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Journ
VOL V.
MINKVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OltEGOX. MAY 1901.
NO. 25.
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RAILROAD NOTES.
Columbia Southern May
Extend its Lines to
Crook County Points,
Irrltnlloa Kvnioiim to 1) Put
in Operation ut un Early
l:iv.
Now that tin) troubles that de
layed' thu progress o( the Columbia
Southern Railroad have Wen set
tied, there in a prawn;; demand
for the extcnttoii nf itH line through
the country in which survey wure
made li . , year. The Columhiii
Southern pn j. ct ! two 'ii.es one
ttoutliwanl across the state to Lake-
view, find the other up tho John
Pay River to l'r.iirie City. It was
understood iha'. plans had been
made for the extensions when the
ilitHontioiiH aroe that blocked nil
progrrss. Nwthoioad hilts at
Shaniko, where, Manual im
' provementit liavc been made by the
railroad company and others, and
vn important trade has grown up.
lint the people of tho interior and
merchant of Portland are pressing
fur tt asportation faiilitio far to
the southward of Shaniko. Impor
tant divelopment agencies are at
work in that country, and they,
too, arc crying for a railroad.
'l i e timber of the DeschuasVal
ley has all been secured by Min
nesota ami Wisconsin lum'iormcn.
There it) nearly 125,003 acres of
this land, and .t ill yield 1S.000
feet, board mii r , t the aere, of
fir and pine, or more thin 2,200,
tKXi.OOO feet f excellent lumber.
Three extendi jnrigation projects
are on foot. A. ,V, Lrako, a Wis
cornin capitalist. ' a alreily in
vented about $10,0 K) ia the- prelim
inary j re hi ration (for an irrigation
system that will cover about 30 ,
1)00 n( res in ti e vicinity of Bend,
2r miles vcstwaid from Trin iville.
lie left for lie Kant this week to
perfect Lis financial arrangements.
The Oregon Irrigatim Company,
organized by C. C. Hutcl inson, of
Han Francisco, has surveys made
f ir irrigation Bystem that will cov
- i.r nearly GOO.OOO acres ou thu Do
clu.tos bottom to the westward of
riineville. W. II. Moore, the
Moro bankt'r, hag plans for irrigat
ing some 400,000 acrea to the south
ward of Eend, and C. M. Cart
wright, of the Baldwin Sheep and
Land Company, is preparing to ir
rgatc a large tract west of the Des
ehutce. The completion of these
Miterpriset will open a largo and
rich area of tho state to general ag
riculture and afford a profitable
business for the transportation lines
that Khali aerve it. The forest
land is easily cleared, and farms
will immcdiatly follow the remov
al of the timber.
North and east of Prinevillc
there are promising oil prospects,
and coal and asphalt have been dis
covered, though tho prospects have
not been pursued far enough to de
termine heir value. . , ,
The development of that coun
try will considerably chango the
character of its industries. Hie
l-ai.ge Htock business will retire, hut
it is not presumed that' less (live
stock will to kept there. Instead
c.( the large hcTd and flock roam
. log over .Ui range almost At will
cuyh farmer will have his bunch
of cattle or sheep, and the animals
sold will be fat, not mere range
stock that must be prepared else
where for the market. This will
leave more money in the country.
The closer working of the natural
resources will be mure profitable to
all concerned.
The railroad company continues
to make improvements at Shaniko,
which is becoming an important
shipping point. A wool baler is
now being put up there, ond it is
expected that Hhaiiiko will lie one
of the greatest primary wool mar
ked in the state this season. The
rail rate to The Ualles has bem re-j
dueo to 30 cents per 100 pounds
for wool, which will result in a
great deal of the wool going to the
railroad at Shaniko that has hither
to been .teamed to The Dalles.
The Columbia Southern now has a
OUR SCHOOLS,
Compare Very Favorably
With Others.
Supt. Bcep,li Visits
,1 Number of Tliom and Flndu
Thcin In a FJonrkkliis
Condition.
Superintendent Boegli returned
Saturday from an extended trip
visiting a portion the schools of
the county. lie first visited the
Haystack school in district A'o. 10
which is under the supervision of
prof. G. M. Paul who baa thirty
three pupils enrolled. The school
shows good progress lieing made
From Ilavstack he crossed to the
bisters school in district No. 9
war houso at Shaniko .'iOOxlOO feet.
ana it is adding an extension which is under the supervision of
feet long and two stories high.! Dayton Elliott. This school has
The company is aho building ai twenty four pupils .enrolled all of
round House wiui lour stalls, and . wk,i ftre progressing nicely and
repair shoja for the road are being! the superintendent is well pleased
built there. A large number of set-: with the status of the school. From
tiers are going into that acction, Sisters to the Desert school house
Mammoth Nugget.
