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water systenv is 10 ou
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hni issue voted lor tne
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Ia3 the decision reached
evening at a joint meet
the city council and
W. H. Taylor, Jesse
and other realty owners,
thorsepower engine be
to Jesse Hobson and the
installed in the well he
led at the Stoinke place
addition to Madras is
loved to the city well,
Jaansen of the Central
Well company, the water
pumped out and work-
lployed to deepen the
id establish beyond all
the amount of water
from this source, after
lains will be connected
the pump and water
id without the use of
voir, until such time as
is able to float its bonds.
iery probable that Mr.
Mr. Hobson, and the
jTownsite company will
lalf of the bond issue,
laying been made by a
man to take up the
ilf some time ago. In
it there will be no difli-
icorapleting the system
to the original plan.
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m water is to be piped
city, "even if it is
to dig down in our
to use the words of Mr.
Turner and Councilm
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MADRAS, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, THUSDAY. MAY 18, 1911.
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ley's store taking fire from the
flue. The alarm was quickly
sounded and in a jiffy several
were on the scene with hand
chemical extinguishers and the
blaze -was nipped in the bud.
A strong wind was blowing at
the time, and it Was fortunate
that the discovery was made in
time, for had fire got a good
start it would have been goodbye
to a large portion of the town.
Hoy Goes to Sleep
Floyd Stanton went to the
moving picture show Monday
evening and toward the close of
the entertainment Went to sleep.
When the crowd passed out he
slept peacefully on, and the
operators closed up the building
and put out the lights and the
boy still slumbered. About quar
ter past ten o'clock he waked up
and discovered that he was locked
up in a dark building and there
was music in the air. A passer
by heard his wails and summoned
the marshal and after a time the
back door was opened and the
child liberated. Whether the
joke is on the picture show or
the boy is a question. The show
men ought to put on a program
that will keep the boys awake.
Fishing is Good
Numerous fishing parties have
gone to Crooked and Deschutes
rivers to fish for red sides during
the past week, and most all who
have gone on auspicious days
have come home well rewarded
for their efforts. Some excep
tionally fine strings have been
brougbt in from Crooked river.
A catch of between 30 and 40
trout ranging close to 15 inches
in length make a pretty sight.
NO INTERRUPTION
IN. FERRY SERVICE
Rumor That Oregon Trunk Transfer
Can't Run in Hijili Water Palse.
NINE GARS OF WHEAT
GO OUT THIS WEEK
Warehouse Facilities Are
On Every Hand g
Traveling Freight and Passen
ger Agent Strong, of the Oregon
Trunk railway is in the city
today, and states that the rumor
that it will be impossible for
that company to operate its ferry
across the Columbia River at
Fallbridge during the the high
water stage and consequently be
delayed in handling freight ship
ments, has been given some cir
culation. This rumor is wholly
without foundation, Mr. Strong
says, as his company w411 guar
antee the delivery of all freight
promptly.
A circular letter has been is
sued by W. E. Coman, general
freight and passenger agent
anent the situation, which says
in part:
Chief Engineer Hudd advises
that improvements have been
made in our ferry service across
the Columbia . river between
Fallbridge and Moody which will
enable us to operate regular
ferry service at all times for the
handling of the Oregon Trunk
railway freight and passenger
business pending the completion
and operation of the bridge
across the Columbia river.
Tho freight business is handled
without transfer by car ferry,
while the passengers are prompt
ly transferred by the steamer
Norma which lands at the slip ad
joining passenger trains on bot.li
sides, so that the transfer is
conveniently and pleasantly
made.
Please see that our patrons and
others understand this condition,
particularly the permanency of
ferry service without regard to
stage of water.. j
SAGEBRUSH SURE TO GO
Increase of Wheat Acreage will Show
(Ireat Development in Next
Few Years.
Within the next few days nine
full carloads of wheat that have
been purchased in this vicinity
by the Balfour Guthrie Company
will be shipped to Portland. A
portion of the grain will go out
over the Oregon Trunk and the
balance over the Deschutes line.
Warehouse accommodations are
being provided for the grain
growers at all points along the
ine, and Central Oregon wheat
has had the markets of the world
brought to its doors with the
coming of the railroads.
At Opal City two cars will be
loaded through the Jones ware
house there. Two more will be
loaded at Metolius through the
Metolius warehouse conducted
by J. W. Boone, two others will
go out from the Farmers' Union
warehouse at Madras, now oper
ated by the Konoway company,
and three more will be loaded
from a temporary platform at
Paxton's eight miles north of
Madras on the Deschutes rail
way.
