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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1911)
Madras Potatoes Are Top Liners SPECIAL O'N DINERS Great Northern Writes To Com mercial Club About Large Potatoes in is That the fame of the products , of the "Madras Country" Northern Crook County is be coming spread far and wide evidenced by a communication from the dining car service of the Northern Pacific, to the Madras Commercial Club. The attention of President John F. Stevens o the Oregon Trunk was called to the display of Vegetables in the Commercial Club rooms at the time he and his party were in r i i i ii , iuaaras last montn, ana trie size of the potatoes immediately at tracted his attention, with the result that the Madras potatoes will be advertised as a special on the dining cars of the Northern Pacific. . The. following letter was re ceived by the Madras Commercia -dab in regard to large potatoes Northern Pacific Railway Seattle, Wash., Feb. 25. 1911. Mr. vv. F. Hammer, President Commercial Club, Madras, Ore gon. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of communication from President John F. Stevens of the S. P. & S. Ry. Co., in which he advises that you will perhaps be able to give me some information relative to our securing some extra' large potatoes, such as we serve on our diners. Would it be asking too much . of you, if you would kindly put me into communication with the proper parties of your city to cor respond with regarding supply, The potato we supply must have an individual weight of two pounds each. Thanking you in advance for any assistance you may render, and assuring you that if we are 11, - - able to maice purchase in your city, that we shall be more than glad to give credit where credit is due. I presume we are asked no less than 500 times a day what section or town potatoes come "irom that we are serving. Yours very truly, H. J. Titus, Superintendent Diner Service. The potatoes grown in North ern Crook County are not ex ceeded in quality by those grown in any other locality, and it is a question whether they can be beaten by any locality in either size or amount of productions per acre. Heretofore potatoes have been raised in only limited quan tities owing to no transportation facilities, but now that there is '.' adequate transportation this in dustry will rapidly grow in vol ume and Le one of the best pay ing crops in this section. MADRAS FLOUR MILL EXPORTS The Madras Milling Company made their first exportation of flour to outside points Monday, the shipment going to Porter Bros.' construction camp near Moody. There were 50 barrels contained in this shipment. .The Oregon Trunk is finding it somewhat difficult to handle all of the freight offered for ship ment at this time, as the road up until March 1 will be in the hands of the contractors, but out going freight and stock ship ments were given all the facili ties possible. Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent. P. F. Hard ing is spending several days in Madras, to give these matters his special attention. ITarm and G TRACTION PLOW MAKES GOOD Save Time, Money and Horses and Is Gaining Ground Rapidly. The tractlou plow saves time, money and hbrses. It Is steadily valuing ground on Its merits. Hapldly It Is downing the prejudice thut has led fanners unaequulnted with Us power to assume that It Is impracticable In the average field. Its real worth Is assorting Itself convincingly In actual work. Where It has been given udts quate opportunity to become a part of the regular farm equipment and to fall In line with the regular routine work of the season it has made Itself Indispensable, says the Breeder's Ga zette. Men used to say that such an Im plement was a preposterous Imposslbll- MADRAS, The Gateway To Central Oregon DEPOT ADDITION, The GATE To MADRAS Madras Will Make the LARGEST City Im Central Oregon.! " Conditions H Made It bo ave Photo by American Press Association. ENGLISH STEAM PLOW. Ity In the small field. It would take half the field to turn around in. The woi-k of trimming up its rough job of work would cost more than to do the whole thing with horses. Reasoning stubbornly In this vein, some farmers still argue to themselves that the four horse gang plow Is