Fire, of probable incendiary origin, last Saturday night destroyed the plant of the Concrete Pipe Company at Bend, the company who recently made a contract with the city of Madras for the relaying of the water main from the city reservoir to the north corner of the R.T. Olson residence property on Main Street.
The building and a great deal of its contents and machinery, valued at $22,000, was destroyed. $5,000 in insurance was carried.
By telephone Sunday afternoon manager C.H. Knowles notified the Pioneer that the fire would cause no appreciable delay in the construction of the Madras line. Practically all of the pipe had been completed and was at a sufficient distance from the plant in the yard to not be damaged. The small amount that was not completed will be made at the Portland factory immediately.
The original plan of Mr. Knowles to start laying pipe on the 20th of this month will be carried out. Shipments of the pipe will start from Bend during this week, and it is planned to unload and scatter it along the line as fast as it arrives.
Maxwell & Bailey, owners of the Redmond Theatre, recently purchased the Madras Picture House from Pearce & Tucker, who have been operating it for the past year.
According to Mrs. Bailey, who was in Madras Wednesday to secure a lease on the Knights of Pythias building in which the show is located, they will open here as soon as necessary repairs can be made.
A new entrance will be built in the building and a modern metal finished projection machine room will be constructed, work on these improvements to start immediately. In addition to this new and modern projection machine of the latest type has been purchased and will be brought to Madras for the opening, which will probably be the latter part of August.
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Blood will tell, and Chester S. Luelling, a leading rancher, of Agency Plains, Jefferson County's 25,000-acre grainfield country, which next year will receive water of the North Unit of the Deschutes project, demonstrated Saturday, when he brought to town a box of perfect Yellow Transparent apples, that he is a true great-grandson of Henderson Luelling, who with his brother, Seth, established Oregon's fame for fruit production by launching a notable nursery business near Milwaukie.
The Agency Plains rancher, whose ancestors brought the first grafted fruit trees across the plains in an ox-drawn wagon 100 years ago, is pointing the way toward "a home orchard on the tract of every settler on the North Unit of the Deschutes project."
With the arrival of water, already delivered to ranchers of south Jefferson County, on the Agency Plains area next year, Luelling thinks that all families may grow their own fruit. It was reported from the Grandview and Metolius River sections of Jefferson County this year that frosts had killed all fruit and that it would be necessary to import all apples here this year, Luelling refuted the report in so far as his family is concerned. He also reported that he has fine cherries and plums.
Luelling, whose father, Alfred, homesteaded in Jefferson County in 1904, is looking forward to the Luelling centennial celebration in October, preparations for which are being made now at Milwaukie.
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The September 5 meeting of the Culver city council will include a hearing on the annexation of 160 acres lying east of the present city limits, Mayor Rex Barber said Tuesday; and the tract is destined to become the site of a housing development, the first phase of which will see 22 modular homes in the under $20,000 class completed in the next 45 days.
All but a one-acre tract owned by the Haystack Grange is owned by Deschutes Valley Farms, the mayor said. Since Deschutes Valley Farms raises no objection to the annexation, the council may annex the tract without a vote of the people, Mayor barber said.
Paul Hebb, West Linn, the developer of Salishan and owner of one fourth of that property, and his associate, Leonard (Len) Hays, will develop the property, having optioned 150 acres. A ten-acre tract will be given the city by developers jointly with Deschutes Valley Farms, and a lake will be created on that piece.
Hebb said that after 20 housing units have been sold a clubhouse and a swimming pool will be built on the new site, which will double the present area of Culver.
It is possible that Charles Warren Callister of the Tiburon, California, architect frim of Callister and Payne will be retained as the architect for the project. A D V E R T I S I N G | Continue reading below
Plans for the initial phase will involve two, three, and four-bedroom houses; but further plans contemplate a shopping center landscaped to blend in with the man-made lake and duplexes and multiple dwellings.
The modular houses will be built by Bohemia Lumber Co.., Eugene. Housing sites will be about 10,000 square feet in size. Work is already underway in laying out two cul-de-sacs on the property.
Hebb is the owner of the Country Square hopping center in Lake Oswego, and he has a condominium called River Shore Developments on the Willamette River near Canby.
The mayor said the decision to annex the property came at the August 1 meeting of the Culver City Council.
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A brush fire burned 30 acres of vacant land on Sunday afternoon, off Highway 26 at Pelton Dam Road.
The incident was likely the result of illegal firework activity, said mark Carman, Jefferson County Fire marshal.
The property is within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.
The terrain where the fire happened is an extremely steep canyon area.
The BLM provided helicopter water-drops.
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