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THE SUNDAY. -OHEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 21, 1918.
OREGON, CALIFORNIA & EASTERN RAILROAD BEGINS OPERATION SECTION BETWEEN KLAMATH
FALLS AND OLENE SYSTEM ROBERT E. STRAHORN PLANS TO DEVELOP CENTRAL OREGON-
SALESPEOPLE WANTED
KLAMATH
RAILROAD
BEGINS OPERATIONS
Oregon, California & Eastern
Line Will Develop Vast
Timber Resources.
WHITE PINE IS HELD KING
People of Southwestern Oregon Look
Ahead to Most Prosperous Era
in History Irrigation
. Brings Relief.
The people of Klamath County, un
der the inspiration of Robert E. Stra
horn. the Indomitable builder of trans
portation lines, have the satisfaction
of seeing the first section of the Ore
gon, California & Eastern Railroad in
operation and construction work pro
gressing on the remaining: stretch of
the line from Klamath Falls to Dairy.
It is the expectation of President
Strahorn to eventually accomplish the
construction" of a system of railroad
that will serve the great interior re
gion of Central and Eastern Oregon,
fast becoming one of the rich agricul
tural districts of the Coast, and pos
sessed of almost immeasurable wealth
in the standing pine timber that is the
largest body of that matchlessywood
in the continental United States.
The first section of the new railroad.
10 miles in length, was recently put in
operation between Klamath Falls and
Olene. It is serving a number of saw
mills already and with the track fin
ished to Dairy, 20 miles from Klamath
Falls, will serve an increasing scope of
territory. Without fear of contradic
tion, Mr. Strahorn ranks that section
as being destined within a short time
to become the center of the greatest
lumber industry on the entire Coast.
Grain Acreage Enlarged.
The Klamath Basin, with magnificent
alfalfa fields extending from Upper
Klamath Lake to Tule Lake, irrigated
under the great Government irrigation
project, has a bumper crop of hay that
Is being contracted for at a price of
$20 per ton in the stack. The greatest
grain crop in the history of the region
is being grown and will soon be har
vested. There has been a. transformation In
the livestock industry and there is a
greater variety and larger value nl the
resources of the region than ever be
fore. Though there has been depletion
of the large herds and flocks there has
been a vast Increase in the small herds
of the dairyman and small flocks of
sheep owned by numbers of farmers
and stockmen, better cared for, better
grades of livestock and producing a
tremendous annual value in marketable
animals and output of wool and mo
hair from the flocks of sheep and goats.
It is a transformation of intensive
development, not alone in the province
of the stockman, but of the farmer as
well. Drainage and irrigation is bring
ing many square miles of new land into
production and the first great yield of
barley and other grains will be har
vested this year, from a large area of
fertile lands around the shores of Tule
Lake, restored to production from the
bed of the lake by the work of the
United States Reclamation Service.
Irrigation Brings Relief.
Other areas brought under irrigation
and yielding crops for the harvester
this year are in Yonna and Poe valleys,
tapped by the new line of the Strahorn
railroad, which is being constructed
with money provided by the city of
Klamath Falls, as the result of a bond
issue. When Robert E. Strahorn laid
before the citizens of Klamath Falls
his purpose to develop a railroad that
would radiate to the great interior
tributary to that point, it met instant
response in a material way.
Now development of lands and in
dustries beyond the first stretch of the
new road is anticipated as affording
certain early advancement of the rails
into new territory. In the vicinity of
Bonanza, on Lost River. 26 miles east
of Klamath Falls, another area is
brought under irrigation and this will
also be tapped by a branch of the new
road at some future time, according to
present plans.
At this time, when railroad construc
tion is almost an unknown pursuit, it
Is a phenomenal demonstration of the
faith people have in their own country
that is afforded by the vigor with
which this new transportation system
is being pushed to completion under
the stress of a shortage of labor and
high cost of materials.
Development Tnder "Way.
"The Klamath country has now taken
a firm second hold on development and
is the liveliest section east of the Cas
cade Mountains." says Mr. Strahorn,
who has just returned from Klamath
Falls.
