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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1913)
Page 2. m:xi nriii.r.TiN, iu:m, oiu: i:im:hiav, .ii'iv no, iii;i. How Bend Lools to Investors from Seattle ocn when rlilluc nt full npooil. Tltoy upon tlu wllu rf a meat elty With 1intt..il llint tatt nltltlliln llf !tl?Hta f.wtt Hut filit1ur If mtvt litiltitk llltlt t U it LMitilt Sound CitV 0bS6rVGriU0l8 not l,rou,It t,l winter bhu from inllrouds woio burning "l the neck ' i being very warm, when tlio nlr Is so of tliu tunnel from llu north, tlioy clear that mountains 100 miles nwny roallxod that the were not merely can ho 8oun by nuio.islght. Whatever pioneers uniting putlentl.v for tin In- olso thoy were nbout to discover, tlioy ovituhlo cltj In the distant joura; know that tlioy had round n health ...! ........... -......t .1.. t.l r. t ,. .' iinuii uiunni iiwpii nidi iti.tiiti pwi.iu Day Attractions and day famous. I ill' iukiii i.i'iuru, in eu niiinii u totn bo fnr from transportation, the electric-lighted streets nml home; told of cheap power; hut Mio Seattle men now examined the Deschutes river. They found a largo dam al ready liullt In the heart of the town; hut thoy also found that Homl had nt least CO, 000 horsepower, much of It ohtalnahlu without transmission, and nono of It to to transmitted moro than nine miles. It 'transmission hAii aa aaaxtaw In l. iMMnlilnluiil Dnttil la th7on7t'oVn .n "teW po.eH " "J " Llh stream In tho West, n stream capable Some Contrasts Between Bend and Seattle Worth Care ful Consideration. Writes Enthusiastical ly Concerning-Present Future Possibilities of Town. 3lr. V. I. Cheney, writer of the fol lowing article, L one of the ninny men in Seattle who hate unlimited faith in Hend and who have banked lieatlly on IN growth. As president of the Hend Park Com. jinny ho has tcry extensive realty holdings here. Tho Seattlo huslness man. from the windows of his office, looks out uoqn a wholo city of offlco buildings, ho tels, railway stations, apartment houses, libraries, theatres and cathe drals. Not one of thim was thero eight years ago. Where that hotel stands was a hill that was higher than the building. Where those numberless locomotives, looking llko toys! aro shooting htthor and thither over that labyrinth of tracks, wind ing In and out among factories nod warehouses, qpverlng nn aroa groat or than the whole map of Bond, eight ears ago there was IS feet of water at high tide. In his office, high above this Sus ctnatlng moving picture, the Seattle business man has heard more than ono of his associates unfold a project so audacious and so tremendous that it staggered the imagination. He has neon that man .pposed; and in splto of natural obetaclos that seemed they wore invent nt tho actual and Immediate birth of n groat city! They hurried home and Invested $80,000 lu land surrounding a little Hinge of COO people away lu tho heart of Oregon, 00 miles from n railroad. Outcome N tVrtnlu. Prom that day to this, thoy hao continued to invest until they havu ultw put nearly a quarter of a million dollars Into (tend; and they will go on investing in Hend until tho cows como home. When a Seattlo man finds a town of (.00 that ho known ho will never put nuy of his money I.. .... .!., ..lnMrt A... I tl... C.n.l).. . ,.. ... rtrt rtrt1 - AAA ' l 1J UillVI 111111:1.-. rfllllt .U OI'llllIU nnnV-nnS. w, business man don not care "how 0Nohrth.e,r, h'and east these . W 't ITcS '"how ..i ,n. 1. . .11. i,. Northwest. Ho only cares "how . i. ..i., i'.t. ?.., ,.1 ,.' sure;" and lie Is prepared to work was winter; but they vlsi'ed many productlvo farms, and talked with prosperous farmers. Tlmlier In Viewed. They lslted forests so Immonse , he knows to bo certain. From that day to this, there have been unending rumors of mills and factories; ono, two, or three will bo built next ear; and tho hopes of many have risen and fallen with the that tho largest mill In the world, flaring and fading of these rumors, running night nnd day for 100 years. I Seattlo has only smiled. The mills would not exhaust the supply. I'roli-j must come; because tho timber Is at ably by tho tlmo the present timber 1 Hend; because It all feeds down was consumed, modern methods of replanting would have grown n now forest on the site of the first cutting They snw dormant wheat lands so vast that It took their breath hwoj when they reduced their future out put to dollars. The annual returns ran Into so many millions that