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4 Lake UHMlTflCl- o,n , ' AKKVIKW, LAKK COUNTY, OKKOON, JUNK W. 100 NO. 21 V 'H VOL XXX RAILROADS MAKE THE TIN AND COUNTRY GROW Milwaukee Line lias Lo cated 30,000 People In Two Months In Washington It I h fart beyond mi y iiik1IiII 'tjr of dUpule. ttiHl In thin day and age, the moHt Important factor lii the lHVl(llllllllt of any unci I dm In h rail- rol. Ami furl hr, the more rail roads a community or section has the greater aud more rapid the dvelup- Illdllt. . la verification (if ttiU self evident truth It Is not Necessary to go any farther for no lliustiutluu tliun to tiUHlder the difference between Kent tie mill 1'ortlHinl, hikI WaNhii.gton and Oregon. Tim former tate and Mm towus, Seattle, Tannine-, nud Spo For Instance. 11 In said thst more than thlity thousand Hew nuttier came to the state of Washington dur ing tlie two months or February and March and that the larger part of thin number settled aloug the ne.v Chlclngo. Milwaukee Sc. St. Paul railroad. Those figures well Illustrate the fact that settlement follows the railroad la the West. To fully appre ciate the significance of the cumlug of this uew railroad to the Went, we id ua t rtimrtnlier that it benefits several other state fuuy as much aud perhaps morn tliun It does the State of Wash lutltou. Ill fact Washington claim hut ahout twenty of the one liuudred and llrty satlonsaud towns that have already sprung up along the sixteen hundred miles of the Milwaukee 's uew truck from Mobrllge, South Dakota to Tacoma, Washington. These, towna It will he seen average atiout 10 miles apart, each 'having tributary about one hundred square in lion. A very few of toe towns along kune are going ahssl ty leaps and hound, while the do nothing nerve less policy Ih setting Oiogou far to the rear;' at leant so fur as rHilroucI expansion and attendant rapid iu cruuMii of population In concerned, Ih at a utandittill. Obiviously, the rew railrond work done In Washington Is the mil cause of its rapid development. It has no better resources than Oregon. The latter wan a state when the forn.er was a struggling territory. Now look at the dllteiencn iu a !eotdi: O-egon with h."ilftitiO and Washington with I 'Vm,K, nnii Htlll on the up grade. Oregon lit dominated and hindered in development by llarrl uittii. On the. other hand WiihIiI uuton is the mecca for llHrrlinnn, 1 1 nuhitt. Hill and Karllng, nil etriving for tho traffic ot that, Mtiite. which iri not one whit better thuu Oregon, this railroad previously existed, but the greater number of these were created during the past two yenrs by one fact aloue the promise of n uew railroad. At leant a fourth of the towns have been conceived, plauuud, aud developed during tho pant twelve montliH. It is amiounood. too, tlmt this malu branch line with it one hundred aud titty Miulioiis is ouly the beginning of what the railroad hopta to do for the section wjich It tra- ' verses. The Milwaukee promises to bull I many branch feoder Hues Into the undeveloped sections. This action will likewise atlord homesites and business aud Investment opportunities to other tbousanls of new people. It has often bono said that there are two classes of railroad builders In tho West, th developers and exploiters. It la needless to say that the Milwau kee promises to be numbered among the developers. If. has deliberately adopted the Hill policy. It should not be presumed that the Milwaukee aua U ill roads have adopted this polloy of development as contrasted, to exploitation, from the humanitar ian feeling. Though railroads may be the greatest clvillziug forces iu the West, as thy are, aud njeau more to the comfort aud economic well being of the community thao any other conceivable factor, as they do, yet to these builders they are aud necessarily tuust be, cold, business schemes. It merely nieuns tbeu that these railroad corporations have found that it is the best business policy to build up the tratllo as they an. aud develop it aneau or mem Their