The Bend bulletin., July 24, 1908, Image 1

THE BEND BULLETIN.
VOL VI
IJKND, OUKGON, FRIDAY, JULY a., 1908.
NO. 19
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RAILROAD WORK
IS BEING PUSHED
Subscriptions to Capital
Stock Coming In,
I-NTMUSIASA. IS SPKIiADINO
Prospects Aro Bright (or tlie Success
of llio Central Oregon Knllruml.
Surveyors Aro In the I'lclJ.
Itvcrytlilne O. K.
Another week limit plana develop
lug hircly In irKttt lo I In building
of lite Central Oregon lUltruad.
Httire t.he iimm Hireling hrlil In
llcntl Ul Monday rveiiluir, lilt-1"
(It til Hend nml vicinity understand
the altualloti tietter ami all mc III
Ink to help. Wo til friini Madras U
In tin illm that fanners In that
sftltl will help liberally. Mint UI'l
law cuiiim forward wtth thv piniulsc
I1..I0 all tlwt it mil A MiWtittlH
1UI elrruUtnl III Wrud shows clac to
lt, stilnrrilKsl with only a part
u( lh petipkr m1U-III. A mrvry
Ink crew U In the field, and eveiy
tltlHK I K-
Thc building of the Central Ore
gon Railroad Into Crook county is
gradually coming to the point
where actual construction will lc
commenced. A long step in thii
direction was taken Monday even.
ng when a public meeting was
licld In llcud which wns addressed
by Roscoc Howard, general mana
ger of the D. I. & 1. Co. mid the
moviiiK spirit behind the railroad;
and by C. M. Kcdficld, chief cngi
tieer of the bin irrigation company.
The meeting was called to order
by A M. I. urn, president ol the
Hend Commercial Club, who stated
' the objct of the meeting and in
troduced Mr. Howard to the Au
dience. Mr. Howard then outlined
in detail the plan under which they
were work tin: to build the railroad.
I k- Mated llmt it would Ik: en
deavored to secure yttUcrip
thins to the preferred stock of the
company throughout Central Ore
gon amounting to f.soo.ooo. If n
reasonable amount Ik thereby raised
Portland capital will purchase the
1-oihIh of the road sufficient 111
amount to build the line, The
preferred stock will Iwiir 7 per cent,
interest. The subscriptions may lie
paid in cither cash, labor or ma
terial, such ns tics or lumber, hay,
grniu, and other supplies, Farmers
will be asked to provide the labor
of thcimclvcs nud tennis for as long
II jwriod us they nic able, others
will be solictcd for supplies or cash,
and nil will Iw given an opportunity
to help. When construction is lie
gun those who have sulwcrilx'd
labor may prtMiul Ihcmaclves at
entiip with their blankets nml all
other accommodations will be pro
vided them. Forevcty dolkr put
Into the project the donor will lc
given preferred slock to equal the
amount. Thus everyone receives
1111 equivalent for what he gives it
k not it dountiou party. It is esti
mated that it will cost close to $v
000,000 lo build the road. If Ccn
ttal Oregon will mine $500,000
Pottluud will handle the balance.
I f the plan woi ks out successfully
grading will be commenced nt lleud
ami pushed northward to Mndras,
Mr. Howard Mated that the mint
of connection with n railroad was
not yet definitely decided upon,
They recognized thu objections to
Hhaniko but at present that was
the only point with which the C. O.
could connect without making the
cost of the road so high that it
could not be built under the pres
ent plans. He stated, however,
that lliere were other lines project
ed this way, such us the Mt. Hood
. Hlcctric and two other Hues up the
Deschutes, and if, when grading
011 the C. 0. lind reached Mndras n
licitiT connection could be made
than nt Shauiko, such an arrange
ment would certainly be made. If
connection with one of these other
linen could not be made, construc
tion would k continued to Shauiko.
Mr. Red field, having previously
run surveys over the proposed line,
explained that construction of the
toad would be very easy from
an engineering standpoint. There
would be .some quite expensive
work from Shauiko to llolters, n
distance of 31 miles, nud in one or
two other places, but taken as n
whole the construction of the line
would be very easily nud cheaply
dune, I. utcr when asked by K. II.
lames of J.nidlaw as to the feasi
bility of connecting with the Cor
vallis Nt I'.aslcrn, he explained how
the cost of that connection would
le prohibitive, due to the necessity
for tunnels, the natural typography
of the country, nud the fnct that
much of the line would hnvc to be
constructed through a dense forest.
