AL PAG IX OT. THi JO EM : Sunday," July 31, ldOi,": ' J0UEX AX, a f VBLlBHIVd CO. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C. ft. i ACMOM. JMO. r. CA1A0UL TOIII 'THE OPEN RIVER MUST COME. THE MEMBERS of the Open River association are V seizing hold of that subject with a spirit that augurs ....11 - .. .-. 'PI, urns at- th hro-inninP' wrii iff! lis n i j i i .-i . . a ii w - r r-t some danger of complicating the two projects the canal and the railroad both of which were, intended to acconv 'plish the same purpose, though with much advantage, in time of construction in favor of the railroad. It might have been just as well to have completed the first project be fore the second was undertaken: but as that was not the -as it U now nuite artoarent that neither the one nor the other can be dropped, and both must be worked to a degree in conjunction. While the permanent relief will undoubtedly come from the canal, and that must be built r to" accomplish all the results, that are hoped for. it is ap parent to every ope that no immediate relief could possibly be expected from this source. When "almost a score of years were occupied in building the Cascade locks, it could scarcely be expected that the vaster undertaking could pos sibly be completedJwithin less than half a dozen years, even . with the conditions favorable and the appropriations flow ing regularly. To maintain' the existing conditions Would 'simply be intolerable. What is needed is a result which.' will make itself felt within the coming year. If all the pre Hminariesjar settled so that work could be'seriously begun in the spring, there is no good reason to believe thajt the, eight and a half miles of road necessary to bridge the gap between the Big Eddy and Celilo could not be filled by the 'railroad by the time next fall's crop movement begins.- The results which -would flow from the. accomplishment iof that purpose would be Immediate and probably far reaching. The little portage road at the Cascades cost ;)D,wU, mil paiu 1UI iiacii lit oiujit ouivm ui,vsu. cheapening of freight rates. A small reduction in rates caused by the construction of the portage road above The iDalles would accomplish precisely the same result in the ctma erva M tim . Hut it wiiiliLtiece&sarilvmeanrrtore than a small reduction, and would lead to other results not 'now quite so generally foreseen. . Indeed, to be perfectly frank, the growth of the whole river country is retarded by the combination which exists between the O. R. & N- and the Northern Pacific and Great Northern.. The people of the Inland Empire have, paid to have' their wheat moved to Portland by a water-leVel route precisely what is charged to carry at terrific expense and" under .extraordinary diffi culties the same wheat over the mountains to the Sound. So long as the arrangement lasts, and so long as the people stand it, doubtless it will all be perfectly satisfactory to the railroads' concerned. Of all the states in the. west, none has been quite so complaisant with the railroads as Oregon. It has simply taken whatihas been handed to it -It has been liberally fed on promises, and these it has usually been forced to accept as performances. . It has accepted them "with the best grace imaginable, and so long as it continues to do so its past history of retarded development will be re peated indefinitely and perhaps emphasized. ';.. 'Jn the matter of the open river it need not be expected that anything will be accomplished without bitter and, im placable opposition; It may now , be accepted as a fact - that whatever is accomplished must be done in the face of this opposition, whether it be manifested in open or covert fnrM . V. .Unlit hn understood that. until this ficht is made, until Portland and the Inland Empire stand shoul der to shoulder in the unalterable determination to bring paths. Don't go where you must observe conventionaKuer and in the eloquent language of Wendell I hillips, Ood about the open river, there ii comparatively little hope for .or be wearied with dissipations and frivolities. Don't go means that unjust power shall be insecure ; and every move the future of the state beyond the record of progress which with the crowd. f Go where you can live nice an inaian-. ox me Kint, piuwic m uuius, .wunw ii uc tu t uaK- has marked its recent history. With that progress we are the simple, natural life-where you can really rest, with ger or to stir city s revolt w a lesson in justice. : sure no patriotic citizen can remain perfectly satisfied. : none to criticise, complain, distract or entice. . - Let us not forget that the men and women of Russia p. v : :r. ,-( Areal vacation is