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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1905)
1 jus .1 'j MttttB VOL. XXVI. LAKKVIEW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCil 2, 1905. NO. c Irrigation should BE FIRST THOUGHT The Possibilities That Lie Within Easy Reach Of Our People, Only an Effort Re- to Secure Them. quired DIKM.I tin 1ITS1 a.inmi ii n Luke County Development league should Ih to take Ifjw t Insure a speedy adoption of .eiiiii to liiHinv u thorough In venti lation of possibilities or urination .farld IkimIh wlLliln reach of water torwl from tin- above named irvnniM. No prettier or more fertile body of undcivn t? found In tin' arid area of lib, or liny other county. Much of t In already In cultivation, and the rope produced ou It In It semi-arid rate prow It fertility and value. There sw P"rlini one. nundreff liouMtid wren of this land, the kuitern margin of It approaching lie wry borders of our town. If It Verc In a condition of full produc ible by Irrigation, It In capable Ktruggllng for u competent and sat isfactory living on Home of these lands should make figures and es timates of their present Incomes, and compare the reHiilt with what they know would be possible under Irri gation; we think they would all soon In memlKTH of our Lake County De velopment I'ngue, earnestly work ing for Irrigation of thlH land by the government. The irrigation of thin land would truly transform a desert Into a garden. Lake county needs the two thousand eople It won Id add to our population. Good, progreslve citizen), arc the most .valuable assets of any com munity. A chunce for lands upon which they can certainly make a comfortable living Is the strongest Inducement that can lie offered them M yielding more marketable value come, and It has never failed to n crops than all of (juusc Lake val-, bring them. v now does. I Lttke countv u,wv ,,v Insistent On this hind, when irrigated, is I"slng 1' the attention of the 4. I.,, f. tikutlttltt- Slf lf hmple room for homes for two or Buvrul"1 "lc,",l"m-' v" "'b hive tbousuu.1 more ,s-ople than tlon here, have Its population mum rcnowuult; support for twenty , P I M three or four tunes In ten years fliuuwuid mure cattle than, are now or less. Its possibilities for the A rallrond hi near enough to us on of apples a iv lieyond the 8outh to attract considerable trade from Lakevlew. Klamath Falls and l'rlneville liaveeaeh reason able expectations of railroads soon, from apples alone would reach totals and must attract quite a volume .of, nlidievtml.lv now. An orchard of business which Lake county busl- - 've hundred trees Is very small, ness men Should do. Vt eeaneeruim- wcta of these trees should yield teu ly do something to aid In bringing fxw of giM'i commercial apples. of about such conditions here as win lie Bellflower varletv, at ten years be sufficient to Induce some one of j'atfe. This we have liceu toli by these roads to hasten here. This experienced apple-grower of the, work requires nethlng but energy, persistence, activity. 1 "pt then. roiluctlon imptitiitinii. M'lth a railroad to itki'View, mid this land divided up j"to Hinall fruit farm, the Income iinty. These npples would now "tog f2Xo per box In Kan Frauclsco. "npute the income from five uun- little orchards like this, aud get iimoiie-hulf, or even one-fourth of lk'hlua surprise; and yet water fwthtalttud will make It possible I'm; world hus never been supplied . J1th Spills... ''!e ,.,,i,. on. Lakevlew business men have only to reflect ft little on what would be the effect upon the volume of their Bales, If there were two thousand people added to the population between Uukevlew and Drews (lap, to realize the value to th.mi Irrigation of the land lying west of us. A Little Previous. It puts a fellow In rather a tight place when he reports a party 'or meeting, especially one whose guests are of the fair sex, and one that did not take place. It Is a difficult mat ter to explain Just how It came about, and generally the blunder is laid to the "devil." Iist week there oceured an Item In The Examiner tell ing of a whist party on Washing ton's birthday, at the home of Mrs. Whltworth. It turned out that the party was not given till Saturday. Xo man would dare to tell a lie on Washington's birthday, and we have failed to induce any cl our force to stand responsible for the item, con sequently, we presume that the in habitants of Mrs. Whit worth's home were simply practicing on that day i for the coming event. Now, say, Mrs. Whltworth, Is It not afact that 1 some one did play a little whist sometime during that day? Ac knowledge. Anyway, there were about twenty gathered at that place pn Saturday afternoon aud played progressive whist and had the best time of their lives. A German Luncu was served about 4 o'clock, which was voted as elegant as it was novel. ,. Oold Found atQuaitz ValleyS Some very good ore has been found at Quartx valley. George Ay res; the assuror made a test of the rock and In nearly every Instance he found free gold. We did not learn the amount to the ton but it Is said to tie good. Ayres also assayed some rock from Willow llanch and some from Paisley. .