CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL'S ANNUAL NUMBER. v tg. WILLIAM DRAPER. Is a pioneer of the racific, having emi grated to California in 1856. In his youth he acquired the trade of a shoemaker, and followed it as a business in Marysville and Chico, California, until the year 1892, when he became a resident of Crook county. During the first years of Mr. Draper's resi dence in Crook county he was engaged in farming on Ochoco creek, and four years ago he opened a shoe shop in Prineville, and has continued this pursuit until the present day. Mr. Draper is an excellent workman and enjoys a good business. So cially, Mr. Draper is a factor in Prineville. His ready wit and good nature makes him one of the popular ones. Mr. Draper is an active member of several secret orders, and an enthusirstic member of the Prineville Volunteer Firemen. mi jmxm i.ii iiw.ujih m.iiiu..iui.wii.iiu.)ii i - - It ' ' 1 . - . - ) ' ' J " ' ' W. W. BROWN. One of the largest stock owners of East ern Oregon is W. W. Brown, of Hardin pre cinct. Mr. Brown was born in Wisconsin in 1855, and came to Oregon in 1869, set tling at Oregon City. After a few years he went to California and received a good education at the California State Normal School in San Jose. He came to Crook county in 1883, a poor man, but after seven teen years of hard labor and strict atten tion to business, he is able to enumerate his wealth with six figures. Since coming to Eastern Oregon Mr. Brown has devoted his talents to stock-raising exclusively, and is now handling over 12,000 head of sheep and 2,000 horses. He has a large farm of 2,600 acres in the southeast part of the county, where abundant feed for his numer ous flocks and herds is raised. Mr. Brown is one of five brothers, two of whom are practicing specialists in the city of Port land and two are farmers. Though neces sarily economical and frugal in his early ventures, he is now noted for his liberality and benevolence. Mr. Brown has so far escaped Cupid's dart, but Hyman's altar is sure soon or late to claim its sacrifice. THE PRINEVILLE LAND AND LIVE. STOCK COMPANY. BARNATO. In this land of horses and horse raising, the best of all is certainly worthy of no tice. The animal whose picture appears above is the thoroughbred stallion, Bar- raw? it Vr'rrfi'?-'i,;iertiiitnr i mn n in i J I luto, the property of Dr. C. A. Cline, of Prineville. Barnato was foaled in the state jf Illinois in 1894, and consequently is now six years old. Barnato is a beautiful dark bay, 16 hands in height, and weighs about 1200 pounds. As a race horse, he has few superiors on the Pacific coast. As a three-year-old he made a record of 1:14, at Ingleside, Oakland, California. He has started in five races in Prineville and has lost none, outrunning such horses as Latah, Bill Nye, New Moon, Jim Bozeman, Red S., Richmond, and many others. Barnato is an exceptionally handsome horse, hav ing been awarded first prize at Eastern Oregon fair, at Antelope, and second prize at state fair at Salem in the thoroughbred exhibitions in the year 1900. Barnato will stand in stud in the season of 1901 at Prineville. THE DALLES STAGE COMPANY. The Dalles Stage Company, of which G. M. Cornet is manager, run daily stage coaches each way between Prinecille and Shaniko. The line is well stocked and every possible convenience is offered the traveling public. This is the shortest and most direct route from any railroad point to Prineville, the county seat ot Crook coui ty. GORMLEY, THE TAILOR. A list of Prineville business houses would be incomplete without menion of Gormley, the tailor, who, though only having been established here about one year, has dem onstrated that he can make as fine fitting clothes as any man on earth. Along the banks of Crooked river, in Ciook county, lie a series of rich valleys rarely ever equalled for their beauty and leitility of soil. From the mouth to the source of this stream a continuous unbrok en chain of rich meadows greet the eye of the traveler. The broad areas of alfal fa, natural meadows, and wild rye higher up in the foothills, dotted here and there with beautiful homes, surrounded with shade trees and green lawns, make one grand terpentine panorama of beauty, wealth and comfoit, such as is rarely seen in any other place in Eastern or Central Oregon. The.e are no mortgages here, there are no debtors, but every man possesses all the comforts of life at home and a good bank account besides. While stock raising is the chief grand resource that goes to make Crook county the wealthiest in the state, the hay raising of Crooked river val ley is one of the great auxiliaries. But higher up the stream, at its very source, is one of the greatest of all institutions on Crooked river. The backbone of the stock industry in Crook county is sheep raising, and the backbone of sheep raising in Crook is the natural advantages of the section, including climate, soil, water, grazing grounds and topography. At the source of the river, on the very summit of the mountains, is a broad area of prairie land known as Summit Prairie, 35 miles east from Prineville, the capital of the county. This prairie contains at least 40,000 acres of natural meadow, as fine as I he sun ever shone upon. Down among the foothills of the mountains, not very far r.way are Muddy and Currant creeks. The valleys of these streams are sheltered from the wintry winds, and all through that se vere season the grass continues to grow here and the valleys and hillsides are as green with the tender vegetation as a well-kept park. Upon Summit Prairie and in these valleys is located the entire system of ranches of the Prineville Land & Livestock Com pany. This is one of our important Insti tutions, to which the people of Crook county point with pride. It was organized back in 1887 on a smaller scale, and, like everything in this section of the state, has grown with rapidity. The well known cap italist and business leader, Henry Hahn, is the president of this company. Among all the leaders of commercial life on the Pacific coast, his name stands out as a beacon of success. He began business sev eral years ago in Prineville on a small scale, and with good judgment and splen did management, grew with the rapidly de veloping country. Besides bis large stock interests, he is connected with one of the largest business institutions in the city of Portland, the firm of Wadhams & Co., who conduct one of the largest wholesale gro cery establishments in that city of large business enterprises. Besides, Mr. Hahn has many other interests aside from his main line of sheep raising. The company, in selecting its superin tendent used splendid Judgment, as it has in all of its transactions. This gentleman is C. C. O'Neil, one of the best sheepmen in the United States. He Is thoroughly conversant with every detail of the in dustry, from the opening to the closing of