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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1911)
. , ' TITE lOItyiXG OHEGOXIAy. TTTESDAT; MAY 23. 1911. - BEND IS THRIFTY, . AMBITIOUS CITY TWO VIEWS TAKEN AT BEND. The Kbhler & Chase Piano House :A?.e 375 WASHINGTON STREET 4 V Addison Bennett Cites Order for 100,000 Pounds of Sugar as Example. 7i. : .-i-rr- J Lwfw- ' i m ' f s - , ... . f4 t STORE STOCKS IMMENSE IKS 0 ! 1 i , t. - . - ' S .-v .- ...... Work oa ew Town of Descbales, Formerly Wcsk-y, Ujht Mile orth. I I'ropiTKitlne; SO MlJrs of IHicltrs Projected. BT APDISON BENNETT. BENT). Or.. Mar SI- (Staff (Torres pondtnc. ) The trip of 11 mtlee from rrtnevllle to Bend Is not a very Inter eetlns; oa. tho road lying mostly throoKb a broken country, and almost all of tho way through tho Junipers. From this must b excluded a portion along tha Powell Butte district, -vnlch I bar heretofore described, wblcb Ilea to tho northwest of tha rrlnevllle Bend road. But tha broken country mentioned Is all In the district to bo lr-. rivaled, and It Is said that tho surrey shows Tl per cent of It to be tmitabla from one of tho ditches now In opera tion, or from the ono later to bo taken out at Benham Falls, nlna miles above here. My trip, however, was broken by meeting, at little town Just start Ins;. John M. Hall, of Portland, who Is Interested In this new venture, tha place to bo called reschutes. berotofira spoken of as Wesley. This placa la oa tho Hill road about eight miles north of Bend, and Mr. Hall and his asso ciates are "dotns; things" In a big way. several fine bulidlnrs now being com pleted or In course of construction. All of tho land around Deschutes Is tin der tbo ditch, and lots of It Is mighty good. It looks Ilka there ought to crow up a nice little place at Deschutes, and the promoters will surely maka soma money. Ditch Fifty Mljca Ixn. In speaking; of tha ditches hero abouts I hava heretofore mentioned tha Deschutes Irrigation eY Power Company as tha owners, tho company being gen erally spoken of as tbo ft L P. Co. But that company Is no more, having been reorganised as tha Central Ore iron Irrigation Company. F. & Stan ley, of Portland, being tho president. Beforo speaking of tha town of Bend, or the surrounding country. I will say a word about what thla company and Its predecessors bavo accomplished. Tha headquarters are at this placa. and I rot my Informatlpn from tha main office. Their mala ditch Is taken out of the Deschutea about two and one half miles south of Bend. A few miles to the north ft divides Into what may bo called two main canals, tho Pilot Butte and the Central Oregon. I spoke heretofore of the former, which runs along to the west of Powell Butte, and Is soma miles long. Tho other leads to tho west and waters tho lands oast of tho Desrhatea. much of It con tiguous to tho Hill road. In all. the mala canals and laterals now aggregate about 10 miles. A future canal wilt bo taken out to water the higher bench lands, the Intake to be at Henhara Falls, and when the en tire project Is completed there will be In excess of 10 mile of ditches, flumes and canals. This Is a Carey project. Generally people of the Weal, know what that means without any explanation. But perhaps some who read this article do not understand, and for their bene fit It may be said that under the Carey Act the stata may select and lands and have them reclaimed, the Government practically donating the land. Then the stata makes a contract with a com pany or Individual for the building of the ditches, allowing tha builders to make "a reasonable profit." acclamation Is Men. The lands may then be sold to set tlers under certain restrictions, and the root of reclamation becomes a lien on the land. After the lands are under cultivation, or a certain per cent of each tract, proof may be made by ap pearing with two witnesses, and a deed cornea from the state. S cents an acre being the state's share 'of the proceeds. I'nder the segregation I ans talking about there are Sll.vO acres. and something like 100.000 acres of this are under water. The price now Is $ an sere for the water and t!.0 an acre for the land, but In Its earlier stages the work was undertaken at something like lie an acre. The price was too low. wblcb caused the appointment of a receiver for the D. I. P. Co, and the formation of the present company, the state allowing the Increase In price. This entire tract la divided Into 40 acr tracts, but 10 acre may be taken by one person. A