County Journal
VOL. IX.
PMNKVIMjK, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, JULY fi, 11)05.
NO. 29
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Immediate Building.
Official of the llirrimaii linen
in Oregon, after a ten day' tour
of inflection of condition in the
country between Shaniko and
Bend and Prineville, returned this
morning confirmed in the opinion
that roAtfctn for bnsines and
development warrant extension of
tin t'oliinil.iu Southern railroad
from Shardko to Bend. A favor
able rerl h (i I recommendation
will be made, nod, it i said, will
he followed by order from New
York to proceed with the extension.
onie of the land yields fM an acre j JQJ NEWS
in alfalfa. There i now on foot a1
project hy eatern people to put
a large tract under water from the
Ochoeo river, and ronvert it to
the use of diversified farming.
CONDON LINE OPFNS
GREAT COUNTRY
Work on the new Arlington -Cond.m
railroad ha assumed hucIi
shape that the promise the ofliciaU
made to put on a regular service
hyJulylin all probability will
15 kept, says a Condon dispatch.
Freight already is Wing taken out,
last Friday and Saturday several
carloads of wool and wheat were
shipped. The people here are
anxious to nee the road in running
order by the Fourth, a the biggest
celebration ever held in this place
is being arranged forr and excur
sion are planned on the new road.
A most gratifying feature to the
people of this section is the state-
OF THE WEEK
At every place they vixited the,mentof General .Freight Agent
investigator were favorably im- R B. Miller that a rate of 18 ents
preHHod. Surpris-e wan the pre
valent feeling even Mr. Stanley,
it is said, win astonished at the
development wen in some part of
central Oregon.
They left Shaniko in wagon
Wednesday morning and arrived
at Crohn Key at noon. Here the
Deschutes Irrigation company
placed it 12-pnssenger automobile
per hundred pound on wheat
from here to Portland had bean
fixed. This rate was both pleas
ing and surprising to most of the
wheatrisers, a they expected to
have to pay more.
Crop prospects here were never
lietter, a during ' the last three
day heavy rains have fallen and
the ground is well soaked. Grow-
These are the best Suits ever offered
at the prroe. They are Special Values
and I carry several different Patterns
at tho above prico. They are all
Fancy Worsteds and have Sere
lining, Cavis and Hair Cloth Stiffening
down the fronts and Padded .Shoulders
They lo?k like. $20.00 Suits and
Some Would get that for Them
mits Decide To OxcLcr S15 and "U.p
the machine gave a splendid, per
formance during the next six days,
carrying them all over the" coun
try, and making runs of 10 mile a
day several times. They inspect
ed the country a I tout Madras, a
new and thriving settlement below
Cross Keys, Wednesday afternoon
Thursday morning they reached
ut the distosal of the party, and ; ing grain had reached a stage
where moisture was long needed,
and consequently the recent heavy ,
showers were opportune. This is
expected to make even the first
year's operation of the line a
success.
The coming of tne railroad will
he the main feature in Condon's
celebration of the Fourth. There
If. J. Ifealy wa in the city
fron. hi Haystack ranch the last
of the week.
J. 15. Brown wa a business
visitor from Haystack during the
past week.
Mr. and Mrs. I. Michel and sons
returned the first of the week from
a visit to the Lewis and Clark
fair.
The Factory Is sure to ko now. I
have got the Mex., nnl It didn't
cost rne no hundred. K. H. Smith.
Mrs. J. M. Street, of File, was
in the city the last of the week
visiting for a few days.
Arthur Clothier, of the Massa
chusetts Mutual, returned to the
citv from Portland the last of the
week.
Martin Pratt and Don P. Rea
came up on Monday from Madras
to spend the Fourth in this city.
J. II. Window was in the city
Saturday from Culver. He and
his family have just returned from
a vwit to the Portland exposition.
Bruce Gray and Max Wurzweiler
left on Wednesday's stage for
Portland to visit the Lewis and
Clark fair.
Dr. and Mrs. Belknap and family
will leave this week for a two
weeks' visit at the Portland
sition.
expo-
P.ig Agency plains, a vast region 1 are young people m this and
lying between Willow creek, Crook-J Wheeler counties who have neveV
?d river and Urv IWhutM. .-iJrbUin rUroal engine. and in the
plateau has about 100,000 acres of ; big celebration planned, of course,'
good land, all taken by homestead- the new railroad will be a great
ers and now partly under cultiva- attraction. Crowds are expected
tion. It yields wheat, oats and I from all over this region and a
barley without irrigation. The j great time is promised.
