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The Madras Pioneer
MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 14, 1910.
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NO. 48
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LSO A GOWlPLETl LINE OF PAINTS AND OILS
its, Hats, Ca's,
Shoes,
teckwear, Etc.
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& Swellest As-
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COMPLETE LINE
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"DESCHUTES"
COUNTY BILL
Gets Little Sup
port at Home
INCLUDED DISTRICTS KICK
Promoters Curry Favor Among
OutsidersVoters Asked To
Investigate This Scheme .
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Madras, ore.
Prices $8 to $40
According to the Redmond Hub the
promoters of the "Deschutes" county
bill huve found a place where the pro
posal to divide Crook county is VERY
popular.
But this fabled place is away over in
the Willamette Valley, where practi
cally nothing is known of local condi
tions and where the interests of the
people are not affected.
But for Heaven's sake! If the peo
ple of the Willamette Valley want
"Deschutes" county, the majority of
Crook county wishes they would come
and take the thing away. We haven't
any need or place' for it in the Des
chutes Valley.
Outsiders Should Investigate
We submit it to the mind of any
honest man Have the pc'ople in the
Willamette Valley any just or moral
right to a voice in the creation of a
new county from Crook county terri
tory? Why of course not. But this is
the history of the Deschutes county
move from the beginning, to force this
division through by the assistance of
outside voters, regardless of the desires
and protests of the people who are
affected by it. There has not been and
cannot be put forward any sensible ar
gument to the people of Crook county
in favor of the creation of Deschutes
county. The disinterested outsider is
not expected to care much, "Crook
county is pretty big, and ought to be
divided." And it is this kind of jolly
that may appeal to the man in the
Willamette Valley, because he doesn't
know any different, but to every voter
in the state who may chance to read
these lines, we wish to emphatically
say that the creation of the proposed
Deschutes county will be a rank injus
tice and outrage to the majority of the
'o nf rvnV rounty. If you do not
know about this RcdmolTfeife;'
out about it.
Strong Opposition at Home
it would be more to the point if the
Redmond Hub would name some part
of Crook county (outside of Redmond)
wnere me uescnutes county but is
popular.
The Princville people are utterly
opposed to it, as is evidenced by their
strong resolution of condemnation. The
boundaries nre wholly unjust and un
satisfactory to the people in that vicin
ity, coming within six miles of town.
Bend Must Cross New County
Bend is doing everything in her pow
er to defeat the bill. Her people will
have to go entirely through the new
county to reach their county seat at
Princville, although the boundaries of
it arc within five miles of Bend.
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Included Territory In Revolt
The people of the Squaw Creek and
Sisters district arc opposing the effort
to include them in the Redmond county.
This is the only precinct in the county to
which Redmond, as a county scat, offers
anything of convenience.
An Outrage to Madras Country
111 the great territory north of
Crooked River, including J.amonta,
Culver, Opal Prairie, Madras, Agency
Plains and other thickly settled districts
there is not one owner of 1G0 acres
who favors county division under the
Deschutes county plan. This country
is all included m tho new county, and
will be by far tho most productive and
thickly settled portion of it.
If there is any virtue in tho Redmond
proposition why are all theso progres
sive people opposing it?
The Hub says becauso it would spoil
the chances of some towns to become
future county scats. Certainly it
would, and at tho same timo it will
spoil tho chances of the people to over
have a county seat located conveniently
to their homes. If that is not a good
reason to oppose mo mil, more ih no
room for opposition at all.
Redmond Offers Nothing
If Redmond oilers any advantages as
a county seat to any considerable por
tion of the territory of which it pro
poses to be the capital, the Deschutes
county promoters have thus far failed
to prcHent them to all of us "annexed"
people who arc opposing the plan.
It's ten times easier to create popu
larity for Deschutes county in the
Willamette Valley than it is among the
majority of the people who arc to be
included in it.
Village's Ambition Only Excuse
Redmond's ambition to land a county
seat is absolutely the only motive for
division of Crook county at this time.
Redmond is only It! miles from Princ
ville, our present county scat. If Des
chutes county is foisted upon us by the
votes of men who have no just right to
a voice in the matter, wo will have two
county scats located within 16 miles' of
each other, for a territory as large as
the state of Massachusetts. How
apparent it is to anyone who knows
local conditions, that there is no excuse
for such a county as Deschutes, except
to make Redmond a county scat.
Most Unnatural Association
"What God has put asunder, no man
can join together." Redmond can
never annex the territory north of
Crooked river to herself for the reason
that there is no natural tendency for
this district to go that way. Between
us is a great gulf fixed the gorge of
Crooked river, which can be crossed at
only two points in a stretch of 20 miles.
We have no interests in common, and
the joining of the Willow Creek Basin
to the desert country south of Crooked
river is too absurd to have ever re
ceived a thought in any proposal for
county division, until this "Deschutes"
county scheme was concocted at
Redmond.
No Demand for Division At All
It is a hard, cold fact that a division
of Crook county is entirely UBelesi and
unwarranted, unless the new conditions
would offer a very great increase in
convenience to a large number of peo
ple. Our county affairs are in good
hands, the business of the county is
ably managed, the officers are rendering
accommodating service, taxes are nor
mal, the county is equipped with a
splendid stone courthouse just built
Every accommodation that can possibly
be had under existing physical condi
tions are enjoyed by the residents of
this county at Princville. Distance and
the time consumed in travel are the
only drawbacks. Tho location of a
county seat at Redmond for the pro
posed county of Deschutes would not
relieve thii condition ut all.
