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PEINEVILLE, 0I100K COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 11, 1903.
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New Spring
Every Department in our Big Store is full to Overflowing with Brand
New Spring BaRralns. The Ladies will find many New Things. They
are too numerous to mention but if you want anything go to the Big Stora
They'll have it. t
WURZWEI1ER 8 THOMSON
Prlncvllc's Leading Merchants
Hamilton Feed Stable
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Redby Feed Barn . . .
1100' n v cok.nktt, i'iom'V
t Fine Saddle Horses and Livery Turn-Outs
Htixk boardVd by ilny, week or month. Rates reasonable.
(iiH RCi'imniiiHliitioiiit. Hciih'iiiIht uh when in Prineville,
mid we guarantee tliut your patronage will bo appreciated
, ' ml deserved by us. ;
C. J. STUBLINC
i,Th Dalles, Oregon
A FEW
Concerning G It E E N
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C. J. Stubllng, Distillery Distributor
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Wines, Liquors,
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Proprietors of the Frineville Soda forks.
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The Railroad
The Oregonian Staff Correspondent Writes
terestingly of Our Resources.
A seven-hour ride by rail from
Portland today will bring the travel
er to the Iwrdcre of a land of which
so little is known by fully nine-tenths
of the people of this city, that
it might as well lie in darkest Africa.
Of the remaining tenth, not all are
familiar with the latent wealth of
this isolated region, their knowledge
if the country being limited from
the fact that the only avenues
through which trade and travel can
pass are "through jagged, deep
ravines, wiiero me gorge, ime a
gateway, opens passage rude, to
the wheels of the emigrant's wagon."
The a)ieet from these rude wagon
roads which follow wherever pos
sible the water courses, is not in
viting from an agricultural stand
point, and agriculture being es
sentially the cornerstone from
hich Oregon greatness has
builded, we have overlooked, this
field rich in possibilities, or at
best bovo given it but superficial
examination. Now that the older
settled portions of the state, or
those easier of access, have worked
jp reasonably near to the limit of
development, Uentrai uregon, vasi
in area and rich in possibilities,
ttrocting mor attention than ever
before, and increasing publicity is
being given it. In the old days,
civilization began in new oun-
try witli the arrival of the emi
grant wagon, but the vanguard of
modern civilisation is the track
laying gang with the construction
train, and in the case of Central
Oregon, the construction train has
not been stalled on the borders for
several years. " "
It was for the purpose of indue-
ing Mr. llarnman to nuuu iniu
this isolated region that ('resident
Lytle, of the Columbia Southern,
and President Wilcox, of the Port
land Flouring Mills Company,
made, a trip to New York about
six wwdts ago. In New iork they
were joined by President Mohler,
if the 0. K. & N., who is the chief
representative of the Harriman in
terests in this state. They receiv
ed some assurance from Mr. Harri
man that the road would be built
at an early date, but shortly after
their return the railroad magnate
wanted moro facte regarding the
country to be traversce by the pro
posed road. To secure the desired
data the exploring expedition
which returned to Portland yester-
lay morning started inland from
Slmniko. the present terminus of
tho Columbia Southern, early last
week. The party included Presi
dent Mohler, Chief Engineer ken'
nedy and Assistwst Engineer
Jamieson of the 0. R. s N. Com
President I.vtle and Chief
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Engineer Hammond of the Colum
bia Southern, President Wilcox of
the Portland Flouring Mills Com
pany, Professor French of the Uni
versity of Idaho, and a representa
tive of the Oregonian.' The party
starte'd well cquiped for the trip
with two passenger rigs and three
freight wagons for handling the
tents and co.mnissary department.
The country for the first few miles
out of Shaniks prvsents about as
uninviting appearance as could
well be imagined, the only redeem
ing feature of the view being an
occasional small blind of white-
faced cattle, whose sleek condition
seemed hardly possible on the
meager fare they were picking
from the sand and rocks.
Along the road down the moun
tain and clear into Prineville the
houses of new settlers are quite
plentiful. There are big tracts of
luxuriant sage brush stretching for
for miles between the Ochoco and
the hills, and wherever it has been
grubbed out and grain given
chance, very food results have
been secured. Prineville, with the
Ochoco and Crooked Rivers both
flowing through the city, has an
abundance of water for irrigation
end the gardens and lawns show
Party's Trip
la-
the results. Below the city there
are some good-sized tracts of al
falfa, and the orchards and gardens
yield wonderfully. Prineville is
12 miles off the line of survey of
the proposed extension, and the
topography of the country is such
that it cannot well be reaced ex
cept by a spur running up the val
ley of the Ochoco and Crooked
Rivers. The country tributary to
the city is so rich, however, that it
in hardly possible that any road
which goes into Central Oregon
will fail to throw a spur up this
rich valley. The lowlands along
these streams and tributary to
Prineville extend for a distance of
nearly 40 miles, and the width
varies from half a mile to six
miles. All of this land is admir
ably adapted for grains, grosses,
fruits and vegetables, but as yet
scarcely anything except that
which can be turned iqto stock and
driven out on foot is produced.
