The Madras Pioneer
MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. MAY 5, 1910.
NO, 38
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MADRAS, OREGON
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Madras State Bank
MADRAS, OREGON
TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
Money transmitted to all parts of United States and Canada
i m Conklin. Prewdent and Gen. Mangr; C. E. Rouh, Vice-Pretident
DIltKCTOKS: C. B. Ilouti, M. I'iiU, J. C. Ho1)lnnoti, !K)tt. Ilcn, J. M. Conklln
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SHANIKO, OREGON
Announce the opening In Slinnlko of 11 ninll order
(inusp, which ImihIUm iiothlnj; lut bonded llquoiH mid high Rrndo
California wlii"8 nl the snwu price elmrKotl by c ty wlioluswlor.
Tin- linn iimlntKlim no bur awl docs no lutitll liiuilwtw further limn
to jjive Its iimll '1"" oiwtoiuurw n Kiiniiuitced Hervico of inlity and
jiromiitnt-HH. Give us a trlul ami be convinced.
A FEW SPECIALS
BARGAIN No. 1
One quart bottle California Urundy,
or &-yenrold whisky
One quart bottle Port Wino
Onoqimrt bottle Sherry Wine,
One quart bottle Muscatel Wine.
All For $2.50
BARGAIN No. 2
Sherry Wine, 81 .50 a gallon,
M uscatel Wine, 82 u gallon,
A G-ytsiir-old Bourbon Whis
ky, 3 a gallon
' All For $6.00
A FINE OLD PORT WINE, $1.50 A GAL
lail orders given prompt and close attention.
bods sealed and packed in good condition.
rhen you are in Shaniko,
look for the barrel in front.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
JOSEPH W. RIDE
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ,
NOTARY I'UHLIC
Money to Loan on 1'nrmii
MttJJTUH OREGON
0 C. GOLLVEI?
NOTARY PUBLIC
Justloo of the Feao
CULVEK rnKCWCT
CULVER OREGON
Howard w. turner
U. S. COMMISSIONER
NOTARY PUBLIC
INSURANCE
MADRAS
OREGON
II. SNOOK
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Offlcfr In Drue Btoro.
MADKAfl OREGON
Ja H. HAHEIt
ABSTRACTER OF TITLES
, NOTARY PUBLIC
Flrolnsurnner, lilt Jniuranct, Surety Bonds
Ileal Eitnte, Conveyancing
PRINEVILLE,
OREOON
SEATTLE MAN
GETS BIG JOB
H. C. Henry Is To
Grade South
WORK BEGINS SOON
Red Cross
DRUG STORE
MADRAS, ORE.
PRESCRIPTIONS
A SPECIALTY
Pure fresh drua and
ucenrucy for all.
Next week only
We will sell
Blue Vitrol
8c POUND
Watch our specials. They
will save you money.
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utile Company
SUCCESSOR TO J. C. & M. A. ROBINSON
Butter 65c roll, Eggs 25c Dozen, in Trade
BUILD
Nu
ATERIAL
We can supply you with everything in the way of building materials, builders's hardware, tools,
door and window fittings, building paper, tacks, nails, etc. We save you money on every item
We Will Buy Cordwood
If you have any to dispose of, come in and see us
Garden Seeds
OF ALL VARIETIESIN PACKETS
OR BY THE POUND
Pit filn
Studebaker
AND
Old Hickory
Wagons
There is no chane to make
a mistake when you buy
one of these old reliable
wagons. They have stood
the test of years.
MADRAS, ORE.
Ono Hundred Twonty-Flvo Miles of
Grading To Be Completed By
January 1, 1911.
The contract for the grading on the
Oregon Trunk Line south from Madras
to the border of the Klamath Indian
Reservation was let last Thursday to
H. C. Henry of Seattle, at a figure
said to be in the neighborhood of $4,
000,000, although the contract price is
not given out. This piece of work cov
era 125 miles of right of way and the
contract specifies that the work is to
be completed by January 1, 1911.
The announcement is made that the
work is to be taken up at once and
commissary supplies are said to be
already on the way to Madras. This
city and Bend will be the principal de
pots for sapplieil on the northern por
tion of the work. Three camps are to
be established for the present; one
north of Crooked river, one just south
of Trail Crossing, and another at Wet
Weather Springs, about six miles south
of Bend. .
While it is riot expected that grading
operations will be undertaken on a
arge scale until the new hay harvest
begins, the work is to be all under way
before that time. Several thousand
men are to be put to work if they can
be secured.
