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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1905)
V. ' CROOK COUNTY. QREGON. THURSDAYAUGUST 31, 1905. NO. 2 i Madras 9 4 DAS 01 JPESSIONAL CARPS.; , - -J-lCC I, rwk nmiift 0,,.,.. . t In 1 P OHEflON a " DENTISTS , r I onwios DEMTI8T . -....I w,.rk ill rennoiialilo rlrw. t . oIlL'nnV mmmm Townllc IlulMlim OREGON (00K SiGIA SfCIAH AND SUR0EON 0re In Tns Hlori' t 1 cum: UAiniiy 17 L'liui'bii (lire aour Ai . i" 'r. , Oregon n ii uiiKi 11: M 1 1 bj I fill I I uumw aiiiv , S, COMMISSIONER OltKGON' T. M. IUMiVIK, Chlcr. ntttVuiw Vlrc I'm. ll, tUUiwi, A .nt. C'Blilcr. NO. 3061. First National Bank PRINEVILLE, OREGON (STABLISHED 1888 8urpJu and I'mtfvMctl $80,000.00 1'roflU lift' M AC pNI WHEAT PAYS Will Yield 15 Bushels Jo the Acr. 5? mm FOR SEMI-ARID LAND Successful Crp Grown by flovern mttt I2xprimtntilt Where But Minimum of Mete ture Falls. f "4 Guy Elliott Mitchell, eecre ttuy of tlie Nationul Irrigation Association, in an article on tlx "Resources of the American Desert," fy$i "A single crop which would i!on fuse the prophecies of the Englishman Malthus, who long ago calculated that in a ineas urable time the human rnc would be obliged to deliberately block lis own increase lest it numbers should surpass th food-producing power of the earth, and later of Sir Williuni Crooks, who foresaw within a few decades all the wheat-producing urea of the world taxed to its utmost with an increasing population crying unavailingly for biend, is the recently intro duced macaroni or durum wheat) which has found for itself in the American Desert an area, vast as the state of Texas, now occupied principally by snge brnsh and cactus." "The macaroni wheat belt," said M. A. Carlton, the macar oni wheat specialist, of theBu reati of riant Indu8try "ex tends on an average the width of ttm United States. The ma caroni wheat country would in clude a very large fraction of a million tqlmre miles. Out peo ple are but beginning to realifco dimly the utterly Vast agricul tural wealth Which lies latent in this enormous area. The Department of Agriculture is pushing this desert reclamation with great Vigor. No year goes by that doc-S not lind some one oi two or three entirely new varieties or species of wonder fill drought resistance. Macar oni wheat will grow with ID inches of raihfnll and yield 15 bushels of wheat tb the acre where ortlihary wheat is an ab solute failure. This is two bushels more than the -average wheat yield for the United States . The writer goes on to say, "Therein', as indicated by the experts of the Agricultural De partment, millions of acres oi extremely fertile land in the Weal, With but sligjit rain fall, which however, througb the selection cf proper crop?, and equally important with proper icultiVatlon, will sustain prosperous farm communities, without irrigatidn. The differ ence betVeti failure and silo ceiswhefe the rainfall is per- Jmp.S' but 1 inches a. year, is. likely to be the drflorenco be tween -plowing the doll, oh the on lialndv three hfolfes deep and giving it ' Vottple of cultiva tions a Yeasoiij and on the other hand, ploHviril it eight lilohes deep wfth six or 'oigttt dultiva fions, this retaining all of the nioi8fttWfo,rtlith"Ho of the crop and rediioiifjt th"e eVapoi'atlon to-a fninlm'Hftj. Vnder Vhat is VnoVh m Hhe 'Campbell' '.oil- culture iVgtWtf!, wliloli has bgeu rtotWlSiy W(ed on ac6'ns,ld-. rkbl rkm 'in South !Pkkota, KansaH alid TOdhtfo Hkiiid astfrh nRPnny NKING CO, BUANIKO, OUKOON i.r t.T, iiutiburl, CiMtiter. JtXCIIAKdK liOUUIIT AKI) fi01;!. IIV it . ..a.. u . - m "i iivnri . ii a. 3.iimvt -i" Mu iifiiiifttAji .... i. Miacn o K eiitrviiidu. vnruiit