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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1920)
TUB BRND 1U1KT1N, DAILY EDITION, RBND, ORBGON, HATl'RDAY, AVfll'NT 1)1, 101M. The Bend Bulletin j DAILY KDITIO.V rMUMj 'Rt.it AflnnMn Bieeat Seaa'ar. Br TIM Ben4 BaUetin (Ineerpe rates) Knsre M Second Class matter January Ik hit, M tM rt Office at Bend. Orecon. Act of March a. 1S78. KOBRRT W. SAWYER Edltar-Manaa-er HENRY N. FOWLEH Associate B.lttor FRED A. WOELFLEN..Arivrtllntt Manaarr C H. SMITH Circulation Manaiicr RALPH SPENCER Mechanical Sul't. An Independent Newspaper, standing for the square deal, clean business, clean politics nd th beat interests of Bend and Central Orea-on. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mi Mail On Year U.M Six Month i.TR Area Month ll.iO Br Carrier On Year M.M Bis Month! .' tS.(0 One Month 10.60 All subscriptions are due and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Notices of expiration are vailed subscribers and If renewal fa not wade within reasonable time the paper will ba discontinued. Please notifr us promptly of anr chance of audreaa, or ot failure to receive uie palter rexTutartr. Otherwise w will not be re- Bvonsibla for copies missed. Make all checks and orders parable to The. Bend Bulletin.- SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1920. THE TIMBER CUT .It' calf ba'Mpected, according to the report of the forest .service on timber depletion, that the lumber tat for the Pacific coast states,, as a whole, will increase very materially during the next 10 years. ."A grad nal rise in logging costs is Inevitable as the more accessible Btands are cut and It becomes necessary to extend operations to the more mountainous logging chances. The timber re 'sources of the Pacific coast states are very large, but it would be unwise to overestimate them, for much less than the total stand Is readily avail able. Existing transportation facili ties to the East are already overbur- dened with present traffic, and they will have to be very materially In creased to meet the probable reduc tion In eastern and southern lumber cut during the next 10 years." Although the Pacific coast states have large amounts of timber, the ;report points out that they will be called : on to . supply Increasing amoiint.s .of lumber for the whole country. The danger is that, like other forested regions, they will be considered "inexhaustible," until it itf'too late. .While the government has established a number of national forests In these states which are de voted to growing timber, other meas ures are necessary to prevent deple tion' of the Pacific coast forests. By lonowlcg the plan adopted by the forest service of cutting in such a way that, the forest is perpetuated, It is possible to avoid the destruction of jfoVest's"that has taken place in New England the Lake States and .the southern pine region, and to keep the land which is unfit for cultiya- lion .producing timber. As a first .step, protection of the forests from sfjre. by the government, states and .private owners is essential, the report eays.. ., i it O aVWaIt Matan A r-O Woe In The West A deadly blight is sweeping along the Western blope, and men give way to weeping and say fare well to hope. And heartsick wives and daughters beneath those azure skies look out upon the waters with hard and stony eyes. The children, they are wailing, their little bosoms sore, while in the dust they're trailing the toys they use no more.' There's moaning in the cabin, there s groaning in the hall ; the future's bleak and drab in the eyes of one and all. The daughters of affliction are crouched be neath the stars, and in the choicest diction they cuss their stranded cars. The tourist shakes his talon at heaven with a snort, for, when he'd buy a gallon he only gets a quart. In vain the plute is waving his wad of good long green, and futile is his raving he can't get gasoline. , "flo gas !" The sign x is-hanging, from stations everywhere, with travelers haranguing the dealers in despair. Talk not of grief or sorrow, of troubles you have seen, till you can't buy or borrow a quart of gasoline ! Talk not of fortunes cruel,- oh, vain and piffling man,' till you can't buy the fuel to push your big sedan ! Speak not to me of anguish, of pain of any sort, until you wait and languish two days to get a quart! to distinguish, by the drill cuttings. basalt and basalt gravel. The for mer would be the more favorable. and the latter has been named with a view to keeping the record conservative. Hole No. 8 (1919 series), Brooks- Scanlon Lumber company; 100 feet deep; on the eastern flow of the Co lumbia basalt, and near the proposed flow line. This hole appears to pass through the great. basalt into under lying volcanic ash and lapllli. i I No water was lost above 27 feet, but at this depth a crevice was reached In which the drill water seeped away. At 37 feet this hap pened again. From 38 to 43 the hole held water, and at 45 withstood a pressure of 650 feet. From 70 to, 80 the rock holds water well. At 95 1 which have completely . sealed and practically obliterated the' ancient gorge, and sealed, also, the adjacent valley floor to the