a visit back to mother earth, whence have for so many years endured the crudest wrongs; that ' .. ... . . r .u . sn4 cnit'a mart. tnAzv it i th nn and onlv eotintrv nh th far of . the Th rmrkVal fit th bar at the mOUtn Ot trie river IS now wc tame, wine Kcvvu.uiG pYtiuima wiu v.... fv o - , - , -- ineasurabN wi hin realization It has U dem-'netism comes up through one's feet, especially if they are whole earth where neither explanation, remonstrance nor -Mdtatf th" ftTTa in- clad only in loose moccasins, and recharges alUhe body's complaint on the part of it. victimized millions is possible,, fended purposes When the work upon it ceases this fall batteries. The real vacation is one that gives back whole or even thinkable. Is it, under such circumstances, sur tenaea purposes. v" nmvinrM of nn'. hinr that have been ost bv the con-prising that such men as. Bobnkoff and Von Plehve are Sher wTwok win ac ificial life;' something we have : rained but Irom .time to time hurled inj eternity by the dynamite &wil l tw to forty feet of water over the we do not realize how much we have lost. The "call of bomb?- Their death may ead to reprisal it may provoke, bar and tnuTprovidei the sea outlet which so long has been the wild", is. after all, the call, of mother nature to her the myrmidons of tyranny to more extraordinary exertions ; dtsired WM?e this is well, it is only part of the problem, prodigal sons starving.on the husks of that 'far countrybut inevitably as the sun rises the irresistible. tendency is There mt ha r"d a fatted calf' and a rih Patn; direction fof greater liberty and freer government. bS L rmfst have all the advantage of the facilities which mony of; health, and pure thoughts, and independence of which from the examples the outer world now affords 4s dui c mnsiM ii . . i lction" v . , yv ; surely more conceivable than when the long-haired and. h! and V hill miles i to overcome. The barrier there.'ing or fishing much. Some such exercise and recreation their way to recognition through rivers of blood ahd crimes oe Amoved or bridged over? s5r; of Jifficulties which mfy be well enough, but for the most part he will just loaf ; so appalling that strong men shudder a century later even' now confront us. will vanish into thin air. The immediate let nature whisper, to him and cartss him ; let mind and to read of them ;:s:;.;:; V. .. ti' .".' result win oe rennK " 8 ' -' ' "X" , Wh i,v, nnt A thought of carer -FIGHTERS' INTERESTS NOT PARAMOUNT. f AS -TO WHAT under given circumstances, is contra-f i band of -war, or just what rules must govern its seiz-. -providing A iure by a belligerent power, are questions, "on which the admirals, commanders,' secreta tn tnricm affairs anA rlinlnmat case that comes uo." They are scarcely any better agreed r? inVeriorTfTeV by ustdoinV nothing; or next to noting, at all.. ; r ; ; than the judge, ol out supreme court are, as. to' whether r -------- . . - . A .i tj.. .:. ..,ti Hrt fnr oiimav thoiicrht loousn dv th constitution loiiows ine iiae: or. ii so. 10 wnai cjiicut; or uhat firm ana to stimuiaie ine - acvciuuiucui ui uui . uw t . j o - i ... t . . whSt f elds aXcollateral industries-soYne of them prom- many; yet if more young men would try it. they wonk? a, to the powers of congress over distant peoples not yet ised some of them merely talked of will materialize, thus find that they would then get more benefit out of 'a weeks made citizens, and other important questions. . f, ISfcSe JuHnS era of development and vacation than most of them.do in a month's. , y ; I But whatever may be the raes'o? international law as sianinguiceww uu .uu . ( . ;. -. , " :. o Russia's seizure of foreign ships carrying breadstuffs, or prosperity. , OPPRESSION AND REPRISALS IN RUSSIA, -'whatever the outcome of such incidents -though it seems . 1 " j j- . t. . , .. . . "' ' ' " that 'except possibly in the case, of the Knight Commander Iven hold of lf; nPow realizrits' sigmicanceTBOM B throwlT intone of the streets of SrpKgRss her present-day rights-it would, ously taken hoia oi. Many now. jwuzt i s s.g u i -A t,.. u:.a it A. nf th wrvil tools of a scarcely be rash to predict that the civilized nations of the Ky nSfferenrtoTt There ar hud rsiVbrar despotism. Though thousands upon world 'will demand and compel, in the future, the relax., zni lt c here who are now willing to devote generously thousands of tons of as deadly stuff has been dispatched by t on of the rules as to the T Ihttimt i and money o a furtherance of the enterprise, the imperial despotism into eastern Asia for the purpose of tion remembers that it may at some future time, at almost What is nededis to realize pfetisely