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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 1906)
I 1 LAKE'S POSSIBILITIES. A Description of Lake County, It's Future, Resources, etc. In atswerto the hundreds of lot tors !, ovor tlie 1'nlted .States concerning) valley until the snow I off of tho hills. Within tho county I a plateau. roughly estimated as embracing two thousand Ave hundred square miles In urea, which Im cuIUmI tho "iK'serf," this la a misnomer, it Is simply a level plain covered with sagebrush and native nri88, but not 11 river or stream of any kind running through ilt, nevertheless, herder and vu- queros will tell you that there nre more ivnlir liolen in lie found on It l-nie county, we nave iieciueu to1 than people realise, nnd that many of them have dug for and found jllve the following facts. They come an near answering the questions as any information we could give. The principal towns of the county, wc will briefly mention as being, Lakeview, the county sent, New Pine Creek, nt the Oregon and Cali fornia state line, Paisley In the Che waucan valley on tho Chewaucnn river, Silver Lake, In the northern part of the county, Plush, In North j 1 Tamer and Adel In South ITarner. ! There are 5,130,240 acres of land, Classified as follows: Agricul tural and alfalfa land, l,12!),C47acres; timlter land, 1,124.353 acres and gm- ing laud. 2,70,240 acres, of this 700,000 acres Is unsurveyed, 1,801,550 j acres in reserves, i,G4,25U acres sur veyed and open to entry and locat ion, and 021,457 acres entered, show Ins It to be a small empire in area. of which there has been only n small traction over IS por cent of tt taken up. Its altitude varies from 3500 to5000 feet. The valley lands of Lake Coun ty are unsurpassed in fertility and productivness, and grow large crops of wheat, oats, barley, rye, alfalfa and meadow grasses, while apples, (teaches, pears, cherries, plums, apri cots and the small fruits are pro duced in great abundance. There is at the present time about 300,000 sheep, 77,000 cattle and 30,000 head of horses and mules. Its in come for live stock, for this year a lone, has been more than $300.00 per capita. Her merchants Import goods annually from San Franscisco amounting to more than 5,000,000 j pounds and her export of wool, a- lone is about 2,500,000 pounds, j Taxes: For the purpose of assess ment, all property is listed and as sessed by the assessor, at about one fourth of its cash value, and upon this assessed valuation, the tax rate for all purposes Is sixteen mills. The great interest shown bv onr people in Public Schools, Is manifest by the fact that a sum equal to about twelve dollars per capita, Is et aside each year by the County for School purposes, for every pupil in the County between the ages of four , and twenty years. Octolter 1, 1905, the County was out of debt, and had asurplus of $19, 5G7.00 in the treasury. The assessment roll for 1905 will show the lowest tax levy incompari- son to the ussessed value of any county in the state of Oregon. -Lake county is pre-eminently a stock raising county. Stock raising wool growing being theprlncipal In dustries, and has yielded the great est gain, with less labor than auy "otlier industry. Generally speaknig thl.s is a broken, hilly country, yet not mountainous in the full sense of the word; in short, its name "Lake County," expresses fully what it Is. Jts many lakes, rivers and creeks, Tib ound in fish; and these same lakes, rivers and creeks nearly all have valleys and bottom lauds bordering them, the soil of which Is ia most cases a rich alluvial loam, and is very productive. This class ' of laud -does not require Irrigation. 5 Bordering -on these valleys, is an up Hand or rolling sage-brush country, vwbk:b is in many instances quite level or miles, and is reputed to be our most productive soil when so situated that it can be irrigated. .Kiucu Of this class of land Is yet un claimed, and can be procured at government price, or else taken up water In many places from four to six feet below thesurface. As for dry, barren sandwnstes, they nre few and small lu area, and generally speak- lug, the soil Is a rich, alluvial earth, which produces excellent pasturage, making, in fact the stockgrowers winter paradise, because loss snow falls there nnd stock wiuters better than they do in the valleys. Yet we do not advise the honieseoker to go there yet It Is