"With a $2,000,000 payroll this year,
60.000 acres of its richest land being re
claimed by drainage and irrigation. 120
a ton alfalfa and the greatest building
and home-making activity since the
boom of six or seven years ago. the
transformation In the past year is a
surprise to all visitors. It Is a gratify
ing case of a wonderfully favored
country, after many vicissitudes and
dlscourasrine: delays, just starting to
come into its own.
MUI Increase Output.
"Of course the agricultural develop
ment is largely due to prevailing high
prices of all products and the stimulus
of our new railroad construction. The
wonderful expansion of the lumber in
riustrv eoinsr on and to increase for
vears is the natural result of the rap
idly decreasing supply of pine timber
in the older lumbering sections added
to war demands and the greatly dimin
ished building operations of the past
few vears. which can only be held back
about so long, when the slack roust be
taken up in addition to the current
normal demand.
"For examnle one big mill has the
hulk of its output sold for a term of
vears to one dealer In a comparatively-
small city In a far Eastern state. The
Euwana Company, which has just com
Dieted its new mill, ships seven car
loads of box shooks daily. It runs day
and night and the other mills, would
do so If they could get the labor.
"We have six mills along the first
20 miles of our new railroad and others
farther out are clamoring for its ex
tension, some hauling their product by
team and auto 20 miles.
White Pine Is King.
. "Western white pine Is indeed king
till will. Just as soorv as we can fur
wish adeauate rail facilities, make
Klamath Falls the greatest lumber
' manufacturing center In the United
States for her tributary country has
An nnn nno.OOO of it. Speaking of lumber
shipments reminds me that I had the
pleasure on June 30, 1918, just 11
months after we let our construction
contract, of seeing the first two car
loads shipped to Klamatn
iir new road from a mill
miles out.
"One of the most striking
tural developments down
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sence of fences, to be one solid field of
5000 acres of barley on land which was
covered by the waters of Tule Lake
last year. Much of this will yield 40 to
50 bushels per acre without irrigation,
owing to the moisture left in the warm,
sandy loam of the receding waters of'
the lake. Another important item is
the reclamation, this season, by pump
ing from the giant springs at Bonanza,
of 10.000 acres of rich - bench lands
mostly in sight of our dairy terminal
and the arrangements being perfected
for the irrigation of 30.000 acres more
n that vicinity from the $500,000 Gov-
rnment reservoir at the head of Lost
River.
Much I.and Is Drained.
Also along our line in the Swan
Lake, Pine Flat and Tonna Valley sec
tions artesian wells are being driven to
irrigate some 15,000 acres more. Quite
flow of gas has been encountered in
ome drilling nearby, which encourages
the hope that a commercial supply of
gas or oil may. through these efforts,
be' added to Klamath's imposing array
of natural resources.
To the Tule Lake reclamation of
about 75,000 acres, at the rate of about
5000 acres per year, through diversion
of its Lost River feeder, is this year
added the beginning of the draining of
Lower Klamath Lake through diver
sion of the overflow waters of Klamath
River. Here will be another princely
addition of about 90,000 acres of rich
bottom lands in the near future as a
result of many years' hard work to
harmonize conflicting interests, which
few years ago seemed impossible.
Meanwhile the marsh lands of the
Upper Klamath Lake are being drained
at the rate of from 5000 to 10,000 acres
a year, while the added area of lands
being cultivated each year under the
original $3,000,000 Government Irriga
tion system is considerable.
Livestock Industry Groira.
'And yet the Klamath country is
above all things the meat and wool
farming country par excellence, as our
friend Colonel Hawley would express it.
As a producer of grass and grain for
feed and of cattle, horses, sheep and
wool it will be most noted in ages to
come. It is the natural home of alfalfa.
clover, timothy and red top, which will
be fed 'in Winter by the millions of
tons In . future years right where It
grows to the livestock which In Sum
mer will swarm over the great ranges
of the more elevated country surround
ing. - It already ships about 1000 car
loads of these products annually and
is probably paying more attention to
improving Its stock so they will be
better worth this choice Winter feed
than any section of the Northwest.
" Many Obstacles Overcome.
