PAGE SIX
EVENING IIETvALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, APRIL fl, 102it
Stye Eimthtg Hrrali.
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THURSDAY.
' THE FIXAXCIXG OF THE ST.RAHORX ROAD
Wc cannot agree with Mr. Robert E. Strahorn that it is
exclusively his business where the finances for the extension
of the O. C. & E. come from. He must "not forget that the
City of Klamath Falls. is a $300,(XX) partner in his enterprise,
and while at times he seems to overlook this fact, yet he clearly
emphasises it when he asks special concessions from the city.
There is a well-defined suspicion that control of the road
lias passed from his hands to those of the Southern Pacific.
f this is correct,' the people should know it. First, because
there would be some degree of possibility of the1 city securing
a return of its investment in the railroad. Second, because
there would be all the niore reason for the closest scrutiny
of any request for rights of way and other concessions.
The people of Klamath Falls are not antagonistic to the
Southeri Pacific. On the contrary, they Jiave the warmest
feeling of friendship for it." but this feeling of friendship is
not great enough for them to cast aside caution and carefully
guard the interest of .the". community insofar as future develop
ment is concerned.. Everyone knows that if the Southern
Pacific could bottle this city up and prevent a competitor
entering, it would do so. It is only natural. Any railroad
would do the same thing.
The question of who is financing the Strahorn line is one
of keen interest, yes. vital interest to-the people, for if it is
the Southern Pacific, they want to be sure their $300,000
will come back and they also want to see that the gateway
to this city is kept wide open for any railroad that wants to
.'ntcr.
i .
THE LOWER LAKE GRAB - '
A'e wish to call to the attention of Secretary Work, while
he is here, the effort that is being made to re-flood the Lower j
Klamath lake-bed. He has been told by the Reclamation
Service., and doubtless shown official reports to the effect,
that this land is worthless, because of alkali. That is a
deliberate misstatement of. fact. Immense crops of grain have
been grown on this land and there are thousands upon thous
ands of a,cres of this land that is just as good as that around
Mai in. Thousands of head of stock were pastured on it 'during
the past winter.
Then, why, it may be asked, this effort to re-Hood it?
The scheme is to furnish another reservoir for-the storage
of water for the California Oregon Power company. The
plan is to turn in tp the old lake-bed the first excess water,
until the lake is completely filled, then the gates of the Link
river dam are closed and the Upper Klamath lake filled to the
limit. Then the water from the Lower Klamath lake is drawn
off until it is drained, when the waters from the Upper Klam
ath will be brought into use. It is a perfect system of control
for the Power company. - '
. The statement is constantly made that the Lower lake
is a great wild game breeding ground, and by this propaganda
the Audubon Society and similar organizations have been in
terested iii the flooding. TJie facts are that ducks and geese
do not breed there and never"have. Pelican, shags, cranes
and ;thc like use it for a breeding ground, but only a very
few ducks and geese use it for nesting. !
'Approximately fifty thousand acres of the finest land that
is to be found in the west lies in this lake bed. It is this land
that the California Oregon Power company wants to flood,
denying its use to soldier boys and others who want to use it
for agricultural purposes. The people or Oregon want this
land, placed upon the tax rolls; they want to sec it dotted
with homes; they want to see dairy farms there instead of the
flood waters .t.he Power company wants to conserve: they
want Secretary Work' to raise his hand to prevent this theft
of the public domain for the exclusive benefit of a corporation
that is seeking to build up its private resources at the ex
pense of the public. There must be no further theft of public
land and water by the Power company and we hope that
Secretary Work will so inform Reclamation Service officials
who are seeking to sell out the people in this Lower lake grab.
"Now, that a radio swindle lias been,
reported the gruuta will report ra
dio Is at last nearing perfection.
