Journal
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1911.
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VOL. XV NO. 18
Crook County
PRINEYILLE'S
POPULATION
Not as Large at Ex
pected. 1910 CENSUS SAYS ITS 1042
But lU a Hummer for to Sii
Big Volume of Business
Don Her.
The 1910 census report (Wei
Prineville population of 1042
against 650 io 1W0. At least 200
Nople have been added to our
population linoe the lut oenaui iu
taken. While title increase during
the pant Urn yean li not at great
a tome expected, we venture the
annertioo that there U not another
town In the itate of equal iIm that
hai made aa many remanent im
provement! within thi pait ten
yeara a hu prinevllle. Tbii town
hai enjoyed a iteady growth from
every point of view, aa shown by
our big brick and atone atructuree;
our churchei, our achoola and
bandsonu homes. Tbla iteady
and permanent expansion U still
going on. There ii not a vaoant
house In the city and the demand
cannot be supplied. In lome In
stances three famillM ere oocu
pylng one home. Many building
1 Same bottom can be
had in walking plows.
projects are In course of con
struction or In contemplation for
the oomlng summer. Bids are be
ing asked for in this issue for the
construction of a new $20,000 pub
lie school building. The Crook
County Hank li only waiting for
the removal of Belknap Hall be
fore it begins the construction of a
handsomi new building. May 29
we vots on the erection of a new
olty ball that will be an ornament
to the town. The Itsptist people
will finish their new stone bouse
of worship this summer. A sewer
age lystem for the town Is receiv
ing thoughtful consideration,
while the grading of streets has
already been taken op by the city
oounell.
What does all this mean? It
means that Prinevllle is a sub
stantial, growing town that is here
to stay. It means that it i the
supply center for a large territory
that come here to trade. It means
that we have the best schools in
this section of the state. It means
that the present year will bring to
Prinevllle one of the greater
periods of growth that it hai ever
enjoyed.
A Good Buy.
House and six lots for sale. Denir
al'la property. A bargain. Inquire at
this olUce. 4-U lm
Horses for Sale.
Two t-vesr-olil filllw, big ones ; aim f-
year-oM mare, 14(10 Hit., broke gentle.
Inquire o(Kd. Hmlth. 4-13
House end Lot for Sale.
Io flltli addition to Prinevllle; well
rinUhed and wall furnished. Inquire ol
Mrs. Maude Ixng, Urluly, (Jr. 4-13 lm
Get information and prices on the New Kentucky Drill. We
guarantee it as good as any Drill made. We sell it at less profit
than other drills are sold.
Collies Wo Elkins
Prineville, Oregon.
MONEY FOR THE
DISTRICTS IN
Table Showing Assessable Values, Road Tax
and Amount Available to Each this Year
The following table shows the total
district, the amount of road tax and the
lr cent) for uaa by the road supervisor of each district. Kach road district is
allowed 3 ltt-'JO mills on the aseeMable prorty of the district for road purposes.
These figures were taken from tbe 11110
Itoad
District
No. J Ireland,
Total Uxable
proerty.
$ 4ill.lM.00
240,479.00
J-IIend
4 Montgomery
6-Black Uutte
6 IIaystack....
7 McKay
8 Hay Creek.
-Willow Creek
10 Trots Keys
11 -Ashwoud
IS-ItowiintM
13 Johnson Creek
14 Mill Creek .
15 -llowsrd
10 Summit
K(. 873.00
U52.282.00.
310.4ltt.00
809,(185.00
152,8.12.00
158,175.00
78,745.00
418,199.00
975.116.00
130.021.00
233,537.00
185,330.00
200,430.00
293,050.00
287.550.00
142,425.00
813,34300.,
143,203.00
210,335.00
40(1,511.00
17-llear Creek
18 Camp Creek..
10-llardin
20 Heaver.
21 Maury
22 Newsora
23 Kuklier
24 Broeite
25 Powell Butte ...
27 ltedinond
2-Uidlaw
29 Ijimonta
30 I.yle Gap
32 I-avs
90,229.00...
84,959.00...
S33,7:.00..
433,780.00....
219,379.00...
91,392.00...
225,8H4.00..
Will Plow in Any
Ground
I The New Oliver
Gang, in either 12 or
14 in. bottoms. "DoiV
bie" clay, loam, gravel
or sod slips off the No.
222 moulboard and
- leaves it bright as a
mirror.
