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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL'S ANNUAL NUMBER.
MR. G. SPRINGER.
KNOX HUSTON, SURVEYOR.
D. E. TEMPLETON.
The Importer, Breeder and Dealer in
Blooded Stock.
Was born in Polk County, Or., March
8th, 1854, .moved with his parents to Yam-v
hill County in '56, was brought up on a
farm and educated in the public schools,
completing his commercial training at the
Portland Business College. Moved to
Whitman County, Wash., in 1877, where
in company with his brother, he was first
to introduce Clydesdale horses, Jersey
cattle, Poland China hogs, and fancy poul
try. Closing out the business, both in Pa
louse and Yamhill, in spring of '87, Mr.
Springer removed to this county, bringing
with him a choice lot of draft mares. In
the spring of '88 he went east and pur
chased two imported draft stallions, the
best obtainable. During the hard times the
Haystack ranch like other blooded stock
Knox Huston, author of the article in this
paper on topography of Crook County, has
lived in what is Crook County for twenty
two years, was a local surveyor until 1890,
when he was elected county surveyor, and
re-elected in 1892, and acted in that capa
city until 1900. He has followed surveying
and civil engineering exclusively for ten
years. He has engineered a large majority
of the irrigation ditches of the county, and
has retraced a large portion of the lines of
the government surveys. In doing this he
has acquired an exact knowledge of the
county, by personal observation. He has
located a large number of settlers, always
correctly, and is a safe man to go to to
have work done in his line. Two years
ago he was appointed deputy U. S. mineral
surveyor. He is well equipped with all in
struments for his business, is always ready
to go when not engaged in his profession.
D. E. Templeton is one of the early pio
neers of Oregon. He was born in Indiana
May 4th, 1831, and crossed the plains with
an ox team on his way to the Willamette
valley in 1847, traversing the sage plains
and bunch grass hills of Eastern Oregon
with little thought that this, then desolate
region, would be his future home and the
scene of his future prosperity. Upon his
arrival in Oregon he settled on the Albany
Prairie, and when the gold excitement in
California broke out became a mammon
worshiper with the rest, and crossed the
Siskiyou mountains into northern Califor
nia. He returned to his valley home in the
early '50s, and engaged in farming until
1870, when he removed to Crook. Mr.
Templeton is one of our most prosperous
farmers, and is also the senior member of
the drug firm of Templeton & Son. He was
elected county commissioner on the popu-
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establishments, was compelled to make
haste slowly, but Mr. Springer, being a
lover of fine horses, could not resist the
temptation to pick up a good one occa
sionally, until you will now find among Mr.
Springer's flowers, as he calls them, speci
mens of pure bred Clydesdale, Cleveland
Bay, French draft, trotters and thorough-.
breds, and of grade Shire, Percheron, Bel
gian, French Coach and English hackneys.
The sallions sold from Haystack have
added thousands to the value of the horse
stock of Crook County, and among its num
erous patrons none have failed to profit by
their investment.
E. H. SMITH.
list ticket in 1898, and has proved himself
a conscientious and careful guardian of the
county's interests.
BIRDSONG AND DEMARIS.
Messrs. Eirdsong and Demaris are the
owners and operators of the "Mill Creek"
sawmill, a cut of which is given elsewhere
and which bears the distinction of being
the first sawmill erected in this county. It
is located on Mill creek, 15 miles east of
Prineville and near the famous "Stein Pil
lar." All grades of pine lumber are kept
in stock at prices as low as the lowest.
In the manufacture of saddles, Prineville
stands second to no town in Oregon. E. H.
Smith, the veteran saddler, is at the head
of his trade, which fact is recognized
throughout the Northwest. He was born
in California in 1850, and learned his trade
while a youth. He engaged in saddle mak
ing in California and the Willamette val
ley until 1891, when he came to Crook
County. The excellence of his workman
ship soon established him in a lucrative
business until at the present time he is turn
ing out upwards of 200 saddles per year.
This work is all hand stamped and hand
made throughout, and in every state west
of the Rocky mountains these saddles can
be found. Mr. Smith's custom extends
from British Columbia to Mexico, and from
Montana to the Philippines. He also manu
factures and carries a full line of hand
made harness and trappings.
The above illustration but imperfectly
conveys an idea of the style, finish and per
fection of the Smith saddle.
TIMBER.
Our county line, on the west, extends to
the summit of the Cascade mountains, but
the government "timber reserve" only
leaves a strip from two to eight miles
wide and about forty miles long, bounded
by the Deschutes river on the east. The
Paulina range of mountains is situated on
the east side of the Deschutes river, and
extends south to the Lake County line on
the south. This mountain is from ten to
fifteen miles wide and about thirty miles
in length.
Maury ridge, a low-timbered mountain,
situated on the south side of Crooked river,
is, on an average, six miles wide. Its
length is fourteen miles. McKay moun
tain is a low spur of the Blue mountains,
running from Grizzly butte in a south
easterly direction to the Grant County line,
and bearing more south, taking in the east
and south part of .our county, averaging