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About Crook County journal. (Prineville, Or.) 189?-1921 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1911)
CUT THIS OUT This Is to Certify, That you are entitled under the Carey Act to 160 acre of land in the famous Powell Butte country absolutely free; that you are further entitled to have ' first choice of 6000 acres just thrown open to entry by the Central Oregon Irrigation Company; that if you present this certificate at once to the undersigned, you will not be required to become a hardy pioneer and live away from civilization, schools and churches and 50 or 100 miles from railroad but you will be allowed to select your land only 6 or 7 miles from Prineville in a well settled country and only 10 or 12 miles from railroads ACTUALLY BUILDING; that you will not have to depend on rainfall to insure a crop but you will have a perpetual water-right which will cost you only $40 per irri gable acre; that you will be allowed to pay one-fourth of this down and the balance in 5 equal annual payments; that you will be given three years in which to establish residence and make the necessary improvements; that you will not be re quired to live on the land five years but only 30 days if your improvements are sufficiently good; and furthermore that you will not be required to pay any location fee. Acknowledged by the knowing public on this 2nd day of March, 1911, or any other day to be the best proposition for homeseeker in Crook County, Oregon. A. R. Bowman. Selling Agent. Prineville, Oregon It Is Worth Money to You TILLMAN RENTER'S FARM LITTLE Continued from first page. crosses the Hill road. But the Harriman bridge is about 250 feet above the other road. Here the roads again diverge, the Hill road going to the southwest and the Harriman road nearly south. They again come together at Culver Junction, about nine miles south of Madras. In going up the Hill road one is struck with the permanency of the railroad work done and being done. For instance, the entire right-of-way is being fen ced, the job to be entirely com pleted within two weeks clear to Bend. As mentioned before, some 60 odd miles are stone ballasted, and this work is going steadly and rapidly forward. The station and section building are handsome and commodious, all painted a dull yellow, trimmed with black, and one may imag ine how beautiful they look when compared with the old, dirty, mineral brown usually used on such structures. But the railroads could do nothing for the interior of Ore gon unless there was something to make them profitable, and to that they must be, after all but subsidiary to the resources of the country. It is true that the interior thus far has had no op portunity to show its merits save in the way of livestock. Nothiug raised there could bear the old transportation charges, save wool and hides. , The cattle, sheep and horses could be driven out, but the agricultural prod ucts had to be limited to the im ' mediate home demand. To get a full understanding of the situation I went out to the "experimental farm" of Tillman Reuter, seven or eight miles southeast of Madras. Mr. Reu ter's exhibits at the various "congresses" and dry farming displays have attracted great attention, and have been greatly exploited by the railway adver tisers and the newspapers of Oregon. An "experimental farm!" Now, that is a high-sounding name, isn't it? And what would you expect to find at such a place? When I remember the various places I have visited bearing that name I marveled at Reuter's place. I expected to find all the painted sticks, the uniform and wel!-laid-out rows of this and that and the other plants and hills and trees and grasses, but here I found far up among the junipers a little moun tain farm, with only 05 acres of cleared land that is the place that has given to the world the wonderful demonstrations of the Deschutes Valley. Tillman Reuter was born about 45 years ago on the Rhine, in Germany; came, to Evansville, Ind.; came thence to Tygh Valley in Wasco county; from there to the Madras country, in 1604 The good land is all taken!" That was the plaint seven years ago that is the cry now; always will be. But Tillman Reuter, an humble carpenter, poor, with no experience only a remem brance of his youth on the Rhine did not whine and com plain. He took the best land he could find vacant, and home steaded it. It is far up a juniper canyon, perhaps 500 feet above Madras. To many it seemed worthless. It surely was not the best in that country, but rather the poorest. But it was the best Tillman Reuter could do seven years ago, for he was poor had nothing but a good constitution, an ability to labor at his trade that of carpenter and a will to succeed. Many times and often people ask me for advice about going to Central Oregon. They want to know of good locations, of good openings, of favorable localities, of some hitherto hidden oppor tunities. There are none. The people of 30, 20, 10 years ago gobbled the best, just as those going there today gobble up the best just as you would take the best you could find. But when I write of Mr. Reuter, who was forced to take a homestead far up at the head of a juniper can yon, on land that was considered worthless then I boR to say to the new arrivuls that there U plenty of land as good as Renter's I but I ask this question: Are you as good u man as Reuter? Can you umlergo tho hardships that he underwent? lie hud an old father and mother, a sister ami a brother, back in Indiana, to look after. He had to go out to work wherever he could find a day's work to be done. In time he accumulated money enough to send for them, and they now have 800 acres of laud in a solid body. Industry, lutregity, frug ality and more industry! Have you those qualities? If you have you can go over there and get a homestead the best now left, perhaps as good or better than j Reuter's, and you will succeed. A little juniper farm, far up in the valley, 500 feet above Madras, 2700 feet above tho sea level! There I found Reuter's "experimental farm," thero I found Reuter! With 83 acres of cleared land! Take the one item of corn who would for a momeut thiuk that he could raiso 35 bushels of good, hard corn at an altitude of 2700 feet? But he did it. And the vegetables he raised, parti cularly the potatoes were better than anything he had to compete with. The day I was there be was 'planting his Early Rose and Early Ohio potatoes. And you : ought to have seen the land ! prepared for the crop! Like au ash heap! 