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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 6, 1910)
The Madr Pi 2 BoTVn L First National Bank ffPB,NEV,tU. OREGON fir't"ld;n,M.nAi.nwiN,OMl1lor. LruBiltV47fl;i;.'Awt.wJilcr. EBTABUBHED10DO P n,oo.ooo.oo MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6. J910. NO. 8 GAR FERRY IN OPERATION Good Farms ir City Properly and Business Chances F D, W, BARNETT ticE IMS STREET. MADRAS, oiimiu bo local ngc PfiiiCS Kigllt. rent for Depot Addition IMrAH ami tno new ww Trainson Tempor ary Track TRAINS TO MADRAS BY FIRST OF FEBRUARY MADRAS Large Amount Of Material Being AssembledTunnels May Delay Tracklaying ellDrillingCo.l: ARTESIAN AND SURFACE WELLS DEPTH CUAnANTEFD ESTIMATES FURNISHED NQUIRE AT PIONEER OFFICE MlUHAb, UlitUUN VOODCHOPPERS WANTED e can use several woodchonpcrB nt 8 lOClHWOOU on our lanu. uuw immodations and ensh paid? Apply he Wallenburg & Farror Mill on h Creek, throe miles ciiHt of izly, Oregon. s8tf Saturday it was learned here that the car ferry on the Colum bia River which will carry mate rial for construction on the Ore gon Trunk Line is now in suc cessful operation near the mouth of the Deschutes. An engine and six cars have been trans ported across to be used in the construction work. At present the work trains on south bank of the river have only a mile and one-half of track to operate over, and this track is not on the Oregon Trunk proper, but on the tem porary grade and incline, which will be used in the ferry trans fer, pending the completion of the steel bridge across the Co lumbia four miles farther down stream. This temporary road is about two and one-half miles long and rails therfor will be laid by hand until the main line is reached. Then the track-laying machine now at Clark, the North Bank station, will be ferried across the river and put into commission. It will lay about one and one-half miles per day. Arrangements have been made for material yard3 on the south side of the river in addition to those at Clark.. Bridge, rails, ties and other material will be accumulated at the south side yards in quantities, so that in the event the ferry should be put out of commission tempora rily from unforseen cause, con struction work on the railroad need not stop. The grade is ready for the ties and rails for a distance of about 80 miles, with the exception of some of the bridge work, which cannot be completed until trains reach those points with the bridge steel. A delay is expect ed at a tunnel on the 12 miles of road to be used jointly with the Harriman line opposite the Warmspring Reservation. Com mencement of this tunnel was delayed by the controversy be tween the two roads over rights of way, and as the result of line 100 Men Wanted. V: a At the C. O. M. Co.'s Store, to buy uptodate Fall Suits and Over coats. We have the swellest and most com plete line of clothing i n Mad ras. Every gar ment new and shipped to us direct from the factory, thus assuring you of the best values at the lowest prices. Men's Three-Piece Suits from $5.00 Up; Men's Overcoats from $5.75 Up FULL LINE OF Heating Stoves JUST ARRIVED Central Oregon Mercantile Company R. T. OLSON, Manager MADRAS, OREGON changes mad6 subsequently to the joint track agreement.' The Portlad Oregonian says: Both roads will be delayed at the same point, and doubt is nov expressed a3 to the comple tion of the roads into Madras by January 1. This first town in the interior to be given railroad transportation will probably be reached a month later. From Madras work will progress rap idly to Crooked River, where there will be another delay of about two months or more in constructing the arch steel span across the narrow river canyon. Trains can probably be operated into Bend by the middle of the summer. WORK UPON TRESTLE HAS COMMENCED Work upon the Oregon Trunk Line trestle at the head of Wil low Creek canyon in the western part of Madras commenced Sat urday with the erection of a large piledriver for driving the piles for the approach of the bridge on that section of the grade. From a recent obseryation of the grading on that portion of the Oregon Trunk between Mad ras and the mouth of' Trout Creek, it seems probable that that section of the work will be completed in about two months, or in ample time for the laying of the rails 'which has begun at the mouth of the Deschutes. With the exception of the steel bridge across Trout Creek and three small wooden trestles, the Deschutes Kailroad grade is completed from Madras to the point where the joint track agreement was made with the Oregon Trunk Line. CITY COUNCIL HOLDS . REGULAR SESSION At the regular meeting of the City Council Tuesday night, the general routine of business was gone over, all the councilmen being present but one. The Recorders' report showed that during the month of Sep tember, he had 59 persons before him, charged with various offen ces, and collected $567 in fines, 12 being charged with a state case, their fines were remitted; and that the Recorder had is sued licenses to the amount of $33.50. The City Treasurer's report is as follows: RECEIPTS Sept. 1, Cash on hand, $1718.27 Received for license, 54.70 " from fines, 482.00 " " road tax 3.00 DISBURSEMENTS General fund - - $484.31 Road " - ' - 128.65 Cash on hand Oct. 1, 1910, $1645.01 Owing to the resignation of Marshall A. W. Culp and night watchman A. J. Weston, during the month of September ap pointments had been made tem porarily until the regular meet ing. The application of Frank M. Loveland was taken up for discussion, and Mr. Loveland appointed