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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1913)
HOTEL LAKEVIEW ERGCTED IN 1000 MODERN THROUdHOlT FIVST-CALSS ACCOnnOHATlONS SAHPLE ROO1 Jtf For COnnERClALdfJJ,,i;) TRAVELERS rMj COURTEOUS Miii TREATMENT ",J-VSSs--s LIGHT & HARROW, Proprietors F. LIGHT """W" IF YOU INTEND TO BUILD during Upcoming Spring or Sum mer, it will pay you to begin mak ing preparations now, while you have the time to spare. We have several books of house plans to show you. We also have a complete line of Lumber, both dress ed and undressed, that we would like to show you. Come in and let us talk it over with you. Maybe we can save you some time and money. SUNSET LAKE LUMBER CO. Yard on Center St. LClkeVieW. Ore. Phone 722 ; Lakeview Ice, Transfer and Storage Co Telephone No. lOl J. P. DUCKWOKTH, Manager Cuss to Meet Ail Trains. Transfer and Drayage. Storage by day, Week or Month "OUR CUSTOMERS ARK OUR ADVERTISERS' WALLACE & SON i Wm. Wallace, Coroner tor Lake County) UNDERTAKERS PROiXPT ATTENTION AND Parlors, next door WATSON Twin Valley Land Co. Incorporated C. R. BLOOD, Ast. Sec; C. O. MISENER, Gen. Agt. We have for sale: Orchard and Alfalfa Lands Farm Lands, Timber Lands Homesteads and Desert Lands Special attention given to O.Y.L. Land Holdings We are agents lor The Fairport Town & Land Co. FAIRPORT TOWX LOTS now on &r e. Make your selection before the best ones are sold. A big investment for a small amount of money. LAKE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY Incorporared. A Complete Record We have mode an entire transcript of all Records In Lake County which In any way, affect Real Property tn the county. We have a complete Record of every Mortgaxe and tranHfer ever made In Lake County, and ever Deed jflven. Errors Found in Titles In transcribing the record we have found numerous raort gajrea recorded lu the Deed record and indexed; and many deeda are recorded lu the Mortgage record and other book. Hundreds of mortgagee and deeds, are not Indexed k all, and most difficult to trace up from the records. We have notations of all these Errors. Others .anmit find them. We Lave put hundreds of dollars bunting up then errors, and we can fully guarantee our work. J. D. VENATOR, The Let Examiner Figure iyi JLli SATISFACTION GUARANTEED to Telephone Office BUILDING nanager. on Your Next Job Work ATX AW A TYTn J &&r WW F.ETRIGG REGISTER ROCKFQRD.IAJ CORRCSPONPE NCC 50UCITE0 T till matter mum not b reprinted with out eneciul pel -mission J The house palms and fern should ; foe glveu Imth now iiml then to rlil them of mealy bugs and other Insects 1 timt tmtv in; iKithering tbeui. 1 . i I The present winter season In wild to I ' be the tirst since the St. Lawrence I river valley was settled that timt , stream bust not bceu froien over by ! Jan. 1. The rein live purity and quality of 1 different snide of gasoline may tie . . , . . i a 1 dvtertniiicd ly ascertaining me rupiw. Hy of evaporation, the purer oil dt appeuilnn the more quickly i There are over 3.000.WO hired men thiK cost the farmers of this country over a billion dollars uuiiuully. Per- i baps this great army 1 more responsi- ' I ble for the success of the business than i any other oue factor. I'p to the 1st of January the folks living In the .Mississippi valley hardly needed to go to California. Texas or Florida to enjoy fine winter weather However, this statement is subject 'to change without uotlce. Io not bed pics on oats, buckwheat or other dusty straw, and if the house l 'dusty choose n warm day. sprinkle with moistened sawdust and sweep It thoroughly. luist causes coughs, sore mouths and sometimes death. The est selling crusade of the House keepers league of Philadelphia was the meaus of knocking cold .storage eggs from as cents down to 1M cents per dozen. There should be a ugges- ' tion In this fur Ions suffering consum ers iu other parts of the country. In the use of eggs for the table b boiling In the shell if Is well to remem ber that strictly fresh ess will lie without tilting at the bottom of a dish of water. As the age of the ess i i creases the air space Vulargcs, causlus one eud to tilt and the eggs to rise to the surface finally. The other day ten carloads of oranges were i-otitisciited at a point in Illinois by representatives of the L'liiUed States depart incut of agriculture on the ground ol consiiiiitins a violation of the ! 