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PUTTING PIPES IN ORDER
Is Important at nil seasons of the year.
Better to have defects In the steam and
water fittings repaired before a serious
break occurs. Let us show you how
well we can attend to your work. We
can put everything In order In a short
tlmo and the siuallness of our bill will
be a revelation.
B. F. BECK,
The Plumber
Court Bt. Opposite Golden Rule Hotel
Cash Grocery
' We invite you to come and
see- -us when you need
5 groceries or baking. We
ihavejpurchased the Rei
' maniGrocery and Bakery
at 636 Main street where
I we will conduct a strictly
cash grocery. Our plan
( will be to give you more
for your money than you
can get elsewhere because
we will give the cash pat
rons the benefit oi our
saving on bad debts.
Miller Grocery Co.
CASH GROCERY AND BAKERY
Gome To Us
For your lumber and building
material of all descriptions and
you will save money and get
first-class stock. We can sup--plyiyou'with
Doors, Windows,
Screen doors and windows,
building paper, lime, cement,
brick and sand.
We make a specialty of wood
gutters for barns and dwellings.
Oregon Lumber Yard
Alta St., opp. Court Hoaae.
FOR SALE
One "of the most comfort
able homes in Pendleton,
Electric lights, nice lawn
and shade trees, stable
for two horses
A .half section of fine wheat
land, all in summer-fallow,
north of Pendleton.
Good improvements.
Almost a section of land in
one body, a short dis
tance north of town.
FRANK. B. CLOPTON
800 MAIN STREET
OLD NBWBPAI'EIIB TO ,POT UNDEH
a t m nn hiTM. walla, or for wrtD-
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t the HABT OHBUUmAW ci"c, i-cMuiB-too,
'Oregon. ,
GHQOK
COUNTY
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PRlNEVILLE the center
OF A LITTLE EMPIRE,
ackrabblts Destri.t ..ve on Ranches.
Stories of Early Days Told by Pi
oneers. (By a Stafl ..rlter.)
Leaving Prlnovlllo and riding to
ward juniper-clad hllla one passes
over a sago brush dotted expanse of
10 or 12 miles which should be called
"Jaokrabbit Flat." Sometimes there
would be four or five In sight at once.
Over 50 were seen In half an hour's
drive, with their gray bodies, black
tall, lang white ears tipped with black
they lend the necessary touch of ani
mation to the desert-lllic sago brush
flat. Though they hop along leisurely
they can stretch out at an astonish
ing speed If the need for speed arises.
At the Circle ranch, they have 12
acres of orchard which has borne
this year a very heavy crop of ex
cellent fruit.
As yet no pests have affected tho
Crook county fruit. In addition to
apples, pears, cherries and other fruit
they raise considerable quantities of
tho smaller fruits as, raspberries
gooseberries, currants and blackber
rles. They find ready sale for all tho
fruit they can raise. In Prinevllle.
Jackrabblt Nuisance.
C. W. Circle, Sr., .n conversation,
said: "Our greatest trouble arises
from tho jacltrabbits. They arc very
prolific. They have raised two fami
lies this year and some years raise
three. They usually make a nest and
have their young under a clump of
sagebrush, though sometimes they
make their nest in a
"I burned my stubble field recently
and counted 170 iackrabbtts that ran
before the fire through the stock yard.
They are very destructive to our al
falfa fields and gardens. Petitions
aro being numerously signed to have
a bounty of Ave cents placed on their
scalps. One could readily kill from
75 to 150 a day In this vicinity for
some time. The coyotes aro being
trapped and the rabbits are on the
increase. A coyote will eat rabbit
when it can't get mutton. Usually
they hunt in couples to get rabbits. A
coyote alone must bo pretty hungry
to cntch a Jackrabblt."
A Country of Great Extent.
Crook is a county of great .extent
and varied resources. Its physical
features are remarkable. In the des
ert the hoof pats of your horse sound
as though you were riding over a cavi
ty beneath you. It has a hollow re
sounding sound. It is a county of
level stretches of sage brush dotted
plain of juniper clad foohllls, of ab
rupt canons, of rimrock crowned hills.
Signs of its volcanic origin are
everywhere to be seen. In tho vicin
ity of Hay creek the rock is of a yel
lowish or reddish brown tint, very
porous. It is, full of bubbles and air
holes. Not far from Hay creek is a
butte upon which opajs are frequently
found. Agates, flint, petrified and
agatized wood are found abundantly.
Seeing some pretty flakes of agatized
wood I traced the flake to Its source
and came to a stump of a Juniper,
agatized beautifully. I have seen
trunks 20 inches through, petrified,
and petrified tree trunks four or five
feet long looking like cordwood, but
so heavy one could scarcely raise one
end.
Volcanic Origin.
In one canyon the volcanic rock
has weathered and exposed numerous
volcanic "biscuits." They run in size
form the size of a marble to the size
of a water biscuit. They are hollow
and when broken show beautiful crys
tallzation. Nature was in a tempestu
ous mood when the Trout creek and
Antelope creek district was made.
Huge rock masses, deeply Assured
canyons, and other endeavors show
the throes through which nature pass
ed before, with Are and flame she
gave birth to this region.
Interesting Pioneers.
There are many Interesting pioneers
In Crook county. It has been my
good fortune to meet many of them.
"Uncle" Dave Templeton, of Prine
vllle, said: "When I camo from Linn
county in 1870, our nearest postofllco
was at The Dalles, 120 miles distant.
There was no Prinevllle then. Bar
ney Prino kept a little blacksmith
shop where Prinevllle now stands. He
sold whisky, nails, tobacco ana a row
other necessities. Prinevllle is named
from Barney. He had a little Chero
kee blood in him I think. Ho was liv
ing up near Milton tho last I heard
of him.
