Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-07-06


BurnS Oregon Wednesday, June 80
After waiting day the auto to Burns never got PACK a.
scheduled So we started on the long drive TO burns WIFI
a pair of CayuSeS, and H. R, Dunlap pushing the lines
He is at the head Of large wholesale house and retail
store at Vae The latter is called the Vale radng Coz and
the forwarding and obbg business I the MGcnantS nnG
W9Sa Beuab RSwsey H9mey Burns IN GamoTS vi .6o Da
twenty S trading trading places Os are Supplied from Vale The freight
erS bring in wool with four to ten horse teams and take out
freight The forwarding business consists IN paying the
freight on shipments TO Vale, checking the shipments COL
terror settle every thirty days. but some run accounts long
er The Merchants Wholesale Co forwards wool hides peItS
10 to IA cents, had to be stored in the warehouse for
sales days. The buyers we're very particular in the adyera
Sed sales days and the sacks had to be opened and all
the wool sampled This year wool sold delivered at Vale
for 20 to % cents None went begging great deal was
sold before was Sheared The buyers went out onto the
ranges and bought up Not much laid in the warehouses
and there was nothing TO sell on sales days.
The stage road to Burns follows up Bully creek hIee
streams center at Vale the Maheur the Willow and Bully
Out about twelve miles we cross an iron dyke he oil lands
northwest The first canyon is about mile tuhe or
perhaps two miles, Birds and school houses to be equal
" scarce in this part OF the state,
Fourteen miles out we passed the old Frank ONe place.
now run by Jackson with plenty of hoyhoCkS shade trees,
fine verandah and few chickens This famous eat
ing and resting place for stages We got drink Cot Wate
Speaking Of drinking, this Is dry county, and while hard
drinking has been reduced a1d those who sell are prob
ably rendered careful he sales of near beer are very
large. II is shipped in bottled form packed in barrels
is shipped as beer" but the bottles are not labeled at ALL
There IS little or no drunkenneSS The empty bottles are
shipped out In place of being near beer' il is Just COM
mon beer and not being labeled of poor quality having
no reputation or brand to maintain II costs more than good
beer from kegs pays the manufacturer more, and the re-
taller gets more profit than II he sold labeled goods or by
the glass; AT some places the bottled "near beer is sold
by the glass; two glasses for % cents and small ones at
that The bic schooner for cents is thing OF the past
In the dry county,
Experience With Autos
Tired of waiting for the stage line auto and F0rdS auto,
we decided hit the oad with private conveyance Out about
twenty miles we found the stage line machine lying in cam
yon with broken axle, The Ford machine that has gone
through to Burns in ten hours punCtued seven tires going
sixty miles and was still on the road Wednesday afternoon,
The Boise party composed OF MeSSrS, Atkinson Sheenber
ger Davis, Gibson and Chauffeur cot out OF Vale at
a. m and had breakfast at NeStfa, Their machine was
dandy franklin with about 28-nCh wheels, fourCyiGder
gng up Cottonwood canyon We wondered how an auto ever
cot up even as far WeSta and began to wonder Wheh
or our beautiful Franklin was still in commission and II il
would ever live to get back to Boise Up the canyon we
soon came to some springs OF ice cold water, Here the
syrnga was blooming in abundance as perfectly in the
Willamette valley,
The mail line auto was strong built machine made by
the International Harvester Co. Il has the power to climb
steep, rocky mountain roads, but was weak in the axle,
All 6,30 we were over the first divide 60 we cross three
between Vale and BumS-and tottlng down the great slope
into WeSal The stage line auto with its broken axle was
lying in the middle Of the road and our bonchos totted by
No, 1905 right merrR The great basin lay spread out be-
low The WeStta valley green and smooth as the top
of a new billiard table The grain, alfalfa and poparS had
the rich dark green peculiar to perfect irrigation II is the
home of prosperous rancherS and two stores in her sell
100000 year OF merchandise.