blanch lines are constructed developing the la the people, a last word. It with the idea of country, bringing omillnil trutthi. Am may be said that ine uui nun Mil waukee polioles will outluue to develop the Htate of Washington, aud the prospective investor aud home seeker may expect the future otter of many opportunities, as the rail ruadless areas of the state are oue by one recovered. Iu view of the foregoing, think of the Injustice the very devillshness of It that can compel the bottling up aud retarding the growth Bud development of the very best part of the West alui ply because that mail lluirimluu has the power to do so. Hut thauk Heaven there are Inllu euces uow at work that will break tbet-e chains and Vt free the great resources of this great laud for the good of those now here aud those who will be glad to make Kasteru Or ego u their tuiure boms I Harriman Build ing a New Line In East Nevada f'ARSON. Net., May '? The Southern I'm-lUn CiiMipiiiiV HI'"' I" the I'eilernl l.imd f 1 1 1- t'l'lnV u noii of II i njei'te I hriHK'h line t tin. In' t l run from Twin l'nll. Huho. to 11 I'oinl in Hie mnlii line near ('nhre, Nev., ami lll open up 11 iei:t!oii In Soutlii'lli I lilio H ml N irtlii rn Nevieln Hint Im rich In iiiIiimiiI. iiu rl.-nll oral and lumber it'Mouri , Tlie route li up I he S n 1 ' i ii river from Mliihlokn I.Ih'io. to Hi" headwater of tint Htnam in Klkn cnintt, Nev. i'on 1 1 net mil has already heuun. AA IJ AGRICULTURISTR RemarRable Results are Experienced Im Arizona Dongas, Ari7.ua. affords a most Iu tereUlug tllimtr.tloi. of the way In which smelting linn alteied condition!! so as to make them favor aiglculture. says the Mining aud Sclent Ilia Pre. Trior t.i the commencement of smelting there, farming had been Im possible because of the wide rauge in temperature, the average diurnal var iation being from a maximum of !2.0 to a minimum of i!H.4. a change from day to uight of Cl.a degrees Fahren height. Under such conditions all lire was limited to those desert ordeis which in the course of ages bad developed a rulntac to su h climatic severity. Ou the advent of the smelt er, however, a pall of smoke was spread over the valley, serving as a reflector retaining the heat absorbed by the earth during the day, aud re ducing the rauge of varlatlou to less han IW degrees. The rich soil aud abundant water of the valley Invited agriculture, which has grown to large proportions it is a uui'pie situation, tor the farmer must accept whatever conies, siilobu rio any dried, arsenic, aud the rest; ail Injunction shutting ott the smoke would literally frieze him out. The case Is als i interesting showing how ngriciilture follows the market cruateJ by the mineral Industry, iivo'i when the pos..lbility of growing crops depends absolutely upon the phrsical effect proceeding from the coutiuiious npera'ion of a smelting Ullterprinil MILLIONS OF ACRES WHEAT LAND IDLE Harriman's Crime Against a Vast, Rich Section Addison Heiiuett, of the Dalles Ontimlid, is Id Harney County writing that section up for the Portland Jo.irual. Id speaklug of seelu llarrl mau's stakes set ou the Vale and Hugniie Hue. says: "Ami there, as far as the eye cau reach in each direction, and hundreds of miles farther, even from the Snake to Coos Hay He on eitlar side of that, line of stakes hundreds of mildous of acres of as line laud hs can be fouud In the world. Much of It could be made to nroduce tk bushels of wheat or 80 bushels of barley, or 00 to 101) bushels of oats to the acre. Hut what would be the use when it would cost at the very lowest, 9.M per hundred pounds to freight it cut to the railroad? Well, Well. Those are merely facts kowu to all, only they do not come home to you readers like they do to one ou the ground, and 1 can ouly morallre and ask: How long is this crime against this vast section to continue? ' WORK ON THE KLAMATH ROAD The work of re-ooustructiou is being pushed on the Klamath-Lake-viw road. Ou the east Cniumiss loner lleryford has a force at work ; beyond him is