THEMt IS PLENTY OF EVIDENCE THESE DAYS THAT BEND IS ATTRACTING ITS SHARE OF HOMESEEKERg fkoti THE EA$ THE BEND BULLETIN. If ymi waul lc tell ADVERTISE If you want to In) READ vol. VII BEND, OKKOON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1909. NO. 3 fl- H 0 I BOUNTEOUS CROPS ARE GROWN HERE Farmers on Irrigated Lands Arc Well Pleased. QIVE MANY TESTIMONIALS Read What They lUve Jo Say In Re Card to What the Soil Will Pro duce One Alan Figures Land Worth StiS per Acre. The Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company bus just had print cd n flue new booklet descriptive of ilK land' In tliU section. The booklet contain n numler of testi monials from fanner living here almuts. At these testimonials rdiow whnt will grow in tlili country, and the -lie and quality of crop, they will be of intercut to Ilnllctln reader living in other Mates who urc watching this country, and also will interest local twoplc, as the tc.ititnonl.iln give the crop yields in detail. We append n few below. Mr. Walker lives In the old river bed lection, licsaya: IlKNrt, Or. tfepl. H, ii8. The lc chute IrrlgMlou & l'owcr Co., Ilend. Oregon: Till letter U to accompany teclnicn of hay raited on my land thia year, till being the firtt crop produced. T arrive at the value of new I mil er acre I have taken hay at a standard il reckoning at it U very eaiy to compare price in different tocallilea with thoc prevailing here. Counting my hay at llaUiwetl yield In. lead of the highest yield cr acre and at the market price today, thU land hat yielded me f.y per acre, which, with a deduction of fio er acre for all farming cxntet Icatct me a net profit of f d.jo r acre ar the Interett on flij r acre. All of thste figures are purposely made very con tervatlve. Very truly your, A. O. Walkkk. Everybody in Ilend knows Joe Ilttckholx as he supplies the town with garden truck. Mr. HitckhoU makes the following statement: IlKNO, Or., Dec. 19th, 1908 De rliutea Irrigation & Power Co., Ilend, Or. Oeutleinew Camp to this valley In 17x1, Put In a ciop for my own uie In 190) and In addition told about $100 worth from a two-acre patch. The sec ond year I put In aliout 15 acre and eatily cleared f l.ono profit. The third year I put in 30 acre and told at leatt fi.ico worth. The season of 1908 I cleared up more new Ian I and planted 505 treea, comprising winter applet, peart, cherrle, prune and plum. Thit teaton, alter paying all expenses of extra cultlatiou and improvement of new land I ttlll have a profit of f Soo, Potato:, cabbage, carrot, partnlpt, salsify, aiparagut, tweet corn, ratpber rie, gootchcrries, rutabagat, turnip, celery, docxcepllonally'wcll here. Very truly your, Joit IlfCKIIOU. HltNl), Or, December !. 191A To wham it tuny concern: Till It to certi fy that I have cultivated a part of my land continuously since the spring of i'3, principally raiting vegetable, and fruit. During thlt time 1 successfully ralted com and many ktmWof vegetables, producing is tout to the acre of tioth tii;ar beet and ox heart carrot, pot toe about 150 btitheli to the acre. In Iruit I have successfully raited blacktierrle, currant, gooclerrle, loganberries, raspberries and strawber riet; three year old plant of Gregg laspbcrrle pioduciug 7,200 pound to the acre ami Cumberland raiplerrie 9,000 pounds to the acre (luring 1908, i n. Wiitsr, Ukdhoni), Or., Dec. 15, 1908, Dear Sirs: I brought my family to the Dc rlitite valley In ilia summer at 1904, Inking up irrigated laud from The De chute Irrigation & Power Co. The land I very frrtllc when irrigated mid all the grasses grow luxuriantly. I have grown three ton ami nome nl my neigh bors a high four ton of clover per acre at one cutting. Nowhere in the Northwrtl will alfalfa do Utter than In till valley. I told my hay crop till year for fo per ton Imub-d from the shock, It I now (December) worth f 11 per ton In the ttack, Potatoes are very eatily grown, yield ing from two to three hundred buthrl per acre, with no cultivation. Their quality It unsurpassed, Onion grow eatily and yield Immeiite crop with lit tie cultivation. We can grow the tinall fruit to rf-ctlon, My fruit tree are only coinliiK Into bearing and are mak ing a fine growth. We have grown In our Kinlrii, cu cumlier 17 Indict long, and pumpkin, Mjuath, melon, etc., at fine atlctcr taw anywhere. Our climate I delightful. We can plough every month in the year. My lock i on Mttureyet (DecrmlMtr 13th) ami looking fine. 1'. T. lUiiiuoNit.