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IRRIGATED LAND
OPENS
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' ; LIFE PROSPECTS
Ovef Million of Former Dry
Acres Have Been Put . Under
" Cultivation in Recent Years.
Oregon Irrigation Progress
Area Irrigable, between 2,000,
000 and 4,000,000 acres. ' r ' :"
- Area Irrigated, about 1,500,000
acres. ; v . .
.Irrigation projects number 68.
- Lands' requiring ', reclamation
by water are found ln Eastern
two-thirds of - Oregron, from the
Columbia, river on the north , to
the California line on1 the south.
There are also irrigation proj
ects in "RogueClliver -galley pt
Southern Oregon . and proposals
for summer irrigation., in parts
'of the Willamette valley.- ,
1 ON FIVE OF STATE'S 68 IRRIGATION PROJECTS
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, Irrigation, that magic that unlocks
the desert to bloom and . bounty,' .baa
played, and is playing, a' vitally V
portant part In th development of Ore
. gon. It has converted hundreds of
. thousands of seres' or sage brush plains
into producing fields, orchards and
- farms, and, in the next few years to
come, will raise those totals many fold.
It has transmuted the bare existence
' of the "dry farmer"- into the comfort
and prosperity of the irrigationist and
- ras made certain the continual produc
tion of dormant and fickle acres that
needed nothing but the touch of mois
ture to make them actively and con
tinuously fertile. It is the key that
: has partially unlocked and in time
. will entirely unlock the boundless
- prosperity of the-great Eastern, Cen
tral and Southern Oregon districts to
make them the garden and the orchard
places of the state and the Northwest.
IKBIGATIOir HIST O BY .
? The real history of irrigation in Ore
. r' gon began: to be written in 1901 with
' the acceptance by the Oregon legisla
' tare of the provisions of - the federal
Carey act. Prior to that ...time as far
back as 1830 there had , been small lr
rigated tracts brought into productivity
here and there by. individual effort, and
expenditure,, but no organized move-
vnent for irrigation development had
! been attempted, or was possible.
The Carey act, in its general terms,
... granted to each, of several designated -
semi-arid states, of which Oregon was
classed as one, a total of. 1,000,000
acres of governnSent land for the pur-
poses of irrigation development; '
The method of this development was
, left to the discretion of the state, which
- could, following the policy of the United
- States reclamation act, -conduct its
" own reclamation and development work
as the federal government does, through
state financing, or, as Oregon decided
to do, enter into contracts with private
' corporations for the irrigation of the
, lands selected by it. and the sale of
these lands to' settlera
V MATILIiA IS FIBST
The D. C. Brownell project In Uma
tilla county was the first of the Carey
' act projects to be undertaken in the
state. It was completed and is now
one of the highly productive Irrigated
1 sections of the state. The Deschutes
Reclamation & Irrigation; company
- project near Bend was the second proj
ect, and it has, been completed. Both
. were commenced in 1901.
The federal reclamation act was
' passed by congress in 1902,' and 'the
- geological survey, . which was at first
- given the administration of the act, at
- ence sent forces of engineers into the
. state to survey and estimate the con
struction . cost of all projects which
might be deemed feasible. The work
,: of this department was separate and
- distinct from the Carey act projects.
- In 1905' the first state water code was
. enacted: by the legislativre. It provid
ed for the appointment of a state en-
gineer to administer the law and speci
fied that , the governor- should ap
point an engineer that might be rec
; emmended for the position by the dl
' rector of the geological survey..- John
H. Lewis, who was at that time sta
', tioned in Eastern Oregon in charge of
reclamation survey work, was recom-
. mended for the position, and was ap
: pointed by' Governor Chamberlain. -
Since ., that time about half of the
Carey act lands have been filed upon
- : and are in various stages of irrigation
. development. '
; YHBEE BAS FAMED
" Oregon's irrigation development may
: well be divided into different eras, the
- first, the Carey act era, covering the
period from lsoi to 1915.
- During this time many Carey act
projects were, initiated, and ' many of
them, fell by the wayside. This was
, -a . - I , i .
of the engineers and. the conseauent
low estimated cost'oT irrigation' per
acre. This resulted in financial dlf fi
: . culties both' for the companies and the
settlers who Went - upon the land.
brought about reorganizations, . dlssen-
- sion and trouble, but at the same time
advanced the cause of irrigation n, VO
negngiDie cegree,
- The state water code was enacted in
1909, the drainage district act in 1915
; and the irrigation district act in 1917
Theee laws enacted subsequent to sim-
ilar laws of other states, were made to
-profit by the experience of those other
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The irrigation district act empowered
contiguous land owners to band them
eeivea together in quasi-municipal cor
porations, with the power to finance
their Irrigation development by the is-
suanee and sale of irrigation district
bonds. ' ' .
