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THE MORNING- OREGOXIAS TUESDAY, JANUARY T, 1918. SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON'S FARM PRODUCTION BIG Gains in Livestock, Lumber and Minerals ire SSotable Ureat Advance Is Made on Irrigation Projects i ? a a - - . ui';..u .-Bene?, Or- TT UIMATH FALLS. Or, Dc. 11 K(3pclL) WMU th dammnda m5 upon K:mIh County dur I nir th pail )rar bv bn th rrnlflt In Its hutory. tb popl h responded most heroically and onelflihIy. Early In tha yr actual construction work en th lln of th Oregon. California Katm Railroad n begun at Klm th Tails only after th city bad voted nd marketed a $300. COO bond iasu for that purpose: had obtained for th lln th right-of-way from this city to Bonram Rlter. some 49 miles east: and fead subscribed a fund of for th purpose of purchasing terminal sues for th new railroad here. It must be remembered that this lln when completed will be Important to Klamath Falls and Klamath County, not Ion because It I another and a new lln to enter this locality, bat also be caus It will draw th remote section f th county closer together, and open p rich new districts that are now al most wholly unsettled. It will pass through th fertile Tonna Valley, for th Irrigation of which plans now are actually being mad. It also will tra erse th Jprsgu River Valley, which contains treat areas of soma of th beat bay lands lr. Southern Oregon. I will bring closer to th farmers In these rural settlements th Important mar kets of th large cities. Later In th year all Interest cen tered In th great world war. and sine then Klamath County has been bend Ins eery effort to "do her bit toward winning that war. Thus far. nearly (4 of Klamath's most promising; boys kav volunteered for servlc In soma branch of th fighting- force of this country, and mora are leaving; for th front every week. In addition to th volunteers. 10 drafted men hav keen called out of a, total registration her f i::. Th past year baa been on of th noet successful years for th farmers ad ranchers under th Government Ir rigation project In tb history of th county. There are approximately !. i acres under th Government ditch nd about S0OO more are covered by privet projects now In operation. Th average yield this year for th Irri gated sections of th county was In th neighborhood of li an acre, or a total of ll.:3.01. Then. loo. the livestock exports from Klamath County this yetr hav been enormous, th value of th beef, mut ton and wool aent out being I l.ioo.ono. Klamata County also has made avail able for os great quantities of her I.e.0O.Oo feet cf standing timber through th efforts of 14 saw mills and fiv box factories located within her boundaries. The output of these mills and factories waa :a.000.00tf feet of lumber and box materials during th year, o.r sufficient to constitute a tram of J cars every work day In the year. Th total value of this product of the forests was about ItS.OOO.OOO. of which ll.Seo.600 waa paid to the workmen en itssed In th various milts and fac tories ber. However. Klamath Is still looking forward to greater things. With the completion of the new 2trahorn Uns et railroad there will be made ac cessible for milling great quantities of timber, necessitating more mills snd f It r ',d-r-f iti'.f minim . . .V. j 53 - -Xieiw.,- .!!. "5 i. , r . . . " . .' . ' - ' - .e.-K. t'lll III . - x. x v ' g Fy--y?Sr - ZT v - ""sssaaaBBasaaeMasssse v..--- . :7TTll - Srr YhmZ Grrss ,Lfi XlamcrLh Count v factories, soma of which already ar promised and being; planned. Then, also great My Increased acreages" of farm lands are being; put under water and reclaimed from swamp. Through the Klamath Drainage District, th Willow Creek. Whit Lak and Big fprlngs Ir rigation projects a total of S.7S0 acres will be added by next Spring to Klam ath County'a Irrigated areas. DESCHUTES MAKES EXCELLENT RECORD Ymaseat raty la Scat Rallies XaMy a Ilea's Ssppert Crep Held la lilg B' END. Or, Dec 11. (Special.) Al though Deschutes Is th youngest county In th stat and In Its growth baa bardly had time to create any sur plus of either men or money. It has rallied with the rest of Oregon and the country to help In th war against au tocracy. Lacking th comparative fig ores by which to show the county's exact place In any state tabulation It s yet possible to assert thst no section has mad any better showing; In Its response to th Nations Deeds. Soon after war was declared the young men began to leave for th re rutting offices, nearly 300 in all hav ng gone Into some branch of th serv ice. For some reason the Navy has had especial appeal to the boys from his Inland plateau, nearly half of those oing from here choosing sea to land uty. No credit on the draft allot ments being allowed for Navy enlist ments th county draft quota waa set t 3 snd the county now has Its youths t Camp Lewis, onaLonn Island, with he engineer regiment