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Evening star., 1922-05-26
RLASTFURNAcE HOURS
SHORTER SINCE 1910
Labor Bureau Statistics Show Rate
of Decrease In Steel Workers
: e on 12-Hour Basis.

"A report on changes in the hours
Of labor in the iron and steel indus
try of the country during the ten
years ending in 1920, made public yes
terday by the bureau Of labor statistics
of the Department OF Labor. shows
that in the blast furnace productive
occupations the number of employees
working seven days of twelve hours
each had decreased from rs per cent
to 10 per cent. In 1890, however. II
per cent Of all blast furnace en-
ployes continued to work a twelve
hour day for six days a week. and 80
per cent for six and seven days. al
ternately, the report showed, making
Evening star., 1922-05-26
THE EVENING STAR WAsHMaToN D. o. FRIDAY, 2e 1922

. total Of G. par cent working the
twelve-hour day for seven or six
days.
INTRODUCTION of the sight-hour day
had been extended in 1920 to II per
cent Of the employees, working seven
days week. and to PER cent work
ing six days in this branch OF the
industry.
In the steel making departments
among the Bessemer converting EN-.
pIoyes over rs per cent were still
working the twelve-hour day, either
six days or seven days per week In
1920, with % per cent on eight
hour shifts, while of the open
hearth furnace employees about so
per gent were still working the
twelve-hour day with 80 per cent on
an eight-hour basis. In rail mills 60
per cent were still working twelve
hours a day. In bar mills more than
SO per cent, blooming mills about SO
per cent and pudding mills, 20 per
cent
Tho first machine for sewing me-
Evening star., 1922-05-26
ORDERED TO HAITI.

Lieut.. Commander Richard H. Lam
ing, at the Hospital Training School,
Norfolk, Va. has been detailed as as
sistant sanitary engineer, Republic of
Haiti.
Evening star., 1922-05-26
TO COMMAND DEsTR0YERs.

Capt. Samuel w. Bryant of the office
Of the office of naval communications.
Navy Department, has been assigned
to the command OF division 80, de-
stroysr squadrons. Atlantic fleet.
Evening star., 1922-05-26

The first machine for sewing me
chanically was patented in 1890.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23
Portland Holds the Key
TIME delegates to the open river conference

TIME delegates to the open river conference are
welcome guests in Pendleton. This place is
not on the Columbia yet it has shown more in
terest than any other community in the cause of
river development. Our interests are three fold.
As the capital of a wheat producing territory this
city is interested in barge navigation on the Column
bia so as to reduce freight rates. We are interest
ed in greater power development and in irrigation
through pumping which may be brought about
through harnessing the waters Of the Columbia.
1t is now well recognized that to open the river
we must develop its power resources. The swift
water at various places in the stream prohibits
barge navigation. At present powerful boats may
navigate the Columbia and Snake as far as Lewis
ron but we have no real commercial navigation.
We won't have until the river Is further improved or
a type Of boat is produced that will revolutionize
our method of water transportation.
But the difficulty that ~confronts us is a blessing
in disguise. We need power as badly as we need
cheaper transportation. Most Of the power devel-
opment has been on a private basis and the ann
has naturally been minimum Development and max
iinum rates. We pay high for electricity for light
ing purposes. The rates are such as TO make cleo
tricity prohibitive for heating purposes and almost
prohibitiye for industrial purposes. We need
cheaper electricity so that it may be more general
" used. Our railroads should be electrified ano
much Of our arid land should be watered through
pumping by electricity.
There is plenty Of potential power available.
Nearly one third the prospective water power OF
he nation is in the Columbia basin. The total pos
sible hydro-electric power Of the region runs above
20 million horse power. Three projects on the
ne. the Bonneville, Cello and Unatilla fapios
projects, may be made to produce over 2,ooo'ooo
horse power. The task is to get the river harnessed'
Fendleton has no more interest than other towns
IN securing development of the river. Our selhsn
Interests in the matter are not as great as nose OF
Portland. Many 10 Portland have not yet awakened
te inc fact but the real destiny OF. our metropolis IS
Taxed up with this subject and forever VIII DC.
2 line on what Columbia power development
means 10 Portland was recently given by the Ore
pe. lounal in the following editorial, which IS wor-
Thy If reproduction -.
Why not put Portland on an electric parity win ~
tptnag 49, IL
Fhs average householder in that city can heat ms
house with electricity at a cost Hppreximating siz =
,aonth H. Il able Ia buy current for house heating from
his mtmlcipal plant At 2 cents 3 hlosatt hour. ne -
able 10 ~electrify his home completely a. q cost q aDV''
Why not put Portland on an electric parity with BE-
sstivs
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23
Prison Helps the Farmer

