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Count
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VOL. IX.
PllINKVILLK, CI100K COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 24, 1905.
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Boyd Adams, having purchased an interest
with 0. 0. Dunham in the New York Racket
Store, and they having purchased the stock of
Clothing and Furnishing Goods of B. Gormley
desire to annouce to the public that the new
firm has moved into the building formerly occu
pied by Mr. Gormley and will do business in our
new quarters under the firm name of the
owl easH STORE
In our new quarters we have more room and in
addition to the larjje stock which wo now havo
wo will add several new lines makincr our store
the most complete and up-to-date in the county.
We wish to call your special attention to our
Shoe Department as we intend to make this our
specialty and cater to the wants of the particular
Thanking you for your patronage in the past
and with a cordial invitation for all to call and
see us in our new quarters we are
, Yours respectfully,
DUNHAM & ADAMS
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A Stork of Farm Machinery always on hand
Professional Cards.
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A. H. LIPPMAN S CO.
I' u r n i t u r e and II n d e r t a kins
Ranges
AT POKTL A N i) P R ICES
Jagg GJai!acjE4i3a-
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SPigsieian and Suryeon
Caiis answvrttt prompiijf day or nfyht
Offioo ttvo fooro sunt A 9 TTttuftavn '
&rty Som9. ' SPastWfMea rar-Mmr
si an 9ti StriatI,
Preliminary Surveys and
Estimates on Irrigation
Project Ready to Send to
Eastern Capitalists.
Euk'hwit fi. D. Viil, of P.rnil,
who lias li:ul chtxrjio of the crew
making the preliminary mrveya
for tin? McKay irrigation project
wltirh will itltiinatrly U tin;
nx-an of hiingiiiir water to 40,
(XX) :rtfi of ari'l land lying along
the );mn of th; Oihoco from n
point IS mih's eaut of Prineville
to the hafc-iif drizzly Hutle, has
conii lcliil hi work and by the
of the wii-k will have the
cctiinulrH m;iili; ami rraily to for
ward the rartrrii rapilalint? who
have interested, them-'elveii in the
ncheme.
It ih uivh r.-tood that the coHt of
huildit g the three reeervoir will
approximate $m,(y). Thin, will
he th larg'tit item of expen'-e in
whole undeitaking. a the cont of
canal contruclioii over the land,!
which is almost an level a a floor,
with 'i gentle tdope to the west-j
ward, can he reduced to the niini
iilum. Kentrvoir construction will in
clude the building of three duiu
to hold the waters of the streams
in batdnH which nature has al
ready provided. One of thei-e will
!e located 13 miles ca!t of Prine
ville above Sheriff Smith's ranch
and the other two on Marks creek;
one about three-quarters of a mile
above the mouth, and the third
eonitt seven or eight miles above
the point where the stream
emptied into the'Ochoco.
The reservoir on the iOifioco
will be the most expensive of the
three, as it will Ih; necespary to do
a large amount of work in build
ing the dam. A wide vpace at the
mouth of the canyon will have to
be closed iu order to hold the
water in the basin above. With
the other two reservoirs, however,
but little expense will be entailed
in ihe construction of the dams,
the ridges at the lower ends of the
storage basins being ko formed
that they leave but a very narrow
gully to be closed, besides forming
natural walls which will hoid the
water in the basing above.
It is expected that as soon as
tlu? reports and estimates now
being compiled by Mr. Wiest have
been received and approved by
the eastern parties interested in
the project that they will send
their own engineer to look over
the promised scheme and finish up
all the detail work so that the men
financing the enterprise will know
the exact expenditure required in
the undertaking.
The scheme as a w hole is looked
upon as the best in Eastern Ore
gon, considering the scope of coun
try to be covered, the cost and the
productiveness of the valley which
is to be irrigated. The Malheur
project which, like the local one,
is being projected in a district
where the Willamette Valley &
Cascade Mountain Wagon Road
company owns a large acreage of
land, has generally been consider
ed the best that Eastern Oregon
affords, but those who have seen
both districts say that the Malheur
scheme has a prestige only through
tho facts that it is nearer the rail
road and at a lower altitude which
softens the climate to such an ex
tent that a greater variety of fruit
can bo raised than in this section
of Crook county.
pram, i In road ha been pro
jected on to Lakeview, Ore., paus
ing to the eastward of Gooxe Lake
and to thu westward of Pluih,
gaii.ing entrance to the Webfoot
territory over a comparatively
eay grade. The road in being
operated from Reno to Madeline
daily, connecting with the South
ern Pacific and Sierra Valley Rail
roads. While it has been known for
some months that Gould wa
necking a pas into thw state, o
he could run a line from the main
road into San Francisco, it waa
generally fiupposed he would build
a branch by way of Winoemucca,
uiing the old survey of the Ore
gonian Railway Company, and
tap the Willamette Valley.
