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THE BEND BULLETIN. -t. VOL. V UKND, OREGON, J'RIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1907. NO. 2 n Bccauso wo nro selling tho samo and bottcr quality nt a closer margin is a very good ( reason why you will find our store tho I best, placo to buy anything in tho lino cf Groceries, Drygoods, Furnish 1 ings, Shoes, Hardware, Sash and Doors, Paints and Oils 1 The PINE TREE STORE ' IJ. A. SA1IIUK, PKOI'UlirrOK r A Complete DRY At Bend, Oregon. Rough, Surfaced and Moulded -LUMBER- AH Widths, Lengths and Thicknesses INCH COMMON DIMENSION SIIII'tAP 'rustic - t. & 0. flooring Reasonable ADBD CEIUNG uaber WINDOW JAMBS e en . Prices wiNDOV CASINO ! eL Qood HKAD HLOCKS Any kYc M 0. O. BASEUOARD JT , 7 , Grades STAIR TREADS JPCn t i Dry WATER TAHI.E e J ' & F' ,0. ,G. HATTINS ? ,r SfOCk MOULDINGS IM U M. M. l 11. D. PATENT ROOFING PUNCH PICKETS SHINGLES WTC, ETC. CUSTOM FI3EI) MILL IN CONNECTION. APPLY NT0 Central Oregon Banking & Trust Company BEND. - PROFESSIONAL CARDS C. S BENSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Bend, - Oregon. W. P. A1YI2RS , Land and Irrigation Lawyer I.A1U1.AW, ORHOON J'raatlcc In nil Court titttl DcjMrtmcnt o( tho lutviiur. 1 U. C. COE, M. D. , Physician and Surgeon" OI'I'ICK OVMU HANK nil Wflbt (Telephone Connection DAY TliUCrilONK NO. 31 I1HNI) ORHOON DR. I. L. SCOFIELD DENTIST JIIJND, QUKGON Odlc iu Drug lilgre 011 Vll Bum Olllcc lloura, 9 a. m. to 4 nt. Office l'boiio No. J9 Kclilencc 1'lione No. 4 M. V. TURLEY, M. D. Physician niul Surgeon Ol'l'lCIt IN JOHNSON 1IUJ0. ON VAI,I, ST, IIRND, ORRGON Slock of At Iknd, Oregon. OREQON 4 , M JO )MraMt)l. King w It (lucflu, Jr John K Kollock King, Guerin j Kollock AITORNEYS-AT-LAW orcicMi lUHik llillklliiB llcll.t. Olfgon i MtK.y IlWx . . IVillkliJ, DirEWi Diwtl.lallcutlim (ilrll In qur.llont (elating o Wnttr, Mini ami (tcutul Corporation U, I'HACTICI! IN AM. I'ltlHIKAI, ANII STATU COUUTS. Ucncrnl Practice THE First National Bank of Princvllle. lUtnbllshrd 188S. Capltnl Surplus rind Undivided Profits, $100,000.00 II. I'. Allen . .. XVIII Vinitllcr ,Y. M lUtiltvlii It. llalihUu . .rrc.Wcnt . ...X'icc I'lr.ldt ut Cmhlcr .Autumn Cmlilcr E. C. PARK Importer mid Ilrcedcr of HWI1 OKADB Poland China Hogs Black Langslian Chickens Young Stock for Sale. RRDMOND, . ORHOON I NO GRAFT INVOLVED Deschutes Company Free froni Sucli a Charge,' SO THINK. LOCAL PEOPLE Malicious Story Will Ito Proven Fnlic Licit (Irantcd Company for Rcc- tarnation Is Not llxccssfVc. Tlic latest sensation to be sprung upon thin section is n charge of graft lodged against the Deschutes Irri gation & Power Company nud np. pcaring in a long article in Sunday's Orcgouiau. The main statement in tltis article is thnt "perhaps" the recent increase of the company's lien against the land (raised to an average of 25 per acre) is too high and allows so great n profit to the company that there will be "mil lions in it." Under the original contract the lien xvas placed at $10 an acre. The article also states that an "investigation" has been ordered by the government, implying throughout that n gigantic steal is about to be unearthed. It is the common opinion of people in this section-v-men on ttic ground and ac quainted with the segregation and knowing what cflort and expense it requires to reclaim it that the charge of graft is pure buncombe, a malicious story that will hurt uot only the company but the entire section by throxving cold water, so to speak, on its development. I.ct us sec xvhat the statement of an "Investigation" amounts to. A year and a half aeo the company made application, thr6ugh the state to the government for the issuance of patent to the state of Oregon for same 40,000 acres that had been re claimed. Settlers xverc clamoring for deeds and the company desired to furnish them. At that time the company asked the gov ernment officials to make an inves tigation if they so desired, offering to conduct them over the company's works. Nothing xas done, how ever. About nine mounts ago tuts request xvas again made by the company. Again, miring the past mouth an invitation was extended to Secretary Garfield to make a per sonal