VALLEY
RIVER
ROGUE
Fruit Lands, Alfalfa and Glover Lands, Stock Farms, Grape Vineyards
Ideal Poultry Section, Truck Farming, Gold and Copper Mining, Lumbering
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Offers the Best Opportunities for People of Moderate MeansThe Land
Values Are Not Inflated; Plenty of Low Priced Land Still to Be Had
Equal to the Best When Put in Cultivation
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Opening for First-class Restaurant, Modern Hotel, Brick and Tile Factory, Produce
and Commission House, Fish Market, Rooming Houses and Flats, Building Association,
Gas Plant and Many Other Opportunities for Safe Investment of Capital
WRITE FOR FULL PARTICULARS TO
Secretary Grants Pass Commercial Club, Grants Pass, Or.
Beferenr to the report of the For-
ttr of the rnlted (Mates will disclose
that mora than one-half of the area of
Klamath County la covered by
rhantable llmwr. PP""1"1
0ft.0A4.00a feet, thla eoiumuiH -n..
probth" tha largest wmpirt body or
oft ptne timber In tha United States,
x .ri.. slants hara already been
established In and tributary to tna
Klamath Haaln for tha conversion of
this Umber Into lumbar and wood prod
uct. Among theae aro tha Innes
Claraa Mill tha California Krult Pack
ers" Association. Lonm I-ahe Lumbar
Company. "avlrtge Brothers" Lumbar
Company. Meadow 1.ake Lumber Com
pany. Acaley Brothers' and tloeller
Hon. at Klamath Kails. Tha Weyer
b sense r Timber Company In Ursa
holdings of greet value- on tha Jenny
Creek plateau and elsewhere through
out tha county and haa willlo established
on Ita Klamath Lake Railroad. Weed
lumber Company with an Immense
modern plant at Weed. CaL. haa -tensive
timber holdings In tha aouthern
portion of tha basin as well aa at other
point adjacent to transportation line
In Oregon. There are number of
smaller mllla
. Transportation furnishes an index of
development and where only a few
j,,r, aSo tha only power-propelled
craft on tha Klamath waters was a
bars rigged with a rruda stern wheel
propalled by a threenlng machine en
gine, there are now a large number of
j.awer-pronelled craft on tha rivers and
lakes. The most of these are on I"pper
Klamath Lake, where the rapidly grow
ing commerce Is due to the develop
ment of tha adjacent timber and varied
Industries springing up by reason of
railroad building.
There eems to have been a touch of
tha Irony of fata fn the clrcumstanca
that caused tha building of the Oregon
California, now Southern Pacific sys
tem, over the rugged Siskiyou Moun
tains and through the various obstruct
ing and difficult regions extending be
tween tha Sacramento and Willamette
Valleys, when tha route where tha
Klamath-Natron cutoff Is now being
constructed offered no serious physical
difficulties, and will within a short
time afford a new through Una with
maximum grades of 1 per cant and con
siderably shorter mileage. During tha
past year, since construction work hsa
been vigorously prosecuted to completa
tha unfinished portions of this new
road, rapid progresa has been made, and
when completed It will ba of the most
substantial character.
Official announcement haa been made
br Julius Kruttschnltt. director of
maintenance and operation of the Hsr
rlmaa system, that the Klamath Falls
Natron Una will ba pushed to comple
tion speedily and that the contractors
will finish the portions now building
by July I. 111. This would seem to
Indicate the establishment of through
train service on tha new train Una be
tween Portland and California, through
Klamath County, probably within the
present year.
Tha Modoc Northern, another of tha
lUrrtman system lines. Is now located
between Klamath Falls and Alturas. the
last named point being In California,
the northern terminus of the Nevada-California-Oregon
Railroad. Tha right-of-way
has been acquired through tha
Main Klamath Valley through Merrill,
where atatlon grounds have also been
secured, and there will also be an In
termediate station half way between
Klamath Kalis and Merrill. Construc
tion of this road Is understood to ba a
part of the Southern Pacific programme
for tha present year, and It Is also be
lieved to ba the ultimata purpose to
extend an arm of thla Una southward
through tha low pass of tha Pitt River
Into the Sacramento Valley.
Moat Important of new transportation
developments of the past year to Klam
ath County Is the advent or tha Oregon
Trunk Une In Its building procrea
southward from the Columbia River.
