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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1910.
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VOL.XIV-NO.22
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The Distinguished Visitors
Own the Town
No Better Place for Homeseeker in the United State
Oregon, tayt Louis W. Hill Thia. Country
a Revelation to Him.
Than
That wai a royal reception the
Yeopla of Prineville gave to the
Louii W, Hill railroad party.
There wai neither hitch nor flaw
in the detaili of the entertainment
from the time the distinguished
viiiitora were met hy a delegation of
citizens in auto ouUide of the
city limit Saturday evening up to
the time of their departure (or
Burn Monday morning.
, The gUetti were taken in hand
and each individual waa made to
Kel right at home, Their was no
mistaking the cordiality of their
reception. From the dreamer and
banner that decorated a large
number of automobile to the
people that lined the it reel all
proclaimed in no uncertain way
that Prlneville wa proud to do
honor to our railroad visitor!, and
w are proud of Prlneville for th
manner in which the discharged
her dutiei ai host through th offi
cial! ol the Commercial tluo.
The party arrived about 6 P. M.
Saturday and wa escorted .to
the city by some twenty auto led
by Mayor Stewart and President
Williamson of the Commercial
Club, and other citizen. Every
auto carried one or more streamer
with appropriate wording, "Help
U Boost," 'Welcome to Hill," etc.
Across main street from the Prioe
ville Hotel to the opposite corner
hung a large banner with the word
"Welcome" in letter two feet long,
made from alfalfa. The street
were decorated and the front of
the stores exhibited represenative
products both in their show win
dows and on the sidewalk. The
street were lined with people and
a general spirit of welcome pre
vailed. .
Mr. Hill and associate were in
troduced to great numbers of
people and were much interested
in talking to the farmer and
stockmen. The hotel lobby
and street in front were
thronged with men until about
ten o'clock when a banquet wa
served in the large and commo
dious dining room of the Hotel
Prineville. There were seven
courses, to which the visitor and
invited guests to in number 01 a
hundred did ample justice. Be
tween course speeches were made
by local people and some of the
visitors.
"WW Will tW UtOnU D. It Ui?"
1 he Drst speech ol the evening
was made by -J. F. Blanchard on
"What Will the Railroad Do For
Us." Toastmaster Williamson, in
calling upon Mr. Blanchard, said
that be felt that he was voicing the
sentiment of all when he stated
that all present were exceedingly
honored at having their illustrious
visitors, Louis W. Hill and party,
with them that night. To show
their appreciation the Commercial
Club had arranged a few speeches
by local men showing the attitude
that this country takes toward the
advent of the railroad. Mr.
lilanchard, both as an education
alist of considerable standing in
the past and a successful farmer in
bis present vocation, was exception
ally qualified to express the
thought of the community on
"What Will the Railroad Do For
Us."
Mr. Blanchard said, "After such
an introduction I am afraid that
you will be expecting something
great, but I am afraid you will be
disappointed. 134 years ago there
came into existence a new nation,
about the growth of which you all
know as much as I do. Its growth
depended ' upon a great many
thine!. It was made up of the
combined qualities and character
istica of the Irish, Scotch, French,
Dutch, Scandinavians andtheEng
liah, tesulting in the inventive
genius of the Yankee."
Mentioning many of the most
important of American inventions,
the speaker stated that the great
est of them all was this great rail
road system which now loins one
side of the couatry to the other
"Half a century ago our nation's
railroad were but small, but to
day America own half of the rail
road mileage in the world, worth
billion of dollars. The prorperitv
of the country depends very largely
upon the railroads. The only way
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we have of judging this is by the
past. What the railroads have
don for others we can reasonably
expect tbey will do for us. What
a made possible the development
of other countries? Nothing but
the railroads. It will do for us as
much, or perhaps more, than it
has done for other parts of tbe
country. Our hill and valley
now covered with sage brush will
soon be waving grain. Our hill
sides will be tunneled , into and
bring forth mineral auch a we
ittle dream of. The timber will
be gotten to market. We will be
producing two blade of grass
where now only one grows. Tbe
railroads with our help will do
this. Remember, though, it is
with our help. It will - bring new
people, new life, new energy, and
will make thia city the greatest in
the greatest county, in the greatest
state in this great nation of ours."
Applause. -
Tbe next speaker to be called
upon by the toastmaster was T. H
Lafollette who spoke on the subject
of
"PmikOitiM l Africakart ia Caatral Orepa.'
Mr. Lafollette said: "In con
seating to talk on thia topic I did
not promise a long speech. I d
not feel that I am qualified for this
task, and do not feel that I can do
it justice, because I know that
none of us really realize the possi
bilities of agricultural development
in Central Oregon. Things that
were considered impossible tarks a
few years ago are common practice
now. At first we just paid atten
tion to the bottom lands, and used
them for pasture, Dot thinkingthat
it was possible to do much in the
way of farming.
" As to what we do grow in the
way of cereals, in which railroad
men, a a rule, are most interested
we grow successfully all kinds of
grains with proper methods of
farming, in fact we have large
farms occupied in their production
We have some irrigated sections
but tbe majority or our farms are
dry farms, where grain crops are
always succeesfull, and this in spite
Of tbe fact that practically nothing
is as yet known of the scientific
methods of dry farming.
