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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
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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
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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.
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