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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1906)
Pioneer MADRAS, CROQK COUNTY. OREGQI. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 22. 1906. NO. 14 i ncuTIST ....... r.B.ORKaoN Wit TARY VMIW OPEQON .... n niinocnu " ni htoiVt OJU'.OON ACTER OF TITLES .... tn.ur.nce. Burutjr u ouEao.v .. a (III TARY PUBLIC JoymJU Building OREQON mi mini in Aun UV Ulllll II Milll ill COMMISSIONER OUKOON X J( IUIdwi, CMhlcr. I(. DAiDwif, Awt. CMUlcr. NO. 3051. i n.i! i nl. $ nmiuimi uann .... mm MnrMMI ADLI 9 rltW I www tt.iiui.,i nAfli 131 IflU UUIllllUhH $80,000.00 We Pay Cash For Wheat Bring it to us . LENA M. LAMB MADRAS, OREGON I C. E. ROUSH MADRAS MEAT MARKET Keeps Constantly on Hand And pays highest market price lor fat a took, butter, eggs and farm produce PEOPLE S BIG STORE Thanksgiving Suggestions REMEMBER the turkey shoot, also remember that this is the place to get one qf the "Self-boiling Granite Roasters" of the "Lisle" make. They are the best on the market jg J53& Send in your order early for cranberries, sweet potatoes and bananas, wa are going to have themJSj&SfWeavy winter under wear for men and boys, prices to suit your pocketbooka JS&gsBed ding, including blankets, woolen and cotton, comforts, bed spreads EAT HEARTY AND SLEEP W. & M. A, ROBINSON i Li r r m m a m mam m iiibiiviinii i w PRAS-HFIRI FR STARE LINE " j J. H. LhRKARn MIUAfiFR aily excent Snnrlav Ru aiuntmn naiM to comfort ?and?xress matter promptly and carefully handled 1.75 DISTANCE 19 MILES J Wtj Can Supply You Give "da A Call $ PHO.P.IUETOFJ the Best Fresfc and Cureji Meats Madras, Oregon J inn WARM & COMPANY m h m m m b a mm m u m m am u m ... 1 - " A. M. WILLIAMS & CO DKALKH8 IN Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods BOOTS AND SHOES HATS AND OAfS AME PLANS COST $25,000 LESS BIG SAVING TO COUNTY Br INJUNCTION SUIT New Bids Expose Graft Contajnedjln First Bitys for Building New Crook County Court House Contractors Investigate Conditions Bids for the construction of a now court house at Prineville were opened by the county cour at their November ses sion. The pjans and specifica tions submitted were tb,e same identical plans offered when bids were called last June, but at that time the contractors did not visit Prineville to inform themselves as to the local con ditions, for prosecuting the work. T.his time th,e, various contractors came here and in spected our quarries, brickyard, etc., and submitted their bids with a better understanding of local conditions. These, bids are now in the hands of, the county court and that body positively refused, to consider them unless the people of Prineyille would guarantee the sum of $6400, to be used for heating and plqrnbing purposes. A committee of business men is now at work to see what they can do toward, raising the amount, t does not follow that the building will go up even if the amount is raised. The county court has not com mitted itself on this point. One thing was stated positively and that was if the building was un dertaken it would not cost the county more than $40,00$, and might be built for less. Crook County Journal. If Crook County is to have a new court house, which doesn't appear to be a settled faot as yet, it is encouraging to know that it is to be built at a figure nearer its actual value by $25, 000 than was the bid submitted on June 2 last, when one lone bid was put in at a figure of $65, 000. After all, the injunction suit which Baves $30,000 to the taxpayers of the county is not altogether wasted energy. Considerable light is thrown upon the methods employed by the old county oourt when it at BROOM CORN PAYS Yields Three-Quarter Tons Per Acre At $110 Per Ton. Deputy Sheriff James Havi land brought in a fine speoimen of broom corn from the Stone ranch near Gardena, says the Walla Walla Statesman. Mr. Stone'has five acres planted to the corn, which yields about three-quarters of a ton to the acre, The present market price of the product is $110 per ton. The yield varies from half ton to a ton per acre. Stone and one other farmer in the Gardena oountry are experimenting with it. The process of raising it is interesting. It is planted in rows similar to ordinary corn. The part from which brooms are made is a sort of flower to the plant and is pioked by hand, much like corn is harvested. tempted to "railroad" the con tract through last June, by the statement contained in the Crook County journal, that fat that time the contractors did not visit Prineville to inform themselves as to the local condi tions lor prosecuting the work. Thie time the various contrac tors came here and inspeoted our quarries, brieve yards, etc., and submitted their bds with a better understanding of local conditions.," Another and a most significant fact is that the same firm of contractors who bid $65,000 last June are trying to get the contract now at a figure "around $40,000", That any contractor or firm of con tractors will put in a bid on work of that magnitude, with out knowing anything about "lopol .conditions for prosecu ting the work", displays either a grossly careless method of bidding upon contracts, or else an absolute assurance that the bid is all right. The knowledge that the contract price is all right is a mighty uomforting assur ance, too for the contractor. At any rate there is consider able satisfaption in the thought that this new building will not cost the county over $40,000, and the citizens of Western Crook who brought about this very material reduption in the price of the article are to be congratulated upon their suc cess in driving a bargain. The Crook County Journal's expla nation of the reduption forms a valuable addition to the county court's store of knowledge on the subject of making county improvements, and hereafter all advertisements for bids for county improvements should contain the clause "Contractors will be required to examine local conditions for proseouting the work". Walla Walla county is shipped to Portland and sound cities for manufacturei East Oregonian. WILL PLANT FRUif TREES Prank Irvine, the Antelope merohant, who recently bought the DeHaven place at the mouth of Trout Creek, will set out about twentyfive acres of fruit trees on the property this fall. The land is irrigated with water from Trout Creek, and is ideally located lor successful fruit cul ture. At different points along the Deschutes fruit oulture has been Successfully tried, and no finer fruit is brought into this country than that grown upon these Desohutes randies. With the development of the Central Oregon couutry, Kir. Irvine will find a ready market right at home for all of the fruit whlnh he oan produce upon his Trout WHY EXTRA EXPENSE Less Branch LJjieii and l,es Mlleafl 0"8ht to Coat Lea a. The expense of running the, extra, stages has been very properly overlooked by the, petitioners. A little, matter of $4000, is tricing when t" gov ernment fodts the, bill.-r-Pirine-. ville Teview. Will the erudite editor of the. Review please tip off to an in-: quiring public, the process of reasoning by whioh he arrives at. the, above conclusion? The. difference in distance between the old route from Shaniko to, Bend by way of Prineville anc the proposed new rou(te by vy. of Madras is sp slight as, tc be. immaterial, and it surely panno be argred, that it will cost more, to parry the mails over the in comparably better roadu f Western Qrook. Th,en the dif ference in the post must arise, from (he expense of operating branch routes to serve the var ious offices ofi; of the main route. Let us see. The pro posal is to haye a direct route from Shaniko to Bend, serving Youngs, Madras, Culver, La monta, Oneils, Clne Falls, Laidlaw and Bend, with a branch roflte from Efeilef serv ing Haypreek, (frizzly and Prineville, thjs entire service re quiring bqt $hp one direct i"puta. and the one branph route pf gq miles. To serve the same pfljees now Jt requires the main star, route and he following branphes: Heisler to Madras 19 miles, Aladras to Cuiver 1S miles, Grizzly to Jjamonta J miles, Prineville to Q'Neil and Cline Falls 25 miles, B,end. tq Laidlaw 8 miles, Eliminating the copt of operating the ftain, line, which can certainly hfl be greater by way of Madras tfyan it is by way of Grizzly Moun tain and prineville, we are ret duced to the conclusion tfyaf it costs more to operate ppp branch line of 35 miles from Heisler to Prineville tHah it does to operate six branch lines aggregating a total of 71 miles by tb,e olfT. route, if there is anything in the Review's ar gument. PRILUHG HgAK KEOM&MB Thursday the toot of the en gine for the well drilling ma chine took on a new sound. Work had begun. Forty feet was the record for the first day and 60 feet the next day, with about 60 feet of casing in. How. . ever the lower half of the well caved in and operations were suspended for a time. Work was progressing quite rapidly through a kind of pumice stone which could be cut quite easily with a knife. Monday drilling had again been resumed and the drill had reached a depth of 05 feet with 80 feet of the smaller oasing in. This nearly made up for the loss caused by the cave-in. An exnert from tlm nil till of the East hus charge of the worn, -me machine drills a six-inch hole. Bend Bulletin. Patrons of the Madras post office who have not already signed the petitions for a di rect mail service from Shaiiiko to Bend, via Madras, giving this office a daily mail instead of six thhes a week, lire re quested to do so at once, ns the petitions will be seiit iri within the next week, tfonles of the petition may be1 found at Anf THE DALLES OREGON I The broom oorn raised in ureeK ranon. oi mo storei),