"Probably some facts that have
come within my own field of obser
vation will serve as the best ex
amples of what we raise. Three
years ago within half a mile of the
corporate limits of Prineville, I
grew over 50 bushels of wheat to
the acre. I also grew 45 bushels
of barley per acre -on land just
plowed. These yields were obtain
ed without any irrigation what
ever, and the average was taken
Irom tbe entire neld, not Irom one
particular acre. A few years pre
vious to that I grew on bench land
27 bushels of wheat to the acre, of
superior quality; 25 bushels of bar
ley, and 20 bushels of rye per acre.
As to the quality ol grain we
raise, I need only say that last fall
our hastily gathered exhibit of
produce for the Billings Dry Farm
ing Congress, gathered up in a few
days without any warning what
ever, brought several first prem
iums ana a cup ol wnicn we are
very proud, la competition with
tbe world.
Alfalfa doe exceedingly well
here, and 1 may atate that tbe
country ia especially adapted to
tbe growing of alfalfa without any
fertilization of the soil. A to the
quality of our forage, just one fact
will serve to convince one of the
excellence of this. Last winter,
range and hay-fed steers, fattened
four mile from Prineville, driven
65 mile over the road to Shaniko,
from there shipped to Portland, es
tablished a record price and topped
tbe market.
"As to roots, these crops do ex
ceedingly well. I have raised
white sugar beets, and mangels
that weighed aa high aa 18 ponnds,
Another root crop deserves special
mention, and that is potatoes.
I his crop can be grown very suc
cessfully in most part of Central
Oregon. The yield is perhaps not
quite so great aa in some other
countries, but the quality cannot
be excelled, and when the railroad
gets in here yon will find that we
will ship train loads of these to
market, topping the market and
creating a demand for Central Ore'
gon potatoes, for the smoothness
and uniformity of size and shape of
our potatoes cannot be beaten.
Aa to fruit, we cannot brag this
up as a fruit country, but we will
always be abundantly able to sup
ply the home demand for fruit, es
pecially for apples. Twenty-nine
years ago I put out a small orchard
within nine miles of Prineville,
and there has never been a com
plete failure from this orchard,
and this without irrigation. Some
years the yield has been very
great.
What we need here is a popula
tion of industrious, intelligent
farmers. We need men from Ne
braska, Dakota and other places
where they use the . scientific
methods of dry farming. I do not
know a single farmer using these
methods to-day. We need capital
to conserve our immense water re
sources now running to waste at
flood-water times.
hen we get these it is impos
sible to put a limit on tbe possi
bilities of development of agricul
ture in Central Oregon.
PriMTiDc mi Vkkity."
Georee Barnes, on "Prineville
and Vicinity," waa the next speaker
After giving some reminiscenses
of Prineville as he first knew it
forty years ago, he said: "There
are about 60,000 or 70,000 acres of
good farming land within the
vicinity of Prineville, of which 80
acres, will support a family in the
future. Remember that we have
the climate and we have the water,
Bring your railroad here and you
will see that the land will be
supplied with the water, and that
then we will have, and that we
now have, the best land iu Oregon
It is true the railroad surveys do
not come to Prineville, but lying
all the way between here and
Harney county is some of the best
land in the whole state, and
remember that it is a water grade
all the way from the DeBchutes to
Harney through V rinevule. lAp
plausej.
Prineville is not a boosted town.
Remember when you are talking to
os, that you are not talking to
boosters or boomers, you are talk
ing to plain business men. We
live here; our homes are here;
these place are not for sale; we
alwaya want and intend to live
hers and we want to know what
you are going to do for os. The
homes we have here are ours for
life and we want you to come here
with a railroad so that we may get
in touch with tbe outside world.
As you leave Prineville, see what
we raise around here and think
what we can raise when you bring
as a railioad. Then go back and
tell people that in very truth,
Prineville is the "Heart of Ore-
gonl" Applause,
Ci Ij Tnrw imi rrMptctivt itr Jt
M. E. Brink, on "County Town
and Prospective Railroads" said:
"I have in mind a very prominent
gentleman, a resident of the city of
Portland, who states that every
lime he ia called upon to speak he
ia asked to tell them something
about the sage and bunch grass.
I am in the same position, for al
though I know a good deal about
sagebrush and bunchgrafs, still
I know very little about pros
pective railroads, the subject that
is given me this evening.
Every city in the United States
was once a country town, w e
know how some of them became
cities, but we want to find out to
night the secret that made the in-
and towns great. The ftate of
Minnesota was , once filled with
country towns. In 1880 they had
a population of three-quarter of a
million, just about equal to that of
Oregon in 1910. Minnesota now
has over two million people.
This has been more than any
thing else, due to the illustrious
father of our distinguished guest
Applause. This same gentle
man 18 now approacbing uregon,
and we have here with us hi
representative, and we trust that
we shall hear how Minnesota did
this. - ... ... -..
Mr. J, J. Hill stated a short
while ago that 10 acres of Willam
ette valley soil is equal to 160
acres of Minnesota soil. I think I
am right in saying that one acre
in the Crooked river, Ochoco, or
McKay valley will produce twice
as much as any two acres of the
Willamette valley in the way of
grain, grass and vegetables. Ap
plause. , , .j
Twenty years ago alfalfa culture
was started in Crook county. It
waa used first as the food of sheep,
then cattle, then horses and finally
hogs, and if the price of living in
creases as it has in the past two
years, we will soon be eating it
ourselves.
With reference to railroad pros
pects, there is a vast difference be
tween a town with a railroad
prospect and a town without.
Ten years . ago railroad prospects
in Prineville were a dream; five
years ago they were a vision; two
years ago they became a solid
prospect, and in 1911 a railroad in
Prineville will be a reality.
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