mr T THE BEND BULLETIN. i i VOI,. V HKND, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOIJKR 4, 1907. "NO. 39 MUST LIVE ON LAND State Officials Make Rul vide that an "actul settler is defined to mean a person who is iii nctual occupancy of the laud, with the in tention of making the same hfspcr maucut residence utid using the laud us his home." He tmmt ! ANOTHER NEW ROAD Alt. Hood Electric Line to Tap This Section, i fncl and the construction crew nl. ready engaged In the vicinity of Hull Run ami Iwtwren that point nnd Half vlrw will be rapidly odvtiiiI along the root so that considerable of the heavier rrt of ih wprk will probably be com pleted during the winter month". Approaching the Deschutes ,nt n point not far from tiic mouth of Warm Spring (Continued on page 4.) WOODS FULLOF SQUATTERS IRRIGATED LANDS WITH- ing to That Effect. IS HARD ON SPECULATORS come an nctual resident within six PERPETUAL WATER RIGHT $15.00 TO $40.00 PER ACRE (Continual an pne ,j ) ANOTHER LARGE PROJECT IS BACKED BY W, A, CLARK ll' I J, KHte f 185,000 acres in ttic I)es Chutes Volley. 60,000 acres now timlcr 350 mile of completed canals. Most fertile soil, abundant and never falling water, glori oils climate 310 sunshiny days jwr year clicap lumlcrnnd fuel, worlds of water jwiver, fish, game, nud licnutiftil inoiiutaiii scen ery, combine to make an ideal country to MVtt in. Ah for MAKINO A MVINO, man after man of onr settlers is producing this year from these clicap lands from $50.00 to 100.00 an acre in clover, alfalfa, oat, wheat and barley crops. Vegetable and fruit crpj have yielded from $ 100.00 an acre up. 1.16 varieties of grains, grasses, fruits and vcBctables raised and ripened on the land. Clover H tons per acre, alfalfa 7 tons, oats Ho bushels, potatoes 300 bushels, swectcorn 180 bushels roasting cars, strawberries n.to gallons, and other crops in similar pro fusion. WHY, MAN; IT IS LIKE FINDING MONEY. Have you got your tract of land yet? If not, why not? 0t n hustle on and get it now, while you can get your pick. Remember this is Carey Act land. YOU FAY ONLY I'Oll TIIU COST OF IRRIGATION. You get the land absolutely free directly from the State of Oregon. For particulars write today for Hook let G. Deschutes Irrigation & Power Company Clias. P. Richardson, Manager Sales Department Room 20.1, No. rt W'nll St., Spoknnc, YVnsh. CIR BEND, dREbON. I'urclmsers or Irrigated LnnJ Will He Kc(ulrciJ (o l.lvo Upon and CuIlN vflte It Olven Six Alontlu, Oeicltulcs Land Company Will Re. claim 31,000 Acres of Fertile Land In the Vicinity of Rosland. At, lie nd, Oregon. A Complete Stock of DRY Hough, Surfaced and Moulded -LUMBER- All Widths, Lengths and Thicknesses At Bend, Oregon. Reasonable Prices (lood Grades 'Dry Stock INCH COMMON DIMENSION SIIII'LAP RUSTIC T. & 0. FLOORING nitADKD CF.IMNG WINDOW JAMBS ' WINDOW CASING HKAD BLOCKS 0. 0. KASKI10ARD STAIR TRHADS WATIJR TAHT.lt O. G. 1IATTINS MOULDINGS P. B. D. PATI5NT ROOFING WINCH PICKETS SHINGLES Iv'VC, ETC. Lumber Delivered at ' Low Cost Anywhere cm The Lands of me D. I. & P. Co., or rtio c. s. 1. Co. CUSTOM FEED MILL IN CONNECTION APPLMTO Chtrai Oregon Development Company The .State Land Hoard has re ccntly adopted a new ruling in re gard to settlement on irrigated laud which places a new interpretation on the law as heretofore generally understood and which will nlav havoc witli the speculator who never hat intended to live upon the land. The ruling provides that purchasers of irrigated lands under the Carey Act must be "nctual settlers" in the full meaning of that term and stipulates that the man who buys irrigated laud must take ur his residence thereon with in six months after putcha&e ol the laud. Residents of Hend who own tracts of ditch land arc already fig uritig nnd worrying over the new rule, while some nrc making ar rangements to move onto their laud before the six months cxpitcs. Others fed belligerent and declare that the ruling requiring residence cannot be enforced, and that they will not comply with it. They will probably feel differently before the expiration of the six months of grace. The new rilling will undoubtedly provdkc the ire of those purchasers living ot a distance who have bought the laud for speculation pure and simple, as it will force them to cither move upon the laud and cultivate it or sell out to an actual settler who will do so. A dispatch to the Orcgonian from Salem tells of the