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PAGE SIX. DAILY KAST OIUEGOXlA, rCMDLETOlf, OIUCGOJf, MONDAY, DKCEMBKIt 4, 1911. EIGHT PAGES. MOIHER PROTEST Special Correspondence.) Stamiil.l, Ore., Doc. 4. Saturday vniinc at a lour inih.- th.ii vicinity w ho own 1 i d reservoir .site of with a thick deposit of whlta and black alkali, being cntlrey mi fit (or culti vation a that term gpfterailly Implies. Ofber large portions of the reservoir Kitet consist oC uneultlvutodv candy, sugoTuali lands that have no 'water supply nr any possibility of ever be ing- cultivated or irrigated and that are practically worthless ojtcept for pasture. The remaining portion ot the site contains several hundred larnit r. of 2 snd on tin' (lip V. . : : ; ! p: . . lyi'K .. i oi,I n 31a Ixh' h.nr; down the Umatilla to tho government reservoir. J. T. lllnklo and Tele Sheridan were selected as a commit- I ht I rn lift! c010 to rresident Taft, the Secretary CAILIlUlUll r lno Int,rl,,r- nnd to th public press. s-ui-ii i eoiuiioiis 10 inciuui' me reiuesi that Uie government shall formally und'permanently abandon the western extension to the Umatilla project. Tho committee was also in.strui'tei tt nuik,. nieetiiiK at Putter creek suitable reply to the communication acres of food farming land hlch It nth or ltermlston, of of J. N. Teal that a.iiie:ire,l in the will he nece.nsa.rv to destroy. l'ortland Oregonlan Dec. 1. "It does not require very much- cotv. jn posed reservoir site of H. x. Keavert is building a resi- sMeratlon 1a' ait itttellltrent person to extension of the Umatil- o nee on CiK-ndeiiulng street i decide whether It Li good policy to i. 'listed us.iinst the ear-! Mr. and Mrs. J. JU tlrijjss arrived I flood ti few hundred ucres of good t'.e extension and thojtrom Lebanon. Ore.. Friday ami are ! land and other area of practically f t ie n-i-rvoir. The the giu.'t-t of Jlrs. Munei. I worthless land, the whole not liti . a'it ! to order by J. T. i Dr. and Mrs. Alex Ilcid were &ho ' more than 4000 acres. In order to ro ll. i;.;r:iur was elected ; isitors on Thanksgiving day, where ' claim and permit the cultivation of r .-.i.-r.dan, secretary, i thev dined with friends 'between SO. 000 anil 60.001) acres of The Indies' Aid Society of the Fr-s- j hmd, most of il liitrhly attractive nad byterian church will serve a public ! desirable. Kven if the entire bed of chicken ('.inner tomorrow noon in th the proposed reservoir were made lit) C. K. Webster buildinsr on Main: of first class land' well' cultivated and i farmed, the Issue would still be the.- Ian, secretary. J. V Hi:;k : ssistart secretary. Tlie S;--.'i.iv-i,i i xj.res.l at the nieet Ini; v. :i i cv iiNn:; aj,ai::st the west fin t Mem-ion :i:ul there was a unani mity ieclin.; tl.at c cry farmer on street. mep FRE iswti 0 FR EE! JJH' l!' J"S(d reservoir site should vrort-.-s :-aitist the retarding of im I roveai i nts and the damper on pro- . jjTe-ss generally that has resulted from the lo;i..; drawn eut preliminary work .and the d. laved reports thereon, the whole matter having been indefinitely -Jield m abeyance. In comparing the -tiiM-it of the so-called western ex cVnsion and the John Pay project, .some very interesting figures were nDhl cu:. One prominent farmer liad a report of John H. Lewis, state jnginrr, showing that in ls05 the flow of the Umatilla river was 219, C00 acre feet, while in the same year the flow of the John Day river was JtMiini. acre feet, or nearly four times -. as niHeh as that of the Umatilla. ' There i practically no irrigation from the waters of the John Day at the present time, while it nppers from ItK- quant it v used by the Umatilla lihojeit (Hiring 1911 that when this day. entire project is opened up there will! be very little Umatilla river water for .ny irrigation aside from that which has already been appropriated. At I he ru te that w ater has been turned crto the 4 000 acres of land that has teen irrigate! under the Umatilla project this year, it would require 4 00.00 C acre feet to supply this pro . ject alone, t say nothing of the wa - tpr aliil rightfully belongs to the pri- "Yate projects along the Umatilla riv r. many of which