The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current, June 25, 1908, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextD i.ji 1.1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 1 iii i'n" 1 1 I. The Madras Pioneer Published every Tht)rli)y by TJIE PIONEER PUBLISH ityi QO.- euDsoniPTioN rates: Ouo year , . ........'$1.50 Six months..... 85 Three months.,, 60 ADVKHTIBINa JIATE8 ON Arri.lCA.T10N Kntcred ns second class matter August fiV, 1001, at the Postofllco nt Madras. Ore., glider tlio Act of Congress of March 3,187U. THURSDAY JUNE 35, 1908 WILL BUILD RAILROAD PEERING FARM MACHINERY THE KIND THAT ALWAYS PLEASES THE FARMER INTO CROOK COUNTY Plan Being Formed To Extend Qo (limbic Southern At QnQQ .1 ONLY A MATTEfJ pF DRILLING We are printing tliis week n jiews item telling of a luck' rancher who drilled for water and found it, this time at 71 feet. These items are becoming of more frequent recurrence, and the opinion ig becoming pretty well fixed, that the ques tion of getting water in this poiintry is only a matter of drilling. Up until quite recent ly it was the common opinion (hat with the exception of a few favored spots such as the Wil "low Creek flat where Madras is Jocated and little strips at Hay stack and Culver, water could riot be had except at gieat depth, possibly at the level of the Deschutes River. ThaUhe ory is exploded. J.11 the Fisher ville neighborhood there are two good wells with water at a depth of about 100 feet. There are several wells on Agency Plains, one with water at 104 feet and the other over .300 feel, and in the country south of us numerous wells are being drill ed, with varying depths. Within the next year or so wells will be drilled and water will be found all through the district. Ranchers cannot af ford to spend their time haul ing, if they can drill and get water at. a reasonable distance. Mr. Bantu's case is one in point. He has been hauling water foi .11 years at a cost of not less than $200 a year, when he hud water within 70 feet of him, a'nd which he secured at u cost of less than one year's expense of Jhauling. Much favorable comment is heard on the addition of the 9th and 10th grades to the Madras school, and present indications ure that a large class will be present this Fall when school opens, to take the work in the higher grades. Madras is central ly located in the most populous section of the county and many pupils will take advantage of lire opportunity to take the higher grades at Madras, who ,could not or would not have been able to go to the county high school at Piineville. Since the higher grades are to be .added, the next matter of im portance is to secure the ser vices of a good teacher, thor oughly competent to teach ihe higher - grades. The Madras school should be made to rank with the best in the county. Over at Prineville the saloons ,are said to be running bargain and remnant counters during these last days of tlieir career in Crook county, in their efforts to get rid of their stocks of wet goods left on hand. This offers an exceptional opportunity for some of the more apprehensive, to lay in a good supply of "moisture," in anticipation of the long "dry" spell that is to follow. The Wall Street Journal tells us that unless signs fail gener ally this year will be the high est in a series of six in the value of farm products though rmt ill HlH bulk. James J. Hill, of the Great Northern road, cou-. tributes his quautum 10 me forecast by saying, ''There will be no car shortage next Fall because there will be no long crop. Oregoniau. TIRED OF WAITING FOR HARRIMAN TO GIVE RELIEF Crook County Capital Will Build Roaej-Pprt-lancj Merchants Ready To Co-Oper ate In Moye For Line Into Central Oregon. "A company to build a line of railroad from Shaniko to Prineville and Bend has been formed by Eastern Oregon men under the name of the Central Oregon Railroad Company, with capital stock of $50,000. The incorporators are Alfred F. Biles, F. S. Stanley, Jesse Stearns and Roscoe Howard. Incorporators of the company say the project is not specula live in any sense, nor is it the beginning of any great railroad system, but merely the attempt by the people of Eastern Ore son to secure an outlet for their piodncts. The present cumber some method of hauling freight by wagons in the interior of the state is recognized by the pro moters of the new line as being expensive and unsatisfactory, and it is the hopu of the incor porators of the new line to inir prove the transportation facili ties by the construction of a railroad. It cannot be said yet just when work on the project ed road will be started." The above news item in Port land Sunday papers has aroused much interest throughout this section. The incorporators named are owners and officials of the Deschutes inigaiion pro ject, and it has been known for some time that this company was working upon a plan to se cure rail transportation for this section of the state, where they have several million dollars in vested in a large irrigation pro ject. That their plans are tak ing definite form is indicated by the announcement of the incor poration of the Central Oregon Railroad Company. For the past 10 years or more Central Oregon has been wait ing for Harriman's promised railroad extension into this sec tion of the state. At the begin ning of that period the pros pects appeared as bright, from that source, as they do now, and although the central por tion of the state has been grid ironed with surveys, fiom North to South and East to "West, not one dollar has ever been spent in actual construction work. The people of Central Oregon have grown tired of waiting, and some of the heavy invest ors in enterpiises in this county have determined to secure the oo-operation of the business men and settlers in the Madras, Bend and Prineville districts, and build a line which will pro vide the county with adequate tiansportation facilities. In this plan they have been assured of the heaity co-operation of the business men of Portland, who are fully alive to tl'O great pos sibilities for trade to be devel oped in the 60,000 square miles of teiritory in Central Oregon. In addition to this, the railroad activity in the extreme south ern portion of the state, with lines extending North from Cal ifornia, threatens in time