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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 194?
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON
PACE SEVEN
North Unit Settlers to Get
Water From Springs in Gorge
Now Contract Asiures Continued Cold Flow
For Projact; $100,000 in Work Proposed
Tliu PI SpriiiKH Wiitrr company, which provide, do
nic.iiic water lor iiionI oi tin. Do.imo-urru Norm Unit rcdum
iitlon projuct in Hoiillu rn JHIVihoii county, will upend 100
000 Hun loiiiuitf year in mi expansion proKrum, oilklulH oi
tnu company inivo iiiiiioiincetl. iiiu prom-am at the apring.
Hite calm lor consii uctiou oi u new oam, u new power tunal,
and iiiHialiaiion oi twu new turuiiicx, two new pumps und u
(piantity ot new pipe.
Tlio iiimu Hprinurt which provide domestic water or the
North Unit seiner is deep in
tlio ui'KU oi Li'ooKi'ii river, ,
:A Rest Under the Pines
went oi Culver. Water is
pumped over the hlfli ruim of
inner and outer canyons, to
rvsurvoirH.
Uccciiuy, directors uf llin Dea
dlines V uili-y Water district
signed u jo yea ' conn act with
hail Thompson, l-'cnnlalc, Mlcli.,
principal owner oi tin tipni
bprlngs Wiili'i' company. The ulil
contract, also lor u .10 year per
Iml, expired lulu In J my. Uiwcr
I no contract, llif company will
suppiy waii'i' lu llir district, tor
Until iinitlon lu North inn win
home. Aim), Die cily nl Madias
will receive some oi Hie spring
water puinpetl from the rock
walled gorge.
'ivriim Are Outlined
llllilei' tellliH ill (III) new con
tract, which hi lniKeil on u month
ly use ol Hi.000,000 gallons, the
average coiil to the district will
lie 20 cents u thousand gallon.
The iicheiliile ol rule Maim the
water charge at '-'X cents u Hums
mill nullum, uml drops In a mini
imini ol seven ccniji u thousand.
'Hie old contract hail a schedule
starting at M ceniii a thouMiml
Tom McCall
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whether this aiicquuto program
win oe prosecuted wliiim Hie
liaincwuift ui leprcscmaiivc gov
ernment or taken over ny a ic-0-eral
corpiirnliun comruileu urill
iiiiinlniiteil by JiihI ilirce men.
( allril MiorUlghU-d
To me- u liberal, liy the way
It would ncein u snoi islglitcu und
tragic action, Inileeu, lu consign
tne economic una political lutuit
ol the region tu such a corpora
tion. A mow ol thai nature woulu
ho m negation ol tho aplrlt ol
those courageous pioneers who
gave Oregon 11k atari, Pioneers
umler u CVA woukl have had
I heir thinking dunu lor them
ami regimentation wuuid have de
stroyed the horizons ol Individual
opiHirtunity that aerved aa their
Inspiration.
lhe rase wea eloquently plead
ed tx-foiu congress by Governor
McKay when he said: "I am a
strong advocato of an aggressive
rapv mm
WX- If) J
enllon nml ilroiiiilmi lu 10 centa. and Immediate contlnuullon of
lltu cuy oi mamas una nceii ' me nn nuw wen uiiui-iwh; m
using one million gallons month
ly from the district lo Kiipplement
Home b.onll.nno gallons pnmpeil
nu ll month (nun u railroad owned
well Jimt north nl lown.
I tall ol Ihe $100.(1011 which the
Opal springs company la lo hh-ii(I
on planl Improvement will Ik
spent thla year to Inereahe the
puminu pliml'H capacity lu L'3.
ooo,ikk) monthly.
So far aa known, Hie North
t'nlt la Ihe only InlK'iiloii iliv
Irlcl In Ihe noiihwen(. eal ol Hie
CaHciidea. that ha a mipply of
Uomeatlc water provided from
cold aprliiKi).
I lore Ms a bit of the old weat in a new netting a cowboy under the
plnca. 'i'h la picture waa taken recently when Kay ArmalronK, Bend,
took a monlh'a "vacation" to herd Ilia Stearns cattle In the uprlvc-r
country. "Vox" la lntereated In the camera.
North Unit
JI IX.K MAKKS IT I.WiAI.
Uike I.ure. N. C. U .SuM-rlor
Indue Charles (.'ouKlna pulled In
t -0 Inch ralnlMiw troul welKhlni;
(wo and a quarter ponnilN. 'lo
make nine friemlH hack home
would tx-lleve IiIh llsli atory.
Jinh!e I'oKKln had n nolaiy pub
lie preaeiit while Ihe catch waa
I -. 1 1 1 1. ' .
(.'oUmibla valley development. It
la practical haa already accomp
lished much for the area and
Hlimilil not be delayed by the
further consideration or adoption
of any new or uncertain plan."
What Thrw Men?
What three men can lake the
place of the hundreds ot Ihoua
amis of free American clll.eiiH
whom- eflorta have uonc Into the
development that Is here today?
What three men could run the
state of Oreiion for itreater liood,
over the years, than a freely-elect-cd
legislature?
To what three men could be
safely entrusted the powcra of
ctinuresa?
'lliese, I think, arc questions
fundamental to the laxuc that la
belorc us.
To me the answer la very clear.
1 put my trust In the people.
Some 70 X'r cent of the auto
mobiles In Norway are of Ameri
can make hut most ot them arc
Ue-wmAmoile!s.
