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Crook County Journal. COL'XIY OFFICIAL PAPER. THURSDAY. DKO. 50, 1901. Hewitt Brch for Water In the Northwest, The steady increase in the use of irrigation in parts of the West, and the success which has attend ed its practice, has naturally led to a close inspection of large tract of land which are now desert wastes, in the hope that they may also be brought under cultivation. Many thousands of acres of desert land in the arid sections ore remarkably fertile and capable of furnishing homes for large populations which may become centres of thriving in .dustries if only water, their great need and absolute necessity, can le procured. The small annual rainfall and the still more serious lack of rain during the critical crop growing months, have kept these lands a9 poor pastures or even bar ren deserts. Fortunately the arid sections are seamed by numerous loitv, forest (dad and often snow capped mountain ranges from which flow the purest streams. Thus the streams and mere, and the underground or artesian well waters, where they exist, have be' come the privoWl factors on which rest the agricultural development of immense sections of the West; their waters must be brought to the land before it can be produc tive. In view ot these facts the inves tigations of two parties, among others, of the United States Geolo gical Survey, which were engaged in studying the water resources of the Northwest, will be of interest. Prof. Israel C. Russell, who has been working on the great lava covered section of southern Idaho reports the discovery of an artesi an basin over a hundred miles in length, whose western limit though undetermined, lies in the vicinity of Nampa and Caldwell near the Oregon border. The land which can be supplied with water from this basin lies along the Snake River and in Bruneau Valley, a tributary to the Snake on the south. Several flowing wells exist in this locality already and there are indications of artesian water also near Shoshone. In connection with his investigations Prof. Rus sell collected a large amount of in formation relative to the agricul tural and timber resources of the region which are considerable. The other party, under Mr. F. H. Newell, the chief of the Division of Hydrography of the Geological Survey, made an extended recon noissance of northern Oregon with reference to the water supply of that section. They penetrated into the wilderness of central Oregon along and to the head of the Des chutes River and turning to the eastward skirted the northern por tion of the great Harney and Mal heur deserts into which the moun tain ranges to the north send many streams. The party was much Impressed by the opportuni ties of development in central and eastern Oregon. Prepared for tha Vornt A good story is told of a farmer tip in fcherman county who rode in to a town to consult a physician. Having done so he went to have the prescription made up, "How much is the lot?" he asked the "'druggist.. "Well, let me see," was the reply, "there's 80 cents for the meJiceue, 10 for the bottle, and" he htwiiated, uncertain whether he Jiad charged for everything. "Oh, hurry up; said the impatient farm it, "put a price on the cork let tis know the worst." -Clatskanie Chief. llml Klin l Nnlt'iii, The industrial building of the Stato Reform School, about three miles from Salem was destroyed by firo between 1 and 2 o'elock last Wednesday morning. No one was injured. The loss will reach $25, 000; insurance, S000. For a time it seemed as if all the Reform School buildings would be destroy ed. The fire was discovered in the engine room, Superintendent Bickers says he has no idea how the fire started. The engine room is on the first floor of the industrial building, and in the same room as the boiler for the Btcani-heating plant and the dynamo for the elec tric light plant. A night watch man is employed at the building, and the fire was discovered bv him before it had made great headway. With the aid of the fne-fighting apparatus, which was cut off by the fire, no attempt could be made to fight the fire in the industrial building, and it was only by hero ic work that the fire was prevented from spreading in the main build ing. The Salem fire department responded promptly to the call for aid, but the fire was under control before its arrival. There are about 120 boys confined in the institution, and about 12 employes live at the main building. The work of the institution will he seriously ham pered until the damage can be repaired. Hteamer Kuth Hliikn. The 0. R. &. N. river steamer Ruth, Captain Inman, struck a snag in the Willamette, off Corval lis, at 5 o'clock last Tuesday morn ing, and sank within two minutes. A number of passengers were in their berths on board, but all es caped in small boats, with no worse damage than bad fright. The bow of the Ruth is 40 feet from the eat shore, and in six feet of water. The stern is out in the channel, anil is surmerged to the bottom of the cabin windows. In the hull there is a hole, supposed to be 30 feet long and four feet wide. The snug holds the boat fas!, and keeps the stern off the bottom. A stream of water constantly pauses through the hole, up through the cabin and out over the deck on the lower side. Thecargc consisttd of a carload of dried prunes, shipped by Lang & Co., of Portland, and a -carload of oats. The boat cannot be pulled off, but will have to be lifted, and it will be some time before Ate can return to service. Must, if not all of the cargo, which has all been re moved, will be lost. baw Death Near. "It often made my heart ache," writes L. C. Overstreet, of Elgin, Tenn., "to hear my wife cough un til it seemed her weak and sore lungs would collapse. 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