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Crook Cotnety JotttrpaS
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR'
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1910.
Cntrrrd at th pnmtnltlm at Prtnmllte,
Onion, .Moad-ciaat matter
VOL XIV NO. 7
HIGH SCHOOL
DEBATE FEB. 4
Postponed from Jan
uary' 28th
WASHOUT CAUSED THE DELAY
Betide the Debate there will
be Good Musical
Program.
TtorviMifof the year for the Mich
school, tlirlntcr-liluli im'IumiI debates,
will take place on Friday evening,
February 4. Tin supporters of the
negative of the "question, resolved
"That the government should own
nml control tliv railroad. " left Tues
day for FohkIII whore they will meet
the upholders of the nlUrinntlvr.
' Foeall's negative team will go to
Muro; nml Moro'a negative will
rome here, tliita rompli'iliiir the trl
iiiikIi", The team scoring the most
point will win. It In possible for
1 lit two teams, from one school, to
score (!; lit points.
i The debater who left for Fossil
with Mrn. Wli-kernliaiu mm chaperon
are: Mlsae Ethel Kidder nml Agnes
Klliot t nml Robert Hester. The high
' school made the street ring with
tin !r yell an tin stage carrying the dr.
hater 1'nnnml through town nml the
cheer of their fellow students helcd
luiK'h to make the contrtnnt feel
that though the trip mlicht be hard
nevertheless It wan worth It.
lu addition to the debut at the
Commercial club hall on Friday
evening there will bo an excellent
iniiHlcnl program from both the stu
dents and outside talent. No one
who In Interested In tin high school
can afford to mla the debate. . Fol
lowlnic U the program:
Vocal solo "The Dally Question"
Ml Helen F.lkliiM.
Dehate "Resolved, That the Fed
erul Government Hhould Own and
Operate the Railroads of the Tutted
HtnU.M
Atllrmatlve, Crook County High
School, Misses Emerlen Young, Iou
lie Hummer and Ethel Moore.
Negative, Khertnan county, up
held by three young men from the
schools of the eonnty.
The C. C. II. 8. Nightingales In Paul
Ambrose's "Hhoogy-Shoo."
Instrumental duet "Sunflower
Dance" by Mncflyuioud, Misses Ger-
trude Hodge and Allle Horlgnn.
The dechdon of the Judge will
clone the program.
Mrs. Mlngcr and Utile daughter of
Lnmonta were C. 0. If. 8. visitor,
Wednesday,
Misses A Hie and Kthel Horlgnn
were society visitor Friday and
Mm. Kahhldge visited the Alpha sc
ctety, Friday.
Mra. KU'e waa nn Ochoconlnn
vUltorat their hint meeting-.
Atabtka.
The hoy are anxlounly waiting
new Irom the outside teams. We
feel that we are reudy for larger
field to couqucr but we may decide
differently after the next Inter-soclety
content.
Otkacaiam.
Last Friday was the aeiul-annual
election of olllcers for the sixdety and
TOWNSHIP
PLAT BOOKS
Nearly Completed by
County Surveyor.
WILL ADD 300 NAMES TO ROLL
Great Convenience and Saving
f
to County Should Have
been made Years Ago
Continued on page 2.
County Surveyor Hire says that he
hat three bunded near names to be
addej " to county tHuerament roll.
Theae name will be turned over to the
hf rift to be placed on the 1000 roll.
Mr. Rice thinki that $'000 will be saved
the county this year by reason of the
addition.
The county surveyor waa "ordered by
th county court over a year ago to get
op an original ownership book and a
present ownerahip book ao that . the
county record could lie brought down
to date. The work involved l.aa been
tremendous. It necessitated a trip to
the Burns land office so aa to secure
the original entries for the two eastern
township; a trip waa taken to Lake-
view to get the original government
en'ries on the two southern tiers of
townships, and for the balance of the
townships Mr. Kice hs I to go to The
Dalles land ollice. Thete original
entries make up the original ownership
book.
The present ownership book will
bring thei records down to dste. The
task is by no weans completed, but it
has advsnced far enough to add at
least three hundred names to the tax
roll. When It is undorstood that each
township oi nut be platted and all errors
corrected, so fsr ss possible, progrees is
nstur.llr slow, but when one accom
plished will be a grnat saving to the
county. It will add many thousands of
dollars to the tax roll, besides saving
many thousands of dollars in making
out futurs assessment rolls.
Heretofore the assessor has hsd to get
along the best wsy he could from im
perfect records. Now, however, when
the records are brought down to date all
property should bear its just proportion
of the county taxes. Complaints of
double taxation, errors in descriptions,
etc., thut are annually made to the
boarj of equalization will be reduced
to a minimum.
DRY
Shumia Meeting.
