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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (April 9, 1914)
APWL 9, 1914 PAGE TWO LAKE COUNTY EXAMINER Lakeview vS'.A'fc A complete line of wagon mid liuggjr harness, whips, robes, bits, riatos, spurs, quilts, rose cttes, etc., etc. i THE BEST VAQUERO SADDLE ON THE MARKET AHLSTROM & GUNTHER, Inc. Successors to S. F. AHLSTROM NEVADA-CALIF0RN1A--0REG0N RY. Daily Service Reno to Lakeview Except Sundays No. 1 Arrives Lakeview at 9:jS P. M. No. 2 Leaves Lakeview at 6:30 A. M. Daily Except Sunday Pullman & Buffett Service Between Lakeview and Reno C. V. CLASS, AGENT :: THE PALACE BAR O'CONNOR & DUGGAN - - PROPRIETORS A Gentlemen's Popular :: Resort :: PHONE 32 CHOICE BRAND WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS Lakeview Steam Laundry HARRY C. HUNKER, Prop. We give efficient service and do good work. Send your washing and give us n trial. TELEPHONE PLANTING TIME AGAIN and we are ready for it with the very best seeds possible to obtain. The best varieties of vegetables, grains and fruits. Come choose what you want now. Then you will be ready to plant early and get an early crop as well as a big and fine one. Special rates for large quantities, moderate prices lor any quantity. T. E. BERNARD "EVERYTIUSG IS HARDWARE AND FARM IMPLEMENTS" LAKEVIEW, OREGON Saddlery I I Everything in the tv - ' riM line of carriage and horse furnish ings, ltepntrlng by competent men. LAKEVIEW, OREGON No. 732 IT IS SERVED TO SUIT YOU and whether In a. stela or filuss, ,von will find our 'Pare Iieer the most refreshing drink you ever tasted. It Is a speeiil brew of tine Hnfis and Mult, with the fiurest and cleanest water obtain able. The great strength and tonic eTe-t of this Jleer makes it. the favorite prescription of doctors fur their weak and eon valescinsi patients. Try a sample and you will want u large supply KENTUCKY SALOON POST t KING, Proprietor n Valuable For Improving Eanh Highways, SAND-CLAY FO BUREAU TEACHES FARMERS.!: j The Office of Publio Roads Calls the j Attention of Rural Communities to , the Value of Natural Sand -Clay In j Improving Earth Roads Methods of ' Betterment Advocated. In view of the fact that a kiwi I inn jorlty of the roads of this country are of the ordinary earth type. It Is lnir tant for the farmer to understand (lie best method of Improt Inn such roads. The ollli'e of public ronds advises the communities to hare mi engineer go over the old earth highways, or. In lieu of an engineer, that the fvrmers thein pelves should see to It that the roads lire so graded that the ditches or put ters ore parallel with the center line of the rond. Gutters must have a uni form grade and be of sufficient ca pacity to keep the surface well drained. Drainage Is the most Important fea ture of an earth road. Kvery farmer who Uvea In a section where both sand and clay are preva lent travels occasionally over some particular sHt in the road which is al ways good nud rarely requires atten tion from the rond bands. Good drain age may be responsible for this condi tion, or it may be found on Investiga tion that there Is a good natural mix ture of tand and clay forming the wearing surface. If this strip of road is always good there is no reason why a surface of similar material on the entire road should not produce like re sults. Analysis of the liest natural sand clay mixtures will show that the sand forms about "0 per cent of the whole. The test Is simple. Weigh Into au or dinary medicine glass two ounces of the dried mixture and wash out the clay. Dry the remaining snml and weigh ngain. The loss in weight will represent the amount of clay orig inally contained in the mass. The theory of the sand-clay mixture aa a road building material Is that the H SWT , A BAND-CLAY BOAD. clay fills the voids between the grulns of sand, firmly biuding them together. After the material Is found the process of building the road Is simple. Before placing any sand-clay on the road the road should be graded to the desired width. Most engineers prefer to have a width for the road of about twenty feet, exclusive of side ditches, which are each usually about three feet wide. (Sand-clay is cheap, and It Is best that sixteen feet of the graded width (twen ty t'eeti be surfaced. This will leave a two or three fst shoulder on either side. The surface of the graded road should lie flat or slightly convex. The sand-clay should be put on from eight to twelve inches in thickness, depend ing on the character of the subgrude or foundation. Where you have a hard clay for foundation eight Inches of siind-cliiy will siifnVc. If the founda tion Is sand it is well to put on as much as twelve inches of the surfacing material. After n few hundred feet of surfacing material has been placed n grading machine