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LkH C( UNlY LXAMlNliR : KaU.VI.AV.ORI (ION. JUNE 27. 101.
Puhllthul f.vtry TharwUjr
UEACH & M'QARRHY
Monlc ".uUdlng
TERMS:
i One Year,
SW Months. . .
(Thre Months,
large sum h n it mil I y for its and l!u (Mate's
leiietit. Yet hundreds nf thousands of
miy rntory sheo'i pour in tlmt county In
the miiiinn'r from Idaho, Nevada and
I eNcw here, and tit Itrly ilevastaio the
! range ainl ret be in tlu l:it (nil, without
! t'oiil rilxit i t'tl one iillr to I la county
i
tit x (mill; bet, on thr contrary, lessen Km
$2.00
I nil
50 tax-roll hv rutting in two the iiinonnt of
! rattle and sheep it residents could curry
and pay tuxes ! if the migratory sheep
hands were kept out, although thai
I county ha mnp:e range hii I feed for nil
the M.x'k it couhl own xud winter. In
I these ess it i not a Irve range, lerausc
the rat t It w ill not grate w here sheep are,
and the herder mill Ins dog rcadi:
! drive tliem olf if they attempt it. The
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I IVpartiuent show jul w hat such a state
' of nil airs lf:i4 one to ex t that the
; rattle are rupi llv dei-icasiug in tin- trans
! Missouri Male", and territories. I or in
stance, in Wyoming in the lat h year
.over "it per rent; in other localities, till
1 jwr rent, nd in some places ev-n more ;
' hence the price of Uvl is constant Iv ad-
1 vancing, ami has now re.irheil a int
Refreshing News That Big Corpora- ; thM , u. ,..., ni,Ul,, u ,,lx.
tiuns Pay Their Full Quota of j nry to the rominon people.
Taxation to Maintain County j mivii iuooimiki now.
llkviiin, -.-.,. Jl'StC 7. IM).
LOOKS GOOD
TO MR. LUSK
Gives Mis Reasons Why
Leasing of the Public
Lands Would be
Beneficial.
A LONG "PIPE DREAM"
w
!: hnvcmniiy new customers each seasttn coming to out estihlishtncnt
who tell us they ill way s understood th.it we handle! utmlity id
' eiistoniers is not tnatle hy my tut-
cscellcticc of everv article 111 out
v ii'i'iiipis. 'I'liis triers to our
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.s.
Otir reputation w
ticular line of voods we liae, hut hy the genera
..,. ll' 'ii !. tniu hih'c we carry rood otiaht
t . .1 il ..' ll.- t wi- . llll.'llllv
apcr rooiis in ;st ttic same ocrire us u un'-i " . .
on lei in u our oo,ls we .nive just ;s j:irt ieuhir ;K tent ion to t he ltir.ihihty,
che,
tin
1 lit
ot the low firneil
isoi t nit nt is iii;iuil-
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cotilineil to the
lor
and State Governments.
F. C I.uck. president of the Amerirun
Vat tie Orowers' AssiH'iiition, and also
president of the Frvnrh (ileiin Cattle
and I-ui l Company of Ilaney county,
'telU in the Ore;onian why lie is in favor
ofuhiilthat will Ik presented to Con
gress lor leasing the puhlir domain.
'The Kxatniner has fir a loiitt time In -en
anx'otis t learn just uxni what grounds
the millionaire i attle harons h ilt their
hopes for the pn-a:e of this art. and
what their argument in favor of the
leasing proposition really is. We here
with tfive Mr. I.usk's argument on the
proposition, ar.d welru-tthat after read
in.: it, ? Hue of the stockmen of Lake
County will :ive their view son the other
side of the question. A column will al
ways he oen in The F.xaminer f.r the
Argument of this question pro and con.
It appears to us that this leasing propo
eitioii would Ik a very had tiling for
Lake county, and at least one argument
-against it is the fart that watering tlares
on the ranges of this county during the
pumiiK-r time are few and far lietween,
and the man who Could first get the o
portunitv to lease the ground upon
where a spring is located, be he a large
or small ftockman, could practically con-
trnl th.it ranlT" for miles and miles. Mr.
