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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1910)
I - if. ' ' "J""" J -n I: A' 6 11 M adras OREGON TOWN THAT IS AWAITING LOCOMO TIVES WHISTLES. T Interesting sketch of "Madras and the Madras country" by Ran dall 11. Howard, n versatile young writer upon the .Pacific Monthly, who graphically tells of the set tlement of this section, its great strides in agriculture, with its possibilities as a fruit-growing country,' and its possibilities for making a manufacturing center by generating power from the I Deschutes. Madras is doubtless the most bust ling little town m Central Oregon to day. This chiefly because it is head quarters for a great army of railroad workmen who are rushing the con stru tion of the two railroads up the Deschutes river canyon and into the heart of Central Oregon. Madras is the gateway town the first station on these two roads after they leave the deep and rugged Deschutes river can yon. And Madras will be the first Central Oregon town to hear the rail 'road whistle of both the Hill and Har rirrian trains It is promised that at least one and possibly both of these - " roads will have been completed to Mad ras before January 1, 1911, And then Madras will be the new shipping point, the Shaniko of Central Oregon, until the next unit of the parallel railroads are completed to Redmond, the second division point in the construction work. Madras is today the typical new rail road town of the west, with its great crowds of foreign laborers and crowd ed eating places and noisy soft drink joints. The main street and the sever al side streets are filled at night, and the business houses are busy at all times. At least these arc the first . things that the newcomer notices about Madras A little later these same con ditions will exist at Redmond, and at Bend, and at Crescent, as the two great railroad systems move on mile by mile south through Central Oregon. ine cniei timorcnce is Madras will see this condition longer than any other of the chief towns, because the construe t ion work near Madras is very heavy, The resident of Madras can very easily imagine a perpetual Fourth of July, for there is no hour of the day when rock blasts cannot be heard at distances varying from a quarter mile to as fur as the sharp sounds will carry. The nearer blasts shaWe the windows of the town and the more distant ones sound like a bombardment at sea. There was a Madras even before there was any Deschutes canyon rail road talk. Ten years ago the Madras country was a noted stock range sec tion. The horsemen and the cattlemen , gathered every spring and every fall at the Willow Creek basin, their chief camping place for the "ride." With the exception of a few scattered ranch es, the country was all. open range and some of the best range of Central Oregon. The crops produced by these few ranchers proved the land to be fertile, and other ranchers located. The Willow Creek basin, where Mad ras is now located, was one of the first sections to be homesteaded, for there was running water through the greater part of the year, and water could be had in the wells at depths of from 10 to 30 feet. Following the building of the Columbia Southern branch railroad to Shaniko, an. I its promised extension further south, there was a homestead ers' rush to the Madras country. The newcomers from other lands and other grain sections said that the great area of rolling hills and the immense Agency Plains just nonh of the Willow Creek basin were promising wheat growinw sections.. During the land rush period several thousands of homesteads were tiled upon and the country tettieu up with surpri-ing rapidity. The firut year's cultivation proved that the section had great grain pos sibilities. Sod lands produced from 10 to SO bushels per acre, anu this year the average of all of the land in the Madras country is in the neighborhood of 20 bnshels per acre. The better farmed lands are yielding 40 bushels in manv ue tions, and the possibilities of the titicLio . under scientific cultivation are not yet known. It should be men tioned, in passing, that the yields this year are counted to bi- above the aver again the Madras countr, though old settlers say that climate conditions are 'seemingly becoml g better each year. Stanguly enough the location of the town ot Madras was fixed by a defect in tho surrounding country. In the Willow Creek basin there was plenty of well water at shallow depths, and running water a part of the year. Not s on tho rolling hills about, and the Agency Plains, 300 feet above. The well digger must go from 100 to 400 feot and more to get water for domes- tic purposes. Consequently the great er