Crook County journal., November 24, 1904, Image 2

CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
I. F. HTEFFA. S. M. IUII.KY.
TublifheJ trery TluirwUy t Th Journal Building, PrincTill, Oregon.
Term ( SulMHTlptlon: Om year, f 1.30. Sis
i month, 75 ront. SIhrIo coUh. wntu ettch.
Kntcml at (he Prliw
villc post olVirc lit 2ml
cl-v rati'.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CROOK COUNTY.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1904.
RESULTS OF IRRIGATION.
We read and hear a great deal
about what irrigation is doing for
the West. It is making the dtrt
blossom as the rose, and providing
the 'landless man with a home and
increasing the wealth of the arid
regions to undreamed of millions.
The great' irrigation systems arc
wonderful enterprises and the re
sults are wonderful, but behind it
all is the demand for land. Homes
are wanted. The Eastern states
are crowded. People are tiring of
citv life. The old farms are not
j
so productive as in former years
and the people of this country
have not learned good fertilizing
methods. A few years ago the
trend was from the farm to the
city, but now the boys are coming
hack. The farming districts of
the Middle and Eastern states that
once gave up their best ) oung men
to the big cities now are holding
ihA hova and other classes of
people are seeking a spot of earth
away from the evils and strife of
city life where they can live more
independently and happily. The
older communities are becoming
crowded, land is more desired and
values are rising. Cheaper lands
and other attractions have drawn
many good citizens to the West
and land values have greatly in
creased.
Ten years ago the value of land
reclaimed by any irrigation enter
prises would not iav the cost of
constructing the ditches. Canal
builders usually failed in business.
The land was not needed and only
the long headed speculator profit
ed by the effort to make the desert
blossom as the rose. i here was
no demand for land and ditch
building was profitless and dis
heartening. It was a venture, a
great risk of money, a gamble that
often left the promoter a bankrupt.
The water was plentiful and
ditches were made but the desert
refused to blossom and roses eked
out a thorny existence on the
banks of streams that were as dry
as the desert, except during the
spring freshets.
But the demand for land brought
the irrigator, and ditch digging
and rose gardening now are simple.
Uncle Sam has done a great deal
to assist in the reclamation of the
West, but the chief assistance of
the government is in preserving
the rights of the people. Tinder
the direction of the department of
the interior the water will be well
distributed and corporations will
not acquire lands that are valu
able for hojie building. But it is
safe to say that private capital
would soon develop every ossible
irrigation system in the West if
Uncle Sam permitted it. Every
acre is now worth reclaiming for
its marketable price. The mil
lions expended in the construction
of some of the immense canals are
small amounts compared to the
value of the land after it has pass
ed in to the hands of the irrigator.
The land is practically valueless
until reclaimed and when reclaim
ed is worth much more in the
majority of cases than the cost of
reclamation.
The revival of a desire for farm
life and the renewal of the ten
dency of the sons and daughters
of the agricultural classes to re
main on the farm, along with the
development of commerce, the in
crease for the demand of the
products of this country among
the increasing numbers of em
ployes of the growing manufactur
ing industries of the Eastern states,
have all contributed to the de
mand for land that has in turn
increased the demand for the
awakening to life of the dormant
forces cf tho West. It is not
therefore, only the promotion of
irrigation enterprises that is de
veloping the West, but a stable
demand for land that removes all
fictitions value to the increase of
wealth in this, our Northwest.
Pendleton Tribune.
dustry along his line has Uen
falling ort during the past six or
eight years, with the exception of
H3. He attributes it to a suc
cession of severe winters, which
has driven many former cattlemen
into the sheep business.
However correct this reason may
be, it is probable that in many
sections once regarded as cattle
country the business is far less
important than it once was. In
one way or another large numbers
of cattle will be raised in the west,
but every year the pasturage will
become more circumscribed and
the great herds of cattle, once
so common on the bunchgrass
land, will he comparatively very
few.
As the west has settled up the
range has been curtailed in area.
