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PUMPING PLANT
NEARLY COMPLETE
New Irrigation Scheme On
Foster Ranch Ready for
Work Next Week.
Sp octal Sale on Jfats
Professional Cards.
?e f r continue for 10 days.
rA large i nit varied assort'
me; of Winter lints, from t
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Sltvk hoarded I iy tins day, wick or month ut
Reasonable rntrn. llftiif nil'cr tis wlicn in I'rint'--villi-.
RATIOS UKASOXAHLK. We Iwiv.-
Fine Livery Turnouts
l!un in Connection with the lteml Stahl
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fxttorney uk Commstior at Xau
PriavilU, Crtgon.
The work of iiictalJing the gaeo
ino ermine ami liUino on the
Carey Kontc r ranch outh of the
city hnn ahout heen completed.
The engine hn heen net in nlace
in the houe luilt for the purpose
and a Hume con-tructed from
Crooked river, where the supply
of water will he drawn, and the
flume fiuihhed which will carrv
the water from the pump to the
ha; of the ridpo Burrounding the
ranch. Ab noon na a kdihiIv t.irii.
in received from Portland the
iieroffary connectiona wili he made
andjhc enginw and pumj started
to work. Thin will he sometime
next week.
The plant when completed and
in working order will ho the only
one of its kind in this section of
Oregon and from indications will
satitfy the rnont skeptical as to the
work it wiil do and the great in
crease in value it will add to the
Foster projerty.
The engine houw seta up on a
rine of ground some 125 feet from
the hanks of Crooked river and
at the hot lorn of a ditch 16 feet
deep leading to the river a flume
hasltcen laid through which the
water is conveyed to a well at the
west end of the entrine hntnuv
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Directly orer this stands the tur-
ine pump which draws the water
from the weil through a seven
inch nine and forces it nvrr.a.i
severn 1 feet to J he., mouth, -of i!m
second flume, and from there the
water runs to the ditch at the haso
ing into a road that might at come
future date make trouhle for the
Ilarriman interests.
The method adopted by the Har
riman oflieials in dealing with the
.Sumptcr Valley was simple and
effective. Though there was not
tlie least encouragement offered
from Ilarriman, it was announced
some time ago that the Sumpter
Valley would extend, tapping rich
country and rendering settlement
possihle and mining districts pro
ductive. Grading was done and
steel rails were ordered. Then
came the trouble.
The Ilarriman roads, over which
the steel for the Sumpter Valley
tracks must come, refused to make
a special rate for the material, and
the Sumpter "Valley faced the
necessity of paying full freight
charges, enough to seriously crip
pie, financially, a much larger
corporation. Thus" the matter
stands. A portion of the grading
has been 'done and the Sumpter
Valley management tas announc
ed that it will build. But Mr.
Ilarriman has said, quietly and to
himself, that the road would not
extend. There is a possibility that
the high-rate difliculty may be
overcome, but this does not seem
probable.
WILL EXTEND
DOWNDESCHUTES
Archie Mason Says the
Automobile Line Will
Tap The Dalles.
BALLIET GETS
LIGHT SENTENCE
of the ridge to the south. The
Letson Balliet, the notorious
mine promoter who operated large
ly in Oregon, was this morning
sentenced by Federal District
Judge McPherson in Des Moines,
Iowa, to serve three months in
pi won and pay a fine of $:500
This sentence was upon the plea
j of guilty which the accused enter
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eu recenwv. rather than Kfnnr!
ditch line will not be constructed another trial for which the govern-
uiiwi cany spring, out wnen com-
...:n ' . . . . rnent was preparing to hold No
..Henderson & Pollard..
Wines, and
Liquors,
9 htnestGigars
In Stock.
(Country Orders Solicited
First Door South of Poindexter Hotel.
Belknap 6c 6 d wards
SAyscnnj ant nSry0KS.
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Printuitte. Orcycn.
t Ji Rosenborg
Piysician and Jury to ti
CaUs anjtvrrtiij jrmjty tay r miyJkt
Offi f rout TTemtotn '
ZPiinevilU, Oreyon.
THE 'WINNER CO.,
Incor)oratcd lOO.'J.
DRUGS, STATIONERY AND Ul-TO-DATE
1IOUS 11 FURNISHINGS.
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I don't want to sell vou
the Earth but I do want
to sell you a . , ,
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and examine my
and get prices
GOilLEYlTAILOB
L ' Of
CITY
Meat Market
tUIOT S LISTER, Prop's.
FRESH MEATS and
LARD VEGETA
BLES, FISH and
GAME IN SEASON
None but Healthy Animals
Killed, Which Insures Good
Wholesome Meats.
