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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1911)
Stevens Resigns CULVER JUNCTION the Presidency At Law OREGON Attorney mNAL CARDS. i " nnrn D.kWrMo COUHTY ABSTACT PORATED IvCORf"lATED mrlete irw k ., niiiv. ft 1 !SEViw-r'i OHKOON D. F. WyWo CO. 1.t mid line. AlipiructH itice. OKEOON .. fiiiiun ATTORNEY AT LAW Office of D.W. Barnctt. OREGON .....TieCEl b YAN NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE OREGON HAHER ABSTRACTER OF TITLES r unriRV I'UnLIC L..M Ufa ln'" Bm"" V n " SIYIM f, EARNETT NOTARY PUBLIC FOR OREGON Collections a Specialty. Ideas, Oreoon P. MYERS LAWYER LVER JUNCTION, OREGON Lliceini-tl ccurU unci I)rliii'iit of ilie InifrliT. !c. COILYER NOTARY PUBLIC Justice of the Penoe CULVER I'HKCINCT R.VEH OREGON KURD W. TURNER J,S, COMMISSIONER NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE put OKKUO"" NO. 3851 first National Bank OF PRfNEVILLE. OREGON ' i I'renltteni, T. M iwi.nunr riwiiie u 'ipk Vice I'rcn II. lULuIN, A 'oil. CaNhlur CSTABLISHED 1888 N. Horplm md Undivided I'roflU SIOO.000.00 NEating!! MmIi Madras Gall At The EERLESS RAFF Minfe Bright Now.Olean rULAR PRICES HBakery Goods t"W,Pnp. Loucks BIcJg i argains OF All liuno ii. IIP110PP.IV UnMPcimn.n . ""-fast , ?;'"'" Knm-iBo. Illnrn o-i oi, writ, !CL HOOD, MADRAS ,nan. M0MESTEAD8 .. MADRAS I Head of Oregon Trunk Will Take a Rest CRAY TO BE SUCCESSOR Noted Railway Builder Havlnd Ac compllslicd Heavy Constuctlon Is Satisfied to Retire. Sunday Oregonian: John F. Stevens, president of the Oregon Trunk railway, Spokane, Port land & Seattle, United Railways and Oregon Electric lines, known as ttie "Hill system" in the northwest, tendered his res ignation to James J. Hill two weeks ago, to take effect on or before May 1. Carl Raymond Gray, senior vice-president of the St. Louis & San Francisco, with headquar ters in St. Louis, will be Mr. Stevens' successor, according to a dispatch received by the Ore gonian last night. Mr. Stevens last night con firmed the report of his resigna tion but declined to confirm the identity of his successor, saying that announcement would be made from St. Paul. "I expect to drop my present work in a few weeks, probably by May 1," said Mr. Stevens ast night. "The heavy con struction work I have planned and carried forward during the past year and a half is nearly at ah end. Plans for future exten sions have been carefully con sidered. The financial outlook at present as far as new railroad work is concerned does not war rant the belief that any vast un dertakings will be prosecuted soon, although I confidently ex pect certain extension of the company's lines will go ahead his year. "The details of the operation of the various properties are in the hands of exceptionally competent men and will go ahead with customary smooth ness. I have accomplished, in a airly satisfactory manner, the most important things I have set out to do and am satisfied to thru the future management to other hands. "I want to take a good rest and may possibly go abroad. I have not fully decided that point as my business may not permit. have several attractive propo sitions in view, but am not ready to discuss them. As to my suc cessor here? That is a matter which could only be touched upon by the owners of the prop erties. I shall leave Oregon and ortland with regret, for I have been treated royally and know I have many friends and well- wishers in this place." The announcement of Mr. Ste vens' resignation will cause gen eral surprise. It has been known for some time that he has felt hat his work in this section was sufficiently well organized to eave should he feel like doing it. But with the exception ot a ew personal friends he has told no one of his intention. During the month of March it was said that he intimated to Mr. Hill hat he would like to be relieved of the duties of his position, par- icularly so when it was known that it was not the intention of he company to make heavy in vestments in construction work this year, owing to the condition of the money market, and in that event he felt his particular talents would not be in demand. Mr. Hill insisted that he remain, but finally consented to Mr. Stevens' request that ho be permitted to tae the rest desired. Mr. StevenB' appearance upon Oregon territory was coupled i Dont Stop until You have seen Culver Junction The Agricultural Metropolis Of Central Oregon Where opportunities abound Culver Junction is settled in the center of Opal Prairie a splendid level farming country containing several thousand acres of the best agricultural land in Crook County. Culver Junction is at the Junction of the Oregon Trunk and Deschutes railroads, and will have large trackage, splendid facilities for handling traffic Union Depot and common Warehouse frontage. Culver Junction is a live wide awake Town and is making substantial growth, and has tributary more agricultural land than any other town in the Deschutes