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6 MAIL TMIUME, MMo,d, Or9oii, Sundiy, June 29. 195S ff iemljers of Portland Chamber Seem Impressed With Project Members of the Portland e,Chamber of Commerce dele gation Thursday seemed par ticularly impressed with the -sports-fishing possibilities in the Howard Prairie reservoir. Marshall N. Dana, former editor of the Oregon Journal editorial page, hfeaded the group. He said it should be emphasized that the state game commission will plant rainbow trout first in the res ervoir. This, he said, should attract a good many out-of-state trout fishermen. Cole oRivers, local repre sentative of the state game commission, said spiny ray fish such as bass and perch will be planted after the com mission determines how well the trout have adapted them selves to the reservoir. The spiny ray fish seem popular with the local sportsmen, but those from outside the state seem V prefer the trout, he said. The state game commis sion feels that a large number of tourists will be fishing in the reservoir, he added. Plans to Plant Rivers said the commission plans to plant 75,000 rainbow in the reservoir this fall. They will measure from 3V4 to 4 inches. At least 175,000 more rainbow trout will be planted next spring, he added. Plant ings depend on the storage schedules and how much irri gation water is drawn off, he said. Neal Butterfield, of the Na tional Park Service, Portland, said the average draw-down will be seven feet at Howard Prairie. The depth will vary from time to time, he said. Little draw down is antici pated during the summer months when the reservoir will be used for recreation also, he said. This was in an swer to questioning by Col. Paul H. Weiland, a member of the Jackson county chap ter of the Izaak Walton league. Irrigation, Power People should realize that irrigation and power are the two main purposes of the res ervoir, remarked a represen tative of one of the federal agencies interested in the project. Irrigation and power come first and second. Rec reation comes third, he said. However, he pointed out that Wickiup reservoir on the Deschutes river in central Oregon has only been drawn down once during the eight years of its existence. Then it was drawn down to its out let works. Irrigation water will be drawn from the Howard Prai rie reservoir directly while the Emigrant dam is being raised, it was pointed out This will start at the end of the current irrigation season this fall and will last during a period of a little less than three years. Cover 2,000 Acres The reservoir will cover an area of about 2,000 acres and will have an average depth of 30 feet. It will be 75 feet deep at the dam. Rivers said the state game commission estimates the tem perature of the water will be the same as that of Fish lake and maybe as cold as Diamond lake. If developed, public use site No. 1 would be the first of two such areas constructed, Butterfield said. The zoning for this area would cover Vi mile by a quarter mile. Access Road Construction of an access road into the area by Jackson county has been delayed be cause the slash has to be r Sf VORK 0RESSE1 Construction ma chinery was in action Thursday when a touring group looked over the Howard Prai rj dam development. The large piece of land jutting out into the water will be cov ered when the project is complete. Rainy weather and late snows have delayed the contractor. However, the reservoir is sched uled for completion this season. Upon com pletion it will be used for irrigation sup plies while the dam is being raised at Emi grant reservoir. j "S5 TALKING IT OVER Marshall Dana (right) head of a Port land Chamber of Commerce delegation, confers witn county Judge Rodney Keating. The two men are standing at Hoxie springs, the site of public use site No. 1 near Howard Prai rie reservoir, one of the two public use sites planned. Keat ing was explaining the county court's views on administra tion of. the possible recreation areas. The two men were part oa tour of 70 people Thursday at the Talent project. - -JS t-" T EXPLAII CHART Neal Butterfield, Portland, Nation al Park Service, (left) and E. K. Peterson, now of Portland and former regional forester here . for the bureau of land emanagement, discuss location of possible public use sites on the Howard Prairie reservoir. During the Talent project tour Thursday for Portland and local chambers of commerce, and representatives of various agencies interested, recreational aspects of the Talent project were discussed. EDUCATORS VISIT SOVIET Moscow (UPI) A group of American educators Satur day began a two-week study of higher education in the Soviet Union. The delegation, which arrived by air Friday night, included President Harry David Gideonse of Brooklyn college, President Frank Murphy of Kansas uni versity, and President Her man B. Wells of Indiana university. Alaska covers 586,000 square miles, with a coastline of about 26,000 miles. cleared yet, according to Paul Rynning, county engineer. The road, on O and C land, would run above the south side of the lake and would connect with a road into the home site area. The home site areas on the west side of the lake would be developed By the bureau of land management. Leases would' be given on a 20-year basis. s According to the general plan, the park service would draw up plans and specifica tions for recreational site de velopment. The bureau of rec lamation . would oversee the construction work to let con tracts. It also would make ar rangements on the conces sions, James Callan, project engineer, said. Meet Maintenance Costs Butterfield said he doubted if proceeds from the conces sions and other sources of revenue would meet the cost of maintaining recr e a t i o n ites. Operation of site No. would cost an estimated $3,500 a year, according to figures compiled by Chester Armstrong, state parks com mission. The estimated cost would include janitor serv ice, erection of signs, tables and benches, and toilet facili ties. Return per year is esti mated at site No. 1 at $570. All money earned more than the operation costs would go to the bureau of reclamation, which would use it for further development of the site. Butterfield said it is pos sible to split the administra tion of park sites. Ashland, for instance, might take over the administration of the pro posed recreation site on Emi grant reservoir. An estimated total of $150,- 000 would be allocated out of total construction costs for recreational site development. However, the couny could not expect to have all this fund used for Howard Prairie if it should decide to administer only that site. During Thursday's tour of the Talent project, Walter Hoffbuhr, Talent Irrigation district manager, said the Tal ent project would furnish sup plementary water to 10,000 acres in the district. Appfoxi mately 5,000 new acres would be brought under irrigation He said irrigation water from the Talent project actu ally will only supply more water for land already under irrigation. Marginal land can not be brought under irriga tion, according to bureau of reclamation stipulations, he added. 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There were apparently no Crater Lions Get $7,000 for Service Money to purchase needed life saving equipment at the Rogue Valley and Sacred Heart hospitals was recently presented to the institutions by Cliff McGinty, general chairman of the Crater Lions annual TV auction. During the fiscal year end ing July 1, the club announc ed, it has netted $10,000 on its Light Bulb sale, Water Ski tournament, Sports fair, and TV auction. More than $7,000 of the money was distributed on local community service; such as hospital equipment, $4,000; sight and blind work, $850; health and welfare, $500; youth activities, $900; foreign exchange student, $650; and respirator maintenance, $170. injuries from the accident which caused front-end dam age to two cars and extensive body damage to the third ve hicle when it rolled complete ly over, police said. Drivers of the vehicles were Ted Milo Underwood, 38, of 265 Third st.f Ashland; Pearl F. Bairey, 57, of Salem; and William John Bosanko, 60, of Klamath, Calif. The Bairey and Bosanko cars were eastbound when the Underwood vehicle, trav eling in the opposite direction, went out of control on a curve. It struck the left front of the Bairey auto, which in turn was shoved back into the front of the Bosanko car, po lice report. The Underwood vehicle rolled off the high way, coming to rest on its wheels, police said. RUSSIANS TANGHT HERE Newton, Mass. (UPI) Newton High school, rated as one of the nation's first pub lic secondary schools, will start teaching the Russian language next fall. . Applica tions for the new course are being distributed among jun iors and seniors "who have demonstrated ability in lan guage work." The cost of driving a car 10,000 miles in 1958 will be $1,078, an increase of $76 over 1957, the AAA reported recently. 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