The Madras Pioneer
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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1910.
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MAIN STREET
IMPROVEMENT
Gutter Drain Al
most Finished
LUMBER FOR SIDEWALKS
Has Been Ordered Ons Lamps
Will Soon Light Street
At Night.
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The work of constructing the
gutter drain to grade on Main
Street was taken up the last of
the week and will be completed
in a short time. The Oregon
Trunk engineering department
'put on a crew and set the stakes
and the street committee of the
city council lost no time in put
ting workmen on the job. This
will insure that the streets will
be in better condition the coming
winter than ever before, and the
improvement is viewed with sat
isfaction by every citizen.
But this is not he best part of
it. The council has ordered 13,
600 feet of lumber for the con
struction of cross walks and side
walks,a portion of the lumber
now being on the road in from
the sawmills. The sidewalk
grade is to be established and
the construction of sidewalks or
dered at once. Where the prop
erty owners fail to provide the
improvement the city will build
the walks and assess the costs
against the property. The plan
at present is to order the con
struction of walks from the foot
of the hill south of Hahn's store
to about a half block north of the
bank and Hotel Madras, on both
sides of the street. The ordi
nance recently passed by the city
council regulating the construc
tion of walks on this street re
quires that they be built of lum
ber two inches thick, six inches
wide, laid on five stringers, the
walk to be 8 feet wide. The
cross walks are to be 4 feet
wide.
Progress has also been made
in the matter of installing the
six large gasoline lamps on Main
street. Prices have been re
ceived from two supplying firms,
and the order will be forwarded
right away. The plans for
swinging the lights now is to
suspend them from arms on
poles, instead of attempting to
put them over the middle of the
street. With the street drained,
sidewalks and cross walks built
and fir3t-class lights in the busi
ness part of the town it is believ
ed that the council and the peo
ple will begin to realize the value
of these things and that civic
pride and real town building will
take front place at Madras.
New Umbrellas
and Sunshades
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Wc have just received a large shipment of umbrellas, suitable
for all kinds of people and all kinds of weather.
Positively 'the largest assortment ever shown in Madras, at
prices that. will tempt the most fastidious customer to buy. Do.
not miss this opportunity to save money. Call and see our line.
PRICES from 50c to $3.00 EACH
FREE!-$10 Dinner Sets-FREE!
EVERY WEEK
Next prize will be given on Wednesday,
September 28. Don't forget the date, you
may be the winner.
Central Oregon Mercantile
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R. T. OLSON, Manager
MADRA&. - - OREGON
MADRAS MAN
AFTER THE CUP
Goes to Spokane
Exposition
Spokane show. He has been
appointed by the county court as
a delegate from this county, as
was also G. Springer of Culver.
Besides the exhibit he is tak
ing to Spokane, Mr. Reuter has
a duplicate exhibit which he will
take to the county fair at Prine
ville next month.
WITH DRY FARM EXHIBIT
Will Compete for Silver Cup
Offered by The Portland
Commercial Club.
Tillman Reuter leaves Friday
for Spokane with his dry farm
exhibit which he will enter in
the competition at the Dry Farm
ing Exposition for the silver cup
offered by the Portland Commer
cial Club for the best dry farm
exhibit grown by an Oregon
farmer. Mr. Reuter's exhibit
comprises about 80 specimens
of grains and vegetables pro
duced by him on his dry farm
near Madras. Besides his own
individual exhibit he will also
take along for show a few speci
mens grown by others. His ex
hibit will weigh in the neighbor
hood of 700 pounds, and the
reason he is making such an
Drilling at the Oregon Trunk
well at Metolius has been sus
pended this week while a pump
pit nine feet in diameter and six-
een feet deep is being excavated
at the surface. At a depth of
875 feet a layer of boulders and
other caving material was en
countered and it will be neces
sary to put in ten-inch casing in
order to proceed with the work.
The casing is now arriving and
will be put in as soon as the
pump pit is completed. When
the well which is being drilled
for the railroad company is fin
ished the drillers will begin on
two wells for the Metolus town
site company for a city water
supply. These will be drilled at
points about three thousand feet
from the location of the rail
road well.
if
early start is to make sure of
getting there in time to properly
arrange it at the exposition.
Mr. Reuter's specimens in
clude the following:
14 varieties of potatoes in peck
lots.
6 varieties of potatoes in small
lots 20 varieties in all.
