The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1916-09-28
LIVELY CONDITIONS
IN lone COUNTRY
Wheat Averages Better Than 80 Bu-
shels.-Other Interesting Cores
pondence From the Egg City.

has threshed over 1000 sacks of
grain. This is Turkey red and was
raised from imported seed costing Mr..
McMurray more than three dollars
per bushel, yet he figures that it paid
him we'll and it is his opinion that
more grain for seed should be import
ed to improve the quality of our pro-
duct. Mr.. McMurray also experimen-
ted with 100 acres of Spring sown
Turkey Red and this has produced ex-
ceedingly well, so we'll in fact, that
he believes this to be good grain
for Spring sowing. 1t is a very
hardy grain and cannot fail to bring
results. The 100 acres was "disked
in" as Mr.. McMurray had no we'll pre-
pared ground to plant at the time of
the sowing. His returns on this 100
acres should be around ten sacks to
the acre, and results no doubt would
have been far better had the grain
been sOwn on we'll prepared soil. Be-
ing one of the progressive farmers
of this section, Mr.. McMurray will
thresh better than $4,000 sacks of
grain from 400 acres this season,
and he has it all in the sack now but
about 400 acres which is headed and
ready for the thresher. A combined
harvester did most of the work. Mr..
McMurray will move on to his own
farm soon and he is contemplating
the purchase of caterpillar engine
to do his plowing and take the place
of so many horses and mules neces-
sary to do the work at the present
time. He believes his place to be
we'll situated for the use of such a
machine.
Mrs. c. Minsinger, accompanied by
her. daughters, Miss Edna and Miss
Helen, Miss Jean Stevens and Mr.. W.
W. Geer arrived from Portland on
Wednesday last on their way to the
Pendleton Roundup. They were
Joined here by Mr.. F. E. Cronan, of
the Bank of lone, and the party pro-
ceeded on to Pendleton Thursday
morning, remaining for the three
days of the big western show. These
people are travelling by auto and ZEN
joyed" some of the fine Morrow and
Umatilla roads on the trip. They re-
turned to lone by way of Heppner,
coming from Pendleton over the Blue
trail and pronounced that end of the
road an improvement over the other
route. The big show at Pendleton
was compensation, however, for the
inconvenience suffered in getting
there.
W, L. Houston arrived from Port
land Tuesday to take charge of the
construction of the new Mason block.
Work on the store building will be
commenced at once and pushed to
completion at an early date. This
store building will be one of the best
and most convenient structures in the
county, and being built of brick and
tile will also present handsome ap-
pearance. Bert Mason has been mer-
chandising in lone for the past sew
enteen years and his friends rejoice
with him that he is making this pro-
gressive move at this time. The new
building will go up on the corner op-
poste the bank.
]. T. Knappenberg, j. w. Puyear,
j. H. Cochran and Louis Padberg
made up a party of lone nimrods who
hied themselves to the tall timber
of the Blue mountains on Tuesday.
These gentleman have some buck
deer staked out up there and are
making this trip at this time for the
purpose of bringing them in. Their
friends are all getting ready for ven
ison, and there should be plenty of
| it to go around, providing
B. F. Sorenson, of Morgan was a
passenger Wednesday for Harrisburg,
Oregon, his former home. Mr. Sor-
enson has been doing considerable
dairying in connection with his other
farm work since locating on his Nor
row county farm. He has decided,
however, to engage more extensively
in wheat raising, and will dispose of
his dairy stock. Any one interested
in getting some good young Holstein
mixers should get in communication
with Mr. Sorenson at Morgan.
Four children of the E. Fl. Turner
family who reside north Of lone, are
down with typhoid fever and are un-
der the care of physician. The doc
tor pronounces the attack of rath-
er light form but severe enough to
keep the young people confined for
some time yet. An analysis of the
water used by the family from barrels
would seem to reveal the cause of the
attack.
L. D. Peterson returned to his
home at Toledo, Oregon, on Wednes-