Atlantic City will fine drunks nc
carding" til-Hnir" breaths,-but- one
-'lending bad nun niny escape by a
hairbreadth,
Tublishei
News Editor
. one Tear
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APRIL 9. 1925
Two Colorado mountains are mov
ing. One has moved 100 feet. May
be a sign of spring restlessness.
lliit the two mountains moving in
Colorado Isn't so nuicll. We know
a man who saw a plumber move.
1 I we have at hand. r
Uscent a. my tots show that nr. Work Proceed, go right
shu:tiii;; ut airplane.-! Is about like I along. '....
throwing rortts at birds. Mr. Bradbury T believe ' that
. ' . .. covers the ell,nqucnt tax '.situation
Arore.fiirm-ikJiaf -is- ptaiuied. Run- for -the- present. Now unothor -nM-nlng
u farm seenis to pay ubout as iter 'of 'Importance' to till district
wen us sending a bay to college..
STENOGRAPHIC
USER
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Following Is a stenographic report
of iho important phases of the con
ference this 'morning between Sec
rotary of the Interior Hubert Work
and Reclamation Commissioner El-
wood Mead with the directors ami
members of the Klamath Irrigation
district:
Mr. Work: It is our purpose In
coming oiu here to get first hand
Information so that tho water usors
cculd talk to us. - They uro the peo
ple we nro principally Intorestod In
Reclamation has been going on un-
der federal supervision tar some
twenty tour years .and It has not
been a success In cverv case. It Is
the purpose of this visit to find out
the trouble It it Is possible so that
wo can arrive at the determination
of a remedy a little later,
First, I would like to ask if the
water users approve of this open
letter addressed to me. (This has
reference to the open lcttor of the
Evening Herald In the' Issue of the
7th. Ed).
Mr. Bra.lbury: Yes, they do.
Mr. Work: The reason I ask Is.
that In one of the last paragraphs
it says that tho water users do ap
prove of what Is slid In this letter
a?d it any dcubt fell on that mat
ter, signatures will be obtained, so
that it all agrco that the letter
what J lie wntor users hive In mind
themselves. It they approve of this
that of course will Make a great
deal ct difference.
Mr. Thomas: Dr. Work. w had
rather tell vou now what tho water
users want.
Dr. Work: Yon want me to Ig
nore this letter?
Mr. Thomas: No. we do not.
Dr. Work: if this letter stands
for whit Is in the mlnJs of the water
users, that gives me a good idea to
start with.
Mr. Bradbury: Mr. Secretary, 1
be I '.eve in order to bring this to a
definite point, we will ask to dis
cuss, certain questions here.
Mr. Wbrk: Now, gentlemen, we
a ill proceed with this hearing and
say what is cn our minds, and, of
course, the time is limited. We do
not want to curtail any necessiry
irformatlon, but do Rot get too far
afield. ' Each speaker will please
give their name.
Mr. Bradbury: R. E. Bradbury,
chairman cf the Klamath Irrigation
district board of directors.
The first subject that I desire to
touch on and which is a matter that
is new being negotiated is the con-
tract between the United states and
the district involving the taking ov
er of the project by tbe district, and
the matter of the delinquent taxes
and the matter of the moratorium.
The subject that I am going to dis
cuss at this moment Is that of the
delinquent taxes. This project Is in
a peculiar situat'on, and while It
does not appear on the Reclamation
books as owing any great sum Of
money, there la a delinquency of
taxes against the land owners of
something over (100,000. I do not
know the exact figures. We have
had accountants on these figures
for the past ten days but their re
port Is not yet complete. We are
not asking the Secretary of the Gov
ernment to forgive us those taxes,
but we do ask that we be permitted,
under an act of the Oregon legis
lature of tbe last sens' on to obtain
tbo consent of the Secretary of the
Interior to withdraw these delin
quencies from the roll and reappor
tion them, either by having them
charged to the construction cost of
the project or permitting the dis
trict to extend them over a period
of years. We believe we can, if
necessary, to ft very great extent,
and we believe that it Is necessary,
lo save a great many of our farm
ers from the loss of their property,
and financially crippling tho pro
ject. There are 618 parcels of land
Involve! something like 11,000
acres, which Is prastlcally more than
one-fourth of our project. That Is
a matter that we can take up thro-
Nigh the regular channels and
through the " department, and we
would like to have a favorable ac
tion permitting us to remove these
taxes from the Klamath county roll
and redistribute them. The penal
ties and interest are such an amount
that In some Instances they exceed
seventy per cent and over, of the
original assessment.