E. Tatro, with another gaug, while on the wertend Walter Howard is located with a big crew of men The plan Is to Mulsh up the eastern end, aud thou to combine the forces on the heavier work ou the wosteru section. The latter portion has been under suow until the present, so that uot much could bo aoooniulishf d. However, it Is now hoped to have the road to the county line put in good shape soou so that the freighting cau be done for the business meu of Lake view for fall and wluter stocks. ICITY COUNCIL MEETS. The City Council met Tuesday eveuiug. Provision was made tor mapping the towu, for accommoda tion of the public. An ordiuauoe was also passed establishing grade to streets, aiH relatlug to sidewalks. An order for Ave huudred feet more of Are bese was placed aud bids for a new hose cart were received. Ir-e lowest bid was by Woodcock & Darues. SMELTER HELPS RAILROAD SHORT 111 UKEHW Looking Over the Situation With a View of Extending the N. C. O. Railway to this City ! A party nf men supposedly in the I iotenixt of tlie Southern J'ncWlc com I piny, which it appears has absorbed ittie N. (!. . Hue from Heno to ! A it ii rsH, were in t own hint Thursday, ' and left the next day, going north. evidently f ir a spin around i,aic County to look over pomibllltlH for railroad buHiuess. The party comprised K. C. Hunter, and A. (iiiiler, of Carlisle. Ha.; V. II. Davis, cashier of one of the big banks of Omaha, and K. (J. Harris, IV 11. Strarbrldge ami W. A. Dunl way, of Keno. the latter being the son of the manager of the nsrrow u iinue. They were rather nou-commltal as j to the purpose of their visit, but the I Inquiries they mada and the trend nf their conversation shned nlsli:ly that iuvuntlgHtlon as to the real 'itua tlou here so far as concerns railroad extension was their only object. Mr. Diinlwny desired particnlsrly ; to kuor whether or not the buiinees i men of La e County would pa'Touiza the N. C. ). If extended to hake view. He wa4 assured that such would be the cane, provided the road GOLDBERG, THE NEW LAKE COUNTY CAMP, WILL BOOM Litigation Now Settled-Development work Pushed Get Rich Ore The Jumbo Chief Mining claims, at Hold berg. Oregon, are now out of iiiL.uiimi Him unit beiuu settled out of court, and the claims are no J Incorporated as a stock company with John J. lieilley at the head. Work I has been resumed after sixteen j mouths of iiileuess on account of law suit and arrangements have been I made to sink ou this property to a 1 dt'pth of :KM)feet and when that Jepth j Ih gained ore will be blocked out reu iy for milling. 1 John J. Keilly, a prominent miu ling man of Colorado, Coahlt, Canada. Ca lfornla aud many oiuer siaies ann mlniug districts came into this locality about two years ago investi gated the Windy Hollow Mining Dis trict and was so well satistlod with the formitiou Bssays etc he Immediately obtained au option ou the Jumbo kroup of claims at a large figure and now after sixteen months of litiga tion be baa completed the payments and has turned the miningdeed" over to the newly incorporated company aud gave it the name of the Jumbo Chief Mining Compinv. The formatiou of the Jumbo Croup o' claims is identical with that of the ALTURAS PEOPLE The Alturas Republican begins to see matters In their true light, so far a regards the construction of the grade out of that town, which is beaded for Lakeview. Its issue of the 38th ult. contains the following: The work on the eo called "Auto mobile road"betweea here and Goose Lake, is etill in progress. We have talked with different parties who have viewed the work which has been going ou there and we find that all of our people do not fall Into the idea that this la an automobile road. In tho first place, it seamed strange to us that anyoompany would expeud the sum uf $00,000 or 70,000 just for the purpose of constructing au auto mobile ilue from here to Ooose Lake. The road does not. commenoe right and end right for such a venture. If any compauy wanted to construct au automobile road la this oountry