Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-17
STATE NEWS
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Liver Lake Ore.-Emil Nelson, who
owns homestead in section 81, town
ship 26. south, six miles north of Butte,
| this county was in town this week re-
hearsiHg his well.making experiences.
Recently he completed the drilling of a
well on his place, and when down to a
| depth of l26 feet the rd1ll passed
through a blue rock stratum % feet in
| thickness and below this until the
depth of 300 feet was reached there
were many different stratas of a red
formation which caved and caused con
siderable trouble. At the depth of 300
feet the drill reached white sand and
warm water, and the deeper the drill
went into the sand the hotter the water
became and wnen the drill was with
drawn and the pump put to work, the
water was found to be too hot for irri-
cation and other domestic purposes.
Medford Mail: Game Wardens Dris-
coll and Walker went to the Green
Spring mountains this afternoon to in
vestigate a reported case of several
deer having been "snowed in that
region and as being in danger of star
vation or destruction by hunters if not
rescued at once. They will have to-
travel on snowshOes to reach the point
where the deer are reported to be i'm
prisOued. They will take m outsider
along to gather unofficial evidence.
Roseburg Review: Employing - men,
working under experienced officials and
rushing the work as fast as possible to
take advantage of the favorable
weather, over three miles of steel has
been laid on the OswekO, Dallas and
Roseburg Railroad, according to w. j.
Ford, who returned from the camps
this morning, where he has been located
for the past several weeks.
Crook County journal: The meeting
of the Oregon Cattle and Horse Rasers
: association, which was to have been
held in Baker the first week in this
month, has been postponed until the
first days of May. A large delegation
of stockmen from this part of the state
will no doubt be able to attend the
meeting at that time.
-Nollhilt 1 lNluENs / lt DttI sugar ldt-
tory will be located at Grants Pass,
probably on a j0-acre site Just across
tine river from the city. Final announce
ment of the location came as an answer
to an offer from the Medford CONNER
cial club. which agreed to guarantee the
sugar interests 5000 acres if they would
build at Medford.
Weather diagnosis by the Aurora OBJ
server talented Macksburg cores.
pondent February, stormy as it has
been so far, nevertheless brought with
it much of the forecast Of spring. The
grass SHOWS that it has not been idle
during its long concealment under the
snow. Both pastures and lawn are of
the deep. fresh green that proclaim the
winter to have lost his hold, once
more.
The Sherwood News hopes the pro.
moters of the Sherwood Fair association
Twill meet with success in their pur.
chase of grounds and the building Of
race track and exhibition grounds at
Sherwood -
"The promise of an increased acreage
of wheat in this valley this season, y
says the Medford Mail Tribune, Gear
ries with it the additional promise Of
a much improved quality of grain. Bite
ter seed has been selected and better
seed beds prepared
Up to Thursday, the East Oregonian
says, snow saoyelers working for the
city had earned $332.7O according to
warrants paid out by the city recorder
and some Of the shovelers were still on
the job
The Klamath Sportsmen S association
has chosen Stukel mountain as range
for the Is head of young elk TO be lib
Grated in klamath county by the state
fish and game commission. Winter feed
ing will be provided for.
Albany Democrat: Reports from the
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