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About Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1904)
tin i, . llUoch THE &KANT iCOUMT NEWS. Volttrna .V.V.V I JOhY DJlY, GJt.'LYT COUsYTV, QJUCGOjY, Til URSD.l V. JJXU.'lliY 21, 1D04. JYumhcr J7. THE BEAUTIFUL AND PROLIFIC JOHN DAY VALLEY Messrs. Viirrish, Donaldson and Right Talk to a Huker City Democrat man ol" Business Conditions. J. L. Parrish of John Day and S. J. Dooaldaon and F. M. Kight of Prairie City, nil business men engaged in merchandising In the beautiful and prolific John Day valley, are now transients in Haker City, sajrs the Democrat of the 12th iniU, where they have cooio for the purpose of buying their spring Stock of goods for their reieetiva tores. These merchants find it oheajwr and more convenient to meet sales men in Baker than havo them come to their hmna towns. They also visit Baker Oily, which they conaidt-r the hub of Eastern Orev on, which is always a treat to them. Mining in Grant county in prae tienllv at rent now us this is the oil season. Most of the placer work i shut down and prospecting general ly is waiting for spring. Work on the 1'ixie Meadows is progressing right along and jieople have great hopes for this enterprise. Slockraising is oi.e of the great industries ol the county which these gentlerren represent. For eomo lima man- feared thai feed for the Jaffa bsWs of cattle and vat lierds of sheep which are among the mainstays of the county would lwn ncHtcf, but such feats have mli; aided. At one time in the brin ing of winter it was feartd that n nburtage would result in consider able loss among cattto but that d.ingtr is past and cuttle are in good condition. Tho winter bus been such as to iiisun' good enips for the coining Ki'iiwii mid Ktockmen ba'.e no rea son to complain except at the low price of cattle. Price are not wbut they ought t le but stock men think the early spring will right things again. Last fall cattle prices were so un satisfactory that not many were gold and as the eople look to the ftockraising industry to develop the resources, several improvements have been abandoned. Business and residence buildings that were contemplated have been temjiorarily onandoned. Hut this U not permanent. The stuck butint's will soon be back to its ilil ii(irt-rtius titunding and the improvement will lie resumed. One of these gentlemen said that the section is one of great diversi-! lied ii t rt'c'c, but one serious draw-' hack is the lack of market for pro duce. Iiiiiiunso tjuantilies of fruit1 are grown, and especially apples, j but ou side of those consumed at 1 home very fo-.v find their way to the ! market and it may truthfully be I aaid that more fruit is eaten by . hogs than by human lieiugs. There is another manner in which railroads will aid the section. Most of the mines carry base ore s and Die concentrates ail1 furnish tonnage. When transports tion lines reach these mines tbey will be worked more extensively, employ ing more men. The mines should give the sec tion a splendid home market for all that the farmer produce. Haist muted at Myers Croup. ISImer Clearer is juet back from the Myers group, near Medical Iake, operated by the Indiana Min ing company, in which he is inter ested, says the Sumpter Miner, Th new hoist, recently instal ed on the property, was started up last Friday, and Mr. Cleaver says is do ing pond work, rumps war also installed. Tho hoist has a depth capacity of ftOO feel. The shaft was sunk eighty feel by hand on the ore body before Ihe machinery was put in. It is tho present pur pose to continue finking. J. V. Mcfsncr is general manager of the company, and aIo of tho Prairie Diggings, operated by practically the same people. GRANT COUNTY NEWS. Items of Interest Swiped From Our GxohBnFos. 