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THE OREGON SUNDAY JO0RnAi; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL- 19-1903.. It IT YOU WANT TO KNOW WIIAT SMARTLY DRESSED UTX WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING. C W4, vHy' r Jlilffliil lif. f An experience of many years If YAW 'illy VI incfifioc ue in Mminrt (nr ntw rlntUnrt f ft ' i ' ? 1 , jhjhuwj-uj in viuiiiuii vr' vw wvrLtmi23 2 oupciiuiiiy in 5Lic, limivc aiiu in yum ! The making good of these claims is what y i nis season s onenngs are supenor P Tr io our former best , -j A n SUITS AND TOPCOATS S15to$4fl ' '" V -A li Mil 1 1 " lift I III ... mm i Ik' ,f'i X til I' IKti,,, 1 I I . t II V I ' . LEADING CLOTHIER LIGHTING LANE WANTS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Mayor Declares Cost Would Kot Exceed $300,00Or-An- T--.fji x t rv TTi ti LiJ m 4 ... Bwers rresiueni iosseiu uu jxi8.J!icessiye raxa-. ; tion Argument People Also Hare -Interests. WASHNJCNA VALLEY UNDER IRRIGATION , 4 One of "the Big New Projects Now Being Developed. Eastern Washington nd Oregon, tfc country tributary to th Columbia rlv Mayor Imh baa laauad another let ter to the people In regard to city llfht lnf and points out that the city la pay- Ing- too much for Its llrbta. ' Mayor Lane advocates a municipal : dUtribu tlon system and calls attention to the contention of. the' Portland Railway, Light & Power company that municipal ownership Of electrio lighting plants Is a failure by referring to Detroit. Nash' vllle and other cities conducting their wn lighting plants. Mayor . Lane says that the lighting bill at present la about $100,000 and says that It would be twice as much li tne cuy were property Hgniea. tun letter follows: ; "To the People Of Portland In the matter of the public lighting of the city there are some points which are worthy of your serious consideration at this time. The first and most Important is that It costs the city too much. "At the last meeting of the city coun cil an ordinance was passed ' (over my grotest? whicn instructs tne executive oard to enter Into a contractor public lighting for a term of three or five years from January 1, 1909. i 'There la but one oompany wmcn for this llzhtmr. and it will ten tne city win nave .can bid name the rrlce whi to pay for such service. The city will nave no voice in tne matter. "It will cost, this city at the price now paid over 100,000 a year, to light Its streets with but half the number of lamps needed for an adequate serv Ice. : . "If the city Is to light Its streets firoperly and sufficiently It will cost t over $200,000 a year to do so. ' xon4h-' on tb City. :, ' ' 'The least estimated probable 'expen diture for a three-year term for half lighted streets is about $360,000. With the streets quite well but not fully lighted, the expenditure for this term will amount' to-not less than. $650,000. "On Its face the proposition . does not seem to be a good one for the city. As Jl matter of fact It Is not a good one t Is a; bad . one,' The city pays too much for its public lighting and will continue to pay too much for such serv ice until it devises some means of re lief from the present condition of af fairs. "The situation would be entirely dif ferent if the city, owned a distribution system deaignea to 1 use electricity, or gas ana eieeincuy. "If It owned such a distribution sysi tern the city could at this time secure competitive bids for power. ' to operate its street lamps at a rate .Which would result In a reduction of the cost of fiower to not more than one half wlwt t now pays. It would also be in a po sition to foreOi competition between electric and nas arc lamps which would Immediately result In cuttln the price - J.D.DUBACK , P ' . - ' .' i .. PROFESSIONAL , OPTICIAN .173 Fourth' Street ' YJl.CA.B!dg.; of lighting down to a rate which the olty could afford to pay. ' "The proposition of putting In a dis tribution system Is both feasible and simple and must be dona by the city before It can hope to lower the cost of public lighting. It Is also the flrs step toward the ownership of a lighting plant by the city. Cost of Distribution System. Whether the city cares to acquire the power and Install generating plant or jQOt, necessity -will compel It to at least own Its distribution system within the city s limits. Bucn a system can do in stalled for not to exceed 1300.000.' Der- liaps for less, and the city can do no better or more useful thing than to make preparation to install such a sys tem as soon as possiDie. - "Discouraging reports of the failure of municipally owned lighting1 plants emanating from the company which has tne omy supply or uxnt at tnis time. are to be expected. If you. will look over such of them, however, as have oeen puoiisneti, you win .rina no report from successfully conducted municipal plants and there are a number, notable among which are Detroit. Alameda. California, Seattle, Welser, Idaho, and eo ' far as It has Installed them. St. Louis, Missouri, also Nashville, Ten nessee, which has been Quoted by Mr. Josselyn as among those cities which have failed in municipal ownership or Dubiio utilities.'