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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,
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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.
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