Crook County
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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1910.
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MEANS MUCH
TO PRINEVILLE
$200,000 Paid for Land
in This Vicinity.
ST. PAUL CAPITAL BEHIND IT
Tl.ii Land Will Bo Colonized
Right Away Will Not
Wait for Railroad.
Two hundred thousand dollar
wu nld Monday fur 1000 seres of
land iu the v.cinity ot I'rinevillo.
Th it means tint lumctbing will be
doing litre before very lung.
Curtis I.. Moidor uf 8t. Paul,
f.iriiier secretary o( lliu central
commercial organization of that
idure.cUe l a deal the first of this
week with the Oregon A Western
Colonization company (or a tract
in the Immediate vicinity of Trine
, ville, comprising a little leas thnn
KXK) aores ut a sum approximating
$.,tX)10lH). The land were told on
a graded bseis, according to their
proximity to this city.
On hi vinit hero with l'retddeiit
W. I ltviditon a few weeks ago,
Mr. Mosior said tint he had great
faith in the country ami in the
future of I'rinevillo. After hie re
turn to Ht, 1'aul tie had a lung con
sultation with Mr. John K. Bur
chard, one ot the principal owners
of the lurge tract, concerning the
proponed deal which hoi juat been
cloned by telegraph.
At this conference it developed
that Mr. Mosier, who is conceded
to be the beet commercial club
man in the United States, was
anxious to get money into land in
this vicinity. Accordingly he has
associated with him a strong com
pany of financiers. Besides clos
ing a dent on the 1000 acres, which
by the way lies in sections 1, 31
and 3f, Mr. Mosier has secured
options on other large tracts which
will do doubt he closed on his ar
rival here next week.
. A telegram from Mr. Mosier yes
terday morning elated that he had
resigned his position, which waa
paying him $0000 a year, and
would start for Prineville at once
to take up tho work of coloniiing
lands here. He will have charge of
the publicity department of the
entire 800,000 acre tract also.
In speaking of the plans (or
marketing the tract, Mr. Hurchard,
said: "We are going to colonize
those lands and that right away.
The Prineville unit will be moving
fxt in a few months at leatt. Of
course it would be less expensive
for us if we waited for a railroad,
but we can't do that. We will
haul )rosH-ctive buyers from
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WILL OPPOSE
COUNTY DIVISION
Do Not Think It Advis
able at this Time.
MEETING HELD TUESDAY EVE
Will Use All Honorable Mean
to Defeat Such
Proposition.
At a miuui inwtlnn held at the
Prineville Commercial (Hub rooms
on Juno 27 tli It wo unanimously
derided to oppoae cutting up Crook
county at this time. The following
resolutions voiced the sentiment ol
the nioetlutr:
Wlicrcun, there la being proposed
by lultlutlve petition a wens
ure to crcuto a new county
from the western portion of Crook
county, Oregon, which measure Is
to tie voted upon by the elector of
tills stale at the next general elec
tion, and whereon, by reason of the
present undeveloped and spuraely
settled condition of the territory
affected, tho uncertainty of the
permanent location ot railroads and
the mill n avenue of transportation
uud the unwilled and unstable con
dition of the center of population,
the proposition to divide Crook
county at this time Is clearly prema
ture uud Inopportune, therefore be
It
Iteaolved, by the citizens) of Prine
ville and vicinity, in roaaa meeting
assembled, that we hereby express
our most emphatic objection to said
measure, and pledge ourselves to
use all honorable menus to defeat
any and all proposals to divide
Crook county until such time as the
centers of population are sufficiently
established, and the avenue of com
merce and trade fixed to such an ex
tent that a division can be Intelligent
ly accomplished.
T. M. ISaI.pwin,
Chairman.
C. M. Ei.kins, Secretary.
To Portland and Back
In Three Days
"
Mayor Stewart baa the record for the
puickest biwinois trip to Portland to
date. He left Prineville one morning
last week at 4 o'clock and arrired Id
Portland at 8 that evening. The follow
ing morning he went out and bonglit
a rifty horte power steam engine for
Installation in his mills here, and the
following day returned to Prineville,
having spent just throe days in making
the trip.
The stesm power plsnt baa been
chipped from Portland and will be
placed in position as soon as it arrives.
It will be used whenever necessary in
operating the Prineville flouring mills.
For Sale.
7-rajtsentrer Touring car, Stevens
Duryea, (Dig Hlx) six cylinder. In
good ronditlon. t
Also for wile, 7-PassetiBer Touring
ear (Thoniaa Flyer I In good con
dition. Will sell for cash or trade
tor land. Hurra Ai to Co.,
8 1U " The Dulles, Oregon.
Do You Want to Keep Cool ?
Announcement
Extraordinary
To demonstrate the rich, beautiful
tone ot the celebrated UPTON PAR
LOR GRAND PIANO which we will
giro nkuy ABSOLUTELY FREE ns
heretofore niiiioiiiiced nud which Is
uoiv on exhibition In our store, we
have arranged for n I'lauo Itecltal to
U given at our store Saturday,
July Uth, ut 2:; o'clock. We ex
tend a conllitl Invitation to the
music lovers of our city to atteud, aa
this recital will lie u genuine musi
cal treat. Keincinbcr tho (late, July
IKIi, at 2::i0 o'clock. The program
will last one hour.