married woman can take It as well aa ber husband, and In several Instances families have thus acquired 120 acre. But the most of It Is taken In ID-acre tracts. The pay ment at time of taking up tha land la one-fourth down, the balance payable In four equal annual Installments, with Interest at six per cent. Proof under certain conditions can be made in seven days after entry, seven-eighths of the tract to be under cultivation for such proof. With one-eighth under cultiva tion proof can be made In days, with one-quarter under cultivation in 1 days. But there are certain conditions aa to fencing and building. For In stance, to make a seven-day proof there must be a bouse on the tract with a floor area of at least 10 square feet. SI Settler. Buy Lands. The annual tax for water la rebated for the first year and Is thereafter 10 rents an acre per annum. There are no filing fees. I Oder the present ditches there have been 190 sales made, mostly to new comers In tbe state. The company has on Its psyroll at the present time 391 men. and work on hew canals la coins; on at a rapid rate. The town of Betod was surprise to me. I had often beard of tbe place a the home of A. M. Drake, the founder of Bend, and his "cabin'- here. And I was not surprised to find it one of the finest places I have ever seen. It Is truly a "cabin. built of pine logs, but It Is palatial la Its appointments and furnishings. I think there Is no more unique residence In the country than the Drake "cabin." Its location Is on the east bank of the Deschutes. Just at the head of the rapids, or falls, and the view from tbe lawn Is one of remark able beauty. Mr. Drake has sold all of his holdings and no longer lives here, of which I am very sorry, for I hsd counted on having a pleasant visit with him. But 1 was not prepared to see so n.K., - . t H .nr.a as there are ber. Many of them would adorn the I beat residence section of Portland. The aesthetic and artistic taste or Mr. and Mrs. Drake has borne fruit, for It has started Band off as a beauty spot. The tow-salt, laid off by Mr. Drake, la oa high but level ground, surrounded 5is.an.ai a. ri i i i a ..ay IM hi a a i as. a i n i i i n l r-T T :-::T.T..r'TrrJT nrr. r - - - --.:; t.4fV.Jf. ... - : -. - - - r f-tr: .15 t , . -aX : ' .ivl ABOVE. TVPICAL BESIDEXC15 BEI.OW, FREIGHT AXD EXPRESS. BKRVICl. OUTFIT ARRIVING 1M TOWN. by pines, with the grand Deschutes as Its western border. The streets are wide and well cared for. the business k. -.. I e K.nv . n .1 film paring favorably with any of the pros perous June uim vi uwr " the stocks of goods carried are very. very large. In fact, one has to come to the Interior, miles ana mini trim the railways, to find such Immense stocks xor me customers iw uuu. No freight can be brought In during the Winter months, and tbe merchants are compelled to buy their year's sup plies In the Spring and early Summer. If the roads remain muddy until lata Spring then there are only some three or four months for getting goods In at n ressonable price. To show what sales these stores make I will give the case of an order received from "BUI" Brown by W. F. King, of Prtnevllle. Thla order was written on a piece of straw paper, and came to 18500. There Is more than one store here at Bend, as there are at other places In the Interior, that could in stantly fill such an order without dif ficulty. In the Brown order was tbe Item of 100.000 pounds of granulated sugar. How many stores are there along the railways In the -JVIllamette Valley that could fill such an order T $30,000 Flant Bui It. Mr. Drake built a dam across the river at the rapids west of town and put In an electric plant, the Improve ments all told costing nbout MOO. The work tras done in a permanent and skilful manner. There Is much nient in the construction work, and thl. cost him IIS barrel. And the skilled labVw. very high. . WTta of tbe best that money could buy. One unit only of the plant I. In operation, developing 100 horsepower but the dsm and flumes were built to use the full capacity of the river, about 17S0 borUower Another on., or Jwo wlU be added as soon aa the material can be brought In by rail. , Mr. Drake owned not only the town sit bat some too acres adjacent nd about 1S0 acre, of yellow plne limber land Just across the river to the vrest. He sold his holdings to company cleTth. Bend Company, the toUowlng belng the stockholders, the Broo ks. BcanTon Lumber Company of Mlnne atoli. Christian Muallsr 'n. pany of Davenport. Iowa: D. Realty Company of Dayton. Ohio, and J M Lawrence, of Bend. The price pd Mr. Draks wss In excess of ,300.