what there is to do wholesale murder, very little, if anything, is said of, the enm- any time, be at war itself, "d so it ;oms thers m and the besrwy to do it, to secure competent men to de- inal side of the bloody doings of that worse than medieval in- granting arge rights and prmleges respect to a, vote all t"eir time and a tention, if need be. to watching stitution. But the act of a man who has taken upon himself belligerent power. lest it. might desire and need to claim the cise and meeting every emergency which may arise, to strike back for the wrongs and violence inflicted upon, the same privileges'-, but nations'wril go to d tne case ana mec un ; c x -mnnm nt uliman h-incr, serms to have f a r v startled the ess in the future, and it is the interests of the nations that ar ie t Xibfe momX That'suk onaVhTeved; ihe world. Of coufseverV one look, upon, tm's affair from remain at peace that will, more and more become para- most dor ous v sta n all Oregon's history js opened up ana ms own particular swnupoim. Fuuuii,:..iw.u uuw-,. , .. .- . t.ii:Mf. : .:' rrA Ycl I.?!. au ;t. f 1ee . the fore- and dinlomats see in this a criminal assault upon regularly The wide latitude allowed to belligerents in this regard, most of all states in the western section, of thecountryv- constituted - government f the -moralists-see in-this .latest is really, a relic of semi-barbaro . ' - st. Petersburg traeedv a crime against human life, and as natural condition and chief oci A WEEK'S REAL VACATION, narnarnus spes. -wiicit wai wsa iiivj constitutea -governnjeni, incmurauaia oc ,aiafc i3 aii, .v..x - - o-- y-; . , c T--,K.,r nrHv 9 rrim atrainst human life, and as natural condition ! and' chief occupation of the peoples or such it can present no ground for delense; while the mis- the earth; but as war becomes a less frequent and a les . . " .... . . . . r . i : J i. it. .s.am jAfi n.ntri 1 nation a wi II ftfann . , cellaneous mass ot critics regard tnis as a aispiay oi vio- loieraDie-incmcni, wiu- ..vw. ---, . . . . r . . . .. . 1. ij: .tmnrlv. fnr thiir own interests. . reauirincr the Tuppp ia at lat nn nfraion when it is excusable lence wnicn can oniy result in a iciuuu up mun - , , "LdcommVnda ;to loX That is when, having been honestly at appear to the far-off spectator human nature must ever be them that they keep their bloody hands ofMhe peacefull tonrW he takes a short vacation Suppose a young man has regarded from the standpoint of what it actually is. Let us world s commerce. - ; -. ... ... u w2k for tacrtioJ "ndesfrS : really to reft and re- not forget that the annals of history furnish no parallel to J What a commentary on so-called modern civilization it cuperate dSrbg S criminalitie, so brutally inflicted upon the is-that if this war in the orient should hSS in he best do this? Well each one to his own taste Russian people by the civil, military and ecclesiastical com- or twenty years, the peaceful, producing world s ships must S once we read advice Wtion.? This i, not only the testimony of Russian exile, all that time be helcfup and Russia or J?Pa f.H ShX f has wisdom in Tit and it ran something like this: J in eVery land, but of competent authorities the world over, declare their cargoes contraband, Pr .even thathe .pld rule y Don-t Let uJIot forget that there are limit, to human endurance, a, to contraband should be rigidly maintained and enforced. HOW THE COMMON-PEOPLE OF RUSSIA FEEL ABOUT THE - - , raT-on AY T mt a. rflerrtflt Holdler -- AWV - X , accompanied by tola mother and wtf, T All three were riding- In a cart; ha ..-- had had a- drop too much; bia wlfa'a taca waa awoUen with teara. Ha turned to roGood-b'y to thee! Lrot ; Nlkolaevltch, "oft to the far 1 ' --' ; . ..nVeU. art thou going to flgMr.- "j: -"Well, aoma one. haa to fight." . v ' ."No one need fight." ' . ' - Ha reflected for a moment. "But what U one to do, whera can one aacaper 1 ' ". I aaw that he had underetood ma, had un deratood that the work to which ha waa be ing eent waa aa evil work. L-KbtnxMii one escape? That la the pre clae axpreaalon of that mental condition, which in the offlclaj and Journallatlo world la translated tnto the words "For the Faith, the caar and the fatherland." Those who abandoning their hungry famUlea. go to "ut tering, to death, aay aa they feel: "Where can one escape r Whereas those who alt Is safety m their luxurious palaces aay that all Russian men are ready to Bacrlftco their Uvea for their adored monarch, and for the glory and greatness of Russia. yesterday, from a peasant I know, I re ceived two letters, one after the other. -, This Is the first: - r Dttr. L.yof Nlkolaevltch Well, today I hava