Heppner gazette., August 31, 1905, Image 4

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The Heppner Gazette
EatnMisheH March SO.
ICUED THURSDAY MORNING.
The cuigreea endorses the etlVctive
and businesslike administration of the
forestry bureau, the efficiency of the
woik of the reclamation service, but
recommends that the reclamation ser
vice and its representatives co-operate
with the state officers in matters affect
ing tha states' landed interests The
resolu ion also commends the work of
tbe experiment stations of the depart
ment of agriculture and the United
States weather bureau for its assistance
to the reclamation service.
ajE3E5
Fred Warnock
Entered at the Pootofflce at Heppner Oregon, as
econd-class matter.
Thursday Aug. 31, 1905
COMES TO END.
lirlgnlion Congress Cloaea After
Interesting Seaalou.
Portland, Aug 24. After an inter
esting session which consumed the en
tire day, the thirteenth annual meeting
of the National Irrigation Congress
came to an end this afternoon. The ses
sion ia important for its pronounced
stand assumed on three subjects.
rZt declared emphatically that sympa
thy is with the small land owner
against the large landed proprietors
rrho seek to have the irrigation law
amended so as to permit the retention
of more than 160 acres of irrigated land
9 The congress also expressed the
opinion that the government enterprise
in the work of reclaiming arid land
ehould not nnnecessarily interfere with
prior private enterprises, nor private
enterprises with prior government pro
jects.
rFinally, it vigorously expressed its
disapproval of the repeated attempts to
inject the subject of undesirable foreign
immigration into its deliberations, con
tending that this subject is one in
which the congress as a body is not
interested.
Owing to the impracticability of se
curing an attendance of delegates in the
sectional meetings without fcret gather
ing them ia general session -each day,
(be congress today changed its consti
totion to pravide that at all (future as
setnblages a general session shall be
held each day ot the convention period.
uhe day was otherwise marked by
the reading of a letter from President
J am s a J. Hill of the Great Northern
railway, the unanimous choice of Boise.
Idaho,, as the next meeting place and
the re-election ot Governor Gesrge C.
PaMlee to the presidency.
The irrigation congress adopted a
series of resolutions today, of vhich
the .following is the substanee of the
more important.
An. endorsement of statehood for the
territory of New Mexico and joint state
hood ion Oklahoma and Indian Terii
tory.
The songress helievfs that too much
capital, public and private, cunnot be
invested in the reclamation of arid
lands and therefore declares that gov
ernment, cs well as private enterprise
should toth be extend d to the utmost,
nor should private unnecessarily inter
fere wi'h nor prevent government en
terprise frotr. building reservoirs and
other works for reclaiming arid land.
In order to encourage beet sugar pro
duction ia the iJnited States the con
gress asserts it. opposition to the grant i
ing of further concessions to tropical
islands. The reeoiution advocates fed
eral lpgi-lation in -Vhalf of the industry .
It is the opinion -a' the congress that
the national irrigation law ehoull b so
extended rs to inelode the state of
Te;as within its provisions.
L confusion said to exist in the
minds of many people on the subject,
the congress declares that, there is not
nor aae there been any eonnec'ion
whatever between the oational irriga
tion congess and the national irriga
tion association. It announces also
that no pcraoci or company is authorized
to collect money in hehalf of tho con
gress. The congress also favors the early
reclamation of email tracts of land
whenever the cost pe' ac re of reclama
tion does not exceed the C06t per acre of
larger enterprises of similar character.
The federal congress is urged to en
act such laws as will enable tha nation
al government to exercise the rights of
eminent domain when necessary to
carry out the purposes of the natieoal
irrigation law,
Irrigation In Klamath.
Salem, Aug. 24. ''The construction
of the Klamath Irrigation System is a
practical certainty," said State Treasur
er M ore today upon his return from a
two weeks' visit to Klamath county.
"Of course there is a bare possibility
that the project will fall, but the success
of the enterprise is as certain as matters
of that kind can be at this stage of tbe
proceedings. The Government has re
quired that 75 per cent of the property
owners within the territories to be cov
ered by the system shall sign agree
ments for the sale of their land in ex
cess of 160 acres, before construction
shall begin. My confidence in the suc
cess of the enterprise is due to my con
fidence that the property owners will
sign the required agreements. In other
words, I think the people who own
property in 'he di-tr;ct will see that it
is to their own financial interest to
make the agreements.
"Tbe requirement is that the prop
erty owners execute trust deeds for all
their land in excess of 160 acres. The
trust deeds provide that the owner shall
seTl his land to settlers in tracts of not
to exceed 16o acres each, or, that if he
fails to dispose of it before the Govern
ment hs water ready to turn upon it,
the Secretary of tbe Interior may sell it
in 100 acre trac's to the highest bidders
giving the owners the proceeds ot the
sale. 1 Relieve thi is a reasonable re
quirement and that the land owners an
a rule will so regard it.