His course from Lakeview may
lie direct to the Valley, or he is
likely to hold to the eastward and
tain a foothold in Central Ore
gon, providing one of the several
local project under consideration
are not constructed so as to block
those plana. There is also another
line extending south from the
Nevada, California & Oregon's
terminus, the Virginia t Truckec
line, w hich runs south 52 miles to
Virginia from Reno. Should he
desire to connect at a point below
Reno, that road might be included
in the system.
For the present the new pur
chase will lie ojierated as before,
and it is expected that about the
time the main line nears the Bay
City construction work will be
begun on extension, allowing in
LOCAL FORESTRY
OFFICE IS CREATED
L S. Ireland, Assistant Saa
pervisor of the Rosebnrg
District, Oas Been Trans
ferred to Prineville.
A. S. Ireland, who for the past
seven years has been assistant
superintendent of the Bouthern
division of the Cascade Forest
Reserve in the office of Forest
Supervisor S. C. Bartrum at Rose
burg, has been transferred to this
city where he will soon establish
an office under departmental in
structions for the purpose of super
vising the Maury mountain reserve.
This is the first time an order
has been made for the establish
ment of an office of the kind in
this locality, and the fact that the
forestry department has seen fit
to place an officer in charge of
the reserve work at this point is a
matter of considerable importance
to the stockmen who are using the
neighboring reserves for grazing
purposes.
While Mr. Ireland has been act
ing in Roseburg in the capacity of
assistant superintendent, his
transfer to Prineville means that
he will while here assume official
duties as forest supervisor, and
heading for Central Oregon. The
news of the buying of the Nevada,
California & Oregon
here with joy among those not
friendly to the Hariiman interests.
as it goes to show the activity. 'office in the
heretofore credited to Mr. Gould
was not mere talk.
SECOND AUTO WILL
PASS THROUGH CITY
jieradoes shot down the sheep with
Winchester rifles. The herder was
overpowered and bound so that he
could offer no resistance. - The
perpetrators are said to be men in
the employ of cattlemen who
make claims, to the range along
the creeks running into the John
Day to the east of here. That the
perpetrators of these latest out
rages will ever be punished is re
garded aa improbable.
It is a matter of regret here that
these sheep-killings have been re
sumed. They fan into flame the
long-cherished enmity between the
sheep and cattle-owners and in
stead of settling the range troubles,
such outrages merely aggravate
the difficulties. It keeps settlers
away from this part of the country
and hinders the development of
this section.
0. R. & N. REDUCES
TO MEET PORTAGE RATE
will have complete charge of the
the meantime that local capital is grazing permits and special privi
not induced to start from Portland I leges, the latter being given to
and meet the Gould road near the those living in, or whose property
border, with a branch probably borders on the reserve.
Mr. Ireland stated Monday that
no permits for grazing would be
was learned I required this year owing to the
lateness of the season, and in con
sequence he will not establish his
city until this fall
when preparations will be made
and details arranged for issuing
the permits for the year's grazing
next spring. He will also have
in charge the matter of dividing
the reserve into divisions for the
use of the various stockmen who
run their herds over the mountains
during the summer months.
Mr. Ireland left Tuesday for
Sisters to get his horses and other
material which were sent over the
mountains. He will leave here
the last of this week for Crook and
will go from there into the Maury
reserve to make a thorough in
vestigation of the territory em
braced within the reserve lines, to
inspect the range and determine
the number of head of stock which
can be successfully grazed on the
government's park. The result of
his investigation will be the basis
upon which Mr. Ireland will make
the allotments for next vear's
grazing. He stated that the
forestry department was anxious
to perpetuate the range and not
decrease it as was so often the case
where a given territory was too
freely used for pasturage, and to
this end he will make an effort to
so divide the territory in the
Maury reserve that no portion of
it will be denuded of its grasses,
bat on the other hand the allot
ments will be made in such a way
that the grass will have an op
portunity to grow even during the
grazing season.
iPrineiiiHt,
Oregon
The Journal
Printers To The Particular
GOULD PURCHASES
SOUTHERN OREGON ROAD
Percy F. Megargel, who drove
"Old Steady" across the continent
to Portland, passing through Prine
ville last June, writes The Journal
from New York City, under date
of August 17, that he will again
pass through the city in Septem
ber in a Reo machine. Weekly
reports of his trip will be sent to
this paper " for publication. He
started from New York City last
Friday.
