Crook' County Journal.
C0UN1Y OFFICIAL PAPER.
TUURS1UY. ''AJi. 2, W02.
With something over seven mil
lion acnes irrigated in the United
States, which include a number of
large irrigation systems and dams,
all built by private capital, BaJ'8
the National Iloiiieniaker. the ques
tion frequently arises why cannot
an additional siven million' acres
or an additional twenty million
crcs of arid land be trans-formed
by private capital into productive
irrigated farms? In other words,
why should it be necessary to a?k
any government assistance for this
development of the West? It is
Admitted that irrigation pays; that
larger, better; and surer crops can
he raised under it than by depend
ence upon the elements, and that
irrigated communities are, as a
rule, very prosperous ones. Nor
can it be said that any project is
really too large or requires too
much capital for private enterprise
to undertake, provided it offers an
Assured p:ofit or a certain income
on the investment. Why, then,
will not the arid States have a
graiual and healthy development
through the continued establish
jnent of irrigation systems and the
building of irrigation dams by pri
vate capital seeking investment?
The answer is, that no great irri
gation system which has been con
structed as an investment for pri
vate capital, and for the purpose
of selling water to farmers in order
to earn a permanent interest on
that capital, has been successful or
profitable as an investment. This
has been the history in this coun
try and in India, where, years ago,
the government assumed control of
oil large irrigation works.
Co-operative companies, where
the shares in the water company
are held by the owners of the irri
gated lands, and the water system
is operated as an adjunct to the
cultivation of those lands, the
ownership of both land and water
being thus united, have been al
most universally successful and
profitable to the owners.
But the great irrigation works
necessary to be built to utilize the
waters that now run to waste in
the floods or in the great rivers of
the West, or to reclaim the arid
public lands, requires too large an
investment, and mist be built on
too large a scale for the co-operative
enterprise of the land-owners
or settlers themselves. Hence,
they must be built by the govern
ment, if at all.
Bl'MPTEK VAM.EY HAIIiKOAU,
An English professor claims that
he can prove that in the future
ages the human race will be legless.
However, the outlook is not one of
unmitigated gloom. The chorus
girl is long-lived and a supply may
be carried over. Indianapolis
Times.
"Why do birds migrate?" asks a
writer for one of the illustrated
magazines. Paradventure they are
trying to get away from the small
boy with the rubber shooter.
A monument has been erected in
Kansas in honor of Zebulon Pike,
the man who discovered Pike's
Peak. It will hardly serve to cast
the latter in the shade.
NiHtcment that It Will Be Extended
to Burnt! Next Yer.
A dispatch to tho Telegram from
Baker City says: There is to be a
new railroad built in Eastern Ore
gon next year, and it is sure to
reach out into a part of the country
that is much in need of a railroad.
This new road is to bean extension
of the Sumpter Valley Railroad
fioni Whitney in a southwesterly
direction through Granteounty in
to Harney, and will probably ter
minate at Burns, the county seat
of Harney county. A man who is
well acquainted with David Eccles,
the president of the Sumpter Valley
road, is authority for the statement
and lie quotes Mr. Eccles as his
authority. Not long ago they were
discussing the possibilities of East
ern Oregon, and Mr. Eccles an
nounced his determination to ex
tend the Sumpter Valley road in
that direction. j
There is no railroad in the United
States that, pays so well for the
amount invested as the Sumpter
Valley, and this proposed extension
will increase the earning capacity
vastly out of proportion to the
amount of money that it will be
necessary to expend to build tho
road. The new road will open up
a vast amount of timber, mineral
and agricultural land, and promote
the development of the country in
a manner that will not be possible
by any other means.
The mention' of this proposed
extension revives the story circu
lated last summer to the effect that
the Sumpter Valley road will be
extended to Burns, where it would
connect with a narrow-gauge road
coming up from Nevada, where Mr.
Eccles and associates already have
a railroad which is slowly working
its way up toward Oregon.
Mr. Eccks and his friends are in
close touch with the powers that be
in the Harriman syndicate, and it
is well known that he would not
meet with any opposition from that
source if he should undertake to
build an extension to his road in
that part of the state. The Sump
ter Valley road is one of the best
feeders that the Harriman roads
have, and Mr. Eccles and bis asso
ciates have no ambition to become
transcontinental railway magnates,
but are desirous of opening up the
country in order that they may
take advantage of its natural re
sources.
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Railway Stations on December 23,
24th., 25., . 30th. and 31., 1901
and Jan. 1st. 1902; good returning
until Jan. 3rd. 1902 inclusive, at
one and One-Third, one-way fares
for the round trip.
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