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THE MORNING OREGOXTAX, FHIDAT, OCTOBER .11. 1910. PROJECT IN WASCO SCENES ON THE WAPINITIA PROJECT. 13 WORK 0 ML HOOD COUNTY DEVELOPED Juniper Flats Undertaking Is of Great Promise. PORTLAND MEN IN CHARGE Vator l'rom Clear Iake and Frog Lake Carried by Gravity to 3000 Acres in 1918. ' BY ADDISOM BEXXETT. On the tablelands of Juniper flate in southern Waco county, there lies a body of land of 30.000 to 40,000 acres susceptible of irrigation. It looks as if the Creator had placed this land there, and the adjacent water flow ing down from the melted snows of Mount Hood, with a purpose of hav ing them united and made valuable to the husbandman. Hai the flat been made by man. it could not have been better leveled and graded for irri tation, for it has just about the proper slope toward the Deschutes river for the. overflow, drainage and seepage. In the past 50 years various plans have been advanced for tapping the mountain streams and lakes to irri gate this fine body of land. As long ado as 1869 the project wa taken up bv the elder Wamic, founder of the town of Wamic. to bring this water and land together, and he, it is said, fpent every dollar he could raise In his endeavor to irrigate the tablelands of the flats. More than a quarter of a century ago the farmers on the flats Btfirted a ditch, a sort of community a) fair, and dug it for a dozen miles or more toward Clear Lake, only to finally find that they were much too high, coming out eome 30 feet above the lake waters. Then a dozen or so years ago a cor poration formed in Portland took up the project and 6pent a large sum, perhaps J200.000, in surveying and development work. But this company teemed to have its eyes set on timber rather than water development, and much of its money went for mill ma chinery, which was purchased and hauled out to the mountains at tre mendous expense. Hut it would not be wise to follow the work done by this company. Timber Propeet Alluring. "When it is .considered that there are about 4,000,000.000 feet of Oregon pine tributary to this project, timber that must eventually be brought out either near the project or by some road following cloe to the Mount Hood railway survey, it will be seen that the timber possibilities were en ticing. When I came out here to look over the proposition I was told in Portland to "see N. Ci. Heden." When I got to The Dalles it was the same, again at Dufiir 1 was referred to Mr. Heden. and at Wapinitia it was the Same etory. At Wapinitia I practically had the ubiquitous Mr. Heden treed, for he lives most of the time on tWe ditch, seven or eight miles from that town. But when I had ploughed through the enow in an auto and got out to Pine Grove, the main field office of Mr. Heden, and came face to face with him, I found him ready and willing to talk about everything pertaining to the company and its work, except himself. Kor modesty Mr. Heden takes the bakery. That he is a man of force, ability and integrity is averred by all who have had dealings with him in this neck of the woods, and he has gained the confidence of every settler on the flat all of whom look up to him as the master spirit in the irrigation project. However, he denies this and introduced me to Will B. Keen as the real promoter of the enterprise. Mr. Keen was there and he also rather dodged the. compliment, asserting that K. 13. Miller of Portland was the general manager of the company, William J. Hickey president and S. U. Card secretary. Somebody Huh Done 1J. So we will let it go at that and simply .consider what is being done instead of going into the question of who started it. What has been done proves that somebody of a good deal of astuteness has managed the affairs of the company and managed well, for since the present company bought out the former company, called the Kastern Oregon Irrigation & Power company, in July, 1914, it has gone eteadily forward. It took a good while to gather up the threads of the old company and pet the titles straightened out, and then they found the farmers of the flat, who were ex pected to buy the water, more than skeptical. So they had, as one might say, to inspire confidence in their future clients before they could do any business. But they kept pegging away on the ditch and got the first water on the land in the fall of 1916, and in 1918 they watered 3000 acres, and all the time they have kept at work on the main canal and laterals. The water comes by canal from Clear lake and Frog lake and fol lows the old creeks of the same name for several miles. Eventually, when the water is needed, a dam about 35 feet is to bo erected at the present intake at Clear Lake and that lake, a body