Mr. Megargel, who is a member
of the touring committee of the
American Motor League, is mak
ing the trip in the interest of the
League, sending in daily reports
on the condition of the roads,
bridges, touts, mountain passes,
sandy stretches of the Bitter
Creek and Great American deserts,
gasoline and oil facilities and
water supply. This data will be
of great assistance to all trans
continental tourists in the future.
The automobile selected for the
trip is a 16-horsepower Reo ma
chine, with a tonneau so arranged
that it can be changed into sleep
ing quarters when desired, and the
entire car is so covered with ap
pliances for estimating speed, dis
tance traversed, altitudes, etc.,
that it presents the appearance of
a scientific labratory.
The route of travel will be much
the same as the one covered in
the early part of the summer, the
course mapped out through this
state running from Burns through
Prineville to Salem and from there
to Portland. The return trip will
be down the Pacific coast to San
Francisco, then across the moun
tains and deserts through Nevada,
Utah, Colorado and a number of
southern states to Philadelphia.
To assist in clin-bing mountains,
tho machine has been equipped
Completion of the portage road
has caused a reduction in the
wheat rate from Arlington and
intermediate points ou the 0. R.
& N. of 40 cents a ton. Governor
George E. Chamberlain feels that
the drop in the Harriman tariffs,
with an excellent Drosrject of
further decline in rates being an
nounced, in a measure pays for
the portage road. He is not in
clined to the belief, that steamers
will be operated on the river this
season in time to care for the
wheat comiug from the incerior,
unless one or two individuals see
fit to run steamers for a short
time to pick up a small amount
of the trade.
The classification of rates for the
portage road has not been com
pleted yet, but probably will he
soon, though until there i- v-it r
transportation provided both ae
and below The Dalles there is no
occasion for rates being made.
The establishment of a tariff of
25 cents a ton on wheat, loaded on
the cars of the portage road,
means a through tariff of practical
ly $3 a ton from Lewiston, against
$3.85 by rail. The Open River
Association har no announcements
to make concerning steamers
further than that negotiations are
now in force, looking to the
acquisition of suitable craft, but
these same conditions have been
reported for weeks.
CATTLEMEN COMPLAIN
OF NEW LAW
Vovr Okiikr for Riiy thing from a curd to a
catHlORiie. Commnrclal printing a specialty
MAIN STRKET, Near Thk Ochoco BBimiK
PRINEVILLE, OREGON
SHEEP SHOOTERS
KILL OFF FLOCK
Sheep-shooters are again busy
in Wheeler county and the range
wars, which have flourished in this
section of Eastern ore?on n the
past, promise to burst forth again,
says a dispatch from Mitchell.
The latest victims of range enmity
are Butler Bros., who lost from 100
Gould will enter Oregon from
Northern California, if reports re
eeived in Portland today are true,
for it is understood the magnate
has purchased the Nevada, Cali
fornia & Oregon line, running
north from Reno, Kev., 144 miles
to Madeline, Cab, says the Tele-
to 200 sheep which were camped
with a peculiar make of pneumatic three miles from Keeton's sawmill,
tires. Instead of being smooth, about 12 miles east of Mitchell.
the tires are covered with as many
warts as a horned toad, all along
the wearing surface. This new
tire is said to keep a car from
sliding on tho wettest roads, and
also to prove more servicable
than the ordinary tread tire.'
The tactics followed by the
slayers of the Butler sheep are
saiu to have been the same as
those of the former 'killings. Dis
guised by means of sacks pulled
over their heads, with holes cut
in the cloth for eyeholes, the des-j Baker Democrat.
Cattle shippers are kicking about
the law passed at the last session
of the legislature, requiring them
to pay $3 for an inspection of
brands before a shipment can be
made.
Several small shipments of cattle
are now about ready to leave here,
cars having been ordered for them,
but owing to the inspection charges
they are being delayed in hopes
that some arrangement can be
made whereby the shipper will not
be compelled to pay trie charges.
The law was passed with a view
to checking cattle stealing and
while the intention of the law is
good, shippers say its enforcement
is a farce in a great many in
stances, as it is impossible for an
inspector to secure all the brands
on cattle in the way in which
cattle are'inspected.
They say if cattle were run
through a chute, or inspected sep
arately that there would be some
possibility of securing an accurate
inspection, but where an inspector
walks' through a corral and takes
down the brands in sight, in a
moving herd of cattle, that it be
comes an expensive and valueless
farce. '
It is said by many of the promi
nent shippers that so far there has
not been a thorough inspection in
the state since the law was passed
and that until arrangements aro
made at stock yaid- lor the can fuf
and systematic inspection d -'very
animal shipped there is liule use
to impose the charges upon them.