CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL'S ANNUAL NUMBER.
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pure and clear as crystal and suitable for
any purpose.
The company owns about 4,000 acres of
land that can be obtained at reasonable
prices, and there are 20,000 acres more just
as good, adjacent to the ditch open for set
tlement. Before another season closes ''
there will be ample water to supply the en
tire territory.
The soil will produce all kinds of hay,
and, in fact, anything that will grow in this
section of country. Red clover and alfal
fa are especially adapted to this section.
There is timber in abundance close at
hand for building and fencing purposes, and
all in all, there is no better pla ce in Crook
in all, there is no better place in Crook
county for the homeseeker to settle.
For information concerning the Three Sis
ters Irrigation Co., address M. E. Brink,
secretary, Prineville, Oregon.
WURZWEILER & THOMSON.
This is pre-eminently Eastern Oregon's
big store. This firm carries the largest
stock and enjoys the most extensive trade
of any one house outside of Portland,
wnile it is not a "department store," any
thing from a cambric needle to a thresh
ing machine can be bought here. A half
dozen ordinary country stores could be fully
supplied without perceptibly diminishing
their stock.
This firm succeeded the well-known firm
of M. Sichel & Co. in 1897, and is now
composed of Will Wurzweiler, Arthur
Hodges, and Alex. Thomson, all of whom
;:re thorough and reliable business men.
In conducting a general store 100 miles
from railroad communication the mer
chant is compelled to lay in a stock of goods
in the Fall sufficient to suply the trade
until the roads are in condition for freight
ing in the spring, and is thus enabled to
use his capital but once in the year. Dur
ing the autumn months the farmer and
stock-raiser from the remote sections of
the county purchases his year's supplies.
He does not come to town in his buggy
and buy a yard of calico and $1.00 worth of
sugar, but he comes with a fovr or six
horse team and two wagons and buys from
$200 to $1,500 worth of goods, wares, and
supplies for his year's consumption. He
frequently takes home more sugar and
case goods than the Willamette valley re
tailer keeps in stock.
These sales are daily with this large firm
during the fall and early winter months,
and throughout the year they sell morr
dry goods than all the other stores in
Crook county combined. The business of
this house is not confined to selling goods.
They must see that the farmer and stock
raiser has plenty of money to pay his em
ployes and herders; that the hay crop is
cared for; that the expenses of the lambing
season are met: that the wool is shorn and
hauled from 60 to 150 miles to market.
This firm frequently advances from $20,000
to $40,000 cash, per annum, to Its many
customers to enable them to market their
products. This is a part of the business
and is always willingly done.
Visitors are always astonished at the
magnitude of the business transacted on
5000 feet of floor space. A firm doing a busi
ness of a $100,000 per annum in a town
of 800 inhabitants is perhaps not dupli
cated in the United States.
. The enviable commercial standing of this
firm was not won without opposition of
rival firms, and is the result of courteous
and honorable treatment and a constant
study to please its customers. The future
success of this house is assured.
ED. N. WHITE.
One of the most popular resorts in Prine
ville is Ed. N. White's place, first door south
of the Poindexter hotel, where he is locat
ed in his new building with new bar and
fresh goods. Mr. White carries the very
best lines in the saloon trade, and his hon
esty and fair-dealing is a bar to fault finding
and dissatisfaction. In addition to being
a most popular caterer to the public taste,
CROOK'S HEAVY TAXPAYERS.
The following is a list of the heaviest
taxpayers of Crook County, together with
the amount of their individual assessment
for 1900:
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Allen & Lafollett $ 6,248
B. F. Allen 34,675
Chas. Altschul 306,866
A. T. Bliss 8,320
T. M. Baldwin 11,895
W. W. Brown 17,240
Chas. Barnard 7,860
L. V. Bailey 4,775
Phil Brogan, Jr 5,000
E. G. Bolter 5,997
Phil Brogan, Sr 7,103
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INTERIOR OF ED- N- WHITE'S SALOON.
he is one of Prineville's most solid and B. S. & L. Co 83,361
enterprising citizens. He came to Crook H. A. Cleek 8,960
county from Lane county in 1855 and hr.s a. Cram 8,224
been in the saloon business ever since. J. P. Combs 10,400
Mr. White was County Treasurer of M. Christinana 4,345
Crook county two terms from 1890 to 1894, Circle & Congleton 9,754
and has been a member of the city council Cartwright & Shearer 11,494
for five years. He is unmarried, but con- E. Davis 4,400
tributes liberally to charity and benevolent John Davine 10,315
objects. c. M. Elkins 4,865
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