are composed ot farmers who were irrigating their lands years before even the Umatilla yroject was first thought of, and their rights must be respected as well as Ahose of the Indians. I It was also stated in the meeting "Jy fanners who are experienced irri gators Ihut it requires an average of 46 Inches of water to sustain plant J. It. Laughh'n of Hermiston was transacting business in stanficiitl Wed nesday. U A. Leonard went to Spokane Wednesday to spend Thiinkssiving. C. K. Huff and family, fornrly of Palom, have moved Into the Clyde Stuart cottajge. T. J. Dunlop of Pendleton was a Stanfield visitor Wednesday ranking after his interests here. MT. Dun lop was a pioneer investor ire town property fit SL-mfietd.. Harry Cuinmings, the Heppner nurseryman, was transacting buidness in Stanfield Friday. E. P. Marshall of Pendleton; was a Stanfield visitor Friday. At a special school election Satur day afternoon, a seven mill" tax was voted for the coming year. Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. George of Kcho, were Stanfield visitors Tester- STANFIELD R. R. BUSINESS GROWS Y7ITH every purchase of $5.00 W merchandise at this store, we absolutely FREE, worth of will give (Special Correspondence ) Stanfield, Ore., Dec. 4. The last day of the month closed the heaviest volume of bus:ness transacted through the Stanfield station of the O.-W. n. & X. Co. since the station was established. A variety of Incom ing and outgoing freight has been handled here, consisting chiefly of al falfa hay, grain and live stock from this point, while the receipts have life in these lands and that evaporation ! been principally sheep, ceUle build- nd seepage will consume equally as ing material, etc. Xews has been rcelved here that Dr. G. E. Watt3 of Portland has pur chased the partially constructed two story conciete building at the corner of Coe avenue and Main street, known Cantractor come here much more and, to substantiate this, the fact was referred to that the ex periment station at Hermiston used ix feet of water this year. In view of this fact the farmers are protesting -against the efforts of the U. S. recla- j a? the George building, ination service to cut down the allow- ti f Al'en ernecto to ance of water to 2 1-2 acre feet and . -"tttempts have also been fnade to in duce the settlers along McKay and Birch creek to use this 2 1-2 acre feet in the late spring and early summer, hus allowing tlie "surplus to flow .'Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury. as mur'-urr will surely destroy the sense of mell and completely deranse the whole system uen entering it through the mucous Kiirfaow. SihIi articles should never be uhd eieept ou prescripiioiis from repntabie j)hysi iaLS. as the damage tbey ill do is ten f.-lii lo the good you can possibly d? rlve fnai taetn. Hails Catarrh fare, inaotifactured by F. J. Cbpncy 4 Co., Tole do. O., i oatains no mercury, aud is taken Inierualiy. aeUag directly upon the blood and miicoiis sm faces of the system. In buy ing Hail's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the itenicu-. It is taken Internally and made i Jitirdo, Ohio, by F. J. Clieuc-y & Co. .reMiTiioniuis free. f'lld by i riic-ists. Price, 75c pr-r bottle. "Take Hall's Family Pills for eousrlparloo. from Portland shortly to complete the building for the new owner. This will when finished consist of a com modious ttore room on the main floor and a half above and will be a credit to the city. At the last council meeting it was voted to construct a gravel walk a'ong Main street to the new school building. Work will be started on this rieht away and it will provide a much-needed 'mprovement. Four rooms in the new Qeeves high school building have been finished so th.v. when school opens Monday morning the pupils and teachers will commence work therein. An addi tional primary teacher will be em ployed making a staff of five, Inc'.ud- ng the principal. Wednesday evening M. C Baragar departed on an eastei n trip, planning t be gone a month or more. HELPFUL WOIIDS. From a Pendleton Citizen. "Is your back lame and painful? Dpes it ache especially after exer tion T Is there a soreness in the kidney