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(.'ROOK (OIWTY JOURNAL
Gl'Y LAPOLLETTE,
Editor and Publisher
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..i M&a..AN prkss ASSOCIATION
i ... ..VH dCHNEELOCH, Bl'ILDER.
in light of recent developments at
Salem and elsewhere, it is timely to
reriew the work of Ralph Sehnee
loch, now president of the Ralph
Schneeloch Company, the leading
bond house of Portland, and at one
time heading the irrigation bond de
partment of Clark Kendall t Com
pany, in so far as such work had to
do with the Ochoco Project here.
No one who has had to do with
Schneeloch will puestion the state
ment that his dealings are open and
fair.
' They may appear to be hard to
those who do not know what his ser
vices are, and where he to make
such charges as he sometimes asks
nd gets for the mere service of
marketing bonds, the charge would
be high, yet the facts are that when
ever he starts to finance a project he
does more than buy the bonds. He
stays with the project until he sees
its successful completion, and in the
ease of the Ochoco project, no man
earned his money more than did
Ralph Schneeloch.
He made it possible to finance the
district at a time when financing
was most difficult, and when any
man of ordinary ability would havs
failed, but not so with Schneeloch.
He is nothing less than a wizard.
More than that, he has never let the
name of Schneeloch become identi
fied with airy project or district i
which he has not believed to he!
sound at heart, and the most remar- i
kable thing about that fact is that
the records show that every district
he has become identified with he;
has forced to make good, not only to '
the bond holders, but to the bond
makers. j
From the best information we j
have been able to gather we believe;
that Schneeloch becoming identified
with a district means that it is fun
damentally sound. If we were to lie
interested in another project, we
would Bubmit the plans. The si'iUv
ti ? entire matter to him, and if he
r lorsed it well and good, it not we
v uld leave it alone, for his record
U such that his Indorsement seerr.a
t spell success.
We believe that we know him, and
win? him we believe him to be
t i...-st word in the niatter of irriga-l
t'.-'ii securities and ail irrigation'
natters in the west, as do many I
c"iier people who are in a position
t know much ahout the facts.
M.F, MARVEL OK IRRIGATION
(Continued from page 1)
i: nation farming took time. Land
t ' to be ditched and cheeked for
h idling the water, large holdings
cat up, new buildings erected, new
fences put up, new roads construct
ed, more farmers brought in. Farm
ers accustomed to dry farming me
thods had to learn new crop meth
ods and how to handle the water.
T'.r- had to elapse to permit the
plating, caring for, and bringing to
productive stage, of perennial
tswi alfalfa, peaches, grapes, ligs
pjunes Jii.i other fruits.
A study of ih? development of the
district is most interesting. ',
la the following pages a brief ac
count is preasented of what has hap
pened in this district as a result of
OlT.Ving water to the soil of the sec
tion, and the unlocking thereby of
great potential agricultural possibil
ities. For the purposes of convenience,
three rather separate periods may be
recognized:
1st) The pre-irigation period.
f-b) The construction period.
i'tjt Tae post irrigation period.
In this discussion the following
yer have been rather arbitrarily
chosen:
(a) For the preirrigation period
vfoi to 1ft (Hi. inclusive.
the years
without water and under conditions
bus productive iLu had b-on 1 1'. ,
case in the r-''- I llot', however,
represent the period of dlui:i;i
icMs which fnally resulted in the;
formation of th d strict. j
tin The ears 1S01 to 19 IS re-;
present the constructive period a'
time of reorganization and r adjust-1
incut, a time of subdivision, of ex
perimenting with new crops, of new j
methods: a time of planting out al
falfa, vines and fruit trees from
which returns could not be expected
prior to the lapse of several years?"
a time of transition from barley,
wheat and other field crops to dairy
ing, hogs, and poultry; a time of
tablishing new markets and indus
tries to properly prepare the farm
products for disposal creameries,
canneries, stock buyers and ware
houses. K) The years 1915 to 1919, in
clusive, have been chosen to repre
sent the post-irrigation period, be
cause enough years are included on
the one hand to insure an idea of
average production after the dis
trict was pretty well established and
on the other, to avoid using the rel
atively high prices of the last year
or two.
