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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1911)
i v Balfour Guthrie Co. Bought at a P'ts JS,SfVu-'tt,lfor anything in our lino. Office in Madras, Oregon NO. 3061 . lie First National Bank Qf pBiNEVILLE, OREGON !.f,AtU'.,'t,lrteT" m. lULnwm, Ca.hlcr. mnWBUWBW V'n,' A..t. C'Mhlor. ESTABLISHED 1088 . ...i iTnillvlilnd Profltl ......I fiurpiui i SASH and BOORS 0 assail save Ys to l4r 5-croM Panel Dojm, Gift quality $U0 Qyarter-round, fi-in.. per 100 ft. 30 ct. Cedar Siding, 4 ftnd 5ft.. $ 8 per M. Flooring. 4 and 5 ft. . . $1 1 per M. Drop Siding, 4 and 5 ft. . $11 per M. All No. I and 2 good Aandaid flock. SaJ poAil fot CtUlcua No.' uk) Duyoircairomouf liOory. Sir price, icll to inyLoJy, ihip njrwjwte. Siu tu your lift iMfKimamiBpnfeiindUogM. MADRAS MEAT MARKET j J. L. Campbell. I Wholesale and Retail Dealers : ! FEESH CXTEID MEATS ! We have the best line of Fresh Meats in the country i ! ALL KINDS OF GARDEN VEGETABLES IN THEIR SEASON : The ii Eastern Oregon Country (By CYRUS II. WALKER) TUB Shamrock TOMMY McCORMACK, Prop. Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars FURNISHED ROOMS New and Up-to-Date Quarters HOTEL DALLES THE DALLES, ORE. European Plan New nnd Modern 105 Rooms, Single and En Suite, with Bnth Hot and Cold Running Water Elevator and Sample Rooms Telephone in Every Room Electrically Lighted liar and Restaurant PETER KUEHNLING, Manager 1. O. O. F. Lodge Meets every Saturday night. Strangers are wel come. Tillman Reuter, N. G. Lewis H. Irving, Secretary Central Oregon Land Company t A. C. SANFORD, Manager Real Estate and Farm Loans If you want to sell, list with me. If you want to buy, v I have the best bargains. Try me and see. . . Editor's Notc-The author of the following history about Central Oregon la remembered by many of the old timers still living in this section. Much is being written about good roads and a Pacific highway from British Columbia through to California, passing the Will amette valley and Southern Ore gon; and to raise for all this work, as I understand it, the plan is by an initiative law to bond Oregon for $2,000,000 per annum or $20,000,000 for ten years, bonds to run for thirty years. The question arises in my mind: Where will Eastern Ore gon come in, especially on the Pa cific highway project, if some of the funds raised are used for that purpose? This highway would be of little if any benefit to Eastern Oregon, and it would seem there would be decided ob jecuons to oeing taxed to pay interest on these bonds and even tually to help redeem them. Again, when once a good road is made in Eastern Oregon it would remain good very much longer than in our wetter western cli mate; and, also, in most sections the first cost would be much less than with us. Still more likely would be the objection on the part of Eastern Oregon, should there be a state formed out of all Oregon east of the Cascade mountains. This is more than probable long before the thirty years have expired on bonds. The summit of the mountains above named is a natural di vision, with boundaries already established between Western. Ore gon counties and those of the eastern. The new state perhaps would be called "New Oregon" in order to get as large a slice as possible from the ever-increasing famous name of Oregon. We have New Mexico. There can be a "New Oregon." The "New Oregon" will then surely object to keeping up her end of the bond issue, unless it can be arranged to relieve her of the burden of taxation therefor. Of the seventy-three years of my life, nearly twenty-five years have been spent east of the Cas cade mountains the first nine of which in what is now Washing ton, 1838-47; one year soldiering in the wilds of Idaho, 1865-66; and fifteen were at or near the Warm Springs Indian Agency in Crook county most of the time as a government employe, as agency clerk eight years, super intendent and principal teacher agency boarding school three years, acting agent several months, besides filling other po sitions temporarily. In the fall of 1879 I made a special deposit of over $300 to have the northern part of the agency plains sur veyed and assisted my brother, C. L. Walker of Forest Grove, to survey the same, he getting the contract. I then entered land along the Deschutes river the first entered for at least twenty miles either up or down, north or south, on either side of the river. Upon this I made improvements and, being "owled" out of ser vice during Cleveland's adminis tration (I was then a Republican), I resided unon this land two years, 1887-89. Here my eldest son, Clifford Wheeler Walker, was born, December 12, 1888. I also owned the agency ferry (as it was then called) across the Deschutes, but sold the same some years