6 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 11. -1917. BULL RUN RESERVE CHANGE SUGGESTED MAP MADE FROM UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SHOWIN G BULL RUN RESERVE BOUNDARIES AND PROPOSED BOUNDARIES WHICH WOULD RELEASE LAND NOT RIGHTFULLY, IT IS CONTENDED, IN WATERSHED. Release of Certain Portions Would Give Opening to Mount Hood. ADVANTAGES SET FORTH Richard J. Grace Points Out That Water for Portland Is Fur nished by Large Number of Mountain Streams. BY RICHARD J. GRACE. Will H. Daly, Commissioner of Pub lic Utilities of the City of Portland, re cently made the statement that the land around Lost Lake should be pur chased and added to the Bull Run re serve. "Why this was necessary, as I this lake is entirely outside of the I .watershed of Bull Run and its tribu taries, was not quite plain. Later the writer saw Mr. Daly at the City Hall, on some other matters, and while look ing at a relief map of the reserve, sug gested to Mr. Daly, that If they were going to change the boundaries, that the city release some sections on the north adjoining the highway and which are absolutely outside the watershed, end which should be open for the use of the public, travelers and campers. on the highway. An investigation of the watershed of the Bull Run and its tributaries was made in order to better present this matter to Mr. Daly. It revealed quite a number of things about the reserve. which are evidently not very well known. For instance we speak of "Bull Run water." Many Creeks Contribute. The water we receive certainly comes Xrom Bull Run Creek at the headgates. but one of tne largest contributors is Blazed Alder Creek, which has the largest watershed in the reserve and rises in Hickman Lake. Other promi nent creeks are Cedar Creek. Trout I Creek. Log Creek (which rises in Blue Lake). Falls Creek and an unnamed branch, the North Fork of Bull Run (rising In the lakes in Latourell Prairie), and Cougar Creek, which has its sources in a valley about a mile and e. half cast of Larch Mountain. There are numerous other creeks, some prob ably drying up In the late Summer. This investigation also showed that there were some 218 square miles In the reserve, and of these a little more than 71 square miles, or nearly a third of the area is outside of the watershed of the Bull Run and its tributaries and could be safely released. It also showed that In section 33, township 1 north. range 6 east, that Cougar Creek pre viously mentioned as a tributary is en tirely outside the reserve line. The! southeast quarter of this section should be added to the reserve, to keep people from camping on the creek at tm point, as the northwest corner of the same section is Just east of the sum mit of Larch Mountain. Why the major portion of township 2 south, range 8 cast, containing the Clear and Muddy forks of the Sandy, Lost Creek, Burnt end Beaver Lakes, the North Side or Zig Zag Mountain and the west ena of Yocum ridge was ever Included is hard to say, Putting this portion In the water re nerve has blocked approach to Moun Hood from the west and withdrawn much of interest scenically and geolog ically from public view. The water produced in this section is full of loess and glacial silt, ana cannot do usea in any public water system. While we are on this side of the map, notice also that the greater part of the watershed of the Little Sandy is also Included in the reserve. Probablv this latter was Intentional as several miles of flume or a flume and tunnel would make it possibre to divert this clear stream into the Bull Run should the increased consumption of water, or the needs of a proposed power plant ever demand it. Divide Is 150O Feet II lit. At Lost Lake there is a divide 1500 feet high between it and Bull Run Lake, and there are about two miles horizontally between them. This makes a rather good fence and should also prevent contamination or pollution of the waters of the latter. There is MAP OF THE DULL RUM RESERVE dN- xc" 1&2f, 7m S r ) ( h SJ&fbvi I ANALYSIS OF PROBLEM OF ROAD IMPROVEMENT IS DRAWN UP Professor F. G. Young, of Department of Economics of University of Oregon, Offers Guide to Legislation. TNTVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene, Feb. 3. (Special.) Professor F. G. Young, of the department of eco nomics. University of Oregon, who was in charge of the commonwealth con ference on the subject of road build ing, held in' Portland January 4-5 last, has drafted an analysis of the problem of road improvement in Oregon. Pro fessor Young's analysis, Dased on long study of the problem and made in the light of his observations at the