f i
Crook Couii
Journal;
vol vi n.
PRINEVJLLE, CROOK COUNTV, OREGON, JANUARY 14, 1904.
NO. 5
ty
X
WURZWEILER 8 THOMSON
Prtncvlllc's Greatest Store
ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE
COMMENCING THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1904
This sale Is a Money Saver.
Every Yard o I nut Dry Goods in Ui'dumd
Every pair "I lime for I Mir Misses ami Children, Reduced
Every pair "I Hliiies for Men, Women and Children Reduced
Kvi'ry Hhirt Wiilxl. Top Skirls nml I'mler Hkirtu, Reduced
Every suit of I'lolhing, cither for Men or lioys Induced
Kvi'ry pnir nl Men's, Limles' nml Misses' Glove Reduced
Every pair of B I n n k it t , wool or colton Reduced
Every Jacket, Ladies' Misses' nml Children's, Greatly Reduced
Kvory Night Gown l"r Men, Women r Children Reduced
Kanry Overcoat, Lnlwl Styes, Latest Weaves Reduced
Kvi'ry 1 1 nt nr Cup, Hut or Cup for Men or Hoys Reduced
Every J it addition to above wc will wiy tlmt there nro Reduced
Kvrv thousands nt article" too numerous 10 mention iicuuccu
Kvi'ry Our niul I" to make Ibis the Greatest Sale
Kwry Hint I'rini'villc Imi) ever excriciiced lor CASH
Reduced
Reduced
Ten Million Pounds of Freight
i Through This City Last Year.
i
The Journal's Compilation of
Figures . Concerning the
Enormous Annual Traf
fic of Inland Empire
Hamilton Feed Stable
A.I
Redby Feed Barn . . .
I K. ALLING1IAM, I'lioi'uiFroH
Fine Saddle Horses and Livery Turn-Outs
Stock boarded liy tiny, week or month Itnlin reasonable
Good accommodations. Remember uh when in Prineville,
mid we guarantee tlmt your patronage will be appreciated
11 i i
Villi in ikt veil ny nn. . i
Powell & Cyrus
THE OLD RELIABLE
fS3
! Li, L
Absolute! Pure
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
-Tonsorial Artists-
ni if
Foster & Lehman
Proprietors.
A Complete and Choice Ime of
Beef, Veal, 'Mutton, Pork, Bacon,
Lard,, anil Country Produce.
Maill St. Prinevi!k, Oregon.' 'fllOlie 31.
JCendorson & tPollcird
The MILLER MEAT MARKET
E M MILLER, Prop
Denier in
FRESH MEATS
Of all kinds
VEGETABLES & FISH
In Soanon
The Cheapest and Best Place
in Crook County
.
In lit Building formerly occupied
- by P l)oak
-DKAMCIIH IN-
WINES, LIQUORS,
DOMISIK and PTP A DC
wiwm ... VjlVJilJVO.
COUNTRY ORDERS
SOLICITED.
PRINEVILLE, OREGON.
FIRST POOR .SOUTH
I'OINDEXTKK HOTEL
Homestead
Locations
Timber
Desert Lands
WSITl
ROBT. SMITH,'
Prinnvillo, Oregon.
Wal 1 Paper
AT
CUT RATE PRICES
l()c Double Rolls for So.
'20c Dmilde Rolls lor 10 ('.
35e Double Roll for 17Je.
50c Double Rolls for 25c.
. 15c Double Kolln for "Jc.
;ttk! Doiilile Rolls for 15c.
41V' DoiildB Holla for 2l)e.
INGRAIN 30c.
Prescriptions Cut. Also Patent Medicines.
REMEMBER THE LOW PRICE STORE
D. P. ADAMSOIN'S. STORE
la The Place
WASHINGTON LIFE
INSURANCE CO.
OF NEW YORK.
OLAY . SIMPSON, M'l'r Interior D.pt.
V
r
Baa the largest percentage ot
oash assets to each dollar of lia
bility ; earns the highest average
Interest, and Issues the most up-
to-date progressive polloloa for In
vestment or protection.
During the year which ban just
cloned, over 10,000,000 pounds of
freight found its way into Prine
ville. The exact figure, so fur as
this paper has Iwen able lo deter
mine from thorough compila
tion of figures, are 10,640,500
lounds.
Prnclieally IK) per cent of this
mount is merchandise which has
been hauled to this point from the
terminus of the ruilroud at Sunni
ko for local consumption, the bal
ance of 10 or 12 per cent being
confined to the outgoing wool
hipments during the past season.
