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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1910)
I- I IN I "II HI.. ft' X Crook CoMety J on real COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, COUNTY FAIR GREAT SUCCESS The Best Ever General Verdict. SCHOOL DAY A RECORD-BEATER The A vera ( Daily Attend- ancsj Wi Over Thousand. Saturday night cloned (he miwt successful f ir that Crook county lint ever held. During the entire five dny, with , attendance run ning over a thousand a day and tlia school day crowd numlx riug ! iiiDiinniiii, nun a score ol automobile carrying passenger to the grounds and return, with numerous horedrnwn vehicle ol of every description, bucking .con tests, racing, and the uuul jam and confusion of crowds, the best local (air came to a close Saturday. Whew the people found places to eat and idecp it yet a mystery, for beside the attractiom at the fair, the circuit court attendant, and those who were before tlie slate, waler board, and the eighty odd teachers who were at the institute tit.... I il . .1 :.t . - . ' Two days Wl to the holder of the largest number of votes, a $350. ).00 Piano. A Little More Than a Month Remains! Every Dollar Purchased Entitles You to 100 Votes. Every Dollar Purchase of Jewelry Entitles you to 1000 Votes. The $1.50 YEAR were to be provided for. The ac commodation! were taxed to the ulmot. Many complain la were heard, too, of the lack of bed. Something should he done to relieve the congestion at such- a time. The dutim of the fair ihoud be changed or aome provision made to handle the crowdi. People will not come if they muni put up with any old kind of treatment. To asisl in the handling of such crowd, President Williamson of the commercial club, working through a committee, found aome j20bd in private house for the use of the visitors, and place for the teachora were provided by Kupt. roru. Almost every home in the city housed from one to a doxen visitor. The placing of the exhibit wa well under way Monday, and by TuetJay evening everything waa in readiness for the big day of the fair, The arrangement of the amusement waa never better. There waa aa much nyittiu and as many thing to see at a three ring o'reus. ' Ilaseball wa a strong drawing card during the afternoon of the last three day. The first game wa won by I'nneville and the sec ond waa aa caaily the game of the Itudmond boy. Haturday saw the final tent which wnaa hard one but gave the decinion to l'rinevillo by a score, of eight to four. Friday forenoon wax the match Continued on lat page 10 Will Get the Piano? ? ? -r"i - 'i it i i I, . ...... Mr "L V '" before thanksgiving G. W. PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, PROF. SHAW ON CROOK COUNTY Thinks It a Great Dairy Country. DAIRYMEN SHOULD MAKE $100 Per Cow Pork Raising Should be a Profitable In duatry. Trof. Shaw, the agricultural ex port of the fireat Northern Rail, way, and Prof. F. N. Greeley, edi tor of the Dakota Farmer, who are making a tour of Oregon for the purpose of securing data and in formation in regard to agriculture so a to assist the Great Northern j-in its campaign for exploiting the state, while in Prineviile last week were asked to embody their im pression of this county in a letter to the Journal. Prof. Shaw agreed and Monday' mail brought the following letter: . Editor Crook County Journal Crook county contains about 4, 000,000 acres of land which has been exlimated that at least one fourth of this amount is arable, ? ? - we will give absolutely free Elkins an J this meant that in that county at least 1,000,000 acres of land can some day oe farmed, ji i also thought that more than 400,000 acres will eventually be irrigated. This will mian that the production of Crook county will assume very large proportions in the not distant future. It will be remembered that the moet successful exhibit made at the Interstate Fair recent-J Prof. Thomat Shaw ly held at Spokane from dry land farming, came from the neighbor hood of Madras country; that one exhibit covering a space of not more than 20 feet in length won several hundred dollars at the Fair. This, ol itself, would demonstrate the possibility of growing crops of finest quality in this County. beautiful Co. OCT. 27, 1910. It would not be easy to state the exact bounds of the area of the country surrounding Prineviile that is arable. It is certainly safe to ssy, however, that the tillable land extends for several miles in each direction and more particular ly to the southwest where bigb bench lands are found embracing the several townships. These bench lands are very level, and judging from what I saw growing there, can be made to produce pay ing crops in the Mdry land" plan, but before very long a large propor tion of these bench lands will be under the ditch. This also applies to extensive areas in the neighbor hood of Redmond and to a less ex tent to land which lie to the east ware from Bend. I was a little disappointed at the small rainfall as given by the rec ord kept at Prineviile during re cent years, and was somewhat sur prised at the amount of same given by the records at Bend which is not very far distant from Prineviile. The records at Prineviile give the average rainfall as 9.16 inches while the records at Bend give the same at 16.03 inches which makes a difference of nearly 7 inches. The difference of the elevation, however, is more 'than 700 feet. The elevation at Prineviile as 2816 feet and at Bend 3629 feet, and this fact apparently holds trae of all valley and bench lands in Ore gon east of the Cascade mountain", viz: that the higher the elevation the greater is the amount of precipi tation. At both Prineviile and Bend, however, the rainfall is reasonably dietributed throughout! the year although the precipitation I during the six winter months is! is considerably greater than during the summer months. At Prineviile for the six months begin- uing wim vjciooer me rainiau is given at 55 inches whereas the rainfall for the months following April is 2 71 inches. The moder ately cool climate is highly favor able to the successful growing of crops grown' under "dry land" con ditions. That these can be success fully grown on, the precipitation connot for one moment be Ques tioned since some farmers have grown them during recent'years. I am satisfied that the bulk of the cereal production should come from what may be termed "winter crops," including winter wheat, winter rye, winter barley and win ter oats. The growing of these crops secures the largest amount possible of precipitation; it also ad mits of their maturing before the season reaches a maximum of dry' ness when grown on properly sum mer fallowed land I Am satisfied that millions of bushels of winter wheat may be farmed successfully on the dry lands of Crook county. I believe also that the sand vetch win mane a lavorable winter crop which would be beit eown in tbe autumn along with winter wheat and winter oatp, the combined crop