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VOL. XXIV
LAKKVIKW, LA K K COUNTY, OKKCiON, THURSDAY, OCTOIJKK 29, 11)08.
NO. 44
PRES
MARTIN GIVES A FINE BANQUET
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Proves
ENTERTAINS BUSINESS MEN OF
Speeches in Full by Judges
Daly, Benson and Cornish
MARTIN TELLS OF PLANS
Will Have 30,000 Acres
Under Water in 1910
TtiB KVllt ttlHt llBH Created the III OH t
stir mid comment tlio limi week i
the bauqunt at the Hotel Lakeview,
given the bultisr men and other of
lhi town ami count; by It J. Mar
tin, President of the Orcgju Valley
Lund Company, of Kansas City.
Light A Harrow did the mm Iven i toi 1. 1
In the spread provided. At the llrnt
Hitting the facilities provided for only
70 plutes, an-, lift'-r the Hpeakitig, up
liriN of -10 more perple wer nerved.
'J ho banquet mr tlven by Mr. Mar
liu in oritur that he mix lit euligl'tcn
the puopln of this town ami county an
o Iho wuik intended to lie performed
by hi company in the wit) of Imrov
ing and Belli iiitf the Military giuut
Laud.
Around the festive hoard, the Kx
ainluvr mail not iced bucIi prominent
tneu aa Judue Duly, who waa chair,
man of tl.o occasion . Hon. II. ('. lieu
on, of Klamath l''alla; Ker. Hopklna;
Judtfe Coruiali, of Alturat, Calif
orula; llou. J. N. NVatnoii, of thu
United Staea Laud otllie, llnhker
Shirk, Mayor itatley ; County Clerk,
I'ayne, 1'rof. llauhy, llou. (! U.
Snider, Bberaff l)tnt, Muhhth. Hunt
tiutf. Arxner, Woodcock, Hrattain,
liuller, Couu, H'lellnia, Wallaun,
Cliunoy, JohiiBon Cok'I'orii, V'tnator.
Jlat'.hriler, Florence, Moore, I'owell,
Col. Uoone, Iiletier. Klce. Faulkner,
llawklim, McKeudree, Ayerii, llenard
iJrenkel, l'alue; Ahlntroin-, fiithcr
and Hoiia ; Nher'ick, Arthur, ICcj-noliU
W. K. Holder, roniiitikineii Trill,
Thornton, aud n lot of other whoHe
naine we do not now rue nil aud ome
o lid uot know from lJluo Creek.
1'iililny and other point of the
county.
Wheu the Kuext were Heated, a
IjleHhinu waa prououced hy Kev
ilopkiua.
J ikI ' Duly
the Introductory remark, veiy
appioiiriate and well chooneu for the
oiiomloii, were (uuio tiy Judrfe Ihily,
of the ooifuty court, who tiald :
"1 am gl'i'l to welcome the din
thiKiiiahed Kou tloimiii from abroad,
with iia here touiuht, and whose
Kiiewt we are tin evening The
Kentlemau la one of the lurunHt laud
holder at preHent, iu the countiy,
which la ulinottt an empire within
ltelf, being 1J0 mile Ioiik aud near
ly as wide coi taluiuii l.UKl.UAXj acres
of land.
The lllaneHiir Ijike Ciiunt r
Mr. Martin no owns one twentieth
of this vast domain. In order to give
Home realizing idea as to it magni
tude I will atate that Lake couuty is
a large as New Humpehire and live
times us large as Delaware, tilled to
overflowing with a diversity of re
Hources. I feel that, lutiad of beiug
his guestx, we abould be his bouts.
His coming amoug u innana more to
this county than mowt of us realize.
He coms to us as a private oitlzeu
of a dlutaut atate to do for us, what
tieretotore would be considered ouly
wlthlu the melius of the government
to aooopmlinh. lu order to do this
be is Hpendiug bis owu money freely,
aud bus uot unked a cltizeu of this
county tu provide a single cent of
the k-rcat cost that will totul up iuto
the hundred of thouHUiids. Not ouly
that but all the money of his owu,
and of the people who are taking con
tract In bis company, is brought
here uud spent freely, from which
every muu, womiu aud child uow
here will derive untold benellt. It is
a certain thing, that if the great
enterprise now inaugurated by Mr.
