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VOL. VII
BIJND, ORHGON, WKDNJ'.SDAY, SKPTKMBUK 29, 1909.
NO. 39
FINE LINE BETWEEN
BEND AND REDMOND
A 15-Alllc Stretch with Only One
Slight Curve.
NOW MAKING PINAL LOCATION
Surveyor under llnglneer Wakefield
and Mllllken Will Finish Prelimi
nary Survey South within the
Week-Other R. K. News.
The Hill surveying crews under
Itiigiuccr Kockfellow, which hns
been running a line from Ilcntl to
Redmond, returned the first of the
week to Us old camping grounds wi
the Dr. A. A. Harris forty two
tulles north ! Iknd, nnd Is now en
gaged In making final location 0
the line. It has been learned that
Knglticcr Rock fellow secured an ex
cellent line on his prelitninary stir
vcy. It shows U distance of 15
miles between Bend nnd Redmond,
and is "as straight as a bec line"
with one exception, a slight curve
being necessary just north of Ilcnd,
but that Is the only curve in the en
tltc 15 mile. The grade Kccttrcd
' is a very easy one.
Hnginccr Wakefield' crew, wcirk-
ing south of Iknd, moved camp
last Saturday from I'red Shan-
quest's to the Caldwell ranch five
miles this side (north) of Kaslaud.
Wakefield's line follows approxl
matcly the general direction of tltc
county road, being a short Ulstancc
cast of the road at the Cort Allen
1 ranch.
The crew under Hnginccr Mllll-
ken is camped at the Mayficld
ranch, and the Miltikcu ntid Wake
field crews are working toward each
other. The two lines will meet
within the next week or 10 days.
When that happens, it is under
stood that Wakefield will return to
Ilcnd and begin locating the line
south.
Oregon Trunk Officials VUlt Bend.
Bend was visited again Monday
by men prominent lit the building
of the Oregon Trunk Line. They
came in one of Porter Ilros.' autos,
spent a short time here at noon,
nnd then left going north.- The
party consisted of Vice President
and General Manager Smith, Chief
Kuglnccr Kyle, Chief of Construe
Moti Duck and Kucinecr Baxter.
While here Mr. Smith' conferred
with A. M. Drake, owner of the
Ilcnd townsitc, but neither Mr
Smith nor Mr. Drake would give
rite Bulletin anything for publica
tion. When approached by a re
tarter Mr. Drake said: "Thcbc
men have certain plans to carry out
nnd work to erforin before they
can make any atiuouticcniculs, nnd
have nothing to say for publica-
.ion."
Heavy Work at Trail Crossing.
Several Bend titcu have visited
he camp at Trail Crossing dttriug
he week. They report that much
icavy work is being done there.
)u the south side of the canyon the
prcw is building n grade about a
lialf mile long nnd when the Bend
pien were there it was from 50 to
(o feet wide on top, which would
Indicate that the grade is to be
milt Mill higher. On the north
side of the canyon a crew was blast-
ing out on approach to the bridge
through solid rock, this requiring n
fticen nntl wide cut.
Weymouth, the tuau formerly in
charge of this crew, litis ken "let
out," nnd Foreman Smith is turn
supervising tlu work. The gener
al opinion in these parts is that
Weymouth "talked too much."
Many Crews In the Canyon.
DciiiiH McColc returned to Bend
Monday after an absence of several
weeks working in the harvest fields
of Sherman county. On two Sun
days he visited the railroad camp,
on the tower Deschutes. To a Bui.
Ictln reporter he slated that through
the first 15 miles of the canyon
Porter Bros, have cntupi established
on tin nveroge of every two miles.
Additional crews arc being put into
the canyon farther up ns fast a
men can be nccttrcd. In fnct, the
canyon Is literally alive with men
nnd construction outfits. One man
told McColc that they could use
30,000 men If they could be se
cured. As it N, McColc claims
Porter Bros, now have 5,000 labor
ers in the canyon, with Ilarrimau
forces equally busy.
While At Madras Mr. McColc
learned that I'rnnk Corwin, a
rancher near Hint town, had se
cured from Porter Bros, n sttbeon
tract fur six miles of construction
south of Madras. The other day
he received orders to In-gin work on
his contract and finish it as rapidly
as possible. Corwlu's six mile
stretch bcgitiH two or three miles
this side ol Madras.
As an Indication of the heavy
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IIARRIMAN FORCES BUSY
NORTH OF MADRAS
Dwyer & Company Have Numerous
Crewe at Work, and Much tirade
Is Heine Constructed Scarcity
of Aten Retard Work.
