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VOL. XXX
LAKKVIKW, LA K K COUNTY, OltKCiON, THURSDAY, FEHUITAKY 18, 1909.
NO. 7
GOOD IDEA
ON LAND LAW a
strons Board oi i rase Has
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Move Made to Change
the Desert Land Act
on New Lines
WANT T0DRY FARM"
Such Change Would Make
Eastern and Southern Ore
gon Region of Plenty
Tbe li suggested by the Burns
Commercial Club for tint amendment
of Desert Lund Act will attract wlda
attention, aud tbe more It U studied
and investigated the mora favorable
will bt IU consideration.
Tbe original design of tba home
stead law waa all rliiht, but even iu
tb noit favored localities It baa
oarer fold Hud Ita intent the taklugof
permanent homes by tba flrat settlers
oo tba publlo domain , yet regardless
of Ita failure, tbera la a sentiment
back of the bonieatead law that will
prevent any radical alteration of It
while there la la "free" land and a
daaira to procure oie of It.
Tba amenJmeonl of tba Desert Law
proposed by the Bums Commercial
(Hud will, however, answer a'.l the
purpoeea that could ls served by
changing tbe homestead law aud will
do wore. If aecotutillshed. for tbe
development of smil-arld regions than
any system of public laud law ever
suggested. Tbe proposed amendment
la simple and eavl-y understood. Tbe
present Dhert l.mtil Law provides
tbat reclamation iniiHt be accomplish
ed by briugiug wntur upon tbe laud
for irrigation aud that production of
crops ojunt be as a result of such Irrl
gutiou. It la proposed In the amend
uiont to give tbe entrymau tlie option
of reclaiming the lund e ther by bring
ing water on It, or by a system of
"Dry farming.' and that Lie right to
patent be predicate! upou actual
"roduetlou In u specified amount and
The Department of
Agriculture to Benefit
Our Farm Interests
Much of tbo practicnl work being
douo In the wt by the various bur
eaus of ttiii Department of Agriculture
will bo coutinuud if the iiwlcoltiinil
appropriation bill ptuaos iu hiiIihImii
tlully tho form Iu which it wan report
ed by tlio house committee. There
Memim little doubt that all thitm itcma
will he retained, and it is potmitile
thut some inny be incrt-imcd bittorit the
bill lit dually Htfiood upon by bu'h
houses.
At the prexcut time ono of tho moflt
Important work)) 1h the cMtiiliihiiiciil
aud iiiuluteuitiiyu of experiment I'm ma
on en.rh of the big government ml
Kutlcui projcetM. It is th- policy of
i he KtcliuuHtiou Hcrvii e to svt nttide
a tract of "0 to. 4' Hcres on enoh luo-
jiuit for cxpuruiirtiltKl fiirm purini:ics,
uud tho i l.'purt men t of Aki lnnl turo(
in no'ijunct inn Nvith Ht ut o iiurlculliiriil
ulew or exporliiiont utlttioMH, tlierii
iindertHkc. the growing of various
cropa Ut determine which urn liet
adupted to the. renpoctlvo projects.
T'luiae farms ur not only proving val
uable iu iti ling the new settlers in
Helucting tlie lient, crops but lire also
valuable lis oliject lesKsoiia iu the
hppllcnUou of water to the land.
Alany o" tlin sottlora on (loveriuiient
projwta Imvo nvr before undertaken
to farm by irrigutiou, uud without
this iiSKlHtnin'C would NUHtalu tilinec
ssary losses during their llrst years
uudur ditches.
Another iinpottttot work for which
'$.'11,700 Is nppropriatcd, is the c.xperl
inentiiig wlh drv farm pnici sseH, mid
with crops ouppoHcd to lie adnpted to
this purticiilar form of agriculture.