All Men's Clothing
All Boys Clothing
All Ladies' Woolen Suits
All Ladies' Linen and
Cotton Suits
All Ladies' Skirts
All Ladies' Muslin Underwear
Hot Weather Specialties
Every day's sales makes a showing in our store.
The past week has been one of the best.
Beginng Saturday we will make marked reduc
tions on all Spring and Summer Goods. This
creates an opportunity for you to make com
plete your summer wardrobe at about whole
sale cost.
All Lawns, Batists,
and Waistings,
All Summer Goods
Including several dozen patterns
All Fancy Parasols
All Canvas Shoes
and Oxfords
Several Dozen New Trimmed Hats
Just arrived by express. These are going rapidly. We are
reducing the price radically on these and they, with every
other hat in our Millinery Department, is Reduced in Price
Our Gordon Hat for Men
If you have been
Gordon at $3
$3
paying $5 or even $3.50 for your Hats Try a
You will find them just as good, perhaps better.
THE COVE
POWER COMPANY
Prineville People Will
Develop Electricity.
CAPITALIZED AT $50,000
Work Will Begin as Soon
Contracts Can Be Let
Located at Cove.
as
Summer Vests and Shirts
Men's Summer Vests.
Shirts..
..85c to $2.50
. 75c to 3.00
Come to Our Store Saturday, .July 9th
Free Piano Recital at 2:30 p. m.
C. W. ELKINS COMPANY
A company of Prineville men
composed ol W. A. Booth, president;
arren ISrcwn, secretary-treasurer;
and D. F. Stewart, G. M.' Cornett
and Warren Brown as a board of
directors, has filed articles of in
corporation with the county clerk
for the Cove Power Company.
The purposes of tbe incorporation
are set forth in the articles and
enumerate the following: Tbe
generation of electric power and
the use of the same for running all
kinds of machinery; the selling of
power to the public generally to
be used for any and all purposes
to which such power is or may be
applied; to buy sell and lease real
estate and personal property; to
own and operate grist mills and
buy and sell grain and all kinds of
feed stuffs.
The principal office of the cor
poration is given as Prineville.
The capital stock is given as $50,
000 and is divided into 500 shares
of f 100 each. . Twenty nine
thousand dollars' worth of the
dock has been paid into th
treasury.
The location of the plant of the
new company will be at the Cove
Orchard on Crooked river, where
filings have been perfected for the
appropriation of water sufficient
to develop 6000 horse power. All
plans have been completed, and
figures show that the plant com
plete will consist of a dam six
feet in height in Crooked river, a
canal of sufficient size to carry
the water a distance of 2280 feet to
the location ol a big genarating
plant where a perpendicular drop
of 41 feet will generate the water
power.
Work will begin on the plant
as soon as contracts can be let for
the different units of the work
The construction of the dam will
be the hardest part of the work
and will be done by experienced
men. The installation of tbe
machinery will also be done by
contract, as well as the construe'
tion of the electric wires from the
Cove to Frineville and "other in
terior towns.
It is not the intention of the
new company to retail electricity
except to those who want to use it
for the operation of machinery.!
An arrangement is about to be
made between the new company
and the Prineville Light & Water
company foj the use of the current
on tbe company's Prineville system
which will give Prineville a twenty
four hour current.
No doubt other towns in the in
terior will be supplied with electric
ity by these peopia, but at present
it is the Prineville business that
these people are after. They have
in sight a market for 2000 horre-
powerin Prineville, and all possible
haste will be employed in the com
pletion of the plant for these people.
Many local shops and mills will
buy the current, and one of the
largest consumers will be the Prine'
ville Flouring Mills. A motor
will be installed in these mills
that will be ready for use in addi
tion to the water power whenever
that supply is low.
One of the greatest features of
the situation of the new company's
plant is the fact at the point where
the intake of the flume will be situ
ated the water never freezes enough
to bother the operation of the
power plant. Another is that the
supply of water is maintained
largely by the flow of Opal Spring
and other submerged rivers that
flow into Crooked river immediate'
y above the point where the plant
is located, and will never be les
sened by irrigation or appropriation
at any point farther up the river.
Tbe entire capital stock will be
taken by Prineville capitalists,
and it is the opinion of the owners
that the greatest possible amount
of electricity that can be generated
by their plant will eventually be
used here.
Work will be begun on the differ-
ent nnits of construction in a
few weeks at most, and some mem
bers of tbe company hepe to see
tbe plant complete and running
by January 1.
Rowlee Discharged
from Custody
F. C. Rowlee of Bend was arrest
ed Friday morning by Sheriff
Elkins on a complaint sworn to
by J. II. Wenandy charging Rowlee
with tbe theft of 91600 in currency.
Rowlee was brought to Prineville
for trial before justice Q. L. Bernier.
Witnesees against him were J. II.
Wenandy, Mrs. Wenandy, and Mr.
Colp of Bend.
From the evidence introduced it
developed that Mr. C'ulp and Mr.