Ml. Wrikla In .11 !!. I., v.. rft ... MUVCrillllL'lll rk.i .1, -.wiwn.viili ni wmrv uilitiitCHM mvoflallf. tn. i. ,k - DSOM LAMD CO. , Tl! DA1.UJ8. OHEOON. Hote vrfm. All Work iutt. cropped to grain, alfalfa and orchards. Professor Cumnbell liimaelf has demonstrated that by this method 'dry furming' can bo carried to the foot of the Mockies, while the semi-arid farm lands ranging 200 miles to the eastward can be made to produce double their present crops." NORTHWEST HA8 BIG CROP Tt'legrnm. According to the most relia ble estimates now available the total wheat yield of the North- L il. ' ...fit 1 t weta huh year win ne oetween 45,000,000 and 50,000,000 bush els. This is a trifle better than last year's yield, which was re garded as a splendid crop. It is too early yet to make an ac curate estimate of the probable yield, even with the best facili ties for information, but it is thought that when the season is over the actual figures will not vary far from 50,000,000 bushels. The harvest is now well under way in Eastern Oregon, South eastern Washington and West ern Idaho, and the yield is good Cutting is largely completed and the threshing is getting well under way. In some districts the wheat is averaging 30 to 45 bushels to, the acre, though in others 20 is a fair figure. The Pall grain is much better than the Spriofl-sown, however and this niUBt be taken into account in making the final estimates of the yield. All the Pall grain through the entire Northwest is yielding splendidly-. The ear lier spring grain is nil right, too, but the late-sown Spring grain was damaged by Hie re cent hot weather to an "Uncer tain extent. In Umatilla county the yield is good throughout. NeW grain is now being received rapidly at various points, and ship ments are beginning iVom Mis sion, a station east of Pendleton. Conditions in Walla Walla county are oh the Whole satis factory, and when the crops are all hauled in it is thought the tatal yield will show an increase of 10 per cent oVer last year's yield. In the vicinity of Pullman, Wash.; and Moscow. Idaho, Pall grain is running from :i0 to 40 bushels to the acre, and is averaging 5 all throughout that seotiom Within a week or 10 days it can be learned with more cer tainty how much the hot winds damaged the late sown Spring giain and accurate estimates of the probable yield Can be made. Crook 'County -Journah The county "Court at its session last week in passing fuvoVably fipon the petition for the Frank El kins road also crranted that part of the petition which prayed'. for a vtfoatiitg ot the ueninns road fro'ttito point at the begin ning of the Elkins toad to the north end of Fifth street in the town Of Madras. The matter did not appear on reoord in tltfe commissioners docket and in co'hseuetice was not published by the Journal in its summary of the cdhrt -proceedings. r V 'il.loliiun fa 'ir I'm 1 1 flVant'fnr Hi jjuumm -a toorWoh WlonTlfe Inluftiica Society, &m of the oldwit ! strougeat qf tue oid-ffue cdlnptilU. If s&U tfeelre In IT!.' '!.- U...VX l!o Jill ks gliU tv'plttiM 'H for you tto'tlila 66u- i ttAuttiV4itShlv dr Itfkal blanks for tV Bllt'MUltlHlU Mil iirwii". , - i ..... liul I ha ithurt hlullku UUUM SURVEYING M'KAY IRRIGATION PROJECT " L. D. Wiest, of Bend, who fornieily had Charge1 of the en gineering work for the 'Pilot liutte Development 'Company and ivho laid out the townsite of Bend, has been making the preliminary surveys for the Mc Kay irrigation project near Prineville. This project has in view the reclamation of the 40, 000 afcres of arid land lying be tween Prineville and the base of Grizzly Butte, . and all who have passed over the Shaniko Prinevtlle stoge route are famil iar