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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1921)
. mm nwn mi i mf m nati.v KnmnM RKNI1. ORIMMIN. Tl'UNDAY. Al'ltlti n, ioji. I Bins a anas . , - . ) " 1 II The Bend Bulletin DAILY EDITION falTr Rrrr Afttrmu Kirpt Sanaa?. Hy n Bi Hall.lla (Inrarparatea) atatarad mm tM-ronii I 1km maltrr January S. 1SI7. at tht Poat Offlc at Bend. Own aadar Art of March 1, 1ST. ROBERT W. SAWYER. ...... Edilor-Manuw HKNRY N. KOWLtK Aasniale Kditoc G. H. SMITH Advartwins Matuurer Aa Independent Newspaper, atandinc far taa aquara 6 I. clean businraa.. clean polilw ana tka baat tntxraata of Bend and Central SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ur MaU On. T " Bis Month. Tan Montha Br Carrier On. Year Box Montha JsJ-JJ On Month All aubaeriptkni. are due and PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Notieea of aspiration are aaailed subscriber and If renewal ia not anade within reaaonabla tune the paper will be diaeoatinoed. pienaa notifr ne promptly of anr chant address, or of failure to receive the aier naroiartr. Otberwia we will Dot be le aponaiM for eopiea aniaaed. Make all checka and order pajaUa to The Bead Bulletin. TUESDAY. APRIL 5, 1921. THE C. O. I. PURCHASE " "Fools rush in where angels dare sot tread," and although the Com mercial clubs of both Bend and Red mond have felt it impossible for them to take any part in the discussion over the proposed purchase of the assetsf the C. O. I. Co. by the dis trict organization. The Bulletin ven tures a few remarks on the subject. Following the defeat of the bond issue and purchase plan at the elec tion in January we offered the opin ion that a mistake had been made. The very same thing is to be voted on next week Friday, except that the price has been increased $25,000 and the ambiguity has been removed from certain features of the sale con tract. The latter Is, of course, a benefit. Does the fact that the price has gone up make the proposed pur chase a bad one? We think not. Onr chief reason for thinking as we do Is the fact that the company baa definitely stated that it will do nothing more toward the mainte nance of the system than the fees re ceived will pay for. Th'is policy, for which we think no blame can attach to the company, means that the sys tem must deteriorate with more or less rapidity. Undoubtedly, the set tlers will have the project some time. If they wait they will have this 25, 000 to pay in increased maintenance and repairs. They might as well spend it now and get the project into their own bands, put it in shape now and keep it in shape. For the price to be paid we under stand there is received, among other property, 877 second feet of water as against 756, formerly offered. Here is additional value for the higher cost and the assurance of more water for division on the segre gation. There is also another rea son for action now rather than later in the fact that all excess acreage is to be included, and the value of this is about half of the purchase price. If the election does not carry the company can continue to sell these lands and when the transfer is ulti mately made there may be no excess acres left. These, of course, are the stock ar guments in favor of the sale at the present time. There Is another that as yet we have not heard advanced and that is in the approaching visit of the commission for the investiga-J tion of the water resources of the I i Deschutes valley. The purpose of this commission will be to study the water supply and determine the uses to which it can best be put. The people on the C. O. I. project are vit ally concerned in seeing that their interests are taken into account and a sufficient amount of water allotted to them to make their agricultural operations successful. We believe that the commission will consider its duties broadly, and if it finds that more water is needed it will provide for the allotment of such water from the Benham Falls reservoir. The company has no Interest in presenting the matter to the commis sion. It can stand on Its legal rights and be protected.. The settlers have every interest in this and they should put themselves in position to appear before the commission and ask for the water they will ultimately need. Only by buying the company out can tbey do this. RipplirifjRhi) trios Talksmiths' My neighbor, Hiram Henry Hicks, is fond of talking politics ; that is a theme that makes me sore, so Hiram Henry seems a bore. But I'm the sort of saphead wight who always strives to be polite, so I pretend that H. H. Hicks, with all his talk of politics, is holding me entranced, spell-bound; I dp not yawn or rubber 'round, but hang upon his throbbing words as though they well might charm the birds. But when H. Henry Hicks runs dry, and I would talk of books or pie, or 'any topic I adore, he looks upon me as a bore; he interrupts and yawns and sighs, and 'hot tears gather in his eyes, and then he reaches for his hat, his parasol, brass knucks and gat, and hastens from my humble shack he cannot bear to hear me clack. And Hiram Hicks is short of friends; the people shun him as he wends along the main street of our town ; he as a bore has wide renown. But when I trip along the street I'm smiled upon by all I meet. This moral, then, these facts afford: You must be willing to be bored if you would bore the other toff, and talk his blooming