- - - - "Tne ciaim tnai me Deonie are unni to conduct tneir own Dustness airairs. and must leave, such matters entirely in tne nanus ox other persons, presumably those who are . now. enraged. : in rur r.lehln the sort of service which the city is getting lor tne price it- is paying. is. an insuit to ineir intelligence - in more ways than one. "To the announcement or the sole prospective bidder for publlo lighting mat is. as one ex tne largest taxpayers. protests against any. municmaiiv man. agedattempt to ' escape from the pres ent condition of ). affairs. It may be urced that the Deonie dhv too- much for their lighting. AlsO-that they pay larger percentage or the cost of the same In -proportion to the value of their holdings than does this or any other private corporation engaged in supply ine public utilities, and until such time as aucn concerns near their lust , share of these expenditures the Interest of the peoote, oy ngnu is nrst to oe considered.-: - . "I have no wish to do Injustice to the ngnts or tne oruand Kaiiway, Light ft Power company, it Is entitled to all which belongs to Hi but to nothing more The people Of the city too have their, interests, and they reach out .into me nomes or many persons. Their in; terests are as important . to them and Just a sacred land worthy, of careful consideration end respect as are 'these Diners, xne puue-or. aucn expenditures ara bornu by them, i and their rights may not. In Justice find decency, be usurped or Juggled, by any opo. And In so far and Just so far as it lies with in my - power I shall protest against the - fastening of auoh a 'atrnna-lK.hnii s this upon them. Respectfully, v-V.. ' . ' 1 - W AKxtx . LANlii, Mayor. Btoltal Uext Tuesday. . ' Active Interest is boine- manifAiSfiui in the lecture-recltal.v.'R;phoe.From rtiria 4nd," by Sylvia WiUiams McGulre, Portland's popular impersonators and reader of negro dialeot, which will be Stven on next Tuesday evenlnv at th Vhite Temple. Mrs. SlcOulre has won a high place in the entertainment field. her work being In a class by Itself and stamped with, an Individuality peculiar- lv her Own. ', In her -. 'Rrhnan ,. Frnnt Dixie' Land" she carries her audience back to the sunny south berora the war when the charm of plantation life was unbroken, and something of -the old timo Illusions "lingered about th cotton-fields and cabins. - Her Impersona tions of the old-time darknv: hla riiWt and quaint 'characteristics are Inimitable.- . - . .:--'.,...; Mrs. HcGulre -will h aaUtai s an Tuesday jevenlna; by the well-known soloists, w aidemar . Llnd and J. Claire gravity flow during the early part of May of this year. The main system from below Hdoper crosses the Pa louse river' on a bridge in a continuous stave pipe line SH feet In diameter. 1.000 feet long to the other side of the valley, and from thence the system will bo constructed to run down the valley and cover the balance of the land. It Is the Intention of the company to com plete tho system down to washtucna and have about 2,600 acres under irri gation for next year. The undertaking of the Palouse Irri gation V Power company, in addition to developing the irrigation project, in- - . , . . . . ui mo laying uui ana uuiiaiui uy and the Portland market. Is now making ths townH,ta t Palousa Falls. The tremendous strides la the development of its arid lands through the instrumen tality of supplying water to these lands by Irrigation. History teaches us that Irrigation fanning tends to wonderful developments and to great wealth. It means the subdividing of the large farms and valleys into S and - 10-acre tracts and the settling upon each of these tracts with families, and a com petence and even riches to these set tlers. It means that where, under the old system, one man farmed ,a section of land in wheat or as a stock ranch, tfO or more families, under irrigation and intensive fruit farming, will derive laraa Income. One of the new projects that Is now being developed is In the Washtucna valley, adjoining