of water seven miles in cir cumference, is to be used as a reser- .voir, which will store 20.000 acre-feet of water. The entire project is simply a. question o sending water from the lakes to the land in open ditches by frravity flow. Aside from one ex pensive cut for the main canal, which .necessitated the moving of 30,000 yards of earth and rock, at a cost of SI a yard, it is the simplest proposi tion of the kind I ever saw. In the entire system, to irrigate with the present system 30.000 acres, there is not a foot of flume or tunnel and only this one cut of any moment; and the dam, as mentioned, is only to be 35 leet high and 200 feet long. "Water Price Low. Considering the lay of the country, the never-failing water supply, the ease of diversion, the demand for the water, the value of the land to be irrigated and all other questions con cerning the project, it seems almost incredible that land and water have not been linked together for years. The price the water is being sold at shows that it must be a compara tively inexpensive proposition. That price is $50 per acre, but advanced to JtiO an acre .November 1. Remember, the price of water on the West Umatilla project of the gov ernment, is $90 an acre, and the first Umatilla project was about the same, with drainage added. There will be no question of artificial drainage on the Wapinitia project and no cement pipe to buy. And the smaller laterals will be very inexpensive to "dig." sim ply a. furlong or two with the plow and a little shovel work. And the evaporation will not be over 15 per cent what it is on the projects men tioned. The land farthest from the intake will be about 32 miles. The farthest now built is 12 miles. The experience of those who have used the water one or more years is that the first crop of alfalfa on any of the land will far . 4 - r --, ,Z. " . , . , ?' . - r o v " ' pfeyrrig .jJAaMmwi l' ' Vi x ' 3 -I--.. M. I. I - ' X more than pay for the land, the water and the leveling and ditching. Just one instance I will give of What can be done. John Farlow, near Maupin. had seven acres in alfalfa this year, seeded last year. From the seven acres he cut 32 tons, worth $30 a ton at Maupin.- AftY cutting the seven tons he turned on 110 shoats and pastured them three weeks. Then he finished them by feeding about a bushel of wheat to each and then sold 100 of them for $43.20 each. TWO NEGROES SENTENCED Men Plead Guilty to- Having Stolen Auto in Possession. Wayne Chetwynd and MeKinley Collier, both colored, were sentenced to a year in the county jail by Pre siding Judge Gatens yesterday after noon when they pleaded guilty to a charge of receiving stolen property. An indictment accusing them of lar ceny of an automobile was dismissed for lack of evidence, but their own story, while not given much credence by the court, was an admission to re ceiving stolen goods. The men maintained the automo bile in which they , were arrested in Pendleton, which had been stolen from the Kilham Stationery company in Portland, was given to them by a man in Salem during the state fair, a man who promised them $500 if they would deliver the machine in Spokane and paid them $40 down. Leputy District-Attorney Graham as serted that the story they told was not convincing, but that it was better to allow them to plead to the lesser charge than to go to the expense of a trial on the other. Both grinned I Had ' 'A x t: - 1 ' , f$ f 1 JJZZ. mm TftCTYtrfti To Main canal, vlx miles from Foot- ball. Middle Scene near Headgate. BrloiT 111k cut in ditch. broadly when the sentence was pronounced. Council to Meet Tomorrow. PARIS, Oct. 30. The supreme coun cil will meet Saturday to consider the reply to the Bulgarian delegation on the treaty of peace. birthday, with the University loween parties PORTLAND tonight will be quite gay with the reception to cele brate the emperor of Japan's the dinner-dance at club and with Hal at the various clubs and at private homes. Those who have made reservations at the University club are I. M. Lupton, four: C. G. Murphy, eight; H. M. Aldrich, six; Af. G. Campbell, four; Edgar Piper, eight; L. H. Mills, eight; W. H. Lines, six; Mrs. Lee Hoffman. 