Dry l'Hriiiing in the West is slill in its
lulancy, mid t he Department with the
funds provided hopes to continue lis
Investigations which are conducted
solely for the benefit ot funnels w ho
have or expect to report to dry farm
ing methods,
For a number of years the Depart
ment has been making a widespread
aud sytematiu btudy both of Irrigat ion
More Paper
For Central Oregon
Two more railroads tbreateu to cross
Central Oregou, One of these Is un
electric road spuusered by the Port
laud, Baker City k Butte Llectrlo
rallrond company, which tiled incor
poration papers in Multnomah county
last week capitalized at '2,000, 000.
which says will equip aud operate "a
railroad with either steam or electrlo
motive power betweeu Portland and
Butte. Mont., running southeasterly
n through Claokamas oounty to theoou-
nuenoe oi Trout oreeu who uk ies-
of a specified area, tbua insuring tbe
beat poniilblA agricultural results In
each instance.
It does not require deep study or
abatruaa reasoning to discover tbe
inerlti of the proponed change for a
country like interior Oregon. Here
tbere are large arena that can !e re
claimed by an Intelligent system of
cultivation under tbe dry farming
process, but upon wbicb water cannot
te brought without toomucb expeuse,
consequently tbere la no encourage
ment at preeent for peraona to attempt
reclamation under the existing Desert
Act, and real reclamation under tbe
bnmeatead law la scarcely ever accom
plished, (life ua tbe amendment of
tbe Desert Laud I .aw as asekd for In
tbla bill and In a few years the arid
land of Interior Oregon will be pro
ducing cropa that will surprise tbe
country.
GERMAN MAIDENS
INVADING OREGON
NKW YORK, Feb. 0,-Four hundred
(ierman maidens from Wurtemburg
arrived bere today on tbe (jraf Wal
dnraet, en route to Oregon to find
husbanda. Tbe attention of tbe Uer
iiihu girls was ilruwu to Oregon by
Mrs. Freida Wiaidburg, wife of an
Oregon shepnerdur, wbo is reported
as rexpou-illjle for the Immigration of
the girls
A gentleman, writing from Hunt
ington, Oregon, up in the wheat
country, iu linker County, writes
that 3T people tbere are itterefed in
Lakeview and many of them will
arrive bere iu tbe spring.
aud draiuage methods, with a view to
determining in the one lustauce the
amount of watur neussary in vutious
localities for different crops, uud
proper methods of applying wutcr - to
the land, and in the other instance has
undertaken experiments to determine
the best methods not only of draiulug
Irrigated lands whore sub-irrlgntlou
has licguu to ruin the land, but ah-o
the draining of valley landa iu arable
ri'jjlous, wburo there is too uiuch
lutout moisture In the sol!. For irri
gallon experiments 5.iXX) Is allotted,
aud for drainage 31.100.
In. line with this work. &I7..VH) will
be 'Spout in studying altluli and
drought resisting crops, in nil putts
yf thv west then.' is teavy demand for
such crops, Hml tho Department feels
con Udcii t. iu tiino. that it w ill tio able
to import or otherwise, produce pecu
liar crops that can vucceshfully tie
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grow u in ci i nun pans oi mo 'ii,Hni,ni,. ru.,.oi.u
nun are noi now cuiuvuie.i.eiiuer ne- j
cause of lack of water, or because of ,
rue preneu:ti or loo mucn uiaa i iu me
soil. Kleps In this direction have
been made already, but the work Is far
from complete.
Although the Department has devot
ed much tdudy to the beet Miuar in
dustry there is yet much to bo learn
ed about tho iinprovemet of the suar
licet Iu many section of the West,
a'td the bill carries f'it.DOO lor coiitln-
ueing work with sugar pnduciug
points (meaning caiiM ns well lis beets). I
Y hi Iti it is true tlmt a letter guide of
beets' uie being groAn today than
when the beet sugar industry tturted
there Is much room for improvement,
and this money will be expended
largely in experiments with sugur
beets uud then culture.
( )t her em nil appropriations for the
llurcaii o!' Animal Industry, liuieuu
of Plant Industry, good road work,
eta , w ill all be of more or less benefit
to the West, but the items enumerated
are largely mid almost entirely of
interest to the country beyond the
Mississippi Vull '.
