Crook County jourri
vol. vr.
I'JUNEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 4, 11)02.
NO. 51
EASTERN OREGON.
An Em of Prosperity is
Pawning.
Crook is First to Feel It.
Owlntr to 1U AdviuitHKOOun 8it
.. utvtion and Eiwlly Con
trolled Wulorn,
A new tru is dawning for East
ern Oregon, mi era of pru-pt rily,
u( ituprovuimnt and of settlement.
Iu vast areas now m-cd for jn."tur
ii i urn located ly the hoinc-
secker, iiml tho big range will
(iDoii la- ii thing of the past. Crook
comity, owing In U advantageous
situation unil easily controlled
wuti-rH in the first to feel the effect
ol the coming change,
Heretofore it Iiuh In" n looked
upon us has tlu latter portion of
KiiKti.ru Oregon, in fit only for
grazing pursues. There never
win- a greater mistake. Its noil is
of U.u best, mid tilt) dch'cent ruin
full is all tlial prevented it being
settled long ago. Tim irrigation
projects now under way, and those
contemplated, will supply thin de
ficiency, and make it the greatest
county iu the Mate.
Few people realize the magni
tude of Oregon. A few figures on
("rook comity will serve to convey
come idea of it, and yet it in not
nearly so large u either Malheur
or Harney, and is at least equaled
by Lake and Klamath, suys the
Portland Journal.
Crook contains in round mini
b"rs square mil-s. It is
eight limes iit large uh the date of
Khodc Inland; (our times us large
u Delaware; double the state of
Connecticut; larger than Massa
chusetts, New Jersey or Vermont
and iilinoi-t ad large an Maryland.!
It 1iad in P.MR) a population "ol
3WMi, a ud ut thin date had probably
about 4500. Massachusetts smaller
by 1500 square miles, has a pop-i
illation of 2,8-10,(170. Connecticut,
hall it size, has 900,000, while if
the county were us densely pop
ulated iih lUiodc Island it would
contain 3,500,000 people.
Clearly Crook county ha not
reached the limit in the lino of
population, and the vast area de
voted to flock ruining, and indeed,
much of it devoted to nothing, in
dicates the wonderful advancement
that may be permitted it. Its
(1,100,000 acres of land having
running over them, and supported
principally by .the natural pastur
age, 12,000 horses, 22,000 cattle
ami 180,000 sheep. This would
eivo to each animal !50 acres.
Clearly there is room for another
cow or two und a few more sheep.
Today each man, woman and child
within its borders, has two sections
of land to turn aruund in. There
are 1,147 school children, and if
this county was evenly settled, it
would have one child of school ace
l.ii lvi ry nine section's, or four to
tl.c township. With an average
of 3l pupils to the school district,
it would be 18 miles square. The
ditches at present under way from
the Deschutes and Crooked rivers,
will put 'water uon 125,000 acres
of as line land as there is in the
state, and land too, that at pres
ent is practically unproductive.
There are ideal lands (or alfalfa
growing, and that will be the
principal crop grown on them,
though it is not improbable that a
large tract will he devoted to rais
ing sugar beets. Crook county
contains probably one eighth of
the semi-arid lands of the state,
and when it is remembered that
Harney, Lake, Klamath mid Mal
heur are even more sparsely set
tled than Crook, and each as large
or ft larger area of irrigable lands,
one can get an idea of the pos
sibility a the future holds for this
vast region, Besides the possibil
ities in the agricultural line, it also
has one of the largest, and what
promises to be, one of the richest
mining sections in the world.
This lies largely in Jiaker, Harney,
and Union counties, but Crook
county also makes a fine showing
ill the Oregon King and other
mines at Ash wood, while the
Oi boco mines also give promise of
permanency and large values.
Crook county is certainly great
iu her resources und will be
"Greater Crook" when all her re
sources arc fully developed. Crook
is one of Eastern Oregon's splen
did possessions. Lake county how
ever, appears obscure in the Jour
nals editorial. Possibly because
Lake has liever trumpeted her
grat uchievmeuls (if she lias made
any,) or for the reason thai her
citizens have been content to let
her ''win her way as btt she may."
A spirit of enterprise iu developing
resources and making them known
to the world has been n failing of
our county's jieoph an apathy
that needs rejuvenating. Here is
Lakeview, the capital of Lake,
central point for business covering
a te rritory of 50 to 100 null's in
every direction a growing city
only by reason of its location
built up and sustained by the stuck
and farming interests, the queen
city of South Knstern Oregon.
