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13 IGATION FUND BE Seven Millions to Be Appor tioned for Federal Recla mation Projects. ENGINEERS TO MEET HERE THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. FRIDAY. JULY 30, 190&. ' ...... r"!' I in - i.tuu j i an .J i i. I if i u , i.i. mm-wmim . i. n mjiiwuni ., , i . m m.m.ij, . ..hwimmju' ...,. .jum.ww mi. im.iiium.su ii M ii.ijit.i.,iiv; awawyww i .. .-.-.. , - ., ,,, . ,,, n,i-.,,.-. ,, ....... w.ri. DIVIDED ! m n tarn -m i p ana w m Balllnger, Returns From Eastern Oregon and Win Confer Next Week WKh Representatives of Sixteen States. Supervising engineers for the six dis tricts, representing- the entire reclama tion field In the United State and in cluding IS states and territories, will con fer with S-cretary of the Interior Ball lnger in this city next Monday. At that time, each engineer will present for the consideration of Secretary Balllnfter the pressing needs of his district for Govern ment assistance during the ensuing year. There will be available for reclamation work about 17.000.000 during the next year and It will devolve on Secretary Balllnger to apportion that fund amonj? the various districts In proportion as the urgent de mands of the different projects require. It i already assured that the request for funds will exceed In the aggregate the amount available so there will have to be a general pruning down of these ap plications. 9?cretary Balllnger returned last night from Eastern Oregon and Idaho, where he has been Inspecting various projects being undertaken by the Government. He was accompanied by A. P. Davis, chief engineer of the reclamation service, who is making a tour of the Pacific Coast States with his chief. Among those vis ited by Secretary Balllnger since he left Portland July 21. were the Umatilla proj ect in Umatilla County, and the Payette and Minidoka projects in Idaho. Secre tary Balllnger also Inspected the proposed project in Malheur County for the recla mation of a large area in that section of the state.. After spending a few hours In Port land. Secretary Balllnger left at midnight for Seattle. He will return to this city for the conference next Monday when he and his associates will be guests at a luncheon at the Commercial Club. Before returning to Washington. Secretary Ball lnger probably will visit the Klamath Falls project some time In August. F. H. Newell, director of the reclama tion service. Is expected to arrive tomor row and will participate In the confer ence Monday as will also D. C. Henny. consulting engineer. The six supervising engineers and the territory they represent. ' who will' meet . with Secretary Balllnger Monday, are: E. G. Hopson. of the Pa cific division, embracing Northern Cali fornia. Oregon, and Nevada; C. H. Swl gart. Washington division, consisting of the State of Washington: F. E. Wey mouth, of the Idaho division, consisting of the State of Idaho; H. N. Savage, of the Northern division, embracing Mon tana. North Dakota and Northern Wyom ing: Li. C. Hill, of the Southern division, embracing Arizona. New Mexico. Texas. Utah and Southern California: and I. W. McConnelr. of the Central division, em bracing Colorado and Nebraska and a portion of Wyoming. The policy of the Government Is averse to installing additional projects until those already started are made self-supporting. It Is for that reason that Consulting En gineer Henny and Supervising Engineer Hopson are hopeful of securing a substan tial appropriation for the support of ex pansion of important projects already launched in this state. "I am making a thorough examination of the various reclamation projects and acquainting myself with the actual con dition of the settlers." said Secretary Balllnger last night. "When I have com pleted my Inspection tour I expect to be In a position intelligently to look after the Interest of all parties concerned In these projects. I am not ready, however, at this time to discuss my observations or what action I shall recommend. I shall obtain further information regard ing the different projects, which are being developed, from the supervising engineers with whom I shall hold a con ference in Portland next Monday. "During the last ten days I have vis ited and inspected four of the principal projects In Oregon and Washington. Ac companied by Engineer Davis. I spent two days looking over the project at Her miston. About the same length of time w-as devoted to an inquiry into the pro posed reclamation of an extensive tract In the vicinity of Vale and Ontario in Malheur County. Entering Idaho. I spent some time investigating the Payette-Boise project at Nampa. as well as the Minidoka praject. "I am acquiring a great deal of valu able Information which I know will be useful to me in treating with tne recla mation work which Is of such vast Im portance to the West." i V )L JKLVN- tm S.J r JH ': ff?3 f I SATURDAY FARE $1.50 FOR THE ROUND TRIP and a free dinner thrown in. You see some of the finest country in Oregon the finest farm in the Northwest the town of Broadmead now being built you have a delightful excursion, and it you reserve a ten-acre tract or larm land, you get a town lot absolutely xKhiiu. Jan you beat tnat? This great, big,- personally conducted excursion is creating more talk and excitement than anything that has hap pened in the real estate world in months. Don't fail to get aboard the train at A. M. sharp, tomorrow morning at the Jefferson-street depot. This is a SPECIAL TRAES". We'll have big Broadmead banners on the coaches you can't miss it. The Amity Brass Band will make exclusive music for those taking the trip. . , GET YOUR TICKET AT OUR OFFICES or of our representatives at the depot. Above all, COME listen to the music enjoy a beautiful trip eat as much as you please at the open-air bar becue, and if rou wish, select your tract of land and get your town lot free. Isn't that an attractive programme ? 