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FARM LOANS and INSURANCE
C. E. KOUSH, President
H.'S. CROTHERS, Vice-President
0. A. PEARCE, Cashier
J. L. DEHUFF, Assistant Cashier
H. S. CROTHERS
0. A. PEARCE
DIRECTORS
C. E. ROUSH
A. W. BOYCE
M. PUTZ
CENTRAL OREGON "The Land of Opportunity"
Central Oregon is the last
Great West. The place where
land is cheap and where a few
acres will make you independent
for life.
The greatest resource of this
vast domain is agriculture. The
soil is rich and deep, and the
rainfall sufficient to insure a crop.
Like all new countries, there has
been been but little scientific soil
cultivation, so it may he pre
sumed that crop yields will stead
ily increase when the best meth
ods of dry-farming are employed,
Before the advent of the rail
roads early this year, Madras,
the first big town the traveler
enters after leaving the Columbia
river, was only a trading post for
cattle and sheep men, who claim
ed the unsettled country for their
range.
The Willow Creek basin where
Madras i3 now located, was one
of the first sections to be home
steaded, for there was running
water the greater part of the
year, and water could be obtain
ed in wells at depths of from 10
to 30 feet. Following the build
ing of the Columbia Southern
branch railroad to Shaniko, the
latter place being 45 miles dis
tant from Madras, there was a
homesteader's rush to the this
section. The new-comers from
other lands and other grain sec
tions said that the great area of
of rolling hills and the immense
Agency Plains just west of the
Willow creek basin were promis
ing wheat growing sections. Dur
ing the land rush period, several
thousands of homesteads were
filed upon and the country set
tled up with surprising rapidity.
The first year's cultivation
proved that the section had great!
grain possibilities. Sod lands)
produced from 10 to 30 bushels
per acre, and last year the yield
for all the wheat land in the vic
inity of Madras was in the neigh
borhood of 20 bushels to the acre.
The better farmed lands are
yielding 40 bushels in many sec
tions, and the possibilities of the
section under scientific cultiva
tion are yet unknown.
The best timber land lies in the
Blue Mountains only a few miles
to the east of Madras. All the
lumber used has come from the
pine lorests, with which the
slopes of the mountain are cov
ered. On the upper branches of Hay
creek, about 12 .miles east of
Madras, has been discovered a
considerable deposit of what is
apparently a very fine quality of
bituminous coal. Some 2000 acres
of these lands have been taken
up under the Coal Land Laws.
There are also large deposits, of
deposits of lime in this district.
In spite of its previous isola
tion, Madras has grown to be a
town of about 500 souls. It has
several good general merchandise
stores, blacksmith and repair
shops, garage, two drug stores,
two harness shops, two restaur
ants, confectioney stores and
soft drink "emporiums,'' two
good hotels, jewelry store, and
various other enterprises. What
is of great importance, also, the
town can boast of three' good
MADRAS
"The Gateway to Central Oregon"
Madras has immediately tributary to it, an area comprising 750,000 acres of tillable land;
a large portion of which has been taken up, and is now partially under cultivation.
For further information write to
MADRAS TOWNSITE COMPANY
02G Chamber of Commerce building, PORTLAND, OREGON
B. O. RANDOLPH, Agent, Madras, Oregon
churches and a modern graded
school.
The Madras flouring mill is an
institution that has no equal on
the coast for its size, in the way
of modern machinery. ' It was
entirely rebuilt this summer, the
company installing the latest
machinery methods for the manu
facture of high grade flour. The
mill has a capacity of 80 barrels
a day.
The Madras State bank is en
joying a good business, the de
posits showing- the prosperous
condition of the community. The
bank has just let a contract for
a new brick building, which they
expect to occupy about the first
of next February.
The result of scientific farming
cannot be better illustrated than
repeat what one man has done
on a small piece of ground about
six miles from town. This man
who has produced wonders on
his land, is Tillman Reuter. At
Dry-Farming Congress held last
year at bpokane, he brought
home first prize for the best col
lective individual exhibit from all
dry farming states. He also
captured other first prizes for
different displays of vegetables
and grains. At the Dry-Farming
Congress this year, held at
Colorado Springs, Mr. Reuter
was awarded 24 prizes in all.
Photographs of his exhibit and
the cup he won are shown on the
front page.
It is known that sometime the
land incorporated in what is now
called the dry-farming district,
will be put under irrigation.
During the fall and winter of
1908 and 1009, several engineer
ing crews, belonging to the Re
clamation Department of the
Government, were working in
and around Madras, running
ditch lines and making estimates
on a storage reservoir in the
Crooked river basin only a few
miles away. It was estimated
that 175,000 acres of extremely
fertile soil would come under the
proposed irrigation scheme.
Where there is now in the
Madras Country a family on each
quarter section or half section of
tillable land, with an irrigation
system completed through that
section, there will be a family on
eaeh 20 or 40-acre tract, and
Madras will then bp in the same
class with North Yakima or Walla
Walla, and other lively and pro
gressive cities whoso growth and
prosperity is due to the irrigated
lands in their immediate vicini
ties. The Pacific Monthly in its is
sue of November, 1910, had the
following to say of one man,
that can be construed to mean
the feeling of all who come to
Central Oregon: "I walked in
to Central Oregon, but I won't
walk out." He had just refused
an offer of $15,000 cash for his
ranch and timber land, which a
few years before had been worth
practically nothing.
There are still hundreds of op
portunities for the young man
who wants to build a home for
himself in Central Oregon.
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KANSANS BUY ON
AGENCY PLAINS
Leave Their Native Land Because They
Couldn't Raise Anything On
Their Farms
FIRST M. E. CHURCH
Madras has three churches that work
for the betterment of social and
moral life.
"We left Kansas because we
couldn't raise anything on our
farms," is what R. J. Rockwell
said last Tuesdap afternoon to a
reporter for the Pioneer. Ac
companied by Mr. Rockwell on
his trip to "the land of oppor
tunity" was J. C. Vannoy, of
Tribune, Kans., and Elmer At
kins, of College Mound. Mo.
The above party was induced
to come here after they learned
of Central Oregon through J. W.
Branstetter, a relative of R. J.
Rockwell, who was visiting at
the home of the latter at Horace,
Kans:
They are all farmers of some
means and will immediately se
cure land and go to work. Mr.
Vannoy has purchased the-D. T?
McDonald ranch of 320' acres
about five miles northwest of
town on Agency Plains.
Mr. Rockwell says he has looked
at several farms and will be
ready to buy in a faw days. He
also says that he knows of - five
other families in his neighbor
hood who will leave wichin the
next sixty days for Madras.
sale!
ACRIFICE REDUCTION
of FURNITURE, CARPETS, RUGS, MATTING LACE
CURTAINS, LINOLEUM, OIL CLOTHS. ETC. To make
room for a grocery department and other changes, will give
you an opportunity to buy furniture at practically your own '
price for the next 20 days commencing
NOVEMBER 4th
Iron Beds from
$4.50 Mattress for
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8.00
15.00 "
12.50 "
3.25
7.00 Steel Couches for
8.50 and up Couches for
4.00 Child's Cribs
15.00 Book Case
8.00 Go Carts for -10.00
Fir Dresser for
18.00 Dressers
20.00 Dressers
$2.00 to $12.00
3.50
4.50
5.50
12.00
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2.25
5.50
5.25
2.50
10.50
6,00
7.50
14.50
16.00
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