Port land conference, is intended as a guide to the kind of legislation he believes is needed to realize the dream of bet ter highways in this state. Highway planning on an investment basis and co-operation between state and Nation in roadbuilding are his salient sugges tions. Professor. Young points out In open ing his analysis that Oregon ls spend ing more money per capita on its roads than any other state in the union ex cept one. Oregon's highways are cost ing between S9 and $10 per capita per annum, the annual expenditure being J7.000.000. Professor Young emphasizes the im portance of good roads to Oregon's de velopment. Reduced cost of market ing, full returns in scenery and cli mate, recreation features and the set tling up of the country to make avail able the state's immense power re sources are outlined as the basis for Oregon's high valuation of the worth of good roads. Planned System Lacking-. The slow progress heretofore made toward the attainment of an adequate highway system is attributed by Pro fessor Young to crude and ineffective road improvement methods and the lack of planned system. The road as a structure, he says, has not been re garded and handled with insight and care in construction and maintenance. The factors that make and those that desaroy good roads, the materials and treatment necessary for a comparative ly permanent road, had not in the past been determined. The labor and capital have not been applied in roafl improve ment under tests of definite unit costs or of standards of fTiciency. The pub lie of the road district, of the county unit and of the state at large have not been able to see Just how greater skill and efficiency in road construction and maintenance would have meant for each a higher type of road facilities, Professor Young emphasizes that there must be planning of a road sys tem on an Investment basis for each order o4 areas having unity of traffic routes and distinctive highway needs. This calls, he says, for district road systems. Including the local routes of the respective communities having common connections with the main marketing roads; county road systems in which the roads radiating from the different marketing centers to the dif ferent branch road systems are in cluded; a state highway system In Ore gon for connecting sections separated by the National forests and for devel oping the scenic and recreational re- j hources of the state. Co-operation la Favored. The Oregon situation. Professor Young thinks, calls for the largest state co-operation with National road building effort. Interest of state and Nation are one in demanding develop ment of the National forests by means of roads that are an integral part of the Oregon highway system, roads con necting sections of the state separated by the National forests and improved highways to facilitate rural distribu tion of United States mail. Rationally directed effort In road im provement, as seen by Prof essor Young, starts with the determination of the type of Improvement warranted by the volume and character of the traffic which the improved road is likely to bear. A traffic census on the route or an inventory of the productions of the traffic basin of the proposed road are considered necessaty. The most economic type of road im provement is that from which there is the largest excess of gain in annual traffic utility over the annual Interest on first cost plus the annual deprecia tion and repair cost and ann.ial main tenance cost. There must also he de termined the most suitable materials to . be used as conditioned by their availaabllity to a given stretch of road and by their durability. "Before any money is taken from the pockets of the people in a tax levy or an annual interest charge is saddled on their backs through any bond issue." says Professor Young, "there should be ascertained the types of road most economical for the existing and proba ble traffic needs, the climatic soil and topographical conditions, also the or der of construction of the individual roads of this particular system and the probaole maintenance cost." People Should Determine. "It Is for the people to determine when and to what extent they wish to Invest in roads and for the engineer to be in control to insure the best re turns from the road investment." A state highway department, it is pointed out in the analysis, should ad minister the improvement of the spe cific highway system which several ele ments In the Oregon highway situa tion make essential. A state highway department would 'apportion the funds from the state millage Toad levy through which urban interruption Is