12; C. L. .Wernicke, three; George Gerlinger, 14; li. 11. Crozier, three; W. H. Ieadbetter, six; Dr. C. B. Sabin, ten: Thomas Beverly, four; A. D. Wakefield, four; Gay Spokerfield, four; K. F. Whitney, four; Norman Rupp. 12; H. W. Hughes, ten, and Folger Johnson, six. Yesterday Miss Helen Honeyman was a charming young hostess when she entertained in honor of Miss Ruth Teal with a tea at the residence of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. James Honeyman. Mrs. James Honeyman, Miss Teal and Miss Honeyman re ceived the guests. Mrs. Nancy Zan Scott and Miss Genevieve Thompson presided at the tea table and were as sisted by the Misses Khoda Rumelin. V'Ona Gutherie, Klizabeth Peacock and Nadine Caswell. Mrs. George Wilson was a delight ful hostess yesterday for luncheon in honor of Miss Sullivan of Washing ton, D. C, at the Waverly Country club. Mrs. Wilson's guests were Mrs William Wheelwright, Mrs. William MacMaster, Mrs. Samuel P. Lockwood, Mrs. A. A. Morrison. Mrs. William Alvord, Mrs. W. D. Washburn of Minneapolis and Miss Sullivan. A matinee party given by the Amanda Reed association of Reed college Wednesday afternoon in the social hall was a delightful event for the co-eds and faculty women of the college. Dr. Thomas L. Eliot, president of Reed trustees, gave an intimate sketch of the life of Mrs. Amanda Reed, whose endowment made Reed college possible and for whom the association of women, is named. Dancing, speaking and re freshments rounded out' a jolly aft ernoon. The Amanda Reed associa tion is an organization that means much to Reed women and in the past has accomplished a great deal in social welfare work in Portland, especially in connection with the baby home. Officers are Jessie Laird, president; Josephine Felts, vice president: Edith Turner, secretary treasurer: Frieda Close, Mary White and Laura Fayton, committee chair men. Mrs. Frank Dooly gave the first of a series of luncheons Wednesday at the Waverly Country club, when she entertained for nine. - Mr. and Mr. Edward B. Barber of 1974 East Pine street announce the birth of a son, born Tuesday, Octo ber 28. The Psychic club will give a Hal loween entertainment tonight " at 8 o'clock. There will be a classic pro gramme, dancing and refreshments. This will open social activities for the winter at the First Spiritualist church. East Seventh and Hassalo streets. Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose X. Cronin left Thursday for an extended trip to New York. Washington and New Orleans. On their way home they will visit with Mr. Cronin's mother and sister in southern California. The South Mount Tabor Community club will give the thirty-first of a series of free weekly entertainments tonight in the assembly room of the Joseph Kellogg School, Sixty-ninth and Powell Valley road. This event will be a special old-fashioned Hal loween party and will be in charge of E. K. Gilmer, which assures a good evening's entertainment. All the members, residents and friends in this district are requested to at tend. An eight-piece rural orchestra will be -the feature of the evening. ' A Halloween party and dance will be given Saturday night at the Ore gon Yacht club. Special features will make the festivity attractive. Mrs. M. Boehne of St. Louis. Mo., who has been in Portland for the past three months visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Wam bach, 334 Glenn avenue. Sunnyside, and other relatives, left this week on her return journey to St. Louis. Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. David Taylor Honeyman were din ner hosts in honor of Miss Ruth Teal and Carlton Betts of Buffalo. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. Alan Green, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron Squires, Miss Katherine Hart, Miss Rhoda Rumelin, Miss Catherine Collins of Seattle, Prescott Cookingham, Charles Holbrook, Major Georre Powell, Carl ton Betts and the hosts. Tonight at the Trvington club the senionnembers will hold a Halloween and barn-dance party. Decorators have been at work creating the dance floor .in keeping with the spirit of the occasion. it will be a costume affair and the committee in charge say it will be one of the most en joyable affairs that has ever been held at the club house. Mrs. J. L. Bowman is in charge. The little tots will have their Hal loween party tomorrow, Saturday evening. They, too, will be in cos tume and the hall decorations will be the same. Portland Heights club members will enjoy a "stunts" party tonight at the clubhouse. A lively entertain ment is promised by the committee. The annual meeting and election of directors will be held at 8:45, preced ing the party. Appropriate Hallow een refreshments will be provided. "Wear your old clothes and leave gloom at home," reads the announcement. Buy Your Clothes On Cherry's Terms HIGHWAY MAY HALT Increased Costs to Cut Down Forest Road Building. MONEY NOT AVAILABLE Engineer Prepares Summary of Projeet9 to Make Reeommen cialions to Washington. Increase in the cost of road build ing since the first of the year will necessitate the reduction of the con struction programme of the United States forest service in Oregon In 1920. Within a month officials in Washington will apportion the re