The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931, August 16, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBULLETIN . VOI. V HIJND, OREGON, IMUDAY, AUGUST 6, 1907. NO. 9? 3r: 22 THE Bccnuso wo arc selling the samo and better quality at a closer margin Is a very good I reason, why you will And our store tho best placo to buy anything in the lino of i Groceries, Drygoods, Furnish- sngs, Shoes, Hardware, Sash and j Doors, Paints and Oils ...... 1. UTe PINE TREE STORE n. a. SAitir.u, I'uoi'ltmtoK A Complete DRY At (lend, Oregon. Rough, Surfaced mid (Moulded -LUMBER- All Widths, Lengths and Thicknesses- INCH COMMON DIMENSION SHIPLAP RUSTIC T. St G. FLOORING : HKADK!) CEILING Lumber WINDOW JAMHS pe,hered , WINDOW CASING ," HEAD III.OCKS Ur.fc.,, O. 0. BASEBOARD AnhC" " STAIR TREADS Ti 1, 1 t n WATER TABLE IhC D. I. & I. 0. 0. BATTINS ? l MOULDINGS ,lic C b' ' 1'. II. I). PATENT R001MNG 'PENCE PICKIt'j shingles KTC, KTC. ' Reasonable Prices flood (trades Dry Stock CUSTOM I'HIJI) MILL IN CONNECTION. APPLY TO Central Oregon Banking; & Trust Company BEND, PROFESSIONAL CARDS C. S. BENSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW Bend, - Oregon. W. P. MYERS Land and Irrigation , Lawyer l,AII)IV, oiuiaoN l'mctlea Ih All Court mul DettMiiinta of the Interior. ' U. C. COE, M. D. Physician and Surgeon (Wick ovkk hank ?lll TWflbt Cclcpbonc Connection DAY TKLKI'IIONK NO. 21 WIND 0KHC.0N ' DR. 1. L. SCOPIELD DENTIST MINI), . OKIIOON Office In ItrtiK iiiure nil Willi HIimI Olllct Ittinro. g a m.ti4i. m Of flw t'livnc No. .w - IImMciicc Phone No. M M. V. TUBJLEY, M. D. Physician mul Surgeon Ol'l'ICK IN JOHNSON 111,1)0. ON WAI.I, ST, 1IHNI), OKl'.OON Stock of At Bend, Oregon. ORIHGON H4omn I li. King v it iluolH. Jr Joint K KolUwk King, Oucrin & Kollock - ATTOKNKVS-AT-LAW nrriCM: IkHL. HitlMUiK . H'IhI, Oimqh y tlo McKay ll ,. IsmIUh.I, On few, iMtl alltiilktn li In (uf.lluiK ifUthig ta VVKIrr, Uwl wt nMrtl Cm rllmi U. I'U CTICIt I.N AM. 1'ltllllK.U. AND STATU COURTS. (Icneral Practice THE First National Bank of Prineville. I'.itaMlUitd iHNH, Cnpltnl, Surplus nnd Undivided Profits, $100,000.00 II I'. Alldi Will Wutiwrllar T. M Itol.lrttll . II. lultlwln . I'trtliUut Vic lTl.ltut Cntlilcr AMUtuul Cu.UUr E. C. PARK Importer ami Ilrccdcr o( litem (iiiADi- Poland China Hogs Black Langsliah Chickens Young Stock for Sale. REDMOND, ORIiQON SURVEYING ON C. & E. Working Eastward from Summit of Mountains. ANOTHER RAILROAD COMING" J. C. Ilrnclier, Director of tlio Eugene U Itastcrn, Snys HI Road Will Tap 'litis Section. Siktkkb, Aug. '-I' Prospects for nil extension of the Corvallis & Eastern lmvc been matcriall bright ened during the past week. A crew of surveyors, under Engineer II. J. Roberts, arrived nt this place Tucs day mul ns soon as their equipment can le brought in, work' will be commenced on running a line cast across the state. The equipment is exacted about Friday or this week. Work will be commenced at the summit of the mountains and a line win ic run eastward, i lie crew is composed of 13 men. An extension of this line would Ik: the cheapest means by which Ilarrimau could tap Central Ore gon. The railroad is already built practically to the summit of the mountains from the west, and n good tmss is available in fact, it is said to lc the best pass in Oregon through the Cascade range. Of late much talk has been rife to the effect that Harriman would extend this line cither across the state to Ontario or to connect with the pro posed Oregon Eastern at some point in Central Oregon. The surveyors now at work would indicate that Mich a plan wits seriously conttin pluted. It also indicates that Krutttchuilt's report to Ilarrimau, alter his leceul trip to these parts, was undoubtedly favorable to an extension of the C. & K. An old survey of the C. & H., put throtiKh Mine 15 or 21 years ago, losses through this place, skirts the townsite of I.aidlaw, and crosMrs the river close to Rend. The building of this line to connect with .same