CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL
PUBLISHED BY THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
I). F. 8TEFFA. . S. M. BAILEY.
Published ftery TliurnUy at Tb Journal Buitdiog, rrinevllle, Orrgon.
Terms of Sulmcrlwtlon: One year,
month, 75 cent. Single copies 5
OFFICIAL PAPER OF, CROOK COUNTY.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1905.
The St. Louis World's Fair com
mission has awarded the medal to
the Black Butte Quicksilver Min
ing company of Cottage Grove,
Lane county, (or its display of
elnuaW t.r. .t hf company
tk.H llit way -aily f. - n
C,tHoTn;-i an 1 '.'(im both of
f.-; i v .lie it nesi r- p i
rcsentations of the mineral. K v
witnesses who saw the cinnabar
exhibit at St. Louis state that
none of the ore on exhibition there
begins to compare with the speci
mens which have become so com
mon around this city since active
operations began in the cinnabar
fields on Lookout mountain. These
specimens are beyond doubt the
richest that have been produced
anyplace in the United States and
it is safe to assume that if Crook
county comes in for a display of
cinnabar at the Lewis and Clark
Centennial, and she is arranging
to do so, all of the blue ribbons,
bronze medals and tin washers
will be thrown at her head without
a question of doubt arising. At
least if the Black Butte company
can carry away the medal at St.
Louis, Crook ccunty ought to be
able to lord it over the former in
her own state for it is stated that
the manager of the Black Butte
company not long since, when a
specimen of Crook county cinnabar
was sent him to assay, refused to
do so on the ground that he
believed he was being made the
victim of a joke and that the ore
C(lt wmc V .( 1 VM.)l.tt T.
hail been purwtiiu-eU iu a uru
store. The sample was pretty
good, running about 65 per cent
mercury, and it knocked the breath
out of two or three Lane county
people wheu they learned later
that it had been taken from the
north slope of Lookout mountain
in Crook county
It is safe to remark that Crook
county will see a greater influx of
people this year than has crossed
its borders since it first became a
county. Extensive advertising,
combined with the publicity to he
given the resources of this district
at the Lewis and Clark fair, will
have its effect and the county's
population by the end of the pres
ent year will be materially in
creased. And this increase will
come along the lines most desired.
New lands, through the efforts of
he largest and most substantial
irrigation companies, will be
thrown open to settlement and
every quarter section bought
means a new home for one or more
persons. The small irrigation
companies will also work to ad
vantage, and while not attracting
as great a number of new. settlers,
their lands will become the per
manent residences of scores of new
people. The county as a whole
has never been in a position as at
present when it can offer to pros
pective home seekers a diversity
of soil, climate and location. The
low lands and the high lands each
have their advantages and both
will be placed ia readiness for the;
plow. For the climate, but little
is necessary to add. No district
west or east of the Rockies can
produce a climate as agreeable,
invigorating and generally admir
ed as the one found in this section
of Eastern Oregon.
A wholesale butchery of sheep
occurred two weeks ago on the
head waters of Crooked river.
Such slaughtering of sheej) has
become the common thing in the
interior counties since the war to
the death began between the cattle
men and sheep men to see who
can keep the other's flocks off the
public range by means fair or foul.
The Prineville Journal denounces
in a fearless manner these acts of
lawlessness, and appeals to the
better sense of the citizens to see
that the jruilty parties meet justice.
enemies takes nerve. The whole
thing calls for serious consider
ation. Local officers are powerless
Kntertil at Ihc Trine
rill post otttes at SJ
clam rmtea.
to quell the disturbances. It will
ccst a sacrifice of lives and money,
hut the state authorities should
step in. lift the legislature en
deavor to straighten out the tangle.
Hood River Glacier.
SECRETARY A. VwiGLE
RETURNS JOMENVER
A. L. Wigle, secretary of the
Crook County Cattlemen's associa
tion, returned yesterday from
Denver where he had been repre
senting the local organization in
the annual meeting of the National
Livestock association. Mr. Wigle
Faid that while Denver was in the
throes of freezing weather there
was not a cold minute during all
the proceedings which took place.
In fact the meeting was in a tur
moil most of the time and heated
words and arguments ruled the
day. One day there was so much
warmth of feeling that the repre
sentatives present forgot to go to
dinner and put in most of the day
arguing on empty stomachs.
Wh.le the annual meeting was
called to discuss measures and
conditions pertaining to the stock
interests, most of the important
matters, action upon which would
have been of vital interest to the
local associations, were lost from
sight and pigeon holed in the
struggle which began soon after
the convention settled down to
' t.;, i .n v
through im effort to allow the
packers and railroad interests
membership in the convention and
resulted not only in the expression
of bitter feelings but the organi
zation of a new association under
the name of the National Stock
Growers association. The latter
was organized under a new con
stitution permitting the packers
and railroads to a full vote. The
National Livestock association re
mains as it was, an organization
in which only the stock interests
are represented.