"With all this fatness of the Klamath
country and the Central Oregon coun
try. generally, can you wonder at my
persistence in hammering away, even
under the most discouraging conditions,
at my railroad project? Or that I am
never backward in reminding Portland
that she has a great stake in the de
veiopment of that region which it is
possible to make as large an element
of her prosperity as all Oregon west
of the Cascade Mountatns? I am now
referring to all the country and all the
trade, and the interchange thereof.
which Is involved in my complete pro
gramme of connecting up those five
railroads which just reach the outer
edge of that country and the creation
of new through rail routes east of the
Cascades from the Columbia River
region to California and the East.
Rural Advantages Expand
"Of course we are practically side
tracked during the war which. we could
do so much to help win even if we had
only the line from Bend to Klamath
Falls completed. But it should not be
forgotten that these lines would be
come a national necessity should
foreign troubles come to our Coast and
that when the war is over the one big
gest and best field in which to work
out the home-finding and employmen
projects for our returned soldiers i
that one bo near by. east of the Cas
sades. Also that it Is never too early
for us to begin to make the most of it.
"With all the struggle and strain of
the comparatively small and financially
weak population of Eastern Oregon its
progress in a large way is after all
only too slow in these days when so
much should be done in so short a time.
Nearly all the reclamation projects I
have mentioned and many others could
be very helpful in time for the winning
of the war if we could get prompt co
operation from the Government in the
way of financing on an adequate scale.
Land development is going on only by
piecemeal and unsatisfactorily because
the bonds of reclamation districts,
which can be made as safe as any se
curity need be. can in these times only
be placed locally, if at alL and very
slowly at that.
'If these securities could be fathered
or taken over by the Government re
turns in crops of all kinds would be ad
equate and almost Instantaneous.
Please recollect that with this done on
an adequate scale, and the rail lines I
suggest completed, that country can
produce from 60,000,000 to 75,000,000
bushels of grain or its equivalent annually."
Brownsville Has Chautauqua.
BROWNSVILLE, Or., July 20. (Spe
cial.) Brownsville, agrees with the
President's view that Chautauquas are
not luxuries and extravagances, but
are . necessities instead. The other
towns of the county which usually
hold Chautauquas are ' going without
them this year, but on Tuesday after
noon a company began here a series of
one week s programmes.
CARD OF THAKS.
We wish to thank ovrr many friends
who so kindly helped us during the
illness and at the funeral of Mrs. Katie
Christiansen, expressed by helping deeds
ana Deautilul flowers.
CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIANSEN
dv. AND FAMILY.
FLOURING MILL LOOMS
CRAWKORDSVILLE PLANT MAY BE
MOVED TO NEW LOCATION.
Lebanon Business Men Open Negotia
tions to Have Industry Trans
ferred to That City.
LEBANON. Or., July 20. (Special.)
Lebanon has good prospects of having
a flouring mill established here. John
Aicnercner, who owns a mill near
Crawfordsville, In this county, is plan
ning to move his plant to Lebanon.
This mill is closely linked with the
early history of Linn County, it being
one or the first institutions of its kind
started in Linn County. It was first
started by R. C. Finley In 1848. The
old stone burrs for this mill were
brought across the plains by ox team
from Crawfordsville, Ind.. in 1847.
The mill stands on the eame site
where it was first built. It has been
rebuilt oeveral times and new machln
cry installed, until now It Is strictly
modern. In the early days there was
considerable wheat raised In that vicin
ity, but now it is largely devoted to
dairying, fruit and stockraising, and
the mill finds trouble in getting grain
Mr. Mcl-ercher thinks there Is
larger field for his mill at Lebanon,
and the business men here are giving
him strong encouragement.
IS Standardized Schools Is Plan.
ALBANY. Or.. July 20. (Special.)
If plans now being made by the Schoo
Board at Lyons are developed Linn
County will have 13 standardized high
schools. This board is planning to
have a standard high school at Lyons
during the coming school year. There
TacomcCs Leading Department Store
y The rapid expansion of business during the past year and the many changes
in.our selling force that are incidental with adjustment to war conditions finds
us preparing for the coming season with good positions open for thoroughly ex
perienced men and women with real sales ability in a number of departments.