1AXD SERVICE IS IMPROVED Dennett Is Satisfied by Trip of In spection in West. "An inspection of the operations of the various field divisions of the Gen eral Land Office on the Pacific Coast is the object of my visit to the West at this time." said Fred Dennett. Com missioner of the General Office, who ar rived in Portland yesterday and is reg istered at the Oregon. Commissioner Dennett expects to leave tonight for San Francisco where he will continue his inspection. He goes thence to Salt Lake and other points farther east, expecting to reach Washington about August 40. Through the expenditure of the spe cial apropriatlon of $1,000,000 pro vided by Congress a year ago. Mr. Den nett reports it has been possible greatly to relieve the congested condition he found in the Land Office when he as sumed charge. "This money was made available for the employment of additional special agents In conducting further land In vestigations and I am entirely satis fled with the results already accom plished." he said. "There is no ques tion but that the work of tAese special agents is servlngr materially to im prove the public land service." Mr. Dennett reports that the deter mination of the General Land Office, announced several months ago to dis pose of all Government timber lands on an appraised valuation, has not proved a complete success in Its operation. The Commissioner is not enthusiastic over the "timber and stone land" law, which, he believes, has outlived its use fulness. It was under the regulations Imposed in thls statute, that whole sale land-frauds have been committed in several of the Pacific Coast States. Mr. Dennett Is hopeful that some sta tute will be evolved as a substitute by which the Interests of the Govern ment and the aettlers will be conserved, without imposing any unnecessary bur den on either and at the same time Colombia Board of Trade Building, 84 Fourth Street Trust Comnpaoy POINTERS Special train leaves at 8 A. M. tomorrow, Saturday, Jefferson-street depot. Half-fare rate for the round trip $1.50. Buy ticket at our offices, or of repre sentatives at the train. Brass band aboard. A good time. Big free barbecue. Town lot ,free if you select a ten-acre tract. This offer, however, does not last after tomorrow, our opening day. uauiaw render frauds acquisition of impossible. in the settlement and public land practically WEATHER PERKS UP A BIT Mercury Reaches 80 Degrees Sixth Time Daring July. for Well, the weather as anybody with half an eye must have observed came out of its flighty mood yesterday and looked pleasant long enough to give us a touch of real Summer warmth. During the lat ter part of the afternoon the sun actually worked up such a ' perspiration that the mercury, which had been kept jammed down rather low during most of this most extraordinary of July months, picked up spirit enough to crawl up to 80 degrees. It stayed there two hours, at 4 o'clock and 5 o'clock P. M. That temperature it has reached only Ave times before since the first of the month. Anyway, the change was most appreci ated . about town. Those who haven't already bundled their families away to the seashore began to talk of doing so after the- aesured themselves the ther mometer was not trying to palm off any kind of a nature fake on them. Here are the hourly temperatures for the day as they were registered at the office of District Weather Forecaster Beals: Detr. 78 78 78 PARK SITES VIEWED Mayor and Party Make Trip Through Sellwood District. Hour. S A. T A. 8 A 9 A. 10 A. 11 A M . M. . M.. M. . M. . M.. Pes". 1 Hour. .. SS 1 P. 60 2 P. 62' 3 P. 12 Noon 63 es T4 4 P. 5 P. 6 P. M... M... M. . . M... M... M... Miss Shaw and White Ribbons. PORTLAND. July 28. (To the Editor.) tvm rou allow me to say. in reply to a report to the contrary In The Oreronian, that Anna Shaw did not wear the "white ribbon" at the late National Woman Suffrage conven tion in Seattle, a alleged, nor did she advo cate prohibition, as our entire Oregon delega tion can testify. I have heard Miss Shaw say. when impor tuned to wear the white ribbon at suffrage meeting, that a man had a perfect right to wear a red ihlrt In a held where there was an angry bull, but he .was "a fool to do It." She was often heard to say. while In Oregon, when noting the fact that the aaloon and anti saloon leagues were working hand In glove to defeat the equal suffrage amendment, "we are between the devil and the deep sea: and I can't tell which le the devil and which Is the deep sea!" A small matter, perhapa. and, as our X&tionaJ president la not here to apeak for herself, it I Just as well to report her correctly. ABIGAIL, SCOTT DUNIWAT. Milwaukle Push Club. MILWAl'KIE. July 29. Special. At the meeting of citizens of Milwaukle in the City Hall last