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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1905)
in "i lib t MirtWIBBIM pike H math L VOL XXVI. LAKKVIKW, LAKE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH .TO, 1905. NO. 13. ,nteIjor Needs Kailroads. , y IT tiit lt-r. chief engineer of j H.-rUniiitl"" crvlcv. Oregon dls .t.Miition.'lul IVinll. t. .ii. Which ; B.rt nf..ll'-": ',.i,lletin. ' 'ivgoii. Mar. I'.HC. ( LEAGUE WILL SEND OUT INVITATIONS New Transcontinental Railroad. .1. I). Negus of Salt Lake City and Cheyenne, the greatest single-handed railroad builderof the prevent day and generation, lias come to San Francisco, unobtrusively and unannounced, to perfect plans for a new transcontinental railroad that will revolutionize railroad- Mi! f. . 1 " ,,r Sir:- !,,.,. to n. i.'m nr of tin- I v.iiir niil"'!'. ii lhoi:l.l ,mc rMpi.i ! uri.l pott, .lire voii tl over w it I' interest i led.;.' IVt l ilir1 . and copies (,.r which I thank ! er ulnl Indeed ! loi.il papers ill tin H i.I llir H- IIIIU M, , ... i,,,,,,!!,.- ,..H ,,f ;, ,.,.., ...l.lii I. . .,1 ICI i i 1:1.. I tl.iv ii tf aUvn.vs ,,,,. by mot all pn-sctit. and now the league has a little money on hands. Anyone who wishes to hell) ; hi.. Hi the development of Lake county may do sn by joining and donating such mud us thev tnav feel like eh inir TlK'firft cop - "I "'HT nave .,) ,.,,, vh.lv Urli M-ehed. ulid I Hill ,.,.(! to not-- the interest I Jike u.r t.un 1m. understood ,)V reading it. The S-cretary win instructed t. send out letters to every taxpayer in the county. The object of the let- .iiDty Ih general Is taking In the rlttlliutioli Service Investigations. Xben arc soi.ie very :i!tiK ie .inm about certain project in .cilitcrlor of the state, but there v uIho utinttnictivc featureH lu Ty project, chief i.f v hich, in them1 wrier project!-, is the hick of tnms- .rtiitioD facilities. It has npeareil Dip that the line of work which ill do the most goisl !"r the In ri.irof the state in t ti i matter is it to hurriedly construct some pro t without very dctliiatc data lis i Hater supply available, but to induct our Investigations with the t end lu view of showing what in lw expected troin these regions . the future, ;t lid so in. hieing rail .iid int'Tests t enter the field, that i Ioiioei i v acliiai rniml ruc- Ml UK Up;.r- pr.u tieable. To i!!fiid, 1 l..m- no opportunity to Ivcrtii. iiti.l promote, as I am able, if irrigation p..il.iliiies in the NtiTior. Very resMftiiilly. ,I."HI. K. U Ills'lf IK. Ktiginecr. Senator Fulton i. Home. I nilMj States Seu-itorC. W. Fulton 'turned to Oregon Inst Saturday. Seutttor Is glud to gvt back to ,rHKio again. Mr. Fulton said the "Mo canal would Is- built by the -"vtrmiiciit, and that 'KKI,000 bad w appropriated. ''etiiitor Fulton Is-lieves that the rriKtion projects lu ( ir. goii lire lu -'"l shape. He thinks the Klam project will l. tak. ii up by the -"Wniueiit, i,m, the draining of the " ill !. mci-oii, j, lulled. Thej "'ur.lii,.. ,,, the. illll'V The letter fa given lu full below: Lakcview Oregon, March 2Sth, lOOo Mr. inn "SU Jiou, E. K. !he enat.ir, and he "-h the illametU' faseiuli- Mountain I olni..'lfi tf i.tfortii'V Wood Wutluii ug.-dnst the i oiuputiycon are a, ,t t)) lH. Ill)l(lt, bv ,t "'h Will permit of the Malheur "'1111 beinj; carried out . ThUcoi.i- 'M".r l wild to have Mood ill the "'"y of Irrigation of that s.itlon of "mr' lu which It owned about of l.m.l. U" the Harney and I'mutilluj ",""3rlri.j.rlsare1 l.U,.,. hape; ! Uure Ihe pn.ii.,,1 making1 "''nation torFult.,,, hum that he and ' ''fcultlent had . ve. ' f,r,-t!"" appoint III! nts t lw '""Jl' II.. Je wim ii.,! ,.,. ii,,,, ti...' 't',UrK hiur olllce uastobe tilled I "U Dew ' ' ' ing in the M'est. He has brought with Ihe Lake county Ivveli.pinent league met again lust Friday night and accomplished much good, him a little piece of string, which he , .VHfdiei. were made by W. H. Shirk, Daniel ltoone, J. N. Watson. C. V, Snider. Ixv Beall and W. B. Snider, which ears ' tch pocket when he is elpt of how that a great deal of interest is lieing taken in the league. I "ot ""'"K il to denionstrate how straight It wiim .l.