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About Heppner times. (Heppner, Or.) 1???-1912 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1904)
PPN1 IMESo rlE HKl'l'NKK, OllKGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER C, 1901. VOL. VII. NO. 48. Attention FARMERS Wo are tin-pured to furnixh to the fartwira FORMALDK HYDE, for tlifl prevention of omut in wheat. It in cheap er, tuoro effective, ami much etmier UHed than Muq Vitrol. Call at our Htore and get literature, and directions how to Uco it. Trice, 60 cents a pint. Slocum Druo: Co. j Grocery Store DECORATED SEMI-PORCELAIN WARE FREE lly purchasing $2'.(X) worth of goods at thin btore you re ceive free of charge a net of thin beautiful ware - ;! PREFERED STOCK GOODS Remember EVERYTHING NEW AND FRESH No State Goods r?, CALL . . Atid fee uh and we will treat you right. BINNS BROS. GR0SHEI1S AND ZOLLINGER Have juat opened a new saloon at the corner of Main and May- streets Kinet Liquors . and Cigara Pendleton Beer On Draught Hot and Cold Lunches Heppner, Or. 10 wm Alex. Lindsay Writes In teresting Letter. ijiiittflmwimtHmiltiB'-i Car ilnln and Willow St. HEPPNER, ORE. NURSERY STOCK; 1 I have everything grown in the nu' f aery line, and can give you better satisfaction in selection, quality and prieei than anyone. All ttoclc guaranteei as represented : : : I HARRY CUMM1NCS ; HARDMAN, ORE. place for everything, and everything in its place. Harness in rome of the (ta blet teems to last forever. I know har ness to he twenty-five yeara old that hasn't a crack in the leather, and this harness has been used daily except Son- day. But none of our Western war has (his harness seen. No one in that country ever think of throwing his har ness upon the ground or leaving it on YERY MUCH ENJOYS VISIT theborBe,orabit to piece8 while be eats. I admire a good horse and here it While His Visit to Old Home where I saw the best draoght horse I Was a Pleasant One he Says have ever see.:. But to the Western He Was Very Pleased to Get farmer or the man that makes tbem git Back to HIS American Home, there, are little account; but so far as The following are observations of Mr. the horse are concerned our thorough Alex. Lindsay on hi recent visit to bis bred draught horses around Heppner native land, Auld Scotland : look very small beside the Clydesdale I am glad to think I will be on my in Scotland. To see a team starting out way in a short time to the Glorious to work there is worth seeing. The West. "Oregon," as I have raid, and man and the horse and harness are the ill continue to say, "Eastern Oregon picture of health and cleanliness, even against the world." I'll admit I have r0 the man's shoes for they are polished been a little homesick at times, but ai every night. But the horse in this i ; my wile ana uairns" were leu Denina country is given trie Dest ot care as who can blame me after having spent they are valuable, the common work three months on a trip to Auld Scotland horse costing from $300 to $400. Tbev It makes me glad to think I will soon are good, but can't get around the cor j be on Uhea creek again. I ners to suit me. So, to begin with, I will not criticise Those Scotch farms, .iiditmimMuntiim Heppner Marble and Granite Works j W are riircd to do all Cemetery and building work t reduced prices.1 , j MOMTERASTELLI BROS. Auyoiitt thinking ot nerurlnf a monument lor a departed re lative or friend Will do well to get our price, before purchasing elsewhere. If your prent lci don't iult you you oasd a mw pir you have eye trouble ( A I.I. AND HKE ME Scotland nor America; but my opinion at an uneducated canny Scot. I can give. In the first place we, the American far mer, could not spend a holiday better After spending thirteen yeara in the "wild and wooly West," sharing with yon will say must be wonderful places ; but as I have little to occupy my mind at present be ' ween Chicago and St. Louis, I am go ng to try and explain a little of what I saw for I am now supposed to be in what we call a free country, I am going to ooooooo oo oooooo e oo oe coooo o eeft p p p s P I p s p p p p p p p p p p p p HE PASTIME All The Leading Cignrn in Stock. : Brandt of Agents Hazelwood Ice Cream Celebrated CotTinan Chocolates, lined at nil leading Theatres. : : : : : o 10 c p o 0 p to o 6 In Heppner the first week in each mouth at Heppner Drug Co. DR. SENNETT GRADUATE OPTICIAN these people the joy and sorrow of the I to have my say. hnd of my adoption, I tell you it does But from a little experience that I onr heart good to make a Jrip home, had on Elis Isle the other day, I think So to Scottie, if he ia in the West and very little of some of oar government diSkatinfied, I say, just take a trip ovei I officials. On passing the Statue of Lib- there; it will do you good, and you will I erty I raised my hat and called for three I come home and be better satisfied thai. I cheer for the Stars and Stripes, then to ever. I be abused by a dirty, low-down officer At the first glimpse of Scotland and I just because he couldn't make a dollar England, 1 say It la tne garden spot oi I oat ol me. A nice reception alter pay' he world. The fields look small to on- I ion my respects to Liberty. (Ill I ('III Heppner Transfer Company Ahbauli & AyerB. O 000000 0000 0000000 0 0000000 0O0000000O00000O00000000O BICYCLES.