"Puhlic upinion is largely formed hy
those directly interested. In the conven
tion at Fort Worth, in January, 1'JvH), of
the National Livestock Association, a
body composed of the owners of all kind-,
of 8tork, sheep predominating, a resolu
tion favoring land-leasi ,g was passed. A !
bill providing for it was introduced i.i
I "Another reason of gtcal iiupoi tanre
' t 'T such a law is that the ranees an now
'open bat'le fields between sheep and
! cattlemen, and also between sheepmen
'themselves. In these battles hist year
(the homicides were numerous. Theie
. have been many this year, three in one
tiktlit a short tune ago. tine here can
have no idea of the intensity o( this
I rig on the rai L'es of Wyoim ng, Colorado.
, l"t.lh, .New Mexico and other slates In
many localities small cattlemen see their
homes and ranches ol years' standing
invaded by the vast b.unls of migratoiy
shee'.i, and they have organized and es
tabh-hed dead lines, and are guar ling
' them t'nl.iy withntles; bill the heep
; men come to the edge, hesitate perhaps
.a time, and then say: 'We have the le
gal right to cross jour sheep have eaten
it clean behind us. an 1 we must cross.'
1 And they do. Then rot ies hkvo.shed,
! homicide ami the law openly violated.
I F.ach side shoots as well as the other.
It is obvious this cannot go on iu a civil-
Ue'l country, ami nothing can stop il
but a lease hohl law.
WoKKS WKI.L ElMKWIIKUK.
"We are frequently asked if it will not
W dilliitilt to frame and administer such
a law in a manner that will do justice to
all. I'.y no means, t-tich lawn exist in
' .ustralj a,ndxTexas witji satisfaction to
lands. Both j'lriwdictlotiH found them
selves con fronted with the same dilirulty
we are now in, and adopted the only
remedy a wise lease law. In each place
the -t'Hjk business is now on a perma
nent basis. Kach stockman knows how
many sheep or rattle he ran carry with-
suhst.intinl ut:iue ;iml the superior tju;i
to tin- iiniliiitn ntiil hctter urnlcs. hut out
nicdiiitn nnil la tter irmles.
The strength of Our lines is ;ii:itriil when you look :it out
Vivmo anil Stnnuicr we venture to .issett tlt.it there is nut
' i .-
the country th.it is cuitnl to ours in its wotnlcrtul variety, in ;s i;ie:it t.ine ot
trice, in its particular style of everything that w e show .
W'c solicit the husinos of the people nf Southeastern Oregon atnl can teailily
convince than that we are the hest house to trade with in this entire region.
stock, ami
mother stock ol roods
BAILEY & MASSING ILL
o'it iuiurini his b-ase-hold. Vnthii.o
Congress that winter, and the subject at I C1M ill(i,1(. t.ith).r Texas or Australia to
once became a general theme of discus- j al,rgitfe itf, ,.aMlf aWH and throw open its
ion. Public opiuon in the arid land I ,.,, t tlie ,,, Cl)n,,iti()n ( (vernt(M.k.
mum mostly atfected appeared adverse, j iug (,,nse.,uent destruction, and rontin
This wan caused by the owners of the in- ' U!1 bat t le and violation ,.f 1-
"The law will Is; for all, sheepmen as
numerable band of migratory sheep,
who naturally oppose it, and by the small
-cattlemen, who, not understanding the
proposed measure, feared that they
would be frozen out by large cattle or
heepnien monopolizing the leases. But
in the past year and a half events have
followed so rapidly on the ranges, and
the facts beiiame known, that public
.opinion has changer! with great rapidity
on the subject. In Colorado, for instance,
ithe cliauge in almost absolute. The cause
of thin thange will be perceived by the
.answer to the questions you ask as the
.reasons for the law, and a general know
ledge of its proposed features.