The Blue Mountain Eagle is in
formed that a mammoth nugget
has just been taken from the placer
mine owned and operated on by
Hobt. Cannon, of Spanish Gulch,
and W. II. Johnson & son, of John
Day, down at the Mule gulch in
the Spanish Gulch mineral belt.
The nugget weighed about twenty-
five pounds and while it contained
considerable quartz, it was valued
at 12500. This is decidedly the
largest nugget taken from the placer
mines of Grant county since the
early mining days when Bob Mar
shal had a $10,000 nugget stolen
from his mines in Vinson creek by
a Chinaman.
This placer mine operated on
Mule gulch by Messrs. Cannon and
Johnson produced handsomely last
season, and bids fair to do equally
well again this season. They have
a large supply of water and will be
able to continue the ojicration of
their mine until late in the fall.
This property is decidedly one of
the most productive placer mines
being operated in interior Oregon
at the present time.
GENERAL HEWS.
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There,
Soino Stolen, Others Not
Culling From Our Exchange,
Sew A'ote of the Week.
Tliiiely lopta.
where 1 1 ml was never cub i voted j in district Xo. 4" was the next
before, and they are exjiected to;moVe. Here Miss Carrie Fee has
have a considerable wheat crop to! eighteen pupils enrolled all of
whom arc showing a great deal of
interest in their studies. The next
move wuh from Sisters to the Combs
fiat school district No. 21, a dis-
tos'iiiif.on Sbaniko in the fall.
Tho e who are acquainted with
the region say no other part of Ore
gon promise so rapid and so even
development in the coming
years. Orcgnnian.
i
iuw ranee oi 4i miles. Jiera aum Ada
Foster is training the youthful idea
in the way it should go. This is
one of the smallest schools in the
county at present: but the attend-
"Lake Michigan District," is in am.t. in propertion to the enroll-
Wii .ill ill irtim (uw.l'ilwr n rim wi.in ..... ....
' ' ' nient is the large.-it as all the pu
pils enrolled were present. The
A Nnn Trrnhtry,
Capt. George V. Stnafer, of the
War Humor.
a territorial delegate to Congress.
Many years ago Capt. Streater
was wieckcd on a sandbar in Chi
cago harbor. As the vessel was
about nil he had in the world he
locided to stay on the bar. After
awhilo the sand began to roll up
am nd th-i vessel until an island
was formed which now is said to
contain 800
acres.
Chicago cast covetous eves on this
island and attempted to gain pos
session of it, first through the police
an l then through the court. It
failed in both instances. The state
of Illinois then attempted to gain
1 ossession of it and was likewise
scholarship and deportment in this
school were found to be excelldut.
From Comlia flat to Xewsom creek
a distance of 18 miles, was the
next distrfct visited. There the
school is under the management
ot ilrs. J. r. Lvons who lias a
I small school at present, but the
Tho city of 'attendance is good, fhia district
In an interview with a London
Daily mail Yeprescntative Wm T.
Stead in shaking of the future
history of England said: "The
Boers are calculating upon Eng
land's becoming embroiled with
Russia, or some other complication.
If I am not mistaken, we arc on
the verge of a storm across the At
lantic that will rudely shatter our
peaceful calculations. When the
United States congress meets, the
Clayton Bulwer treaty will be torn
into shrills and thrown into or.i
faces. We shall have to choose be
tween fighting or eating humble
iic." The first serious discussion of
the possibility of such a war will
do more to keep the Boers in the
field than all the speeches of all
the pro-Boers in existence.
About 12,000 builiels of wheat
changed hands at Grass Valler
last week at 45 cents a bushel.
G. P. Miller hsis been appointed
Postmaster at McKinlay, Or., riet
Homcr Shepard, resigned.
A dispatch Ironi Amsterdam an
nounces, that Mr. Kruger will leave
for the United States at the com
mencement of June.
Monument boasts of a girl base
ball nine. The girls get out and
practice frequently,. and will un
doubtedly challenge totuchodv
soon.
According to a ruling of thf
comraisioner of the general Ianif.
office, all niiueral springs mt
hereatter be taken up us placer
claims.
usually has a very good enroll
ment for ihe winter term. A new
school houso will lie built this sum
mer. Tho district has lately seat
ed its schoolhousc with the latest
patent desks. All tho above dis
tricts ore well supplied with op
The next eclipse of the sun will
occur on May 17th, on whicl date
the great orb will be out of sight
for six and one-half minutes pro
vided tb day is clear.
The war stamp on tank check
goes out of existence on tire first, of.
July, having been aboii.-died as a
means of raising a war revenue.
