Development
Section Two
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KLAMATH FALLS, ORB., THURSDAY MAY 10, 1928
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S. P. TAKES PART IN DEVELOPMENT
Development
Section Two
Pioneer of Klamath
' Vividly Describes
8 Red Letter Days
Noteworthy Incidents from the Inception of
Crater Lake to Inauguration of G. N.
Service Reviewed in Article
By Judge A. L. Leavitt
Within the marvelous settinjr of the Pacific Northwcnt
territory lien the Klumuth country. Obviously, its first
red-letter day wan the blowing up of Mount Mazamu and
the creation of Crater Lake. That accomplished, the
Almighty, in Ills wisdom, suspended operations for a
considerable length of time, satisfied with IITh works and
'content with Ills children should thenceforward with
wonderment and pride behold His handiwork. We have
only to glance backward over the Inst twenty-five years
of the nineteenth century and the first twenty-five years
of the twentieth century to see to what extent the Klam
ath country has been appreciated by God's children.
The development of a
flower
or a dellcloue fruit la accom
plished In a seemingly natural
and orderly fashion. 80 It haa
bean with the development of the
Klamath country. True, luter
aperaad with that alow and or
derly development are event
seemingly of mure than paaslng
moment, and It la propoafd In
thla brief article to characterize
them a red. letter daya.
Th flrat of tho.e daya waa
back In lS. when William
Hteele and (J. W. J. Wllaon, new
aelllera from Nevada, looking I
upon -Veal atretrhea of slant aage
bruah and vlauallatng the poten
tial, value of aoll that would pro
duce It, aet about conatructlng
the tint Irrigation canal which
. waa 40 convey water from the
T t'pper Klamath lake to lb la tame
aoll denuded of Ita natural
growth. That waa the flrat utll
liallon of thoae watera, and the
reaulta were gratifying In the ex
treme. That waa one enterprlae
that moved In upon the Klamath
baaln unheralded. Jo bonua waa
aaked; but thoae men went quiet
ly to work with their own handa
and money In vindication of their
faith.
Hpecnlatn On lUMroad.
It waa not Ions before a pecu
lation began aa to when Klamath
would set a railroad to haul oft
aurplua producta. However, cltl
tena kept right on developing
farm landa, hauling freight from
Ager and Pokegama for a quar
ter of a century after Steele and
Wllaon had demonstrated what
aagebruah landa would produce
with applied Irrigation. Freight
roat all the way from 70 centa to
$1.25 per hundred, flour waa
aomellmea "5 centa and somo
tlmea f I per aack of fifty pound a.
Hog meat waa coating 14 centa
per pound no charge for liver
or bralna.
' Wagea were ranting from ft
to 1. SO per day during harveat.
Klamath waa not bothered, to
any extent, with aheep thoae
daya; In fact, they were not al
lowed In the country. . It was no
place for a aheep or a lamb.
Driving aleera to be carred at
Oaxelle or Montague for the Ran
Franclaco market ahrunk them
from 100 to ISO pounda per
head. lo you wonder there
wore grumbling over the high
coat of living? No 'snStrJirr the
outside, however. had, tjip temer
ity to Intimate lot nlnne'say
Klamath Fa I la w&nVoauMcWHad, aa
a wide-awake community by any
thing on the "outside" except
Ban Francisco and Portland.
Too Ilitay Preparing.
Had a I.oa Angelea man drifted
In about that time It'a hard tun
ing what would have happened
to him. Cllliona were Juat natu-
rally too busy getting ready for
the next red-lottiir day to do any
entertaining. I.Ike our flrat rod
letter day, the aecond waa nbso
lutely unheralded. It waa along
about 1892 that II. V. Clatea,
drifting In, gave the thriving lit
tle "burg" the once over, aakod
and waa granted a franchise to
put In a water ayatem and an
electric light plant. The bright
llghta were turned on In Novem
ber, 1S9S, and the water squirted
the required height from the
main on Mala afreet.
While thin lateat development
waa unfolding Itaelf, the trans-
portatlon problem waa aide
tracked In order that the people
might devote their apare time to
abusing the common council, for
faatenlng auch an Iniquity upon
tba town and giving away lte
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Ice and Storage
Plant Business
Shows Big Gain
To have served community
In such war that demand for
III main commodity haa Increased
exactly one thousand per i In
lhn ' "d b"'
wived the problem of converting
-omewbat mediocre amall-town
c.n.iru. r
te-oaie reingerauon iiiutuiiuu,
unsurpassed In modern equip
ment throughout the aouthern
part of the etate, haa been the
rather unuaual and very active
experience of the Klamath Ice
and Htorage company of Klamath
Falla.