There are still many acres of
government land fit for pasturage,
but much of it has fallen into
private hands and in one way and
another it has Ik en so cut up that
it is by no means as easy to get
free pasturage as it was 20 years
ago. Many sections that were
once known only through their
shipments of cattle have witnessed
development along other lines
until the cattle business no longer
overshadows ill other industries
as it once did.
There is good reason to believe,
moreover, that between the rail
roads and the meat trust the cat
tleman has been in a position to
see his profits greatly reduced.
He is at the mercy of both, and
the inducements to remain in the
business are not what they were
in the good old days. This may
not mean that there will be a de
crease in the aggregate of cattle
shipped to the large butchering
centers. Large concerns will still
continue in the business and
individual farmers may raise a
few head. There are yet thou
sands of acres of rocky, broken
land that will never be suited to
agriculture, and here cattle will
find- range for years. People will
continue to demand meat and it
will be supplied, but the cattle
industry will not be conducted
along the lines that made it so
profitable and fascinating in the
halcyon era of wild cow punching
days. Spokesman Review.
AN OUTSIDE VIEW.
An official of the Northern
Pacific Bays that the cattle in-
So long as the public lands re
main open to the . public, and so
long, which must always be while
they are public lands, as they are
open to thejse of all citizens with
out distinction, just so long is
there likely to be trouble when
occupation reaches that stage
when the range begins to be
crowded. Everybody has a right
to them because they are public
lands. In sections where the
cattlemen enjoyed first occupancy
they obtain certain shadowy rights
which comes from local recogni
tion, but which, of course, could
not be maintained in the courts.
There is, so to speak, an irre
pressible conflict between the cat
tlemen and sheepmen. The two
classes of stock which they own
cannot be run side by side on the
same range. Cattle have an in
vincible repugnance to sheep and
will not browse on a range which
sheep have occupied. Once that
sheep have thoroughly grazed over
any stretch of land there is nothing
left there for tjie cattle. -Each
class has rights, so-called, that is
the rights which come to any
citizen; neither has exclusive
rights. If the sheep and cattle
men wish to dwell together in
amity they must enter into certain
agreements under which each can
occupy certain portions of the
public domain. But the tendency
of human nature is to take a foot
when it gets an inch, and, proceed
ing on the theory that what is
everybody's and, therefore, free, is
theirs to the extent they can
utilize it, bloody conflicts natural
ly result. In nearly all such con
flicts the whole question resolvei;
itself into which side the best able
to protect itself. Neither h'p
men nor cattlemen in new sections
of the range country own very
much land. They use the ojHn
range, particularly in summer,
and whatever land they have
under fenc they keep for the
exigency of winter. Most of these
wars have been bloody. Sheep
have beer: killed and then cattle;
winter hay has been destroyed
and barns burned; men have been
assassinated. As in the history
of the world reprirals call for re
prisals. The killing of a band of
sheep settles nothing. It only
tends to give the section involved
a bad name. It drives out peace
ably disposed citiiens and it keeps
out homoseekers who would do
much for the development of the
country.
The question between them is
one which should be settled in
cool blood; as a rule it isn't. It
is perhaps impossible for it ever
to be settled amicably, on the old
principle that when the lion and
lamb lie down together the lamb
will be inside the lion. Such con
tests have occurred all over the
open range couutry. Each year
as settlement advances the
question is more ditlicult of solu
tion. So long as it was possible
to move into virgin fields, not too
far distant, the dispute was push
ed farther and farther toward the
frontier, resulting in temporary
truces. But the frontier has dis
appeared and now the question
must be faced. It is likely that
there will always be more or less
friction between these two forces
until that day when the country
is so well settled and the public
land so well occupied that range
herding on a great scale is no
longer possible. That will lie the
day -of small herds, private land
ownership and plainly defined
legal rights.
But in the meantime it ought to
be possible for American "citizens
who are otherwise law abiding to
settle their difference in some way
other than by the shotgun and the
torch. Some amicable division of
territory should be reached where
the righU so sharply differentiate
and that division should be re
ligiously observed. The spectacle
now presented in certain counties
of Oregon is disgraceful to the last
degree, and a more humane way
should be found out of it than now
practiced to the horror of the jest
of the state. Portland Journal.
