THE OREGON . SUNDAY JOURNAL. . PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1910
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: IRRIGATION AT KLAMATH FALLS
Tf i nment reclamation Project at Kalamth Falls Gives Promise cf (Swat Things To Dat $2,000,--(
) Has Been Expended and 30,000 Acres of Land Have Been Put Under AVater The Comple. "
tiori of the .Work of Irrigating More. Than lob,000. Acres Involves ,, Total Expenditure" of $.V
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By Randall Rj Howard,
Klamath Falls, Aug. 20.A.n average
Income last year ot $20 per acra was
earned, by all lands Irrigated under the
Klamath government reclamation pro
eot. Such la the estimate made by con
eervative expertir This tnoludes all ibt
the 2tM66 acres that-hava.recelva4. wa-
ter, a part of the land being new. Also
; a great many of the more than J00 new
families that have settled on the project
since It was opened knew nothing about
Irrigation before their coming, hence the
first; two years must be considered as
largely experimental. i -
Excludlnr new settlers and new lands
that have not yet had a chance to show
what they may accomplish, the average
representative farmer on tne &iamaui
jiiojcct is estimated to have mads bis
. land earn an : average .of 140 an acre
last year.'; f- v 4 f ': " V i'1-'
To date? the sum of about 13,000.000
has been expended on the Klamath proj-
rt. the total estimated coat or the proj
ct comDlete being $5,000,000. One unft
of the proiect has been- finished and
water has been brought to 80,000 acres
of the total of between ,1,50.000 and
jSttMM Irrigable acres.. ",
s The Klamath , government "project,
taken as a whole, has several very In
teresting and unique features. It also
involves a variety of problems, alnca It
Includes i both -swamp and arid lands.
First of all, there is said to be more
water available than can be used. This
because of the splendid system of lake
rescrvolra arid rivers " that form the
central features of the large and splen
did project. V The chief reservoir aite Is
v t he upper Klamath lake, a body of water
witb an area or more than 80 square
mlLes. The CWar lake reservoir site
in northern California: is not so large,
- but It Is a magnificent, and beautiful
body of water. . Thes, two and other
p adjacent lakes drain an Immense area
la the south central part of the state,
and tha-aeriuaneney Of the water supply
cannot be doubted, - ; . '. .
AvaUabls Water rows.
Besides the large amoiht of available
water for Irrigation, the Klamath proj-
ect also includes a nunrbsf of water-"
- Tower sjtea. . Indeed,- there are those
' who say that the power that . may ' be
developed will in the. future more than
pay the annual maintenance charges for
water, which for the present has been
, fixed it 75 cents per acre. . Thus the
- ; Water Users! association, which will
come Into complete ownership and con
trol of the irrigation system as soon as
all of the 10 annual water payments
have been met,; will have a source of
income and ought, to pay dividends on
:J their reclamation system investment.
: ', The acreage cost of water rights un
der the-Klamath project is one of the
v lowest In the west, notwithstanding
'there has been some criticism of recla
mation service, officials becauae the'
originally estimated acreage cost of the
project was Increased from $20 to $30.
" The officials explain that the original
estimate of $20 per acre was-made in
, . 1904, when aU materials and labor were
' much cheaper and when the "cost of
' - living" had not become a national prob
lem. Also,, construction figures often
. exceed original estimates. For exam-
pier the original estimate of the Harrl
man engineers for the construction of
- the Luc lan cutoff la said to have been
$2,500,000, but it Is known that before
the work was completed the expendU
' , tures had grown to more than 17.000,000.
The large earnings made by all land
holders under the Klamath project last
yeur prove that the reclamation of the
land is cheap even at the increased cost
of $80 an acre. The only regret at this
time is that the entire project is not
1 being rushed to completion, since the
additional amount of $3,000,000 would
now reclaim from 120,000 to 160,000 acres
; of land, whereas it has required the ex
; ponditure of $2,000,000 to reclaim the
20,000 acres that now hava water.
The Klamath project is unique in the
northwest in still another feature. Near
ly all other government project lands
will be or are being devoted . to fruit
growing and Intensive agriculture. This
is made necessary, in fact, because of
irrigation canal, n.iiHit i tifii, project,
the greater cost of the water right in While the Klamath project lands may
most cases. High priced lands must! In time develop Into such Intensively
produce high priced and Intensive crops. cultivated lands, the project will still
bn-asuee-ess--eviv If-thellaiids are de
Voted to the very simplest of uses. Al
low. every other possible land uses to
fall on the Klamath project which they
will not and the, land will still '.be
almost wunexcelled " for dairying and
stockraUing purposes.' And even for
such uses the water right charge of $30
an acre, and a maintenance fee of 75
cents per year will be repaid several
times over In the average. case within
the next 10 years. .. , - '
v, . " rand ' Unit . Varies. 1 v ; ' ,,;.
Because of the 'dairying and stock
raising possibilities' of the Klamath sec
tion. ; and especially of the Klamath
project, . reclamation .; service officials
have fixed the land unit at ISO acres.
On nearly all other national projects, on
the other hand, the land unit had been
f lied at 80, and often at 40 acres. Oa
some of the projects the maximum land
unit is even as low as 10 acres. It may
be said that there ' Is" practically jib
limit to the. amount of land that any
one family may own. under the Klamath
project The man may own 160 acres,
his wife can own another 160 acres, and
all of his children 160 acre' when they
become of age. ; ; ' .:..l.'"r ;'.