- The Rambler Lendn iFu Y A N U 1 J-T 6- D AT E WHEEL All kinds of repair work promptly at tended to. Bicycle Sundries. Opposite Talace Hotel Lee Ctmtwell e Do a general Dray and j Transfer business. All s s kinds of heavy hauling, s I Household goods moved f and handled .with care. 1 Prompt attention ! given to all work I ' Agents for I Hop Gold Beer Cantwell& Mitchell IMUUIHIIUIMIHIIIHW being used to the West; but give th mall field a close inspection. If you enter at the gate, it Will be a gate very ikely of iron, one that has lasted since I can remember, and will last for year to come. The gatepost, as solid as tin gate, either ol rock or, as I noticed, some made out of the jaw-bone of the whale. The fence around the field ma) be built of rock substantially put to gether with lime, or it may be a thorn hedge kept in the best of order, being pruned every year, or it may be wire, familiar to the "foreign" eye, with barbs on it. Inside this field, to one that was raised on a farm and used to Western farming, it is a treat to behold. It it be a green crop, say turnips or po- r I LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE ..GORDON'S.. X w Wm. GORDON, Prop. J lias added a number ol First Class horses and New Rigs, both Ruguiei and lUckM, ami oilers yon first class service, and yon will receive courteous treat rn out. A share of your patronage t : : S, X SOLICITED 1 MAIN STREET, - - - - Heppner, Oregon. & IF YOU BUY IT OF BORQ IT'S ALL RIGHT. ro WATCH BUYERS Ws h.v. the N'.t s.xaortmcnt ot watt'lii'. In till, .cctlon ol the Hi.le. We will iliiplli'ti any rcltntilp w.ti'b at the price, nve yon eipreu churKC and any rlkf (iiliire nniicivnlii e. We iu'11 ri'llHhle wnli he. (mm U..W up. We M'll the 7, II, K. 17, and l-Jeweled wntchv. In the illflerent Kr.ile. In Nh kel. HIitIIpk -liver, Oold Filled and 14 K. Hnllil Hold cn.e.. We (iiinrnntee nil WHtche., und If they prove Iniilly (rotn wiirkniHiinlilp, w will lulty rulurn your money. r. O. BOKO JKWKLKII AND OPTICIAN Real Estate. Islington town property $550 will buy a six-room house, lour Id's, small barn, yomg fruit trees. Can be irriga ted. Kuiuirol S. K. Notson, Leiiugton, To resume my descriptions. They ue an oil engine to run their threshing machines and grind grain for their ttock. The engtne is also used to cut hay and turnips for the cattle. Every fnrtn has its own threshing machine. They say labor ia bigb, but from the number ol men they have on the places it don't look like it to me. Suppose we take a walk to the house. To a fellow that has been used to sheep camp life, if be didn't know that he was in Scotland he would think that he was going to visit at the White House with the president. Everything is kept just like a new pin. If you enter some of these farm bouses from the back ol the garden you go through a close door tatoes, there you can see where the in , toct wall, sometimes fourteen canny Scott can hold the plough ; it ,eet hih wycb. is to break the winds looks as if he had been guided by a jrom the north. On the sunny side ol pocket compass, the rows will be so this wau yoa win nj piams, pears and straight. No waste of ground here, cherries. They also have apple trees even the corners, or "neucks" to use the t0 thi WU by putting a piece ol Scotch word, are trying to help the ioather around the limb and tacking it farmer pay his rent. , the wall. The tree is there nicely To go from the fields to his barns is a praned, but the apples they have to la. au ti. - - w.. 1 . . sigin worm eeeiug. tun uuuuiuga w th,jp jr0m America. Scotland is no ing all of rock and lime have lasted for ,ppie CBUDtryf but when it comes to over a generation and will last lor gen- berries and vegetables the American orations to come. These buildings pro- Las little to brag about. The Scotch vide shelter for fattening cattle in te garjen ia like the fiold ; it ! a treat to winter season here ia a point that the at it Corn won't grow there, but western man ought to se. We In the when it comes to vegetables and berries west have just as good a grade of cattle, l jon, believe our far-famed gardens but I claim the Scotchman knowt best 0 gutter creek can beat them. how to fatten a steer for the block, out side of a lew in the West such as our noted breeder of throughbred cattle, Mr. Minor. We hardly know what fat cat tle are; the cattle we call fat are just what the Scotchman ia putting into there buildings. These buildings which, are little towns in themselves, have been remodeled lately and are up-to- date in every