Chairman I.nra then asked for 11
general discussion of the question
nud called tijwu n number of men
In the nudlcncc. Among these
were K II. James, J. N. II. Gcrk
iug, W. I'. Myers nud J. A- Sen
bury of I.aidlaw, and County Judge
II. C. Hills, li. A. Sathcr, John
Stcidl, Dr. U. C. Coc nud Chni. D
Rowc of Hend. All expressed
themselves ns heartily in favor of
the plan nml promised to do nil
they could to make the railroad n
miccc.sh. I.alcr Chairman I.arn
asked every man to rise to his
feet who would help nil that he
could, in the work, and everyone
present, with one or two exceptions,
Mood up. The meeting was then
ndjourucd with all understanding
the plan Utter, nud with the senti
ment prevalent that the subscrip
tion list should he started nt once.
SUKVnVOKS IN TIM FIELD.
Will Run a Line from O'Ncll to Shan
Iko lllcven Men In tlie Crow.
As announced in last week's
Bulletin n crew of surveyors have
been put in the field They have
established camp nt O'Ncil nnd
the line will lc run from that point
to Shauiko. The reason for start
ing nt O'Ncil instead of nt Hend is
because it will not be necessary to
do much surveying over the I).
I. c. T. Co's segregation. The
ditch company has io-foot contour
surveys of nil its laud. Thus a
line can Ik largely workcil out in
the office by the use of these field
notes.
The crew is in charge of Robert
Rca, a civil engineer of Portland.
Titos who joined the crew from
lleud arc H. 1'. Gautt, Frank May,
Max Richardson, Harry Smith,
Jack Hicksou and S K. Kclley.
V. J. llucklcy nud I.elaud Covert
of Kcdiiinud will also be with the
crew, which comprises 1 1 men.
PRI:iailTINajMUtt DISSOLVED
Secretary llcllcvcs It Could Still lie
.Mode n Success.
The last step in the abandon
ment of the traction frciuhtiuir wo-
ject between this place ami Shauiko
whs taken last Mominy, wiicti tlie
Central Oregon Transportation &
l-'orwarding Company, the com
pany which wns incorporated to
engage in that business, filed with
the hcctetary of state a notice of
the dissolution of the company, says
the Pioneer.
Mr. I,. II. I nfollelt.the secretory
of the company, who filed the no
tice of dissolution, bays that he
still believes that the traction
freighting project between the Mnd
ras section nud Shauiko can be
made a success, in spite of the com
plete failure of the undertaking of
himself and his associates. He be
lieve1, however, thnt n gasoline
Unction engine, such ns he saw on
a recent visit to the Holt Manufac
turing Company's hcndqiiartci.s in
California, will solve the difficulties
they had, and he predicts that if
this section of country does not get
rail trausporntiou within the next
year or 8o, a second attempt will
be made with one of these traction
outfits.
Rov. I, V. Williams Testifies
Rev. I. W. WHHmiis. Huntington,
W. Vn., lctlficH n follow: VT,U U to
cdy for nervous cxlinusttoti ami kidney
trouble, uiul am free to nay that l'olcy's
Kidney Remedy will do nil tint you
claim for It." C. W, Merrill, DwRglit.
.lir..t ll.rtl 1 liu.il irfll.v'ii KIMIIPV KCUW
LINSTER MILL BURNS
Fire Causes Loss Amount
lug to About $8,000.
LUMBER YARD WAS SAVED
Hend Men Put Up a IMjJcky right and
Save Several Thousand Dollars'
Worth of Property.
Dcnd wns visited with the most
disastrous fire in its history Inst
Saturday evening, when the Henry
Muster sawmill, situated on the
river nbout n quarter of n mile
north of the Hem tqwusjic, was
burned to thcgroiim). Mr. I.iuMcr
figures his loss at about $7,000 and
Mr. J. S. Williams, who had but
recently leased the mil), estimates
his toss ut f8oo.
About H o'clock Saturday even
ing Mrs, Uuster ami others living
near the mill discovered that the
mill was afire nud in n few minutes
a large column of .smoke and the
1 oaring flames told the same story
to the people in Hend. Soon a
uumlcr of men had gathered in the
mill yard and tcgau to fight the
fire. As soon as buckets could be
brought from town, the men formed
in line nud bucket nftcr bucket ol
wntcr was passed up from the river
and thrown 011 the advancing line
of fire. Another crew carried water
from n more distant point and kept
an almost constant stream playing
011 the burning lumber. It was
mighty hot work nnd two or three
men were temporarily overcome
and had to give up the fight, but
finally, nftcr most strenuous fight
ing on the jwrt of everyone for
about an hour and a half the fire
was gotten under control and was
kept from spreading into the lum
ber yard proper. The fighting,
however, wns not ended until after
midnight, and quite a number of
men remained in the yards through
out the night to watch the lire and
to throw on occasional buckets of
water to keep the flames from
spreading.
The mill, and the mill barn
standing nearby, mid two qr three
small piles of lumber were totally
destroyed. One large pile, contain
ing about 30,000 feet, which had
been sawed for Chas. Uoyd and
Archie l'nttic, for which they had
furnished the logs nud with which
they intended to build flumes for
their desert claims, was burned.