In this study, our aim has been to
investigate the state of affairs prior
to the securing of water, and subse
quent to the securing of water, and
to compare this with the final out
come. No special attention hus.
therefore, been paid to the construc
tion period. It may, however, be
pointed out in passing that our stud
ies show a marked improvement in
the affairs of the district from the
time that the first appreciable effects
of the turning on of water were ex
perienced. For instance, we find
that many owners of land in the p re
irrigation periods sold out during
the demand for lands after water be
came available, and have lived In the
towns ever since on the interest of
moneys thus obtained.
The status of defalcation was ma
terially reduced both In numbers
and amounts with the advancement
of plans for Irrigation.
Brief Description of the Pre-Iirljra-tion
Period.
To fully realize what irrigation
has done to the Modesto district, one
should first attempt a mental picture
of conditions prior to the format! in
of the district. Similar conditions
are still to be. found in various Cal
ifornia regions where irrigation wat
er cannot or has not as yet been de
veloped. An extensive strip of country de
voted solely to grain growing pre
sents a rather monotonous succes
sion of treeless and vineless fields,
sometimes undulating although us
ually level, separated at intervals
with barbed wire fences.
Isolated groups of farm buildings
usually consisting of a dwc-llin;;.
extra large barn, a few out build
ings, windmill and tank tower, occur
at intervals of one to two miles ap
art. Situated in treeless stretches,
seldom adorned with any landscape
effects, and often blameless of paint
or repairs, frequently cared for b
a tenant farmer, they are not espec
ially inviting nor homelike. the
holdings of necessity are la.-rn and
social intereoure is somewhat re
stricted. The family keep rather
much to themselves extra help
when it is needed, being recruited
from a class of labor which is best
sntisfied if left to itself. Brown
fields kept bare for one and some
times two summers (to free the land
of weeds and to store the rainfall of
one or two additional summers to
i;isur sufficient moisture when a
grain crop is finally planted, this be
ing the so-called "summer fallow"
method), alternate with the planted
fields. The latter, green in winter
and early spring, golden brown in
early summer, dark and dusty in late
summer, renovated and mellowed by
the fall rains, plowed In November
Mid December for the fallow to fol
low, fanned by the hot dust raising
winds of the dry season, of the fros
ty drafts of the cold period, now ind
then blanketed w-ith thick land fop,
again luxuriating in the sunny,
bright, cheerful days of spring and
early summer, unfold a kaleidoscop
is change of scene as the year rolls
round, some pleasant, some disa
greeable, all after one gets over
the novelty of it rather monoton
ous. fiT Use days before irrigntion was
an accomplished factor, Modesto, the
only sizeable town in the district,
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tTAMDABD OB. COMPY
a tpual town of the grntu
growing country. lis genual
petiratue rejected the declining
cro.spcr.ty of t;u country upon
which a strictlv agricultural town
must rely for its existence - rough,
unsaved streets muddy in winter
and dusy in rummer, its store a
collection of mostly one-story im
pacted rickety frame buildings, its
water supply from private wells. Us
sewerage nil , Its lighting system
nuil oil lamps, its population but a
few hundred people, its resources
two banks with combined weiilth of
about 11.000.000, one school of two
hundred, and fifty pupils, two so-eal-ed
hotels, four churches, three gen
eral and one hardware store, three
blacksmith shops, one flour mill, one
weekly newspaper, two butcher
shops, five grain warehouses, four
livery stables, and sixteen saloons
llrirf lccrllii of the Pool-Irrigation
IVriod.
Farming, it is said, is a "mode of
life". If this Is so. then the real
test of a farming section la to be
found in the home building of Its
people. Applying this test, as a pre
liminary, to the Modesto district,
one soon finds full justification for
all the time, thought, energy, and
money spent in its water develop
ment. For the outstanding feature,
which first strikes the investigator,
is that the district is essentially a
home district. Pretty bungalows
and tidy dwellings, lawns, vine cov
ered porches, roses and old-fashioned
flowers, shade trees, and well
kept grounds the strong testimonials
that a home-loving people are set
tling in the community. This is per
haps the first and outstanding fea
ture. The small size of the holdings
bring the houses rather close togeth
er, and a drive in any direction in
the most fully settled sections un
folds a succession of pretty homes
and a general spirit of contentment.
Modesto has for a slogan, "Water.
Wealth. Health, Contentment." Per
haps these words posted at the de
pot where all comers may read may
have a psychologic effect on the com
munity, but we are inclined to be
lieve that the slogan Is an outcome
of conditions rather than conditions
the result of the neatly turned
phrase.