The. day of the feast is here.
This day we are allowed to cram
and jam, if we can get it, without
any thought of the aches and
piins which may result on the
morrow. For the man with the
enormous appetite, Thanksgiving
does not come often enough. He
could accomodate the holiday
every week in the year, but his
delicate brother, with impaired
digestive apparatus struggling
sometimes vainly with a con
glomeration of nearly every edible
known to mankind, has reason to
wish that the day set aside in
honor of our corn eating ancestors
was less regular in its annual
visits. But if the day after, with
its jamaica ginger applications
and red hot mustard plasters,
looms up as an apparition full of
painful shadows to the few, to the
many it brings no sigh of sorrow.
The object of Thanksgiving is to
get as much of the turkey and
pumpkin pie as is possible with
out crowding the fellow sitting
next to you off his seat during the
progress of our slow expansion.
The fragile man. with an old
maid's appetite, is no credit to the
turkey dinner nor the festive
board from which the birds are
eaten. He does no honor to his
Pilgrim forefathers nor to the other
guests who are too busily engaged
to notice whether he ea!s or not.
He groans inwardly from two
causes when the next course ami
the next and the next ar: brought
on. It's a long day with fragile
man, but way up near the shoulder
scam of his coat he lauahs in his
sleeve. His day is coming, lie
laughs in childish glee as he
thinks of it. Four weeks from
date he will get revenge, consola
tion and delight. That alone is
sufficient for the suffering he now
endures. He smiles again, then
he laughs, he has a short spasm
of giggles, and laughs again.
Empty of turkey he is full of joy.
A month from now he will reach
the acme of bliss, aud he laughs
again as he thinks of the two
weeks to follow when he will sip
soup made from the bones!
uucti, of a joke, and to Johnnv
ffiSsLa WURZ WEILER & THOMSON S
vho possess the native- wit. The' III
Johnny Prior ia the originator,
or relator, it make no difference
which, of a joke, and to Johnnv
s
a
w
other morning after the Are at
KoarkV saloon had been extin-
gnished Johnny came marching fjj
corner at the back of the buildinir.
"Foire hertM he called, "foire
here, soir." JAl
"Where is it, Johnny?" said
some of the anxious-onea as they
hurried up to him. "Whero is it?"
And then Johnny sprung his
joke. '
"Shure soir," he said with his
happy little chuckle, "an would ' L
yei mum, soir, n i win 10 leu y
it wui in me poipe?"
The completion of the Ochoco yjs
bridge makes t lie second structure Y
of the kind to Ih finished during S(
the past few months. The city
l
council is making some gooti Kyi
strides towards civic improvement vIJ
and should be encouraged as hrt
much as possible, The general
MJjSm
copvdigkt tto ay
RUM. NATHAN t riCMl A.
Our Kali showing in lre gtMds In the nioxt
complete we have ever had and IIhm1 Include
many new pieces of line 1 lock lresa Fabrics'
seldom found in the so ra I lid iipto-dnte Mori's
Shirt Waist, Putin Coat, Jacket, Skirts And
Collarette reign supreme lureAll In the
Season's latest styles and fabrics ...
Get Cash Ch e ck s v i th each liirc h a so
They aro worth money to you
rrr:::,: ;.: Co prineville-s greatest store
ine citv is now much more in-
viting.nl then, too, there is a 1 f--f-f
lot of satisfaction in driving across
a structure that is solid under foot
and does not quiver like one at
tacked with palsy whenever a
pound of weight moves over it.
t
I
i
8
Before the election the democrat
ic pajters were busily engaged in
telling the jn-ople why they should
vote for Parker; now they are
equally diligent in explaining why
the people didn't.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. Dwllit ItoUrlH Iium inken
charge of my itrtwMiiiitklnit depart
ment iiikI my patroim are niirel
the Uxt t vorkitiaiilil ami lutet
1 vie In thin Hue.