they never dared to use the figure: and they were grateful a few months ago when so great an authority as Prof. Thomas Shaw estimated It at one hundred million dollars. All of these things were grouped right around the tovn, :it plain sight to the naked eye from the top of Pilot Iiutte Ninety miles away, thev knew that gieat gangs of men. on both aides of the river, were blasting, shoveling. laytng ties, spiking rails, cutting tun I Prom The llullotln of Dec I, IHliM Tho visitor to Seattle who gels Into the right hands mid learns something of the rcmailwihlo story of the devel opment of that city ussurodlj has it into ttont. If that Isltor happens to! be a lleud man, with 1111 ojo to com- IparlHoiiH, Seattle's history Is all tho 'moro Interesting, for It contnhiH a great big object lesson for lleud. A man who will study what Seattle has done, and with what Its progress has been made, will return to lleud 111010 than over a lleud enthusiast and a be- Hover In the great future Unit awaits this communis. 1 Hocontly the writer was lu Seattle. Tour days were dm o led to Inspec tion of the city, and many hours to ascertaining how Seattlo had grown and why It had grown. Of course, tho Information gathered was but a fraction of what Is there, and of what Is worth thinking about. Hut It was enough. 1 Hero aro some of the facts They aro random Incidents hut they tell the story In outline: In 1ST0 Seattle had a population of 1100. That was 42 joars ago. To day Seattlo has more than 260.000 people. Population .lump. In 1880 the population was nr.00. In 1S8J tho figure was close to 10. 000. In that J ear Seattle's llrst rail- load came, the Northern Pai'lIU. With that nuY laltioHil. Hud with the tlieat Noilhcru. lu 1M. tho popula tion doubled In ten jours, and In I'.iOO was SO, OHO. The census or 1010 showed 2.17,000 luhnbllaiits. So, then, without a railroad, and at u tlmo when tho populHllon of the 1 us! was .1000 miles further distant than It Is today -so far as tratisiKir tntlon was eiincMNiod Seattle grow to bo a clt of nearly 10,000 people. With two railroads (hat population was doubled In a decade. lu 1008 11 third road came, (ho t'lilou Pacific, and lu Id 11 a fourth, the Milwaukee. Hut tho wonderful population strides were accomplished with 0110 railroad, and at a time when tho Northwest, lu comparison to conditions of today, was practic ally Isolated from tho Kastoru popu lation centers. In 1913 lloud has two railroad, coming from tho same direction My 1D10 there Is every reason to hollcvn that Hend will hmo two railroads from three directions, and probably j 0110 from n fourth, the west. That means, practically, seven railroad outlets nnd Inlets. I Is It nuy wonder that a Hend man siiouiil sit up anil tiiKe nonce wneii the KlKulllcauco of this comes homo to him ' Yes, Seattlo has a harbor Also the great Alaska trade tins done, and Is dolim. woniUrn for lis economic de velopment. Advantage In lamls 'hit, nftiiliii investigation piodnceti V.i .!, u unit iif HSi'ond cut- i, i,r iinuii Miulles. I'or thoio In lie imilmilliiial laud worth iiiviillun-1,.- i.HMti 11 iitutfiiiiHble lailllis of Hm- utile. It Is a candid ftl. that will be pioved In I he next ton wm. that the wheal terrltoi) or ('miUnl Oiegou will be of as much value to lloiul as the AlshkHii lisde has been to Me- ,l,,l,- . . ! As legards Ihe Hgilcullural lands or tho Ptiget Round counto. ono ehnrMClerlHlle fact Is worth mention ing. It Is this 'I ho farmer who ltu" unlinpi oved land IherealioulM ps not less than !! mi ncre. Tho laml ho bought In coveied with huge sliimis. The approximate average cost of dealing the lands Is nhoul $100 an acre. That Is a cash expen diture It means money l"ild out nt tho ver start Whnt do unimproved lauds cost III Central Oregon? Well, there aro thousands of acres (lint mar bo had for tho taking. Other thous ands of acres ma) bo secured for IN an aero and up possibly to f0, nt the blithest, while It Is doubtful If any appreciable amount of tho host Impioved and proHtalily producing Inuds are held for moro than f!0 laud all lu crops. Ami In biDlng tho Central Oregon raw lands thero Is not 1100 an acre rust for stump pull ing and ibuainltlug. Practically spooking, the acies are ready for cul tivation Tho comparison Is worth considering. Isn't It Power Clove nt Iinuii. The power that developes Seattle's electrlcIO Is brought on nn average of 10 miles from th ill) At a re mit election llin city appropriated (C uitluued oil Page IMghl) grade