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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1919)
mf El! THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON irng0KM PAOK THRSa Ttnnv wem lo vou tMil1' a s-Kan ()f 20,000 people for Klamath rnil)v'ji2G is a big jump too big for this city, basing your . -limit iidoii what you hoc now. That is what thousands ff St when, in J 900, Loa Angeles said 250,000 in 1010. You Lnmv the story of Los Angeles, and in 1025 you will know ir- o ilorv about Klamath Falls-with this difference: Klam- f F-illa will he built on a foundation constructed of payrolls, Xultuic', stock and scenic attractions. g This is the reason why Klamath Falls is to have 25,000 in 1025 : Toilnv Klamath Falls is the second city in Oregon right up inst'l'oi'llaiKl, remember in the matter of railroad receipts. She mined that position last year, and she has it this year by a hlormari-in. She will continue to hold it for all future time. Khn'iath Falls claims to be third in the state in the matter of avroils ' I tlu's instance we take territory directly tributary to Ifcia ciiv Wc allow all other cities in the state the same privilege, ml when von do that you will find Klamath Falls third on the list. Tmnossible? Proof? You have in Oregon what you call the State Tniiustrh) Accident Commission. This commission sends around iiiclitora who check up every payroll in the State. Mr. Eb-in, one If these auditors, who hns just completed his audit of Klamath fountv is the authority. He says it is nip and tuck between Klam- .. 'ii ' ...l M.iimn Tniintv. and wo do not think he is nreiudiced atn fans mm "-":; ' . . ... , ,. vh-tu i?h in favor of Marion, evun uiiiuku n w.v... - tokos third place so as not to appear too "ofhe .MOUS Klamath Falls for a new .. i it...n ...ill n tin f1nulf filinllt if . Mnvf irfl'll" llll.ll' will till IIW liuilib .....v .V. In Klamath County there is the largest body of standing pine timber in the world. Georcre S. Long, Pacific Coast represen tative of the Wcyerhauser Timber comnanv, tells us that we will be the pine lumber capital of the world in five years. He is recog nized as one of the biggest and shrewdest timber men in the country not because he said this about Klamath Falls, but be cause he is. Klamath Falls is the natural point for the manufac ture of this timber. There is ample water, nlenty of reasonably priced mill sit-, the slope of tlu entire limbered rnnntrv is this (vav, and. as Jlr. Lontr says, it offers the ehcamt loggiiv noint in the United States. The pine of Klamath !s (he hr4 in h- -nrld for box slumks, for vou can drive a nail close to tb" md, -nd it is possessed of remarkable tonsil strength for its weieht. The box shooksof the Coast will be manufactured in Klamath Falls within a few' years, as evidenced bv the fact that we have six box fac tories in and tributary to Klamath Falls now. Our unlimited sup ply of box lumber will bring the others, since it will be unneces sary for the box manufacturer to tie ui his capital in sawmills We will have the sawmills, for we have the timber, billions of feet of which is in government reserves. The sawmill men will come, for thev can buy their timber from the .government without invest ing the immense capital necessary to insure a sum of logs. Thev pav the government as the timber is cut. That is vny Klamath' Falls is goimr to have the mills and factories to insure the payrolls that will form the irreat part of the foundation upon which "the population of 25,000 will rest. Alongside of the limitless resources possessed in the vast for ests that cover hill and valley, stands our agricultural resources. Ten yo'irs airo there were but a few thousand acres under irriga tion.' Todav there are nearly 50.000; bv 1025 there will be over 300,000 acres. This will include 100,000 acres of marsh land nlono- the shores of tb Uuner Lake and 51.000 acres of marsh land once covered by the waters of Lower Klamath Lake; 30,000 acres of lake bottom land, once on a time covered by the waters of TuleLnke; 30.000 acres in tjie new Langell Valley nroicet : 10,000 in the Shasta View project, and over 30,000 acres in the Klamath and other projects. At the present rale of de elopment. Vnn in five vcirs irow annually, based on present prices, over $2;j.000. 