Railroads
chutes river thence east aud north
easterly to Burnt Ranch in Wheeler
county, aud from there to Baker City
aud from Baker City the railroad will
cross Idaho ruunlug in a northeasterly
dreotion to Butte which will be the
eastern terminus of the road."
Tbe other road is one built jointly
by the states of Idaho and Oregon
with Btate aid from Coos Buy through
Central Oregou to Boise, Idaho, as
proposed by the Idaho Oregon Dev
elopment Congress wblob was in sees
ion at Balem during tbe past week.
Organized in Lakeview
Lake County Will Nov
Command Attention
Tbe Lakeview Doard fo Trde was
organized Ftiday evening afa meet
ing beld in Poet A King's Hall.
Tbe meeting waa most enthusiastic
and well attended, Lakeview cltlzeua
generally recognizing tbe need of each
an organization, sod the great food
that can be accmplished. Tbe niem
Itersbip to dule is 61, tb entrance fee
being S'i5 and tbe monthly dues 91
per month. Permanent quarters bare
been arranged for, and later on an ex
hibit of the farm, fruit, mineral and
other products of tbe county will be
maintained. At pre-tent the prin
cipal work will be to answer the num
erous enquiries pouring luto Lake
view and getting out suitable liter-
One thliiK already demonstrated
by thlic orKHnlxiitlon In that In nn
emi'wncy quick nctlon can Im had,
If neccHaary For Inatance a bill lit
n ow Is'fort" the Oregon leg-Klntur
euliiultt Ing; a constituiloiiHl mend
inent g;rantinic the iitiple the rljfht
to vote upon the question of the
State litilldini; iindownliitr nillr..ala.
It la the rvHiilt "I a move nn the part
the Portlaud ChniiiUT of Commerce
to oM-n Knstern tlrt-on to the trade
of that city.
In spite of neatcd promlH thle
man llsrrlnmn apparently evini'CH iio
disposition to coiiHtruct hie projects)
line lino the eiiNtern pnrt of the
Slat'. A trfliieiKloiift ruIi of peo
ple here is iioiv iiiilnent and ther. Is
urt'iit and IniniedUte rifd of fall
road communication. Iu view of
this cxaript-ratlng condition main
tained by till diar-ln-tlit'-maneer
p-dicy of thin over lord, the path-uce
of Ort-tron s ople is exhausu-d an i
matters have conn to mch a pawn
that his dlllv-dally policy must cease
I and he must either fish or cut bait.
I The H-oplc- of thin eection purpose
(oleratiog; t bin condl'.ion only uuiler
: compulsion; or that reason win i.-
a unit Iu simoort of any move or
legislation ihnt will place Lakeview
and other parts of Knstrn Oregon
on the railroad map of the country.
Therefore, in harmony with Its
purpose for organization, the Lake-1 make the coutractoi round shouldered
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tho following to t Ii e
Chamber of Commerce. In
Portland
order toj
Northern End of the
County
I'. Mi Cooper, of mi.r LhU?- WMi
i iu town SUVeral tints Irtst woeh. "io 'iik
of tuo uuo
ljlHey ncre rr lllriltL
wui,(( h(jre ,)u culM QU
l'he -Kxaui-
iuer aud we foun t him well posted on
j the resources and productions of the
i noi thern end of the county. He is
vefy GtULiusiastie over the prospects
up there, and inasmuch as he has had
experience iu lOasteru Washington he
.; .,1m., . . . ..
is in a position to draw conclusions
that should carry weight.
lie says tbat section is bouud to
produce abundant crops of cereals so
aoou as transpoi tatlou facilities are
realized. With koowledg gained
from actual experience lu growing
wheat, barley, rye and all kinds of
tbe fluest vegetables, be is going to
take up a desert claim, aud await
railroad development, rail sowing
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in tbe East,
Tbe following officers were elected :
President, W. H. Sbirk; Treasurer,
F. M Miller; Secretsry, M. B. Rice;
In addition to tbe above 6 vice-presidents
to act as chairmen f tbe fallow
ing committees consisting of members
nch at follows:
Finance, L. F. Conn; Industrial
conditions and Transportation C.
it. neagar; ruunciiy. vm. r. raine;i
Agriculture. 8. V Rebart; Stock!
ioterests, W. P. fleryford ; Municipal
Affairs. II .W. Drenkel.