at such au expense, it would build the road from Hurtles here. It Is believed thut a good road could be built from Hartles here at this price and theu passeugers could come by this way aud save time and uiouey. It is believed by many of our citl zeus that the work now iu progress nortn of Alturas, is thut of the N. O. O. There is some ground for this belief when it is known that youug Huuuaway was here about the time the crews' started to work and that it seems to be the N. O. O. crews whloh are doing the work Mr. Duuaway has beou aooompanlod by some of the foreuieu of the construction work of this road. It Is alleged that the N. C. U. knowing that he oouutry is generally hostile to their movements ou account of their unsavory operations. Lave tukeu this plau to secure the I DAV A diil not charge rates so hiih that the I'm! nf count ruction would tie nin' iiihl ie of six months, with an added I profit be-ddes Hist and expense of operation. Th tact of the matter is that the business p-ibilc of Lnkeview are in no way different from thoe of any other community. They are working for their owu best interests, and pur pose doiug the beid they can for themselves, if the N. C. O. conclud es to extend bete and will da to light thing thnrs is no doubt, but that the people here will give tbe'n a fair show. OUierwie, there is a con certed and earnest eoffrt ou foot be tween local capital of Laktview and Klamath .Falls to connect the two towns by means of an electric line. This Is a fact. Meanwhilo the work of building a first -clsss wagon road from Lake view to Klamath Kails is going ahead just as fast as man aud money can do the work. Consignments of freight have been made via Klamath Fall, and a soon as the road is iu shape, the bulk cf freight and passenger traffic for Lakeview will be routed via Kameth Falls. rich gold camps of Nevada such as (Joldtield, Touopah, Khyoilte, aud Msubattao. Oue hundred and twenty-five feet of wok has been doue on the Jumbo claims, all work doue has been in oro runniug from $100 up into the pictures. Mr. L. C. Hackwitn, a roiniug ex pert who has accomplished good work'.lu (Joldtield, Rawhide and other mining camps of Nevada has the development work iu charge and he is elated over the showing on the properties. F. J. Keilley has been elected sec retary and treasurer of the Jumbo Chief Miuintr Company and In the near future will establish an office la Lakeview to carry ou the business end of his compter. He has had much rneriencB iu the promotion of miu-1 lug companies in Nevada and is here with the view of making this locality bis permanent heme. Several other companies consisting i in uuiDlilc w.w r ! arrangements to start active work on ! their claims aud it looks like the old Windy Hollow mining district, UoJd berg as it is now named, will Le on the boom in a abort tim. THINGS right of way in to Ooose Lake Valley. The right of way for railroai pur poses has already been claimed and reoorded through th Pit River Can yon, by the Uooee Lake Southern and it may be that the N. O. O. does not at the present time, Intend to put in anything mora than an automobile line. , , Owing to the fact that the right of way is owned by the Ooose Lake Southern through tbia canyon, it is believed by not a tew that this is the i work of this road whloh of course is the S. P. Likes This Country W. U. Ounnoe. of Paisley, was in town over Suuday. Tne gentleman livd for 10 years at LaOraode, Ore gou, and is familiar with all of the northeastern part of the state which has made such rapid and wonderful progress the past decade, and says that in uo particular is that section superior to Lake County. He predicts that the uext five years will bring wnuderful changes to this section. He Is very eutbusiastio over the agri cultural resources ot the oountry about Paisley that ouly needs a rail road to bring iu thousands of home seekers. RED BLUFF, May 2i.