In a community of varied Inter
ests, the drawing of a mental picture
rests largely with the individual.
Certain features strike one observer
more forcibly than do others; the
next observer has his attention at
tracted by something entirely diffcV-"
'ent. To the one to whom irrigation
is a new thing, the appearance of
the land prepared or being prepared
for irrigation, with the attendant '
canals, ditches, submerged siphons
under the roads, level hr-eks. anil
scraped up borders will make a!
marked impression. The next visi
tor, not used to the wide divergence j
in farming practices, will have his j
attention called by the ever varying !
types o f agriculture rep resented.
Specialized farming vies with diver
sified, intensified "and extensive
That this is so may be better under
stood when one realizes that the dis-i
tr'i t is still far from its maximum S
development, a conservative e s t i-'
mate placing its present status a' I
less than OXFMI U.F of its ultimate
possibilities if present method of or
ganization continues. So one finds
an intermingling of farms and of in
dustries to a major extent of peach,
fig. prune, grape and olive, some oat.
barley and wheat for grain and h;-:y
production, field crops of alfalfa,
Egyptian corn ( non-saccharine sor
ghum l, beans, rice, peas and melon,
dairying to a marked extent, hog
production, commercial poultry and
eggs, honey production, some truck
and a small miscellaneous group.
The kinds, types, and numbers of
farm buildings attract notice. They
are mostly substantial, some per
haps of a temporary nature pending
a period fif greater prosperity
numerous, well-built and homelike
Today it would be hard to find a
more prosperous, bustling, progres
sive town than Modesto. Its popu
lation has increased nearly ten-fold
its streets are paved, its business
blocks two and three stories in their
height, built of durable brick, con
crete and stone, its resources four
grammar schools, a high school with
six hundred pupils, a departmental
school, a modern public library, five
banks that show total combined de
posits of ?n, 131, 244. 00, and whose
total resources are $12. 5 fM, 477.
This probably represents but a part
of the total wealth of the community
as nearness to the banking centers
of San Francisco is bound to exert
its Influence in causing large depos
its to be made in that city. Numer
ous large merchantile and industrial
establishments, garages, small spe
cialties businesses, two daily news
papers, a complete municipal water
system, and full electric light and
power equipment.
Modesto Is essentially a "home"
town. Civic pride Is reflected In its
flowers, its street trees, its p:H-r. its
school system. Home pride shows
in Its neat, well kept, and ofttlmes,
pretentious homes.
To-duy
Constructive work still goes on In
developing the Modesto district. As
the district is soltlrd up and farming
operations increase in Intensity need
is evident for an even greater supply
of water. A shortage whs felt dur
ing the past yeur as u result of three
consecutive years of scanty rainfall
in the valley and light snowfall ill
the mountains, so that the Tuolumne
Itiver, III common with the oilier
streams of the state, hud rather un
usual demands upon It. Hans now
under way provide for a new bond
issue of 12.000.0110 to be used for
the purpose of augmenting tho wat
er supply. If the election carries,
and this seems almost certain, tho
district will voluntarily assume.
bonded Indebtedness of (4, 21. 131
or $52.50 total per acre. (The elec
tion has carried.) To meet the ad
ded charges, certain of the leas ad
i allied portions of the district will
be reorganized, and the existing pro
duction of grain decreased.
Irrigation in the Modesto district
has. therefore, been the agency
which has transformed a vast, rath
er tiresome stretch of grBln fields,
broken at only infrequent Intervals
with scmt-orcastonal roads, u n a
domed farmsteads, and precise fen
ces; a country producing only hav
and grain Into pleasant communities
of homes, trees and green fields, peo
pled with home-building farmers,
devoted to the production of a widu
variety of farm products.
Irrigation lias brought about a
striking contrast In the condition
and appearance of the section. Fig
ures show this rather more pointed
ly than description, and in the fol
lowing pages an attempt Is made to
compare conditions of the pre- with
those of the post-Irrigation periods.
luingr in .Number and Klie of Farm
In the pre-lrrigation period there
were hut 81 farms, averaging in size
about 1000 acres. The same area
now supports 2.025 farms, averag
ing in size about 40 acres. And It
is interesting to note that the dis
trict is far from fully developed. An
estimate of the degree of Intensity
of operations places tho district as
being somewhere between one-third
and one-half developed, while com
mon opinion Is to the effect that
farm specializing In certain lineB, as
fruit poultry, and dairying, and op
erating with family labor, can to ad
vantage be reduced in area from the
present aserage.
