Journal VOL VI If. l'KINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, 3IAY 20, 1004. NO. 24 Crook Count y 1 n 8 8 The Bee Hive Tic Pace That Saves You Money Our New Hirlnx (lornls im nrrlvlnic dully mill i"iilt nf I'verytlilim necilcil for ilenllciiicii. I.111II1 inwl lillilrcn. Come III iiml examine Ill's K'l "I'd "HtW.v yourself tlmt tills I I lie pliice in iln your liuyliuc. We Desire l.il'nll Your I'urtlciiliir Attention to our In lint Hiylt- In Hhlit Wabita SulU, Shirt WulsU, HklrtH, l uJcf aklrtit, lloUcry Bella, Colliirii mid lm full U'"'"' MmbIIm iiml KnII I'ndcrwciir. Wi Imve iiIku milled to "r stuck n fine line of Mun and lloyn KiiIIh In llic l-atcst Htylcn.. Also n complete Hi"' ""J" "",H' ' Shoe Department I I Don't Forget Our Rftmftmhe.r The BEE HIVE Ad Michel & Company, Proprietors m i t Special Heads. Skirts. Itrnid, t 71, Sae Jor 10 ft ays jfll tht Xalnl Jfixtli. ' Spring unj Summit Embroidery, Fancy Neckwear, Etc: frs. Gd Bradford Professional Cards. X. Cliell, jftlornry-al-Cam PKINKVII.r.lC, OREGON ' jftornty mi jCmw, LEVEE BREAKS v AT SILVER LAKE Water Rushes Over Hayes Bros. Ranch Causing Heavy Loss. Last Friday night the levee around tlie Hays Bros., ranch gave away am) liy Saturday morn ing their entire meadows were completely iimler water and will remain In this condition most of the summer. Thin will deprive 1 1 11 -11 1 of 11 limit 200 ton of hay thin year. Last scuson the Hays boys put up about iitlOO tons of hay and it in mi id Hint they have the best piality of hay in thin valJeyj they were getting their rniieh in shape 0 put up more feed thin year than ver before, but now tlieir line r a lu ll in a total loss to them for thin year an they will lie unable to cut pny hay and as long as the water remains on the meadows it will lie unlit (or pasture. The Hays Bros., have worked ird for the last ten years in fix ing up their ranch and had several different kinds of grasses that were beginning to do nicely, bht it will ake several years tii get the ranch ack where it was Mure the levee broke, and it is estimated the loss will reach f'2000. Silver Lake Oregonian. IBBEBBBBSEEEEBBflS T! Hamilton Stables u. e. UeUpapiM, fKOP- I'KINKYII.LK, X. Sell. OHKtlON jftt9rm.y-mt-jCmm IMtlNEVIIXE, OltKdOK. TO BEGIN BORING FOR Oil, j Pennsylvania Capitalist . Take Hold of Malheur Properties to Start Development.- 1'HINKVIU.E, OltKIHlN. g i jftUratjf ifiV Conit mi i CD Si- Stlknap S Ctwarit Hhs k boarded by the day, week or month nt Ueiisomihle rates'. Iteniriiilier us when in Prine ville. KATKS UKASONABI.K. We have . Pine Livery Turnouts l!un In Cimneeliiin with the Bend Stable. PltlNKVILLK, OUEHOS & SSrink II. V. IIKI.KS'AC ..Henderson & Pollard.. X)ft Flnestei&ars JLMCmI In Stock. Wines, and Liquors, Qountry Orders Solicited First Door South of Poindexter Hotel. Ollict First Uoor East of Winnek's Drug Store. PMSKVIU.E, OltKtiON JiT. Qounbtrg 0 CIU aimwrmt iirt'iiii'tly 4tay or iiilit Of Hcc with Ir, V. Owner. Hcnideno ctinifr nt aiil Main fw ti. I'UIXEVIU.K. OUKIO Osteopathic Physician Prineville, ' Orojfon. THE WINNER CO., Incorporated 1903. drugs, 'stationery; and iup-to date house fukniisiiingst- B.Gormley Tailor LATEST STYLES and PATTERNS OF ring ap,(j Summer Suiting T IS AMUTER OF HEALTH IC 1 POWDER Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE plied by popular subscription mm- ed among the farmers and sliipsrs tributary to the Columbia in Ore gon, Washington and Idaho. Governor Chajnberluin, who was present at the meeting, asked that a committee lie appointed to con fer with the state land board and liscuss the question of building the portage. After this conference there will be a better understanding between the state board and the ticople of the Inland Empire as to what course is most desirable to pursue. It is the impression that the gov ernment engineers will somewhat modify their demands of an un incumpercd right of way for the canal, that is that they will con sent to the construction of the portage along Ihe canal route un less it should be shown that it would inteifere with construction work, and it is believed that in this even the route of the portage can he so modified that the portage can lie operated while canal cou nt ruction is being prosecuted. . DIXIE MEADOWS RICH MINE (i rant t'ountv News 8aya Its Im mense Ledges and Steady Val ues Are Wonderful. FRED H. YAN NOFREN THE DALLES JEWELER ) Wmkktl Stnl in if mmil mnll it pnmptlf mltemttt U V nttirntit t r tpinsith ftmrlitt. J. C. Blood, who is representing Pennsylvania capitalist with a view of boring for oil in this sec tion between the Malheur and Xyssa, addressed a meeting here last week and stated just what his company exiected from the land owners. Mr. Blood has been here for the past two months securing leases, and several of our farmers have not as yet signed the lease contract. The eastern company desire a block of iiOOO acres, and if the same can be secured, the company agrees to begin opera tions. Mr. Blood, in his remarks stated that beyond a doubt both gas and oil could lie found in the belt tributary to