-el.l.-.l i.. u-fit.. i..i. - . . i . . . ... i a railroad can be built across the . ineri- ii was iitdiieii to write letters to several government officials and men in authoiitv for informat on w i ch . , , ;l, , , can continent if a per.on only knows ' int n"t ,lM' K,,t H,,Pl' ," l'r"-' " ith the work of irrigating Lake county. i ,low.. Wjthollt asking for financial as- W . B. Snider was elected treasurer. J Stance from any of the big railroad or I he le ague is gaining membership all the time and more enthusiasm is manifest ; at each meeting. Be-1 ""! ed interests cf the country, he purposes buililing a railroad froin the Missouri river to California. At pres ent he is a guest at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Negus ie a western man, and says his road will be distinctively a Western road, owing no allegiance to Kaatern railroac interests, and to be operated for the advantage of the West and the West ern people. Incidentally it will be the shortest line between San Francieco and the Missouri river, he says, and will be the easiest and luoet economical to op peroteby reason of its easy grades, which will exceed at no place 1 per cent. "I have been working on this project for twenty-three years." Said Mr. Xegus at the I'alace Hotel Saturday, "and have at last gotten things in such a shape that I can confidently eay the . road will be built. I have invested f 400- 000 of my own money in the project, of which f 175,000 has been expended for surveys. The only way I see to get uay money but is to build the road. So the road is going to be built. "I am not asking for any American capital to carry out the enterprise. Of course, a great del of capital will be re quired outside of my own resources, but 1 have this money promised. It will come largely from German capitalists, although some English capitalists are anxious to get in on the deal. I have organized companies in Wyoming, Neb raska and Utah for the purpose of con structing the road through those states, and a company will be organized in Cal ifornia for building this end of the line. "This w ill be the shortest line to the Missouri river, and w ill have the advan tage of the easiest grades. The builders of the Central 1'acibc made a great mis take when they located the present line through the Sierra. Nature made one natural passage through the Sierra, and that is tiie valley and canyon of the Pitt river, which is the outlet of Goose Lake up in Modoc county. The waters of Goose Lake empty into the Sacramento river and the bay of San Francisco. When you get to Goose Lake you are on the other side of the Sierra, and you have climbed to an altitude of a little over 4000 feet. "Now, to the uninitiated it may seem a roundabout way to build a transconti nental line by way of Goobo Lake, up in northeastern corner of California. J'.ut what difference does it make which in itial direction the road takes so long hs i 1 ' r lu, i lk-ar Sir: I beg to state, that at a recent meeting of the LAKE COUXTY DEVELOPMENT LE.MWE, the Secretary was instructed to write you, and all other residents of Lake County who are likely to take any interest in the upbuilding of our county and the ad vancement of our mutual interests, imd not only invite, hut earnestly solicit you, to give the matter your best thought and influence; and when possible attend the League meetings held the First Saturday in each month, and give us the benefit of such sugges tions as may impress you as being beneficial to the League. The question may be asked, what does the League propose to do? What will its efforts result in, etc' In the first jh'aee, the stigma shall no longer attach to us, that unlike any other residents of the State; we either cannot offer any arguments to recommend Lake County to the man of enterprise, the business man, or the home-seeker; or else our ideas are so vague, our sentiments so selfish that we care not, how it fares with others, so long as we are