In addition to the points men
tioned above other grain shipping
accommodations are being pro
vided. The Balfour Guthrie com
pany now' nasunder construction a
new warehouse on the Deschutes
Railway at the Madras depot
grounds which is 100x50 feet,
with 100 feet of additional plat
form. A wheat platform has
also been constructed at Vanora
station, where wheat is being re
ceived for shipment. Warehouse
facilities will also be provided at
Gateway and Mecca, the latter
point now being accessible from
the plain by the completion of
the three-mile grade up the rim
rocks made by the Oregon Trunk.
A warehouse is also in opera
tion at Culver Junction managed
by Mr. Wallenberg, and that
point will be a heavy wheat ship
ping point.
The increase in wheat acreage
in this part of the county
will undoubtedly make great
strides during the next few
years, as it will not take the
farmer long to realize tha t every
bushel of wheat grown is just so
much cash in his pocket as soon
as delivered to the warehouses,
and thousands of acres that are
now covered with sagebrush will
be cleared and made ready for
grain growing.
One tract of 1200 acres owned
by Morrow & Keenan, extensive
sheepmen, is soon to be broken
up and planted to wheat, while
hundreds of ' homesteaders who
have not felt the need of all
their acres up to this time are
preparing to get the sage brush
off and grow more wheat. Prob
ably the greatest development
Miat will take place in this coun
try in the next few years will be
along this line.
Pianos and Organs
if interested, writo us for free cata-
lmriio. with nrico of each instrument
nlnlnlv marked. Wo guarantee to
please you and inako convenient terms
If wanted. C. V. BAIRD, manager
for Wise piano house, Walla Walla,
Wash. a27'4tc
MUCH NEW LAND
PUT INTO CROPS
Hill Party Startled at
0
Increased Acreage
HOMESTEADERS ARE BUSY
ronnhge of Agricultural Products Will
Be Much Greater Than
Last Year
ROUTES JULY 1
Postmaster at Culver to
Advertise for Bids
TWO ROUTES FOR SOUTH
One Qoes Through Lamonta to Prine-
vllle, Other through Red
mond to Bend.
Wonderful changes as com
pared with the condition of Cen
tral Oregon a year ago were noted
by Louis W. Hill, president of
the (reat Northern railway, on
his tour of the interior portion of
the state, from which he return
ed yesterday morning.
Fdlure transportation even
morti remarkable is predicted
by Mr. Hill, as well as by Carl
R. Gijay, president of the North
Bank road; George B. Harris,
chairman of the board of direc
tors Of the Burlington system,
and others who accompained
him on his recent trip. Mr. Hill
visited Bend, Prineville, Burns,
"Bill" Hanley's ranch and other
interior points on .the annivers
ary of his last journey through
the same district.
"I was not so much surprised
at the changes we saw in the
towns jand new settlements that
have sprung up as the result of
building the railroads he said,"
yesterday, "but I was almost
startled to see the great differ
ence in the rural districts.
"Last year the only place we
saw homesteaders at work was
at Fort Rock. This year we saw
them everywhere. We learned
that many others have filed but
not vet started to build their
homes.
"A big start was made this
year in settling remote portions
of Central Oregon. Now we
will have to keep it up. Oregon
will have to continue its pub
licity campaign to attract set
tlers. In this work the Portland
commercial club has been well in
the forefront. Wherever we
went we found eager inquiries
for C. C. Dhapman, manager of
the publicity work of the Port
land club. They appreciate the
work thai Mr. Chapman and the
Portland commercial interests
have done.
"The most crying need of the
interior, however, is people.
Every town and city is planning
to brintr in additional settlers.
At several places we met with
the commercial clubs and dis
cussed with them the plan they
have in preparation to have the
land taken up. All these organi
zations spoke of the work done
by the Portland commercial club
and the chamber of commerce."
Crops in Central Oregon are
looking splendid, reported Mr.
Hill. The season is two weeks
later this year than in 1910. Last
year the season was two weeks
in advance of the normal. This
year it is normal.
In the five days that the party
was away from Portland the
members traveled more than five
hundred miles by automobile.
This gave Mr. Hill an oppor
tunity to study the road situation.
He is a motor enthusiast and
carries his own machine witli
him. Central Oregon, he de
clared, had better roads than
those narts of the state having
railroads. In their tour,
much greater this year than a'pillljpr III MAN
year ago. he predicts. He sawiunAHUL 111 MAIL
thousands of acres of wheat and
alfalfa that were barren last
year.
One day of the tour was spent
in the big timber country near
Sisters. Timber such as the
party saw there would be worth
from three to five dollars a thou
sand in Washington, he asserted.