- KnnwoNn, Or., Dee. j, 1 90S. To whom it may concern: Itefore coming Into the Detchutea alley I had dune no far 111 work fur joyear. I began clearing my laud in April and the JJlh day of May, I' 15, towed a crop oloatt burdld not Irrigate the land Ite fore towing, doing my firtl irrigating the IJth of June. At the land thnubl have been Irrigated Itefore seeding, the firtl crop wa ttuall. The tame tummcr I cleared up .ami Irrigated nine acre more, plowed, har rowed and thoroughly prearetl it far crop, Next spring I again towed to it I. On thit crop my net return were f-M.Sli per acre. My potatoes the tame) ear yielded two huudreil bushels r acre (Co pounds to the buthel), and I told till crop at price ranging from two cent to three cenlt er pound. Till teaton I towed my laud to al falfa, with bcaidlcM barley ai a nurte crop. The hay iay for all exM-nea of clearing, cultivating and tecdlug, while in adilition I had good (vitturage from the alfalfa during the Me tummcr and fall. I could have told mr land for fy per acre two )eit ago and would not tell it for flew er acre todiy. John Johnson. Hkouonii, Or., Dec. io, 1908. Dei chute Irrigation & Power Co., Ilend. Oregon. Gentlemen. In the teaton ol 1907 I hod 14 acre in cultivation and the oat thrcthed thereon went & bush elt to the acre. My tatoe have always yielded well and ol excellent ipiallly. I ilened to uutoei the pait two year. The help In building a home in thlt section are pure and abundant water, plenty of good wood for tile) and fence (mitt; laud ratlly cleared up and broken, good tchoolt and road ami 110 malaria or high wind. I believe It i the belt clinute I ever taw a my family of little children are never tick. 1!. II. Lockykak. IlKND, Or.. Dec 10, 1908. Deschutes Irrigation Ac Power Co., (tend, Oregon, (entlemeu. Twenty-five acres of alfalfa seeded in June and July made a growth of from eight inches to two feet, cut in Auguit six weeks alter seeding. The second growth was paitured off with hog. (larden Is a good as I ever saw in Vakima or the South. One-quarter acre of Kttov yielded 50 tack? Partulp do equally well. Onions seeded In March grew at large a saucers and were perfectly cured and Mil Id in Septeinlicr. Raspberries Inirc the tame year at planted, Htrawlwrry ptantt healthy. Yours very truly, Allkn Wiuuxson. A Religious Author's Statement. Kev. Joteph II. l'eipcrman, SalUbury, N. C, who 1 the author of tcveral book, write: "I'nr tcveral year I wa afflict ed with kidney trouble and last winter 1 wa suddenly Mtickcn with a severe uiiu in my kidney and wa confined to lied ciidit day unable to get up without a tlitniuc My urine contained a thick while sediment and I patted same fre quently day and night. 1 commenced taking i'olev's Kldnev Remedy, and the pain gradually abated and finally ceatetl unit my urine lcame normal, I cheer fully recommend I'oley'a Kidney Rem edy." Ilend Drun Co. For Sale. Team, weighing 1200 or better, 6 niul 7 years old; also wagon uttd hurnus. K. G. SruiuniON, 3-5 IauilaV Or. STUDYING RIGHT OF. WAY PROBLEM Government Engineer Is Exam ining Documents at Portland. HIS REPORT IS ABOUT DUE Problematical aa to What Ills Reconr mendatlon Will fie, Hut O'Brien Ilcllevcs Survey of Deschutes Road Will He Approved. The bit of news in which Central Oregon is most vitally interested just nt present is the notion the gov ernment will take in regard to op proving iirvc)s of the railroad tip the Deschutes canyon. I). C Hcnncy, stipcr vising engineer of the United States reclamation serv ice, reached Portland last week, and now is wtcstling with the Des chutes canyon dam site and the Harrimati surveys for the railroad extension into this section. lie ia devoting his entire time to this knotty and extremely imjiortntit problem. Uon the results of his investigations and his recommenda tions to the governmeut at Wash ington will depend the consumma tion or abandonment of the Harri tuan plan to scud the road up the Deschutes river. Speaking of Mr. Hcnny'ri work, the Telegram said: In cum: Mr Hciiny advises the government that the dam site at Shearer's bridge, 30 miles up the canyon, is essential to the conservation of the general wat er rights for irrigation purpose, Harrimun will without the shade of u doubt give up the propgsitfou-and seek new rights of way for tapping the interior. This would be inevi table for the reason that to save the dam site at that poiut the railroad would have to be driven too feet above the river, and for a consider ublc part of the distance it would mean the hewing of a roadbed out of solid basaltic cliffs. This would entail an expenditure three or four times the estimated cost of f j. 750.000. Hut should Mr. Henny decide that the ptescut location can be re linquished and new Tilings made at some iKitnt nearer the headwaters of the Deschutes, it will be possible for the llarrlman line into Central Oregon to be gotten tinder way within a comparatively short time. It is stated that Reclamation En gineer llciiny -will make no rccom mcudatiotis as to the feasibility or practicability of the railroad