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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1909)
The Madras Pioneer MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, QQTOBGR CI. 1909. NO. 10 LIVERY, &SALE MAPRAS, OREGON IJMHi STABLE HOOD & STANTON I GIVH Your Orders Prompt Attention PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Q( Q. GQLLVEff NOTARY PUBLIC Justice of the Peace CULVER I'KEOINCT CULVER QREQON (jOWARD W, TURNER U. 8. COMMISSIONER Transient Slock Given Best Of Feed And Care ire Madras State Bank MADRAS, ORECON TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Money tronimiUcd to all parts of United States and Canada J, M. Conklin. PrwUcnt nd Cen, Mn'gr i C. E, Rouih. Vice.Predeot ' IUIli: TOIIU: C. K. Hoiuli, M. t'uU, J. C. Itoblnnon, Itobt. itm, J. M, Crmklln NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE OREOON w. 1. 8NUQK PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Qfflca In Drug 8 tor. MAURA? OREOON J( H. HANER ABSTRACTER OF TITUS NOTARY PUBLIC Flro Iniurnno, I.Uc Insurance, Surety Bond. I(ol K.tftto, ConveyMiolntf PRINEVILLE, OREOON iiAfimifi HMAnirTl IVIflllKilX U UKH I- 1 i -iiinuiinvf BwBfriiiiiis. I J. Lt. CflmPBELiD, Prop., MADRAS ; BEEF, PORK, VEAL ! t We have the best line of Fresh Meats in the country ALL KINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON f 11 WO. f iHfl to A. E. CROSBY EVERYTHING IN DRUGS & KODAKS THE DALLES, OREGON Exclusive Agent For EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY Rochester, N, I A full line of Pho to supplies always on hand. Printing and developing done. Mail orders will receive our prompt attention. Wrile for our new 1909 CATALOG Try a bottle of Mur linc's Edlnol Devel oper. Will dovclop any Plate or Paper A. E. CROSBY NO. 38B1 . v The First National Bank OF PR I NEVILLE, OREGON B. F. Almcx, President. T. M. Baldwin, Cublor. Will Wubzwkilsr Vice Prei. II. Baldwin, Awt. Culiier. ESTABLISHED 1830 Cpltl, Burplui and Undivided ProHU $100,000.00 A. M. WILLIAMS & GO. . DEALERS IN Dry Goods, Clothing, Furnishing Goods !-o-s BOOTS AND SHOES HATS AND CAPS THE DALLES OREOON DROP IN AND SEE Sharp & Powe DEALERS IN Soft Drinks OP1 uSuXjXj Imported And Domestic CIGARS Loucks Building MADRAS, ORE. locateTheStation At Madras SIDINGS AND GRADES ARE ESTABLISHED More Preliminary Surveys Made South Of Madras HEAD OFFICIALS VISIT MADRAS AND BEND Construction Will Follow Berpagftent Location Of Hill Line Engliftt Fremont Crane Again Stationed Here WE HAVE mora buyers for farm lauds than wo have on our lists, Pleuse call at our oflloe If you doalro to sell. Vau Tassel Laud Co. ON YOUR fl ROBINSON'S BIG STORE FECIAL PRICES FOR CASH Winter's Supplies WE CARRY EVERYTHING For WHEAT And BARLEY On Accounts And In Trade WE PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE J. C. &. M. A. ROBINSON GENERAL MERCHANTS MADRAS, OREGON Oregon Trunk activity is very marked and encouraging in this vicinity with two surveying crews in Madras nnd vis its every few days from head officials. President John F. Stevens and George A. Kyle, Chief Engineer, arrived in Madras Friday evening, remained here until Saturday afternoon, when they went to Bend, returning to Madras Sun day evening and next morning departed; going North. It is understood Messrs. Stevens and Kyle's visit to this place had to do with establithing the grade on R portion of the line in Madras and Also, just South of town, and from appearances they were also giving directions about the location ol sidings and instructions con cerning the station grounds to be laid out at this place. Engineer Rierdon's crew spent a portion of the week run ning preliminary lines South of town, while Engineer Fremont Crane and his surveyors, who arrived last xnureaay, have started the permanent location of the Hill line down Willow Creek gorge. Mr. Crane was located nt Madras for several months last Fall while making a survey for the Oregon Trunk down Willow Creek to the mouth of Trout and the permanent location upon which he is now employed will bo practically upon the same line. Since leaving Mad ras Mr. Crane has spent a considerable portion of the time in the lower Des chutes canyon making locations. Engineer T. N. Hanford, who was em ployed ubout a year ago making a pre liminary survey for the Harriman road up the Deschutes canyon as far as the mouth of Trout Creek, is at present making the final location over the same line which will bo followed by cross sectioning. It is given out that construction work will start on the IIIU line in this section