xegion? These symptoms Indicate weak kidneys; There Is danger in delay. "Weak kidneys fas: get weaker. Oive your trouble prompt attention. D.Jan s Kidney Pi. Is act quickiy, Th'y strengthen weak kidneys. Jteid this Per.d etun testimony. Deep-seated coughs that resist ordi nary remedies require both external and internal treatment. If you buy a dollar bottle of BALLARD'S HORE HOUND SYRUP you get the two remedies you need for the price of cr.r There is a HERRICK'S RED PEPPER PORUS PLASTER for the chest, free witn each bottle. Sold by A. C. Koeppen & Bros. JOHN DAY PROJECT WOULD COST 522.000,000 (Continued from page one.) Btor,. Id,) v. Webb s rett. Pen-He- ' fir at I'art of what wou,d lhle be r.r.cr, o... ..t ...j! waste flood "waters. "I was annoyed my juuncjs ana ,.. tha lr,,uniir.n of -crtt.oni from my kidneys were . 11 . . . ... i-.'-.rt a i t-. . toe reciamaiion weiviee iu "n"'" KfvV i nt users of their rights or of their ' five always brought relief. aru p.ta-ed tu g.ve ths preparation m eti Jorsemcnt." r jt sue cy a.l dealers. Price rent,. I" j.cr-M lburn Co., Bufftilo, ?.v ii k, b-j.nt agenti for the United luist- : ' ther. ''i:i'.'::.uT the r.ame Doan's and i.'ik r . ! ,.. r. iThey Fit 5 and W ear Til;!' the l;in of gliot-e it ilij store if vou nr" l(,k;n for clicap stuff. Z "l'di't c"!.'i..- L'.re. SHOES water but ply, nor has the service the It gal power to act in any" such arbitrary- wav even if it so de.sired. A large part of the protests that have nne.ired in the press have been from certain of the ranchers liv ing along the Umatilla river or its tributaries, who fear that the United States is proposing to take away from them their water supply and use it on other lands. Such a fear is foolish in the extreme and need not tie con sib led by any person familiar with the intention and practice of the Unit ed States with regard to the benefici al use of water. "Other objections have reef ntly ap peared that hare been inspired ap parently by owners of lands within the proposed reservoir dte, who have ap parently feared that their homes and farms will be taken from thejn in or der that the reservoir can be built and tlie lands flooded. It has been alleged by persons, apparently entire ly ignorant of the situation, that large areas of valuable lands will be flooded and destroyed and that it ::rp my specialty and I handle Z J onlv tin? kind that satisfy ami make my patrons my J friends. Z I would like to prove tlii i assertion to YOU. : A. Efelnnd X iVndlfton'g Pinncrr Shoe X Man. X would be poor business policy to de-1 stioy there valuable lands merely for the purpose of reclaiming other lands at another place. Kexcrvolr Kilo Not Valuable. "The situation Is briefly this: .Some what less than 4000 acres of land will be flooded by the proposed reser voir. The greater part of this land i.i what Is generally known as faste or alkali land, much of it Is per manently water-logged and, covered slim, and no intelligent person would hesitate as to what answer should be given. Tlie point Ik wiiether the 4000' acres should, not be sacrificed in order that the 50;(WO or 60,000 acres should be made available foi Ivimcs and farms. In any event the liU(i owners may beassmred the Unit ed States will liberally pay them for. any portion that may Up required. John I lav Not New Srimiic. There has recently appeared in tho. press another contention, that it would be better for the government Uv give up its plan of unin the Uma tilla river as a sourcn of supply and use water from the John Day river instead. This idea Bus been sprung oy several parties a ir U were an ; entirely new and original one and de- serving of serious consideration. It ' is implied in the articles that the I United States has overlooked an im portant and fundamental feature ot! the proposition and that It would be ' cheaper and better tu gt at once to j the John Day river and, obtain a cheap.', and copious supply there instead of carrying out the ilin3 now belnff! considered. j "The reclamation service has dur-! lng the last five years given this mat- ; ter more consideration than, probably to any other problem in Oregon. The , ! idea of taking water