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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1911)
.10 TOWNS HAVE ROSEATE FUTURE SHETLAND PONY 3-WEEKS-OLD COLT BRAND NEW CART FULL SET OF HARNESS ; Addison Bennett Dsclares Laidiaw and Sisters Are Bound to Prosper. I 'CROOK ROADS ARE MARVELS ' faml-t. Victims of Irrigation ProJ ! That I'alN, to Thrive fa der w Enterprise Klne Farms Dot Section. CLXVE FALLS, Or.. May IS. Ptarf Correjponder.ee.) This irf.tr will cover iry trip from Pnd to this plf. ' . LaMIaw and Sisters, a Journey of about '4S rr.lU.i. 17 of which were west of the Ierhuts River. Lr!rf I-nd the rusd lea Is nearly 'due north oa the est side of the river, and throueh a rocky and broken coun try. This ".and Is all undar the ditches .of the oritral Orecon Irrigation Com- 'piny, but It doe t't mm possible to estimate S per cent of It aa suscep tio to cultivation, owinar to the lull and ruckt Trtere are Juniper and pines on a:! han-!s. and one larae ditch l taken out a few miles below Hend f..r tfie Irrlaitlna of lan'is nesr Red mond. This is called the S alley rtltch. and the lanls thereunder were smonc the Brst sere(tilor.s of Carer lands In thla section. The project was a sort of nenthborljood enterprise, elht promoters each taklnar 10 acres, and the tlitch was constructed by them for "their own lands. It was from tfca first a well -manaK'd company, and has be"i 'successful In every way. Contrary to iurh enterprises In areneraL they had ; a ditch carrylnsr more water than need ed, and It now waters fully 1000 acres. ; About six miles north of Bend the 'road crosses tha Deschutes, the bride; heme; a (rood one. Then down tha east m.le about two jnl!es la tha lltti town of Laidiaw. Town Charted Incorrectly. If yoo look on the map for Laidiaw you will find It located east of tha river, 'on the Hill road. Just how tha map- makers made such an error. I do not know. But Laidiaw Is assuredly on the west bank of the river, and Is ona "of the prettiest townsltea In Oresron. "The town Is on a bench about I0 feet -above the river. This bench, as level 'as a floor, runs back nearly a mile to the feothllls. and up and down tha .river perhaps two miles. - Laid. aw Is only a hamlet because of a "busted" Irrigation enterprise. A number of years aa-o W. A. Lald'aw oraan!ed the Columbia Southern Irri gation Company, and under the Carey law 2A.O0O acres were set aside for .watering by Its ditch. The waters were to be taken from Tumalo Creek, a stream which flows from tha east .and enter the Deschutes about threa miles south of Laidiaw. It was pur posed to obtain the water for there lanrfs by erravlty flow from this stream, and the main canal and several miles of lateral were constructed, and some Kflflo or Tooo acres were actually water ed. That was ail that rould be water ed without a storajre reservoir. Just how many extension of time that com pany had. Just how many people were forced to see their hopes of prosperity dwindle and die. Just how the entire affair was manaaed and mismanaged, the court records and the files of the State Land Board will dlvu!r. Million Nmlcrt for Project. '. Recentlv the company was reorsran- lied a the Oreaon. Washlneton A I laho Finance Company, with Alma T. Kais as president and Otis R WriKht as secretary-treasurer. Whether this Is another nam for Mr. Laidiaw and his company the people do not know. It will take nearlv It POO.OOo to put In a reservoir of ifrriclent capacity to wat-r the lands and clean up the old wreck. There Is a splendid and feas IMe alte. coverlnc 17 acres, a few miles to the southeast of Laidiaw. The dam would be only 50 feet hich and less than :n feet loner. A new company would find at least '00 acrea already watered with water rates ac cruing to tha old company. S. It Is an Involved tensile, and It may take several years to work It out. At Laid aw TV. r. lurnea. the barker, called up or.e of his near nelahhors. a 'ranchman. J"hn Conch, and he 1-rouc'it In his machine and drove us for 2 or 3 miles around the town. I can tel! you t.-.er Is a splendid coun try thereabouts. Already there are many fine places, many prosperoua peo ple. But to brlre; the country up to w-at It should be will be Impossible li-.lrss the ditch company Is reorgan ised and capital obtained to complete tha lrrtaatlon system, as the amount of !nd r.ow t.ed up. exclusive of that watered, amounts to over :3.000 acrea Orrat Palrying Predicted. The altitude of Laidiaw Is : feet. Kit Just at the town the exposure Is such that all sorts f vegetables and Verries can be arrows, and many of the hardy fruits, and on the bench lands to trre west, northwest an 1 southwest t-e soil is well adapted to cereals and alfalfa, and In Unr there will be a prosperous dairy Industry