respect; built for conven ience, very unlike the old style, not but what they were substantial, but built to make a horse out of the man who took care ol the stock. They say cleanliness Is next to Godli ness; il it is the Scotch ploughman is all right (I am sorry to say that In some localities the Scotch preacher does not give them much light on Godliness) lor his stable is kept in order) there it a of The Scotch-American letting as little as possible pass bis eye, only trying to make these old chums believe some thing American, he has either forgot to move or gone past something that he wanted to see, and has to go back and begin again. Really a walk around the garden to say nothing of the eating all kinds ol berries, is a treat. Scotch men and Scotch women do love their tea and as It is nearing o'clock we are making for the front door. If yoa saw vegetable! in the back garden yoa will see flowers In the front. No use for me to try to describe it the lawns are kept In the best of order; the different kinds of vine that cling to the walls are very pretty. Making Big Mine in Green horn District. . PUT UP MILL NEXT SEASON Have Three Parallel Veins With Bodies of High-Crade Ore Two Rich Cross-Veins. Almost on the very crest of the Green horn mountains, where several moan- tain streams form the headwater! of Boulder creek, a syndicate of Heppner citizens have quietly developed a group of claims until today only the installa tion of a mill is needed to repay them for their confidence in the Sumpter district. . . As a rule, but few of the resident of the state, with the exception of those residing in mining districts, are inter ested in mining enterprises, and most of the rich properties are controlled by outside capital ; therefore the success of this syndicate from a section devoted exclusively to agriculture and sheep- raising is a noteworthy feature. The group, which comprises fifteen claims, known as the Heppner mines, is owned and operated by the Heppner Mining Company (D. B Stalter, presi dent and general manager), and has over 1,000 feet of tunnels, shaft and surface workings. Most of the work has been done on the Illinois, Pride of Heppner and May flower veins, which parallel, and suffi cient work on two cross veins, the Elis abeth and Heppner, to determine their width and values at slight depth. On the Illinois a drift has been run 400 feet, giving close onto 200 feet denth, showing in its face six feet of high-grade milling ore, some of which ha run a high as $24 1 per ton This vein was developed further up the mountain with a shaft of sixty feet, the bottom of which has a streak assaying as high as $3(i5 per ton, while to body of milling ore runs from $10 to $27 per ton. To reac beneath the shaft the drift will be extended 300 fert, giving a depth of between 300 and 400 feet, and it ia in tended to install a 5-stamp mill next season to treat this body of milling ore to meet operating expenses. - On the Mayflower the upper tunnel was driven fifty feet oh the vein, open ing up four feet of fine milling ore, which has been proven at a depth oi over 100 feet by drift of 300 feet started further down the mountain side In the present face there is a small streak .running high as $100 per ton. On the third of the parallel veins, the tVide of Heppner, a series of open cuts proved it thirty feet in width, and a drift has been run fifty feet. This vein has been determined, and tunnel started near the lower one will give a depth of over 1,000 feet. Though not extensive ly developed the management considers it one of the best vein in the group, and already ha six tons of the ore sacked for future shipment. The first cross-vein uncovered was the Eliiabeth, surface work on which shows width of 25 feet, with very good val ues. Un tne other, the Heppner, a 60- foot drift ha been run, showing two feet of hiitb-grade ore. The properties are oquipped with commodious buildings, cars, track and blacksmith shop, and development will be continued under supervision ot Mr. Stalter, who stated during his visit here while the teat was being made on the ore brought in, that tne company would certainly install a mill this) com ing seasoa. Sumpter American. (To be continued) Soma Seasonable Advice It may be a piece of superfluous advice to urge people at this Beaton of the year to lay in a snpplv ol Chamberlain' cough remedy. It is almost sure to be needed before winter is over, and much more prompt and aatLfactory results are obtained when taken as soon a a cold I contracted and before it ha become set tled in the system, which can only be done by keeping the remedy at hand. This remedy is so widely known and so altogether good that no one should hesi tate about buying it in preference to any other. It I for sale by Slocum Drug Co. Wood and Posts. I have a large number of tamarack posts and lot of fir and tamarack cord wood for sale at my ranch near the coal mine. Willaso IIxiuin,