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VOL'. VIII.
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 11, 1904.
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Remember The BEE HIVE
Retiring jrom business
On July lil I shall Infill
i. M I I.I.I X Kit Y, IHiKSS (iool)S I LADIES'
FURNISHINGS t
50 Cents on the dollar
I tin c ii 1 1 j ' t i i it lii go nut ul business mi account "I
sickness mill (Lis mill' "ill afford mv pnlrniis mi
opportunity In secure llii' liest bargains ever offered
in I'rini'vilh',
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T Hamikon Stables
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Fine Livery Turnouts
l!nn in Ciiiiiiirlinii oith tlin Hi lnl Slulili'.
..Henderson & Pollard..
Wines, and 'fZSt Finest Ghjars
Liquors, M9CiM In Stock.
Gountry Orders Solicited
First Door South of Poindexter Hotel.
THE WINNER CO.,
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DRUGS,' STATIONERY AND Ul'-T(),
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CROOKS
Meat Market
J. H. Crooks, Prop.
FRESH MEATS and
LARD VEGETA
BLES, FISH and
GAME IN SEASON
Non but Hcallliy Aniiinils
Killed, Which Insures tlnml
Wholtwuiie Monts',
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POTRITS, VIEWS, -.
ENLARGING AND A
GRADE OF WORK
3riiuith, - - - OrtfOH.
RICH STRIKE
ON LOOKOUT
Big Vein of Cinnabar Was
Opened Last Week in the
Tillotson-Cram Tunnel,
Tin' find bi' ntfiku of ciimnbar
tn In; ri'i'nrili-i) wni rnndu liml wei-k
ut the TillotHiin-Criun miu' m
l.miUout tnnuiitiiin, hi'ii thoiv lit
work in Hi;- tun m U .ul in n bluitt
iiliii'h iiniwiTril u n iiiiiiiiim
livlgc n( cire. v;iu wi n tin-
Miliri' furl' mid itiili-H ui tin. tunnel
. 1 1 ' 1 the iiiiin-r- huvo h link into it
a ilcjilli ul six f'"t. Owing t i tin'
fiiriiiiitiini and tin; iligi of the vein
it iH not hi lii'ird llmt tin' n in i i ore
Itnily lmi" yfl lii'i-ii utruck ami thut
further finking will ilisclnw xtiil
uri'iiU r b ml ric'ier iiiantitiifi of tiff
mineral. Work in tho tiiinn.-l hus bivn
purmicd diligently iluriiiK the mt
ten ilny ami it will In pushed
Hlicuil utill mure raiiilly f rum now
oil. The strike wan nunle rmnc
whut Hornier than i xiieeled, Mr.
(inuld, Kiiierintendeiit of the mine,
having Htiited while in the city 11
lew dayn api that lie thought the
vein would be reached inside of W
lift, lint the ore nan lieen uncover
ed in lc" than half that distance.
The following up of the .stringer
in the lower tunnel lias brought
about the resulta. When work
wan comiuenccd on this lead two
weeks ngii, it was scarcely more
than two inches wide. As the
tunneling progressed this vein
gradually widened, although at
times it was pinched out, by the
walls only to appear again a short
ilirtancc farther on in greater
proKirtions. I.a.-t Thursday the
vein bad attained a width of near
ly lt inches and in the afternoon
two heavy blasts were put in.
When the rock was chared away
it was found that the explosion
had run the tunnel into a vein as
high as the tunnel itself and the
shaft was pushed through six feet
jf the ore.
Mr. Tillotson, who was down
from the mine the last of the week
said it was not so much what thev
had struck as it was the fact that
the formation continued to get
better the farther they went in.
He is linn in his opinion that still
greater quantities of ore will be
found, and that the vein they are
now working in will lend them
into others. .
Before another month has claim
ed the company will begin putting
in retorts for handling the ore.
Two 2-ton retorts will be placed in
service and Inter two nioro will be
added. The ore now on the dump
is more than sufficient to pay the
running cxpemes and if the
present lead holds up the mine
will soon le placet! on a dividend
declaring basis. It is generally
conceded that the ijtrike made is
one of very best order and eclipses
the veins which are being worked
in (ho famous California jinnahar
lields which havo paid large divi
dend to their owners for many
years. . .
BUCK MOUNTAIN A WINNER.
Irrigation .Scheme in South-eastern
I'art of the County Will
Furnish Many Ranches. '
inree thousand acres ol sage
brush laud lying in the southeast
ern part of the county and in
which Sheriff Smith, Isom , Oleck
and several others are interested,
bids fair to be one of the best ir
rigation projects in Central Oregon.
The land lies around the base of
the mountain and is nn open
level st-retch with a great depth of
soil. The water supply is' ample
and o'ing to the contour cf the
country the tracts can lie watered
with very little trouble and
exiense.
Inspector tireene of the Interior
department spent the greater art
of last week . looking over tlie
selection, which was made last fall
under the Carey act, iitfcl it he re
ports favorably, of which there can
he little doubt, arrangement will
be miile to slurt work on the
canal lines. Heservoir sites havej
ln-en si-lecti il on the high ridge of I
mountains above the land in thei
valley anil the water will be stored '
(here and then Ii d down to the
land.