Valley. Choice business lots at $225 and $300 Residence lots 50x1 00 ft. at $100 to $3 00 Buy now before train service is inaugurated and prices advance. Deschutes Valley Land And Investment Company Exclusive Agents CULVFR, ' OREGON With one of the most interesting denouements in railroad building. He came to Portland in 1909, unknown, and registered under the narre of John F. Sampson. For two months he kept every one guessing as to his identity. He passed through the Willam ette Valley examining every nook and corner and took a trip through Central Oregon. Fin ally he decided to build and go ahead with his plans without any formal announcement to the public. The first intimation the public secured of his intention was the hurrying down of the Harriman opposition forces to occupy strategic positions in the Deschutes canyon. Then followed one of the most spectacular railroad wars ever witnessed in the country. Armed forces occupied every point of vantage in the -rugged canyon, and for a time it looked as if there might be bloodshed. But the courts brought an armed neutrality and the building of two lines through a narrow can yon for 100 miles occupied the attention of the railroad builders of the northwest. On February 15 of this year the Oregon Trunk line arrived at Madras, the construction work having been completed within the period alloted by Mr. Stevens, that of 20 months. The Harri man line at the same time was right behind him and to-day crosses the Willow Creek Canyon at Madras. It was on Mr. Stev ens advice that the railroad build ing of the Hill lines took place in Oregon and it is his belief that Central Oregon, when once it is ribbed with railroads, will be come the richest wheat-raising county in the West. Acting upon this theory he has had lines surveyed, not only across the state north and south, but east and west. It is be lieved that these lines will be constructed in a short time, just as soon as the market for the j flotation of bonds and securities makes it possible. In the 20 months of Mr. Stev ens' control in the Northwest, he reorganized the North Bank road, running between Spokane and Portland, the Astoria & Col umbia River line and the Pacific & Eastern; built the Oregon Trunk into Central Oregon, and purchased the United Railways and the Oregon Electric interur ban railways. He thus created the foundation for an extensive system of railways covering not only the Willamette Valley with a network of interurbans, but also projecting trunk lines into the heart of the state, north and south and east and west. Oregon Central Lumber & Supply Co. HAVE OPENED YARDS AT Madras and Metolius Lumber Building Materia and all kinds of We will also have yards Culver, Redmond and Bend as soon as the railroad reaches those points. J. H. SCRITSMIER, Manager YARDS AX THE RAILROAD Reo and Apperson Automobiles J. C. ROBINSON, Local Agent, Madras Machine Shop and Garage Tires and Tire Supples REO CARS IN STOCK Demonstrated at Any Time K AH tI I" 1 E I A L The beit. there is. For sale at the Pi-tneer oHice r Fred A. Zell BAGGAGE AND EXPRESS DELIVERED I ToAU Parts of the City Madras Oregon Notice For Publication Department of the Interior. U. S Land Office at The Dalle, Oregon, February 20tli. 1911. Notice is hereby given that Morgan Trtvin. (if MilflrnR. Orplinn wtin nti December 8th, 1904, mucin Homestead No. 14057 Serial. No- I'34l8. forne. sec. 30, tp 11 8, r 14 e, w. m., Has tiled notice of intention to inako Final live year Pnof to establish claim to the land ab ve described, before Howard W. Turner. U. S. Cnnimla. sioner at hln olTU-e a MtulruB, Oregon, ontlie 5 h day of Apri , 1911.' Claimant HHtnea a witnse: Fred Djvim. lliinruK TfrniHi. Wlllium .!oir-t anl Silas White, all nf Madras, Oregon. CJ. W. MOORK, Register. Contest Notice Department of the Interior, U. 8. LiU-H Otllce, The Dalles, Oregon. Feb 9, 1911. A futllcient contest affidavit having been filed in thin office by Joneph Y. Crews, nontenant, Hgains. fioinetdemi entry isn. HUUI, made Aug ust 21. 1905 lot niHi. Hen 28. nln-l sec 33, tp 9 r, 14, e w in., by Tioma T . . .- i 1 - - I 1 1.1 I . uymon, unme-iee, in w men hih alleged that said I liomuu Lystou has wholly abandoned naid raa of land for more than ix months last past; tha Haid abando nment siill exis s, (hat sai l al iened ali-euee urn due t li-a em- IlloVlliei.t 111 I lie Hfllll. I1H V nr ill rlnu eorp- "I the United Simm in tune nf wai. a in parties uie neretiy no Med to pp ar, renpo .d, and offer evidence tout" lm? na il Hlhuati'M at 10 o'clock, a m , on M ireh "'4, 1011, before How ard W Turner, a Notery Public at hla off re in Madrna Oiruoti And that final heaiiiiL' vt ill lie held ut Ml o'clock a in. on March 31. HUI, before tlio IfegiBter i.d R ceivir at the United St le L il OHV e In ri eD.'le., Ore (ion Th" mH con e taut haviuv. in a I roper iiffidavii, ordered tnd dlrec'ed that uun n tr-e lie given by due and pieper lib ii'Mlon, C XV Moure, 10uiSJ3.ip Register.