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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1907)
LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD Published Every Thursday at ' LEXINGTON, OREGON , S. A. THOMAS, - Editor and Proprietor. OFFICIAL PAPER TOWN OF LEXINGTON , . Subscription, per year, - $1.00 Advertising rates on Application Copy for change of advertising must reach this office by Wednesday noon. Entered as second-class matter October 6, 1905, at the post office at Lexington, Or egon, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THURSDAY AUGUST 22, 1907. NOTICE The best way to build up your own tcwn is to do your trading t home. Patronize your home merchants. If they succeed the chances are you will succeed. When you send a dollar to a mall order house you have the goods and they have the money. Trade at home and we keep both the goods and the money. MORROW COUNTY It appears to the Gazette that the people of Oregon are not absorbing enough of the sentiment that is com ing from the Portland Commercial ' Club. ' ' The Portland organization Is " com posed of far seeing business men who are working for Portland, it is true, but In working for Portland they are trying to make Oregon greater for Portland without a prosperous and good state would amount to little indeed. Portlond is. spending money and asking for the co-operation of the whole state but what are we doing? We make especial reference to the people of Morrow county. Now what is the matter. Surely the people here should be interested in their own welfare. We have a great country. No question of it when we come to think over the actual conditions. The territory within the limits of Morrow county from the Col umbia river to the souulern tine join ing Grant covers a ' distance of 75 miles, with an average width of 35 miles," and still with this territory al most half as large as some of the kingdoms of the old world we haven't enough population for a good "sized .country village. The fact that we are Isolated and handicapped by lack of railroad facil Hies can only be remedied- In time, but our lack of enthusiasm and proper . appreciation of what we actually have can be -remedied immediately. One of our great drawbacks Is the fact that we have too many knockers and not print irrh hrostfirs. o- V , Take for instance Hood River. Hood River people are united. They pull together, Thsy have fruit to sell. They have a union By sytematlc methods of boosting they sell their fruit for more money than any body else. They sell their land for $400 to $1000 an acre and then they talk about" It and give reasons why their land is worth it Hood River this year ship ped 55,000 crates of strawberries valued at $ 1 50,000. This item was published In every newspaper in the northwest and every riian who panted to grow strawberries wanted to go to Hood River. . " Morrow county has wheat, wool and stock -and a small- empire to sell. Morrow county this season shipped out 90.C0O head of sheep that sold for $180,000. . Have you thought of the fact thst this was $30,C00 more than Hood River's strawberry crop sold for and that it was not bad money either. But who said anything about it or thought anything about it. Not the pepple of Morrow county. Surely we cannot expect outside people to play-card and exploit this fact if we care nothing about it. We handled the modest Item of 2,500,000 pounds of wool worth half a million dollars, but this was not enough to say much about. Now we have a wheat crop coming on that will be worth in the neighborhood of three quarters of a mllldbn but who is going to say anything about this. And we have only about 5.CC0 people. v The most solid foundation ' and the best advertisement that ever went out of Morrow county is the fact that Winnard Bros, are now harvesting 400 acres of wheat that is going 50 bushels to the acre. M. J. Devin has har vested 160 acres of wheat that went 40 bushels to the acre and other large yields are so common .that comment is thought to be unnecessary, It is a fact that Morrow county wheat lands are selling from $ 1 5 to $30 per acre, But how are the thousands of people who are looking for such lands going to knowjhat Mor row county lands are worth this money. Tell them about these wheat yields. -Tell them about our stock, wool, alfal- fa, our splendid climate and our great opportunities and advantages where a man can get a home and pay for it with one or two crops. These are facts that we need not be ashamed of. Say, what is the matter with the Heppner Commercial Club, our De velopment League and the people gen erally. How many Morrow