Paisley to the north with its mag
nificent contiguous valley of the
Chewuucan; Warner valley, one
of the greatest of our valleys for
stock ruining, to the ea.-t of us,
and New Pine Creek, in the center
of the gerat Goose Lake valley, a
town with' many rich possibilities
anil to be made important with
the advent of a railroad from the
south. Luke county remains too
much in obscurity. She is the
peer it not superior to any tug
county ca-t of the Cascades. Ir
rigation by public expendituie and
a little more enterprise by our
citizens, with the resources we now
have in cattle, wool, sheep and
horse-', will give this territory .the
name that will be known the world
over. '
Wonder if the next republican
chairman of the house post office
committee will think it a good
plan to jump on the editors of the
county papers and the letter
carriers at one and the same time.
One Mr. Loud of California con
ceived this brillfant plan and is
now a humble citizen in private life
scratching around for bread and
butter just like any other common
man. I tie country editors are a
power in their own right, but
when reinforced by the hoys in
blue who carry our letters to our
sweethearts, they make an army
that can knock the spots out of
any two by four congressman that
ever hustled for votes. If Mr.
Loud's successor questions this
assertion the editors and letter
carriers stand ready to carry con
viction to his doubting heart at
any old moment and don't you
coae to remember it. Boise News.
"I know what irrigation will dc
in our vallev," said Mr. Fisher to
the Taker City Democrat. "I had
a 50-acre field in wheat for a mini-
her of years. It raised 30 bushels
to the acre and upwards. Last
year I thought the ground was get
ting thin, and decided to put in
grass. This year I got two cuttings
of 200 tons at $4 per ton cash in
the fielcj. That was In-tter than
the wheat. I shall keep that field
in grass a year or two. It costs
only I1.25 per ton to raise hay, cut
and stack it.
OUR STOCKMEN MEET.
Supervisor Langille's
Address.
Sheep In The Reserve.
Ofittle Will Have Same Rotate
And Ee Subject to Same
Conditions.
On last Saturday a representa
tive crowd of Crook county stock
men gathered at the courthouse
at the appointed hour to bear what
Mr. II. 1). Langille had to say to
them regarding the matter of graz
ing in the Cascade forest reserve.
Promptly at two o'clock the meet
ing was called to order by T. II.
Lafollett, president of the Crook
County Stockgrowers' Association,
and who then introduced Mr. Lan
gille. After a few preliminary re
marks he opened with his address,
which dealt with "the conditions
now existing iu the reserve, and
with those in other reserves
throughout the I'nited States, lie
spoke at length of the government's
intentions in the matter of grazing
privileges, on the why of the re
serves being set apart and that the
government would not entertain
any propositions for the reclama
tion of arid lands in those localities
that are removed from the source
of water supply, that the reserves
have been created for the purpose
of conserving the water supply and
for the preservation of the primeval
forests of the country. Hi talk
removed any impression that may
have been entertained 'that the
general gutcruncnt had i;!iytl.:;.g
hut the good of itn citizens to heart
in the matter of granting grazing
privileges. Mr. Langille made a
close inquiry into the conditions
prevailing in the reserve last fall,
when the sheep were removed to
winter range, for the purp se of
finding out whether there was
room (or more stock than bad been
pastured there during, the past
year. This inquiry resulted in es
tablishing the 'act that there was
plenty o( range for all the sheep
pistured therin by Crook county
men, but there does not seem to be
any to gpare until such time as
trails arc cut to some of the now
inaccessible pasture grounds. This
the government will do at the ear
liest possible moment and there is
no doubt hut that some of the
sheep men will aid ih cutting the
trails in .order to get to these
grounds, which are said to be of the
best in the reserve. Some of our
H-ople were crowded out of their
allotment and had to take other
rango, which in some cases result
ed in giving them as good or better
than they had had allotted to
them; others were crowded on ac
count of conflicting allotments and
by sheep men from the outside
ranging their stock on the range
allotted to our people. No trouble
was raised by Crook county people
who gave way to these outside
sheep in order to prevent any trou
ble, or to have the matter reported
to the supervisor, as they had been
ordered to settle their differences
among themselves and not to re
jHirt the same to headquarters un
der penalty of having their range
taken away from them and they
forced to get off the reserve and
keep off in tho future. - This order
was countermanded by Mr. Lan
gille, who said that the department
wanted all such matters reported
at once, and i( there was any col
lusion between the forest rangers
and outside sheepmen that the
rangers would be summarily re
moved (rom their position. He
also stated that there wero being
radical changes made in the method
of appointing rangers (or the re
serve; that (ormerly it was sup
posed to lie a picnic on a grand
scale to get an appointment on the
reserve force, as tho apointee gen
erally took his camp outfit into the
woods and found a nice place
alongside some little lake or trout
stream where there was plenty of
fish, with deer over in the swamp
and grouse on the hills, and there
he would stay (or the summer, hav
ing a fine outing and drawing good
wages from an over indulgent gov
ernment. These conditions are
now so changed that in most cases
the ranker is the hardest worked
individual in the employ of the
interior department, lie also in
quired' into the conditions confron
ting the cattle men, who must
have the summer pasturage on the
reserve and said th.'t certain por
tions would be set apart for their
especial use and that they would
be subject to the same restrictions
as were the sheepmen. He also
recommended that stockmen shouldtand thlw 'losses the unique and
sow a little seed each year in such
places as were not at present well
stocked with grass. This, he said
had been tried in many place? with
good results and it'should U- en
couraged in all parts of the reserve.
