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BURNS, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 10, 1910
IV
NO 4,
She
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T OF BALLINGER
of Interior Makes Recom-
mdations to Congress
ME LAND LEGISLATION
I Opposed to Commutation Provisions of the
id Law and Recommends Change Limit
rea on Desert JLana untry to luu Acres.
report, just made j
ary imuinger, oi
;of the Interior,
I' amount of space
; problems. After
jitory of the public
giving statistics to
is now unappro-
breserved 711,986-
nblic land in conti-
Jtates and Alaska,
pays:
ead bill for grant-
to the landless
fa national question
years later it was
iw and approved by
bln.after a previous
tdent Buchanan in i
l.ground that Con-
fhave the power to
tion of the public
or to the States. !
lugurated a radical
cy. Of this policy
ison, in his annual
M8G5 said: "The
licy was established
and earnest re-
perience proves its
i lands in the hands
ious settlers, whose
irealth and contri
public resources,
lore to tne unuea
they had been re-
solitude for future
' as will be seen, it
policy of Congress
public lands to those
Iposed to make the
hem, none of which
of with a view to
Penue tor govern
Brt Even the coal
sold at nominal
until a few years J
re not entered even
except where mar-
. made the land sal-
product
re conservative me-
Istion now is of sav-
iinant of the public
monopolization or
bout abandoning the
of encouraging devol
ve highest productive
: lands is the concern
le. Tne metnoas oi
usa are the concern
and state govern-
i:t. .:. tUn r'ni
ijiauiuuuu iiiu wuii-
le the stewarJ of the
lin and for its stew-
is rcsponsiDie to tne
executive can move.
ted or authorized by
selling or otherwise
this national estate;
1 questions relating to
Bum the existing status
over this estate re
in the legislative
tho. Government, and
Bular movements look-
reformation of our
must of course be
the Congress. Con-
jhe movement to con-
national resources in
al estate of lands
fcecure the wisest and!
Kg benefit to the nation j
mo is a matter with
xess must deal.
mandatory legislation
our public lands should
simple, effective and
pcipally to the proper
position of the with-
water-powor sites,
kid rights of way over
icen shown, tlio unap-
public lands of the
States and Territories
about 712,000,000
as compared with the
nds in these various
a small percentage of
ory thereof, and the
ivernment should not
.to assume the entire
the conservation of
ml resources of tho
States in which they are situated,
for it has been demonstrated that
the States are capable of taking
care of these questions in a largo
measure, as is shown by the leg
islation effectuating these pur
poses in States like Massachu
setts and Washington, at the ex
tremities of our country.
The passage of tho act allow
ing surface entries on lands class
ified as coal lands has been a re
lief as against tho tension creat
ed by keeping the enormous area
of over 80,000,000 acres from
settlement Those lands are now
open to agricultural entry with
authority to issue patents on full
compliance with the law, except
that the patentee secures no
right in or to tho deposits of coal
that may be found in the lands.
Great activity has existed in
connection with tho lands open
ed under tho enlarged homestead
act of 1909 allowing entry of 320
acres. There have been classified
and opened for entry under this
act approximately 188,000,000
acres, and from time to time fur
ther classifications will be made
and the lands so classified opened
to settlement
The existing withdrawals of
coal, oil, phosphate and water
power lands aggregate at this
time, in round numbers, over
91,000,000 acres.
A failure to release much of
the lands now under withdrawls
by new and amendatory acts
directing the manner of their
disposition will inhibit develop
ment and greatly retard the new
and struggling settlements and
industries of many of tho west
ern States and Territories.
Other recommendations for
existing laws or for enactment
of new laws are as follews:
Amendment of existing desert
land laws so as to limit the max
imum of area which may be en
tered to 160' acres; to extend the
time within which final proof
may be made to seven years, but
impose the additional condition
of actual cultivation of not less
that one-half the irrigable area
of the entry for a period of not
less than three years prior to
final proof.
Repeal of the commutation pro
visions of the homestead law, or,
if this be deemed inadvisable,
modification of the present laws
so as to require two years actual
residence, cultivation, and im
provement as a prerequisite to
commutation. Also provide that
no patent shall issue under any
commuted homestead entry here
after made, except to citizens of
the United States.
