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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
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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
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We have plenty of lumber for sale at ot
mill, located about 3 miles east of Grizz
post office on county road. Prices rigl
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Capital Stock, $50,000
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