-William Rolft of Medford. Or., purchased ou I Friday teu head of mules from narry Audrews and Jos. Talt. The animals were three and four years old and were shlpoed Saturday. They are for the Burrill Orchard Company of Medford aud the price paid was 1175 per head. Notth End of the Cnurvtv FilHrvcr Up' Rapidly The north end r the count v is certainly settling ii(i fax'.. The Silver Luke Leader of the 2"th lilt eontaiiiH the following gratifying indication of this fact: We are indnl.te 1 to 17. S. ('otnrniss ioner Wet for the following lUt of persons who file, i on homexiendH dur ing the pa-t week: Lewi si V. linnet, Henry T. McCallam, Walter K. Mc Calum Oris. S. liarret. (irnver A. Hell sod Chas L. .Jackson, whoe poctofllce address i Fremont. Fred K. Wood., Fred T. I);mi.;l9, lohn V. (ialze. John W. Kgglei-toii. Thus. W. M Met Pauley, eo. Hansen, and Herois Cummins, Fort liuck. Mich ael T Xelrion, Mannis Hochauau. Chris Tungervik. Julius A. Fond, Floy O. tjooch. (ilbbon O. Doll of, Henry D. Lang. Arthur H. Johnson, Walter ii. Orr and Frank A. Watkins. Lake. Loyed K. Conev, Wa-hugal, Wn. Lewis A. Chaid, Henry Hansen aud Richard W. Hubbard. Portland. Peret Peterton. Jobo J. Linpuest, I. Karl Small. Silver Lake. Minnie S Harr, Atoria. Alice M. Heeler, Gas ton. Unls S. Minkler, Myan J. Wing. Cliff. Ueo. H. Ditwiller, Summer Lake. GOLDBERG BUTTE HAS RICH ORE Picture Rock Being Se cured at a Depth of 275 feet Oo last Thursday morn ing Ooldbei-g Butte Mining Company, the on tbeii work in the lower tunnel cut the vein at depth of 275 feet and the val ues are shown to be increasing with depth. The management is poshing the work with two shifts of men as they have been doing for the past six or seven mootbs. The present indications show that thecimpany waa amply repaid for the development on this property. The Examiner bus a sample of ore, visible gold, from this property, that will assay up in the thousands of dol lars to the ton! Thousands! There are several stringers of this rich ore. all dipping toward the banging wall, which promises a big rich ore body at depth. If you have not secured aay stock in this mire, now is the time to get POSSIBILITIES OF EASTERN OREGON Evidence of Government Showing need Of Railroads Investigation of the railroail possi bilities of Oregon is to be conducted oy the state highway comr'iissiou of which C. F. SigtT Im (tyeeu elected president and Drake C. O'Reilly sea- ThirJJis the commission appointed by Ooveruor Chamberlain to , investi gate the teaeibiilty of the construc tion of railroads by the state or by agents of the state, iu districts not given adequate transportation facili ties by existing railroad companies. It has been deoided that a report be compiled oovering all districts of the state along the same Hues as em bodied in the report of the state con servation committee. F.aob county and district will be covered in tbe re port Tounage possibilities, induce ments that cau be offered, existing surveys, feasible pases and routes, cost of construction and al data will be covered in tbe report. The Portland Journral snys that after having collected all tbe data possible by this correspondence and in other ways for this report an engineer will be sent out on a six months tour of the state to carefully investigate conditions prevailing for incorporation in tbe repoit. It was also deoided to coopsrate with the backers ot tbe ldabo-Coos Bay rail road plan. William Handley, -C. E. S. Wood, J. N. Neal and other well known men met with tbe commission last week aud will join in an effort to raise suttlolent lunds to defray the expenses of tbe commission in making Its In vestigations aud preparing its reports. Be a Baseball Tourna ment On the Fourth Arrangements are completed for holding a Base Ball Tournameut in Lakveiew, beginning July 2id and coutiuuiug indefinitely. A purse of $1,250 has been raised, which is dis tributed as followa: $700 first prize; $:150. second prize; $250 third prize. Free to ell comers. Further partic ulars next week. IRRIGATION NO APROVENM CESS EVEfFY WHERE Government Facts and Figures Showing What Has Generally Been Accomplished The