Ontario and that he and his company were willing to spend their money, without a cent of cost to the laud owners, to bore for the same, says the Ontar io Argus. Chairman Metcalf appointed J. R. Blackaby, E. H. Test, and up on motion Mr. Metcalf was select ed, and the three will interview all land owners who have not signed the lease and do all in tlieir power to have them do so. Mr. Blood's associates are now in Boise awaiting the final deci sion, returnable Thursday even ing. It is hoped the committee will have no difficulty in securing the necessary signatures, for the work contemplated means much for On tario and this section. FK1IIT FOR POUTAtiE ROAD Open River Association at The Dulles Takes Active Stes To ward, Constructing Line. Eastern Oregon showed its dis- positim in the matter of construct ing the portage road last week when members of the Open River association from all the counties on the Columbia and many from the interior counties met at The Dalles and took active step to ward building the line. " The sentiment favor of the port age road and that it should take precedent over the canal was uni versal. It was also made evident that if the appropriation of tltio, 000 made by the Oregon legisla ture to construct and .e(uip the portage should prove to lie inade- Other mini have been richer and other ledges have born more free gold, but in width between the walls and steady values, there are but few, if any, of the great mines f the world that exceed the mag- mficicnt Dixie Meadows. The main lead extends .northeasterly and southwester.ly, and for many hundreds of feet, already explored ind nobody knows how many of the unexplored, the immense fis- ure between the walls of slate and of porphry, is filled with blue and white quartz, richly loaded with free gold, gold bearing sulphides and galena. Three cross cuts have been driven, and in all the three hundred feet between pierced by upraises and netted with drifts, still the same ore, bearing identi cally the same metals, only in dif ferent proportions, is encountered everywhere. The Dixie Meadowy is truly a wonderful property, and its value to the whole community and to the state is beyond computation. It is the expectation of the man agement to install a cyanide plant this summer, and the nature of the dividends it will pay may be esti mated from the fact that the whole cost of mining, milling and treatment is not above five dollars per ton. There are other properties lu the vicinity of this mine that show up as well, and will soon be on the producing list. There are many prospectors already at work in the surrounding hills, and from there to the Quartzburg district is the busiest section of the county. At the latter place the mines are fully as promising and only time is needed to prove their great worth. The Standard is running a full crew as is also the Coppero polis. The Equity is mining and milling as last as possible and sur veys are being made for patents to the ground. STOCKMEN FAIL TO AGREE LBoundary Lines in the Blue Mountains Have not Been Fixed. The committee of sheepmen, consisting of Murdo Finlayson, John McLennan and Pat Radi gan, of Antelope and vicinity, which went to the Blue Mountain region last week to confer with cattlemen from the southern part ot the county regarding the estab lishment of range lines for the summer, has returned home hav ing failed to make any satisfactory arrangement. The sheepraa n were met by a com mittee of cattlemen and the matter of fixing permanent range lines thoroughly discussed, but no con clusive action taken, the sheepmen claiming that the cattle owners demanded more than the sheep men could concede. No other date was set for a future meeting to adjust matters and the herds of both cattle and sheep will be ranged this summer in the dis puted territory. Whether any any trouble will arise from the failure to make permanent bound ary lines within which the sheep men and cattlemen would lie com pelled to range their stock is a question which the coming sum mer will answer. ' Present indica tions point toward disturbances which will result in serious losses before fall has come. The Ante lope Herald in speaking of the meeting held last week says: "It is not known what steps will lie taken by the sheepmen to pro tect their right to a participation in the range privilege in the Blue mountains, but it is to be hoped that some amicable adjustment of the matter can be arranged' In Lake county, where a bitter range war is in. progress, 4000 sheep have been killed in the past few months, and such a condition of of affairs is to be avoided, if pos sible, in this county. The organi zations seem anxious to find a way for the amicable solution of the question."' BUILD INTO COAL REGION Oregon & Nevada Short Lina Rail road Incorporated and Will Tap John Day Coal Fields. SCOURING MILLS AT WORK First Wool Clips of the Season Are Being Run Through the Mill in Operation at The Dalles. Articles of incorporation have been filed for the Oregon & Idaho Shortline Railway Company, with R. W. Baxter, F. 8. Stanley and