Mr. Harris said all this timber
would be bought in the Missis
sippi Valley.
Construction of independent
logging roads from these timber
ed areas to connect with Oregon
Trunk will be undertaken in the
next few years. The Hill in
terrsts, however, do not contem
plate further development in
mid-state very soon. They are
looking toward Prineville as a
possible .terminus for a branch,
but have not promised that line
for any definite time.
"The people of Prineville have
been patient with us for a long
time," declared Mr. Hill. "We
won't promise them a road until
we are actually ready to build it.
Then we shall build as soon as
we promise.
"There is considerable terri
tory in Central Oregon now that
might justify the construction of
new railroads, but it is another
thing to get the money to build
it with." Oregonian.
Vanora Office Opens Monday
Commencing next Monday the
new post office which has been
established at Vanora will be
opened by Postmaster John T.
Dizney and the mail for that
place as well as that for the
Warmspring office will be receiv
ed there from the Oregon Trunk
train.
COUNCIL CHANGES
ITS MIND AGAIN
Abolishes all Kinds of Music in
Saloons and Then Revokes Act
Although less than a week
elapsed from the tima the city
council unanimously passed the
ordinance amending the measure
which controls the conduct of
saloons, with the effect of put
ting down the lid on pianos and
other music in the thirst parlors,
at an adjourned meeting held
last Monday evening, the lid was
just as unanimously taken off
again, and the action that took
place at the former meeting was
rescinded, so that matters re
main just where they did before
any action was taken.
Why and wherefore? The only
answer is that the council chang
ed its mind. A similar course
was pursued recently when the
proposal was made to limit the
number of licenses for the sale of
intoxicating liquors within the
city to six. The ordinance re
strictly the number of licenses to
half a dozen was duly passed on
one Tuesday evening. On the
following Friday the council re
scinded its action.
Plow Team Runs Away
While Emil Zemke, a farmer
residing on Methodist Hill, near
the German church southwest of
town was driving five horses
hitched to a heavy gang plow
along the county road yesterday,
the team bolted and ran away.
Postmaster O. G. Collver at
Culver has received notice from
the postal department to adver
tise for bids for contracts
for carrying the mails south
from that place to Bend and
Prineville.
Under the instructions he has .
received the Prineville mail is to
be taken on one route which
passes through Lamonta, and the
mail for Bend is to go over
another route passing through
Redmond.
Bids must be submitted by
June 6 and the service is to be
commenced July 1.
Post Office Inspector Durand
while here recently stated that
he intended to recommend the
establishment of a route from
Haycreek to Grizzly and thence
to Lamonta to serve those offi
ces. The contract for hauling
the mails over the new routes
are not looked on with much
favor by stage men, for the rea
son, that the duration of this ar
rangement will be so short that
they will not much more than
get things in good running order
until the railroad will cross
Crooked river and carry the
mails for Redmond, Bend and
Prineviile.
This will make another change
necessary, and it is probable
that a route from Haycreek
through Grizzly and Lamonta to
Culver will then be established.
Haycreek is only 12 mi es east
of Madras and a service from
this point would give the people
served by that office their mail
about six hours sooner than from
Culver, while many patrons be
tween here and Haycreek could
be served by sacks if a route di-:
rect from Madras to Haycreek
were established.
However, all that the people
in the southern part of the
county can do in view of the
rapidly changing conditions is to
get the best service possible as
soon as they can, and wait until
the railroad construction period
passes away and permanent
routes are established.
was barely able to get out of the
way of the running horses and
their dangerous implement. Mr.
usinff Zemke escaped serious injury as
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Tonnage of agricultural pro
ducts from the interior will be
May Mean Much
C. J. Chamberlain and Mr.
Robertson of Tacoma have just
closed a deal with Hobson &
Hobson on two purchases of
real estate adjoining town and
taken an option of two other
tracts for San Francisco invest
ors. Through Messrs. Hobson
these same people have bought
tracts at Redmond, Opal City,
Culver and Metolius, An option
has also been secured by them
on all the Cline Falls, Redmond
power plant. Ostensibly these
small tracts bought are to be
platted and made additions to
the various town plats, but from
those nn the inside infnrmnr.inn
Chas. M. Dizney who is carry ing..sgleaned th . it may mean more
the mail on the R. r . u. route . .
contact with the fence along the
roadway."
to Madras than
yet projected.
any movement
Lamonta Wins
The Lamonta baseball tossers
carre to this city last Sunday
afternoon and crossed bats with
a "pick-up" team, defeating the
locals with a score of G to 8.
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