upper limit of Its flooding. . What the cxnet elevation of this early flow line may have been Is not readily determined, ; but II could hardly have been less than the original eleyutlon of Benltam falls. Subsequent' erosion has, ho doubt, removed this mantle, In large part, from the higher and steeper, slopes, but over the broad bottom It exists almost Intact to the extreme "head of the prospective reservoir. Jt Is most likely to be deficient on the upper lateral slopes neur the lower downstream end of the buslo, and It was largely in the hope of strength eulng the evidence In this part of th field that the ground water observa BED OF RIVER " WATER TIGHT (Continued from Page 1.) tions were made. It la horn thnt iee. ne arm aroppea irom ine so.ta ( rock olUcrop8 are mo9t , evidence .u.u um u but we ,ook , vain for any no(e i Hr n it ii inn wilier ri inh in i n nfiit . . " ' " . wormy developments - or - pressure UUUUL o IWI, BU111UI11B HI oo icei. At rMpa fleunroa nr- nth.. ,n , (ntl I " ' " " " ......... u.i , of structural weakness and urobablo a Infllravii An u.n.t.ll.i Ul fact Is the absence from the entire area of the proposed reservoir of vol canic vents, with their hnlnfnl rnril A review of the data thus far pre-'atlng fiHgure8i Laya butte aB(J black sand, In which there was heavy flow of water. , The lower and ' older (western) basalt was entered' at 61 feet. , " I sented seems to lead to the conclu sion that there is for the Benham falls district no fixed and definite water table, but we find, rather, a broad valley, with a series of irregu lar false bottoms, or levels, above each of which the water Is In evi dence, and below which it Is lost. disan-DearinaT. 1n eeneral. bv hor!-! zontal more than by vertical Ctv. butte being the only vents that are The main reliance, apparently, must be upon the integrity or impennoa- even approximately included. To summarize: The burled Des chutes gorge, above the upper limit of its closing by the Lav butto flow. may be regarded as absolutely sealed and proof against leakage, even un der the head of a full reservoir, and the basalt floor of the valley, on either side of the ancient go:ge, may be regarded with very nearly th :same degree of confidence, its seani.i I Lift... . 1 II m I . .,, caused, a partial loss of water be-'"' .? " . , being , to a very large extent, covered tweenvi0 and 50 feet. Through the ' " ,., , , , , . V and 8eaIed y tne la,eraI extension of solid upper or eastern basalt at 65 , rill is seldom, lost near the sur- ; lhe lmpervloug 8e(1ImenU of tho feet; reached the ground water at 75 I ,, , .. ., - , gorge and further sealed by the re feetapproximately 25 feet below the! river level, and continue in ifto the bottom of the hole, at 113 feet. This, also, 'is a good record. Especially significant is the discordance of wa ter level in the hole and in the river, testifying, as it does, to the essential tightness of the river bed. In this connection it is important to note a blanket over the surface, and more; siduary soil resulting from the dt- " " """i composition of the basalt and of vol and seams arliacent to the surface. . . Probably both Spring river and Fall river Issue from collapsed tun nels near the base of the old (west ern) Columbia basalt. The preceding notes, which migh be considerably or almost indefinite- fhat tha fcn t CAICIIUCU, DUIIICB LIJ &IIUW Lllttt lilt; .nrf CZ, T":f: .. .IC""B, D'Sneri immediate floor of the proposed res- f7hiihi0 '':' , ' l"K, srouna' es-,ervoir consists, practically through uuiorurauie COnQlllOn , . i . .ii .,, tomlte, clay, silt, and other water- laid sediments; or, nt least, that It embraces a sufficient amount of such materials, and of residuary clay, due to the decomposition of the bas alt, volcanic ash, etc., to insure the water-tightness of the reservoir, To begin with, or as a foundation for the reservoir, we have the great Columbia basalt the older flow on the western slope and the newer flow on the eastern slope.. This formation Is abundantly stable and tight, ex cept for the seams resulting from Its prismatic Joint structure, and these may be assumed to become tighter ir not fewer, with depth. Through this basalt, but chiefly through. the older, weaker, western flow, the an cient Deschutes river cut its gorge and, possibly, to a notable depth Into the underlying detritus (ash and la pllli, sand and gravel), of highly per meable, water-bearing character, al though the great rhyollte dike must have retarded the canyon making. At this juncture came the Lava butte eruption, effectively damming the Deschutes gorge in the latitude of the rhyollte dike and converting the up per gorge and basin Into a natural reservoir or lake, In which, during the'lapse of some thousands of years. have been deposited the sediments, largely of an impalpable character, that otherwise would not exist. Weak Spot Found. -Hole No. 3 (1919 series), 50 feet deep; near the eastern flow line (4200 :feet). No water lost above 11 feet1 nor below 40 feet, but be tween) these depths the basalt (Co lumbia eastern) is seamy and the wa ter escaped. The true ground wa ter, or water table, was not reached, according to the record, although it is not