Rhodes Brothers is recognized as the leading retail establishment of Tacoma,
located in the very center of Tacoma's retail district with six floors covering
half a block, and more than 40 live, up-to-date departments. And is favorably
known for its progressive methods and liberal policy in regard to the help
employed.
Working conditions are comfortable, salaries are the best paid in this line of
work and the bonus system in successful operation here gives extra opportunity
for increasing earnings that no other store in this section of the country offers.
The hours are from 9 to 6 every day in the week, and the store has every con
venience for comfort and welfare of its employes.
Positions Are Now Open in the Departments
For Men in the
RUGS AND DRAPERY SECTION
MEN'S CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS
WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S FOOTWEAR
For Women in the
WOMEN'S APPAREL SECTIONS
BLOUSES, PETTICOATS AND NEGLIGEE WEAR
CORSETS AND BRASSIERES
JUNIORS' AND CHILDREN'S APPAREL ,
WOMEN'S LINGERIE AND HOUSE GARMENTS
ART NEEDLEWORK SECTION
SILKS AND DRESS GOODS
LINENS, DOMESTICS AND COTTON FABRICS
MILLINERY SALONS
BOOKS AND STATIONERY
JEWELRY AND LEATHER GOODS
Applications for employment in these departments may be
made to the Superintendent's Office on Fifth Floor. Prefer
ably in person, but application by mail will be considered.
'InEveryDstauT&coma's Leadind Retail Establishment'
are 12 standard high schools In the
county already. They are located at
Albany. Lebanon. North Brownsville.
South Brownsville, Halsey. Harrisburg.
Scio. Mill City. Sweet Home, Crabtree.
Shedd and Tangent.
14TH YEAR IN PORTLAND
CONGREGATION PICKS MOSS
Presbyterian Churclt Members Aid
Red Cross Operations.
One of the most novel church dem
onstrations ever seen In Tortland was
displayed In the btucmcnt of the First
Presbyterian Church Monday whrn 250
members of the church dashed to the
rescue of the Red Cross by picking.
Bortlng and drying 13 sacks of sphag
num moss for surgical dressing
bandages.
So successful were the church work
ers at their voluntarily-assumed tsTTk
of helping out the Red Cross, that Dr.
Boyd, pastor, has called for a second
Red Cross picking demonstration rn
the hasemont of the church at 7:30 to
morrow night, and an all-day picking
social Wednesday, beginning at 10
o'clock.
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Dairymen Elect Directors.
CIIEHALIS. Wash.. July 20. (Spe
cial.) Gray Harbor County dairymen
have organized the Grays Harbor
Dairymen's Association and will af
filiate with the state organization. Di
rectors chosen are: W. F. Darby, Mon
tesano; W. J. Wharton, ;5atfop: Ran
som Slinkier, Klma; Lee Foster, Satsop;
David Dey, Porter; John Murphy. Sat
sop: O. M. Gordon. Summit: J. Porter,
Porter; K. E. Sweitzer. Oakville.
Oregon Women Working Reserve
want "5 women berry pickers to go to
Cotton berry farm atonce. Farm will
bed and feed pickers for 0c a day.
Pickers must bring tick and blankets.
Register with Mrs. Baldwin, 704 Oregon
Building. Phone Broadway 440.--Adv.
Phone your want ads to The Orego-
nlan. Main 7070, A 6035.
RE1AR
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CABLE PHOSPHATE
MAKES THIN PEOPLE FAT
AUTHENTIC CLINICAL TESTS SHOW ONE PATIENT
GAINED 23 POUNDS, ANOTHER 27 POUNDS
Bitro-Phosphate, the Organic Substance Dis
covered by French Scientist, Excites
Interest of American Physicians.