"It is the intention of the Reclama
tion Servica to let a contract for the
construction of ttie first section of the
ey-te 'i as soon as 75 per cent ed the
property -owners reached by that sec.
tion h-ve signed the agreements. I ex
pect to we this accomplished and a
contra t 'et for the cnrst'iiction of the
first t n miles of c-inal, including 4,000
feet (f tune', before the ti'st of the
yea'.
"Ii. seerr.9 to me to he a good p'an to
construct the csnal in sections and put
the land upon the matket a little at a
time. fr that will enable the property
owner to sell to the best advantage
Ir'a'l the surplus land in the 250,000
INGERSOLL WATCH
3E E) 3E
With every suit of boys' or youths' clothing sold
from now until September 15.
The Ingersoll Watch is guaranteed by the maker to
keep good time for a year.
MENTOR & CO.
I'o-operattoii in Irrigation.
aerfs io he reiched by the -system w re
thrown upon the market at once, it
would b mo-e dilRi-nlt to sell at a fair
price
"As I understand the Govern inn. t's
plans, those who i no' ign fM ie
quired agreements will he unable t'
cure water for their land. Bv later
complying with the requirements they
can secure water rights, but they will
be reiuird to pay a slightly higher
rate in order t place them upon an
equality with thoe who paid earlier.
If 75 per cent of the property pavs the
cost of constructing the svtem, the
money paid by the other .5 per cent
later wi 1 go to the 75 per cent to reim
burse ttem for the excess they veru
compelled to pay.
".Matters of this kind take time, and I
am not surprised that the people take
plenty of time to think it over before
signing agreements. I t the. rnd. how
ever, I am sa istied they will see that
they cannot sell their land t advantage
or use it themselves unless they have
water rights, and since they cannot get
the wat r rights without complying
with the Government requirements,
they will Nil in line and a'l will be
working in the common cause of secur
ing the construction of an irrigation
system whic means immense develop
ment to the resonrces of the Klamath
country."
The visits of F. H. Newell, chief
of the reclamation service of the
United States, to various locolities
in the irrigable territory of Ore
gon and Washington, and the ex
planations he is making as to tbe
intentions and aim of the govern
ment in respect to irrigation, will
give the people a much better
knowledge od this subject than
they have heretofore had, and will
probably verify the hope to which
he has given utterance that they
will give a mere full and hearty
support to the work which the
government is undertaking for the
benefit of the landowners. Mr.
Newell says that the grpat diffi
culty just now is in making tbe
people understand that the aim of
the government ie to asuist them,
hihI that only by mutual co-opera
tion can the bpst results be ob
tained. Mr. Newell calls particular at
tention to the East Umatilla and
!
Malheur projects, tbe progress of
which be says depends almost
wholly upon the efforts of tbe peo
ple who own the lands. He inti
mates that tbe work may be post
poned for an indefinite period uu-
let-s the people come to tbe terms
rec i a i red by tbe law.
Tl.e repieseutatinns made by
Mr. Newell should hflve the care-
ful consideration of the people.
port on the experiments, and thty
speak in moBt sanguine terms of what
has been accomplished and what will
doubtless follow as the work proceeds.
In addition to applying tbe raw veget
able juise as a cure for tbe most obsti
nate caBe of consumption, the hospital's
circular announces that "it is believed,
moreover, that this will lead to a means
by which everybody may be rendered
immune from tbe deadly tubercule
baccilli, just as vaccination safeguards
from smallpox.
It is stated that experiments were be
gun on a small scale, with only a few
vegetables ground bv band. Later ma
chinery was introduced, and nearly
every vegetable used as food em-ployed.
Reduced Rates to the Seaside.
The Willi mette river is one-tenth of
one toot below low water mark nt Port
land. But once in recorded history has
it been lower, and then it stood 2 1 feet
lower at that point than now.
The Southern Pacific Co. has,
placed on sale at its Portland of
fices, round-trip tickets to Ya
quina Bay and Newport at rate of
$6 00 for season tickets and $3.00
for Saturday to monday tickets.
This is a fine place to take your
family for a few weeks outing at a
moderate cost.
Call at the Gaxette office and learn ot
our clubbing offr with tbe Weekly Ore-new.
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Irw Cure for Consumption.
New York. Aug. 25. Physicians of
this city are much interested in a circu
lar issue I vestrrd'-v bv the New York
Post Graduate Ho'pita', ann- uncing tl e
discovery of a ne cure for conBump'
tion. This new remedy is the juice of
raw table vegetable? potatoes, beets,
cabbages, onions, celery and the like
procured b trimling and squeezing, a
dose being two ounces alter meals.
The statement is made that 11 pa
tients with well-developed pulmonary
tuberculosis have been absolutely cured
and are now good subjects for life in-
eurance risks. Fifty other patients are
still tin ler treatment, and said to be
progressing satisfactorily.
Fxperiuents a'ong these lines have
been goinj on at the hospital tor several
years, an! occasion 1 brief accounts
have be n published of cures alled to
haye been performed.
Accompanying the circular are the
names of two New York physicians,
who, it is stated, were appointed by the
wills i ran
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