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About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 16, 1902)
n i I. ' 5 11. rl I J i 41 1 il- .6. rii a '.ft!' THURSDAY, OCTOUBU 1G, 1902 COME TO US FOR FURS We have a select stock of bea ver, mink, marten and fox FUR BOAS They are of the highest quality and we quote prices lower than others JUST IN A second shipment of waists, coats and skirts. The ladies took such a fancy to our new ideas in stylish goods that wc soon sold our first shipment. HAVE YOU A Monte Carlo, or a nice tailor made skirt? We make them to fit you in style of the hour. THE EASTERN CLOAK, SUIT SKIRT AND WAIST FACTORY ED. EBEN, Prop. HE IS ON THE K E. O. MAN TRAVELS FROM PILOT ROCK TO COMAS PRAIRIE BrijM'8 Disease and Diabetes Positively Curable, Tney arc curing ijrigni'a Disease and Diabetes In Calitornia. The per centage of efficiency (recoveries) In these hitherto lncurablo diseases averages as high as 87 per cent. The details of the Investigation and dem onstration of the new compounds are so conclusive that we at once sent for a bundle of the reports and fori the new treatment for urgent cases in this city. Call or send for one of the reports. F. W. SCHMIDT & CO., Pendleton! Tells About Beautiful Country and Im portant CItlzenG and Stock Raisers Mountain Roads. (By a Staff Writer.) Pilot Rock takes Its name from tho sentlnoMIke butte, which rises at tho edge of the town. The volcanic crag usually designated merely, "Tho nock," Is a prominent landmark for many miles. Tho surrounding coun try Is almost entirely a sheep coun try. C. Cunningham's ranch Is lo cated near tho rock and tho J. B. Smith livestock Company's ranch Is also here, the buildings being located on Bear creek. These two firms are two of tho largest In the sheep busi ness In this part of Eastern Oregon. Mr. J. E. Smith, in addition to his Pilot Rock ranch nlso owns a large ranch at Barnhart. In all ho owns 44,000 acres. He raises and sells many hundreds of blooded bucks every year. The John Day-Pendleton road Is tho great highway of Eastern Oregon for the territory as fnr south as Burns. Muck of tho freight that goes Into tho John Day country goes from Pen dleton and by this road. It Is nlso the great cattle and sheep trail so there Is a constant stream of travel In both directions. Up, steadily upward winds the road till the summit of one of the spurs of the Blue mountains is reached. From the summit the view is very extensive. Mile on mile of timbered mountain side, rock strewn hills and bunchgrass slopes can be seen, To quote a stranger who passed and looked at the panorama spread out beneath him "Gee Whlttiker! Why you can see most of tho United States and part of Missouri from nere can't you?" While his remark Is rather exaggerated, one can see a good part of Umatilla county from the bare hill top. Night time found me nt"the Half way house. It is almost midway be tween Pendleton and Uklah. Mr. Has cali the proprietor, is a Vermonter. I was the first to arrive. Team after team turned In 'til there were 36 horses belonging to travelers. Tho teams were mostly freighting outfits. Thoy camp in the yard nnd have their horses put up and fed. As a rule the freighter carries a gTUb box and pre pares his own meals, sleeping under his wagon, it was a plcturcsquo sight to look out and. sec the gleaming campflres and tho dark l.gurcs sitting by them or moving about preparing supper: the firelight throwing gro- l tesquo carrlcatures of the moving flg mes upon the wagons and buildings. I-ong before daylight the men were astir. Before tho sun roso many of them were on the road. "This is my busy season," said Mr. Hascall. "I take In $250 a month through the summer and fall. But I am going to try to sell out. It Is too hard on my family. Sometimes Just at meal time, four or five travelers will stop for dinner. We often have a dozen stay over night and the work Is disagreeable and con tinuous. "It would suit a man who has several sons and daughters to help." The half-way house Is Just at tho foot of another spur of the Blue moun tains. A long steady pull up and a very rocky road and you gain the summit. Qunrtz and flint crop out in ninny places. Tho prevailing rock seems to be n rock of volcanic forma tion. It looks like slag and is full of air holes. Some hill sides are liter ally sowed with It so that