should be run over it to smooth and crown the road before the top becomes too hard. After the machine work it Is well to follow witli a split log drag, which smooths any rough places left by the machine and leaves the roud with a smooth, even surface. It must be borne In mind that a sand-cluy rood, unlike other roads, cannot be finished in a short space of time. It can, of course, be left in an apparently fin ished condition with a hard, smooth surface, but it will be found on close examination that the hard surface Is In reality only a crust, underneath which are several Inches of loose ma terial. After the frst hard rain the crust softens, the road gets .bad and the work appears to Ik ii failure. This, however, Is Just what Is needed to tnuke It eventually good. After the roud has dried until 1n a plastic state it should be dragged until the surface Is once more smooth, with the proper crown, and should be kept this way by dragging at least once a day until the tun has baked It hard and firm. The mistake of keeping traffic off during this process of resetting should not be Dnude. The continuous tamping of the wheels of tiie wagons and hoofs of horses is needed to pack tho stud-dry Into a homogeneous mass. r t W?T3 t. BETTER ROADS AND "BACK TO THE LAND." If we bad better road we could easily get people to "see America first.'' Hut the real prob lem Is to feed Amerlcn tlrst, to enable the farmer to bring Ma produce to the consumer at a cheaper cost to both. The ques tion of better roads, therefore, Is not one of furnishing more con venient highways for automobile tourists. It Is true (hat when we ls-tter and lucres- our roads the automobile will grow In impor tance, not us a plaything of the richer classes, but us the most convenient vehicle of business. Hotter roads will turn the tide of affairs, so that Instead of having people fleeing from the farm to the city we will have the masses moving from the city back to the laud. The crux of the question s not whether we want better roads. We nil agree on that. We differ only on the best methods of Im proving theni.-D. W. Shackle ford. STEADY GROWTH OF GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. Summary of Report en Good Roads by Sacrotary of Agriculture. In the annual report of the secretary of agriculture a special chapter is do voted to good roads. For twenty years. It is stated, there has been a steady growth in the good roads movement, so that today about thirty-four states have highway commissions or some other form of highway agency. Stato appropriations for road work have In creasinl from J'J.iXHi.iXW ten years ago to $13,000,000 In 1012. The relation of the federal government to road con struction nnd road management Is pointed out. The federal government should take the lead In Investigational and experimental work ami should de velop principles of co-oporatlon with the states In matters of educational and dcinonstrationtil work. It seems desirable that the federal government should deal with the state ns tho low est unit through an exHrt highway commission ns Its agency. Tills policy would eliminate the difficulty of the federal government's determining lo cal Issues as well as the danger of un due centralized federal control. In or der to stimulate this pol cy nnd to pre vent undue Inroads on the federal treasury federal aid whenever extend ed for construction and inalireiinnce should be furnished on condition that the state; provld an nppiMprintloii at least dmib'e tint void iiy t'le fed Till government. This would furnish mi automatic clu- k. The plan sliould pro vide for inn in li nn n-- cs we ! as con struction In order to prevent the possi bility of the construction of roads many of which may wear out before the bonds placed upon them are paid. The secretary raises the question ns to what roads sliould be Improved. Ho says that the roads of greatest eco nomic and social Importance are those over which the products of tho farm can be taken to tho nearest railway station and which minister to the other social and economic needs of the com munity. It Is pointed out that no fed eral funds should be expended on any project until u scheme of road con struction nnd maintenance within a state has been developed and agreed upon by the proper representatives of the state and of the federal govern ment. OHIO WAKING UP. Court Decision Gives 8tte Nino Thousand Miles of Highways. The state of Ohio, which heretofore has not quite kept pace with other units of the country In the mutter of good rouds. seems now In a position to do at least as well as any other state, this ns n result of u recent decision of the supreme court declaring the Illte road tux law valid. Much the same system is to be followed there as lu other states, the central government being the leader and