It U expected tbat tbe membership
will reach a total of 75, which la sure
ly a cred'.able showing, for m town of
1500 population.
let the Stat"- know how ve stand
on the matter:
" The Lakeview Hoard of Trade
" brnrtily approves of jour move for
" State aid for railways for Eastern
" Oregn. You can coant on uh for
" active support of that meaaure."
There ran be no queetlou that the
right of the people In tola matter Is
paramount, and If this legislature re
fuHH to net upon thin matter, or sub
mits a delayed or emasculated prop -
osltlon to tile people, they should be
subjected t. Immedl.ite recall. The
people of Eastern Oregon are terri
bly In earnest In this effort, and look
to this 'eglslature to relieve them
from this exasperating and needless
enforced thralldom of Inactive and
railroad maguates.
If milted In earnest effort, the is?o-
pit of this Mate can make even a
liarriuiHii bow to their will !
PREACHER WILL
SHOW SOMEBODY
Rev. I. C. Parker, the bustling
Methodist minister has been building
a house on is homestead near town,
lie says he has a contract to raise
potatoes at 4 cents a pound aud be
that will
Iieves he can raise a crop
I the potatoes. The Examiner wishes
hini success with his ,f8puds."
is All Right
dues the best up there, aud isj an
absolute guaiautee of securing g'ood
ci ons. F.xperimetit in both fall aud
spring lOrtTaif of fre'n i7 uin
stnited tlmt. h'-at results ure Obtained
irom tuii sowing. .'- .i-
One btrong item iu favor of
favor of tlmt i '
couotrv is the km.sx with u hii-ti tvator '
is oniained lu wells. Most of the
wells are of a depth of from 15 to ;i0
feet. OooJ water in every case beiug
n.; in.-!i t t..
JV ' li. -i im -
rivHVf i-t
secured. Tbe extremes in tbe depth
of wells being tbe vase of Mr. Fox,
north of Fort Rook wbo bad to dig
130 feet, but got a supply tbat can not
he pumped out and tbat of Mr. Beas
ley, south of Fort Rock wbo got an
inexhaustsble supply at a depth of 4
feet He believes it only a questiou
of drilling to secure a big flow of
artesian water in that section.
With regard to fruit be says but
a to re for circulation
and Northwest.
little baa been grown op there, as
! yet and bearing orchards being con
' fined to sections sheltered by timber
belt.
1 The best farming lands tbere
! are valley lands xme of wbicb are
I irrigated, but tbat is of liimted ex-
teut. Tbe real hope of tbat section
fioui an agricultural standpoint is tbe
i sage brush plains, that have not failed
' in single instance to make good
I wben subjected to tbe actual test of
; farming.
j There are still thousand of acrea Of
good sovernment landa tbtre, bat
' new e;tt era are coming in every day
, and one of these days tbe frte land of
! Lake county, now bo plentiful, will be
' a thing of tbe past
1 Mr. Cooper proposes getting his
' share now while be can get first
choice, and others can profit by bis
i example.
TRUTHS OF THE COUNTY
It is a strange thing bow much mis
conception ia manifested among tbe
correspondents of this paper aa to tbe
nature of Lake county and ita produc
tions. Some evidently imagine the country
to be one vast orchard, all ready for
them to come and take possession of
at once, with no preliminary of years
of preparation in clearing tbe ground
of brush, and tilling tbe same for
several years while awaiting tbe oicb
ard to come into bearing. Tbe fact of
tbe matter is tbat ail of Lake county
is oot orchard land, while some por
tions of it ia tbe beet fruit land to be
, found in tbe
Pacific Northwest, now
famous the world over for ita abund
ant and superior fruit- production.
Tbe United States Land Oftce. for
instance, and naturally conservative,
baa furnished figures of the rai-ant
government lands iu Lake county,
and names 2,411 500 acres. This
amount is eub-divided as follows:
Three-tenths timber lands, three-
tenths grazing lands. three-tenths
agricultural lands, and , oae-tenth
mountainous.
