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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1930.
T
ALASKA
NOW BEIhib OPENED
Reindeer Meat is Among
Products Uncle Sam
Would Popularize.
By CALEB JOHNSON.
Had your reindeer steak yet?
The introduction of reindeer meat
as a staple food product is the Gov
ernment's latest method of getting
the rest of the United States inter
ested in Alaska. In the larger cities
reindeer steaks, chops and roasts
are being served in many hotels and
restaurants, and it is expected that
in time a great meat-packing indus
try will develop in the northern ter
ritory.
Alaska is getting closer to the rest
of the nation all the time. Now the
United States and Canada are co
operating ni the construction of a
great motor highway which, when
completed, will make it as easy for
automobile tourists to visit Alaska
as it is now for them to drive to
Florida, The driving force behind
this latest project is the indefat
igable Col. Samuel Hill of Seattle,
who more than anyone else has
been responsible for the building of
good roads in the Northwest It
will take only 750 miles of new con
struction to complete the highway
link between the Mexican border
up the Pacific Coast through Can
ada to Fairbanks, Alaska, and the
new road will pass through the fa
mous Peace Portal which stands on
the International Boundary line.
Although Alaska has been the
property of the United States since
it was bought from Russia in 1867
for $7,200,000, large parts of the ter
ritory are still unexplored. Nobody
knows what riches may yet come
out of this northern wilderness. So
far, products worth more than 200
times the original cost of the terri
tory have been yielded, chiefly in
gold, salmon, seal furs and lumber.
There is at least one oil field and a
good grade of steam coal is found
at several points. The United Stat s
navy is making an aerial survey of
the whole territroy, photographing
it from the sky. This survey has
already resulted in the discovery of
a waterfall capable of generating
at least 20,000 horsepower, and of
forests which can supply all the
wood-pulp the United States needs
for paper making.
Few realize how big Alaska is,
You could put into it all of the At
lantic Coast states from Maine to
Florida, add Tennessee, Alabama
and Mississippi and still have room
to spare. In all of this territory
there are only about 55,000 inhaD-
itants, of whom half are Esk'.mos.
Yet the climate in a large part of
Alaska is milder than in most of the
northern parts of the United States,
the principal drawback being that
it gets pretty warm in Summer;
In the interior the thermome'er
sometimes goes to 60 below in Win
ter and raises to 90 or more i.i
July, but along the coast, where the
warm Japanese current tempers the
climate, it seldom drops below zero
and 80 above is about the highest in
mid-summer.
There are considerable areas of
good farming land, where wheat
can be grown economically, but
there are less than 600 farms in the
whole territory so far. The Govern
ment estimates that 60 million acres
are adaptable to farming. One
drawback has been lack of trans
portation facilities. The Alaska
Railroad, owned by the Govern
ment, is extending its lines and the
proposed new highway will open up
sections heretofore inaccessible. It
will be many years, however, before
the interior of Alaska will be very
easy to get at, except as industries
develop and establish their own
means of communication.
The reindeer herds, which pasture
in the great ranges in the north
western part of the territory, hav
developed from a few which were
brought to Alaska years ago from
Lapland, to provide food for the
cNp' ad to oAid Development in oAlaska
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Col. Samuel Hill of Seattle, famou9 international capitalist and promoter of good roads, is behind the
project to build the connecting link between British Columbia and Alaska which will make a continuous motor
road from Mexico to the Far North. The road will pass through the Peace Portal which stands on the Interna
tional boundary line. The Reindeer meat industry in Alaska is being fostered by the Government which own
great herds which serve as food for the Eskimos
Eskimos. They now number more
than a million head, of which 700,
000 are females, and are increasing
at the rate of 300,000 or more a
year. It is the Government's pur
pose to induce capital to establish
packing-houses for the slaughter
and shipment of reindeer meat,
which can compete with beef .n
quality and price, and to establish
colonies of farmers to take up free
land on which to grow grain to fat
ten the reindeer for market
Other industries which are being
tried out experimentally in Alaska
are sheep-grazing and fur-farming,
the latter with considerable su:
cess. Alaska is the last great unexplor
ed part of the United States. There
are still more than a hundred mn
loin acres which have never even
been seen from an airplane. Young
men with the pioneer spirit which
has made this country what it is
are the ones to whom Uncle Sam is
looking to open up this great territory.
FRANK PARKER
business. It can share in the na
tion's general prosperity only by
adopting business methods. In the
process, many farmers will have to
give up farming and go into some
thing else. That may sound harsh,
but it is the plain logic of the trend
of events.
William M. Jardine, former Secre
tary of Agriculture and himself a
practical farmer, says there are too
many farms and farmers. In any
sound business, producers regulate
their output to the demand for
their products. Farmers have not
done that because they have never
worked together.
The Farm Board program is the
greatest experiment in cooperation
ever attempted in the world. Its
success will depend upon the intel
ligence and vision of the men who
run it
DAWES
They are talking about Charles
G. Dawes for Mayor of Chicago. The
election will be in April, 1931. If
the former Vice-President, present
Ambassador to Great Britain, can
be nominated, he probably can be
elected. If he is elected, Chicago
will get the most complete cleaning
up it has ever had. The trouble
will be to get the nominally Repub
lican but actually bi-partisan ma
chine to let him be nominated. The
ostensible basis of opposition will
be that he is not a resident of Chi
cago but of the adjoining city of
Evanston.
POPULATION
Take out your watch and look at
the seconds hand. Count thirteen
seconds. Somewhere in the United
States a baby has been born. Follow
the hand to the 3-second mark.
Someone has died. Watch it for a
minute and a half. Another immi
grant has landed on our shores.
Hold it for Ave and a half minutes.
Somebody has sailed away from
America to stay.