WHETHER the officials of the international
wv Harvester Company have been more inter.
W ested in marriages than in machinery may
not be decided, but figures given out by the census
bureau would indicate that the trust had better pay
closer attention to business if it hopes to keep up
the exploitation Of men who till the soil.
The census department shows that in 1921 there
has been a decrease of Al per cent in the total val
lie of farm machinery products sold as compared
with the year before. The largest percentages of
decrease appear in horse-drawn vehicles and in
tractors and traction engines.
This is a tremendous falling off, but while it has
been in progress price reductions on farm machin-
cry manufactured at the Minnesota State prison,
granted in response to a request by the Minnesota
Farm Bureau Federation, have saved farmers OF
that state Sl50,000 in a year.
A report from this prison shows that 7 ,l08 farm
machines have been sold in the last twelve months,
including particularly binders, mowers and rakes,
This represents an increase of l39 per cent in the
use of binders, 3S per cent in the sale of mowers,
and 10 per cent increase in the consumption OF
rakes.
The manufacture Of farm machinery in the State
prison comes as a result OF farm bureau activity
and should prove an inspiration to other states, for
seemingly a way has been found to get at least the
thin edge of the wedge into the iron ring the Har-
vester trust has held around the throat of the farm
er for years.
1t has been contended that putting on the market
the products of prison labor would unhorse busi-
ness, but if the Harvester trust be endorsed, no
body will grieve very much.
The farmers pay their share for the support of
the restricted criminals, so it is not a bad idea for
them to get something out of the labor of their
wards.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23

gentleman friends were the guests
Of The Mayor after taking in the
dance at Cecil on Saturday.
Our sympthies are extended to Mrs.
Geo. A. Miller and family Of High
view ranch. Mrs. Miller's father pass
ed away on November, II, at Battle
ground Washington.
Mrs. Karl Farnsworth who has
been visiting friends in Heppner re-
turned to her home at Rhea Siding
on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashur Montague and
children of Eight Mile and friends
from Freewater were calling in Cecil
on Sunday.
Miss Annie C. Hynd of Butterfly
Flats left on Monday for Heppner
where she will visit for some time.
Mr.. kellogg manager of the Tuna
Lum 20. of lone was doing business
on Willow creek druing the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. ]. McEntire and
children of Killarney were doing bust
ness in Arlington on Thursday.
Mr.. Sydney White of Portland was
looking up his friends in the Cecil
vicinity on Saturday.
Everett Logan of Heppner spent
Wednesday and Thursday in Cecil,
h. ], Streeter was a business man
in lone on TUESDAY,.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23