being cut in the spring for hay Or if desired, it may be devoted to a growing pasture. The farmer Bhould not plow the land to the. greatest extent possible in the autumn epen for such spring crops as may be sown. Of these Durum wheat will probably be the beet, and next to it will come epeltz. The open character of the winter is very favorable to the admission of winter rains into the soil. In many instances the water does not go down more deeply than six inches into tbe soil. .Where the land can be irrigated, enormous crops of. hay can be grown and also good crops of any variety of cereal grain that may be desired. Apparently the clovers succeed better than alfalfa, a result which in some instances may be attributed to the nearness of under lying rocks to the surface, in some localities at least. Where the clovers grow so well, however, it will not make much difference as a combination of clovers, timothy and red top will make most excellent food for dairy cows both winter and summer. There can be no question that a great future is be fore this country in the production of dairy products, and in conjunc tion with dairying in the produc- Continued on inside page. Kntrmf l lh pnatnfflor ml Prlnmila, Oregon, mooO-claM mailer fD A MH WRY UIYAiLr JUIVI MAKES REPORT Returned Thirty-three Indictments. MAKES RECOMMENDATIONS Believes Municipalitie Should Do Their Own House Cleaning. In the circuit court of tbe state of Oregon for Crook county. Prine- vilW, Oregon, October 26, 1910. We, the Grand Jury empanneled at the October term of the Circuit Court for the State of Oregon, for Crook County, beg leave to report ar follows: e nave Deen in session nine days ard during that time have re turned into court thirty-three in dictments and twelve not true bills, v e nave Deen in session every day and also every evening, since we were first empanneled and have given our moet careful and partic ular attention to all matters of every kind which have been brought to onr attention. We have, when we thought necessary, subpoenaed all persona who could give us in formation relative to the violation of any laws and have carefully con sidered all testimony received from tbe various witnesses. ti. i . ... vt e nave examined tbe various county offices and also the property owned by the county and in rela tion thereto report as follows: That by reason of the limited crowded time at our disposal and not being expert book-keepers or sufficient time to make a detailed examination of the accounts of each officer, we cannot pass npon tne correctness of the accounts of the various officers, but as far as we are able to determine the balances appear to be correct. W also find that the system of book keeping in the Sheriff's office, the County Clerk's office and the Treasurer's office appear to be of an up to-date, complete and par ctical kind. We have also examined the County Court House and jail and and find the same in good condition and properly cared for .and have no recommendation or suggestion to make in connection therewith except that we deem it wise and therefore recommend to the County Court that a shower bath be in stalled in the coilnty jail. We find this is necessary and advisable for sanitary reasons and that the cleanliness of the prisoners is of im portance, both for the protection of the jail and for the physical welfare of the inmates confined. The subject has been laid before uaof making some recommenda tions relative to county hospital. We believe that at some tiaie such a move would be advisable npon part of the county and suggest that whenever the occasion aiises which makes the maintainance of a county hospital necessary, that the county court take steps to provide for the same. We take pleasure in recommend ing the action of the county court and officers connected with it foi the installation and bringing up-to-date of the present ownership books owned and maintained bv the county and which shows in de tail the land owned by the var'ous owners in the county. We believe that in the long run these present ownership books will more than pay for themselves by the use to which they are put and we trust that the same will be maintained and kept up-to-date continually. In relation to the various crimi nal matters and violations of the law wnich we have considered, there has been brought and laid before us different complaints relative to the existance of bawdy houses, particularly in the cities of Madras and Redmond. This mat ter is one which it is perplexing to decide and to which we have given our gravest attention. We were VOLX1V-N0.3 16 not unmindful that a previous f rand jury had mads a report that tbe handling and control of these questions should be referred to tbe various municipalities wherein tbe complaints bad arisen and without regard to that recommen dation we have given ill subject more deliberation and have come to the same conclusion. We feel that in municipalities where police officers who are paid monthly salaries and presumably attending to their duties, and where a city council with the other officers inci dental to the municipality that this question is one whicn can be handled to better advantage for tbe people than if it is attempted to be bandied by the county at large. Evidence was brought before us showing that three municipalities fine these people and the money for such fines goes into the city treasuries of tbe municipalities and such being tbe case we believe that the taxpayers at large, scattered in all parts of tbe county, should not be required to pay an additional burden for attempting to regulate something which is entirely a thing within the power of each munici pality. Under tbe municipal corporation statutes of the state the mayor and city council are granted full power and authority to regulate or suppress houees of this kind, and we believe that question is one which should be left to their power and authority to regelate or suppress as to each municipality may seem wise. In this connection we further state that the grand jury only meets twice a year and consequently this question could be only brought to the attention of the grand jury at such times while under the city government vio lators of this kind can be arrested and punished daily. In this con nection we would state that we did. return a true bill against a party for maintaining a bawdy house, but in this instance the offending' person did not maintain the same within the limits of a municipality aad consequently there was no city government which bad jurisdiction of the matter and it naturally and properly was in the province of the grand jury. J as. T. Robinson, Foreman, S. C. Caldwell J. R. Corou -4 W. J. Wright Pbeston Dunham S. S. Black E. E. Gillexwater. In discharging the grand jury, Continued on inside page. Saking Absolutely Pure Royal is the only baking powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar Highest in Leavening Efficiency ' JVo Alum No Lime Phosphate