-'''There is known to be an Immense lied of gold-bearing ore In the vicin ity of Paisley, aud it Is believed that It will bo found to carry sufficient free gold to make Lake county a rich mining district, A few good mines along with Lake county's other nat ural resources would add materially to Its future and would be the means of bringing 1 to our county a good class of citizens to locate on' our rich lands to produce the necessaries of life for 'those who were digging for gold. Library Association (kro-nnied '"wt Saturday evening a goodly ,lllllf of those interested in the W'lWiawntof a public library In lkt!riew met at the court house at 8 O'clock. The meetlnir wiuicalled m order by Mrs. W. II. Shirk, chatr n of the temporary onrantxatlon. object of the meeting was stated "d few remarks from Mrs. J. E. "rlnPUt the udvaneod moveuiout ''"ot for n permanent orgaulssa- 'ID. s mmili.utlon of permanent o(H- were muiouueud in order and ' officer Wis,.,.,.t,.,i I,,, luv.laiiia- coi"ildera!,i. h..,,, (.(1I1M111,i 'election oli.rti - .... ...,.! M,tol Committees uml u ,lw.el4Hury luarios. Many valuable re r were made by those present aguod point, and the eu meHng was oiili vened by tiecn-"Wlests. ut and irt took w as elected her station 8l,a whs1 then placed lu'noui ttiuo to succeed herself as secro The other otlicers and committec men are iw follows: Mrs. iliuer Itluehart president, Mrs. Win. H- shl,'k vioe-presldeut, Miss Jessie Sands Secretary, Mrs. A. lllober asslstaut Secretary, Mrs. J. N WaUou Treasurer, Board of trus tets J. II Wllllts. A. Bieber, E. E. Itluehart, Mrs. JouasNorlu, Mrs. Sol Chandler. Mrs. W. V. Heryford, Mrs. L. F.Cuau. CommltU-e on Constitution aud Dy-laws, Win. Wagner, Mrs. C. O. MeUker, J. N. Watsou. It was decided that the committee of solicitors should further pursue tin- work of securing funds with which to establish the library and purchase books.' At the time of the meeting f-M had U-eu fecured and since that time no more has boon ud.ufd to the subscriptlou list. There Is no doubt but that the public library will bo a success. Its -establishment upon sure-footed plans and with the ladies of Lake view behind the move there is no such thing a- failure. Kvoryono 1 should give the library a lift. It good thlug. keep it going. pubticPHde. - WHAT SHALL Every citizen who Is possessed of such character as gives promise of -WE DO FIRST su.ccss In his chosen life-work. Is found striving for that which Is the rt-i best. He is not content with a ram-1 There Are Many Things shackle barn because his horse will ! Worthy of County's "vein it. ' , Consideration He will not buy an unsightly prop- j . erty, nor keep It when he has It. j 'n,e fact that we refer to many He will have his property as good i subjects In advocating Improvements as he can afford, and his surround-j Gf a public character, must not be ings comfortable, convenient, equal taken to mean that we regard thetn to the best if possible, and always J au a8 eqnally urgent, though all of every good thing, as good as he can them are Important. We regard the have it. matter of irrigation by the govern- There ore certain things the public ; Im.nt as superceding all others, and must provide, for" the wellfare of ' would urge It as a first duty, to take each, and all, members of society: up tna question, seek Information and euch individual is benefitted, or upon it, and try to Insure If possible, v Injured, as these public works exist , nt as early a date as possible, the or do not exist: or, ns they are snffl- j irrigation of every body of arid land dent or Insufficient. in Lake county. This we are clearly A county shows Its pride, or want J entitled to if there is money enough of pride, as plainly when it allows- belonging to the State of Oregon lor its highways to lie aknost an lm- I that purpose. Other counties are passable muck, ns a farmer does evidently active In trying to expedite who wades through manure half leg I nch work within their borders. Soon we may be told the funds have been set aside for work elsewhere, and that we must wait an Indefinite deep in his barn yard. New Court House. Along with Irrigation projects we i bellew the Development League t,me ' - should consider the matter of a! To prepare for the Irrigation of the courthouse. The building we have ! ,our ,are bodies of arid land In the Is entirely insufficient for the needs cuuty wou,d. ,ead to t,,e "Pendi of the county. There is not a coun- ture of ,,ot leB8 tnan 4,000,O00, most A"KaffceKlat5ch" Saturday afternoon Mrs. Henry Whltworth aud Miss Sands enter tained a