Crook County
Journa
VOL. VII.
PBINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JANUARY 15, W..
NO. 5
A.
OUR OIL FIELDS.
To Bo Opened Up In The
Near Future,
Machinery Purchased.
The Bout Part of ths Oil Fluids In
The County Have Been
Re-located,
Last spring mid summer there
was considerable talk about nil in
thin wet ion ill till) State, lillt aside
from ii In rn' mmihrr of locations
being made, tlioru was little dune
towards tluv'topinciit. There were
several reasons for this state of
affairs, 4ut the principal one was
the discovery of oil i ' 'bo
Malheur country, which attracted
llii' Imlk uf the oil imnH'ctrfl uml
investors ut tluit time. However
those interested in tliv oil hnds in
tit irt vicinity were not idle, if lliry
were silent. They organized u
company and wild flock, and did u
number of tiling necessary Id kt
fect their organization mid by the
first of (In- year wcru in a fair con
dition for work.
A large itmoti nt of tliu good
ground wan located ly mtkdiim who
wcru desirous of selling out to some
one with n little money and who
were in no shape to go ahead and
develop anything thoiiiKolve, and
no they were a detriniunl to those
who had put money into the enter
prise. A uriod of patient wailing
was rewarded when the flint of the
year cnine around, and they diiU
not do the necessary work to hold
their elaiiiM, thin forfeiting their
right and leaving the claims open
to location hy any who no desired.
Interest had died down and no
rush wan made to tho oil regions
when themt claims became vacant.
Ahout the HrHt of January a rep
resentative of the Enterprise Crude
Oil Company apieared in Prine
villa and without any ostentation
proceeded to relocate all the licit
claim that had heretofore liecn
taken. A large numlier of these
claims lie adjacent to l'rineville
and are said to show up iuj well as
any in the oil U ltn of the state. A
ledge of carboniferous rock erojis
out a mile north of town, which
hint been tested and found to con
tain a large percentage of fixed
carbon and the (urination closely
resembles that of the now famous
coul licit near Ileppner, so that if
there is no oil struck, there in every
likelihood of a good body of ooal
being uncovered which would bo of
immense value to the town anil
would make this a manufacturing
center in the immediate future.
The Enterprise people have money
on hand to go ahead with the
necessary work and will begin bor
ing for oil in the near future and
with (air prospectB of success.
This means much for our fair
city and i( the prospecting is suc
cessful it meana that l'rineville
will jump from & village to a city
within a short period of time and
that many of our citizens who have
faith enough in tho future of the
oil business in this county to in
vest their money in it will become
wealthy. Hut whether coal or oil
is struak we may expect l'rineville
to become the center of an active
community teeming with indus
tries of many kinds, for the natural
wealth is here and all that iB neces
sary is to have the matter brought
before the riglit class of people who
have money to invest, and are not
afraid to do so, and the rest will
be a mere matter of future history.
llualneae Uualr managed.
Either the Interior Department
is over-particular about Oregon
'base" lands, or else the public
iiimi inisiucsH in tins state has
been wretchedly mismanaged by
the HI ale Laud Agent and some
local land officers. Largo q'utiiti-
lies of lieu lauds, based on alleged
mineral hinds, have been sold hy
the slate, hut many of these min
eral land selections are being hold
u)i hy the Interior Department,
ami proiiaiiiy will lie disallowed as
mineral land "base" in which case
the purchasers of Iho lieu lands
will lose them, and will como hack
on the state for their money, which
it will bo morally bound to ropay,
o: else to supply tho purchasers
with other lauds, in many ciibch
worth several times the amount re
ceived by the state for the lands
sold. The whole business seems
to have been very loosely man
aged, to uso no stronger expres
sion, and it will nol be surprising
if eventually the stale is "out and
injured" to tho tune of anywhere
from $10O,(XX) to 'IMW). It
may be that Secretary Hitchcock,
through his long-staudiiig grudge
against Commissioner Hermann,
is prejudiced against the Oregon
officials, and is inclined to disal
low claims that should lie allowed;
hut the practice of giving title to
lands before the state has obtain
ed title, and even before it knows
whether il ever will jet title, is
certainly a very poor way of do
ing business not to mention the
strong suspicion of improicr col
lusion between certain ollieials
and lamlgnibbcrs. Telegram.