New York. The discovery of an or
ganic phosphate whtch when taken Into
the human system is quickly converted
Into healthy body tissue, is regarded
by medical specialists as of vital Im
portance to people who suffer from ail
ments direotly or Indirectly due to de
pleted nervous vitality, such as neuras
thenia, nervous weakness, thinness,
premature old age, insomnia, lack of
energy, nervous debility, etc
Thinness and weakness are usually
due to starved nerves. Our bodies need
more phosphate than Is contained In
modern foods. Physicians claim there
Is nothing that will supply this defi
ciency so well as the organic phosphate
known among druggists as bltro-phos-
phate. which la Inexpensive aad in sold.
by most all druggists under a guaran
tee of satisfaction or money back. By
feeding the nerves directly and by sup
plying the body cells with the neces
sary phosphoric food elements, bitro
phosphate quickly produces a welcome
transformation In the appearance; the
Increase in weight frequently being
astonishing.
Clinical tests made In St. Catherine's
Hospital, N. T. C, showed " that two
patients gained In weight 23 and 27
pounds-, respectively, through the ad
ministration of this organic phosphate;
both patients claim they have not felt
as strong and well for the past twelve
years.
This Increase in weight also carries
with It a general improvement In the
health. Nervorone. eleenlessness and
lack of energy, which nearly always
accompany excessive thinners. soon
disaDDear. dull eves become brlKht. and
pale cheeks glow with the bloom of
perfect health.
Physicians and hospitals everywhere
are now recognizing its merits by Its
use In ever Increasing quantities. Fred
erick Kolle, M. D.. editor of New York
rhyslelan'a "Who's Who." says: "Bitro
Phosphate should be prescribed by
every doctor and used In every hospital
to increase strength and nerve force
and to enrich the blood."
Jos. D. Harrlgan, Former Visiting
Specialist to North Eastern Dispensa
tory, says: "Let those who are weak.
thin, nervous, anaemic or run-down
take a natural, unadulterated strength
and tissue ouilainir substance such
bitro-phosphate and you will soon see
some astonishing results In the increase
or nerve energy, strength or Body and
mini ana power or endurance.
CAUTION: Although Bitro -Phosphate
is unsurpassed for relieving nerv
ousness, sleeplessness and general
weakness, owing to Its remarkable
flesh growing properties, it should not
be used by anyone who does not desire
to put on flesh. Adv.
dr. k. n. Avspi.vm. v.n.
My Practice la Limited to
High-Class Deatiatry Only
NOTHING
IMPORTANT
BUT
VICTORY
This War Is for "The
World's Championship"
and Is Going to Be Won
by the Great American
"Punch"
Diluted patriotism is a thing of the past. We've ban
ished the hyphen with its 50-50 allegiance; we've wiped
out the Mason and Dixon line: united the East and West;
watched the banker's son in khaki marching side by side
with the bootblack; capital and labor have agreed to arbi
trate their differences in order that the safety of America
need not be jeopardized in internal strife; and a unified,
united, liberty-loving people have but one thought BEAT
THE HUN NOW AND FOR ALL TIME.
Your business and mine are insignificant issues while
the flower of American manhood is giving its life blood for
democracy and the home.
Dollars hidden in vaults or hoarded in "stockings" are
disloyal, selfish dollars and should call for the internment
of their owners. -
Keep money circulating, but avoid extravagance.
Economize in foodstuffs, coal, metals, clothing because
extravagance in these things interferes with the war needs
of the Government, but don't neglect health, don't stint on
necessities, and, above all, don't pay a cent for reputation,
prestige or graft.
Although several of my valued operators and some of
my laboratory experts have already joined the colors and
more are ready to go ; although dental materials cost much
more than ever before, and general expense of conducting a
large office continually increases, I have no word of com
plaint. I still guarantee that only solid gold is used here in
crown and bridgework, and that only high-class experienced
dentists are permitted to operate in my office.
The promise which I made years ago of "better den
tistry for less money" is being kept, regardless of the war
and the fact that other dentists are charging double my
prices for work no better and often inferior.
Electro Whalebone Plates... $13.00
Flesh Colored Plates $10.00
Porcelain Crowns ...So.OO
Fillings, from $1.00
22-K Gold Crowns $3.00
22-K Gold Bridgework $5.00
All Work
15
Years!
Open
Nights
Electro Painless Dentists
IN THE TWO-STORY BUILDING
Corner Sixth and Washington Sts, Portland, Or.