transcontinental line in the eastern part of the state, is of vast importance to this region as it would give lrans)ortatiou for our lumber to the markets of tlie East ern states, and also to tide water at Yaiuiua liny. Till! AtcKIINZII! RIVUR ROUTE. Ulectrlc Lino to llulld up tlmt Stream and on Into Central Oregon. The latest railroad company to express itself as determined to tap Central Oregon through the Bend country is n cororatiou recently formed and known as the Eugene & Hasten), whose business is the operation of electric lines from Eugene to Springfield, up the Me Kenzic River and throughout the Willamette valley. This corpora tion is n Storcy-Rrachcr company, a wealthy concern that owns timber lands all over the state of Oregon. The company olso owns the street car line nt Eugene, with franchises nt Eugene and Springfield anil with rights of way extending up the McKetuie river, where the Stoiey HrRcher company owns large tracts of timber. It is understood that this company docs not want to have to depend upon nuy one system of railroad mid desires nu electric line to connect its properties with the markets. The news of their intention to tap this section was brought to Rend Tuesday evening by J. C Uracher, one of the directors or the Hugene & Kastent. lie was driv ing across tho state, having started I nt Ontario. Mr. Uracher stated to I The Hulletin that construction on j their Hue from Kugeue to Spring-' fiolll IVflQ HOW ltltil.tr tttni. fPI..L I . I1 .iwi. . 1...J. . t.lij road will be extended tip the Mc Kenuie river to tap the Storey- Ilrnclier timlcr holdings. It will ultimately lie extended through the mountains to tap this vast inland empire of Oregon. The line in the valley will be on electric one and Mr. Ilrnclier sit id will ls In opera tion by January 1, 190H. A?kcd when his road would reach this sec tion Mr. Ilrnclier replied that it would be here within two years. Mr. Urncher left town Wednes day noon driving through the mountains to the McKcnzic. At McKcnzic Ilridgc he will meet a crew of surveyors who nre running a line for his company. Mr. Ilrachcr talked in a very confident manner and his statements were void of ifs and quibbles. He is a thorough business man and spoke as though he was sure of his backing and con fident of hs nbility to do what he said his company would. He owns IkhIi timber nuii farming lands in this section. Supplementing this news and Mr. Urachcr's visit here, is nn arti cle in Tuesday's Orcgonian staling that a franchise has been asked of the city of Salem for the privilege of operating nn electric line through that city, which line is to be built northward to Portland, and south to Hugene, with feeders. The franchise is asked by one, A. Welch, who is vice-president and a director in the Kugcne & Eastern, the lini- in which Mr. Ilrachcr is in terested The petition for the fran chise recites that work must be commenced in six months and the entire road between Salem and Al bany completed in two years. The Orcgouian's story says that th circumstances surrounding t h . scheme smacks of Hill interests very strongly. Activity on Natron Intension. J. M. Lawrence, receiver at the U. S. land office at Roscburg, was visiting in Ilcnd this week. Prom Natron he followed the middle fork of the Wiillamctte river and enmc through the mountains to Odell. This route took him over the line of the proposed extension from Natron nud he reports much activ ity on that work. He express! himself as confident the line will be built. Two carloads of scrapers have recently been unloaded at Natron, and Rankin, with .1 crew of surveyors, is doing some very particular work 111 the vicinity of Odell. Mr. Lawrence says that the country along that fork of the Willamette is very well settled and that a railroad through there would have n goodly amount of local traffic. TO IRRIGATE MANY ACRES (Moneyed Alen Are Working on Plnn to Reclaim tho "lllsh Desert" Rich and Productive Land. The Bulletin has it on lettable