Little Agency plains, adjoining it, j
lies between Willow and Trout p e r 1 ftAIKT
creeks, and include about SS.OOO:' LUUMIMI
Sheriff Smith left Saturday
morning for Eugene where he has
been called on business matters
Martin L: Pratt was last week
appointed postmaster at Madras to
fill the vacancy left by J. P. Hahn
who has resigned.
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acres, nil of which is under culti
vation. Wheat, oats and barley
are the principal crops, and grow
without irrigation.
Thursday afternoon they visited
Culver, Forest and Redmond, and
made a round of the
TOWARDS CROOK
K. II. Dunham, who was super
intendent of the old Oregon Pacific
railroad (now theCorvallisife East-
country iern) arrived in Bend Wednesday
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known as Haystack plains, lying
to the eastward. The region cen
tains about (Jij.OOO acres, much of
it under cultivation. There is
still some government land here
to be taken up. The land yields
wheat, oats and barley without ir
rigation. . !
The party reached Bend Thurs
day night, the Deschutes com
pany's irrigation tract was examin
ed next day. This tract contains
215,000 acres of land that is now
ready for settlement, and many
farms are already under cultiva
tion. The tract will ultimately
be extended to include within its
ditches a total of about 350,000
acres. On this land everything
that is produced on Oregon soil
east of the Cascade mountains can
be raised in great abundance.
The party went to the headworks
of the company, and from there to
a tract of land eastward, known as
the Columbia Southern irrigation
project. This tract consists of
about fci.000 acres.
Saturday morning they visited
the Deschutes company's central
Oregon canal, nnd in the afternoon
of that day they went to Prineville,
the center of a large stock-raising
district northeast of Bend but
directly tributary to the proposed
route of the Columbia Southern
extension. From this point they
made excursions, ami one of these
trips, to visit the Ochoeo flats, they
were cr light in a hard rainstorm
and 'thoroughly drenched. .. They
found that the-Prineville and
Ochoeo flats contained about 60,
000 acres, much of it under culti
vation and all of it capable of be
ing utilized for agricultural pur
poses. Large crops of alfalfa are
raised and fed to stock. It is said
with his son, looking over the
country with a view to making in
vestments and engaging in busi
ness at some favorable point. Mr.
Dunham comes from Ashland
where he has been residing for
several years. He says he knows
Mr. Hammond's engineer has re-
ceived orders to prepare tor a
journey along the projected line
of the Corvallis & Eastern in East
ern Oregon. Mr. Hammond is
expected to accompany his engi
neer, though that it is not yet
entirely certain. He wrote W. E.
Guerin, Jr., several weeks ago tha
he intended to visit Bend this sum
mer, j
Mr. Dunham also says he knows
preparations for an extension of
the Corvallis jfc Eastern line this
year are now practically matured,
ugh he does not know how
much of an extension is contem
plated. He believes considerable
property in this region is now
held in the interest of A. B. Ham
mond and that the Corvallis &
Eastern will surely be extended so
a9 to give this property a coast
outlet.
It is generally understood that
Mr.. Hammond s profits" do not
come troni Hailroad earnings
directly but rather from the busi
ness of his own along the line
upon which he is able to control
rates. And his interests in this
section are said to be large enough
to warrant the building of a rail
road -7G miles to protect him
Bend Bulletin.
Harold Bates and C 1 i ff o r d
Nichols, the latter a son of Dr. A
S. Nichols of Portland, are guests
of J. A. Ravi at his Bear creek
rach. The two rode overland
from The Dalles last week.
Kene V est came in from Pine
mountain this week with a bunch
of horses belonging to George Milli
can who has sold them to a Seattle
firm. Mr. Millican came in with
them.
Dr. J. H. Rosenberg and wife
and son, ister, and Justice J. L.
Luckey and wife left yesterday for
a two weeks' visit at the exposition
in Portland.
ill Ford come over this week
fiom Sisterp, where he is leasing
lands for the Willamette Valley &
Cascade Wagon Road company, to
spetd the Fourth in this city.
Mrs. L. N. Liggett and daughter,
Miss Ethel, will leave today for
Portland. After visiting the fair
there they will go to North Yakima
to spend a couple of weeks with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter O'Neil and
family left Sunday morning for
Portland. Thev will visit the fair
for a time and then go to the coast
for a couple of weeks outing.