investigation of the segrega tion while on his Western trip. lie refused on the plea of. lack of time. As far as an investigation is con cerned the officials of the company fear it uot at all and have been ask ing for it for n year and n half. As to the statement that there would be a bouncing bfgroflt at $to an acre, the company states positively that at that figure it was a money losing proposition and if it had uot secured tin increase of lieu, would have been unable to com plete the undertaking. Thu com pany cites the fact that (and under the cheapest government project is 36 an acre and ranges up to $60. And work on most of the gox-eru-incut's projects has been shut down for lack of funds,, due to the fact that increase in cost of labor and material had exceeded all expecta tions and had left the service with out sufficient funds, Over against that yqu find the Deschutes cpm pany working ou an average of $25 per ncre. Por several reasons the cost of re claiming this country is expensive work. It is a broken, rolling coun try. That necessitates long wind ing canals, more expensive to con struct than those iu a comparative ly level country free from rock. Besides making unusually expen sive construction work the broken nature of the laud leaves less land to sell and requires longer canals and laterals tjb water it. Many other features have made this work expensive, not the least of which liavc been numerous sink Holes iu the Canals, due to Caverns iii the lava rock, and costing much to overcome. These Unforeseen quan tities, taken all together, have greatly increased the cost of recla mation above the first figures, a condition of affair that has con fronted practically every irrigation project of which there is any rec ord. Another expensive feature is the distance of this section from a rail road, nearly too miles. It has thus been next to impossible to procure any material except that obtainable here, btruclural steel, cement, etc. could uot le brought iu, for the cost Lof traii5Krtfn it would have been prohibitive. Keeping this fact in view the company maintains that its flumes, canals and entire work? are as good as could be expected, a statement in which local people concur. Other expenses that could not- at first be definitely determined have been attorney's fees, cost of litiga tion, cost of richt-of xvay, etc., etc. These have all added to the general expenses and have put the cost of reclamation far iu excess of $10 an acre. The Deschutes Irrigation & Pow er Company is composed of several hundred stockholders. They have put in their money expecting to get a returnable profit. And they should. Such a profit should in clude at least 6 per cent on the money invested and a fair return for the energy and effort required to carry through successfully so large and important an undertak ing, an enterprise that xvill make productive fields out of barren .wastes and plcasaut homes xvhere oner oqly sagebrush and jumpers j - . grew. A reasonable profit could not be had on $10 an acre. Mr. Jesse I. Stearns, one of the principal stockholders of the com panv, stated to The Bulletin that the company had undertaken the work of reclamation in good faith and that the charge of graft was absurd. Kvcryone who moves onto the land is satisfied and has no fault to find, and Mr. Stearns cited the fact that a suit had never beet brought agaiust the company by any settler. aoycrnor Chamberlain' Version. Governor Chamberlain treats fairly this charge of graft, insuffi cient security demanded from the company, aud too high a lien placed ou the land, in an interview in Tuesday's Urcgouian. He said, in part: "The only possible mistake we may have made xvas in the amount of the lien we allowed the reclama tion company for reclaiming the land. I do mt believe there xvas a mistake there, but if there xvas, it was the only one. "We xverc confronted by a sen 011s situation. Under a contract made several years ago, the recla mation company had begun the construction of a canal system aud xvas to have 11 lien of $10 an acre. Part of the system had becu com pleted aud the company had made sales to intending settlers aggravat ing 40,000 acres. The company had taken