M WMhlHf Ian.
Washington, Jan. 7. The
House committee on general pub
lie land" today directed Represent
ative Moody, of Oregon, who was
authorized some time ago to favor
ably report the bill providing for
an exchange of railroad grant
lands for lands of the p'thlio do
main, to amend tho bill before re
porting It to the House, so as to
make it apply to wagon grant
lands aa well as to railroad grant
lands.
Representative Mondell, of Wy
oming, informed the committee
that he would prepare and intro
duce a hill embodying recommen
dations of the Secretary of the In
terior relative to selling timber of
the public lands. The committee
will meet tho Secretary of tho In
terior at the Interior at tho In
terior Department tonight, when a
conference will be held on tho Ne
braska land grazing bill.
A Groat Forward movement
,Rov. Francis E. Clark, the
founder of the Christian Endeavor
movement, is sending circulars to
tho suite ollicers asking them to
take part in a great forward move
ment (or 1903. An effort is to be
made to increase the number of so
cieties in the state by ten per cent.,
and to add ten per cent to the roll
o(each society. The state making
the required increase will lie pres
ented with a banner at the Inter
national Convention in Denver,
land tho successful societies will be
placed on the roll of honor.
There are no restrictions: Mem
bers may bo active, associate or
honorary; and the societies, senior,
intermediate or junior. Each dis
trict will he assigned its share of
tho work.
The plan, as announced, is to
make the last week of January
"Increase Week," when the
strongest effort is to be made.
The first Sunday in February.
"Endeavor's llirthday," will be
"Decision Day," a day for adding
new members.
With a definite object, a ten per
cent increase, and a definite time,
from January first to the Denver
Convention in June, Oregon will
doubtless claim a banner for slate
work, and many societies be on the
roll of honor.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Wliat Jefferson Did for
Posterity.
Better Than He Knew.
He Was An Expansionist of the
Most Rabid Kind And
Bought Land.
Just 100 years ago this month
President Jefferson and the Con
gress ol the United States were
tilled with anxiety regarding the
ultimate fate of the Spanish Prov
ince of Louisiana, then about to be
transferred to France. Withdraw
al by Spain of the privilege which
it formerly granted to the United
States of desisiting goods on Span
ish territory at tho mouth of the
Mississippi had brought home to
tho Government at Washington a
sharp realization of the necessity
for American control of an outlet
to the liulf. The desire "to obtain
tho territory on the left bank of
tho Mississippi, and eastward of
that, if practicable," as Jefferson
expressed it in his message to Con
gress on January 11,1X03, led to
the dispatch of envoys to Paris and
Madrid to conduct negotiations
looking to that cud. Napoleon,
then First Consul, forseeing war
with England, surprised and de
lighted the Americans by selling
not only the pri'sent State of
Louisiana, embracing tho mouths
of the Mississippi, but also all the
French possessions west of that
river, now embracing many great
and prosperous states, for the baga
telle of $15,000,000. This was for
two reasons; the minor one was,
Najioleon needed money; the major
one was, lie desired to cripple
England on tliis continent. It
wus not that he loved the Ameri
cans he loved nobody but that
he hated England, always his foe,
and his only invincible foe. This
magnificent purchase relieved Jef
ferson of another anxiety
which in that message of
100 years ago he had confided to
Congress. He felt the need o( pos
sessing a "respectable breadth of
country" along the east bank of
the Mississippi, "so that we may
present as firm a front there as on
our eastern border. We possess
what is below the Yazoo, and can
probably acquire a certain breadth
from the Jllinois and Wabash to
the Ohio; but between the Ohio
aiid the Yazoo all the country be
longs to the Chickasaws." With
all his prescience, and in spite of
tho range of his vision to Ore
gon, Jefferson did not forsee the
expansion and development of
a century. Yet he buildcd wisely
and well, even better than he
knew. He was the original great
expansionist. He expected that
on reasonable terms this great
territory east of the Mississippi be
tween the Ohio and the Yazoo
could bo acquired from the Chick
asaws, as it was, thus making a
solid territorial possession from
the Atlantic to and beyond tbV
Mississippy. In his annual mess-
ago in October, 1803, President
Jefferson announced the ac
quisition of territory of magnifi
cent proportions, including the
cession by the Kaskaskia Indians
of much of the present slate of
Illinois.,
Then, 100 years ago, we were
having an easy war with Tripoli.