from the John 1 Day has appeared so attractive that the engineers hare been trying ta work out some scheme whereby some! part or all of it might be used. Vari- ous surveying parties have gon over the ground, have examined all f the l cnyons and reservoir sites hoolng to i find some possible way whereby the scheme might be rendered practic- I able. Difficult ami Expensive to"" Construct. "The situation is, however, that the John Day river, flowing as it does at the bottom of a deep canya hundreds and sometimes thousands of feet be low the level of the adjacent coun try', and frequently in a ragged box i canyon, is not available for use ex cept at an enormous cost. Several dams ranging in height up to 270 feet and a great canal 7! miles in length. much of it consisting of tunnels' through solid ledge, would have to be built before any of the John Day wa ter could be placed on the land. The engineers' estimates show that the cost of watering 200,000 acres under the John Day river would be nearly $22,000,000, or upwards of J108 per acre. "More than this, it is plain that the greater part of this enormous sum would have to be spent before a single acre of the land could be irrigated, or, to put it in other words, it would be necessary to build the complicated and costly system of reservoirs, dams, tunnels, canals and siphons before any water could be obtained on the irri gate land. This would mean that no cultis-atlon or reclamation could in any event occur for seven or eight years, which would be the least time in which such extensive work could be completed. "By using the waste waters of the Umatilla river the engineers' prelim inary estimates of cost have shown that the cost of the works will not exceed about $76 per acre as compared with $108 per acre under the John Day river. Moreover by using the Umatilla water It would be possible to complete the works step by tep, bringing each year a few thousand acres under cultivation, so that by the time the irrigation works are com pleted the entire area will be large ly under cultivation and settlement. li appears that by modern expendi tures of from $400,000 to $500,000 per annum the Umatilla scheme can be carried out, which, of course, brings It within the realm of practi cability. The John Day scheme, on the other hand. Is not. today, a feas ible or' practical preposition in any sense, and those who are advocnting its consideration at this juncture either do so in complete ignorance of the facts or are wilfully endeavoring to deceive the public. Slieino for tlio Future. "The reclamation service has not overlooked the John Day proposition In its proposed general scheme of de V( lopment of this part of the country. It has fully realized that so expen sive and enormous a project as this cannot be considered today, but that it 15, 20 or 30 years' time conditions may have so changed and land may have so greatly increased in value that it may then appear desirable and practicaolo for adoption, and, more over, at that time it may be possible that funds may be available for its prosecution. The service has, there fore, made provision in its present'' Plans for the possible future utiliza tion of John Day water in the man ner shown on the plan herewith On this plan are shown the location of the reservoir proposed to bo built on the Umatilla river and the lands A Hand Painted China Plate BUY YOUR TIIESEXTS HERE AKD RECEIVE PRESENTS IN RETURN. CALL AND SEE THESE BEAUTIFUL PLATES AND LEARN WHAT A GREAT INDUCEMENT THIS OFFER REALLY IS TO HOLIDAY SHOPPERS . 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Senator Borah will introduce a bill for the govern ment to advance $15,000,000 more to Irrigation projects, in the form of ce tlficates of Indebtedness, like those issued last year. The proposal will be actuated by a desire to provide money for those projects suffering for early completion. He things it will tend to relieve some situations now rather embarrassing, where the work cannot be prosecuted under the. existing conditions. If such a bill passes there would seem to be absolutely no reason why the west extension of the Umatilla project should not have abundant