Legislation requiring notices of
mining locations to bo recorded
in "the office of the register and
receiver of the land districts; re
quiring final payment and entry
for mineral claims to be made
within seven years from date of
location, exclusive of any time
covered by pending adverse or
contest proceedings; and modifi
cations of the placer mineral laws
so as to provide that no placer
location hereafter made, whether
by one or more persons, or an as
sociation of persons, shall exceed
40 acres in area.
That tho act of March 3, 1875,
be amended so as to specifically
provide that no railroad con
struction work shall bo permitted
upon the public lands, cither sur
veyed or unsurveyed, until ap
plication therefor shall hayo been
approved by tho Secretary of the
Interior; that ho bo authorized to
disapprove the application or to
rcquiro appropriate stipulations
as a condition precedent to the
approval of tho application when
in his judgment tho public in
terests so require.
Legislation making it a crimi
nal offense to hunt, kill or destroy
game at any season of tho year
in any national park, national
monument, or gamo preservo;
legislation giving police jurisdic
tion in national parks to United
States commissioners, and legis
lation .amending soction 58 of tho
penal codo of tho United States
(35 Stat L., 1908, and 36 Stat.
L., 856) so as to insert therein
after tho words "public domain"
tho words, "national parks,
national monuments, and other
reservations." This legislation
is necessary in order to protect
these reservations from forest
fires and to provido n penalty for
failing to extinguish fires therein.
In closing his suggestions on
reclamation the Secretary says:
No new projects have been
undertaken sinco March 4, 1909,
but prior to that dato 32 primary
projects had been undertaken,
the not investment in which on
Juno 30, 1910, amounted to $52,
945,441.03. In addition, thero had been in
vested in secondary projects,
Juno 30, 1910. $587,890.71; in
town-site devolopment,$10,955.49
in Indian irrigation, $198,704.21;
and for general expenses, $38,
811.44. In view of the immense
area of land included, the magni
tude and expense of tho engi
neering work necessary to pro
vide for their reclamation, and
of the importance of the waiting
settler and landowner that, water
be applied to the land and recla
mation effects as soon ns possible,
tho efforts of the department
have been directed toward the
completion of projects already
undertiken rather than the
search for or undertaking of new
projects. It is important to the reclama
tion of arid lands contiguous or
adjacent to existing projects, to
tho Government from the stand
point of revenue, and in line with
practical and useful conservation,
that legislation be enacted au
thorizing tho Secretary of the
Interior to dispose of any surplus
water available from irrigation
projects to persons, associations,
or corporations operating sys
tems for the delivery of water to
individual water users for the ir
rigation of arid lands, and I
earnestly recommend the enact
ment of such legislation.
Private lands purchased or
condemned for use in construc
tion of reclamation projects and
public land reserved and improv
ed for this purpose should, when
no longer needed, be disposed of,
and I therefore recommend the
enactment of a law which will
authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to sell at public auction
such lands when no longer need
ed for tho purpose for which ac
quired or reserved, the receipts
from such sales to go into the re
clamation fund.
WOOL QROWERS TO MEET.
The 13th annual convention of
tho Oregon Wool Growers' Asso
ciation will be held at Portland,
Oregon, Jan. 3rd, 1911, just one
day before the opening of tho
great 47th Annual Convention of
the National Association, and
and Mid-Winter Sheep Show.
The O. R. & N. Ry. Co. have
granted a 1J fare for round trip
with privilege of attending both
Conventions.
Portland and her Commercial
Club aro making elaborate pre
parations to give the Wool Grow
ers bounteous and sumptuous en
tertainment. These two conven
tions coming together promise to
be a great and most significant
gathering of sheepmen.
It is up to us to show our ap
preciation to Portland by accept
ing her invitation in person next
January and help welcome our
sheepmen.
It will bo a business session
discussing Tariff, Forest Reser
ves. -Quarantine and Speed Limit
Laws, Predatory Animals, Wool
Sales, appointment of Advisory
Boards and other subjects es
pecially important and vital to
the industry. Tho most promi
nent and expert men in America
on these subjects have places on
tho program of tho National Con
vention. Tho Mid-Winter Sheep Show
promises to bo tho best over held
in America. Come and bring
your friends. Everybody Wel
come. Very respectfully,
DAN P. SMYTHE, Sec'y.
