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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1919)
tftfnMMll!Il THE EVENING HERALD. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAOn TBKMM It may sewn to you that a slogan of 25,000 people for Klamath Falls by 1925 is a big jump too big for this city, basing your judgment upon what you hco now. That is what thousands .1 .1. nfiwm in imiiii. i jIih iiurfiifiu u'uri v ii iiiiii 1 n 1 n ir now know tho story of Los Angeles, and in 1!)25 you will know tho same story about Klamath Falls with this diireronce: Klam ath Falls will bo built on a foundation constructed of payrolls, agriculture, stock and scenic attractions. This is the reason why Klamath Falls is to have 25,000 in 1025 Today Klamath Falls is the second city in Oregon right up against Portland, remember in the matter of railroad receipts She gained that position last year, and she has it this year by a wider margin. She will continue to hold it for all future time. Klamath Fidls claims to be third in the state in the matter of payrolls. Tn this instance we take territory directly tributary to this city. We allow all other cities in the state the same privilege, and when you do that you will find Klamath Falls third on the list. Impossible? Proof? You have in Oregon what you call the State Industrial Accident Commission. This commission sends around auditors who check up every payroll in the State. Mr. Elirin, one of these auditors, who has just completed his audit of Klamath County, is the authority. He says it is nip and tuck between Klam ath Falis and Marion County, and we do not think he is prejudiced in favor of Marion, even though he lives there. Klamath Falls takes third place so as not to appear too "officious" for a new comer. Next year there will be no doubt about it. In Klamath County there is the largest body of standing pine timber in tho world. George S. Long, Pacific Coast represen tative of the Weyerhauser Timber comnany, 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 countrynot 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, nlentv of reasonably priced mill sites, the slope of the entire timbered country is this way, and, as Mr. Lene: says, it offers the cheapest logging point in the United States. The pine of Klamath is the best in the world for box shooks, for you can drive a nail close to the end, and it is possessed of remarkable tonsil strength for its weight. The box shooks of the Coast will be manufactured in Klamath Falls within a few years, as evidenced by tho 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 un 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 they can buy their timber from the government without invest ing the immense capital necessary to insure a supnly of loirs. They nay the government as the timber is cut. That is why Klamath Falls is goine; to have the mills and factories to insure the payrolls that will form the trrent 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, sUmds our agricultural resources. Ten years ago there were but a few thousand acres under irriga tion. Today there are nearlv 50.000: bv 1925 there will he over 300,000 acres. This will include 100,000 acres of marsh land .ilmur the shores of the Unnnr Lake and 54.000 acres of marsh land once covered bv the waters of Lower Klamath Lake; 30.000 acres of lake bottom land, once on a time covered by the waters of Tule Lake; 30.000 acres in the new Langell Valley nreiect: 10,000 in the Shasta View project, and over 30.000 acre's in the Klamath and other projects. At the present rate of development, we will in five years crow annually, based on present nrices, over $25,000, 000 worth of alfalfa. Tn addition we will raise hundred sof thous ands of bushels of wheat, oats, rye and other crnin crops, potatoes, and other vegetables. Our marsh lands will be amonc the finest in the world, .and will, when broucht to the state of cultivation usually adopted with such lands, will ho worth several hundred doiiars an aero. Our valley and hill land is as fine as any on the Coast, and while we have our share of troubles to bo found every 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 of 25,000 people in 1925. w S10-?!"0" wl11 tel1 yu this is essentially a stock country, well, if it is, who has anv kick coming? Ask anv stock man ivnig, and he will tell you that a rood stock country is one of the Dost to tie to, for there are no high tides of prosperity, the busi ness level is almost a straight line. O. M. Plummer, manager of the Pacific International Livestock Exposition, in an interview published in this paper August 7th. says that the Klamath country is the most ideal stock country he has ever seen. If you doubt his judirmont, visit the different valleys, as he had done before he made the statement. The cattle and sheen industry today brines into Klamath County eveiy year millions of d611ars, 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 of the noted stock centers of the nation. And you know what that will mean for Klamath Falls. nncJ0 t,loso vho havfi beon coming to Klamath County in the S' J!n word about the scenic wonders of the county need be S(l' Vley wl' to11 tho stranger that, from the valley to the high t ? i ,,tlatchless beauty and grandeur is to bo found. Search uie world over and find another Crater Lake, the sapphire jewel mnin- Mature, the one piece of God's handiwork that still re E2 """cnbed and unpictured. Match the grandeur and 3 Skof i ? Annie Creek Canyon ,of Diamond, Odell, Crescent Si?rr lafe of s lava beds; of its mountains and valleys, n. QniS of Klamath's greatest assets one that can be sold and 't.-M)lU, year after year, without, loss nv flererinrnrinn Abwndv we 2s by tno tnusd. are coming here eveiy year,' and when wpStUr system of highways completed a system that will be , t0na tO llOnO in tho TTniferl fffnfna tho iiiiinhni. wi'll tnimncn rS ?onPutotion, and what the tourist has done for Southern aiitorma, he will do for Klamath County and Klamath Falls. 