The fire, however, was kept from
spreading into the lumber yard
proper, which contained nbout
15,000 worth of lumber.
The most pitiful part of the
whole affair was the burning to
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WHEAT GROWING ON IRRIGATED LAND IN THE DEND COUNTRY.
TIIH nbove view shows a Held of wheat grown on irrigated laud hi the vicinity of Hend. The picture speaks in
(lowing terms nud it Is not necessary to add much to the story told to one as he views this wheat standing
nearly to a man's shoulders, with the kernels of grain well filled. However, n few statements regarding last
year's grain crop will bo Interesting. One machine threshed a total of 38,34s bushels of small grain lit this vicinity.
The owners of the machine said the best yields were made 011 irrigated desert laud, K, II. Lockyear, a farmer liv
ing between llcud and Hedmoud, produced 83 3-4 bushels of oats to the acre. The average yield of lost season's
grain crop was close to 50 bushels per acre. The yield of 83 3-4 bushels of oats per acre was made on first year laud,
und it Is commonly known that first year crops hereabouts are never as heavy as they are after nurture, stubble and
Krccn crop have been plowed under, thus incorporating more humus luto the soil. A prominent raucher living
near lleud estimates that It will require at least 10 years of cultivation for the Bend soil to reach Its maximum pro
ductivity. With It yielding so satisfactorily now, what will tlie Harvest be wlicit
death of two horses in the mill
barn. The horses wt-rc owned by
Mr. Williams, who worked hard
nud endangered his own life to get
them out, but the fire had gotten
under too great headway nud it
was impossible to save the poor
animals As it was, Mr. Williams
himself barely escajHid from the
burning building.
Mr. Muster valued the mill at
about $8,000. On tills he had been
carrying insurance amounting to
f. l.ooo, but one policy of f 1,500
expired about a month ngo,
leaving but $2,500 011 the mill.
The fire di-Mroycu about 7,000 feet
of lumber for Mr. Muster, besides
the 30,000 feet for Messrs. Uoyd
and I'nttie. This, we understand,
is covered by insurance of $2,000.
Mr. Williams' loss consisted in the
burning of the team and 0 wagon
and about $500 worth of lumber.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
The saw had been shut down about
r o'clock. The planer hod been
used during the afternoon by Mr.
Williams, but shqrtly before closing
down for the day he had changed
the adjustments on the machine
and is confident there were no hot
boxc? anywhere about the machin
ery, which some thought might
have started the fire. The more
reasonable explanation is that some
one had thrown n lighted cigarette
or cigar stub in the shavings or
sawdust. A large number of fish
erman go directly through the mill
as they pass to and fro over a foot
bridge that spans the river at the
mill. It is thus possible that some
careless smoker is responsible, al
though the cause of the fire is pure
ly coujccturc.
. Messrs. Muster and Williams
will rebuild the mill as soon as the
insurance is adjusted. A tempor
ary mill will be built on the
bite of the old one. This will saw
up nbout 150,000 feet of logs lying
ncross the river from the mill, and
will also saw out the material for
the new mill. The pcrraaticnt
structure will lie built at the north
end of the yard. A canal will
be built from the present location
of the watcrwheel to the new mill,
thus enabling them to obtain about
twice as much fall and much more
power. Machinery will be put in
with which to manufacture doors
and window sash for the local trade.
Tills will be a great convenience
for people throughout this section
and is the beginning of another in
dustry at llcud.
Under the new plaus the sawmill
proper will lc a portable one. In
stead of hauling logs from the tim
ber lo the mill at a big expense as
heretofore, the mill will be moved
from place to place in the timber
and the sawing done there. Lum
ber that is to be surfaced will then
be hauled to the river mill, but
that which is sold in the rough
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HURT BY BAD FALL
Laborer on Court House
Falls 24 Feet,
MADRAS FAMILY POISONED
Were Very Sick I'rople for a Few
Hours but All Uecovcred Other
Items ol (lenerni Interest.
I.uthcr Moore received a bad fall
Tu-sday from the derrick at the
new court house, says the Journal.
He had a load of spalls on a wheel
barrow that he was taking to the
masons at work on the walls. In
some wav he missed his footing
and fell a distance of 24 feet. He
was picked up unconscious and
taken to the home of J. IJ. Shipp.
Dr. Jlelknap was summoned and
after an examination said that no
bones were broken and that if the
young man was not injured inter
nally he would be all right in a
week or so.
Family (Jet Ptomaine Poison.
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Phillips and
three of their children, and Lloyd
Hunter and Peter Marnach, guests
at the hotel, got hold of ptomaine
poison in something they ate last
Thursday evening and during the
night they were all very sick peo
ple. They do not know where
they got the poison but supposed it
was in something they ate for sup
per, as the effect of it began to
manifest itself shortly afterwards.