The regular meeting of the Khu
inla Club was held (Saturday, Janu
ary 22, at the home of Mrs. Ethel
ICdwnrdM. After the regular routine
of business a inoet Interesting pro
gram was rendered. The life of
Dickens, taken principally from hie
autobiography, was well given by
Mrs. Lizzie I.nfollctte.
Mr. Collins I'.lklnsthen entertained
the Club with literary conundrume,
cotiHlatiiig of names of magazine,
authors and quotations. The prize
for this contest vena awarded Mies
Catherine Conway, Mrs. John Wlgle
being a close second.
Mrs. Pearl Kayler very ably re
viewed Dickens' "ChrlHtuina Carol,"
with which the program closed.
At the close of the meeting dainty
refreelmieuta were served by the
hostess, and after a pleasant social
half-hour, the Club stood adjourned.
Only Tlkiree Days More
Our January Clearance Sale Closes Monday, Jan. 31
TT THE wonderful success of this sale is due to the fact that
our prices are right. Make the most of these three days
Supply your wants for the winter.
Lowest Possible Prices
ON ALL
Mens clothing, furnishings, footwear
and caps.
Boys and youths clothing and
overcoats.
Ladies suits, coats and sweaters.
Rubber footwear, blankets, bed
spreads; table linen, lace curtains.
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GROCERY CLEAN-UP SALE
Special prices for first week
Fancy Seeded Raisins, "Royal Club" regular 1 5c value, special low price
. Fancy Cleaned Currants, "Royal Club" regular 1 5c value, special low price...-
Large Size Plum Pudding, regular 75c vaiue, special low price.
Small Size Plum Pudding, regular 45c value, special low price ...1. ;..
Fancy Sliced Pine Apple, regular 25c value, special low price. .........
Fancy Canned Apricots, regular 30c value, special low price.......... . ..
10c
10c
50c
30c
15c
20c
c. w. ;:;..ios;'-;-(iWPANY
PRINEVILLE, OREGON
Of tbis Central Oregon
Country.
MILLIONS OF FERTILE ACRES
FARMING
POSSIBILITIES
Uimitable Opportunities
the Enterprising Hus
bandman. .
for
Profwsor II. D. 8cudder of the Ore
gon Agricultural College writes of Cen
tral Oregon in the annnal number of
the Portland Oregon ian as follows :
"After msny days of hard travel,"
writes an early pioneer," we rode np
from the pleasant valley of the John
Day River over a low range of moun
tains into a great valky of unknown
extent" "Of unknown extent" to
most of us a vast inland sea of rolling
sand and stricken aaa brash, from
which come faint rumors of cattle, of
sheep, of fence lines, of road grants,
snd now at last of railroad clamor. To
the dust-laden, stage-wearied traveler,
who has swsyed and c'.-ng and jolted
a nd choked through a labored passage
to this isolated world, comes a tremen
dous impression of unexpecteddistancea,
limitless area, unending horizons, from
which blow the keen sweet airs that
tempted explorers of old on into the nn
known. Day by day may one glide over
the rich, black bottom lands, undulate
over the rolling uplands, labor over the
broken lava beds, cross the spreading
alkali flats and shallow likes only to
come upon still another world of twisted
ssge brush, far reaching from horizon to
horizon. A few scattered cattle, a few
lonely rancb-houtos, a few rudely flooded
lowlands, a handful of sturdy pioneers,
constitute civilization in this vsst em
pire of the future.
And what is the future of Central j
Oregon T Here lies an area of approxi
mately 20,000,000 acres of rolling hills
and fertile 'valleys. . New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticutt, New Jersey and Delaware
combined, might be set down in tbis
huge territory and yet leave uncovered
miles around the edges. A good one
third of Oregon here, ail but lost from
her reckoning, a vast resource, un
touched, unheeded. : Ten million acres
of tillable land 800,000 acres of irrigable
land-3,000,000 acres of dry farming
land yet little more than 200,000 acres,
or only about one-twentieth of this im
mense body of good agricultural land
has ever been farmed. In other words,
this vast domain contains more good
farming land than is now cultivated in
all the rest of Oregon east of the Cas
cades, yet bnt an inconsiderable fraction
of it has ever felt the plow. To say,
then, that the production of Central
Oregon may be increased one hundred
fold is but to name the result of the
first step in its progress. Leaving aside
its great wealth in minerals and forests
and water-power, let us consider only
its greatest and most permanent re
source its agriculture.
Central Oregon agriculture will be
forever largely confined to the produc
tion of grain, hay and livestock an
other empire of wheat and alfalfa and
fat stock added to Oregon's ever grow
ing domain. Every quality of soil and
climate is found here for the successful
development of this trissverate that
will lead a prosperous agriculture down
the centuries.
