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IGATION FUND
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Seven Millions to Be Appor
tioned for Federal Recla
mation Projects.
ENGINEERS TO MEET HERE
THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. FRIDAY. JULY 30, 190&.
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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."
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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
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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.
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