maining third of the funds allowed under the federal road aid act of 1916. P. H. Dater, road engineer in the dis trict oifice, is preparing a summary to show amounts needed in this state for the largest forest road system ever proposed here. On the first two apportionments Oregon received a total of $607,000, and it is presumed at least Half thto amount will come on the last division. However, more than this sum is need ed and is being asked for in order to link up important routes passing through government lands. If the additional money is not obtained, ap proximately one-third of the 1919-20 project must be dropped. Postpone ment of either the Mount Hood loop or one of the stretches between La Pine and lakeview, Lakevlew and Klamath Falls, Crescent City and Klamath Falls. Eugene and Florence or to the Oregon caves will rest with Washington headquarters, and with the state filfthway commission. Mr. Dater will 'forward his summary to the national capital with recommen dations. Elimination Held Xeceaaary. .The forest service will attempt to begin work on the route to the Ore gon caves, an 11-mile stretch, which, owing to the fact tlfat it is on a side hill canyon, will cost $215,000. but it will be impossible to carry operations far. The other four important roads which may be deferred for the pres ent are not long stretches. On the one south of La Pine there are 18.2 miles to be cared for; on the Lake view one, eight miles, and on that from Crescent. 23.1 miles. From Eugene to Florence 15.7 miles are in forest lands. "We've either got to leave out these roads or the Mount Hood loop," said the engineer. "Prices have gone up to such an extent that the forest service has found itself under agree ment to cover a certain mileage that will cost more than was originally estimated. "When the cost of the Mount Hood road was first estimated in 1917 the figure was $264,000. In January, 1919. the price had advanced to $514,000. Last summer we were informed by contractors that it could not now be put in for less than $969,000. "Work is now being done on the loop, that is, workmen were there until the snow sent them In a few dayw asro. We have $262,000 of the All the Fashionable Peltries Appear in H. Liebes & Co. Seasonable FURS TIE pelts we use are largely the pick of those from our own stations in the Far North. H. Liebes & Co. (designers and crafts men in our own workrooms fashion our furs. There are many distinct innovations in our incomparably varied stock of Winter FURS on display at this time. Noto is an especially good time to select for immediate wear. Throws Animal Scarfs Stoles with or with out pockets and belts ' Bobby Coats "If you don't know furs, you do know storet" Business Hours :30 A. M. to Fur Fashion Book Free for the Asking t- z, i I project contracted, but there is email chance of anything more being done on it for the present." The state is aiding in all roads be ing put through the forests, but the forest service is paying one-half of the expense by using funds given it by the 1916 act and the post road ap propriation of 1919. On some of the more Important stretches counties are also expending money. Oregon receives 13 per cent of the 1916 appropriation for the entire country or $130,000 annually. It will proablv draw $1,000,000 out of the 1919 fund. Routes put in by the forest service are not surfaced and are merely fin ished dirt roads about IS feet in width. The miscellaneeuM projects on the programme include 230 roads and 350 trails in Oregon, at an estimat ed cost of $167.1)00. Of these, con tracts have been let to the amount of $85,000 and much of. the work al ready has been completed or is well under way. One of these Is a road between Keedsport and House r. one of the first links in the Roosevelt highway. Fishermen on the John Day will benefit by a road to be put in to Ma goon lake. Black and Bald Buttes in Harney county will be linked to gether, as also will Lostine river and Lick creek in Wallowa. The roads on the 1919-20 pro gramme already completed are . the $95,000 route of 13 miles between Flora and Enterprise, the $277,000 Contract on an 11.8-mile stretch, esti mated at $307,000. on the Pacific hieh- way between Canyonville and Gales ville. and the 1.7 miles in the Crook county section of the Ochoco canyon. costing $101,000. Another Ochoco can yon road in heeler county, 10.1 miles in length and contracted for at $218. 000 will soon be completed and the route from Prinevllle to Mitchell will be open. Only two of the principal projects have not been commenced, three miles on the Teller trail to Drew, estimated at $66,000 and the 10 mile stretch on the Keedsport-to-Coos bay highway, to cost $50,000. The $186,000 to be expended on the 19.9 miles of forest road along the Alsea river is to cover four years of con struction. Of this contracts for $48. 