county people have written to a friend in the East telling them about the cheap colonist rates to get out here. - We have right here in the Gazette office right now several thousand cop ies of a well written pamphlet with an interesting story about Morrow county. Let us send them out. Let us do a little work for cur own Interests. Ga zette. The trouble always has been, and always will be, mostly with-Heppner and her people. Anything that does not materially help Heppner is of no consequence to them. Morrow coun ty ships, annually, a large amount of sheep and wool, worth nearly three quarters ofa million dollars, yet when wool producers see fit to store their wool In a warehouse at Lexington, on account of a shorter and easier haul, Heppner people use their influence to have the buyers pass it xup, make no bids on It because it is not in Heppner. The Commercial Club of Heppner de cided to issue some advertising mat ter regarding Heppner, so gave it the title of Morrow county, In order to In duce the County Court to appropriate $250.00 of county money to have it published in pamphlet form, claiming that the Club was paying an equal a mount. We would be glad to take the work at $250. one half the amount this, organization claimed to be the 2 HARVEST SUPPLIES 10 o We have a large stock of everything needed for the harvest and can supply your wants promptly. No v order too large for us to fill, and none too small to receive prompt attention. A child can buy as cheap as its parents. . n U o Pf 1 B PA m LI HI la hi n Vv VICES LEXINGTON, ' u OREGON -2 cost of the work. Heppner gets a nice mention in this pamphlet and Lexington gets 3Hines, (16 picas in width). . The county may have acted in good faith, we do not know, if it was we do say that the court was buncoed. This pamphlet contains a well written essay on a part of this county, but not the county as a whole. What would be of greater benefit to eachr commun ity would something short, attractive and catchy, that will get people talking about each individual town or com munity. A large number of people can tell of Hood River's advantages, yet they do not know what county it is in, the same is also true of Irrigon. Each town should get out literature on resources and advantages, but if coun ty money is to be used in getting out advertising matter let each town in the county be well represented, 'giving facts and statistics that can be used as future reference. No' town can build itself by trying to down some other town, we must all work in harmony. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Department of the loterior Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, August 7, 1907. Notice is hereby given that GEORGE E. MILLER of Lexington, Oregon, has filed notice of his intention to make final commutation proof in support of his claim, viz: ' Home stead Entry No, 15147 made May 17, 1906, for the SEXSVi and Lot 4 of Section 18, Township 1 South, Range 25 E. W. M., and that said proof wilLbe made before J. P. Williams, U. S. Comm'r, at his office In HeDDner. Oregon, on Seotember 18 1907. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, the land, viz: . , S. A. Thomas,- W. P..Luttrell, P. M. Chrlstenson, of Lexington, Oregon. R. A. Thompson, Heppner, Oregon. C. W, Moore, 8-15-9-12 ' ' Register w.P.McMILLAl)j 1 g- 3)rugs j Stationery 5 i? .. ; Qon feet ions . . . ' j School -Supplies J? toilet yJrticles ' V J ' Stc. Stc. (j I LEXINGTON, OREGON NOTICK FOB PUBLICATION Department of the Interior Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon, August I, 1907. Notice Is hereby given that MARY RITCHIE, formerly Mary Winnett, of Strawberry, Oregon, has filed notice of her intention to make final five-year proof In support of her claim, viz: Homestead Entry No. 10721 made April 23, 1902, for the Wi NWJ, NEJ-NW4- and NWJ-NEl of Section 33, Township 1 North, Range 26 E W. M., and that said proof wUl be made before J. P. Williams, U. S. Comm'r, at his office in Heppner, Oregon, on Septem ber 19, -1907. She names the following witnesses to prove her cotlnuous residence upon, and cultivation of, the land, viz: , 0. S, Hodsdon, of Lexington, Oregon, C. E. Musgrave, W. H. Musgrave, H. Stowers, of Strawberry, Oregon, C. W. Moore, 8-15-9-12 Register. . THE OFFICE ' A. D. INSKEEP, Proprietor WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. . FRESH BEER ALWAYS , ON DRAUGHT o GOOD VO0L TABLE IN CONNECTION LEXINGTON, OREGON LEXINGTON BANK - Branch of BANK OF HEPPNER E. 0. BROWN, Manager. CAPITAL STOCK SO.OOO.OO, FULLY PAID Loans made at Eight per cent. 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