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"THE CITY OF PRINEVILLE RAILWAY" Oregon, they found a charming little valley at the junction of two rollicking mountain streams. These had cut their channel eight or nine hundred feet down through the hard lava flow that ages and ages ago spread itself in a sheet of molten rock over this region. One stream was called the Ochoco and the other, from its characteristic course, was unhesitatingly called Crooked River. These early pioneers may have wondered just where these clear, cold streams came from in the midst of such a desert. Enough for them, however, that their waters flowed so close on the surface as to make it a comparatively simple job to turn it out onto the level land of the valley for irrigating purposes.

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A CITY THAT OWNS A RAILWAY (Continued)

never came to pass. The freighters' outfit and the four-horse stage, and later the auto, were their only means of transportation. Then, with the grim'determination of the Western people, the Prineville business men got together and said, "Let's build our own railway." "Can't be done," said some. "No town of three thousand people ever did such a thing," said others. "Railways cost money to build. Where will it come from?" asked many more. But the boosters of Prineville persevered. "Here's our new neigh bor 'Bend,' over to the west," they exclaimed. "It's only three or four years old, and it has a railway all to itself. Why can't we have one? Let's show 'em what Prineville can do when she tries." That they had only about three thousand population back of them made no difference.

So they showed 'em all right. Five years ago the town issued $300,000 worth of handsomely engraved bonds, pledging itself for their payment, and with the proceeds built a road that climbed up the side of the deep canyon onto the level desert above and connected with the other line about twenty miles to the west. Then Prineville celebrated in true Western style. At last they were joined with civilization by bands of steel. Instead of a steam locomotive they secured a gasoline motor that is somewhat like unto a modern motor bus. It is provided with a regulation cowcatcher and at times has been known to make the twenty miles to the junction in one hour flat. Also it carries about twenty passengers. Behind it lumbers the oddest little box car ever seen on wheels, which carries the trunks and express matter. Moreover, that little old gas buggy has been known to haul ten car-loads of cattle at one fell swoopregular sure-enough cattle cars, be it understood, which they borrow from the railway. On these two vehicles the designation "City of Prineville Railroad" is painted in large letters, and every resident is proud of the distinction borne by his home town of being the only town or city in the United States that owns a regular, honest-to-goodness broad-gauge railway.

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