1 eral pure food law. The charge on which the fruit was seized was that It had t-c ii artili.ially colored to resem ble the uatural ripening process The S.YIhh) prize offered last year by the Northwest, I levelopment league for the liest live bushels of wheat grown In the American northwest has been awarded to Messrs. Joseph P. Nash and , Chillies liridgciuan. Joint owners of a I ranch in Shields river valley. Montana. The aventtre yield on tifty-two acres I was tifry nine and one-third bushels, weighing a full sixty pounds to the bushel Tanners iu sotiie sections of North Iiakota were up against a pretty stiff proposition last fall In the shape of u twemy -live cut potato market, four dollar a day help ami a freight rate w hich practically prohibited their ship ping their tubers to market in view of the prevailing low price In many In names they invited their neighbors In and told them to help themselves for the digging A score or more years aso uu English immigrant to Australia took with him a pair of hales to help keep him from getting overlonesome In time these multiplied, as is the habit of the rabbit family, and ran wild, and in the years following the Australian continent bus j bad a veritable pest of rabbits. More I recently a certain breed of cats was in troduced, which in time also ran wild, took to the desert and now are said to prey on newborn lambs. A remarkable flight of a carrier pi geon is reported from Montreal by Clarence Itohlusou. a resident of West mount, a suburb of that city. Some time ugo he imported some pigeons from Kriglaud and a short time ago received word that one of the birds brought over and which bad escaped bad returned to its former borne In England. Twelve days were required to make the passage, and It Is thought the bird must have rested on some ship or floating object en route. Road Improvement agitation seems to be lu the uir. New York has voted a second $r0.i)UO.O0O bond issue. Penn sylvania will shortly vote a like appro priation. California Is now expending an 118.000.000 fund, while the state of Maine has authorized a $'000,000 bond Issue for highway Improvement. Texas is a leader in the good rouds campaign with a big bond Issue which Is now be ing expeiled. while Minnesota, Wis consin. Iowa and several other states tiHVe either voted large Appropriations for better roads or have such projects on hand. CZSJi OREGON ALMANAC VALUABLE BOOK Th Kxaminer hat received an ad vance ropy of the Oregon Almanac an ollioUl pamphlet issued by the Slate Immigration Commixsion. The book cmbrcr 144 pages within it rovers and ia published under the authority of the Twenty-sixth Legislative Am mbly Various maps and statistic of the state's reiourcva give it particular value, A circumstance tht la most co'ii mrndable and worthy of note In the fact that all material used in the books make-up, from the paper upon which it is printed to the ruts, conform strictly to the "Made-ln-Oregon" propoganda, a sentiment which itself means more than words. It expresses a elate-wide loyaltv in the idea that the people ot this state belie. e in using Oregon product. Copies of this bank let may be obtained free of charge by addressing C. C. Chapman, State Im migration Agent, Portland, Oregon. A description of each community of the state ia correctly and unpnrtially described in the Almanac, the follow ing being given relating to Lake County amlLakeview : "Lake County, Suuth Central Ore gon: plateau region. County Seat, Lakeview. "Population 4.M18: 90 per cent American born. Of the foreign born about one third is German, the re mainder ronsistirg mostly of Irish, English, Canadians an1 Scandinavians, "Transportation Lakeview, in the so 1 1 rn extrem ty of the county, bjthe northern terminus of the Nevada-Call-fcrnia Oregon Railroad, which junctions with tne Union Pacific and Southern Pacific lines at Kenu, Nevada, and it the snle direct railwav outlet for the county' products at present. Hy stage snd autu from Lakeview to Klamath Falls Klamath County, 110 miles, to connect with Southern Pacific; railroad, north and outh. "Water Numerous small Mrcnms furnish ample supply of pure water for domestic use. and (ioosc, Warner snd Silver lakes alTord abundance of water for irrigation purposes. (ruuml water from Feven to 70 feet all over the county. 