Thla 'concern waa taken over
In 1919 aa the Klamath Valley
Warebouae and Forwarding com
pany, owned and operated by D.
II. Campbell, Ita original brick
warohouan being the aecond
building to be erected on Spring
atreot.
Ilnllil With Itualncw
Iteallclng that the only chance
of aucceea, III holding and In
creasing biialnes. waa In provid
ing the hlgheat quality, of prod
ucta obtainable, together with a
correapondlng type of dlatrlbut
Ing aervlce. the career of the
preaent corporation haa been one
of Inreaaant building and en
largement to meet the varloua
demanda for Ita expanalon.
The Ice plant and atorage ca
pacity were Increaaed In 1920
and again In 1921. In 1924 the
While Pelican Mineral Springe
bottling worka waa taken over
from O. W. Hohertaon and A. J.
I'nwelt. A tile and concrete fac
tory waa erected to take care of
thla Industry on a atrlctly aanl
tary baala. A refrigerated ware
house waa constructed In 192S
for the advent of the Pacific
Fruit and" Produce company,
tleta H. I. Contract.
With the main line entry of
the Southern Pacific company In
1926, the Ice company entered
the Hat of blddera for the freight
and passenger car Icing In thla
territory. Announcement of Ita
aucceaa In thla competitive entry
was the signal for aubatnntlal ex
pansion at the home plant and
construction of a 1,600-ton re
frigerated storage plant near
Sixth and Spring streets.
Completion of a modern cold
atorage branch nt Chlloquln early
ICB GAL TWO
In May marks the major con
struction work of thla season.
Kvory need of the torrltory It
hna undertnken to serve haa been
adequately provided In the manu
facture of Ice, carbonated bever
ages of every description, and
cold atorage facilities. Incrcaso
of volume haa enabled the com
pany to make aubatnntlal price
reductions on Ita commodities.
Officers are Andrew M. Col
lier, president and manager;
Frod E. Fleet, vice-president and
secretary, and O. L. Carter, su
perintendent, W.VTKB IMIK TO POIITI,.. X l
The Columbia river gorge gives
Portland direct water grndo con
noctlona to all parts of the Col
umbia country, by rail routes,
highways, telegraph, and power
lines. It enablea Portland to
roach Inland polnta In less time,
with less storm Interference, less
energy, less mileage, and at less
cost than cities that must climb
over mountain ranges to reach
these polnta,
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C)u lik to aee the scenic advantagea of their new 133.000,000 Cascade line, the Southern Pacific railroad lost no time In placing
open air observation cara on their Cascade routo. Hero la an open air car on the end of a through passenger train: On warm and
aunny days, the frenb air and unobstructed view haa proved to bo a great attraction to weary travelers. Probably no otber line in the
weal haa aa many acenlc attractions aa the Cascade line. Mt. Shasta, I'pper Klamath lake. Odell lake and down the Willamette into
the Willamette valley auch views aa these can never be forgotten by whomsoever la lucky enough to see them.
, "The
"Thn Paai.ndn " nntlv nnm.H
! Mny 6, another milestone in the S.
tween Portland and Han Francisco, sucn a step was Inevitable w nen ine (.usencie route was completed z;i Vi nours was tne time tne
Cascade took to make the Portlnml-San Frunclsco run. Later It waa cut one-half hour and now It Is dewn to where It will stay for
some tlmo, 22 hours. Th "Cascade" is a modern, traveling hotel, with virtually all the facilities of an up-to-date hostelry and with
that which ail hotel hna not an ever changing panorama of scenic wonder.
Major Projects
Are Undertaken
By WJ). Miller
With the leveling of ground
preliminary for Ita new1 .super
aervlce station at Sixth and Wal-(
nut streets, the W. D. Miller
Construction company has com
pleted what might be termed a!
cycle of growth. j
In 1910, the office and plant j
of the W. D. Miller company was
contained In one of the little1
ahacks which wjs recently torn '
down to make wajr for the blgj
.i.tln. Ita fii.nl.