Those who are interested in the
project do not entertain . any
hesitantcy regarding a quick settle
ment of the tract as soon as water
is ready for irrigation purposes.
The land is in one level, compact
body and the slope is such as will
make irrigation a matter of little
difficulty.' There are no rocks or
ridges to contend with and the
soil is such as will pn;Juce liouuti- i
fill crops.
Inquiries regarding the disposi
tion of the la ml are already com
ing in and it is probable if the
ditch work is completed next
spring the entire tract will be dis
posed of before the summer is over
The segregation will he sold under
the provisions ol the Carey act
and the price will probably range
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irom iu lo tin per acre, taking!
everything into consideration, and only a (lr"l' 1,1 'be bucket compar
tbe fact that even in that higher td wit" ,l,e e,lo,nioll amount of
altitude com anil many ol the Iras j l'-to ,le marketed,
hardy vegetables can he raised in' H-J-Hyham, one of the big
abundance, it is probable that the i Mtll''n"'n of Northwestern Wyom-
enterprise will prove the best in : '"8 ana -" "Montana, says
this I'orlion of (he state so far .a.v,llat 011 tl,e fir" du' tbal H is
,,,i'i, L-,,,,1 n. ,.hi, .,
lion of the entire segregation is
concerned. It is not a nroiett of
verv treat soooc. but what there
is of it will be made productive
down to the last acre.
WOOI, (1ROWKRS HOPEFUi,,,
Price of Yearlings Has Advanced'
and Sheepmen Are Confident j
of Increase In Value.
1 he sheenmen seem both hone -
fill and confident as regards the
prospects for the summer and fall
market for sheep on the hoof, says
the East Oregonian. They note
nut only that prices have
If
ciated of late, but that the.general
tendency is upward. The "recent!,, , , f ,i ,.
1 there is no market for them.
advance from fl.50 to 12.00 for .n.i,. n... t:.. n, ...:i
yearlings, and for other classes in
projairtion excuses their optimism,
while the explanation is found
in
the almost universal 'shortage of
sheep in the greater mutton cen
ters in other parts of the world,
followed of course, by a compara
tive scarcity that is reflected in
the bulled markets of the world.
In South America great floods
have depleted the sheep flocks to
sucli an extent that the sheepmen,
stunned by their disasters, do not
even attempt to estimate their
losses.
Ill Australia it is believed that
100,000,IX sheep have died as the
direct result of drought during the
past three years. One Australian
alone lost four-fifths of his sheen,
which numbered 1,250,000 when
the droughts set ill three years ago
this fall. The monicd flockmastcrs
of Australia are in some districts
importing hay at JtiO a ton to keep
their blooded rams and high grade
breeding ewes alive. Some have
Uvn known to buy immense quan
tities of black-strap molasses and
the coarse sugar product that is its
by product, and by strewing them
upon brush and coarse feed olhef
wise unpalatable, induce their
sheep to eat enough lo keep alive
while waitina for the rains.
The Umatilla sheep raisers also
call attention to the fact that Cali
fornia has become a consumer of
outside mutton and wind instead
of lieing a conqietitor of Oregon
and the Northwest in general.
As many sheep of all grades
have lieen sold this year as ever
before in any one year up to this
date in the season, and consider
ably more than last year. also.
The prospect for still heavier later
sales is improving every day. as
the buyer's agents remain on the
ground and inquiries from buyers
in the east who have no agents in
.the field are more insistent than
ever More.
CATTLE GLUT
AFTER STRIKE
, ,
"UnQTCflS
of Cars Will
Rush into Chicago from
the North-west.
Prominent cattlemen of the
Northwest predict that a glut of
the cattle market will immedi
ately follow the announcement
that the Chicago packing-house
strike is over. It is said that as
soon as the official announcement
of the end of the strike is made,
hundreds of cars of cattle and
sheep will he loaded from all
points in Montana, Wyoming and
South Dakota. This will lie es
pecially true of the last two named
states in case the strike is ended
within a short time. If it lasts
several weeks longer, the stock
; frHm al1 ''' t:lt'" wil! k' run
."imultoneously. Although some
flipping is now being done from
' U'vnmitw. n.l Si,.i.ll. n.Anlo it.'.
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1 nounced the strike is oft 2.it) carsl
' of cattle will be. loaded between
Hillings, .Mont., and Sheridan,
I W- a distanoe of about 200 miles.
If that is the case and can be tak
en as a criterion for other parts of
the country, the market will be
glutted very quickly. Old-timers
say that the range in Wyoming
and South Dakota is the best this
year that it has been for the past
40 years, and that cattle matured
early. They are rolling fat now,
and under normal conditions, the
range stock would have been on
'.,
the big markets from these states
for a week already, which is a de
cided contrast with other years.
Then the market was good and the
stock would not get fat. Now the
rwmlilmns are eYfiettv reverspd.
