Journal COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911. VOL XV-NO. 16 Orim, avcund-claM mmttmr Crook CoMoloy HILL OFFICIALS VISIT CROOK CO Wanted to See Things at First Hand. OFFICIALS CORDIALLY GREETED Predic t a Big Transformation in Thit Country in Few Year. Accompanied by Tillman Keu tor, tliu man whoso suceoss In dry farming probably Im done most to exploit the advantages uiul poasibllitoa of Coolrul Ore gon agricultural land, tho party of Hill otllelaU who have boon touring tho tnrtltory adjacent to tho now Oregon Trunk Railway returned to Portland yesterday, full of enthusiasm for tho country and for tho town that rapidly are developing into cities In con sequence of tho railroad's en trance. Tho party comprised H. A. Juckaon, retiring assistant gen oral freight and passuugor ngont of tho (rat Northurn, .Tnhu L. Springer, traveling freight agent; VrvA V, (irahaiu, Western In dustrial and immigration agent; and K. W. Foster, assistant gen eral agent of tho llurlingion. House Cleaning Time at Hand. We are . showing Savings in Lace Curtains. You know what a sale means at this Store. If you have confidence in us you can honestly expect these sales to be worth your while. $1.60 I.ace Curtains, white, pair $1.05 f 1.50 Lace Curtains, ecru, pair $1 15 f 1.75 Lace Curtains $120 $2.50 Lace Curtains ; $1.85 $3.00 Lace Curtains.... $2.40 $;t.50 Lace Curtains $2.75 $4 00 Lace Curtains $3.15 $5 00 Lace Curtains $3.95 BEAUTIFUL WHITE BEDSPREADS. $1.25 Hemmed Crochet at. $105 $1 52 Hemmed Crochet at $1.20 $1.75 Hemmed Crochet at $1 40 $2 05 Cut Corner Satin Finish $2.05 $4 00 Cut Corner Sitin Finish $3.25 Linen fin in Ii Towels in pairs at 25c , 30c., and 40c. per pair. These ate ssvings. Good housekeepers can effect economy in buying these. Collins They left here Monday morn ing and went as far as Motoliua, the present terminus of the Ore gon Trunk, on tho regular pas senger train. From thero they proceeded to Prineville by automobile stage, following this with visits to liund, Kedmond. Culver and Opal City. At each place they wore met by enthus iastic committees of cili.ens, who entertained them with banquets, apuechmuking and music and who conferred with thorn on the future business relations that necessarily must grow up with tho continuation of the road and the rapid development of the country. Tho trip was prompted by Mr. Jackson's early departure for Bt. Paul to take up bis new duties as assistant goneral traffic manager of the Great Northern, to which placo hu was promoted a few weeks ago. He was eager to '.earn something of the Oregon Trunk country, as he knew that he would bo flooded with inquir ies as soon as bo reached St. Paul. While Mr. Jackson had been somewhat in doubt about tho possibilities of that section prev ious to bis departure, never having visited it before, he came back thoroughly satisfied with every feature of the varied in dustrles and with the prediction thai the next few years will wit ness a varitablo transformation of the present sagebrush cnuntty to nn area blooming with ripen- (Continued oil lat pnge.) Spring Sale of BOYS' SUITS Just now we are selling them at a fraction above cost, to close out the entire line. You can save our profit. That is exactly what it means, in boys' clothing here. TRY US. Garden Seeds, Garden Drills, Farm Tools, Wagons, Groceries and Hardware. As cheap as can be sold. Satisfaction is yours if you buy here. Special Sale of Ladies' Corset Covers, Drawers and White Skirts. See them. Prinevflle, SOMETHING DOING BY THE COUNCIL Special Meeting Held Tuesday. WILL BUY STREET SPRINKLER Gty Improvement Election May 29 City Buys Dumping Ground. There wss a special meeting of the city council Tuesday evening. The committee of fire and water wss instructed to purchase a street sprinkler. Main snd adjoining streets sre to be sprinkled just as soon ss the water wagon can be put in order. The mstterof placing the new school building on larger grounds wss unanimously indorsed by the oouncil. All recognized the fact that the present quaiters would be entirely too amsll. The next few years will see a marvelous change in this city snd right now is the time to snticipste it. The bids for grsding Third street were all rejected. Council man Wsrd will hsve charge of the work which will be done by the day. The council passed the petition Home Needs. ESPECIALLY FINE. This refers to our New Spring Dress Ginghams and other fabrics, now on display. Selected with more than usual care and taste. Silk Foulards and Gauzy Fabrics for gowns and wastings. Our Goods are pleasing to the eye. New Oxfords, Pumps, Sandals, atd Scuffers, for the neat and tasty. Everyday footwear for heavy or light wear. We know how to fit your feet. Look at our styles bofore buying footwear. The Nemo Corset. No. 312 and No. 405 made especially for extra stout women. No. 210 and No. 305 made especially for all others. Have you tried the "Nemo." There is no sec ond best. For shape and style, for home or party, THE NEMO. mm W. Elkin Oregon. for increasing the actetsment of the city for improvements fiotn 10 to 15 mills. The matter is now up to the electors. The voters will bsve a chases to pan on it May 29. As there is practically no op position to city improvements the matier will go through with a whirl. Five lots were purchased by the city for dumping grounds. Thny are located in the northwestern part of the city, near Marion Tsmpleton's place. Instead of dumping your trssh on the out skirts of town it msy be bsuled to these lots to be tsken tare ot by the city. Looking for Land. Many newcomers are in Prine vi lie looking for land. All are be ing satisfied one way or the