White not much is being said by
the Hnrriman forces these days,
work on the Deschutes road is be
ing prosecuted steadily in the Des
chutes canyon and in the vicinity
of Madras. According to the Pio
neer, Dwycr & Company have
three camps established in the vicin
ity of Porter Spring canyon and arc
making preparations to locate two
mure, one about one-half mile north
of Paxtou's and the other just at
the divide, near T. P. Monroe's
place, where there is n stretch of
heavy work, a very deep cut being
necessary at that point to establish
a uniform grade.
In Porter Spring canyon Con
tractor Dwycr has four or five crews
at work where there arc deep cuts,
mostly rock work, while at another
point there Js a heavy fill almo.it
completed, which In places is 10
feet high and about a quarter of n
mile long. In addition to these
crews laborers arc employed at
clearing rights of wny nnd doing
other work along the line. Mr.
Dwycr Miys that he needs drivers
badly, and lias a lot of teams that
are "eating their heads oil'1 be
cause he has not men to take them
out on the rond.
. V, M. Carter, division engineer
for the work from Trout Creek to
Mndras, located his office In Porter
Spring canyon last week nnd will
remain on his residency until the
construction work is completed.
:
For Sale.
Thirteen head of thoroughbred
Shropshite sheep, consisting of six
two-year-old ewes, one two-year-old
rain, one yearling ram, four ewe
lambs nnd one ram lamb. All
registered. Inquire at Bend hos
pital or address- G. W. II all,
aptf Bc,ud, Oregon.
NEW WATER LAW
GIVES SATISFACTION
Results in Much Qood Where
Put in Practice.
WORKS AS WATER MASTER
W. R. Lawson Ha Spent Summer In
Umploy of Division Superintend
ent at Maker City and Tell of
Workings of New Law.
W. R. Lawson nnd family have
returned to their farm home near
Redmond after spending the sum
mer nt Baker City and vicinity.
Mr. Lnwnon wns in Bend Friday
and stated to The Bulletin that he
had been employed as assistant to
the head water master of Division
No. 2, under the new water law.
Ills duties in this connection have
given him a part in administering
the new law around Baker City, es
pecially on the south fork of Burnt
river. Mr. Lawson is emphatic in
his praise of the statute, and the
order it is bringing out of the form
er chaos.
The south fork of Burnt river
has been adjudicated by the state
board of control and decrees issued
covering amount and priority of
water rights, Mr. Lawson stated
that justice had been done in every
instance, and there is now a more
even division of the water among
the various users, as a natural con
sequence of which more land Is be
ing cultivated.
As is very often the case, settle
ment on Burnt river was first made
on its lower portion, and irrigating
canals taken out. Later other
farmers settled further up on the
stream nnd likewise built canals.
These late comers began to "hog"
the water, diverting it for duck
ponds and letting it run to waste in
the many ways so common on all
streams that arc uncontrolled by
some system of division under prop
erly constituted officers. As a re
sult the farmers on the lower
stream, whose rights were prior to
all others, were deprived of water
and their crops burned up. Under
the division of the stream, as car
ried out by Oregon's new water
law, the waste of the water has been
stopped, nnd the men on the lower
stream as well ns those above
them nre protected in their rights.
Mr. Lawson said there arc prac
tically no complaints concerning
the new law in the territory in
which he has worked during the
summer. True, some men do not
receive as much water now ns for
merly, but the fairness of the divis
ion nnd the justness of the lnw Is so
evident that they do not complain
but instead uphold it. Not a single
contest has been filed in the courts
against the decrees of the board of
control.
Teachers' Annual Institute.
The teachers' annual institute
will be held at Princville, in the
high school building, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
October 19, 20, at and 22.
State Superintendent J, II, Ack
crman, President Kerr of the Ore
gon Agricultural College, Prof. L.
A. Alderman of the University of
Oregon, and other prominent edu
cators will be present during the
entire session of the institute.
Friday, October 33, will be
"school day" at the couuty fair,
and all pupils cf the public schools
will be admitted free to the grounds
A joint session of school officers
and tcachc;s will be held in the
forenoon of Friday, October 33.
Superintendent Ackerraan nnd
others will address this convention.
County Superintendent Ford has
made arrangement for a very
profitable institute, and desires a
large attendance.
BETTOR SUKVICG AT SHANIKO
Passenger Trains Will tie Run with
out Addition of Freight Cars.