The people Of that city have undertaken one Of the
great mechanical romances Of modern times. They will
develop $4,000 horsepower from Sksgit river. Ruby
reservoir, 1890 feet above sea level. will be % miles long
and its dam 4so feet high, and water will feed through
q tunnel So miles to Rnby power house 500 feet lower
down, developing $4,000 horsepower. Gorge reservoir,
still lower, will be four miles long, with a dam 900 feet
long and 20 feet high, the water passing through two
tunnels, each two miles long. to Gorge power house,
where 225.o0o horsepower will be developed. The great
surge OF industry from the Skagit river project will be
turned into the industries and the homes of Seattle, to
give it an electrified advantage over competitor cities.
Why not put Portland on an electric parity with Che
halls?
Chehalis has a fine new city hall. But the taxpayers
of Chehslis levied no tax to pay for it. They issued no
bonds. They constructed the new building, which COM
bines municipal Offices, the fire and police bureaus and
the municipal court, from the profits Of their municipal
lighting system. Chehalis does not generate electric
current, but buys it from a private corporation. 1t buys
for 4 cents a kilowatt and sells for I cents. Seven cents
a kilowatt is a fraction of a cent less than the first rate
paid in Portland by customers of the lighting companies.
The race in the West is to be to the strong. The in
dustrial future of any Western city is to be gagged by
its utilization of hydro-electric power opportunities.
The growth of industry together with expansion of port,
distributive and marketing facilities, will determine the
future prosperity of any Western city.
Washington cities are going ahead electrically. Cal
ifornia communities are the most highly developed cleo
ally in the nation.
Why not put Portland on an electric p~arity-in SER
vice and cost of serviee-with her eompetitors2
Portland has the opportunity to not merely at
tain a parity with her competitors but to outdis-
lance all cities in the nation in the electric race. All
the big proposed projects on the Columbia are with
in the transmission radius of Portland. Up here
We think the Umatilla rapids project should be first
constructed because the cost would be compare.
lively low, the engineering task simple, and land
to be irrigated is adjacent to the project. How
ever, if a disinterested survey should show some
other project as the ~favorite for early work we will
be for il.
What we want is development and from the
standpoint of Oregon's influence Portland holds the
key. If Portland will devote to Columbia river de-
velopment one half the energy that was wasted on
the fair proposition we will secure results that will
be far more lasting than could be obtained from
any Observation-Disclosures East Oregonian.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23
Live Cecil News Items.

Congratulations are extended to
MIR, and Mrs. Joe White who were
married at The Dalles on Tuesday
November. a. Mrs. White was Miss
Mary Ellis Of The Willows. Cards are
issued by the happy couple for a re-
ception which will be held on Satur-
day evening at their new home near
The Willows.
Judge Robinson Ione's leading at
torney accompanied by Ed Bristow
the genial General Dealer of lone
and his son Edmund were roaming
round the Cecil hills early Sunday
morning in search Of geese, or what
ever they could catch. Results at hand
Master Harvey Smith of Four Mile
visited his friend Noel Streeter at
Cecil on Sunday. The young hunts
men left in search of all kinds of
game, but they never saw a jack
rabbit and landed home disguised
with their days outing,
Mr.. and Mrs. C, W. MeNamer, Mr..
and Mrs. Mike Kinney and John ].
Kelly some of the leading citizens of
Heppner made a short call in Cecil
on their return journey from Port
land where they took in the sights
of the Stock show.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Allyn of Forest
Grove have been busy looking after
their property near Cecil and visiting
their old neighbors at the same time.
We were pleased to see Mrs. Allyn
so much improved after her recent
serious operation.
Ellis Minor made a short stay in
Cecil on his return journey from
Portland before leaving for his ranch
near lone. We were glad to hear from
Ellis that his father is improving
since he arrived in Portland.
Mrs. J. H. Samuels and children of
Athena arrived at Willow creek ranch
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. Chand-
Ter on Tuesday and will spend some
time visiting before returning home.
Peter B~suernfiend of Cecil is visit
ing friends in lone and Heppner for
a few days before leaving for Paso
Robes Springs, California, where he
will take treatments for a few months
Miss Violet Hynd and Miss Hazel
Anderson of Heppner and several
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department of the Interior, U. S
Land Office at La Grande, Oregon
November Is, 1922. Notice is hereby
given that William Cunningham, Of
Lena, Oregon. who, on August IL.
1920. made Additional Homestead En-
try, No. O17S77, for whSwA, SEA
SWA, Section 20, NhNWh, SEA
NWANWh, Section 20, NEhNEA,
Section 80, Township 8 South, Range
90 East, Willamette Meridian, has
filed notice Of intention to make Fl
nal three-year Proof, to establish
claim to the land above described, be-
for United States Commissioner, at
Heppner, Oregon, on the 18th day of
January, 1928.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Paul Hisler, of Heppner, Oregon;
Percy Cox, Of Heppner, Oregon;
Frank 7. Peery, of Lena, Oregon; L.
L. Hiatt, of Lena, Oregon.
CARL G. HELM, Register.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23
School to Save Human Life

