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Crook Couety Jouraail
Or
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER FOR CROOK COUNTY
VOL. XIX $1.50 YEAR
PRINEVILLE. CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DEC 31, 1914.
Entered at the poetofflne at Prlnerllla
Oregon, ai eoonaVeiaae matter
NO. 6
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Crook County Must
Be Well Represented
Crook and Malheur counties will
end big dolegatlonslto the Irriga
tion Congress In Portland next
week for the express purpoM of
urging the passage of resolutions
recommending Hpcclal appropria
tions from the legislature, says the
Oregonlan.
Crook county want enough
money to complete the Central Ore
Ron irrigation project neur Bond
and Malheur county wants enough
to finish the Owyhee project near
Onturlo.
KfTorU will ho made to secure
Indorsements for both projects
from the congress, but In view of
the 'stand already taken by mem-
Iters of the legislature it in con
sidered poaaible that one or the
other will fail.
If the usual political maneuver
In is resorted to, It Is probable
that'the Malheur delegates and the
Crook delegates will trado votes
and combine their forces in the
interests of both appropriations.
Many members of the legislature
also are members of the irrigation
congress and It is anticipated that
the action of the congress will have
a powerful Influence on the legisla
ture. Now that Secretory Lane, of the
Federal Interior Department, has
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consented to recommend an ap
propriation of 1450,000 to match a
similar amount already expended
by the state on the Tumalo project
In Crook county, the Crook county
delegates want the Irrigation
Congress to recommend to the
Federal authorities where that ex
penditure is to be made. They
have several worthy enterprises
within their own borders that they
will present for recognition.
Among them is the Agency
1'luins project, which provides for
the reclamation of more than
25,000 acres of semi-arid land north
of the Crooked river. A big dele
gation is coming to press the
merits of that particular section.
Another section that wants
recognition is Lower Bridge. This
also is in ('rook county and em
braces approximately 20,000 acres.
Its representatives will tell the
Irrigation Congress why this par
ticular project should be held up to
the Federal authorities as the most
deserving of 1450,000 that Secre
tary Lane wants to spend.
Hut the greatest effort on behalf
of Crook county will be put for
ward by the delegation in the Red
mond and Bend districts, who want
relief for the settlers on the Cen
Stylish
We have just received to-day a large shipment of shoes for
men, women and children. If you want good values in shoes
come here. In this lot are more than 500 pairs for men.
We have the Atlantic for dress, and for heavy wear our
"Honesty" shoe can not be beaten. The 'Pacific" shoe for
women are beauties. Try our "Red Goose" shoe for children.
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COME AND SEE! WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY!
E. STEWART
tral Oregon Irrigation Company's
land.
It appears that the company has
not been able to complete the third
unit of its enterprise, which was
inaugurated under provisions of the
Carey Act. About 400 miles of
main canals and laterals already
have been completed, but some of
them need enlargement and im
provement. It is reported that if
all the land under these ditches
were to be developed, the canals
would not be large enough to carry
ail the water required.
The company has completed two
umU one, the Central Oregon
canal, extending from Bend to Red
mond, and the other, the Pilot
Butte canal, which circles around
the mountain of similar name.
About 40.000 acres of land have
been reclaimed. Approximately 400
farms have taken up land in these
two tracts
The original plan of the company
provided for a third unit, to be
known as the North canal. The
dam for this canal has been built
near Bend at a cost of 1125,000.
About 34,000 acres would be re
deemed. Now the company is un
able to go ahead.
Moreover, the state engineer has
refused to certify to the improve
ments already made by various
farmers under the Pilot Butte
canal and the Central Oregon canal,
and they are unable to get patents
for their land.
All these parti :ulars will be laid
before the irrigation congress with
the idea of carrying them on up to
the legislature. It is probable that
and. Serviceable Shoes
the congress will be asked to urge
the legislature to make a direct
appropriation for the relief of the
settlers under the completed ditches
and for the completion of the third
unit of the project.
It is estimated that it will require
about $750,000 to do all this work.
The Crook county folks plainly ad
mit that they want to ask the
legislature for the money or for
some of it, anyway.
"It's going to be a hard blow for
me, signed old uncle t,ke
O'Nomical when he heard of these
Crook county ambitions yesterday.
And right when all these boys who
are going up to the legislature had
arranged to save so much money."
But that is not all. The Malheur
county people want some financial
assistance for the Owyhee canal that
was started a few years ago and
only partially completed. This
contemplates the reclamation of
more than 10,000 acres of arid land
in the vicinity of Ontario.
Crook county will have a delega
tion of at least 125 irrigationists
and Malheur county may have half
that many.
Inasmuch as the legislature con
venes at Salem on the Monday fol
lowing the adjournment of the ir
rigation meeting, there is much
political significance in the plans of
the irrigationists. It is certain that
many of the irrigation delegates
will go right up to Salem and lobby
in the interest of their respective
districts before the legislature.
Prineville Delegation.
The following delegates will
attend the irrigation congress in
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A Mighty Good Santa
Claus for Crook County
Thomas W. Lawson, who is now
at the McCali ranch, has given hig
children a Christmas present that is
in reality a present to Oregon and
the entire northwest, says the Port
land Journal.
After traveling all over the
world many times, he picked out
Central Oregon as the ideal location
for a home. He has given his
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. McCall, as a Christmas pres
ent this year a foundation herd of
100 of the choicest white faced two
year old Hereford heifers to calve
in the spring. They have been
bred tj the best bulls. He also
gave them two choice bulls to head
the herd. .
To his youngest daughter, Miss
Bunny Lawson, he is giving a Crook
county ranch, for which he has just
paid 130.000.
To his youngest son, Douglas,
for whom he recently purchased a
ranch in Crook county, he is giving
20 of the finest young Percheron
brood mares bred to noted stallions.
The mares cost from 1750 to $1000
each. He is also giving his son,
Douglas, 20 registered jennets, for
which he paid (250 each, and a
champion jack, "King Boy," for
which he paid 1 2000. In addition
to this he is giving Douglas his
CO.
favorite trotting stallion, "Dream
wold Dugald," which was bred by
Mr. Lawson at Dreamwold, Mass.,
and which is a son of his famous
stallion, "Proem," which was also
bred bv Mr. Lawson and which he
sold in Austria for $12,500,
"Proem" is the son of "Prodigal,"
raised by Marcus Daly, and whose
mother, "Emily," was a champion
on the track with a record of 2:11.
"Emily" heads Mr. Lawson's brood
mare band at Dreamwold.
Proem's" dam is the famous
daughter of "King," also at Dream
wold, and whose sire, "Mambrino
King," was said to be the best
trotting stallion in the world in his
prime. "Proem," who is only five
years old, is expected by those in
the know of the racing world to get
close to the world's record. Ed
Geers, the well known developer of
famous race horses, drove him as a
3 year old in 2:14, the last half in
1:04 and the last quarter in 31
seconds. ' Those who have seen
"Proem" consider him one of the
most beautiful stallions on the
track today. The animals, upon
arrival in Redmond, created a sen
sation, as they are the finest indi
vidual specimens that have ever
come into Central Oregon.
At Mr. Lawson's Dreamwold
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