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VOL. VII.
HE1TNEU, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST IS, 1904.
NO. 41.
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By purchuBing $25.00 worth of goods at this btoro you re
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EVERYTHING
NEW AND FRESH
No Stale Goods
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And Bee us and we will treat you right.
BINNS
BROS.
GR0SI1EHS
AND
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Have just opened ' Atw
saloon at the Cornell of
Main and May streets
Finet Liquors -J
and Cigar
Pendleton Beer
On Draught
Hot and Cold Lunches
Heppner, Or.
Cor. Main and Willow Sta.
HEPPNER, ORE,
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I Contractors and Builders
ESTIMATES AND PLANS I
; FURNISHED ON ALL WORK i
A share of the patronage
solicited. I
HOUSES MOVED and REPAIRED I
Office one door north of Scrivner's '
blacksmith shop, Main street. f
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IT T .11 Anyone thinking of securing a
MePPner M cM D I G monument tor . deP.rU,d re-
' l.llve or friend Will do woll to
and Granite Works ::LT'Motevur,lbMlD'
Wa ar prepared to do .11 Co' jietery and bull ling work at reduced prlcei.
MONTERASTELLI BROS.
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have ever been on the track at thin time
i of the year and in the Greater Salera
stake for 2:15 pacers $2000 pane. There
are 31 entries in the $2000 2: 17 trot.
The Lewis & Clark stake there are 17
entries. In the Rural Spirit stake 2:11
pace for $1000 there are 18 entries. In
the Inland Empire stake for three-year-
old pacers for 500 there are 11 entries
and there are besides 11 other pacing
TO MAKE OTHER SURVEYS and trotting races to say nothing of the
running races of which there will be at
The Butter Creek Irrigation
Scheme Not Given up.
The First Reservoir Site Not
Being Feasible, Crews Are
Searching and Prospecting
for Others A Thorough In
vestigation will be Made.
T. G. Hailey, a member of the Oregon
Irrigation commission, returned last
Friday from Walla Walla, where he was
in attendance upon the conference held
by the commissions of Oregon and
least two each day.
The camping ground has been fixed
np and streets laid out and named,
camps numbered and in charge of a
camp grand marshal, who will look
after the matters there day and night.
Water has been piped into the grounds
and other improvements made making
it one of the best camping grounds in
the state. Take your family and a tent
and eniov a week of solid comfort to tav
Washington with F. H. Newell, head of ... , . .. , ,
I nothing of the educational advantages
DR. SENNETT
GRADUATE OPTICIAN
Now a resident of Mor
row County. : : : :
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THE PASTIME
All The heading
Cignra in Stock. :
Brands of
Agents Hazelwood Ice Cream
Celebrated Coi'i'man Chocolates, Used
at all
leading Theatres.
ABhbaugli & Ayera.
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Office at Slocum's Drug Store
Regular tiips to Heppner the first
and third weeks of each month
the government reclamation bureau,
says the Pendleton Tribune. The meet
ing was held Thursday and Mr. Hailey
taya it was a most enthusiastic one, a
larue number of persons interested in
irrigation being present.
Mr. llaily said it was his opinion that
the Walla Walla interviewers had mis
construed Mr. Newell's meaning regard
ing the Butter creek irrigation project
and inadvertantly announced that the
Hcheme had been abandoned. In reality,
Mr. Newell said that owing to the small
force of competent men now employed
by the department it is impossible to
complete all the projects in the various
states as soon as some people wish for,
that you and the children will get at the
Fair that tbey never could get any place
else in the same time.
AH trains of the S. P. B. K. Co. stop
at the grounds during the week. The
street railway system into Salem has
been thoroughly overhauled, new cars
purchased, the trav- widened to rtan-
dard guage, and the roadbed improved,
allowing tne company to make a six
minute service and possibly shorter.
The pavilion and grounds will be lighted
by incandescent electric lights thus giv
ing a much improved light service.
! BICYCLES.
The Tnmbler Lends
BUY AN UP-TO-DATE WHEEL
All kinds of repair
work promptly at
tended to. Bicycle
Sundries.
Opposite Talace Hotel
L,ee Cantwell
Heppner
Transfer
Company
Do a general Dray and
Transfer business. All
kinds of heavy hauling.
