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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1907)
i The MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAYj NOVEMBER 21. 1907. NO. 14 Madras Pioneer WHEAT WEALTH BASIS Order to Get Cash Nbrthwost Prosperity of the v Cannot Be Destroyed fomniencing on Saturday November 23, we will begin a 30clay Usli sale on every article in our enormous stock HERE ARE SOME OF OUR SPECIAL PRICES FARMS PRODUCE GOODS THAT MAKE IT 40,000,000 BusbolsYotTo Bo Sold In Northwest At Avorago Price of 75 Cants Por Bushel fur by May r,nnil that' cars would bo running to KiIh plane by that time It was also stated that tho time to Tori land would be SO minutes and tlmt the' faro would be 10 contH each way.' Tboso statements were inado by one who la in olosb connection with the Mount Hood Company, and are prob ubly authoritative. WANTS INCREASE Or LIEN . . Van B. DoLashmutt May Tako Col umbla Southorn Irrigation Project 60 35 70 5 Gallons Coal UH, ' 00 lbs. Stock Salt I sn " " tin 20 Bars Golden Star Soap , 90 Nibs. Dry Granulated bugar I UU J okw. "Schillings Best boda 15 f Bring your 5-Gal. Coal Oil can and have it filled for 30c per gallon I DU 75 Forty-two Piece Sets of Initial Dishes to go at the low price per' set of t 5 A complete line of Glassware and White Stoneware at reduced prices. . A fine line of Framed Pictures vofth 2.50 to go at.... We have two of the Celebrated "Zenith" Sewing Machines on hand, worth 45.00,' will go at . . 32 50 00 75 In an address to about 100 Commer cial club tnei at tlifdr monthly dinner. T. Ii. WllcoX, president or the Portland Flouring Mills company,' vl)0 presided us toaetmasior, gave socio,, interest iing ngures regarding ino present stage oi tuo vacuus nortmvest crop movement, sayq the Journal, lie .said there EVERYTHING IN STOCK GOES AT PROPORTIONATE PRiCES ! t o o main 4U.UW,U0U bushels of utiHold in the hands jif iho lie expressed the opinion that the iinanclal Hurry Is over. Sir. Wilcox Haid In part: ".Since my return October, 1 from the East I have at no time expressed Horn Van B. DcLasbmutt of Port . i it land was In Madras the last of tmj.' week on his way home from a trip o f' ' f inspection to the Columbia Southern . Irrigated tract on the west side f the Deschutes. It Is reported that' Mr. DeLashmutt has been lii8pectiriglthe, 1 . . . I ' n -. . . 1 . - i l f . i " fT v.uiuiiium ouumuru iraub viiu a view to taking it over for a uarty of Port; PVirllniuI I hind pnnltfiliata. if n OfiHufnotnrti enltl? " , -.. j ...-j still re- ment can he made with the State Laud? wheat Hoard) by which the Hen of tho corhA rmers. pauy is increased similarly to'tlfe y increase given theJJ. 1. & r. Uompauy on their tract east of tho river,. The Columbia Southern tract was the first of the Carey Act reclamation projects to claim title for the com pie- io my closest friend any view of the lion of its work, in. thia. couDty,. hut, probahlo outcome. Perhaps tho less sitiee that time therp han been iri.ucli . . . . i . . . . . . ... ' w m GENERAL MERCHANTS, MADRAS, OREGON t Shaniko Warehouse Receipts for Grain Taken Same as Cash caid the better. But this eveninc for the drat time I am willing- to say I believe tho (inancial Hurry Is over, Today Is ihe llrst day I have had the courage to do buqinec. 