Dr. W'ork How man.vv delin
quents arc there, about?
Mr. Bradbury About 153 delin
quents. ' '
Dr. , Work How' many have met
their payments? . -
Mr. Bradbury Well, 'there 'are
about CS0 water users. Of course, "II
lis understood that this Is only what
Und one that we are teeing 'now is'
REPORT OF
WATER
EIS
the matter of town and Industrial
property. The town Is rapidly
growing and extending Into the
country, and we have some land nom
ine town that U strictly a town site.
In some rases the laud has been as
sessed for years, but has never hud
any. water. And a largo sawmill
owner notified ma the other day
that they would, In Iho uc.ir future,
have their land excluded from the
district. Of course, you uuderstuud
that that laud, although withdraw
ing from tho district and not re
ceiving any bonefit from tho dls
"ti lot; Is still held by Its lien to thrt
govcrnment. We bellevo It would
simplify matters to take advantage
of a state law which was passed
recently In this connection.
The next matter that I desire
to touch on hero will bo tho matter
project. There has been some four
project. There has been some four
or five allocations of cost made
on the Klamath project. Two or
tbrco public notices which were
based on separata allocations of
cost. Within tho Inst year I under
stand that thcro Is a so-called Hap
pen allocation of costs. While It Is
understood It has kept wlthlu tho
outside figures that we owe the
United States, that part Is true, and
we admit that we are not asking
any more mouey, but they have
changed the Items that went to make
up this total sum and tho changes
made of these items has resulted In
depriving the district of property
and in other instances there Is a
further object in a rc-allocation of
tbo cost of this project und that Is
to bring tho cost of the entire pro
ject to a more uniform basis, ami
not have such great discrepancies
between the variuuj uults of tho
project. It is my contention and I
eel love tbe contention of a groat
many that the best value of a pro
Ject is its water supply, and that Ij
the cnly sourco the government bus
to regain tho money spent on the
project. I believe on this project
this plan has not been carried out.
While tho various units of the pro
ject have been charged on the bails
of the amount of water uaed. this
does not fully cover the situation. !
might illustrate in this way. That
while the main canal of tbe Klam
ath irrigation district will bold from
1200 s. f. to 1600 s. f. there is five
times that amount of water used for
power purposes out of the reservoir
that was purchased by the govern
ment for reclamation. I maintain
that It Is unfair for all the land of
the project to have to bear the cost
of the reservoir and permit tho In
dividual uso of thoaa reservoirs, free
of chargo, which It virtually
amounts to at this time, t might
say that there Is a contract which
Js supposed to justify the alloca
tion as It now stands, and the al
lowance of water to the Power
company on tho basis that this
water Is . used partly for pumping
plants, i want to bring out this
point, that the Klamath Irrigation
district which Is one of the major
portions of the project, and Is
bearing the major cost of the pro
ject, Jn no wise benefits from that
salo of water. Wo havo no pumping
und no use for powor for agricul
tural purposes. At this tlmo we d
elro to enlur our protest to the
Keppen allocation and wc desire
(hat the allocation bo entirely recon
sidered. '
That Is all.
Charles Wood Eberloln.
Dr. Work What ure your con
nections now?
Mr. Eborleln Prlvnto citizen and
water user.
Dr. Work You are a water
user?
Mr. Eberlcln Yes sir.
Mr. Eborleln Previously J was
an officer of the Southern Pacific
during the times to which I am
testifying, having churge of all land,
timber and other matters for tho
Harrlman Intorests, reporting to Mr.
