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VOLUME XIV
MAUPIN, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1928
Number 38
Oregon Stands To Lose
Road Funds of Three
Million Dollars
Dunne AhI Liceate Bill Retard
Prog re ef Highway
.' Development
The Oregon Good Roads assocla
tlon, in order to clarify tin atmos
phere cauiad by tha initiation of
several motor license bills, aenda out
tha following story anant tha mea
aura fatherad by Joa Dunna of Port
land. Tha story Is plain fact and
should ba digested by all who have
the best Interests of Oregon's road
program at heart:
Oregon motorists and taxpayers
will ba Interested in the fact that
tha so-called 13 and $5 measures,
which would have effected the atate
highway program, will not appear
on the November ballot, as the
necessary algnaturea to Initiative
petitions were not filed at Salem.
The public mind has become con
futed through extensive prelimin
ary discussion In the atate press of
these bills, and it should be pointed
out, aa a matter of interest of the
highest importance, that the only
tMMures relating to motor vehicle
licenses and a tax on gasoline which
will have a place on the ballot are
those initiated by Joe Dunne, of
Portland
Mr. Dunne's license bill provides
for a general reduction in licence
fees of approximately 50 per cent.
If this bill should be approved by
the people In November, the elate
highway fund will lose, about $3,
000,000. The other initiative
measure would increase the gaso
line tax from three to five cents per
gallon. If both billa should pass,
tha rtate'a income from the gas tax
would be increased about $1,200,000
leaving the highway department
wit ha net loss of nearly $2,000,000
Should the people approve, tha de
creased license fees set up In the
Duune bill and reject the increased
gas tax of his other bill, the net loss
to the highway fund would amount
to a rum equivalent to that now
available for new construction and
betterments. Under this threaten
ing situation, the highway commis
sion haa been forced to call a halt
in Its contemplated program for
next year and to hold In abeyance
any expenditure other than main
tenance and the mandatory pay
ments of principal and interests on
ments of principal and interest on
The above figures are based on
careful and conservative estimates
of state revenues relating to the
highway fund,' which was set up by
the people and the legislature to
accomplish a definite program of
state road construction.,.. IJh.l pro
gram Is far from completion' at this
time.
HOTTEST WEATHER KNOWN
Oldest Settler Fails to Recall Such
Continuous Heat Wave
The weather all this week . has
been the longest continuous spell of
hot weather ever known in this sec
tion. People who have lived herea
bouts for many, years cannot recall
such a long spell-of hot weather.
While the thermometer has reached
a point as high as any lately record
ed, still such spells were but for a
day or so at a time, never running
longer . The record "for the past
few days has fluctuated between
110 degrees and 116 egrees, with ex
tremely warm nights, making com
fortable aleep an 'impossibility. It
, may have been Ideal, harvest weather
but the most of us would rather it
be a little cooler , for bodily com
fort, k ''.
SHOWERED POPULAR LADY
Ml Regina Muller Recipient
Aluminum Household Articles
of
An. aluminum shower was given
Mi Regina Muller at the rock
crusher camp one evening last week,
' t being attended by nearly all the
; crusher employes as well as quite a
' number from both East and West
and will also connect up the two
1 events is the approaching marriage
: of that popular young lady.
$1.00 package of Kiss Proof face
f power, while they last. 85 cents; at
'' the Maupin Drug Store.
NEW FOREST ROAD MAP
ISSUED BY DEPARTMENT
Paved and Other Roard Marked
National Forests aad Roads
Showsi up Plainly
A new edition of the popular Ore
gon road and information map fold
er haa just been received at the of
fice of the district forester, Portland
Oregon.
The map shows main paved an
gravel roads in red. Trunk highways
other automobile roads and second
ary roads are also indicated. Na
tional fore.ts are shown in green,
while recreation centers are located
by means of red circles and number
ed references to the printed descrip
tion. The text on the reverse of the
map gives brief descriptions of the
principal recreation features on each
of the fourteen national forests In
the tate. A list of city and road
mdo automobile campgrounds is al
so included. There are; several at
tractive forest photographs, a brief
statement of national forest policy
and purpose and some suggestions
for forest travelers as to care with
fire.