If there is any sense or justice in the
proposal for Deschutes county, we wish
someone would point it out.
EXPERIMENTING WITH
ALFALFA FOR SEED
" best
Central Oregon is one of Hi.
countries in the world, so government
service men tell us, for the production
of seed plants, especially alfalfa, and
yet in the local market alfalfa seed sells
today for 27 cents a pound, and the
product is shipped from the eastern
part of the state or from the central
states.
Last year R. M. Powell and other
farmers on the McKay grew some
fine quality seed, but their inexperience
caused many mistakes that lessened the
quantity of their output 75 per cent,
Now comes a Portland real estate firm
with an idea that is good, well worth
copying by the dry farmers m Central
Oregon.
I his firm has secured a large place
in the vicinity of Culver W. F. Ham
mer s place ami will parcel it out in
Portland and to other outside people at
$100 an acre for alfalfa gardens. The
method of producing alfalfa on this land
is wherein the merit of the plan lies
Any man who has an irrigated ranch
will tell you that it cannot be done, but
on second thought he will tell you as
firmly that it can.
The plan is this: Prepare the land in
the same manner as tho dry farmer
does, that is, after the system advocat
ed by the Campbell method, and in the
early spring plant alfalfa seed in rows
as you would corn.
Tho plant should be cultivated almost
constantly, and in this manner the soil
will retain the moisture and produce a
good strong plant.
Investigation shows that this is the
method used by the government in pro
ducing itii alfalfa seed, and tests made
by theso men show that a very large
percentage of the seed is fertile, a
much greater percentage than of the
irrigated seed.
the maximum amount of seed that
can be expected from an aero is nno
thousand pounds according to good au-
inoriiy, wiih ii ruauuy snows mat any
Kind oi a seed crop is hotter than hay.
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FOR KAMI -Complete tliii-Hliing outfit
ut llie Kd kutclicr ranch, t all at tho
ninth, j'J-al
SUOSTANTIAL
IMPROVEMENT
Madras To Have
Water System
GRADE AND OIL STREETS
May Bond City for Municipal
Water Works-Railroad Engi
neer Helping City Officials
Madras is going in for some of the
things that mean civic progress and de
velopment. If it is possible under ex
isting laws for the city to provide for
a bond issue, an election will be held on
the question of bonding the town for a
sum sufficient to put in a good and suffi
cient water system for domestic pur
poses and fire protection.
The city authorities have very gladly
accepted the offer of Engineer Gns
wold of the Oregon Trunk Railway to
assist the city with plans and estimates
for a water system. Mr. Griswold is
now in correspondence with different
supply houses regarding the cost of
material. He will shortly put some of
the railroad engineers out with instru
ments to establish level stations about
town so that a line can be had on a lo
cation for reservoir site. Mr. Griswold 's
suggestion which seems to meet with
common approval is to put in a good
well and gasoline pumping plant, feed
ing into a large reservoir. He gives
as a rough estimate the cost of such
a system as about $5000. Steps are to
be taken at once toward working.out
the plans outlined above and to supply
Madras with a water system at the
earliest possible date.
At the meeting held Monday evening
Engineer Griswold submitted for the in
spection of the council a profile of the
grade on Main street, which the city
intends to improve at once. Mr. Gris
wold advised that the central portion of
the street be left as it is at present,
but that a gutter grade be constructed
on each side of the street from the Mad
ras Hotel corner through to Willow
Creek, a distance of about 1600 feet.
The engineer showed that without
making this gutter more than 2 feet
deep at the north end, or outlet, that
the street could be perfectly drained,
which point is the essential one for the
present consideration. The trouble now
: fefv?"0 watcr traP3 in t,lc
is that n.s-. IfWjyi "nirfacc water,
street which hold sagt is
making bad conditions. The sUwvtZr
level enough and good enough in appear
ance for all practial uses, but the desire
is to get rid of the water. The recom
mendations of Mr. Griswold were ac
cepted and this work will be done im
mediately. From an engineering standpoint it
will be a very easy matter to put a per
fect grade on Main street. At no point
on the work would the cutting or filling
exceed a foot and a half, but even then
the work would entail considerable ex
pense for the reason that some of the
material would have to be moved sev
eral hundred feet. This expense is not
considered advisable at this time. The
gutter grade is to be constructed and
then the matter of establishing the side
walk grade will be taken up. This will
be done with the idea of making the
sidewalk grade fit existing sidewalks as
closely as practicable, m order to save
expense of reconstruction to conform to
a hard and fast grade specification.
All these improvements are being taken
up from the common-sense point of
view with the ideaof getting the service
desired at the least cost to the city and
the property owners.
The council has about concluded to do
nway with the effort to stop the dust
nuisance by sprinkling and to oil the
streets of the city with crude oil. The
expense of the present plan by sprink-
mg with water is considered too trreat
in consideration of the results obtained.
It is figured that the cost of snn'nklinir
all summer will more than pay for the
application of tho oil on the same Btreot
surface and the efficiency of the oil is
far above sprinklinir.
Engineer Griswold is also cominc- to
the aid of the city in this matter. Hn
believes that it can bo arranged for the
ity to secure oil from the Oreiron Trunk
at Shaniko and will take the matter up
with the railroad company. The Oreiron
Tru."k "sing the oil for fuel in their
wen drilling operations four miles south
Continued on lust jiage.
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