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The DesChutes Echo VOL. 1. BEND. CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 1, 1002. LAND LOCATION COMPLETED OFFICE. Echoes Along the Deschutes. NO. 23. H. M. Helms of Tacoma was here the first of the week to locate on a timlicr claim. F. M. Ernest was here from Portland this week to file on a tim ber claim. Town property in the new town of Deschutes, on the Deschutes river, is on the market. The lots are meeting with a ready sale and already a large number have been George Sly and wife were here sold and contracts made for others. Anyone wishing information or de from Roslund the last of the week. siring to secure a choice piece of Charles Graves was a business i property in a town whose future 1 visitor from Odell the first of the real estate values are assured should i xveek. address A. C. Palmer, Bend, Ore Permanent location of the ex gon. W. \\\ Collins who has been tension of the Columbia Southern here on timber business for the railroad into Crook county was M. J. Scanlon of .Minneapolis, past two weeks will leave Monday j completed to Bend Thursday Minn., has been a business visitor for his home in Moscow, Idaho, I morning. After finishing the during the past week. 1 work to this point n preliminary John Newsome who has been Ora Poindexter left for Prineville line was run across the Deschutes h»>re for several days in charge of I keep a full line of all necessary blanks for the purchase oi gov river and extended for a mile up Wednesday to look after the tim tli ■ surveying erew which has been ber business of Ailingham and Poin at work on the town-site left for ernment lands under the Timber and Stone Act, as well as any the west side oi the stream. The dexter. Prineville Friday. crossing was made near the bridge other law of the United States, and having had many years experience on the road between Bend ami F. H. Marion left the last of the The schedule time of the stage am entirely familiar with the mode of procedure to acquire title to Sisters. week for Portland and his home in between Prineville and Bend was The preliminary work on the tin* Willamette Valley. Mr. Marion changed the first of the week. The same, and also to all classes of State land; will make all original ap line was commenced about the lias successfullv located a large stage now leaves Prineville at 7 and locating . .. ' n plications and proofs. Special attention given to Homestead entries middle of A Januarv | >iM ( * numner ot persons on yellow pine a. m., arriving at Bond about one started in May. The distance lit tracts along the Deschutes during o’clock instead of 2:30 as hereto and the purchase of Desert, School and other lands. tween Shaniko, the present termi the past summer. He will return fore. The change is one which nus of the Columbia Southern, and in November to remain during Un has been desired for some time and Bend, by the way of the new line win ter. is greatly appreciated by those who as surveyed, is ninety-seven and have been compelled to wait at one half miles or about the same 0. G. Richardson of Minneapo times until past the middle of the ' distance as is covered by the stage lis, Minn., is in Bend attending to afternoon for the mail. business matters. Valuable information furnished regarding most promising oil lines lietween the two points. I Definite information ngarding W. H. Hollinshcad was down prospects yet found in Oregon. The United States District the construction of the road is I from Lava Wednesday oil a busi Weather Bureau for the month end I lacking, hut the engineers in ness trip. k ing Nov. 1 reports the following | charge express the opinion that statistics for October: highest I actual construction work is not Z. M. Brown was here attending ! far distant. to business matters the first of the temperature 77; lowest tempera ture 20, during the night of the week. Mines and mining stock bought and sold. Facilities unexcelled 1st; rainfall amouoted to .11) inches; Three months ago it was said number of clear days, ID: twenty- for handling same. that all the desirable timlicr in the one days the maximum tempera Timber land notices of the fol Deschutes valley would lie located ture ranged from <>() to 77 degrees; lowing persons have been received in this olliceand will receive pub by the first of September, hut since five days during the month were that time timber locators have cloudy and six partially so. lication in due time: An extensive list of real estate, consisting of town lots and houses; Avery G. Scoggin. Henry Keene, been coming at the rate oi seventy- .Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Donkei five or one hundred a week and . , and i unimproved; • i . stock i i i land.»ot , l *• nil ,n Kinds m Nona P. Donlev, farms, improved ranches, .. • William H. Prose. and Miss Iva Donkei returned Fri ’ Henry C. \\ ilhoit, Mary F. \\ il- there still seem to he vacant tracts tracts large or small. Options given and taken, I f you have property hoit, Don E. Rockfellow. Elizabeth which are eagerly filed upon as day from Portland where Mr. Dun- Matlock. Lillie McIIargue, James quickly as a trip to and from the | kel has been employed for the for sale or if vow wish to buy, call or write. past year by a lunilier company. W. Fisher. Robert Rea, (Belinda yellow pine belt can he made. They left yesterday with 8. I*. Templeton, Minnie M. Whitsett. Now that the rainy season has Donkei for their home at Lava. ; Homer Harrington, Herbert W. set in it is not probable that the Cooke. William Holder, Elias L. Portland Irrigation association M. J. Scanlon, the Minneapolis Johnson. Agnes Harris, \V. Lou- when it makes us investigation of ^,ini*M‘r,,ian ^,ls been here Mv office in Prineville is the best equipped Law, Land and Real tlian Harris, George D. Taylor. Crook county will say verv much ^ur' n^ ’ I“ “ l”1** week and who Enoch Cvrus, Sarah E. Tavlor. in favor of ii'n artificial water sup- tlir""h'1' l»wer Klamath ami Estate office in Eastern Oregon, and consists of a suite of four large Marv Cyrus, Etta Bottcnlierg. Lake counties, says as an evidence ply. rooms that have lieen specially furnished and fitted for the comfort Julia Cvius, William H. Cyrus. of Portland’s enterprise that.seven- L. D. Wiest was in Prineville eights of the business from the Lilia M. Hale. Wave Morris. Max of patrons and for the convenient transaction of business. Persons Xurss, Roy Nurss, D-nora M. this week on nusiness. southern country goes to San Fran intending to locate on lands in Crook county arc invited to cull and ex Hulse. Charles G. Hulso. Lewis 1). cisco. Edwin Brock came over from Holder. Minnie D. Holder. .James Prfneville .Sunday to spend a few amine my maps and plats— the latest and l»est. Strangers coining to H. Smith. Della M. Ehi, Charles The report of The Dalles land weeks on the Deschutes. office which was published last Crook county to locate will he cordially welcomed and any assistance E. Ehi, William F. Johnson Lil F. L. Bramble of Watertown, week showing a volume of htisi- lie E. Fulton. Ginctho J. Huriiv. necessary always cheerfully rendered. South Dakota, was in B. mi this , ness greater than any previous Charity Wilson, Bernard Gormlev. quarter in the history of tic Eliza K.(Poiudexter. Janies N. Poin w-ek to file on a timlicr claim. i office speaks pretty well f<*r tile dexter. Eva I Mule, Marie Spin Samuel A. Craig and wife and eastern part of the state. Prcfci- ning. J. Frank Spinning. Irwin D. Miss Rodgers of lirookville, lYnn., ciiec lias been shown of course for Pike. Alice M. Holder. Ncllv Z. took timber claims Saturday. timber lands, which were the fir-t This office is the nearest Land Office to the timlicr belts of Crook Pike. Hot hide C. Dove. Fred Davis to start the rush into Eastern Ore Georg«* Bogtie Was down from Ernest V. Dotv. Charles K. gon, hut the agricultural lands and Klamath counties. Locators and others coming to Bend always McDowell, Mary L. M>- Rosland thi- week attending to have not 1 * 1*11 slighted and as a Dowell. Eliza E. Mat tin, Wil- business matters. make this office their headquarters— an invitation is sii|ierfluous. result thru* hundred and twenty- liert J. Martin. Lerov H. Martin. John Birmingham arrived from three |N*rsons have taken advan The dates set for final proofs on Chicago on Monday to make final tage of the homestead laws to gain the nlmve an* in February, with proof on a timlicr claim. possession of a quarter section of the exception of a few which are The Pilot Butte Inn. under the land. This report is exclusive o- set tor the last of Januarv. 1 DO.). That the almve-nanied offices are the places where the LAND management of Mrs, E. R. Rilev, all the tilings which have lieen Forty acres of town property ad has lieen thrown o|* n to the pub made in the Lakevicw district, hut BUSINESS of Crook county is transacted may readily U demonstrut joining the town-site as filed by lic. The hotel lias I n ch refurnish it is probable that the volume of ed by one glance at tin* newspapers of Clunk county. the Pilot Butte Development com ed throughout and is a commend business transacted at the latter pany wcr>* thrown o; on to pur able addition to the business enter- of’ ire is somewhat ill excess of The Timber and homestead chasers thi- week. Tlx* land is pri- s which are springing up grad- . PRINEVILLE, OREGON. -Branch Office, BEND, OREGON. Government Columbia Southern Engineers Finish Their Survey to This Point. Lands. Oil Lands. Mines and Mining Stocks. Notices Received. Real Estate for Sale. 1 Prineville Office. i j Bend Office. Proof Positive. A . C. P A L M E R , - - , , , i a t U. b. Lomrrujsioner ana Attorney-at Law. contiguous to the original town- site of Bt ml and lias lieen siiledi- vidi*d into lots. A. ( ’. Palmer has the handling of the pfO|s*rty which is expected will meet a ready sale, uidl-X *n B^nd. filings arc still lieing made and tin Mr. ami Mrs. C. K. McDowell of report foi the next quarter is liki Prineville s|s• 11 1 the f**re part of ly to show as much activity us ba the week in Bend. They were on lieen recoidcd during the past three their way to Silver luikc. mouth*«