- Of the firms above mentioned, the two former own .bout 10.000 "J" timber lands adjacent to the Drake . , Th.M lands, with other lands Idy dded. b.v. about six billion feet of lumber, all of which will be milled at Bend. Flooring Mill Begua. The power now developed s so far only being used for lighting the town and pumping water for the .But a large nounng " - erected, much of tne iur the ground, and power will be fur . . . .... -r.. there la more than a nope, almost a c.n.lnty. of a woolen mill and scouring piani "-'" .1 " . w. -n tha cltv and the company promoting the J1" beB zuixr tnioiwa .. -- . . in tha builntai la toinpoewi v w and men of lsj-ge wealth, the wrporn- tive name being tne -" Mills Company. -When In operation they expect to sve people on th. payroll. The city furntshee the site, rebate the taxes to the amount of 121.000. and the power company gives It greatly reduced rat for the Initial stages of the company's operations. Then the lumber companies men tioned, or perhapa I had better say the Bend Company, expect to erect two modern sawmills, each with a capacity of SSO.OOO feet for a ten-hour run. Ane power! With the Benham Fall above, the falls here and the rapids two miles down the river, where there Is a descent of over 100 feet In less than a mile, there can be developed at the doors of Bend over 210.000 horse power! What this meana to any com munity must be left to the mathe matics of the reader. Just how many people there are in Bend I cannot say. I think tbey claim around six or seven hundred, but the place looks larger than that, and It la growing very rapidly, no vacant housea being available. Tbe railway will be hsre when? Perhapa by September 1. maybe not before the first of November. The Braami - end of the road, at Crooked River, and the only thing now delaying Is the construction of the bridge over that river, the steel for which Is now oom Ing on the ground. This great bridge I have mentioned before, so it Is not worth while more than to say that It will be one of the notable structures of tbe country. And Bend will likely remain the southern terminus of the road for some time. Perhapa the next construc tion work will be on the line from here through the Harney country. No outsider knows, and perhaps Mr. Bill himself has not determined. Hut the Harney country will get the most of Its freight and all of tta mall from here in the very near future. A good road has been laid out and par tially constructed as far as Burns, about 110 miles to the east, and as this road baa no hills worth mention ing, the freight will come here In place of going to Vale and Prairie City, as It does now. The mall and express now come from Shanlko, 0 miles to the north, but this will be changed when the new contract Is l-.-t. July l, can ing for carrying It from Opal City. the present end of the road at Crooked River. One of the landmarks of Crook County is Pilot Butte, which lies about a mile to the east of Bend. Thla csn be seen for many miles. Just to the west of the town, or rather In the mountain range to the west, are the Three bisters, beautiful now-capped mountains, in full view from Bend, As to tbe country around Burn I cannot say very muoh, for I have not seen the larger portion of it. To the west there Is no farm land, to the east It Is broken, to the north the same. But much of this la In the Irrigated section all of It. In fact. I am told there Is a fine country to the south east. O. C Henkle. an old friend of mine, a former merchant of Irrlgon. Is here In the locating business. He tells me that he has located 1SS homestead' era In the latter section elnce last Oc tober. and he Is locating some new comer almost every day. "Ote" says about (0 per cent of those located are now on the land, and that the soil there Is very fine, and water easy to get. with plenty of fuel adjacent. . And the Irrigation company has sold 111 tracts since November laet, most of the buyers being now on their claims. So It will be eeen there are a good many settlers coming in. for. In addition to these, there are a still larg er number located by others, the woods being full of locators. Most of the entries are on the 110-acre homesteads. I think Bend has a great future. Perhapa not aa an agricultural section. or rather aa a country of intensive and diversified farming. But there will be I immense quantities of wheat and bar' ley raised