Mim. I'n Itiunt'intii.
STKAYKD.
A laicUkin colored horm with
" . white fiice gentle, wrilm nhout tMK)
.... , , . pound, hrnndi'd on nhoiilder V. II.
TheMekinley.Ware-I'uter t.m- 8(lmwllllt lttmP fri(I1, tiKu,e. on
her operations are likely to have fort. ,,, rmU, ,
the "big stick" administered to 0M r ia, vyiU) dmr.- inrurred.
them nlniut the time the defend- Iwer Dewhute Hridge Station,
ants' trials are finished. nl7 3tp.
MEW MILLINERY
High (trade Goods Cheap. City styles and
up-to-date ideas in Millinery at - - -
Mrs. Slayton's
i
i
i
CLOSING OUT SALE
(iclitlcmcil ShlKH
l.aJic SIiovm
Children Shoe
(iviitlciuciiM Hutu
icnt' I'nJciwcar Suit
IjiJIch I'nJcrwcar Suit
l".r."i for fl.Mt
1r
:t.7i for 2.11
!: for .Ut
Uio for ftio
.Vim f,,r a.;:,
4 ini f..r :i.n
-7."i for s.iio
:" for l.sn
:'" for II.".
I". for I.2.1
Vni for :i.T.,
:i for 2.7.'.
l.M for ,in
-' for IMi
:':'. for 1.7.'.
I.'' for . pi
2.7.t fur 2.mi
iMHi .(or 1.4.1
17.1 for 1.2.1
Prineville's Leading nilllncry Store :
K:CcwiHr!r!Cf
THANKSGIVING HOP
p. a. n. e. hall ?
8
:
FLOOR COMMITTER: ' M. E. Umsk, Wm. Kiwi,
Mii.t Zki.i., P. Ii. Howaiu) and Jamk Cram.
RECEPTION COMMITTEE: Gkokok Si mmkhs, M.
R. liioos, Wm. Dkai'Kk, Hakoi.d Baldwin and
Brive Gray.
9
i All Othoi
rmv noons at cost
N. A. TYE 8 Bros. Merchants I
Meat, Vegetables, Produce
A Complete and Choice Line of Itecf, Veal, Multon, pork,
Bacon, Lard nnd Country Produce Kept on hand at the
City Meat MaTkelT
FOSTER & HORRIGAN, Prop's.
IVIncvllle, At TIlC Old Staild Orcon.
a Thursday, November 2Uth. JL
s
I
To All Fathers and Mothers, I'oys and Girls:
GREETING: You are hereby commanded by his
Majesty, KRIS KRINGLE, King of the Holidays
to call at his regular appointed repositiry and select
at an early date, the good things he has in store for
you. They are yours for the asking.
The KING has appointed us his agents, and we
shall take pleasure in showing you the largest and
most complete line of Holiday Goods ever brought
to Prineville, consisting of Toilet Cases, Manicure
Sets, Fine China, Perfumes, Confectionery, Toys,
Useful and Ornamental Furniture at prices to suit
all purses.
THE WINNER COMPANY,
Headquarters for Santa Claus.
... - : -
ncvil
c-Sliaiiito Stiiffo
wwwvvnvwwvw
Dally Between Prineville and Shanlko
SCHEDULE
Leaven Hlmniko, (1 p. m. Arrive at Prineville fl a. in.
leaven Prineville 1 p. ni. Arrive! at Khaniko 1 a. in.
First Class Accommodations
i HOLIDAY PRESENTS Oo To 9
A. H. LIPPMAN O GO'S.
-We Sell-
Heywoods Furniture
The Best Grade of Furniture
Goods. Known In all parts of
the World.
Call sind. G-ot Qxr Prices
Rlacksmithing That Pleases
f I The Kind You (Jet lit -
Jj J. H. WIGLE'S
Jr j (SuccoNHor to)
' CORRIKTT & ELKINS'i
A Stock of Farm Machinery always on ha'nd