Crook
County
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VOL. IX.
PBINKYILLK, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 21, 1905.
NO. 40
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General Merchandise
Announcement
Boyd Adams having purchased an interest
with 0. C. Dunham in the New York Racket
Store, and they having purchased the stock of
Clothing and Furnishing Qoods of B. Gormley
desire to annouce to the public that the new
firm has moved intp 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 lare stock which wa now havo
we will add several new lines making 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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PRINEVILLE, OREGON
WILL PORTLAND
LOSE INLAND TRADE?
Business Men Express Bit
ter Feeling Against Ore-gonian-Moye
to Boycott
Portland Wholesalers.
Arc llu- Portland wholesale
merchant to low- the I'aX.ftOO
trade which flow into their coffers
annually from rrineyille Ix-cati??
of the recent atudicd ffforta of the
Oregonian to undermine the busi
nera interests and aocial standing
of Crook county? The question is
letter answered by the feeling now
prevalent among the heaviest
buyer in this city that Portland
should no longer he the mecca to
which the local merchants go each
year to expend a half million dol
lars ho ving good. The exact
intent of the loeal business houses
ia better expressed - in the follow
ing communication, and the wenti
ment exprept-ed therein are echo-
e by thme who rpend all the way
from $.V) to 1100,000 yeurly in
the etate'a metropolis:
"Editor The Journal: Owing to
the fact that the Portland Ore
gonian claims to voice the aenti
ment of the jeople of Portland, I
think the time ban come for the
bufunt'sa men of Prineville to
change trie nyntem iy wnien they I
have done hnainefs for over a
quarter of a centur', and to
take up with a trade center where
we aie not etamped a barbarians,
and where we can meet those
people who take our money and
our company on a kkhii-k that
will come nearer equal;
"The bupinepg men of Prineville
for the past 25., years have been
doing from $300,000 to - tJiOO.OOO
worth of business with Portland
every year only to learn now that
we have no standing and that the
community is cono3ed only of a
class of law breakers and horse
thieves who are totally obnoxious
to the rest of the ftate. t There are
good Kople in San Francisco,
Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane who
would be delighted to break into
the 1450,000 worth of biWineBtt
that went out of Prineville during
the past 12 months, and they
would be satisfied with our in
tegrity and our methods of doing
business.
"It may of course be possible
that our 25 years of life on the
sage brush plains has made us
uncouth, and that the isolation of
25 years at hard labor has dis
qualified us from associating with
gentlemen represented by the Ore
gonian and the Telegram, but I
see no reason on earth why we
should allow them to come in and
demand our business and money
with one breath and denounce u?
as horse thieves and gamblers with
the next, and to assert that no
man's property or life is safe. I
"We admit that there have been
crimes committed in Crook coun
ty. W hat county is free from it?
We admit that sheep have been
killed and that horses and cattle
have been stolen, and it the Ore
gonian will show a condition in
Portland that is any better I will
admit we are not doing our best
to put down lawlessness. But at
the Bame time there ia a vast
difference in the conditions sur
rounding Portland and Crook
county. It may be said that every
man in Portland is under police
surveillance and that it. would be
difficult to travel the short dis
tance occupied by a city . block
without meeting or seeing a police
officer. At the same time there is
not a Portland paper sent from
the press that does" not chronicle
a crime. Some : of them arel
atrocious. Gambling lias been
carried on openly, up to the last
six months, ever since Portland
was named, and the depravity of
Portland's famous "North End"
lus never been outdone in any
city of the United States. In this
respect Portland has not changed
ruurh lately; if it baa the change
has not been for the better, and
the city itself ia not an yet exactly
rid of hold up artists, pickpockets,
roof (limbers and footpads, ii-l
them say what they will.
"On the other hand, Crook. coun
ty has an area 16 timea larger
than Multnomah county with less
than 5 per cent of the population,
or about 8000 souls. Of this
amount 1200 rexide in Prineville,
1200 mora in Haystack and 2000
more in the Deschutes valley.
The rest are acattered over an area
of 70(10 square miles of ('rook
county' mountains and deserta,
aiid there ia one peace officer to
patrol the whole county, collect
the taxes, attend all civil business
of the several courts which cornea
to a peace officer, summon juries,
witnesses, etc., on the munificent
salary of 12500 gross per year out
out of which all clerk and deimty
hire must be paid. And yet the
Portland Oregonian decries the
lawlessness existing here and ac
cuses her officeraof negligence.