As n result of the complaints
made against the train service on
the Shaniko line, the O. R. & N
Co. has taken steps to correct the
poor service. Under the new ar
langcmcnt, the trains will run from
The Dalles to Shaniko and will be
sent through without an addition of
freight cars along the lint The
train for Shaniko, as heretofore,
will connect with the Kastcrn ex
press leaving Portland at 8 a. m.
Heretofore the transfer point has
been Biggs, where the branch line
to Shaniko diverges to the south.
A service of one train a day each
way has been maintained, but over
more than half of the 70 miles of
road this has been a mixed train
Freight handling delayed the trains
so that there was hardly n pretense
of adhering to schedule.
Making The Dalles the transfer
point will be welcomed by the ttav-
clers on the branch line. The wait
at Biggs for the down train on the
main line was particularly disagree
able. Biggs is located on shitting
sand duties, and clouds of sand as
fine as snow sweep the place con
tinually before the gales that blow
up the Columbia river gorge.
HAS NO CREWS AT
WORK IN CALIFORNIA
Operations Are Confined to Oregon,
Says Oregon Trunk Llfle Official.
livery Available Man la Put
to Work by Contractors.
Official of the Oregon Trunk Line
deny titer have any engineering parlies
at work in California.
"It it no small task to get construction
of a railway such as the Oregon Trunk
Line started on short notice," was the
statement matte at the company's offices
recently, "ami we now have all we can
do to cover Central Oregon."
It was staled that the railroad now has
about 30 surveying parties In the field,
each party composed of from five to
eight men, that every surveyor in this
part of the country seeking work hail
been olierecl a chance and that men
hate been brought from a distance.
Several of the survey parties now iu
the field arc working between llend and
the Klamath lake country. Others are
engaged in checking up the surveys of
the Oregon Central, the rights of which
were recently acquired by the Oregon
Trunk Line. The Oregon Central lo
cated much of Its pmpotcd line between
Madras and Item! and obtained rights of
way. It is not certain that lhec rights
of way and surveys will lie wholly adopt
ed by the Oregon Trunk Line, but it Is
now being determined whether the Ore
gou Central holdings furnish the test
routeobtainable through the country that
the Oregon Trunk Line will traverse.
"Our effort arc coutlued at present
wholly to Oreeon," said an official of the
road, "but if the reports of the richness
and resources ol that country ate all
true It is hardly reasonable to suppose
that the Oregon Trunk Line will be
limited to a line 200 or joo miles long.
"We ate pioceculug as rapidly as xv
sibte, but there is no sentiment In the
construction work we are doing. It is
not a matter of trying to get into a cer
tain country abend of some other road,
but 011 effort to sccuie the best route. It
is the tonnage wc are looking for."
Accordiug to the Oregouian, John 1',
Stevens, president of the railroad, has
gone cast on business connected with
the construction of the railway and will
be absent about one mouth. It Is
deemed possible that when he returns
some further announcement as to the
ultimate plans of the Oregon Trunk Line
wilt be made.
A UNIQUE PLAN TO
BOOST OUR CITY
Cut Being Made (0 Use on Back
of Envelopes.
TO SHOW BEND'S RESOURCES
tlas Been Used with Good Results fn
Other Places and WHI Be Given
Trial here What la Our
Booster Club Doing?
Through the Betid Board of
Trade it has been learned that last
year Oregon secured more ' settlers
than either Washington or Cali
fornia. The prime reason for this
success in building up the state's
population is attributed to the pub
licity work conducted by the Ore
gon Development League, a union
of the local publicity workers un
der the leadership of the Portland
Commercial Club. This central
body sends out to all the members
lists of the names of inquirers, to
gether with some brief note of their
particular needs aud desires. Thus
each local organization gets in di
rect touch with those interested in
its region, and spends its funds in
calling such inquirers' attention to
what its locality has to ofler.
During the past three weeks
more than a thousand such names
have been received by the Bead
Board of Trade, aud already the
answers sent to some of the most
promising names have borne fruit.
Last season 71,000 bomeseekers
were brought to the Northwest on.
colonists tickets by the Hill and.
Ilarriman roads. The season that
is just opening will undoubtedly
witness & great increase in this
number. Many of these will be at
tracted by the opening opportuni
ties of Central Oregon and how
many to the Bend country itself?
Through the Board a plate is
being obtained which can be used
on the back, of envelopes. The:
subject matter is made up on a de
sign very successfully Used in Colo
rado, outlining what Bend has to
offer between spokes, or rays, that,
read out from a central circle where
in is written "Bend, Oregon." The
plate is supplied at the expense of
the Board of Trade, and from 5t
everyone is entitled to have their
envelopes stamped, if so desirexl.