authority that another irrigation enterprise will soon be in process of construction in Crook county nnd one that will rival even that of the Deschutes Irrigation & Power Com pany in sire nud importance. The scheme is in the first stages of it? development but is hacked' by mon eyed men who ure able to carry ir to n successful close. This latest plan contemplate putting under water that large scope of country known 011 the local geography as the "High Desert." This lauds begins within some eight or 10 miles to the south nud east of Ilettd and consists of a vnl ley lying between Horhe Ridge and Pine Mountain and extending 011 to the southward close to Christmas Lake valley, including Pringle Plat, Harney Holes, Sand Springs mid the Millicnu much country. The water for this project will be taken from Paulina Lake, The High Desert i a scope of country whose possibilities as a farming nnd stock country are now but Utile known. Hunch grass stands on it today knee high and it is believed that it will prove won derfully productive when placed under irrigation, mul will develop into n great wheat country unsur passed by any id the Northwest. INSPECTORS PLEASED Government Officials Re fute Charge of Qraft. REPORT WILL BE FAVORABLE Unite In Commending Work of (he Deschutes Company An Umpire with (lrent Possibilities. Governor Ccorce I J. Clnmbcrlaiu, chief executive o( Oregon. W. C. Ilriitol, United St'lci District At torney. I II. Neu T. II. Ncuhntifcn, upccial inspector of me interior Department. M. A. Meyemlorf, upcoia! fluent of the General Iiid Office. , John T. WhUtler, engineer In charge of V. S, Reclamation work in Oregon. John C. Kcwii, Slate Kngitieer. The above state, and federal offi cials, with the exception of Messrs. Bristol, Nctihauscn and Lewis, have been in Rend and vicinity since Sunday making a very care ful investigation of the segrega tions and irrigating systems of the Deschutes Irrigation & Power Com pany with headquarters at Ilend, and the Columbia Southern Irrigat ing Company, with headquarters at I.aidlaw. District Attorney Bristol nnd Special Inspector Neu- hauscn did not arrive until Wednes day evening. State Engineer Lewis came in Sunday but received a tele gram announcing the death of a brother and he left for Portland Monday morn in jj. I S. Stanley, of the Deschutes Irrigation & Pow er Company, also came in with the Sunday party. Object of the Visit. The object of this visit was to de termine if the work of these two ir rigating companies was bc.ng !.-nc in good faith, if they had feasible projects, and if there was a suffi cient nmount of water in short, to determine if certain lauds were ac tually reclaimed and if the govern ment would be justified in issuing patent thereto to the state as stipu lated in the Carey act. As far as the D. . I. & P. Co. is concerned, everything indicates that the report made to the government by its special agents and engineers will be very commendatory, and the recent charges of graft proven to be abso lutely without foundation and a rank canard. As much can not be said of the Columbia Southern com pany nnd that concern undoubtedly has trouble ahead of it. District Attornoy Bristol's Opinion. District Attorney Bristol talked freely to The Hulletin. but stated that lie was not speaking officially and only as a private individual. Asked regarding his opinion of this section, Mr. Bristol said: "You have n great empire here. Your two crying needs are transportation and co-operation with each other." He dwelt on this latter point to some extent, condemning the two preva lent spirit of strife nnd bickering thnt he found present. Our grand empire, he said, would never amount to much without a close co operation between all. "What is your opinion of our local irrigation project, that of the D. I. & P. Co.," he was asked. "With a personal knowledge and acquaintance with practically all the larger irrigation projects "of the country," replied Mr. Bristol, "I must say that the one here has great