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Eugene Or Crook County Journal COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER, $1.50 YEAR PRINEVILLE, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1912. Kntrv1 at (hv pmtnfflr at Pr1n VOL.XVI-NO.43 Prineville and Its Resources Tlw Northwf.it Ttiwiwite Co, of Philadelphia, who own largo rent -fstutu Intercut here, have is sued an attractive booklet on Prine vllle and iu advantage. There are half-tone pic turns of the Crook Coun ty High School, the homes of M. K. I'.rink, Jew Yancey and T. M. Bald win, the Hotel Prineville and the First Nulional Hank. This is what it has to say of I'rincvillu and Its re sources : Eighteen miles east of the De schutes and Oreiron Trunk rail roads and lying in the rich Crooked Klver Valley, surrounded by one hundred thousand acres of Ochoeo n'k and Crooked river land, is the town of Prineville, the county seal of Crook county, Oregon, and the largest of all towns east of the Cas" cades mountains, ' For years Prinevlllo has been tho base of supplies for an enormous area of fertile country. It is nU a new town save in the sense that all Central Oregon towns are new since the arrival of the IVschutes Valley ruilroads. Crook county, of which Prineville, as we have nald, is the county seat, contains 8,000 square miles is about as large as the state of Mamachu aetts, Only recently this enormous tract of land received its true valu ation as an agricultural country. and even now it has by no means reach ed its full productive capacity. A generation ago it was a stock coun try pure and simple ft still con tains 150,000 head of sheep, which produces yearly 1,500.000 pounds of wool and 75,000 head of mutton but today wheat, alfalfa and a wide range of crops are to be seen grow ing In the rich "volcanic ash" soil. Alfalfa Is the most profitable hay crop and is grown universally with irrigation sometimes profitably on lry land. Two or three crops are produced annually a total yield of four to seven tons an acre. Prices are from $10 to $:m a ton ; in l'JOU the latter figure was obtained for the bulk of the crop. If the crop is pastured to hogs, even greater re turns are obtainable. Wheat yields vary from twenty to forty buwbels per acre practically twice as much per aero as Ohio and New York, and other grain crops are equally as large. Add to the sheep-herding industry 35,000 cat tle, 12,000 horses and 2,000 swine the latter is rapidly increasing in numbers and some idea may be had of the agricultural wealth of the country surrounding Prineville. Cut this by no means sums up the resources of the territory tributary to Prineville. East of the town lies an enormous belt of yellow pine timber. Crook county as a whole Contains over eleven billion feet of timber mostly pine 75,000 car loads, or in other words, a quantity sufficient to, run for fifty years saw mills cutting 150,000 feet daily. ' So much for the resources sur rounding Prineville. The town had in 1900 a population of 656 persons. The census of 1910 credited it with 1,042 inhabitants but today it is con siderably larger. It was settled in 1 807 and incorporated in 18S0. From the first it was almost an eastern city in its conservation and careful avoidance of the "boom" spirit. Solid growth has been the result ; "mushroom" growth is conspicuous by its absence; buildings are sub stantial and handsome ; business is sound financially Many of the prominent business men of Portland were former Prineville merchants. Prineville court house, which cost $100,000, is built entirely of black basalt, quarried within two miles of the court house site. The stone is fine-grained and hard even more -I i I I 1. Jt.i' p. L, NeWS Snapshot floods ' " cocded IT L 7 i I i f lI In Week inspector Hayes or th ew Yjrli llo Tore leclareJ that Commissioner Waldo was reponlble for the "wide vpeo" coo- dltlona. William M Wood of Itoaton, bead of tlx woolen truet wa arrested, charged with conspiracy in connection with tba distribution of dynumlle In Lawrence during lb. strike. The Maine election waj bld. Oorernor Flalsted was the Democratic candidate, and the Repub licans and ProBreaalvea unlteo In suport of WJIlam T. Ualiiea. Harold U.' Hilton. tUe British golf crack, was defeated the first round of the amateur cbamploushlp match at Chicago. desirable than granite and as It is present in quantity sufiicient to build a city as large as New York. There is a bright future before the building stone induatry. Other pub lic building are equally as handsome, far surpassing those of many much larger cities. Prineville' growth, like that of most Central Oregon towns, up to the present time haa been greatly retarded by the lack of railroad transportation. This however has now been overcome. Prineville is only eighteen miles from the De schutes and Oregon Trunk railroads, and it is certain that a spur from j these railroads will .be built into J Prineville. The comina; of the rail roads win bring about a rapid rise in real estate values produce an enormous increase in population. Regarded from the standpoint of the man who wanU a home or a business location, Prineville offers many