ONE DOOR NORTH
TEMPLETON'S
OF
A MATTER QF HEALTH
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Absolutely Pure
immsuBsmum
pleted will run in a semi circle for
a distance of three quarters of a
mile, keeping well up on the side
of the higher ground so that the
entire tract, of .'. VI aiv. 1,. . ...
fraudulently, and his sentence is
had received about $2S0,000 up to
the li me of the first hearing, and
he was permitted to operate for
some time' after that, advertising
as widely and falsely as before,
and maintaining a force at his
Sac Francisco office of from 15 to
intends to sow this body of land
into alfalfa and with the supply
of water pumped from the engine
will be' able to raise bountiful
cropB. Heretofore the land has
been sown in rye, the size of the
crop depending for the most part
on the amount of moisture falling
in the spring and fall.
The engine, which has been set
in place by A. T. Walker, is a 15
horse power Fairbank s - M or s e
machine, capable of throwing a
maximum of 1000 gallons per
minute up a 25 foot lift. The
engine and pump are guaranteed
to do that amount of work, but it
is not probable that over 1000 gal
lons per minute will be needed for
irrigation purposes. The entire
tract, in consequence, can " be
thoroughly irrigated every eight
days if necessary. The engine is
supplied with distillate instead
of gasoline which lessens greatly
the cost of the work it performs.
Mr. Foster states that he can lay
his fuel on the ground at the
engine house for 20 cents per gal
lon and the latter is about the
only expense attached to this
method of irrigation. It is expect
ed that the entire cost for the
saasonJs irrigating will not exceed
$250, allowing 70 days during the
.year that the engine will be pump
ing water.
SUMPTER VALLEY
ROAD BLOCKED
E. II. Ilarriman has blocked the
announced purpose of the Sumpter
Valley Railroad to build into
Prairie City and it is known here
that it will now be impossible for
that road to extend its line until
ing for the move, says a Telegram
dispatch. The objection in pre-
avoid the possibility of it develop-
ember 29, says the Portland soon result from so much
Journal
The charge against Balliet was
using the United States mails
30. The presumption is that he
has received for the sale of White
Swan Mines Com nan v. limited.
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stock and stock of other companies
he promoted later, nearly 1300,
000. Of this total amount he is
known to have expended legiti
mately a very small proportion.
At the time he swore that his
receipts aggregated $280,000. his
outlay for legitimate expenses at
the White Swan was not to exceed
$10,000, and he had ed $5,000
or $6,000 at the Gold Ridge, on
which he took a bond.
The rest 61 the money received
for stock had been spent in ad
vertising, issuing circulars and
tracts, maintaining his Baker City
paper, the Herald, and for variety
theatres or such other things as he
desired in business or dissipation.
Ho became infatuated with a
variety theatre actress, and put
from $500 to $700 into an institu
tion where she might have scope
for exercising her tallent. Later
he married her. He presented the
Baker City brass band with uni
forms and instruments, on con
sideration that they would take
the name White Swan, which was
the name of his mining property.
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An opposing evening paper in
Baker City, the Republican, was
driven out of business by his publi
cation, and during the time of the
newspaper strife Balliet gave
advertising at low figures. At
one time he entered into a con
tract for $5,000 worth of advertis
ing with a syndicate of eastern
Mr. Ilarriman is ready and will- newspapers, which included many
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of the most prominent publications
of the country, and they ran page examining the best claims.
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venting extension of the Sumpter write ups of the promoter, in which
v auey line is to Keep its territory
America."
Archie Mason who has the con
tract for building the automobile
road from Shaniko to Bend, in
Crook County, is in Portia nil f o-
uay, and he says he has completed
nearly ,0 of the 75 miles of road.
ana expects to construct another
automobile road down the Des
cnutes Kiver to a point on the
Columbia above The Dalles before
taking his outfit away from that
country.
"The road I am just completing
will he an easy one for automo
biles," Mr. Mason said today,
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...v. dh wvbi tiauc on me wno e n
miles is only G per cent. The
road bed is 12 feet wide, and the
bridges across the gulches alone
the route are constructed of stout
timbers. We are at present en
gaged in putting in several of
these.
"The road to be built down thn
Deschutes toward The Dalleb will
probably be done by Spring, as
very little loss of time is anticipat
ed on account of bad weather.
We have bright, balmy days .near-
y all the time in that portion of
Eastern Oregon, and the ground
never freezes deep enough to pre
vent us plowing and scraping.
The Deschutes Irrigation Com
pany, for whom I am building the
road, is busy af this time con
structing a number of canals,
primary ditches and latterals, and
&y hcstT?ummer a large body of
land heretofore known as desert
will be growing alfalfa and tim
othy by the wholesale. Irrigation
is doiog a great deal for that
region, and a large population will
tunnel last Monday. He dropped
down the hill so that the tunnel
will cut tho ledge at a depth of
about OflC li 11 n i? roil f.of TIia
ledge runs almost east and west
and will he crosscut by the tunnel
running north and south. Mr.