made for rural highway improvement: it might apportion or apply directly the receipts from the licenses on mo tor vehicles. Through the state high way department's superior engineering skill is made available in a supervisory capacity for county road improvement throughout the state. Professor Young concludes his an alysis with an outline of the main tenance problem. This problem, ha says, "begins the day construction ends." A little water at frequent inter vals during the Summer months would be a Godsend to. all Oregon roads ex cept the few miles of asphalted and concrete surfaced highways, while too much water during the Winter from above and below Is their ruination un less they are rightly drained and main tained. "The maintenance needs, says Pro fessor Young, "then simply are a bind er for the surface particles during the Summer months and a crowned, smooth and impervious surface in the Winter, with the under and the side drains un obstructed. It would add so much to life in Oregon to be free from the road dust of the Summer and the road mud of the Winter." DRAWINGS MADE BY RICHARD J. GRACE TO UPHOLD, HIS CONTENTIONS. DEAD WOMAN PIONEER MRS. JASPER NEWTON, OF MOLSOS, CAME TO OREGON IN 1852. Early Settler In Benton County, Oregon, Survived by Widower and Nine Children. Mrs. Jasper Newton, who died re cently at her home in Molson, Wash., was among the early Oregon pioneers, having come to Oregon in 1852over the old Oregon tralL She was born In Iowa, June 16, 1848, and came to Oregon with her parents. The trip over the rough trail was severe one and was made when cholera was prevalent among' tne westwara immigrants. Her father, mother and five brothers and sisters died or the malady while on the trip and the little square mile embouching on the south-) glTi continued her journey in company west corner of Lost Lake that could be eliminated from the reserve without clanger and would enable anyone camp lng on this beautiful lake to- wander around without violating the boundary rules. As it now exists anyone rowing into the southwest corner of the lake Is trespassing on the Bull Run reserve. Another ludicrous thing is the inclu sion of the headwater and the most or Eagle Creek (the one you have picnicked on at the highway). Tanne' Creek, which supplies the fish hatchery at Bonneville: Moffett Creek. Kelly Creek (at Warrendale), and Oneonta CreeK all of which flow directly north Into the Columbia and are of necessity therefore, in watersheds that are not tributary to the Bull Run. It seems supremely ridiculous when we consider that the Bull Run reserve at one point is within a half mile of the highway, when the nearest point of the Bull Run watershed Is over three miles south of the highway, and some 3 300 feet above it and on the other aide of the divide. Map Shows Reserve. The accompanying map is accurate, Having been made from the United States geological survey of the country Involved. It shows the present outline of the reserve and a suggested new one. It shows the quarter section that should be added at Cougar Creek, ana Jt shows the eliminations that could and should, be made for the pleasure end accommodation of the public. The land would pass under the control of the forest service, and would be acces sible to the public, and under the serv ice management would produce some revenue, where now it is totally Isolated in uselessness and non-productiveness. Its release would free over 45.000 acres of land and open up some wonderful country around Shellrock Mountain and upper Eagle Creek under the adminis tration of the forest service. If the city authorities have in view any iuiure use or lue waters or tne i a Little Sandy, additional land in town- hip 2 soutn. ranges s, 6 and 7 east, should be procured to thoroughly pro- . tect its watershed. This little known river is very clear and of good size and flow, having its source east of Aschoff Buttes, in the Goodfellow Lakes, which are now in the Bull Run reserve. Evidently the original boundaries of the reserve were laid out before the United States topographical surveys of the region were completed, or the whole of the Bull Run watershed was sur veyed. It includes so much land that is not tributary to the Bull Run, and is, . therefore, uselessly isolated, that its boundaries should be revised in accord ance with the surveys completed by the Government In 1911 and published In 1813. with her two remaining brothers and sister. They arrived at the site of Portland, which was then only a small settle ment. Here the sister died. The chil dren then continued to Benton County, Oregon, and arrived there just six months after they began the trip from Iowa. Before her marriage to Jasper New ton, December 9. 