The sum total, as compiled by
The Journal, includes the mer
chandise received during 11H13 by
24 business linns in this city, be
sides the express matter hauled by
the atnge company, the shipments
of merchandise hythe-tTro prineip-
merchants at Silver Lake and a
small amount of freight which has
passed through Prineville for
Ilend.
1 he figures, however, dr. not in
ude the many tons of freight
which have been hauled through
Prineville to Bums, or the freight
shipped in from the railroad by
idividual stockmen and others in
districts lying beyond the city.
The amount of these individual
shipments was almost impossible
to obtain with any degree of ac
curacy so they have been omitted,
but it is probable that a conserva
tive estimate of this additional
tonnage would swell the total to a
figure in excess of 12,000,000
pounds. ' "
The Journal has worked for
soma time past in an effort to de
termine the amount of freight
coming to this city in a year's time,
and it is the opinion of this paper
that the last quoted figures are
practically correct. In other
words, this, city alone handled
0000 tons or 500 carloads of
freight during the past year.
In considering the immense
traffic of the territory lying im
mediately east of the Cascade
mountains, the fact should not be
overlooked that the freight coining
through Prineville can occupy no
other place than simply a position
in the turn total of the entire
trnflicof this district. There are
many other factors to be consider
ed.
First of all are the hundreds of
cattle, horses and sheep which
each year arc diiven overland to
the railroads, and whose ntimliers
and weight cannot be figured into
the summary. Other items are
the freight shipments into the
Haystack district and the territory
lying south-west of Shaniko; the
traffic through to the Bend country
by the way of Trail crossing, and
shipments to Howard, Mitchell
and way points, besides the Bums
tonnage winch comes Hub way.
Merchant in this city, as a rule,
have had but little idea of the
amount of freight they have haul
ed during the past year. There
are some, of course, who have kept
a close nccount from month to
month and the off band estimates
which - they gave were almost
exactly the same as the showing
made afterward" by an addition of
their freighters receipts. The
Journal, however, had an occasion
to note the surprised expressions
on different business meu's faces
when they reduced their year's
shipment lo figures, and gave
them a moments study, and
:il mo-t without exception the off
hand esliinnti fell from 25.000 to
100,000 pounds short of the actual
tonnage which they had received.
As an argument for the nearer
approach of a railroad, the above
figures go a long ways toward
convincing the most skeptical that
the Central Oregon traffic is a
factor in the busings Jife of any
cily which should lie given con
sideration. It is the opinion held
by most of the business men in the
citv that a railroad built 50 miles
into Crook county would be the
cause of the present freight ship
ments doubling themselves. With
railroad communication closer at
hand on the north, east or west of
this point the tonnage would be
materially increased along all
lines. For instance, it is shown
that under present conditions
almost all of the immense traffic
carried on in the vicinity of Silver
Lake goes south. This includes
hundreds of head of horses, cattle
and sheep which otherwise would
find their outlet in this vicinity.
The same rule holds true of the
Burns traffic and many other out
lying districts dependent now up
on the eastern branch of the O. B.
& N. With, an open stock market
in Portland the large drives of
beeves, common in this interior
portion, would in all probability
go to that city. At present they
seek a market closest to the ranges
which sends them into California
and over the branch of the South
ern Pacific building into Klamath
county.
TALK . OF CONSOLIDATION
Reort Current That Irrigation
Companies on the Deschutes
River Will Consolidate.
Hi-ports, which come from au
thentic sources, have it that there
will soon be a combination of the
irrigation interests on the Des
chutes river. The companies in
the reKrted consolidation will in
clude the Columbia Southern Ir
rigation company, the Pilot Butte
Development company and the
Hutchinson rights and interests
which, it is stated, have been pur
chased by the two New York en p-
italists, Messers Gurrin and Turn-
ey who were in that section recent
ly with Mr. Hutchinson to inspect
his company's project.
The statements given The
Journal bear the ear marks of au
thenticity, and while they may
never materialize hito anything
tangible, it is clearly evident that
some such arrangement may be
counted on in the near future as one
of the companies is rapidly air-
proaching the time when it must
get under cover or lose its bead.
It is staled that in the event
neither a complete sale or consoli
dation with the other companies
the Pilot Butte Development comp
any will have rather a difficult
row to hoe in getting an extension
of time on its contracts, a.ui the
date is hardly a month away when
it must show its colors. The efforts
of the latter company to sell out
would lead one to believe that
there is considerable grounds on
which to base the report that a
consolidation of the irrigation in
terests in this field will soon be
affected.