Mr. Wigle was the only repre
sentative in either Oregon or
Washington who stood firm in his
convictions when the disagreement
was reached and refused to let
the local association join hands
with the railroad and packing
interests. He said he could not
see how such an alliance could
benefit in any way the cattlemen
of this county or any other county.
"It is not reasonable to suppose,"
ho stated yesterday, "that the
packing interests and the railroad
monopolies are going to pay their
pro ratia amount of fees into an
organization and not get some
thing out of it, especially when
they are not engaged in the rais
ing of livestock. One of the great
est difficulties we have to overcome
is the grasping tendencies of both
these corporate interests and it
does not appear to me that mat
ters can be remedied by having
them parties in an organization
which is spending most of its time
in fighting them in order to re
ceive from their bauds decent con
sideration. At least these are the
grounds I toon and they accorded
with the views expressed and
maintained by other cattle repre
sentatives. On the other hand the action
at the convention shows clearly
that the sheep interests are more
thoroughly organized in every
respect than the cattlemen, and
the next move to be made among
the cattle owners should be more
thorough and systematic organ
izing, not only in this county, but
in others and in other states.
Texas has the best organization of
any in the country and the way
they hustled things around at the
convention shows clearly the
power and good there is centered
in an association which is per
fected in every detail."
Mr. Wigle got a bearing on the
and he read the resolutions before
the convention. The fight among
the stockmen and the packing and
fl..V). Six
ceuta each.
railroad interests, however, threw
this matter of husimv tlio same
as it did practically all other
measures of importance, to the
lat day when it was referred back
to the commit te on resolutions
without any action being taken.
A conference was had with the
government authority who looks
after diseased cattle and he put
himself on record by stating that
it would not be compulsory in the
future to dip all the cattle sent
from the state. This first step to
be taken will be to ascertain
whether any stock is afflicted with
mange. If so, then the stock will
have to be dipped; it not, the way
will be clear for the owner to ship
his herd to market.
M r. Wigle said that alter the or
ganization of the new Livestock
Growers association and it was
found there was such a decided
difference of opinion relative to
who should hold membership in
the organisations there was at once
a cry of harmony. But the cattle
men stood film and remained with
the old organization and made a
positive assertion that no packers
or railroad men should be allowed
in their association. On the IHh
of next May both organizations
will meet again in Denver to per
manently organize. It is expected
that at that time there will an
other clash and a struggle between
conflicting interests. In all pro
bability there will remain two sep
arate and distinct organizations
with the cattlemen in one, and
what other stockmen care to join,
and the sheepmen and railroad
and packing interests represented
in the other.
n i an
V. I.ar. tUi
OPENS LOCAL OFFICE
Prospective settlers, who come
to Prineville to take up land in
this vicinity under the Deschutes
Irrigation and Power company's
cnnal lines, will be paved the "0
UiUe trip iroui iierc lo belld iV the.
arrangement inaugurated early
in the week by the company and
through which the sale of irrigated
tracts will be carried on to ad
vantage in this city. The com
pany has engaged a suite of rooms
in the Prineville Hotel where
maps of the segregated tracts, to
gether with the price lists and
general information concerning the
lands, will be kept on file for in
spection by intending settlers.
Conveyances will also be kept in
readiness at the local stables to
aid in carrying the applicants to
the lands desired and surveyors
will stay here to assist in the loca
tion work. '
The offices in this city have
been put in charge of Frank Gar
dinier who until recently was en
gaged in the real estate and rail
road business at Sumpter and he
will have able assistance in the
line of work mapped out. Only
the ditch lands will be sold, the
company not undertaking to handle
any of the town property in the
vicinity of Bend cr any other
district.
The Arabian
The
eOMEBY BRRMR
eaST OF QHARAQTERS
Mr. Arthur Hummingtop Prof. A. C. Strange
Ralph Ormerod Mr. D. Macleod
Joshua Gillibrand Mr. Joe Larson
Dobson Mr. Aleck Zeverly
Mrs. Hummingtop Miss Winnie Cllne
Mrs. Gillibrand Mrs. H. P. Belknap
Rosa Colombier Mre. Julia Lytle
Daisy Maitland Miss Maud Kidder
Barbara Miss lora Ward
General admission 25 cents. Reserved Seats 50 cents
Turn NMhtsi Two Nidhts
i Aiiiieiic Hall,
While tho ale of lands will
cover the entire selection made bv
the IXvchuteo Irrigation A Power
company, particular attention will
be given to the tracts lying ad
jacent to this city in the district
to the north and south of Powell
Buttea and along the old river bed
where some of the host tracts
under process of reclamation by
the company are located. As these
lands lie nearer to Prineville than
Bend it was thought expedient to
open offices here and do away with
the long ride otherwise necessary
ingoing to Bend and returning
again over half the distance in
order to reach the desired tracts.