Copies of the map may be obtain
ed from the district office library,
New Postofflce Building, Portland,
Oregon, or from any of the four
teen forest supervisirs in the state.
The forest service makes no charge
for there maps, simply requesting
co-operation fro mthe map users in
duvating the public to leave a clean
cp and a deud fire.
CETS NEWS OF HER
IT ms.riTurD't neiTii
Vl.itor la Maupin Cut Visit Short
aad Hatea to Spokane In
Asiwtr to Summon
Last Sunday R. E. Wilson met
his cousin, Mr. W. V. Patrick, and
nrr in. in ana orougni
a... itl.. t..II- J t . !
inirn 10 nis nome in roaupin lor a ' co
visit. Tnesdayfternoon Mrs, Pat-1 unn(,i get 'a 'basin 'ihi'fo
rick received . telegram notifying, ihe CIe Lake Btor8?e polity
her of the death of her stcp-fathrr. . t,,p Ofh()f0 dam 600 feft , nd
Stewart Castner, which occurred at25 ffet highboing the highest
a hospita in Spokane that day. Mr. I dirt ,, , th, yt n tim
uasiner naa ncen connned to the
institution for several months and
his death came as no surprise. Mrs.
Patrick left on the early O. T. train
for the capital city of the Inland
Empire to be present at the funeral,
leaving her son with the Wilaons for
a more extended visit.
WAREHOUSE BROKEN INTO
Fountain Pen and Indelible Pencils
Only Loot Obtained
Lnst Thurday night the office of
the Maupin Warehouse company was
broken into and desks and table rum
maged. When Manger Morris enter
ed the office the next niorning he dis
covered the wreckage and Investiga
tion showed a fountain pen and sev
eral pencils mirsing.
As evidence of the depravity of the
burglar Mr. Morris discovered that a
magazine has been torn into pieces,
these being placed In a desk drawer
and set on fire. On those scraps a
bunch of tickets hod been strewn,
then the desk closed. The last proba
bly prevented a disastrous fire, as
being closely confined the paper
scrap fire was smothered.
A man was seen hanging around
the warehouse during part of last
Thursday and it is supposed he was
the guilty one.
Meningitis Hit Another Section
The direase which attacked cattle
on Bakeoven recently struck in an
other section last week, one of Otto
Herrling's steers being tho victim.
The animal was taken sick Saturday
and died Sunday morning, it havm
nil tho synptoina of the malady which
took off several head of stock on
Bakeoven.
Tum-A-Lum Lose
The fire which took several busi
nuess blocks and fruit warehoused
at Milton-Firewater Sunday morn
ing burned the Hr lumber stock of
the Tum-A-Lum Lumber company
at that place. The total lors by that
fire is said to be fully $200,000.'
Th! hot days hsve canned many
Maupinltcs to go to Tysrh Valley and
indulge in swimming in Tygh creek
The water of that stream is warm
enough to make bathing , therein en
joyable, and people-from, all over
this ,-ection visit Tygh-nightly.
A Little Co-Operative Aid
Would Build Lake Dam
TO POPULATE THE FLAT AND
RANCHERS DAM AT CL
NECESSITY - WO
i A rancher of Ju-.iper Flal sends
us the following anent the construe- j
tlon of a dam at Clear iaiu. and
points out the Incalculable benefit
such structure would be to this sec-jail
tion. The writer is thorough! con
versant with conditions on the Flat
and his idea is sound and feasible
and should be followed. Our cor
respondent says:
Irrigation water wai shut off for
this season on Mondsy, but stock
water supply was not shut off.
Most of the farmers have cut or
are cutting their second alfalfa
crop for this seaion. The moisture
in the hay land, will, in most cases,
produce a small third cutting, and
is not cut the fields will supply good
pasture or cover crop for winter
protection. The first cutting this
year went as high as two and one
half tons to the acre. The after
summer shortage is due to the seem
ingly unjust decision favorable to
the White River plant, and only
proves that our farmers have need
of the storage of waters of Clear
Lake, Beaver swamp and McCubblns
gulch, especially the dam at Clear
Lake.