hereabouts. There Is a !re amount of fine bulid-Insr-stcne near the town, a red ma terial railed tufa. The vault at the t ar. a t built of this matenat- It Is 'ery eey tJ work when taken from tk.e quarry, a saw or ax belnc fio tools .used to dress it Hut It soon hardens, and Is a ba itlful bulldlnsr material. From 11.1. aw to S.'tft the distance J miles, anj tirouh as fine a our.try aa can be found In the Interior. .Tie road le r'.ni;.t. I ran find no iTds to explain the vaet dlfrerence rverween the reads west of the rUer and thoee east of It. for the difference In faor cf those west la almost beond Ve.ttf. From Laidiaw to platers, and Troro the latter place to Cllne Kails. There ar mny miles of Mahway equal the paved streets of I'ortiand. And these roads never itet muddy enough to Interfere wlt" travel. And et the sur munJIn; soli Is of the very best to "be found la this country. 3300 Miles of KoaJ Tlx-re. i Speavticc of roads reminds ma that )here are over nil'rs of them to be anaintalr.ed by the authorities of Crook Veunty. It ts ene of the best Indorse ments of an efficient county arovern-l-it.il I ever saw to find so many miles f excellent roads aa there ax In this rouniy. T ie drive to F iters from Laidiaw erava ma the srreateet shock of my en tire trip, for I supposed Sisters was a amiet close up under the Cascades. In a section of scant population, at an altitude far above the lull railway towns. But the altitude Is around 3M feet below Redmond. feet below Lend, tha elevation being 774) feet, t nrt i i:j cuuj Ptr fir TI7I?XT WIT TTT7T ATTIVA nnrl hfr running little colt PRINCESS OF SUNNYBROOK are the talk of the town among horse lovers. They will be on exhibition l daily m front ot the THIRD-AND-MORRISON-STREET STORE OF THE BROWNSVILLE WOOLEN, MILLS QUEEN VILHELM1NA Has Captured Two Blue Ribbons from the Hunt Club First Prize, Two-Years, at the Rose Show Silver Cup at the Horse Show This Outfit to be Given Away on August 15, 1911 ?. . .- i .-: .r a - r .if A - . 1 n TTii i mrum . v... iff. m 4' 7 stf"T ItlBllarf 11 "rV -'----sat QUEEN WILHELMINA, PRINCESS OF SUNNYBROOK AND THEIR CART PRINCESS OF SUNNYBROOK Hasn't captured any prizes yet but has the same opportunity as her mother Give Her Time Full Details of Contest at Either of Our Stores, Third and Stark or a; Third and Morrison Sts. THE HOME OF GOOD CLOTHING FOR MEN AND BOYS M EN'S SUIT $15.00 OUR LEADERS SS.oo 320.00 i i Tur Tiiv-17 36.50 $25.00 ALL THE TIME 37.OO BOY'S SU ID BROWNSVILLE WOOLEN MILL STORE THIRD AND MORRISON THIRD AND STARK about the same as Madras," a I recol lect tha Madras altitude to do. Tha country seen from me roaa is. as a rule, at least 9S per cent of It be ing susceptible to Irrigation and cul tivation. There are some loose stones, but no rocks' ledares. no hills and wind rows of lava rook, as there are east of the river. And always through the plnea and Junipers, tha former being, as a rule, fine for lumbering. Indeed, there are two large mills close to the road, both running and turning out fine lumber. Fine Farms Numerous. There are many fine farms and much land under Irrigation. After leaving the lands under the old Columbia South ern you reach those under ditches taken out of Squaw Creek, which flowa along Just to the south of Plsters. And many fielda are being cleared, showing that a lot of new settlers are coming in. Sisters Is but a small place, not owing to tha country, but mostly to tha road lands a difficulty now removed, for these lands are now on the market at reasonable prices, and many of the new places mentioned atova are on recently purchased road lands. But every other section adjacent to Elsters has been held by the road company, tha old Willam ette Valley grant, and as they could not be bought tha town haa only had half of Its territory opened. What this has meant to irrigation eaterprlees can be Imagined. The town Itself Is right la the plnea. and as far aa the eye can reach In any direction are more pines, with cleared lands Intervening, with fine farms, aside from the road lands, every odd section for a strip f six miles In width, reaching clear across tha county ar.d then some! Scenic Trip Afforded. Just keep a lookout for this section. Perhaps you would like to see It. Then watt until about tha first of July and go down to Lebanon and drive over the Kintiara I'ass. a distance of 84 miles; or go to Albany and drive over the McKenila Pass. 110 mllea lther of which la aa fine a acenlc trip aa can be had In Oregon. The town Is on the survey of the Corvallls A Eastern Railway, now com pleted from the Willamette Valley up tha mountain as far as Detroit, about 65 miles from tha Slaters. Work waa going forward on thla road when the panic seized Mr. Ilarrtman. Grading waa being done near Sisters, aa