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.
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