1863, she was Ursula Freel. The Newtons moved from Ben ton County to the Palouse country shortly after their marriage. In 1906 they located on a homestead near Mol son, wash., ana later moved to tne town. Mrs. Newton had been a pioneer in every locality in which she had lived since a little girl and always had been Mrs. H. C. McGulre, Chesaw, Wash., and Mrs. J. W. Grant, Killam, Alberta, Canada. The funeral was conducted by Rev. Jacob Schnider. STREET OPENING PROPOSED Meetings to Be Held Urging Work on Interstate Avenue. Property owners on the northwest part of the city interested in opening up Interstate avenue, formerly known as Patton and Maryland avenues, will hold a series of meetings in that part of the city, starting tomorrow night with a gathering at the hall at Mary land avenue and Falling street. It "Is proposed to open up the newly named avenue to a connection with the interstate bridge. Another meeting on the same sub ject will be held Tuesday night In the vacant store building at 98 West Kil llngsworth avenue, and a third meet ing is set for Wednesday night In the bank building at Kenton. GARDEN CHIEFS PICKED CAPTAIN WILL DIRECT WORK , AT EACH SCHOOL. REBEKAHS ABE HONORED UTOPIA LODGE ENTERTAINS GRAND OFFICERS AT BANQUET. ............ . . . m if -' . 1 I T I 1 n . i I A -in urn ir it n win in mr -nisnrnni ,mwm. . t sewer lav; is expected Three Projects Fend on Action by j Legislature. Word was received yesterday by City Commissioner Dleck that prospects are bright far the passage by the Legisla ture of the proposed new drainage bill to enable cities and counties to join in sewer construction. The measure has been approved by the House Ju diciary committee and by the Multno mah County delegation. On the outcome of the bill pends three large sewer projects, which when built, must be partly inside the city and partly In Multnomah County. The projects are the Peninsula sewer sys tem, the Johnson Creek system and the Balch Creek system. Effort Will Be Made to Have Produce Ripen In July, When Educators v Will Be Here. Pupil captains will have charge of school gardening work in Portland this season. This is a new plan of opera tions, and 42 boys and one girl have been appointed captains. They have qualified by taking several lessons in agricultural experiments from Garden Supervisor L. A. Read. The captains will direct the work of plotting, planting and fertilizing the school-garden plots under the supervi sion of the principals of the schools that they attend. Special attention will be given this year to vegetables that will reach their maturity in July. In this way the Na tional Education Association visitors will be given a view of Portland school gardens at their best, it is now esti mated that there Will be between 4 and 50 school gardens under the cap tain system this season. The following pupil captains have been named to date: Eleanor Scott. Ala meda; Gerald Bradshaw, Alblna Home stead; Howard McCann, Arleta; Robert McCulloch, Beaumont; Robert Austin, Brooklyn; Ernest Burkenshire. Buck man: Leland Frederickson, Capitol Hill; Leland Fenton, Chapman: Ernest Sun berg, Clinton Kelly; Albert Harman, Couch; Harold Johnson, Creston; Don ald Lamount, Davis; Henry Domerberg, Eliot; Simon Isensteln, Failing; Ernest Slckhouse, Fulton Park: Herbert Cronkhite. Glencoe; Parker Branln, Hawthorne; Carroll Bullen, Highland; Percival Gates. Hoffman; Leland Chapin, Holladay; Fred Sugnet and Lyle Hoyt, Holinan; Arthur Dether, Hudson; Richard Jenkins. Irvington; Robert Shatkey, Kenton; Lloyd La r sen. Kerns; Robert Officer, Ladd; George Rayburn, Lents; Cromwell Riches, Llewellyn; Ralph Hods, Monta villa; Ira Ludther, Multnomah; David Peterson, North; Malchon Westover, Ockley Green; George Farmer. Richmond; Rob ert Black, Rose City Park; Paul Malsten, Sell wood; Lester Pander, Shattuck; Donald Read, Stephens; Roy Gadke, Sunnyslde; Eugene Cummings, Terwilllger; Kenneth Thompson, Ver non; Aaron Tonkey, Woodlawn, and Laurence Pease, Woodstock. BANKRUPTCY SUIT FILED Sale of Property by J. A. McMillan Brings Action by Creditors. That J. A. McMillan, proprietor of the Peninsula Fuel & Transfer Com pany. be declared a bankrupt is the gist of petitions filed in Federal Court yesterday by the Albers Brothers Mill ing Company, the East Side-Fuel Com pany and the Portland Gas & Coke Company, who affirm they are cred itors. It is alleged that Mr. McMillan com mitted an act of bankruptcy last De cember when he hindered settlement transactions by selling two teams of horses for J2000 and five