to far out, tho Isola tion would be too great. Neverthe less, we realise that the time Is not far distant when this same soml-arld locality will lo made to blossom as the rose, for it affords the most mag- niticleut fields on this side the moun tains for innumerable colonization schemes if properly equipped. There Is yet some good vacant tim ber lands which is leing rapidly taken up There is also, some loss desirable scattering tracts that may not be taken up for years. Our nearest shipping point is Mad eline, the terminus of the Nevada-California-Oregou Railway, ninety five miles distant, consequently when our farmers or other producers have a surplus, the home demand is the only market, as it does not pay to haul ninety five miles bv wagon trains at from ct. to 1 ct. per pound, hence it is that our farmers do not uttempt any great out-put, and the industry is neglected to that extent, that we sometimes pay ex orbitant prices for many farm pro ducts, as instanced this spring when wheat sold readily for 2 cts. per pound, cracked barley 1 cts. per pound and potatoes 4 cts. per pound Even now we are paying 2 cts. per pound for apples, and the past sea son we paid 6 cts. per pound for peaches, 3 cts. for cherries, 3 cts. for pears, 2 cts. for prunes, 2 cts. for plums, 20 cts. per gallon for currents, 60 cts. per gallon for strawberries, 50 cts. per gallon for raspberries, cts. per pound for crab apples, 3 cts. per pound for peas, 2 cts. per pound for carrots, 1 cts. per pound for beets, 4 cts.per pound for onions, 3 cts. per pound fortomatoes, 15 cts. perdozen for roasting ears, 15 cts. per dozen for cucumbers, from 10 cts, to 50 cts. each for mellons. 2 cts. per pound for potatoes, 2 cts. perpoundforsquash, 3 cts. per pound for cabbage, 1 cts. per pound for wheat, f 1.35 per 100 pounds for rolled barley, 2 cts. per pound for oats, 2 cts.per pound for rye, $2.00 per 100 pounds for flour, 1 ct. per pound for bran, $Gper ton for hay, from $ 4 to f 5 per cord for wood. Poultry does well here, yet we pay from 15 cts. to 50 cts. per dozen for eggs, urowncnictens sen ior-;to shops, two wagon shops.'ono barber shop, two vegetable and fruit stands, one furniture store, and four general merchandise, stores that carry from 17000.00 to flW.OOO.OO of a stock the yeor round. The V. S. I .nnd Office Is located here. Five years since, the business portion of the town was In nshos; now tho same district Is all built In brick t tores, valued at from $5000.00 to $30,000.00 por building. Our school facilities we are proud of, especially In Iikevlow, we have n graded school "that employes six teachers, and has an attendance of 300 pupils nine months In the year. During the winter considerable snow falls, In the mountains from 2 to G feet deep, but In the valleys from 2 to 12 Indies deep. Put It does not as n general thing lay but a short time In the valleys; some win ters sleighs are not to Iks seen In the streets. Our altitude Is 4S25foct hy otlklal survey. The average rain fall Is from ten to fifteen Inches. The maximum temperature Is about 59 fr. and the moan about 33. Wages: Ilcrdernf.W toflO ier month, buccaroos $10 to $75 iter month wood choppers $2 to $2.50 jer day. day laborers about $2 per day, bar tenders about $75 per month, carpen ters $3.20 per day, clerks $ 10 to $75 er month, brick layers $5 per day, stone masons $4 per day,, tenders $2.50 to $: per day. teachers $40 to$!K) per month, painters $3 to $3.50 per day. HoitsKs: Weighing from 1200 to I, 500 pounds, well broke, sell from ?75 to $150 each. Those weighing from 1000 to 120 pounds, broke team or farm horses, will sell from $10 to $50 each, and range or unbroken horses sell from $5 to $:10 per head. Cattle: In small mixed bunches will average about ?14 per head for everything marked and branded. Milk Cows: Selected, will bring from $35 to $50 per head. Sheep: When brought from the desert in April and May to lamb and be sheared, will sell we conjecture, for about $2.20 to $3 per head after sheared. Lim her: Delivered in Lakcvlew, $15 per M. for rough; dressed, $1$ to $2$ per M.; 4-Inch flooring, $35 per M.; shingles, $4 per M. Brick: Sell at $10 per M.. and are generally furnished and laid at $15 per if., other material, such as lime and sand being furnished tlie mason. Lime: Costs lg to 2 cents per pound. Stoxb CoAK:-None found near here. Charcoal: Costs 20 cts per bushel delivered. Bents: A