Where now the 'winter overflow
floods the native grasses, bringing a lux
uriant crop of wild hay, organized effort
will store the waters, distribute them
over many times their present flooding,
ditch the land to' leach the alkali and
plow and seed the rich silt loam to al
falfa the transformer. Nature has al
ready inoculated the soil for this crop
and surrounded the valleys with mil
lions of acres of grazing land upon which
to grow the cattle and sheep and horses
that later winter and fatten on the rich
hay. Kor hay alone, but the hardy, vir
ile alfalfa seed grown at these higher el
evutions will come the fattening field
peas, and in them both the hog per
haps the greatest moneymaker the
American farmer sends to market- -cer
tainty so among Oregon livestock.
After all, however, the Agricultural
success of Central Oregon depends more
upon the development of its dry-farming
possibilities than upon irrigation. With
an average annual rainfall of from 10 to
15 inches, and a fertile brown alluvial
sandy loam soil covering almost three
times the area devoted to dry farming
in the wheat belt along the Columbia,
the importance of this phase of agricul
ture may easily be coinprehanded.
Here brains must take the place of
water. Selected seed, thorough tillage
and diversified production,' all three
combined, are the potent factors which
will work the transformation from
black sagebrush to golden wheat fields.
Dry farming conditions nere are com
parable with those of the Columbia
River basin, or of Montana, or of South
ern Idab.3. Successful production of
crops of the highest quality has al
ready long been carried on, on a limited
scale, in practically everr part of tbis
dry-farming area. Wheat, oats, barley,
emmer, alfalfa and field peas are here
the dry farmer's major crops.
The hardy, drought resistant, high-
grade milling wheats, Turkey red and
Durum, are believed to be the eventual
leaders for this territory. That the
wheat seed as well as the alfalfa, peas,
oats and other seed used, be Northern
grown, and from regions cf equal or
greater elevation, is of great rt Impor-
tance. Montana-grown seed is proving
especially well adapted to Central Ore
gon conditions.
As for alfalfa and field peas it must
not be considered that these are profit
able only under irrigation. Eastern Ore
gon, as well as every other dry farming
section, has many notable demonstra
tions to the contrary. Grown for bay or
pasture, they frequently outclass wheat
on the ledger, while grown In rows they
yield a superior and most valuable aeea
crop. In addition to this, through their
fertility improving qualities, they form
a necessary part of the dry-farmer's pro
gramme if wheat production is to be
maintained permanently, permitting
him also to send part of his grain to
market in its most valuable form fat
stock.
In thorough tillage methods the Cen
tral Oregon farmer may profit by the
bard-earned experience of dry farmers
on every side of him. Fall plowing or
Fall discing; immediate harrowing and
packing following Spring plowing; fre
quent surface tillage through the dry
season to maintain a soil mulch and
keep out weeds; these are a few of
the fundemental practice for the con
servation of moisture, upon which the
Central Oregon farmer will build his
success. Nor must it be forgotten that
the quality of the farming done is of far
more importance in bringing about a
permanent success, than is the quantity
of land covered. It may well be said,
too, that dry farming requires the
brainiest and most courageous class of
farmers to be found in all the field of
agriculture. The dry farmer of Central
Oregon, to be entirely successful must
not only understand the underlying
principles of the science, but he must
have the backbone to carry them out in
practice. Central Oregon requires
farmers of large caliber. To these it
offers success.
Why then does the present population
and agriculture 01 this huge area lag ao
far behind? Where are the wheat and
alfalfa fields and the fat 'stock? Where
are the thriving towns-and prosperous
farm homes? When will this transfor
mation come about? For nearly half a
century the answer has been vainly pro
claimed, unceasingly advertised. There
is perhaps no other unserved area in the
United Stated, where from the agricul
tural standpoint at least, a railroad
would prove more profitable, and per
haps no where else in this country, is
there so large a body of land lying idle,
waiting for a railroad and the hand of
the dry farmer to transform it from a
desert to prosperous production.
OREGON TRUNK
CONSTRUCTION
Facts Brought Down to
Date.
SUMMARY OF W0XK DONE
The Difficulties of Construction
Work Explained by an
Expert.
Annual Number Orcfnnlan.
Under construction contract 109
miles, Celllo to Madras.
Definitely located Celllo to
Crooked River, 140 ml lea.
Probable Oregon Terminus
Klamath Falls, with California ex.
tentlon and branches to Lakevlew
and extentlon to Ontario on Eastern
Oregon border.
Approximate cost Celllo to Mad
ras $o,000,000.
Number of men at work 2600.
Maximum working grade SI x
tentha of one per cent.
Maximum curvatures Six degree.
Character of construction Rock
and gravel ballast, 85 to 90 pound
steel; standard North Bank con
struction. .
