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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, AUGUST 30, 1906.
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Wool and Grain, Sacki and Twine, Grain and Feed.
Agents for Wasco Warehoune Milling Go's. "White
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paid (or Hides and Pelts.
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OFFICERS:
W. A. Booth, Pruld.nl
O. M. Ilkini, Vic. Pr.ild.nt
Prid W. WikJOH. O.shl.r
DIRIOTOR8:
W. A. Booth. O. M. Elkin(.
D. F. Btiwart, Phd W. WlUtON.
Transacts a General
Banking Business
Exohange Bought
and Sold
Collections "will re
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tion A Mountain of Gold,
could not bring as much happiness to
Mrs. Lucia Wilke, of Caroline, Wis., ao
did one 25c box of Bucklen'a Arnica
Salve, when it completely cured a run
ning sore on her leg, which had tor
tured her 22 long years. Greatest anti
septic healer of Piles, Wounds and
Sores. 25c at D. P. Adamson and
Tompleton A Son Drug store.
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RAILROADS
IN OREGON
Great in Area but Small
in Mileage.
A WONDERFUL STATE
It is ob the Ere of Great De
velopments Now is tie
Appointed Time.
Oregon i one ol the greatet
t ten in resect to area and one of
the niallent in railway mileage
With 94,560 square mi lex of land
surface its railway lines aggn-gate
only 1750 miles one mile. to 54
square miles of territory. This is
small railway mileage, actually
and comparatively. Newer Wash
ington on the north has 3,232 miles
o( road to 66.8G0 square miles of
land one to 20 6; California on
the south with-a territory 1 times
that of Oregon has 3 times her
mileage; Kaunas with 13,000
squarge miles less has nearly 7,000
miles of railway more; Illinois
with leFg than two-thirds'the area
of Oregon has 6 times its mileage.
To compare favorably with these
states in ratio of mileage to area,
Oregon to equal Washington
should have 4,590 miles instead of
1,750; to compare with California
it should have 3,782 miles: to
match Kansas it should have 10,-
279 miles; to equal the unequaled
railway state of Illinois it should
he covered with nearly 20.000
miles of railway.
Oregon is a state of diversified
climate and production; of large
areas that may never be produc
tive, but of larger areas that only
need transportation some of them
transjwrtation and irrigation com
bined to develop great productive
capacity for lumber, grain of many
kinds, wool, livestock, dairy prod
ucts, 'ruit, vegetables, minerals
and varied products manufactured
from mills propelled by the abun
dant water power. But Oregon
hitherto has not looked as inviting
to railway builders as many other
states in resiiect to geographical
and physical conditions. Along
its north line for 300 miles flows
the navigable Columbia river; its
western coast more than 300 miles
long is watered by the Pacific and
a number of indentations furnish
possible landing places for coast
ing craft, although in real natural
harbor the Oregon coast is lacking.
Parallel to the ocean, 60 miles or
so away,
the noble Willamette
river flows through a fertile valley
shut in by the coast range on the
west and the formidable Cascades
on ttie east, and in this narrow
valley and along the great Colum
bia nearly all the railways run
and most of the population exists.
The rivers and railways and not
the sea have caused the develop
ment thus far secured; the rail
ways alone now can open up the
vast unpeopled regions in the in
terior and the lonely liue of sea-
coast, and this they are setting
about to accomplish.
The Southern Pacific and Union
Pacific lines of the Harriman in
terests practically constitute the
railway mileage of Oregon at pres
ent, and to these great interests
the state looks, hopeful of rapid
development. Of the 1,750 miles
credit to the state in 1905, the
Harriman lines represent 1,350
miles. The remaining 400 milts
are mostly made up of the Astoria
& Columbia River road from Port
land to the ocean, 122 miles, and
the Corvallis & Eastern from Ya-
quina Bay eastward to the foot of
the Cascades, 142 miles two par
allel but widely separated roads,
controlled by one interest in San
Francisco, which are natural feed
ers of the system with which they
connect. The Northern Pacific
owns 40 miles from Portland to
the Columbia river on its Seattle
line the entire share of the Hill
roads in Oregon territory at pres
ent. The Southern Pacific roads
consist of the main line of the
Khasta route from San Francisco
to Portland running from 370
miles through the length of Ore
gon, and four or five shorter lines
paralleling it along the Willam
ette valley. Under the same pro
gressive influence the Oregon Rail
way &. Navigation road operates a
great line along the south bank of
the Columbia river and thence on
into Washington and Idaho. Of
this line 404 miles, from Portland
to Huntington, lie in Oregon, with
a number of branches, making a
total of 652 miles of the O. K. & N.
now 0erating in the state
The Union Pacific-Southern Pa
cific interests thus own practically
the entire railway system of Ors
gon as it stands today. What are
they going to do about the develop
ment of the vast territory in that
state which the railway has not
reached? Evidently these com
bined interests are moving forward
on a defined plan to cover with a
system of serviceable inter-related
railways the great region which in
a transportation sense they may
be said to possess. The official
organization of these companies is
arranged for efficient independent
action in Oregon. The immediate
executive, constructive and oper
ative management of both the
Southern Pacific and the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation lines in
Oregon is centered in Mr. J. P.
