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PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1911.
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VOLXV-NO. 17
County
Wonderful Changes Being
Wrought in Crook County
AJ.Iixin Bennett of The Dalles
Optimist and lrrignn Irrigator
writn In Urn Portland Oregonian
ol li if impression of Crook county.
Hi' cava:
To leave Portlund at 10 o'clock
In (ho morning and arrive at
Mad ran at 7; reach Prlnevillo at
l'W; lloud at 0 or Kedmond at
H,!I0 the huino evening, thut In the
k Ikm1 ule now in force over the
Nortli I tunic from i'ortluud to
Pallbrldgo, tho Oregon Trunk
from tliero to Mud rim, ami hence
by nuto.
Think o( it! IVnd but a trillo
more than 12 houra from Port
liuid; I'rliH'villu but 12 hours, and
Mtdraa 10 hours! Surely tho
Interior l doing attached to
Portland before wo liuvo had
limn to awaken to tho fict.
Tho story I want to toll about
the railway ttituulion up tho Den
chutes, -iho attachment, ho to
apeak, between that section and
Portland and tho wonderful
rhangea being wrought in Crook
County, U bo complex, the mat
criul being almoat unbounded,
thut it Is dilllcult to know whore
to Mart or where to end very
hard to tell tho talo consecutively
or connectedly. So I will give
many of tho facts in auccinct
paragraphs to keep this letter
within bounds.
Hut southern Crook County W
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.
f l.f0 Lace Curtain, while, pair $1.05
1.50 Lace Curtains, ecru, pair $1.15
$1.75 Lace Curtains, ... $1.20
$2.60 Luce Curtains $1.85
$3.00 Lace Curtains $2.-IO
$3.50 Luce Curtains $2.75
$4 00 Lace Curtains $3.15
$5 00 Lace Curtains $3.95
BEAUTIFUL WHITE BEDSPREADS.
$1.25 Hemmed Crochet at $1.05
$1 52 Hemmed Crochet at $1.20
$1.75 Hummed Crochet at $1 40
$2 65 Cut Corner Satin Finish $2.05
$4 00 Cut Corner Satin Finish .$3.25
Linen finish Towels in pairs at 25c, 30c., and 40c.
per pair. These are savings, tiood housekeepers
enn effect economy in buying these.
an empire In Itself, and I am
not going to weary tho reader by
taking tip the various auctions,
such as Bund, Prinoville, Red
mond, Culver and Metolius, with
apologies to the othor embryo
cities not mentioned. I will
reuch thorn all in good time, I
hopo atid tell fully of their pros
pects und expectations.
So I am going to toll some
thing about the Madrus country,
that town bolng tho gateway to
tho Interior. Not so much about
Madras. Thut country has been
exploited enough for tho present.
AndAnyhow.it Is tho country,
the In ml, the tillable soil, the rca!
nut u nil resources of the country,
thut I wish to tell about. The
towns and town lots and addl
lions to the c'tiea aro all right in
their way. Hut what is wanjd
what wo all want Is to see the
barren acres of tho interior be
come fertile, the kinds yield to
the plow and the harrow and the
seeder, to yield again lo Ibe
reaper and beuder.
Tho towns will tuke care of
themselves. Many of those now
being oxploitod will become pros
perous cities, the dreams of many
of the promoters and some of
purchasers will bo mors than
realized. But tho towns will not
build tho country, tho couotry
wlil build tho towns. Hence if 1
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,
if you buy here.
Special Sale of Ladies' Corset
Covers, Drawers and White
Skirts. See them.
Collies Wo Elkins.
Prineville, Oregon.
can say anything to help the
country I am assuredly not hurt
ing the towns though I leave
them with slight attention.
I spent four days in Madras
country, so I did not see ff.uch
of it, for the territory lributary
to the town is perhnpsToO or COO
square miles in extent. Hut I
kept pretty busy and got over a
lot of it.
My great surprise was the
amount of land already under
the plow. Out to the north over
the Agency Plains district of
something like 10 by It miles,
there Is scarcely a vacunt quarter
and about ull has been cultivated,
much of it being now in wheat or
ready to seed this Spring.
And now about this wheat
question. How often we hear
It remarked that if they could
raiso so much wheat over there,
why had they not dono so? Tho
answer is mighty him pie, but 1
will answer ll indirectly by say nj
that I ran across a farmer on the
plains who "toted" a load of
wheat to bhaniko lust Fall with
a four-mule team. lie sold the
wheat at the market price,
around 70 cents, and when be
got home ho was two dollars in
debi! The expenses of the trip
bud eaten up the wheat and he
was out six days' labor for him
self and teum. Of course he had
a breakdown, a little bad luck,
but the regular freighters'
charge from Madras to Shaniko
was a cent a pound. So how in
name of common or even uncom
mon sense could you expect the
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, and Scuf fers, 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.
Satisfaction is yours
farmer of that section to pro
duce wheut beyond the imme
diate need of the vicinity?
13ut now tho freight on wheat
is 10.80 per bushel, making the
price that much under the Port
land market, and virtuully the
same as the price at Alliens.