two-room unfurnished dwelling that will sell from $400 to $700, rents from four to six dollars per month, and a house of four to nine looms that win sell from $Cto $2000, rents from $ to $15 per iqoath Bemoxocs Dksom ixxtuw. A re-1 he- Methodist. Baptist and Chris tain. The first owns itscbureband parson age valued ait $2000, the second owns a church- and parsonage valued at $2500. The Cbristain occupies the other churches almost at their omvk pleasure. The torn in j? seawo we b-ve reason $0 per doaen, and broilers from $3 to! to know a Ctholie Church will be ,nior thA Dosert Land Act. School UUMVi , . w ''land, there Is none vacant that is 'really desirable. As to what is deemed today real desirable farm 'land, especially near the town, being 'vacant, there is none. But, un improved farm lande can be bought tarrtm 3 to $12 per acre, while the im- -..rr.vertrwlll cost from $7 to $100 per acre, the quality of soil, improve ments, nearness to town, umuer iiiivantaees govern the price. Outlying these lands is the bill, (or a. the, Eastern people express it) m.mtRinouscountry,on which snow ' aiia fmm one to three feet during the winter, and when dissipated by ua. n m, wpather.af fords the natural iHm for the lower landB which otfr.ri snlendid rtasturage for the vast berds of stock that feed in the $3.90 per dozen. Butter k 20 cts. anJ 25 cts. per pound the year round. Notwithstanding the productive ness of the soil, the favorable clim atic conditions, and the large aere ageourfarmerseooM utilize, we know to a certainty that these prices will obtain until the next season's crop comes in. Yet witb these prices in evidence, our farmers and gardeners tell us it does aot pay to farm too far from market! or too far from rail road, etc. Thank fortune-that plea will soon be euded. for three rail-ways are tren ding this way aad we can pretty positively assert that we will have a rail-road from the south in less than two years. Lakeview, the county seat has a population of 800. It has an elect rie light, and water system, and 1 without doubt the llvest and best business town of its size in the state. It has two banks; the Bank of Lake lew, and the First National Bank, with Deposits above $.k!0,000, and a Capital Stock and Surplus fully pld of $220,000, making their total assetts about X of a million dollars. One ewelry store, one shoe store, one Ladles Outfitting store, two church es, two drug stores, one hardware store, one news paper, one tin shop, one agricultural and impllment store, one planing mill, two saddle and harness shops, six saloons, one brew ery, one variety store, two hotels, three eating houses, two livery and feed stables, one soda factory, one built Ci.nw: The Atbfrtlc, Base 1511, and Dance Oabs-. Ban w: Brass-and Striag. A Public L2rary and reading room and the W. C. T.. L, Ladies Aid So ciety etc., ete. Malaria: Wede. not know a Miasma lnfectedloca,lity ta the coanty FitnTfK Successfully grown bere are apples, pears, plaias, quiaees, prunes, cherries and peaches. BiatBiEs: Strawberries, black berries, gooseberries, raspberrbt and currants, dew berries lugan ete. VtojTA,t.KB:? Potatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, pwrsnlps, beets, squash, panpklikB, cucumbers, melons,, beans, radishes rhubarb, celery, In, short, nearly everything that can b grown ia a sub-tropical climate Tr matoe are grown in abundance in favored spots wlere they are it subjected to our early and late fronts. Yitaua Of Ckoi-b. Wheat, from 20 to 5C bushels per acre. Barley; from 40 to 90; Oats, from 20 to 100; Bye, from to 25, and as for potatoes, beets, cabbage, rutabagas, parsnips, carrots in short, all products of this character are grown In abundance and will admit of favorable compari son with like products grown in the Middle West States Fkuit: There may be more perfect and better flavored fruits and ber ries grown than those grown here, but we doubt it. ' Corn is grown here, and nearly every farmer and small gardener In some few favored localities, whore the soil Is warm, and more protected by ls'lng In sheltered nooks, there some raised for market, but tin general thing, It Is not a succcssbc cause of our cool nights. Pntll recently our (armors did not renllio that those sagebrush land would raise alfalfa without Irrlga tlou, and Just now It nocium to Ikj tho ambition of nil our farmers to put In nil the alfalfa they cau. Heretofore all land