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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. DEC. 28, i905.
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Build from California to
Columbia River.
THE GREAT SOUTHERN ROAD
Lino will Probably Run Up Willow
Crook Gorrjo, which la Most
Fonolblo Routo.
.Another party of railroad en
iri noui'H is camped at tlio inoutli
of Willow Crook on the Des
chutes, and niton bore of the par
ty spent Christmas in Madras
Tliey have been running a lint
from Tygh, whoro they picket:
nj) I he Great Southern survo'
down White River, up the Des
chutes and are now trying to
get out on to the high plateau
lands which form the large
wheat belt of Uroolc county
The party is in charge of P. S
Goidon, who had uharge of the
Great Southern construotioi
work, A'd they nr known as a
Great Southern party ofengi
liners, but recent developments
indicate that the line which the
are surveying is independent o
the Great Southern, although i
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may no imcKeu oy file same
capital which was behind the
Dufur road,
A month or more aco Mr.
Gordon spent some time down
on the Deschutes, making re
connoisance trips tip Trou
creek and up Willow oreek, and
oven on up the 'Deschutes above
the month of Willow creek
At that time he was nccompan
ied by Mr. Nelson, vico-prosi
dentof the Great Southern Com
pany. About ten days ago Mr,
Gordon was in Madras, and
from this place made a recon
noisanco down Willow creek
gorge, giving out the statement
that he was tryiiur to find an
easy pass up on to tne winow
creek basin wheat lauds. Upon
his return he stated that the
route up Willow creek was
entirely feasible, and that
road could bo built on an easy
grade at comparatively small
expense. The result of the trip
was that the survey then in
progress, and which httd reach
ed a point about 20 miles down
the Deschutes, was run up Wil
low creek instead of attempting
to come up Trout creek, where
it is known there would bo con
sidei able rock work.
The plans of the promoters
of the project, and who are in
fact identical in part with the
promoters of tho Dufur enter
prise, are extensive in scope,
and if carried out will mean the
rapid development of this sec
tion of tho Btate. Although tho
party is in charge of Mr. Gordon
and is backed by the eame cap-
till which promoted the Dufur
interpiso, the statement was
made by one of tho party that
t was not a Great Southern pro
ect, and that the road now be
ing surveyed would never con
nect up with tho Great Southern.
As outlined by him tho present
)lan is to return within thonoxt
thirty days to tho mouth of
White river, tako up their our-
voy at that point and extend it
down tlio Deschutes to tho Col
umbia, where connection will
bo made oitlior with the Hard-
umn lines., or with tho Hill road
on tho North bank of the river.
The road juprojeotod would ex
tend front tle Columbia up tlio
Jesuit u tea; 1 as iar as Willow
Ure,ok, then up Willow oreek on
b tho plt.ttoau wheat landB of
ho W1116W 4 ofoelt 'baSinand
on the Klamath Kails and event
ually on Ihrough to California,
giving them a through line tni
versing the state from north to
south on easy grades, and which
would eventually be the chan
nel through which most of the
south bound tijaflie would pass.
from tho Columbia up to Wil
low creek, a very cheap road
could be built on not to exceed
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n nun ui one per cent grade, or
about 80 feet to tjie mile. Some
years ogo Tho Dalles capitalists
projected a lineup tho Deschu
tes, running a survey as far as
the mouth of Trout creek, and
their field notes show that the
grade would not; exceed half of
one per cent and that not over
one mile of rock work would be
encountered from the mouth of
the Deschutes up to Trout creek
l'roni tho mouth of Willow
creek up on to the wheat lands
the line could be built on a
grade of possibly one to one and
a half per cent, and on south
from this place the grades
would not at any point exceed
one per eont.
Such a route as that now be
ing surveyed by the Great
Southern party of engineers is
without question tho most
practicable and the irqst feasi
hje that has ever been projected
into Central Oregon. Heavy
gradients are stubborn fctct
which have confronted every
railroad project into Central
Oregoji except this one which
follows the witter level, and it is
quite evident to all who pause
to consider, that no road across
the hills -could compete with a
road up tho Deschutes for the
tonnage which would be pro
duced in this territory. And in
addition to the local business
must bo taken into considera
tion the advantages offered by
such a route for handling the
immense business with southern
points and which must now go
by way of tho Shasta route
where tremendous grades make
railroading a slow and an ex
pensive business. And, follow
ing out such a lino of specula
tive thought, one is confronted
with innumerable inquiries as
to what will eventually be the
outcome of it all. Avill Hill in
vade Hariimau's territory with
this line, with which he could
make serious inroads into it, or
will the proposed route after all
become a Harriman line, sup
planting the Shasta route in the
laudling of the California busi
ness and making a purely local
line out of that? These and
other like questions ".are ones
that only time can answer, al
though in thoif solution re'st
tho destiny of this great section
of the state. It may be that al
ter all Mr. Nelson and his asso
ciates havo correctly summed
up the situation, and that they
may yet teach such veterans as
Harriman and Hill something
about railroad building-.
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LaidUw Chronicle: N. P. Paulsen of
Madras was in town last Saturday. Mr.