Martiu aud which will ba completed
the coiulug year ao us to cpeu the
Hood gutea of water outo wate places
iu the year 1UI0 were a government
enterprise lusteud It would require 5
or 10 years to accomplish what Mr.
Martiu intends to cooilete iu one
year. 11 is an enterprise fraught with
great things for Lakeview aud Lake
county. 1 take great pleasure In In
troducing our boat, Mr. Martiu."
Mr. Start In
As Mr, Martin atose be was greeted
with a hearty ovatiou that gave au
earueHt, ot the appreciation In which
bis etfoitt are held by the people of
Himself to pe a uooa I1 enow
thl towu a n J uni t Ion. After the
appllaiue sulm'tled Mr. .Martin Hld:
"Unink you. I am norry Unit the
coiiiinuilalioiiH are not Htilllclent to
have Heated all 1 h nere, but the
best we rouhl do was to provide Heat
lor 70 However there in plenty lor
all to iiit toko who earn to do no after
the speaking.
"I appreciate very much the que-
llou III I lie niino oi an an iu worn,
the Company I repreamit put po.ui do
ing, who we are, and what Ih thu
statu of our enterprise a to coming
wlthlu the provisions of the la. I
Ha lottery, a rchemc, game of chance,
or what?
On ii f Hie Heat VnlleM nil Knrh
"lu the first pluce 1 wlmi to Bay
that we have been engaged In almilar
enterprises elsewhere, wbicn we have
curried forward to a complete success.
When the Ihi-1 one was finished lu till
Sau l.u in vulley In Colorado, we lie
I (M1, 011,ill( Bl)0t fr a uew Meld for
I our eltortM. In doing no, we travelled
iu eveiy part of the west from iiritiob
Columbia to Mexico, unci Includluir
those coutilrif. After a thoiouKh
j iuvuxtitfiiuoii of the clitims ot all, we
dually ilocldeil that the lioloca Goo
Lake valley, wii one of the tieel val-
leys on earth, aud was heel udaptud
to our use, ami to the people whom
we are pr pared to secure. (applaue).
We I ou iid thuro were more opportun
ities here to make money thau lu any
other part we iuvetitiuated for our
selve ami our clients. 1 desire to
stale right here that we have no liusl
iicbs that we purpose introducing; we
have no mercantile schemes to estab
lir.li, aud we have no iavota to ak ol
the people no.v here. We ak tor no
commission, aud ouly wnut you bui-
i liens men to treat us right a to prices,
i aud it we don't pay, dou't ell us
i;o o( In.
l-olteilew lle.t .tli-rtlel Tow u In Wmt
"We ak for nothing but luteud to
apeud our money here aud will bring
more money into this part of Oretfou
thau evev wus brought here iu the
same length of time, if we succeed,
you w ill lie the best advertised section
ou the i'acitlu cout. If we fall you
still will lie benefitted by the adver
tising, if uot in success of our en
deavors. "The Oregon Valley Laud Company
is compood of men, utio may be
termed promoters. We are here tor
the tiurpose of mauiiig money tor
ourselves aud u!so lor our client
We are going to vitalize this land
What we urn doing is also to your
benefit, a well as our owu. if uot,
why drive us out aud the quicker the
better
No Lottery H, lieui About It
"We are uot conducting a lottery,
as some supposed. There is nothing
like a gauie of chance about our enter
prise. If there were we should be
stopped by the U- S. oflicials. Hut
there is uouo. We nave takeu this
;Ul,000 acres of land aud aub divided
it iuto tracts ranging from iu to tuuu
acres, nuking nearly 12,000 tiucts iu
all. They are in no sense prizes. We
have uiined, iu this matter, to make
the coutract for every tract so that
one would kbe as good us auy other,
and no better. We nave sub divided
a poition of the grunt nearest Lake
view iuto lots, aud with the best of
those lots we have placed what we
considered the poorest tract of laud,
aud no one will say that any ol. and
tract so placed will be worth less than
the value placed thereon. Hut some
one bhjh, if we got no railroad, the
lots would nut be wor.h the taxes.