'Timber As but onethird nf tne area of the countv la covered by forests, the natural growth of which consists orln cipally of yellow pine, sugar pine, Hume Sr nrd tamarack. One halt of timber ed area is embraced in national forest reserve and is for sale at stupmage of $2..r,0 to tl.no per acre. "Minerals Irfoporial earth, opals, soda, borax, niter, potash, gold. Lake Albert and Summer salifernus in char acter and the state has entered into con tract wi'h private parties for develop ment of ssli snd borax industries. Soda deposits 91) per cent pure at Alkali lake. "LBndH - Surface : High, level and rolling plateaus and mountainous. Soils: Disintegrated lava and volcanic Hen: alluvitl loam, clay loam, sandy loam: alkali spots in a tew instances. Rich in potash and lime and naturally adapttd to the growing of grapes, hcrrp ami hops. Alfalfa, tiny, grain, small fruits and vegetatles do well. Yields greatly Increased by irrigation and projects completed and in different stages of progress aggregate an area of nearly 500,000 acres. Two large ir rigation segregations approved and con struction work under way in the Che- waucan Btid Summer La e valleys. Enormous area of land open to entry under K darged Homestead Act, al lowing 220 acres to each person of adult age. Average value farm lands Sl-1 C7 per acre, cultivated and uncultivated. Kf.ads One thousand miles of put lie highway, in fair condition, maintained bv taxation. r'uel Wood is the principal fuel use I and costs 25 to S3 per cord. "Industries Stock raising, farming, dairying, email fruits and vegetables. 'Size of farm needed . 320 acrea In dry farming regions ; 1W) acres Irrigable but non-irrigated lands, and 40 to 80 acres irrigated lands. "Average daily wage for skilled labor S3.60 per day; unskilled Z2.00. "Scenery grand ; streams snd lakes alive with fish and wild fowl: deer and antelope in the mountains. "Large area of drv farming home stead lands in tne northern prt of the county, in the vicinity of Kort Rock, has been selected by the Hebrew AgriJ cultural Society of Oregon for the pur-po-e of promoting a Hebrew colony. Many families have already taken ad vantage of the opportunity and taken up homesteads under the provisions of the Enlarged Homesteal Act, and a heavy immigration movement is as sured for the Spring. "For information address: Lakeview Commercial Club: Paisley Commercial Club; Silver Lake Commercial Clib; Viewpoint Homesteaders' Association. "Newspapers will send copies: Lake County Examiner, Lakeview Herald, Lakeview: Weekly Leader, Silver Lake; Chewaucan Press, Paisley. "Lakeview - County Beat-Altitude i BOO feet. Punulatinn hv 1J S. Census 1910. Local estimate 2,000. Northern terminus of Nevada-California Oregon Railroad, which junctions OREGON'S WATER POWER ENORMOUS Ultimately, the use of wateriaiwcr will exert a greater Influence In de veloping Oregon than would a doren Panama canals. Heat ami light for rural homes, motive force for trans IHirtatlon, for mills, for factories, for agricultural Industry, and for all the many use to which hydro-electrical energy Is applied, are avenues through which development of the alate will beT'iioi nunisly promoted. ZZZ. All the grain annually raised In Oregon would not be comparable to the wealth which the waterwer are capable of creating. All the hops fruit and dairy product annually produced would be small In comparison. 