This wonderful site is in its own
class as a storage basin, in that it
ha.- a guaranteed to hold bottom, be
ing natural lake. Artificially creat
ed basins some times fail to hold, as,
for example the Tumalo dam reser
voir. Again, the Tumalo dam is 90
fed high, cost (125,000 and is a loss
to the project as the irrigated acre
in every ca e (government of pri-
, vte work) must
hear the final
the estimated cost of our own Clear
Lake dam.
I The extra alfalfa grown on Wap
. initia Plainr, would, in four year3i
pay the first cost of the Clear Leke
dsm and would continue as an in
surance to crops down thru the
years. Land now dry in summer
fallow or in wheat valued at $25.00
, per acre, with no bidders, could be
! cut up Into 40 of 80-acre, or even
smaller tracts, and would find buy.
ers at price- from $1 00.0ft to $200.-
! 00 per acre on terms in keeping
.with such subdivision practice.
I It took some effort, naturally,
Must as it has taken forethought and
; lots of. hammering, to get our Im
proved highways. Hog, are going,
and will go to Kenton via trucks by
night, in the cool, swift way that
leaves more net profit The new
cut-off in 1929 will enable the Wap
initia project farmer to do this kind
of marketing better than other dis
tant projects could do it.
It takes pioneering and vision to
sit in on the success of after devel
opment - The Wipinitia Irrigation
company saw the light of the future
in that project and in its geographic
location in respect to markets and
raw supplies. The members of the
company went in to stand the long
costly fight to clear the title and
dig the canal:. After three straight
Sundayed at Frog Lake
Tom Gallagher and family with
A. N. Schantz and wife, spent Sun
dny Ht Frog Lake. On their return
the party stopped st Bear Springs
and there had an evening lunch.
Vlited In Idaho '
Dr. L. S. Stovall and wife with tha
latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Me
Farland of Corvallis, went to Pay
ette. Idaho, the latter part of Isnt
week, going by way of the John
Day highway. They vl ited there
until yesterlay with Mrs. ' Stovall s
h'ster, and came bjiuk via tha Oil
Oregon Trail. , i
Cutting Alfalfa '
Bill Stoats has been helping Brit
lai nSlnsher with )p wheat harvnst.
That rancher havisg completed cut
ting on the Hannk place, the crop
going a .little better than 25 bushels,
laid off a day or so to cut his -alfalfa,
allowing our fish 'raiser to come
home and rest up,
INDUCE SETTLEMENT OF MORE
EAR LAKE IS ABSOLUTE
t'LD HELP MAUPIN
V
years of work on top of the cost of
buying out the Keep company, and
paying for the engineering and legul
the water flowed out and we
rejoiced. Then came a time of
reconstruction after the war. Men !
lecame lad mad and bought beyond j
heir means; wheat went Into a
period of successive slumps as com
pared with what the farmers had to
buy. We all became poor and hard
op; come went broke, others stuck
it out and are coming thru O. K.
We are today harvesting good crops
as a whole district, while the crop
for the whole U. S. is short many
millions of bushels. This means a
proable fair price for our wheat
If we can club together to the end
that we can build the dam say 10
or 12 feet, with the Ftorage thus
saved we would have sufficient for
after-summer water use. Later we
can build up to 35 feet, or even
higher, as we are able. If wc go out
side to get the money that will cost
us more than the traffic will bear.
If the money that builds the dam is
given a good round profit in money
payment or water payment return
it is by all means right that the far
men should invest in it and reap
the returns direct instead of thru
some outside agency interested only
in the long profit expected.
Back in the rhk days of 1916-17
five men took a chance with the
company in a project section that
was a bigger task than the dam,
namely: the "Big Cut." They ap
pointed L. C. ilenneghan as secre-tary-trea
urcr to handle the funds.
Thene men were Fendel Batty, L.
CmenrieghanrX Sf Brown, Frank
Datty and John Ward. While the
cut cost many times the amount
those men put into it at the time, it
probably would never had been com
pleted had they twit tied into the job
to help financially and to lend their
moral support Nothing peculiar
happened. They spent their money as
they Intended. Ilenneghan paid the
orders and bills that Hedin sent to
him. The cut was dug, the water
went thru it and continues to ro
flow.
