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About Talent news. (Talent, Or.) 1892-1894 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1893)
VOL. 2 APRIL 1,1893. The TAI.ENT NEWS is published the r they have capacity and will, to govern with system, as well as ability to impart 1st. and 15th. of each month. EDWARD ROBISON E ditor . know ledge. When I saw the two hundred or more bright, intelligent pupils march ing, my mind looked forward ten years SUBSCRIPTION RATES. when all these and the numerous other* 25 cents One year...................... , in all the schools of «»ur county shall have 4 of a dollar. become the men and women, who will do Six months ................ I the business of the community, and 1 Three months............ ........ Two bits. could not but think that great changes Entered at the Talent Post Office as seeoml would have to take place in our finan class mail matter. cial and transportation system, for it will • l»e impossible for so many to find the means of a liveiyhood in the same man FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER ner that the past generation has. « —- — While at Central Point not long since I saw the Engineers drive the first sur KLAMATH RIVER LOGGING CAMP vey pin towards laying out the canal to tap ITEMS. Rogue river at the falls, intending to bring an abundance of water to irrigate what is Real March weather, eonsistingof rain, now known as the desert, It will cost con siderable money, but will be of immense snow, hail, sleet and sunshine alternate benefit to the whole county. The gentle ly every day. men that have the enterprise in hand are said to be financially able to carry out The camp is unusually quiet just now their plans, but they should have the en owing to a good many men being laid couragement of every citizen in the coun ty, no matter what portion of the county off until better weather.'- he may reside. The Pokegama mill whistle is a loud We had a pleasant chat with an old gentleman on the train, who was just six days from the snow fields of Nebraska. As we rode down from Ashland and could see the green fields around Talent and vicinity he seemed delighted, he cas ually remarked that he had just finished husking two thousand bushels of corn, and the snow was from a foot to LS inches deep all the time, and mercury below zero. How would our Oregon boys like that business? 1 visited the Medford school a few (lavs • ago and jvas very much interested and pleased with the systematical manner in which the school is governed. There is an organized band of music formed from among the members of tin* school and the children form outside and march double tile, into the large hall and separate to their respective rooms to martial music, keeping step; and all is quiet, no jostling or hurry. The desks are not marred nor the neighboring fences or buildings brok en or destroyed. Order and system rule • • complete, which is as necessary to the future welfare of the pupil as I mm k kn««w I- Il should l»c the «lilt v of Olli’ sell« ol board in employing tea«’hets t<» see that I one. It can be heard very distinctly at this camp although we are at least thirty miles distant from the mill. The first log-drive down the Klamath river consisting of over five million feet is almost completed. 11 s now a dem« nst rat I ed fact that floating logs down the Klam I ath river is a decided success, and it is s tid that logs can be cut, floated and delivered in the mill-pond at Pokegama for h.s than four dollars a thousand. J. ___ -i- -. Welborn Beeson, who has been suffering for sometime w ¡th rheumatism and I in died ailments resulting fr« ni the bad weather, is much belt’ r and hop« - to be all right again a: soon as ”< the:» al mild ness” opens up. .las. Purves, who*e dwelling b«»u-t wa burned on the 20th lilt, ha - trai f«>nm d a large wood and store ln»i se into a \» ry comfort able, t<liip<raiy (.welling into which his family luianl the fore | ail of the week. I I