too big for them to use. Holding close to their mind's eye the thought of the slow turning and the dog eared corners, the outside strip and the dead furrows to be fin ished with the small plow, they blind themselves to the machine's accom plishments. Perhaps an hour may be lost In dragging the single plow about In plowing out the corners, but what is that compared with the days and days saved in covering the bulk of the field? Good Land Going to Waste. Kansas farmers are wasting hun dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of good land, according to J. B. Koontz. general freight agent of the Santa Fe. Along the line of his road. Mr. Koontz says, there are 23,000 acres of land covered with useless straw stacks. Mr. Koontz figures that if the ground occupied by the straw was sown to wheat every year the yield on a fif teen bushel average would be 375.000 bushels. At 00 cents a bushel the crop from the stock area alone would bring $337,500. 1 st. It has a good many times the farming acreage. 2nd. A 3-4 Circle must come through Madras to make other points, 3rd. Coal within 1 0 miles, Gold mines in 15 miles and Timber 15 miles. 4th. Good project of irrigation of 75,000 to 100,000 acres of land. 5th. Two main lines of R. R. and posssible spur of another. 6th. New City Water, Flour mill, Churches and a School system hard to bet anywhere. 7th. These conditions should guarantee a city of 10,000 people in TEN years. 8th. Madras has N-E-V-E-R been boomed, lots being CHEAPER than v other places of the Deschutes, We Look for lots to DOUBLE in value in 60 to 90 days. uuuu 5E EEi H i -I 1 11 2s2 zzzjzz! jjf , 1 I i I I inili ill ' . ?l . . , , i 111 IfllULUrH lm. ' i T" s i 3 i H ' "$ i . ' ' " I i i i iRFS ttl t" T :: ZZ 9 OW O "ipnnnr DePt Addition The Best Of MADRAS Why not buy in Depot Addition where lot, ate selling from 25 to 50 per cent, of adjourning lob; Prices $50.00 To $250.00 Per Lot. Terms: 1-5 Cash U ance in EQUEAL Pay. ments of 3, 6, 9 and 12 Months. We arc selling our lots in MADRAS and notia all parts of the GLOBE; , nor are we paying the large Commissions, giving purchasers the benefit Our office will be on the grounds at the corner of id & Streets, The New Business Center WM. H. LANCASTER COMPANY Humus is a necessary element of fertile soil. The best way to put it into the so'l is to follow the sys tem of crop ro'ation which shall in clude clover or alfalfa. In addition to this all the stable manure should be put back on to the soil and a lib eral supply of straw should be used in bedding, -to save the liquid manure. Scott E. Gordon CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR Madras, Oregon Property Lines Run Townslte Surveying City Work, Maps, Wans, Estimates, Etc. In Unanimous Anyway. HI Tratrerdy Yes, we opened Oshkosh. Lowe Comerdy And what did your audience think of your Hamlet? HI Tragerdy Why er he went out before I had a chance to ask him. Catholic Standard and Times. Dairy Doings. While bran can be used with a de cided advantage In making up the ra tions of the dairy cows, it should not be used to excess, as it will make the cream hard to churn, while the butter will be pale rather than a golden yel low. The purchaser of n bull should select an unlmal that Is a good Individual nd whose dam and Rrandam on bis sire's side have good butter fat rec ords. His sire must, of course, show he characteristics of the good dairy type. Many of the Maine farmers who gave up cowb nud went into potato growing a few years ugo are coming back to cow keeping. A testing outfit does not cost much, and It pays dividends. A cow that Is merely bonrdlng will eat as mucn as one producing a profit, and the only wav to distinguish between tlie two is through the use of the Babeoek test and the scales. A farmer who baa been traveling in 'Switzerland nnd Germany noticed that cows were used quite commonly for drawing loads or plowing on the little farms of those countries. He found thut the cows could be worked to a moderate exteut without much reduc ing their milk yield, and he suggests thut the idea might be practical for small farmers In other couutrles. The rnle for feeding grain lu the University of Wisconsin experiment station dairy herd Is to give as many pounds of grain as the cow