Louts W. II HI j president of the Great
Northern Railway, made an extended
trip of Investigation throughout tha
great territory lylnsr east of the Cascsrie
Mountains to acquaint himself with tho
country, meet the people and presum
ably scouting somewhat as to tha ulti
mate determination of tha routes to ba
adopted for further building. This trlj
embraced territory that gave him a com
prehensive knoaledge of Crook. Orant.
llarnev. Malheur. Lake and Klam.ith
count lea.
i Surveys of Ihe Oregon Trunk hsva
been carried through the northern por
tion of Klamath County by a route al
most paralleling that of the rival sys
tem line already building, and have
reached Upper Klamsth I.ake by a sur
vey down Williamson Hlver Canyon.
Harvey a below the northern end of t'pper
Klamath l-ake have been made Into tha
great timber holdings of the AVeyer
liaeueer and other companies toward
Medford by a branch line that will di
vert from the route near the upper end
of 1'pper Klamath l-ake. Tha route Into
Klamath Falls, or beyond, haa not been
definitely located, so far as tha public
la advised.
The Khtmath Irrigation project under
construction bv the United Stales Rec
lamation Service has brought to tha
Klamath farmers th certainty of results
and Intensive farming Is resulting. At
tha present time water la distributed to
about 35.000 acres of rich valley lands.
When completed the total area under
Irrigation will approximate 300.000 acres.
From Its Inception tha Klamath project
KI.AM AT1I COIXTV.
Location South Central Ore
gon, on California boundary.
Area J.35.30 acres.
Population 8564.
has been regarded by engineers as one
of the most Interesting and comprehen
sive and In every way worthy of tha
various enterprises undertaken by tho
Reclamation Service. One of the great
features of this enterprise Is the recla
mation of the. bed of Tula Lake for
which the chief source of water supply
Is Lost River. With construction of a
diversion canal along the course of an
ancient river bed the waters of Lost
River wilt be turned into the flow of
the Klamath and borne to the sea. The
building of this drain will be completed
during the present year the contract
having been awarded. The total cost of
the Klamath project will approximate
about $5,000,000. There will be expended
during the present year about 31. 000.003
according to the estimates made publlo
at this time.
The Klamath Is essentially a bi-state
project and when entirely finished will
comprise about an equal area in each
atate. The unconstructed portions which
will make of this one of the largest,
and In a productive sense, among the
most Imporant of Irrigated districts In
the United Ststes. are areas almost
equally divided between Oregon and Cal
ifornia. Within Klamath County wlH be
added approxlmslely 71.500 acres and
Just across the line In California will bo
an area under water that will probably
total about 100.000 acres. Thus It will
be seen that Including about 35,000 acres
here under Irrigation In Klamath Coun
ty there will also be lOO.OuOacres south
of the state line.
Embracing the Klamath Indian Reser
vation and the various districts where
private enterprise win bring large tracts
under Irrigation there will bo added to
the areas adapted to Intensive farming
about 164.000 at-rea entirely apart from
the Government project.
Probably the best evidence of what a
farmer may hope to do on a tract of
Klamath County land may be gained
from the experience of Individuals lo
cated on farms and small tracts.
Fred Nitschclm, a farmer who re
moved from Clark County. Washington,
to Klamath County two years ago. pur
chased a tract of ten acres. He en
gaged in gardening a,nd converted heavy
and Into a truck, patch. During the
season of 1909 he marketed products to
the value of about $1000. In 1910 Ills
receipts were In excess of $:0H).
Another example of the truck farmer
Is F. C. Markwardt, who came from
Portland two years ago and has been
gardening on a five-acre tract. For the
season of 1910 his prodticta were sold
for a little more than $1600.
Hurrcll Short, who handles a large
acreage and combines both dry and Ir
rigation farming, realized $54 an sere
for the first cutting of hay off his Irri
gated farm for the past season. His
hay field Is seeded with a combination
of timothy and alfalfa, and this crop was
sold -at $12 a ton.
N. B. Merrill, on a portion of whose
well-appointed home farm stands the
thriving young City of Merrill. Is a typ
Icsl demonstration of how perseverance
wins. Not many years ago lf. Mer
rill bought the land entirely on time
and In the struggle before irrigation
was developed was inclined to doubt
whether he could ever pay up. I'nder
the attractive combination of mountain -water
placed on the fertile aoll he la
one of the wealthy citizens of Southern
Oregon.
In 1900, Fred Melhase. then a small
stockman with a ranch In Wood River
Valley, near Fort Klamath, bought 400
acres of land on Lost River, located In
what Is now the heart of Klamathi
project, paying $1100 for It. Mr. Mel
haxe had this land cleared and put into
crop and built ditches to obtain a sup
ply of Irrigation water from the small
Ankeny Canal. In 1905 he sold the
land for $30 an acre to Robert Casey,
who assumed a heavy Indebtedness.
