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About The Deschutes echo. (Bend, Or.) 1902-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1904)
C ' Q jt^ • * * * »!•> V * ■ > -i* * * V- V- * *0* * "i* H e # * * * * * * # y* * % • * # ♦:* & I (Übe Irarliutrs ÎErlta. V O L. II. 8 D E S C H U T E S . CROOK C O U N T Y , O REG O N, F E B R U A R Y 20, 1004. NO. .*{!>. w^w(Wv‘i>wwa FOK SALE D esch u tes Irrig a tio n & P o w e r Co. O rg a n ize d . B. M IL L . First-Class at Shingles D. Prices. DESCH UTES, OIL SELLS W ill give you bargains on groceries at his store. All business done on a cash basis. A complete stock on hand, and more on the w a y from Shaniko. W . H. STAATS, Prop., OUT T h e L a s t of a Long W a i I - - A F e e lin g of S a t i s f a c t i o n Pr e v a ils Prineville CO. ST A R T S in he Neighborhood I e The Pilot Butte Development Co. I townsite is not on record. As w Deschutes, • - - Oregon. has given up its ambition to make ,have said beforf, the title to the the Crook county desert blossom most important .;part of it is sub- as the rose. The company has ject to the claims of several infant long had that tired feeling for heirs and is, to that extent, unde will which Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a sirable. That the townsite su». prove any more profitable than the specific and its retirement from its task is not a great shock to any Carey grant seems exceedingly one. The Deschutes Irrigation & doubtful since the sale of the grant ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ❖ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ « • ♦ « ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ « ❖ ♦ ♦ ♦ ❖ ♦ ♦ ♦ « ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ■ I Power Company, a new corpor will deprive the company of all ation, has bought the irrigation power in the vicinity and it will be j SHAW Si BKOSTKRHOU8, Props. grant of the Pilot Butte Develop at the mercy of other larger inter-1 ment Company, consisting of some ests. Ttie few friends which Drake: The only frst-cla35 establishment of its kind in Western 84,000 acres, the water rights own has will be forced to take cover or. Creek County. ed by the Oregon Irrigation Com go out of business and the big sham pany, of which C. C. Hutchinson irrigation company will entail con T h e f i n e s t b r a n d s o f w i n e s , liq u o r s , b e e r s a n d was the leading spirit, and has se siderable hardship ou the people c ig a r s c o n s t a n t l y on h a n d . lected sufficient other desert land who foolishly shouted for it. Eastern people urn especially invited to call at the Duffel when in the city. to make a land tract of 210,000 Moral: Dou’ t lend yourself to acres. The company is capitalized anyone. at $2,500,000, and they made a “t- *«- showing to the state land board P lan ò o f th o N e w Ir r ig a tio n O o m 1 pan/ that their financial condition was The Deschutes Irrigation aud above question. Baekers of the Power Company will not lose any company say that they will irri time in getting to work. They gate one tenth of the whole tract M rs. C. E. M cD o w e ll, Prop. within four months. This is the contemplate rushing the ditch and best news that has been announced flume work started by the P B. D. On your way to Deschutes and Silver Lake you will w ant to our people for some time. The Company to completion and at the to stop at a good hotel while in Prineville. Pilot Butte Development Company same time they wili begin work on received $70,000 for its interest in the large flume which is to take The PRINEVILLE has the reputation of being the lies ask its Carey act grant. The company water from the river in the vicinity probably sold out beoause it need of Deschutes Lumber Company’s your friends if it isn’t. ed the money. It has never been mill. A darn will be constructed F i n e R o o m s and B e d s . Cuisine Unexcelled. in shape to comply with its con across the river at the place chosen tract and ever since the contract for an intake and the water will has been signed the grant has been thus be raised to a height sufficient for sale. The people of this coun to save cutting through the rim- ty regarded the venture as a rock along the river. The com scheme to work the government pany will soon build and run a J. M. K E E N E Y PROP. and everything that ceuld be done general merchandise store in Lytle here to prevent speculation in and wili also construct a hotel at T h ere is nothing: th at d e lig h ts th e w ea ried tra v e le r m o re than to find a rea j g o o d h o te l w h e r e v e r h e s to p s to rest. these lands was done, and there.- is that poiat. It is said that Mr. Johnson will be ready to get to little doubt that the activities of You will pronounce the Columbia Southern the best by far of the company’s enemies have done work within a couple of weeks. any hotel you have ever run across in a city of Shaniko’s size. much to keep the company from The new flume and ditch is de Such a hotel would be a credit to many large cities. making a profitable deal at public signed to irrigate a most desirable expense. Counting in expenses of tract of land lying some 20 miles the company there is very little north of Deschutes which was not R u n on t h e A m e r i c a n R a t e s a r e r e a s o n a b l e , too. velvet in the $70,000 received. a part of the segregation of the P. P l a n , f r o m $ 1 . 5 0 up. S H A N IK O , OR. Tho tract was also taken to help B. D. Company and could not be the company sell its townsite and reached by the small flume. these trains and no extra fare the defects in the filing and proofs this it did not do. It still owns charged. so that the timber claimants will A B u s in e s s P ro p o s itio n . the townsite and will be ready one Our rates are the same as those not he put to any further trouble If you are going east a careful of iaferior roads— why not get your on account of the mistake. Every day to let that also go to the high est bidder. A. M. Drake, the presi selection of your route is essential money’s worth? session of congress a great many dent of the P. B. D. Company, lias to the enjoyment of your trip. If Write for full particulars. hills are left unconsidered as it won the enmity of every perso» it is a business trip time is the B. II. T r c m h i ’LL, Com . Agt. takes a great deal of energy to worth considering in the Deschutes main consideration ; if a pleasure J. C. Lindsey, T. F. P. A., force a bill to the front and have it country. He has time and time trip, scenery and the conveniences Portland, Ore. passed, but we believe that the again raised the passions of bis and comforts of a modern railroad. Paul B. Thomson, F. it P. A., Oregon delegation will soon have Seattle, Wash. Why not combine all by using neighbors to a pitch that threaten the matter in shape. ed personal violence. To say that the Illinois Central, the Up To- Out of 33 counties in the state, he is the best hated man in Crook Date road, running two trains W ill C u re D e fe c ts . Crook stands sixth in percentage county is pattiug the matter in its daily from St. Paul and Minneap It will he ood news to the many of increase in taxable property, mildest form. The people of Prioe- olis. and from Omaha to Chicago. cars, the persons who hied and made proof the amount of such property being villo also were greatly rejoiced that Free Reclining Chair Buffet-Library-Smoking in the land district where the land over 29 per cent greater in 190.1 Drake’s connection with the coun famous cars, all trains vestibuled. In was situated that Congressman than in 1902. With the advent of ty is drawing to a defeated close. shori thoroughly modern through- Williamson and the rest of the settlers who will come to the irri- Conversations all about town were roasts on the P. B. D. Company's ■ out. All tickets reading via the o reKOD delegation will take up the gated sactions in the coming year preeident. The plat of the Bend Illinois Central will be honored on matter in congres« and will our« I tha incraaae will he greater still. 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