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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1902)
h, 4 THE SUtyPTERt MINER Wednesday November 12, 1902 IRRIGATION AND Jplavtturjwy..MUoi,o(.llkJr City, r lieiiteiiHUt of Congressman Moody, who FOREST. RESERyErliUiiriiUj.lroUtt!r.lii.aiil tool of ,-.j : one McCornack, yfHnlem, -the chief " . '- A 1 cninofr nf 'tliiTlHjfiif rUHiloHfcn, a man e l. cis " who hasgrow7rjeJin manipulating Latest Scheme or Portland Scrip nil lur siiady. Transactions in' school Syndicate Exposed' IiiimIh, miser induces one, f Miller, also of City, through the influence of mi niointim'nt iih one of thu cnminis j shiners of the fuko .liiwis and Chirk The forest reserve controversy is grow-' county fair, mill. wrfniiH one or two liiH interesting, to nay the leant, Thtjut)icr cheap scutes there, to systematic plot in thickening, becoming coinpll- 'eally work up iuhllu sentiment on the cited anil nce-ls straightening out. subject fitvorahle to the designs of tin; TIiohii scrip sH-culators down Portland conspirators, hy writing fallocinus HtufT anil Salem way, renlUlnir that they ' to the already "llxt-d' Democrat. Then liuvu encountered strong oppoHition.iii.it. is. lippcdiiff on .thu ipiiet to the their design tn,clcau up a few liumlreil j llurahl lhatlls loathed eontemporury thousand dollars at the xiense of thu i Iiiih Itcen doing business with the syndl- National government anil the general eatc, anil it eagerly butts Into the (tame piihllc, with thu sucrillcc of eiiMtern . ami clamors for ItH nhurn of thin pro Oregon's industrial interests as an un- motion anil puhlieity fiiml. That it considered, trilling side issue inriilent was placated wiim provun hy ItH entire in thu program, hiivu evidently decided ' change of attitude on thu subject tun to resort to stratagem to win thu big, days ago and Its hra.en annoiineenient cash prize. It Ih worthy of a strong ef-' that it had sent Attorney Callalinn iih a fort ami they are making such. iHpecinl I'ommiHHionur to Washington to They aru men of hraiiiH who aru en- straighten out the whole tangled prnb giliccriug thu gigantic ileal. Seeing lem in twenty minutes, in thu interest I hut eastern Oregon was practically of the dear people, of course. Thu Unanimous in its objection to the cron-' Herald eouhln't send a seciiil crifiv tlou of the reserve, they have uorkcil missionvr to Mchwcn. t illinium s ex up diverting propoHltioiiH, with no other pursiso than to split the united npoHi tlou ami set thu elements lighting eaeh other. Thu Ilrst move in thin direction wiim to "con" the Hheup men into thu holief that thu government will give every onu of them freu ruiigu on thu reserve, for thu asking. Anil now they have sprung the irri gatinu problem, called a "convention" to meet in Portland. (,'an .any onu eoueiuvu of a moru nliHiinl abstract proMiKitloii tlian that I'ortlaml Ih in terested in Irrigation ; except, erliaps, that the dominating influences in Port hind ever acted from other than n sollish motive in any matter'.' What that country down them need is drain age -ditches. Hut, there being iiIhiuI HOO,IH0 in the national treasury avail . ahle.or. tliu construction of irrigation reservoir hi Oregon, thVsuscripscheincni . yHM'onvenllmi to imet in -Portland, .and invite delegates to eoinedowu from ,the semi-arid regions of eastern Oregon ami get their share of the ImhmIIc. No nuchas ever utTeriil or printed an intimation as to what good is to lie ac complished for irrigation hy thin meet ing. It Iiiih merely heeu intimated, craftily iiiHiliuated that thin $800,000 in tube "cut up" on that occasion, leaving it to the prompting of ordinary human eupidity that Iiiih ever been dUorccd , from liitellence to iiiHiire a full at-J tendance, Th" purMMi of thin "ii ligation con xciitiuii', Ih to necure the adoption of TeHolutioiiH favoriiiK the creation of the lllite inouulaili finest renerve, to be lined ax falne evidence in the depart-' incut at WiudiiniMnn that the people of eiihteru Oregon faxor the ro-crve. Thin tlivj hop-trenecoiupllHh