There is proof, however, that land
holdlngs under the Klamath project Will
never be- excessively, large.. During the
past two years theaverage size of th
holdings under the government ditches
hSVeaecrgased from 160 acrwrto- about
76 acres, and there is reason to . believe
that this average will become still low
er. During the past two years about 800
new families have settled on the Klam
ath project, besides 'the natural sub
division of farms among families. The
subdivision of the Irrigated lands is
stub going on, ana jt is said that there
Is Still room for 100 additional families
under the first unit of the project.
At present water Is being delivered
to about, 500 different users. The gen
eral prosperity of the irrigators is
shown by statements of officials in
charge of the project, who report not
more than half a dozen falluresto meet
water payments. It should be remem
hered in this connection that a large
percentage of the new settlers previous
ly knew nothing about irrigation, and
the further fact that neither the govern
ment nor. the' state has seen fit as yet
to establish experimental ; stations or
farms to aid these new, settlers. , It
should be mentioned, ' though,-that an
experimental station has recently been
established by the government on the
swamp lands -that are to be drained
under the project. ;"
It Is thought that these swamp lands
may prove to be among the richest on
the entire projeot when drained "and
later Irrigated; , They seem especially
adapted to the production of Such vege
tables as celery an all plants of tfie
Jcabbage family.. Klamath Falls, as the
market center for these lands, is fortu
nately located, being almost midway
between Portland and San Francisco,
and with the completion -or ' presently
building railroads, , within day's time
,of each. -.', J. . . ; - .,, !v '
V Among, possible crops' on the Klsmath
project, besides grain and alfalfa, are
sugar beets and fruits and many vari
eties of small vegetables; Land may b
had on the Klamath project at from $50
to $60 an acre, not Inclusive of water
right costs, which are payable In 10
snnualr-rastarrmCTtrw'farour Interest.'
and are considered In 'the nature of
land improvement! since the water right
becomes permanently appurtenant to the
land and since Irrigation always more
than pays for Itself . In crops. Thi
same land could have been had for from
$10 to $18 an acre before irrigation, and
the swamp lands have been sdld by the
state at from 60 cents to $1.26 an acre
Settlers on the Klamath project are
largely from western states, though
Bohemian colony from the east has re
cently coma. - - ,
North Coast
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Horticultural Society Publishes
List of Additional Awards
' Offered Exhibitors. ,
In addition to ths partial premium list
already announced for th OreROn Fruit
Show, to b syid November 85 and De
cember 1-2 arid ; under ths auspices of
the Oregon Btate Horticultural society,
the following additional premiums will
be offered: v
, Mount Hood Land company. $60, best
display from Mount - Hood district.
Clackamas county; Chaptn ft Heriow,
$25, best exhibit from Estacada district,
Clackamas county; . Oregon City Com
merelal - club-(30, best apple .exhibit
om Clackamas county, 120, second
best, $10; Albany Commercial club. $50,
best exhibit from Linn county; Corvallls
Commercial club,. $100, beet 10-box ex
hibit Benton county (not mors than S
varieties), first $36. second $18. : - '
Best single oox of each of the folldw
ing: Spitsenberg $5, Yellow Newtown
$5, Baldwin $5, Northern Spy $5. King
of Thompklns $5, ; Wagner $5, Grimes
Golden $5, Jonathan $5, Ben Davis $5.
Best deooratlons $8.
The Coos Bay Fruit Growers' asso
ciation promise a premium but has not
state the amount th Ashland Com
mercial "clUb-offer, a premium. Others
are still ti hear from. , The complete
premium list will e ready early In
September. y
Weber's Prize' Band. -
: The fDllowipg. are thS programs of
the concerts at the Oaks today;
AFTERNOON. . .
March "Happy Nights" -t-evt
Overture r"The Shipwreck jpf the Me
dusa" . . . . .V. ... ; ..... . Relssiger
Selection from "Amorita'TtT.. .Csibulka
"Little Dot" . .Frochllch
Melodies from famous operas, . .Tobani
RemlnlBcenoefixrf Plantation. .Chambers
Waltz "Life oh the Vienna Prater'..
. . . . . ... ....... . . . . . . . Translator
Gems from "The Prince of pilscn". ,.
Liuaers
Bliss
.Hager
Soprano aolg, "Wonderland of Love
- ".".' Blanche Mehaffey.
Finale, "My Cousin Caruso".
EVENING. .
March. "Flarrf Victory". ... .Von Blon
Overture, "Semiramide'f .., v. Rossini
Idyl. "The Glow-worm" .Lincke
Duet-for two piccolos, i-. . ... .Wiaaerl
Ralph Dye and Herbert Bellstedt.
Soprano solo. "Two Little Birds". Brand
Blanche Mehaffey.
Roosevelt's , Tour. , i a . . .Weber
L . J-'uneral . of Kate Flavel.
" (Sixxlal Dlspatrk The Jonrosl.i
Astoria, Or., Aug. 20.--The funeral -of
the lato Kate Flavel will be held next
Morday afternoon, from the family
residence, With Interment at Ocean View
cemetery, In the family plot. , ,
The shipbuilding ; concerns of . Ham
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seauenoe of the strike of. 8000 mechan
icst to lock out their employes, some 18.
000 in number. It is expected that, this
will stop all warship building.
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