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to block off water that spreads
pver a aide embayment, when the
reservoir la full. Thla embayment
wut originally mapped aa a part
Of the reservoir, but evaporation
und accpage are factors which
point to a saving of water by
mocking oft tho embayment.
Wuter released from the big
dam flows downstream to Bend,
in tho channel of the Deschutes.
The flow la diverted at the north
city limits of Bend and carried
across country In a 1.000-second
foot canal and Smith rock tunnels
to Jefferson county and North
Unit landa. Brandling laterals
then take the water to all parts of
the segregation.
DlfC Structures Noted
Major structures In the storage
and diversion system arc the
Wickiup dam, the headgates at
the north city limits of Bend, the
long canal blusleu through lava
to Crooked river, two tunnels and
a deep cut In the Smith rock coun
try, biidee crossings over canals
and the Willow creek siphon.
Work on Ihe project started In
103H, when CCC companies start
ed the construction of the reser
voir and the canal. The official
siart of work was marked by a
blast discharged on the line of the
canal. Just cast of Redmond.
C. C. Klsher, now retired, was
construction engineer in charge
when the project was started. He
was succeeded by Clyde H. Spen
cer, now In charge of the con
struction of the Hungry Horse
dam. fourth largest in the world.
In Montana. J. W. Taylor Is now
Deschutes project engineer, with
most work at present centering
Low Farm Prices 1
Believed Factor
In Big Turnover
Deschutes county in the past
five years - haa witnessed the
greatest change in farm owner
ship In its history, with the turn
over rate near the top figure for
any county In Oregon.
In some communities, such as
Cloverdale and Alfalfa, the
change In land ownership has
been ubnormally heavy, und In
some Instances, farms have
changed owners as many as three
limes since tne cnu ol the war.
On the McKenzie highway;
through the Cloverdale commu-1
nlty, Just e;oit of Sisters, there i
are only two pre-war farm own
ers still on the land.
Land Value Low
What Is the reason for such
heavy farm turnover? Persons
closely In touch "with the Des
chutes county agriculture situa
tion hazard a guess. They say
tnat mucn oi the Deschutes coun-
on the rehabilitation of the
Ochoco dam, another million dol
lar plus undertaking by the bu
reau of reclamation. ,
First Water Delivered
First water was delivered to the
North Unit three yeara ago, when
Deschutes flow was diverted to i ty land, especially In the Clover-
lands on the Rodman faim, at the I dale community, was valued too
south end of the project. Since low directly after the war. Kor in-
inui ouie, waier nas graouany stance, Sou an acre was the ask-
moved north. The Aguney plains
received water for the first time
last year when the huge siphon
over Willow creek, ncur Mudrus,
was completed.
"Five yeurs from now, people
will not know this country," old
Ing price lor land in the area.
In other Irrigated communities
of the northwest and Pacific
coast, the figure was around the
5200 mark. The result:
There was a rush for the low-
priced Deschutes county land, and
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Plan to Attend the -30th
ANNUAL DESCHUTES COUNTY FAIR
Jerry's Motor Shop
55 Revere
Phone 1446-W
time residents of Madras say. And i;.,m,.,. ,,ltomi Sifto or S2iiri ner
project visitors, noting changes . at.re loT land ey considered only
nf lha nnvl fnuf l'i.:,ru uoit Kluiriri. ft.-n ...im il
v. t- - - j --, -n - j wui in w were wining 10 sen.
changes will occur when new And ln some instances, even the
homes are finished, shade trees newcomers who bought the land
arc planted and farm buildings at prices well above the SO0 base
are erected. When that work is ! figure resold their holdings, at a
conpleicd, the area will look very ! good profit. Gradually, the price
uiutfi line iiuiiuy oeiuuu ii I liga
tion districts In certain sections
of Idaho, it is believed.
But, loyal residents of the proj
ect, many of them ex-Idaho irri
gationl.sts, declare the North Unit
will have something no project in
Idaho has scenery unsurpassed
In the entire world. 'Hie new
homes on the North Unit face the
majestic Cascade range, with the
western skyline ruled by majestic
Mt. Jefferson.
FARMERS!
Tho County Fa!r is YOUR Fc'r see it!
Redmond, Friday Through Sunday
When in Bend, Stop at
23 Greenwood f cr Titq Sensco
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23 Greenw-nait Phnno 928
DIM SIGHT NO BARRIER
Lincoln. Neb. UliRolland Mills
has won a $-100 scholarship to the
Art Students League of New
York for "outstanding" painting
and sculpturing. The 25-year-old
University of Nebraska student
was selected from 400 applicants.
Mills Is blind ln one eye and suf
fers impaired vision in the olher.
Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results
of the land increased.
There have been extensive im
provements of buildings on farms
in the county, but it is generally
agreed there is still plenty of
room for improvement of farm
residences in most of the commu-;
nlties.
Madilnery Purchased :
Directly after the war, there
was a heavy purchase of farm
machinery in Deschutes county, 1
but in the past year purchases
have rapidly 'dropped. Incident-;
ally, there are few farms in the
county where horses are being
used instead of machinery. In
fact, there are only a few "horse
farms" in all the county.
Some of the major improve
ments to farms in the past few
years has leen to irrigation sys
tems, with every effort being
made to conserve water. Taking
the lead in this move is the soil
conservation service. ,- ,
USE BEN0 BULLETIN CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS FOR BEST RESULTS
The COUNTY FAIR..
This year's Deschutes County Fair,
the 30th, will be held August 26, 27, '
and 28 in Redmond. We extend our
best wishes for the success of the
Fair and urge you all to attend.
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Extend Best Wishes to the
30th Annual County Fair
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