received the official announcement of mv na.ll to the service, tomorrow I must pre- uni mvself at the headauartera. That ia all. And after that-r-to the far east to meet the Japanese bullets. , - "About ny own, and my household's grief I will not teU you; It la not you who will fall to understand aU the horror of my position and the horrora of war, aU thlB you hava long ago painfully realised, and you under stand It all. How I hava longed to visit you, to hava a talk with you. I had written to ' you a long letter In which I described tha torments of my soul; but I had ''not had tlma to copy it, when I received my Bummona. What Is" my wife to do .now with her four "children? Aa an old man. of course, you cannot do anything yourself for my folks, but you might ask some of your friends In their leisure to visit my orphaned family. I beg "you earnestly that If mywlfa proves unable to bear tha agony of her helplessness with , her burden of children and makes up her " mind to go to you for help and counaei you will receive and console her. Although she does not know you personally she belleyes la your word, and that meana much. , '1 waa not able to resist the summons, but I say beforehand that through me not ona ' Japanese family shall be orphaned. My God! how dreadful Is all this how distress ing and painful to abandon all by which ona - Uvea and In which one is concerned." , , .,. , Tha second letter Is aa follows: "Kindest l.yof Nlkolaevitch-Only ona day of actual service haa passed, and I hava al ready lived through an eternity of most d-- nerate torments. From o'clock . in tha mnrnlns till in the evening we hava been crowded and knocked about to and fro in tha barrack yard, like a herd of cattle, the com edy of medical examination waa three- time repeated, and those who had reported them selves ill did not receive even 10 minutes' attention before they were marked 'satis factory.' When we, thera 1,000 satisfactory Individuals, were driven from the military commander to tha barracka, along the road spread out for almost a verst stood a crowd of relatives, mothers, and wlvea with infants In arms, and if you had only heard and seen how they clasped their fathers, husbands, sons and hanging round their necks, walled hopelessly. Generally I behave in a reserved way and can restrain my feeling, but I could not nold out, and I also wept." (In Journal istic language thla same la expressed thus, "Tha upheaval of patriotlo feeling la im mense." "Where la the standard that can measure all this Immensity of wow now spreading it self over almost one third of tha world? And we, we are now that food for cannon, which In the near future will be offered aa a sac rifice to tha god of vengeance and horror. .' "I cannot manage to establish my inner balance. Oh, how I execrate myself for thla . double-mlndedness which prevents my serv ing one master and God." ; This man does not yet sufficiently belleva that what destroya the body la not dreadful, but that which destroys both the body and the soul, therefore ha cannot refuse to go, yet while leaving his own family h jfr-omit) beforehand that through him not ona Japan ese family shall be orphaned; ha believes In tha chief law of God, the law of all rellglona to act' toward' others aa. oner wishes other to act toward one's Belt Of such men mora or less consciously - recognising thla law, thera are In our tlma, not in tha Christian world alone, but In tha Buddhistic. Mahom edan. Confucian and Brahaminlo world, not only thousands "but millions. There exist true heroes, not those who are now being feted because, having wished to kill others, they were not killed themselves, but true heroes who are now confined In prisons and in the province of Takoutsk for having categorically refused to enter the Tanks of murderers, and who hava preferred martyrdom to thla departure from tha law of Jesua..' Thera are also such as he who writes to me; who go, but who will not kill. But also that 'majority which goes without thinking,, and endeavors not to think of what it Is doing, still In the depth of Its soul, does now already feel that It la doing an evil deed by obeying authorites who tear men from labor and from their families, and send them to needless slaughter of men, repug nant to their soul and their faith; and they go only because they ar bo entangled on all Bides that "Whr can ona escape?" Meanwhile those who remain at home not only feel this but know and express It. Yes terday In the high road I met some peasants returning from Toula. Oner of them waa -reading a leaflet a he walked by the aide-of his cart. - . I asked "What Is that? a telegram?" "This Is yesterday's but her la on of to day." y - .' v. ' ' Ha took another out of his pocket We atopped. I read It, - L .