000 woi-Mi of -iifjiifji. In addition we will rai hundred sof thous ands of bushels of wheat, oats, rye and other Tain crops, potatoes, and other vegetables Our mvoh l""ds will be nmo"- th fiiyn, in the world, and will, when brought o the ute of cultivation usually adopted with such lands, will be worth several hundred dollars an acre. Out- valley and bill land is as fine ;)s anv on tne Coast, and while we have our share of troubles o be found.eve'-v-where on earth, we will match up with any other section on the average production of our farms, and this is a storv of averages and what thev will do towards making Klamath Falls a city oi 25,000 people in 1025. Stockmen will toll you this is essentially a stock country. Well, if if is, who has 'anv kick coming? Ask any stock man hvinr. and lie will tell you that a cood stock country is on" of the best to tie to, for there are no hiirh tides of nrosperitv, the busi ness'level is almost n straight line. O. M. Plummer, manager of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition, in an interview published in this paper Amrust 7th. says that the Klamath country is the most ideal stock country he has ever seen. If you doubt his judgment, visit the different valleys, as he had done before he made the statement. The cattle mid sheen industry todav bribers into Klamath County every year millions of dollars, and it is but in its infancy. We are on the threshold of the introduction of pure bred stock, and when this is done. Klamath County will be one ot the noted stock centers of the nation. And you know what that Will moan for Klamath Falls. To those who have been coming to Klamath County in the i "m. W0IC aD0"t the scenic wonders of the county need be said. They will tell the stranger that from the valley to the high est peak matchless beauty and grandeur is to be found. Search JJe world over and find another Crater Lake, the sapphire jewel or Dame Nature, the one piece of God's handiwork that still re s """"escribed and unpictured. Match the grandeur and fy,oftie Annie Creek Canyon ,of Diamond, Odell, Crescent na other lakes; of its lava beds; of its mountains and valleys, iln onG of Klamath's greatest assets one that can be sold and ES i ' iyemi after year without loss or deterioration. Already w i ? y tnG thousand ai'o coming here eveiy year, and when mi w system of highways completed a system that will be Wn , i nonG in the United States, the number will increase "Byonci computation, and what the tourist has done for Southern wuirorma, he will do for Klamath County and Klamath Falls. 'II to en o z ID CFl Here he will find one of the best climates on the Coast and unex celled hunting and fishing. This is but an epitome of what there is here to make Klamath Falls a city of 25,000 by 1925. It has grown to its present size 0,000 from a few hundred in less than ten years. It has had handicaps almost insurmountable handicaps. Like all new towns, it had the boomer to contend with and suffer from, and it had its interncine strifes that have resulted in making Klamath Falls the only city in the world that can boast of three court houses. We mention the count house situation for the reason that we want you to know the straight of it, and to explode something else that you have heard that it is unsafe to talk about court houses in Klamath Falls. It is not unsafe just tiresome, for we have talked about them for ten years. There is nothing mysteri ous about them. They are the result of what is going to make this city the second city in Oregon something everyone wishes he had. and so few possess; something that has marked the builders of the West and 'every trreat enterprise since the dawn of crea tion determination. That word tells the whole story. One set of men determined to build the court house in what is locally known as the Hot Springs Addition; the other set determined they would not. The first set won for a while. Then the other set got the upper hand and the second court house that on the old site is the result. Neither is yet occupied, for they are still scrap pine: over it, and will continue to scrap until the courts decide which is the winner. When that happens, then, like all good scrappers, they will accept that decision and turn their energies to something better. They are ashamed of their fight right now. Everyone of them wishes he was out. But pride and determina tion to win is keeping them in. It is the same old story you haye heard so often, only this time court houses are the stake, and while it was hard on the city for a time, Klamath Falls has outgrown the scrap, and pays but little attention to it. Whenever it is men tioned we don't cret sore, we hist get tired. So, if you are inter ested in the subject, you need have no hesitancy in asking Ques tions. .The joke is on us, and we are going to accept it with a smile. When you decided to romo to Klamath Falls, there was another reason aside from tho ronvontlon. Every man. woman and child In the world has a desire for a change. It may hf great or It may ho small, but It was that Inherent desire to so3 If you could not hotter yourself In Klamath Falls that spurred you to make the trip. Now that you arc hem. look around You today see tho beRlnninR ot a great city a city where croat fortunes nro to ho made In tho Increase in values. There Is not a ploco of property In Klamath Falls hut what