After reaping profitable crops he sold
the farm to W. It. C. Brown, a Portland
man, who paid $50 an acre. Mr. Brown
sold It the past year for $70 an acre
and the present owner would probably
not consider $100 an acre.
Carefully compitad data, gathered
last year by the Klamath Chamber of
Commerce, demonstrate that Klamath
irrigated lands will pay six per cent
net on a valuation of $200 an acre.
Still the actual selling value of de
veloped irrigated lands in the Klamath
Valley at the present time will not
average to exceed $76 an acre. Unde
veloped land that will finally be
brought under Irrigation but for which
water Is not now available, probably
does not at the present time exceed an
average value of $30 an acre.
Dry land wIU and does produce an
average return at per cent Interest
that would net the owner that amount
above all expenses on the Investment
of $85 an acre according to the com
pilations of the authority quoted above,
yet it Is actually selling for from $10
to $26 an acre.
The Klamath Indian Reservation,
four townships of which are In Lak
County and the remainder in Klamath,
embraces more than 1800 square miles
of country lying on the Upper Klamath
Lake and Its tributaries, and is a di
versified area, which aside from Its ex
tensive areas of fine agricultural lands
and -several hundred square miles of
excellent soft pine timber, embraces
the finest grazing area on the Paclflo
Coast.
The land bordering the lakes and
rivers la .either farming or meadow
land and much of It has been allotted
to Indians, of whom there are more
than 1000 on the reservation, most of
them well advanced In civilization.
There Is now a bill pending In Con
gress to open this splendid territory to
settlement. If the measure should be
come a law at the present session the
700.000 or 800,000 acres of tribal lands
not covered by Indian allottments
would be opened under the methods
presented by the measure, and the
whole would become a taxable area of
the county and state, and its splendid
resources of timber, water power, rich
meadow lands and farms would rapidly
develop under white domination.
A system of irrigation and drainage
was- initiated on the reservation sev
eral years ago. which lias only been
partially carried out under the meaner
appropriations provided for the work.
This will when completed cover areas
approximately as" follows: Klamath
Marsh Drainage, 60,000 acres: Slcan Ca
nal. :o,000; Modoc Tolnt, 10,000; other
areas. 10.000.
Dating from completion of tho rail
road. Klamath Falls, the county seat
of Klamath County and principal com
mercial center of South Central Oregon,
has steadily advanced as trade center
of the great territory to the east, and
Is assuming considerable importance
as a distributing- center for tho Jobber
and wholesaler.
Population, estimated upon the school
census and city directory, places the to.
tal number of persons now living with
in the city limits at about 5000. The
enumeration of the census-taker will
probably show considerably less than
tho number last Sprlna. As a matter of
fact, the increase since that time has
been remarkably rapid.
In the business district were erected
during the past year the best business
structures that adorn the city. Of
these the largest structure was the
three-story brick of the Odd Fellows'
Hall Association at Fifth and Main
streets, now practically complete. Ad
joining on the west is the Wlllits block.
Two blocks of the monolithic type of
construction have been erected by II.
M. Bristol.
Tn the eastern portion of the city, an-
jacent to the Southern Pacific line, have
been erected numerous warehouses and
industrial plants, including the mill of
the SavMge Brothers Lumber Company,
and distributing plant of the Standard
Oil Company.
Public school buildings of Klamath
are a testimonial to the progressive
Ideas of citizens. The public school
facilities were augmented during 1910
by erection of another handsome build
ing equal in capacity to the first, and
thoroughly modern. This structure
cost approximately $30,(100.
Central "Po
Oregon
In the Center of the Famous Rogue River Valley
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TnE richest Apple and Tear section in the world. Alfalfa, Stock, Timber and
Mining are other important resources. Central' Point is located on the main
line of theSouthem Pacific Eailroad 325 miles south of Portland and 447 miles
north of San Francisco, and is the shipping center of a large agricultural and fruit
section, has good business district with brick, cement and concrete buildings. It s a
i
Prosperous Little City of 1400 People
HAS a 620,000 modern brick school building, three church buildings, five church
societies, a Young Men's Christian Association with a membership of 200,
an 68,000 concrete building under construction, silver cornet band, a live Com
mercial Club with well-appointed clubrooms, -$25,000 municipal water System,
Cement Walks, etc.
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Increase of 125 Per Cent in One Year
WHILE Central Point has doubled in population in three years, the increase in
building operations has been much more rapid, in fact, since January 1,
'1910, the increase in building has amounted to 6150,600 or about 125 per cent over
that of the previous year. Further particulars regarding Central Point may be
obtained by addressing the Secretary of the Central Point Commercial Club.