In 1917 also the irrigation securi-
ties commission was created, providing
. that the attorney generals super in ten
. dent of banks and state engineer, act
ing as that commission,' could investi
: gate any irrigation district making ap
plication tor sucn examination, and. In
their discretion, recommend to the sec-
- - retary of state the' certification of the
bonds of the district. This certifica
tion makes these bonds legal Invest-
; ments for, trust funds and savings
- bank. . . - . . -
rarTEBBST GT7AB.VSTEED
In 1919 an amendment to the consti
tution was 'proposed and later ratified
; by the people, provwing lor tne guaran
tee by the state of the -interest on ir
rigation district bonds for a period, of
-not to exceed five years from the is
suance of the bonds. The administra-
' tlon of the provisions of this amend
ment was entrusted to the securities
commission. . , , - .
-' As a ' result of . all this . legislation
Oregon - irrigation - dietriet- securities
have been brought up to the standard
of recognised Investment securities
and irrigation development of, . large
' scope nas - been - xmancea ana is in
. course of completion.' ' ,
Oregon's Irrigation, development . .has
. . been hampered ' by its mistreatment
by the reclamation service as regards
"I the ' appropriation of federal reclama-
land values as fixed by the owners of
these lands. These values, in many cases
have been held so high that when the
Irrigation-construction cost per acre
and the annual - water charge were
added to them, the totals colud not be
capitalised from the . earnings of the
settler. This baa caused alow sales
and failure to carry the load by some
cf those who have purchased, thus, by
reaction, throwing an . everheavy bur
den on . the remaining : settlers of , the
district. '
Irrigationlsts are coming to realise
that reasonable land costs and a sys
tematic settlement program by which
every , acre would be brought under
the ownership and active personal op
eration of small holders go hand in
hand for the prosperity of any district.
As a result much attention by those
Interested in Irrigation ' development is
being given to this phase of the work.
.The state has an estimated total of
1.150,000 ' acres Of irrigated land
at - this time, meaning land ; upon
which the water has already been or Is
ready to. be turned. It to estimated
that the total area of Irrigable - land
runs between three and four million
acres. There - are less than 1,000.000
acres in well organized districts that
have not yet been reclaimed. - ..-..--There
are CS irrigation districts in
the- state in various stages of develop
ment, ranging from those In the course
of organisation and financing to those
that , have been completed: and turned
over to the land owners for full opera
tion. ,'- " ; . . -s ' - : '
The largest Irrigation district in the
state ia the John Day irrigation district
with 285.000 acres. The second Is the
Jefferson water conservancy district
of 106.964 acres, neither of which has
progressed far ..towards the construc
tion stage. ,.-.:.s.v..;;3,..-";;---v.v..'i-;;-,
.In the .financing of these districts,
from figures compiled In January, 1922,
there baa been a total of S19.494.000
cf bonds voted. Of this total $7,755,600
has been certified by the i securities
commission. Of that amount 97,752.
500 has had the interest gnaraateed
by the state .for various periods rang
ing up to five yeara These figures,
with the lapse of a year, have doubtless
been Increased to some extent, but they
serve to show the magnitude of the ir
rigation development that has been un
dertaken in the state up to the present
tune. '
Number of Vessels
Docked Shows Gain
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Vessels berthing at the four munic
ipal terminals during the dock commis
sion's fiscal year, which ends November
SO, were CS per cent more than during
the preceding fiscal year. At terminal
No. 1. 294 vessela docked - in- 1922.. as
compared with 179 In 1821. At termi
nal No. 2 the comparative figures are
141 and 100 ; at terminal No. the fig
ures are 10 and 2, and terminal , No.
4. 294 and 1(5. At all the municipal
terminals in. 1922, ' 729 - vessels were
docked and In 1921 - the number was
447. . : i , , ' '
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(1) North cnnal damC Ontral Oregon irrigation Tiroject; (2) Ochoco reeervoir, PrineviUe; (S) Thompson
vaney storage dam; Silver late, project; (4) Willow creek pumping plant, Warm Springs pro ject, near
Vale; (5) 'Diversion dam, Jordan valley project. , ; . . .
tion funds for Oregon projects. Mil
lions of money bas been contributed in
Oregon funds to the reclamatiin fund
of which proportionately N- buf -very
sma'li part' has come back for 'improve
ment work here. ; t v, . .
O&EGOX IS BEJLDT "
-'It. has-been, the, persistent, policy ol
the- reclamation service to spend this
money in the construction of irrigation
projects in other; and older irrigation
statea This practice has delayed fed
eral irrigation development - la Ore
gon, bnt "the." time: undoubtedly will
come when, 'theee outside projects com
pleted. the attention of the federaf de
partment will.be turned to Oregon and
the many projects declared feasible by
government engineers ;wiil .be under
taken and carried to completion.;
. Oregon, is now ready, so far as the
law is concerned.' for the -completion "of
its vast . Irrigation program. The- ad
judication of - Its water, rights Jby the
state water board practically has been
completed, the Deschutes -being the
only large stream in. -tha.- state -where
the various conflicting rights to the use
of the water have not been definitely
measured and determined., 1: ' '
Ample legal -machinery has been pro
vided for- the 'formation and financing
of irrigation projects. Bonds of irri
gation ' districts; soundly and properly
financed, meet with a reasonably ready
market. - y
The major problem that new confronts
the Irrigation program W that of set
tlement, and this, in many .instances
perhaps, has been and is being ham
pered by the speculative element in the
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