1'HAIUIK CITY. Hon. 0. W. McIIaley has boon ou the sick list but is now getting better. W. V. Iteese is in rortland and wit1 vikit his blind son, Alvin, who is in the school for the blind at Sa lem. Joe Heese is slowly recovering from lumbago. He was out ou the streets a little while on IhsI Wednes day. Mrs. John Jones recently sold at Hums 100 head of Block cattle lor 1900 throwing in tho calves for good measure. Ray hauranee, son of lshani Insurance of this city, is now learn ing the newpaper and printing bus inecp in this otlicc. J. S. Guttridge hauled the big gest load of hay, delivering it to Dr. V. C. Belknap, that has ever been hauled to l'rairie. It weighed 481U pound. Joe McClernan was the first to put in electric lights in this town. He had them installed in his sa loon on Wednesday. .Several other business houses had the lights put in this week. -Miner. FOSSIL. Borne flue specimens of free burn ing coal have laien taken out 0: Ot is Kizer's well in town, the bottom of which is a solid bod of coal. A company may be incorporated to develop this fine prospect. In the Lone Stock country the dogs have for some time been help ing themselves to fresh meat not' withstanding tho efforts put forth to suppress them. Things came to a crii Monday when the puck felled one of It. ti. Robinson's calves Several dogs wem shot and the leader hung to the rafters of H. Ci. Robinson's barn. Dead dogs are nt a premium. Anthony Mohr, of Kumpter, a member of the eomMiiy that is de veloping the Fossil coal fields, ar rived from Sumpter Wednesday and examined the coal prosieot in the Kiser well in town. He went over Thursday to join his associate Mr. Walker ut the mines, where a force of men under the latter have been getting out some very tine coal and selling it tu the ranchers in the John Day valley. Last Monday morning Claude Laurence, the prisoner who is held for breaking into a saloon at Spray sud stealing some J 30 out of a slot machine, found the jail door un locked and while Sheritf Keetou was down town darted down stairs and crawled out of the window in the basement. He was pursuod in the mud fur five miles and cap tured, lis was returned to bis cell and put under look aud key. Jour nal. A. K. Wright was in town Fri day from hi rauph nysir Html man. j He reports stock doing well in his J section. II. R. .ts 11 field a heavy cattle buyer, was in town a day or two ! this week for the purpose of buy ing feeders, lis recently sold 400 head of fat cattle nt four cents jwr uik1. Tunis Swick ami Kmmit Coch ran came in from (irant county Sat urday. They report slock as being in good condition in the interior. Very little feeding has a yet lnssn done and if the favorable '.weather continues throughout the present month slock will not suffer on Ac count of shortage of feed. Sheriff Shull returned yesterday with three Italians who had held up and robbed a while man, taking his gold watch nnd Ifl in money. Keen Italian wore live suits of clothes. One, Ouiseppa Rosa, had three drafts, amounting to t'i.rt). They had among them ten watches and much other jewelry, three re volvers and a shotgun. ISach car ried a razor and a stiletto. It is believod that they committed vari ous crimes. Timca. LONG ( KKKK. Sohool lias oned in the Carter district with Mrs. Flora Dolinn in charge. W. Barnard was over from Fox Thursday ami reports his wife im proving. A number of young people had n very enjoyablu time coasting one day last week- M. W. Dunlnp was quite eic.k while oamped on tho Mctiirr grade last week. Ho hired H. W. Ad kins to oversee tho road work in his! place. (i. M. llooth, presiding cider of this district, writes that ho will not be able to ronoh I -pup Crook in timo to hold quarterly meetings next j Sunday. Ranger. CUEHHILUA FIGHlltlC. Columbia Would Hnrnss tho U. S. roroos. The turbulent times arising over the Panama canal sitution are not confined to the bloodless buttles of iMilligerent congressman, and the valaiut but vain protests of the t.ir dy statesmen from Columbia. l.r men, real fighting men with real war, although it is of the guerrilla sort, are considering the argument of bullets and knife. For some lime the United States government has had men and ves sels ouzagod in watching the coat of Panama. Thcsoforos are un der the command of Admiral I'ogh lan, who on Thursday sent the fol lowing dispatch to the navy depart ment. The report of the apeatance of Columbian forces between Clu. and the coast is due to tho men in that vicinity now who 1 elonged t" the Columbian forces which would not join the Panama men, who ton!, t) the mountains behind David and are now a baud of unorganized marauders. There were original!) about -00 men. Some unarmed have beeu seen about Santa Fe and the Ooola river. They Moro coin- milling depredations. The Panama government has promised to deal with such guerril la forces. 