Hnrrlmnn, having an office in Now
ora, Han Francisco and Portland.
In 1904 there was a great deal of
trouble in I lie Interior, department,
especially the Itoclamatlon Service,
In regard to this Klamath project.
Home very Important state legisla
tion was required ut that tlmo to
make the hike bods available. Thoy
.had to be ceilod to tho United
States before this project could g"
on. I was culled Into consultation on
the first of January, 1906, and 1
was asked to und did succeed In get
ting through these atls, and they
wore passed in January, , that year.
When' that was ' (lone Mr. Nowell
came lo my office In New York and
said: "Wo have pasjed that crisis,
but have come to one that Is equal
ly bad. The government cannot
spend four or five million dollars,
all told, In puling In on Irrigation
systeii) .Jilnety or. bttmirjid. inU'e
from, a, main linn road. I wnnt
your neslstnnco In v -bringing this
DETAILED
matter to the attention of Mr. liar
rlmiin, Tho government cannot ask
puoplc to go there and suttlu except
In mood faith. They cannot compete
with noil horn California In That
w'uy. A brunch line projecting in
thero eighty miles long will not do.
Which was all true. Tho result was
a number of conferences In New
York und the final outcome was the
promUe of a main lino, and lluit
Juntu lino Is Ibis Natron cut-off, us
it Is railed, but that does not start
up, here us Is supposed, bill starts
from Nevada. Mr. Hnrrlmnn died In
1S0!I, and . Immediately his plan
were dropped, so far ns this con
structlon Is couceriiod, and uro only
now being revived. Now, ( have bn
foro mo hero the original survey of
tho Southern . Pacific on this line
which runs ' through this project.
Wren you go down thoro 1 wish you
particularly to look at that develop
ment south of Adums' point. Those
miles from un rail connection, uud
men are down thcro, thirty or forty
miles from any rail connection, and
they have kept their" agreement with
the governnmnt, . trouble on
this project Is that -beginning with
lfy. wheullio slump cumo those
luun would not. be In tho condition
that they are today If tho promise
the government made to them had
Jjeen kept."
Mr. Work TJhe question resolves
Itself Intojhis, Vhon,.' I, tuko It. Tho
Power company p lu, ,,
You tear that In making power thru
tho winter they will draw down tho
storage for the summer. . You be
llevo (hut 'Is the property of the
district, and should not have boeu
sold or given away. Asido from that
you have no objection to tha(. Is
that right?
Mr, Uradbury I have no objec
tion to tho company as a business,
but I object to It using (ho property
that was ucqulrcd and mnlntulned
tor tho purposes of Irrigation, and
we believe that It there was water
to sell from that reservoir that It
should bo sold undor tho Inw, by act
of congress, which provides that that
water should bo -old and Credited
to the project.
Mr. Work They are uslnj this
water to muko power with?
Mr.. Uradbury Yes.
Mr. Work And you think tho
power facilities should huvo been
retulned In tho Interest of the pro
ject Itself? i
Mr. urudbury I do.-
Mr. Work Where does this
monoy go to from this project?
Mr. Bradbury I believe It Is
credited to the project. I might
say this. That In tho matter of the
sale, the Klamath Water Users, the
Institution before tho Irrigation dis
trict took place hero, wanted to
tako the power sltos -and pay for
them. Now then this project has
paid its balance, and Is not In ar
rears to the government, but the
reason for the salo was that It re
imbursed tbo government to the ex
tent of 120, 000.(0, and tho condi
tions of the sale made It possible
for tho district to como In as a bid
der, and It was our proposition to
puy tho United States that portion
which was not allocated to tho
Klamath' Irrigation district and re
imburse the government, but wo
wero deplcd Hint right. Now as to
whero that monoy $120,000 goes.
It Is extended over a period of ten
years. You are virtually giving It
to tbe Power company. I cannot see
how the government bonotits to
any extont from It. Wo havo always
wantud to pay for It.