Obioasly. under such classification,
even those of tbe most obtuse turn of
j mind, must conclude "tbat there is a
; wide ranue for a diversity of interests,
'and room for all wbo care to avail
j themselves of present opportunities,
j in almost any line of effort for wbicb
I they are best fitted, or to which their
! personal tastes lead.
1 Iu tbo matter of timber, the oppor
tunity is closed. Timber claims are
jail takeu. excepts few isolated tracts.
! Dere 811,1 there, of minor importance, j
UUJK ' lne magnmcieui iore8
, of t he cou uty are no w mostly in the
hands of incorporated interests, or I
are thanks to President Roosevelt- i
i within the confines of the Ifoeet I
I Reserves, which are leased annually .
j to stockmen, nad are stocked now toj
lueir iuii cnj'Hcy-
I .T15 fcnV.mg lands Consist roaiDly
' of f0cl hill arid the tops of bald
' IiiOtiiituitiH wbicb affords excellent
1 grazing during tbe summer months,
j aud the sajje brU plaius. of lower
'altitudes, that afford a Vert good
Huter ratine, there beiug but little
i enow and much raiu iu winter time
; in such sections, which causes the
; vuuen ana ntnC raS;y sraoifS to
,Ln ..Tr
sprout, afToiding etoc
tlie unjuus of subsistence with but
iu ia ii auv
! icJU..'-''liit.Ol fof fothr Of (
Mucn of this liaii; low
any sort.
' u""le" exclusively 10 grazing, judg-;
i ,UK irom experience gained elsewnere :
io.u 6IW)111; 1mUi19 au.d similar coudi- j
wvub, nut ricuiumij ot-come great ,
cereal proneers ; und it may be they
will also after cropping become vulu
i able for the hardier of fruits. The
j lauds classed as agricultural lauds
j cousist of valley lauds. Aud, as is
j the case everwyLsre there is no uni
formity iu the character of such
j lands. Some of tbe lauds possess
rich, black muck soil, others a gravel-
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. aiid ii(urii.iti su.ia aiu ajjauiu ui 'iu !
duciug, aud do produce a vast variety :
of crops.
j Much of t-uch valley laud s natural
meadow, an i in oousequence of the !
I great distance to markets, have been'
used .for bay meadows, for use of'
I stock that coul i carry It sell to mar
I ket.
lu fact ttockgrowiug. up to the
present time, has been the main
dependence ot the county, and grain
growing bas been a help to tbat inter
est . aud but been cousumed locally.
b.ven tbe Hour cousumed by tbe resi
io roue i
f th. l,o h.nlnJ
in bere from distant markets, uutil Jauu'8ueh greatly desired aid iu inuk
H,tt nuat rr .i.on . H.,r .iii -ua 1 1"K tni reglou one of the beet iu the
built iu Lakveiew, aud from grain
grown in this valley is producing tbe
finest quality of noi.r.
Tbe same may be said of fruit grow
lug. All through the oouutry, where
ver a stockman has a permanent habi
tation he baa set out a variety of
truit trees for bis own use. In every
Instanoe they bave proved a success,
and usually bear more or less fruit of
a supeiior quality. Last year was an
exception, aud late frosts, tbe same
as waa tbe case in Sacramento, Han
Jose and Loa Angeles, at tbe same
time, out tbe crop down to a mini
mum, and in soma Instances waa a
Contracts for the Next
Clip Freely Made in
Northern Sections
GOOD PRICESARE PAID
Purchases Said Lo be Entirely
on Speculative Account
on Strong Demand .
The Oregonlao of tbe 10th Inst says
wool speculators bare made an early
start this year ia baying op wool oa
tbe sbeepe' backs. Tbere baa been
some contracting ia Oregjn, but not
as much as in Utah, Idaho and Mon
tana. Tbe total amount contracted
for in tbe West to date is placed
rongbly at 30,000,000 pounds, and it
is generally believed tbat one third of
tbe crop will be under contract in
tbe largest growing sections by tbe
time shearing begins.