part payments. Much of the land for the sale of xvhich it had made contracts wns 20 miles or more from a ditch. With matters in that condition the company be came financially embarrassed and could not proceed with the work. There is no doubt whatever that the first reclamation contract xvas taken at too low n figure. The irri gation system could not have been completed for the amount specified, $10 nu acre. Project Could Not Uo (liven Up. "The question presented, before the state land board xvas, therefore, whether to raise the lien so that the company could proceed with the work, or let the project be abandoned and the settlers lose what they have already paid. We chose the former course, and in do ing so gamed a number of ndx'au tag:s. "The old contract gave the board 110 control of the sale of laud, made uo provisions as to the plans and specifications of the canals, and gave the company n perpetual right to charge a toll of St per acre per year for water. The nexv contract (Coiitimled bu pajje 4.) BIG HAY CROP IS CUT Partners Are Busy in the Harvest Fields. FOREST FIRE NEAR TUMALO Was Csuicd by Lightning nnd Did Considerable Damage interest ing Neighborhood Notes. Hi'.wyOKr), Aug. 5. Having I iu full Matt. e might write our complete let ter nud tay that this man if haying; that man is cutting Mr. So and So'a grain: John Doe I rutting Richard Roe'a grain on iharcs, nud so on, but v.c refrain. M we aald before, haying and harvest are right with ui and wilt continue to be for iwmc time. Yields are generally very good. T. M. Alcorn, a teacher from Wash ington, la in the iielghtiorhood looking around and incidentally taking orders for the Underwood stereoscope and x-lcws, and is meeting with good success. Personally we have been pleased to meet him as he brought us word from an uncle oxer the range. Mr. McCaftcry xras over to his place in the Sisters country doing some haying. Dan McCarty is pulliug trees for A. V. Morgan. C W. Muma Is back again from Shan ileo. He expect to meet his sitter white he I at home this time. Mrs. Cart Htirefs father accompanied her home from Salem and expresses him self as vcrj much pleased with this coun try anil may Inrcst here. A. J. Boo 111 was going over some of his old tracks in this neighborhood yester day. Charles P. Ricliardson, sales agent for the D. I. & P. lands from Spokane, is in town and we understand is located here for some time. Mr. Irwin's mother and brother have arrived and are now at home with him in town. The Rex-. Lilfy is making pastorat and social visits in the neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. I.amb will start for the other side of the mountains on Wednesday or Thursday for a six or eight xvecks visit. K. C. Park. Tumalo Items. Tumalo, Aug. 6. A fire is raging about five miles soutlnx-cst of here xxhich is doing lots of damage to the timber. This fire is supposed to have started from lightning pue day last week. Several thunder showers the last xxeck. Most of our farmers are Imiv hax-inc now and a very good yield i reported. Clict Grotcs and G. I. Maakcv of Portland, friends of Arnold Orci&cl Dinppcti ncre jvuuriiay. 111c ixiys are out for time and have txvo pack horses aud are spending the summer in the mountains, from llend they go south through the mountains to Klamath l'nlls. A hack Io.ul of men from Washington passed through here today viewing the country. Jim McCall has resigned his position us mail carrier tctveen here nnd Gist. Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Winter and family are expecting a visit soon from Mr, and Mrs. William Strong of Hood Klver. Mrs. Strong Is the elder daugh ter of Mr. nud Mrs. Winter, whom they haven't M.