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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1906)
i i LAKE'S POSSIBILITIES. A Description County, It's Resources, etc. j Within the county Is h plateau trtrntt. nliopW. nt x suloona.one brow. r.nIK).I.vvf.lmttiJn-iul.rmln nvoT.v. variety store, two hotel, thousand Ave hundred square mile ; h roe ' tin Imiw-n, two livery and Innreii. which Isonllod lhe"lVort,,,fc,'1 stable, one soda factory, nm- ! tlilw I misnomer. It I simply h 1 bicycle replr "hop, two black-smith Of Lake level plain covered with liB,.,ruh!ll.twowKHBhopn,onoliirtHT l-iitiirp native grass, but not river or Uhop, two vegetable and fruit stand. . .. - i .. i stream of nuy ktnd running through lurniiure siore, nun iour pwrni j In nrswerto thehundrvds of lot tor received nt this of lice from pooplo nil over the lnited State concerning Lake county, we have decided to give the following fact. They route as near answering the questions as any Information we could give. The principal town of the county. " we will briefly mention ns item?, Lakeview, the county ent, Now rine Creek, at the Orcgou and Cali fornia state Hue, Paisley in the Che waucan valley on the Chewaucati river, Silver Lake, In the northern part of the county, Plush, in North H'nrnerand Ailel In South 11'nrner. There are 5.130,240 aero of land, classified a follows: Agricul tural and alfalfa land, 1.129,Gt7acrw; timber land, 1,124.&3 acre and grill ing land, 2.S7G.240 acres, of this 700,000 acre is nnsurveyed, 1,S01,.Vm) acres In reserve, 1,646,21)3 acres sur veyed and open to entry and locat ion, and 921,4.17 acres entered, show ing it to be a small empire in area. of which there has been only a small fraction over IS er cent of it taken op. Its altitude varies from 3500 to500 feet. The valley lands of Lake Couu ty are unsurpassed in fertility and productiveness, and grow large crops of wheat, oats, barley, rye, alfalfa and meadow grasses, while apples, peaches, 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 bead of horses and mules. Its in come for live stock, for this year a loDe, has been more than $300.00 per capita. Her merchants import goods annually from San Franscisco amounting to more than 5,000,000 pounds and her export of wool, a lone is about 2,500,000 pounds. Taxes: For the purpose of assess ment, all property is listed and as sessed 6y thelLssessor, at about one It, nevertheless, herder and va quoros will tell you that there are more water hole to be found on It than people rcalixc, and that many of them have dug for and found water in many place from four to six f-vt below the surface. A for dry, barren samlwaste. they are few and small In area, and generally speak ing, the soil I a rich, alluvial earth, which produces excellent pasturage, making, iu fact the stockgrowers but we doubt It. Corn I grown hero, nml nearly every farmer and small gardener raise enough for roast lug-car, and In some few favored locnlltlc, where the soil I warm, and more protected by Itolng In sheltered nook, then" I some raised for market, but nun inonhandlse store thnt carry from : general thing. It I not a success, be- $7iKX).00 to tliO.tXU.OO of a stock the year round. The U. S. Land Otllco Is located here. Five years since, the business portion of the town wa In ashe; now the same district I all built In brick Mores, valued at from .VHN00 to f 30,000.00 er building. Our school facilities we are proud of, eHclnlly In Lakovlow, we have a graded school that employes six teacher, winter paradise, became less snow I ud has nu attendance of 300 pupils fourth of its cash value, and upon falls there and stock winters better than they do In the valleys. Yet we do not advise the homowooker to go there yet it Is to far out, the isola tion would lie too great. Neverthe less, we realize that the time is not far distant when this same semi-arid locality will le made to blossom ns the rose, for It affords the most mag uiticlent fields on this side the moun tains for innumerable colonization schemes if properly equipped. I will say in connection with this subject I J will be glad to correspond with col ony promoters, and flatter myself I enn givt them much desirable