Hut uo uiau who knows uuybiug
about the resources or this valley,
believes for a siugle moment that we
wi I uot get a railroad, liut, auaiu.
some one any, ir the railroad comes
they will locate the towu somewhere
else uud will build up a uew towu.
KullrolKU Muxt 4'ome to I.Hkevlew
This company however, is In such a
dob it ou that auy rauroau mat
attempts to pass through this valley
must cross some of our laud, aud for
that reason we will .have something to
say as to where that road will go and
what it will do. We ure irieuoiy io
Lukeview, aud we know that lusteud
of the 1300 people uow here, so soon
as our piuus ure carried out, nuu
the railroad comes, you then win nave
town of 10,000 to 10,000 people,
with lmportaut ludustrl and uie
ceuter of a county of great resources
aud trade possibilities.
I'lun of Hub-dlvUlon of the Grunt
"We took this tract of 300,000 acres
and divided It Iuto 12,000 tracts of
and a Prince of E
from 10 lo 10C0 acre. On each tract
we noil acontiuct. ot more as desired.
The contract read that we agree to
sell due lot and one tract and other
rights that no with them. Aftel the
lot are sold, we dive free transpor
tatlmi from linme, and 925 traveling
expenses to one of every 20 of the
holder of thene contract to attend
the dlxtrllintlo aud look after hi own
contract and those or hie friends or
the itroufi he renreHent., with aech of
these men, UMUHlly two or more, Ufl
attend the aale. Taking 20 mb haute
and multiplying by three, you will
llud that upwards of 0HUU people will
j come out
lieie next year, many or
whom will come prepared to stay.
1 can you not Hen what that menng for
i Lakeiiew uud vicinity?
! t out no t llnlilera A iMlnt Trute-a
"After these people have arrived
on the around they will elect three
I trustees who will put up thoe Iota
land tracts at suction to the contract
I boldc ra No one can hid uuleaa a
contract holder If he wants Cer
tain tract lie muht did for it, provid-
ing gome other mini
want same tract.
liut. inasmuch as one tract is a good
a any other there probabiy will uot
be auy opposition.
Aurtlun Mutter !tM to fotttmrt llolilen
I "Should there be content of this
sort. 1 wlfh to elate here, very
'positively, that all the money si se
'cored will no into a general fund,
fr"m which every contract holder,
will receive bis pro ratio. N Ither
Company, nor its agentf, will tret a
cent of it
Hettlemelit Awnttre.1
'That the settliuu of this tract is
sotng to be aHsured. is had iu the fact.
tint, with no Hpecial e!fort on our
part I'roni May lnt up to the time of
clearing up matters ou the Hau Luis
colony, we had sn'd lees thau 1200
contracts, while today I leceivrd a
wire trom the bead otilce. stating that
over f. 'J!HI had been sold and juduini;
from the correspondence received that
the whole numbar would be cleared
out inide of 30 dayt.
Hough Laml Molfl fur ttO ut nn .Arre
"We are chanced with selling a lot
of rouuh land. That is true. We are
selling 0,000 ares at 20 cents an acre.
Itut, you know aud so do 1 that ad
joining property holders will be glad
to buy every acre af it it at a price far
above that which has been p'aced up
on it. We are also selling 11,000 acres
at 25 cents per acie. We are selling
80, (XM acres a SI per acre, ind we are
ellir.K 10 acre of rich valley land,
one half of it to be irrigated, with a
town lot in Lakeview thrown in, for
120 an acre. It is estimated' that
every acre ot lund put under water by
the U B. government costs more tbau
920 an acre. Uo in selling 10 acres
of land in the rich Gulden Goose
Lake valley for 110 an acre, and
couutiug the lots worth 9100 more we
are surely giving the people full value
tor ineir money. Ana there is no
one here who would be widlog to part
with his holdings for any such price,
either for his town or farm property.
Will at Once Irrigate 30,000 Acre
"Auother thiug we are asked is:
Cau you get the water? We say,
yea. liut in doing so we do uot pur
pose disturbing anyone of their pre
vious rights. It is our intentions to
develop water from two projects. One
from Cottonwood Creek, and the
other from Drews Creek. In the
Oottou'oood project we will build a
reservoir to store 20,000 to 30,000
acre feet, which nieaua one foot deep
of water ou every acre.