--' .---v- "Tou ahould have seen what took plac yesterday -t tha Btatlon," h Bald,, "it waa dreadful. "Wives, children, mora than a thousand of them, weeping. . They surrounded th train, but were allowed no further. Strang ers wept, looking on. Ona woman from Toula gasped and fell down dead; five child ren. They hava ainc been placed in varloua institutions, but th father waa driven away all the same. What do w want With thla Manchuria, or whatever it Is called. There la sufficient land. , And what a lot of people and of property haa been destroyed." Yes, the relation of men to war Is now quit different from that which formerly existed even so lately aa th year 77. That which 1 now taking plac never took plac before, .f t- , The paper set forth that during tha re ceptions of th caar, who is traveling about Russia for the purpose of hypnotising th men who ar being sent to murder. Indescrib able enthusiasm is manifested among th people. As a matter of fact, something quit different Ms being manifested. From all sides one hears reports that in on plac three reservists have hanged themselves; faaj - sjiivH-Tsyv'- - " w w m - about a woman whose . husband had been taken away bringing her children to tha con scription committee room and leaving them there; whil another hanged herself in -the yard of th military commander. All are dissatisfied,- gloomy, exasperated .The words, "For th faith, tha king and th fath erland." th national anthem and shouts of ' "hurrah," no longer act upon th people as they onca did. Another warfare of a dlf ' f erent kind the struggling conscienclousness ' ot th deceit and sinfulness of th work to which people ar being called Is more and mors- taking possession of th people. Yea, th great strife ot our time la not that now taking plac between- Japanes and th Russians, nor Mat wnicn may oiue up between th whit and yellow races; not that atrif which la carried on by mine, bombs, bullets, but that spiritual strife which without ceasing has gone on and Is now going on between the enlightened con sciousness of mankind now watting for man ifestation and that darkness and that burden , which surround and oppress mankind. In Hia own time Jesus yearned In expec tation, and said: ' . ' ' . . M . V - . . . V. " .MJ , i came iu vmi iirv upun uiv viu, tkow I wish that it were already kindled.- . ' Luke, xll 49. .. "That which Jesus longed for la being ac complished; the fir 1 being kindled. - Then do not Jet u check it, but let us spread and .. serve It. , . -.. v. . perate torments. x ruin ociuca . in vo avu,, v....... . - - T i;. ; y OUR RAPIDLY CHANGING TIMES . . By PROF. EDGAR L. LARKIN . "BBBBaBBBBBBBBaBBBBBBBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBa , . ' . I ' M 1 -V aaM A - VaS 1 1 4 A B BV1 A Jt. ';. VAST i world-wide movement is now under way that promises to completely change existing M.uiAn vmaMk nf avrtlora-' tton in the recesses of nature that have rot been surveyed for 0 centuries are now being opened up. The movement began about 2i years ago, but attracted lltue attention. Ten years later It was heard of outside of limited circles; but within the last live, yea, two years, the research has gained great Impetus and momentum. It is now expanding at a most rapid rate, and in all intellectual nations. In fact, its expansion is now the standing marvel ef these . latter ThY iramens ' new 'activity. 1 the study of that Inscrutable mystery the hsman mind. The hosts of the studies of every description, kind and ramlu catlon ar Included under one name psychology, the science of mind. Socie ties, classes, clubs and schools are now springing up throughout the World and complex laboratories ar Mf erected at great expense, all for the study of mind and Its properties and functions.' Many obscure qualities of mind have been discovered end latent faculties that only await cultivation to expand Into marvelous mental power. .The most Intellectual races of antiquity de voted centuries of attention to the study of mind, and practically Ignored phys ical science. The ancients made no great Inventions. The modern races re versed the process almost completely. Thus: Blnce the revival , of learning. A. t. K00. -men havs given tlw-lr lives to physical, chemical and mechanical sciences, ' developing railways, steam ships, electric motors and lights, tne telephone, telegraph, the telescope, wire less telegraphy and the ocean newspa per. View the 'nineteenth century. Men used their minds with Intense activity, but did not study them. They made research into every known department of nature,- exoept