other. Those looking for 320 snd ICO acre bomeiteads are Iteing taken to that section ol Crook county by our real estate men snd locator where such Isnds sre oin to en try, thoce that want road land sre being looked after by the local manager, John K. Vinson, and others that want irrigsted land sre being tsken csre ot by Aent A. K. Bowman. The Prineville Com mercial Club is doing its part in disseminating information of all kinds about the country and putting strangers on the track of what they sre looking for. Our real estate men and locators are responsible citizens who have lived years in thi" country and know its resources. Strangers ' bave called st the Journal ollice for direction snd we hsve invariably indorsed every real estate man snd locstor doing business in Prineville. They are in business to serve the public and will do so if you give them a chance. mm) JeteT is. DEVELOPMENT IN CROOK COUNTY Resources in Process of Transformation. Great Changes Will Take Within the Next Few Years. The resources of Crook county is a subject upon which too much cannot be said. The Journal bas been hammering for years upon the opportunities that await the man of small means in ibis new country and never misses a chance to proclaim the good tidings to the land hungry. The Northern Pa cific Railroad is alto helping in tb? good work and in one of its recent publications writes of this section ss follows: The earliest development of newj extensive territory will be exper ienced in Crook county, which oc cupies sn area of about 8,000 square miles almost exactly in the center of the state. The railroad emerges from the canyon of Wil low creek, a tributary of the Des chutes, in the northern extremity ot Croon county. Crook county is greatly diver sified in its resources, and it is al ready in process of transformation from a stockman's country to a farming community. Yet this transformation bas but just begun. Groin, vegetables and fruit have as yet been raised solely for local consumption. Grain, in large part, has been hauled to the small mills, ground into flour, and ship ped farther into the interior for use by other stock-raising com munities, or has been cut for use at hay. In the Lorthern part of the county a large area of land is already under cultivation, but there has not, until now, been much incentive to careful cultiva tion of the soil. Enterprising farmers have found, however, that their land is capable of yielding as bigb as 50 bushels of wheat to the acre under a proper system of cul tivation. The main cultivated area of Crook county lies to the east of the Deschutes river and north of Crooked river, which flows into tbe Deschutes from the east. In this district are located the Agency Plains, comprising about 175,000 acres; the Hay creek dis trict, with 80,000 acres; the Bliz zard Ridge district, with 75,000 acres, and the Culver, Lamonta, Opal Prairie and numerous other small districts. The rainfall, about 15 inches annually, is suffi cient for successful dry farming, but a large area can be irrigated and ultimately will be devoted to intensified farming. Fruit grow ing has been undertaken in a small way in northern Crook coun ty, and the district has been found to be suited to horticulture. West of the Deschutes the country rapid ly merges into the great pine tim ber area of the eastern elopes of the' Cascade mountains. This is true of the entire length of the country west of the Deschutes. South of Crooked river is a large Carey Act irrigation project. The company has a partly completed system planned to water 215,000 acres of land. The Central Oregon Irrigation Company will reclaim an additional 8UU,UuU ' acres. About 60,000 are now under culti vation. Alfalfa, clover and root crops particularly, thrive on the irrigated lands, and it will be pri marily a dairy district, although small fruits produce abundantly. Three hundred miles of canals and laterals, costing to exceed $1,000,000, have been constructed. In this tract are the townB of Red mond, Bend and Laidlaw, all thriving and giving evidence of a great future. The entire section is being rapidly supplied with schools and churches, and stores are open1 ing up, electrio power and light plants are projected to utilize the water power and development is rapidly progressing in every way It is a wonderful dairying and stock country raising the finest of sheep and cattle. Tbe climate is ideal, tbe rainfall being about 13 inches annually, with over 300 days of sunshine out of the year. The winters are not severe, Janu ary and February usually bring ing a small amount of snow, but, as a rule, work can be carried on throughout the entire year. . West of the Deschutes river another company bas secured a Carey Act segregation of about 30,000 acres, with the town of Laidlaw as the center. A farmers' co-operative irrigation system is also watering about 15,000 acres from Squaw creek, wbicb flows In to tbe Deschutes from tbe west a short distance south of the mouth of Crooked river. The eastern slope of tbe Cascades is heavily timbered, and this tim ber can only be conveyed Jo the markets of the world by way of the natural routes down tbe various mountain streams to tbe Oregon Trunk Railway. An im mense amount of labor will eventu ally be employed in working op this timber, and this labor must draw its supplies from and through the district mentioned. The timbered regions of tbe gov ernment reserves abound with all kinds of game, large and small. The streams are filled with tbe finest trout making it an ideal district for hunting and fishing. Another enterprise of vast im portance in the development of Central Oregon is that of the Ore gon and