MICHEL GROCERY
C
WE specialize in the standard brands
of groceries, the things you need mosl.
Our prices are right. Phone orders will
be given prompt attention. Call 111:
Prineville's only exclusive grocery store.
MS
MICHEL G
tlmnge III Population
Closely correlated with multiply
ing the number of farms because of
the development of water, Is the re
uniting Increase In population. Tim
district is primarily and essentially
agricultural. There lire no Indepen
dent industries of milling, tiiiiiiufuc
itiring. or coiiinicieu. The towns
are entirely dependent on the sur
rounding country, and their prosper
ity is d recllv proportional to (but of
of the district. TIhth U only one
town of real importance the town
of Modesto ulilioiii.lt small settle,
liients are McHitoreil hero mid there
throughout Die district - as Bitlldn,
('Illusion. Iluller's Coiner and Ttto
liimne City. In the pro-Irrigation
period, we find the amnigu farm
fumlly consisted of six persons, ami
the population of the countryside to
be between l.Oim iinil l.ToMI. For
the decade the (own of Modesto av
eraged about 2,200. although to-
I ward the last of the period, because
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j population fell oft somewhat.
I In generul, the total population
has risen steadily ami siibstniitinlly
from a pre-lrrlgntUm total of It.riiH)
until toward the close of the period
wo find a rural population estimated
at 10,000 and the town of Modesto
with a figure of 14.000, inak.iu
total of 24,000. And this. III the
face of an average family now aver
aging but four as against six in pn
Irrlgatlon times. In discussing pop
ulation increases. It Is important to
note that the town of Modesto en
joys certain Industries made possible
only by Irrigation, In that they draw
on the rural section for their raw
materials, the production of which
has been made poslble solely because
water was developed for use In the
growing of basic crops. These In
dustries, to which reference will he
made again, give employment to an
average payroll of 1,230 people, all
of whom make their homes In Mo
desto and materially affect the popu
lation figures of this town.
Chang In IjiikI Value
The effect of Irrigation upon laud
Cornett Stage Co.
Stages leave Prineville and Paulina Daily
except Sunday
Office with Ochoco Creamery
OMPANY
R0CERY CO.
vain. . Is esnei hilly nulntitnillug. la
li.t mo Irrigation period Ilia laud in
the district, not Including buildings
ir other improvements, bud a mar
ket viiluo of l3.4lii.iioo. or arounl
:t0 (Hi per acre. Imrlng tho post
irilimtlon period. Hie average price
for Hie s.iinu land rung" il closo ti
82511.00 per " re '"r I'1" """re dis
trict (not ex' Holing l '.. acres
still unilcvolopcdl, Hi"' values rang
ing from f loo on on lb" one bain
lor lands as not yet ilovelopud, 10
$ sou. no pur m re, and In some In
stances I'Vi-ii inoiu for laniis in iruti
or (uglily develop""! in specialised
lines ..f fanning. This gives a total
Miluatiou li xi liidlng Improvements)
to the district of ISO.iuio.noQ.
( hange In Value of 1'iinu equipment
Naturally the number of farms
has faulted III u substantial Increase
In the value of the equipment and
Improvements. In the pro Irriga
tion decade figures for the more out
standing Items amount to 1967,125.
Fur the post -Irrigation period, the
totals Br $ir..r.72..ir.o.
hungo In 'riMluetlun of Wealth
Since Irrigation water Is ppll4
for the specific purpose of produc
ing crops which, In (urn. are sold at
nrlmiirv tirodurts. or fed and sold as
slock or atock products to Increase
fsrm Income; the effect of the de
veloping water upon the Incomes of
the district is of llrst Importance.
In the pre-lrrigation days (he aver
age annual value of furm product
amounted to about;
Wheat Mm, 000
Hurley . 230.000
Slubblt ;. 11.000
Total H7M00
Hogs and dairy cows kept for family
use, and a few minor products, as
rye. too small In value to Include.
For the post-Irrigation period the
average annual gross value of the
farm products amounted to about
IS.7S5.000, the return being made
up In order of Importance from (1)
dairy products, (2nd) field crops at
beans, rice, hay, Kgyptlan corn, it)
barley, wheat, and oats, (4th) frultt
(Continued on page f)
This was a tu-lod when farming!