.rLAT jewellers in New York are now to be
n blessed in the erection of a bacteriology build
! ing in which the public will be shown how to
prevent disease.
A museum with models will demonstrate how to
eradicate rats and flies, and how to ditch to do away
with maiarial mosquitoes, and how to indulge in
home pasteurizing of milk. Also the sanitary hand
ling of food and the proper kind OF plumbing that
should be installed in the public safety will be
shown.
Truly New York is a wonder city. Medically
there is nothing like il in the world. Your million
aire pays $4,000 for an operation from skilled
hands that perform the same operation on the
needy free Of charge. For the poor the city is a
medical and surgical paradise.
Forward looking men of course have now come
TO see that prevention is becoming more and more
necessary in the practice of medicine. In the old
days doctors were taught how to cure disease. Now
they are being taught how to prevent il.
II is high time the national and state govern
ments recognized the necessity of following New
York's lead.
The elections are over. Our new government
officials will soon be in harness. What a relief it
would be if they would spend some Of the public
money for the preservation of the public health.
New York has the advantage Of a great concen-
tration Of medical skill that does not exist in the
country, but the principles Of health conservation
apply alike in all districts.
Why cannot the national and state health depart
ments educate the people to health preservation
through officially advertised instructions and talks
to the people signed by the proper authorities.
The newspaper is the vehicle to spread this
knowledge.
We have said this before, but sometimes it takes
a surgical operation to get an idea into the head of
the government.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23

Mrs. C. C. Chick. wife Of Dr. Chick
Of Heppner Is a patient at the local
hospital following an operation which
was performed upon her yesterday
morning.-Pendleton Tribune.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1922-11-23

Miss Neva Hayes is leaving this
morning for a two weeks vacation
which she win spend with relatives at
Eugene and Portland-PendIeton
Tribune.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09

The Rainbow Oil company's No. l
we'll, 9-35-3 west, cased with eight
inch to the 1900 level, after securing
a heavy flow of gas which it is using
for fuel, resumed drilling the first of
the week, with every indication that
the well will prove to be producer.
Field Manager Thompson is well
satisfied with the work accomplished,
in view of the difficulties encountered
and delays occasioned by lack of fuel,
and is optimistic as to the well prov
ing productive at the depth of the
Campbell discovery well.
A well receiving much attention,
especially from Kelvin people, is the
one being drilled by the GladysBelle
Oil company for the Three-In-One Oil
syndicate in section 1882 west
which was past the 900 foot level Sun
day and making steady progress.
Field Supt. Roome believes the loca-
tion favorable one. With continued
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09
Sweet Grass Paper Refutes Knockers
To Visit Field Would Prove Worth
Editor Holderby Says, 1T Is Ridiculous For Any
One Who Has Visited the Field to Make a
Statement That the Ohio Is Slowing Up
Developments"

Farms in spots for miles around are
covered with oil material. Derricks on
the right and left; to the north, south,
east and west. Whose outfit is that :?
This is usually the question. Nine
times out Of ten the reply will be.
Why that is the Ohio.
"The Ohio company is making a
record in sinking wells, the Barr be-
ing the second to be drilled to what
is believed to be the production depth
and it has two more, the Sinden well
on section 1852 west, already ex-
pected in, which within the short time
the company came into the field is
considered a creditable record. In adj
dition there are four more holes being
drilled by this company and it is saiC.
they have spotted eight more locations
and this is credited as many new rigs
and vast amount of equipment is in
the yards at Sunburst for the Ohio,
and it would appear that dry holes
or insufficient produ I'll n is not to
stop the company from making
thorough tes. of a wide area in .he
sector in which it is operating.
after reading the above paragraph
can any one say hat this company is
slowing up development in the Sun
burst field. AS a matter of fact the
field would be a sick one without the
Ohio.
IF this is the way the Ohio goes
about it to put an oil field on the bum,
it is certainly something unique"
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09