Marshall, the salary being fixed at $100 per month. The following amendment to section 3 ordinance 3 was passed by the council. "An ordinance entitled an or dinance to amend Section num ber 3 of ordinance number 3." The city of Madras does ordain as follows: Sec. 1. That section number 3 of ordinance number 3 be amended to read: That the Marshall receive as compensa tion for his services, the sum of One Hundred Dollars pel' month, payable monthly upon warrants duly drawn. Howard W, Turner J. H. Jackson, Mayor. Recorder. The matter of the nignt watch man was taken up and the pres ent night watchman J. B. Har per, was retained for another month. The committee on Streets and Public Property reported that the probable cost of sidewalks would be about $1.30 per foot at the present price of lumber, the Recorder being instucted to make the proper assessment at once so that work could be commenced immediately. WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE GRAND JURY WILL THY THE CATERPILLAR T.A.Taylor Installs Gasoline Power MORE ECONOMICAL TO MAINTAIN THE ENCINE 'Caterpillar" Cuts And Harvests 165 Acres In One Day In Umatilla County As an aftermath of the arrests last Thursday of the women in the tenderloin district, nine were bound over to appear before the grand jury, each furnishing $100 bail, one was dismissed upon a technicality, and two were dis charged for lack of evidence. Upon being fined $10 by the recorder, as stated last week, the women decided to secure counsel and fight the case, and they were placed under guard by the city. In the meantime W A. Ellis filed complaint against the women under a state law, upon which the fines assessed by the City of Madras were remit ted by the recorder, as the mat ter was taken out of the city's jurisdiction. Circuit court will meet Octo ber 17, at which time these cases will be heard by the grand jury. OREGON FARM PRODUCTS WORTH $115,000,000 According to an estimate by Dr. James Withtcombe, director of the Oregon Experiment Sta tion at Corvallis, the total value of the agricultural products of Oregon for the present year will be approximately $115,000,000. This amount is divided by him as follows: Dairy products' $14,000,000; wheat, 17,000,000 bushels, $13,- The first man in Central Ore gon to note the advantage of a gasoline engine as power for do ing the work on a ranch now done by horses is T. A. Taylor on the Little Plains, who will apply the new method. Mr. Taylor has purchased one of the Holt Caterpillar gasoline engines and expects to do with it all the farm work, in the way of plowing, cultivating, seeding, and harvesting which in the past has been done by horse power. The "Caterpillar" engine be ing of 45 horsepower, is capable of doing the Work of 20 to 30 horses. The cheaper cost of maintenance in comparison to the outlay for keeping that num ber of horses, is one of the prin cipal features in favor of the new machine. It is built on the principal, as popularly express ed, of laying its own track, the wheels having a large bearing surface, gives it the advantage of being able to haul a heavy load over soft ground. The following clipping from the Portland Journal, speaks of the merits of the "Caterpillar" engine: Pendleton, Or. That the new "caterpillar" engine will soon revolutionize harvest work in the inland empire is evidenced by the experiments being made by the three now in operation in Umatilla county. As a motive power for the giant combine har den nnn. u,, onn nnn fn 1 n ' " wt J-"1 irr'X' "r .r.'.Lr,' r V - vesters which are used almost for cutting in this 000,000; oats, 11,000,000 bushels, $6,000,000; potatoes, 6,000,000 bushels, $5,000,000; fruit, $6, 000,000; poultry products, $5, 000,000; wool, 2,000,000 pounds, $1,000,000; liops, 90,000 bales, $3,000,000; livestock $25,000,000; miscellaneous products, $23,250,-000. Announcement To The Travelling Publlo: We have just furnished aud opaued up the White House Hotel at Culver Junction and cordially Invite Ihe pat ronnge of those in need of hotel no com niodutloiis. Culver Junction is about 55 miles out of Shanlko, and on the heat auto mobile mud between Madras and Bend, and being ten miles south of Madras W the most logical and con venient nooning place for the auto mobile truffle Strictly homo cook ing, all white help and every thing tirst class. Try us. Wo'll serve you a good mt-al even if you are a little late or a little early, Mrs. M. H. Fosdlok. Trop. Culver Junction, Oregon. exclusively section of the country, they are proving vastly superior to mules and horses which have hitherto been employed in dragging the machines about the fields, and the prediction is freely made that within a few years they will have entirely supplanted the animals. The most recent evidence of the superiority of the gasoline engine is the record cut made by the John "Crow combine drawn by a "caterpillar." In one day a total of 65 acres of wheat was cut, threshed and sacked, which is perhaps the most remarkable harvest per formance ever recorded in this section. When it is remembered that 25 acres is considered a big cut for an ordinary horse or mule outfit in one day, it would seem that the new machine has a pretty good chance to become popular. Madras State Bank MADRAS, OREGON TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS Money transmitted to all paits of United States and Canada J. M. Conklin, President and Gen, Mn'gr j C. E. Rouih, Vice-President DlHKOTOKSi U, R. Kotish, M. 1'uU, J, O. Robinson, Hobt. Ilea, J, M, Conkllu HJ ku m uu I resident 5 . Cpnkllu I .1118 I h a m i Jiff H