"I he drainuge area or these two pro
jects, is greater than one would sup
pose. W e can also store Muat water iu
i he other cauyou, so lam informed
by two of our engineers aud by engin
eer Jacobs of the U. S. reclamuiiou
service, to store siittlcient water to
irrigate from 100,000 to 12o,000 acres
if we build our dam high euough.
But we shall at Hist ouly provide
storage cupucity for 50, UK) acres.
This will be more than ample for
needs of all our coutract holders, aud
will also provide water for others who
may desir It, at a oost uot to exceed
125 per acre, and will give all 10 years
time lu which to pay the same.
Auk for Knlr Treatment
"In carrying out this great project,
all we ask ot you business men and
neploof Lakeview is to tell all enquir
ers the absolute truth. The truth is
good enough. Bo far we have had U0
or 70 men who have come here from
ditfereut states aud placeB to investi
gate, and all have goue back to say
Kood words for the 'owu, people and
couutry. Don't say to these new
comers or euqulrers: It Is no good:
for. if It was uo good you would not
have stayed here all these years.
COUNTY
"Now I a ond time to put any
qucHtioiiH lo me, and I will be pleaed
to answer them.
Judge Daly icqulred when the woik
for irrigtaiou was to be done.
I rel I nil tin rr Work Now In llfiml
"The preliminary work on the re
ervoirs will tm done this fall. ""It will
be slow, ha we ahall have to peud at
lenxt t,x weeks to Mud the beHtfonn
da t inn Bite for the dum. We miiHt tie
asHured I) rut of a Btable foundation
't hen the rent is eay. We will spend
ad next enr in Inn Klin if the dam,
and iu coiiHtriicting the In nation
.!... I .1 I... I.. Tt. .. . ....II
mi ner nuu mei iimonier
be turned into the latter in the spring
of 1910 Tin opening of the land to
the contract holder bo that they can
take immediate pnHexinn of their
lan s, will be done some time next
year. All that i neceary foi tbeiu
to lo is to pay 910 per mouth on eno''
contract. We a ill put the deed iu the
bank, aud when payments ale coiu
. .. .. ..in . ..i .
Ii . .ii,. ii .... in . I ting on the ground, for the very eiin
the e ntract holder. He is at liberty , . , j . j
at auy time after his land is turued
over to him to go on and make any
and all Improvement ho desires.
Will Cot TtiouwtnilN of llollarm
'Meanwhile, the company will
go
on and spend lrom 9200, WJ0 to 9:S6O.tO0
iu making these improvements. Thi
sum, iu connection with what 5,000
or (i.lMKJ new peonle will also bring
into the couuty, will make this region
one i f the mot prosperous eruriiuni
tlei in the whole United Utates. Any
one who stops to conieder will realize
the full force of thee conditions.
' I thauk you, gentlemen for your
attention.
Indue Itcii.Hon
Judge Daly then introduced
Hon.
11. C.
lie ii. nf Klamath KaiU. w ho
. w- ,
spoke Br, follows:
'When 1 came over here I never had
any idea of becoming interested in
auy land. I never bad money enough
to own a piece of reai ehtate. It has
always been my ambitiou to be own
er of a few acies ou which 1 could
build a shed to live in, aud which 1
could call my owu. Hut it ouly eeem
ed a dream without hope of realiza
tion l.lke Lakeview ami It People
"Wheu Mr. Martin proposed that 1
act as attorney for bis compauy, 1 wa
more or less doubtful. I did uot
uuderstand the proposition 1 han
kered of course, for the fee. 1 recall
ed the fact that for 17 years 1 bad
r"ude regular trips to tbe Cioldeu
Goose Lake Valley, where 1 bad rid
den as a cow boy iu early years. I
knew the country and the people, aud
ilked both. The people had been
good to me. Had uever asked for my
religeniiH opinions; bad never wanted
to know if I was a 10 to 1 man. or
whether 1 had supported womau suff
rage, or auy ot the things a voter
usually wants to know, but bad gone
to the polls aud voted for me without
auy questiou.