"I for one don't like the system
and I have no hesitantcy in saying
that if the people of this com
munity have the self respect, that
I believe they have, they will get
together in an effort to secede from
the race of grafters and petti
foggers represented by the Poit
land Oregonian and Telegram and
do business with some city where
the people at least don't know we
are quite so. bad.
"Business Man."
iTROLBLE OVER
BEND PROJECT
State engineer J. II. Lewis and
President J. O. Johnston, of the
Deschutes Irrigation & Power
Coin pan v, are in a dispute over
tha interpretation of the National!
and state laws in regard to re-!
Claiming land under the Carev
act. President Johnston is seek
ing to have the work done by his
company, for the reclamation of
alout 80,000 acres of land near
Bend, approved by the State Land
Board and Engineer tawis, so
that patents will issue from the
(iovernment for the land.
Mr. Johnston has submitted
maps and plats of the canals and
ditches constructed by his com
pany, covering - the land in
question, and ahks that they lie
approved anil the necessary
certificates issue.
The point of difference is that
Mr. Iewis cannot see his way
clear to issue a -certificate covering
any tract of land to which the
water has not equally been con
veyed. Strictly speaking, each
tract of land, as the Engineer
understands the law, means each
100 acres, the amount of land a
settler may take up. In this in
stance he says he is willing to
waive that construction and ac
cept the conveyance of water to
the highest point on cash potion
of land. Hesavs, also, that he
is willing to take as evidence
"that water has actually been con
veyed to each tract" the fact that
a ditch was constructed" to the'
land even though no water has
flowed through it.
Mr. Johnston contends that
a
canal of
sufficient capacity to
carry water for the total number
of acres to be segregated, construct
ed to and through the land along
a course from which laterals could
be constructed to all parts of the
land, is all that should le requir
ed of the company.
Mr. Lewis argues that as the
reclamation charge of $10 per acre
and the perpetual annual main
tenance charge of $1 per acre
becomes a lien oh the land, as
soon as the Government patent
issues to the state, and the com
pany is entitled to 6 per cent
interest on the reclamation charge,
no land should be included in
the patent other than those sec
tions to which water is actually
supplied. ,
Mr. Lewis says he finds some
' land included in . the application
of the company that is 10 miles
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from the main canal or nearest
lateral.
As some of the laterals will be
expensive to construct, the
Engineer takes the ground that
they should be built now.
CROOK COUNTY
LAND GOES FAST
Assessor's Records Show
That 411 Persons Last
Year Acquired Land in
This County.
The rapid acquisition and set
tlement of Crook county's public
domain is shown in the abstracts
from The Dalles lapl office furnish
ed to Assessor Lafollett in which
is detailed the individual final
proofs duiing the past tax year on
homesteads, desert claims, lieu
land selections and timber claims
and the acreage of each.
Between March 1, 1904, and
March 1, 1905, there were 411
receipts issued by The Dalles
office to persons who had acquired
land in one form or another in
Crook county, the total area ap
proximating 00,000 acres. From
the Burns land office abstracts of
1000 acres in the eastern part of
the county were forwarded, and
the etate land board has furnished
a list of lands in thia county deed
ed by the state during the year's
time, all of which is assessable.
The total new land from all
sources, which will be placed on
the assessor's books for the first
time this month, amounts ib
round numbers to 150,000 acres,
and in consequence the assessment
roll thia year, owing to the many
new holdings acquired by indi
viduals, will show several hundred
new names among the list of tax
payers.
: Assessor Iafollett has not as
yet received the abstracts of lands
purchased under the jurisdiction
of the Ldkeview land office, but
! thwe are expected in a
few da vs.
The latter district includes a
border of several townships along
the southern edge of Crook county,
where a large1 numler of timber
claims have been taken during the
past twelve months ami these will
also add to the total new assess
able area.
RATTLESNAKE
RIDES IN AUTO
While Percy F. Megargel of
Buffalo, N. V., and David F. Fas
sett, of Lansing, Mich.,'- the two
transcontinental automobile
tourists, Fent out by the American
Motor League on a voyage of
ot discovery in their touring car,
the "Reo Mountaineer," were pas
sing through Ixdge Pole, Neb.,
they ran into a group of rattle
snakes sunning themselves in the
trail. The sighting of the .snakes
was too sudden to admit of stop
ping the flying automobile and the
reptile? were run down. When
the rapidly revolving wheels struck
the rattlers they were thrown
nign in tne air, one big angry
fellow coming down in the ton
neau of the car. The brakers
were applied and both men jump
ed out of the car, leaving his
snakeship in possession. The
rattlesnake finally dropped to the
ground where he was dispatched.