Com. Moud Didn't tho district
own It until July, 1016?
Mr. -Bradbury Tho Ankony canal
was acquired and. water rights tbut
had boon la existence for twenty
years prior to the time when tho
United' Stules becamo Intorstcd a
total 4035 s. f., or actually moro
water than the Kluinath wator shed
affords.
iMr. Work Is this dam of aiiy
use to control water (or tho sum
mer? Mr. Bradbury Absolutely not at
all. I might say tlils.You tako the
water falls through a porlod of
years, and the crost .of the Irriga
tion season comes In Juno and -the
latter pnrf of July, and tho rocords
will show that at tho time the water
flow of tho rlvor Is sufficient to fur
nish the canals. 20S s. f. was the
only obligation the government had
to incut In that lake.
Mr. Work Is (ho use or opera
tion of this powor company dimin
ishing the supply of wutur on the
project until now? ' . ' .
Mr, Uradbury Not shortugo.be-
cause of the power, but wo huvo bud
our wuler level In danger.
Mr. Work Have they doplolod
your water supply up until now?
Mr. Thomas No, not up .till
now.
Mr. Work We nro Irrlgatlonls'ts
by federal Irrigation, and I urn not
Intemslod in thorn us long us they
do not Intorrero with out purposo
of reclamation by Irrigation.
Mr.. Thomas Well, do Hot lose
sight of our contention, We want
lo make (Ills thing broad enough t.)
say that this generation anij peoplo
Here hnve nn. right-to, cheat the fu
ture generation,
Mr, Work-T-yoii;are absolutely!
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IKIItlXlNTAI,
(i.uno played In picture.
Purt of golf club which strikes
ball. ;'
Soo picture. i '
Negutlve.
Wrath (Inspired by HO score).
$uo picture (hoy who carries
sticks.)
l.engthof time II lakes to play
a good game. . , .
Jumbled typj, .'
Snokellko fish. " . -Meadow.
'
To accomplish. '. ' '
Perfect scoro. .
Orecn ground i.lom a 1'ver Un
plural name of golf i-ourno.l
To stuff,
To attempt.
To 'fit..
Altar.
I'nroimnou.
Departing gtuvt.
Iluu.its of bur.lua. -
To clip.
Chief linguist -lock of Indo
china. Paid publicity (pi I.
Warning, cry gf a golfer bof.ire
a drive.
Automobile.
Indefinite article.
tioa picture.
Exclumatlon of disgust. '
Like.
tiundry far washing ores.
Dabs again.
Provldout Ipaect.
Correlative of elthor.
To play of golf ball Into the lido
Slate of cxcltumont.
tivo picture.
VKIITICAI,
To grasp golf -club.
Position of ball In relation lo
Its surroundings on the course.
Common conjunction.
Klsh caught around Now Eng
land. Itofrosblng bevoraga secured at
7.
rlght. Do not mortgage the future
Mr. Thomns No one knows what
that will bo worth to our children
and grandchildren. Wo are trying
to estnbli'h ourselves to the benefit
of cur government. And these
people say It Is to (ho benefit of thi
town .
Mr. Work The benefit of the
town Is to doyolop tho county around
It. I want to muko clour what tho
purpose of the reclamation sorvlco
Is, and Hi" policy -Cf II, und (hat
Is to benefit the Intorost of tho peo
ple so that they may bo able to
make homes. Many of tho projects
havo fulled und others aro falling.
Wo want to clear up kite thing und
soo what property Is worth und
what (hoy should pay for It.
Wr. Thomas You do not know
how much wo npprooluto that alti
tude, Doctor,
Mr, Work We wunf to work
with you people to cure tho
troubles of this project.
