The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1914-11-14
1a1k and within 60 DAVIS nrior 10


1915, and within 60 days prior tc
presenting the application. II
the applicant is unknown to the
County Clerk he must be identi'
fed and vouched for by q known
citizen. A party seeking the col
lection of a bounty is presumed
to be as truthful in his state
ments as is the property owner
lin listing and turning in his pro-
perty for assessmen. or as a wit
ness who is testifying in a court
proceeding. If the affidavit is
false he is as guilty of perjury as
is the person swearing to an un-
true assessment list, or giving
false testimony.
On the financial side the figures
and results are enormous. From
the hundreds of individual ex-
amples throughout the county
we will give one illustration. We
will take Frank o. Jackson. He
was not an advocate of the mea-
sure and is doubtful as to is
workings. But Frank Jackson
the type of citizen that Harney
county must have for its devel-
opment as an agricultural section;
his efferts must be successful and
prosperous or the county will
have no permanent prosperity.
Mr.. Jackson states that his grain
crop this season was damaged by
rabbits to the extent of more
than One Thousand Dollars; that
the rabbits are now feeding upon
and have already destroyed at
least one.half of the stand on his
fifty acres of alfalfa. Rabbits
feed the entire year: when there
no grain, vegetables and alfalfa
fields or hay stacks available they
are foraging upon the range
grasses. Every product Of the
county: the value Of every acre
of land is affected. The prospec-
tive purchaser sees the rabbits
and the results Of their depreda-
tons. To suppress the facts is
impossible and as dishonest as an |
open denial. Prior to the adop-
ton Of the bounty law the farm
er had no promise of relief; the
land seller could point to no i'm
mediate remedy, They can now
refer to at least one systemaict
effort to remove the menace.
If the large land owners have
other methods of accomplishing
the desired results which are
more efficient and econimical
than the bounty, the new law
ioes not prohibit their employ
nent. II incubation. poisoning
Or the drives" are the most eff
icient, inaugurate them at once.
II the citizens Of Burns. or any
'ther interested. community, can
pare the time and expense of
iome more big drives. let them
10 SO, take the sport and results
or their pay, dispose of the car
:ases as in the past. and neglect
o draw on the county funds un-
Ter such circumstances.
The situation must be faced
or we can no longer consistently
ay to the Jacksons that they
aust continue to rustic and cult
ate and seed their fields to feed
he rabbits. or that they must
airy the additional expense Of at
sast $500 per quarter section to
tretch rabbit wire on their stock /
snces with proven doubtful sue b
ess. g
The new law is not. as is often ,
lated. socialistic. It is cooper .
tive on the same lines that ten g
Itizens pool their capital and =
leir credit and call themselves a Y
bank" or that five or six busi- :
ess men and Office holders pur- :
iase a tract of land. await de- :
slopment. cell out and divide a
le profits Of the investment. II
very bushel of grain. every Il
re Of alfalfa saved from this 8