'Cultivated and culti vated almost beyond belief. And this cultivation goes on and on until the vines get beyond control. He will this year have in more than 35 varieties of fruits, vegetables, and cereals, running all the way from wheat to lettuce. And everything be has tried has done well, but he considers his greatest achieve ment in the production of corn and potatoes. He thinks he has grown as good potatoes as were ever produced, and surely it. is something to brag about to make j the showing he has with corn. It looks qjsjs like a section of Iowa, Kansas or Nebraska to see the cornstalks thrown out of his stables and feed yards. One does not like to say any thing to belittle a country. But the truth ought not hurt any section. It is better to tell the truth to strangers before they come than to let them learo it too lute. So let me say that before a man locates in the in terior, no matter in what section he should study the water prob lem water for domestic pur. poses . Take this same Agency Plains section. Many of the land owners are hauling water for over a dozen miles have been doing so for many years. I must confess that it is not vitally necessary. No doubt wells could be drilled for what it cost them annually for their water. But up to a recent date there has been but cne well drilling outfit in that section. Now there are four, and all busy. There will be a wonderful change iu respect to tho water supply iu tho near future. Ouo other fuel to show tho progress tho country ia making since tho advent of tho railway; Up to 190.1 thero were only three combined harvesters iu that wholo section. Last year threo more were shipped in, ami ul raady orders have been placed for seven for . delivery this Summer. Oregonian. ANNUAL MEETING COMMERCIAL CLUB Continued from pane one. support the roof.' Mechanics have informed me that this cun lie done quite as cheaply h any other method ot ceiling nd at the same time making the buil-Jitig much more stable than now. lit my judgment the south wall ot the hall should be made into a tire es cape (or at least half of its entire length, itatnethinK in to he said at this meeting on the question of athletic or playgrounds connected with the club. Tho object is a worthy one and should have attention. No difference could arrive upou that feature ol the quetitiun. There might be, however, some difference as to which outlay should take precedence. For my part, I have decided opinions its to preference between completion of our hall or completion of the playgrounds in favor of the former. I think the hall should be completed at the earliest possible Jute. I think the necessity is imminent. Somehow or other, there is something about holding down a chair tor three or or four hours among the wintry blasts and draughts which per meate our hall over head that falls far short of real com tort. There is a certain lack ot dignity con nected with sitting through a play, every act of which is punctuated by the reverbration of the chatter ing teeth of his own wife and daughters, that dot not a peal to tho average man. Sime men are so sensitive in such matters that they will not deliberately lead their families into such a trap any oftener than urgent necessity re quires. Out of deference to such people and in order to lend added dignity to our gathering, to say nothing about the comfort and loss of life involved, the hall thou Id be completed at once. Anyone who has listened attentively to the secretary's report will note that our resources are ample to justify that the work should be done with in the next sixty or ninety days. It is with a feeling of keen humili ation on the part of the outgoing directorate, that thuy have not been sufficiently diligont in the discharge of their plain duty to have completed this much-needed improvement during the past year. I shall not presume, however, to map out the work of the incoming directorate. They will find work in plenty and they will find a generous publio with whom to deal. Not once has the outgoing directorate been denied a inost generous financial suppoit, with just enough friendly suggestion to lend spice to the work with not a word of cold, cruel criticism. We have been upheld with an open handed generosity seldom equaled, never excelled in any community, which proves conclusively that Prineville is the right kind of a place in which to settle down and live. For go where you may, you can't beat it. 1 m Choice Beef, Veal O. K. MARKET Stroud & Stroud, Proprietor! Mutton and Pork Butter and Eggs Country Produce A Fine Line of Sausage Telephone orders receive prompt attention Shingles, Moulding, Windows, Doors, Glance, Ktc. Kto., Kto. SHIPP& PERRY rRINKVJLLK, OKEtiON 8 8 THE HAMILTON STABLES J. H. WIGLE, Proprietor rRiNKViLi.E, orison Stock boarded by the day, wouk or month at Reasonable rates. Remember us when in Prineville, Ratm Rkasonabuc. We have Fine Livery Rigs For Rent 24 mm Hi NOT MERELY LOCAL Hut national, even Internstioiisl is the wmxlerlul fntna ml Hiulority of the "I. W. HARPER" WHISKEY Wherever yon go yon will and "Your t'oole Kuller" II Altl'KIt is there Ixtlnre you. In Panama awl the Philippines it is the letiler. Any why? 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