The Bulletin will handle this work
at a cost of two dollars per thou
sand, when envelopes are supplied.
The use of these publicity envel
opes will mean the advertising of
Bend nnd the Bend country wher
ever the mails reach.
(Iray-Reed.
Miss May Bell Reed and Bruce
Gray were married in Portland last
Thursday evening. They thought
they would surprise their friends
but the marriage license column ol
the Portland papers gave the snap
away. The pouug couple came in
on yesterday's stage and are stop
ping at the home of Wm. Wiglc
They wcte giveu a pleasant sur
prise last evening by their man)
friends in Princville. Mrs. Gray,
who is deputy county clerk, will
help catch up with the work in
that office before retiring to the
ranch of her husband at Po:t. The
best wishes of a large circle of
friends go with them, Priueville
Journal.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
nnd Mrs. J. K. Reed of Bend.
Ft. Rock as a National Monument.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn from entry the south
west quarter of section 39, town
ship 25 south, range 14 cast, In
Lake county, until the geological
survey can make an examination
of the peculiar formation on this
land, known as Fort Rock. If this
landmark is considered of sufficient
importance, it will be permanently
reserved as a national monument.
AdjudfcatteH of Water Rights.
The taking of testimony in the
adjudication of water rights on
Squaw creek will be begun ut Sis
ters today. This is the first work
of this nature in this section and
many are interested in the manner
of procedure. There will undoubt
edly be, a large crowd in attendance.
Several from here who have rights
in the stream have gone over.
It is understood that H. L. Hoi-
gate of Bonanza, and P. M. Saxton
of Baker City, division superin
tendents of divisions No. 1 and 2
respectively, will be present to have
charge of the proceedings.
Basket SecM a Large Sucre.
rowKlX BoTTES, Sept. 37. The bas
ket social held in the new school house
was a decided success In every particular.
Although the crowd was not a large aa
had been hoped for, all who bod worked
for its success felt well repaid by the ap
preciation shown. The program was
without a bitch; and the baskets were
lovely. Not one plain one In the bunch.
The lailies exclaimed over the exterior
decorations, while the gentlemen were
as one man in favor of the interiordecor
atlons. At the conclusion of the pro
gram and supper, Miss Pyatt and C H.
Ellis favored the audience with reci
tations, after which we bade each other
a happy "good night," feeliss that the
new friendships made and the old one
renewed alone would have made the first
social gathering in our new school boose
a success.
OTHKR rOWKIX BOTTKS NEWS.
Butte Valley school started Scot. so.
with an enrollment of sine pupil.
Jacob Mar and family are about to
Icai-e, having sold their farm In the old
river bed. They will go by way of Seat
tle, where they will vlit the fair, thence
to Nebraska, where tbey will stoo for a
time with relative. They will locate
somewhere still farther east.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Saunders are new
arrivals. Tbey came from the Valley.
Mrs. launder Is a daughter of Mr.
Fulkerton.
We are also pleated to welcome Mr.
and Mr. Chi. Frost and children, who
moved here a week or so ago from Sweet
Home. Mr. Frost ha purchased a ditch
forty of N. P. Turner in the old river
bed, and will immediately start building
a substantial residence. C H. Bill will
do the carpenter work.
Jt is reported that a Prof. Forrest of
BeJHugham, Wash., has purchased the
Cb.s. Turner homestead and ditch forty.
Tomato Items.
TuiULO, Sept. 26. A bard thunder
storm visited these part Friday.
C. II. Foster' threshing outfit Is
threshing in the Gist and Cloverdale
country and very satisfactory yields are
reported.
James Breen of Beud ate dinner in
Tumalo today.
G. W. Wimer & Son are hauling and
stacking a large amount of oala to
thresh.
F. F Dayton' team m de lively
dash from the mill one iMy last week
and ran about four mile toward Laid
law. Fortunately no damage was done
a they kept In the road.
Milt Roberta of Sister was fa Tuauld
last Thursday oil business.
Mr. Post of Gist was a business- eaifef
In Tumalo last Saturday. He rerl
having a bumper crop of barley to thresh
tins year.
Mr. Woo ley, who lately purchased the
Jensen place, writes from Dcs Moine,
waslt., ta at he aud hi family will ar
rive here nbout the first of October to
make tula their permanent home. They
will clear up a larjie amount of land this
fait for s) ;ine seeding. We are slid to
have su cb families as Mr, Wooley's
move iut the vicinity.
BrltiitArouriob printinji to The
Bulletin aoffice. Our work picas.