WE HA VE 672, 765 PEOPLE
Census Report Given Out Showing a
Substantial Gain in Oregon
WE GET ANOTHER CONGRESSMAN
Harney County Has 4059, an Increase of 1401 Over
1900 Census, Which Showed 2598 People Here
Figures for All The Counties in Oregon Issued.
According to tho official count
of the roturns of tho thirteenth
census, sent out from Washing
ton, the Twroulation of tho State
of Oregon is 672,765, as compared
with 413,356 in 1900, and 313.767
in 1890.
The increase'from 1900 to 1910,
therefore, is 259,228, or 62.7 per
cent as compared with an in
crease for the preceding decade
of 99,769, or 31.8 per cent
Oregon is entitled to an addi
tional congressman.
Tho population by counties in
1910 follews:
Counties- 1910 1900
Baker 18,076 15,597
Benton... 10,663 6,700
Clackamas .. 29,941 19,658
Clatsop 16,106 12,705
Columbin 10,580 6,237
Coos 17,959 10,32-1
Crook 9,315 3,964
Curry 2,044 1,868
Douglas .. 19,674 14,505
Gilliam ... 3,701 3,201
Grant 5,607 5,918
Harney 4,059 2,598
Hood River 8,016
Jackson . 25,756 14,698
Josephine 9,567 7,517
Klamath . 8,654 4,970
Lake 4,658 2,847
Lane.- 33,784 19,604
Lincoln 5,587 3,575
Linn 22,662 18,1303
Multnomah . 226,261 103,167
Malheur .. 8,601 4,203
Marion 39,780 27,713
Morrow . .. 4,357 4,151
Polk 13,469 9,923
Sherman . 4,242 3,477
Tillamook 6,266 4,471
Umatilla 20.309 18.049
Union 16.191 16,070
Wallowa .. .- 8,364 5,538
Wasco 16,336 13,199
Washington .. 21,522 14,467
Wheeler . . 3,484 2,443
Yamhill . . 18.285 13,420
Totals 672,765 413,563
Oregon on the basis of tho pre
sent apportionment, would have
three congressmen, after 1913,
when tho new apportionment
will take effect Tho present
basis of representation is one
congressman for each 194,182 of
population.
INTEREST IN GOOD ROADS OROWS.
Monday, December 12, tho big
convention which tho Good Roads
Association has called, will moot
in the convention hall of tho
Commercial Club. Growing in
terest develops as the time ap
proaches. Washington's great
conflict over state aid word, and
tho fight being made thero on en
gineering costs, in commanding
tho closest study of all tho good
roads workers of this state. If
a mistake has been made in
general plans by the Washington
workers, or if administration of
a good law- has proven faulty,
tho Oregon patriots want to pro
fit by what they behold, so as to
launch tho work hero in a surer
channel.
Of heavier interest than tho
Washington developments, how
ever, aro facts revealed by tho
Oregon Conservation Commis
sion's annual report, and tho
comprehension statistical tables
and consequent argumonts
furnished by R. M. Brore
ton, tho local engineer. The
cfTccT of these presentations is
that tho sparsely settled districts
cannot bear tho burden of any
extensive road improvement
work if immediate results aro ex
pected. Furthermore, it is es
tablished by these figures and
arguments, that Oregon's food
producing land now cultivated is
relatively low in proportion to
the total acreage, and any gen
eral plan of local direct assess
ment would mean that these im
proved and cultivated lands
would have to bear practically
tho entiro burden of road im
provement Tlieso considerations have
brought up points of tho utmost
importance for consideration,
and when tho big good roads
convention shall meet decisive
action will bo taken on behalf
of one courso oi anothor. If
straight local asscsment means,
an impracticable burden on the
productive lands of the thinly
settled districts, other means
will have to bo provided. If
thero aro enormous areas of va
cant lands which should bo made
to bear a heavier portion than
under ordinary assessment con
ditions road workers want to
know how to reach it If the
railways nro so directly and
heavily interested in wagon road
construction that thoy would par
ticipate in any construction plan,
this idea Bhould be exploited and
worked out to a mutually satis
factory issue. Telegram.