The Reo Mountaineer has now
covered 2,300 of its 10,000 mile
tour of exploration, reports being
sent into the American Motor
League covering each section of
the road. Mr. Megarsel thinks
there is a good chance of the
United States government build
ing a transcontinental road in the
near future" and the American
Motor League with its twenty
thousand members is working
along these lines:
At Cheyenne, sprags were at
taohed to the rear axle of the Reo
car and sand tires taken on board
preparatory to a hard journey over
the Rocky Mountaids, which will
be encountered a fewmiles west of
this city.
The tourists attired in leather
and corduroy and 'tanned until
they are as brown as Indians, ap
pear to be in the best of health
and expresa little fear of the hard
ships that may come to them
should they get caught in a snow
storm in the Cascades or Sierra
Xevada mountains and he , com
pelled to spend the winter among
the snow capped peaks. It ia
expected that Portland will be
reached on September 28.
PORTAGE ROAD
PROVES ITS WORTH
Portland and points on the
Upper Columbia, above Celilo, are
now connected through the medium
of steamboat lines and the Port
age Road, for the steamer Col
umbia has completed a trip to
Cehlo, the Portage Road is operat
ing, and the D. P. fe A. N. has
established a hi-week ly service
between Portland and the Hi
Eddy.
This information was given out
tfusrjm irai, oi ine wpen
River Association. Mr. Teal states
the question of rates and the
schedule for the service on the
upper river will not be published
until it has been determined iust
wuai can i aone ai me present
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stage of water and with only one
craft running, but work has start
ed on the raising of the Jerome,
the new boat which went down
about two weeks ago, and she will
be operating again soon. Htr
machinery has been removed and
the remainder of the work i an', A
to be easy.
The service on the Middle River
will remain the same as at this
time, with the exception that
every Wednesday and Saturday
the Regulator line will send one
of its steamers to the Big Eddy
and there load from the Portage
Road such freight as has been ac
cumulate. . With two steamers
navigating the waters above Celilo, '
the traffic will increase and more
facilities will be added to those on
the Middle River as business war
rants. Promises of heavy trade
are so great on the upper stream
that it is not thought possible for
the Columbia to look after any
but that confined to the districts
on the north bank. On the op
posite side there is a tremendous
amount of wheat awaiting ship
ment, and this has provwn that
there will be much business work
ed up of an entirely new nature.
CANAL AND TUNNEL
TO COST $500,
The specifications for the tunnel
and main canal of the Klamath
project are in the hands of Chief
Engineer Newell, at Washington.
The specifications cover the con
struction of 3000 feet of tunnel 13
feet wide by 14$ feet high, 3000.
of concrete-lined canal, and ten
itnloa rf north nnnal ?f tint rr r)
on the bottom, 70 feet wide at the
top and 11 feet deep. This work
will cost about 1500,000.
The main canal will have its
intake at the the head of Link
River, and will form a feeder from
which water will be turned
through laterals to irrigate the
entire east side of the Klamath
Valley, Thi3 mammoth canal
will- carry 1500 cubic feet of
water, which is one and -a half
times as much water as is now
running in Link River. Link
River connects the Upper Klamath
Lake with Lower Klamath Lake.
The river is now at the lowest
stage ever known, and in ordinary
years mere win De enough water
in Link River during the dry
season to till the canal. The
velocity of the water through the
tunnel will be ten feet a second.
The di .m nd drill work at Keno
and on the tunnel s!te there has
been finished, and the outfit goes
to the Clear Lake and Horse Fly
Flat reservoir sites this week. The
drill work on these two sites will
be the last, on the Klamath project.
For the past six months the
Reclamation Service a has been
experimenting with different kinds
of material found there with which
to manufacture Portland cement,
and at last material found from
which an excellent quality of ce
ment can be made. From samples
sentto Roosevelt, Ariz., recently,
cemeiit was manufactured at the
Government millv and a small
briquette made which showed a
tes of 5G5 pounds, which is above
the average.