the greatest of all mind. The explorations now going on reveal new and Strang properties dally. Dormant faculties are being discovered. A few may be mentioned: Receptivity, selection, storare. introspection, dlreo tion, control and many others. Thus A trained mind can receive all kinds of thoughts and mental Impressions snd then be sble to retain snd store them in mental reservoirs or reject them en tirely. - . . Storage of what Is desired is a most valuable acquisition, r Introspection Is one of the marvels of human mentality. . Thus a . skilled Introspeotor ran recall a disrupted train of thought; for should one be. Inter rupted when writing, even in the mid dle of a sentence, then after many years be could finish the sentence ss original ly intended. Two minds can be turned to each other's "rates."- Then the per sons can talk to each other-around the world.. Telepathy waa common 40 cen turies ago. The mind has many phases how many la unknown. The truth Is, very little Is known of the human mind, but what is known shows It to be far snd away beyond all other subjects of study in Us magnifi cence. Its mystical splendors are simply Overpowering. It 1 so majestlo thai even th boundaries have not yet been traversed by th explorers. The mar-, vels of Intuition, consciousness and per-, caption have scarcely been studied so far. '. ; , , . "; '..;'.' Folse is a wonder. One having . it has his mind under control as thorough ly ss an electrician baa a motor. Il limitable wonders ar comprehended under the word concentration. The pos sibilities of concentration are so greaf. 'that a book could be written - en the subject. It was practiced by the an-' clents for thousands of years. It is perhaps impossible to Impress the minds: of the readers with the magnitude of this movement. , " . They are actually studying the hu man mind In our colleges now. In a year or two doubtless aa much atten- -tton will be given to it as to botany, and entomology. Vast results beyond anything that has . appeared i on earth . aYe In sight. Wholesale changes ar. due the moment the people . begin - to realise the power - and properties ' of mind. - - - The first venerable'. Institution that will be upset snd demolished so thor oughly that the ruins cannot be mad out in our present system of education. Let it fall quickly. If a committee of one from each of the planets in th solar system should visit the earth, with the intention of crushing the hu man mind, for fear we should become the "gods" and know more than they, It woqld be Impossible for them ' to devise a more absurd system of In structing ths young man than that now in dally use. The process of training children from conception to birth and to maturity should be reversed. True child culture is at present un known. Education now pays no atten' tion to differences in th minds of child ren, and laws of youthful minds are vio? lated continuously. Kvery day minds are ruined by forcing children, especi ally girls,, to try to learn things which their natures loathe. .The writer has seen ' a refined poet weeping because' she was forced to wear her life away studying analytical , geometry, ' and th mind of a sweet nature's artist almost ruined by trigonometry. A born scurp tor has been ordered to delve Into the mysteries of differential equations. Trto only approach to . teaching based on laws of mind is Froebers "Kindergar ten." ' The moment that the parents of the United 8tates get a glimpse of the laws of mind they will sweep our pres ent sducatlonal system to oblivion. What mother will permit her sweet, little, delicate, nervous children to be placed with coarse, rough, dull and phlegmaCe pupils? f ' . Every court, from police trials up to the supreme court of the United States, will almost entirely change procedure. Counties laws, ths rubbish of centu ries, will be repealed. Total reversal will be made In all kinds of prisons, re formatories and penal institutions. Ab solute change will be made in every in sane asylum, poerhous and ehsrttabfo institution.. The entire practice of medicine will be upset the moment that people find out about their mental na tures. Upheavals and changes will oc cur in civilization, drdiu, suiwru ana lives, th Ilk of which is not recorded In history. The greatest of ' all changes, ' how- , ever, will be In the way of race-culture., the management of children, and be- yond this, if possible, something new the training of parents. - Parents will be taught psychic laws for the first time in SO centuries. Every person seeking to be employed as a teacher Of any -kind will be rigidly examined in pay- "chology; If theyvknow nothing of th laws of