In France, with he Foreatry regimevnts at Washington, n aviation schools, the medlcsl corps nd every branch of the Naval service. Two of the lone three Central Oregon young men who came successfully through the latest Presidio training camp were from Bend. Financially th county la at Its be ginnings. Only recently has It begun to show the results of the payrolls of th two big Bend sawmills and fac tories but it equaled its Red Cross quota of fIZ.Ono. oversubscribed Its Y. 1 xvx.j. 2 i " A r " - is. .a. - ' . A . - ' ': . . . J.. h-i- -e- 4c vtr . iv jNJ-; ..a--. - If. C. A. quota by one-third, giving 14000 when only 13000 waa called for and on the second liberty bond drive ex ceeded its minimum allotment by near ly 140.000. The total subscription to th liberty loans was $17,000. other features of war service In which county residents are active are the Red Cross, the Bend chapter maintaining headquarters where women meet dally to carry on the work, and an unorgan ised book collecting service which has sent hundreds of books and magazines to the training camps. It Is because of the payrolls of the Bend mills that most of what has been done has been made possible. The lum ber companies besides have gone far toward helping their employes, espe cially in the purchase of liberty bonds, and over one-third of the Uend sub scription to the second loan came from the mills sad their employes. The mills also are dolnir their share hrough the products they turn out. Tralnlnads of shell canes have cone from Bend to munition factories, while for several months past at loa.t SO per cent of th product of the mills has been for Government work, available. 1 However. It Is known that in the past Bummer more land was un der cultivation In Deschutes County than ever before. An unusual drouth limited the dry farm production of the county but on the irrigated lands every farmer did a little more than ever be fore. Even the funds appropriated by the County Court for fairs went to war Hervlce, the court limiting Its use to prizes that would stimulate quantltiy crop production. Deschutes is "doing her bit." $1,000,000 IS GIVEN BY JACKSON COUNTY (earrons and Patriotic Spirit Bhowa by Residents Mining Is Stimulated. MEDFORD, Or.. Dec. 31. (Special.) Since the beginning of the war Jackson County has contributed nearly $1,000,000 in rash to aid in the prosecu tion of tho war and lias sent 325 men to the Army and Navy. To the first liberty loan Jackson Figures of crop production are notlCoiinty contributed $283,450 and to the second liberty loan $611,550, or a total of .901,000. In the Red Cross drive 142,2S was collected; the library fund for the soldiers netted $553; the Red Cross Christmas fund reached $700; two r . M. C. A. campaigns raised $6300, and the recreation fund total was $1000. This makes a grand total of $952, 381, raised in the last six months, or an average of $38 for every man, woman and child In the county. Every demand upon the county has been met, every quota- requested has been reached, and in the second liberty loan the minimum quota was oversubscribed by 83 per cent, and the Red Cross quota in Medford was mora than doubled. Jackson County has given as gen erously of Its men as of its money. There were 1415 registrations under the selective conscription act. The first quota of the county was placed at 147, but at that time 287 young men already had Joined the colors, so Jackson was exempted from the first Iraft. And If the same quota is demanded for the second draft Jackson County again will be exempted, for to date 325 men have enlisted, which would place the county well above the 294 of soldiers required. Most of these men went out with the two National Guard Coast Artillery companies from Medford and Ashland, a totaj of approximately 225 men. More than 25 men have Joined the aviation service; there are several who won of ficers' commissions at the first officers' training camp; five more men aie at the second officers' training camp, and two men have seen active service in France, A striking feature of the war spirit in Jackson County has been the loyal and untiring efforts of the women. While their energies have been directed mainly through the Red Cross, many women have taken the places of men In orchard work and farming. When two local bakers went to the front their places were taken by girls. But in the Red Cross women's as sistance has been felt most strongly. In the last six months a total of 20, 666 pieces have been sent by the local Red Cross. Home idea of the work in volved may be gleaned from the fact that 1965 pairs of pajamas have been sent, 595 sheets, 5272 guaze compresses and 1742 muslin bandages. . There also were 485 Christmas boxes collected, wrapped and forwarded to the Ameri can soldiers In France, representing a total outlay of nearly $1000. Thlsl Indomitable spirit of the local women is picturesquely portrayed by