whiskers off. ADDITIONAL RESERVOIR REPORT IS FILED BY PROFESSOR CROSBY ROAD TO THE DALLES FINE, SAYS M'CLURE R. 8. McClure, Bend representa tive of the Walther-WIUiams Co., re turned this morning from a trip to The Dalles. He says the roads be tween Bend and the city on the Co lombia are in the best condition ha has ever known them. Business In The Dalles is fair and improving as the wheat farming season gets under war. Harry K. Walther of the above mentioned firm at The Dalles, ar rived In Bend this morning on busi ness) trip, expecting to proceed to Sil Supplementary to his lengthy re port on the Benham Falls reservoir site made by Professor W. O. Crosby, geologist for the reclamation service, additional comment on the result of his investigations In Central Oregon is made by Professor Crosby. His first report was published in full in The Bulletin. His later findings and suggestions, sent to Director of Reclamation A. P. Davis, are as fol lows: "Comparing anew the several dam sites under consideration. In con nection with the Benham Falls proj ect, the following may be noted as, probably, the special features of site 'A': The northwest slope or left bank presents, above the river, a massive. steeply-sloping wall of hard and im pervious rhyolite, this slope, no doubt, broadening downward beneath the river, the rhyolite advancing, with increasing depth, toward the axis of the river, although not cer tainly reached by any of the boring; on this slope. It is probable, how ever, that the 'loose formation of broken rock' penetsated by the deep boring (A-4). below a depth of about 91 feet, is correctly Interpreted as rhyolite bedrock slightly displaced. Furthermore, the deep boring Is not far from the middle of the gorre The material described in the origi nal boring records as 'packed or ce mented gravel (probably volcanic)' and occurring with great regularity between the depth, approximately, of 58 feet and 75 feet, proves to be broken rhyolite, above which comes fine black sand, silt and clay, with some diatomite, an essentially im pervious combination. To recapit ulate, we have in dam site 'A', from below upward, large and small an gular bowlders of rhyolite and, pos sibly, some basalt, coarse and fine compacted or cemented gravel, fol lowed by sand of increasing fineness and silt, clay and diatomite making, evidently, a well-graded, -free- drain ing foundation, as confirmed by the fact that little or no water was lost above a depth of 75 feet the top of the compacted gravel, and the loss in creasing rather gradually below that depth. Evidently a more ideal foundation for a rock fill and earth dam It would, apparently, be diffi cult to find. ' "Passing now to dam site 'B', where the river meets the new lava and rounds the high, sharp, craggy angle of the rhyolite ridge, we en counter radically different condi tions. The ancient gorgo of the river is here filled nearly or quite to the brim with the new, basaltic lava, grading from the hard, closely packed brickbat variety In the deeper part of the gorge to the more open and acorlaceous form near the sur face. Here, even more than al slbt 'A' the river la provided with a firm floor; but It Is decidedly more lub stantial (brickbat lava Instead of partially cemented gravel) snd Is found at a level some 20 feet higher Both sites are leaky at tower levels, but not copiously, and in neither care Is It likely that the leakage would soluble and proof against every kind of subterranean erosion. Also, above the leaky sub-floor we have a thick bed or stratum of composite character and virtually water proof, though less so for 'B' than for 'A', apparent ly. A dam on site 'B' would, of course, involve the excavation of a large but rather indefinite amount of lava (good aggregate for con crete) to lay bare the foundation and determine the necessary length of the structure. This is the weak feature of site 'B'. Otherwise It may be re garded with at least as much favor as site "A". Site 'D' is of a decidedly more complex and heterogeneous character than either 'A' or '11'. due. probably, to the fact that, although appearing to be a few hundred feet west of the edge of the lava flow, the AN EGYPTIAN BAND Back in 3500 B. C. the Kuypti.m head-dress for wo men was fastened by a band with streamers. The silk band on your hat is the off rpring of that old Egyptian band some band to echo through fifty centuries! The band on your Gordon, like the rest of the hat, is carefully selected for quality. There's a quirt harmony In the txinlon color romtmia tion that merits your luvor. fP CASHMAN S..V.bu J lava actuiilly Invaded the gorge of I the river and flooded It as fur up 'stream as site '!', ami possibly ! further. It is obvious that Ihu con- ' flict when the thin and rugged edit a of the luva attempted to displace the river, could not fall to yield highly irregular and chaotic conditions. "Evidently site 'D' Is not worthy of further serious consideration, but. everything considered, the high re gard in white site 'A' is now held is fully warranted, although a protty good case can be made out for site "B". Site 'A' Is free from lava com plications, but the luva has probably given site 'Ii' an exceptionally high and solid foundation. We must as sume that, near the river, at least, the lava occupies the lowest of the pre-lava land, and this may well call a halt upon any plan looking to the