'I he lumber product could be made to equal it, and In the production of such an output of lumber the water aiwer would be a large contributing factor. It would take Ito.OOO.OiiO tons of coal every year to produce the total horse power now running to , waste In the streams of this state. No coal mine in the world presents such a total of stored wealth, and besides, while the coal mine can be exhausted, the water jsiwers (low on forever. What is more, by proper development of Oregon water Hwer, motive foice for industries can be enormously cheap ened. It now takes eleven tons of coal to produce one twenty-four hour horse jsiwer for a year. The same swer eiin be produced through Oreg on hydro electric energy at the cost of two to five tons of coal. The effect on Oregon of an applica tion of the cheaper jsiwer and the use of such power applied to industry would he of incalciiabte value in en riching nod developing the state. Thus, the estimated cost of hydro electric power from such a project as State Engineer Lewis suggests at Celilo would be, delivered in Portland, S14. KLAMATH PARTY ! VISITS CRATER Klamath Northwestern: Mr. W. L. j Clapp of this city, ami his party, who left f. r Crater Lake last week, re turned to Kort Kluma'h last night, j Thfe party was successful in securing j several line pictures, which was the J pri cipal thing its members were after, j Krom Fort Klamath the party went, to the lase on snow shoes ami skiis. , drawing tliiir sleds which contaimJ , lht provisions. Thev encountered all, the WOV from 10 to 2.1 teet of snow I and in drifts it was over .'id feet deep. Sunday night, on their return, they . reached the Hums and I'tter sawmill, j where they stayed all night. This is the lact place from Kort Klamath be- j fore one reacln the lake. ( The temperature around the Fort Klamath country remained at about zero mnst of the time, which makes the snow Imrd ami affords line skiing. The party will return to Klamath Falls this Hfternoon, on the Uail from Chiloquin. , HIS STOMACH Tl! lUP.LFK OVKK Mr Hyspeptie, would you nut like to feel timt your Htollllllil troulileS were over, that you could eat nuy kind of food vou desired without in- Jury? That may seem so unlikely to I yon timt you do not even hope for an ending of j our trouble, but permit us i to assure you that 'It. is not altogether ilnlioHsllile. If otlierH can tie cured i permanently, and tliousnmU have been, w hy not j oil? John It. Hurker, of I'.ulibi Creek. Mich., Is nun of them. He says, "I whh troubled with heartburn, indigestion, and liver complaint until I used Chamber Iain's Taldids. then my trouble whh over." Sold by all dealer Many Americans have gone abroad before seeing the wonders of their country. It is learned here that thous ands of Europeans, fired with curosity by the stories of the wonders of West ern America, are now making weekly payments to secure passage through the Panama Canal in 1915 to see the San Diego Exsisltion, the Grand Can yon, Yosemite, the San Francisco Ex position and the other natural wonders of the west. with the main lines of the Union Pac ific and Southern Pacihc railroads at Reno, Nevada, and Western Pacific Railroad at Doyle, California. In heart of Goose Lake Valley, a most fertile and productive agricultural sec tion. The principal Industries are cattle raising, sheep and wool, and lumbering. Gravity water system and electric lighting plsntre under private owner ship. Shipping and distributive center for immense territory of agri cultural and timbered lands. City has well lighted, modern improved streets, sidewalks, and other municipal im provements. "Has substantial public buildings, high school. $(15,000 brick and stone building, graded public ec.hool iu;J f u. churches; ("Baptist, Catholic, Metho dist.and .Presbyterian'. " COafJ STOVER FOR STEER FEEDING On many of our farm there I an tiniieecHsiiry mount of lalsir expended In' husking the corn and then feeding the corn ami stover separately to the live stock, write an Ohio farmer In National Utocknuui. Much of this use less labor might be saved. Professor Mumford of the Illinois station, when feeding steer clover hay, found ahock corn supplemented with ear corn and illmeal superior to shelled corn and oil meal. Tl result, substantiated by common exierlciice, shows that corn need not be husked for the let result In steer feeding, and In somewhat lea measure .Its. As prodiirors of high erndn turf thr AImm.Ii!! Aiiii lirrwl l.ikes seeoh.l j.lsc lo no oilier. lnil.