will ho worth from two to ten times what you can huy it for today. Look at Its farm lands. Experienced men will tell you that you cannot huy alfalfa land like ours elsewhere in Orepon for two or three times what the farmers nro asking for it and nearly all of tho land Is suitable (or alfalfa. Look at tho marsh lands-look at them! The owners are Riving them away when they ask you $15, $20 or $25 an acre. That land in time is going to be worth $1,000 an aero. True, It will take time to bring it to a high state of cultiva tion to tnako it worth that sum. hut Just remember that while that change Is taking place you are making money out of every acre of it. There is some of this lake bot tom land souh of Merrill and around Malin that cut two tons of alfalfa to tho acre .the first year; on some other 100 bushels of wheat and other grain has been grown. This is not boom talk. Theso arc facts. They are not written in the interest of nnyono but tho man who has a desire to hotter his condition. It you kick on what you see. Klamath County has no room for you. for no new country was ever built by kickers. They aro always looking for something for nothing to' sell at a fabulous price. Klamath County is looking for -good, solid, level-headed, progressive business men. farmers and stockmen, and anyone that measures up to that standard is wel come. It ho doesn't, he may find that his room Is more welcome than his company. Wo have no boom in Klamath County and we want none. We had one once, and that Is why you will now see that everything that is said and done has for its purpose n solid growth. That Is why Klamath Falls Is to be a city ot 25.000 in 1925. How about tho Strahorn railroad, you say? Woll. all we can tell you as a fact about it is this: Klamath Falls put up $300,000 to build that line from this city to Dairy twenty-flve miles; it raised $50,000 additional to huy rights ot way and terminal sites. This was done on tho promise ot one man Robert E. Strahorn that ho would build that road to connect with the railroads that are now touching tho borders ot Eastern Oregon. He told us that ho would build to Sprague River this year, and ho is going to do it. He has bought tho right of way to that point, and steel for tho lino Is either hero or on tho way. That part of tho lino will be com pleted this venr. When it is competed, it will moan that several new sawmills and Hot factories will he located in Klamath Falls-seven, it nil of the present plans aro consummated. As tho construction of the line progresses further, more factories will come. Whut Is hark of it? Who is building it? Robert E. Strahorn is tho hand at the holm. It would ho useless to question him. for ho is worso than tho Sphinx he can change tho subject, and that Is worso than silence. Rut we can surmise: The Macks of tho Oregon. California & Eastern that is tho official tltlo of tho Strahorn line will cany tho trains ot tho Western raclflc from Novnda north to connect with somo other lino that will convoy them to Portland and Seattle. They will carry tho trains of tho "Hill Lines" south to another lino that' will carry thorn to San Francisco and further couth, perhaps. These statements aro not facts Just surmises, hut watch them then you will somo day understand why wo beliove that Klamath Falls is to bo a city of 25,000 In 1025. And whilo nil this railroad construction is going on, you will notice activities in othor directions tho Southern Pacific. This company has tho right of way all "bought and jmid for for tho Modoc Northern railroad a lino that will run southeast from Klamath Fnlls to a point in Nevada, where it wilt connect up with tho main lino east from San Francisco. It will givo us an enstorn outlet just what wo need for tho full development ot our tlmbor resources. This lino is coming Just ns soon as tho rnllroads pass hack into tho hnnds of tholr rightful owners, freed from the curse nnd blighting influence) fo government "administration." During your stay in this city whilo in nttendanco at the convention, you must overlook tho many inconveniences you will suffer. Klamath Falls is short over 250 homes to tnko caro of hor pormanent population. Hundreds havo como and gone bocnuso thoy could find no placo to Hvo. We aro doing tho best wo can to make you comfortnblo, hut our nvnllablo accommodations wore taxod to the limit before the convention, and you can understand why wo nro "a little cramped for room" Just now. If wo had our wish granted, you would havo a room and private bath, with nil tho comforts of hom(! such as you will got In 1925, when Klamath Falls la a city ot 25,000 unless you have already listened to tho knock ot Opportunity and are numbered among tho population that Is to niaka this the second city In tho stato of Oregon numerically and commercially. . fltt-s-H ijt-',i : $!&' !'4: VIW5'