Infor mation on the feasibility of develop ing the possibilities reform! to In this line, and I will le glad of an op portunity to co-operate with them. There Is yet some good vacant tlm ler lands which is being rapidly taken up There is also, some less desirable scattering tracts that may not be taken up for years. Our nearest shipping point Is Mad eline, the terminus of the Nevada- Cnlifornia-Oregon Railway, ninety five miles distant, consequently when our farmers or other producers have a surplus, the home dtiuand 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 attempt any great out-put, and the industry is neglected to that extent, that we sometimes pay ex orbitant prices for o fai 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 set aside each year by the County for School purposes, for every pupil In the County between the ages of four and twenty years. October 1, 1005, the County was out of debt, and had a surplus of ?19, 507.90 in the treasury. The assessment roll for 1905 will fdiow the lowest tax levy In compari 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 theprincipal In dustries, and has yielded the great est gain, with less labor than any other industry, tjenerally speaknig this is a broken, hilly country, yet not mountainous in the full sense of the word; iu short, its name "Lake County," express fully w hat it is. Jts many lake?, rivers and creeks, abound in fish; and these Mime lakes, rivers and creeks nearly all hare valleys and bottom lands bordering them, the soil of which is in most cases a rich alluvial loam, and is very productive. This class f laud does not require irrigation. Bordering on these valleys, is an up land or rolling sage-brush country, which Is Iu many instances quite level or miles, ami is reputed to be our most productive soil when so situated that it can be irrigated. .Much of this class of land is yet un claimed, and can be procured at government price, or else taken up under the Desert Land Act. School land, there Is none vacant that Is Teally desirable. As to what is deemed today real desirable farm land, especially near the town, being Vacant, there is none. But, un- Huiproved farm lands can be bought Trom $3 to $12 per acre, while the Im proved will cost from $7 to f 100 per acre, the quality of soil, Improve ments, nearness to town, timber and water advantages govern the price. Outlying these lands is the hill, (or as the Eastern people express it) mountaiuouscountry.on which snow falls from one to three feet during the winter, and when dissipated by the warm weather.affords the natural irrigation for the lower lands which afford splendid pasturage for the vast herds of stock that feed in the valleys until the snow is oft of the hills. ro- 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- sou we paid 6 cts. per pound for peaches, 3 cts. for cherries, 3 cts. for pears, 2 cts. for prunes, 2 cts. for plum s, 20 cts. per gallon for currents, CO cts. per gallon for straw lorries, 50 cts. per gallon for raspberries, 1 cts. Ier pound for crab apples. 3 cts. per pouud for peas, 2 cts. per pound for carrots, 1 cts. per pound for iteets, 4 cts. per pound for onions, 3 cts. per pound fortomatoes, 15 cts. iterdozen 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. jer pound for cabbage, 1 cts. per pound for wheat, fl.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, fier ton for hay, from ?4 to $5 per cord for wood. Poultry does well here, yet we pay from 15 cts. to 50 cts. jer dozen for eggs, (jrown chickens sell for $3 to 0 per dozen, and broilers from f 'i to 3.90 per dozen. Butter is 20 cts. and 25 cts. per pound the year round. Notwithstanding the productive ness of the soil, the favorable clim atic conditions, and the large aere ageourfarmerscould utilize, weknow to a certainty that these prices will obtain until the next seasons crop comes in. Yet with these prices in evidence, our farmers and gardeners tell us it does not pay to farm too far from market or too far froia rail road, etc. Thank fortune that plea will soon be ended, for three rail-ways are tren ding this way and 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 electric light, and water system, and is without doubt the llvest and best business town of its size in the state. It has two banks; the Bank of Lake view, and the First National Bank, with Deposits above $530,000, and a Capital Stock and Surplus fully paid of $220,000, making their total assetts about of a million dollars. One Jewelry 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 plunlug mill, two saddle and nine months in the year. During the winter coiisldernblo snow falls, Iu the mountains from 2 to ft f.