well aa over the pass. When will work be resumed? It surely will ba In tha near future. Why la It that Mr. HIU, of tha Great Northern, always vlslta Sisters when he comes to Crook County, and drives out, 20 mllea, to tha foot of tha moun tains? Just watch for the construction work to begin anew on this road and then follow the rush to Sisters and the sur rounding country. From Slatere to Cllne Falla tha road diverges from tha Laidiaw highway a couple of miles to tha east and then winds through a forest of pines and Junipers, but not as good aa the coun try along the Laidiaw road, at least after getting a few miles from Sisters. For a number of mllea tbera is no et tlement whatever, but much of this land waa strangled by the Columbia Southern fiasco. And. by tha way. I would be afraid to write what they say about Mr. Laidiaw In these parts. It may be that ha will read this. If so. let him get tha Idea out of his head that the people hero do not wish to see him. for they do. Indeed, they are very anxious to get a glimpse of him, and they will accord him a rousing -welcome" to these parts! They wlli not again hang him in effigy not a bit of It! Many Newcomers Settle. About eight mllea east of Sisters tha road plunges down Into Deep Canyon, a gorge about 400 feet deep, but sloping up gradually on tha east side. And hero I found quite a little colony of horresteadera. One of them. R. M. Hansen. Informed ma that the entire THIRTY M0TJNTED HERALDS. PRECEDED BY BUGLER, TOUR T0WXS TO ADVERTISE JUNE EXHIBIT. . M 'T -ii township has been taken by home steaders during tha past few months. Some of the land Is rough and rocky, but the location is by no means bad. and the newcomera are making good lm provementa. From Deep Canyon to thla place, about nine miles, the country Is very rough, with no settlement until you get within a couple ot miles of the river. Then there are two rather nice places and a large tract cleared and under irrigation Just north of the town. Cline Falls is a place of a dozen houses, a store, hotel and feed barn. It Ilea Just on the west bank of the Deschutes and has suffered from the same cause aa Laidiaw. The river here haa a fall ot about 60 feet within a distance ot 600 feet and one sheer fall of 46 feet- The falls are now being used to pump water for about S60 acres of adjacent land, thus utilizing about 660 horsepower, but 20,000 could be de veloped at a very small expense. Pastor Invites Dallas Veterans. DALLAS. Or- May 25. (Special.) In response to an Invitation from Rev. Edgar Miles, pastor of the Presbyterian Church here, the veterans of the Civil War and Spanish-American War will attend Memorial services in that church tha evening of May 23. Klamath Bonds Vp Again. KLAMATH FALLS, Or, May Z3. (Special.) A special election has been called for Klamath Falla to vote on the Issuance of bonds for $30,000 for the purchase of a site and the construc tion of a City Hall. Bonds for J2500 to purchase sites for the dumping of the city's garbage are also to be voted on. The City Hall and garbage sites were voted at a sneclal election last l XlOSi'S BOOSTERS OF STOCK SHOW. rxiO.V, Or, M.iy 25. (Special) A delegation of 30 citizens of Trlon. on horseback, this week completed a novel advertising cam paicn for the Vnion S:ock Show, to take place June 1. 2 and I. The trip covered the towns of Cove, Imbler. Elgin. Summervllle. Island Cty La Grande and H.n Lake, and intervening territory, and occu pied two day a A four-horse team of Shetland ponies hitched to a light aagnn accompanied the rarty. The advertisers were: George W. Benson. Will Vogel. Robert Wlthycombe, George A. Sci blrd Harry Coorer. W. B. Gassett. Ralph Hutchinson. John Spain. Wtll'ls I'hllllp-s. G. W. Delay. C B. Oral. J. H. Chase, W. J. Townley, J A. Bcnscn, Guy Church. Herbert Hall. B. J. F.rsland H. j' Lucas. Will McCurrey. M. S. .Levy. J. W. Spencer. Harvey Duke, I-ester Hempe- Frank Bidwcll. H. E. Porrrgaux. William Wilson. Frank Wlttman. Stanley Shaw. Bcnse Cochran. Harry Wolfe and Leonard ,nVne ride covered practically 100 mllea and took from Monday morning until Tuesday evening. The party was preceded by a buglnr on a charger, who heralded the approach of the riders at every stop ping place. Every woman's heart responds to the charm and sweetness of a baby's voice,, because nature intended her for motherhood. But even the loving nature of a mother shrinks from the ordeal because such a time is regarded as a period of suffering and danger. v omen who use Mother's Friend are saved much discomfort and sufferintt, and their systems, being thoroughly prepared by this great remedy, are in a healthy condition to meet the time with the least possible suffering and danger. 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