The opening of the offices here
will materially benefit the business
house of the city and a quick
disposal of the lands to which
particular attention is to be paid
means added business in the near
future to the city in general. Mr.
Gardinier, in speaking of the ar
rangements which have been made,
said yesterday:
"There is no question but that
the lands which lie in tho region
of Powell Buttes are the best the
company is reclaiming, and the
selling of a quarter section to one
settler means a ready disposal of
several more to his friends and
acquaintances. In this way the
whole region should soon be taken.
1 believe this district will be the
first to be settled and cultivated
as a compact hotly and that means
much to the city here as the latter
will receive partially all the benefit.
"The main canal the company
expects to have finished early in
April. This last freeze has de
layed work to some extent and the
time of completion of the largest
ditch will depend altogether upon
the duration of the freezing
weather. Giving the cold snap a
good margin, however, it is a cer
tainty that the Powell Butte canal
will be finished by the first week
in April, in plenty of time for a
small amount of irrigating to be
done during the coming season.
These lands are all of them
the plow as very littie clearing will
have to be done and there is only
a very scattering growth of juniper
to be removed."
With the opening of the ex
cursion rates on the railroad,
which commence next month, it
is expected that the local land
office will be kept busy. The com
pany has done some very exten
sive advertising in all sections of
the east and scores of letters have
been received announcing the ar
rival in the early spring of pros
pective settlers. The city in con
sequence is likely to witness
another rush of land seekers equal
to that seen here two years ago
when on all sides was heard the
battle cry, "On to the timber."
HOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the
rt'Kulur Eighth Grade examinations
will Im: held at Prineville, Jan. 18-19-.
2U, l'JO.I. All teachere having pupils
who expect to take thin examination
will please notify nie at once and In-,
form nie uh to whether applicants
desire to write at home ttchool or
come to Prineville. O. B. Di.NwmniE,
. Co. Hup't.
OR
Circus
A THREE AGT
February 3rd and Uth9 1905
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PRINEVILLE'S GREATEST STOREgj
BASK STATE MUST.
lit port o th CWitfitm of Tin F iitt
Xatiomtl ltiid, i I'rinrrilU, in (A
SUttt of ihtgun, at tht eUm of butiiitM,
January J 1th, 190,1.
Kesourrrs:
fMUM ami JiaamnU 1 177.S4tt.S3
Overdraft, trcurwii nj unMCurttl. 19i!U1.79
I'. S. lWU U Mcur circuUtion l'i,.VU
Premium na V. H. Honda
Bond. SecuritiM. tto t . . J, .171. 53
RankinK housr furniture and
nuturva 5,500.00
Iu from NatiiHtaJ lUnk (nt
limrv AgtuU) !W,71.43
Due from SUtoIUnk and IW.k.r. 10.337..V)
ua from approved irt KnU. 40,4.12.tKl
Internal Kevrnue Uini
Check and other canh Heme 7M0O
Note of other National Hank .... 4'O.0O
Fractional paiwr currency, nicklea
H c-v't . . . ... 12.!?
LAwrtL MonkY KiHlavi IN Han a, Vlt:
Scie 14,040
LeKl tender note ... 1.0UO lt.040 00
I'. H. certificate for gold deited
Redemption fund with I. H.
TreaVr of clrouiati.)
Total . Hltl.O0O.OH
Liabilities:
CpiUl tock paid in I 90,000.00
Surplu fund 10,000.00
Cndivided profit, Im eniienace
and Ue paid 3U.OH.V2H
National Kank note ouUtandin. 5,5.11.00
Individual deioiU uliject to
check 217.731.40
Demand certificate of deoait .... 6iW.36
Total
316.0U1.0H
STATU OF OKF.iSON,
B OF OKF.iSON,
Countr of Crook. I
I. T. M. Baldwin. Caohier of the almve-
oamed bank, do aoleiuly iwear that tne above
tatement i true to the beat of my know
lede and belief. T. M. BALDWIN.
Cannier
Sulicriled and aworn to before me thia
17th day of Janunry l'.n.
J. J. SMITH, County Clerk.
By Ethm. Liuorrr Deputy.
COKRKOT Atteet:
Will WrHzttitMl
Z. M. Bbow!, Director.
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