The average of all those computa
tions, worked out by the United
States Census office, is the addition
of one person to our total popula
tion each 23 seconds. While you slept
eight hours last night, 2,215 babies
were born, 1,208 persons died. The
net increase in population is 3,624
a day. At midnight on December
31, as the first stroke of 1930 sound
ed, there were 121,873,140 living In
habitants of the United States, the
Census people figured.
If there were no immigration and
nobody left the country, the excess
of births over deaths would add
3,000 a day to our population, or
more than a million a year.
COLD "
The other day I saw a covered
truck on Sixth Avenue, New York,
with the name of an ice-cream mak
er on the side and the words "Tem
perature 105 degrees below zero."
Freezing ice cream so solid that it
will keep for weeks if stored at any
temperature below 32 degrees Is on
ly one of the commercial applica
tions of the new freezing process in
which both liquid air and solid car
bon dioxide are used.
Fish, meats, fruits and vegetables
frozen so quickly and thoroughly
that their juices do not form ice
crystals to rupture the fibers are
now on the market In the large
cities. They taste, when thawed,
just like fresh food. Chicago pack
ers are preparing to put out frozen
meats in the form of single steaks,
chops, roasts, each sealed in cellu
lose and shipped in containers de
signed to keep them frozen until
delivered to the consumer.
If this method develops as it
promises, the world center of the
meat Industry may shift from the
United States to Argentina, Aus
tralia or South Africa, where land
and labor are cheap and cattle and
sheep can be raised at small cost
TUM-A-LUM TICKLER
Published In the Interest of the people of Heppner and vicinity by
THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO., Phone 912
Volume 30
Heppnar, Oregon January 30, 1930
No. 5
TThRINTING
Hill'
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Is the Inseparable Companion of
Achievement
ROYALTY
Fifteen years ago the news that
the Kaiser's grandson was working
in Henry Ford's assembly plant In
Buenos Aires, Argentina, for $3 a
day would have furnished a topic
for Sunday pages in the big news
papers. Now the fact that the son
of the Crown Prince has had to go
to work under the name of "Doctor
Ferdinand" is hardly a theme for a
passing paragraph.
Some of the results of the Great
War may be debatable, but that it
finally exploded the old idea of roy
alty ruling by Divine mandate is all
to the good.
COOPERATION
The purpose of the Federal Farm
Board is to convert farming from a
hit-or-miss mode of living into a
Shop Where
COURTESY and
SERVICE
Prevail
But not only that we have a large
stock of pure, fresh groceries and at
reasonable prices.
Trade with us and you'll always get
real VALUE ! We have what you de
sire in the line of groceries and always
the best of any particular product.
Just give us a trial
Phelps Grocery Co.
The Home of Good Eats.
I ver Twenty-t
hree Million
Produced in 1929
(23,045,000)
Goodyear now builds almost
twice as many tires as any
other rubber company.
COME IN AND LET US
SHOW YOU WHY MIL
LIONS MORE PEOPLE
RIDE ON GOODYEAR
TIRES THAN ON ANY
OTHER KIND. THERE
IS NO OBLIGATION TO
BUY.
SPECIAL
30x3 1-2 O.S. $5.80
29x4.40... 6.30
30x4.50... 7.00
rates 'H'iwSy
Vaughn & Goodman
(HEPPNER GARAGE)
HEPPNER, OREGON
EDITORIAL
Early to bed and
early to rise, cut the
weeds and swat the
flies, mind your own
business and tell no
lies; don't get gay and
deceive your wives,
pay your debts and
use enterprise, and
buy from home mer
chants if you want to
be wise.
AIiBSBT AS KISS,
Manager, Editor.
Joe Devine was in
town Saturday after a
load of coal.
TAZ.
Reward offered for
the apprehension of
the persons or persons
that stole the mercury
from our thermomet
er. The fact that part
of it has been return
ed doesn't help much.
KING COAL, is on
their trail, too.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
We are always Johnny-on-the-spot
with
suggestions that fit
the season. When the
water pipes are froz
en we suggest that you
move the furniture out
into the front yard
and build a fire on the
floor of the living
room. After Nature
has taken her usual
course, the pipes will
be well thawed. Col
lect the insurance and
dash madly to the
Tum-A-Lum office for
plans and specifica
tions for a new home
that knows better
than to let its water
system freeze.
P. S. Don't tell
Chief Devln.
A Tum-A-Lum straw
loft chicken house will
keep hens laying all
winter. With eggs at
the present price It
wouldn't take long to
pay for such a house.
This and many other
fine plans are for your
use at our office. Stop
for a while by our hot
fire and look over the
plan books of farm
buildings we have.
Chicken houses cost
about $1.25 per hen, or
the price of 2 Mi dozen
eggs.
POME
'You may stay out late
and get lit up a few,"
Said the hen to the
farmer,
"But I'm laying for
you."
The man who rents
is committing finan
cial suicide on the In
stallment plan and we
will lay a 100 to 1 that
"Home Sweet Home"
was not written by a
renter.
TAX
It is not too cold to
do interior remodel
ing and painting.
Be Prepared
For spring farming activities. Obtain
new plows and harrows, and replacement
parts for your old equipment from us
while stocks are complete. We handle
the well-known OLIVER line of plows
and implements.
If you need a tractor don't fail to learn
all the features of the
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It All Depends
"It is impossible for me to save any
money on my present income." No
doubt you have often heard such a
remark. Is it true?
Well, it all depends. Most people
could save SOMETHING, be it ever
so small, if they would give up some
of the things they lead themselves to
think necessary. The trouble is, they
often refuse to deny themselves. They
are not willing to pay the price NOW.
But most of them pay LATER, when
they can ill afford to pay.
Fir& National Bank
HEPPNER, OREGON