29 ROAD
CROOK COUNTY
amonnt of taxable property to each road
amount available under the statute (50
tax mils:
Koad
Tax
..11,940.00 :
. 950.00
. 332.00
4,550.00
. 1,220.00
1,224.00
. 604.00
. 024.00
. 304.00
. 1(152.00
Amount
Available
. 970.00
475.00
1.00
. 2,275.00
013.00
812.00
802.00
812.00
152.00
82000
1928.00
. 257.00
. 4(11.00
3(16.00
396.00
fWO.OO
5(i8.00
281.00
019.00
283.00
415.00
921.00
, 178.00
168.00
059.00
857.00
433.00
180.00
446.00
3852.00
614.00
922.00
732.00
792.00
110.00
1130.00
602.00
1238.00
500.00
8.10.00
1842.00...
356.00
336.00
1318.00
1714.00
8(10.00
3(10.00
892.00
ANNUAL MEETING
COMMERCIAL CLUB
Retiring Officers Make
Good Report
MEMBERSHIP NEARLY DOUBLED
The Club is Out of
Debt and
in the
Hae Over $400
Treasury.
There was a large attendance
at the annual meeting of tbe
Prineville Commercial Club Tues
day evening. Tbe retiring officers
made a splendid showing of work
accomplished and received the
unanimous voteol approval of tbe
club membership.
Tbe secretary's report showed
tbe total receipts to be 14836.61.
Disbursements, 14400:76. Cash on
hand, 1435.85.
Seventy-seven new members
were added during tbe year; 19
were dropped, making tbe present
membership in good standing, 154.
Tbe following directors were
chosen to conduct the affairs of the
club: J. B. Shipp, D. P. Adamson,
Dr. Rosenberg, J. H. Quinn, J. 11.
Haner.
President Williamson, in his ad
dress, told of the things done and
left undone by his co-laborers. His
remarks were replete with wit and
humor and lots of good hard com
mon sense. In part hs said:
"It hae been thooght proper by
the outgoing directorate that I
should briefly summarize our sue
ceeses and our failures during tbe
past year for your edification.
More especially was this thought
appropriate from the fact that the
present membership of this body is
composed of near one-halt new
members the membership having
nearly doubled during the past
year.
At the beginning of the year a
more or less vague idea existed in
the minds of this community that
the time had coma when our here
tofore isolated community should,
in some manner, receive its ehare
of publio notice that something
should be done in the line of what
is popularly termed publicity.
The then outgoing directorate had
begun the work by assembling
what is known as the "Heart of
Oregon" folder, some samples of
which had then arrived. At the
annual meeting one year ago, we
were all of one mind touching the
necessity of action in the matter
of publicity work. We were all
Hgreed that something should be
done, but when it came to a defi
nite line of action we were all
about in the same boat While
we were convinced that something
should be done, we were all more
or less hazy as to what that some
thing consisted in.
Those who have gone before
have found, and those who will
follow after will find, that the pub
licity feature of this organization
is both costly and laborious. It
costs both money and diligent ef
fort to attend to publicity work.
During the past year fully one
half of the fund raised for this pur
pose has been expended in estab
lishing mail routes and building
roads leading into and out of
Prineville.
Our chief effort in the line of ad
vcrtising the agricultural and
other resources of Crook county
has consisted in assembling and
forwarding to the Great Northern
Agency at Portland about a ton of
samples of cereals and grasses of
all kinds in the sheaf. These
samples were subdivided at the
Portland office and an exhibit
made at St. Paul, Chicago and
Omaha and the balance placed in
the Great Northern exhibit car
which has shown all through the
East during tbe fall and winter
More than half of our letters of in
quiry from the East during the
past three months have referred to
the Crook County Exhibit in this
car, thus clearly proving the value
of this method of advertising.
Having used op what is known
as the "Heart of Oregon" circular
some time ago, we have prepared
and had published ten thousand
copies of another booklet entitled
"Central Oregon" at a total ex
pense of $100, which we are now
using for answering many letters
of inquiry. Tbe Great Northern
Railway baa requested thirty
thousand copies of this booklet for
their own use and it might be
well enough to consider the propo
sition.
It appearing that we could buy
insurance by the wholesale cheap
er than in small quantities we
bought and paid for three years'!
insurance on the club property,
which pays for the past, the pres
ent, and the coming year and will
not expire until 1913.
We contributed $50 toward de
fraying the expense of Mr. Till
man Reuter's display at the
World's Dry Farming Congress at
Billings, Montana, last fall, which
display, as you know, received the
highest award. We have also be
gun tbe work of assisting Mr.