to di vert to San Francisco the great volume of Central Oregon trade which rightfully belongs to Portlaud, for which reason the co-operation of Portland mer chants may be .depended upon in the construction of a line which will forever insure to Portland commercial suprem acy in Central Oregon. The full details of the plan have not yet been made public. This much is definitely dedded upon, that Ihe Columbia South ern railroad will be extended from Shaniko to Madras, then on to Bend and Prineville. The people of Crook county will be asked to subscribe to stock and bonds of the company, pay ment to be made in money, la bor, materials or supplies. In this manner a- heavy subscrip tion would be possible in this county. These subscriptions will not be in any sense a dona tion, for preferred stock bearing 7 per cent interest will be given for all subscriptions in this county. The people of Crook county have an opportunity to secure the long-wishedfor railroad, and every citizen of the county who is interested in the solution of our transportation problem should respond very heartily to any call made for assistance and co-operation in building a line into this section. No other section of the county would receive such immediate and tangible benefits from rail road transportation, for in a wheat district such 113 this is, rail transportation is of first im portance to the success of the district. The Madras country produced last season approxi mately a million bushels of grain, and the saving in trans portation charges on that alone would have been the difference between the cost of rail trans portation between this place and Shaniko and the 25 cents per bushel which was paid for hauling it by teams. VVhile all the grain was not sent to Shan iko, the net price at that mar ket controlled the price in- the local market, so that the heavy transportation charge affected the price on the entire crop. A conservative estimate of the cost of rail transportation be tween this place and Shaniko would be 10 cents per bushel, so that a saving of at least 15 cents per bushel would have been effected by a railroad last year, and that Would have meant a saving of $150,000 to this section on the Wheat crop alone. With a railroad into this section the area under cul tivation and the amount of grain produced Would be tripled. Another phase of the question which should not be overlooked is that only in extraordinary years such as the last was, when the price of grain is high be cause of the shortage in the world's markets, would grain stand the enormous transporta tion charge which was paid last year. VVith wheat prices as high as they were last year, It is possiblo to pay (ha high transportation charges for haul- ANTEUOPE, OREGON GENERAL MERCHANT STOCK IS COMPLETE PRICES WILL SUIT YOU The Store That Gives Satisfaction ing wheat 45 miles to the Shan iko market, but in ordinary years, upon which basis the cal culations of the district must be based, this cost would be pro hibitive, and the producers of this district would bo foiced to depend entirely upon the local market. A meeting of business men from different sections of the county was held at Prineville last Thursday. There were piesent T. M. Baldwin, W. A. Booth, C. W. Blkiiia, W. F. King, Frank Forest, G. M. Cor nett, D. F. Stewart, John Steidl, Roscoe Howard, C. M. lied field, L. Enderud, A. C. Snnford, Geo. O'Neil and C. N. Ehret, and after Messrs. Rediield and How ard had submitted financial and engineering data, the general plan for the extension of the Columbia Southern railroad was approved. The Central Oregon Railroad Committee was formed with T. M. Baldwin of the First National bank of Prineville as chairman and C. W. Elkins as secietary. Another meeting of the committee will be held at Prineville today when a defin ite plan will be decided upon for securing the subscriptions to the bonds and stock of the com pany. The details of this plan and other information regard ing the general plan for the con struction of the road, will bo given to the public in order that they may keep in touch with the progress of the project. Next Wednesday the long "drouth" begins in Crook coun ty, and the indications are that it will be so long a dry spell that it will set the "oldest set tlers" to thinking, in their search for a parallel. Some philanthropic, would-be Hut field, with his prescription coun ter, may cause an occasional small cloud to appear in the prohibition sky, but the law and order league promises to see that even those philantho pic intentions are barren of re sults. Calvin Morris of Paulina, has been indicted by the federal court for improper use of the mails. On last St. Valentine's day he sent a comic valentine to a Miss Mosier of Paulina, in scribing a few words of his own upon the card. Miss Mosier's risibilities did not respond to the words written upon the card, and she reported the matter to thepoHtal inspectors. The grand jury recently in session investi gated the matter and returned an indictment against Morris. A. E. CROSBY l' K O I' It I K T O It POSTQFFICE P HARM A3 Currlg u Cpmp ele Mno of Drug. Mcdiclnpi, ClinmlmU IIuiehoMlltafdl rtiKKlts'Hnnilrlf niiil I'lioto SitpplIuM. Country Mall Ot- ititmjvttxM uttontloii. A tlrwtiiitio In cjiariio, Unfe delivery Riinrnnii . 1 ourjrtfij.i my BpvclHlty. Htryoliuiiio nml l'utt lcstri)cr, fifock I'umU amI Wi'ioll J AtMiioy for ajtmiui (fnlu. Ilotb 'I'liptiM. W1IOM&AI.K AND ItKWIU 1 THE DAfcLISS, OR! rrrirm mom LUMBER FOR SALI We have plenty of lumber for sale at ot mill, located about 3 miles east of Grizz post office on county road. Prices rigl McMeekin & Eastwooi T. 8, JlAMiirox, Irea. F. T. HuiiLnuitT, Vicc-Pres. J.t . Fohlu.OJ : EASTERN OREGON BANKING FOREIGN EXCHAHCE BOUCHT AND SOLD DRAFTS ON ALL PARTS OF THE VOhLD Capital Stock, $50,000 Deposits, $290,000 SHANIKO, OREGCI 4.U HI MM- -BO -HI! M- "Special" ONE WEEK ONLY Beginning Monday, June 29 1 lb. tin Oysters 3 cans Economy Cream I pkg. Corn Starch 1 pkg. Liberty Gloss Starch I pkg. Celluloid r 3 pkg. Elastic " 3 cans Concentraied'Lye 3 lb. Sal Soda 10c 25c 10c 10c 10c 25c 25c 10c IfljHllH -Muww-m wri.l'li.lU).ln.lH.,lll)l,WlMtlM.inV't."'""" ". i,.,.'M'l'',,'W iniM.IMM.IIuMlllHM.IM'll ,,t.tl.t,t'.'U".''"."""''" MadrasTradingCo. C. E. ROUSH. - - MANAGER NU Ml -III!- UN a""