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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 102S.
THE EVENING HERALD
IRRIGATION IS
DEPENDENT ON
RAILPOJECTS
(Continued From Vas,a' Oiip)
the dominant In. lust r". and was
rollod upon to provide the major Ineeded
portion of the railroad tounage;
the world w the marVet the
pnn In lb wrt Vef.
The rllrns wr m '"'!(he rjreat Northern Rnllroa.
J. Wit, alwavs 11 friend of the
farmers and a developer of the
ricultural nreas of the North
went had met Bilr Ifanley, the
"Sage of Ifiirney," and vMted
with In in. He visloned. the po
tential agricultural resources of
central Oregon, and hrd deter
mined to im.urt hki railroads
into thla asreat territory that
only transportation In
order to release a vast wealth of
products.
Ralph Hudd, now president of
tonnaee, rnA mor to
-So. fr) ther
nlnn for Irritation
ernment.
-A I,
K'oninth One of Flr.
T'e Kla'nnth nrn'e- 010
Of the ve'v first nnrte-taWan bv
the United Ptate. and etnet
hack- through the """"I. oe
reads that on Vnv H. lfm;. f-e
n chsra-e of the Oreaon Trunk
Hrn ie ,urTeri.ll)t partr of which tie
br The gov- 'reclamation service renort neska
' locating ts Hne to within a
few miles of Klamath Falls.
Famous Deschutes War.
The attempted Hill lnvton nf
central Oregon and ths Klamath
oountrr, a territory 'hat E. H.
Hxrr'man had discovered and
secretary of the interior formally 1 wM,h wa elns ODene(, ni,
aonroved the Klem.th uratect o , Iaw, tnroush h( ef
and aet aside funds fo Its "i-
tructlon.$4.4n0.onn hetne alio-
forts, brought ahout the railroad
.war of tha Deschutes canyon. In
'"" e,n,! n,M! sense the railroad fight In th
Immedlatelv available. , .Tlesrtutes marked the passing
Tha aecnrlnc of the ""TT'rrom the rallroM world of the
and appropriation of I.W.M;,ml( constructive developers
for the Klamat, project hd notj0, ,he 8trkulturaI We8t of ,n
been brought ahout as easily as
historical records indicate. Con-
time.
I elapse
Nearly IS years were to
before Mr. Budd. repre-
jinto Klamath.
The failure to secure adequate
transportation In 1910 for tha
crea was remriam 10 otrniriHitr : . ...
large sums of money for the con- ra t br H,j,- ,lne tra,a
atructlon of Irrigation projects lnln, K1.v s r ;
atates where tlie nonulntlon con
alsted chlefl-v of jackrabbt's and
ova hn TfiA Oroenil find P.nll.
fornla legislatures hesitated over j Kl'h project led to the first.
granting to the national govern- r' "
ment vast area of swamp lands ! Klamath. A great Irrigation
adjacent to the various lake. .ver!works hsJ bpen instructed and
which the reclamation service de-!a water Wiy developed ade
alred control. But Theodore , aoate toT , ,n Irrigation of a
. .ana rtna m 1 1 1 1 n a as as a In n . V T .
Roosevelt was then president of """""'
the United States and a friend of Productivity of the soil had been
proven; an or ine elements were
here that make a seVf-eoslalnlnff
tha West.
t Aapcal to Karri inaa. .
: E. H. Harriman, then one of
tha dominant figures of the rail
commonwealth bre4 and meat
for food, wool for raiment, and
abundant surplus for profit when
provision should be made for
distribution of their surplus to
distant points of consumption.
Hurt by Inactivity.
The settlers, because of a lark
of ' transportation to markets,
could not meet their construction
payments to the United States,
and the project was faced with
failure. In the emergency con
gress extended tite payments
from 10 to 20 years, thus reduc
ing the annual Installment pay
ments, owing by the farmers.
In tha year 1916 Robert Stra
horn was prevailed upon to un
dertake the task of constructing
lines of railroad that would con
nect up the loose ends of the
several transcontinental railroad
systems that had been built to the
edges of the great central Oregon
plateau. As a result of Mr. Strav
road world and monarch of thej,imb,,r for fu, ""d f ilter; and I
Miirnnri avutem nf fho wit.m the streams and reservoirs po-1
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appealed to by the sponsors of ecennc energy ior nKni
the Klamath project. He was !and "VPT '1,n whlcn to ",ra the
aaked to gs to Washington and whee,!' of '"dUKtry. Of all these
tell congress o? his plan, for the Klamath could prcxluce
extension of his railroad Into the i8u"iclpnt for sustenance and
Klamath country, tack of trans
portation bid fair to defeat the
project. Mr. Harriman respond
ed to the call tor assistance, and
placed the personnel of his rail
road land department at the dis
posal of the friends of the Klam
ath project for the purpose of
assisting In furnishing data to
congress which fould justify
congressional appropriations and
favorable legislation by the atates
of Oregon and California.
, ' . First Unit Itullt.
t The first unit of the "project
was constructed and the Califor
nia Northeastern Railroad was
built to Klamath Falls. During
the year 1910 another chapter of
Irrigation and reclamation began.