'aulsen informs us that he was recently
offered $1400.00 for the relinquishment
on his homestead near Madras, he filed
on tills land about two years ajio and at
that'time" many' considered land in that
loca'ity worthless.
At the meeting of the literary society
next Saturday evening a mock trial con
stitutes the programme. While most of
those participating in the trial are ama
teurs in this line of entertainment, it Is ex
pected that it will be both numerous and
and instructive.
BUILDING RAILROAD
THROUGH WYOMING
Chicago Jc Northwestern Hurrying
Westward.
Marvin Ilughitt. president of
tho Chicago Northwestern
railway, is building through
Wyoming at the rate of three
miles a day,, and this week
opened another new station,
called Seminole, located $5 miles
west of Caspar.
The Wyoming extension is
named the Wyoming & North
western. The Portland office of
tho Northwestern has received
formal notice of the opening of
the new station of Seminole.
The survey continues in an al
most direct line to Lander, and
then b,earSj northwest, crossing
the Itockies through a pass
south of Jackson's lake, and
passes through Market Lake
and Mackey, both on the Short
Line. The route runs directly
west to Boise, and hits the Snake
river at Nyssa, then runs
through Central Oregon on a
line running between Prineville
and Bend. Another survey
made by the Northwestern bears
southwesterly at the western
boundary of Wyoming, takes
in the irrigated districts of south
ern Idaho, crosses the Snake
river at Glenn's Ferry, comes
into Oregon through Jordan
valley and passes through the
state on a route south of Mal
huer lah$, tapping the (great
Bliffcen river region, and com
ing into the Willamette valley
via the McKenzie fork of the
Willamette fiver, through the
same pass tnat tne Harriman
management is now surveying
for a route for the Oregon East
ern from Natron.
The railroads are not over-
locking the fact that in south
Central Oregon there exists
great deposits of borax, gypsum
and nitrates, that are found in
sufficient quantities to play
havoc, it is said, with the pres
ent trusts controlling these minerals.
RESCUED FROM SNOW DRIFT
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Will Buy Your
W H EAT
OUR NEW FALL GOODS ARE HERE
Ladles' and Children's Hate, Caps And Bonnets
Buy a new Jacket. All going at Half l'rice
Eyery man needs a new Fall Hat. Come jn M see Durs
Wo can fit you out In any kind of a Suit, from a
Sunday Suit to a Mackinaw.
BUY A NEW PAIR OF SHOES
Before tlxe wet -weatlxer
AnH Don't Forget We Sell a
Nice, Clean Line of Groceries
LENA M. LAMB, Prop.
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MADRAS, - OREGON
! AT THE OLD STAND
Horseshoeing, Blacksmithing, Wagonmaking I
F. J. BROOKS, Madras', Ore.
Percy Megargel alid his1 com
panion, Dave Passet, the trans
continental antomobilists whose
perilous attempt to cross the
mountains West of Flagstaff,
Arizona, over roads piled high
with snow, was told of in last
week's issue, were rescued by
the relief party which was sent
n search of them. When found
they were in a desperate condi
tion, snowed in without food or
gasoline, in a deep ravine 18
miles from Flagstaff, and in a
few hours they would doubtless
have been dead from the cold.
They had saved themselves up
to that time by using gasoline
to build a fire, and the only food
they had had in 30 hours was a
squirrel which had been shot
during the day.
While seeking Megargel and
Fasset,' the relief party came
across tho frozen body of a log
ger who had been lost for two
days. Ho had lost his way in
the blizzard and perished from
the severe cold. ,
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F. S. Gordon, chief of the party of
Great Southern engineers who nre survey
ing in this cicinity, was in town yesterday.
Mr. Goidon has recently made .1 recon
noisance up the Dtschutes nbove Willow
creek, and he states that any road built up
the Deschutes will not follow that stream
further up than the mouth' of Willow
creek, as the work above there is so heavy
as to be almost prohibitive of railroad
building.,. ( !
To srn.aU boys,jn using the recent fait
I the small hill south
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GOWLES & DERHAi Sawmill
on. ZDes Clrutes ZRI-ver
FIRST-CLASS LUMBER AT LOWEST PRICES
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Rough' lumber deliver at Madras $13.50 Per m
All dimension lumber will be. Fir If desired ot jqme price.
SEND ALL ORDERS TO. THE MILL
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! ihe sma hill south of town.
Sfiamko Warehouse Company
GENERAL STORAGE AND FORWARDING
Special attention to tyoot GAding and Baling fpr EaBt?rn ship
ments. Dealers in Blacksmith Coal, Lime and Builders' Material
of all kinda. Sulphur, Wool and Grain Sacks and Twine, Grain,
Flour and Feed. Highest price paid for Hides and Polts. Stock
Yards with all the latest and best fucilities for handling Stock.
Mark Goods Oare of
W. Co."
T. G. CONDON, Manager.
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Cornetf Stage & Stable Co.
MADRAS,
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SHANIKO
DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Bpeolal attention Riven to carrying Express Matter.
Fare $4.5Q; Round trip; :$8.v
Agent at MADEAS feOTEL.
the - Madras 1 Pioneer
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$1.50 per Year
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south from hero to Bend, then