new rule as follows: S.M.HM, Or., Sept. 37. The State Laud Hoard has just adopted n new set of rules and regulations for the government of arid laud sales and the management of the reclamation systems under the Carey act. One of the most im portant bcctions of the new rules is that which relates to "actual set tlers." It is this section that is likely to prove n Mumbling block to many of the purchasers of land in the reclamation systems, for it is generally understood that inauv have no intention of living upon the laud nnd will find it vcrv in convenient to make (heir homes there even for the period of six months. Will Run through Central Oregon and Connect with (lould-Moffatt Lines nt Salt Lake City. The rules upon this subject pro-'this enterprise. Work on another large reclama tion project will undoubtedly be in progress ere many mouths pass by. U.ast Friday President J. E Morri son of the Deschutes Laud Com pany signed the ucccssury contract required by the State Land Hoard. This contract stipulate that the company shall reclaim 31,000 acres of laud adjoining Rosland at an es timated cost of $20 an acre, and the lien price to the settler is $36 per acre. It also provides that when 80 per cent of the lands have lecn deeded by the state to the set tiers, then the system shall be turned over to the water users bv the corporation free of encumbrance, thccuuip-any to retain a proportional intcrot in the system depending ui)on the amount of land unsold. The company is thus liable to a proportional share of cost of main tenance. The board insisted on this pro vision since there is no other in ducement to compel the company to spend money to advertise and se cure settlers upon the land, which is the object of the state. If the company is assessed to a propor tional share oi cost of maintenance it will act as an incentive for the company to dispose of unsold land to actual settlers The company is not required to give n bond, and in lieu of this, as was required of the Deschutes Irri gation & Power Company, n de posit of $i for each acre of land sold mutt be made with the state treasurer as a guarantee of good faith. The contract further provides that the land shall be reclaimed and the system turned over to the Water Users Association within five years nnd free from incum brance. This project has been held up for two or three years due to otic cause after another. It is hoped that it win now go lor ward, as its success ful completion will be of much value to this entire section The land to be reclaimed lies for 35 miles along Little river, or the main stem of the Deschutes, its lowest extrem ity being a short distance below Boguc's place at Rosland and ex tending up into Klamath county in 33-9. Rosland, 32 miles south of Hend, will be the headquarters of Stories of railroad construction into Central Oregon still appear and, like Hanquo's ghost of old, they will not down. The latest one to attract attention is an account to the effect that Senator W. A. Clark, Gould and Moffatt arc associated in an enterprise to build a new road from Denver to Salt Lake, across northern Nevada, through eastern and southern Oregon to near the headwaters of the Deschutes, down that stream !o Warm Spring River, then northwesterly through the Cascades near Mt. Hood, and on to Portland. It is said that the Mt. Hood Electric Road, now in pro cess of construction, will be the first link in the new line out of Portland. The story is told in a lengthy article in last Sunday's Or cgonian as follows: The Rush for Choice Quarter-Section llxceeded All Expectations Some Comical Incidents Noted. There if abumbnit reason to lielleve that Portland and Salt Lake- City are toon to be connected by a new link in a transcontinental rallrcad chain that if to be forged as fatt ai laborand sufficient capital can complete the tank. Concealed behind the seemingly local electric line enterprise of the Mount Hood Railway it Tower Company are said to be the ma tured plain for the Salt Lake project, tacked by Uie millions of Senator V. A. Clark and hi associate interests. When Senator Clark first nlaced hi stamp of approval on the maps of the locating engineer for the San Pedro. Ios Angcle & Salt Lake it was a part of 111c iiroruscu coniirucuoii 10 cxtenii onr arm of the new transportation system to uregon. loiter the financial influence of the Harritnan system trained control of the new road and by means