000 have been let and work has just begun. Other projects on which work Is being done are as follows: Estimated I. nth. Under iiwl nnlen. ront. M-Kenzie river ... $224,000 43 S IHS.WD KUm III Fa I In-Mod -ford (Crater liike rrval U32.UOU 1'2. 3 Anna creek K'rater lake, east id.. I.vmwt ill Three rlvern 104.0OU lo.S Grant lae-cre- ,nt r-tty T m0 e 4 Aiv hrrt it havt m ftarstme beast, Tht drtaJed cacatua, brought 'ram tn East, Hit grtat, tanage tla-ivi tmm nr-vtr Uar Our Lackanuonna L'mJtmjar. THERE is no surer way of minimizing the costly wear and tear of childhood than by adopting the rule of underclothing all the chil dren, from babj hood to maturity, in Lackawanna Twins Underwear. The enduring woolly fabric is knitted for ex treme service; nonshrinkable because preshrunk, sanitary because sterilized in live steam. Every detail of manufacture is a triumph of modern economy and dependability under test. Lackawanna Babies Shins are a splendid meant of introduc ing the tot early in life to the comforts of civilized undcrdrcss. IaACKAWANNA TWINS Underwear for Bays and Girls from BIRTH TO SIXTEEN rrtncipa.1 oeaiert, on principle, carry Lackawanna Twint unarrwrar ia various tty lea and in qualitiet to uit every requirement of service and price. i.ih'hI liiwi rlbtitor . - iHl l hi RllllKltTa IIHni. 232.IMHI 1 5.000 liH.oim C. L Holliday Co. CLOAKS-SUITS-FROCKS Suits Reduced A to i Kcrw at 383 Washington HOTEL LIQUOR CLAIM UP Itoyal tomniiion Xameil in Can ada to Iitvollgalr. VICTORIA. B. C. Oct. 50 A royal commission hns been appointed to in -vefstiprwte and report upon ihe claim of hotel and liquor interests in Brit ish Columbia for compensation for losses sustained by them through the operation of the prohibition act. Mr. Justice Cwment is the commissioner. Phone your wan! ad to the Ore lioniMii. Main TOTrt. A CHERRY CHAT "ET everything you need for fall and S winter now, when you need them a few dol lars at the time of pur- . - i-Jiasc win becurp an rnp V fashionable apparel you J?i'i choose and you may )i 5s finish your payment ,v i while you wear the clothes. Cherry's sells the smartest clothes of nationally advertised makes for both men and women, and the values are seldom excelled. Come in and see what wonderful buying oppor tunities Cherry's offers every day. Cherry's, 391 Washington street. Adv. l' ' I - -! She found time to do Red Cross Work When she learned that baking bread was a drudgery that was nerve-racking, back-breaking and time-wasting when she learned that drudgery was slavery, and that brains are worth more than- hands when she learned that efficiency means the most productive use of time. She learned this when, instead of baking, she bought 1MEMICAM-MMD ' EMEAIQ and found that she had a delicious loaf for less money than it had cost her to do her own baking a scienti fically made loaf with all the nourishing qualities of good wheat, and without the use of any substitutes. Every loaf sealed at the oven in dust-proof, germ-proof wrapper, and every loaf as good as it is possible for bread to be made. And at night not too tired for a chat with the husband and maybe a romp with the children. A.t your nearest grocer's Log Cabin Baking Co. Portland, Or. I I Boys Who Pick the Live Ones! in the movie game are learning where to come to pick the live 6tyles in boys wear of all sorts and moth ers, too, with a view to real economy, have learned that we're live ones and always come here to Pick of Our Suits, Over coats and Mackinaws at $10.00 to $25.00 Alden's Excelsiors Dugan & Hudson Acrobats This is Kiddies' 'New Shoe Time And here's the place to brinar them for the best in foot wear best leathers, best styles, best fitting qualities and. remember, you'll find her. just what you're looking for in footwear for kiddies, little and big. Black, Tan or Smoke Button or Lace G. P. A. Profit Sharing Vouchers CHi t filter s Chilirirf 143 Sixth St. Near Alder ISC 3 GB Which Will You Do? Boy a so-called "cheap" Stor or Range that will never gir satis faction. Deeds frequent repair, -wastes fuel, and at best, lasts otJy a short time. Inraet is a Charter Oak that is a masterpiece in the craft of stove and retire making, the operation of which is perfect and guaran teed, and the life of which is the limit of endnrsaice. 35C9 dealen ia H S. 1 35- deedca ia St. sefl them.' ThisCCZT" or ThisHUT For CJ, Wood or G or C bi notion of AIL i - : B. m .f If yonr dealer tries to talk you into bay ing another kind, write to tis. Charter Oak Stove & Range Co., ST. LOUIS, MO. WE ALSO MAKE WARM AIR FURNACES- 1 Hexter & Co., Portland Sales Agent EfiJ.