-et deep, but In the valley from 2 to 12 Inches deep. But it does not as a general thing lay but a short time in the valleys; some win ters sleighs are not to Ik? soeu In the streets. Our altitude I 4S25foet by official survey. The average rain fall is from ten to fifteen Inches. The maximum temierature I about 59 fr. and the mean about 33. Wages: llerdorslW toflO per month, buccaroos flO to f"5 ter month wood choppers 2 to $2.50 r day, d:iy laborers about f 2 per day, bar tender about $75 per month, carpou-j ters $3.20 per day, clerks $10 to $75 per month, brick layers $5 jor day, stone masons $4 per day,, tender $2.50 to $3 ht day, teachers $40 to $110 per month, painters $3 to $3.50 per day. Horses: Weighing from 1200 to I, 500 pounds, well broke, sell from $75 to $150 each. Those weighing from 1000 to 1200 pounds, broke team or farm horses, will sell from $ 10 to $50 each, and range or unbroken horse sell from $5 to $30 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. Li'miier: Delivered in Lakeview, $15 per M. for rough; dressed, $1S to $2S per M.; 4-lnch flooring, $35 jterM.; shingles, $4 per M. Brick: Sell at $10 per M., and are generally furnished and laid at $15 per M., other material, such as lime and sand being f urn in lied the mason. Lime: Costs 1 to 2 cents er pound. Sto.se CoAi.:-None found near here. Chaim oal: Costs 20 cts per bushel delivered. SEWIHpilNE oi rit iniKTonv, I'roliliMit TlifMxIurft IIihiiwvi'II Vli'M-l'rolilMil ( Iim. M. rlrlnkt Pofor You Purchot An OtW Writ the a:w homi sewino machine cqiyipant SntNDI, MASS. Vurf Swlriff MchlnM kr rtiAtt.lon.il rnpur. ! tirl Quality, but th " nvw Hum" it mailt o wnar. Our giminly nv,r runt out. W, fiAk. Stwmif k'i:.hlr'.r In lull Mil ennd.tlnnfl t t'm'lraJii. Ttit "rw llnm ,!.! at tht Mia J rf r'l H lali-ttrmlc f.i.nl y tnwlng mactiinat Nitld I-y Miillinrl4ril dewier only, ll ( mt The rue fi.mo Mewing Machine Co. Ollico at the Mercantile Company's Store Lakeview, Oregon. tlooj Stock - Hasy Coaches cause; of our cool night. 1 nt II recently our fanners did not realize that these sagebrush land would raise alfalfa without Irriga tion, and just now it seems to la the ambition of nil our farmers to put In all the alfalfa they can. Heretofore, all land that allowed alknll on the surface, wa shunned by the farmer a plague spots fit for nothing. Out experience has proven that such land ant not only well adapted to the growing of sugar boots, but that continuous crop of lMits grown will absorb and render nugatory-or VVF-STPDM CTAnP I 1N1H rather, absorb and dissipate the'al-i Vt-S 1 LKIi & 1 AUU L,NL kali In the soil more effectually than running water or any compost yet known will. Not only that; It I said that this alkaline condition enhances the sachnrlue qualltv of the lset ns nothing else will. ThUWiug a fact, It requires no stretch of the Imagina tion to exoct the building up of iv great Industry In this line In the near future. We do not claim this to be the (iarden of Kdou, but we do claim )t Is productive, and a remarkably healthy country. Chills and fever are unknown, we exjKrlenee neither ex cessive heat or cold, and you can only know by oxjer!once what heath- j ful and Invigorating breezes fan this j ozone-ladened mountain land, mak ing It a ha veu of bliss to all those suf fering from that fell ailment, asthma. We drink the purest, coldest and Is-st I water that ever refreshed man, or helped him wash down the petty dls- appointments of his every day life. We have no cyclone, no frightful ; office-Rurnotd winiifloij. Ua Swri'tarjr of statu Scmetarjr of 1 ri'anurjr. Swrrtary of War Attorney Oi'iirral I'itmti'f Oi'iM'ral... Km riMary ( Navjr wrBlarjr Interior, . . , Kllhti Itnu