number of their friends at a "Kaffoe K latsch." Progressive whist was played during the afternoon. Mrs. Win. Masslngill carried off the first prUe and Mrs. Oscar Metzker the cousolatlou. Dainty refresh ments were served at tete e tete tables. Those present were: Madames, J. N Watson, Wm. Masslngill, Charfts Sherlock, Scott, Oscar MeUker, J. Dewey, F. M. Miller, S. Chandler, A. J. Nellon, Jonas Norln, Guy Bowman Hawy Bailey, Eldoa Brattaln, Lee Beall, W. R.Steele, Leslie Vandepool, Wm. Shirk, Dolly Withers, J..Lane and Miss Grace Hall. ty in the state that has not a better court houee. The building is old, and unsound. There Is no ofllee for the Assessor, County School Superintendent, nor County Court room. There is no Grand Jury room, nor room to which a trial Jury may retire for deliberation upon a verdict, and the room In which the court sits is much too small to seat the people who often assemble there. These are the reasons why a new court bouse should be built, aud there is not one, that we can see, why we should not now begin to get ready to build. Is Thi True? District Attorney Jerome, of New York City is represented to have said there Is not a street ou which cars are ruu that pick-pockets are not operating uuder a dlstluct contract with central ottlce detectives. He further declares that "H tue Mjople knew the truth about the bulk of the higher police officials, they would follow the example pf 'iiforiila vigilance committees, take the law into their own bauds and I annihilate them. This Is terrible language, for a man of mild temper, aud of the legal habit of thought aud expression. High School. The high school at Alturas was conducted one year at a cost of $2 441, Including expenses of furniture The special levy of taxes was .13 on the hundred dollars, on a total taxable property valued at f 2,011,430 which yielded 2,(U7. Jf Lake County with 2.080.000 tax able property fchotild levy Zr cn the hundred dollars, we should derive 4,100. With this sum we could rent and furnish a building, have a'hlgh school for one year with all expenses paid, and have about sixteen hun dred dollars left each year. Continuing this levy of .20 on the hundred dollars lor three years, we should have a surplus building fund of lour thousand eight hundred dol lars. With this sum we could build a house sufficient for the needs of a Lake County high school lor many years. State Aid. All the truly progressive states have adopted a system of state aid to the construction of permanent highways. State aid has in all the states been most liberally extended to those counties which have shown most eullgbteued soul in the building ol gjod roads at local expee. State aid must come lu Oregon. Even national aid Is now regarded as not far remote. When these helps are offered, those loculltles which have done nothing, through lndiffereuce to the matter, are certalu not to receive as liberal treatment as those which have showa their appreciation of good roads by building some. , of which would be paid to our own people for supplies, merchandise and labor. It is not unreasonable to suppose that we can do something to hasten the - commencement of this work, which is not to cost us money, but to lie the means of disbursing a large sum among us. It is not unreasonable to believe that those localities which show a desire to have irrigation work done, wll belikely to receive attention be fore one in which the people are In different or Inactive.. H e are doing practically nothing for the general wellfare, In the way ol permanent, public Improvement. Our people are prosperous, and we believe the duty to provide lor pub lic needs and comfort 1b as binding as private obligation. Many public wants are appealing to us. Which one shall we take up? Many citi zens would not have our courthouse as a barn. There Is not a mile of permanent, good road In the county. our children txio ulug abroad 'of educational advantages that ought to be supplied at home. To see either oue of these receiving the at tention it demands Is all we ask. We hope our league, when organ ized, will see that irrigation Is the only hope we have of additions to our population, and that a growing population ol thrifty larmers Would be the greatest accession ol perma nent wealth that could come to us, That to Irrigate our arid lands would be like adding to our county three great, new valleys, making our wealth and population at once lour times what they now are. JKe ex pect our league to, cause sme public betterment work to be taken up, Any one of a uumlier that are needed . igns of Prosperity. Orders continue to accumulate at the Iron mills, the works all being taxed to their utmost Capacity. Advances lu prices have been es tablished la every Hue ol iron goods, all of which unmistakably Indicates u prosperous condition in business throughout the Country, if-1 ! iif.: 5 ! II l h 1 ;