WautMl to he Shown Firttt
"This Kausas City niau wauled to
kuow whether I wauted a good safe
thing. 1 did not know whether 1
did or uot. I wanted to know all
about him. I wauted to know .
whether he would skiu the people or'
give them a square deal. As Judge.
ami prosecuting atoruey. for a num-.
ber of years, 1 oad had some experi- ;
euce with meu of that class. I wa i
uot from Missouri, aud he v,as, so he
bad to show me. So 1 subjected him I
to us tevere an examination as I ever
subjected man before, aud he show-1
ed tue that he was ail right, aud so
was his pr 'position. ,
Some Pretty Pluln Talk to Knocker
He showed me how they were mov- j
lug forward with a work that would
irrigate at first 50,000 acres of the
Quest of orchard laud in this Great
Inland Empire, with more to follow,
so soon as ueeded or desired. When 1
oousidered that fact 1 could not see
bow a man could be, skinued iu aucb
a deal. When 1 saw that his plan in
cluded 10 acres of rich valley laud
uud half of it watered free, with its
proved capabilities in either graiu,
grass, fruits, or vegetables, I could
say that It waa worlh 9200. And any
man who gets Ave acres of it in full
beariug apples or other fruits will be
assured of a good living. Uo sure am
1 of this that I am going to take oue
or more of those contracts myself. I
feel that auy oue who woud kick 'at
such a chauce would kick if be was
going to be banged. Uf course most
meu walk up to tbe rope with siniliu ;
countenances aud Brui tread, sure ot
the future. But some ure said to
"beef" about it very streuously. Cut
I never heard any do ao. Since I came
here, a few days ago, I have heard
more bad things of this country than
1 aver knew or heard in all my 20
years of experience in this couuty.
That frosts always kill off everything
that auy one who lives here is a
fool, aud that this year Jim Harry
bud to pay thouauds of dollars foi
feed to keep bis sheep from atarviug I
; Great Laughter). I began to feel.
ntertainers
I when 1 heard this, that the people of
i Lake couuty had been support ng a
chuckle headed ass for circuit Judge,
one who had lived here all tbe years
and bad not learned these dreadful
thins about thin couutry until these
home-neekrs tutuaa to cme iu. and
! thece fellows from Minsouri began to
' artive to show us! liut 1 know, and
so does every man here, that a man
' who tell you such stuff is a damned
jliai, and only inakea one of it for
some ulletior purnooe, or else he is a
slmon pure knocker lrom habit and
; predilection,
i
l-nke 4 ountr Apple Klnr.t on harth
; "I know, and so do yon, that the
I fluent of cereals, vegetables, and fruit
1 are urowu here every year. For the
1 last 10 years or more 1 have been gst-
tiuK my supply of apples fioin the
tiolden t.QOHft I aks Vftllev
Y',2 tXil7:.
and pay
ing fur the same from 94 to l a box
i ioi ouoice, wnu i couio Ker, mem
elsewhere at less cost Why do 1 do
that; because the apples 1 get from
this valley are as far superior to the
KoKue rivet apples as any tbiug you
cau iniBKiuel (Applause), liut lo
spite of this fact, 1 have seen the
nueut of fruits of all kind lying rot
pie reason tutt the local demand be
ing supplied there was uo way of
trauHporting it to other markets at a
profit, liut the coming of the rail
, road will make Lake County Apples
! more famous and more sought after
than either the Rogue or Hood river
, apples, because Lake couuty produces
! the tluewt apples on earth I (Great
, Applause).
What He Wan Mho n
"1 was shown that this 300,000
acre grant has been sub divided into
ll'Jlfi tracts, with a town lot for each
tract. Each coutract bolder gets one
of the tracts and lots. He may be
abeou'utely sure of tout. He may uot
get the particular tract he sets bis
eye on. for some chuckle headed fool
who always wants the best eud of
' everyming mny oui-uia mm. uui. ir
i i . l : 1 1 i. . . i . l .