Household goods moved
and handled with care.
j Prompt attention a
f a
given to all work j
Cantwell & Mitchell I
..GORDON'S
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE
Wm. GORDON, Prop.
Has added a number of First Class horses and New Rigs, both
Buggies and Hacks, and offers yon first class service, and you will
receive courteous treatment. A share of your patronage i : : :
SOLICITED "
MAIN STREET, - Heppner, Oregon. 3,
IF YOU BUY IT OF BORQ IT'S
ALL RIGHT.
TO
WATCH
BUYERS
We have the bout aanaortment of
wati-hea In thin aeetlonof the Ntate.
Vie will duplicate any reliable watch
at the price, nave you vxurea. charge,
.ml any rink of future annoyance.
We sell reliable watchea from up.
We null the 7, 11, lf, 17, anil 21-Jeweled
watches In the different grade. In
Nickel. Slerlinx silver, Uuld Filled and
14 K. Holtd Hold canea.
We Guarantee all watchea, and If they
prove faulty from workmanahip, we
will fully return your money.
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Warner Lake Produces Salt.
It is not generally known that Lake
or to begia actual work on them at the county has large salt deposits in the
same time. Preliminary steps are northern part of Warner valley. After
taken in some localities in order to as- high water each season large quantities
certain the feasibility of the undertak I of it are deposited as the water recedes.
ing, while in other locatities the pro- Many years ago this land was purchased
jects, having been found practicable, I from the state by David Jones, now de
a-e carried on to completion according 1 ceased, the first settler o! "Warner
to the plans specified by the bureau. I valley. At the point where the salt
For instance, the Malheur project has I was deposited, he built a large building,
been found satisfactory and accordingly with a strong floor, perforated with
the department has decided to complete augur holes. Over this floor the water
the irrigation scheme there as rapidly at would run in the spring, and after going
onditions will permit. As to the But-1 down there would be many tons of pure
ter creek proposition, however, it has I salt, which had only to be shoveled np
been found that the work cannot be I and sacked to be ready for market
completed at the present time or pos-1 For the past five years up to last win
sibly In a number of years as tne depart-1 ter there was no s:t. owing in part to
ment will devote its energies to other I the light winters, in part to the convet
projects which were exploited previous-1 aion of Warner lake, which is fifteen
ly ana wnicn liaa proven to be leasiDie miles above the salt beds, into a reser-
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ones, it is almost certain mat toe gov- voir for irrigation purposes, and in part
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eminent will install an iirigation system I to dry seasons. The floods of last win-
in this county, but how soon depends ter broke the dam and the waters of the
entirely on the progress in other local- lake flowed thirty mileB, filling up the
ities. Accordingly to say that the But- dry beds of seveisl old lakes and de
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ter creek scheme has been entirely 1 positing soother body of salt, which the
abandoned is an error. I present owners are sacking. They es-
John T. Whistler, chief engineer of timate they have 400 tons and it is
the Oregon division, has been instructed worth (15 per ton on the ground as soon
by Mr. Newell to complete the prelim I as sacked.
inary work ia this county and to locate I Mandamus proceedings are talked of
suitable sights for reservoirs. When to compel the permanent removal of the
this work is once completed the depart- dam and allow a salt deposit to be made
ment will be able to begin the work of by the floods each year. Settlers at the
installing the system at any time in the foot of the lake also claim the dam
future when it is found practical to do I overflows their land during the sprin
so. I and in a very wet season injures thei
Mr. Hailey said that the members of I hay crops.
the two commissions had considered
the idea of suggesting to the respective
legislatures of the two states the im
portance of passing identical laws to
cure the imperfetions and defects of the
irrigation laws now in force in both
states. The commissions requested
Maurice Bien, legal advisor of the gov
Eastern Oreiron Reserve
Lands Open for Entry
345,000 ACRES TO CO BACK
Governor Writes Letter Which
Stirs Official to Action Asks
Forestry Bureau to Deslgnaet
Unsuitable Tracts.
A dispatch to the Oregonian from
Washington, August 13, says:
The Interior Department has suddenly
decided to restore to entry about 345,000
acres of land in Eastern Oregon, now
included within forest reserve with
drawals. About 325,000 lies around the
exterior boundaries of the Blue Moun
tain withdrawal; the remaining 20,000
along the borders of the Wallowa with-
withdrawal. ' . .