number of tho ranchers did not get water, and they have no well wator even lodny. One of the most common sights in this great wheat and grain region is the "well on n wagon" wagon boxes crowded with splashing barrels and long black heavy tanks drawn by four and six horacs. Business followed tho water lino in tho case of Madras. A store in the center of Willow Creek basin was fol lowed by a postofflce, blacksmith shop, then a feed stable and a hotel and other ntores. The greater part of the town of 400 or 600 inhabitants has been built during tho past two years, following the talk of and tho beginning of active construction on the rival roads up the Deschutes river canyon. Madras now 1 i naa a uaiiK, a notoi, a newspaper, a machine shop, a flouring mill, two drug ntores and a number of other business establishments. Tho town has been incorporated since tho first of the year, and is talking of a city wator system, sewerage, electric light, etc. Tho one great resource immediately adjacent to Madras is grain growing. The soil is rich and deep, and the rain fall from 9 to 14 inches, seems suffi cient to insure good crops almost every year under careful methods of farming. Like all new counties, there has been but little scientific soil cultivation, so it may bo presumed that crop yields will steadily increase, Tho altitude is from 2200 to 2S00 feet, and it is said that the climate has become noticeably much milder during the past five years. The depth to which the well digger must go in order to get his water f..r domestic purposes is not so burden some a3 might at first appear. There seems to be no lack of water at from 200 to 400 feet, meaninir the expendi ture of from ?400 to $800., Indeed k. seems nothing more than procrastina tion that causes many of the well-to-do ranchers to continue their twice a week trips to the public well, where they pay 10 cents a hundred gallons for the water with which thev fill their tanks and barrels. The Madras section, like many other parts of Central Oregon, has its irriga tion hopes and possibilities. It is the plan of private land holders to store a part of the surplus waters of Willow Creek to irrigate between 1000 and 2000 acres near the town. More ambitious is the plan of a syndicate of men to carry water from one of the lakes of the upper Deschutes river to irrigate about 70,000 acres of the Agency Plains and other nearby sections. Some preliminary surveying ' work has been done toward the development of this latter project. Under irrigati n the Madras country would be very fertile with immense intensified farming pos sibilities. In addition to gram, all of I the root crops, and especially potatoes, return large yields. In the protected. spots along Crooked River and the De schutes, and Hay Creek, and .other streams, are a number of noted or chards. It is possible, also, that large areas of the rolling hill lands may be come the best of winter apple sections The Madras country is still in the ex perimental so far as more intensified agriculture is concerned The two railroads up the Deschutes river take different routes for the last 15 miles before they reach Madros. The Oregon Trunk turns from the Des chutes canyon into the Willow Creek canyon, and in the latter canyon en counters its most heavy and costly con struction work. This road leaves the Willow Creek canyon at Madras and curves westward and south within the city limits. On the contrary the Har nman road climbs out of the Deschutes canyon via lrout Oreelc canyon, and crosses over the roadbed of the Oregon Trunk through the Willow Creek can yon at right angles, and more than 200 feet above. The Harriman road depot will thus be n the top of the Agency Plains ridge above Madras and about a mile from tho town. Tho two roads roach tho samo level and cross nt a point about four miles beyond Madras, and at tho lop of the heavy grade out from tho Deschutes canyon. It is likely that this point on top of tho ridge will become a railroad division point. Also there will bo n number of stations through tho Madras wheat belt coun try. Thorn aro other largo resources bo- sides grain that may be made tributnry to Madras. Twelve miles away toward Hay Creek are reported largo deposits of coal of good quality. About the samo distance away toward Grizzly Butte aro promising indications of oil, which as yet have not been thoroughly tested. Abundant timber is within lfi miles of Madras both to tho east and to tho west, in tho Grizzlv Butte section and the Matolus district. Also Mad rns is as near tho immense water pow er of tho Deschutes river ns any other town, in Central Oregon. There aro al most numberless power sites within 20 miles of Madras, tho nearest ing about six miles distant. I ITEMS OF INTEREST rOItSAUE At my ranch, about nix miles south-west of Madras, about SO busbcls of clean Wlilto fttitoii, winter wheat, and about COO bnnliels of Red CrosH. winter wheat. CluiHt W AN TED-About four dozen hens, at the Key'u Rooming House, Madras, Oregon. FOR SALE Oio thorough bred Jei- sey Bull, two years old. Inquire of Chiist Uaeimucr. o(M2, 'shIH H ATION FOR ty naru w.ui i ouiou ouunuuiy one may save a tew nunarea aonars in a lifeJ time, but fortunes are the result of wise! 9 " a :s. investment OFFERS OF INVESTMENTS Madras Is One of the Best on the Coast Today r, ... 