THE MORNING OREGOXTAX, FHIDAT, OCTOBER .11. 1910.
PROJECT IN WASCO
SCENES ON THE WAPINITIA PROJECT.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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Hexter & Co., Portland Sales Agent
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