proj ect, but wilt confine himself solely to determining how the govern ment's water rights may lie con served, whether the reclamation wotk can be prosecuted alung es tablished lines with or without the Shearer's bridge dam site. Official announcement of what Mr. Ilcnuy's recommendations will be will probably not be available here until he has made his rcorl to the department at Washington. It will take him a week at least to go over the surveys, prints, charts and other documentary evidence. His decision may be expected any time therealler. PORTLAND VITALLY INTURUSTHD. Should Do All lit Its lower to Secure Railroad Up the Deschutes. UiMin returning from n confer ence with Harrimun and his lieu tenants at I.os Angeles, J. I' O'Uricn said in regard to the Des chutes road: "Portland should ba vitally in terested, for when the Central Ore uou line gocH through I believe 90 per cent of the freight will come hero. The toad, na we have at j (jh.hv.-iii nuiyirjtu n, win turn pU- tft..i ,AaAahalA.S If .111 JtfS ffa 000 a nine, ana it is an expensive road that costs over f 25.000 a mile. If this figure is forced up any more freight rates will be so high as to be out of the question. That is the situation nt present with the pro posed Corvallis & Eastern and Col umbia Southern roads. I am con fident that no matter if we build through the easiest and cheapest way, we will not get a cent of divi dends for over five years, and that we shall do well to clear expenses at the end of that time. "When Mr. Henny comes, I shull give him nil the assiMsiucc in my power, and will let him have an engineer if he wants one. He probably will, for Mr. Henny knows something of what the coun try is life " The Orcgonian said that while Mr O'lliien did not definitely so state, It apf-eared as if he believed the final commencement of con struction of the Deschutes river rond would not be much further delayed. It Has entirely over this question that the conference bad been culled, and Mr. Harriman had some definite plan in mind when he chose to assemble his lieutenants around him at I.01 Angeles. It is generally believed that the govern ment has recognized the immense iniortnncc the Central Oregon rail road would be to the country and that the dam project might be minimized or removed entirely. The original idea of the govern ment, it is said, was that the line should enter the canyon at a oint too feet over the river and that this height should be maintained. With various private water rights taken up on the river, the Harri man line would be rendered im Krsible of operation, as no line could possibly be maintained at that height above the river. t!aster Monday Dance. On April 12, at Lara's hall. The best ol music because we are going to have the Ilend band. A special floor committee will be appointed, which wilt ensuie u good time for everybody. The tickets will xf 1.00 a couple. Ice cream and cake will be served in the hall at 25c a couple. Dancing will begin promptly at 8 o'clock. This is to lie civen by the Ladies' Library Club which extend a cor dial invitation (o everyone far and near, young and old. April 12, Lara's hall. Thought Microbes In a Drop of Ink. When applied to the newspaper pas they make peoplo think twice. First, peoplo think them's a, man who keeps up with tho procession. Second, thoy think he must keep food goods on hand, Airnln, If the homo paper has enough drops of ndvertlslng Ink on Its surface to innko a proper showing the outsider thinks this must bo a pretty lively town. Thus a drop of NEWSPAPER AD VERTISING INK Is a good thing for tho town. DISPOSES OF A KNOTTY PROBLEM Estcbcnct Liquors To Be SoW at Private Sale. ORDERED BY FEDERAL COURT Court's Order Conflicts with the State Local Option Law, aa Crook la a "Dry" County Other Items From Central Oregon. The bankrupt liquor stock of A. U. Kstcbenct, which has for the past eight months been the source of more annoyance and loss of sleep to ShcriiT Frank Hlkins than all his other duties combined, besides involving the county in a big bill of as yet unpsid expense, was on Monday ordered sold by the bank ruptcy court at Portland, in such manner and at such time and place as the attorney in the case, C. C. Ilrix, may see fit, specifying, how ever, that the sale be a private one. This order shifts the responsibil ity of disposing of the stock in dry territory from the sheriff's office to the shoulders of the attorney, and so long as the sheriff is guaranteed his costs be u unduly willing to let go. But it is rather tough on the attorney, who has strong leanings toward prohibition, to be compelled to open up a blind pig by govern ment orders. Review. Fat Cattle Average $65 liach. Fred Smith and son Joe have re turned from Trouldale, where they unloided 148 head of beef cattle that cost the Union Meat Company nearly 10,000 American dollars to be exact, $9,721 00 and which make Crook county that much richer. The price paid at Shaniko was $5. 