1 1 -h.ir ....o
amutl filing cabinet with six pig
eon notes, ana a lanio. 1 ne
table and the lltt'.e filing cabinet
are atill In the roor of the office j
of the company, now located In,
the Wlllard hotel building. ,
The W. D. Miller company, In
eddttlon to hnvlng surrnrod and thla city wna boarded at the
furnished surfacing material for whorf near the easterly end of
a good share of tho connty"a ; the bridge acroaa Link River by
roada and highways, building the 1 all tho old timers and their fam -
Wlllard hotel which la owned byllHea; gleaming down the Klam-
Air Observation
If?- - ; :. - t- !W -y. V-.'i i am-
Cascade" Skirting
&rtnr tlm route over which It ta directed, la the Southern Pacific rallrcnd'a crack train Four duvs azo.
P.'s time-saving program was taken
TRANSFORMATION OF
BASIN BY RAILROAD
ENTERPRISE RELATED
Nineteen yonrs ago to be'ath river to the atralta they werejplcted, H. E. boskamp, designer
strictly accurate It will be nine-1 transferred to the first train en-1 and builder, announced recently,
teen years on June 14th Klnm-: teTin th, cl,v- T'.-e house will be located at the
ath county and the city of Klnm- That ewnt marked the begin-intersection of Pacific terrace.
..k ... ii. .a v.-j 1 n'ng of the end of the long pe-, Esplanade and Melrose, and Is on
ath Falls. Joined handa and rl()d of lgolntlon for ,hl(1 iiand;the site of the old Fauht or Kl
hearta with the Southern Ta- empire. There hove been, of Holt house, which has been moved
elf 1c In celebrating the cotnplo- j course, like or similar events In : away. It will be a six-room house,
tlon of the railroad line from ' olher communities of comparable j Spanish type, finished In stucco.
weed to tnl
s city. That waa, In-1
deed,
a gala day and an epic
retenration, and tne memory
thereof yet abides with a lot of
old timers. A month preredlng
that celebration the then mng -
nlflcent atoamer "Klamath" ply-
Ing between Teeters Landing and
Car on the Cascade Line
Foothills of Mt. Shasta -
when the traffic department Inaugurated a 22-hour schedule be
import; dui one ventures tne as-
sertton mat tney were 01 no
. jrt,ater Import. To those who
; Had journeyed to Ashland twen-.he lias built In Klamath Falls
ty-two years before to witness 'during the three yeara wblch he
tho driving of the "goMen" has done business as a builder of
splko signalling the completion high-grade homes. Amonj those
of the railroad from Portland to! homes for which Mr Roskamn
. San Francisco, and the passing
on December 1ft, 18S7, of the
, first through train over the line
from Portland to San Francisco,
ltho celebration In honor of the
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"niTu inaeaTaJ
II. E. Roskamp Is
Builder of Fine
New Residences
Plans and specifications, for the
now residence of T. C. Campbell
on Pacific terrace have been com-
jir. Roskamp, bseldes being a
bu'ldlng contractor, has drawn
the plans for many of the houses
; has drawn !a na are thn Whltlnclr
an.1 Whitman homes, the former
on H;h street, the latter on Es-
planado.
Since his arrival 'here, Mr. Roa
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Harriman
to Discern
Great Inland Empire
Famous Builder Attracted to Basin from
First Day He Laid Eyes on Lakes and
Streams; His Predictions Fulfilled
One of the youngest of, Pacific Coast cities, Klamath
Falls today celebrates prosperity and promise for
greater development ' j
The occasion is due recognition of the foresight, hope
and fortitude of the pioneers who long since recognized
the potential wealth of this region and the strategic
position which the city holds in the centralization" and
transportation of the resources gathered here.
The rate of growth of any
Mr. Harriman Saw
Klamath Lake As
Biggest Log Pond
It was excursion day for Klam
ath, and auch a day! The guest
of honor was the late E. H.
Harriman, late president of the
Southern Pacific, who had con
sented to Join the trip acroaa
Klamath lake.
The great man stood a little
apart from his admirers, gazing
with speculative eje over the
broad expanse of upper Klamath
lake. He waa not given to con
versation; Ola time wa taken np
with thinking.
"Don't yon think," ventured
one Klamathlte, "that Upper
Klamath lake will some day be
famoua for water a porta?"
Mr. Harriman turned quickly.
"Yes." be sail, "perhaps It
will. Bat looking out over this
lake, can't yon see something
else? Can't yon see that the time
will come when thlg will be the
greatest log pond In the world?"
Holliday Dairy
In $30,000 New
Home on Seventh
One of the pioneers. If not the
pioneer, dairy Industry In Klam
ath county waa. the Holliday
Cheese Factory In Langell valley,
started In the 7ear IS 11.- C. L.