RAISING MORE PRODUCE.
With tho closer settlement of
tho northwest and the attendant
development of agriculture and
horticulture, more and more at
tention is being given to the
raising of vegetables and other
produce. A few years ago truck
gardening was carried on in un
incidental or haphazard way.
Now it is conducted along more
scientific lines.
A bulletin dealing with tho
subject of vegetable growing in
Oregon has just been prepared
by A. G. B. Boquct of the Ore
gon experiment station at Cor
vallis. Tho following is an ex
tract from the bulletin as publish'
ed:
"Tho fame of Oregon and tho
Northwest in general ds having
great horticultural possibilities
has spread widely and thus it is
not strange that tho opportuni
ties offered for engaging in veg'
ctablo growing for home markets
and for shipment have attracted
not only residents of tho state
itself but also tho attontion of
tho immigrant seeking an occu
pation and a profitable means of
making a livelihood in this part
of tho country. Many aro quite
acquainted with tho present ex
isting conditions of climate, soils,
markets, varieties, and aro there
fore at a decided disadvantage in
growing produce; whilo others,
although possibly informed of
general conditions such ns tho
above may lack tho special cul
tural knowledgo of certain crops
without which they would bo
wanting.
"Tho amount of daily corre
spondence recoived at this Bta
tion in recrard to inquiries con
corning tho growing of various
vegotublo crops ia rapidly in
creasing. It would nocm that
there was n very apparent nwak-.
ening of tho farmer and tho busi-1
ness man in general in realizing
tho opportunities that the vegc-,
tablo growing business, rightly
handled, offers. Success in tho ,
business will depend largely on
tho degree to which tho factors I
of soil adaptability nntj market j
problems are studied and ap
plied."
INDUSTRIAL NOTES. I
i
(Portland Correspondence.) j
Benefits following tlio Oregon1
last week at Salem will lie state
wide. Probably never before in
Oregon's history has thero been
manifested such spontaneous
enthusiasm for a greater state.
Every delegate from the 62 Ore
gon communities represented
went back homo with now re
solves, determined to accomplish
greater things for tho state.
"The knowledge and courage
delegates will tako back to their
homes is one of the great results
of tho convention," said C. C.
Chapman, secrotary-treasurer of
tho League. "Tho meeting was
a tremendous success from every
standpoint, but the greatest ac
complishment of all was the
bringing together of 62 commu
nities and unifying them for a
tremenduous campaign of devel
opment''
Oregon's revenues from the
salo of timber in the national
forests for tho fiscal year ending
Juno 30 amount to $39,035.87,
which is an increase of about 50
per cent over last vcars receipts.
McMinnville will plant roads
leading to tho city with walnut
trees for a distance of at least a
mile from town, making that
place truly the walnut center of
Oregon.
Astoria has plans well along
for its 1911 Centennial. The
project has been launched with
considerable enthusiasm and at
tention will be attracted to it
from all parts of tho' United
States. The celebration of tlio
first American colony on the
Pacific Coast will appeal to the
whole country and the anniver
sary can bo easily made of nation
al interest. Aslorians say mem
bers of tho Astor family will par
ticipatq in the celebration.
This is prizo year for Oregon,
and tho tailing of premiums ut
outside shows seems to have ho
end. Hood River not onlyjook
tho first prize at Spokane for ap
ples but followed it up with cap
turing tho sweepstakes at Chica
go in competition with the
whole country. Medford took
first prizo at tho Canadian Na
tional Apple Show at Vancouver,
B. C, a Madras man took first
honors at tho Dry Farming Con
gress at Spokane with an exhibit,
and now comes a Heppner stock
breeder who receives tho highest
average price paid for Shorthorn
cattle at tho International Live
stock Show at Chicago. One
two-year old heifer sold fop $675.
Tho average pricereceived $380.
Intensive development of tho
Willamette Valloy is assured on
a great scale. Tho Oregon
Power Company is undertaking
extensivo improvements and ex
tensions to its plans throughout
the valloy that will meun an ex
penditure of $1,500,000. Elec
tric and gas lighting plants in
tho various cities will bo enlarged
and mnny water powers developed.
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