H. T. Hendryx, incorporators. The objects of this company are to construct and operate a fail road from a point on the Columbia accessible to river steamboats, through the lower John Day coal d'strict, via Condon, Fossil and the great wheat belt bordering the Blue Mountain range, and ulti mately connecting with the Ore gon Short Line at or near Nampa, Idaho, fays the Sumpter Ameri can. This project offers needed trans portation for the coal interests mentioned so frequently of late on the lower John Day. . When car ried through to its ultimate desti nation the fertile and isolated sec tion of north central Oregon is opened to the world. It also is a very feasible and short route for the O. R. 4 N. to reach the Colum bia river after leaving the Snake, without crossing any drainage system, as the line would follow the basin of tne John Day to a low gap opening into the Burnt river basin, thus practically circumvent ing the Blue mountains and miss ing the three high divides now passed over by the O. R. & N. at Meacham, Telocasset and Pleasant Valley, Mr. Hendryx slated w'hen he re turned to this city the present week that he and his associates in this work were acting for Eastern capital, which had expressed the willingness to produce the funds necessary for construction if Mr. Baxter reported favorably, which he had dohe. The enterprise fias taken such favorable form that work is to be pressed on the coal deposits. "We are arranging to have the coal lands thoroughly prospected with a drill," said Mr. Hendryx yesterday. "Other preliminaries will be attended to, and we expect to have considerable work in pro gress at the coal properties. This will be done for the benefit of the railway enterprise, although there is enough in sight otherwise to in duce the gentlemen interested to proceed with construction of the line." r BUILDING AT PICKETT ISLE Portland Capital Is Becoming In terested at the Proposed CAE Crossing on the Deschutes. Pickett Island on the Deschutes river, which has long been looked upon as a very favorable site in the event of the CAE crossing the mountains, is quietly indulging in building operations. Portland people, among them W. A. Laid- law, have erected a store building which curries a large stock and ot her improvements are promised. Most of the land surrounding has been taken by homesteaders and the district is in the midst of the sections to he irrigated and lies but a short distance west of the survey of the Columbia Southern With both roads put through the point would undoubtedly become RANGE tt'AR IS ON AGAIN qisate the deficiency would be sup-1 a junction town. The scouring mill at The Dalles is now running a double crew ot sorters daily, and the mill night and day, turning out 8000 pounds of scoured product every 24 hours. The wool purchases so far have been from stations along the line of the Northern Pacific in the Yakima country, and at the Columbia river points, such as The Dulles, Arlington and Echo, where the sealed bid plan was in augurated in the state three years ago does not obtain. The first clips shorn are nearly all from the warm Columbia river ranges, which wools are more or lees earthy and are sought only by dealers in the scoured product. The wools bought up have lieen by representatives of Connecticut, Massachusetts and California firms. The prices paid for this clasS of wool varies according to the amount of sand it carries. Some very shrinky clips have lieen bought for 10 cents ut a rail road station, while others in the scouring class, lighter in shrinkage brought IS cents. These prices are fully up to those paid last year for similar wools. There seems to be no disposition on the iart of the growers to hold this class of wool, and buyers are apparently glad to take them, as they are being absorlied by the dealers as fast as thev are offered. Sheep Owners Near Mitchell Lose Heavily Monday by Slaughter of Their Herds. A dispatch to the Oregonian from Fbssil, dated the 23rd, con veys the news of a sheep slaughter near Mitchell the first of this week. The article says: The war on the sheep that has resulted in the killing of many head recently was opened again last night near Mitchell and 175 sheep were shot by unkown part ies. Some time during the night a raid was made on a band of sheep belonging to Butler Bros., of Richmond, which had driven on to property rented by Butler Bros, from Eugene Looney, County Commissioner of Wheeler county. The locatioa of the laud was about six miles from Mitchell on The Dalles and Canyon City road. The herder was asleep in a cabin when he was awakened by shouting. He quickly realized that his sheep were being killed hv well-armed men, but being unarm ed himself, he was powerless to interfere. When daylight came be found that 75 sheep had lieen killtd outright and 100 others were so badly wounded that they soon died. The cartridges used by the slaughterers were found strewn on the ground around the herd. A party of cittlemcn was seen in the vicinity of the herd yeter but aside fron suspicions theie was nothing to indicate the identity of the marauders. '