There are many places in the Cas
cade, reserve, where a" little seed
scatti red at the right time would in
few ycirs produce an abundant
aasturuge where there is none at
present and many thinly grassed
regions would be made splendid
pasture grounds. This will have
to be done in order tojjet all the
advantage of the summer rang in
the reserve.
Mr. Langille also spoke of the
rrudtwl reduction of the number of , men t0 100 a month but W the m0re t1han 0Ur- sha toward.
ctttlo and gheep in this count v. asidrivcK of 8Prinklin? csU hmS .th t!ixc8- We even canM
4i i .... ,..'" -r?stt' is.ath. Uv U-Ls Aat2os1-r;'t'D nv aeeof wweeteninv tho
me uicu iu inline oii.-Luiac ut"
lie area ol Home pasturage
creased there would be of necessity i
,i curtailment of 'the riihi.1v of
stock to such an amount as could j ,uuch UM! ior '""kliug-cart driv
U snmu.rlcl with p., in tl. rp. era now, any way,
I ft
rerve in the summer, and by that
time conditions would be such that
there would be a definite scries of
lines established to the ranges and
no trouble would lie encountered
by any one in the reserve, by over
crowding the range or by the over
lapping of allotments as at pres
ent. One ever present trouble in the
matter of allotments is that there
are some who will wilfully make a
wrong description of the range ap
plied for in order that they may
overlap other parties and others
describe the same range, but give
different names to natural objects,
which, aro now the only
means of determining the bound
aries of the different ranges. With
the coming years some method will
will bo devised to overcome this
trouble and then there will he no
necessity for mistake-', wilful or
otherwise. Another matter that
has caused more or loss trouble in
the past is the fact that the range
follows the sheen and not the for
mer allottee. In other words ii
Mr. A has a range in the reserve
for 2000 sheep and he sells the
sheep to 1!, be cannot hold the
range as it goes with the sheep, nor
can he buy more sheep and get the
same range the next year if the
sheep he formerly owned are still
in the country and the owner de
sires to range them in the reserve.
Another point that was cleared
up by Mr. Langille, was the fact
that the sheepmen of this county
had heretofore been laboring un
der the impression that lambs were
sheep. The government expects
the sheep man, who applies for
range in the reserve, to take his
shearing tally as a basis on which
to make an application for range
in the reserve; that is to say
the l imbs of the flock that are
(costi si-En os mc.i t.)
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Others Not
Oullinga From Our Exohanaes
News Notes of the Week
Timely Topics.
So far this season the Wisconsin
deer hunters have killed six and
wounded six of their fellows.
Fortunately, most of the deer es
caped. Patent la'o. 1 for the Roy Mining
Company of Crook county whs re
ceived at the U. S. land office txlav.
being the fiist mineral entry patented farms anJ HneeP camPs- The con
i,i the district. Dalles Chronicle. j deration for the transfer of Mr.
! Cunningham's property was f 175,
''Colonel" Tom O.chiltree is dead, w)
somewhat celebrated .character.
He wan an entertaining body, but i
like all mortality he lasted but a
little while. lie gained some fame
and considerable fortune, and let
us suppose deserved both.
A San Jose capitalist who died
this week bequeathed 125,000 to a j
woman, who, as his landlady had!
been kind to him while he was
sick. This is a hint to land ladie
generally, and is another illustra
tion of the truth that kindness
pays in more ways than one.