with the beautiful tract of sandy bottom land which it is now proposed to make product ive by bringing water upon it from the McKay and Ochoco The preliminary surveys by Engineer Wiest are about completed, and will soon be for warded to the Eastern capital ists who have interested them selves in the project, with esti mates of the cost of the work. While not as large as some of the other irrigation projects in tills county, the McKay project is looked upon ' as one of the most feasible. The land to bo irrigated lies in a compact body and practically every acre xf the 40,000 acres to be brought under ditch will be cultivated. Supervisor S. C. BartrumJ of the southern division of 'the Cas cade Forest Eeserve, very nar rowly escaped death last week while attempting to ford the North Umpqua River. While on a tour of inspection of the re serve it became necessary for him to cross the North Utnpqua at a point known to be quitu dangerous, or else make a ride of six miles to the nearest ford. As the supervisor was anxious to reach his destination without delay, he attempted to swim his horse across die river. The cur rent of the North Umpqua, which is very swift at that point, swept the horse from un der Mr. Bartrum, who suc ceeded in reaching quieter'watei and swimming to shore while the horse was syept over the falls a short distance below and its life crushed out on the sharp rocks. Sheep shooting has again broken out in Wheeler county, the first offence of that kind this season being committed last week about 12 miles from Mitchell near the Keatou saw mill, when about 200 sheep were killed. The. sheep belonged to Butler Bros., Wheeler county sheepmen. The sheep-shooters, disiuised by means of sacks pulled over their heads-, over powered the herder and then beiran shooting into the band of sheep with Winchesters un til the band was , badly scat tered, 200 head' having been killed outright. Crook County Journal: In the neighborhood of 25sporsons, who will appear before the red eral grand 3ury this week in Portland left on the Btages Friday and Saturday, froba blv the gr&ater number of them will be "Held ovtfr to glVe. testi mony in file land trials which comftidnde on September'5, and will be absent from the city "a. m6nth oV more. fY in Heed df 'tofhtyoM, write a trntil'tirS to the Watts Mftrbfe wort of Vkc-IWs'Wa.ilwy will sw&ycHKi. jSgni'foaMceVcfo Wtolt trip wk'tHU Here t Those Prunes 20lbs, for a $ I ; Better come arid get seme. Bey are. geing'fasf. ...Rice A Special Price... Sugar, per sack, $7.00 14 lbs. sugar, . 1.00 10 cans milk, . 1.00. 60 lbs. Sk.-table salt, 1.00 100 lbs. Slcstock salt, 1 40 2 Cans Tomatoes, Corn, Peas or Beans, .25 A Big Assortment of X GALLON AND DRIED FRUIT LENA M. LA MR Pron. 4 ......Pblmehn Building...... ASSIGNEE'S SALE Thfc entirt fctbek of goods of T. J. MALLOY & GO. is offered by the undersigned at prices far below their worth for Cash. All persons indebted to said firm are requested to make settlment to me. J. M. FOSTER fou the Merchant's Protective Association Just Arrive!,. SHINGLES, LIME & CEMENT BINDING TWINE SHOES SHOES SHOES For good shoes at bedfock prices go to the warehouse of MADRAS MILLING & MERCANTILE GO. Tea WE HAVE A (H)0D SUPPLY OP STOCK M DiffiY SALT ON HAND and WE Mfc. jLfjfcDED WttH TEA,. Atto COFFEE QUALITY - UNSORPASSED MADRAS M.& M. COMPANY Madras, Oregon Special Sale FOR 3IXTY DiSs ONLY IN BOOTS, SHOES, CLOTHING, Of klsdV, ATe also carry a full and complete line of Groceries and nartlwarw- Agents for Mitchell WagonB, Hacks, liugglw, 'ciVte, Plows, llarneee, Drills aud all kluda of farming Implements ana toe). JOHNSON, BOOTH & CO, taain St. PrineviHei Ore; fl ust. I VVV M ot-.j -