of clever traffic agreements and manipulation squecied the new line Into a mere link of the larpcr system. There was an im mediate veto of plans for the Oregon line oud for the time being Oregon' develop meat was retarded. Link In Rock Island System. ith secrecy that smack of the I vious conquest of George Ooul e pre d. but which, it is twlieved by person well ad vised, is in reality th- linking of. the Rock Island system snd the Moffatt railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City, the plan for the new road into Portland have been practically complet ed. Mcaimhile riiL-lnccrinp parties have completed the location across to the eastern slope of the Cas cades, thence southeastward toward Cen tral Nevada to the eastern terminus at Salt Ukc City. Surprise to Engineers. 11 may surprise some engineers to learn that a route has been found by which the line will make a gradual ascent of Mount Hood, to the wnithciit of that eminence and through to the tumor Deschutes on n eomrwiiuiini. grade of lew than one per cent, but uch BEND, OREQON I AN INCIDENT SHOWING HOW "BILL" VANDEVERT GUIDEDTHEIt I I BEAR HUNTING PARTY, l will iiimi i ) SaMM'-VB' 2zr 'j!Kk 58- -v i s ts xmWn'M' r -mrvMvj zsKSm& i t 1 sr sn.kivl- jmssm r.il. v SL i n - vx . .3rf .WWII - r J&eUfV -Ta " - " vVt sSCs. s J I l tI'1 Jk'ffl " (lioiJ. ivAf v ft. . ' ' : 1 IJL S ""k'TVI MI"MTfcW.(W,y, jg The rush for timber that wast prophesied would take place last Friday night exceeded all expecta tion?. The timber was simply alive with eager people anxious to be the Hrst one on a claim, thus securing prior right. While it was expected that there would be many appli cants for each claim, it was not ex pected that in many cases as many as 17 persons would be camped up on the same selection. But that is what happened in at least one case. Friday night was a most disagree able one for those in the timber. Shortly before midnight a c6il heay rain began to fall and nearly everyone was "soaked to the bide" before they had gotten moved upon their selections and into camp for the remainder of the nicht. Eye witnesses have told how nearly everyone was running through the woods through the wet under brush and pouring rain trying to run their lines by the light of lan terns. It was a disagreeable night and many were glad when day dawned. A man driving from Rosland to Bend the next day said he saw fully 300 people swarming in and out of the timber along the road. He al so reported some rather comical in cidents which he had noted. One was that so many were sure that their right to a certain piect of tim ber land was better than that ot any of the other squatters on the same piece. That opinion seemed prevalent with everyone. One old man said that he had crossed the plains in '52, had never used any of his "rights" and thought, there fore, that he was entitled before all comers to one of the best quarter- sections 01 timber lying out doors. A veteran of the Civil War had suffered 1 1 months in the horrors of Audersonville prison and he likewise, thought that that should entitle him to a choice piece of tim ber. And indeed it should. Wher ever there are large numbers of people congregated there is sure to be seen the humor of human nature and this time was no exception to the rule. The highest number reported or one selectiou was seventeen, al'. camped on a fine claim lying a short distance east cf John Atkin son's place on the Big Meadows Another selection adjoining this one had 13 settlers camped upon i: shortly after midnight. Manyoth er claims had as many as eight or nine. Fortune favored a few, how ever, and they were able to locate upon a piece without having any- oue there to dispute their right to it. One instance is told where twe young ranchers drove some 55 0 30 miles and when they came tc locate on their selections found twe of their nearest neighbors then ready to make settlement upon the same. pieces. At last reports these four ueighbors were camped on tht same two quarter-sections. So far there have been no case. of trouble reported. Everyone seemed to be good-natured. It is hoped this same feelinir will ore- dominate when the time comes tc file. Card of Thanks. Myself and wife desire to sincere ly thank the friends for their kinr" assistance and sympathy durinc the death and. burial of our littlt The Bulletin Sets the Pace. . -. ' , s daughter, Florence. Mr. ami Mrs. Oliver Johnson. I