Miss Dorothy Conner, daughter of Mrs. Charles Conner, of Jacksonville. Miss Conner had a miraculous escape from ueath when en route to a hospital in I' ranee on the ill-fated and now his toric Lusltanla. Nothing daunted by this experience, however, she served several months abroad, returned to Medford. where she took a leading part in Red Cross work, and a few months after the declaration of war sailed again for Europe, where she Is now in hospital service on the western front. Medfjrd has done a great deal for the war and the war has done a great deal for Medford. The war, for ex ample, started up the Blue Ledge mine after that large deposit of copper had lain Idle for nearly a decade. The war started a lumber mill In Medford, when year after year lumber had been shipped into the county in rplte of the fact that it is In the center of one of the richest timber districts in the stato The war doubled Jackson County's ex ports of cattle, hogs, hay and horses. In 1916 not a ton of copper ore was shipped out of the valley. To dae 47 carloads of copper, nearly 1,000,000 pounds, have been shipped from Med ford. It was hauled to the city by truck from the Blue Ledge camp, 70 miles away. Before the war MedfcrJ. was largely In the Import business ex cept for fruit. What the war has done is shown graphically by the following official report of the Southern Pacifio for the past six months: Carloads shipped out, antimony 1, barley 6, sugar beets 34. cider 1, cattle 44, canned goods 4. copper 47, hay 9, hogs 8, horses 5, lumber 20, box shooks 3, sheep 4, fruit 642. The war has Involved great sacri fices: It has also involved material benefits; but perhaps its greatest con tribution has been a revival of Med ford's old-time fighting spirit. Med ford and Jackson County are deter mined to do their bit in this war, and a little more, and they also are deter mined that after the war this same spirit will be malntanled toward ob taining the material prosperity to which this region, by reason of Us manifold resources, is entitled. LOGANBERRY JUICE INDUSTRY GROWS cate that J 9 1 7. as with other crops I measures that will handicap the value throughout the country, was not alto-'of the berry and its lucious products. gether an Ideal loganberry year from th standpoint of production, although It was a year which developed the Beverage Helping to Pat Oregon on Commercial Map More Factories to Be Built This Year ALEir. Or. Dec. 51. (Special.) The I relary of the Salem Fruit Union. Indl- I merit will hesitate about.taking any ionrrj. wnil a California berry, originated In that stat om thirty-odd years ago by Judge loxan. Is now th pride of th WIKara tie Valley and lis borne I In the Salem dutrtct. About 1500 acres of these eerrlca. or w per rent of the crop in th state, produced a crop In 117 vnii soma of this acrease Is In Polk county, dirrc-ity acroaa the river from falem. th great buik of it Is In Marlon i'ounty snd this may be said to be th Banner loganberry county of th world hll Xarlon County la blessed with Unusual fertility and almost boundless rportunity for agricultural develop Inert. It Is to the loganberry that the larmera and business men of this sec tion have been lookinz more and more during the past few years to plai this county anuarely oa tb map. and. run ning Irue to form, the loganberry has bcn dolus that very thing. eaaaawrry J ale t IVaaaael. 'A few years ago the loganberry waa lilt: known product. t:ii-a.ed at om length In agricultural Journals. Head to a certain extent by housewives and advert . a in a limited manner. It si tn repiin info Its own. But the locanlxrry Jux-a was a bev- ra known for Its superior qualities a a soft drink to only a r hose a few who bad tavted and found It good. Per fcapa advancing strides of prohibition aided materially In bringing th lucan berry to the front rank aa the essential Ingredient I a soft drink which has taken the country by atorm. but what ever has doot it, the locanberry la now known frm one earner of this country to tba other, and th native of many a toraica country smacks his lips over the tart drink which has so recently grown Into popnlar favor. A cam paign of Natlvnal advertising has done snuh for this el'on. and will do mora a this sort of advertising In connec tion wita tb locanberry Is Juat la Its Isf.ncr. ill ores flvea by Robert Pauluf. sec- greatest demand, for the berry In Its brief history. Between 5000 and 2500 ton were marketed, according to the estimate of Mr. Paulus. as compared to a normal crop of about 4500 tons. Th prevail ing contract price for these berries is I tents a pound, says Mr. Faulus. at though offerings have been made at 4 cepls a pound for uncontracted berries Mere Acreage I .Needed. Of this tonnage Mr. Taulua says about 350.000 pounds of dried berries were produced and the remainder went to the Juice factories and th canneries. One Juice factory mad mora than 300.000 