The railroad party were met by a
delegation of prominent citizens of
Pfineville, and short addresses
were made by Messrs. Mobler, Wil
cox and Lytle. As the party ar
rived several days before it was
expected, the citizens Were not in
a position to supply the data mot
needed regarding the output of the
valley, and. the possibilities for in
creasing it.
From Prineville the party drove
to Bend. Dechutes or Lytle, the
three towncitiee joining each other
about 30 miles southeast of Prine
ville. The greater part of the 80
mile drive was through juniper
timber, some of the largest peci-
mens of this tree being nearly five
feet in diameter. But little farm
ing has been done in this section
ezcept up near the hills, but there
are a number of clearings being
madd, and the regulation "box"
house which the squatters all build
alike is in evidence on every hand.
Most ef this land is sheduled for
irrigation, but some very good
fields of rye which have grown
without water shown that irrigation
is not indispensable. Near Bend,
the Pilot Butte Development Dom
pany has commenced work on a
big ditch which will irrigate a tract
of 87,000 acres. One or two small
er companies working at different
points on this side of the river,
while across the Deschutes, the
Columbia Southern Irrigation
Company will soon be ready to put
the water on a portion of their 30,
000 acres secured under the Carey
act.
After a 40-mile drive from Bend
the party got back into the grain
belt, where irrigation is not needed,
and went into camp Monday night
under the shadow of Haystack
Mountain. From that point well
in toward Shaniko, 50 miles away,
the route taken led them through a
region which gives promise of being
the equal of any wheat district in
the Pacific Northwest. Of this
wheat land and other products
which will contribute a growing
traffic to a railroad, I will have
more to say in another article. It
was the last feature of interest on a
trip which disclosed much regard
ing Central Oregon that was new
even to men who have spent most
of their lives in Oregon. Coming
into Shaniko from the southwest
the land does not differ from that
met in going out from the south
east, and the last few miles of the
2.'!0-mile journey was made over
scab lands with tired teams. The
railroad party lost, no time in
getting back to Portland, and
reached here yesterday morning
tired and a little sore physically,
but with an improved opinion re
garding the possibilities for de
velopment in Central Oregon
They will now check up and for
ward to Mr. Harriman the result of
their findings. Mr. Harriman's
actions will then be awaited with
interest. E. W. W.
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Items of Interest Gath
ered Here and There
Some Stolen, Others Not
Oulllngs Prom Our Exchanges-
News Notre of the Week
Timely Topics.
The democrats might hope for
success 1904 if they only had a
candidate and an issue, and a
splitless party.
At the wool sales held at Hep
pner Tuesday, June 2nd, about one
million pounds changed bands at
from 13 to 14 cents.
Most of the office seekers who
interviewed President Roosevelt
have a yellow, bilious, anti-administration
taste in their mouths.
Mr. Morgan should not have gone
off to Europe immediately after
launching the Cleveland boom.
It was a tender infant and required
careful nursing.
The Omaha Bee announces that
Mr. Bryan is a good man when he
"not talking politics." We
always suspected he was harmless
when he was asleep.
Two hundred and seventy votes
in excess of the numbor required
to nominate are already pledged to
President Roosevelt in the next
national convention.
The Pennsylvania Railroad
promises improvements ttiat will
bring Baltimore and Washington
within thirty minutes of each other
and enable passangers to go from
New York to Washington in four
hours-
Personal Theodore Roosevelt
was in town yesterday, snaking
hands with bis many friends.
Crops are good and business down
his way, he says, is fine. Call
again Theodore, and bring the fam
ily. Anaconda Standard.
John Bull has just added to his
possessions three inlets in tne
Pacific ocean. They have neither
products nor inhabitants and
would, in case of war, become an
added source of anxiety. Ap
parently all islands look alike to
J. Bull, Esq.
When President Roosevelt select
ed Robert J. Wynne for First As
sistant Postmaster General the
politicians were aghast. "Why he
has no political influence," they
said. But he has done the Presi
dent and the Party more good than
an army of politicians.
