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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 5, 1912)
RAS, OREGON MADRAS is the business center for the entire Northern Crook County district, and is the first town of importance reached via the O.-W. R. & N. and the Oregon Trunk Railway after the Columbia River is left behind. Since the coming of the railroads its growth has been steady and substantial. It offers to its resi dents the comforts and facilities of modern civilization numerous churches, progressive grade and high schools, well-stocked stores and a substantial bank, close communication with the outside world, a city water system affording adequate fire protection and an abundance of pure water for domestic uses, and. soon to be installed, electric lights and power. A flouring mill manufactures a most excellent quality of flour, and numerous ware houses provide marketing and storing facili ties for the products of the district Madras and vicinity offer exceptional at tractions to the homiseeker and the investor. Present values are in keeping with production. 1THE GATEWAY CITY Situated at the Gateway to the vast Oregon interior, in the heart of the moft fertile dry farming country in the Northwest, Northern Crook County, whose products have received prize after prize at the Dry Farming Shows Wherever Madras products have been exhib ited they have taken the lion's share of prizes. They have entered into competion with the best specimens that could be procured from the fields of the most productive dry farms in the west, from localities where dry farming is a much older in dustry than it is in Northern Crook County. The transformation of this great territory from range to farm is a process that has oc cupied far less than a decade. The prize-winning products of Northern Crook County are not limited to grain alone. Under the methods of scientific tillage practiced by the farmer of today, the diversified crops of the American farm arc produced in like profusion and quality. Alfalfa, the richest of forage crops, is an important factor in making the farmer's profits, and Corn, Fruit, Potatoes, and Vegetables of all kinds are surc'and profitable. Poultry and Live Stock thrive, and animal health ranks high. CROOK COUNTY WON SWEEPSTAKES AT LETHBRIDGE THE MADRAS COMMERCIAL CLUB will take pleasure in furnishing you with any desired information concerning Madras and the Northern Crook County country from which the prize-winning dry farmed produdts come UNDERGROUND WATER FOR USE ON THE FARM The United States Geological Survey states in Water Supply Paper 255, entitled " Under-g-ound Waters for Farm Use," just reissued, that no appliance, either mechanical or electric, has yet been devised that will detect water in places where plain com mon sense and close observation will not show its presence just as well. Numerous mechanical devices have been proposed for detecting the presence of under ground wattr, ranging in com plexity from water, ranging the simple forked branch of witch hazel, peach, or other tree to more or less elaborate mechanics or electric contrivances. Many of the operators of these devices esp' c'a ly those who use the h me cut forked branch are en ttrely honest in the belief that the working of the rod is in fluenced by agencies usually re garded as electric currents follow ing underground streams of water that are entirely inde pendent of their own bodies and many people have implicit faith in their own and others' ability to locate underground water in this way. In experiments with a rod made from a forked branch it seemed to turn downward at certain points independent of the operator's will, but more com plete tests showed that this downturning resulted from slight and until watched for unconscious muscular action, . A t the ertects ot wnicn were com municated through the arms and wrists to the rod. No move menr, or. tne roa irom causes outside of the body could be detected, and it soon became obvious that the view held by other men of science is correct that the operation of the "divin ing rod" is generally due to un conscious movements of the body or of the muscles of the hand. The experiments made show that these movements occur most i Railway Receipts and Expenses The business of the railways for September, while showing a considerable improvement over that of September 1911, does not maintain the rate of increase set by the record breaking month of August. The total net operating revenue of 90 per cent of the steam railways increased $5,896, 840 for September, whle the in crease for August was $13,865,- 622. This increase in net operat ing revenue was at the rate of $21 per mile of line for the month or at the rate of 70 cents per mile of line per day. I The total operating revenues per mile ot line for the month increased 6.5 per cent, the oper-' ating expenses 7.3 per cent and the net operating revenue 1.5 per cent. The foregoing statistics are from the summary made by the frequently at places where the .Bureau of Railway Economics operator's experience has led . from the reports of the railways him to believe that water may to the Interstate Commerce Com bo found, mission. A special committee of The uselessness of the divining the railways having headquarters rod is indicated by the facts that, in Chicago reports that bills now it may be worked at will by tho pending in the Federal Congress operator, that he fails to detect providing for an increase in the strong water currents in tunnels and other channels that afford no surface indications of water, and that his locations in limestone regions