I Ho M. Shaw Win. II. Tan Will. II. Mcmity , . Uim, It, ('urti'l)oil . .t'haa. J, lliinaiart ... K. A. IIIK'liniM'k Secretary of Aarli ullnro Jann'a W llaori Swri'lnry nl Cuiiiinrrt u V. ('. Mi'li alf C'hM Ju.tlc. Mi'lvlll W. t'lilli r Vcallini WartH'r, 1', S. IVnalmi ('oiiiiiill)iiiir W.S. KloliariU It. H. Unl iiiiiiiilxlutM'r rrAta. tliivvrnnr llMt. t , CliaiiilHrlaln Hiipri'ina JihIkp K. A. Mxr twriMarjr of Slain K, I. Imnliar TrraauriT V. H, Mmir Attnriiry (Iviinral. . Hiipt. I'ulillo Inatrurtlnn. Printer fialry ami CchmI Com U.S. Srnamra ('oniiri-aaniKii . . A. U. t'rawfnri J. II . Arki'rman ...J. II. Whinn y .,. J. W. Ilal'o I John M. ilrarln ( ('. W . Kulioii 1 lliMiir llpriiiati IJ. N.MIlllamaou HIITM JfliUUL lilaTHIlT. Juili , II. I.. Mi'mutl Joint Swnatnr John A. I ayriH-k Hi'preaxntatlvi'a. . Attorney !lt K I.. Slelner Jlltlll S, MMHlk Dni!y from Lakeview to Illy, connect ing with Daily stnue to the railroad. Offlco at t!i niy Hotel, ly. Oregon. W. J. Moor r s. i.ami om K. J. N.WatMin ..KiiIHr t". t'. Stii.ler It a 'Ivrr UK OirXTY. Jinla-n , Clerk sherllf Treasurer laaeaaor, St'liiMil Slip! Surveyor Coiuiiiluloiiera J H. Hal A. W. M.nrlh . R. K. Kliieharl K. O. AbUtrom W. It. Weal ... J.Q. Wllllta . . .. t'. K. MiHir W A. furrier C. W. !. nt Htoek InaiMM'lor J. V. I lark! TOWN OK I.AKKS IKW. v. I.. Snelllni .Mayor Harry Halliyl l. I'. Malloy J. w. Tueker J.S. Une I W. II. Huller .. E. CASLUIinR, - - Proprietor! "''-r... I My, Oregon. Couni'llinen Iteroriter . , . Tn aaurtr Northern Stage Line. LAKEVICW -PAISLEY. A. W. BRYAN. Proprietor. leaves Lakeview at G a. in. every day but Sunday. J'eturiiing, leaves Paisley at 0 :30 a. in every day but Sundnv. ay Roun4 I and devastating thunder storms, or I epidemics of Cholera, Yellow fever, I etc. We have cheap lands, an abun-1 LaKcVlElV LI3T r 3CT0 Tf dance of water for Irrigable purpose when properly stored and redistribu ted as our Lake County Develop ment league Is now making an ef fort to have done. We have tine for ests of pine and fir tluitM-r. it may lo well to explain bore that our lakes and livers are not skirted with tim ber as many would suppose, for on the hills and mountains only does It grow. We have good mail and tele graph facilities, we have Innumerable hot springs, we have salt mines, gold mines, Itorax and nitre deisxits. We have a population of about 3000 and we have room fr many more, but! with all the advantages that are olt tainable lure, it is no place for the loafer, or those who are poverty stricken when they arrive here and muttt live from hand to mouth until A. Stokkman, Prop. :f Maker of Havana and Domestic Cigars COC.fTaV OKMKKS BOLICITKD fiire us a trial. Store in the brick building next door to Post tit King sa loon, Lakeview, Oregon. EDE HOTEL Silts. H. M. Gallaciikb, Proprietor. timhkk M orn r. Utiilod Statea Ijiud. Olllcti Ikeviow, Ore'in, Nov. 1't, J'M'i. Notice I hereby diven that in compliance w lilt the pro vision of the Act of Juno .1, tn- I tilled "An art for the ulo of tiniU-r lamia in the Slates of California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington Territory," a ex tended to all tbo Public Iittd Statel by act of August , f'.C, lloraco K. Dunlup, of lakeview, county of 1-ake, utate of Oregon, Ima t bin day filed in this olllce liia awortt a'ati-ment No. 1MHVI, karlov 1 ' ' ""'''P S rango No. 19 Kant, w. 111., and will oiler proo! to allow that the land sought is more valuablo for itt tiinls-r or slotin than for agrlcub tural purpoHns, and loenUMinli hiacluiin to said land beforn ICegister and Keceiv er at lakeview, Oregon, on Friday, the i:ilh day of Jatiuury, pMHi. He namea aawitnesMfs: w. K. iSernard, w. A. Masaingill, Ooo. Lynch, Win. McCulley, all of Lakeview, Oregon. Any and all iteraona claiming ad versa I ly the Ikvo ileccrilH-il lamia are re I ipiesteil to tile their claims in this office I on or before said -tHh tiny of Jan. I'.MKl. 47-4 J. N. Watson, llegister. Rents: A two-room unfurnished j they mature a crop, but we do know dwelling that will sell from $100 to that we can say to the man of small ?. 