A BIG DRIVE OF RABBITS
Over 6000 Hares Are Corralled
and Killed by the Citizens of
Echo Last Week.
STOCKMEN MUST PAY FARE
Western Railroads Make New
Ruling and Cut Out Return
Trip Passes.
On the first of the year a new
ruling went into effect on all roads
west of Chieago, whereby, shippers
of stock who accompany their
shipments to eastern markets are
denied the return trip pass, here
tofore enjoyed by them. This rul
ing cuts into the profits on ship
ments of stock from the far west
ern points, for it is always neces
sary to take along a certain niim
bt r of attendants, and these must
be returned to their homes at the
expense of the shipper. Stock
men, who claim that a large (tart
of the earnings of the railroads
comes from the pioducts of thei
industry, are indignant at the rul
ing.
A Chicago paper of recent date
contains a cartoon which very aptly
pictures the situation. Political
grafters and ward-heelers have
their iiockets bulging with passes
but the stockman has to plank
down the Toady coin, or walk
home.
This supply of rabbits will last
for some time, and there wHI not
be another drive for nearly a
month. The cannery force it
working every day, 13 people be
ing employed and orders are com
ing in for the finished product,
faster than the company can poss
ibly fill them. '
WILL RAISE SUGAR BEETS
The largest and most successful
rabbit drive of the season was pull
ed on the sage brush flats near the
Rodgers place west of Echo, last
week.
Over 6,000 American hares were
captured and a nest of young
coyotes was found and two of the
members killed. A territory
about three miles squa re was driv
en over and as many rabbits es
caped as were caught, on account
of the small number of pickets on
the flanks of the driving party.
Only about 300 people attended
the drive and the fank was stretch
ed out far too thinly to prevent the
rabbits from breaking through and
escaping, and thousands regained
their liberty after the drivers had
circulated over the flat and begun
the moveaient toward the corral.
The rabbits are becoming accus
tomed to these drives and it is evi
dent to old timers in the sage
brush districts that the animals
take a bint when the crowds begin
to gather and hundreds of them
flee to the higher hills More the
drive actually begins.
The rabbits caught yesterday
were exceptionally fat and sleek
specimens and were hetieaded and
dressed vnd bung in cold storage
until the cannery can use them.
About 1,000 pounds of meat is
being canned per day, and the
company now haa $3,000 worth of
finished product on hand ready
for shipment, which will be sent
out immediately, as the labels, so
long delayed, arrived today and
will be placed on the cans at once.
Columbia Southern Irrigation
Company Will Experiment
With Product Thii Year.
(7. F. Smith, who had charge of
the Columbia Southern Irrigation,
company's forces last year while
ditch building was in progress,
returned from Portland Saturday
where he has been for some time
attending to business matter) and
making arrangements to start
work again in the spring in the
Tumello basin. He has leased bis
ranch near Lamonta and will stay
in this section of the country dur
ing the year. He stated while
here that the farming district
around Lamonta was experiencing
a notable increase in the amount
of acreage being put under the
plow and that extensive develop
ments would be made there dur-.
ing the coming year.
Regarding the Columbia South
ern's project in the Deschutes
country he said that more progresi
had been made by this organiza
tion, in its present condition, than
by any other irrigation company
in the United States which was
working under the Carey act. A
small force of men iB now at work
clearing land for an experimental
farm which will be put into crops
this spring. It is the intention of
the company to "place an exper
ienced man in charge of the work,
and aside from raising grain, a '
specialty of sugar beets will be
tried. It is the opinion advanced
by experienced eastern agricultur
alist!, who have Been the land,
that it is adapted to this kind of
produce, and that it will raise
beets containing a high percentage
of sugar.
The Columbia Southern com
pany now has 40 miles oi ditches
and laterals oompleted, and Mr.
Smith advances the opinion that
there is sufficient water to irrigate
50,000 acres. Ten thousand acres
out of the company's seggregation
ot 25,000, will be in shape this
year for settlement, and it is fully
expected that alt of it will be covered.
ACTIVITY IN OIL FIELDS
Malheur County Claims Have
Bees Re-located and Develop
ment Expected in That Field.
The Malheur county oil fields,
over which there was considerable
excitement last year and some
prospecting done, are again attract
ing attention. The first of the
year the Baker City people inter
ested in the field relocated their
claims and it is expected that
early in the spring active work in
the development of the property
will begin.
J. 1). Miles, who represents the
capital invested in the oil portion
of the county, states that many
propositions have been made to
him and .turned down. At pres
ent there seems to be good grounds
for the belief that the fields will be
exploited and by Eastern Oregon
capital.