the great Palouse wheat country In Whitman county, Waahlnfi-tnn. The mat Palouse coun try in Washington, although located in Our sister state, is really a tributary to the Portland markets. The Palouse wheat fields have ' become famous for their wonaeriui productiveness in wneai per acre for the time and labor ex pended. The oounties of Waitman, Franklin and Adams produced nearly 20.000,000 bushels of wheat during the year 1907, which gave the farmers of these counties a total of some $15,000, 000. This country has In recent years also shown a wonderfu1 activity in the culture of fruits. Wherever water can be supplied through irrigation, orchards were estaDiisnea ana w nign quality ui apple and pear was produced. Tne Washtucna valley, on the PalouBS river. Is - the only large district in the Pa louse country capable Of development under irrigation and - the development of this valley is now belnr accom plished by the Palouse Irrigation & Power romnanv. a Washington corpora tlon. The prediction is -made .that the wasntucna vauey, in m c-aiuuae coun try, under irrigation, will become as famous as the- Palouse wheat, and the two will continue hand In hand in fur nishing large business for the Portland market. The Portland & Seattle rail' wav.- now belnsr constructed, will tra- varna th Washtucna Taller for 10 miles and will bring this valley several hours nearer to Portland.- The Palouse irrigation tf fower com' any is a Washington corporation, capl- allied at 1200.000. This company now controls the waters of the Palouse riverJ whirh ara tha same waters that were contemplated by the government for the Greater Palouse project and the irriga tion of some" 80,000 acres of land ex tending down to Pasco on the Columbia river.- - This" corporation owns - about 9.000 acres of land in and adjacent to the . Washtuon valley in whitman, Franklin and Adams counties. About 2:600 acres of this land are irrigable and will come under the irrigation, sys tem, The total amount of land to be Irrigated .in the Washtucna valley will be between 8,600 and 4,000 acres. This property is practically in the- heart of ,the world-famous Palouse . wheat dis trict, wnicn contriDuates largely to ine tremendous wheat shipment that is han dled, yearly through the Portland ; mar- Ket, rsou mat win proauc oy ary farmlnr such - liiirh auallty wheat will undoubtedly produce under Irrigation ex cellent fruit. This - has Indeed been proved by .the orchards- that .have been rrlgated by small individual ditches In different parts of the valley. It Is the unlan1 the.t nroduces the wheat ' and other grain, and the valley land that is Irrigated, that will make this locality eciuallr famous : with , its apples. - pears and other fruits. !.",-:. -v- v--.- This undcrtakine- is in Its infancy but those who are handling the project are both capable' : and ' aggressive -and this present year will see .great changes in the Washtucna- valley. Already the company has constructed .four : miles, of main canal, built to carry 10 cubic feet of water per second of time, and has Its dams and headgatea constructed on the Palouse river-about three miles above Hooper In ' Whitman county. The dam Dunt during this past winter is or solid concrete masonry, anchored to bedrock zu reet oeiow v tne river. -, -a , vo-ioot waste -tunnel constructed through solid rock makes -the - control of the water of the river positive at all times. At tne present - time ; tne - company is , ousy misning up construction worx on' tne main lateral which taps tha system be low . Hooper to supply - water to some uo acres, part of which --4 has Been platted into. Palouse orchards This latei-il-will be com rile ted and the water locality of this site Is Just across the river from Palouse Orchards and is Ideal, for a progressive, thriving town. Six miles below this townslte Is the wonderful waterfall of the same name on the P louse river, and It Is part of the plan of the company to develop elec trio power from the water of the falls for milling and other manufacturing industries. There are unlimited possi bilities along this line for this local ity. The Immense quantities of wheat raised in the Palouse district will alone assure the success on the start of such an undertaking, to say nothing of the business that packing-houses, canneries and creameries will give. That the Washtucna valley will rapidly reach a high stare of development Is a cer tainty. The work of the Palouse Irri gation & Power company alone would assure this, but when, in conjunction with their efforts, two more railroads undertake to traverse the valley, t litre can be no question of the ultimate out come as to settlement and prosperity. The personnel of the company con sists of the followlnar board of directors H. C. Peters, president. Seattle.