Western Colonization Company of St. Paul, which com pany has obtained- what was known ss tbe military-road-grant lands-, comprising some 800,000 acres, and is putting the land on the market in small tracts upon easy payments, ihis land com prises a belt some twelve miles wide, and extends from tbe Wil lamette Valley on the west almost entirely across the state. Tbe im portant towns in tbis tract are Prineville, Paulina, Riley, Burns, Narrows, Yale, Ontario, The Col onization Company, whose main headquarters are at St. Paul, Minn., with a branch office in the Railway Exchange Building, Port land, Oregon, and another at Prine ville, Oregon, in charge of John R. Stinson, who will gladly furnish illustrated literature telling about this land. At Bend, which lies 150 miles south of the Columbia river, the pine timber belt covering the east ern foothills of the Cascade moun tains alreadv mentioned, reaches down to the plains, and there the juniper merges into merchantable timber as one journeys southward. The Deschutes river in this dis trict not only supplies water for irrigation but develops enormous potential water power. In its course to the Columbia river it is estimated that it will generate more than 1,000,000 horsepower. A water power electric plant has already Wen established at Bend, and numerous tilings on power sites have been made with tbe ob ject of supplying cheap power for dairy and farm machinery as the country develops. Crooked river at the point where it is crossed by the Oregon Trunk Railway is a narrow chasm 380 feet deep, about 320 feet wide, and with walls of perpendicular rock It is a natural dividing line be tween northern and southern Crook county. Before.the river iB compressed into its narrow canyon, however, it drains a fertile valley, some fifteen miles long by nine or ten miles wide. Several tribu taries, tne principal of which is the Ochoco, drain smaller valleys and provide valuable reservoir sites for irrigation. Numerous small irrigation enterprises are now in existence, and there are many well cultivated farms in the valleys. In the center of the Crooked River Valley, and some what east of the main line of the railroad, is Prineville, the county seat of Crook county, a great trad ing center for Btockmen. Southeast from Bend and south of Prineville is the principal home steaders' district of Crook county. There are still remaining hundreds COUNCIL FAVORS CHANGE OF SITE Want Larger Play grounds. THE LAW ON THE SUBJECT It Takes a Two-thirds Vote to Order the Change Let us have Meeting. Tbe city council held a special meeting Tuesday evening and among other things discussed the advisability of exchanging the park grounds for the present school site. Tbe city fathers were unanimously in favor of making . this change. Regarding tbe change of school site, tbe Oregon School Laws read: "Whenever, in tbe judgment of the board, it is desirable or neces sary to tbe welfare of the schools in the district, or to provide for the children therein proper school privileges, or whenever petitioned so to do by one third of the votera in tbe district, the district board shall call a meeting, at some con venient time and place fixed by the board, to vote upon the ques tion of. selection, purchase, ex change, or sale of a schoolhouse site, or the erection, removal, or sale of a schoolhouse. Such elec tion shall be conducted and votes canvassed in tbe same manner as at tbe annual election of school officers. If a majority of the voters present at such meeting shall by vote select a schoolhouse site, or shall be in favor of the purchase, exchange, or sale of the schoolhouse, as the case may be, the board shall locate, purchase, exchange, or sell such site, or erect, remove or sell such schoolhouse, as tbe case may be, in accordance with such vote; provided, that it shall require a vote of two-thirds of the voters present and voting at such meeting to order the removal of the schoolhouse, and such school house so removed can not again be removed within three years from the dale of such meeting." In Prineville we have not known the evil effects resulting' from crowding many children into cloee quarters, but we should profit by tbe growth of such cities as Portland, Boston, Chicago, Cin cinnati and others where the crowding of population bas thrust this new problem of providing suitable play grounds for children upon society. All children must have light, pure air and plenty of healthful outdoor sport in order to develop into strong men and women. While some of the homes in Prineville are fortunate in having suitable grounds for their children the majority are lacking in this respect. A child spends at least half of his early life at school and it is the duty of parents and teach ers to provide necessary physical exercises for him. With suitable playgrounds a child can learn many a valuable lesson that ib most useful in later life. Fair play, a desire to excel, a spirit of leadership, the lesson that perse verance counts, all these and many others may be and are learned on the playgrounds where the exer cises are properly conducted. of thousands of acres of sage-brush lands available for entry under the 320 acre homestead, or dry farming act. Under this act the homesteader is permitted to take up 320 acres of land suitable for dry farming and secure a patent in five years by residing thereon and doing a specified amount of im provement each year. Tbe land is particularly adapted to tbe grow ing of winter wheat by dry farm ing methods, and is readily acces sible by team or automobile from Prineville. Seed Potatoes. Early Rose and Burbank Seed Pota toes for sale. Horigan & Reiuke, 3-30