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PJUNKVJLLK, CROOK COUNTY; OREGON, JANUARY 11), 1!M)3.
VOL. IX.
NO.G
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MICHEL & CO.j
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The Holiday arc pun; and in order to make room fur our
oiioniKMiH Spring Slock, we will uiakeradinil reduction on
our lino of Wiiik'i' (Sixxh.
Ladles9 Qhildrcns' and Gc
Mackin tos lies at Your Own
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Price
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ON CASH J'UKCIIASKS
Til MON KY TO 'YOU
Michel & Company Michel & Company
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B.S.&L. COMPANY
CHANCES OWNERS
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The Opera Saloon!
KOAUK li I; I) r. 1. 1. Proprietor. j
In The (Ila.c llalll
A First Class House !
hi livery Uespeet
CHOICEST UIUNDS OP LIQOURS,
WIN 1:5, and CIGARS
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f ?Z. 33arn0S,
jfttorniy at jCaut,
t OYSTI-R IIOUSi: and LUNCH COUNTliR g
(tHMi at all hoiii'it
lny or nlnht.
Mi'iiM ( all "Mini
nerved to order.
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O.VMlorn In Season.
O'NEIL
Brothers
Managers
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liillty f putting up
to older I'le 'ami
Cukes for tin' family
trade.
Urnid For Kali'
Your l'atronauc Respectfully Solicited
i Announcement
II
AVINU purchased the business from N. A. Tyfi it HroV.
known us tho Red Front Bazaar, I wish to announce to
the trailing public Unit I will have, us noon as possible,
a complete and up-to-date lino of Merchandise such as this.
More has formerly carrieil. Our intention in to make this
More the most popular trailing place in the county and to
do tit ih wo will carry n line of goods of the best quality
and cell them at prices Hint will unit you. In order to In
come, better acquainted and also to dispose of tho prepent
Hlock I nm going to sell it at the extraordinary price of
6o Cents on the Dollar. A cordial invatation is extended
you to visit the More and take udvantngo of this offer.
Yours Respectfully.
J. K. CALAVAN.
Professional Cards,
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PrimovUU,
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SPjlyst'eians and iSiryms.
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PrintuilU, Oitgom.
J. S?osfniery
JPhytician and Suryon
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!Printvtltt, Oregon.
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I don't want to soli you
the Earth but I do want
to sell you a
Pall Suit and Overcoat
Call
good
and examine my
and get prices
GORMLEYH TAILOR
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OFFICERS:
W. A. Booth, Pretldent
O. M. Elkins, Vlc President
Fnto W. Wiison, Cihlr
DIRECTOR8:
W. A. Booth, O. M. Elkins,
O. F. Stewart, Fneo W. Wilson.
Transacts a General
Hanking liusiness
Kxchano nought
and Sold
Collections' Avill re
ceive prompt attention
J. E. Edwards Purchases
Other Interests in' the
Hay Creek Ranch.
C. M. Cartwright and J. I . an
Ilonti n, of the Baldwin JsUep and
Land company of Hay Creek, have
Hold their intt rcMa in the company
to J. K. ' Kdwaidn, Kivint? t,,p
latter the tole owncri-hip of one of
the la rgest nhe p rarchea in the
world and upon which arc raised
mure thoroughhred dtok than on
nv other utm-k ranch on the globe.
'J he original company wa organ
ized by Ir. I'aldwin of California
in 1ST.".. He made twine of the
firi-t jiurchaKiB of thoroughbred
Mock fiom a Mr. Hammond of
Vermont, at that time paying
enormous priem for fonie of the
rams other iirms in i aniornia
were j ulronizcd and in ISS-l, after
it was U lievetl the heii.Mil ol Mr-
feet ion had ben readied in the
mutter of improved brcdtfof heep,
Mr. Baldwin nold his ranch to
dm, and J. V. Van Houten. In
187 another company was organ
ized in which weie Van Ifouten
1W, C. M. Cartwright, A. II.
Breynian and John Fummerville
an incorporators. A few years
ago Mr. Kd wards, who waa living
in Wyoming and who has been
purchasing Mock frheep from the
company for a number of years,
purchased an interest in the com
pany and this laM week became
the owner of the entire plant.
The company has been one of
the most solid in the country and
its financial Manding is at the top
notch. Every Mephas been taken
witli tiimnesH and confidence until
a Mieep ranch of a few acres has
Ih'Cu increased to one covering
MO.OIK) acred of deeded land and
upon which an equal number ol
sheep is owned and run. Between
JOO.OOO and "00.000 pounds of
wool are clipped from the herd
annually. Aside from the wool
clip the company raises Be vera
thousand tons of hay each year
and ships many carloads of
thoroughbred sheep to various
points throughout the United
States and foreign countries. The
ranch is Filuated about midway
between this city and Shaniko and
is always a point of interest to
tourists coming into the country
Mr. Edwards is well known
throughout the country and the
fact that he is now tho sole pro-
prieterof one of the largest sheep
ranches in tho world will have a
tendency to increase his promin
ence, i lie Uaitiwin Miecp anu
Land company is nn institution
which Crook vounty could not well
afford to lose and the fact that t he
new owner is a man of progressive
business ways means that the com
pany under its new head will con
tinue to grow and make rapid ad
vances along the lines of its chosen
business.
national convention of the old as
sociation Friday at Denver. The
original association Imd re-elected
President Frank J. Ilagenbarth,
and an executive committee of
eight, in which Nelson Morris
represented the packers, and eai h
of the other inlerettH in the Mock
raising, marketing, commisnion
and butchering business had repre
sentatives, including the I'ure
Breed association. The firt act
of the old aHHoriation after re
organization was a concession to
the railroads, changing the time
allowed for cattle in transit from
2H to 3i hours.