Norton brought up an assay out
fit when he returned from San
Francisco and has been testing a
good deal of rock this week. Ilia
ore cars, rail and other mining
machinery are still in Lakeview,
hut he is expecting it up next
week.
C. E. Campbell has a location
just west of where Mr. Norton is
running his tunnel. Ilia claim
is called the O. K. and a three-
foot vein of good looking quartz
is exposed on the surface. The
vein has a north and south trend
and crops out for several hundred
feet along the hill. An average
sample taken clear across the
ledge on top of the ground assaved
$1!) in gold and about $3 in silver.
I here is a Btreak of gelena run
ning through the center of the vein
and though it was not tested for
ead. Mr. Campbell thinks it will.
carry twenty or, thirty ter cent.
He has run in an opeu cut on the
ledge and sent away samples
taken further in. He believes
these samples will carry better
values. They were sent to Mr.
Campbell's brother-in law, George
H ingheld, a mining man of Tono-
pah.
new
land being rendered productive."
Telegram
TO WORK ON
DIXIE LEDGE
Another of the immense deposits
of low grade ore in this section has
attracted the attention of capital
and this week a deal was closed by
which V. W. Reese, of Prairie
City, and W. E. Davidson & Co.,
of Pendleton, secured
WOOL REPORTS
ARE HOPEFUL
It seems likely that the wool-
growers will receive high prices for
their clips next spring, says the
Idaho Statesman. There is a
sreneral boom - -ywcwir
muuiry ueing covereu with buyers
offering to contract-clips at prices
far above those that prevailed a
month ago. In all ' the Western
states contracts are being made at
thee fancy prices. In Utah wool
bas been contracted at nineteen
cents and in Oregou and Idaho
the clips are being sought.
This movement is not confined
to our Western states, not yet to
this country. American buyers
are operating in all the principal
wool-growing parts of the world.
Everything in sight is being taken,
and it seems probable the entire
wool supply will be in American
hands.
Whether the movement is on the
merits of the market or is snecula-
the Inde- tive is not known. That there is
lease and a strong- snuniilntlvo oLmin
pendence group on a
bond, says the Sumptcr American, i work admits of no doubt, but that
o t"Fu Hijin ine Dig would be natural if dealers had
JJixie Meadows mine on the north become con vin1 tw n,i;t;
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and are generally understood to called for high prices during the
be a direct continuation of its vein
system. A crosscut tunnel of 140
feet intercepted the vein at a depth
of approximately 100 feet after
which a drift was extended 110
feet. At this point the vein was
crosscut and found to be 45 feet
between walls, the ore carries fair
values.
In speaking of the deal Mr.
Davidson said, "We have complet
ed arrangements for continuous
operations during the winter and
will extend the drift until it is
under an immense cropping, at
which point, from surface values,
great things seem assured. This
will take about three months and
if the showing at that deoth is
what we expect the property will
be purchased. The mill at the
Dixie Meadows is doing fine work
and the mine is looking excellent,
in fact until one has visited it he
cannot realize its magnitude."
DEVELOPING MINES -
AT PAISLEY
From all reports it is probable
that some ricn mines will be dis
covered in the neighborhood of year's product of wool,
i aisiey. juany claims" are being
staked out and some have indica
tions of being valuable property.
Wining experts are in the
.nd partanc. carta, W . to Fl0ac. "The Cecil Rhota ol cl,m,hu, the lolloi, to e,v: cent, thia-v,', ri , , '
C. II. Norton began work on his
coming year.
There is a rumor current, how
ever, in some circles, to the effect
that, beneath this upward move
ment is a combination organized
for the purpose of cornering the
market. Men claiming to be
somewhat familiar with the plans
of the combination, predict wool
will go to twenty-five cents.
Whether the alleged combination
will be able to hold the figures so
high none can say, but it is claim
ed enormous capital is enlisted in
the great game.
- The story is of especial interest
to wool growers, since, in such a
movement backed by great capital
the staple might easily be lifted
much higher than it is now.
Among the local sheepmen in
Crook county there is a general
feeling prevalent that . next year
they will realize a general rise in
prices for the season's clip. This
belief is based upon the reports
from the eastern markets, which
are constantly showing a better
tone, and the fact that contracts
are being made by eastern buyers
among the woolgrowers in adjoin
ing counties to purchase next
Some of
the local sheepmen are advancing
the opinion that the price of wool
will climb to 25 cents in 1905. but
field a greater number will be satisfied
if it touches the 20 cent mark.
The Chewaucan Post of ' last Whether one or the other they are
cents this " year's
paid.
prices will be