There is nothing different in the .
dam job today. All that is necessary j crusher, was unfortunate on Tue:
is just to get together. The com-. day in having a large rock roll onto
pany has figures on the dam cost
Appoint L. C, Ilenneghan, or some
other, to spend the money and get
the dam and cave the flow that now
goes into the Pacific ocean. Morris
Greene could build it this fall if we
get busy, and that will make 1929
a banner year. 3
There are colonists who would
welcome a chance to invest In our
alfalfa lands. That class is compos
ed of practical dairyman. Each
would purchare from 10 to 40 acres
move on the land and begin inten
sive cultivation. Each family would
average five members, thus adding
to our school population and to tho
buying power of the section. Alfalfa
is "green gold" and water in na
ture's fertilizer and stimulant to
make it grow. The dam will save
the water and we can finance its
construction if we think we 'can
and why not do it?
Improved Swimming Hole
Tygh Valley swimmers, in order
to make the swimming hole at the
Tygh bridge more attractive, have
erected a fine rpring board, making
diving much easier and much more
graceful.
Word of Couin' Death
Mrs. C. W. Semmes receiver
word of the death of her cousin,
Joseph Meyers, which occurred a, a
snnttnrium at Elma, Washington,
la t Thursday. Decendent had been
a sufferer with tuberculosis for
some time, having contracted the
disease while working in a shingle
mill and inhaling cedar dust !Ie
leaves a wife and little son. Inter
ment took plave in tho family lot
i.i the cemetery at Sellwovo
Jee Crabtree 111
Jesee Crabtree seems to be affect
ed with the prevailing complaint and
was compelled. to lay off from his
work at the Resh & Co. store a
couple of days the first of the week.
POPULAR YOUNG MAN '
INJURED BY KICK OF HORSE
Chester.. Cramtree.. Thrown.. From
f Wheat Under Horse's
Fact Badly Cut
Chester Crabtree, well known Mau
pin young man, was badly Injured at
the Fleming ranch on Bakeoven this
morning, and now is confined to his
room at the Home hotel. Chester
is cuffering from a badly cut face,
torn ligaments and bruised limbs.
The injured man was gathering
wheat sacks' form the field and was
on his way to the granary. In going
over a furrow the front tier of sacks I
slid off, throwing Che:ter under the
horses' feet, one of which kicked
him on the right side of the face, in-!
flicting a wound which required
seven stitches to close. He also was
kicked in the breast and side and !
come of the ligaments holding the
ribs to the breast bone were torn
loose. Wheat sacks also fell on his
lower limbs, bruising them up con
siderably.
Chester said he retained suffi
cient consciousness to creep from
his position under the horse's feet
He lay in the field a matter of what
reemed to be 15 or 20 minutes, when
the (imbine can.e around and then
the unfortunate man raired nis
band and signalled Jess Flem'ug,
who was driving the big machine.
Fleming came over and assisted
Crabtree to the house and thifn load
ed him into an auto and brought
him to Maupin, where Dr. Elwood
treated his injuries.
While the accident will lay him up
for some time, still Che ter thanks
his lucky star that it was no worse
and that he is still in the land of the
living.
DANCE AT SHADY BROOK HALL
Mid-Summer Hop With All The
Trimming Saturday Night
The Shady Brook hall will be the
scene of a mid-summer dance and
general good time on" Saturday
night of this week. An orchestra
from Salt Lake City will be on hand
and deliver the cla s of dance music
goods which will be a delight to all
who attend. In connection with the
' dance one of those excellent lunches
j for which Shady Brook ladies are
j famous will be served. Everyone is
invited, and more than that, are ex
pected to be present,
Leg Hurt by Rock
Alvin Schantz, engineer at the
i his leg. The limb was badly bruised
but the plucky workman kept at work
as tho he had two perfectly good
underpins,
Too Late to Print
Last week w re- civf d a cowuni
cation telling of the Legion picnic
at Richardson's grove at the timber
line. The letter was received too
late for publication in last week's
paper, but we wlil say that we were
informed that the next Legion picnic
will be held at Van Duyn's grove,
Tygh Valley, on August 12. AH
World War veterans and their fami
lies are invited to be on hand on
that date. v
Misinformed
Last week we were told that Miss
Crystal Hartman was slffering with
something resembling spinal menin
gitis. Shortly after the paper was
out we received a letter for the little
lady in which she stated that she was
not very ill, also that her indisposi
tion was not caused by the dreaded
meningitis. Miss Hartman left on
Sunday for a short visit with Port
land friends, after which ;hc will
proceed to Silverton and will remain
there with relatives for an Indefinite
period.