; f, ... , npo , ,,,,:,:,. ' n,l
' )s M(, g, wn
, seen standing on the side-
i.. r , o..n:;i
MilllY?. Ill 1UI 111C1 JIBI5 DUUIIIIIII
cars could not be obtained and
stockmen were forced to wait in
order to ship. Now nothing is
moving. .Montana ships 250,000
cattle each year to Chicago
markets. Telegram.
WARNER LAKE YIELDS SALT.
Qwners of Adjoining Lands Have
400 Tons This Season Which
Will Be Worth $15 per Ton.
It is not generally known that
Lake County has large salt de
posits in the northern part of
Warner Valley. After high water
each season large quantities of it
lire deposited as the water recedes.
Many years ago this land was
purchased from the state by David
Jones, now deceased, the first set
tler of Warner Valley. At the
point where the salt was deposited
he built a large building, with a
strong floor, perforated with auger-
holes. Over this floor the waters
would rise in the Spring, and after
going down there would be many
tons of pure salt, which had only
to be shoveled up and sacked to be
ready for market, says the Tele
gram. For the past five years up to last
winter there was no salt, owing in
part to the light winters, in part to
the conversion of Warner lake,
which is 15 miles above the sail
beds, into a reservoir for irrigation
purposes, and in part to dry sea
sons. The floods of last winter
broke the dam and the waters of
the lake flowed 30 miles, filling
up the dry lieds of several old
lakes and deHisiting another body
of salt, which the present owner,
.ire sacking. They estimate they
have about 400 tons, which is
worth $15 per ton on the ground
as soon as sacked.
Mandamus proceedings are talk
ed of to coiuel the permanent re
moval of the dam and allow a salt
deposit to be made by the floods
each year. Settlers at the foot of
the lake also claim the dam over
flows their land during the Spring
and in n very wet season Injures
their hay crop. The people who
maintain the dam attempted in
February last to swamp a lot of
land claimed by settlers, though
people who know the locality say
the only way to reclaim it would
be to break the dam and let the
lake recede to its natural level,
and that then it would not produce
a crop of hay in a dry season.
FUND REACHES Bid FIGURE.
Irrigation Fund Derived Iroia the
Sale of Public Lands Has Now
Reached 125,000.000.
An increase of the arid land
reclamation fund held by the
treasury to approximately 125,-
000,000 is announced in the report
of the Auditor of the Interior
Department for the fiscal year
ending on June 30 last. This ia
the fund accumulated from the
proceeds of public land sales in
California, Colorado, Idaho, Kan
sas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Dakota, Oregon, South Da
kota, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming, and set apart nnder the
act cf Congress of June 17, 1902,
for the construction and main
tenance of irrigation works for the
reclamation of arid lands in these
states. The fund thus accumulat
ed and set apart for the three
fiscal years ended on June 30,
W03, aggregated 16,444,339.
HORSE THIEVES AT LARGE
Robbers Who Stole Horses in
Vicinity of Antelope Are Still
Being Hunted.
Sheriff Smith telephoned to J.
N. Burgess yesterday to find out
whether any trace of the hors
thieves who operated a week ago
in the vicinity of Ashwood and
Antelope had been found, but
word was sent they were still at
large, although the Wasco county
authorities were making a deter
mined effort to locate them.
They first visited the Ashby
ranch where they stole a horse
from Sam Glover and saddle aud
bridle belonging , to Joe Ashby,
says the Antelope Herald. Then
they went to the Burgess ranch,
where they secured a horse, saddle
and bridle belonging to Roy Logan
and a pair of chaps belonging to
Joe Blakely. Nex. they visited
the Kimsey ranch and stole a
horse, Baddle and bridle belong
ing to Ray Kimsey.
As soon as. the thefts were dis
covered on Saturday morning a
description of the stolen property
was telephoned to Prineville, Hay-
creek, Ashwood and other points,
and about noon word was received
from Haycreek that Jud Van Hou
ten had seen the horses in the pos
session of two men, at the Huff
ranch. Mr. VanHouten recog
nized one of the men, a discharged
employee of the B. S. & L. Co.,
and ordered them off of the ranch.
He did not know that the horses
had been stolen until he returned
to Haycreek and heard of the
theft. Deputy Sheriff Huston ac
companied by Fred Martin, Ray
Kimsey and Sam Glover, imme
diately started in pursuit of the
horse thieves, and they were track
ed to the mountains south of
Ashwood. At Ashwood Deaii
Huston and George Lee joined the
posse.
After reaching the mountains
nothing more was heard of the
men until Sunday night, when a
man named Clark who lives at the
old Huston place on Upper Trout,
discovered two men trying to take
his horses from the barn. He fol
lowed them after they were fright
ened off, and came upon them
ibout a half mile irom the ranch.
The men had stopped to change
saddles on their horses, and when
both of them were in line, Clark
leveled his rifle and snapped twice,
but both times the cartridges miss
ed fire. But for this, the career
if two daring horse thieves would
Have ended there and then. Be
fore Clark could get a rifle from
(he man who was with him, the
men had escajied.