to Hend; because the timber must 1k cut; becnuso tho ponds for tho logs can only bo formed nt Hend. because mills cannot wisely lie Iso lated when they can bo liullt in u cltj : and because the owners of the timber arc owners of Hend propert.v When will these mills be built Seat tie doesn't know; and Seattle doesn t care. Home was not bum 111 a uav , Succeeeful men are pstlent. Tin mills must come: that Is the im Ittimort Will IlciHiiue I(imII(Ii'. There have been rumors of tin extension of lioth railroads south , ward and one of them outhea' There have been rumors of first o .1 and then mother railroad from the weet. and even a third one from ti I north has been mentioned, while' there has been persistent talk of two I more from the oast. It Is reported! rial nffnr tunnnl fhrnueh willil rrak. , .i.i i ...I.- -. ...i.i,..i ' -- - - : " :: i ' iuBiirmyuiiii. .u P.ic """; building two of the great bridges orit,at 1.500 men are now working on obstaclos thrown In his imth by the world and many smaller bridges. ut)H ()f the latter oast of Hend Se doubt. Incapacity, envy, greed and Two of the greatest railway s) stems aUe H hardly Invested by the ...iii. t.o ii flnn that man co ! ot lhe world, Hill and Harrlmaii. ,u.w. Thl rallroaits must come, aid his were spending tweutvthree million stoauiiy on 10 pruuucuim u. ... ,.-. , -,. ull the rlV8r ..... dream in brlok and stool sad stone toward Demi, and concrete. He has seen Immense,' .s Seen I'nmi Pilot Hutte. hills molt down llko magic. Ho has1 standing there on the top of Pilot seen them thrown into the sea. He Iiutte, the Seattle men compared a has seen sky-scraplng buildings rlse!M In their hands with Katun . .tit iii i.. ii 'gigantic map spread at their feet and in their place. And he has lMtrfa ( e(try vtoI,0r lu length ,, to unaersianu tne nsricHscuvu jirc ticallty of a 1 breadth of a hundred mile. Central mueh-mlauuderslood Ortgi n was exactly like a great l. west. n..i, whioh a.va "if vm havu rut tb funnel. Mountain to the isagmlnot muatard mwd. ye ialljou" h .. ...... there waa only the narrowat of val- ta to tau mouniain, no inwn rv noved. and be Uiou caat Into tk sol,' ami It shall b done." It has lioen dona. The Seattle 1 usltifia man has seen It done. And he has learned that the biggest fool .11 the world la the pessimist who doubts the futu il-ipgerbuff sinner Is the man who gees 1 .out attacking the work or the repu tation of his neighbor: and thst the w icest of all men are the patient and inspliliig optimists who, In the mus turd seed of the present, sec the plant or the future, the beauty cf the flow- rg nnd its profitable thousands of h.eds. Ity Wmj of .Shattlku. So, when a man returned to Seattle from Bend SO months ago and told of what he had seen. Seattlo business men wasted no time lu doubting. The started that sight. Next day thoy went as far Into Central Oregon h trains would carry them, and the following day drove 0 miles beyond the end of the nearest railroad, ar riving In the evening at a little ham let of 00 people, nestling in a wood id valley, beside a . tr, and ovor 1 oked by snow-capped mountains. Af'er a grcd dinner lu the back of r nation store and night's rest In a clean and comfortable bed above the cigar counter, the Seattle men. tK-cmUomed to sleeping until 8 o'clock In their sea-level home, awoke at , . id were surprised 10 :nd that they d d not wish to remain abed. The nlr was vitalising, and as clear as rrvstal. Wandering I roikfast, tbey they must corn to the vortex of the, funnel. i After they became Interested In1 Hend, these Seattle buslaees i.ii were often warned by example of towns on the plain which rallro.il avoided b detours and left to d1" of Inanition. They wore ' v amused by such talk. Such towrs, are killed liecause the railroad Is , their only resource. This town Is the greatest resource of the raUromh Hecause Hend is the vortex tbrounV which all the commerce of Centrul Oregon must go Hecause all th sources of an Empire greater t!i .11 any Ksstern st tte are eonrcnWMeil p Rend. And whatever the rallnmiH way do elseanere In Central Oreo 1, tbey must come lu Hend. "Hood Mut Vume tu Jawtd." rn In Pend Itself these mn worn told that the Harrlman road wfi!. top et the dry farm town of Mid no. 45 miles awa, and thv the III I read would stvp at the Irrigated fan.i tovTi of Kdm'iid. 20 m l nwnv snd their Informs nts sadly honed that they were right when tb-y told them, "the toads must come tu Bend." Just eight months