wjiere water flows in well defined channels are no more successful than those de pendent on mere guess. In fact its operators are successful only in regions in which ground water occurs in a definite sheet of por ous material or in more or less clayey deposits, such as pebbly ciay or clayey deposits, such as pebbly clay or till. In such re gions few failure can occur, for wells can get water almost any where. The only advantage of employ ing a "water witch", as the operator of the divining rocs is sometimes called, is that crudely skilled services are thus occasion ally obtained, for the men so em pioyea, n endowed with any natural aptitude, become through their experience in locating well shrewd, if sometimes un conscious observers of the occur rence and movements of ground water. A copy of the report may be obtained free on applicaion to the Director of tne Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. number of employee of the rail ways and for the rapid substitu tion of steel for wooden equip ment will, if enacted, place the railways under an additonal ex pense of approximately $12,000,- 000 per annum for the former, and a total expense of;$632,746,- 000 for the latter purpose. With out compulsion, tne railways in the course of three years have increased their steel equipment 750 per cent and their steel un derf rame equipment 256 per cent. Fits His Case Exactly "When father was sick about six years ago he read an advertisement of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets in the paper that fit his case ex actly," writes Miss Margaret Campbell of Fort Smith, Ark. "He purchased a box of them and he has not been sick since. My sister had stomach trouble and was also benefitted by them. Sold by all dealers. MOHEY TO LOAN ON FABH8. Madras State Bank. See Yes, The Pioneer does Job Printing. Phone us your order. All successful business men know that it pays to advertise. They can't do without it if they remain in business, and in in serting their ad. in The Pioneer they are sure of good returns. The Pioneer also does artistic job printing at rates as reasonable as Portland shops charge. A Delicate Appetite An exchange describes a girl who would make the very best man in the community a mighty good, worthy wife. It says: "The dapper ilttle traveling man glanced at the menu and then at the pretty waitres. 'Nice day, little one,' he began. 'Yes it is, and so was yesterday, she replied, 'and my name is Ella, and I know I'm a peach and have pretty blue eyes. and I have been here quitea while, I like the place and I don' think I'm too nice to be working in a hotel; if I did I'd quit my job, and I don't know if there is a show or a dance in town to night. If there is I shall not go with you. I'm from the coun try and I'm a respectable girl My brother is cook in this hotel, weighs 200 pounds and last week wiped the dining room floor with a fresh $50 a month traveling man who tried to make a date with me. Now what wil you have?' The traveling man said that he was not very hungry and a cup of coffee and some cakes would do." PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Cauce and Effect. "When I whs lilpwrecked In South America," nald Captain nowsprlt, came across n tribe of wild vnmon who had no touctips." "Mercy!" cried one of his listeners or tne rair sex. "How could they talk?" "They couldn't!" unarmed the old salt Tliat'u whnt made 'em wild." Judge. ROUND TRIP FARE TO LEWISTON, IDAHO ACCOUNT Northwest Livestock Show wuregonTrunkRy. Bend Terrebonne Redmond Culver Metolius Madras CENTRAL OREGON LINE $16.50 15,60 15.80 ::. 15.00 14.80 14.70 DateaofSale; December 8th aud 9th. Return Limit: December ICth. W. E, Coman, Gen'l Frt, & Pass, Agent, Portland, Or. A, P, Meyers, Agent Madras, Or, Dentoh c. burdick LAWYER Petitions in Bankruptcy. OffleoCItlremBUto METOLIUS, Unk Building 0REC0N. E. Brrclamd Attorney At Law MADRAS, OREGON Q( C. C0LLVER NOTARY PUBLIC Juetioo of tho Peace OULVKtt PKECINCT CULVER OREGON QRA VAN TASSEL NOTARY PUBLIC IN3UR ANCE ANORA, OREGON 0, W. BARHETT NOTARY PUBLIC FOR OREGON Collections a Specialty. Madras, Oregon yy, p. dyers LAWYER CULVER JUNCTION, OREGON Practice in all court and Department of tho Interior. LEWIS H. IRVING ATTORNEY AT LAW INSURANCE Office of Balfour-Guthrie & Co. MADRAS, OREQON HOWARD W. TURNER U. S. COMMISSIONER NOTARY PUBLIC INSURANCE UADUXB ORtflOH Blue PrlntTownship Plats Corrected untodutc, Bhowinir names of cntrymen, vacant land, nvcra and creeks, CO cents each. Land Scripts For Solo For securing title to nil kinda of Gov ernment land without residence or im provement, at lowest market price! Write ub for particulars. All kinds of Land office buslncsa a upccialty. Twen ty flvo yenrs experience. Reference, trench & Co., Bankers. Hudson Land Company Tho Dalles, Oregon HOBSON CAFJEr CHAS. HOBSON, Prop. Quick Order Service WE 8ERVE YOU TO PLEA8E WE AfiE PLEA8ED TO SERVE FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU IN CONNECTION Warren Smith PROPRIETOR Elite Tonsoriai Parlors fiO LONG WAITS BATHS MADRAS, ORE. Job Printing of every descrip tion. Tho Madras Pioneer. HAVE YOU PAPERS or THIS DESCRIPTION? Fire and life insurance policies, receipts for insurance premiums, notes, deeds, mortgages leases, contracts, bonds or stocks, certificates of deposit, pension papers, army discharge papers, valuable private cor respondence, warrants, marriage certificates, abstracts or other se curities of any nature, Howjire they protected ' fromfire, oWUl' incr eyes? A SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX here will afford you the best of protection. MADRAS STATE JAW