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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.
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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-
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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