Journal
VOL VI If.
l'KINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, 3IAY 20, 1004.
NO. 24
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Embroidery,
Fancy Neckwear, Etc:
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Professional Cards.
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PKINKVII.r.lC, OREGON
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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.
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T! Hamilton Stables
u. e. UeUpapiM, fKOP-
I'KINKYII.LK,
X. Sell.
OHKtlON
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IMtlNEVIIXE, OltKdOK.
TO BEGIN BORING FOR Oil,
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Pennsylvania Capitalist . Take
Hold of Malheur Properties to
Start Development.-
1'HINKVIU.E, OltKIHlN.
g i jftUratjf ifiV Conit mi i
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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
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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
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Wmkktl Stnl in if mmil
mnll it pnmptlf mltemttt
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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. '