They will be absent about four or
five weeks.
Duncan Macleod returned the
last of the week from ' Paulina
where he went to look after Road
company land matters and to ar
range for the platting of the town
site of Paulina.
Ed Nelson was in the citv Mon
day from his ranch at Post. He
stated that everyone in that sec
tion was preparing for harvest and
that good crops will be cut general
ly throughout that district.
C. C. Dunham has purchased the
Gormley stock of furnishing goods
and has moved into the building
formerly occupied by Mr. Gormley
The latter has taken the former
quarters of the Racket store and
will confine himself in the future
to the tailoring business alone
Boyd Adams has taken a half in
terest with Mr. Dunham.
The team of ball players from
Prineville and Bend, playing under
the name of Silver Lake, defeated
Paisley last week at the latter
place by a score of 17 to 4. The
following day they defeated Lake
view by a score of 10 to 0. The
local players played bve games
on the 3rd and 4th at Lakeview
the results of which have not been
learned.
Mr. and Mr. Will Wurxweiler
and son, Earl and Nate returned
Sunday morning from a visit to
the Portland exposition. Mis
Wanda Logan, of Portland, re
turned with them and will iptnd
a part of the summer here visiting
with relative.
The abbreviated form of The
Journal is due this week to the fact
that Uncle Sam, who i no respect
er ol person or businesses, hat
subpoened the entire office force to
appear in Portland at the land
trials. A can of ink and the cat
remain, and that's probably more
than will return with some of thoe
who are now in the exposition city.
Ed Harbin returned the last of
the week from the eastern part of
the county where he has been
building county bridges since the
first of March. He has completed
seven across different streams in
that section and will finish his
work soon with the construction
of another bridge across Newsom
creek. Mr. Harbin, who has been
absent from the city for four
months,' was called here by the
recent illness of his mother.
Prof. Dillard of Burns, Oregon,
with his wife and family, are visit
ing C. H. Stoughton and family.
Mrs. Dillard and Mrs. Stoughton
are sisters. Prof. Dillard has
been suffering with rheumatism
for some time, and early this week
went on to Portland for medical
treatment leaving his wife and
children in Dufur until his return.
Mr. Dillard wa for some yean
connected with the Prineville Re
view as editor and proprietor. He
will return to Burns to resume his
work in the school room. Dufur
Dispatch.
Preparations will soon be under
way for the Crook county fair
which will be held at the new
grounds of the Central Oregon
Livestock and Agricultural as
sociation during the coming fall
It was thought for a time that the
Portland fair would be a serious
hindrance to a successful exhibit
in the city this year, but the con
clusion has been reached that the
late date at which the local fair
will be held will assure a big at
tendance. Practically all of those
who will attend the exposition in
Portland will have returned home
by that time. The board ol
directors will make an effort to
give the county the largest and
most complete display that has
ever been seen in Central Oregon.
The new grounds, including a new .
race track and new buildings, will
aid materially in the suocess of the
undertaking.
Mrs. R. F. Myers and Mrs. Wil-
iam Jones, of Lebanon, who were
on their way to this city to take
up timber claims, were asphyxiat
ed by gas last Thursday in a
rooming house in Portland. It is
thought that in testing the lets,
one of them had been untentional-
ly left partially turned on. Both
the windows and the door door ia
the room were closed so that the
deadly fumes had no chance to
escape. Mrs. Jones was found
lying dead on the bed. Mrs.
Myers had been awakened before
the gas rendered her totally un
conscious, and realizing her dacger
had tried to reach fresh air. She
crawled over the foot of the bed '
nd from there dragged herself to
the window, but before she could
raise the sash her strength failed -her
and she died almost within
reach of the life giving air.
Charles M. Dizney has received-
his appointment as carrier on the
Rural Mail Route starting from
this point, and on last Monday
hied his bond and oath of office.
His route extends over a distance
of about 26 miles, and mail will
be delivered to 125 families alone
this route every day. This is the
first rural mail route to be ea- ,
tablished in Crook county, and is
the strongest possible proof of the
rapid increase of population In
this Bection of oountry. Only a
very few years ago this same ter
ritory was grazed by stock, and a
few families, scattered here and
there throughout this region now
traversed by a rural mail route,
made up the entire population.
With its present rapid settlement
and development, it will not be
long before this portion of the
county will be one of . the most
densely settled portions of Eastern
Oregon, as it is already the most
numerously populated portion of
Crook county. Madras Pioneer.