"Growing of cattle on thf ranges of the
.arid states is the pioneer industry, com
menced and brought to a high state of
perfection many years Jiefore sheep were
there at all. Vost of the older cattle
men 1'rnght -he Indians in starting their
lant, The company I represent in Har
ney county, in this state, lost all of its
buildings, much ot its stock and the lives !
if Home of its employes iu the Indian
outbreak in J&78. There is no such thing
as migratory rattleuien. The nature of
the business prohibits it. Tfcey must
have a fixed habitation, a ranch, a land
plant, with fences, buildings, hay fields
and means to protect and care for the
cattle in winter. These have Iteen the
growth of 30 years or more, and vary all
the way from the ranch worth 15000 up
to the investment of $1,000,000 on every
dollar of which and all their cuttle, full
txes are paid to the local county. They
now find everywhere that countle-s mi
gratory hands of sheep, a majority in the
hands of I5asques ami Portuguese, w ho
are not citizens, and pay no taxes to the
local county, and have no ranch or land
ed headquarters anywhere, swarm all
over their ranges, up to their fence lines,
and not only drive and run their cattle
out, but are also utterly destroying lor
nil time the feed on the range.
"To illustrate, our company pay into
fiw treasury ol Harney county fery
well as cattlemen. Many sheepmen favor
it, and are just as anxious for its pas-
ge as cattlemen. This is especially so
of the sheepmen who have a fixed habita
tion, a ranch where they cut hay and rare
for sheep in the winter. Iam in receipt of
daily communications from such men,
who tell me that while they know they
can't join the American Cattle-Growers'
Association, they favor such a law and
want to aid in its passage in every man
ner possihie. lti whole stittiation was
adequately summed tip a few weeks
ago by one of the most prominent sheep
men in Wyoming, who said that he real
ized that the time had now come that
every one who owned sheep or cattle on
the public range must have the ability
to control a definite portion of it by lease.
"A vital feature of the law will be pro
tection hy perference right to lease to
actual residents and owners in a county ;
this to cut off all possibility of foreign
syndicates coining into a county and rent
ing the land away from the local resi
dent stockmen. The bill will be fully
safeguarded against any such star-routing.
Another equally important feature
will lie the prohibition against leases be
ing put upat auction. Many small stock
men have been justly and naturally
frightened by the suggestion that the
leases would he put up to highest bidder,
and wealthy corporations thus secure
them all. The auction feature will he
prohibited and a fixed reasonable rent
established. The most important feat
ure that the proposed law will contain
will be a provision adequately protect
ing tlie small stockowner, and assuring
his ri(ht to a full proportionate share of
the ranges in Jus respective county.
This must and will be plain and emphat
ic. No bill will ever past the Congress of
the United States that does not contain
the three principal features above nam
ed in unequivocal language. It is thought
by those best informed on the subject
that when a bill is framed fully protect-1
ing 'he small stockmen as against his
larger hci.hhor, giving the s-rference to
the actual stm kgrower iu each county,
and prohibiting any an- lion nf lea-i s,
and it is generally circulated, that all
opposition to the measure will vanish
from the stis'k "untitle, exi-ept (rolu the
ow ners of ni'gra'ory sheep bands
"It is wisely promised that the bill
shall require the Federal Government to
donate to each state the rentals riveived
in it to Is used for works to prim ote ir
rigation bv storage o Hood w aters. This
question is one of supreme importance to
ci'i'KJitate having arid lands. Careful
yearly used at f lO.Otai.tMIO. It will U re
membered that a the lust session the
I great river and liHrlsir bill, carrying an
j appropriation of fii:i,Oi0.(HKI, was defeat
: ed by an arid laud state Senator because
I the Fast would not consent to include a
paltry f4mi,iNNi (lir promoi ing irrigation
I in the arid states. With such a bill as
we propone, the Fast will le relieved
! from that burden. Minnie sums for this
great work will be provided, and hand
in hand will go the preservation ainl im
provement of the ranges, w ith the stor
age of the Hood waters for constantly in
creasing irrigation."