Reuter in preparing bis exhibit at
Omaha during the coming October
and have set aride a fund of $150
for tbe purpose of completing and
assembling the exhibit. It is fair
to state, that we have requested,
and Mr. Reuter has agreed, tbat
such exhibit shall be known as the
Crook County exhibit instead of
the Madras exhibit.
After one prolonged effort ex
tending throughout the year, we
have finally succeeded in getting a
brass band started on a permanent
footing, and if I am within the
proprieties, want to suggest to the
incoming directorate, in Heaven's
name keep it goings for, of all the
experiences connected with our
past year's work, we have suffered
more vexatious disappointments
on this score than on any other.
Whether or not ' the Annex
should be the prefix to the Prine
ville Commercial Club was a ques
tion that came op for discussion
and was decided in the negative
early in tbe year. After due con'
sideration it was determined, that
as long as we had our sign out and
were pretending to carry on a Com
mercial Club, we would either
carry on a club or take down the
sign and close the doors. Thus
we have proceeded during the year.
Not a dollar have we allowed con
tributed either by the Ladies' An
nex or by any of our schools or
volunteer fire companies toward
the maintenance ol this organiza
tion during the past year. -In'
stead, we have tendered through
out the year, entirely free of
charge, tbe use of the hall above
both to the schools and the fire
companies, and have just com
pleted and paid for, a comforfable
home for the Ladies' Annex at I
cost of, approximately, with ad
ditions to the library, Borne $400.
Through the officers of the Annex,
we have been notified that the
ladies desire to arrange, and fur
nish their own rooms, which privi
lege was granted them. It is no
more than proper to note in this
connection, that ' notwithstanding
these concessions, the proceeds
from hall rentals during the past
year have been more than double
that of any year in the history of
this club.
I hope no one will consider that
I am speaking in a commendatory
vein of the accomplishments of the
outgoing directorate. lrue, we
have done some things and leave
not a aeot or obligation ol any
kind, save the bonded indebted
ness, behind us to our knowledge.
xet no one Knows better than we
that what we have done is a tale
soon told, and what we have left
undone would fill a good Bized
volume. .
I only want to refer to our fail
ure to complete the building dur
ing the year by painting it and
finishing the upper story. So
many plans have been suggested
for ceiling the hall above that
want to say just a word on that
subject. That large roof should
never have any more weight
swung to it. instead, a lumber
oeihng should be put in so as to
Continued on page two.
TILLMAN REUTER'S
LITTLE FARM
Surprises Even the Old-
Timer.
CULTIVATION THE SECRET
Addison Bennett Write to the
Oregonian of the Thing
He Sew.
The Oregon Trunk, or Hill line.
s really a branch of the North
Bank road; and when the new
bridge is in operation across the
Columbia at Fallbridge and the
new Crooked River bridge is
completed, tbe run will be con-
inuous from Portland to Bend,
and the time around seven hours.
Special equipment will be pro
vided, such as dining and observ
ation cars and no stops will be
for meals. At present meals are '
taken at Nathan, about 36 miles
North of Madras. Like other
Hill road in Oregon,, the Des
chutes road's equipment will
then bear the lettering or name
of the Spokane, Portland h Se
attle Railroad.
The new Columbia River
bridge is in one respect the most
pecular structure of the kind in
the country. It is about 4000
feet long and will be constructed
on cement piers, yet not one of
them has a footing in water
each end being on solid rock.
There is no other place on the
river where a bridge could be
erected so firmly and so econom-
cally. The piers are all now
done, much of the steel for the
superstructure is on the ground
and more is arriving every day.
So the ferry will be abandoned
in the very near future, perhaps
before June 1.
The trains from the soutbr
bank run a temporary track for
few miles, to a point near
Moody, where it joins the track.
which runs down to the new
bridge. Then for a long distance
tho Hill road winds along the
west bank of the Deschutes and
the Harriman along the east bank.
Seventy-five miles up the river '
from Fallbridge, at North Junc
tion, the two roads come togather
and run over a joint track to
South Junction, a distance of
10.4 miles. Here the Harriman
road swings off to the east, and
the Hill road follows up the
Deschutes a short distence and
then goes up the Willow, Creek
canyon to Madras.
The Harriman road crosses the
Agency Plains country . and
swings to the west above Madras,
the station for that place being
a couple of hundred feet above
the town, and then it crosses
Willow Creek just at the mouth
of the canyon, and, of course
(Continued on page two.)
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