Dr. Lntif was called in and nro-
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I Hni.HMtl i, ,nm (... A II nfliocj
who got the poison were very sick
during the night and the day fol
lowing, but otherwise suffered no
serious consequences. M a d r n s
I'ioncer.
IIIr Fruit Uuslncss.
If any ouc thinks the fruit busi
ness of Kasteru Oregon with the
Williauictte Valley is-not incon
siderable, let him notice the ship
ments of fruits transferred from the
O. K. X. trains at Biggs to the
Columbia' Southern for interior
(Mints. Two or three tons daily is
nlxmt the average now, destined for
Moro, Grass Valley, Wasco, Ante
lope, Madras and Princville, to
gether with intermediate points.
The fruit consists mostly of berries,
such as Loganberries, strawberries,
raspberries, and n generous sprink
ling of peaches and cherries. In
many cases, two hours arc required
to make the transfer. Princville
Review.
Paisley to Have Boom.
A crew of men arc now at work
on the survey of the Portland Irri
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Wat conuittou is reacuettf
gation Company's reservoir .site
above Paisley and arc making good
headway. The head officials of
the company arc soon to be in
Paisley, when the work on the
canals will be Inaugurated.
This big enterprise will put water
on 12,000 acres of rich sagebrush
land where a few acres will afford
prosperous homes for a great num
ber of people, who can engage in
intensive farming or fruit culture of
all kinds, and which will in a few
years give them a bank account
which will be the envy of those
who failed to grasp such oppor
tunity. '
'I'll is tract of land adjoins Paisley
on the north. Lakeview Kxam-
iner.
Needs Heavier Machine.
Prank Forrest left last Friday
afternoon for Southern California,
where he goes to buy a heavier
drilling putfit and other machinery
for tlie Madras Oil Co., of which
he is president. He will probably
make the purchase in Los Angeles,
where machinery of that character
can be had. The new drill will be
a large one, capable of putting a
hole down 4,000 feet if ncccssaryl
The drill with which the hole was
put down to its present depth of
150 feet was found to be two light
to go farther with, and a new drill
ing outfit was necessary. Mr.
Forrest was accompanied as far as
Portland by Frank Lovcland.
Pioneer.
U. L WYNN AT REDMOND
PJglit-oMVay Mnn Is Confident the
Success of the Central Oregon
Railroad Is Assured.
Rkdmo.vd, July 10. Today we had
tlie pteaMire of meeting Mr. Wynn,
rlKht-of-way man for the Central Oregon
Railroad, who has been working lw
tween Lamonta and Madras. He re
ports very good success and talks as
though the road is assured. He ex
pects to work from O'Xelt this comiug
week.
An engineering crew Is expected tn
start from here in the mornine survey
ing for the Central Oregon Railroad.
Mr. Robert Rca of Portland, already
known to some of our people, will have
cltarge of the crew of seven engineer.
W. J. Buckley will cart the old I). I.
& P. cook shack from place to place and
I.cland Covert will head the culinary de
partment. The wagon has been over
hauled and fitted up, repainted ami Is
in good trim for the trip. Hnglneering
note may be expected from time to
time.
A. W. and Mrs. Morgan, late host and
hosteM at the Hotel Redmond, left early
in tire week for an extended visit in old
New York Mate. Mr. and Mrs. Moore
will follow them when the former re
turns from PortUnd.
MtuHckerson of Uellltigham, Wash
ington, eauiQ in again from Bend whero
slw has been looking up kjujc land mat
ters. Binders and mowers luve stsjrtod and
w ill l bwy from now on-not so busy
in many parUowiug to our vry tontj
seeding In11 harwt seasons. One pntajt
of oats w& pu; in after July 4th and
those we shall watch with interest to
ce if they do anything creditable.
V. I Perry Is lioine today from tlie
ditch camp.
Showers Tuesday tiinht and quite
heavy ohm were much appreciated hj
cery 0,,c eT,;" lhoe who had to go
home through thvm and between them
from the social.
Neighbor Sroufe was up Inst nijjht
from O'N'eil for the Woodmen utccttug.
Mr. and Mrs. Mcl.alliu drove over t(v
day to the Trickier homestead.
A number of our citizens are helping
Crooked river ranchers with their al
falfa haying.
Cline Falls is worthy of being reported
this neck. Messrs Prlckett and Cochmn
have bought out the Meredith store and
we presume are ready for business. Mr.
Meredith and family have started for
Seattle intending to take some little timo
for the trip, aud also the hotel is doit-g
business again, this time with a Mr.
Johannson at the helm.
West Brothers aud Walter Ruble have
had the misfortune to lose their valuable
Percheott stallion that has beeu making
the season at this place,
I'reddie McCaffery is reported aslc
ing sick, but not badly we think. .
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