LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
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LEXINGTON, OREGON
, S. A. THOMAS,
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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.
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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
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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,
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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,
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