The Roosevelt administration is
winning the conhdence ot tne
people by the manner in which it
is going to the bottom of things in
the Postoflice Department and
routing out the criminals. Some
editors appear to have forgotten, by
the way, ahat Machen was a demo
crat.
Forty wrecked automobiles strew
the course of the recent automobile
race in France and Spain. These
machines represent a total value of
not less than $82,000. Is it to be
wondered at that auto-manufactar-ers
maintain that this form of
racing is neceesary to the success
of their business?
The Emperor of Germany last
week ordered Hugh J. Cannon and
90 other Mormon missionaries to
leave his empire. No explana
tion was offered for his action, but
it has been known for some time
that their presence undesirable
They moved into Switzerland
where they will make their head
quarters.
A joke is told on a certain young
man of Bend, who is very bashful.
He went to see his best girl one
night recently and it began to
rain, and it rained and rained
She told him it would be a pity for
him to go home in the rain and
asked him to stay all night. He
hated to refuse, so he said all right.
She told him she would go and
prepare his bed. It required some
little time and when she came
back, imagine her surprise at find
ing him dripping with rain. She
ask him where he had been, and
he told her he had been home
to get his nightshirt.
A pessimistic editor thus moral
izes on life as he views it: How
few of us are really our own boss!
Hie married men are subject to
their wives, the bachelom obey
their landlady, old maids cater to
their cats and poodles, while all of
us bow to that weak thing called
public opinion. We came into '
this world without our consent, '
leave it againBt protest, and kick
at everything that crosses our"
path, but all to no purpose; ' The
old world goes on not caring
whether we live or die, laugh or
cry, shout or sigh, not caring a
farthing why, till we turn pp our
heels and die, and then maybe we
freeze or fry.
Strenuous pleasures are on the
increase, in this connection, Presi- .
deal Jordan, of Leland Stanforil Jr.,
University, recently stated: "The,
kingdom of heaven is with us when .
we have developed along normal.,
lines." Many are developing them- .
selves on abnormal lines in an
unhealthy way. It means de
struction a gradual going down
the hill to the dropping off place.
Many men and women . today are
thrusting aside their homes for ab
normalties. After the -bard round
of daily business comes the evening,
often the night of "pleasure."
Quite is shunned like a pest by
the average man or woman of today.
"Pleasure " means late hours, ex
travagant habits, glitter and noise,
an overstimulated brain, a harassed
stomach, a wearied body, and a
growing cynicism.
There are more worry-wrinkles
and more bad tempers caused by
so-called "pleasures" than hard
work.
One's future depends largely upon
one's pleasure of today even more
than upon the work of today.
One's pleasures should be the tonic
to restore the waste and the wear
of one's work.
Slvckgrawera HMtlng.
The Crook County Stock Growers'
Association held their first quarter
ly meeting at the Court House last
Saturday at 2:30 p. m. The meet-.
ing was called to order by the
President T. H. Lafollett, who made
a few remaiks concerning the object
of the meeting the adjustment of
the range difficulties. He emphasiz
ed the importance of the Association
earring out its original object of
uniting the home stock men to a
unit in order that the foreign range
aggressor might be the more easily
kept out of Crook County. He also
made mention of the fact that
through the influence of the Stock
men's organization 68,000 sheep
were permitted to graze in the
Cascade forest reseive as against
49,000 last year. The benefit of
this accrues to the cattle and horse
men who are saved the range that
would have been grazed by these
68,000 sheep. Speeches were made
by Judge W. C. Wills, Judge
Biggs, Roscoe Knox, G. W. Barnes
and Wm. Johnson. The serious
ness of the question that was uuder
discussion was recognized by all
parties, and the speakers from
among the eattle and sheepmen
deplored the ruthless shooting of
stock and urged a means of speedy
settlement' of all range questions.
Accordingly the committees that
had been previously appointed by.
the different associations were ask
ed to confer at the court house
next Saturday at 10 a. m. to con
sider and adjust all questions.
All who have a difference are ask
ed to be present before the com
mittees, and .submit ttieir cases.
Any unsettled dispute will be
passed upon fairly, and the maps
or plats- with the evidence in the .
ease should be submitted at this
time.
As public sentiment is practi
cally the only factor in an adjust
ment of this kind it carries no
legal weight, but at the same time
it is thought that a fair adjust
ment by these committees would
not only be amiable, but would al
so be accepted by all parties as
final.