This decided change in the policy of
the Department is largety ascribed to a
very pointed letter from Governor
Chamberlain, which was received only
yesterday. In this letter Oregon's chief
executive takes issue with the depart
ment for its indecision, or its aversion to
act on forestry matters, and insists that
one of two things be done, either that
forest reserves be immediately created,
and the surplus lands restored to entry,
or that the lands so far found unfit for
forestry purposes be thrown open to
entry, leaving the actual creation of re- .
serves to a later day. His protest made '
it plain that, in his opinion, the depart
ment's policy of delay ia injuring the
state, interfering with settlement, and
is, all in all, indefensible.
Immediately upon receipt of Governor
Chamberlain's note (he Forestry bu
reau, which definitely recommended the
creation of the Bine Mountain forest re
serve last May, was called upon to state
hat lands in the Blue Mountain and
Wallowa withdrawals bad been found
unfit for reserve purposes. The bureau
promptly replied that about 325,000
acres in the Blue Mountain withdrawal
were deemed unsuitable for permanent
reservation, and 20,000 acres in the Wal
lowa withdrawal. Some of this land ia
good only for grazing ; other tracts are
barren and could not produce trees.
while still other tracts lying in the val
leys along streams which penetrate the
proposed reserves are distinctively agri
cultural lands, and not desirable in a re
serve. In other words, the forestry
bureau recommended that all public
lands included in these two withdrawals
which are in any way desirable for set
tlement or entry except under the
timberland laws be restored to the
public domain, retaining under with
drawal only those lands that are valu
able for their timber and essential ia
the preservation of the water supply.
P. O. BOUG '
JRWKt.KH AND OPTICIAN
Real Estate.
Lexington town property $550 will
buy a six-room house, four los, small
barn, young fruit trees. Can be irriga
ted. Knquire of 8. E. Nothon,
Lexington.
Harney Scheme Abandoned.
Because there is not enough water in
the Silvies river to warrant the govern
ment in beginning an irrigation project
under the national irrigation act, it
reported from Washington that the
Harney county scheme has been ahan
ernment bureau, to draft a law in the doned by the reclama,ion d"P""
rough, such as deisired to regulate the
existent conditions. Mr. Bien con
sented to do this and after he has com
pleted the task will forward each mem
ber of the two commissions a copy of
the proposed law. With the good will
of the government back of them and the
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but will probably be irrigated in part by
private parties.
The reclamation service has thor
oughly investigated the project and
after a second investigation by the de
partment, It was decided that it was not
feasible.
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unanimity of the commissioners them- 11,0 - "" "
solves, there is every reason to believe the Silvies river, to reclaim a large area
that the legislatures of the two states hi the basin 0! the Silvies, but upon
will be quite ready to pass the laws thorough surveys, and measurements
which will be proposed. ofthestream.it was determined that
sulucient water coum not be secured by
any means at hand, to irrigate the land
properly.
The people of Harney county had
placed great faith in the Silvies valley
scheme, and its abandonment will be a
Bridges Burned.
The burning of two small bridges on
the Heppner branch line Monday, de
layed the train about 12 hours. One of
the bridges was located two and a half
miles this side of Lexington, and the
other three miles below Heppner. The
origin of the fire is sapposed to have
been from sparks from a light engine
which came over the road Monday to
fill water barrels on the various bridges
of the branch line. While the bridgea
were small affairs and easily repaired
there wss considerable delay in getting
a bridge gang, which had to come from
Pendleton.
The State Fair.
This year is going to be a record
breaker in more ways than one. The
races are going be very rapid for there
are in traiuing now more horses than bitter disappointment.
Notice to Taxpayers.
Notice is hereby given that on the
last Monday in August 1904. The
Board of equalization of Morrow county
State of Oregon will meet at the office
of the county clerk and continue in
session one week for the purpose of
publicly examining the assessment roll
of said county for the year 11)04.
All taxpayers wishing to make any
change in their assessments for the
year l!XM should appear before the laid
board at the above named date.
HowAanGovK,
Assessor of Mor.ow Co., State of Oregon