approximate oil sands depth and is
located in the northwest corner of the
northwest quarter Of the northeast
quarter of section 1852 west, east of
the Sunburst discovery well.
The oil sand was first reached at
one o'clock Saturday morning and
when Kevinites were at breakfast
they heard the good news of the big
we'll and from that moment on a re-
newed activity could be noticed in the
oil camp and throughout the field.
Local officers of the Ohio company
we'll satisfied with the well,
Field Manager Hesler expressing him
self as believing it would prove a pro4
duction double of that of the Sunburst
No. !, with chances it might be even
better than this. He said the pipe and
pump would be put on as soon as the
we'll was cleared and properly cased
and that the pump would then tell ac-
the production.
Great Falls Gets News
Coupled with the report of the com
ing in Of the Davey well, undoubtedly
the largest yet obtained in the field,
was the report received by ArbyI
Beardslee from Kelvin that the Louis
Dill company we'll on section 1858
vest had been shot, with a good in
,rease Of flow from the soft streak in
he lime at 1,740 feet, reports the
Great Falls Tribune 1t was estimated
hat it is now 10-barrel we'll after
he first shot Of 20 quarts of nitro
glycerin. After leaving it for the
light to observe results, it will be
hot with heavier charge today.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09
Royalty Brings Good Price

That royalty sales are on the up
grade is evident from recent transact
ions and while there is too much on
the market in territory not yet def
nitely proven to make such stuff high
price, the close-in pieces are turning
at fair prices. Bill O'Haire, Sunburst
booster and manager of the townsite
of that oil camp city, Saturday, sold
one per cent royalty interest in 100
acres, the northwest of section 1852
west, at the rate of $40 per one per
cent an acre, the buyer being the Car
ter Oil company. 1t is understood,
however, that this particular royalty
was sought by the company because it
carried with it the redemption privi-
lege on the land.
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09
Lease Of Northwest Ohio Producer
Brings Estate $4,000 Cash Value
Lease of Northwest Ohio Producer Brings Big
Cash Figure When Part of the Howard
Wolf Estate Is Sold Showing Great Faith i'm
This Field. -

Another deal showing that there is
no lack of faith in the possibilities of
large area of the -Sunburst
field was reported during the week
when the sale Of the lease on 800
acres of land one mile north and
west of the Sunburst discovery well
by the California company, subsidiary
of the Standard Oil of California, for
$4,000 cash, was asked for approval
by Judge J. B. Leslie i'm Cascade
county district court.
This land is part Of the Howard
Wolf estate and was sold on court
order by Jeremiah Wolf, administra-
tor, at private sale held Monday
AFTERNOON. M f
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09

One by one-and sometimes six OF
a dozen-of the big oil men and big
oil concerns Of the United States
come to the Kevin-Sunburst field and
when once they come they nearly al
ways invest and plan operations.
One of the latest of the never end
ing new operators here is Governor
Frank Franz, who was at the head of
the Franz Oil corporation which sunk
the first well and has been a leader
in the development Of Cat Creek. He
is associated in the operations here,
under the name Of the Montana-Sweet
Grass Oil g. Gas company, with Dem
yer, Salt Lake City and Great Falls
men, including L. Lilly and B. O.
Jones of Denver, George T. Hansen
of Salt Lake City and DR.. Donald K
Woods of Great Falls.
Announcement was made Wednes-
day that the company has already OBJ
tanned holdings in the Kevin-Sunburst
field and that drilling machinery has
been loaded for shipment. A policy of
development is being outlined.
Hansen was formerly district west
ern manager of the Alis-Chalmers-
company, covering the
states of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Mon
tana and Idaho. Later entering the
The Kevin courier. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1922, 1922-08-09

The following paragraphs are taken
from an article which appeared in the
Sweet Grass Advocate last week, and
are being reprinted by The Courier
not because this paper thinks the big
oil company needs any defense but
because we believe the Kevin-Sun-
burst field has been injured by the
propaganda against this particular
company and because we believe adj
verse criticism Of the company's oper-
ations in this territory at least are
unjustified by the facts.-Editor
Courier.
"While the Ohio Oil company is be-
ing knocked down and jumped on by
both feet by number of papers, big
and little throughout the state, and
accused of trying to put the Sunburst
field entirely on the bum, by striking
busters and slowing up development,
the company does not seem to care
one continental and keeps right on
spotting and spudding in, and buying
all leases and royalties available.
ut seems ridiculous for any one
who has visited the field to make a
statement that the Ohio No. has a
small showing of oil and enough gas
to keep four other wells in fuel and
still some left. The Barr well has gas
rated all the way from 100000 to
100000 feet -(This was written
previous to the bringing into produc-
ton Of the Ohio-Davey No. 2 welI.
"Visit the field and see for yourself.