other teams for $4000 and withheld the money from creditors. OEGON BOY FIGHTS IX TRENCHES IN EIRO-, PEAS WAR. ii- i 17"' s U s ft Mrs. Jafiper Newton. Pioneer Mother of Nine Children, Who Died Recently at Holrom, Wash. active in the welfare of ber various communities and the church. Her loss will be keenly felt in the Monson church. In which she was a prominent worker. Besides her husband, she is survived by nine children William J. Newton Portland; James Newton, Bluestem, Wash.; -Annie P. Newton and George E. Newton, Molsom; Mrs. D. R. McNeil, Molson; Mrs. J. M. Henderson, St. John Wash.; Mrs. J. W. McNeil, Kalso, B. C; J. A. Boyce Files In Bankruptcy. Joseph A. Boyce filed a declaration of bankruptcy in the Federal Court yes terday, giving exempt assets at $575 and liabilities are listed at 819,000. Mr. Boyce was a member of -the defunct real estate and insurance firm of Mor gan, Fliedner & Boyce, which built apartment and office buildings In this city in recent years. Rebekabs Initiate Saturday. Columbia Rebekah lodge. No. 3, In dependent Order of Oddfellows, will have its regular meeting Saturday, February 17. at the Oddfellows' Hail, on First and Alder streets. The new candidates will be initiated.- The drill staff will meet February 15, Thurs day, at 2:30, at the hall to drill. i X . Sidney Seabroolt. Sidney Seabrook, son of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Seabrook. of Wil lamlna. Or., who has been serv ing with the Canadian contingent in the European war, recently was made a corporal, according to information received by W. E. Stowe, 416 Chamber of Commerce of Portland, from the parents. He has been in the trenches for a year and a half and is with the "gas fighters." He recently sent a photograph of himself with his gas bag. by the aid of which he withstood the onslaught of the gas .bombs. The censored letters he has sent have told of some thrilling experiences. A brother. Nelson Seabrook, has Just enlisted. He is only 19. Sid ney Seabrook is now 22. Official Wears Red Ribbon, Amazing 'Associates. Deputy District Attorney Delch Dis closes He Is In Woodmen of World Campaign. DEPTJTT DISTRICT ATTORNEY DEICH dai-ed the displeasure of his Municipal Court associates yester day, when he appeared In his office and the courtroom with a scarlet ribbon on his coat lapel. "What's this?" they taunted him. And I. W. W. or an anarchist?" The big ex-sergeant of the Philippine campaign said never a word. But he glared at his chief tormentors, towlt: Municipal Judge Langguth. Deputy City Attorney Stadter and Public Defender Robinson. "Let 'em rave." he observed: "my time's coming." Then he added mean ingly, "They're blue ones," as though that explained it. An investigation disclosed the sig nificance of the red ribbon and the by-play. The prosecutor, with his three tormentors, owns membership in Mult nomah Camp, 77, Woodmen of the World. In a campaign for membership launched at a recent meeting the camp suffered Its first factional split. From A to K its members are known as reds": from L to Z they are known is "blues." Each faction Is sworn to keen competition In the strife for new applicants, which will terminate July 1, 1917. The Judge and Fred stadter and Dave Robinson are 'blues,' " Mr. Delch confided later. "That's why, you see. Multnomah Camp is now second largest In the Western states. Only Golden Gate Camp, of San Francisco, exceeds it in membership. And we propose to remedy that before July 1." The membership of Multnomah Camp, Woodmen of the World, is now 8200. It Is proposed to increase the roster to 3500 before the campaign closes. Centralia Realty Deal Closes. CENTRALIA, Wash.. Feb. 10. (Spe cial.) One of the biggest realty deals closed in several months was announced today, wherein Fred and John Aust trade two apartment bouses on West Main street to Frank Leisner, former publisher of the Oakville Cruiser, for a 160-acre ranch near Oakville. Mr. Leisner will move his family here, while John Aust will move onto the ranoh. At Close) of Lodge Session all Present Have Opportunity to Meet Presi dent and Other Officials. Mrs. Nollle Wallenburg, president of the Rebekah Assembly, and other grand officers were gueste of honor at Uto pia Rebekah Lodge last Thursday night. Mrs. Christine Anderson, noble grand, presided. Those who were hon ored guests were: Mrs. Nellie Watten- burg. president of the assemDiy; mrm. Mary Lancaster, vice-president: Mrs. Ora Cosper, grand secretary: Miss t.aa Jacobs, grand treasurer; Mrs. M. Al- llngham, grain chaplain: Henry S. West- brook, grand master: rana new, grand warden of the grand lodge; Rob ert Andrews, grand