exceptional advantages. So- I cially the town is one of the best in Oregon. There are four prosper- ous churches Presbyterian, Meth jodist. Baptist and Christian. The public schools furnish all tho advan ( tages of the best city schools and j the curriculum of the Crook Coun- ty High school Includes such higher j branches as Latin, German and I chemistry. A new school house has j just been completed at a cost of 30,000. Those who wish to locate in a prosperous and progressive community cannot find one more ideal than Prineville. Every necessity, of modern, lift and almost all luxuries are to be found in tho up-to-date Prineville stores. Owing to the. wide erea do liendent upon Prineville as a trading point, the stocks of merchandise carried by local merchants are al most as large anil varied as those of the average middle .western wholesale jobber. Prineville busi ness men are hustlers, but not boom ers. The rapid increase in Prine villo's population, even in the face of the hindrance consequent upon the lack of railroad transportation, is, in great measure, due to the ef forts of the Prineville Commeicial Club. The town has complete wa ter and electric light systems, numerous fine stores, flour mills, planing mills, machine shops, and several fine hotels, chief among which is the Hotel Prineville, built of stone at a cost of t30,0d0 and containing every modern luxury. There are two strong banks in Prineville whose combined resources total three-quarters of a million dol lars. An example of the town's conservative spirit is afforded by the fact that these two banks remained open for business every day during the panic of 1908, while other banks were closed under the "holiday proclamation" or transacted busi ness on clearing-house certificates. These are the facts which makes the growth of Prineville in future :J Iff HI mlllloin c dollart. cnmnne throuifhoat Pennsylvnnla, Major Uenernl Barry t uportntendrnt it Went lolnt Ueueni as sure as in the past, and many more times rapid. First Its importance as the county seat of Crook county, which contains enough farming land to make 8,000 one hundred and sixty acre farms, many of them irrigated; timber to last f r over a hundred years, and the almost unlimited power-developing capacity of the Deschutes river. Second The location of Prine ville in almost the exact geograph ical certter of Crook county, sur rounded by miles of rich land, easily irrigable from Ochoco creek and Crooked river. ; Third The already established importance of Prineville as a trading point, and the energy and activity of its citizens. t The coming of tho railroads. Gun Found. Gun found 'sat porinii neitr Piineville. Owner chii have miho by i-hMiuk at Journal ollUe and proving pnH-rtv. 9 12-i'l If II i:ma 1 1 V: , iljM- ) I- o II; Louis W. Hill, chairman of the be carried away bythe most enter board of directors of the Great prising farmer exhibiting 36 best Northern railway, whose advocacy of the local county fair as "one of the greatest agencies for rap id development that a community can use, has signalized his interest in the success of the Second Annual Potato Show, to be held at Red mond October 14 and 15, by offer ing a silver cup as a special prize to 1 Chlo and Wwt (jetllrnl Itlirrv nnw ftimniNiuli th f1.iunm.nf nf fh. m. hv.r. "Pie" at the County Fair We have received a letter from the J. H. Haner Abstract Co. of Prineville, in which they request us to advertise their proposed exhibit at the Crook County Fair, to be held in October. We think the letter it self will best answer their request, to-wit : Prineville. Ore., Sept. 18, 12. Ed. Crook County Journal: . In examining the premium list of Crook County Fair for 1912 we have wade the horrible discovery that ev- rything produced in Crook county has been given a place except "pie." This is awful. Think how the mem bers of the fair board used to take a ' quarter-section of pie of mother's make in their fingers and devour it in the manner, and with the relish lavished upon a watermelon by a j and largest potatoes at the show. Every farmer is urged to bring in his choicest exhibit and compete for this prize. Great honor' and credit is due the farmers who have the en terprise and public spirit necessary to display the fruits of their indus try at fieir county fairj. hi '! ...: '? Virginia. CoIodpI CL P. Townsley sne- Southern colored gentleman. As the time rolled on each of them abandoned the method of eating, and adopted a knife. Still the time rolls along, and again the method is changed the fork takes the place of the knife. Time roils along some more until 1912, slips into affairs, and what has developed? That the fair board has become the ser vant of the modern cooking school. They have wholly forgotten "pie." They have forgotten mother' mix tures for which they used to coon transoms to the pantry. They have forgotten the dreams they used to have after a pie-eating contest dur ing which they thought of being chased by goblins, ghosts and school ma'ams, and climbing to high places only to fall off and never lighting any place. We insist that it is not fair. We therefore are going to take the re sponsibility