produces pounds of butter fat per week. Underfeeding is.au wasteful as over colonistfare: From the middle and Eastern portion! of the United States and Canada to OREGON, WASHINGTON & NORTHWEST WILL PREVAIL DAILY March 10 To April 10 OVEH THE Oregon-Washington Rail road Navigation Co. and connection's, the Oregon Short Line, Union Pacific and Chicago & North Western prom Chlongo- - - - S33.00 fit. Uoola - 32,00 Ocn-ha - XB.00 Kansas City - - -B.00 St. Paul - -B.00 and from othsr altlaa aorrsspondlngly low. You Can Prepay Fares The Colonist fares are Wr6tbound only, but if novo rniativci or friends or employees In the East whom you desire to brlnr to this state you can deposit the value of the fare with our local rauroau mgvui, uu uwuvtw. icket will be telegraphed to any address desired, . Let The World Know Of our vast resources and splendid oppor tunltles for HOME HUILDINC; n.ii-nn tint unilerilened for good Instruc tive printed matter to send East, or give him the addrei-se of those to whom you would - to have such matter seut, WM. McMURRAY General Passenger Agent PORTLAND, OREGON i i WANTED S meone to build t- re ( me a" MelohuHon a lense; will jay ...O'l rental, Rep'V at onw to ''Stole," Ploueer Otliue, Madras. , Charity. "Thank heaven, I never have had to depend on charity for anything." "Are you sure of that? It. seems to me the people who put up with your manner, must have to project a good deal of charity in your direction." Chicago Record-Herald. Notice Notice la hereby given that we, Douglas Hood and G. V. Stanton, co partners, doing business under the firm name and style of Hood & Stanton, will, for the purpose of enforcing our lien for feeding and caring for the stallion hereinafter described, sell a' public auction, on the 2nd day of March 1911, at the hour of 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at the front door of the livery and feed barn of Hood & Stanton, in the City of Madras, Crook County, Oregon, one black Belgian stallion, about 4 years old, weight about 2,000 iounds, n med Ftston De Aver naa, which stallion was formerly owned by the Madras Black Belgian Horse Company, and which said stallion was deliver,' I into our cnatody and care during May, 1910, by the owners and lawful possesaers thereof, to feed and care for said stallion. And that our charges for furnishing grain, feed and hay for said, stallion and for our work and labor in taking care of the afore said stallion from May 1st, 1910, and un til March 2, 1911, are of the just and reasonable value of $294.60, no part of which has been paid, although more than three months have expired af ter the grain, hay and feed was fur nished and the labor and care bestowed. That the money realized from the sale of the above described stallion wM be first applied to the payment of our lien for furnishing feed, grain and hay for said stallion and for work and labor in caring for same n the total amount of $294.60 and the costs and expenses o this sale, the balance of selling price, if any, will bo disposed of according to law. Dated at Madras, Crook County, Ore gon, this 2nd day of February, 1911. Douglas Hood, G. V. Stanton. Doing business as Hood & Sianton. E. Bergland, Attorney for Hood & Stanton. Warren Smith PROPRIETOR Elite Tonsorial Parlors NO LONG WAITS BATHS MADRAS, ORE. 4 MADRAS WellDri! ARTESIAN AND SURFACE 1 DEPTH CUARANTEfO ESTIMATES FURNISHES j INQUIRE AT PI0NEE OFR madras, mm For Good Farms," n City Property and Business Chances SEE D, W. BARNETT OFFICK MAIN HTIIKKT, MADRAfl, OUEOON Also local agent for Depot Addition to Madras and the new town of Mcto lius. Prices rjght. HORSESHOEIN Genera! Repair West of Hood&SUDtoa'i! THOS. H. MJ Madras, Orego CR0SI a mmm everything R F;gs & K0DA I m M-i i , , nRPGON INSURANCE E DALLES, uns ri Insure your town prop erty, farm buildings in cluding your threshed grain in your granaries and in warehouses against FIRE. "Old Line" xtriniluR liohlo nnmrianioo 5rdrs vMiiuujti iiqmio uuiiipnuiuo jcciui 1 m IN JOT . I. Pho- Iways tinting fi. mg Sun Insurance Co., tandnn -t Puul Fire and Marlnnuf St Paul. Norwich Union Fire Inmr ance Society. Liverpool and London end Glob (nnuMiirp Company Rates on upplluatiou HOWARD W. 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