Milton, Pilot Hock, and Heppner
and other branch road stations.
And simply in anticipation of
this cheaper rate the farmers of
tho upper Crook County district
say, from Madras lo Culver, last
year raised something like 80,000
sacks of wheat for shipment, be
sides the 20.000 sucks used for
home consumption.
And this year the amount may
double, perhaps treble. And re
member this is for only a small
portion of the Deschutes country.
When the road is completed to
Bend the amount will rapidly
increase, and in a few years.
Am I dreamer of dreams when I
say that within a half dozn years
that country will vie with the
same area of tho best of the
wheat territory in Eastern
Washington? Am I dreamer
when I say that Umatilla County
with her output of over 4.000,01)0
bushels, will be outstripped by
the territory tributary to the
two roads up the Deschutes.
The fact of the matter is no
man can form a safe estimate of
the resources of that country.
It has been bottled up so long,
the people have been held in
leash to such an exteut that they
themselves caunot, or do not,
know what their capabilities and
S
possibilities are. To show how
they were almost completely
ostracised, commercially speak
ing, let me state that when Shan
iko was their nearest railway
station the price of cement at
Madras was $15 a barrel; now it
is $3.50. Coal was $30 a ton;
now it Is $12. The wonder is
not that the people out in that
section did so little; it is a trib
ate due to their worth as splen
did citizens that they did so
much.
Let us now take another view
of the Agency Plains section,
which is one of the finest bodies
of agricultural land I ever saw.
It is almost level, though there
are some slight draws and other
little undulations. But perhaps
not over one-twentieth of it is
wasteland from those sources.
Some parts are a little stony, say
another twentieth. Now we have
nine-tenths left as plow land.
Supposing the section to be 10
by 14 miles, we have about 80,
000 acres of tillable land. Let us
6 appose that a quarter of that is
left out for pasturage anff other
uses, then divide the remainder
for summer fallow every other
y ear, and we have in that one
body of land the possibilities of a
production of 750,000 bushels of
wheat in the near future
This is no idle fancy, it is not
fiction, it is not a statement bas
ed on inflated production or pad
dad acreage; it is a candid and
conservative statement of what
we can expect of the Agency
Plains section alone. But that
is scarcely a fleabite to the great
area in the upper Deschutes
country it is only the gateway
to many sections more vast and
just as good.
But perhaps Mr. Growler will
step up and ask how we know
wheat can be raised, 25 bushels
to the acre, on Agency Plains
flat. We know it simply because
it has been done and will be done
again this year and each year
hereafter until some more profit
able crop is found to take the
place of wheal. By intelligent
farming, making the water of
two years mature one crop, we
believe it is about as fair to ex
pect a crop failure in the best
portion of Iowa as in the upper
Deschutes valley.
Just here I want to mention
two statements I heard made on
the train "going in." One was
from a farmer from Nebraska
who said the winters were so se
vere in upper Crook county that
the wheat was very liable to
freeze out, and that the cattle
losses were excessive from the
cold. Let me answer bim by a
"parable," but a truthful one. In
my trip over the Agency Plains
country, and on another cut to
the southeast of Madras, and
again ;n inspecting a garden
close to town, I found in all three
nstunces many potatoes that had
been in the ground all winter and
they were in perfect condition
unless within less than two inch
es of the surface, the frost hav
ing penetrated not to exceed two
inches during the entire winter.
And just a word about the cli
mate. I believe the climatic
conditions of the entire interior
of the state are greatly misun
derstood . I have been over vast
sections of it, have spent several
weeks in the winter and nearly
all one summer in going through
that great domain, and I would
ask for no better climate, winter
or summer. Addison Bennett
in Oregonian.
Death of Robt O'Donnell.
Robert O'Donnell died very
suddenly at his ranch, near Cole
man, on Sunday last about noon,
tie was a bachelor, about 50 years
of age and well known in Shan
iko'. The deceased was a native
of New York state. A sister,
Mrs. M. P. King, a niece Sadie P.
and nephew, John J.; of Portland,
are the only surviviug relatives.
The body was shipped to Port
land for interment in the .family
lot there. Funeral arrangements
were in charge of Crandal & Bur
get of The Dalles. Shaniko Star.
PRODUCTS OF
GOLDEN WEST SHOWN
Fine Display of Fruits, Grains and Vegetables
Make Great Northern Exhibit Effec
tive Advertisement
The possitiilitii-s of Orcein both an
an atfrimiltural and fruit mate are be
ing iilaynl up utronly by the CmI
Northern Railway at their Kjliibit in
Columbus, Ohio, and the following ex
tract of article taken from the Column".
Journal give noma hlia of the h.-auty
of and intercut created by this Exhibit.
I 7 1
Oreat Northern Agricultural Exhibit at Night, 7 North Mich Street, Columbus, Ohio.
"Go west, young man, and (rrow op
with the country," naiJ Greeley. The aeer
gave good advice, but be atopped there.