-cit for six years. Mr. Strong owns a valuable piece of laud at Hood River. Ads arc out for bids oti carrying the mails from here to Gist twice a xxcek un til 1910. Ncxv Arrival Is Pleased. Wiiitb Rock District, Aug, j.I. Alton Thompson, for the past txvo years superintendent of schools at Flushing, Mich., arrived in the district last xxcek. He owns a forty betweeiuheGreenhalgh aud the Sherwood ranches xxhich he hopes to make his permanent home. He is highly plenrcd with the country anil xxilh the neighborhood and x.:i send fur his wife and three children. Ulg Meadows Items. Haying is iu full blast and everyone Is tn the hay field early and Iste these fine days. Mr. King's fiuc uexv txvo-story house is completed and tnakos a good howin' among thv plnM. Noll Smith has gone to Rostand U build a two-fttory liouxcforl'rptik Rogue. U'c hear that the thriving llttlo' town of Silver Lake it to have another new paper. Cowl luck, ay t. Mrs. Allen is home again from a visit to relative In the vally. Mrs. I'rank Weat j entertaining Mii Colda Weat of I'rinevlllc this week. aRnniynoRN writes. Mixes Wit and Sarcasm Into a Read able Letter. Rkdxond, Aug. 4. Hdltor Bend Itul letin: Since we failed to ice the usual notes in last issue of The Bulletin from this section, perhaps you will give space enough to indulge a few comments from a Grcenliont. Vou see It's this way. Since the D. I. & P. Co. has concluded to deert us and move to Bend, we hardly know where we are AT any more. In the early days when tilings were different here and hope for a lright future of olir country seemed fair, we engaged in many airy visions of the great possibilities of this section of country. But these late de velopments of conspiracy existing be- tween the powers that be and the city of Bend havesentall these things glimmer ing and now alas! we have only memor ies loft with perhaps a few realities such as Cline fa Is and the Redmond well. Of course, we believe yotj would, llaxc been giaij to Jjijxe hijd them moved too, but since the expense would haxro over. run the. profit and xre are sure of then; being permanent (jxtures, we will make the most of them. The cataract we can use to generate cleptricity to do all our work such as plowing, harvesting, bring ing pp he corw, etc. Wc woutij like some e!low to invent a locomqtlw whistle to put on the cows that would KQ off about C o'clock each evening and if it didn't scare flic cows Ijomc it wout at tcasi let us Know wuere tUey were locat ed amgng the junipers. Then another thing that could be run by electricity that xxe would like tp Ifavc U a maculne to call tlic jogs every time a tramp tomes on tlie farm, H mjght be a goqd IJea to make it so it woud say "Sic em, Bull," and "his hiss hiss" in sort of a feminine voice. Tiiia miglit be rather expensive but everybody need not have them. Two or three in a neigh borhood would be sufficient. People, in Redmond needn't liavc them at all, they could turn the hose on them. Wc might use a railroad some, too, if we had one. Might be you fellows would loan us one of your new lines I haw read so much about in The Bulletin. If xve can't borrow one there's a fellow over west talk of building one across the Sisters if he can sell his Langslian rooster, but there it no certainty about that. Don't make any great difference anyxvay about the railroad. Walking is good in most all directions except towards Bend. It's a little rocky up that xvay aud considerable of wind, too, but the Itardcsl blows tire usually about the town and its fishing possibilities, We liave some fish In the river here or did have. Maybe they liavc emigrate I to Bend by this time. But the electric generator and the great advantages it xvill bring, along with the Redmond well, arc ours cood and plenty They are part and parcel of this, our own land of inheritance, tltat neither time nor tide can possibly takeaway. We xvou't lay dowu to sleep xvorth a million dob tars and wake up paupers because they skedaddled and left us. Now if you fellows want to use any of our electric machinery after xve get It started, xxe might exchange it for one of your railroads. Yours, etc., Gkkuniiorn. Aluch Travelto Oregon, During the past three weeks the travel into Oregon from the East has been as large as at auy time during the Lewis & Clark Exposi tion, and many of the5 visitors are becoming familiar xvith the oppor tunities afforded by the state, a great number of tourists having made stops at live or six points iu different parts of the state. For Sat at a Usrln. So acres choice irrigated land, 35 acres iu cultivation, Allfeuced. Just south pf Forked Horn lJutte, 3Jj miles from Redmond. Address V W. Amburu, 498 Columbia1 St., Portland Oregon. s