The annual revenues had risen to
tho then vast sum of $12,000,000.
The young nation had a popula
tion of 5,300,000. The wars of
Kurojiean nations had redounded
in various ways to the henehe of
the young republic. By these pur-
hases it liecame secure in its po
sition and rounded out and
squared up its territory "in good
shape."
And, as we know, Jefferson did
not stop theie. He senl Lewis
and Clark to Oregon. He did not
foresee the War with Mexico and
the acquisition of a great area of
Pacific Coast territory in conse
quence, but he had his eve on the
vast country "where rolls the Ore
gon." Jefferson was an insatiable
landgrabber, of contiguous conti
nental territory, (or the benefit of
the republic and its future gener
ations, Telegram.
Would weaken Fulton.
A Roseburg view of the Oregon
Senatorial contest is that the re
turn oi lormer innu commissioner
Binger Hermann to become a can
didate for that office will prove a
severe blow to the ambitions and
aspirations of C. W. Fulton. This
pointer on the situation was
brought to Portland by Charles H.
Fisher, editor of the Capital News,
an afternoon newspaper of Boise,
Idaho. Mr. Fisher makes his
home in Roscburg and has lieen
tqicndiiig the holidays there.
It is the lielief of Mr. Fisher
that the support that has thus far
been given Fulton came for the
most part from Southern Oregon.
Hermann is bound to cut into this
if he comes back to Oregon, and
takes off his coat to fight. While
Mr. Hermann might not have
enough votes in the Legislature to
even stand a remote chance of
winning, those ballots that he did
get would be subtracted from the
Fulton following. ,
It is claimed there are many in
Roreburg who believe it would he
a wise move on the part of Her
maim to come out boldly for Sen
ator, thus declaring himself free
from the stain that has been im
plied through his dismissal. Port
land Journal.
Rostand Items.
B. J. Pengra, we are sorry to
hear, has been under the weather
for some time past.
Dick Vandervert has moved his
family from Prineville to his home
stead at Riverside.
D. Wilhelm returned from the
county Beat Monday, with winter
supplies. '
Mrs. J, S. Bogue has been quite
low with lagrippe, be is now able
to be around again.
Geo. Beatty went to Prineville
last Saturday (or a load o( sup
plies.
There seems to be plenty o( tim
ber left in this section, judging
(rom the number ol locators that
are here.
ilham Hollinshead went to
Bend Saturday to visit his son,wlio
is attending school there this win
ter From appearances one would
think spring had come. The snow
has nearly all left us, but the icy
roads are still here, and look like
they had come to stay.
Frank and Georgo Bogue have
gone to town. Frank to move his
happy family back to Rosland and
George, well we will let him tell
that when he returns.
John Sizemore, of Bend, has been
spending a few days with us. He
tells us he is building a new hotel
at his place and when it is finished
he will give a dance.
Mac.
Notice.
If the party who found a brown
fur cat e at the rabbit drive, nt
Willow creek basin Sunday, Jan.
-1th, will return the same to Cul
ver Ktoflice they will be reward
ed bv the ow ner. Mrs. M. E. Snooh
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Same Stolen, Others Not
Oulllngs From Our Exchanges
News Notes of the Week
Timely Topics.
The population 6f Siberia has
doubled during the past twenty
years, but not of its own accord.
99.58 of the children of Oregon
between 10 and 14 can read and
write. Only two states exceed it
by a very small fraction..
Booker T. Washington is now on
the Pacific coast. At Ontario,
Cal., Sunday he addressed the
largest meeting ever held in the
city.
Sealed bids for 300 cavalry
horses for the ninth regiment
(colored) at Fort Walla Walla, are
now being received by the officers
in charge.
Another Frenchman has been
scratched in a duel. The French
duel may yet become deadly.
There is always the possibility of
blood poisoning.
Noah, Columbus and J. Pier
pont Morgan have been referred to
as three great masters of the sea.
Why should Noah and Columbus
be mentioned?
The Baker City Democrat is in
formed that there is an abundance
ai -now in the Bine mountains
which insures sufficient water to
operate the placer mines next sea
son. North Yakima ia'suffering from a
coal famine. A wreck on the
Northern Pacific delayed a small
shipment, from Roslyn, but when
it arrives it will not meet one
fourth the demand.