1 had been paying my debt.", and liquidating what I hail, and getting ready. Today I Have gone back into the market to buy wheat. And I have the money to pay for it." iricuou between tne ditch -compaiy and the settlers upon the tract, result ) ingduring the past Summer in .much, litigation. The whole trouble arjpcari to have been in the failure of the com pany to provide an adequate water supply for the amount of land sold.. If Mr. DeLashmutt and his associate should take over that project it would prove a great boon to the settlers upon. Tne speaker said In 1803 he went out the tract, as doubtless the Aral step. Our Mammoth Closing; Out Sale Now in Progress BEGINS OF WEALTH Is in close buying. In our Immense Closing Out Sale you get an op'portunity to get double value op every dollar invested, as every article is guaranteed to be just as represented, and is sold at only a small fraction of the price asked at other stores. We mention a few of the many values: into the interior to buy wheat and con dltiona were cnilte different. The wheat had got wet, and it was not in mo oeat condition, ane price was about 30 cents a bushel. Tie thought something should be done to make wheat worth more than that. Since then the best yenrs of his life have been spent opening new markets in various parts of the world that have mado wheat worth 80 cents. 1 his vear the Pacific northwest haa produced 60,000,000 bushels, of which 5,000,000 bushels have been sold and delivered and wo have tlie mouev From 10,000,000 to 15.000,000 bushels more have been bought and paid for. There remain now in the hands of the farmers about 40,000,000 bushels. It will bring them 70 to 75 cents a bush el. Tills wheat is still to come in. taken by the new company would b$ to increase the supply pf water by" building reservoirs. CASH NOT NECESSAfrf Land Office Suspends Payment Final Proofs for 30 Days Ir. Owing to the money stringency, Com missioner Ballingcr of the General Land. Office has issued instructions to local land offices, directing that proofs bt suspended thirty days in order to per mit applicants to mako cash payments required. Under these instructions, final proofs will bo taken on the dav. advertised, but the applicant will have mostly tt.rough the country banks, to thirty days in which to mako cash pav- 10 shipped to tho East, and elsewhere, ment required with his proof. Outing; Flannels 27 in. .wide In fancy checks and plaids, especially made for com forters, regular price, 8 1-3 c; closing price, 6 l-2c Heavy outings in white and colors', regular" Width, splen did value at 12 1-2 c. to close at 10c kxtra u.aVy outings in white whereat 14c; now on sale at rind Colors, sold every-ile Ladies' Fine Dress Shoes Plump Vici kid, in all the newest lasts, regular price $3.25, our closing price, $2.60 Child's fine dress shoes, 5 to 8, rcg. $2.25 val;j $1.70 Misses fine dress shoes, II to 2, feg. $2.50, $1.85 ltli such resources in this section of j tho country good times are inevitable. 'You cannot destroy tho prosperity of tho Pacific northwest;" said Mr. Wilcox, "which out of the goodness of God and tho intelligence and energy of men Is producing the goods that mako prosperity." the commissioner a large number ol The order made bv will bring relief to timber applicants, to whom under ex isting conditions the question of raising tho actual cash necessarv for makimr proof was a sefioud one, with the banks throughout tho stato closed and tjij. money obtalnablo on checks.,-, As Ladies' Heavy Cotton Ribbed Hose, Fast Colors tul1 ,cn&h; r8U,ar i, 25 cent value, jo close at t 17c prtlr Ladles b arlr tf i-AlA l.l full lack woo hose fin iced ght, regular 35c value, now 23c Men's Heavy Wool Fleece Underwear Regular $1.25 values closing but ht 98c Boy gTwo-Piece Wool Suits Brunei brown mixtures, feg"i $5.50 val., $3i2 Men 's Hkavy All Wool Suits Hand-made buttonhole ttit in latest and best styles rcgulnr $ 1 7i50 values, now , $I2;40 Mcitls, fteavV Double-breasted Blu'G Klahhbl overshuts, reg, price $2,75j closing at $1.95.S&&'Mfen,s