- Wash ington, owner of. Cascade orchards In the Wenatchee valley; B. L. Oates, vice president, Seattle, Washington, Jeweler; U H. Marsh, secretary. Hooper, Wash ington; John R Ryan, attorney at law, Seattle. Washington; J. D. Butler, sec retary and manager Parker-Bell Lum ber company, Seattle, Washington; Earl Pooler, president C H. Nichols Lumber company, Seattle, Washington; C. T. Booth of Washtucna, Washington, is the superintendent of construction on tho ground; W. R. ProwelL engineer of Wenatchee, Washington, is the engineer in charge; Hanrord & BiacKwell or Heat tie. Washington, consulting engineers: R. H. Smithwtck. civil engineer of Spo kane, Washington, is in charge or plat ting and laying out of the different tracts and the townslte; Arthur Small of Seattle, Washington, formerly of California, advertising and office mana- ?:er at the home office in Seattle. These, ogether with some 26 active amenta, constitute the working force of the company. Tree Deafness Cure. A remarkable offer made by one of the leading ear specialists In this coun trr. Dr. Branaman offers to all apply ing at once two full months' medicine free to prove his ability to cure per manently deafness, head noises and ca tarrh in every stage. Address. Dr. G. M. Branaman. 1388 Walsut street, Kan sas City, Missouri. T TAFT ADVOCATES HEWS PLAN Bill for Expenditure of. Fifty Millions for Waterways Meets Approval. (Btarat News by Longest teased Wire.) Washington, April 18. Secretary Taft today submitted a report to the senate indorsing the main features of the bill Introduced by Senator Newlands for an appropriation of $50,000,000 for the Improvement of inland waterways of the country. This plan has been Indorsed heartily In meetings through out the country. It was drafted, by Senator Newlands during the large In land waterway conference, held here in December last. The fact that the sec retary has approved the main features of his bill leads Senator Newlands to believe that an appropriation will bo made by congress for the appointment of a permanent Inland waterways com mission, for the creation of a waterway fund, and for the improvement of the waterways. It was referred to the war . department by tha senate committee on commerce sometime ago. : ' Secretary Taft says the bill provides a comprehensive plan for the develop ment of the waterways, the cooperation -' of forestry. Irrigation, swamp land, reclamation, utilisation of water power and clarification of streams in connec tion with -and the cooperation of states and municipalities with , the ; national government in the work. He bases his report upon the power of the constitution to regulate Inter state commerce and states that the feople of the nation should engage In he consideration of these questions, es pecially on- the navigability of the stream or the possibilities of making: them navigable; ....... v Lean o Short, Xmg or Vtotrt. ,3V e can fit you bacauaa we make a specialty of fitting every customer that comes to our store. Carelessly made suit Is greater annoyance to us than It is to you. Another thing , you should remember, that we make any - suit in the house to order for 2-, no more, no less. Wa can fit you, suit you and clothe you for half what ?ou pay at most tailors. You will be ar better satisfied because your finan cial condition will be better satisfied. You can buy two suits rrom us ior what one will coat-you at the other fellow's. Call in tomorrow and look our stock over, rou are not urgea to bay. Unique Tailoring Co, $01 Stark street, near Sixth. . . pi Confidential r'; -" -'r "- II Credit 2?5v , What have you paid in the past for 9x1 2 Tapestry Rugs ? 9x12 Bodyv Brussels Rugs? 9x12 Axminster Rugs? Are not these prices somewhat different? $2a00 9x12 Tapestry Brussels Rugs, ,. .$13.95 $18.00 8.3x10.6 Tapestry Brussels Rugs $12.95 $33.00 9x12 Body Brussels Rugs.. v. .. 1$24.80 $31.00 8.3x10.6 Body Brussels Rugs. . . .$23.80 $33.00 9x12 Axminster Rugs. .$19.95 $31.00 8.3x10.6 Axminster Rugs. . . . . . .$18.95 lonndcntralff Credit OUT OF THE HIGH RENT, DISTRICT it; These Rus are not. inferior in any respect. They are absolutely the best in their respective grades. These prices are just a plain demonstra tion of the advantage our; low rents give us, enabling tis t quote the- above, extraordinary ..J saie.i- Montelth. , will be carried' onto this property by