before leaving the agency. I hired Indians to make the first road into Willow Creek basin where Madras now stands. This was our nearest route from Agency to Prineville, forty-five miles. Before returning to this valley in July, 1892, I sold out my land ed interests for $1000. Since the railroad has been built up the Deschutes, passing through this land I am told it could not be bought for $25,000. This is only one time in my life that I ' 'missed it by not staying with it. Another time was when, in the spring of 1863, a partner and my self took forty head of milch cows up into Umatilla county and settled upon upper Birch creek and made butter for the Boise mines, getting $1 perpound, but in the fall I sold out and re turned to "God's country," as this valley was then called by miners. Having thus live! in Eastern Oregon, known its cli mate, so different from ours here, seen its "magnificent distances" and splendid opportunities, I can not but be loyal to her interests and shall ever rejoice in her up building. As an Oregonian I know no sectionalism and shall always be a "booster" for all Darts of our peerless Oregon," and Idaho and Washington too, since in God's providence I was born in the "Old Oregon" of which they were once a royal part. SYNDICATE WANTS 100,000 ACRES New Fall and Winter Millinery Ladies' and Children's Sweaters, Aviation Caps and Shawls New line of ART NEEDLE WORK IN ALL THE LATEST DE SIGNS. EMBROIDERY MATERIALS Optical Goods a Specialty MRS. ISA E. B. CROSBY Appeal is Made to O.-W. R. & N. Company CHOOSE CENTRAL OREGON Company Prefets Large Tract In One Piece Which Fliey Propose to Sub Divide Into 80-Acre Tracts OREGON CENTRAL LUMBER & SUPPLY CO. FULL LINE OF BUILDING MATERIAL Roofings, Fence Posts, Tanks of All Sizes Fence Posts, 16 to 20 inch, 7 feet, 17ic each. Phone in your orders. YrdB North of Stookyarda "unAS, OREGON Paul Garvin, Manager Agent Woodward of the O.-W. R. & N. Company is in receipt of a communication this week from General Passenger Agent Wm. McMurray of Portland in which the latter encloses a letter from a Chicago syndicate who wants a tract of land containing 100,000 acres in one tract if possible which they propose to divide into 80-acre farms. Following is a copy of the letter: "A syndicate in Chicago is en deavoring to locate 100,000 acres of land in orje tract, if possible, and which can be purchased for less than $10 per acre, which they propose to sub-divide into eighty acre tracts, break up five acres of the land, build a house on same, furnish two horses and a wagon, and one cow, and sell same on the installment plan. "Parties have looked over land in Michigan and Wisconsin but claim it does not suit them, and will you not kindly advise if there is any such tract along our line which could be purchased at the price indicated and oblige." Agent Woodward has placed the matter in the hands of local real estate dealers and it is pos sible that a piece of land such as they would wisli can be secured. Anyone knowing of such a tract will confer a favor by advising him. For pains In the side or chest dampen a plocn of tlnnnol with Chamberlain's Linl. ment nnil hind It on over thu sent of puln, There Is nothing butter. For sale b K. K. Snook. t f!. VnxctAR. Celir. T X . a, IIAHILTUN, I ri-Di a. IJ. 1 i, .-". 1 4p EflK Banking Co. FOREIGN' EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND POT.D DRAFTS ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD Cap tal Stock, $50,000 Deposits, $250,000 SHANIKO, OREGON LARKIN HARNESS SHOP m i Horse Blankets Lap Robes Saddles Harness Low Price High Quality Gloves Old Harness Taken in Payment On New Harness LARKIN HARNESS SHOP J I 9 I BRENTON JONES f t 6 6 REAL ESTATE I have some of the finest farms in Central Oregon listed. Both irrigated and dry land. Loans and Insurance V Metolius - - Oregon 2 CENTRAL OREGON Is now Reached via the Deschutes Branch Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company ror oom rassenger ana freight Traffl.. to and from Madras Melohus, Culver, Opal City, Redmond. Bend and other Central Oregon pomta Loave Portland TRAIN SCHEDULE u ii The Dallea Deschutes Jet. Arrive Madras " Metolius " Opal City 7:50 a m. 10:00 a.m. 12:40 a in. 1:30 p.m. 5:45 p.m. 6:00 p m. 6:30 p m. Leave Op 1 City " Metolius " Madras Arrive Deschutes Jet " The Dulles " Portland 8:15 a m. 8:43 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 5;45 p.m. Auto and regular stage connections to La Pine, Fort Rock RIW i t, Prineville, Bu,ns, Klamath Fall and other inland pSSlS ' The Direct Quick : and Natural Route between Port land and All Pnlnc -- rui 1 .... . w... ,tl vcutrm uregon Call on any O.-W. R & N. Agent for any isformat.on desired, or address J WM. McMURRAY. General Passenger Agent Portland, Oregon