O'Brien, vice-president and gener
al manager, with headquraters at
Portland. Id him are concentrat
ed the plans and powers of the
chief sxecutive at New York and
of the operative and traffic heads
of the whole Harriman system lo
cated at Chicago. With a calm,
reasonable, candid attitude, Mr.
O'Brien has met the popular ten
dency to suspect railway corpor
ations to an extent proportionate
to their magnitude, and has inspir
ed confidence in the purpose of the
Harriman interests to give Oregon
a system of transportation facili
ties adequate to both its present
needs and its great possibilities.
Such a system is in progress.
Within a few months work has
been completed or commenced on
a dozen different lines, radiating
east and west from the trunk line
in the Willamette valley or south
from the Oregon Railroad fe Navi
gation road, which will add about
1,100 miles to the system in Ore
gon. Prominent among these is
the Oregon Eastern railroad, pro
jected to extend from Natron on
the Willamette easterly, across the
Cascade mountains and the sage
plains, to the western boundary of
the state t.rd to a junction with
the Oregon Short 'Line at Ontario
on the Snake river, a distance of
something like 400 miles. From
this a long branch will run north
ward up the Deschutes valley and
connect with a line from the Co
lumbia river; while another
branch, already under construc
tion, will reach south to the fertile
regions of Klamath lake and meet
a branch now building from a
point on the Shasta line a little be
low the Oiegon border. Other
lines include the Great Southern
railway to run from Dufur south
about 120 miles; a line from Elgin
east to Joseph, 63 miles, under
construction; the Condon brauch,
Arlington south to Condon, 45
miles, built; the Deschutes railroad
from Deschutes south 40 miles;
the John Day railioad, from John
Day south 40 miles; a short line
from St. John, near Portland, to
Troutdale, 20 miles; the Oregon
Western, under construction from
Drain, on the Shasta route, west to
Marshfield, 81 miles; the Umatilla
Central, irom Pendleton south 35
miles, and sundry important cut
offs which connect exising lines
and shorten distances.
To increase the facilities for
reaching and leaving Oregon with
people and products the Union Pa
cific interest has determined to
build its own road between Port
land and Seattle, and has also
undertaken the seemingly super
fluous duty of building down the
north bank of the Columbia river
a line to Portland over 200 miles
long, paralleling ite O. R. & N.
road along the south bank. By
strange coincidence the Northern
Pacific people that is to say Mr.
Hill are vigorously building a
line alongside of Harriman'
(traders, and are sure to push into
Portland a competitor to the lat
ter 's line which w.Il increase the
importance of the Oregon metropo
lis and indirectly the growth of
the state. Meantime the parallel
north hank road is under way and
the conviction is gaining ground
in Portland that eventually it will
be used to give entrance to a new
empire building road, the Chicago
Milwaukee & St. Paul. Outside of
and contiguous to Oregon all the
existing roads are building
branches and developing activities
from which that state will neces
sarily receive benefit. Much more
important in the way of internal
development will be the line, if it
ever i built, which the Chicago &
Northwestern for many years has
had occasional dreams of building
across Wyoming, Idaho and cen
tral Oregon to the Pacific, with
Yaquina bay the probable ter
minus. Add this great through
line to the Oregon Eastern which
the Southern-Union Pacific have
started, and which will be fed also
from Idaho by a long road that is
to be built down the east bank of
Snake river through Huntington
to Lewiston, and Oregon will need
little more in the way of east and
west lines.
Along the eastern base of the
Cascade range the Deschutes river
carries an exhaustless stream of
water northward for 175 miles or
more, to the Columbia river.
Along its upper waters, in Crook
county, the Deschutes Irrigation &
Power Company, under state super
vision, has built two main canals
with feeders and laterals aggregat
ing 210 miles of canals, and has
set about the reclamation of 215,-
000 acres, equivalent to 336 square
miles of land. The yields already
obtained on small tracts in this
arid region are declared to prove
the success of the irrigation move
ment, here and in other parts of
Oregon, and the slate authorities
are gratified.