The Los Angeles Express com
plains that the City Council re
cently raised the salary, of patrol-'
-
is anything like Portland, as to
! precipitative
weather, it hasn't
Government officials at Wash
ington look upon Oregon with mis
trust because of timber frauds and
'conflicting representations regard-
ing forest reserves and the Cary
land irrigation projects, and it is
stated as doubtful whether any
early action can be had on these
irrigation schemes.
A company has been incorpo
rated at Pendleton for the manu
facture of fanning machines. They
propose to put tip a mill that is
superior to anything belore put on
the market at a price one-half less
than the present price of similar
machines.
The prune crop of Oregon for
the year 1902, according to men
whose business requires them to
know the size of the crop, will bei
in the neighborhood of 13,000,000 1
pounds. It is
estimated that the
entire crop sold for an avetage of
3J cents per pound, to the grower
or a total of 4S7,500.
Freewater is now becoming
known far and wide as the place
for the thirsty. A great rivalry
has sprung up between the two
dispensers of liquor there. As a
result the thirst of the "old toper"
can be quenched for five cents.
f be best whiskey on the market
can be purchased there now for
that price.
Over in Washington they do
things up in style. Prisoners
are taken to the penitentiary in a
special car, that is when there is a
large enough crop of "cons" to
justify. The Union reports the ar
rival of a special car at Walla
Walla last Saturday with an in
voice of 17 from King and Sno
homish counties.
Pathological sj ecimens from hor- j He was a brother of C. T. Boyn
ses, of which nine died in an East-, ton.formerly of Crook, who now
era Oregon mtable within t short lives in Malheur county.
time were examined in tho bact
eriological laboratories recently.
The ailment was found to be a kid
ney disorder, and prevented these
organs from performing their us
ual function. As a symptom of
the disease in cases where one kid
ney was badly affected, the body of
the ailing animal on that side was
constantly wet with pers juration.
Corvallis Times,
Charles Cunningham, of Pendle
ton, sometimes styled the sheep
king of eastern Oregon, has sold
his interests to John Garrison and
Gus La Fontine, well known stock-
men of Umatilla county. In the
deal are included 19,000 high grade
sheep, 10,000 acres, of farm and
grazing land, 15,000 tons oMiay
50 head of horses- and a vast
amount of farming machinery,
vehicles and other equipments o(
ronianci papers tins week; have
heen flooded with items and pic
tures about a big irrigation con
vention. The ditch has fairly run
ver until the whole state has been
well wet down. So far as this
vallev is concerned no irrigation
jaw nM We haye a,
watcr in QUr g(n deB;red in act
p nftpn . . . .
are a very unselfish people in the
! valley and put ourselves out to
favor eastern Oregon. We have
just seen the effects of this spirit
in a scalp bounty bill that was of
no earthly use to any part o( the
state but Eastern Oregon but we
helped to pass the
hill and did
, . t . 't, ,
mess' with' a jtiir bounty bill
exclusively in the interest o( East
ern Oregon. Well, the irrigation
part is all right, but the others are
very doubtful. As members o( a
state we must assist in building up
all parts of it, but must draw the
line against anything of a graft
nature. Albany Democrat.
Dutch Thaiikigivlnir.
Probably no editor in the valley
looks forward to Thanksgiving day
with the zest displayed by the
Salem Journal man. It is on this
day when he has his great feast of
spare ribs and sauer kraut, coming
i after a long fast and. intense expec-
tations. AVc make this statement
cooly, realizing that we will invoke
the resentment of the critic on the
Dallas Observer, Albany Demo
crat. Sentence Commuted.
Governor Geer has commuted
tlie sentence of John Campbell, who
is serving a life sentence for the
murder of J. L. Swearenger in
Crook C3unty in '1896. Campbell
has served six years and Governor
Geer has commuted the sentence
to 12 years. Campbell is well
known"in Linn county, where he
was raised and has a number of re
latives. Albany Herald.
Sl rut k Br Albany Lacnl.
Bradford Boynton, of Woodburn,
was struck by the Albany local at
8: 30 Monday morning, and so bad
ly injured that he may not live for
24 hours. He was going over
Young street crossing, and lieing
quite deaf did not know of the close
proximity of the train until it wan
within five feet of him, when he
jumped, but was caught by the en-
I gine and thrown thirty feet. His
i skull, right shoulder, arm and leg
were faactured. Albany Herald.