"I settled on McKay creek. Tho
Helena, Mont., Oct. i, 1M2.
Dr. C A renin,
Helena, .Mont
I wlh to thank you lor my re
lief I wa suffering agonlea
Irom pllea and wan taking mor
f nlne 10 relievo me, wlien, on
hit adviea of a friend, I procured
aixittleof your 1'errln lllo Spe
cific and took a tableipoonlul at
uUDl and an other in tbe morn
lug. At liall pait 12, noon, my
wile gave me anotoer tablespoon
lul, when my pain all Hopped.
In two dayi 1 wai able to attend
my regular builLeaa entirely re.
llored. It was limply wonderful,
Truly joura,
Jullui Meyboefer, Furrier,
Helena.
year after I came tho first store was
started here. William Helsler put In
a little stofjk of goods. At first I was
on McKay creek, hut later I took up
a rango on Crooked river. We never
fed In those days. Wo rounded up our
cattllc twice a year for hording and
to pick out the beef steers and novor
saw them the rest of the year, wuu
oats and bunch grass would hush your
hot brim In ots of places, 'ine
cattle would get In it and bo out of
sight.
In Horse Heaven.
"The best range I ever saw was
on Horso Heaven Creek. Tlio horses
would not leave that range. You
could leave them there and they
would stay and not work back to 'tho
hnmn rnmrp as in Other places. Wo
drove our cattle to Tho Dalles. Steers
could bo bought hero then for $10 n
head. I have been offered bands of
cattle at ?7 a head. It was no ox
penso to raise them. I never saw bet
tor range, tho pea vine and rye grass
furnished them all tho leeti mey
rnlllrl uso.
"I remember in tho 70's I was in tho
Horsn Heaven country making
roundup. Soveral parties came by
riding day and night to got to the
Loopholo country. An assaycr had
given a certificate showing that tho
oro from them ran $9100 to tho ton.
Two Portland parties wore racing to
get there first. One came by way of
The Dalles ,thc otner uy way 01 Al
bany on the Cascades. Well, I got
tho fever and saddled up and rushed
In. I took a claim. A man who came
a fow hours later offered me a big
mule for a half interest In my claim,
but I would not have sold for $10,000.
t tlimmlit I hail a fortune. A little
later I was ready to sell for ten cents,
It was a Joke. I am still in uie cat
tin business."
Pen Blovlns is one of the best known
of tho old-timers. Ho camo in isf.i
He gave me many Interesting facts
relative to the country s cany bcuic
ment.
Still Alive.
"Uncle" Jim Elliott, who lives afew
miles east of Prlnovllle Is one of the
very early settlers. Ho took up
ranch and turned the sage brush land
into alfalfa fleld. Ho sold it to T. H
La Follette for $5000 recently. "My
wife," he said, "left Linn county
weighing 105 pounds in tho early 70's.
Tho doctors told me she could not
live When we had been hero six
months, sho weighed 140. That was
29 years ago that she couldn't live
and she is still here. Eastern Oregon
Is a healthy country and a good coun
try to make money in. It is not a
very good place to raise a family of
hoys in, the influences are better in
the Willamette valley for a family."
Interesting Pioneers.
Grandma Maupln, whose husband
a noted Indian fighter, killed the cele
brated Chief Panlina, is an interest
ing pioneer. Old "Alkali Frank" as
Frank Hewitt is called is one of the
few men who camo into thij country
li. the early sixties. He and his part
ner. a Dutch sea captain, named
.Meyers, settled near .Mitchell in '03
Decided to Get Married.
it got, lonesome tor us and wo
got pretty tired of our own cooking,"
sola Alkill Frand, "so we decided
that one of us would get married and
briny a wife to the, cabin to do our
uotmnifj. we pioyea a game ot seven
up to see which of us should go away
and find a wife. My partner was tlio
one, so next morning at day break ho
saddled up and struck out. He went
to San Francisco and married a Ger
man woman. Things went along
pretty smooth after that. It kind of
put mo in a notion so I went and got
married, too. I livj near Tho Dalles
now. In the early days I lost 74
Horses from the Indians. May be,
some day the government will pass
the Indian depredation act, and I will
get my money for them. It was my
pacic tram. 1 used to bo a packer."
County Formed In 1882.
In 1882 IJ. F. Nichols after a hard
fight succeeded in having the bill
passed which he had introduced, to
have Crook county cut off from Wasco
county, in 1S85 a portion of Grant
county was added to Crook. From
east to west the county is 110 miles
long wiuio -Its dimensions north and
south aro 04 miles. It contains slight
ly move than 10,000 square miles. The
census of 1900 gives it a population
of .1890., At the present time it is
estimated that it hns nearer 5000 pop
ulation than ?S0. It will be seen
from tho above figures that the coun
try is very sparsely populated and
can support, when the vast stretches
of desert are irrigated many times
its population. There aro stretches
in the county where one may travel
half a day and see no ranch. Wido
readies of excellent land are only
populated by jackrabbits which could
be turned into productive ranches if
Irrigated. Tho last census there were
leported 530,000 acres of deeded non
tillable land; 30,000 acres of deeded
tillable land with 6,000,000 acres yet
open to settlement. There are cer
tain districts within tho county suit
able only for stock raising, us they
are too steep and rooky for agricul
tural purposes, but on tho other hands
there aro scores of miles, such as aro
found around Powells Uutte, Agency
I'lains, Hay Stack and similar local
ities, where stock raising can yield
to farming and produce excellent re
sults. Tho day of oreanna and tho
maverick aro over. The vigllanco
committee is but a memory. Crook
county is forging steadily ahead
and the next 20 years will see greater
advancement and development than
the past scoro of years has witnessed,
FRED LOCKLEY, Jr.
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