The last fiscal year shows that 350,
000,000 checks passed through the-
banks, each bearing a two cent
stamp, yielding a revenue of
$7,000,000 to the government.
A. V. R. Snyder, editor of th
McMinnviile Transcript, has beea
offered and accepted the position of
deputy collector of customs at
Wrangle, Alaska. The office waa
tendered him through Senator
Mitchell. Mr. Snyder will leave
for hia field of labor about May
12th.
Horse rustlers with tiro cars oE
unsuccessful, tapt. Streater then i j)iiratus and all have libaries start
organized his island into a territory j e(i. Taken altogether the schools
which he calls the Lake Michigan j o( Cro:)k C(?vnty eorapare favorably
District, and has organized a muni
cipal aud territorial government
At tlie late election McKinley re
ceived about three votes to Bryan's
one, and Capt. Streater was elected
territorial governor. Ho holds
that his island is out the jurisdic
tion of the United State-1, and
seeks admission into the Union by
annexation, as in the case of Ha
waii. World's Events.
Striket nt Athvood.
Crow Canyon Ittms.
May 3, 1901.
Weather Cue and crop looking
well.
JomiiIi Williams, of upper Crow
ennyou, spent Friday and Saturday of; stolen horses are dodging the ofii-
with any portion of the state.
There are not so mnnv sprin"
terms this year as usual on account
of the small apportionment in
April.
The leader of a band of Yaqui
Indians, who was captured a short
time ago at Cuesta Alta by a de
tachment of Government troops,
has been executed at Antcjuda
Mexico, by order of General Loren-
jzoToires. Prior to his execution
1 he was positively identified
ltitit week in l'rineville.
A. S. Collins vUdted the canyon on
May 1.
Forent Qiiimliy,o Lava, was in our
vicinity the 2.1.
ccrs somewhere in the eastern por
tion of Malheur county. The Stock
men's Prottuctive Association
maintain a sharp survei lance
throughout the territory. Tho-
Arthur Kelly was in town on busi-j thieves aro well known to tlie oili-
nts tt week.
as
Sid Steams ha the material on the
ground to replace hia dam a soon n
the river goes down so lie can begin
work.
Mrs. Stearns ami children have
moved from town to their ranch to
spend vacation.
Joint Haniblcton is in town at
Texas is sltooting oil well to en
tertain visiting New Yorkers; TIucr
was a time when Texans of a eei
taiu class were fond of entertain
ing themselves by shooting visitor.
whose feet were tender. But th
old days of gleeful pastimes wit!
George Brown and SVill Munger,
two workmen at the Morning Star
mine in Mormon Basin, near the
Malheur and Laker County line
Ilnrdlv a day niissc without a
new strike being made in the dis-j "Apaehe Kid" by Alexander Mac
rict, and each day it become more Do"W. on American scout in the
evident that wo have the ridiest!Governul,"nttrool d he
camp in the state. The right kind! knew tl,e "KM" wel1 m Arizona.
of developed work is now beingl James X. Smith died at Meharr.a
done to encourage capitalists trOregon, at 2 p. ni. Saturday, April ! recently completed a shaft througl
come in and invest, and when thfij 27, l'.KU; aged 84 years and 10
is brought about, the district and' daye, after a long illness, of la
the city ofAshwood will advance grippe. Deceasedwas one of Oregon's
at on amazing rate, until a large1 early settler and leaves two child
city, Hurrottndcd by rleb producing! ren Mrs. G. Pi'Terrel and Dr. .
mines will taka the place of our Siaitk, of Portland. Oregon.
prentaftor enjoying (?) hi. attack j "hooter have passed uway for
of the mesjiles. ' ; uver-
Aguinaldkv been interviewed
Art Kelley ia confined to hi room
with measles. X. Y. Z.
little city and partly developed re- town o( Mehama was named after P Pan : A fftampedt
sources. Ptaspeetur, i litis wtte, &Uaiu iituitk : 'r? , Uiaai difCQvcry, ,, . .j
by a fully authorized Amerivais
newspapt-i man, aad fays heshotihi
like to visit the United States, lc
is likely that AguitJiddo doecnt:
know good thing. At present
In? is a star boarder with Ceaenl
McArthur. but if he comes to
the '-webfoot bedrock" or kurdpnn , Arneiica he wiU fii him.li slur
in the old worked out plawr dag-iilp puUic cuit, itbCarr.
gings on Pine Crwk, which empties; SBti ad Uher "great p-.-nswis.
into Burnt River below Bridgeport.' If Aguimldo will takw a. tip, h
They encountered a new lied of fine j W;B eUv o at Maaila. ' DisiAnc
The p vel prospectiug 25 cents to t'ioO; llK-littitnet to'lh v w.
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