location of a dam on site 'B. though this difficulty would be offset, at least In good measure, by the exten sive excavation of (he columnar basalt required at site 'A' for any type of dam except perhaps an earth fill. "The very extensive slump of the columnar basalt in the vicinity of Minor's cabin certainly speaks plain ly of Instability of the heavy deposit of unconsolidated materials underly ing the great basalt formation of the entire district, excepting only tho rhyolite ridge. The river having cut Its gorge through the great basalt What Does Spring Mean to You? Does it mean a season of buds and birds, of clean breezes and light hearts, of hours spent in the pure enjoyment of living? Or is Spring a work season between Winter and Summer when the thought of houseclean ing drives all joy from your heart? You can make yours a joyous Spring! An Electric Cleaner holds the secret. It's a tireless little helper that keeps your home bright in a most business like way. Electric Cleaners from $23.50 to $60.00 Easy terms if you wish. Bend Water, Light & Power Co. Here's WhereYou Can Save Money ! On your Work Clothing. A Comparison of Price and Quality Will Convince You. Men's full cut heavy Work Shirts at 75c Men's Halbriggan Unions at 98c Men's Striped Overalls and Jumpers at l)."c Men's Heavy Hlue Overalls and Jumpers $1.19 Men's Whipcord 1'ants at.. $! Men's Heavy Work Pants at $2.15 to $1.50 Men's Work Sweaters at $3.25 Men's I'iding Hreeches at $3.15 THE HUB WORK GLOVES 1039 Itond St. WORK SIIOKS Into tills yielding substratum. Hi" only hop" reasonably stable bits for even an earth dam lies either in the hoary bed of packed and cement ed gruvel discovered In exploring dumsltu 'A' or In the luva. largely of the solid tr U'k hut variety, filling Hie gorge of the river at damslto 'II'. Ill spite of the furl that this rork leaks, and would leak more with Increasing head, we should fevl obliged to plant the dam on It, but for thn uncertain ty, not to say Improbability, of satis factory conditions on the lata side of the river, the prospect being that, as previously Intimated, the lava rests upon the low ground and must fall to give a practical abutment. "To generalise a little, the left abutment of the dam must be on lha rhyolite. Both may be on rhyolite only at the bead of Ilenbam falls, an impractical location because of the broken structure of the lava and Its hack of relief. The right abutment must, therefore, be on the great col umnar baaalt, or rim rock. The topography Is favorable for this at Minor's cabin. In spite of the ex tensive slumping, and opposite the acute angle of the rhyolite ridge, be tween dam sites 'II' and l)'. If on sheet No. 21 of tho Deschutes plans we assume dam site 'II' as turning southward at tho point where it meets the east bunk of thn river bikI rind the old channel filled with brickbat lata. It will almnat ceituln ly be found to have a good fnuinl.i lion of this type of luva to the point where, going upstream, the old gnrg turns westward. Here the itani klrllng the edge of the luva flow melts and ties to the oust-west r rarpnieiil of the great baanlt or rim rock. Ho fur sa assured stability of Hie foundation Is concerned, till compromise alto la probably the ' most dependable. It Is a question now as to whether It were belter to build the dam on the new lava ami lie the right end to the comparative ly stable rim rork south of site 'II'. or to build It on the packed and ( possibly I cemented gravel and Urn the right end to the estenslrely slumped and slumping rim rock at Minor's cabin. "for lha satisfactory solution of this problem a little additional field among the additional features. ItKAIlKH KednrtliM la Tims During the month of April we wilt reduce the price of our entire stock 10 per cent to 10 per rout Kreurhle'a Htags Office. ,0-tKifr I'ut It In The Bulletin. lrcn8tniiiiiiiiiim:t Would You Like to be a VIOLINIST? YOUR OPPORTUNITY IS HERE ROBERT A. HANEY Recently of the American C'nnaervatory of Music, of Portland, has opened a Ktudio In the O'Donnell Ilulldlng The Instructions are of the best, the price Is reasonable; two lessons each woek; terms, $8 00 per month. ROOM 6 : : : O'DONNELL BLDG. umtig:mmnnHmmi.TMiTaniutittautuuti An American Worker's Creed "The Company for whlrh I work Is a mighty good rn ployrr and I think any employe who hasn't aa Interest la the eocrfwa of hla employer ought to quit or get Bred. My Idea U that when a maa sella his sen Ices to aa employer, he sells his loyalty at the same time. If he can't be loyal and give the beat that la la him, he ought not to work fur that particular employer. Ily being loyal I don't mnan that one has to he a toady, or that he has to lose any of hla Independence. The most loyal may be the -moat Independent, and usually la." The Shevlin-Hixon Company iwnimmisffl.iH.ttwimiiiii.iiwi.imm 'jitMaWieauro CREDIT IS OUR GREATEST ASSET The commercial world ia standing on the foundation of credit. Every individual is a cog in the great wheel. When one neglects his credit and fails to pay his honest obligations, he makes it impossible for some one else to meet theirs, therefore it is extremely vital that each and every one see to it that we KEEP OUR CREDIT GOOD The Brooks-Scanlon lumber Co. ver Lake and Burns. tend to Increase, the lavs being in uiuaniuiiaiiiuiiiiiiuiaiiauiiuiuiiiiiHiiiiiisiuiiiuiiiiiiiMiiiiimiit mauiumninmuiiaiumia.t.m,,-..