Railways will be built where
transformations like this are pos
sible, and although interior Ore'
gon has great regions where irriga
tion will not be practicable, yet
the snows of the many mountains
and the numerous streams and
lakes will supply water to redeem
no inconsiderable part of what
have been considered the waste
and useless portions of the state.
Railway Age.
Buys Cattle.
J. D. Combe had scarcely return
ed from his trip to Baker with a
hunch of cattle for the Carstein
Bro's of Seattle, when he went in
to the lower John Day and Wheel
er countries and picked up i
bunch of 900 head, steers and cows
says the Grant County News. It
lequired only a few days, less than
a week, to complete the deal.
Mr. Combs paid $22 for two
year-old steers, $30 for three-year-
olds, and verying prices according
to quality, for cows. He says the
stock was not in every instance of
the best, but that he secured some
splendid animals. He has not de
termined what disposition to make
of the bunch yet, and niav feed
them.
Mr. Combs is usually both
buyer and seller, and looks at the
market from the stand point of
both. Hence his operation of the
market are watched with a good
deal of interest by growers in the
valley
Buying Stock.
There have been a number of
stock buyers in Long Creek during
the past ten days and some ltn
portant sales have been made
Joe Hayes, of Heppner, bought
600 two-year old ewes of Grant
and Steve Harer paying $3.00
head and 107 head of Mulkey &
Fields for $2.50 a head. Jim
Jones, of Pendleton, has been buy
ing cattle and has secured a good
number at $15, $18, and $21 per
head, lhree men from North
Yakima were in Long Creek last
week after horses and paid as higl
as $60 a head for saddle horses.
Long Creek (Grant County)
Ranger.
JOIN THE
BOOST CLUB
At the Redmond Fair
Next Month.
PREMIUM LIST OUT
A Long List of Prizes Offered
to the Ladies of Crook
Conor.
The Booster Club is the name of
a new organization whose porpoee
is boasting Crook county. Join at
the Redmond Fair, where ooen
bouse (or tent) will be kept for
that purpose.
What is the use of having one of
the biggest counties in the United
States if we don't let people know
we are here. Come and tee us and
see how very much we are here.
The Redmond Fair Grounds are
becoming more and more a set
tled fact each day. The irrigation
company has already spent a great
deal of money and is still doing
all it can to make Redmond's first
fair the grand success that it is
sure to be.
Much money will be awarded in
addition to the regular speed pro
gram for sports and athletic events.
Announcement will be made be
fore hand for the first day's events
and subsequent events will be an
nounced on the grounds.
The premium list of the first an
nual Redmond fair has just been
printed at the Prineville Journal
office and will be mailed to anr
address upon application. First
and second premiums are offered
on one hundred and twenty-nine
different articles. There is no
reason why every rancher in Crook
county should not secure at least
one prize. First and second pre
miums are offered on horses, cat
tle, swine, sheep, poultry, farm
products of all kinds, fancy work
of all kinds, oil paintings, water
colors, hand painted china, butter
in rolls or bricks, doughnuts,
cookies, corn bred, yeast white
bread, baking powder biscuits, lay
er cake, loaf cake, assortment of
cakes (not less than five,) home
made pickles, glass jelly, canned
fruit, potted plants, bouquet of cut
flowers, and last but not least.
comes the baby show. Prizes are
offered for the prettiest baby be
tween three and nine months old.
and between, nine and eighteen
months.
Write E. C. Park, the secretary
of the fair association for a pre
mium list.
A Good Joke on Sisters.
In a little town called Sisters
east of the mountains history has
not heen the strong point of the in
habitants and they seem to think
that they are yet colonists under
King George s or King Edward s
crown. Over a neat building bear
ing the sign, "United States Post-
office," a British flag flaunts itself
proudly in the breeze and the
townspeople go to and from their
marketing unconscious that they
have passed out of the taxation
without representation days
Forest Inspector D. D. Brown-
son in his recent fiery investiga
tions ran across the little hamlet
and caught his cockney companion
saluting the flag reverently and
bursting into song, "God Save the
King."
"Give me tuppence ha'penny
worth of tobacco," the inspector
said to Uncle Sam's representative
and Sisters' provider of general
merchandise.
"Hey?" in blank amazement.
'I thought you must be English
with that flag out there."
"Oh, that flag is that English?
I sent to Portland for a flag to
decorate with on the Fourth of
July and this came an we thought
it was some kind of new fangled
American flag, so we just flew her."
And the people of Sisters had
celebrated the glorious Fourth and
the freedom of the States from
British rule and heard a spread
eagle oration all under the British
flag and never cracked a smilel
Portland Journal.