"But the controlling reason for the
passage of this law is that the range,
with its capauity to furnish meat f.d
for the country, is being rapidly destroy
ed. This destruction has advanced dor.
iug the past two years with lightning
rapidity. Already there are large dis
tricts in Nevada, I'tah and Wyoming
w here the destruction is an accomplihed
fart, and nothing grazes where large
(locks of sheep and hands of cattle onre
fattened. The immense increase of the
migratory sheep in the past few years
brought the question to a focus. The
et . .... I
en m ot iiestroying the feed on the arid
ranges, including as it da:s all the wil
lows and small brush on the little moun
tain streams, is not only to ruin them,
but the meadows in the valleys below,
which are practically all in private
ownership. The snow ceases to lie in
the hrush and come down gradually,
feeding the meadows until having but
NI:W PIM: CRI-I-K
Jk Is rapidly lording uIh-ikI ihi'1
" Foiled and Ainirk. lb.- Men-knits
O are trotting along ut the In a, &
"f the procession. fc
A PIM: NI;W STOCK
lias already been received ainl tin. r
A new iimhIs nri' arriving- ut cur More
nil tlm time
AMONG OTIIHR THINGS .
'- U.... uver vl IiIIil'-'b'sirot!" iir th
(Jrori ry Line. A special line (,f dents
Fancy Hurts. An elennnt line of
'innlies, ( 'igurs iiinl Tobnrms. Watch
& for our lrv ilooils hicplav.
j POI.1.HTT (c AMICK
PELTON WATER WH EEL
.' '
Tin ! i r )
I- known the world over us iiffoidu.g the most simple, re
liable ami ecoiiomiciil swer for all purposes.
Ten Thousand WhccU Now iV-innlng;
Filling everv condition of set ice in the inot eilicient and
satisfactory way.
rilcttrlc Power Trnnsmislon
l'Fl.TON WHFF.I.K are the r guized standard for os-rt mg Generators, and
are running the majority of stations of this character in all parts of the world.
Water Pipe and Transmission Machinery
And all appliances connected with a is.wer plant, snppl.ed on tin
terms. Shipments made from San Francisco or New York
...uf I.,,,..-.. 1. 1.. . . i J
nl o.".noi.- ir.-igiu raies. i atalogues. Imiu IS ! or Sumo.). I I ....
cation. A id In. us .,;.. I;.; i ' '" I'l"
THE PELTON WATER WHEEL COMPANY, !
ino-i reasonable
as may allonl the
17 n. 5l..5.n rranclcn.Cal..lJ.5.A-
4j l.llerly Si ,Ncw V.k. N V.. U.S.A.
then the meadow dries and wastes. The . ' -V W'ri'fWM-' '
water in times of flood rains, instead of "X -'Ajfy, '4X
passing over the sod that the natural ''J-V,
Krasses made on the hills, without n- f; s '')'' ""j
moving the soil finding the sod gone, : tJ3A
tears up the earth and semis it down on :
Hereford Stock Yakm
Drows Valloy, Oregon.
F. O. Dunting, Owner
largest herd of registered
Herefords in Oregon
5 Registered Yearling Bulls
1 OO, 1 20 and I OO each
on
to the arable land below, covering it
with deep deposUs of sand and destroy
ing its value. The same causes have le
stroyed immense areas of valuable lands
at the foot of the Caucasus and the Pyrt.
nees. A sudden freshet in February
last in Southern Harney comity and Ne
vada brought down from the hills im
mense quantities of silt, and buried
roads and meadows in many pla ies more
than a foot deep, and to a degree never
known before by the oldest inhabitants.
For the destruction of the ranges with
all its future consequences, no human
being can suggest any practical remedy,
except its lease-hold control, and that
forces the passage of uch a law in Con
IALD0R AIAMO head of herd
J W Renter
Chaa MurrlHon
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Reeder & Morrison
BLACKSMITHS
AND
HORSESIIOERS
lo rvrrythlnic la
tht) HlarkMiBlihliig
Mae aad naturar.
tioa Kuamntred
XXA.IVOS
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J. W. Maxwell
A.jent for
Ten of the Dost
high grade and
standard makes
of Pianos
6240.00 and up
Organs 8 DO up
OIXCKA.3WS
New pine CreeK, Oregon.