR
DENTIST
Office upstairs over Postoffice
Heppner, Oregon
DR. R. J. VAUGHAN
DENTIST
Permanently located in the Odd
Fellows building, Rooms 4 and S.
Heppner, Oregon
DR. HAROLD C. BEAN
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Permanently located in Odd Fel
lows Building, Rooms 1 and 2
Phones, Office 762, Residence 523
Heppner, Oregon
A. D. McMURDO, M. D.
Physician A Surgeon
Office in Patterson Drug Store
Heppner, Oregon
I Auto Owners 1
ATTENTION
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DR. C. C. CHICK
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office upstairs over Postoffice
Heppner, Oregon
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
SAM E. VAN VACTOR
ATTORXEY-AT-LAW
Office in First National Bank '
Heppner, Oregon
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORNEY -AT-LAW
Office in Court Honse
Heppner, Oregon
Office Phone, Main 64S
Residence Phone, Main 665
FRANCIS A. McMENAMLN
LAW 1' Kit
Roberts Building, Heppner, Ore.
F. H. ROBINSON
LAWYER
. IONE, OREGON
DR. M. M. JOHNSON
Veterinarian
Calls answered promptly at all
times. Interstate Inspector ot
Livestock and Sheep. -Office
Patterson Drug Store
Phoae 123 Heppner, Oregoa
ROY V. WHITEIS
Fire Insurance writer for best Old
Line Companies.
Heppner, Oregon
DR. J. a. TURNER
EYE SPECIALIST
Portland, Oregon.
Regular monthiy visits to Hepp
aer and lone. Watch paper
for dates.
E. J. STARSET
ELECTRICIAN
House Wiring a Specialty
Heppner, Oregon
, Phone 872
DR. A. HENNIO
Chiropractic Phyaieiaa
Office at E. O. Blocum Residence
Heppner, Oregon
DR. D. N. HAYDEN
Phyaldaa Smrgeoa
Hardman, Ore.
Day or night calls premptly
attended.
"Some Men Don't Know It Yet"
says the Good Judge
' This class of tobacco
gives a man a lot more
satisfaction than he
ever gets out of ordin
ary tobacco.
Smaller chew the good
taste lasts and lasts.
You don't need a fresh
chew so often. Any man
who uses the Real To
bacco Chew will tell
you that
Put Up In Two Styles
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco
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1 Pearl Oil in a good oO heater
keeps dampness and chill from
the home. Warmth and cosiness
without dust and dirt Heater la
easy to carry about Lights at
the touch of a match gives In
etant heat No smoke, no odor.
Economical
Pearl OH is refined and re
refined by oar special process
which makes it clean burning.
For sale In bulk by dealers
everywhere the sams high
quality kerosene as the Pearl
OQsoldinnTe-galloncsns. There
is a saving by buying In bulk.
Order by name Pearl O0.
We recommend Perfection Oil
Keatera.
PEARL OIL
(KAAOSLNS)
HEAT AND LIGHT
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
Ksbira s N im
Geo. W..Milholiand, Special Agent, Standard Oil Company
" Heppner, Oregon.
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Cbriftmas Savings
Accounts
rHE Fanners & Stockgrowers National
P L Bank will permit the opening of
V SAVINGS ACCOUNTS for Christ
mas Gifts. Anyone can open such an
account for anyone else by depositing any
amount.
We'll provide the Savings
Passbooks to which you may
attach your 'Merry Christ
mas' wish.
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FARMERS 6c STOCKGROWERS
NATIONAL BANK
Heppner Oregon
Transfer and General Hauling
We do a transfer and general hauling business
of all kinds.
Let us figure with you on that next job.
We will GUARANTEE SATISFACTION.
BARNARD & EMRY
The Crystal Swinging Wringer
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f wr.nf rtBiewfl vT I ll blilng I fB
ffofli lb. bm "r (o Ux .UlM 'I I wuef Into lb. I
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E. J. STARKEY, Agent
GUman Building 1 Heppner, Oregon
L. MONTERESTELLI
Marble and Granite
Works
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
All Work Guaranteed
Why Worry About Fuel
When the Izard Gas Heater
will do the work.
See us for recommendations from Heppner
people who are now using the Izard heater
MERRITT & AKERS, Local Agents
C. H. MERRITT
A. 8. A K KItS
G.-T. WANT ADS ABE SURE RESULT GETTERS. Use ther
This Space Reserved For
Leach & Scott
Warehouse
Lexington, Ore.