Estimated time limit for comple
tion to Madras Latter part of 1910.
Smashes Greek, Gets
Blood-Poisoning
W. H. Bryan, a Paulina freighter, is
laid up at the home of William Adams
with a very sore arm.
Bryan had a load of freight from
Shaniko which he was bringing in by
way of Madras. In the load was some
wet goods. When in Madras some
Greek railroaders caught on to the fact
and tried to steal the "boose." Bryan
protected his freight, and in the fight
that ensued struck one of the Greeks in
the mouth with his fiat. The man's
tefeth cut the ekin on Bryan's knuckles
and blood-poisoning set in. Bryan has
a sore arm, but unless further compli
cations result, he will get along all
right. His load of freight was sent on
to Paulina by another man.
Prineville Beef Tops
Portland Market
The five cars of steers sold In the
yards lost week at $5.35, the highest
priee of the season for Oregon stock,
came from Prineville and were ehlp
ped in by George Slayton of that
place. The steers averaged 13&5
Douuds and were sold by Hunt &
Lacey. -
"I am well pleased with my treat
ment in the Portland market," said
Mr. Slayton. Portland Journal.
Mr. Slayton had 110 head of steers
that averaged 1333 pounds, and sold
for $5.35; five head that averaged
1158 pouuda that brought M-75; and
one cow that weighed 1100 that
brought $ 4.75.
In commenting on the market at
the time Mr. Slayton sold, the Port
land Journal says: "While there is
only a fair tone In cattle at this time
and the buyers are quite well sup
piled, gales of extra Belect Prineville
stock was made duriug the day as
high aa 5.35.
Good steers sold aa high as $5.10, a
very good price considering the fact
that the stuff could not be rated
first class. Cows sold at $4.25, but
it took select quality to bring $4.75,
Approximately $5,000,000 la the
amount of the Initial expenditure to
be made by Jamea J. Hill and his
associates In constructing the Great
Northern extension Into Central
Oregon, known as the Oregon Trunk
Line.
The greater part of thU $5,000,000
will be expended In reaching simply
the outskirts of the great territory
that Ilea practically undeveloped la
Central Oregon.
While prospective extensions" of
the Oregon Trunk Line beyond Bend
have not been authoritatively an
nounced, the entry of the road to
Interior Oregon Is assured. Approxi
mately 2000 men are engaged In con
struction work between Celllo and
Crooked River and surveyors are
working as far south as Rostand, 30
miles beyond Bend.
The Oregon Trunk Line begins
with a bridge across the Columbia
river, one mile west of Celllo, thereby
forming a connection with the North
Bank railroad to Portland. Celllo
Is just 100 miles east of Portland.
There the Trunk Line engineers have
selected a natural bridge site. At
Celllo the mighty volume of the Co
lumbia river divides into several
channels and plunges through nar
row gorges among basaltic rock
Islands. Five spans, the longest of
which will be 320 feet, will complete
the bridge and every pier will be
constructed on solid rock above the
surface of the water.
The bridge will give the Oregon
Trunk line an overhead crossing of
the O. R. 4 N. main line and a road
way 55 feet above the Celllo Canal.
From the Oregon Bide of the bridge -to
the mouth of the Deschutes river
the distance Is four miles, and the
railway grade gradually climbs
along the face of rock cliffs and
curves Into the Deschutes Canyon
through a tunnel cut In solid rock.
Thik rullrnfl1 ninaf Mamp tha hnt.tnm
of the Deschutes Canyon 150 feet In -order
to get over the Moody power
dam site, located three miles above
the mouth, and for seven miles
there will be an up grade. Beyond
the Msody dam the road will con
tinue at some elevation above the
water's edge, for It Is necessary to
clear the Government dam site 24
miles above the mouth of the
Deschutes.
The Government dam Is to be 100
feet high and the original survey of
the railroad was located so that It
just cleared the proposed structure.
After thousands of dollars had been
expended In construction work, the
Government required the railroad to
go still ten feet higher, and 12 miles
of road have been relocated, and the
work already done In those 12 miles
bus been abandoned. About 40 miles
from the mouth of the Deschutes the
first conflict occurs with the - Des
chutes Railroad Company's line.
The Oregon Trunk Line for 73 miles
follows the west side of the river
without crossing. The rival road
follows the east bank for 40 miles,
and then, to avoid heavy construc
tion and tunnel work through a pro
jecting cliff, bridges the river, follows
the west bank about five miles, and
then crosses back to the east side.
To grasp the situation, one should
understand that la the Deschut.'S
Canyon there are few, If any, places
where precipices have been fornud
on sides of the river opposite each
other. A great wall of pi rpendlcular
rock may be washed at the base by
the river, but Invariably the opposite
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