10. The Smiths are not displeased with their roll of Port land greenbacks and while they are, in common with so many other Crook county stockmen, on Easy Street, yet $9,721 in a lump sum would not be sneered at by Rocke feller himself, and they feel that their efforts at ranching have not been altogether unsuccessful. Re view. "Stuck the Toe Back On." Mrs. George Rodman arrived in town last night from Culver with her to-yenr-old son, who had the misfortune to cut off the middle toe of his right foot with an ax yester day. The bone was completely severed. Dr. Belknap attended the foot and stuck the toe back on. He says there is no doubt in his mind that the member will again take up connection with the rest of the body and that the toe will soon grow back almost as good as new. Jour nal. Fainted and PeH across Stove. Last Saturday Willard Martin faiuted and fell across the stove in the office of his livery stable, where he was found b) a gentleman who came in to look after his team. Fortunately there was little fire in the stove and he was but slightly burned. He was immediately placed oti a bed and Dr. Thorn summunedi who speedily restored 'My three year old boy was badly con stipated, bad a high fever and wa In an awful condition. I gave him two dotes of I'oley's Orino Laxative and the next morning the fever was gone and he was entirely well. I'oley's Orino Lavatlvc saved his life." A. Wolkuth, Casnuer, Wis, Bend Drug Co. him to consciousness. The cause was a weak heart. He is now rap idly recovering.- Sliver Lake Leader. Death at Creek CeuMy ffeeer. Ed Kulcher, one of the best known residents of the county, and a pioneer settler, died In Prineville Wednesday, March 34, 1909, of heart disease. Mr. Kutcher was brought to the city frosa fcts booic at Haycreek on Monday to receive medical care, and grew rapidly worse, bis 'death occurring at the Hotel Prineville. Deceased was abot 65 years old. He was an Englishman by birth and had served in both, the English and American navies, having been around the world four tltacs. Mr. Kutcher bad lived is this county for the past 30 years or more, making his home on Willow Creek and at Haycreek. He was ever known as a good citizen aBd an upright man. Kutcher precinct (Madras) was named in bis honor. Journal. Shorter Hems of hrteret. The spring races will be held at Prineville on May 36 to 29 in clusive. A baseball club has been organ ized at Prineville with Pete Hinkle captain and Bob Zevely, manager. Opals have been discovered in the southern part of Harney coun ty. Los Angeles experts who ex amined samples pronounced them opals of the finest quality. The Oregon Valley Land Com pany, the concern that is coleaizittg a large tract of land near Lakeview, has purchased all the lands of the Heryford Land & Cattle Company. This deal covers the lands of the 708 and XL's, about 40,000 acres and situated in Lake, Klamath and Modoc counties. The Burns Times-Herald gives timely information to farmers: John Sevedge has done a good turn for the farmers of this section in dis covering a cheap manner in which to get rid of the sagebrush. He simply removes the mold board from bis Gilpin plow and finds it does the work, to perfection. Karl Hartsman says this information is worth $100 to every farmer in Har ney county. The Rottand postofEce becomes a money order office the first of April. The Cornett freight team brought a load ol graiu to Rosland this week. Some of the ranchers in the neighbor hood are preparing to sow grain this week if weather continues fsir. Mr. Holllngshead is hauling lumber from the mill for the erection of tou.e new houses between here and Bend. Mrs. Shulty from the Matten sawmill was in Rotland this week on her way to Bend, filing on a homestead while there. Mrs. Caldwell has left for Walla Walla for an indefinite stay. Mr. and Mrs. Prank Boirne spent a few days in Bend last week. A. S. Ireland of Prineville, supervisor of the Deschutes National l'orot, -was iu Rostand this week. Quite a few people have of late been In Koilaud on their way to and from the Port Rock country, where they have been fillug on homesteads. Tom McCord returned to the moun tains this week iu the vicinity of Odell and Crescent lakes. Some of our townsmen have been suf fering from la grippe these bright, sun ny days. Mrs. Alice Nolsn from Klamath conn ty is spending a few weeks with Mr, relit during tlie absence of her husband, P. P, Petit, the forest rainier. Hugh Piudler of Bend was a-visitor iu town on Sunday. We need your subscription. m imniir,-uw-rini-,mrnmuummttmvyKmt aKt2&d5&Vi st'.'sk.Ji.'. &