Iiocal packers say the split will
have no appreciable effect on the
Portland packing house situation
or the Oregon livestock business,
excepting that it may possibly
strengthen tho sheep men, who
have elected to stand with the
stockyards and packing interests.
The sheep raisers of Oregon are
just now trying to secure the pass
age of a law that will afford them
protection from cattlemen by
making the county in which al
leged deprediitior.s are carried
on responsible for loss of stock and
projierty.
It is said the proposition to es
tablish a large packing house in
Portland under the auspices of the
National Livestock association is
more probable than before, as the
association is now on a better
businesH basis and the men who
T"ill control its policies are more
likely to come forward with the
money necessary to attract sup
port from local capital. At the
present time Portland has only
two packing houses of considerable
capacity the Union Meat com
pany and the Pacific Packing com
pany and just now the former is
in a crippled condition because of
its recent fire. It is said both of
these plants are far from equal to
handling the livestock output of
Oregon, and many sheep and cat
lie are shipped to sound packing
houses and eastern markets.
CENTER OF A BIO
IRRIGATION SITE
MUCH INTEREST TAKEN
IN SHEEP KILLING LAW
it
A MATTER OF HEALTH
HWAh
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Absolutely Pure
IAS i:0 SUBSTITUTE
CATTLEMEN FORCED
FROM ORGANIZATION
By combining with the - sheep
raisers, ancient enimies of the cat
tlemen, the stockyards interests
of the vest have succeeded in con
trolling the National Livestock
association, in session at Denver,
and amending the constitution in
such a manner that the packers
and stockyards men are securely
in the saddle, says the Journal.
The struggle resulted in a revolt,
the cattlemen withdrawing from
the old association they formed
six years ago. They have organ
ized a new association, which they
name the National Cattle Growers
association. They have elected as
their president Conrad Shaffer,
president of the Colorado Cattle
men's association, and the follow
ing executive committee: A. E
DeRicqles, Colorado; Richard
Walsh, Texas; N. C. Parsons,
Utah; Charles McDonald, New
Mexico; Robert Taylor, Nebraska
Tho revolution occurred at the
Sheepmen of the state of Oregon
are interested in a bill soon to be
introduced into the Legislature at
the present session by Represent
ative Steiner, of Klamath county
providing for the payment of
sheep owners, who have their flocks
slaughtered by unknown persons
bj' the county in which the killing
occurs, says the Telegram.
In this way it is believed that
interest will be aroused and the
ix'rpetrators of any more such out
rages will be brought to justice
This move is calculated to make
those persons who are lethargic
in the matter of sheep killinz
taking no part on either side, will
ing to lend their aid in giving
evidence when possible, that will
result in stamping the evil out.
During tho past year it is
estimated that in Crook county
alone there havo been slaughtered
sheep worth about $5000. Fred
Smith, the victim of the latest dep
redations in Crook county, has
always been a law-abiding stock
man in Crook county, whose sheep
were slaughtered on land he had
leased from the Government, and
the killing was entirely without
excuse of any sort.
It is recognized that" the moun
tains of llarnev, Malheur and
Crook counties harbor some per
sons, who are not law-abiding in
any sense. They came to Eastern
Oregon before the law did, and
have always created their own
regulations. This rough-and-ready
element does as it pleases without
permission or solicitation from
anybody on earth. The advocates
of the proposed bill say this is the
only way to stop the wholesale
killing ot sheep, for the residents
of these counties will sit up and
notice things if the lossesof sheep-
killing come out tf the county-
funds, and the . depredations will
be etopped.
Government to Aid Klamath
County in a Four Mill
ion Dollar Project.
Undoubtedly the greatest land
reclamation project ever under
taken by the United States Govern
ment will be given encouragement
and all that is needed in the way
of legislative imjetus by the pas
sage at the present session of the
Oregon legislature of House bill
No. 1, introduced by Represent
ative R. E. L. Steiner; of Crook,
Grant, Klamath and Lake, provid
ing for the ceding by the state of
all its title and interest to the
a nds covered by, Klamath Lakes
and Tule Lake in Klamath county.
This was the first measure intro
duced in the House, and every
indication is that it will be passed
without op(osition. It will mean
the expenditure in Oregon by the
Federal Government of about
1 1,000,000.
By the terms of thi3 jncasnre the
state will relinquish whatever
claim it may have to these water
covered lands to the Government,
which will at once proceed to re
claim them and throw the entire
reclaimed territory open to home
stead settlement. This enterprise,
when carried out in its entirety,
will reclaim for agricultural pur
poses approximately 300,000 acres
of land that is now worthVss, fill
ed with quagmires and covered
with swamps and water, in some
places to a depth of 25 feet.