Holliday at that time came to
Klamath county from California,
and, renting 3000 acres of fertile
marsh land, stockei It with Hoi-
stein cattle and started manufac
turing cheese, aupplying the local
demand and shipping large
amounts of blgh-grade cheese.
'Tie cheese factory waa highly
successful, but believing that
there was a larger field in the
wholesale and retail distribution
of milk In a rapidly growing city
like Klamath Falla, Holliday I n
1919 moved from Langell valley
to the old Van 'Valkenberg place,
four miles south of Klamath Falls
on the Keno highway.
Since that time the Holliday
creamery has steadily grown and
developed nrlth the town. The
company haa Just moved Into a
new building, 50x100, at the cor
ner of Oak and Seventh streets,
that is the last word In modern
creamery construction from the
point of sanitation, convenience,
and efficleut handling of dairy
products.
Concrete RulUHnff.
The building Is constructed of
concrete brick, finished with
stucco outside, and white enamel
tile within. Offices, factory
rooms and storage and cooling
rooms are constructed with an
ere for sanitation and efficiency.
Besides acting as a wholesale and
retail milk dispensary for the
city, the company manufactures
Ice cream and butter, both for
Vocal and foreign Trade. There
are three cold storage rooms,
lined with six Inches of cork, tten
a coat of cement. In the nek
building. One of these Is a hard
ening room for Ice cream. In
which the temperature will be
kept at 10 degreea below xoro.
The firm, which waa the, first
local company to pasteurize Ita
product, has installed two pas
teurising machines In Its new
plant.
The building represents an In
vestment of $30,000.
This edition ta the beet adver
tisement ever published on Klam'
atli. Bend ii to your friends.
Was First
Future of
community la 'n direct relation
with the transportation facilities
which serve It. Today the wood
land and river trails once travel
ed by the Klamath pioneer's cov-
ered wagon, sre the roadbeds for
the finest train service In the
west.
8. P. b Pioneer
Southern Pacific, the pioneer
railroad of the west, has long
recognized the present and po
tential resources of Klamath
Falls and has proven Its faith In
these resources by placing the
city on the principal rail Una
traversing the Pacific coast from
Portland to the City of Mexico.
Within the last decade Klam
ath Falla has been outstanding In
jthe development of western cities
because ot the vast Southern Pa
cific expenditures made for rail
facilities necessary to serve the
needs of this region. These ex
penditures, totaling , 40 mllllous
of dollars, were made In anticipa
tion of the development of this
territory. Today that anticipa
tion Is confirmed and the rail
service In Klamath basin has
been ot mutual benefit to the city
and railroad.
Harrtmaa Had Vision
Many years ago Klamath Falls
came within the vision of E. H.
Harriman, probably the greatest,
genius lnfluenclne the develop
ment of western railroads. At
that time the now new 180-mlle
Cascade line extending from
Black Butte. Calif., through
Klamath Falls 'to Eugene, had
Its genesis In Harrlman's mind.
Today, the civic. Industrial and
financial wheels ot Klamath Falla
are turning with the assurance
brought by the Cascade line and
the contact the transportation fa
cilities have with the markets ot
the world. For with this train
service travel distance and time
between the main Oregon and
California cities and Klamath
Falls has een decreased so that
the city Is close neighbor t- Its
sister cities. Today, the South
ern Pacific serves Klamath Falls
with tour trains dally traveling In
each direction between Portland
and San Francisco. It has cut
the running time ot the trains
between Portland and San Fran
cisco to a 22-hour schedule.
In addition to the fast passen
ger facilities which Southern Pa
cific now gives the city, the en
tire surrounding country Is also
benefitted by the freight service
which this line affords. Its con
nections with the three principal
Pacific coast porta and transcon
tinental lines terminating at Chi
cago and New Orleans, have
placed Klamath Falla on the
transportation map ot the Indus
trial world. The vast resources
of this region now have the beat
transportation faculties on which
to reach the markets of the con
tinent. Cascade Line
This region haa long been serv
ed and dependent on the South,
ern Pacific's Shasta route, which
with feeder lines operates through
the entire country between San
Francisco and Portland and west
ot the Cascades. Until the con
struction ot the new Cascade line
all ot that Oregon country east
of the mono'.alns and south of
Bend has been laolatod and un
tapped by the railroads. In tha
center of the area Is the Crater
lake national park. Surrounding
It Is the richest timber stand In
America. South and east ot
Crater lake Is the Klamath river
valley, rich In grating lands. This
territory which the new Una
opened to development has bat
one city, Klamath Falls.' "
Reach New Country
The major purpose In con
tructlng the new line waa toj
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