just as soon as cross-sectioning is com menced and locations for construction camps are made. Difficulty of access to the canyons where camps are to be loca ted will retard operations slightly, as in some cases wagon roads will have to be constructed in order to place supplies where needed. "The mills of the gods grind Blowly," and it takes time to build a railroad, but tho feverish anxiety of tho peoplo in this section will only be quieted when they seo actual construc tion commence in this locality. Whilo Madras is named as the osten sible terminUB of tho Hill road, prelim ary surveys are being made South of this place to determine tho grade nec essary to get out of Willow Creek basin, which it is understood will bo estab lished at about 1.3. Even with the ex tension of tho Oregon Trunk South of tliis place, however, Madras will proba bly have enjoyed the privileges and prestige of a terminus long enough to establish her claim as tho only "gate way to Central Oregon." STEVENS WILL BUILD OREGON TRUNIN LINE Refuses Presidency Of North Bank Will Kept Busy On Oen tret Oregon Line John F. Stevens' own desiro to prose cute the building of tho Oregon Trunk Lltie into Middle Oregon With the great tot UUpatch tXHMibls is given on the beat authority as the reason for 1U deponing the offer to take tho nresjdeqcy of (hp North Bank railroad, whiph wag tpp dercd to him by James J. during his recent (rip, E-ast. Jteveps was ihp man picked for this position when yreg Ident Erapcis B. Clarke handed, in, his resignation tho last part of August, at tho tliflp when Mr. Clark's physicians told, him hp must give up all thought of dojng any aptive work for a long time to come, ( pot permanently, says the Fort land Telegram. Shorty alter Mr. Clarke resigned Mr, Stevpns went East and had a conference with Mr. Hill in reference to tho situar tjon in Central Oregon, as well as cdn ocrping tho future, of the North Bank, road. It was at this time, so it is as sorted, that Mr. Hill urged Steyens to take President Clarke's position, but Stevens demurred, maintaining that he would have his hands full for some time to come in constructing the Oregon Trunk Line. It is beyond denial that Mr. Hili aelced Stevens to withhold his final decision for a few daye, but the great constructionist was firm and de clined the additional honor. OREGON TRUNK NOT GOING TO CALIFORNIA Menu Opportunities For Extension In Oregon And Will Not Build Any Beyond St. Paul, Minn.. Oct. 13 J. J. Hill to day denied that the Great Northern Railway was trying to enter Harriman territory in California by extending the Oregon Trunk Line to San Francisco He also denied that during his visit in New York there had been a conference of railway magnates, attended by him and J. P. Morgan and by Harriman and Hawley representatives. "Aly yUU was connected only with business relating to our company," he sad, "AH that I saw of Mr. Morgan was a. short personal call, and we did not discuss Mr. Hawley's plans at any time, Mr. Hawley is an energetic rail road organizer and, if he deeires to con nect several of his roads into one sys tem, I cannot Bee why I should object or approve." The stories published along the Pacific Coast that the Oregon Trunk Line prd- poses to build into San Francisco were emphatically denied by Mr. HilL "All the building tho line will do will ue in uregon, saiu ne. "mere is plenty of room for new feeders in that state and tho mileage which we expect to add to the system will be confined to that state. We have no intention of entering California." ORECON TRUNK LETS CONTRACT FOR MATERIAL Prineville Journal Another clincher in support of the announcement that the Hill road into the Deschutes Valley is to be rushed to completion, comes this w;ek in the form of the letting of a contract for sawing and delivery of 8,000,000 feet of bridge timbers along tho company's right ol way in this county. This week M. Topliff & Co. purchased a umber claim on upper Willow Creek and at once entered into a contract with Lou Hamilton for logging the tim ber and delivering it at the mill site on the claim, 10,000 feet -per day for the first few weeks and 25,000 feet daily thereafter until 3,000,000 feet have been delivered. Tho machinery for the sawmill, a big steam outfit, ia now on the way in from Shaniko, and no time will be lost by the new company in putting it in operation. Tho timbers are to be from 14 to 20 feet in length. Tho contract nrovldna fn their delivery at any point alone the Oregon Trunk Line right of way. HARRIMAN RESUMES DESCHUTES FICHT Washington, Oct. 