; Lie uutsa, ub win uave iu ii lur iud
i privilege, and the extra cost goes iu
i to a common fund, to be divided pro
i rata, thereby reducing the 9200 each
, has to pay for his contract
Home of the ills Thiug Onl Here
; "The average easterner has no idea
of the immeusity of this Great Inland
Empire, or of Lake couuty. 1 was in
Washington a year, or so ago, and
! when 1 attempt d to tell them that I
;w s circuit J udge of thiee counties
with couuty seats 100 or more miles
to the tast aud west of Klamath Falls,
' my home, they would look at oue
auother out ot the corner of their
eyes well you know how people talk
iu that wav ! Sol quit telling them
about it. Neither did I tell them of
the big XL raocu of 25,000 acres aud
of others still larger. They wouldn't
have believed me anyhow. Neither
did I tell them of our "small big
farms, such, for iustauce, us that
owned by my friend, Applegate, at
Klamath Fall. He had beeu working
for years for soul-less corporations,
or what amounts to the same thiug a
soul-lea unfeeling government. He
lost bis job, aud was all ut sea iu
consequence. Fiually he bought 5
acres of land two miles out of Kluni
atn Foil It was a 1 covered with
uagu brush. He cleared one-half of
ttie tract, aud planted it to potatoes,
lie sold potatoes enough ott that tract
to buy auother 5 acres aud pay spot
cash tor it. aud uow has 10 acres all
paid for. He told me about it the
ottber day, aud .said: 1 am now lu-
depeudeut. 1 cau live
about de-
peudiug on a salary.
. ......
Kvr Aer l alu.bie
"In view of this one fact a one, 1
am couvioced that a man can take
auy oue of these 5,0(0 tracts iu this
valley aud make a living from it,
especially wheu oue half of it is irri
gated tree, as ts the purpose ot tnis
I conn, an v. The land at Klamath is no
better aud some say uot as good, us
this laud in Gulden Goose Lake val
ley for all purpoaec. Some of you are
just gradually awakeuiug to the valu
able quality of these lauds. 1 coufess
that 1 am a recent convert, from the
fact that 1 had given tbe matter uo
thought nor attention. For that
reason 1 want to iuviite you to tell
me if there is a tract of laud from the
summit of these high mountains to
the lowest depths of the bot springs
in all these mi b-di vision that is not
wortb 9200? la there a 10 arce tract,
40 , 80, 100, 320 acres, a section, or a
1000 acre tract, with a towu lot iu this
beautiful little city of Lakeview that
is not worth 9200 1 Why take the
Devil's Garden, on tbe stage road be
tweu here uud Klamath, so rocky
that tbe bump-the-buuips in the cir
cus is easy iu comparison, uud which
I have traversed all these 20 years or
mote to my unutterable anguish. Is
considered so valuable by stockmen
for pasturage, with tbe big tall bunch
grass growing up between each rock
that the Oregon Valley Laud Company
baa a staudiug offer of 92.00 au acre
for it, aud I kuow for ait absolute
fact that if tbe same were put up ut
uuctiou in the town nf lily that it
would bring 95, if not 910 au acre, for
grazing purposes I The fact of tbe
matter is that the poorest, rockiest
and moat mouutainous tract iu this
Grant baa a value far beyond tbe price
fixed for it. and can. easily be sold by
the forinuste drawer of the same to
adjacent owners at an advance over
tbe cost of his oontraet,
W hy Mtor.k A tone U lirtwn
"Hone tell mo, if this is Kuch a
great wheal producing region why
bavn't it lieon, more largley produced
by t-ettlers. who lastead raine stock?
A'ell, I can aoswei that: When it
costs 3 cents a pound for freight to
the nearest railroad point, aud with
wheat at 00 or TO cents a bushel, any
one with ordinary hort-e sense would
be ft fool to attempt to grow v- beat,
tie the country ever so well adapted
for such mops. Thi Is why tlm stock
iu'erea. a. here have d iminated every
thing, it is easier to drive jour pro
duct to. Market on is own feet than it
is to haul it. That, too. is tbe
reason why apples are not urown
more in Lake county, even though
the qttwlhty can not be excelled any
wbvre not even by Hood river. Lot
these conditions that have placed an
embargo on grain and fruit growing
ure soon to be changed by the co- ung
of railroads. Under existing cirrurn
stances and with propects for tbe
future I am anxious to be shown why
a 10 acre. 40, , 160, 20, 640. or 1000
acre tract in Lake, Klamath. Harney,
or Eastsrn Oregon is uot worth 92u0.