jtrospcrous or, shall this seeming apathy be attributed to our stupidity or want ofinteligeuce, when we know that the tens of thousands of acres now unoccupied, and produce nothing but sagebrush and jackrabbits, can be made the most productive farms and prosperous homes in the County, if we will only cxeicise a unity of senti ment and action that will appeal to our Representatives in Congress, and the Secretary of the Interior, and other Officials, that we can be in close touch with, if we only make them know that it is really the wish of all our people that the government will under take the irrigation of our arid lands, and by this means make us rich in our possessions, happv in the increase of population, and the lessening of our taxation, as well as the quickening of our transportation facilities. To tell all we want to do, and how it can de done, and the good results that will fob . i r a i . - - . . . a. 'ill i a. a .', would r-'dt' fhi a voluminous letter, ana tor me present we win ue content tosay, .dvcus water and and plenty of it, for irrigation purposes and we shall see tliousands: -sow.ietme.i of smiling happy homes on what we now call our sagebrush wastes or deserts. This like all other enterprises, is necessarily attended with some expense, and to meet this, membership fees are fixed for the present at Twenty-five cents per month. So far, manv of those who have been enrolled have generously donated one dollar or more the first month in addition to the t wenty-fi ve cent fee. Liberality of this kind will heli greatly toward getting printed matter in circulation, and do many things that money will alone do. Consequently, if yon M !lbk' to 1nate a trifle and send in your name to the Sec retary for enrollment, it will be much appreciated by the League! Very ti uly yours, J. W.MAXWELL, Secretary Lake County Development League. "'ll, but lUM..,cil It would liully if iudlcti.M i.t- were o "'""t I'-rldge. and Booth. Elected ItelTateV JJ1 ri'"yw" Wtc the fol- 'Htl'o Ut,'s,tu,t s"turilay uljfht W- V.a.t,w'-ir'l l."'lge.t Port IV, j J-'tsht. J. V . I in ker uiid Automobile for Chandler. V. B. Chandler this week placed an rder with the Ahlstrom Bros., fur ., automobile. When tuU m-w horM'less carriage urrivea Mr.Chund lerinay be wh u most auy time hit- . ,.i,.,.K Horses ami I ling me i"" telephones are too slow Chandler. for Mr. New Development League. 'Ihe Willamette Valley Develop ment Jx'Uguo ww organised at Sulelil last week with Col. 1Z. Jlofer of Saleiu as president, Walter Lyou of Independence an secrerary, and Walter L. Toozo of Woodburu a treasurer. The purpose of the licague 1 the development of the Willamette valley. Three are Dead. A man mimed Shook, employed by A. K. Cooiier, a Bawmill mau near Drain liot and killed Cooper, then killed a friend of Cooper's, then turn ed the gua aad blow cut kin own brainn. The trouble arose over too close relationship la'tweca Shook and Cooiter'a wife. He pulled a piece of hiring out of his vest pocket and laid it, badly crinckled, on the seat beside him. "The average road has just about as macy crooks and turns as that piece of string," he said. Placing a finger on each end of the string he took up the slack with another finger and made the string a right angle with perfectly btraight sides, thus dem onstrating that a railroad built straight from San Francisco to Goose Lake and thence straight to the Missouri river would be no longer than a road that fol lows the serpentine course of the Central Pacific through the Sierra and through the valley of the Humbolt. This geo metrical secret belongs to Negus by right of discovery, and he hopes by means of it to revolutionize railroading in the West. Library Association Order Books. A meeting of the directors of the Library Association had a meeting Monday night and ordered about 17) books. They wiro to meet again last evening and order an other lot. Any one having sug gest lima to make regarding books will do the association a favor by consulting Mr . Itinehai t, tho President. "1 r 1 - i t4 la ... ..... . J