8TATE ASSOCIATION. Cnttlugrovwir Orgnnlio A Home Comnino. altogether. Ion implicated for their ; it i..nd n good authority that proper individuJ handling. Some j the line wiil be extended as far ar of the bearings reach up to propor-1 Canyon City in ItXM, It is alrooi lion that bring them r to contact ! as ce-tiin that the Columbia South with national 1 iscbinrry. Others are local, but no always simple. It is lMed that with reference to all these tineeUoifc, from the prob lems of grating to those of market ing, they ii.ay U; more effectively looked after. RAILWAY EXTEN3IOM. Sumpter VnlHJ 'SiBMrt Into This ItfcSM There has been such a vast deal of railroad talk during the past fen years that many conervative peo ple are prone to look with suspicion upon any disposition to renew it Hut tho latest revival of extension 1 rumors comes fro-.i r sourco th l is usually credited with being both conservative and well informed. Indeed it has often been asserted by the unfriendly critics of the Ua kcr City Democrat's railroad policy that the paper stood in 'mod too close. Hut be thai as it may there seems no doubt that it i not prone to go in advance of tin band announcing plans for railway ex tension. Vet this iii what it says: The plans of tin; Sumpter Valley eru will build east within tho nex' I wo years orosscuttiog the Snmpter Valley. This will give IVaker CiU direct connection with tlie entire central portion of the slate. AT sr. LOUIS. National DempcrRtlo on July O. Convention HEAVY DAMAGES FOR A MINING TRESPASS St. Iv,ii has beeu electd at the convention city 1 y the democratic national committee. Twenty-nin j ballots were emd for the exposition oily on the Moond ballot. Tin) first resulld: New York, 6; St. Louis, 23; Chi cago, 27. July 0th is the date fixed for holding the ilomocrntic national sonvention. Colonel Clutaher Uson n Cun. Last Friday evening, in Raker City, Colonel Butcher, a prominent buincss man and nolilician, slmt Jerry White, a contractor in the neck and arm. The trouble origi nated over tlm waterworks contract wagon in I al Wtiser, Idaho, in which liolh were interested. The rejwrts indi cate that White was tho aggressor nnd Hutiber shot in self defen.-n. railway call for die extension of the 1 The later surrendered huncelf to line from the su unlit through Prai-1 Justice Me.jfdek and j. lined rie City to Can) n City to Burns. ' undt r f.'.iMHi Kind. Keystone Company Opens Sensation in (Jnarlzhiirg by Stopping Work of the Mpiily Mining Company. 1 The most imortaut litigation yet begun in Sumpter was inaugurated this waek when Attorney N. C Richards riled complaints in the circuit court to recover the value of all ore illegally extracted from the Keystone mining proerly, Quart burg district, asking for a perma nent injunction againxt the Fmtitv CopKr A Hold Mining Co., forbid ding It to remove ore from workings now being mined, and 2U,(KX) dam ages for injury done the property. Judge Clifford has entered a tem porary restraining order, forbidding further trespass on the territory in question, und coiiiurtudin tl.eni to ce.ise ex'racting ore until tinal hriif- mg of the cue, w iiu It injuni tioii ih j now in f r e This notion is the culmination of exhaiiitive iuvustigations that lmvo leen in progress some timo. Many witnesses have been examined, sur veys made of tho Koystono .)rojor ty, old monuments located and a general history of Quartxburg dug up. Tho jMjint of dillbronco is nn overlapping location, one claimed by the ICquity company being on the south half of tho old Koystono claim. J. Frank Watson of Port land is one of tho principal owners of tho Keystone. Deputy Marshal Al A. Roberta of Heppner has been apKiulcd receiv er of the I. a (irande land office. Ot,!y lir-t ebiss job printing at be N i.wn . tFii'o P'i EI EI $B50.DD FREE 3150.00 in Cash $700.00 in Prizes 1 hs l lb rrralntl ulUpr aver iiinii.- lo tin' imiul,- il i .runl o.nit' . v.t i i o.- U o i - . i.. "rt.-r Twleca-Wosk SQOktnanHevw, "i -i--h....o , o.. i., .1 t.0101, e-r ' 1-' 1 - -1 ..... i i in. M.H t.itt it u littol hi h. Tlu i.lAtiii utt I lil.iifil.4 wilt l, . 111,1 itfttl ti.,iiui r, - , I. .n ,11. li.llU W)' kr, ii..i.i,...i iii in. i...rn,.i. M-I Tho Grunt Count- New, ur , 1., i,. , , v v uliMlil.- jirlir. 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