{ "id": "bb-1911-11-22-prizes", "title": "$150 Cash Prizes: What Will Be the Population of Bend, Oregon, July 1, 1912?", "publisher": "The Bend Bulletin", "sourceClass": "primary", "url": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1911-11-22/ed-1/seq-4/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-14", "notes": "The Bend Park Company offers $100, $35 and $15, banked at the Scandinavian-American Bank of Seattle, for the public's estimate of Bend's population on 1 July 1912 — from a population of 1,000 when the first trains ran in on 1 November 1911. Ran four weeks: 22 and 29 November, 6 and 13 December 1911, page 4. Read off the page image; the OCR is unusable. No result was ever printed: every issue from the 1 March close to 14 August 1912 was searched.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/bb-1911-11-22-prizes/", "evidence": null, "measurement": [], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "bb-1911-11-22-prizes", "title": "One hundred dollars for the best reason Bend would grow", "intro": "Eight months before it published the emblem, the Bend Park Company offered $150 for the public's estimate of what Bend's population would be on 1 July 1912.", "body": [ "The company had arrived in the Bulletin five months earlier as a publisher, announcing The Bend Book. Here it is buying attention a different way, in a single column between a Victrola advertisement and the classified column, on the editorial page.", "The arithmetic in the advertisement is the arithmetic the Emblem Club would later swear by. A railroad had just arrived — two of them, on the first of November — and the town it reached held a thousand people. The question is what eight months of that would do.", "It ran four weeks — 22 and 29 November and 6 and 13 December 1911, page 4 each time, unchanged, and every one of the four is filed here and read at its own image. The Bulletin weekly never printed a result. Every issue from the 1 March close through 14 August 1912 was searched for the award, the winner, the winning figure or the bank, and the contest is not mentioned again.", "The prize money was real enough to be banked before it was offered, and the bank was in Seattle, where the company was. So was the address: 860-861 Empire Building, the same suite the company would print at the foot of its advertisement in July 1912, two weeks after publishing the emblem." ], "quote": "$150 Cash Prizes\n\nWhat Will Be the Population of Bend, Oregon, July 1, 1912?\n\nThe Hill and Harriman lines have spent $25,000,000 to reach Bend, the Spokane of Oregon. The first train over both roads ran in on November 1, 1911. The population then was 1,000. In eight months' time what will it be?\n\nWe offer you a chance, without cost to yourself, to participate in the following prizes:\n\n$100 CASH, 1st Prize · $35 CASH, 2nd Prize · $15 CASH, 3rd Prize\n\nThis money has been deposited in the Scandinavian-American Bank of Seattle for this purpose.. For prize blanks, write BEND PARK COMPANY, 860-861 Empire Building, Seattle, Washington, or H. J. OVERTURF, Bend Park Co. Representative, Bend.", "readingNote": "Read off the filed 144 dpi page render at native resolution. Column line breaks joined and the three prize lines run together with interpuncts; the doubled stop after \"purpose\" is what the page prints and is left alone. The OCR of this block is unusable — its headline is \"$150CashPrizes\" and its address \"bG0-hfl Kinpire Huilding\".", "related": [ "bb-1911-11-29-prizes", "bb-1911-12-06-prizes", "bb-1911-12-13-prizes", "bb-1911-11-22-guess", "bb-1911-06-21", "bb-1912-07-17", "bb-1912-07-03" ], "date": "1911-11-22", "collection": "club-life", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14/bb-1911-11-22-prizes-page-1.jpg", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14/1911-11-22-4.pdf", "page": 1, "sha256": "226f048d34e326ca357b12baa4a18d4ae0ad04d885c775e284d58069b3462856", "box": [ 800, 1600, 330, 665 ], "width": 1000, "caption": "The Bend Park Company's contest advertisement, November 22, 1911.", "alt": "A single-column newspaper advertisement headed $150 Cash Prizes, asking what the population of Bend, Oregon will be on July 1, 1912, offering $100, $35 and $15, and giving the Bend Park Company's Seattle address.", "credit": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon Libraries", "sourceUrl": "https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn96088235/1911-11-22/ed-1/seq-4/", "color": false } ], "publication": "The Bend Bulletin", "locator": "p. 4, col. 3" }, "displayAssets": [ { "path": "/archive/bb-1911-11-22-prizes/plate-1.webp", "source": "archive/online-research/2026-09-14/bb-1911-11-22-prizes-page-1.jpg", "sourceBox": [ 800, 1600, 330, 665 ], "height": 665, "bytes": 28000, "width": 330, "quality": 82, "title": "The Bend Park Company's contest advertisement, November 22, 1911.", "rights": "The Bend Bulletin · Historic Oregon Newspapers, University of Oregon Libraries", "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-14/1911-11-22-4.pdf, PDF page 1; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-14/bb-1911-11-22-prizes-page-1.jpg: 330×665 px at (800, 1600). 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