the counties con tributing and co-operating. Tho tax will raise $:i..r00,0(X this year, to which add $.VHJ,(KX) or more from the tiuto licenses and large con tributions by the counties. Present plans contemplate the construction Of more than 11,000 miles of highways, which is about one-tenth of the entire road mileage of the state. GENESIS OF A GOOD ROAD. In ancient "lays the aborigines Walked tuntlem in between the for- eHt trees. Their feet. In time, Impressed tho earth and shale. The route became a trail. When later white men came to rob the red Of realm and room, they brought bovlncH to tread That course and nip a cud for aft- ermath. The trail became a path. When Farmer Perkins settled on hiH claim Up Turkey creek, ont day his rieiKhborH came And helped him clear a way to his abode. Tho puth became a road. When Van De Rockater bought the farmer's loam And built hinr.ielf a country man sion home. The state stepped In and paved that highway hard. 'Tie now a boulevard. Itobertus Love. OEM tm A (mm F.ETRIGG REGISTER Roctcrnniv ia - - -' X. """Ml CORRCSPONDfNCC It SOLICITED IThla mutter must not t-Triilntrd with out H('l-Illl t-r Ml llHl '11. One bad egg In n doxen sent to market niturally spoils a customer's taste for eggs and is said to reduce sales of eggs In his case from 15 to '.M per cent. To produce eggs of the best quality hens must ,! provided with an abun dance of wholesome food. Including grains, bran, clover or alfalfa mid oys ter shells. ICxperlments which have been made by a good many dairymen prove beyond doubt that the more quickly a cow Is milked the larger will Im (ho per cent of butter fat that her milk will con tain. The sight of a horse tied to a town hitching post and shivering with the mercury clone to the r.ero murk Is not calculated to Inspire regard for either the humanity or good Reuse of the owner. In far too many Instances It Is those farmers who would be most benefited by the discussions at the fanners' In stitute who fall to attend because they are too busy or because they don't con sider the deliberations of such meet ings practical nnd worth while. What Is said to be the highest price ever paid for a single apple tree was recently paid to an Oregon farmer for a thirteen year old seedling w hich grew In a fence corner on bis farm. The worth of the tree lies In the fact that It yields ripe apples every mouth from May to November. Let the girls try this recipe for home made peppermint randy: Into a sauce pan put a pound of granulated sugar and a gill of boiling water and aa soon as the sugar Is dissolved add a table spoonful of vinegar. Holl until a little Is-comcs brittle In cold water, udd pep permint essence to taste and drop by the spoonful on buttered or waxed pa per, t'n inly of this kind is both Inex pensive nnd wholesome. A walnut tree sold the other day In a middle western state for $"jrs. Hy contrast this brings to mind the con dltioiiH a generation ago when the wal nut was not prlxed so highly and when it was often cut Into firewood for the kitchen stove and sitting room heater. The giant walnut of that day Is gone, along with tile Indian nud buffalo, two comrades that with It enjoyed unmo lested freedom before the white man's westward march. That was a flue type of spunk dis played by a Miss Lovelace of Texas, who bus recently proved up uu a home stead claim In New Mexico, lu order to get n patent to the much from the government she lived alone In a twoa room shack on her clulm for fourteen mouths. She was sixty-five miles from a railroad and twenty-five miles from a town, while her nearest neighbor was two miles away. She hunted rab bits and took rides tnulcbuck for pas time. There Is said to be but one small sec tion in the United States where Faster lilies will grow profusely and blossom at Easter time. This Is Los Talmas, a few tulles below Hrownsville, Tex., the southernmost town In the country. As a result of Interest taken in the mat ter by II. ii. Stiles, horticultural expert of Texas. It is likely thut the federal government may establish u national purk at Las Talmas, where lOuster lil ies mid other iroplcnl plants muy Uu grown. A plant closely resembling tho dan delion that was Imported to soul hern Minnesota from (Jermany some thirty years ago on the strength of the claim that It was n sure cure for tuberculosis bids fair to become a serious pest un less It Is exterminated. It bus spread over the eighty acre farm on which It was first grown and may readily spread to adjoining land, as Its seeds are winged like those of thu dandelion and are readily scattered by the wind Farmers ure urged to guard against the pest and are urged to send sped mens fl the state experiment station for Identification. There are times when feeding hogs a good tonic for n period will help tbetn a good