Rereivrd 23,000 Buihelt Wheat
The Hunts Ferry Warehouse com
pany has received for storage 25,
000 bushels of wheat up to the time
of our going to press and expects
much more before the hauling sea
son closes. '
Hones On Lawn-
Four stray horses proceeded to i
work havor with the ' school yard j
lawn on Monday. They came from
the direction of the Maupin grade
and were enjoyink themselves In
great shape when rounded up by
Marshal Derthick, who drove them
' from town.
Federal Power Board
Gives Private Co. Use
of .Deschutes Falls
Deachnte Falls Power , Compaay
Cat Permission) tn U Power'
. at Sherar Falls
According to a dispatch to the
Oregonlan of yesterday from Wash
ing, D. C, the federal power com
mission has granted to the Deschutee
Falls Power company a preliminary
permit for use of the power of the
Deschutes river at Sherar falls, the
site of the company's works lying in
both Wasco and Sherman counties,
The permit was made for a period of
two years, and was authorized with
provision for investigation by tfne
company of power possibilities of
that section of the Deschutes river.
The Commission also announced i
authorization of a preliminary per
mit to the city of Eugene for a
power project on the McKenzie river
with ultimate installation capacitl of
32,000 horsepower. The authoriza
tion was made on condition that the
Icity investigate alternative schemes
of development and maintenance of
existing conditions of fish migration.
OILING OPERATIONS FINISHED
Crews Reach Bridge Last Evening
Will Patch Maupin Crade
The oiling crews which have been
at work on the east end of the high
way from Cow canyon to the Mau
pin bridge, completed their work
last evening. Work of patching
spota on the Maupin grade and on
the stretch across the Flat will be
next taken up, after which the crews
will proceed to Madras, where the
roadway about that city will be
give a thorough going over.
INDIAN'S RIBS FRACTURED
Car Goes Into Ditch Because
Faulty Steering Gear
of
Jim Scott, an Indian living at
Simnarho, suffered two fractured
ribs and other bodily bruises yester
day morning when his Studebaker
j car, purchased at The Dalles on
Monday, lost part of the steering
gear and went into the ditch. The
car was brought in from the Wm,
Gturgjs ranch by Verne Fischer, who
will fix the wreck up and make tho
car run again.
Sandayed In Mountain
Maupin waa well represented
at
J Be Spring8 jast Sunday, the fami-
lies of Chas. Crofoot, F. D. Stuart,
G. I. Derthick, Carl Pratt being there
as well as Dr. Short and Mrs. Jeen
Wray and son. The Derthicks made
the return trip by way of the Mt
Hood loop, they being accompanied
by James Vaughan of Oak Springs.
Will Incorporate , ,
A. Lincoln Hartman is perfecting
plans whereby he will incorporate his
ironing board industry and proceed
to market his product In the larger
cities of the east. He has the matter
of incorporation in the hands of an
expert of New York city and expects
some action looking to that end will
soon be taken. .
Electrical Expert ArriTee .., r .
R. A. Barton, the electrical expert
who installed the machinery at the
Maupin Power company's Oak Springs
plant last fall arrived in Maupin Fri
day for Portland and is engaged in
making connection with the lower
plant and that at Maupin. Mr. Bar
ton will in-tall transformers and
superintend the stringing of wires
and wil lalso connect up the tw
plants. It is expected the connec
tion will he made soon and that next
week we will be given juice from the
new power house.
Cru'hrr Idle
The rock cru her of .Hillstrom
Bros, broke down last week and is
idle at this writing. A shaft was
i sprung, necessitating . sending it to
i The Dalles to be straightened. After
the break was repaired the cruRher
ran out of rock. Another drill came
over from Arlington and again the
air was somewhat agitated by blasts
! of dynamite as a result of the drill's
work.
See the new assortment of swim
suits and caps at the Maupin Drug
Store.