night a live Push Club was organized. C. C. Chapman, of Port land, and others were present and deliv ered stirring talks, setting forth the bene fits to be derived from concerted effort of the people. Captain J. P. Shaw was elected temporary president, and W. P. Edwards, temporary secretary. G. Kelly. tV. F. Lehman. J. R. Kelso, A. L. Bolstad and Dr. Townley were appointed a com mittee to draft a constitution, and report at a meeting to be held August 3. INSPECT SEVERAL TRACTS Prices Asked Declared Too High in Most Instances, Says Mr. Simon. Harrlman May Donate 160 Acres to City. Mayor Simon, Park Commissioners Wetherbee, Lang, Lewis and Clark, Park Superintendent Mische and President Josselyn, of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, yesterday morning the. property of the streetcar company ly ing east of the Oaks," said the Mayor. "Aside from a pretty little knoll lying at the extreme north end of the ground al ready taken over by the city, I do not see that there is any need of more land there. This knoll Is valued at about 5400, and Is but a little more than one half 'acre. I regard this as too high, and am not In favor of buying it at that price, although I am Telylng upon the Judgment of the members of the Board in ail of these matters; they will consider the various propositions in due time and make their decision." From the property Just east of the Oaks, the Mayor and party went to view other smaller tracts, sought for parks by residents of the Seventh ward. One of these is a plot of eight acres, at Bast Thirtieth and Holgate streets. Another is located near the Jesuit school, on East Forty-first street, north of the Powell Valley road, and a third, containing 20 acres, lies opposite the Clinton-Kelly school. It is now covered with garden truck. Superintendent Mische is enthu slastlc over this property and is eager to secure it for a park. The Mayor, how ever, is opposed to purchasing any more large tracts, unless there Is some special Inducement, or some particular feature which makes of the property more than an ordinary attraction. He favors small breathing-spots, and wants to build the Terwilllger boulevard on the West Side, and improve the parks already bought Did Von Start Yesterday to read the want pages of The Orego nian? If not. you are only one day late, so begin now and keep posted on the thousand and one things that are going on around you every day. - There are many things on fhese pages to Interest you. so you should take ad vantage of them. Rooaevelt and Taft era the only Presi dents elected from the same towns in which they were born. 'MR. DOOLEY'S" RICH HUMOR Fresh Comment on the News From Washington tn The Sunday Oregonian. Here are a few extracts from "Mr. Dooley's" letter, touch ing National questions, to be published in The Sunday Orego nian. AVanst more th' j'ints iv fi-nance.are at th' helium iv th' ship iv state where they belong, instead iv chasin' around in a cab f 'r bondsmen. Before permittin' th' sinit to convene this mornin', Sinitor Aldhrich passed on at laste a hundhred applications f 'r office, received th ' diplomatic corps and issued a number iv important ordhers to th' navy. On his desk was a bunch iv f 'rget-me-nots bearin' a card marked "W, H. T." which th' Sinitor said came fr'm an un known admirer. Sinitor Aldhrich is wan iv th' most popular rulers th' re public has iver had. He says nawthin'. After revisin' th' prayer, he seats himsilf among th' others an' a sthranger wud hardly be able to pick him out. Th' ixicutive mansion no longer resounds with shrieks iv pain. No longer is th' passer by startled be cries iv: "Ye will, will ye" an' "Let me up, me back. is broke." Willum doesn't veto a bill befure it is passed. Tiddy used to veto it while the Sinitor was thinkin' whether he ought to intrajooce it or not. made a trip through Sellwood and adja cent districts on the East Side, in the in terests of the park system. Several pro posed sites were viewed, after which the party returned to the city, and will later consider what, if any. action is to be taken. It is doubtful if any one of the pieces of property seen will be pur chased by the city, according to a state ment from the Mayor yesterday after noon. Other members of the Board were noncommittal. "I am personally not in favor of buying before expending any more funds for new pieces. Mayor Simon and members of the Park Board are encouraged be'eause of the at titude of General Manager O'Brien, of the Harriman system, who has inti mated that his company may donate a handsome park site to the city from prop erty owned by it on the hill in South Portland. The company has 160 acres there, all beautiful ground. The horses of the Soudan, wear socks camel's hair. of WM T If Isn'f a VIJCK ' i I flIP Did you ever see a 5c cigar ad that talked? They - mS a dori't. talked about p II THESITTETIHIAH SOGA I II WITH THE HAVANA TASTE J j I HI is worth describing and stands it No hot air smoke but a carefully JO f II blended aroma an imported Sumatra wrapper and a well seasoned. i$S M 1 rvll binder "with a lonS leaf filler free from fire checking stems. A jj M- narrow Prcfo wide 'sales. . jj ft .An imported shape that adds to the quality. A ripe jKL ' J I smoke in a green box. Buy a box and keep them by. J MASON, EHRMAN & CO., Distributors, Portland, Seattle, Spokane. .