52 to to en I II bcst c,imates on the Coast and Fallla cloflS OOO1 hTwS? k here to make KIamat" rnnn e Y f'000, by 1925. It has grown to its present size 6,000-from a few hundred in less than ten yean I It has tod handicaps-almost insurmountable handicaps. Lite Tall new towns it had the boomer to contend with and suffer iron andit had . its i intorncine 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 ?hat we want you to know the straight of it, and to explode southing htatSiS'at ifc. is Un,safe talk aout court nouses in Klamath Falls. It is not unsafe just tiresome for we have talked about them for ten years. There is nothrnTmvSeri ous about them They are the result of what is go"ng to mS this city the second city in Oregon-something everyone wishes he na7i,fwSeW7POSSeSs; somethine that has marked the builders of the West and every great enterprise since the dawn of crea tiondetermination. 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 determinod they would not The first set won for a while. Then the other set got the upper hand and the second court house-that an Tine old s,te-is the result Neither is yet occupied, for they are mmS. ping over it, and will continue to scVap 'until thlloute 3e to 8cranners. t.hov will ocnont , j:jLL j . ' ., . ' SLte H? " ; " WE1" E "e,wa ' J "ut PH. ? determina tion to win is keening them in. It is the same 'old story you have 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 wo don't get sore, we iust 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 come to Klamath Falls, there was another reason aside from tho convention. Every man, woman and child In the world has a desire for a change. It may bo great or It may bo small, but it was that inherent desire to sea If you could not better yourself In Klamath Falls that spurred you to make the.trip. Now that you are here, look around. You today see the beginning of a great city a city whore great fortunes are to be made in tho increase In values. There is not a piece of property In Klamath Falls but what will be worth from two to ten times what you can buy It for today. Look at its farm lands. Experienced men will tell you that you cannot buy alfalfa land like ours elsewhere in Oregon for two or three times what tho farmers are asking for it and nearly all of the land is suitable for alfalfa. Look at the marsh lands look at them! The owners are giving thera away when they ask you $15, $20 or $25 an acre. That land in time is going to be worth $1,000 an acre. True, it will take time to brjng it to a high state of cultiva tion to make It worth that sum, but Just remember that while that change is taking plnco you aro making money out of every acre of it. There Is some of this lake bot tom land south of Merrill and around Malln that cut two tons of alfalfa to the acre tho first year; on some other 100 bushels of wheat and other grain has been grown. This Is not boom talk. These aro facts. They nre not written In the interest of anyono but tho man who has a desire to better his condition. If you kick on what you see, Klamnth 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. If he doesn't, ho may find that his room Is more welcome than his company. Wo havo 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, a solid growth. That is why Klamath Falls Is to bo a city of 25,000 in 1925. How about the Strahorn railroad, you say? Well, 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-five miles; it raised $50,000 additional to buy rights of way and terminal sites. This was done on the promise of one man Robert E. Strahorn that ho would build that road to connect with the railroads that are now touching tho borders of Eastern Oregon. lie told us that he would build to Sprague River this year, nnd ho Is going to do It. He has bought tho right of way to that point, and Rtoel for tho lino Is either hero or on tho way. That part of the line will he com pleted this year. When It is completed, it will mean that several new sawmills and box factories will bo located in Klamath Falls seven, if all of the present plans are consummated. As tho construction of the line progresses further, more factories will come. What is back of It? Who Is building It? Robert E. Strahorn Is the hand at tha helm. It would bo usoless to question him, for he is worse than tho Sphinx lie can change tho subject, nnd that Is worse than silence. But wo can surmise: The tracks of tho Oregon, California & Eastern that is tho official title of tho Strahorn line will carry tho trains of tho Western Pacific from Nevada north to connect with some other lino that will convoy them to Portland and Seattlo. They will carry the trains of tho "III11 Lines" south to another lino that will carry them to San Francisco and further south, perhaps. These statements aro not facts Just surmises, but watch thorn then you will somo day understand why wo bellovo that Klamath Falls is to bo a city of 25,000 In 1925. And whilo all this railroad construction is going on, you will notice activities in other directions tho Southern Pacific. This company has tho right of way all bought and paid for for tho Modoc Northern railroad a lino that will run southeast from Klamath Falls to a point In Nevada, whoro it will connect up with the main lino onst from San Francisco. It will give us an eastern outlet Just what we need for tho full development of our timber resources. This line Is coming Just as soon as tho railroads pass back into the hands of their rightful owners, freed from the curso and blighting influenco fo government "administration." During your stay in this city whilo in attendance at tho convention, you must overlook tho many inconveniences you will suffer. Klamath Falls is short over 250 homes to tako caro of her permanent population. Hundreds havo corao and gona because they could find no place to live. Wo aro doing the bes we can to make you comfortable, but our available accommodations woro taxed to tho limit before the convention, and you can undorstand why wo aro "a little cramped for room" Just now. If wo had our wish granted, you would have a room and private bath, with all tho comforts of homo such as you will got in 1925, when Klamath Falls ts a city of 25,000 unless you havo already listened to tho knock of Opportunity nnd ara numbored among tho population that is to make this tho socond city in tho state of Oregon numerically and commercially. ' I