Ail the contracting in Oregon so
far this season has been in Baker
County. Tbe buyer was Charles II.
Green, of Koshlnda k Co., of Boston.
It is not known just bow much Mr.
(Jreen has bought, but it ia thought
be has written op half tbe yield of the
county. Tbe price paid by Mr. Ureen
for Baker county waa 16 cents. Last
year these wools sold from 12 to 14
cents.
In Idaho tbe contracting started
from 16 to 17 cents. The latest sales
have averaged about 18 cents. Nearly
all tbe wools In tbe triangle section
have been taken. In Utah it is esti
mated tbat 70 per cent of the c ip has
been sold. In Montana, one sixth of
tbe state's clip, or 6,000,000 pounds,
is reported to have been secured by
Boston buyers at from 19 to 21 cents.
Around Big Timber, Bili nga, and
Lewlston, in tbat state, there baa
been contracting at 19 and 20 cents
and occasionally at 21 cents. Tbe
growers of Montna, however, have now
raised their viewa and there bas been
some subsidence in tbe contracting
movement.
Wool dealers bere declare that this
forward buying is purely speculative
and that it ia not intended to have
any effect on tbe Chicago vooling
plan. Tbey have acknowledged that
tbe prices tbat have been paid are
above wool values now current, but
they believe tbat tbe course of the
later market will justify these prices.
Tbe wools recently bought bave ran
to medium grades and very light
shrinkage.
The speculators base their hope of
comiug improvement in the market
largely on the fact tbat dealers' stocks .
in the East are bo closely cleaned up.
Tbe latest mail advices from Boston
(indicate that the values are nrm on
j 6pot w c Ja. One of the features of
the iiostau market in tbe last week
was tt tale of 250, 0u0 pounds of.
staple 0. rjou wool on a scoured Lasia
of C3 eea. although tJiQ rade was
f sported, as glj plcaijed ujj some tim
total loss, while in other places iu this
valley a good crop of flue fruit was
obtained, notably tbe case In the
t-esntnan orchard'aouth of Lakeview1
the same at Summer Luke ami also
in tbe Uriles orctltU'd at pavia .Creek,
at tbe lower eud of tLe valley, la
California. The crop of apples, cber-
riei' sprh'ols pears, and peajL"' was
I .,1uu;:Pt lu WU7 that after the Iocs
local
demand was tiiici?iJeil tous of the
best
rujt was consumed by hos, or allow
en. to rot on the ground.
In luLu riieots this country I" oo
dittereut from auy other Any who
Uave withstood the winters of the
Kustern. Miibl e anH tt'wt.m ;t.ut.
win tie - pleased with tins climate.
w here the mercury oulv in exceptional
cases gets down to zero, and rarely
below ; where crops of all kinds and
i fruit of the finest quality thrive.;
! where thre are oportunities iu fartn
i ing, stock raisiuj, fruit urowiui; or
imiuiug ure second to uoue, aud where
I the largest body of unoccupied gov-
eruuieut
luud uow extant cuu be
found, will Hud this country to their
liking.
The only draw back is lack of rail
road trausportatiou. The section
comprising Kasteru aud Kuutheru
Oregon,-"The (Jreut Inland Empire, "
is uow the largest urea el't iu the
Uuited States as yet unexploited by
railroads, lu the natural order of
things this lack can not uow be much
louger delayed. There is need of
such aid iu the development of this
vast iih legiou. aud if llariiman or
. Hill do not give us ueded relief soon
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luoro iu v luuuu some way io uriug
i Union.
lu view of the foregoing, until such
time as railroads do come, Tbe Ex
aminer would advise Inteudiug set
tlers not to rush here unprepared to
meet present conditions, unless tbey
tare fore-banded sufficiently
to be able to live until such times
as tbe change, In affairs bere takes
place. '
But, if they are willing to put up
with aouie'iuconvenieiio, aud it may .
be some, deprivations, aud want to
get a start' lu a oounty tbat is bound
t make1 good then here is the place
for them. .