Knglneers In charge of the pro
ject had recommended the re
clamation of the bed of Tule lake,
and In their report to the secre-
Makes Quiet Heart
j Resume Function
I CLEVELAND, May 10. Put-'
ting "life" Into a heart that ha
l.Upcd heating fe the. fl' per
formed here by Dr. Pierre Kijlant.
a professor of the University of
' Brussels , . ,
I The experiment was made al
Western Reserve medical school.
Hearts of animals just slaughter-!
ed, were brought to Dr. Rijlaitt.
From one nf these hearta he ssade ,
a chemical extract. Thla waa in-,
: jected Into the, other, and the
heart which had stopped beating
' waa . revived , into momentary
action. .
ganixed and constructed under
state lnw throughout contra! Ore
con. Again failure marked the
plans of connecting up the rail
roads: again irrigation went In'
a decline. While tho Irrigation
depression was not confined to
the central Oregon or the Klam
ath projects, the depression in
the adjoining atates of ( nhto-ria
and Washington was not ncaily
as acute as that xp r!encod lu
Oregon, where freal areas were
so Inadequately served bt- rail
roads or entjrely without service.
Pepemk-nt on Rallmr.ds.
Whatever may have been the
relation of railroads to Irrigation
with reference to tho ft i-inc'.al
success of Irrigation projects, the
financial success of the Klamath
project has been peculiarly and
intimately Interwoven with rail
road or prospective railroad de
velopment within the Klamath
territory.
It is to be hoped that tho Tears
of 19:4-25 marked the lowest ebb
of financial distress that - the
Klamath project will ever experi
ence. The building of the Cas
cade line by the Southern Pacific
railroad and entrance, of t ie
Great Northern railroad into
Klamatdi. which are now accom
plished facts. The assurance of
the early construction of the
Modoc Northern through the en
tire length of the Klamath Irri
gation project, promises agrlcul-
Concern Builds Own Homes
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I rjna rviamam- .Mnniuing eompiiny. located on The Dalles-California highway just south of the bonit
; darlea of Klamath Kays, believes In providing homes for Its employes. , Above la shown a group of
1 home const ruct d by thla progrexsive manufavtur tug company In which officials and employe, reside.
Roselavvn Reside ntial District
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In Roselawn residential district. Klamath Falls has an asset at once new and attractive. Con
ceived by Luke Walker, prominent business man, tho tract, bounded by l-akevlew. Addison. 81. Francis
and Oregon avenue, has been developed into one of the outstanding residential sections In the rlty.
tural irrigation the best facilities
for settlement and accessibility j
to market enjoyed by any irrlga- j
tlon project, without exception.
A Xcwr F.r 0x-n.
It was May 1, 190:1, that John
T. Waistler was directed by the
chief engineer of the reolamatlun i
service to investigate the possl-
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tary of the interior they stressed, bora's activities, state legislation
among other things, the impor
tance to the project of new pros
pective railroad development.
In a report of the department
ot the Interior and the United
States reclamation service, giving
names of F. H. Newell as di
rector and A. P. Davis as chief
engineer, covering the Klamath
project, and also naming E. G.
Hopson as supervising engineer
and W. W. Patch project engi
neer, dated at Klamath Falls,
Ore., September, 1910 (at page
a-10). Is found the following:
The Report.
"A branch of the Southern Pa
cific Railway, the California
Northeastern Railway, has been
built into Klamath Falls from t'.:e
southwest within the last 18
months, and is continuing north
ward toward Portland. In the
next two Tears this will form the
main line of the Southern Pacific
company between .Portland and
San Francisco.
"The. Oregon Trunk Railway,
now building In the Deschutes
canyon. Is located to within a
few miles of Klamath Fulls, and
undoubtedly In the near future
will furnish another mala line of
communication to the northward.
"Surveys have been made, ilio,
southeasterly from Klamath Falls
around the east shore of Tule
lake, with the evident intention
of connecting with Pitt River val
ley and also possibly with Altur
as.formlng an outlet to the east
and an additional outlet to the
south.
Railroad Center.
"All of this railroad develop
ment moan, that Klamath Falls,
lit the near future, will be a large
railroad center. Having the tim
ber and the power necessary for
lis manufacture Into articles of
rommerre.wlll create such Indus
trial conditions that a very large
home market may be expected
for agricultural products."
Tha engineers of the reclama
tion service were relying upon
the railroads to provide transpor
tation to outside markets for the
surplus 'agricultural products of
the projects, and It was the gen
eral understanding that the Mo
doe Northern would be built, tt
fordlng an outlet for the products
ot a large area of irrigable land
to the east ot Tule lake and
south of Clear lake, designated
as tht Modoc, sub-project, to bo
irrigated from the Clear Luke
reservoir.
Failed to Materialize. '
Tho expected Tallroad develop
ment did, ooj materially. James
was enacted at the session of
1917.designed to assist in the
providing of final assistance for
irrigation projects. Stimulated by
the prospect of the realisation of
the long-expected railroad devel
opment, the Klamath project took
on a new 'lease of life, and more
land was brought under Irriga
tion. Several projects were xr-
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