There is something about the
name of that boy burglar Paw
pawlicki recently taken in charge
by the Chicago police, which sug
gests a paternal duty that may
have been neglected at home.
There are times, after all, when
divorces are justifiable. A man
has secured one because his wife
smoked cigarettes. How mai.y
women are there entitled to di
vorce (or bad habits o( man?
"And do you understand?" ask
ed the Sunday School teacher,
"why you pray (or your 'daily
bread?' " "Oh, yes," replied little
Elsie, "that's so we'll be sure to
have it (resh."
The Oregon Mining Journal,
published at Grant's Pass, and the
American Mining Journal, of San
Francisco, have been consolidated,
and will hereafter lie issued from
Grant's Pass under the name of
the Oregon Mining Journal.
Idaho sheepmen are shipping
corn from eastern states to feed to
their flocks. Ranges are said to
lie badly crowded, owing partly to
the presence of Montana and Utah
herds, A good snowfall this Win
ter promises well for range and
crop conditions this year.
The State of Idaho has, through
its State Engineer, completed a de
tailed statement of all the arid
lands within that state, of both
public and private ownership. The
information has been forwarded to
the General Government and is to
he acted upon in the near future.
The Oregon Railroad & Naviga
tion Company will take an active
part in the irrigation schemes now
under way in Eastern Oregon.
The Harrinian svstem proposes
this season to put more people in
to Oregon and Washington than
have ever come here nt any one
time in the history of the states.
Sumpter has nearly doubled in
building accommodations since the
boom of 1899-1900, and yet it is
difficult for those now arriving to
secure business and dwelling
rooms. Rents are more reason
able to tenants than in the boom
times, and there are a large num
ber of buildings as well as tenants
to fill them. Reporter.
It is currently reported that a
hill will be introduced in the leg
islature to increase the salary of
County Clerk Fields, of Multno
mah, from 12,500 to $4,000 per an
num, and also to increase the pay
o( the chie( deputies (rom $100 to
$150 per month, and the wages o(
the unuer-deputies, who now re
ceive $75 per month, says the Ore
gon inn.
The present volume o( immigra
tion mostly from the countries of
eastern Europe, should receive the
consideration of Congress at the
coming sh6rt session. It is not
what a man eats but what he di
gests that makes him strong.- So
it is with nations.' Can the United
States assimilate into its political
svstem the trilies that are now con
tributing three-quarters of a mil
lion a year to the population.
Money of untimate redemption
is based upon gold and silver.
Were it not for a steady flow of
these metals from the mines
o( the west to the commercial
centers o( the east, the
whole country would be swamped
in a ' panic. Theorists . who de
preciate mining and attack the
legitimacy o( the industry, do not
stop to consider this (net; bat,
good financiers do, and they are
alive to the (act that disaster
would (ollow the suspension of
mining, and more, they know that
mining would not be carried on
with greater activity and energy
year after year i( it were not profit
able, and a good thoroughfare for
lucrative investments. Salt Lake
City Mining Review.
Ulan le a Great Thing.
Here is what one of our ex
changes says of man: "Man that
is born of his parents iB of few
days and full of bacili. As a bald
headed infant he lieth in his
cradle and kicketh up his heels
witn colic and much squawk. He
goeth to school when a youngster
and getteth the seat of his pants
hammered (or something he did
not do, until lie is sick at heart
and unable to sit down. He
groweth up like a weed in the
(ront yard and soon reaches the
age when he is composed largely
o( (eet, (reckles and an appetite (or
pie. About the time he gets too
long (or short pants and not long
enough (or long ones, he goeth
away to college and learneth to
monkey with a three dollar man
dolin and tear off big words. He
maryeth a sweet young thing
whose papa'is supposed to be pres
ident of the first national bank,
but whom he after ascertained
couldn't buy a prize rooster at a
country fair. He worrieth along
from year to year, gradually ac
quiring off-spring until his family
begins to resemble a Sunday
school class the week before Christ
mas. About the time he has ac
quired enough collateral to make
life seem sweet he is hurried away
with rheumatism; his children
have a knock down and carry out
over the terms of bis will. His
sons blow in his estate on bad
whiskey and plug hats; his wife
puts on the finishing touches to
his career by marrying the hired
man."
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