representative; W. A. Wheeler, past grand master; Mrs. Nellie Gustin. past president; Mrs. M&.rv Swan, trustee of the assembly; Mrs. Mary Tomlinson. trustee of the home, and P. W. Stewart, past grand patriarch. The decree work was exemplified and four candidates were initiated. among-whom were Miss Gladys West brook, daughter of the grand master. Mrs. Jennie Klstler and Mrs. Emma Made resented the president and vice-nresident with bouquets of carna tions in behalf of the lodge, and Henry S. Westbrook. grand master, presented the president with a unique umbrella Miss Minnie Alexander sang two so los. At the close of the lodge all werd given an opportunity to meet the presi dent and others before going to the banauet hall, where a banquet was held. Postoffice Inspector Returns. E. C. Clement, postoffice inspector with headquarters at Portland, has re turned home after a trip East, where he was called to help run down Jamrs McXicholas. formerly of this ciiy. who was Indicted some years ago for trans actions in the sale of mining stock, during which he is alleged to have used the mails to defraud. He la now held at Cleveland, O., awaiting trial. TRAIN CHANGE PROMISED More Direct Service to ftnnnllin Points on Coos Bay Line Assured. John M. Scott. srpnprnl n9ir igent of the Southern Pacific, an. ounced vesterdnv unnn , i - . rom Coquille that a new schedule for e f ortland-Coos Bav trains would PUt into effect snnn ff passed two days in the Coos Bay dis trict In comDanv with II A Hinih.i. general freight agent, and W. H. Jen kins, traveling passenger agent. wnen tne new Portland-Coos Bay chedule becomes effective it will pro file more direct rnnnnction, ..-i .k residents of the Coquille district. ir. cott Bald lumbering and ship uilding on. Coos Bay are active and usiness conditions are prosperous. th WELL-KNOWN CAR P K T E K AND LODGEMAN DIES. IT:-: a X "i r t t ! t ' : " Jv7 f it I'MtlM v.-a Tea costs but a few cents a pound in China.. . Henry Brockmii. Henry Brockman, who was buried last Tuesday, was born in Germany 87- years ago and had been in the United States for more than 16 years, nine of them being passed in Portland. He was Injured at the Northwest Steel Company plant last Decem ber. He was found dead a week ago Friday, at his late residence, 696 East Tenth street, by his wife, who had just returned home after visiting some neighbors. He was a carpenter and a member of Hassalo Lodge of I. O. O. F. SALESMEN HOLD MEETING Employes of Pacific Coast Biscuit Company Close Annual Session. Salesmen for the Pacific Coast Bis cuit Company, from all parts of the Oregon, Washington and Idaho terri tory participated with the local sales men in the annual meeting held at the headquarters of the company in Port land, x riaay ana yesterday. President A. j. Bale was one of the principal speakers at the conference In the first day's session and was host to the salesmen throughout their stay. ' Luncheons were held at the factory and a banquet was given Friday night at the Multnomah Hotel. The custom of holding an annual meeting was begun by the Pacific Coast Biscuit Company five years ago and has been found productive of ex cellent results. LA GRANDE HOTEL SOLD Lot li. Snodgrass Buys Sommer House From George E. Good. LA GRANDE, Or.. Feb. 10. (Spe cial.) Lot L. Snodgrass, a young La Grande resident, today became owner of the Sommer Hotel, heretofore owned ty Ueorge E. Uood, one of the well known hostelry men of the state. Mr. Good came to La Grande 11 years ago and after about three years' man agement of the Foley, took over the Sommer. He expects to locate some where in Eastern Oregon. The new owner has been desk clerk at the Som mer several years. The price paid was not publicly announced. Railroad Club Gives Benent. KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Feb. 10. (Special.) The Women's 1000 Railroad Club, which haa been working for some time in the interest of the new Ore gon, California & Eastern Railroad terminal fund, put on a programme at the Houston Opera-House last night for the benefit of the fund. Manager Houston donated the use of his opera house and furnished several reels of pictures. There was a good attendance. Holbrook Mail Route Changed. The rural delivery route at present operated from Holbrook, in Multnomah County, north of Portland, will In fu ture take mail from Llnnton instead, being known as Route 2 out of the lat ter place. The change will be made effective on February 16 and postmas ters of both places have been notified of the change. Added efficiency in serving the patrons of the route is as signed as the reason for the transfer.