that showed alkali on the surface, was shunned by the farmer as plague spots fit for nothing, But experience, has proven that such lands nre not only well adapted to the growing of sugnr lsvts, but that continuous crops of (toots grown will absorb and render nugatoryor rather, absorb and dissipate the al kali In the soil more effectually than running water on any composlt yet known will. Not only that; It Is said that this alkaline condition enhances the sacharlne qunlltv of the Isn't as nothing else will. This being a fact, It requires no stretch of the Imagina tion to extcct the building up of n great Industry In this line In tho near future. We do not claim this to bo the tSarden of Kdon, but we do claim It Is productive, and a remarkably healthy country. Chills and fever are unknown, we experience neither ex cessive heat or cold, ami you can only know byexjtorlenee what hen In fill and Invigorating breezes fan this ozone-ladened mountain laud, mak ing It n haven of bliss toall those suf fering from that fell ailment, asthma. We drink tho purest, coldest and best water mat ever rerresiieii man, or heltted him wash down the potty dis appointments of his every day life We have no cyclones, no frightful and devastating thunder storms, or epidemic of Cholera, Yellow fever, etc. We have cheap lands, an abun dance of water for Irrigable purposes when projH-rly stored and redistribu ted os our Lake County Develojt- ment League is now making an ef fort to have done. We have tine for ests c pine and fir timber. It may be well to explain bere that our lakes and rivers are not skirted with tim ber as many would suppose, for on the hi)lnnd mountains only does It grow. We have good mail and tele graph (ucilities, we have Innumerable hot springs, we have salt nkines, gold ni'iBes, bonx and nitre deposits. We have a population of about 3000 and we bave room for many mure, but witb all1 the ail vantages thai are ob tainable here, it is no place- for the lonfrr, or those who are poverty stricken when they arrive ht-re and must live from hand to mouth until they mature a crop, but we do know that wecaa say to the man. of small means, the man of wealth- and the brainy man, the man fertile in expe dient and resources, we want you here and-can assure you that your mentality will 11 nd wide scope and no where on earth will you find people more appreciative of your ntorul and mental worth than here, none so willing to extend the glad hand of welcome to the meritorious home seeker, for we want that you should share with us the good thUtgs we an ticipate from our young and grow ing Industries and irrigation schemes and lust but not least, the wealth that so-recently Is iteing developed in our iulneral deposits these it is not our province to dwell ou, for we do not wish to be called a boomer or entbiiHiast and will simply say, come and see for yourself, and if you have any misgivings that we have over drawn one fact, and do not feel Justi fied in making the individual venture, delegate some representative mau of your community to investigate for yea a d oaten or mora of you could Ukj this at a small expense to th in dividual. The most unfavorable feature that presents itself to tho eye tf the stranger is the denuded appearance of the pasture lan Jh, for nowhere on earth have we ever known of ranges soexceesively and destructively pas tured as these have been, that will rehabilitate themselves in tbelr man tle of green so quickly as these do, if protected for one or two seasons, this alone is proof of an equable climate and productive soil. Tho fact is we hardly know the meaning of the word drougb, or failure of crops, neither have we known any country where the "early to bod and late to rise" class of farmer has reaped so abundant a reward for his grudg ingly ex tended labor. After all is rsald that is commend able of this locality there Is only one argument that can be advanced that will In anyway disparage what I have said in relation to the condition BUY THE (5; to! PjiiiirtPHiNE B!or You Purchai An Other Writ THI :W HOMI 8EWIN0 MACHINI COMPANY ORANOC, MASS. Many Sawing MaclilnM r rrtAda to ll raunr. Inttol quality, but Hit MKw IIwiiip" it niaU to waar. Our guaranty navar runt out. Wa malt Sawing Machlnat to tult all eonjillonl rf thatrada. Tha "Xe-w It ,' ram!i at th ha4 of all II la h-arnl family towing maclilnaa Mold by authorised lrlvra ouly. The flew n.inta