heavy blue flonnel ovcrshirts, regular $ 1 i5U Vftl. at 95c P not jorgct that we" have goods, a ousaiw i r l t i anncls. rilltinr, nnA ac. Dozens nf UAlZ I'er conis el:.,. iih sweaters, metis suits, slfoes. Krwear . shawl arfd gloves, torcs of men's mit. Wrt- (overcoats, sweats artd haU C. W. ELKINS i Prineville, Orgofl ' . ) r---r I All MAll Orders GrtfefalW Pilled t Tons and tons of groceries, assorted hardware, and a complete line of buggies, hacks' and farming imple ments; Everything to be sold af a price which will "rtiake it go" huancial conditions are evnwtwl, t lm HURRYING CONSTRUCTION normai aSai within a short Peril,.and uiu uunsa wm soon ue open lor business, ii.. it.!..i. . . . ; Mt. Hood Road To Be Finished As UIU im" "a-vs rag0 Provittmhj ly the commissioner offers a solution of tho t-or As ureshnm By May 1 diflicultv. The instructions apply alaato proofs A dispatch to the Oregonian under a set before "United 8tatca.Cmmissioners. uresnani date-line says: who will proceed to tnha. proofs on tho Construction work on thb Mount day advertised; notifying tho applicant noon jiaiiway is progressing rapidly ot tho extension of thisUr dava time on ootween iMotiut Tabor aud Bull Kun. tho payments to bo made. Three largo camps have been located, ouo on each sldo of this place near by, and one anther east. The rlftht of way is being cleared wherever neces sary, and In other places where no clearing is needed the roadbed is being I brown up. A steam shovel has been at work about one mile northwest of Great) am for several weeks, making a deep cut FtfOM COUNTY EXCHANGES E. N. Gillain, vaa over from the Mad-. ras country last,j,ryek and whilo hero put a two-year-aid; filly through same, of her stunts. She, jumps a polo, Bhakos hands all around, holds itp any foot to ho fiKiimiilPil nmmita ii lviv ollo T C. and opening up an extensive gravel whether she likes him or not and does ,..t,uru1,,8ll,,Ku.uroal.oeuwneuine various other tricks. Sho lias been work gets that far ailing. The ettt will ,st1,i1 fwl I1t oltirvlo hilt n fm.. 41... l,..t. be about half a mile in length and 25 when tho harness is put on and tho feet deep. A strip of land has been shixlld holll p flhu lnnrched UuJnr Uk bought at that point which is over 000 oid.thnr.,.. Tl,nr 5. ..i f. feet wide, and it is stated that iho .omcmin In .W,.inh i.k i ravol therefrom will all be used In got a good single driver into tho bar building tho road. ,tflin. aim,,,,.,,,, ,cu Ml . .wl .. Anolllco has been Wtahllshed herb half years old she was taking her place mn whldi the construction work Is in a fOurhorse team.-ltedmond cor. in olng directed. The graders were at Journal. Work lu&ldo tho city limits today and will Sbon liavecount'btions madh with other sections on each side. The big cunt misery building m Falrvlow; which was forniorly head quarters of tho Mason Construction Company will bo moved to Camp No, Tho No-Tomber term of tho county court hiis not yet bfton held owing to the legal holiday proclamations of the Gov ernor Tho court will meet on the first day aftor tho suspension of tho logal Holidays, wiiou that will ho nobody but tho Governor seems to know ami Tills building is 00x120 feet and will rorlml ho doesn't. It will ho dotor have to bo torn down before It oau ho led by iinanclal conditions solely.- moved,- Camp No. lis the niOat 1m- JournaU porianto; uu oauips on the lino and will bo malutalued for sevural years after the road Is In operation. , it WH9r RlinOUIICed - hero VOStarilnv I rnnorlfl nVnrvnnn lmau 1.. !... !,l..l.. vmi.k tuu twuu nuuiu uo uuiiipiuiuu HUH i Journal. Ed h. Crabtroo was in the citV ycstei'-l day from his ranch near Madras. ?. ml J5' .-id i 1