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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1913)
Send For The Folks While the Fares are Low SEPTEMBER. 25th TO OCTOBER 10th Low Vestbound Colonist fares will be In effect via 1 , , '-"w. . TO - - . nfi- " ' .- -. PREPAID ORDERS "III J. . ..I. V3 r"r" t vii WH Tir i fftf fclWrf ViVi' 'hi wMiVi 1 1"'' " '' ' , To The Homeseeker Coming West How to Reach Lake County, Oregon When the Conductor or Train Aud itor takes up your ticket, notify him that you desire to stop off at Reno, Nevada, if on the Southern Pacific, or at Doyle. California, on the Western Pacific. Your ticket or a check will be returned to you by the conductor. You must then pre sent this exchange check or ticket to the Ticket Agent at Station of stop-over im mediately on arrival of train. The agent will take your signature on a receipt, sign it himself and return the receipt to you, retaining the check or ticket which will be delivered to you within ten days upon your surrendering receipt. Re ceipts and tickets are not transferable. Show your receipt to the Agent of the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway at Reno, Nevada, and Doyle, California, who will return same to you immediate ly and sell you a round trip at following rates to points on Nevada-California-Oregon Railway: Fares from Reno or Doyle and return: Alturas, Cal., $8.15; Davis Creek, Cal.. $9.55; Doyle. Cal., $3.25 (from Reno); Fairport, Cal., $ 1 0.95; Lakeview, Oregon, $11.90: Likely. Cal.. $6.75; Madeline. Cal., $5.35; New Pine Creek, Oregon, $10.95; Ravendale, Cal., $3.95; Reno. Nev.. $3.25 (from Doyle). Limit of these tickets will be the same as your stop-over. You can stop over at any point on Nevada-California-Oregon Railway within time limit of your ticket. Care must be taken to return to stop-over points within time limit. GROWING SEASON. Grains and grasses, April to September: succulent vegetation. May 1 5 to September 1 5. ALTITUDE. 4.300 to 4.800 feet in the valleys. TEMPERATURE. Maximum. 102; minimum, generally about 10 above: oc- I i - - 1 DRY FARM WTATOH IS LAKH I'Ot'NTY. ORKCON the truth about LAKE COUNTY is good enough RESOURCES LOCATION. Southern tier of coun ties, east of the Cascades. SIZE. 8,140 square miles; larger than Connecticut, Rhode Island and Del aware, combined. Five and a quarter million acres. POPULATION. Lakeview. 1.500 to 2.000, the entire county, 5,000. TAXABLE WEALTH. $8,000. 000: $1,800 per capita. BANK DEPOSITS. $1,500,000; $300 per capita. HOMESTEAD LANDS. About 2,604,620 acres, of which over a half million is first class agricultural land. LANDS FOR SALE. Thousands of acres on easy terms and prices. PRICES. $10 to $75; some highly improved lands are cheap at $125.00. casionally a day or two of below zero weather not every year. CLIMATE. Excellent. Unpleasant weather from Nov. 10 to March 10; per haps another monthof unsettled weather. SNOW AND RAINFALL Aver age precipitation, 1 7.5 inches; snow 2 to 12 inches in valleys, 2 to 12 feet in the mountains. PREVAILING DISEASES. None. No climatic or seasonal diseases. WATER. Unexcelled. 7 to 70 feet all over the county. SOIL. Disintegrated lava and vol canic ash, alluvial loam, clay loam, sandy loam; alkali spots only in very rare in stances. MINERALS. Soda deposits 99 per cent pure at Alkali Lake; salt and borax contract with state for Lake Abert and Summer Lake Gold in Windy Hollow mining district. Gold near New Pine Creek, on California side of line in High Grade (formeily Hoag) district. TIMBER. Fourteen billion ft. mer chantable pine; one half for sale. POULTRY RAISING. Another opportunity. Quite a little done, yet eggs run from 25 to 75 cents per dozen. Chickens rarely less than 50 cents apiece. LIVESTOCK. Heretofore the prin cipal product; 250.000 sheep, 70,000 cattle, 20,000 horses annually graze. DAIRYING. Great opportunities for development New creamery began operation July 15, 1913; first monthly pay roll, $1,400; second month is show ing large increase. WOOL Annually, is 1,500.000 pounds, commanding the highest prices in the world's markets. ALFALFA. Very successful