possibilities and a promising future." "After investigating this system as you have today, what would you say regarumg the recent charge of graft ngninst the D. I. & P. Co. uud the statement that the lien had been placed too high?" No draft by I). I. & P. Co. In reply to that question Mr. Bristol entered into an extended explanation of the cost of reclama tion systems which showed that he had n thorough knowledge of that subject. He stated that the profit J WITH D. I. & P. CO. I accruing to the D. I. & P. Co , in the very nature of the thing, could be only a small one considering the capital, labor and energy put into the enterprise. He Said in part "There is" nrphably not a i'xj acre tract of the segregation lying; east of town that we have not seen today. Along the Oregon Central canal (here arc many places thrcugh rock where it could not be con structed for less than 40,000 Oth er portions would be much cheaper. figuring the cost of this and the Pilot Butte canal, with their miles of laterals, with the hcadgatc and flumes, I satisfied myself today (and'l have never examined their books) that the company has al ready spent approximately $900, 000. I am also satisfied that the maintenance charge of St.co per acre will only about cover the ex pense of maintenance. It would cost an individual from $40 to $60 an acre to put water on tuts laid and even then iis land would have to be adjacent to some body of wat er. While the company cuti do this cheaper, yet the expense of re claiming the land is great. Possi bly the company may make a profit of three or four per cent on this enterprise. The lien allowed the. company U not too high and there is no reason to charge graft." The whole trend of Mr. Bristol's statements were favorable to the company and he sooke freely and encouragingly of the work done. Others Also Pleased. Special Agent Meycndorf also ex pressed himself as well please ' with the D. I. & P. system. He said that in view of the lack of trans portation, the company's hcadgatc, flumes, and canals were well built and that he was very favorably un impressed with the entire system. Others of the party made the same favorable comment regarding the project and of our great empire and the promising country wc have here. Their reports to their chiefs will undoubtedly be favor;1'. the D. I. & P. Co. project. The Party Scatters. Thursday Governor Chamber lain, I. S. Stanley and A- W. Prescott, an Orcgonian reptesenta tive with the party, drove over to Prineville, where the gov ernor met the people nt a pub ic gathering last evening. Ifrom ther he will go to Portland. Mr. Whist ler nnd Mr. Meyendorf spent yes terday at I.aidlaw, Mr. Whistler leaving for Sbaniko from that place, and Mr. Meycndorf returning to Bend for further work. Messrs, Bristol and Neuhausen spent the day, in company with C. M. Red field, examining the segregation east of Bend. Today they will or fer with the settlers in a public meeting at Laidlaw. 10V. CHAMBERLAIN'S REMARKS. fllves Short Talk to Bend's Citizens Wednesday N!;;ht. The Bend Commercial Club called n meeting of the citizens Wednesday evening at which Go crnor Chamberlain was asked to address the audience. The govern or opened his remarks by coraph. menting this section on the gr.at development that has taken place during the past year. He said it was remarkable and that he was surprised to see so great an advance in the section beginning at Agency Plains and extending to nnd throughout this vicinity. Ship tlie Knockers Out, ' He further said that though Na ture had given this town and sec tion great advantages, he wautcd to give us n word of warning and a word of advice. He warned us not to make the mistake of thinking that our city and town would ac quire a niagulficent development from its mere natural advantages and did not need the united nud persistent efforts of nil. On the contrary it would require the united work of nil pulling together. The word of advUe was that everyone (Coutiuued ou page 4.)