10 varieties of oats in sheaf.
6 varieties of wheat in sheaf.
3 varieties of barley in sheaf.
1 variety of rye in sheaf.
Alfalfa in 3 cuttings, first,
second and seed.
3 varieties pumpkins.
Summer and winter squashes.
Carrots.
6 varieties onions.
Onion seed.
Watermelons.
Muskmelons.
Sweetcorn on stalk.
a varieties field corn in ear
and stalk.
Rronnd cherries.
5 specimens of beans on bush
and dry.
3 varieties peas.
Black lettuce seed.
Amber cane.
Sand vetch.
2 varieties threshed wheat.
Mr. Reuter is going after that
cup, and he's going after it right.
His past successes along this line
is a guarantee that he will carry
nfe cnmi nf the nrizes at the
EXCAVATING PUMP PIT
AT METOLIUS WELL
WAREHOUSES
CROWD ROOM
Madras Will Have
Many
PRISONER RESISTS,
BIG FIGHT FOLLOWS
Marshal Culp had a lively
time with some railroad laboiers
on the street last Friday after
noon. He started for the lock
up with one man who was be
having disorderly when the man
turned on him for fight. Other
members of the gang butted in to
help the prisoner, while several
volunteers rushed to the assist-
miv if mi
ance oi tne marsnau mere
was a free for all fight for a few
minutes, the dignity of the law
finally prevailing. Next morn
ing three of the troublesome
ones were brought before the
recorder and fined a total of
$150, on the charge of resisting
an officer. The fines were pajd
BIG SHIPPING FACILITIES
Oregon Trunk May Enlarge
Plans To Provide More
Industrial Trackage.
DR. HAROLD CLARK
STUNG BY SCORPION
Dr. Harold Clark was stung by
a scorpion the other morning
which had crawled into his
trousers during the night.
When the doctor put on the gar
ment the reptile got his work in
just above the man's knee. Car
bolic acid was immediately ap
plied to kill the poison, although
a knot as large as a hen's egg
raised where the bug made the
injection. Since the swelling
disappeared there is a sore spot
the size of a dime to commemo
rate the event.
DEATH OF MRS. CURTIS
Mrs Burrie Curtis, formerly
Miss Burrie Eagles, died last
Tuesday night at Centralia,
Washington. Charles Eagles,
her brother, left here last Sun
day night, having been advised
of her serious illness. William
Eagles, an uncle of the deceased,
and his daughter, Mrs. Silas
White and Mr. White left here
last evening to attend the
funeral.
The local office of the Oregon
Trunk is being flooded with ap-
plications for warehouse sites
at the station grounds in this
city, and Engineer Griswold is
doing his best to get these . )
affairs straightened out to the
satisfaction of all.
The local Farmers Union were'
among the first warehouse com
panies to apply for a warehouse
site, and they have been endeav
oring this week to determine
upon a location so as to com
mence work at once. It is un
derstood that all that remains to
be done is to get the approval of
the mansger of the Oregon
Trunk for the lots selected. The
Farmers building will be 66x250
feet and will be built somewhere
in the Madras yards. Much of
the material is already piled on
.the yards. Madras businessmen
raised $300 in about half an hour
Monday evening to insure the
erection of the' building at this
place, as the site available made
the cost of the foundation more
than the farmers had calculated
upon.
Four applications each for
sites with 250 foot trackage have
been received from outside com
panies, whose identities are not
given out. Mr. G. W. Harris is
here today representing one of
these companies. He states that
his people will build a ware
house 250x90 feet.
The demand for warehouse
room at Madras has so far ex
ceeded what the Oregon Trunk
, people estimated would be re
. quired that it is likely that the
railroad company will have to
extend their industrial trackage
and enlarge the plans for the
Madras station grounds.
Madras is readily recognized
,by the big concerns to be the
I future shipping point for all the
I north part of Crook County,
hence the scramble for ware-
house sites as the date for the
arrival of trains at this point
draws near.
A conservative estimate of the
amount of wheat harvested in
the Madras section this year
places the total in the neighbor
hood of 1,000,000 bushels. As
soon as warehouse accommoda
tions are provided, the growers
can haul their grain in and put it
where they can realize upon it.
Present activities would indicate
that there will be facilities for
handling great quantities of
freight at this place as soon as
the trains arrive here to haul out
the grain and other products.
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