So thut wo muy understand each
other, and I Imagine wo do. When
I cumo Into this service this iwnt
on of my Inheritances, tho recla
mation situation. I sot about to
muko a property accounting, which
1 did. It wns made from the fig
ures found In tbo reclamation ser
vice, as faithfully fls It could - be
mndo. Then we called this fact
Finding comnilfHlon together and
called for an accounting, which thoy
did, Whon that was dotio they pre
dicated a bill tor un net which has
since been passed. Now then, It
develops In the Investigations of this
I''act Finding commission tlmt vory
ambitious , promises were hold out
at first, That so many ucrns .would
bo irrigated and tho cost would be
so much. : If co, then the ucronge
cost would ho so in ii . That was
simple as u matter 'Of nuttlioinatlcH,
but it Is like tho old story of tho
dog and the rut, On much of the
projoct the cost of the' construction
was two, three or four times more
Ulan promised. Those facts mnde
t nccossury for us to proceed on a
definite plan, and wo jippiilnlud jip;
praleors tq go' oVor those , projects
and dotnrintna. Aral, how much -land
WORD " PUZZLE
club house.
T. Light .'cotton fabric ' (uukeyrd
letter "o")
. Somethlin cold put III bovorngo.
13. A tear In tao cbihe.i.
IS. Altogether.
ID: Kind. '
18, One niiiri strolio limn your op.
, poiUMit makes.
20. One who oncouriifjc; error, ,
22.. A stroke to land bnl'l op putting
green,
2.'i. To be present at.
2D. I. ick of power to i o. ordinate
voluntary musrulnr movement
(or why I cau't play.)
29. Low. heavy clouds.
22. A small hole In the lurf.
34. Toward.
20. S.:coml nolo In scale.
II. Some.
42. Monoy paid to the "pro". 1
4.1. To retire or recede.
45. Played on ground In-tend of
lifting ball.
4t). Upon.
4S. To sin. -
CO. Tree with tough wood.
f2. To thrust.
64. To dine.
56. Porlod.
57. Part of Vorb to be.
DS. To be slrk.
Yl-HTKHPAY'H HOI. tl ION
was Irrigated and how much could
bo Irrigated, what the construction
cost. wa etc. After that 1 all dono,
during tho sumnior, wo will get
these togathor. It is un ambitious
proposition. It Is tbo blggost thing
tbut was evor undertaken In tho
department of tho Interior, and wo
aro held responsible for all tho nils-
UnkoH und promises that were mndo
by tho dupartmont In tho beginning.
Thoy have failed. They wore rioin
builders und did nut seem lo ho
much concerned, when thoy rutf out
of money thoy went to congroi.
Thoy workod together with tholr
congressmen and got tyoro money;
The project did not have to pay It
back. It was an easy time, but tho
tlmo has coma for aattloinant. We
uro going to make recommendation-!..
Soma will bo drastic and somo will
ha unpopular. I nni going to muko
recommendations to congress and
whother they nro popular Or Un
popular does not mutter. That is
the object or this meeting. Wo carry
a mossngo of hope this fur that'-wti
aro going lo work with tho people'
on the other end. Unlns- reclamation
can be mnde to Hiioeuod from tlin
tormlnal ond, Sudoral ' roclnmatlon'
will fall. I think with tills : slntoJ
mont you will understand what' our
Ideas uro. I am a farmer. I have
Irrlgatod every year for 25 years;
I havo lost somutlmns but not It I
could avoid it, i know the' hourt
hrenklng situation on the ruclamu-
llon projects benuiiso I huvo lived
among thorn. I luiv practiced modi
cine In u one-room Iioufo with a
heartbroken wife In It. It Is' about
tlmo the government recognizes tho
situation. '" ; ' ': M-
I)r. Mend I want ,lo' ask 'two1
questions to clear up somo ' mntf
tni's that ! mil anxlnim (o khow.1')
wiiih la know how ' much" yon ' tin
ilorHlund thu Pwar company 1 Has
expended In lis development bore
under this contract, itow' ,' miifli
money? ' ' (if
"'.Mr. Ilriidbury t hhVe no , fig-'
tires, pr.- Mimd, ( could not sny, that
any hn.m boon .published., J .""
, ll J.
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