funds for its completion, were It not for protests now coming against the extension, from Stanfield and Pendle ton. In face of this division among the people of that county, the bene fits arising from the additional $15, 000,000 would go for naught. Additional protests have arrived, causing added surprise, and a letter has been written to prominent citi zens of eastern Oregon asking for an ' explanation. An immense amount of work has been expended on the task or getting the intorlor department In a frame of mind to adjust this funds so as to provide for its extension to Umatilla project and it had seemed likely the project would go through. Protests by the Stanfield Commercial club advising tho irrigation of lands under the extension from John Day, and from others who bitterly oppose using the waters of the Umatilla riv et for the additional lands proposed to bo reclaimed, have caused a stir. .lames Johns Heads Protestants. Washington, D. C, Dec. 4. James Johns of Pendleton sends another protest against the extension of the Umatli: i project, saying that 360 wa ters u- Ta will organize formally to oppose the project. It Is becoming npparei.t that the division among the water esers probably will prevent the govern. nent appropriating money for the extension. Up to this time these protests began to come from the Stan field Commercial association, the prospects were bright for getting the money. Similar division among the settlers operated disastrously In tho cases of the Klamath and Malheur projects. A SNAP FOR $2500.00 7 room modern house, stone cellar, barn, wood shed', bath, toilet, shade and fruit trees, 1-2 block ground. ' Call at once as bargains of this character can't last. Must It to appreciate it. MARK MOORHOUSE CO. Phone Main 83. 117 E. Court Street Other Property of Every Description. Money to Loan on City and County Realty, I'll i;s Cl'HED IV 6 TO II DAYS. Your druu'gst will refund money f PAZO OINTMKNT fail- to cure any ease of Kch!ng U'lnd. Weeding or t'rotruding Piles in 6" to 1 4 days. 50c. which may lie watered by It. Immedi ately south of these lands appears the area that can at a future date be wa tered by the John Day. Should WaUT 2.-.0.000 Acre. "The lands under the west evtenslon of the Umatilla project will Include from 50,000 to 60,000 acres. The lands that can bo watered under tho John Day river will include about 200,000 ncres, so that In years to come there will probably be a total area of Irrigated lands between tho Umatilla river and Willow creek of upwards of 250,000 acres. "It will bo seen that tho lands to be watered by the Umatilla river are the k wer lands lying next to the Colum- USED SAGE IEA It Is easier to preserve tho color of tho hair than to restore it, although it is possible to do both. Our grand mothers understood the secret. They made a ".-.age tea," and their dark, glossy hair long after middle lifo was due to this fact. Our mothers have gray hairs before they are fifty, but they are beginning to appreciate the wisdom of our grandmothers In us ing "sago tea" for their hair and are fast following sult. Tho present generation has the ad vantage of the past in that it can get a ready-to-use preparation called Wy eth's Sage and Sulrhur Hair Remedy. A0 a scalp tonic and color restorer this preparation is vastly superior to the ordinary "sage tea" made by our grandmothers. This remedy is sold under guaran tee that the money will be refunded if It fails to do exactly as represent ed. If your hair is losing color or com ing out, start using Wyeth's Sago and Sulphur today, and hoc what a change It will make In a few days' time. This preparation Is offered to the public at fifty cents a bottle, and Is recommended and f-old by special agent, Pendleton Drug Co. EAST END GROCERY Tho place "vvlioro they dress tlio poultry for your table. Are now agents for tlie Celebrated Seal-Slii)t Oysters. You will also find them right there with a complete lino of Groceries and everything in season. Phone Main 536 John Dyer, Prop. KNOWN FOR ITS STRENGTH THE First National Band PENDLETON, OREGON Capital, Surplus and Undi vided Profits, $500,000.00 Resources $2,000,000.00 KNOWN FOR ITS SECURITY