hy givitii; the1 . jay delegate in attendance a free feed I free ridc on Mrcct ciiih and feiry ImuiIh, a grand jolly ami Hpeuding money, if iieceHhiiry. No one with Hcm-e enough to come in out of the wet beliexen that thin con xeuliou can accompliHh any goot for. Irrigation or that it i culled for that putpohu. They know that the whole! Hchcmo in a rank, raw, tranxpaient con tidence game. The appropriation Willi lie expended under the direction of the depurtmt lit of Oeologicul Survey, the work iH'ing in charge of exHrtH who will linleu to mi MiggeHtioiiH from any hucIi InmI,v. Thu methiMlH employed to work up enthiiHiiiHui Miiiong cHetern Oregon km ple for thiH convention in worthy of notice. KxHiniuatiou of the plan din- cIohch the cloven hoof. In the tlrnt awkwardly conceale by the 2.50 bai. But many, nuwRpapurfl havu nwallowed it, including thu American., It Ih play lug into-the hamlH of the eneniicH of Suinpter nml thin mining district for f2.50 whether from native pin head Htupidlty, or racial cupidity it mutters not. Thu article in ipieation is headed "1'ortland will Kntertain" referring to the free feed, etc. C. S, Jackson, who makes thin entic ing offer to the country preen, in man ager of thu Oregon Daily Journal, a a pa er owned by Hanker (.add, through wIiohu efforts thu I'ortlaml chamber of commerce turned down thu petition from ItiiniH praying for UHsistance to defeat thu forest reserve, and who Is accused of lliiancieriug thu deal in con junction with McCornnck including the uxjienses of Callahan to Washing ton, thu 2.50 which the American is to receive ami similar incidental exfienses. The unprejudiced reader will note how this plain statement of facts, un accompanied hy argument or any tricks of the skilled writer's trade, con victs those implicated in the conspiracy to impose this ten year handicap on thu development of eantern Oregon gold lieldn, and enrich themselves. At this t me Tiik Minkk does not touch upon the question ot the merits of tfie ' forest reserve, what a great wrong it will work to eastern Oregon ; nor' does It'fepeat the facts that demon strate that the reserve as now consti tuted in any way aids the plan for irri gation ; that every one favors, of course. These questions have been discussed at length and repeatedly. The present object is to show that those who favor the reserve are of that miud because they seu in it an opportunity to make big money ; that their apparent interest in irrigation is a piece of transparent liypocracy; that tliu eastern Oregon papers and people who aru aiding them are doing so either for cheap hire, or through, natural bom thick headed ignorance, and are thereby doing an irretrievable injury to their own section. The committee that went to I'ortlaml some weeks since to interview Senator Mitchell on the subject, met in Suinpter Saturday and erfected a plan of cam diiigu to combat the efforts of the Port land scrip syndicate. Mayor Hobbins. the cliairman of the executive commit tee, is collecting evidence to submit to thu interior department. Wouldn't that jar yer? Kwder. What? Uiant Kuses a ro being paid by the scrip HM'culutoiH anil timber laud thiuves, and thu object of the trip is to lobby for thu erinaneiit creation of the forest rcHcrvc, iih now ilcHignated, including thoUHiiudH of acres of hcIiooI IiiuiIh as devoid of timber as u billiard ball is of hair, which have been knight by thu syndicate at l.'-'.'i no acre and which they (!Xuct to exrli uge for lieu laud scrip worth six ilollarH an acre. The Herald states that thu oposit!ou comes fronui "half dor.on mining men in thu upK'r camp", who have some imaginary schumu on foot to perpetrate some gigantic fraud, carefully refrain ing from giving any intimation of. thu nature thereof. This is merely the old ehcHtnuty cry of "stop, third" Hut, to proceed with the narative of , bow the irrigation convention is being, opulari.cd, and residents of eastern Oregon bunceed: 'Tiik1 MlVKM"has re ceived a circular letter from ,C. 8. 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