'Go weat, yoiine man, woman, bora
and girls, and growlup with the gnat
new west, aaid U vV. Hill: J hen Mr.
Hill, who iaVrethlent of the Great North
ern Kailwar, and son of James J. Hill,
backed up his advice bv making it poa-
aihle for everybody to go weat.
That the people of Columbus and vicin
ity may become better acquainted with
the wonderful western country, a free
exhibition of the erain and fruits of
Montana, Oregon and Wanbington has
been opened at 47 North High atreet by
the Great Northern Railwav.
The exhibition is well worth the visit.
Great ahcavea of golden wheat, oats and
other grains adorn the walls in artitttic
array. Big crystal jars display the
fruits of the far west. Literature de
scriptive of tho wonderful opportunities
awaiting tbe nomeseekcr are distributed.
Oratorical Contest
Tomorrow Night
On Friday evening, April 7, the
annual oratorical contest between
the two literary societies of the
Crook County High School will
take place. These inter-society
contests bavo become an important
feature in the life of the high
school. The meeting this year
bids fair t& surpass any previous
one in point of excellence. ' The
Crook County High orators will
take rank with the best in the
state. It is hoped to turn out a
state winner this year. The one
receiving first honor tomorrow
night will represent the high
school at the Eastern Oregon con
test which takes place at Ontario
Every friend of the school
should lend encouragement to
these laudable contests. They
mean much to the life of the
schools. The following is the pro
gram: Music..- - I.uckey's Orchestra
Male Quartette
Oration, "The Strength of I'urltan-
Ihiu" Adolphus Myers, "O"
Oration, "Culture, a Necessary Qual
ity for Success" Wllda NyeA"
ViK-itl Duet Mesdauies ACuuis and
Rosenberg.
Oration, "Shakespeare's Heroines"
Leola Kstee.v O
Oration, "Ancient vs. Modern Bar
barism".. Roy Ixiwtlier "A"
Vocul Solo Miss Brobst
Oratiou, "Character"
Mamie Bailey. "O"
Oration, "The Conservation of the
Forests" fortune Cottlri, "A"
Trombone Solo Mr. Smith
C. C. H. S. Nightingales
Orchestra
Ketreslimcnts
Decision of J udges
New County Road Completed
-County Commissioner R. II
Bayley was in the city Tuesday
from Nigger Brown canyon, where
he has had a force of men engaged
in the construction of a new county
road from Vanora station on the
Oregon Trunk near the Ed Camp-
tU place, up the conyon to
Agency Flain. The road is now
practically completed and will be
opened to the public shortly. The
work on which Mr. . Bailey has
been engaged extends over about
two miles and the construction on
it has cost close 1 o $3,400. TLe
new route makes an ott'et for the
ranchers living on the north end
of Agency Plains and gives them
a shorter haul for water. Madras
Pioneer. '
and all inquiries made by riatora are
cheerfully anwereil by those in charge.
The (irent Northern Railway ha not
a foot of land to sell," aid I. O. Stout,
who is in charge of the di'nlay. "Preal
di nt Hill wanu I lie men and women of
your city to reulize the great possibilities
of the big, new west."
- f .. ... ' ,
Sir. Stout has many largo photographs
of orchard scenes along the railroad and
in the adjacent territory which tell in
forceful language the story of the fertile
wc-it.'
As a proof that the apple industry is
a great source of revenue in the western
country, the fruit growers have sent gor
geous glowing fruits to the exhibition.
Piles and cnitrs of apples, such as one
seldom Bees, grare the tables and coun
ters at the exhibition.
Vegetables, too, of great size, are dis
played. Beautiful flowers from Oregon, cun
ningly preserved, add to tho beauty of
tho display.
If you have thought of the west as
a possible home, go and see this exposi
tion. If you have not given it a thought,
then go and see the wonderful things
which the trees and vines yield the toil
ers who tiinpt fate and win fortunes in
a virgin country. Journal, Columt-" X
Sheriff Balfour's
Star Boarders
SberiS Balfour has seven prison
era at the county boarding house.
Five commitments were from Bend,
one from Redmond and oft from
Madras.
J. H. Hudson, charged with
grand larceny, was committed from
Madras, March 2.
George F. Zimmerman, charged
with obtaining money under false
pretenses, was committed from
Bend, January 27.
Dan Medish, charged with as
sault with a dangerous weapon.
was committed from Bend, January
26th.
Charles Mathieson was com
mitted from Bend, January 31 on
a charge of assault with a danger
ous weapon.
Adolph Snyder is playing in .
hard luck. He was shot by Au
gust Zuliary the latter part of
January and is being held by the
state as a witness against his as
sailant. Snyder's bonds were
placed at $150 but as he couldn't
furnish the coin nor get bondsmen,
he was committed to jail. His as
sailant, Zuliary, is out on bail.
Joe Stanich, charged with grand
larceny, was committed from Red
mond last November.
F. Foley of Bend, charged with
grand larceny, is the latest arrival.
He was committed March 24.
These cases will come up at the
Mav term of the district court.
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