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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
4
Advertising rates set at 1.50 dollars on application as second class matter dated August 30 1904 at Madras Oregon post office under congressional act. The item appears in the Thursday December 16 1907 edition.
A Prineville letter to the Oregonian notes Crook County holds over 750,000 bushels of wheat in Agency Plains blocked by 60 miles to rail Shaniko and high haul costs. Despite bumper harvests in Central Oregon, farmers face market and land law concerns, with Campbell dry farming praised but adoption limited.
Commissioner Ballinger of the General Land Office urges a new Congress law for Western States with semi arid lands. It would allow entry of tracts up to 640 acres to aid settlers already struggling on 160 acre homesteads. The plan aims to reduce false yields and hardship, noting the need for summer fallow farming and discouragement under current limits.
The Oregon Journal notes fortunes will flow into Oregon for grain flour and products, calling the money a possible drug on the market. It commends the governor for declaring holidays and then cancelling them, saying safety urged by timing may have been best.
The Receiver Louis H. Arneson outlines time extensions for cash payments on timber and stone entries and homestead proofs. Applicants must prove they lack cash due to banking stringency and show enough money or equivalent assets to cover payments to receive a 30 day extension. Extensions depend on genuine need and availability of funds or equivalents.
Two petitions for new county roads in the end of the county will be carried to the March term of the County Court. Madras-Culver road changes and a new road at Agency Plains grade were posted one day late, delaying the required thirty days. The error stemmed from miscalculation of time under statutory rules excluding the start day and including the last, with Sunday or holidays also excluded.
Steam rolling and dry rolling services offer 15 ton daily capacity with prices two fifty and two dollars per ton. For sale thoroughbred cockerels and exchange for grain or cash. Antelone and Madras ads feature holiday toys from Robinson & Co. and varied farm notices.
J E Shears district deputy promotes Modern Woodmen of America in Portland Oregon and Madras Oregon. The active fraternal order claims 960000 members and 20000 certificates with six billion four hundred million dollars in protection for widows and orphans. The note highlights low management costs and favorable rates compared with other societies as it reports monthly net gains and outreach.
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