East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-04-25
Land Is Cheap.

As an illustration of how cheaply |
land may now be secured Jim Huston
has 500 acres adjoining Ukiah on the |
north, which may be bought for S3,-
500. Burt Boynton has 4S0 acres of
splendid land that joins UlSiah town. |
site OF the east. which may be bought
for $40 an acre. McReynolds has one
of the most beautiful farms in the
valley lying on the foothills about
three miles from Ukiah, that may be
bought for Sc or 81 an acre. 1t con-
sists OF over 1900 acres and is plow
| land. pasture and about 40 acres of
| fine timber. The Studivant Brothers,
I who have had the stage contract for
| the past several years, turn over the
stage contract to Carney & Kennedy
on July /. and their farm of two Sec
tions of hay land and plow land is
for sale, and at a low price.
Jacob Born, who has lived on his
ranch for the past 19 years and be-
came we'll to do. has purchased fruit
farm 10 miles from Vancouver and is
offering his farm of 1920 acres with
the stock and improvement for $15,
600. He has already sold his summer
range lands in the mountains. Mrs
Born, in speaking Of the reason why
they sold, said: Il have been milking
from u to IS COWS for the last 10
years. and | want to have little
change and rest; we don't have to
work now. We are getting to an age
when we can afford to take it little
easier"
Camas Prairie is an ideal dairy
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cut up into small farms, so acres to
each farm, scores of thrifty dairymen
could make good livings here.
= The trouble with most ranchers who
4 have always owned large bodies OF
/. land is, they don't like to work at
milking and such work, in fact. they
don't like to do any work that they
can't do on horseback, while the
thrifty middle west farmer is more
accustomed to potter around a small
- farm. If the railroad. instead OF
waiting till the country is settled UP
-' would come now it would soon settlc
up, and it would be splendid thinl
. Tor the county generally.
One Illustration.
Fifteen years ago, when times were
d beginning to get hard, a Wala Wallf
e merchant decided to cut down ex
It penses. He had two clerks and 81
.e discharged the least competent one
d The discharged clerk after trying II
st vain to get a position i'm some othe
l. store donned his old clothes and tool
t up a homestead. He weathered tn
l. hard times. bought out his neighbor
l. as they became restless and today h
If is worth 100000. while the goo
II clerk, who was retained, has been ad
;s v9nced from $50 month to $75
month. and is still living in a rente
house, as he has not been able to sav
enough money to buy one Of his owr
, 1t is strange that the man who ca
A. never keep his nose from the grind
stone does not come out where he ca
take up a homestead If one woul
go over the land office records the
could readily find scores of claim
~ that have been filed upon and neve
Nv patented, and which could easily b
lg contested. For example, in the cour
as try near Vansycle, toward Gardeni
to there are several claims taken up b
. clerks in Walla Walla and who do NJ
comply with either the letter or tn
spirit of the homestead law. Th
same thing can be found in man
of other sections of eastern Oregon.
en- would be a blessing to the county
r. these could be contested and taken u
r. by actual settlers, persons who woul
a live on them, produce crops, and bu
Is, goods of Umatilla county merchants
at Another Illustration.
on AS an example of what can be dor
in that line, VIII Piersoll fired on II
NJ. X. r., or the s. p, and later Q
ed the O. r. e N road. Firemen's wag'
m were good but he wanted to get
nd place of his own so he resigned fro
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