crop. Yield of 1 1-2 ton to a cutting about the average. One cutting and considerable pasturage has been the rule. Two cut tings easily made. ALFALFA SEED. One of the fa vored localities where the first quality of seed can be produced. VEGETABLES. Potatoes, cabbage, carrots, parsnips, beets, squash, cucum bers, melons of all kinds, in fact almost everything that is grown in Mississippi Valley. TREE FRUITS.' Successful in the highest degree wherever tried. Goose Lake valley and Summer Lake valley . especially, other parts of the county as favorably located. Apples, plums and cherries never have a failure. Pears very rarely fail; peaches once in several years. Prunes and apricots of best qual ity are raised. No smudging has ever been done; with smudging no need of failure. BERRIES. Strawberries, blackber ries, dewberries, gooseberries, raspber ries, loganberries, currants, etc., do re markably well. HOGS. We need hog raisers; everything is favorable; alfalfa and hogs will make any industrious man independ ent. Lake county imports 55 per cent of fresh pork, and 80 per cent of hams and bacon. CORN. Green corn for the roast ing ear does well. - POTATOES. Frequendy yield . 7 tons to acre: beets 1 2 tons, and other vegetables in proportion. WHEAT. .Yields 20 to 40 bushels to acre. Mostly spring wheaf, but fall wheat successful. OATS. 20 to 100 bushels. BARLEY. 40 to 90 bushels. RYE. 9 to 25 bushels. IRRIGATION. Above yields with out irrigation; considerable increase can be expected when irrigated. Projects in various stages, from preliminary sur vey to 70 per cent completion, to cover half a million acres. INVESTIGATE FOR YOURSELF. ... ,;ui.:- v ' r J? I V-':- '1 I. ,f From 1'rlnclpnl CUIoh In the Kant to Portland, Tacpuia, Seattle and NorthweRt Pacific Co ant point New York. $55.00 Boston $55.15 Buffalo 47.50 Chicago 38.00 Cincinnati 42.85 Detroit 43.50 Louisville 42.85 Memphis 42.50 New Orleans 46.55 Oklahoma ......... 35.25 Philadelphia ....... 54.75 Pittsburgh 47.00 St. Louis.... 37.00 Washington 54.75 $30.00 from Denver, Colorado Springs; Omaha Kansas City, St. Joseph, St. Paul. Equally low fares from many other Eastern points. Upon deposit of amount of ticket with any agent of the O-W. R. A N. ticket will be furnished at any address In the East. For full particulars call on or write Agent O-W. B. A N. RAILROAD RATES REDUCED From Sept. 25 to Oct. 10, 1913 TO FOISTS ON THE rl CENTRAL OREGON LINE FROM Atlanta, Ga $J1.70 Boston, Afass 5.7. 7 J Buffalo, X.Y. 47 0 Cairo, III. 30.08 Charleston, S.'C. 64 75 Chatanooga.Tenn 48.40 Chicago, 111. 38 00 Cincinnati, O 43.85 Cleveland, 0 1 44.75 Columbus, O M 44.60 Detroit, Mich 4350 Des Moines, la 32. 84 Dulutb, Minn 30 00 Evausville. Ind 40.10 Indiana polls, Ind. 40.60 Kansas City, Mo 130 00 Louisville, Ky. 42 85 Memphis, Tenn 4250 Milwaukee, Vls 36.70 Minneapolis, Minn 30 00 Nashville, Tenn 45.00 New York.N. T. 55 00 Omaha, Nebr. 30.00 Pet, r la, 111. 37.00 Philadelphia, Pa. 64 75 Pittsburg, Pa. 47.00 Richmond, Va.i. 54.75 Sioux City, la.. 30.00 St. Louis, Mo 37.00 St. Paul, Minn 30.00 Superior, Wis $30.00 . CORRESPONDING REDUCTIONS FROM OTHER POINTS. If you will advise the Oresron Trunk Rr. Agent the names and ad dresses of your friends In the East who are coming to Oregon, be will have a representative call and help plan their trip. Deposits In prena vment of tickets will be accented by Agents, and tickets delivered to Eastern points by tvlegraph. For further Information regarding stopovers, etc , apply to R. H. CROZIER, Asst. Gen 7 Pass. Agent Portland, Ore. J. H. CORBETT, Agent Ore. Trunk Ry Bend, Ore. NEVADA-CALIFORNIA-OREQON RY. Daily Service Reno to Lakeview Except Sundays No. 1 Arrives Lakeview at 8:40 P. M. No. 2 Leaves Lakeview at 6:40 A. M. Daily Except Sunday I'ullmao & Buffettfctervice Between lakeview and Reno C. W. CLASS, AGENT :: LAKEVIEW, OREGON HOTEL LAKEVIEW Z:h'HT ERECTED IN 1BOO Sample Room for Commercial Travelers Modern Throughout. First Class Accommodations SHAMROCK STABLES SS CON BREEN, Proprietor Special Attention to Transient Stock Horses Boarded by the Day, Week or Month Always Open Phone 571 LAKEVIEW OREGON