H.iiiik Oi'tiiii Itiillnmil & Nftvljfnlloii
t'iriiiiiii IimiI liiiprovcm! ill. '
Improvement work on the Orc
gut) Railroad & Navigation Com
pany's linn is progressing rabidly.
Among tho improvements on
which work in now actually under
way,, are tins following:
A stool girderbridge, 05 foci long,
near D irkjj, O.Mgdi, to redact) a
pile trestle.
A steel girder bridgi, 01 fet
1 ng, between Durkeu and Weath-
erby, Oregon, to replace a pile
trestle.
A steel girder bridge, 9r feet
long, between Weathcrby and
Huntington, to replace a Howe
Truss bridge.
A Htecl cirdcr bridge, 80 feet
long, between Weatherby and
Huntington, to replace a pile
treble,
A Htecl girder briuge, !)5 feet
long, ne.ir Huntington, to replace
a pdo treat In.
Anted girder bridge, 20 feet
long, near Huntington, to replace
a pde trestle.
A steel girder bridge, 65 feel
long, between Kiparia and Hay, to
replace a Howe Trim bridge.
A steel girder bridge, 14 feet
long, near Klberton, to replace a
pile tiestlc.
A steel liirder brideo, 11 feet
long, near (iarlield. to replaca a
frame treat Ic.
Three steel bridge, each 80 feet
long, near Tekoa, to replace Howe
Truss bridge.
A steel girder bridge, 80 feet
long, near Koekford, Wash., to re
pkee a Howe Trim bridge.
The following culverts will be
built, which will permit the frame
trestles in those places to be filled
in and a solid embankment sub
stituted therefor.
Eight-foot arch culvert, 90 feet
long, near Fairview.
Twelve-foot arch culvert, 101
feet long; sixteen-foot arch culvert
100 feet long; six-foot arch culvert.
l'JO feet long and another of tl
name size, 72 feet long, between
Freeman and Chewier.
The foregoing make a total of
l!i steel bridges and 5 concrete
maotiry arch culvert, all to be
erected this year, tho contract for
the concrete abutments and ma
sonry for the culverts having al
ready been let. An order was
placed sometime ago with tl:
American Bridge Co. for 1,501,000
pounds of steel for super-structure
of somo of the bridee. This orde
included three steel girders to 1
erected on concrete abutments
which were put in last season on
the changed line between Kc
and Nolin.
More important than ny of the
above i the contract for what w
be known as the "Kowena Change
of Line." Seven mile of entirely
new road bed on changed location
will he built between Tunnel No.
3 and The Dalles. The reasons
for this improvement are that the
present road is quite crooked and
will bo abandoned entirely, be
tween the points given. The pres
ent line has a maximum curvature
of 10 degrees, while on the new
Lne it will be but 4 degrees, The
new line will be 1000 feet shorter
than the old.
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A party of U. 8. geological sur
veyors are at work in the Cascade
mountains in the vicinity of Odcll
and Crescent lakes. They have
' found Odell lake - to be 4!)i)0 feet
and Crescent lake 5025 feet above
the level of the ocean. The sum
mit of themoantains where they
are crossed is 6850 feet above the
level. The surveyors are now
opening a trail to Waldo lake, tho
" largest one of the group in that vi
cinity, which will open a great
finning and hunting country. They
will also . clirob Diamond peak and
ascertain its height. Eugene
Guard.
COIMIP-AJSnZ",
Fire-proof building, 90300 feet, is now
ready to handle Merehawliite, Wool, etc.
HAUL YOUR FREIGHT TO SHAHIKO
DEALERS IN
Coal, Flour,
Lumber, Wood,
Hay and Grain.
Gary Honse Bar.
Henderson & Pollard, Proprietors.
FINE "WINES,
LIQUORS, CIGARS '
Speck! Attention given to wool trade. First-class baling
and grading facilities. Also stock yards, latest plims.
All Modern Improvements for Handling Stock.
MAIS STREET.
PRISEVILLE. OREGON
ritOI'IUETORS
f Fhiwh it Co., Bunkers, Tits OaJles,
J Moons liutm., iUuVvn, Miro.
: 1 W. Loan, Tim U.II.-S.
h. F, Uvaiwt, Tho Dalit.
A. M. KELSAY, General Manager-!
Cyrus, the Jeweler,
Watches
Clocks
Jewelry
Silverware
Spectacles and
Cyo Slasses
Socoty Cmblcms
Violin Bows
and Strings
Tlfachine and
8 icy do Oil
'flfandolins
Banjos
harmonicas, Ctc,
I Fostr & Lefimaa
u Proprietors.
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A Complete and Choice Line of
Beef, Veal, Mutton, Pork, Bacon,
Lard, and Country Produce.
Maill St. PrlaeyOle, Oregon. ThOUC 31.
L
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Out
FOR THE
M
jLTJL
AURY QAWMILL
Send in your orders at once.
We have a good assortment on hand and saw extras to order.
CLEAR LUMBER Planed to ORDER.
X., HAWIOSS BROS.
Call
or
largest and best assortment of spectacles in the
city. Fine repairing a specialty.
Work sent in ly mail or stage driver will receive
prompt attention. Sewing machines , cleaned
and repaired.
Main Street opposite Salomon's Store.
PrineyDle, Oregon. '
Hotel Prineville.
Hhs established its reputation u the MOST COMMODIOUS,
CONVENIENT and WELL-KEPT Hotol in Crook county.
PrlcesKeasonable.
Terming of all Stage Lines
Smith SSros.,
DEALERS IX
Senoral TIjerchandise.
SISTERS, OREGON.
Seneral Supply Point tor the Ca'starn JCalf of ths
Cascade forest Reserve. Sheepmen's Supplies a
Specialty.
)ry Soocisj Sroccries, Jfarclwam
Xadies' and Sents' furnishing Seeds. Call and
diamine our Stock.
ED N. WHITE,
JOHN COMBS.
White & Combs.
-DEALERS IN-
WINES, LIQUORS,
SSS.r CIGARS.
COUNTRY ORDERS
SOLICITED.
PRINEVILLE, OREGON.
FIRST DOOR SOUTH
POINDEXTER HOTEL.
.MEANS tabuks
Doctors find
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A Good
Prescription
Fox manMnd
WANTED !A can of bid health that R-TT-A-NS wfll
not benefit. They baniih pel" end prolong lile. One jri.ea
teNof. No the word R I P A N 8 on llie packiie anil
accept no eubalilute. R'I'PA'N'S in for J cenu, but
oe nan at .07 nrue mm. 1 " """F"7" . . vi'
teerlaualalo will be nulled to en eddren for Sve ccnla, -.'
fnrwirOd to the Ripwa Cheaiicai Co., N. to Spraca .
Street. New York.