man, or the men, who talk against any country that is capable of being irrigated, no matter how deso late its nature, before the fructifying water is brought thereon, in this day . and ate of acknowledged success in irrigation the world over, only makes pitiful exhibition of bis own imbecil ity, or. worse still, of unpardonable ' mendacity. ! Facts are bard to get over, aud the , United States government does not isaue statements at variance with the truth. Therefore when a record of the production from farms irrigated by the projects of the United States I Reclamation Service is announced i bv the government, it can be depended upon that those facts set j down are beyond the pale of question. lo irrigation as in everything else ; the best success comes to those who 1 use their hiatus to the best advantage. The government has learned by invee I tigttion that in most instances the land is being farmed by men ignorant , of irrigation farming and often by men who know but little of any kind of agriculture, so that necessarily the ' production figures are not as great aa may be expected when both men and machinery become more experienced. However, some of the figures publish ed in the Reclamation Record show excellent results. Fur instance on a 108-acre farm in the Klamath Pro ject. California-Oregon, planted in alfalfa, barley, oats hay and pasture there was an estimated yield of $3002 not counting the stock and poultry. Estimating the cost ot production at $10 per acre this leaves a net retura of $17.80 per acre or $1922. In Mon tana on the Huntley Project, the average yield of sugar beeta has been about 15 tons per acre, and these ! beets have been worth fa per ton on , board cars at the nearby railroad ! station. In the same country, jields j of 30 bushels of wheat per acre and 60 bushels of oats have been secured. On the JNortn natte rrojeci, iMeorasaa Wyoming. one farmer reports 578 bushels of potatoes on l1 acres, and 70 bushels of oats per acre. In New i Mexico, the Carlsbad Project, 23 tone of alfalfa were grown on o acres, wicn 22 acre feet of water per acre. In South Dakota, the Helle-Fourche Project, one man reports the follow- i iog production per acre : 10 Dusneis of oat9, 45 bushels ot corn and 200 jgjSfizzJl country raiBed Jou busbeis or pota toes per acre. The average yield on . about ;XX) acres in this project are given as follows : Outs. 20b0 acres, average yield. 42 busbeis per acre average gross, 600 acres, 20 bushels per acre $113; native hsy, 320 acres. 1 too per acre, $3: potatoes. 80 acres, 90 ushels per acre ; alfalfa, 40 acres, 45 tons per acre, $18; barley, 4 acres, 25 bushels per 'acre, $13.75; rye. 40 icrea 15 bushels per acre, value per ajre. 21 ; corn. ;8UOMKa. 16 bustiels per .cre, 89.6U wheat $0.50 j tardea prods'03, 1C acres, average gross valua, -JiOO per ' acre. In addition to the crops named, there were some excellent fardena ! and water melon patches. All of the farmers agree thai csn siderab'e capital is needed for the successful posecutico of i&e work, and that as time goes oi the yielda will be increased. PORTLAND MAN IS MADE REGISTER Arthur W. Orton Appoint ed to Local Office Wasuington, May 28. President Taft seut to the Senate today the nomination of Arthur W. Orton, of Portland," Or., to oe register of the land otiioe at Lakeview. Or. Mr. Orton is a son-in-law of Post master John C. Young. Last June he was elected as a Statement No. 1 member ot tbe State LegUlature from this county, being a member of the house. He served iu both the regular aud the specUl sessions, and was the author ot the bank guaranty bill, which was killed in the bouse. Since the adjournment ot the Legislature, M- 1i-tnn hna hnan in the employ of the Pacific Coin par y. Telephone & Telegraph The Lakeview Development Co. bve sold tbe past week one 20-aora traot to J. Charles Smith, of lort. Collins. Colo. ; 10 acre to tugena O. Immell, San Beruadino. Calif, i ,10 acres to J. H. Johnson, Oraaba, Nebraska.; and 10 acres to tranlc Smith, Manchester, Iowa.