few inn Machine Co. nl'rH'ltl, IIIIIKCTOHY. I'rrlli'iil ThHliir IlimwvoU Vlro-lTenWlMit I lia. Vt. falrt.anii SwToiarjr of Slato Kl 1 1, it Html Si'Piatarjp of Trraatiry Loalln M. Hliaw SiTralarjr of War Win. It, 1 aft Atlnriii'jr (li'htiral. Wm. II, Moody I'oatmantor (Ifiu-ral lmi, II, f'orlnlynu Swrclarynl Navy... I'liaa, 1. Ilniiapnrto orelary Intorlnr K. A, IIIIi-Iii'im Ii rtwrt-lary of AgrliMiltur Janu-a W limn Scormarjf ol Comincrofl V. '. Mflialf flili-f Juailit M.'Ulll.i VV, roller alton War Hit. V, S, Ivnulon Cmiiinloloiirr W'. S. KlchanW V. H. I ami I iniiiiiUnliinrr TAT. (lovrrnof Or,,. K. liamlwrlaln Hti.rmo JtitlKf r. A. Moora Hwratary of Slam r. I. Iiunliar Traiirr , i h. M.x.ra WESTERN STAQE LINE OHlce at tho Mercantile Company's Store Lakeviow, Oregon. Attorney (Iritxral Snpt, I'll ll lo liiatrunllon. I'rtiitor I 'airy anil FimmI Com II. B. Snaora ,, ., Connriuiiirii , . A. M. ( raw lord J. II, A'krrniati ,,-J. It. Whitney ... J. W. Unit John M, ili.arln r. W . Ktilton Hlnger Herman . N. IIUamaoQ IITH JI'niCUL lIVTRIOT. Jndp-a m. I.. lienaon Joint Hanalor John A. l.ayeiH'k Hepreaentally Altnrnry. K K KL John I (Jood Stock Easy Coaches i. N. Walaon.. ('. V. Hul.tr r., Juilga Clerk Sheriff Trraaurer aaaeaaor School Hup .. Surveyor u s. i.an it orrtt ic. Nielner S, HluNih , , W. J. Moor . ..ReiiMrr . . Ki m lvar lai cot srry. II. Daly ,, A. W. M.nrlng . K. K. Itlnehart r. tt. AhUlrua W. t. Wet ... J. i). Wlllll . .. '. K. Moor Office at the niy Hotel, Oregon. lily. Ihii'.y front f-akeview to Illy, connect-1 'mml.lo,,er J Av".'!!! nil with l)ni(y Stage to tho railroad. u'k !" J. r. t'larkaou TOWN OK I.AKKVirW. V. I.. Hlielllag Mayor Harry llalh-yi It. I. Mallov i rt,iitii.iiti.tt J. w. Tucker ( J.S. Ulie ( W. H.HnliU-r ... a. nl.-r , A. Illi'hcr Tn-aaurvr CASEItniiR, - - Proprietor Illy, Oregon. bicycle repair shop, two black-smith raises enough for roaatlng-ears, and to be met with here, that is our late Northern Stage Line. LAKEVIEW-PAISLEY. A. W. BRIAN, Proprietor. Leaves Lakevtew nt ft a. in. every day but Sunday. Returning, leaves Paisley at G :30 a. in every day but Sunday. Paaacngvra' ara $ j. Hound trip OFFICE-Reynold Jk WlngaelJ'a. Ukevlaw lakeview Cigar Factory . A. Stoiikmac, I'rop. 7f: Maker of Havana and Domestic Cigars COl'XTRT OftniCK SOLICITKU Grre us a trial, ritore in the brick buildinir next door to I'ost A King a loea, Lakeview, Orejron. ED E HOTEL Mks. K. M. (iallaoiikk, Proprietor. TIMHI'.K t.Al UTI K I'nited Stales Ijtnd OMiee I.akoviovr, Oregon, Nov. IS, P.MS. Notleei hereby Ifivrn tliat in entiiil4AtH Midi the pro visions if tha Aft 'f June H, 7H71, en titled "An a t for lint Male of limU-r InmUin theStntea of ('alidirniii, Oretcnn, Xevmla an. I WaHliinuton Territory," n extended to all the Public ltnd Stales by act of AnKust i, Ibiracw It. ItimUp, of lakeview. eotintv 'f 1-nkc, atuto of ( trefoil, Iihn tlij tiny liloil in this ollii-e bin aworu a'atetnent No. for the purcltiiHt) of llm HV,'. of aec. No. 17 in toM-nnhip No. 117 S., riniK" No. 1'J East, w. in., ami will offer prHif to uliow that the land sought in more vnluuhlo for ita tiinrntr or atone tlnaa for attrlrul tural purpoMM, and toeatuhiiali bixcluiin to said land before Ite(iater and ilet-eiv-r at Lalteaiew, Oregon, on Friday, the 2tlth day of January, VMXi. Ho names as witneaaes : w. It. Ilernard, w. A. MaoaiiiKill, (iuo. Lynch, Wbi. .Mtt ulley, all of Ijikeview, Ort'Koti, Any an all ixraom eliiiniini adverse ly tlie abovo-ilem-ritiwd land are re quested to file their clairua in thia olTico on or Itefor aald 2lth day of Jan. ItMHI. 47-4 J. N. Walaon, lCeKiHtr. First CIaH AcconKxlations Bnilding Hag Been Enlarjrod To Accomodate a Largo Trade Dining Service Unexcelled... ORBOON ew pine chp:ek. A Chance- for Speculators. SCHOOL LAS D.2S0 seres of level unimproved agricultural land for sale clieap. Diaoription : KVV, H of N EH' and NWii. of KE, fceetion 10, J p., SJ a., K. Hi K. W. Al. This is a denirable pieve of land, located in Goose Lake valley and will make soaue man a good ranch - It you are thluklng'ot oraDlzIng a stock coispany see our ue-w sum pies of Wall Street engraved stock ccrtltt ates. tf A Guaranteed Cur for Piles, Itchinjt, blind, liloodUiic or Protrud iiifT Piles. IruKKisU refund money if PAZO OlSTMENT fa'Ja to cure any case, no matter of how long standing, in 0 to 14 tiays. 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