quite clear that the water table is wanting below 40 feet. Evi aentiy, however, our main reliance tor the tightness of this part of the reservoir floor must be the packing or me seams of the basalt with the superficial clay soil. oie io. 4 (1919 series), 8 feet deep; half mile west of Big river, in section 13; western Columbia basalt. Water was reached at 1 feet, about 12 feet below the proposed flow line, and a good flow obtained at 8 .feet. This is evidently the true wa ter table. . Hole No. 6 (1919 series), 22 feet deep; the east side flow line, in basaltic sand and gravel. Water I reached at' 20 feet and bed-rock at 22 feeV On the face of the record thlg boring represents a weak snot In the floor of the reservoir,. and one that may well be more fully Investi gated. It la difficult In some cases canlc ashes spread over It In succes sive eruptions. f Tho Diim Kites. In view of all that precedes, a .brief consideration of this Important topic will suffice. The most cursory ex amlnation of the problem shows that Iron in the Breeze You can keep as cool and fresh while ironing electrically as though sitting on the porch. Iron . on the porch, too, If you want to Electrically. No heat from a stove Heat's In tho Iron only. Few women aro without Elec tric Irons. Are you? I'hone 551 Iron will be nt your homo within an hour. l Bend Water, Light & ' Power Co. the dam mtiHt tlo to tho rhyollta ridge for at leant ono of its abutments. The one chance to utIIUe'tne rhyollte for both abtitutuiitH la to place tha duni in the notu'n through which tho river pours at the hotul of Donhuin falls. Horn wo have minimum length ami helKJit und tho moat Idonl formation of the region for the untlro founda tion. This location Is sure to ap peal strongly to the new-comer, und it Is wit hg rent reluctance that we nl ii ml on it for other and lux Ideal sites. ' The chief objection to this site nre; First, that a dam of adequate helttht for the desired atorage would turn tho impounded water over the new lava of tho Lava lull to (low, and It appears Incredible (hut tho luv.i can bo either high enough or tight enough to meet tho domain!. Sec ond, wo know that tho water of tho Deschutes river Is now stealing away from Its open channel Into tho an clent channel filled with the"'brlck bat" lava, and wo cannot doubt that for tho present, at least, tho eleva tion of tho wator surface would in crease this loss, although there Is room to doubt whether, even under the head of a full reservoir, tho loss would be sorloiiH, or a high percent age of the entire flow of .the river. One difficulty, with this argu ment lies In the apparent fact that. since the river begun to follow Its present course, it has deepened the notch at the head of Ilenham falls by 30 and, possibly, by 40 foot. In other words, even with this greater n end nsurriclont amount of wuter went over the fulls to accomplish this erosion since the Lava butte eruption. Obviously, If this promising site Is tondemnod, as apparently It must be, Its rejection must rost mainly upon the fact thnt a dam 30 or 40 feet high would not. give tho re quisite storage, and a higher dam. say 50 or 60 fcotAould so far over top the lava flow as to bo, without question, absolutely hopeless. Failing to get n dam with two rhyollte abutments, we proceed to pass In review tho proposed sites having one rhyollte abutment. Pro ceeding upstream, wo come first to Bite "13," above the abandoned bridge and on the extremity of the southern sulleift of the rhyollte ridge. The difficulties of this site are: First, the rhyollte salient Is narrow, fissured and craggy, lacking solidity ot the Ilenham falls lodge. Second, the opposite or right bluff is the new lava, which linre, also, Is hopelessly lucking In elevn llnn. Third, the old gorge la almost entirely filled with tho shutlvrnd brickbat" luva, Into which Iho wu ter of tliu river Is visibly auraplng, und It Is extremely doubtful If n rea sonably tight dam would hn n possi bility hero. Somewhat similar objections hold ngulnst dam silo "IV Tho craggy rhyollln ulmtuioiit Is OHHeutlutly tliu Ha mo. llelng farther from tho now luva, it is Iohh In evidence, but Iho gorge Is partly filled with tho "brick but" typo, Tho right bluff Is the newer Columbia basalt, tho name us ut dam slto "A", but some DO feet lower in elevation. At dam site "A" tho rhyallto Is olid und bold on tho left and lite newer Columbia bnsnlt rises to tho full height of tho proposed flow Una (4200 feel) on tho right. Every thing considered, "A" appear to be tho most advantageous of nil Iho suggested sites, lly going farther upstream, wo should Ioho In the ele vation of tho bluffs, first of the bas alt and later of the rhyollto, and thero could be no Improvement in the bed of Iho river, since tho bor lugs show, as fur upstream ns they extend, that erosion has cut through tho busiilt. This Is, qulto cortulnly, a practicable dum alto. Hut, lucking a rock bottom, It Is not, evidently, adapted to a inusonry dum, but rath er to some typo of earth dum. (To bo continued.) Rtfinai-kabl Menu. A groiiv i,f New. Voi'iiers dlneil the iiIIiit day mi soiiifl eiirloiiH iIUIich. 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