Contractor Henry is the man who
established the record for rapid rail
road construction in pushing the Pacific
Coast extension of the Milwaukee sys
tem from Butte, Montana, to Puget
Sound, 1500 miles, in three years. Mr,
Henry s local representatives say that
if they are successful in getting the
number of men they want they will
make another new record in building
this second link in the Oregon Trunk
The contract awarded is for a greater
mileage than that of the first section,
which Porter Bros, are now building
from the mouth of the Deschutes river
to Madras, a distance of 109 miles. The
construction of the line from Madras
Weber is now working on the promo
tion of a stock company with that end
in view. He proposes to incorporate a
company with capitalization of $7500,
shares $100 each, the company to do
business under the title of the Madras
Ice & Cold Storage Company.
The plan is to install an ice plant
with a capacity for making three tons
of pure artificial ice in 24 hours, and
with surplus refrigerating power to
operate two cold storage rooms 12x14
feet.
It is claimed by Mr. Weber that one
and one-half tons of ice will be con
sumed daily in Madras at the present
time, and that a price of 2 cents per
pound can be realized.
He has just spent a week at Portland
and The Dalles looking into the matter
of the probable cost of an up-to-date
iceplant for this city and also investiga
ting the cost of shipping ice from The
Dalles in carload lots. He says it is
impossible to ship ice into Madras for
less than 2 cents per pound. As a
quantity of very inferior ice harvested
here last winter found ready sale at 2
cents, Mr. Weber thinks that price
safe to figure on.
Inasmuch as a well and power would
be required for both the iceplant and
a laundry, it is proposed for the sake
of economy to put in a 25-H. if. gas
engine to operate all the machinery, to
sink a big well for a water supply, and
conduct the two businesses in the same
building. Estimates of the cost of the
machinery for the ice plant place it at
$3620; laundry machinery, $1042; build
ing and well, $1000; total, $5662.
The cold storage rooms would be
rented to local dealers for the preserv
ing of meats, vegetables, fruits, eggs'
and other perishable produce.
LOUIS W. HILL
WILL BOOST
Will Visit Oregon
All Summer
COMING TO INTERIOR
Will Gather Exhibits and Data to
Used In Greatest Colonization
Campaign Ever Undertaken
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DESCHUTES RAILROAD
WILL NOT QUIT
Resident Engineer Thomas Says
There Is No Truth In The Rumor
Resident Engineer St. Claire Thomas
of the Deschutes Railroad, when asked
concerning the report published in the
Portland papers that the Harriman in
terests had surrendered to the Oregon
Trunk and that only one railroad line
would be completed up Deschutes can
yon, sam that mere was not a gram oi
truth in it.
"The work has gone too far now for
anything like that to be thought of , "
said he.
"It is a fact that both roads will for
short stretches use the same track in
the canyon, and some Portland reporter
has probably learned this and jumped
at a big conclusion. No, indeed. We
are not quitting. We are rushing to
completion the work as fast as possi-
south to the reservation is not fraught hie, and will soon begin finishing up the
with nearly so many engineering ditti- wading in this section."
culties as the initial link has been, for
the road will span a broad open table
land as soon a3 it emerges from the
Deschutes canyon. There will be no
heavy fills or deep cuts, no expensive
bridges, cxiept the one at Crooked
river, or mountainous detours and no
serious grades to climb, so that con
struction will be comparatively rapid.
Plans and specifications call for the
same high-class standard of construe
tion that applies to the line in its pro
gress from the Columbia river to Mad
ras.
At no place in the course of the 125
miles of new line will there be an ad
verse grade in excess of 1 per cent,
One per cent is the maximum of south
bound irrade. while 5 per cent is the
maximum adverse northbound grade,
For most of the distance the most ex
cessivo grade is around 3-10 of one per
cent.
There will be practically no curves
worth mentioning and with the ninety-
pound steel and heavy rock ballasting
that are reouired a normal speed of 60
miles an hour can be maintained by
passenger trains. The heaviest freight
truins may be moved by moderately
powerful engines without the aid of a
holper.
While the bridge across Crooked
river is 17 miles south of Madras and
wnnld naturallv bo embraced in the
contract for the
The big fill on the point a few miles
north of Madras where the Deschutes
line swings on to Agency Plains, about
the heaviest work on the Dwyer con
tract, will Boon be finished and Mr,
Thomas thinks that this section of the
grading will be done by the first of
next month.
Another matter about which the Ore-
gonian pencil pushers seem to he away
off is the rumor of a strike among the
laborers on the railroad work. So far
a3 can be learned here this rumor has
no foundation at all. The men are re
ceiving $2.50 per day, their camps are
comfortable, and the food the very best
that can be furnished under the condi
tions. The workmen seem to be very
well contented and it is not likely that
they will strike when there is jio place
they could go and better themselves.