5 racitic ; monlli"; reasonable FARM LOANS!! Madras State Bant. U PASTURE-Stock taken to pasture b month or all Winter. Innuirc of Culver, or1 Perry P. Read, Madras. Read, s8t WANTED Girl for general house work. Apyly at Central Oregon Mercantile Company's store. s8 MOST COMPLETE LINE SAMPLES in the city at, tbc Tailor Shop next to pool hull. a25 BRING in the old suits or skirts. We will make them look like new. Tailor Shop, MARES FOR SALE -Span bay work mares lor sales. Dr. W. II. Snook, Madras. si ORDER that suit or overcoat at the Tai'or's. We will keep it preepcil free. JNext to pool hall. hzo FOR SALE-I will sell my Lot, Room ing House and Furniture, north of the Madras Hotel, near the Madras Feed Yard, Inquire of Newton Barron. It is not a paper made town, nor one of those "Dollar clown and dollar propositions. It s a real, solid, genuine opportunity to make money on a small expenditure. MADRAS is already a town of importance. The railroads recognize it and are fl looking to Madras as one of their heaviest shipping points. They advertise Madus 1 together with Central Oregon in the Eastern press. The failroads arc helping to mate5, Madras a Big City. WATCH MADRAS GROW. Only 15 weeks until the two railroads reach Madras, then things will happen and happen quick. Prices will go high, Madras l he crowded. MADRAS WILL BOOM. Purchase a lot in Madras and realized! nt!.A mimfimnni Morn mnnnv rrsn t m.irlf in ATmlm in novl dv mnntU. iL. II elsewhere in six years. Madras Original Townsitc and Railroad Addition arc right h the heart of the business center where values arc bound to increase rapidly. Keep ia ! touch with what the mayor and City Council arc doing for City Improvements. THOMPSON COMPANY Exclusive Soiling. Agents for the Original Townsitc and Railroad Addition to Madras, Oregon. HENRY BLDG. COR. 4TH & OAK STS PORTLAND, ORE. SAYRE & HENDRICKS Local Agontt PIANOS I have three new lirfit-elass piano', just received from Uie factory upon which I can make riht prices in mommy payments to euit pur chaser. O ill and see them. A. C. Sanford, Mauri", Or. a!8 TO TRADE-1 have a lot m a tfood lot-ation in the city of Madras, that 1 would trade for cither unb'fbkc hor ses or cattle. Inquire of Airs. M. E. Bradford, near new Culver. PROFGSSIONAL CARDS. II. SNOOK PHYSICIAN & SURGEON OlUre in Unit; Storu. MADRAS OKKHON MONEY TO LOAN ON Mulras State Bank. FARMS. Sen Qua van tassel WANTKD-A linupf work. O. Key. Woman to do general Inquire of Mrs. Hairy NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE MADRAS, OREGON JERSEY BULL THOROUGH AR ED Ja II. HANEH ABSTRACTER OF TITLES NOTAI'.Y I'UllI.IC Flrkliiuranre. Life Insurance. Bnrety lloiidn item r.Hltile, (Jon veynacliif riUNKVJM.K, OUKOON FOR SERVICE o.-5llveb at my ranch adjoining Mudras SERVICE $2.60 TERMS CASH D. W. ADAMS, Owoer culver NOTARY PUBLIC Justico of tho Ponce CULVEIt I'KKCINCT OREGON r SHORTY'S BIG STORE Handles All Kinds of Fruit and Vegetables 1 BUY FROM SHORTY. Loucks Building, SHORTY NEEDS THE MONEY Madras, Oregon John T. ItoM I) 1,. WyMo II. V. Wvlik- CROOK COUNTY ABSTACT CO, incoj:I'oi:ati:i Complete tract Index t- all land and town lots In Crook county. Abstracts mane accurately on tliort notice. PRINEVIU.E, - ORIXSON Howard w. turner U. S. COMMISSIONER MAI) HAS NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE OKKIJON i Automobile S Qt V. BARHETT taft Line : : lm ALL NEW STUDEBAKER AUTOS Madhas, NOTARY PUBLIC FOR OREGON Collections a Specialty. Oukgon Shaniko, via -Madras To Bend DAILY TRIPS EACH WAY The Best Accommodations For All Passengers FOR RATES APPLY At STAGE OFFICE Corneff Stage & Stable Co. i IBLU 0 HORSESHOEING X General Repairing1 West of Hood & Stanton's Baru TIIOS. H. MADDRON i Madras, Oregon Do Not Delay Your Fall Planting OUR AUTUUH CATALOG mil In Sptrobw Milli frit on linuitt 11 MND 0RNMEHTAL "I Warren Si PROPRIETOR CO. STRAWBERRY VtfooAtt PLANTS Oar ennnJ Importation! Iihtb art rlrod from FRAnCB, HOLLAND, JAPAH and tho AZOrtBO nd do taeitloatiKkiarenowrranjr. Karl orderi ecuro select ruervatlon. 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