deal and muke it possible for them to make a prolltuble gain In flesh. There are several tonics on the market thut answer this purpose well. For those who prefer tho homemade article the following recipe Is recom mended by the United States govern ment: Wood churcuul, two pounds; sul phur, one pound; common salt, two pounds; sodium carbonate, two pounds-, sodium hyposulphite, two pounds; Me dium sulphate, one pound, and anti moiiy sulphide, one pound. These In gredieuts should lie powdered and mixed nud given at the rate of a large tahleHpooufiil once a day for each 'jno Poinds of hog w eight. FATHER U'MALLEY SEES IMPROVEMENT (From the Irish News) Kdltor, Irish News: The current number of Che Irish News to hand mid welcome. I thank you cordially for mulling in" 'lie News each month mid I assure you that Its cherry Items concenilu Cork In Oregon nre to mo a source of real gratification. There are now 3 factors nctlve In l.akevlew. work ing in harmony for the all around benefit of our people St. 1'utrlck's I'hurch, the esteemed A. O. II., and tho Irish News simulating progress in the lie'. Is of endeavor, religious, patriotic and literary. No doubt the net reiiult will bo tho palpable !:t llllence of Irish Ideas reduced to pra ctice, so Unit the lrb.li cltUena of Lake County will lead In every up lift of tho conimtinlly. ns Ihelr co patriots In Huston, New York and elscw hero. The News has the kIkiibI udvnn logo or reaching each sequestered camp, conveying the mesiigea that thrill and cheer the young Irish heart messages of faith and fa therland, supplemei.tlng tho contetita of the welcome letters, uniting the sheepmen and keeping them In touch wllth affairs of local Interest. I have penned the above In a sin cere outburst of aumlrutb.n for your work and because I realize thut you deserve (and perhaps need) a word of encouragement. Any good work on behalf of the "boys" brings Ita own consolations. 11 often strikes mo that (led and St. Patrick traced their way to the West for a definite and a noble work, ami that It Is al most In Fight. I fei I that I have said enough. Cod bless you. Please give my kind regards to your pastor. Fa ttier Murphy; and to Hun Ilreni uu I'll spend three weeks of I'lit lu New York and two In Huston. (Signed) Father M. O'Malley Novitiate of St. Atidrew-On-l!udsoii I'oughkeopslo. . Y. FREE ALFALFA SEED UII.KOllH II.WK SKKI) HKADV I'OK .Kt:K.l. IMSTIUIU TION Object is to Kncourage Livestock liaising In Central Oregon Nrl For tine Acre Farmers In the scml-arld zone of Central Oregon will be furnished 500 pounds of dry-land olfulfu seed by the Spokane. Portland & Seattle railway and the Oregon Trunk line. The seed has been purchased and Is ready for distribution, free of charge. An active campaign Is under way to Improve the crops and encourage the raising of more livestock on each farm, especially In those parts of the country where Irrigation Is not yet possible. Scientific agrl turlsts have conducted a number of experiments and have Insisted tnal much acreage can only be dry-farmed will not only raise alfalfa but rorn, also, If proper cultivation Is given. While the O. W. II. & N. Co. Is boosting corn growing over all the northwest the Hill lines have been giving a good deal of attention through Its traffic department to al falfa. This Is the second Install- i n,Pnt r fr''" distribution madi tills seuson by this couipuny. Kuch grower Is given enough seed to plant one acre, with Instructions how to care for It. Traffic Manager W. H. Skinner Is requesting the growers to furnish detailed reports at the end of the first year regard ing the growth made anil the gen eral conditions observed. - - -o I nloi ination on Oregon The Immigration department of the tireat Northern railway bits Is sued u 'JOO.OOO edition of a new pub lication descriptive or Oregon, which it Ih sending to prospective home seek ors throughout tho cast. K. C. Leedy, general Immigration agent of St. Paul, Is Kendlng suggestions to people now on hW mulling Hat to supply names of others who might be Interested in Oregon and Its pos sibilities as a home stute. Send the names of your eastern friends who may desire to come to Oregon, to Mr. Leedy at St. Paul and they will be supplied with a copy of the pamphlet free. Nothing So Oood for u Cotuth in- u Cold When you huvo a cold you want thu bent medicine- obtainable, so as to get rid of It with the least possible delay. There are many who consider Chamberlain's Cough Keniedy un surpassed. Mrs. J. Horoff, Kldla, Ohio says, "Kver since my daughter Hulls was cured of a severe cold and cough by Chamberlain's Cough Ho med) two years ago. I have felt kind ly disposed toward tho manufactur ers of that preparation. 1 know of nothing so quick to relieve a cough or cure a c.dd." For sale by all good dealers.