hereabouts, and a large amount or airaira. As there la a good range country adjacent, there will be many cattle fed and shipped from here. But the water power and the lumber Industries ought to build up a large manufacturing city here, and I expect to see Bend one of the big cities of the interior. The people are. as a rule, verv nros. perous. like all of the Inhabitants of the Interior, and the Incoming settlers are or the right sort, thrifty and in dustrious, most of them pretty well fixed financially. From here I go to Laid law and then to Redmond, the latter place being i mues to tne north. SEATTLE "COP" SEIZED Slaa Thought to Be Anti-Wsppen-atelu Witness Talien at Juneau. JUNEAU, Alaska. May Si. F. W. Miles, a former Seattle policeman, who Is said to be an Important witness for the prosecution In the cases .gainst ex Chief of Police Wappenstetn. of Seattle. Indicted on four counts for alleged ac ceptance of bribes, was taken from the steamship Jefferson on her arrival from Seattle yesterdsy by a Deputy United States Marshal who had a fugi tive warrant for the arrest of Miles. The ex-pollceman spent Sunday In the Federal Jail, but was released to day on ball. MJlea was on his way to Dawson. ft sSummli Town and Ifs Different The collar on the Summit Town and Country Shirt is a distinctive feature as it is the only upright soft collar that is attached to a 6oft shirt. . This makes it the ideal Summer Shirt combin ing the comfort of a soft collar with the neat appear ance of a laundered one. Summit Shirts cost no more than other shirts of the same materials and are also made in popular coat style. To be obtained in all suitable fabrics at all shops that sell shirts Guiterman Bros., Maker Saint Paul, Minn. "iaii , j, I,-, mi is in ir " isjistTt'l iiii 'i ; --? - S 'rjiij.---.',1-' Tffa Bl . , ,& . i jilJL LagS mii ! t'i mi 1 1 1 il fn 'imi,i r:v in. a eg o pjif) 375 f7f77CZ -niiis-iT.;! rnMTTrrf. f "Jtu ' .VYasn- f 4y ington I J r Street jl K-h ftll tifev :$$m W&''m mmn Xml- DURING THEIR SEMI-ANNUAL CLEARANCE PIANO SALE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9:30 O'CLOCK Investigate Today's Specials, Sure Piano Purchasers! A Moment if You Please! Twice a year about' this time we hold our mammoth clearance sale of our piano stock. In the course of a year's business we accumulate a' great many pianos that have become shopworn, others have been rented for a short period of time, others have been returned from being used in concert work. Our late models 'are coming in rapidly, as we order by the carload lot, and in fact eight cars of pianos are standing on the track waiting to be unloaded and delivered at this store. In addition to this we have received, six carloads already, which are unboxed and ready for inspection at our warerooms. To make a long- story short, our floors are simply jammed and crammed with pianos. We will we must we have to unload at once. Tues day, May 23, you can take your pick from such well-known makes as Steinway, Knabe, Kimball, Fischer, Mason & Hamlin, Hazelton, Weser, Gabler, at prices ranging from $59.00 up, and on terms that vary from $1.25 to $2.00 per week, i . .' " A word as to the used pianos. These instruments, we want it distinctly understood, have been thoroughly overhauled, renovated and repaired and have been put in first-class playing condition by our expert voicers and repairers. If you want a bargain in a piano that is dependable, come in and let us see what we can do for you on one of these. - . EVERY PIANO FULLY GUARANTEED. STOOL AND ONE YEAR'S TUNING FREE PLAYER-PIANOS $249 CONVENIENT TERMS ARRANGED INVESTIGATE! CONSIDER! . COMPARE! Make Your Dollar Do Triple Duty EC O H LER-.&;.CHA TV TOTJ CAOT CAM.. WBrTIC. FUAOi SHIPPED EVERYWHERE. " Kara ul Every Oae ef "the-Above Bamralas. la r aael Used Piaaoa Are Fnllr M arra.tr. la Ezrelleat PlarlaK Coadltloa. Rallread Fare Refaade, Freight Prepaid em All Owt-af-Tawa Parehaaes. J , 375 Washington St, at West Park Established 61 Years Open Evenings Till 9:30 'TV H NEW STYLES -5 ; NEW ' SHAPES : This Brewer :. Is tifoe"- Best $3.00 Haft.ina. tt World SOLD BY" S Tin 0 alnimg Morrison sl-Fouri :. 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Prices -$900 and up 10 per cent cash, 2 per cent a month 10 per cent discount to builders. - See MEAD & MURPHY, Selling. Agents, 522 Corbett Building, and let them explain their plan to assist home builders. . , - Phones Main 1503, A 1515. . J. H. DELAHUNTY, Agent at Tract Phone East 989. ITT7! IDP.O