00, rente from four to six dollars ( means, the man of wealth and the per month, and a house of four to brainy man, the man fertile in expe- nine looms that will sell from p00 to Uieut and resources, wo want you 12000, rents from $8 to 1." per month. I j,t.re anj Can assure you that your ItEi.ioioL Denominations: Arethe, mentality will lUtd wide scope and uth Methodist, Baptist anU tlirlstain. ( where on earth will you find people First Class Accomodations Building Has lieen Enlarged To Accomodate a Large Trad Dining Service Unexcelled... aSh NEW PINE CKEEK, - - OK EGOS A Guaranteed Cure for Plies. Itching, Wind, llleeding or Protrud ing Piles. Druggista refund money if PAKO OINTMENT laila to cure any case, no matter of how long ntanding, in 6 to 14 days. - First application gives lease and rest, faJc. 11 your druggist liann't it send oOc in atnriips nm it will lie forwanlitl jsmt paid by Paris .Mod el 1 Co. , St Imis. Mo. I The Wall street line of engraved j certificates of .Vtock and llond blanks at the Examiner ollico. New sample .'hook received Monday evening. It j you want stock certificates see our s iii;tli"4 uu 1 g-t our prlcj. tf The first owns Its church and parson age valued at $2000, the second owns a church and parsonage valued at tl'oiK). The Chrlstaia occupies the other churches almost at their own pleasure. The coming season we have reason to know a Catholic Church will be built. Cllus: The Athletic, Base Ba.ll, and Dance Clubs. Banow: Brass and String. A Public Library and reading loom and the W. C. T. L, Ladies Aid So ciety etc., etc. Malaria: We do not know of a Miasma Infected locality in thecounty FuiiTt: .Successfully grown here are apples, itears, plums, quinces, prunes, cherries and peaches. Bkkiaijjs: Strawberries, black berries, gooseberries, raspberries and currants, dew berries logan etc. Veuetaiillb: Potatoes, onions, cabbage, carrots, parsnips, beets, squash, puiipkins, cucumbers, melons, beans, radishes, rhubarb, celery, in short, nearly everything that can be grown In a sub-tropical climate To matoes are grown In abundance In favored spots where they are not subjected to our early and late frosts. Yield Or Cuoin. Wheat, from 20 to 5C bushels per acre. Barley; from 40 to 00; Oats, from 20 to 100; Itye, from 9 to 25, and a for potatoes, beets, cabbage, rutabagas, parsnips, carrots iu short, all products of this character are grown In abundance and will admit of favorable comparl son with like products grown In the Middle West States Fbuit: There may bo more perfect and better flavored fruits and ber rles grown than those grown here, more appreciative of your moral 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 things we an ticipate from our young and grow Ing industries and Irrigation schemes and last but not least,, the wealth that so receutly id Iteingdevelopod in our mineral deposits these It is not our province to dwell on, for we do not wish tcl3 called a boonntr or enthusiast and will simply say, eome and see for yourself, and It you have any misgivings that we have over drawn, one fact, and do not feel justi fied in iauking the Individual venture, delegate some representative man of your community to investigate for you; a dozen or more of you could do this at a small expense to the Individual. The most unfavorable feature that presents itself to the eye of tlw stranger is the denuded appearance of the pasture lands, tor nowhere on earth have we ever known of ranges so excessively and destructively pas tured as these have been, that will rehabilitate themselves in tbelr man tle of green so quickly as these do, it protected for one or two seasons, this alone is proof of an equable climate and productive soil. The fact is we hardly know the meaning of the word drough, or failure of crops, neither have we known any country where the "early to bed and late to rise" class of farmer has reaped so abundant a reward for his grudg ingly expended labor. After all la said that Is commend able of this locality there Is only one argument that can be advanced that A Chance for Speculators. SCHOOL LAND. 2H0 acres of level' 11 III in nrnvi.il Ofrinntlllrul lun.l f..v .ulu I cheap. Discription : BW)4', Si of NEW and NWj of SE, hwrtion It), Tp.,39 S., K. 19 K. W. Si. 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