oming O.OOO Mtrsng Srxt Year
There are 6.000 people in tbe East
who ar of tbe same opinion as I am
regarding these tracts, of whom uo
less than 3XX) will oome here to make
their homes. 1 say there will be at
lesat 6,000. I can not se bow there
can be less, and even 25 per cent of
tbe contract holders would mean 30O
people. But, even with this number
of new settlers, can you not tee what
this means for Lakeview aud Lake
county? It means that there will grow
up here the leading and largest city
in Southeastern Oregon. It will
bring this most isolated town in tbe
U S., iuto prominence, now the very
jumping-off -place, aud will make it
one nf tbe best towns in tbe whole of
Oregon, and inside of three years you
will realize what Mr. Martin is now
doing to fuither the interests of every
person here . A man who can and
will put 50,000 acres of tbe richest nf
land under irrigation and establish
homes for thousands is certainly a
beuefactor to bis race; is worthy of
highest commendation, aud should,
at tbe least, have words of eenconrag
ment from the peop.e now here, and
who will derive gieat benefit from the
money he must spend in carrying
forward bis great work."
Judge Cornish
Judge Daly next introduced Judge
Cornish, of Alturas, California, a
member of the legislature for that
state from Modoc county, who said :
"1 thonght there was some ulterior
purpose in getting me bere. But, if
1 was as full of tbe subjects as 1 am
from the viands before tto, 1 might
say something interesting, tt seems
to be a propositin of real estate, and
Irrigation. Bat, in view of what
has beeu said by tbe speakers before
me I do not know as I can sav any
thing iu addition. Judge Benson said
all 1 was going to say, and more, too.
And, though be is an attorney, I
know he has been telling tbe truth.
That is a most surprising thing, and
1 do not kuow as it is altogether Pro
fessional Low did he ever do that
and be able to practi e law and sit
so long on tbe bench? Now. I happen
to know he told tbe truth, for I have
bad some experience in tbe lines he
talked about. Wheu I first came to
Alturas, there were uo gurdeus, no
lawns, uo shade or fruit trees. Com
ing trom Missinuri. or some other
part out beyoud the Rockies, I uatur
allr was of an ininquisitive turn of
mind. 1 wanted to be shown why
those things would uot grow. I bad
beeu told even white beans wool 1 not
grow iu Alturas, uud wheu 1 asked,
why? 1 was calmly aud aothoritively
told, because tbe soil was not right.
Make ThlugM .row
ilad auy one ever tried it. No. Well,
1 was ouly a lawyer aud bad uotbiug
to do, so I got a tract of laud, aud
plowed it, aud plauteu it. aud culti
vated it, with tbe surprising result to
all old-timers of growing the finest
vegetables of every kind possible to
grow anywhere. I theu plauted fruit
trees amidst tbe jeers of a'l, and got
what I expected the finest of fruits
of all kiuds. Theu some of the old
timers got busy uud begun to grow
gardeus, orchards, ami lawns. Wa
bad i. fair there, ufter a wuiIh, and I
expected to get the (list prize tor
potatoes. But 1 didn't! A ady who
came to Alturas after 1 did, uamed
Mrs. Mulky. who didn't ueed to be
shown, brought iu potatoes that beat
miue, and carried off that prize. So
1 was left that time, as 1 am uow by
Judge Benson getting iu uheu i uud
telliug his story first. That l the
way it is with all of us old-timers.
Mot A Make lo OpportunltleN Here
Here are opportunities of every sort
lying around loose, uud we do not
see them. We wait to be shown.
And we ure 1 Some tender foot arri
ves, Buuops urouud a few days, aud '
lo I he freezes onto something that
we had uot seen or thought nf aud
makes a fortuue in a hurry. They
take all tbe cream of everything. The
old-timers will tell you the country iu
no good. If you ask them why they
have stayed all tbeso years, they wil
answer because tbey wauted to make
a stake before they leave. Tbey have
been baviug an easy t'ii, i. i.v'.,.;
easy mouey from grash' t';, ! i i
grow all over these m.r.'ct kfi-c
high. It waa a stock a u a ivIl..
( Continued on Piue Four )