Show CITY Mon Uti lug Tract or of Lund nit laker ker City Ore Jul July isis of the Conley trAct of land near hr Li Orande Orand consistIng of bout about eN acres is II important to 10 the Grande Orad Rand Roada vii val valley ley especially to Li La Farm Farming In ing on the wholesale plan baa long loar proved profitable to a few Individuals but bUI It develops the resources ot of the be country only to u a limited n extent ent T This large tract which has been sowed lOwed to wheat for lur twenty 7 years I is capable of ofa t ta a I Ih high d degree of cultivation It extends alon along lb the rIver bottom and nd whit what is II known a ii the sand taDd ridge Four thou thousand sand Ind acres or more than half hlf can be placed under irrigation If irrigation which h ha not been needed for far wheat I found for tor small crop the rho land was 1111 sold lit 1 A It D onley thu Grand Grands fundS Rond Wheat kin king who b has owned most moat ot of It for tor twenty y yeses to the Oregon lAnd company Lh the com company pan formed for tor the purpose of at making the purchase Its Ita ar are C W Nibley George Stoddard and M 1 I Can Cansey The Tb stockholders are David C W Nibley Judge Jude T D Dee George Stoddard and nd K II L 1 Can CanSe IY Se Tb The officers his c W president David Beel vIce and I 14 Ij 1 Camel The These men are all 11 Interested In tb the theLa La Ia Grande Orand sugar lur factory and they have purchased tb the land In order to 10 menus the supply of 01 beets beete for lor the factory Their plan I is no not to retaIn the manage management ment of the land Iad perhaps not nol even Ih the ot of It but to dIvide It up Into small mall tract and nd to have bave a colony of famIlies from Irom Utah occupy It Here lIer 1 Ii where the benefit to the valley Bile arises rt These families will wll engage n In diversified farming on a cloSe and nd careful plan for tor not more than to 50 per cent of tb the theland land will 11 be own cown to bet beets They will build not Hot Ie less than twenty as aswell well u a school hou houses churches et etc The They will also plant mant orchards orchard and beautify the country In many ways way wayT T Tb mount amount of produce and the volume olum of trade will thus Ihu be increased VI very materIally The Th sale Ie also 10 IndIrectly increases the facilities for marketing the produce ot of ota ofa a large Iro section In and aAd around Cove and nd enhances tb tIme importance of Li Grande Orande U II the commercial center ot of the county For having made mide the pur purchase chase the sugar company will wili now build a railroad from a point pInt on the EIght llIn branch nr near the Conloy Conley ware wre hones to COVe The survey urey hut hR hiatt I made and the right of way practically I secured It II understood that the i actual work ot of grading may soon oon be CItY Democrat |