T. H. Humphers, of the Govern
ment Reclamation Service, and
chief engineer in charge of the
Klamath reclamation . work, has
been at Salem for several days,
and will appear before the irriga
tion committee of both houses of
the Legislature to present the
Government's case and demon
strate by charts and maps the
exact plan of reclamation and
just what the Government intends
to do after title to the territory
has been procured. Represent
ative Steiner has beeu bending his
energies in behalf of the Klamath
bill, and says that he is meeting
with every encouragement at the
hands of the legislators.
When once the Government has
procured title to the land it will
install a drainage system by which
the water now in Upper Klamath
Lake will be be drawn off and run
into Lower Klamath Lake, which
is on a level GO feet below. From
Lower Klamath Lake the water
will be drained into Klamath
Lake and run into California.
Tule Lake will be drained and a
large tract of fertile territory re
claimed. Upper Klamath Lake
is fed by the Sprague and Wil
liams Rivers, and in removing the
water from the lake a large por
tion of it will be carried onto a
tract of nearly 100,000 acres of
upland, now given up to the
growth of sagebrush, but which is
fertile when once touched by water.
The whole course of the waters of
Sprague and Williams Rivers will
be carried through the reclaimed
tracts and used as the basis for
irrigation in the form of a cen
tral ditch, from which laterals will
be run to all parts of the now
waste land.
ccntage of the visitors who will
come to Oregon- with the intention
of remaining and growing up with
the state.
One of the principal induce-
mentq which has yet been made to
encourage immigration to Oregon
for homeseekers from various parts '
for the east and the middle west is
the special colonist rata announce-
ed thiVweL by"Ehe Oregon Rail
road acd Navigation company and
the Southern Pacific Oregon lines.
The rates will be reduced one-half
on these lines, becoming effective '
Feb. 12 and continued until May
15 and will apply to all points
west of the if issouri river tapped
by these railroad. The rate will
be made effective during the
periods in which the low one-way
passenger rates are named under
what is termed colonist or home
seekers' rates, combining to en
able prospective settlers to migrate
at a minimum cost.
Coming j'ist at this time, when
owing to extensive advertising that
has been scattered broadcast, the
people of the country are better in
formed than ever before in relation
to the opportunities presented for
acquiring homes in the northwest
states, and also at the season when '
the heaviest movement of immi
grants takes place, the action of '
the railroads is of great importance.
So material ia the reduction that it
will serve to induce people to come
west whose minds may have not
been fully made up before. Those
wno have already made arrange
ments to come this spring will have
the advantage of coming at a low
er cost than anticipated.
GREAT INFLUX OF
SETTLERS THIS YEAR
The state of Oregon will surpass
all records this year in supplying
homes and business opportunities
to the people of the east, and al
ready indications point to a tre
mendous tide of immigration to
this commonwealth. One of the
chief causes for the prospective in
flux of homeseekers 'is the Lewis
and Clark exposition, which will
attract thousands of people from
every state in the union. While
many will visit the fair merely for
the trip and sight-seeing, there
will be unquestionably a large per-
WORK TO BEGIN ON
BROWN RESERYOIRSITES
W.W.Brown, the weir known
stockman and financier of the Wa
gontire section, is in the city, a
guest at the Burns, says the Burns
Herald.
Mr. Brown is preparing to bring
water on several thousand acres of
land on what is known as the des
ert. This will not be used for
irrigating purposes particularly as
much of the work he contemplates
is to conserve water for stock pur
poses. He has secured several
good reservoir sites and consider
able valuble land for agricultural
purposes with scrip and will do ex
tensive work in the way of build
ing dams and canals.
Mr. Brown thinks he has a good
thing as he has located Beveral dry
lakes where with a nominal amount
of work can be made to hold suffi
cient water in some instances to ir
rigate many acres of alfalfa, while
others can be made to hold suffi
cient water for stock purposes the
entire season.
The comparatively level country
will enable him to hold much
water in these "dry lakes" with a
very little levee at the lower part.
He proposes to increase the amount
of water in each of these several
takes by running ditches to them
from various gullies above them
where the spring freshets have
heretofore been allowed to go to
waste.
Mr. Brown believes that this
work should become general
throughout this section, as it would
certainly be beneficial if every can
yon was made a storage reservoir.
Some of the neighbors have adopt-
ted the plan mostly for stock pur
poses. Among them being the
Hutton Bros, and he understands
Wm. Hanley will also work on the
same plan on the desert.
The . area of land which Mr.
Brown contemplates bringing
under irrigation lies in the , ex
treme south eastern portion of the
county and is adjacent to the Buck
mountain irrigation project of
which Sheriff Smith and others of
this city are at the head. The
district in question is the seat of
some excellent reservoir sites and
these will be used to advantage
by both parties in storing water
during the spring for irrigation
purposes later in thessason. Both
companies will engage in active
work this year and it probably
will bring a large portion of the
lands selected under ' the canal
lines during the first year's work.