18. The Deschutes Railroad Company filed a motion for a review of the decision of tho Interior Department, rendered September 8. re jecting its map of section 3 of its road up the Deschutes canyon. Tho Orecon Trunk Lln is given 30 days to make an swer to this coes to the Hill Ur To Bridge Colum bia River At Col COMPLETE RflAO TO MADRAS IN 18 MONTH! TralnsMust Bp punolnflThr.ou'ghF'rQrn. Portland By April 1, 19IJ rCon structlop. Ij Pushed, Several Oregon Truqk sprvy parties, are np;y working along tho Columbia River between Celilo and The Dalles seeking the mast practicable point at which to bridge (he river, says Sunday's, Qregonian. While it has been supposed ever since, it became known that the Great North ern was behind tho Oregon Trunk Lina that a bridge connection across the Co lumbia would be made with th,P Ifprtli Bank road, the first admission that such was the plan was made at the Oregon Trunk Line offices yesterday. The Oregon Trunk's survey has now been lppated from, tho nqoqth of the Deschutes down tho Pqlumbfa for a dis tance of several miles. The original survey came out of the Deschutes can yon about the level of the present 0. R, & N. main line. In order to get over the Government and Moody dam sitest in the Deschutes canyon, the 'lino has been relocated higher up the bonk and now leaVea the mouth of the Deschutes at a point about 70 feet above the 0. R. & N. main line. Soutlb of the present O. R. & N. bridge across the Deschutes about halt a milea promontory will bo tunneled- Workmen aro now boring this tjinpel which is to be about 800 feet long. Paralleling the Q R. fc N. Southward ' for several milps the Oregon Trunk Lino is hiuher up the cliffs of the Columbia, River gorge, gradually droppipg nnti approximately the level of the Q. R. i N. is reached near Qelilo. Tho selec tion of tho bridge site is a difficult matt ter, as the current of the Columbia ia swift in that locality and systematlQ soundings must be made. While the point of the crossing of thq Columbia has not been definitely deter mined, it i now thought likely tho bridge will be located either noar Celilo or what is known as Five-Mile Run. Itis the intention of the Oregon Trunk builders tor have the road completed and in operation to Madras within eighteen months, or about April 1, 1011. Tho Columbia bridge will be about one year in building, and it is the expectation Unit it will be completed so that trains can run through between Portlaud and Madras wltu the completion of the road up the Deschutes. In the Deschutes canyon speed in con- st ruction work is being given strona consideration. It is probable that, in order to complete the road within 18 months, the lino will avoid, tempora rily, tunnels that would reduce tho curves, in other words, extensive rock vr tunnel work will not be permitted to delay the completion of the line if such ' work can bo avoided and still a good line ostnbliehed. Subsequently,' tunnels that will straighten the line and reduco cost of operation, hut 'which to build now would delny opening the road, will te constructed. The length of the road when com pleted to Madras will be 109 miles. In the meantime, surveying, and perhapH construction work beyond Madras will continue, ahd the road will bo extended as conditions warrant. Counting surveying crews,- adminis tration forces and laborers, about 2000 men are now at work along the line of construction. Tho forces are being add ed to daily. COMPROMISE MADE IN bunuKmnAiiun ovnT flmched be- a decision. SIAIfc KAIbcS RRiUE BF LAMD. Salem, Or., Out'? 11. At a meeting rf the State Land Ronnl tmtnv u ,. cldwi to fnerettBe the price of indemnity Selection land from $8.75 to $10 an acre. Tho state still owns about 00,000 ucreB of this class of land; The now nrloA goes into effect ,t oncei way cueo at thepreBent A compromise has been i V " ,2 t,,e Deschutes uniiroatl Company ft regard to the con demnation prorygodlnna brounl.t .iimuuu "iampany for right of thromj'yfi.o mx 0 Mr. Ellis. Tho i motion before tho questlj" "V'e Secret nf 1B rttl "n of the circuit court. wiwrar ior P. E. Worthington, acting Us agent for wiu ivvovinuiuo iiHiiroau uo,, agreed to give Mr. Ellis $325 for right of way and the damage done to his property, be sides agreeing to pay the expense of the condemnation salt as far as they had b?en,M?,rr,led Including tho expensoor Mr. Ellis' attorney's fees. While this Settlement hardly recom penees Mr, Ellis for thp damage dono ' his farm, he deemed It advisable to ac cede to these terras ruther thancarh tho controversy further, JV