Rowlee, in company with Mrs.
Wenandy and anotner woman
went for a joy ride about 7:30
Thursday evening. The party
were out about an hour snd return
ed slightly under the influence of
liquor. At the time tbe start was
made Mrs. Wenandy had some
$1600 in bills in her slocking.
When preparing for bed the money
was found to begone. Search was
begun and continued all night
without result. .
At the bearing no evidence was
produced to connect Rowlee with
the theft of the missing bank roll
and he was discharged from custo
dy.
After the complaint had been
filed the roll of bills was picked up
in the front yard of the Wenandy
home.
CROOK COUNTY
STRAWBERRIES
Can
Be Raised Here
All Right
GOOD MONET MAKING CROP
Pushing Work on
Natron Extension
A dispatch to the Journal from
Eugene says that construction
work on the Natron extension will
be rushed harder than jver this
summer in an effort to complete the
work next fall before the wet
weather begins. About 1250 labor
ere are on the line snd this number
will be increased as fast as' the
contractors can get men. Two
additional steam shovels are on
the way and a force with a power
plant will go over the divide
and commence work on the big
tunnel and work this way to meet
the boring on this side that is now
over half finished. The three
bridges will be put in this sum
mer also. It is thought that if the
men can be obtained the 35 miles
on this end of the line can be fin'sh
ed by December or.almost within
a year after the real work has commenced.
The work on the tunnels is pro
gressing very rapidly. The usual
cut on each of tbem is about six
feet a day. On tnnnel No. 3,
which is the longest, the cutters
have entered the mountains 938
feet, which is over half the distance.
Machinery and supplies are now
being hauled over the mountain to
set up a compress and power plant
so that men can bore from the
other side, and be working both
ways.
Work on the three bridges will
soon begin. Jne middle tort
bridge will be 350 feet long and
has two piers and abutments, and
the others are 300 feet long, with
the same construction. The bridges
are of steel and the abutments
and piers are of concrete.
Tbe Southern Pacific steel crew
will begin work about the middle of
July and the work of laying the
rails will continue until winter.
At present there are about 4000
tons of SO pound steel in tbe yards
at Natron. The contractors ex
pect to have all the rails and
bridges connected as far as Oak
Rtdge by the middle of December,
When this is done the base of
supplies will be moved from
Natron to Oak Ridge. It will be
from there that the next contract
will be worked.
Several Thousand Dollars Sent
Away Every Year
for Berries.
Central Oregon abounds in al
falfa, grain, fruit and potato lands,
but what is more surprising,
especially to tbe old settler, is the
fact that the entire country is
dotted with places that are succeed
ing in growing strawberries. The
country generally is not "entirely
adapted to their growth.
A thorough investigation shows
that several beds of strawberries
are bearing this year and that the
amount has increased eteadilv
with the country's growth for the
paBl several years.
This year there will be a good
crop of strawberries on tbe Gibson
ranch, nine miles north of Prine
ville, and the quality is of the best.
These will be in tbe market soon,
and to date appear to be the only
local berries that will be offered
here.
Mr. Gibson has received s large
shipment of boxes and will put
them up in approved form.
Others that are harvesting crops
of berries this year are Mrs. J. M.
Montgomery, who lives about eight
miles west of Prineville, and Mrs.
S. A. Collins, who- lives a ' mils
north of town. Mrs. S. J. Newsom
has the only strawberry bed of any
considerable size in the city of
Prineville.
Mrs. Collins has what is known
ss tbe bt. Joseph Everbearing.
which is a berry that begins to
bear fruit about May 15 and will
continue to do so as lata as Oc
tober. This is small fruit but a
prolific bearer and of fine flavor.
She also raises the Magoon,
which is a larger berry, and of the
same variety that is often shipped
into the local markets from Hood
River. She has but a small patch
of each of these varieties but has
raised a crop every year since they
were planted four years ago.
Mrs. Montgomery has the only
patch that can be estimated fairly
as to what the crop will produce.
By actnal measurement the Jour-
nal man found that the land in
this patch was but one-sixteenth
of an acre, and the annual output
has averaged 20 gallons for the
past four years. The crop is not
cultivated and little or no care is
given the plants. No irrigation
was given this patch this year.
Figuring from the crop raised
on this place, and the market price
of berries in Prineville, we find
that a yield of no greater size than
the one gathered when no culti
vation is given would net the
grower a little over 1300 per acre
annually, gross, and it is but a fair .
conclusion that that amount could
be increased to $500 with proper
cultivation.
The next best estimate of the
crop is gained from Harry Hudson,
who vsed to grow them in abun
dance on his place aljout ten miles
south of Prineville. He had less
than a quarter acre in berries and
his income was from $125 to $200 '
annually from the patch. He scld
his berries in the local market
and from a wagon at 75c per gal
lon. The size was equal to the
Hood River berry, he says. In all
cases the growers and others who
are in a position to say, state that
the quality and flavor of the Cen- -tral
Oregon berry is as good if not
better than that of tbe shipped
product.
Harry Hudson states that he
had difficulty with his berries until
he experimented with them, and
found that they started too early
to get a crop. He would take a
pair of sheep shears and clip the
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