of correcting this evil by placing a booth in the pavilion at the fair erounds. where wt will exhibit our stock in thide, consist ing of books and records made by us from the public records ; also "pie" for which we will pay 15.00 j for the best, 3.00 for the second our elective branches are not fulI (best, and 1.00 each for the nextla3 was eXpected. It is often a W0, j source of great disappointment to a I Each exhibitor must furnish two j student to find two classes that he p.es irom me same mixture, one of which will be used by the judges to cut up, while the remainder will be sold at auction and the proceeds therefrom will be donated to the library fund of the public school where the exhibitor resides. Kindly give this matter the pub licity through the columns of the Journal that will result in "pie" getting its merited attention. .Yours very sincerely, The J. H. Haner. Abstract Co. P. S. That board of directors will not be barred at the auction sale. Pize Silver Cup at the First National The 0. W. R. & N. Co. have sent' to T. M. Baldwin of the First Na tional Bank, the handsome silver cup that the company is offering for the best two-year-old steer or over at the Central Oregon Fair, held in Prineville October 1649. The cup and pedestal stands over 15 inches in height. The cup itself is 103-4 inches and is mounted on an ebony base 4i inches. It is suitably in scribed and will make a prize worthy of the company and the cause for which it is given. Seed Wheat for Sale Clean Scotch Fife Seed Wheat for sale by J. L. Windooi, Culver, Ore. 9-12 This Beats Paying Rent Will sell my two-room tent houBe and a lot close to school for $:i00. Half cash balance time. Mrs. Livkly. 9-12 2t Pony for Sale Saddle broke, 5 years old, weighs 800 pounds; price sj.ou, witn new oriaie. Inquire at the Journal office. 9-12 High School Has Large Enrollment (BT Tini-l Toe) Crook County High School opened last week with the largest enroll ment in its history. There are but two vacant seats in the assembly room, and several new and some old students are expected in this week. The room will be overfull before the end of the week. We are sorry to lose some of our students that have been with us regulary in years past, but the re moval of families to other parts, or duties at home are mainly responsi ble. We regret very deeply that we must lose any of our old "stand bys." We feel the loss keenly, but assure them that our interest and best wishes go with them to their fields of labor for the coming year. Among those missing from our ranks aside from those who grad uated last spring are : Lawrence and Robert Lister, Ray McCallister, Bersh Livinston, Fred Bamum, Ev elyn Million), William Wilson, Har rold Cook, Susie Cowherd, May Campbell, Millard Elkins, Arthur Michel), Vera Merchant, Guy Pow ell, Eva Bald man, and others who dropped out earlier in the year. The freshmen class is not only the largest class to date but is also a decidedly promising one. They are getting into the work like old veterans, and we predict that the other classes may soon have to look well to their laurels. Our teacher of mathematics and German has arrived and is at work. , She taught in - the high school at Moscow, Idaho, last year. She comes to us very highly rec ommended, and if we may judge from first impressions not over rec ommended. We are extremely for tunate in securing Miss Herman for this year. Our students are very industrious and insist on extra work almost to a man. But this extra work often results in conflicts between classes. 1 of these eonflicts tnl of , js especially interested in reciting at wme hour. To reIiev;! this con. . dition two classes win recit6 ; school ca3 , the morninK. The commercial course is proving especially attractive this year, the enrollment being much larger than was anticipated. The work at the opening of the year has been seriously handicapped by the delay in the shipment of books. They will doubtless be on hand in a few days. Lamonta Items. H. H. Clow, our handy man, was visiting his parents near Lamonta Sunday. The threshers have been very busy j lately. The extreme heavy crops have kept the ranches hustling to tajie care of the grain. It is whispered "Dan Cupid" has been putting in good time, and the wedding bells will soon ring. Fine Farm for Sale. Three hundred and twenty acres riv er bottom land, located ou Crooked riv er, ten miles west of Prineville and tea miles from Redmond ; 100 acres in al falla; l;ia acres in wheat the wheat is not threshed yet and from 200 to 300 tons of hay and all the machinery ; two gasoline engines; one automobile; one hay press; two wagons; hay buck; hay scales ; one 2000-gallon water tank, and pipe to every corral ; two large barns on place; good house and other outbuild ings; alfalfa meal grinder ; one-half in terest in hay cuttur ; I own the ditch for irrigating it the land is all under irrigation; two centrifugal pumps on on the place; cement cellar and good tank house; one power wood saw, and other things too numerous to mention. This property is worth 135,000, but $27, 000 will get the place if sold in thirty davs. T. F. McAllister, Prineville.Or, 9-19