the bunch grass has but scanty room for growth Many of tho summits of the hills are crowned with lodges or bluffs from which the rock loosened bv the nro- I cess of weathering, drops down and forms long slides of tahu, similar to I scorpion rocks near Mt. Jefferson. Lying between in? encircling hills, Is the beautiful valley called Camas Prairie. Alba is the flrst little hamlet you come to. Uklah is the other vil lage In tho valloy. Uklah has a few stores, blacksmith shop, livery stable, and nn excellent hotel. It has no sa loon, which seems rather surprising for a cattle town, but there is a strong sentiment against one, and so far no saloonist has been able to muster the C2 signatures or a majority of the le gal voters which it requires to pro cure a license. The bench land near Uklah sells at about $1000 per quarter section. Some of It may be bought, however, at $2.50 per acre. The valley land sells for about $12 or $15 per acre. ! Camas Prrirlo Is entirely devoted to cattle. Sheep are tabooed. "Dead lines" arc established over which the sheep may not graze. "Wo Hvo by our cattle," said one of the cattlemen. "If wo allowed herds of sheep to come In they would devour us and wo would have to move away. We have a large number of cattlo In here. In fact, we have all the valley can support. Our valloy Is about 1C miles long by six or seven miles wide." Jncob Born Is one of the heaviest cattle owners. He owns about 2000 acres of land and a largo bunch of cattle. ' At tho scnlo yards a hunch of cattle were being weighed. The whole bunch averuged about 10C2 pounds.. Thoy wore two-year-old steers. The price at which thoy were sold was $3.75 per hundred. This made the price $39.80 each. The average crowd of men In East ern Oregon has wore money than a similar crowd of farmers In Western Oregon. For example, at Uklah. when a man pulls out a handful of change to pay for his purchases you are apt to see a good sprinkling of I gold In the silver. I talked with Mr. Hllbert, one of the . heaviest owners of cattlo In Camas prairie. "This valley Is cll adapted to cattle raising," ho said. "At present prices most of our 2-year-old steers will bring from $37 to $10. Wo not only raise a prime quality of beef, but our butter Is In demand. C. N. Mclteynolds has one of tho largest dairies In the valley. The butter is sent by stage to Pendleton. The transportation charges being very reasonbale. The butter averages a price of 22V4 cents a pound tho year around. Most of it Is sold In Pendleton. Granite taking tho rest. The principal dairies on Camas pralrlo are ow'P.ed by C. Hale, Alex McKcnzIe, Jacob Born, J. H. .Mettle, W. Futter, Sam Clark Ben French. Tom Gilliland, Ed Brehm and G. E. Stockor. Halo runs about 25 cows; McKenzle, 35; Mclteynolds, 50. "We have green feed seven months in the year, tho rest of the time wo have to feed hay. We have sold over a thousand cattle from Camas prairie this fall, some for the market and some as feeders. They will be win tered at Butter creek." At the hotel I talked with a gentle man who said: "I got top price for my yearlings last year receiving over $22 n head. Tho man I Bold them to has Just disposed of them. They are good fat two-year-olds now. Ho got a lit ' tie over $40 a head for them, so you Bee ho made a good thing out of thorn. I have aeon men hold steorstll they were flve-year-olds and receive the same price as for two-ycar-olds $40 a head. They ate three year's range I at a loss. In other words, ho could have sold them If In good flesh two 'or three years sooner nnd gotten Just 'as much. It isn't tho size of your band nowadays, It Is what they will tip the scales at "that counts." America's Famous Beauties. Look with horror on Skin Erup tions, Blotches, Soros, Pimples. They don't have thorn, nor will any one, who uses Bucklon's Arnica Salvo. It glorifies tho faco. Eczoma or Salt IUieum vanish before It. It cures soro lips, chapped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Piles. 25c at Tnllman & Co.'s drug store. A Young Man of good habits always stands the best chance of success. No man of vicious habits or impaired health can obtain a policy in The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York. Its policy is therefore at once a certificate of a sound body and evidence of good morals. 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