gallons' of Juice last year and another equally aa much, and they ar begging for more berries. The Juice factories wish to see an additional 1A.0OO acres planted out and placed in bearing, if peaaible. They aee their way clear to handle every berry that Is produced. What effect th Government's attitude toward the free use of sugar may have on the mak- Ina- of locanberry Juice Is still a matter to b determined. Rut It la thought probable that th Government may go low In endeavoring to curtail th Us of sugar by th loganberry plan la, a the loganberry and Ita producta are proving decidedly popular with L'ncle feam'a aoldler boy a. On Eaatern Job ber sold 10 carloads of Juice la a single Government order this year. The loganberry Juice Is found aboard United State battleships. In every can tonment and In every canteen. Logan berry Jam Is another delicacy which is being eaten by th aoldler In great quantity. Th Government Is finding har a fruit which gives to the soldiers Just what they wish, which conserves th supply of other foods, and from the outlook and th demand it la mu. h more than possible that tb Oovcra- Leeal Plants to Be Inalallrd. Attractive proposals have been made to communities of the state by logan berry Juice manufacturers. They have stated that where a community will put in 2o0 or 300 acres of berries a lo cal pressing plant will be established, and it is probablo these local plants will be developed rather rapidly. Th loganberry has been grow-In; In this section for the past -14 years or more, but Jumped into prominence as a real commercial factor about 10 years ago. In 1914. with what is known as the eight-ounce box, the dried logan berries were started on a successful career. Prior to that time the logans had been handled principally in Su rround boxes and. while they sold In this manner, it is apparent that it was a clumsy method of handling them. Before the loganberry Juice came Into popularity the value of advertis ing was tried out with the dried lo ganberries with considerable success. but the real opportunities of the crop developed when the Juice appeared and th b-tckers were willing to go the limit for the product which they know could demand a Nation-wide market. One large brewery has been convert ed into a loganberry juice factory and works to capacity as long as the ber ries last and has found no difficulty in disposing of its product. The two great juice factories in Salem are con tinually enlarging and improving their plants and methods. These factories are the H. S. Gile & Co. and the North west Fruits Products Company, each of which has conducted a campaign of National advertising. State I Advertised Widely. "Old Man Oregon," on of the ad' vertisements put out, has literally made Oregon a household name. Trav elers from Salem say that no matter where they go they are greeted by the face of Old Man Oregon and can find loganberry Juice, not only on the coun ter.' but being ordered by lovers of the iMrr anft drink. The value of the loganberry as a commercial product further may be seen in the fact that the Salem Fruit Union, the Drager Fruit Company, Powers & Sons. Mason. Ehrman & Co., of Portland, two canneries, Witten berg-King & Co. and the . two fruit Juice companies already named all handle this berry In some form and all are doing a profitable and growing business along this line. The loganberry Is the on great new product of this section that has devel oped a National erase and with prohibi tion more and more widening the area of Its activities, the outlook for its future seems more than assured. WAR SERVICE GIVEN BY UNIVERSITY Training of . Men for National Defense Is Held Foremost Students Manifest Fine Spirit FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR ROAD WORK IN OREGON IN 1918. Fund. Fectlon eight.. Kerllon three. Ten per cent. . Totals , 1?17. ,.$i:7.74 ,. 7.7 .. 10.000 ,.$216,481 1M. $128,111 1.17.374 40.000 $325,485 191. $128,111 23H.3.13 45.000 $409,443 Total. $384. OK 472,893 95,000 $951,409 Estimated. Federal funds are allotted by fiscal years, the fiscal year 1919 beginning on July 1, 1918. No expenditures from th foregoing allot ments aa yet have been made, so that th entire amount Is available for us In th calendar year 1918. nNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Or.. Dec. 31. (Special.) Practlc- ally every department of the uni versity has been given over, either wholly or in part, to some form of war service, since the entrance of the United States into the war. The train ing of men for the bearing of arms in the Nation's defense, the training of supply experts, the education of hospi tal helpers and the re-education of the wounded and partially incapacitated men these are only a few of the many ways in which the university has un dertaken to aid in the preparation of men for National service. Both sides of the preparatory work have been given attention