later, slr'n leys leading upward from the Co lumbia, 150 miles to the north. Up this valley, up this narrow neck of the funnel, two trunk railroads wcro building cu sn easy and even grade. For 100 miles from the Columbia, there was not and never could be anv town on the Da-hiilaa Hliar nr that the meal 0B ,Unw cf th, two raiiro,as. Tber. was not room for one. The gorge was too narrow and two deep. Even in the last TO miles, there could never lie a towa on the r"lver: and where, a few miles back from the river, there was room for a town on the railroad, it had na other resource than dry farming, or at most Irri gated farming. At such pclnts good towns were possible, at one of them. Until iMieeila wnt into Hend In Keduond, absolutely certain: but no private car as guests of Ihe Harrlman ' city eouni ever be bum in tne neck road! and en the same day James I. of Central Oregon's funnel. Hill went Into Hend In a epeclnl Then the runnel suddenly widened) train over his own rails. Just as Into a hopper containing level plains "sure, and Juse as j 'ompt i proper nearly two hundred miles square It ion to Its magnitude, will be Heuds the future wheat lands of Oregon 'future. all of them, from whatever dlrectioa. I The ard land of Washington grading gently downward like a bo-jhs nil hern taken up and are III"1! per toward the neck or the funnel. D price, excepting only the logged. 1 Through the neck of this funnel all 'off lands that cannot compote with I he wheat of the ruture must reed. sHgebrueh. This Is tine of evtr Over these plaius all railroads from region (11 the country extent ( the east, south, aad southeast, must placeCentral Oregon. Then- th ulld: and to the vortex of this fun- rt tide of Immigration must nel they all must come to reach the heueeforlh concentrate. When tl. west, north, and northwest, running Panama Cinal moves Castle 0ntMi down grade through tho neck of the fmn New York to the Pacific f'jis, -runnel all the way to the Columbia, the gteat influx of Uurooean I ,1 - Homl lit Mouth or I'uiiiiuI. Iwl" ''r"'d u' fel1 nt h- ''''- i.i o.-.i . .1... ., -. tral Oregon runnel, spread out fr. n .foVhi ;:ru;.f,;;7..:'ir' ;";,"":: "ver tb n.m.. nd ,ur i. r- ki. m. i h ........... ' 7 . i through Bend and the renno the in. out w::e walling for S"? WM,U r"1,,n'f ' '"" ' r were surprised by the ' 1 "'.TV.w" , l.'!"1"0.; lab-r. As J. Plerncnt eiorn 1 beauty of the scenery: they were ms-- , , .. k l" " to Piwtland f,",Pr to,l b,ra nt w't'1- """ ' " MlKd at the ideal setting of tb.," y traa.. oKaHci c the who to M,r 0B th" ,uture of "'', t .mi. and after breakfast, they were' '.i?!. St, fl ouplrv will go broke." . -tot nded to flrd the people cultured p SSJeKreag her TrrlkltloT I "A ,u"' ' AM.i.h-eHi " ' . ml refined, their homes eoii.-p.rai.le ", JJJ 8 bTwaterwe? AU """' "-ory In the Vortl,, . . lu external beauty to these of any tn concentrated exactly In ! tne history of astonishment. 'Il.e ntv nnd containing all the modem' h ' J, u?,."!?. ! ,.:."' ftin-erv-tlve rstlmainr has h . - ..... -J n...Analli.a TliM.. .'"." "" """ " ,,..., ... ... , ... , t'linfxrts end conveniences. Tnev I. end' themselves, not iu a frontier t wu. bet In a mln'ature city, with n l'nlvorslty Club of 38 charter mem bers. Huiblao Proves Wanning. At ha'f-psst 16 they agsia took In the mi Hat of than, waa IU.n.1 Vel lO lie laUVOIt Pt; Sill t Any single one cf these tesources dram" o( " wild dreamer would make a town t( 10,000 to 30.- f,lle" tur ht'rt "' ,b tr,,h- '''" (00 people. But with ail or them H c,rf"' ient or feet. 1 thus couoeutraud upen one point. "ot Improbably It uoderstaes th. with topography compelling t!e eon- "'! result: but let us see wh n veigeuce tf all railroads or the Umii ' r,,u to become. ti. aritemobile to invest Wte the ruture. from the north, couth, oaat BecH tile Weal fron, ngknMi t b"iro I'dlnns: end thev were sur- and aoulbeeet. uuon the me iioint. tl", Cowt: yJ' Mud no inland p-l-rd apd that overcoats, which and with that sumo point the moat uwn' '"r"" np "H' w"n th" r"" hd b"i a most vital tMwe.sity eg .logical tem.iuua 01 ., i..niiaii "roi of Ileml, gpokano Is the their ttirll tbo p-evdoiis evenlnt. f rom the west, these Seattle men ' nHrlson; hut oven Spokane were now oxccodlnj'y u ncc instable ( realized that they vvee btandlng (Contlnuod on Pago ISIght) WHAT TWENTY FIVE YEARS CAN A1EAN. 'j?&. , . ' l.arW Um V1 a jrT. -f Looking I.'iiiit on C'heiiy htictt lu Scuttle A Winter Mew lu lr-H.1, mill An It AppeaiM Today,