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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
3
Oregon reports a November surge in school fund lending with applications totaling about 100000 and loans approved amounting to 69315. The fund offers low interest rates and strong security backing, attracting borrowers amid financial need.
A large timber land sale near Bend in the Deschutes pine belt transferred 13 01 acres to A J Dwyer Pine Co of Saint Paul for 191817 dollars. The parcel, bought at 1 38 per acre in 1892, reflects timber land value growth with extensive regional interest.
The state land board awarded 7 000 acres near Upper Klamath Lake to Mars ters and Associates Salem for which no contesting app exists. About 4 600 acres will be sold to Mareters at 1 per acre and 2 400 acres by auction. Purchasers waives recourse if title fails. Contestants included J D Carr and others of Klamath county.
Oregon City reports the Clackamas county potato crop as generally successful with yields over 200 bushels per acre. George Brown, a large grower at New Era, produced 700 bushels from 34 acres of Garnet Chili, Peerless, and Burbank varieties. Farmers received 75 cents a sack as shipments to San Francisco continue with carload lots. An estimated 15 000 to 11 000 sacks will be marketed this year from the area.
Grant county dairyman Joseph Oliver, longtime leader in the John Day area, says recent rains and abundance in the valley bring practical certainty of ample feed for stock. He disputes reports of hay scarcity and notes many sheep and cattle have been driven into the region.
Wheat prices listed for Walla Walla and bluestem with values around 72 to 78 cents, barley feed at 10 per ton, flour and grain prices across multiple varieties. No. 1 white oats at 1.07 per cental, bran and middlings priced per ton, hay values for timothy and clover, and assorted vegetables with small market quotes.
A compilation of terse, fragmentary lines and quoted exchanges. Characters such as Geraldine Miss Autumn and Madge appear in brief passages, with comments on marriage, publication age notes, and a mock Observer of Events and Things remarking on volcanoes.
Public land notices for California Oregon Nevada and Washington Territory extend timber land act filings. Names include Louis Kerl B E Mavity Andrew Senailey and others of Arago Salem Myrtle Point Roseburg with hearings set in January February 1909 before Register Bridges and local US land officers.
Land filings list several claimants from Milton North Dakota and Roseburg Oregon seeking purchase and timber land in Township 3% south, Range 1 west to 16 west. Applicants include Alexander Karr John Asklebom Morris Johnson Simon A Wroolie and J Gardner with witnesses named. protests due before specified January 1909 deadlines.
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