the actual waging of war and the care of wound ed men and the giving of relief., bo completely has the university placed ita equipment, supplies, faculty and stu dent body at the disposal of the Gov ernment, that It Is hard to say which of tnese has been or the most service. Nor has the university forgotten to take every advantage of the many op portunlties offered its members to take a paxt In the financial side of the war and relief. The liberty loan campaign here met with a hearty response from both the faculty and the student body, reaching a. total of about $4700. The university apportionment of $2500 toward the $1,000,000 North American war relief fund was considerably over subscribed, in a short time. Ordnance Course Popnlar. The offices of the extension division were opened to the American Red Cross and the services of the entire division were placed at the -disposal of the state R.d Cross committee. During the past year the division has sent out personal appeals toxthe alumni, has organized new Red Cross chapters, has handled the advertising for the Red Cross as well as its own. and in a large meas ure has been Instrumental in securing the rapid advance that has been made in the work. Possibly the ordnance course, inas much as it has involved a larger num ber of men than the other military courses on the campus, and because it is so much in the public eye right now, has attracted more attention than the other more novel courses open in the university. Among these are the courses in mili tary psychology, camouflage and re education. The course in military psy chology aims to train students to de termine scientifically the fitness of men for the various lines of Army serv ice, such as aviation, gunnery or cler ical work. The instruction is given under the direction of Surgeon-General Gorgas. by Dr. Edmund S. Conklln. Dr. L H. Wheeler, formerly an instructor in psychology in the university, already has been called into the service as psy chological examiner and is stationed at Ayer, Mass. , Camouflage theory and practice is being studied by a small class under the direction of Dr. A. E. Caswell who is offering a course whih deals with the new art which has become popular and highly valuable during the present Military Drills Are Held. The re-education of wounded or in capacitated men to duties which they are able to perform is the subject of a course about to be opened by the uni versity. The course to be given here will fit girls for the work of teaching new occupations to men injured in service. This work already is proving effective in solving the problem of the wounded European soldiers. Last year military drill, compulsory for all men students, was held during the last months of the school term. Lieutenant-Colonel John Leader, of the British army, who recently came to Eugene to direct tho drilling of the university men, is well known in Eng land. Colonel William H. B. Bowen, retired. took charge of the military drill at the university on December 1. Colonel Bowen is a graduate et West Point and has seen more than 20 years' service in the Army. He was placed upon the re tired list while In service In the Philip pine Islands. A course In military topography given by Dr. Warren D. Smith prepares for work in map-making, which is a large part of the work in the life of the average soldier. The course In cludes rock formations which are given with the-aim of familiarizing the men with the type of rock formation en countered in mine-laying and trencli work. The carrying of the university to tha men in the camps has been accom plished by the extension division for the sake of those men who left school early last year, or for those who aro anxious to carry their education still further. The work Is arranged through the Army Y. M. C. A. in Fort Stevens. Or., and Vancouver. Wash. In some of the companies members are doing their own instructing and in all of tho camps the progress of the men is reported to be keen, according to the professors who have lectured before the soldiers. The call for books to be sent to the various contonment camps met with a liberal reply. Under the direction of a committee from the student bod a close watch is kept on all tho books on the campus which are doing no good here and shipped to the various camps. Through it all the university has been reminded of the fact that she al ready has in the service in the neigh borhood of 400 men who attended tha university. Of these about 200 were In school last year and left school i;hcr to enter the Army or the Navy, or did not return to school in the Fall. "There is in the university this year," said President Campbell recently, "a deeper spirit of earnestness and single ness of purpose than I have ever seen here. Every student seems to have as sumed conscientiously his and her Own share of the great responsibility that has fallen upon the Nation and upon them."