-d. JoitiMiiK !)' Ih" ImiH'is un at III Intel nulliinul livn stock slums In rn cm ).m. Ilm Annus Is t th fr. Ilownvrr. Uu. Ili.irfoi.U. Hlioil liurna uml Uullowns nin iilriiUiil lo-f iimri. uml tin. mlnilri-is of eui li iui Hi ulur tin-.-.l uml iiuiiiri -nlr ..iini In which llirir clmlio excrlii H ih n Mirir Imroilin lion Into this i oiiiiii y Hie (I.ti.lii huv iiiiiiI Kliul rrcnul IkH It III thif stiuw rim; mill on tlw Iniiclirrs block. The Ai.n r'.i-.-r slum n l a nim .i'. lh,iii of Una Kiuinr In. ill this is line llb the d.ilry c,, and with the sheep. Vhneer h;is wild lied tin" cattle ciiKcrl MMicinng a bundle of stover for a p'...il..c car or nubbin Which the xwmlil I In lilt !. inner has overlooked inc. the folly of bo fee, Hug II i this .i x cattle iin.li-e . petliulle i i,. ' Vt ill lie id e-- lie I. n, , . 1 1,,. e , I. ill . -.1 llb ol n I I lei l el, 1. .1 III , I ,H '., 1 h the I In- 1ci;h are . mi le t here Sil...-.e. in- I w o Iii.ij I" ' 1 ' ripe en. Oilier .o.' III!- '. -leiHei slh 1 tn run t it t-,-u tut cau-c 1' ..unlet ill n ie feed lie I ling Hie oil! Is :, liock- 111 h !etl. the u Ii. le ".nine : 1 old -II el" i, .1 ilH . OOi ,1 I , lul'i ll:. ,. :. I lei- I lie !i ,, ,i a ml v. ii n,;i III l- i ei ii. I le.l feed hl.ilUe I III the h.iI time corn, as II will lie Hie i ll ( I If to hIiI iiiI, average ab-nit Sept. ." Is a ;. to beiu to fei'il. and In In nr six months I wo j car old steers will be ready fur market, Ity feeding In the fall the weather Is most favorable, and when It eels too had lo leave the cattle exposed tney may be eunllned In yards or pens niul I he feeding continued. It Is now eoiieeiled that Mull feeding Is the least profitable for the ordinary feeder and flint grinding I be cnni docs uot pay. especially when lings are per milled to follow I lie cattle, t hog to each steer Is about the right number to consume all the waste corn. At fllsl each steer should have about three pounds of corn and the amount be gradually Increased until he is get ting all he will eat. The wnsle of slo Ver may be avoided by feeding soinu extra InisUed or snapped coin. Three pounds of bran and one or two pounds of ni I ii ii-i 1 or cottonseed meal will In crease the c. a I ns niali liiill.v and thus will bring Hie cattle to an earlier tin Ish. . In Humming up we tiinl Hint ill this furnishes a good unit efTecllve combina tion of grain and roughage and lower iu price than cilher fed separately. t'J It can be hauled from the slun k and scattered on the ground to be plowed at low price for labor, l.'ti The maiiui'o Is rentlcred lu the held without ft (1(11 tlonnl expense, i ll The feeding Is done when the weather Is the iihM favor able. Economy of Sheep. Pheep do not reipiire ati expensive building. The essentials of such a iHilldiug fire freedom from dampness n nit drafis uml a protection from Storms in the roughest weather. No other farm aidiual can ever compete with lis- sheep. A flock of si p de niatids comparatively little labor. They grind their own grain, another factor aiding the economy of labor as well as that of maintenance. They tire the liest grain grinders wt. have The weed seeds consumed by sheep are never known to grow afterward. This Is not true of other farm animals. Sheep and Fertility. The sheep Is Juh as elllcloiit a ma nure aprcader as he Is a manure milker. On hillsides where courser animal waste would hardly slick long enough to do Hie ground any good sheep drop pings tuke the plai n of a spe,ially pre pared fertilizer. Look to the Lame Cws, Caleb the lame ewe and see If she Isn't In the lb s! nt.r.-esiif foot rot I.ouks iIku It from here, il.oir !i li nay be that her hoof only needs trimming j r