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About The Deschutes echo. (Bend, Or.) 1902-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1903)
v \ VOL. IL •7^ DESCHUTES, CROOK COUNTY, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 2«, l‘Ä .NO. IN. W H A T D E S C H U T E S V A L L E Y NEEDS. work has been done there is little j return from the land. The hard- J The Investment of Outside Capital Must ships of all this farm-making be Encouraged and Our Ri‘s<'urces would be greatly lessened if work j Advertised. could be furnished the new settlers j The future of this region, its pos during the period of the prepar ation of the land. It would also sibilities and resources are subjects be desirable that the best of all * which the inhabitants of this vi markets— a local market— should cinity should study and discuss. be at hand when the farmers begin Homeseekers will be here from * to produoe. We can hardly ex time to time and every resident * should be both willing and able to pect bomeseekers to bring with them sufficient capital to prepare * furnish inquirers any necessary information. I f this portion of the and stock farms and besides to * wait a couple of years for returns. ^ Deschutes valley becomes the site I f we could make use of our great of a thriving town, surrounded by the problem ! ^ a prosperous agricultural country, timber resources would be an easy one The city,: ^ the residents first on the ground the local market and the demand ought to be the greatest gainers. for labor would all come at once. I j p A n unintelligent hopefulness or a Under the circumstances every like kind of pessimism ought to be thing possible should be done to decried. To support a city of any bring a strong lumber company in kind there must be manufacturing to this vicinity. Every person who going on. acquires a timber-claim here be- Many of us have seen towns like i comes an asset and advertiser of those in the Dakotas, Kansas and our section. Diversified industry Nebraska where an elevator, a cat is a great advantage to any section tle yard and a few business houses and deserves the warmest en supplied all the needs of a large couragement. A resident of this and prosperous agricultural com region who decries the timber val munity. A few hundred people ues is an enemy to our progress composed the town and supplied a [ very meager local market tor farm ____ i 6 products. Grain and cattle were j too m u c h b e a r staple products and yearly the farmer exhausted his farm of its A Horse on PrtnovilleM Popular Pill Maker. agricultural elements and shipped to some far off market the vitality ,(V-„ T i >. i ... . . . No, I don t know anything of his sol 1 in the torra ot grains. . . . , . T . ,, i 6 about sheep, but I can tell you a A local market is absolutely BtQry ftbout a bear;, 8aid P . M | necessary to the success of an agri- Smithi of Prineville> at the perkini cultural community. Take as an i . , „. , t ^ vesterdav. “ J. H. Templeton, the instance our present condition, j druggiat'in our towI1. wenl hunting; Hay is selling at as high as $17.00 Qn lfae headwater8 of the Deschutes ! a ton, yet if there was even 400 ; River< and took a ghol at # ghe bear acres of irrigated hay land in the which had two cube. He hit her vicinity hay would go begging at I and cripp,ed her and wa8 oi t0 TH E B E N D M E R C A N T IL E CO. Keeps a complete stock of Sash. Doors. Windows, and 57 :c taxions 9 :rcprcof Shibbcroïd 9cc :r.g. HEADQU ARTFRS AND Everything A. BEND FOR C A T T L E M E N ’S ft. at S H E E P M E N ’S S U P P L IE S . Prinovillo GttANT, Pr icos. M a x . u ik k OREGON. Has a complete line of goods at his new store. A two-thousand dollar addition has just been received. Qualities right and prices right. W . H. STAATS, Prop., Deschutes, • - - Oregon. $5.00 a ton. Air. J. \Y\ Howard, . t. v . . ’ grab one ot the cub?, when sh e1 one time cattle king of this region,' 8tarted afler him. He tried to and now owning 3000 head of cat- 8hoot agaia> but hi„ , un wculd not tie in Lake and Klamath counties, I woik, so he ran for dear life, states that his winter's hay in lost his hat in his flight and a little those counties costs him this ye.r j fttrtber on dropped hi^ gull. When TWOIIY a M’KKOW'X, I'KOI’K. $•>.00 per ton. Last year he fed he had run about 600 vards h e ; 550 tons of roots with success and looked around and saw no bear, so I The only first-class establishment of its kind in Western this year he will purchase double he sat down to get his breath. • Crook County. that amount paying the same price Then he started back and in about'' for roots as for hay. When we con 400 yards found bis gun ; lie could ■ T h e f i n e s t b r a n d s o f w i n e s , l i q u o r s , beers and sider that the range in this v i c i n i t y . , . • . , ,, , ou , 6 - not bud his hat nor the bear, ¡she c i g a r s c o n s t a n t l y on h a n d . is exhausted and that tew cattle [pngt. have taken it with her.” — are .Min here we see clearly that Oregonian. J Eastern people are especially invited t,»call at the I’ uffet when in the city. hav-f.irming alone will lead to a A R ecent T im b e r l>ea!. hay surplus. The Yawkey Lumber Company Dairying would be a desirable | of Hazelburst, Wisconsin, has pur line of farming although it requires chased a tract of 16,000 acres of ‘ a large investment in graded cat yellow and sugar pine timber land A. C. LUCAS. " --- tle. The cultivation of tue sugar MINNESOTA BUFFFT ' PILOT BUTTE INN bei-t may at.o prove a gteat succu.tr [^¡Trl'n from '.o'Lo rio.oo^r Accomodations fer travelers alwnys first-class but it necessitates the erection of a sugar beat plant at a considerable acie.t U . C. 5 awkev, now retired. The Booth it Cornett and Vandevert stages stof . its doors and livery entered the lumber business some rigi can be had on short notice to dri ’e to the timber. cost and we can only expect such forty years ago at Chase, Michigan, an investment when beet-raising BEND, ORECON. and prospered. He is now living has passed the experimental stage. at Detroit, Michigan, with several To properly prepare ground for A c c o m o d a t i o n s f i r s t - c l a c s in overy r e s p e c t at millions to his credit. His son, C. irrigation is no slight task. The C. Yawkey, is the principal factor whole problem i* not solved when in the Yawkey Lumbei* Company water is placed on the highest and has operated nearly fifteen point of a forty acre tract of land.. . .... This popular resort is under the*>pecial management and super The land must be cleared, knolls j j(| 9|rong Qne and bu„ J tb£ vision of Mrs. Wm. istaats. cut down, depressions filled up and purpose of manufacturing in this •mall ditches dug, and until this country. D E S C H U T E S , O RE CO N- HOTELSTAMTS