Louis W. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, and a party of other railroad
and publicity men are shortly to leave
Portland on a tour through Central Ore
gon, extending their trip as far a3
Bums. James J. Hill will traverse the
Deschutes canyon as far as Sherar's
Bridge to get an idea of the character
of work being done on the new line,
but will not make the trip into the
interior.
These are latest announcements from
Portland in regard to the visit of tho
railroad magnates into Central Oregon.
Louis W. Hill is to spend the greater
portion of the summer in Oregon, get
ting acquainted with the state and
arranging plans for its exploitation and
advertisement, with the purpose of in
augurating the greatest colonist move
ment ever known in the history of any
region.
He plans among other things to
secure an exhibit of products which are
to be arranged in cars and sent all over
the East to show prospective settlers
what can be produced in the new
Oregon country.
Thousands of buttons bearing the
inscription, "Free Homes in Central
Oregon" are to be distributed broad
cast, several hundred of the buttons
having been issed already to the public
at Portland.
Large quantities of attractive liter
ature are to be published and put into
the hands of colonists.
The expected announcement of tho
Hill plans for building other lines than
the Oregon Trunk has not been made.
When asked for a statement James J.
Hill said:
"If I told all that we intended to do
in Oregon there would be perhaps 50
persons who would try to jump in
ahead of us at each point to gam some
unjust advantage or profit at our
expense."
GOLD NEAR MADRAS
A. S. Phillips Strikes Low Grado
Prospect Six Miles East of Town
WANT MORE L1CHTS
Three more of the big gas lamps
have during the past week been placed
in front of different business houses on
Main street, and the improvement is so
marked that the city officials are now
contempjating taking a hand in getting
some moro of the lamps in operation,
bv co-onerating with the business men
and assisting in the expense of install
inc the litrhts. if the owners of the
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new extension, it is property will bear the expense of gas
oline for- their operation. Ihe lamps
post $35 each where one light is at
tached to a pressure tank, and the cost
of irasoline for burning the lights for
five hours, the ordinary time per day,
is said not to exceed 15 cents.
There are now four of the lamps on
tho postoflke block, and with tho addi
tion of four moro, Main Street would
bo well lighted, better in fact than
several of tho towns which have an
electric system. Tho plan is, if possi
I bio to have somo moro of tho lamps
Mo.imo mnu shnrtlv havo an ico nhmt placed in the vicinity of the Madras
.i i dimiiil ihn nmhi. Hotel and others near baniord s hall
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ta nf .1. A. Webor bo realized. Mr. anu ino uupk uuuuiub.
not included. This structure will ue
erected by tho Oregon Trunk people
themselves. Tho railroad company will
also lay its own steel and Is preparing
tn follow closolv at tho heels of tho
graders.
ICE PLANT AND LAUNDRY
Madras Man Working on Project to
Install Both Industries Hero
Madras is on the verge of a mining
excitement. A. S. Phillips, who is an
old miner, has discovered a ledge on
vacant land in the northwest quarter
of section 26, township 11, which car
ries low values of free gold, and has
commenced the work of developing tho
prospect. Associated with him in tho
enterprise is A. C. Sanford, while half
a dozen other residents of this place
went to the ground last Tuesday and
staked out claims. v
The highest values carried as report
ed by assays from the Montana Assay
Office at Portland are $3.72 per ton.
The rock is whitish yellow talc and
there is said to be a dike or ledge of it
that can be followed for a considerable
distance. The find is located just east
of George Rankin's homestead in .what
is locally known as the Cowles canyon.
Mr. Phillips was arranging to move
his family to Alberta to reside, but has
changed his plans for the present and
will first see what there is in the pros
pect. He and his son, Oliver, are now
there and as soon as the weather
gets settled the family will camp at
the work.
Mr. Phillips says the rock can bo
milled for $1.50 per ton, and there is
enough water right at hand to supply
a stamp mill ot 60 tons daily capacity.
FARMERS UNION WAREHOUSE CO.
The Farmers Union Warehouse Com
pany is ono of the latest incorporations
with headquarters at Madras. Tho
nominal incorporators are G. R. Moor
head, T. A.' Taylor and G. W. Bran
stetter, although the new concern is to
be the shipping and marketing facility
for tho Madras Farmers Union, an or
ganization that has been in existence
for the past two years. The capitali
zation ib given at $3000, and the new
company plans to build a warehonso for
tho Handling of their grain and othex
farm products.
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