mind, certificates will be refused. But now a sad scene ia presented. It i h niiinno . iui tut www art ir.ii movement Is Immediately beset and sur rounded by harpies, fakers, ' swindlers and deceivers. Our treat cities are in fested with falters who display their un mistakable signs, to impose upon th this, " however, w(ll survive all these parasites and rise in majestlo splendor the splendor of awakened mind. ' TH JBIO BOOM AT . ' i Froni Th Dalle. Chronicle.1 - A visit t the tnuch-talked-f Bend, -whim Is situated a lltUe south of the Western portion of Crook county, and it mlleafrom Prlnevjlle, Is certainly an Interesting on at thla tlm When all the energy which characterise a boom town la in evidneei-nd the lltUe plaos ia mwlng ahead at a rapid rate. On all sides the sound of the hammer1 and the stw la heard, and where but a very few mnnths sgn but thre . business houses were located, many times that number are now In evidence and others are be ing constructed snd planned, while resi dences in like number are making their appearance as rspldly as workmen can accomplish their construction. An' unstinted amount ofVdVertlsing haa brought to that section would be settlers from every state In the union, who are lured thither -by the brilliant Inducements offered: - As Is usual In such cases some find their expectations met to a certain degree, while others succumb to discouragement while cross ing th arid desert from Prlnevllle to Bend and see. no grounds for the-brlght future predicted for that section. How vegetation can thrive where frosts make their appearance every month in the year la a mooted question, answered by the claim that the effect of irrigation on the atmospheric condition will solve' th problem. Another drawback they claim Is the coil of maintaining the land, the cost of irrigating bejng a dollar an acre after the land has seen secured, which, together with taxes, etc.. will bring run ning expenses yearly on 140 acres to much ovsr f 200. i A brief review of the fact as well ss the claims for the future of this section will no doubt be Interesting. - An Irrigation company, composed for the moat part of Ohio capitalists, among thenl a coal man of great wealth, baa acquired water rights, which, when de veloped, will put under water 400,000 acres of land contiguous to Prlnevllle, the water coming from the Des Chute BndCjrnOkeL.rlvex.wAt tlt point the t)es Chutes river f urnlahes more water In the course of the season, according to close observation, reinforced by govern ment surveys, than the Willamette river. . The bed of the river will not hold aa many ruble inches of wster. but on account of the swiftness of the current more water Is rarrled past a given point than by the Willamette. ' La at February the company mentioned bought out two rival (, Irrigation com panies and at one instituted th work. which will probably develop Into the greatest private undertaking ' In ' this class in the United States. The com pany haa now completed. a 10-foot ditch covering 40.000 acres of land, which will cover 44.000 more acre when enlarged next winter. It has now in eottrse" of construction another ditch' 10 feet wide and feet deep and ?0 miles long, and haa another ditch planned which will be dug as soon ss ths last one mentioned sbove Is in operation, which will be 110 feet wide snd feet deep and approximately 100 miles long. Th company, under Its new "segre gation," has set aside and withdrawn for entry under th Carey law, 117,000 acres of land-r-conalderably less thsn one-half the amount the ditches dug, being dug and which are surveyed and will be dug, will furnish water for. The contract with the. state specifies that th water la to be put on the land at an average cost of 110 per acre in- some Instanoes the water must neces sarily coat more than that sum, and In many other case much less. Ths stat engineer ha appraised the land each 40 separately, valuing it at from $14.75 forthe- best, to ae low aa f HO. The contract with the state gives the company a lien on the land for the appraised value, Purchaser front i the company of land under these 'various . u . 1 t .v. i r in stallments, or the purchaser, can pay for It all at the time of purchase; or in' part or entirely at any time that may suit him. ' . Four railroads, all surveyed, are said to be headed for the De Chutes coun try; one from the Klamath laks coun try will connect directly with (he north ern California lines; snother rrom di rectly west across the Cascades will be built throuah to Ontario. Another la projeoted rom th Columbia river due south from the Dalle, and the fourth will be an extension ' of th Shantko brane .. ; , . J.